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July 11, 2011
The Honorable Harold Rogers
Chairman, House Appropriations
H-307, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Norman Dicks
Ranking Member, House Appropriations
1016 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Rogers & Ranking Member Dicks,
As representatives of U.S. science, engineering, and higher education organizations, we write to you in strong support for the federal research and development budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and its mission--created over 60 years ago--to advance research across a broad spectrum of disciplines, research that has fueled American economic growth for decades.
NSF is unique among federal agencies in that it supports all disciplines in a balanced portfolio that uses the scientific peer review system as the foundation for awarding research grants based on merit.
Unfortunately, NSF research is now being threatened by attempts to trivialize specific research grants and to challenge the scientific merit review process. As you prepare to debate the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill for fiscal year 2012, the undersigned organizations stand in strong opposition to legislative attempts to undermine the peer review process by seeking to defund research grants that have already been awarded after extensive evaluation by independent scientific review panels.
Furthermore, we strongly oppose attempts to eliminate or substantially reduce funding for specific areas of science such as the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE).
In 2006, Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, testified before the Senate in support of NSF SBE research: "Every major issue facing modern society and every major issue facing our economic competitiveness will ultimately be multidisciplinary in nature...[requiring] the integration of the physical sciences or biological sciences with the social and behavioral sciences."
We would like to highlight some specific examples that demonstrate the interdependence of scientific fields and their contribution to society. The revolution in computer technology and the transformation of analog data into digital records are opening up new opportunities to bridge the biological and social sciences, leading to new partnerships and collaborations that will improve the interpretation of brain imaging. In addition, this country will be investing millions of dollars in new technology over the coming decade, and the technology must be designed with humans in mind (i.e., cognitive limitations, errors in judgment, responses to stress and organizational climate) to avoid wasting limited resources.
Furthermore, social scientists, working with computer scientists, have developed Geographical Information Systems (GIS). As an example of technology transfer, this in turn created a multi-billion dollar GIS industry. The research supported in the mid-1980s at the NSF-funded National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) has been applied by states, counties, and localities for many purposes, from urban planning to disaster response, evidenced in New York City during the September 11, 2001, attacks and the creation of thousands of maps to assist in the aftermath. Simply put, we need all scientists and scientific disciplines working -- alone and together -- to advance our knowledge base.
We recognize the challenge that our nation faces in addressing the deficit and revitalizing our national economy; however, defunding specific grants or eliminating entire sets of disciplines, such as those represented by the SBE program, sets a dangerous precedent that, in the end, will inhibit scientific progress and our international competitiveness. Congress must exercise its oversight responsibilities, but second-guessing the scientific process could have a chilling effect on scientists and young people considering a future in science. The country cannot afford to lose the incredible talent, experience, and energies of its scientists, regardless of their discipline.
The undersigned organizations urge you to protect the integrity of the scientific enterprise by ensuring that the NSF and its independent scientific panels determine where the best scientific opportunities are and how to absorb any potential reductions to its budget. Allocating federal investments competitively through scientific merit review is the very process that has led this country to be the world leader in science. We encourage you to provide Congressional oversight by protecting that process rather than allowing others to threaten a critical contributor to our innovative spirit and knowledge base.
Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America
American Academy of Environmental Engineers
American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Anatomists
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Biological Safety Association
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Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
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Scientists delight in extracting order from chaos—finding patterns in the complexity of the real world that pull back the curtain and reveal how things work. Sometimes, though, those patterns create more head-scratching than excitement. Such is the case with Benford's law. One might expect a collection of real-world data—say, the half-lives of various isotopes, for example—to pretty much look like random numbers. And one might further expect the first (non-zero) digit of each of those numbers to also be random (i.e. just as many 2s as 9s).
Oddly, one would (in many cases) be wrong. It turns out that 1s are more likely than 2s, which are more likely than 3s, and so on. Not only that, the probabilities match a logarithmic distribution, just like the spacing on a logarithmic scale. The number 1 will be the first digit about 30 percent of the time, 2 will occur nearly 18 percent of the time, all the way on down to 9 showing up only about 5 percent of the time.
Law-abiding citizens everywhere will be happy to know our planet also obeys Benford's Law, with the duration and size of volcanic eruptions showing the same sort of pattern.
This strange phenomenon was first expressed in 1881 by an astronomer named Simon Newcomb. While using printed tables of logarithms, he noticed that the pages containing numbers that start with 1 were much more worn than the others. After thinking it out, he proposed that the occurrence of digits in the log tables in fact followed a logarithmic distribution themselves.
In 1938, the physicist Frank Benford rediscovered this idea, explored it more fully, and formalized the equation that describes it. He analyzed a number of data sets and showed that the relationship existed in the real world. It's obviously not universal—it won't be true of numbers in a telephone book, for example, which share assigned area codes and prefixes. Still, Benford's law has held good for a truly bewildering variety of data sets, including the surface area of rivers, the specific heat of chemical compounds, mathematical constants in physics, baseball stats, street addresses, populations of US counties, and a number of mathematical tables and series. (Try a few more for yourself.)
Perhaps most famously, Benford's law has been used to detect financial fraud. Folks who cook the books assume that random numbers will look inconspicuous, not realizing that's exactly what can make them look conspicuous. Dodgy rounding will also cause a data set to stick out like a sore thumb and get you caught red-handed. (You can hear about an example in this episode of WNYC's Radiolab.) It's often been suggested that Benford's law should be applied to the results of suspicious elections, but the relationship can be unreliable unless numbers span multiuple orders of magnitude.
The burning question that can get some people downright irritated with the whole business of Benford's law is "why the hell should this be true?" No explanation is completely satisfying (unless you've got the fortitude for some mathematical heavy lifting), but a couple come close to de-spookifying the idea in at least some circumstances.
Think of a number starting with a 1. What would it take for it to start with a 2? Well, you'd have to double it. Now consider a number starting with a 9. An increase of only 10% will have it back to starting with a 1 again. And, of course, the process repeats—this number will have to be double again before it will start with a 2. For this reason, financial growth (such as investments) will follow Benford's law quite faithfully.
Several years ago, researchers in the Earth sciences began taking an interest in seeing whether our planet's behavior followed Benford's law. A paper published in 2010 applied the analysis to things like the length of time between geomagnetic reversals (when the Earth's magnetic "north" pole flips to the opposite geographical pole), the depth of earthquakes, greenhouse gas emissions by country, and even the numbers of infectious disease cases reported to the World Health Organization by each nation. All of them showed a decent fit to Benford's law. (As did some things out of this world, like the rotation frequencies of pulsars and masses of exoplanets.)
In a recent paper published in Geology, a pair of Spanish researchers extend this to three more data sets: the area and ages of volcanic calderas and the duration of volcanic eruptions between 1900 and 2009. This is more than just a bit of fun with numbers, as we're past the point where Benford's law needs confirmation. The goal is to use it as a sort of simple truth-check on databases of geologic data. If these things don't follow Benford's law, then it could be a sign that a data set is unrepresentative of reality or contains some sort of pervasive error or bias.
Benford's law fit the eruption duration data very well. The fit for the caldera areas was pretty good, too, though a few digits differed just enough that the authors suspect some excessive rounding may have taken place. The caldera eruption ages, however, showed a marked deviation from Benford's distribution. There were too many numbers starting with 2 and 3. When they looked closely, they saw this was due to a large number of North American calderas between 23 and 42 million years old.
As it turns out, this is a well-known anomaly. It's not clear whether there was really an unusual cluster of calderas at that time or this is simply a case of one area being studied more intensely. Regardless, removing those calderas from the analysis returned the data set to harmony with Benford's law. In essence, Benford's law provided another way to show that those calderas are anomalous.
Because researchers often want to know whether the data they're analyzing is a representative sample of the world at large, any technique that could help them do so is likely to get a serious look. The authors conclude, "Since the use of Benford's law may serve as a simple and quick quality test of data, and provide new ways to detect anomalous signals in data sets, it could be used as a validity check on future databases related to volcanoes." In other words, before you go searching for patterns in a database, it might be prudent to make sure the database conforms to Benford's pattern.
Geology, 2012. DOI: 10.1130/G32787.1 (About DOIs).


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SKA, the first box erecting and gluing machine developed in 1966 to work with hot-melt adhesive. An example of this model is on show in the packaging machine in Heidelberg.
SSB, the first Schubert modular machine for filling and closing top-loading boxes.
SNC-F2, the world's first packaging robot, has left an enduring legacy in the field of packaging machine engineering.
VMS, Schubert's own packaging machine control system, now established and accepted the world over.
The first F44 picker line using the patented counterflow principle – now the world market leader.
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Charter school access means nothing if the schools are bad (Column)
The debate about the value of charter schools rages on. Are charter schools a success or failure? As someone who was part of the "movement" nearly from the inception 20 years ago and can lay claim to helping create the first charters in two different states (Michigan and Florida) and having consulted with countless others in their quest to start a charter school, I can say "both."
In 1995, I wrote an article for the national magazine Education Week foreshadowing what sadly has played out in the charter school movement and what we are witnessing today. I said at the time charter school advocates tend to fall into one of three categories:
Zealots and ideologues: These people tend to view charter schools passionately as a way toward "the truth," or at least as a stopgap solution to public education's problems that will suffice until they can get a voucher system in place.
Entrepreneur scoundrels: There are gross profits being made, and some charter management are getting the gold mine while the taxpayers and students are getting the shaft.
There are clear cases of charter-school management companies making hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- in annual profit on real estate deals alone while failing to educate children. Sadly, their actions are not illegal under current law, but should be.
Their motive is greed, not service. Look out for these so-called entrepreneurs in education.
Child-, parent- and teacher-centered reformers: These individuals and organizations realize that reform requires boldness and risk taking. To them, charter schools are not anti-public education, but pro-child and pro-public choice.
Not much has changed. Today, similar to traditional public schools, charter schools have a network of apologists and lobbyists intent on protecting their gains into the educational market and have become in many cases the new status quo. Like traditional public schools, charter schools today cover the spectrum -- from the good, the bad and the ugly. This includes both traditional and charter schools not educating our children.
We need one quality and accountability standard. We must demand transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in how billions of our tax dollars are being spent and quality outcomes for our students.
We need to stop the ideological debate, from both the left and right -- the left condemning all charters and the right believing once the charter moniker is invoked it turns a lousy school into a good one. We need to arrive at the point where the only adjective before the word "school" that matters is quality.
The ideological fights from the state capitol have never educated a single child. At the end of the day, when we focus on teaching, learning and children and quality -- and not power, control, politics and adults -- good things happen for our kids.
A lousy school not educating our kids is not worthy of anyone's support and should be made better or be closed, whether it is "traditional" or "charter." Can't we all agree on that?
Tom Watkins served as Michigan state superintendent of schools.


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- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 leek, thinly sliced
- 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 1 shallot, halved
- 1 garlic clove
- 10 flat-leaf parsley sprigs
- 10 black peppercorns
- 3 fresh bay leaves (or 1 dried)
- 6 pounds large firm ripe tomatoes (a mix of colors but of similar size), peeled
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt plus more for seasoning
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced chives plus more
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Sea salt
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Bring first 8 ingredients and 3 cups water to a boil in a large saucepan. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until stock yields 1 1/2 cups, about 15 minutes. Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large measuring cup. Strain stock, discarding solids. Cover; keep hot.
Set a fine-mesh strainer over another measuring cup. Cut each peeled tomato into 4 wedges. Place wedges, cut side up, on a work surface. Cut away seeds and pulp from tomato and transfer to strainer. Place filleted tomatoes on a double layer of paper towels to drain; sprinkle with 1 teaspoon kosher salt. Pat tomatoes with more paper towels. Let stand for 30 minutes.
Press on seeds to yield 1/2 cup tomato juice. Sprinkle gelatin over juice; let stand for 10 minutes to soften. Add to hot stock; whisk vigorously to dissolve gelatin. Stir in 1/4 cup chives, vinegar, and kosher salt to taste.
Spray 1 loaf pan with nonstick spray; line with plastic wrap, allowing for a 3" overhang on each side. Smooth plastic to remove wrinkles. Pour 1/2 cup stock into pan. Chill until set, about 40 minutes. Arrange 1 layer of tomatoes in pan, pressing down gently, then drizzle 2 tablespoons stock mixture over. Repeat layering with remaining tomatoes and stock. Pour remaining stock over to fill pan. Cover terrine with plastic wrap. Place on a small rimmed baking sheet.
Place second loaf pan on top of terrine. Weigh down terrine by placing 2-3 small canned goods in top pan (some of liquid mixture in bottom pan may spill out). Chill terrine until set, about 6 hours. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Keep chilled.
Uncover terrine; invert onto a platter. Remove pan and plastic wrap. Slice terrine; transfer to plates. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with chives and sea salt.


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FDA May Regulate Premium Cigars
Makers and sellers are pushing preemptive legislation in Congress.
Aug. 9, 2012 -- Are big, fat, $10-a-piece cigars catnip to children? That's one question the Food and Drug Administration is mulling as it considers whether or not, or how, to regulate the sale of premium cigars.
Makers and sellers of such cigars, understandably nervous, are pushing preemptive legislation in Congress that would force the FDA to butt out.
Arthur Zaretsky, who runs The Famous Smoke Shop in Forks Township, Pa., says that while the feds have yet to specify what regulations might be impose, "the whole industry is quaking in its boots."
Zaretsky and other tobacconists fear two possibilities:
First, to ensure that no cigars are sold to minors, the FDA might prohibit all cigar sales except those made face-to-face. Sales via mail order or the Internet would be forbidden. That change alone, Zaretsky says, would snuff out 99 percent of his business.
Second, the FDA might mandate that cigars be sold the same way prescription drugs are sold in pharmacies: The customer, instead of strolling into a warm and fragrant humidor, where he could smell and handle a profusion of cigars, would be handed an antiseptic list, from which he would place his order. This already is the way cigars are sold by some tobacconists in Canada and Europe, says Brian Telford, owner of Telford's Pipe & Cigar in Mill Valley, Calif.
What would be the reason for such a rule? Telford speculates it might be to protect impressionable youths from the blandishments of colorful or seductive packaging -- in the same way that cigarette manufacturers now are forbidden from using kid-friendly cartoon characters to market cigarettes.
Says Zaretsky, "What the eye sees, the eye wants."
But are kids really attracted to pungent, pricey, all-tobacco, hand-made, premium cigars? Stogie-defenders say not.
They acknowledge there has been an uptick in sales to younger smokers of small, cheap, machine-made cigars flavored with additives like licorice or vanilla. But the customer for "real" cigars, they say, is older. The poster child for Macanudo (figuratively speaking) is not Justin Bieber. It's Rush Limbaugh.
Merchants who sell premium cigars want to distance themselves, for regulatory purposes, from purveyors of cheaper, more kid-friendly stuff.
"From the outside," says Zaretsky, "the cigar industry looks like a united front -- but it's not. Small, machine-made cigars are a totally different business. They sell 7 billion cigars a year. We sell 250 million. We're one-tenth of one percent of the cigar business in the U.S."
To protect themselves, makers and sellers of premium cigars have sponsored -- though a group called Cigar Rights of America -- two bills in Congress, S. 1461 and H.R. 1639, that would stop the FDA from regulating what the legislation calls "traditional large and premium cigars," as distinct from "little cigars." Sponsors include Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla.
The FDA, for its part, says on its website that it is "developing a strategy to regulate additional categories of tobacco products" beyond those it already does, which include cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (e.g., snuff and chewing tobacco). The site says the agency is moving "as expeditiously as possible" to release for public comment a new rule applicable to additional forms of tobacco, which, presumably, would include cigars.
Asked by ABC News if any date has been set for that release, an FDA spokesperson says not.
"First they said it would be June, then July," says Zaretsky. "Now, they say October. I doubt it will happen in October. They'll wait until after the election."
A meeting, he says, has been scheduled between the FDA and Cigar Rights of America for Aug. 23.


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Andy is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator. He received a B.S. in Biology and Applied Mathematics at Brown University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Population Genetics at Stanford University in 1980. He did postdoctoral work at Arizona State University and the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a sabbatical at the University of California at Davis. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 2002, he was a professor in the Department of Biology at Penn State University.
Dr. Clark's research focuses on the genetic basis of adaptive variation in natural populations, with emphasis on quantitative modeling of phenotypes as networks of interacting genes. Dr. Clark has been active in genomics research and has been a frequent consultant with Celera Genomics since April 1999. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and serves on review panels for the NIH, NSF, and the Max Planck Society. In May of 2012, Dr. Clark was elected to the National Academy of Science.


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Bachelor Pad 3 couple Blakeley Jones and Tony Pieper have split less than two months after getting engaged on the reality show's season finale, People reports.
Jones, who appeared on Ben Flajnik's season of The Bachelor, and Pieper, who fought for Emily Maynard's heart on The Bachelorette, met while filming Bachelor Pad. They soon became partners, and Pieper got down on one knee with a Neil Lane engagement ring in the finale. "This didn't end the way I wanted it to," Pieper told the magazine about their breakup. "I thought Blakeley was the love of my life."
The Bachelorette's Jef and Emily break up
Soon after the finale, Jones moved to Pieper's hometown of Portland, and that's when the trouble began. "When she moved here, it was really difficult for both of us. Blakeley had to start over a new life — there were so many stresses," Pieper said, adding that the two also had a counseling session. "We were both going through the motions and we weren't as happy as we could have been. It was a mutual decision."
Jones has since moved home from Portland. "I really hope we'll stay friends," Pieper says. "Right now, it's really hard. But I'll always love her."
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Close-up on highlands near crater Pentland
This high-resolution image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows an area close to crater Pentland on the Moon.
AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006 from a distance of 573 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 52 metres per pixel. The imaged area is centred at a latitude of 67.7º South and longitude 18.3º East.
During the course of its mission, Smart-1 orbited the Moon in a highly elliptical orbit, varying its distance to the lunar surface roughly between 500 and over 2000 kilometres. This particular image was taken from really close by.
The image scale makes it possible to clearly see craters as small as 200 metres. This image was taken near a surface feature named 'Manzinus D' in the vicinity of Pentland – an impact crater 56 kilometres in diameter, too large to be visible in the AMIE field of view. When seen from Earth these craters are very foreshortened, due to their southern latitudes.
Carlo Manzini (1599-1677), after whom Manzinus D was named, was an Italian philosopher and astronomer. Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873) was a 19th century Irish politician, explorer and geographer.
For more information
Bernard H. Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Email: bernard.foing @ esa.int
Jean-Luc Josset, AMIE Principal Investigator, SPACE-X Space Exploration Institute
Email: jean-luc.josset @ space-x.ch


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We all know that soccer fans are a different breed than your typical, run-of-the-mill North American sports fan.
Part of that is just because of the nature of the game — 90 minutes of constant action with no breaks can lead to a, shall we say, "focus" that is often lacking at other stateside sporting events.
But another part of that is because, until very recently, there was no bigger outsider in sports than the North American soccer fan.
Often derided in mainstream media and sadly without a top-flight league for more than a decade, the US and Canadian soccer fan tended to be someone who wasn't afraid to throw good money after bad, tilt at windmills or commit body-and-soul to a lost cause.
Except it turns out that those fans, those original supporters from 1995 (yes, there were supporters groups before there were even officially announced MLS teams), were the tip of an iceberg, and the vanguard of – if we may plagiarize a previous MLS ad campaign – a new soccer nation.
The roots of supporters groups across the land are as varied as the people in them, a multicultural swathe of the continent that's often as much at home singing in Spanish or Polish as it is in English. (And, with the arrival of Montreal in 2012, French!)
New York's Empire Supporters Club is the oldest group in the league, having been formed in the mid-1990s to bring some atmosphere to the games of the lost-and-lamented New York Centaurs of what was then the A-League.
[inline_node:330172]From ESC's website:
"The Centaurs played at Downing Stadium, the home of the old NY Cosmos. The games were woefully underattended but the Centaurs developed a fairly die-hard following which began calling itself the 'NYC Firm.' It was at these games that we became friends with Kevin McCallister, the guy who deserves all the credit for the founding of the ESC. Kevin was an attorney, and it was his tremendous organizational skills and powers of negotiation that made the ESC possible."
As stated, the Centaurs drew poorly – typically less than 500 people showed up at 15,000-capacity Downing Stadium – and the team folded after the 1995 season. But the experience engendered a unity among the early ESC that the group was able to use to push the MetroStars front office to set aside a permanent, standing-only supporters section of Giants Stadium.
By game two of the MetroStars' existence, section 101 was the ESC section. Fourteen years later, when Red Bull Arena opened, the RBNY front office had followed tradition and again set aside 101 for the ESC.
Further south, D.C. United's Screaming Eagles had an easier route. Putting to good use what was then the relatively new technology of the internet, Matt Mathai was able to get a grassroots fan club going and secure the backing of their local team all at once.
In what was a coup for United and the league, the DC front office decided to put the hardcore supporters – which at that time also included La Barra Brava, founded in 1995 by Oscar Zambrana and still going strong – along the camera-side touchline at RFK Stadium. The bouncing stands and DC's liberal approach to tifo, streamers and the like made for an atmosphere and TV spectacle that was unmatched in the early days of the league.
[inline_node:329977]By 2007, though, the early days were gone and supporters culture underwent a seismic shift with the addition of Toronto FC. BMO Field was the perfect size for MLS, and The Red Patch Boys – TFC's largest group – worked with the front office to make sure it would be a home environment unlike any other.
They were successful.
Sam Pierron, once a member of the early Kansas City supporters group called the Mystics, summed it up: "Toronto changed everything. I think everyone knows that."
What specifically changed with Toronto was the perception of what it would take to fill a soccer specific stadium. TFC were able to market directly to the supporters groups – there are nearly 3,000 members of the Red Patch Boys alone – and fill vast swathes of BMO with loud, raucous, boisterous supporters who sing for the entire game.
With the further additions of Seattle in 2009 and Philadelphia in 2010, as well as the consolidation of supporters' sections in places like Columbus, Salt Lake, San Jose and Colorado, the tide of supporters culture began to rise.
"I think," Pierron said, "that there are very few places in the league where there's not that sort of passion that you want to see. I mean, I remember Kansas City back in the old days, and then you look at the Cauldron now, and it's night-and-day."
The entrance of Portland and Vancouver into MLS – both the Timbers Army and the Southsiders are more than a decade old – should keep the tide rising for 2011. MLS teams in both the US and Canada have created a unique supporters ethos, one that draws from the local culture as much as it does from traditional European and Latin American-style support.
For those who were there from the start, it's been an incredible journey.
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I've long been fascinated by NoMoreClipboard ever since I learned at HIMSS a few years back that Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard, was the creative genius behind the always entertaining Extormity EHR parody. So, I guess I should have expected Jeff to continue the trend of creativity in where he'd take PHR vendor NoMoreClipboard in the future.
While many are writing off the PHR after Google Health was shut down, NoMoreClipboard seems to be doubling down (a great reference before HIMSS Las Vegas) on PHR and extending it to capture two healthcare mega trends: patient centered medical homes (PCMH) and accountable care organizations (ACOs).
In an effort to learn more about this move I did the following interview with Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard, and Sandra Elliott, Director of Consumer Technology and Service Development at Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health system in New Jersey that helped to create iMPak.
Tell me about what seems to be a shift of NoMoreClipboard from PHR to focus more on the patient centered medical home (PCMH) and facilitating ACOs.
Jeff: Our focus at NoMoreClipboard has always been on providing value to consumers and clinicians – looking for ways to connect patients with providers to facilitate meaningful information exchange, dialog and care coordination. This is not a shift away from PHR. Rather, we are elated that the concept of patient engagement is not only gaining traction, but taking off like a rocket. One of the reasons is the shift toward concepts like PCMH and ACO – where provider organizations have incentives to manage patient populations more carefully. Doing so at scale requires the use of technology to streamline communication, gather and analyze electronic data, and identify those patients who require more aggressive intervention. The PHR can be very valuable as the electronic management and communication tool for patients and their family members. We are adding provider-facing tools to help clinicians manage the patient populations who can benefit most from technology. And the collaboration with iMPak provides patients with easy-to-use, affordable and very powerful medical devices.
ACOs are quite nebulous at this point, so what ACO trends do you think are most promising?
Jeff: While no one is certain what form ACOs will ultimately take, the concept is generating not only interest, but activity. Hospitals, health systems, health plans and employers are making plans, piloting concepts and taking the steps necessary to form or become part of an ACO.
Sandra: The most profound change is the recognition that the care relationship with the patient now extends beyond the hospital doors upon discharge. There is no doubt that more incentives will continue to be placed on reducing readmissions and reducing the overall costs of care no matter what form ACOs will take in the future. The priority of better management of patients once they return home is and will continue to get significant attention.
This new partnership moves NoMoreClipboard into the patient centered medical home. What do you see as the leading drivers of the medical home?
Jeff: As incentives shift, so must the orientation of the provider community. This is especially true for primary care providers who will assume greater responsibility for managing those with chronic conditions – providing them with a medical home where care plans are developed, deployed and carefully managed. As more hospitals and health systems acquire primary care practices, those practices become more than a source of hospital referrals – they serve as the front line in managing the care of patients who are discharged from the hospital to ensure quality and guideline adherence. This role is not only critical to improving outcomes and reducing cost, it also improves the real and perceived value of PCPs. Technology is no longer a barrier to enabling medical homes at reasonable costs.
You've focused on ease of use for patients. Tell me some ways you've made this simple for users.
Jeff: One of the benefits of working with iMPak is their health system connection – Meridian Health in New Jersey is one of the owners. Meridian has experienced how difficult it can be to get certain patient populations to use electronic tools – be it a computer, a smartphone or an electronic medical device. Rather than throw in the towel on collecting electronic data from these patients, iMPak has developed simple devices that require little or no training and are ideal for those patients who say "I will never, ever use a computer."
Sandra: iMPak health journals are used to collect subjective information using a push button journal – "smart" paper stock with an embedded chip that collects and stores patient responses to condition-specific questions. iMPak is also developing screening devices that are the size of a credit card and collect objective data with minimal patient effort. Both health journals and screening devices use touch and post technology so that when the device is placed on a Near Field Communications (NFC) reader, data is automatically downloaded safely and securely.
There are a lot of different medical home devices on the market. What differentiates the iMPak product from the competition?
Sandra: The biggest differentiator is the form factor. These devices were designed with the technology-averse in mind. There are millions of people who simply will not use a computer, download an app or place an electronic home monitoring center on their kitchen counter. A significant percentage of these individuals have chronic conditions and can really benefit from sharing electronic data with a health coach or care manager. iMPak has cracked the code for these patients with devices that collect electronic data in a way that is simple, elegant and not at all intimidating.
The other major difference is the time and cost required to develop and deploy these solutions. Unlike complex medical devices that usually take years and millions of dollars to develop, iMPak journals and screening tools can be customized rapidly and affordably.
These differentiators are attracting the attention of organizations interested in partnering with us to develop and deploy purpose-built solutions for a wide variety of use cases ranging from chronic disease management to improving medication therapy.
What are the top 3 benefits someone will glean from using iMPak with NoMoreClipboard?
Sandra: Patients who either lack access to information technology or avoid its use now have an easy, anywhere way to share health information with family members and clinicians who are providing them with care.
Jeff: Family members helping take care of loved ones can now access a complete health picture through a PHR – from the latest in subjective and objective data reported by the patient to a comprehensive health record.
Clinicians, health coaches and other care advocates now have a solution designed to manage patient populations that tend to be difficult to manage – those with serious conditions who are technology averse or lack technology access. Clinical staff can now collect electronic data from these patients, and are provided with up-to-date reporting and alerts that identify those patients who require intervention much earlier.
What's the biggest barrier to adoption of medical devices in the home?
Jeff: That depends on the home and the people using them. We are focused on homes where the adoption of high-tech, complex medical devices is extremely unlikely for any number of reasons. That does not mean these patients are not candidates for using medical devices. It does mean the devices must be carefully selected to fit the technical capabilities of the target population.
Sandra: Many devices in the home are overwhelming for the great majority of people so they were not being used. iMPak Health has designed its devices in an easy-to-use, intuitive form to overcome some of these intimidation factors
In what ways is a doctor involved in this medical home model?
Sandra: iMPak and NoMoreClipboard are collaborating to provide end-to-end solutions that connect physicians, patients and family members – giving each individual in the care equation a valuable tool to communicate and share information.
The iMPak devices are designed to help patients collect and share electronic health information in a user-friendly form factor. Captured data is then available to patients and their family members via NoMoreClipboard.
Jeff: This same data is also directed to a clinical portal that a doctor, case manager or other care advocate can use to manage a patient population. Collected data populates the portal, giving clinicians a dashboard view of patient status. Data is compared against a rules engine, and alerts identify at-risk patients who require more aggressive intervention.
The doctor seems to be an incredibly important part of medical home models. What has been doctor's reaction to this product? How do you plan to get more doctors to accept this new and evolving model of care?
Jeff: Most physicians we talk to support the use of patient-facing technology, but they are quick to point out how many of their patients are not tech-savvy – senior citizens, rural patients, safety net patients, etc. When we put an iMPak device in the hands of these doctors, their reaction is amazing to watch – you can almost see the light bulbs go on.
As physicians learn that we can provide a complete solution that includes an easy-to-use clinical portal with a rules engine, reporting capability and visible identification of those patients who require additional intervention, we expect interest in this new model of care will grow.
Is it essential that the patient have their medical record in NoMoreClipboard? What value is gleaned from the data the device provides together with the medical record?
Jeff: The iMPak device data alone is incredibly valuable – subjective and objective data collected from a patient as they experience symptoms or engage in therapy. Adding medications, allergies, conditions, medical history and family history to that data paints a more comprehensive picture. If a clinician can easily see in a combined view what medication form and strength a patient is taking along with the patient's reported response to that medication, it is that much easier to make rapid and informed clinical decisions.
Do you plan to integrate more devices with NoMoreClipboard? Will they all be from iMPak or will you work with other medical device manufacturers?
Sandra: NoMoreClipboard and iMPak are working on a complete line of devices, with an initial focus on pulmonary and cardiovascular conditions, as well as health and wellness applications. We are also talking with a number of potential partners about developing purpose-built solutions to support specific use cases. iMPak and NoMoreClipboard also have flexibility to work with other organizations as it makes sense. If a NoMoreClipboard client wants us to integrate with other devices, we can certainly do so. If a hospital system wants to integrate iMPak data with existing healthcare IT applications, they have that freedom.
Currently this product seems focused on the senior population. Do you see this or other related products eventually reaching the wider population?
Sandra: While seniors are a natural fit, any patient population on the wrong side of the digital divide is an ideal candidate for iMPak solutions. This includes underserved populations in urban or rural areas without regular access to technology. These devices are affordable, they are portable, and they are easy to use. We believe these devices can help overcome disparities in care.
This seems like the first step in addressing the patient centered medical home and facilitating ACOs. Where do you see this going in the next couple years?
Jeff: As we talk to patients with chronic conditions, what keeps them up at night is the difficulty of gathering, organizing and managing all their health information, and making sure that all their doctors have the latest information and are talking with one another about what it means and how to proceed. When we talk to physicians, they describe the challenge of managing transitions in care, gaining access to all the information they know is out there somewhere, and working with patients, families and fellow clinicians to develop a coordinated plan of action.
It is pretty clear that incentives will migrate from fee-for-service to paying for a focus on wellness, prevention, and more thoughtful management of chronic conditions. While the care models (and their labels) that support this will evolve, we believe there will be increased effort to connect patients, family members and clinical teams. Electronic tools will play an important role in fostering dialog, facilitating care coordination and keeping everyone up-to-date based on their role in the care continuum. Significant value can be realized by developing "care networking" tools that combine the power of healthcare IT and social networking on an integrated platform.
John's Note: NoMoreClipboard, in collaboration with iMPak Health, will launch and demo this new comprehensive solution for achieving a successful medical home or accountable care organization at HIMSS Booth #7902.
Full Disclosure: NoMoreClipboard is an advertiser on this site.


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Texas on the Potomac is pleased to welcome you to our weekly feature, the Texas Twitter Tussle.
Every weekend, we will examine the use of social media by prominent Texas political figures by comparing their Twitter strategies.
Past tussles include the strategies of the state's two senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, twin brothers Julian and Joaquin Castro , former Texas Representative Ron Paul vs. his son (and current Kentucky senator) Rand Paul, the Texas Democratic Party vs. the Republican Party of Texas, as well as Texas Governor Rick Perry vs. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Houston Reps. Al Green and Gene Green, conservative Reps. Louie Gohmert vs. Steve Stockman, former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords vs. the National Rifle Association, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott vs. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Texas on the Potomac vs. the Dallas Morning News.
Today, we examine the social media efforts of the Democratic group Battleground Texas and its new would-be Republican rival, Battlefield Dallas.


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Cool Drinks, Boston: Limeade at Cutty's
Everyone knows about the terrific sandwiches at Cutty's: the spuckies; the Saturday-only roast pork specials; the cult-favorite roast beef 1000, piled high with thin-shaved eye round, cheddar, crispy shallots, and house Thousand Island on black-pepper brioche. They've mastered the concept.
What doesn't get the chatter it deserves is the limeade.
Maybe most versions aren't bad (I'll say it—I kind of like the Newman's Own stuff), but a limeade that nails the sweet-tangy balance is strangely elusive. I imagine most of what makes or breaks any limeade is all in the proportions, but owner Charles Kelsey has a few tricks that make his stand out.
The first is obvious: fresh-squeezed juice. The second: Rather than just whisking granulated sugar into the drink, he makes a simple syrup. That means every sip is perfectly sweet-tart, unlike so many versions where the liquid at the top of the glass is sharp and sour and the stuff at bottom, where the sugar has settled, is saccharine.
The third—and this is the trump card: vanilla sugar. Kelsey says he doesn't make vanilla sugar specifically for the limeade; all the sugar in the restaurant (most of which is used for baking cookies, crumb cake, and their other sweet treats) happens to be infused with the beans. As he admits, the effect is subtle, but it's there: just the barest hint of vanilla's rich, heady perfume on the edge of the ultra-refreshing drink.
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MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering with Structured Product Engineering
Key information
Start date: October 2021
Location: South Kensington
ECTS: 90 credits
This specialised stream offers an in-depth study of the behaviour of structured products, and of the interplay between structure, processing and properties.
The Department of Chemical Engineering offers four courses that are built around a wide choice of advanced taught modules plus a research project in one of our research focus areas.
- MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering (ACE)
- MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology (BIO)
- MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Process Systems Engineering (PSE)
- MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Structured Product Engineering (SPE)
The Advanced Chemical Engineering (ACE) course allows students to undertake advanced study in chemical engineering coupled with appropriate background study in basic sciences, mathematics and computing techniques, while the specialised MSc streams (BIO, PSE or SPE) give you the opportunity to explore one area of chemical engineering in more depth.
The Structured Product Engineering (SPE) course affords an in-depth study of the behaviour of structured products and of the interplay between structure, processing and properties.
Study programme
Our MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Structured Product Engineering begins with taught modules which run from the beginning of term until the end of May.
From November, you begin work on your research project, and then from June you devote all of your study time to completing your research project before the end of the academic year.
Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Accreditation aims to raise standards and foster good practice. Accreditation helps provide a pathway to qualify as a Chartered Chemical Engineer (MIChemE) and registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) with the Engineering Council.
Accreditation for this course is due for renewal in 2023.
Modules shown are for the current academic year and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.
Please note that the curriculum of this programme is currently being reviewed as part of a College-wide process to introduce a standardised modular structure. As a result, the content and assessment structures of this course may change for your year of entry. We therefore recommend that you check this course page before finalising your application and after submitting it as we will aim to update this page as soon as any changes are ratified by the College.
Find out more about the limited circumstances in which we may need to make changes to or in relation to our courses, the type of changes we may make and how we will tell you about changes we have made.
Core modules
You take all of the core modules below.
- Advanced Process Design
- Colloid and Interface Science
- Pharmaceutical Process Development
- Product Characterisation
Optional modules
You choose four optional modules from below.
- Accounting Online
- Advanced Bioprocess Engineering
- Advanced Environmental Engineering
- Advanced Process Operations
- Advanced Process Optimisation I
- Biochemical Engineering
- Business Economics
- Carbon Capture and Clean Fossil Fuels
- Corporate Finance Online
- Dynamic Behaviour in Process Systems
- Dynamical Systems in Chemical Engineering
- Entrepreneurship Online
- Finance and Financial Management
- Fluid Mechanics
- Managerial Economics Online
- Managing Innovation
- Membrane Science and Membrane Separation Processes
- Modelling of Biological Systems
- Molecular Modelling of Fluids
- Nuclear Chemical Engineering
- Particle Engineering
- Process Heat Transfer
- Project Management
- Reaction Engineering 2
- Strategic Management
- Transport Processes in Biological Systems
Research project
You will choose a research topic from a list of areas relevant to structured product engineering in November. From June until the end of your studies, you will have only your research project to complete.
The projects are normally conducted at Imperial, but can be taken in industry or at an approved institution. Your thesis forms the majority of the assessment for the research project (80%) with 10% each awarded for a presentation and literature review.
Teaching and assessment
- Computer-based work
- Independent Research Project
- Laboratory work
- Lectures
- Project reports
- Seminars
- Skills workshops
- Coursework
- Examinations
- Practical
Entry requirements
We welcome students from all over the world and consider all applicants on an individual basis.
Minimum academic requirement
Our minimum requirement is a 2.1 degree in engineering, physical sciences, mathematics, life sciences or biomedical sciences.
International qualifications
We also accept a wide variety of international qualifications.
The academic requirement above is for applicants who hold or who are working towards a UK qualification.
For guidance see our Country Index though please note that the standards listed here are the minimum for entry to the College, and not specifically this Department.
If you have any questions about admissions and the standard required for the qualification you hold or are currently studying then please contact the relevant admissions team.
English language requirement (all applicants)
All candidates must demonstrate a minimum level of English language proficiency for admission to the College.
For admission to this course, you must achieve the standard College requirement in the appropriate English language qualification. For details of the minimum grades required to achieve this requirement, please see the English language requirements for postgraduate applicants.
How to apply
Making an application
Apply online
All applicants must apply online.
Visit our Admissions website for details on the application process.
You can submit one application form per year of entry. You can usually choose up to two courses.
Application fee
For 2021–22 entry, we are introducing a pilot application fee for our Master's courses. This helps cover some of the administrative and staffing costs associated with processing the large volume of applications we receive.
This fee will be £80 per application and not per course.
We will waive the fee for any applicant – Home or Overseas – who demonstrates that they are experiencing financial hardship.
Find out more about the application fee and waiver
The fee for MBA applications to Imperial College Business School is £135. There is no application processing fee for other postgraduate courses such as PhDs.
ATAS certificate (overseas candidates)
An ATAS certificate is required for all Non-EEA/Swiss nationals who require a visa to study in the UK.
To apply for an ATAS certificate online, you will need your programme details and the relevant Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) code and 'descriptor'. For this course, these are:
|CAH code
|chemical, process and energy engineering
Your Tier 4 visa application, or extension of stay, will automatically be refused if you need an ATAS certificate and cannot provide one.
For further guidance on obtaining an ATAS certificate please see the information on our International Student Support website.
Tuition fees and funding
The level of tuition fees you pay is based on your fee status, which we assess based on UK government legislation.
For more information on the funding opportunities that are available, please visit our Fees and Funding website.
Tuition fees
Home rate of tuition
2021 entry
£14,650 per year
Fees are charged by year of entry to the College and not year of study.
Except where otherwise indicated, the fees for students on courses lasting more than one year will increase annually by an amount linked to inflation, including for part-time students on modular programmes. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPI) value in the April of the calendar year in which the academic session starts e.g. the RPI value in April 2021 will apply to fees for the academic year 2021–2022.
EU/EEA students
Students from the EU, other EEA country and/or Switzerland starting a course on or after 1 August 2021 will no longer be eligible for the Home rate of tuition, and so will be charged the Overseas fee. Please note, this does not apply to Irish students or students with Citizens Rights benefitting from Citizens' Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens' Rights Agreement respectively.
For regular updates for EU students, please see our Imperial and the EU webpages.
Overseas rate of tuition
2021 entry
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Today International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) celebrated a relative rarity in the tech business -- its one hundredth anniversary. By contrast Google Inc. (GOOG) is a mere 12 years old, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is 35, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is 36, and Hewlett-Packard, Comp. (HPQ) is 72 years old.
IBM was born in a different era in which computers were mechanical not electronic. It formed from merger of three rising stars -- Computing Scale Comp., Tabulating Machine Comp. and International Time Recording Comp. The company was named Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), but in 1924 would be renamed IBM.
In 1911 it had 1,346 employees and had $950,920.43 USD in income. Thomas Watson took over the chief executive position in 1915 and by 1920 the company was making nearly $14M USD and had 2,700 employees.
The company is sometimes referred to as having invented the "world's first computer program" -- the plug board used in its tabulation machines from the 1920s. Technically that honor goes to predecessor Tabulating Recording Corp. and its founder, inventor Herman Hollerith. Likewise Mr. Hollerith invented the punch card -- another invention often attributed to IBM, who helped make it famous.
But IBM did invent a thing or two -- the electric typewriter, the mainframe, the photoconducting office copier, word processing, fractals, the programming language FORTRAN, speech recognition, relational databases, the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the web server, the floppy disc, the hard drive, nanotubes, and LASIK surgery.
Its computers helped to land man on the moon and were found in America's first Space Shuttle.
The company also was a socially progressive force, pushing the first "open door" policy for complaints. In 1935 IBM joined only a few companies of its time in hiring female engineers. In 1946 it hired a black salesman. And in 1953, Thomas Watson, Jr., son of the company's iconic executive, instituted an equal opportunity policy. In 1984 IBM became one of the first companies to ban sexual discrimination.
Today IBM is America's third largest technology company behind Apple and barely behind Microsoft. The company employs over 425,000 people worldwide. Stock prices are at an all time high and the company is approaching $100B USD in yearly revenue, falling just millions short of that mark last year.
Since 2000 IBM has has $109B USD in free cash -- $60B USD of which it reinvested into research and development. The company today holds over 5,896 patents -- the most of any active company in the world.
The key to the company success in recent years was to morph its business to fix the market. In the 1990s that meant reinventing itself as primarily a hardware company into a mixture of a hardware maker and services provider. IBM has also expanded its software offerings in recent years.
Ultimately IBM's biggest strength is its diversity. For that reason the future looks bright for this centenarian.


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Cheshire police's Force Control Centre has been awarded an Investors in People gold award.
Investors in People is an accreditation scheme that helps realise the potential of employees and improve standards.
The FCC, based at the force's Winsford headquarters, had previously attained silver status in 2010.
But following its latest inspection, IIP assessors deemed the force had made substantial improvements that merited the sought-after accolade.
It is thought Cheshire's may be the first control room to attain gold status. Only 2% of the 25,000 people and organisations enrolled with Investors in People will ever achieve it.
The assessment involved three full days of interviews, with the assessor speaking to officers and staff at all levels within the FCC. The assessor also reviewed documentation from within the department including business plans and contact management strategy.
Assistant Chief Constable Janette McCormick said: "Providing an excellent police service means being there when it matters to people. This starts when we take the call. Having well-trained staff who can sensitively engage with all callers, who we invest in, and that are well led is essential.
"Achieving the Gold Investors in People award recognises all the hard work of our staff, supervisors and managers in the control room. This is a demanding and ever-changing environment where staff can face any number of requests and new ways of contact through social media.
"The constabulary is very proud of receiving this award and the quality of staff and leadership it represents."
Head of call management, Chief Inspector Damien Smethurst, said: "This is an excellent achievement and one which I am very proud of, both for and on behalf of the department.
"I think that this demonstrates the commitment to serving the public given by everyone within the department, but also reflects the passion and professionalism that all the staff display. Special credit should also be given to David McMahon who has organised the inspection at a time of flux for both the department and himself which again reflects his professional approach to the role."
Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer said: "I'm absolutely delighted with the achievement which reflects the hard work put in by the constabulary. The public can be reassured that their calls are being handled in a most professional way which is symbolised by this award."


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at home at BKK Home 24 Boutique Hotel, which offers quality accommodation
and great service. The hotel is not too far from the city center: just
0.5km away, and it normally takes about 45 minutes to reach the airport.
For those of you who want to venture out, Thailand Creative & Design
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The facilities and services provided by BKK Home 24 Boutique Hotel ensure a pleasant stay for guests. While lodging at this wonderful property, guests can enjoy smoking area, car park, newspapers, car hire, restaurant.
Guests can choose from 16 rooms, all of which exude an atmosphere of total peace and harmony. Besides, the hotel's host of recreational offerings ensures you have plenty to do during your stay. BKK Home 24 Boutique Hotel is a smart choice for travelers to Bangkok, offering a relaxed and hassle-free stay every time.
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|BKKHome24 is Hotel in Bangkok located on Sukhumvit 24 road. BKKHome 24 is one of the luxury boutique hotel in Bangkok and renowned not only for its high standard of service but also for its prime downtown location, earning the title "The heart and soul of Bangkok". The hotel is surrounded by many of Bangkok's world-class shopping center such as Emporium Department Store (30 meters away), entertainment facilities, Benjasiri Central Park and is just footsteps 50 meters away from the city's central BTS Sky train (Prom Pong Station)and within close proximity to the MRT Asok subway station.


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Existing lenses can be replaced with prescription lenses.
Material: Nylon lens, stainless steel frame embedded in a clear acetate frame
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