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formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)
- Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
- (computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- (literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
- (music) The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
- (mathematics, physics) A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
- 2011, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane 2011, p. 54:
- Heisenberg seems to have been motivated by his intense annoyance that Schrödinger's more intuitive version of quantum theory was more widely accepted than his own, even though both formalisms led to the same results.
- 2011, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane 2011, p. 54:
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See alsoEdit
strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice, etc.
computing: paradigm
literature: structural approach to interpretation
music: tendency to elevate formal above expressive value
mathematics, physics: a particular theory or description of a state of affairs
Further readingEdit
- formalism in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- formalism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911


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Eye dialectspelling of buster.
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Saturday, 17 January 2015
One off the Bucketlist- Seeing Slipknot live!
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'Lucas swims ahead of me with his short, powerful stroke. He hovers at a fixed distance in my mind. Why can I not catch him, even while I think I am swimming ever harder?'
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I marvel at myself-yesterday:
what mystery the things he knew, so strange!
Today comprehending only now, not the past,
my former thoughts are unknown to my current me,
make me a stranger to myself,
separated only by a day.
His genius is clear, but today I seem wiser,
new decisions replacing old, and he often appears a fool.
But being a stranger to me, I can't know
whether what went through his mind
was wisdom for fortune or folly,
nor if myself-today improves upon it.
Each day making opposite decision,
do I renege, reverse myself and progress nowhere?
Daily making the same turns will I find I've gone in circles,
round and round - jamais vu to view my motion,
will I sense a deja vu and break a cycle,
or remain trapped forever oblivious?
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Yesterday Now
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WesternZagros Resources has announced that Jonathan Oestreich has been appointed to Western Zagros's Board of Directors as an independent director effective immediately.
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This is a book that has been getting a lot of press since it has been published, and has already been reviewed on the main Cannonball Read III blog, once by Carolyn and again by Even Stevens. These reviews are excellent, and I highly recommend them. The book is very well written and the story is fascinating. A few days after finishing reading, however, I do have some ideas and questions that are seemingly stuck in my head.
When I earlier reviewed the most recent Mary Roach book, I recall some discussion about the appropriateness of the author including herself in the writing, which she has done in all her books. Given that she writes generally humorous books and uses her voice to highlight absurdity and wonder, and to demonstrate a human touch in what could be some pretty stark presentation of research, I think Roach's approach is successful. I am less certain of that approach in Skloot's book. While she generally uses a straightforward approach in discussing the science and ethics associated with the use of HeLa and other cell cultures, her presence is kind of overwhelming in relating the story of the Lacks children and her efforts to get the story. I understand she wants to really make their anguish and confusion palpable to the reader, and be honest about their experiences as she researched the book and tried to help them understand what had happened with Henrietta Lacks' cells. Perhaps I am thinking about it too much, but her repeated references to how she funded her research herself, how long it took to complete the book, and about repeatedly taking Deborah's panicky phone calls (after calling the family repeatedly over years trying to set up interviews) feels a little off to me, more like a personal memoir rather than the story of Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells (I note that Even Stevens felt differently about this topic).
Another aspect of the story that has stuck with me is the sheer poverty of the Lacks family and the struggles they have gone through. In some ways, I am reminded a bit of Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle. Although close family members grew up in similar circumstances and knowing people still live and raise families with those difficulties, it makes me really sad that North Americans, with all the resources that should be available, still grow up without adequate medical care, education, and social supports. Also, the book reminded me again of how heartbreaking the American medical system is for people without insurance or money. It makes me very grateful to live in Canada; nobody here would get a bill for over $100,000 for heart bypass surgery, as does Sonny Lacks.
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Trouble started after a protest by members of the community about the killing of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old who was shot dead by police on Thursday, turned violent.
Patrol cars, a double-decker bus and shops were set alight after a crowd of more than 300 people clashed with officers near Tottenham police station.
At least eight police officers were taken to hospital, one with head injuries after rioters attacked buildings including banks, shops and a supermarket.
Although the area was mostly brought under control early on Sunday morning there were still pockets of trouble nearby.


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19 Feb Cape Cod brings a touch of nature into the bathroom
Cape Cod, which is located in New England on the east coast of the USA, possesses a memorable flair. It is a region of sandy beaches that stretch for miles, crystal-clear water and untamed nature – and this place was indirectly the inspiration for Philippe Starck, who designed this collection from his house on the beach, which in many regards is his very own Cape Cod.
With his new Cape Cod bathroom range, the French creator has reinvented the bathroom, removing the barriers between nature and the indoors. Nature becomes a permanent part of the bathroom, a place for rejuvenation and refreshment with aesthetically appealing materials and forms. Ceramic wash bowls with distinctively thin edges, a perfectly coordinated range of bathtubs, and bathroom furniture that can be combined on an individual basis and positioned as desired within the room: Cape Cod is captivating not only on account of its unique design, but first and foremost because of its authentic materials, solid real wood and an innovative ceramic formula that allows for especially thin and delicate wash bowls.
Iconic and nature-inspired forms are the foundation of the Cape Cod range. The exclusive basins are produced from a specially developed high-strength ceramic mass with an elegant finish (DuraCeram). This material makes it possible to create countertop basins with a rim thickness of only five millimetres that are extremely easy to maintain, amazingly robust and impact-resistant. In order to allow scope for individual bathroom design, the wash bowls are available in three different shapes: round, square and tri-oval.
Pop into our showroom to see how the Cape Cod washbowl can compliment your bathroom.
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text: Personalities Tommy Sanders Tommy Sanders is best known as host of ESPN Outdoors, the four-hour block of outdoors programming that aired nationally each Saturday. In addition to his hosting duties for Outdoor Channel on Madfin Shark Series and The Bassmasters, Sanders also hosts the STIHL Timbersports Series (since 1990), the FLW Tournament series (since 1996) and hosts numerous webcasts and outdoors-related podcasts. A native of Magnolia, Arkansas, Sanders graduated in 1976 from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, earning a bachelor of arts degree in English and theater. Sanders was inducted into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame in 2009 and was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award in both 2009 and 2010 for his coverage of the Bassmaster Classic, co-hosted with Mark Zona. Sanders is married and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. Related Shows Madfin Shark Series STIHL TIMBERSPORTS The Bassmasters


text: Equal parts dive bar and dance club, The Short Stop is an Echo Park hot spot located down the street from Dodger Stadium (get it?). The red-lit dance floor is fueled by a juke box or a late-night DJ, the pool tables and arcade games are there to break you when the dance floor tires you out, and the drink specials are made for pre- and post-Dodger game goers. Go early to beat the line, load up on $1 PBR tall boys, and don't miss the cheap (but delicious) street food vendors on your way out -- you just spent the whole night dancing, you deserve it.


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Survey, State, Map
2018 Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map
21–23 June 2018
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine
Harvard Map Collection
3:00 – 4:00 pm Tour of Follow the Map: The Harvard Map Collection at 200 in Pusey Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
5:00 pm Refreshments on the Boston Map Society's tab at the Newsfeed Café on the first floor of the Johnson Building, Boston Public Library, Copley Square
6:00 pm—7:00 pm Tour of Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces in the Leventhal Map Center gallery
Presented in partnership with the Boston Map Society
leventhalmap.org | library.harvard.edu/map
Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:30 pm
Hang a Left at Prohibition Park: The Intersection of Beer & Cartography
A talk by Kris Butler, Boston Map Society President
Reception with Bog Iron Brewing's Bonner Map Beer Lane Ale
Tuesday, March 27th, 5:30-7:30 PM
You Are (Not Really) Here: The Art of Mapping Fiction and Film
Lecture in conjunction with Houghton Library's major exhibition Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration. Co-sponsored by the Boston Map Society.
Speaker: Andrew DeGraff, creator-illustrator of Plotted: A Literary Atlas, and Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies
Artist, freelance illustrator and educator Andrew DeGraff (creator/illustrator of Plotted: A Literary Atlas, and Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies) has been mapping places, stories, events, books and films for a decade. Through a combined tour of art, cartography, and his own work and influences he explores the boundaries of reality and fiction, the necessary fictions of mapping, and the realities that inform the process. DeGraff graduated from Pratt Institute's Communications Design program with a focus in Illustration in 2001. He returned to Pratt to teach illustration from 2009 – 2014 and now teaches at the Maine College of Art. He recently published his second book, Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies from Quirk Books. Andrew has worked as an illustrator for clients such as: Visa, Sports Illustrated, Kellogg's, The New York Times, GAP Kids, Anthropologie, and Leo Burnett. His gallery work has been shown in New York, Albany, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Calgary, Mexico City, and the Philippines.
For more on DeGraff, visit www.andrewdegraff.com
Monday, January 29, 5:30 reception at the Newsfeed Cafe; 6:30 talk in the Commonwealth Salon of the Boston Public Library
Chet Van Duzer presented a talk called With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps': On Cartographers' Fears of Blank Spaces at the Boston Public Library
Historians of cartography occasionally refer to cartographers' horror vacui, that is, their fear or hesitancy to leave spaces blank on maps that might be filled with decorations. Some scholars have denied that this impulse was a factor in the design of maps, but the question has never been examined carefully. In this talk he undertook such an examination, showing that horror vacui was indeed an important factor in the design of maps, at least for some cartographers, from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Some of the factors that motivated cartographers' concern about empty spaces were also be examined, as were maps by cartographers who evidently did not experience this fear. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries maps began to be thought of as more purely scientific instruments, cartographic decoration declined generally, and cartographers managed to restrain their concern about spaces lacking decoration in the interest of presenting their work as modern and professional.
Tuesday, February 13, 5:39-7:30
Official opening for the exhibition Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration including a lecture "Seeing Text, Reading Maps by Harvard Professor Tom Conley
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge Massachusetts
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
A world authority on the relations of space and writing in literature, cartography, and cinema, Professor Conley will discuss his lifelong fascination with literary maps. Conley's most recent essay on the subject appears in the newly published Literature and Cartography : Theories, Histories, Genres, ed. By Anders Engberg-Pedersen (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017).
For more on the speaker, visit https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/people/tom-conley
November 29, 2017 at 5:30
Unraveling Ancient Life in Massachusetts: Fossils, Paleobiology, and Geologic Maps
Professor Dick Bailey
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston Massachusetts
For two hundred years, geologists and paleontologists have mapped sedimentary sequences and interpreted the ancient environments they represent. Professor Richard H. Bailey, professor of geology in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University, unearthed the evolutionary history of Massachusetts fossils, their value in understanding the geologic development of the region, and their historical depiction in maps.
November 29, 2017 at 7:30 (following the lecture about Ancient Massachusetts at 6:00; see above)
A tour of the current Leventhal Map Center exhibit with Dory Klein
Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the World Below
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston Massachusetts
November 7, 2017 at 5:30
Connecting the Drops: Mapping History and Innovation of Boston's Water
Commonwealth Salon, Boston Public Library
Dr. Suanna Crowley
Have been delving below the earth's surface for tens of thousands of years. From the earliest maps of the spiritual underworld made by ancient man, to digital maps of the seabed produced today, the human need to explore and envision the world beneath our feet is age-old. In this exhibition, you saw how ancient Romans carved vast catacombs in the earth, how minerals and natural resources have been studied, engineered and transported since the 19th century, how today's scientific and cartographic advancements have enabled us to picture the entire ocean floor and what lies below the streets of Boston. As you explored nearly 400 years of maps and images of the world below, you could compare the historical viewpoint with the modern, and see how we have advanced our perception and depiction of what lies beneath our feet.
October 25, 2017, 5:30 (Immediately following the annual business meeting of the Boston Map Society)
Look But Don't Touch: Tactile Maps
David Weimer at the Harvard Map Collection
Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 6:00
Predicting New England Weather: Can It Be Done?
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston Massachusetts
Meteorologist Dave Epstein talked about how a changing climate is affecting New England's weather and what some of the models predict the future to look like. After the talk, audience members viewed the Leventhal Map Center's exhibition, Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Field Trip to the Osher Map Library in Portland, Maine
Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 5:30
David Weimer, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Yard
Manuscript Maps: Hand Drawn Treasures from the Harvard Map Collection
Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 5:30
Mark Monmonier presented The Four Shorelines of Coastal Cartography
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston Massachusetts
The history of coastal cartography chronicles the emergence of four distinct representations of the land-water boundary, the oldest of which is the high-water line, captured initially in the offshore sketches of mariners and global explorers and used for centuries for marine navigation and for framing continents on geographical maps. The second shoreline is the low-water line, which marks the horizontal position of the tidal or sounding datum and plays an integral role in the representation of near-shore hazards on large-scale nautical charts. The third and fourth shorelines reify two additional coastal dangers, storm surge and sea level rise. All four cartographic shorelines have multiple definitions and multiple applications. The third shoreline, particularly relevant to Hurricane Sandy's attack on Long Island and New Jersey in October 2012, informs flood-insurance maps, evacuation plans, and land-use restrictions, while the fourth shoreline helps rally support for reducing carbon emissions as well as for comparing approaches to wetlands management. Heavily dependent on numerical modeling and an evolving scientific understanding of physical processes, these latter two categories exemplify the emergence of time as a cartographic frontier in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when earn-systems forecasting became an important mapping application.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:30 - 9:30
American Association of Geographers meet Boston Map Society members
Boston Harbor Hotel, Boston Massachusetts
Visitors to Boston attending the American Association of Geographers will be welcomed to a tour of the Leventhal Map Center's collection of New England maps that are exhibited in the lobby of the Boston Harbor Hotel. Participants are encouraged to select a local beer or Scotch from the adjoining bar and walk among the maps with Dr. Ron Grim, curator of the Leventhal Map Collection.
Thursday, March 9, 5:30
Dr. Ron Grim presents Annotated Atlases: Unraveling Stories of Personal Provenance
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston Massachusetts
One of the key themes of public and educational programing at the Leventhal Map Center has focused on maps and the stories they tell. In this context, we examine who created a map and for what audience, analyzing such design elements as projection, center of focus, orientation, symbols, and decoration, in order to interpret the map maker's message.
In this lecture, Dr. Grim turned his attention to atlases and the stories they tell. Rather than address how the atlas was designed and what was the intended message, he focused on the story of the work after it was published, with a particular interest in provenance -- who owned the atlas, how it was used, and how it was acquired by the Library.
Thursday, February 23, 2017, 5:30
Dr. Lucia Lovison-Golob presents Gambia: A Cartographic Space
Afriterra, 400 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
The Geospatial Director and Librarian at Afriterra commemorated Black History Month with a talk and exhibit about human trafficking through historical maps from this part of Africa.
December 15, 2016, 5:30
David Weimer presented a guided exhibition tour- Where Disaster Strikes: Modern Space and the Visualization of Destruction
Harvard Map Collection at Pusey Library
Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Fires, volcanoes, floods, bombs, tornadoes, tsunamis. We can easily understand their effect on the built and natural landscape because they happen so suddenly. The Harvard Map Collection invited guests to see 350 years of maps that try to visualize the sudden devastation of disaster, from the London Fire of 1666 through the bombing of Hiroshima to the cities we see destroyed in our movies. Through these maps, we saw how our modern spaces define what counts as disaster and how disasters continue to shape the spaces around us.
November 10, 2016, 5:30 pm
Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon
James A. Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum, presented a lecture about Jan Vermeer's The Geographer
No other painter from 17th-century Holland expressed a greater interest in cartography than Jan Vermeer. His detailed depictions of maps and globes coincide with the great age of exploration and mapmaking. This lecture by the leading authority on Vermeer's use of cartographic material demonstrated that all of the maps and globes in Vermeer's paintings can be identified, though few originals still exist. These cartographic objects and the ways in which Vermeer used them not only add further meaning to his allegorical subjects and scenes of everyday life; they also shed light on Vermeer's working method, including his possible use of the camera obscura.
Named Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum in 2011, James Welu joined the staff of the Museum in 1974 as assistant curator and went on to serve 6 years as chief curator and 25 years as director. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Welu began his career as an artist and taught studio art in college before pursuing further studies in art history. He holds a BA from Loras College, an MA and MFA in studio art from the University of Notre Dame, a PhD in art history from Boston University.
October 19, 2016, 5:30 pm
Boston Public Library, Abbey Room
Peter Whitfield Mapping Shakespeare's World
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Field Trip to the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
99 Warren Street, Brookline (just off Rt 9)
A special tour for 25 Boston Map Society members. (If you're not a member yet, see the Membership page and join!)
One-of-a-kind tour for BMS members plus a bonus talk with the Olmsted archivist. Frederick Law Olmsted NHS preserves and interprets the home and office of pioneer landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his successor firms. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is widely recognized as the founder of the American landscape architecture design profession and the nation's foremost park-maker. The site, which he named Fairsted, with its 19th-century house, attached early 20th-century office wing, rustic barn, and designed landscape, retains the pastoral character that drew Olmsted to Brookline, MA, in 1883.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
From the Sea to the Mountains: The Trustees 125th Anniversary
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library partnered with The Trustees in celebration of their 125th Anniversary on a 70-item exhibition, featuring maps, photographs, and historical items from both collections. Visitors were introduced to Trustees properties, became familiar with a number of distinctive map formats, learned about natural landforms and geologic terms, and cultivated an appreciation for the natural, historical, and cultural treasures of Massachusetts.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 5:30
The Land Remains: A Century of Conservation in America's National Parks
Pusey Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Walk and talk through the new exhibit with Bonnie Burns and Scott Walker.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 5:30
MAP: Exploring the World
A reception and talk about contributing to this book by Kris Butler
10 St. James Avenue, 11th Floor (Holland & Knight)
Boston, MA (Arlington T)
Kris Butler contributed over 30 stories and explanations about the maps in this book, and she told about some of her favorites. From a scent map of Glasgow by artist Kate McLean and a 1932 illustrated map of Harlem's night clubs by E. Simms Campbell, to maps on early playing cards, an "interactive" 1957 Tour de France map, the map that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Treasure Island, and many more.
March 30, 2016 at 5:30
The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550
The Castle Room, Boston University, Hillel House
213 Bay State Road, Boston
Chet Van Duzer gave an account of the large (4.4 × 7 feet) and elaborately decorated manuscript world map made by the Norman cartographer Pierre Desceliers in 1550 (British Library, Add. MS 24065). Following a look at the map's genre, principal characteristics, and the circumstances of its creation as a gift for Henry II of France, he demonstrated the cartographer's greater interest in Asia than other contemporary Norman cartographers; discussed evidence that the cartographer hired multiple artists to decorate the map; and reviewed the sources of both the map's illustrations and its descriptive texts. Finally he addressed the question of whether the map's large southern continent represents a "pre-discovery" of Australia – that is, a discovery of Australia before the generally recognized discovery by the Dutch in 1606 – arguing that it did not; and examined the influence of Desceliers and other Norman cartographers.
March 22, 2016
Missing Women, Blank Maps, and Data Voids: What gets counted counts
Boston Public Library, in conjunction with the Women in Cartography exhibition, Boston
Professor Joni Seager, feminist geographer and Chair at Bentley University, discussed the persistent paucity of gender-disaggregated data. She is the author of the internationally renowned "State of the Women in the World Atlas," first published in 1986. Now in its fourth edition, the atlas has been published in more than a dozen foreign-language editions; in 2016 it will be released in Persian in Iran. Joni has worked with a number of governments and the UN on developing gender-sensitive statistical protocols. She is also a globally recognized expert in the field of gender and environmental policy, and has worked around the world on projects in this field.
March 3, 2016
A History of the Coast Survey, 1807 - 1879
Boston Public Library
Robert "Bob" Paine led a talk on the important and often dangerous and difficult work of the US Coast Survey- the oldest governmental scientific organization in the United States. He shared some intriguing maps and artifacts as well.
Bob Paine is the owner and proprietor of Old Charts of New England, specializing in Coast Survey documents. He is a commercial diver, marine surveyor, and navigation instructor, a USCG Ocean master to 3000 tons, has supervised dive operations and remote sensing projects worldwide, and has been a dive supervisor and captain on Project Whydah for seven years.
Feb 26, 2016
Map Tour and Scotch Tasting
Langham Hotel, Boston
Dr. Ron "Eagle Eye" Grim, Curator of Maps at the Normal B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, led a group through these historic maps of Boston located in the Langham Hotel while guests tasted Scotch. The collection, depicting a topographical transformation of Boston over 300 years, is in an oft-unused, practically hidden, room.
December 15, 2015, 5:30
Terra Firma: The Beginnings of the MHS Map Collection
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street
Curator Mary Yacovone (right, below, pictured with Jonathan Rosenwasser of Harvard's Map Collection) led a talk and tour of this exhibit.
December 2, 2015
Embellishing the Map: Empty Spaces and Treacherous Waters
The Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Jonathan Rosenwasser led a tour of the latest map exhibit of animals and other map embellishments.
November 19, 2015
Before Mandela: The Cartographic View of South Africa, 1513 - 1918
Afriterra Foundation, 400 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Lucia Louison, Geospatial Director and Librarian, presented a talk and walk through the exhibit.
November 12, 2015, 5:30
Women in Cartography
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
Commonwealth Salon
Alice Hudson (right), former Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, discussed the works of better-known women cartographers. Her talk celebrated the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping, bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly their maps, to light.
October 21, 2015
The Art of Illustrated Maps: A Complete Guide to Creative Mapmaking's History, Process, and Imagination, with author John Roman
Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon
Author, educator, and map illustrator John Roman discussed his book on the history and inspiration behind map design and illustration.
October 5, 2015
The Colonies in Context: The Place of North America in King George's World View
Boston Public Library
As noted on the Boston Public Library's website, Peter Barber spoke on The Colonies in Context: The Place of North America in King George's World View. This program was presented as part of the Lowell Lecture Series and Revolutionary Boston, a citywide commemoration.
September 8, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Rebels, Redcoats, & Revolutionary Maps
Boston Public Library, Abbey Room (book talk)
Richard Brown, co-author of Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783 (W.W. Norton, 2015) spoke about maps reflecting Boston's role during the Revolutionary War period. The authors were available to sign copies of their book. Ronald Grim, Curator gave a tour of the exhibition We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence following the talk.
Thursday, June 18, 2015, 5:30
The Ancestry of the Mother Road: Mapping Route 66
The Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, Harvard Yard
Route 66 looms large in American culture. In song and story, the mother road carries us to the promise of a better life. This talk and tour was about the railroad scouts and surveyors, early auto adventurers, dust bowl migrants, suburban road-tripping families, all following their own paths, but all on the same road.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 6:00
We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
This talk will focused on the Revolutionary War Exhibit that runs through November. The exhibit is divided into three parts: Maps Serving the Empire, Mapping the Rebellion, and Maps Serving a New Nation. It features around 60 maps and 40 related documents, paintings, and objects.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 5:30 - 7:30
Beacons of the Water World: The Evolution of the Sea Chart
Opening reception and exhibit followed by a talk by Joseph Garver.
For much of human history the most efficient and least cumbersome way to cover long distances and transport goods was on water. Yet navigation—whether by canoe, galley, caravel, ketch, or schooner—was never without its hazards. Survival often depended upon detailed information gathered orally from seasoned mariners or from written instructions compiled from numerous logs of voyages into unfamiliar seas. By the late 16th century, the expansion of trade within Europe and the increasing pace of exploration abroad created an urgent need for reliable accounts and accurate surveys of new navigational routes. This exhibit investigated the evolution of sea charts—from pilot books with a focus on European waters to multi-volume atlases ranging the great seas of the world. It surveyed the major chartmakers of the Netherlands, England, and France, with attention to the development of a common symbolic language for depicting navigational hazards and aids.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:30 - 7:30
At a Glance: Early Methods of Cartographic Visualization
Opening reception and exhibit followed by a talk by Joseph Garver.
The Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library, Harvard Yard
From their earliest manifestations, maps have embodied some form of data visualization. Whether describing geographical coordinates, navigational hazards, transportation routes, or the night sky, maps have served to distill the complexities of our observations and render them more readily comprehensible. However, the cartographic techniques used to depict topographical features and the built environment were often of limited utility in illustrating data derived from in-depth investigations of the physical universe, the biosciences, the economy, or the social system. This exhibit explored early experimentations in visualization impelled by the explosion of empirical data (and the infrastructure for collecting statistics) since the late 18th century. It included thematic maps of disease, crime, geological strata, ethnographic patterns, and electoral results.
October 16, 2014, 5:30pm, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Michael Blanding discussed his book The Map Thief as part of the Author Talk Series
The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him
The Map Thief interweaves Smiley's escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire's Vinegar, Blanding pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.
September 11, 2014, 5:30pm, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth Century America - Susan Schulten (University of Denver) This was part of the BPL's Author Talk Series.
In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation's past.
All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.
Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
July 23, 2014, 5:30pm, Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library
Bonnie Burns, Librarian for Geographic Information Services
From the Alps to the Ocean: Maps of the Western Front at the Harvard Map Collection
World War One is often described as the first truly modern war, a war where advances in technology had outpaced the tactical thinking of the day. The massive changes that occurred in the field of military technology were mirrored in the field of map mapmaking. New technologies led to new cartographic methods and techniques and to an increased reliance on maps. On the battlefield, cartographers were churning out maps of the trenches almost daily. At home, maps were being used to rally the home front in Europe and to try to convince the United States to join the Entente powers. Immediately after the war, maps were used to help decide how to redefine Europe.
On the centennial of the start of the war, Bonnie Burns explored the roles of maps and mapping on the battlefield and at home.
June 11, 2014, 5:30pm, Leventhal Map Center
Joel Kovarsky, The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps and Books
The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson's Cartographic Vision
A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "mother of all sciences." Although he only published a single printed map, Jefferson was also regarded as a geographer, due to his interest in and use of geographic and cartographic materials during his many careers—attorney and regional and national politician—and in his twilight years at Monticello. For roughly twenty-five years he was involved with almost all elements of the urban planning of Washington, D.C., and his surveying skills were reflected in his architectural drawings, including of the iconic grounds of the University of Virginia. He understood maps not only as valuable for planning but as essential for future land claims and development, exploration and navigation, and continental commercial enterprise.
The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson's Cartographic Vision charts the importance of geography and maps as foundations of Jefferson's lifelong pursuits. Although the world had already seen the Age of Exploration and the great sea voyages of Captain James Cook, Jefferson lived in a time when geography was of primary importance, prefiguring the rapid specializations of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century world. In his exploration of Jefferson's passion for geography, including how our third President was a key participant in planning the route followed and regions explored by Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, as well as other expeditions into the vast expanse of the Louisiana Purchase. Kovarsky reveals how geographical knowledge was essential to the manifold interests of the Sage of Monticello.
Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS the history and future of How We find Ourselves
What does it mean to never get lost? Mr. Bray examined the rise of our era of navigational omniscience — or how we came to know exactly where we are at all times. In a sweeping history of the development of location technology, Bray showed how radio signals created to carry telegraph messages were transformed into invisible beacons to guide ships and how rapidly spinning wheels steered submarines beneath the polar icecap. But while most of these technologies were developed for and by the military, they are now ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Our phones are now smart enough to pinpoint our presence to within a few feet—and nosy enough to share that information with government and corporations. This is the story of how humankind solved one of its oldest problems—only to herald a new era in which it's impossible to hide.
Courting Clio: Maps and the Historical Imagination, Joseph Garver, Research Librarian, Harvard Map Collection
Ever since the revival of classical learning in the Renaissance, Europe's most prominent mapmakers—including Mercator, Ortelius, Janssonius, Sanson, and Delisle—have regarded it as part of their professional duty to apply their craft to an imaginative restoration of the past. Each age has its own peculiar Zeitgeist (yearning for a golden age, looking for inspiration in religious saints or secular heroes, or taking satisfaction in the extent of progress from "less enlightened" times), but the urge to court Clio (the muse of history) has been an ongoing theme in cartographic circles. This exhibit explores the ways in which mapmakers frame past events, how they deploy textual and graphic aids in the service of historical narrative, and how they endeavor to convey temporal changes through static images. Whether the subject is the Exodus, the conquests of Alexander the Great, the barbarian invasions of Europe, or the arduous trek of Mormons to the Great Salt Lake, the focus here is on efforts to map our collective peregrinations through time. This exhibit is on view from March 13 – July 8, 2014.
March 11, 2014, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
Christina Connett
Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
"Cartography and Empire in Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesilla"
In the sixteenth century, some of Spain's most intriguing imperialistic strategies of asserting its New World claims are the official histories commissioned by the monarchy and the use of cartography to support these narratives and their relevant agendas. This talk reflected upon the cartographic elements employed in one of the most ambitious of these projects, the Historia General de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano, 1601-1615, by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, with the purpose of better understanding and broadening the arc of historical discourse on this work. While much scholarship has been given to the text of the Historia, its author, context, and sources, there have been no thorough examinations of the title pages and maps, particularly using a methodology which combines cartographic and art historical analyses. Herrera's use of maps was an active, not a passive effort in legitimizing Catholic Spain's claims on the Americas and to analyze and contextualize this cartographic strategy of possession. By using Christian and classical iconography and humanist historiographical structure embedded in a cartographic program, Herrera addresses Catholic obligations in the Americas particularly in response to Protestant propaganda; unifies and nationalizes the New World within the Catholic Habsburg monarchy; and legitimizes possession of new territories and the governance of the Indians.
A Taste of Scotch and Tour of New England Maps
When: Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Boston Harbor Hotel
6:00 pm - Selected sipping preference with the help of Veteran bartender Brian in the Rowes Wharf Bar
6:30 pm - Toured the maps of New England on display in the Boston Harbor Hotel lobby with Leventhal Map Curator Ron Grim
The Scotch tasting was pay-as-you-go; the tour was free.
Made in Boston with guest curator Michael Buehler
When: Jan 16, 2014 5:30 pm
Where: The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (700 Boylston Street, Boston)
This exhibition afforded a unique perspective on the ambitions, anxieties and sense of identity that animated colonial Bostonians.
A City Evolves: Maps and Visions of Boston from 1775 - Present
Introduction and commentary by Carolyn Bennett, Manager of the Office of Digital Cartography and GIS
November 19, 2013, at the Boston Redevelopment Authority in City Hall
Mapping the Revolutionary War in Virginia
A lecture by William Wooldridge, author of Mapping Virginia, from the Age of Exploration to the Civil War
May 21, 2013, 5:30, at the Boston Public Library


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ALLEN PARK, MI -- The site of a failed movie studio project that contributed to the state takeover of Allen Park is in the process of being sold for $12 million, city officials announced Thursday.
Allen Park purchased the 104-acre site now known as Southfield Lease Properties for $25.5 million in 2009 with plans of leasing it for the development of a major film studio.
When a state review team found Allen Park to be in financial emergency in September 2012, it cited the studio project's failure, which left the city with debt service payments of $2 million a year after the 2009 purchase of the property for $10.8 million more than it was previously valued.
The debt service payments have grown to $2.6 million, and the property's sale will reduce that burden to $1.2 million a year, Allen Park Emergency Manager Joyce Parker said Thursday.
"The proceeds of the sale will be used to better position the city financially to retire the debt service on the existing bonds and to refinance any outstanding balance remaining on the property," said Parker, who previously worked as emergency manger of Ecorse and the Highland Park school district before being appointed to take over Allen Park in October 2012.
She said the sale will save the city another $1.2 million a year in maintenance, tax, insurance and utility costs.
Time Equities, the New York firm purchasing the property, will have up to 45 days to perform due diligence before the sale is final, according to downriver newspaper The News-Herald.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
I Serve DC Newsletter. National Preparedness Month events in Washington, D.C.
Sept. 24, 2012: Second Annual National Preparedness Month Forum: Planning for Access & Functional Needs Populations in Emergencies.
On Monday, September 24, 2012, join Serve DC at the Renaissance Downtown Washington, DC Hotel for its Second Annual National Preparedness Month Forum: Planning for Access & Functional Needs Populations in Emergencies.
This free event convenes access-and-functional-needs experts and advocates and emergency-management professionals to discuss how to ensure the needs of all District residents – regardless of access or ability – are understood and accommodated in times of crisis.
Speakers and panelists include local and national experts from the access-and-functional-needs, disability, and emergency-management communities; and discussion topics include:
- Overview of access and functional needs populations
- Access and functional needs considerations in planning and preparedness
- Fostering partnerships and collaboration between emergency-management professionals and community-based and advocacy organizations focused on disability inclusion and other access and functional needs populations
- Encouraging participation of access and functional needs populations in emergency preparedness and planning
Registration is free and breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Corporation for National and Community Service. September 11th Anniversity. National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Americans to Mark September 11th Anniversary by Volunteering to Make a Difference in Their Communities
Nonprofit, business, faith-based, and government organizations unite as part of National Day of Service and Remembrance
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today released an overview of how volunteers across the country will pay tribute to and honor the victims and heroes of September 11th.
The projects associated with the National Day of Service and Remembrance include building affordable housing for veterans and military families, educating citizens on disaster preparedness and organizing food drives.
"In the aftermath of September 11th, we came together as a country to show that we are there for each other," said Wendy Spencer, CEO of CNCS. "The National Day of Service and Remembrance is an opportunity to rekindle that same sense of compassion for the victims and heroes of that day. Volunteering can be a life-changing experience that reminds each of us of the power we have to help out our neighbors and improve our communities."
CNCS joins in marking the commemoration with MyGoodDeed, the nonprofit which began the 9/11 Day observance ten years ago, and hundreds of nonprofit groups, faith-based organizations, schools, and businesses.
"Each year on 9/11, we are reminded about the passion Americans bring to volunteerism and service, and about how our collective differences are minimal compared to the core values we all share," said David Paine, president and co-founder of MyGoodDeed. "CNCS does terrific work in helping us to energize the nation behind this growing, forward-looking observance to benefit people and communities in need across our great country."
Below is a snapshot of service projects being organized around the country, including 17 projects that received funding from CNCS. Additional opportunities can be found by visiting serve.gov.
- Alabama: HandsOn South Alabama volunteers will provide disaster preparedness trainings to 3,500 individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties on Wednesday, September 6 and Friday, September 14.
- Alaska: Children's books, provided by First Book and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and personal finance guides will be distributed to military families on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Wednesday, September 12.
- Arizona: The Islamic Networks Group, with the help of local organizations, such as charter schools and churches, will organize volunteers in Tucson to collect non-perishable items for local food banks on Sunday, September 9.
- Arkansas: The South Arkansas Community College Foundation will lead the community in remembrance activities at the SouthArk Outdoor Expo on Saturday, September 15.
- California: Volunteers will work tending the orchards at Full Circle Farm, an organic educational farm that produces fresh food for the Santa Clara United School District. This event will take place on September 9.
- Connecticut: Volunteers with Hands on Hartford will prepare for the grand opening of the MANNA Community Pantry, helping to stock, clean, and decorate the Community Pantry on September 11.
- Colorado: The Colorado Charity Alliance will be staging the 2nd Annual 9/11 Freedom Rally, a public festival to raise awareness and funds for Colorado's military and first responder communities, in Aurora from September 7- September 9.
- Delaware: HOPE worldwide and the American Red Cross will provide fire safety education to residents in Wilmington's high-risk neighborhoods on September 8.
- District of Columbia: On September 11, Serve DC and HandsOn Greater DC Cares will commemorate September 11th and National Preparedness Month with hands-on service projects, emergency preparedness trainings, and a volunteer-recruitment fair.
- Florida: In Pensacola, Community Organizations Active in Disasters, Inc. and the Be Ready Alliance will teach disaster preparedness to more than 1,000 youth. In Jacksonville, the Women of Color Cultural Foundation will lead Jacksonville school children in writing postcards to troops. Both events are on September 11.
- Georgia: Habitat for Humanity of Valdosta will host a three-day long "Freedom Build" in remembrance of September 11.
- Hawaii: On September 9, the Mayor of Honolulu's Annual 9/11 Walk will begin at the Police Department building and conclude at Honolulu Hale, where a short program will include a wreath-laying at the Eternal Flame.
- Idaho: During the week of September 10, the Idaho State Department of Education in Boise will host education units at local elementary schools on September 11.
- Illinois: On September 11, Volunteers from MyGoodDeed will work at Volunteers of America Illinois' Hope Manor, a transitional housing center for veterans that also maintains a food and clothing bank for its residents. 250 volunteers led by The Mission Continues will help organize under-utilized resources by installing permanent shelving, sorting and packing donations, and creating welcome kits for new residents.
- Indiana: Throughout the month of September, HOPE worldwide and the American Red Cross will conduct disaster response outreach in high-risk neighborhoods.
- Iowa: On September 11 in Des Moines, Central Iowa Shelter and Services will collect personal care items from donations and assemble them into "homeless help kits." These kits will be used for guests in a new shelter and distributed to volunteers throughout the community.
- Kansas: In Topeka, Harvesters – the Community Food Network will engage volunteers to sort and repackage donated food on September 11. In Wichita, volunteers will spend September 11 cleaning a recently acquired old church that will be turned into a homeless shelter run by the Inter-Faith Ministry.
- Kentucky: Throughout the weekend, the Ft. Campbell Soldier Family Assistance Center will have volunteers plant and create a therapeutic garden for Wounded Warriors.
- Louisiana: HandsOn New Orleans and HOPE worldwide will canvass at-risk neighborhoods on September 8, 9, 13, and 14 to spread awareness about fire safety and prevention.
- Maine: The Maine Commission for Community Service is calling upon all Maine residents and organizations to mark September 11 with a service pledge that is registered on VolunteerMaine.org.
- Maryland: On September 11, Habitat for Humanity of Frederick and AmeriCorps members are teaming up with post 9/11 veterans to work on the area's their first Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative Project.
- Massachusetts: On September 8, Military Heroes Fund in Boston and others will honor local lives lost to terrorism by assembling care packages for those still in harm's way.
- Michigan: During the week of September 5 to11, RSVP of Delta, Menominee, and Schoolcraft counties, along with U.P. Commission on Area Progress and 2-1-1 Call Center, will host an intergenerational service project. They are inviting volunteers to bring a child to the Escanaba Senior Center to create corsages/boutonnieres and Thank You cards to be presented to veterans at local nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and adult foster care facilities on September 11.
- Minnesota: On September 11, volunteers from MyGoodDeed will sort, package, and label food donations for low-income and homeless men, women and children at Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's largest hunger relief organization located in Golden Valley.
- Mississippi: On September 11, volunteers will make accessibility modifications to the bathroom of a young paralyzed post-9/11 veteran who will be residing in his grandmother's home when he is released from a VA hospital.
- Missouri: Volunteers from Missouri Southern State University in Joplin will travel to Minot, ND to assist with the rebuilding of flood-damaged homes.
- Montana: The University of Montana will organize a variety projects between September 4 and September 11.
- Nebraska: In Omaha on September 11, the Foster Grandparent Youth Task Force and RSVP volunteers will assemble disaster kits that will be distributed to the community.
- Nevada: On September 13, the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation will work in Incline Village to build the Mt. Rose connector's trail.
- New Hampshire: On September 11, 500 volunteers will participate in more than 45 projects as part of the Day of Caring, an annual United Way event based in Concord.
- New Jersey: As part of Operation Goody Bag, a variety of schools in the state will be coloring goody bags and writing thank you notes to troops.
- New Mexico: A September 11 ceremony invites tribal leaders, tribal elders, traditional medicine practitioners, and veterans to come together and dedicate a 20 foot Medicine Wheel that will be placed around the base of a restored flagpole.
- New York: On September 9, volunteers will gather at DOROT's headquarters in Manhattan and at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown to prepare packages of food and gifts and deliver them to homebound seniors. Additionally, the Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester will provide a multitude of volunteer opportunities in Scarsdale, including writing letters to troops, donating blood, and collecting food for families in need.
- North Carolina: On September 11, the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, in partnership with Activate Good, the city of Raleigh, and several downtown businesses will organize multiple activities.
- North Dakota: Volunteers from Joplin, Missouri will join residents in Minot to assist in rebuilding flood-damaged homes.
- Ohio: On September 8, UGIVE will lead 800 youth volunteers in service throughout the Cincinnati area for Step Up Cincinnati 2012.
- Oklahoma: On September 9, HOPE worldwide in Tulsa will honor the Blue Star Mothers of Broken Arrow by sending packages to troops who are currently serving overseas.
- Oregon: On September 11, Friends of Tryon Creek State Park will lead volunteers in conservation efforts for the park.
- Pennsylvania: HOPE worldwide will host a public safety event in Pittsburgh in conjunction with the Allegheny County Emergency Services, Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Team, HOPE worldwide, Allegheny County Council, and the Allegheny County Airport Authority on September 8.
- Rhode Island: Serve Rhode Island and AmeriCorps members will lead volunteers in veterans-related service projects throughout the state from September 8 to 15.
- South Carolina: On Saturday, September 8, Pleasant Valley Connection will host a fire safety and prevention event. There will be demonstrations by local firefighters, games that stress fire safety for children, distribution of free smoke detectors and batteries, and printed material and information on fire safety and prevention.
- South Dakota: On September 11, volunteers will read stories about America's Heroes to Yankton Elementary School students.
- Tennessee: From September 8 to 11, HandsOn Clarksville will lead volunteers in a variety of service projects, including the painting of ceramic tiles for the Pillars of Hope Commemorative Public Art Piece.
- Texas: On September 11, 250 volunteers from MyGoodDeed will work at a local women's treatment center run by Volunteers of America Texas, which offers a residential treatment program for women and children. Led by The Mission Continues, volunteers will build and install raised garden beds, sort through and organize donations, paint client rooms, and beautify the grounds.
- Utah: On September 13, nine service sites around South Salt Lake, will host more than 500 volunteers that will read with youth, restore historic buildings, stage a career fair, and revitalize parks and public places.
- Vermont: The Southwest Freedom Riders will stage a commemorative ceremony to benefit Mt. Sinai Hospital's "Health for Heroes" program on September 9.
- Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will be staging events and volunteer activities to better engage their student populations through service in the Blacksburg and Roanoke communities on September 11.
- Washington: On September 11, volunteers from Pat Tillman Foundation will repair a home for a veteran in Tacoma and host a community remembrance event.
- West Virginia: ExploreWV, Volunteer West Virginia, and WVREAP are partnering to sponsor Cache In Trash Out. The event will focus on cleaning up parks and recreation areas across the state on September 8.
- Wisconsin: From September 8 to 10, volunteers with HOPE worldwide and the American Red Cross will conduct local outreach, providing fire safety and preparedness information.
- Wyoming: On September 8, Habitat for Humanity of Laramie will organize approximately 200 community volunteers, including local military members and area youth, to join weatherize a block of homes for low-income, disabled and elderly residents.
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Prognostic model developed for MDS related to prior cancer therapy
A large-scale analysis of patients whose myelodysplastic syndrome is related to earlier cancer treatment overturns the notion that all of them have a poor prognosis, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
"MDS patients whose disease springs from earlier radiation, chemotherapy or both treatments are usually told that they have a poor prognosis. But by analyzing survival risk factors in a large patient population, we've found these patients fall into good, intermediate and poor prognostic groups," said study leader Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., Ph.D., professor in MD Anderson's Department of Leukemia.
Understanding their differing characteristics will better inform treatment decisions for these patients, Garcia-Manero said.
Myelodysplastic syndrome consists of a group of diseases in which the bone marrow progenitor cells that normally morph into red and white blood cells and platelets fail to respond to normal growth controls. That results in too many progenitor cells (also known as blasts) and too few mature blood cells, and in about 30 percent of patients, the disease progresses to acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Treatment-related MDS is often more resistant to therapy
Therapy-related MDS generally differs from other MDS cases by having more chromosomal abnormalities, a higher rate of conversions to acute myeloid leukemia and high resistance to standard MDS therapy. Even so, Garcia-Manero notes, a one-size-fits-all poor prognosis is not accurate.
The research team analyzed 1,950 MD Anderson patients treated between 1998 and 2007. It found 438 had a history of one or more previous cancers that were treated before their MDS diagnosis. Of these, 279 cases who had received chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both were analyzed.
A first round of analysis identified at least 15 factors associated with overall survival when considered as isolated, single variables.
Next, the researchers conducted a multi-variable analysis that narrowed factors reducing overall survival to seven:
- Age 65 or older.
- ECOG performance status scores of 2-4. (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group criteria range from 0, which means fully active, to 4, signifying complete disability).
- Cytogenetics. Having at least seven chromosomal alterations and/or complex cytogenetics.
- Two MDS subgroups as determined by World Health Organization Criteria. RARS and RAEB-1/2.
- Serum hemoglobin levels of less than 11g/dL.
- Platelet levels of less than 50.
- Dependency on blood transfusions.
Garcia-Manero and colleagues created a novel prognostic model that incorporated these multivariate factors and divided patients into three categories:
- Good prognosis - 57 patients fell into this group by having 0-2 of the multivariate risk characteristics. Their median survival was 34 months.
- Intermediate prognosis - 154 patients in this category had 3-4 risk factors and a median survival of 12 months.
- Poor prognosis - 61 patients had 5-7 risk factors and a median survival of only five months.
Model validated in a test group of patients
The researchers validated the model by applying it to an additional 189 treatment-related cases diagnosed between 2008 and 2010. Median survival rates in the test group were:
- Good - 26 months
- Intermediate - 13 months
- Poor - 7 months.