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May 08, 2006
Notes from MapWorld 06 Phoenix
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This week I attended MapWorld in Phoenix, a new experience for me. The theme of this conference was "Location Intelligence is Hot" and it looks like it borrowed the 'Location Intelligence' part from the Location Intelligence conference held in San Francisco in April. But that's the way verbiage goes in technology - a popular, descriptive phrase sweeps the industry like wildfire, quickly on its way to becoming a geo-household moniker.
I learned that attendance was doubled from last year to 400 attendees, and those attendees were IT professionals and GIS analysts for large retail, insurance and banking concerns.
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Notes from MapWorld 06 Phoenix
by Susan Smith
This week I attended MapWorld in Phoenix, a new experience for me. The theme of this conference was "Location Intelligence is Hot" and it looks like it borrowed the Location Intelligence part from the Location Intelligence conference held in San Francisco in April. But that's the way verbiage goes in technology - a popular, descriptive term sweeps the industry like wildfire, quickly on its way to becoming a geo-household moniker.
I learned that attendance was doubled from last year to 400 attendees, and those attendees were IT professionals and GIS analysts for large retail, insurance and banking concerns.
Interview with Mark Cattini, MapInfo president and CEO and Mike Hickey, MapInfo COO
This interview was conducted after Mark Cattini's keynote address at MapInfo, in which he recapped what was spoken about and also answered
specific questions.
Mark Cattini: People care about what we do because we're making a fundamental difference in their business, that's why you've got so many people here from around the world. I spoke about location as an enterprise asset that is very often unused, and I also marry it with research we've done. There are only certain ways to drive competitive advantage in a business: how you learn, how you adapt, how you analyze and collect that information. Our view is that there are many different ways of doing that, our value proposition is around location. It is a hidden asset, and it helps you learn. When our customers talk about what we do for them, i.e., IHOP, MasterCard, Home Depot, etc., they talk of
ROIs of over 1,000 percent, or how we helped transform this or that. Those people that understand location intelligence as a discipline and have developed a core competency really do have a competitive advantage.
We shared some results of a Business Week study that we commissioned last year, 440 senior managers were interviewed about their perspectives on the market, and 6% had location, 7% were evaluating it, and the number of people evaluating it now are equivalent to three times the size of the market.
Fire eater at MapWorld Customer Appreciation Party
Everybody has the operations type systems, ERPs, supply chain managements, CRMS, to varying degrees of success. The competitive advantage with that technology is marginal rather than revolutionary which we can be. A customer like IHOP is building its entire network based on proven location intelligence capability versus a competitor that isn't, I know who I'd bet on. If you're a major telco planning a network around potential customers, the ability to predict the dollar value of several types customers and predict that they will be your customers then you want to figure out where they are, versus a company that's not doing that, that's competitive advantage.
Mike Hickey: It's almost as though there's a philosophical difference, they are thinking about technology and everybody should have a feature function and GIO and hire a bunch of people who understand GIS.
Location intelligence is more about integrating capabilities, about delivering a solution that fits within a customer's business, within how they do their job, within the work processes, within their current applications, so it is a more commercial focus. It means more than just the technology, it means predictive analytics capabilities, data information, vertical market expertise, application expertise, and that's why we think its different and why it's more relevant to some of those key commercial markets.
How quickly can one of your systems be implemented, and how easy is it to use?
Cattini - It matters whether they're going to do it themselves or have an organization like us to do it for them. When people talk about solutions, it doesn't mean anything. What it is: a customer has a problem and it gets solved. How you solve it isn't really important if the customer is happy. So you solve it using a technology or using a packaged piece of software technology, or highly customized services onsite.
In the case of IHOP it was easy for IHOP to deploy because we basically did it for them. We can handle a customer from their start to finish. We still have customers who just buy loads of MapInfo Professional at the higher end.
The core competence of companies like IHOP, Home Depot, The Gap and Children's Place is retail. In talking to the vice president of real estate at Children's Place, within five minutes you hear what he wants: he wants to understand if this is a could location for his site. He doesn't care much how you get the answer as long as it's accurate. We're going to do that for him. His deal is how he wheels and deals and gets property. Customers like him don't think about technology, they think, does it help me become more efficient, does it help me realize market opportunities.
I think they think of these three components: software, data and services, and somehow those components work with some secret sauce, and based on that I put my stores in the right place or build my network out in the right place, or I underwrite more intelligently if I'm in insurance.
They want the house, not the hammer and nails.
If you look at our business, we call it desktop mapping but in a sense it's GIS, right? And the only technology that existed was for the public sector, right? On a global scale, only 30% of our business is in the public sector. We created $170 million worth of business this year (2006 projections) and $130 million of that is not in the public sector. It is in telco, insurance, retail banking, and retail.
What sets MapInfo apart from other GIS companies who also come in and provide services?
We've always really focused on our standards. We've always really tried hard to allow our companies to take advantage of their existing infrastructures. I think the most proprietary thing we do is MapBasic - everything else is absolutely standards based every which way. A lot of what we do is user friendly. I think in our DNA as a business we're able to talk commercial. Here's the acid test: I always ask new customers: how did we win your business?
Customers say that MapInfo asks about a customer's business, what do they want to do, what is the business problem, etc. Our job is to work with the customer to solve the problem. We have people who model location at senior management levels within these big multimillion dollar retailers for years, so we brought that into to the business. We've recently acquired that capability in financial services, we've built our knowledge in telco, we've been selling into the telco space successfully for 10-13 years, so we have the main expertise so we can describe and discuss with our customers what it is we're supposed to be doing for them. We've got the underpinning technology and the data to deliver
it: which in itself is millions of lines of intellectual property.
To whom do you do most of the selling to in a customer organization?
It's different with each industry who makes the buying decisions. 80% of our business this year comes from our key verticals, last year it was 75% . Even though the overall numbers go up in the company, that's being driven by those verticals and that's happening because you're solving very important problems fro them. They are deciding where to build a store and where to put a network infrastructure for making current business decisions. Usually the business owner in those things, who has the functional responsibility for that process, has a lot of the decision making authority on how to implement things operationally. Some industries are different: in insurance, for example, you have
issues, such as they don't trust their own IT shops, and don't trust outsourcing IT shops. They've been under delivered for three years from the IT shop, so a lot of times you have to sell to both the IT shop and the C-level people. But for the most part, it's the C-level people or the high vice presidents.
In the public sector, it's very often the CIO, because GIS is just an understood architectural issue there. Now that the application footprints are becoming bigger we are seeing more CIO involvement.
Hickey: We have built this business on very location centric applications. We stick a bunch of our tools together and build applications for people.
We've got our enterprise Envinsa location platform (a service oriented architecture (SOA)) that has taken all those disparate tools and now its capabilities are joined in the platform, so you can still go into that client and solve that one departmental location problem. But now you can location enable any other systems that you have in your business. This means that if you have supply chain management system, HRS system, CRM, sales force automation, etc. you can make better decisions by location enabling those systems.
How long has Evinsa been available?
Cattini: It was originally launched about five years ago, and we built Vodaphone's LBS infrastructure with it. That's the genesis, then we went through a couple of iterations but Evinsa's been out for a couple of years. Evinsa spills across all our vertical markets now. The cool thing about the product is the infrastructure capability allows you to integrate location into your applications where ever they are because it's standards focused, it has security encryption, enterprise management capability and "console control." Rather than it being a series of individual products that needs to sit within a controlled environment, it's self contained. It's exactly what our IT people
are looking for. MasterCard were first million dollar customer with Evinsa.
Is Evinsa easily integratable with the other business systems in a typical company?
Hickey: There are always integration challenges with the enterprise so we typically bundle some services and implementation for setup - each customer's different.
Is there backwardly compatibility?
Cattini: Right now somebody would build MapXtreme geocoding and take some data and build an application. In the future what they'll be able to do is just buy Evinsa, turn on the components that are like MapXtreme, or turn on the components that are just like MapMarker. When we have that 100% functionality shifted to the platform we should have backward compatibility. One of the things we have right now is the other products are a little deeper. When we first started building Evinsa we took the 80/20 rule: 20% functionality gets 80% of what clients want. Now we continue to evolve that. Over the next 18-24 months, the platform will have 100% functionality and capability and we can move
everything to it.
Are you planning to retire any products?
Cattini: MapMarker is a brand name that people recognize for geocoding. Some people in the insurance space don't care about a brand for geocoding, i.e., they have the application and geocoding is one of the things it does. For them, in implementing Evinsa, we will turn on the geocoding. We have a telecommunications company that still likes MapMarker that they have in a customer service application. We'll still sell them MapMarker as a brand, but underneath it will be the Evinsa platform as opposed to a standalone. We will still maintain legacy product lines while building out the Evinsa platform.
Are there other industries you're looking into as potential markets?
Hickey: Our Emerging Markets team look at other industries and take a horizontal approach. That's actually how our financial services teams got started and now we split them up into a specific banking team, home sales teams, strategic industry management teams and insurance. The team's job is to figure out where our value propositions are next.
Who are your competitors?
Hickey: In the mature GIS space or public sector - ESRI. It's hard to go up against them and their strategy. In telecom we used to see Autodesk out there because they came from the engineering/CAD side, but we don't see them much anymore. We used to see them when location based services was out there.
Someone doing what we do needs to have a person for GIS, for several data products, someone with vertical expertise. They need to bring in four or five companies and try to integrate them all. We really don't have any competition in these new markets like insurance, as they're not going to line item all these things and look for who they can get for geocoding, for example, and let their people put it all together and then give best price on all these different things.
What about partnerships?
Hickey: We acquired ten companies in the last ten years, and four in the last year and a half. Usually our acquisition strategy is tailored to our verticalization strategy as a company so we identify those skill gaps and domain experience gaps that we need.
The more we know about our customer's business, the more we can come up with the next idea or suggestion, the next way to improve how they do business.
Keynote: BI and LI: Putting It all Together for Operational Excellence
In this panel discussion-style keynote moderated by Jon Winslow, speakers Gail McGiffin, Partner, Accenture, Tom Villani, MicroStrategy, VP global alliances and Mike Hickey, COO, MapInfo addressed such hot topics as the need for accessing data from many different software providers and systems, Google, and integrating location into non-traditional business intelligence.
Mike Hickey said that clients are able to gain knowledge about location these days, particularly as there is so much buzz about Google. The applications being built around Google are not GIS applications, so you need to be sure they fit into the environment you're moving them into. However, Google does raise the awareness of the location business.
Tom Villani said that BI is a platform that allows people to tap into their databases in order to supply meaningful information for supply chain providers and others and make some sense of it. With BI, customers can build their own analytical reporting allocation, "we provide a platform that resides on top of a database, that allows people to do complex analytical functions that you can't do on your own." Where BI and LI come together, you can get a visual capability to see the "Where" of people, results, statistics, and the bottom line of cost, revenue, and many other benefits to the organization.
70% of stress is involved in managing databases and building reports, according to Villani, and customers need a system where you can take data from a database and assemble reports in a more efficient manner (managing non-geographic data within the applications they are developing).
80-85% of those with BI were interested in having LI (which to their way of thinking, was "having a map in there")
Why is there such a strong desire among BI users to have LI?
"A lot of people want to see the Where of inventory, parts, etc.," explained Villani. "One of the things that comes about when you put a spatial element to it is, you actually see areas you didn't know about. For example, in a geographic area where you are taking a specific analysis, you didn't know it was next to a factory, because you couldn't see it in the other data."
Hickey said that at a number of MapInfo installations, customers are becoming more aggressive in the reverse viewpoint. "Now I'm getting graphic information, what if the data was even more intelligent before I got the map? they ask. They want to know, how good can I make the data?"
Gail McGiffin said that they are definitely facing a data problem in the insurance industry. Data rich information sits in legacy systems 30-40 years old, sometimes lacking a front office, and the challenge is just getting data into the insurance office. Secondly, she explained that it is not easy to get to a single legacy policy platform, an additional challenge in getting data quality and consistency. Because of this, you often find lack of data congruence: data definitions are different. Just defining data structure as you develop LI, you have to start with a good repository of data which can be your own data as well as external data. "It doesn't help that there are events such as
the World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina, event-based risks that put pressure on the industry to do a better job, to have much better vehicles in place for handling and managing that data," McGiffin stated.
Benefits of BI and LI:
1) Clients may have more rapid decision making capabilities as they are able to get more accurate data faster, which helps them leverage the intelligence into every decision made.
2) Although not fully evolved, the user can use the disparate solutions offered by BI and LI to make the work process easier.
3) The customer has a data repository and can build real time applications and can much more dynamically react and change their business rules and adjust to market opportunities.
McGiffin said that we will continue to see more external data, and will have to build core competence around cleansing data. Other looks at the future: RFID tags and sensor based technology will allow insurance companies to have a more granular insight into their clients' behavior, the convergence of mapping technologies and search engines will explode possibilities of buying decisions.
Technical Session: Putting it all Together: Achieve amazing results through convergence of Location and Business Intelligence
Jon Winslow, who introduced panelists for the morning breakfast keynote, was this session's speaker. Business Intelligence (BI) came to the attention of MapInfo when they attended BI conferences, and realized that the customers of BI were the same as those of Location Information (LI). Thousands of users in a company have access to BI, which is represented by companies such as MicroStrategy, Business Objects/Crystal, Siebel Analytics, Hyperion/Brio. It is the accepted IT standard for distributing reports.
The ramifications of this for the Location Intelligence folks is pretty overwhelming: obviously by linking BI and LI, those thousands of people will expand the use of LI throughout an organization and increase the capabilities of the existing BI solution.
Winslow said the goals of MapInfo were to
Explain Business Intelligence
Explain the relationship between Business Intelligence and Location Intelligence and how they work together
How easy it is to integrate location with business intelligence
In Business Intelligence, he said, organizations store lots of data in SQL Servers, Oracle, legacy databases, Excel spreadsheets, ASCII, etc.
For example, MapInfo has a lot of databases, and it's hard to put together a simple report when the data is disparate and you must go to a lot of sources to gather it.
Business Intelligence lets you assemble metadata to explain what that user wants, whether it be units sold, revenue, etc., and allows you to draw a circle around the data you need. Using jellybeans for illustration (participants were invited to do something with the jellybeans, organize them in a certain way to give them new meaning) Winslow said that valuable assets didn't amount to a "hill of beans" unless you can do something with them. The Business Intelligence challenge: you have a lot of high value data and need a solution with which to analyze and organize it to create new meaning.
Things that you can do:
- add location to grid reports
- perform proximity based query
- map should be able to be used by everyone in the organization
To illustrate the importance of the link between BI and LI, Winslow said that human resources uses BI extensively for compensation, overtime, employee attrition, upcoming hires, employee profit trends, benefits usage analysis. In planning for something like the bird flu, he said that 15% of U.S. companies have a plan in place. Futurists expect Google mash-ups to display zip by zip spread of outbreaks. A geographically organized report can turn a flat report into a map without leaving the BI environment that is used by the whole organization.
In the accompanying demo, Winslow showed that location intelligence provided by MapInfo is built into the existing BI solution. There is no user interface and no administrative tools. "You can look at a report to populate with data from MicroStrategy," said Winslow. "and drill down to find subcomponents such as revenue, etc. You can do this in MapInfo as well. You can see if a store is doing poorly and if it is positioned near competition. It's important to have proper codes stored in the data warehouse. You can use Safe Software's Spatial ETL to transform your database to be spatially enabled."
Andy Meehan, CTO of Integeo, based in Sydney, spoke of their Dashboard product which provides spatial analysis services to the BI platform. At this time they have a fully integrated version of Excel and Hyperion and are working on others.
He gave examples of the Dashboard used for fisheries management, showing the depth at which you catch fish; law enforcement, where they were able to reduce the incidence of breaking and entering crimes by 50%; real estate, where types of houses can be noted and connected to the agencies that sell them, plus what's available today.
All these applications are built without writing any code, as Integeo writes the code. Meehan said that their view is to bring spatial analysis within the grasp of business analysis and to combine external data with internal data, to create "a single view of the truth."
Keynote: "The Home Depot: Building the Best Store Locations"
Mike LaFerle, Depot, VP of Real Estate
Mike LaFerle, vice president of Real Estate, Home Depot, pointed out that Home Depot is MapInfo's oldest customer. From their first store built 25 years ago, Home Depot has expanded to 300 retail stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, taking up a grand total of 260 million square feet of space, "second only to WalMart," according to LaFerle. Home Depot is expanding into geographic areas such as Canada, Mexico and China and creating new entities such as Home Depot Supply. They are now completing a new store every 48 hours. In 20 years, the company grew to revenues of $40 million, and in the last five years their revenue has risen to $81 million.
LaFerle credits a lot of their success to the effective use of predictive analysis to drive new store locations. Although some say the home improvement arena is "saturated," LaFerle said that they don't believe that at Home Depot. With those figures, who would?
To enhance their core business, they focus on store modernization, store readiness, IT, and leadership development. These factors drive customer shopping experience, conversion, and higher average ticket.
To extend the business, Home Depot focuses on
- new stores/new formats (urban/rural)
- at home services (catalogs - online)
- direct-to-home
- homedepot.com
- credit
- Pro (in-the-box)
These factors drives new locations, new services, new retail channel, new customers. Home Depot has moved into densely populated areas such as Manhattan and urban areas of Canada to offer a different kind of hardware store. They are also in the supply business as a result of numerous acquisitions made for construction, electric, plumbing, concrete preparation, lumber and much more.
LaFerle said that with MapInfo they are able to leverage analytical expertise, form a strategy, and enjoy unparalleled sales growth. Important is the relationship between retailer, market research and real estate. He believes that there is a trillion dollar market out there in North America alone.
Top News of the Week
City of San Mateo
uses a suite of GIS applications for staff to access geospatial data. The City wanted to provide more intuitive access to its GIS data and make it accessible to the public. Google Earth offered a simple and easy to use interface that is quickly understood by all users. However, the back end GIS was not able to deliver geospatial data directly to Google Earth. The City asked
Farallon Geographics
to build a prototype that integrates the two systems for real-time visualization and test the functionality and processing speed for public access.
A recent
study that involved merging satellite imagery with federal demographic data has produced unexpected and bountiful answers for government and business alike. The surprising results show it is possible to create "new" algorithm-based information sets by merging available census data with satellite-derived data. The study thus reveals that seemingly disparate and easily available macro-level information can now generate micro-level answers by using GIS.
Microsoft Corp.
announced the availability of MapPoint(R) 2006, an industry leader in business mapping software. MapPoint 2006 can help customers improve decision-making capabilities and increase new business opportunities through the use of maps and geographical information, enabling better analysis, visualization and communication of business information. It also enhances its usefulness for mobile information workers by adding rich new Global Positioning System (GPS) integration and driver guidance capabilities so that users can make the most out of time spent away from the office. MapPoint 2006 is available today, and comes in two offerings: a stand-alone software package as well
as one that includes both the MapPoint 2006 software and a new GPS locator hardware kit.
Intergraph Corporation
announced ImageStation(R) PixelPipe, an integrated solution for enterprise orthophoto production designed to meet the increasing demand for orthophotos, larger projects and tighter project schedules.
PixelPipe provides a single seamless solution, from one vendor, for all aspects of orthophoto production, including image and metadata management, intelligent distributed processing, rigorous quality assurance/quality control processes and automation.
Avenza Systems Inc.
, producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that National Geographic Magazine in Washington, DC has chosen both MAPublisher and Geographic Imager for their map creation needs.
Multiple MAPublisher licenses of both products have been purchased by the NGS, along with onsite MAPublisher training for its cartographic designers.
Airborne 1
released LiDAR XLR8R 3.0 upgrade to LiDAR XLR8R's beta version 2.0. The product of a key partnership with Canadian software developer, Ambercore Software Inc., LiDAR XLR8R 3.0 is a robust LiDAR data management, analysis, and visualization tool for LiDAR and geospatial data consumers.
The XLR8R 3.0 version offers users batch processing and feature merger capability, as well as enhanced pyramiding, 3D visualization, and geo-referencing functionality for raster data.
Microsoft Corp.
announced it has acquired Vexcel Corp., a worldwide leader in photogrammetry, imagery and remote sensing technologies. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
This deal, the second in the past six months for Microsoft's Virtual Earth business unit, was done to enhance the talent, technologies, products and services dedicated to fulfilling Microsoft's broad vision for best-of-breed local search and mapping solutions for consumers, businesses and government.
Tensing USA
announced that it has been named a Technology Partner by Safe Software, a leading provider of extract, transform and load (ETL) tools for spatial data. As a Technology Partner, Tensing USA is able to integrate Safe Software products, including its popular Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) suite of ETL tools, into the full line of Tensing Mobile GIS solutions.
, provider of mobile Mapping and Navigation solutions, announced that the Telmap-driven mobile navigation service offered by Israel's leading cellular operator, Cellcom, is now available for two key Nokia S40 phones -the 6230i and 6280 - as well as for an extensive list of Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java devices. The service, called "Cellcom Navigator", is based on Telmap Navigator, Telmap's unique cross-platform mobile mapping and navigation solution.
Intermap Technologies Corp.
announced that it has been awarded a $1.57 million contract to provide elevation and geospatial data from the company's NEXTMap USA and NEXTMap International data collection. Under the agreement, the company will perform work and deliver radar imagery and elevation products over the next twelve months.
QC Data
, an international solutions provider to some of the world's largest telecommunications companies, utilities and other infrastructure based organizations, announced it has acquired certain key Intellectual Property from
Barton Creek Technologies, Inc.
a privately owned company.
This acquisition will extend and strengthen QC Data's offering to telecommunication companies through the addition of a full suite of proven software tools designed to provide data migration and automated clean-up for migrations from the Intergraph Framme format to the Telcordia Network Engineer product.
group announced the acquisition of
KORDAB International AB
. Through this acquisition current and new customers will have large benefits through standards-based and sustainable solutions combined with a broad development and market experience. KORDAB's products will be able to benefit from the rich GIS functionality of ESRI's ArcGIS products which means that KORDAB can focus on improving its customer solutions. Long term this means more cost effective solutions.
DAT/EM Systems
PCI Geomatics
are pleased to announce the signing of a strategic distributor partnership. The agreement will allow both companies to market, distribute and sell each others complimentary geospatial and photogrammetric technology in certain key markets, including DAT/EM's SUMMIT Evolution Stereoplotter software and PCI Geomatics Geomatica desktop software.
Both companies have previously worked together to integrate their technologies; particularly PCI Geomatics' high resolution, airphoto and satellite pluggable functions with DAT/EM's software.
The Carbon Project
, the world leader in Open-Geospatial .NET technology, has announced a reseller relationship with
, provider of the world's largest commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps. The agreement calls for GlobeXplorer to make global imagery data available through its ImageConnect® WMS service and for The Carbon Project to add this powerful online service to its new CarbonTools PRO toolkit and Gaia 3 application suite.
2006/2011 demographic data updates and projections were presented by Lynn Wombold, ESRI's chief demographer, at ESRI's third annual Business GeoInfo Summit, held in Boston, Massachusetts, April 30-May 2, 2006. During this special session, Wombold outlined new demographic trends that were revealed during the update process; discussed the posthurricane population findings; and explained the new, innovative methodology that was used to create ESRI's 2006/2011 demographic data updates.
MapInfo Corporation
, global provider of location intelligence solutions, announced the winners of the 2006 MapInfo Meridian Awards(TM). This awards program recognizes MapInfo customers who are driving business innovation with dynamic uses of location intelligence technology. See
press release
, one of Europe's leading authorities in software solutions for navigation products and services, announced the appointment of Andreas Hecht as Senior Vice President, General Manager, of the Americas. Hecht will lead Navigon operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. An authority in the navigation sector, Hecht is a 10-year veteran of Navteq, creators of the world's most widely-used digital maps, where he served in senior executive roles in technology and business development in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
New Products
LeadDog Consulting, LLC
announced the release of geographic databases of city streets for the Egyptian cities: Cairo, Alexandria, BaniSuef, Fayed, Fayoum, Minya, Hurgada, Sharm Shick, Arish, and Sohag to support asset-tracking, government, military, and commercial GIS applications. Designed to help companies track their assets and provide accurate base level mapping, LeadDog's product provides numerous vector layers and attributes such as:
- Streets at 1:10,000 scale
- Street names
- Street classifications
- Extensive Points of Interest (government ministry offices, banks, hotels, etc )
After a successful Beta program,
announced the release of Version 9 of the GenaMap Product Suite. This powerful GIS development and distribution platform is celebrating more than 20 years providing flexible functionality and Unix and Linux support while Version 9 adds support for the Windows operating system.
The Joint Interoperability Test Command (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.) has registered GeoWorx software, produced by
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
, for compliance with Controlled Image Base(R) (CIB(R)) specifications as determined by the National Imagery Transmission Format Standards for exchange, storage and transmission of digital-imagery products. This is the first time a commercially available software package has been registered for compliance with CIB. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics.
Cloud Peak Software, LLC
, has advanced LiDAR data processing with the introduction of Surface Magic, a revolutionary, terrain-adaptive, bare earth extraction algorithm. Using Surface Magic, anyone can quickly and easily create bare earth surfaces from unclassified LiDAR data. Surface Magic is available with Cloud Peak Software's LASEdit application, a high-performance geospatial data editor and viewer.
Around the Web
Murder in New York: Killers and their Victims in the Five Boroughs
Crime Map,
The New York Times
, (registration required) April 28, 2006
Will Sun Open-Source Java?
, Peter Galli,
, April 30, 2006 - New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java.
Upcoming Events
Date: May 8 - 10, 2006
Place: Westin Arlington Hotel Arlington, VA USA
The North American Defense Geospatial Intelligence Conference
Advancing geospatial intelligence for National Defense and Homeland Security is crucial to our efforts to disseminate data quickly, effectively gain the tactical edge, and ultimately save lives. As we face a new enemy with the War on Terror, it is critical that we come together in a cross-Service forum to seamlessly support the Warfighter and first responder through enterprise-wide transformation.
Date: May 8 - 10, 2006
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NEGIS is the largest gathering of GIS professionals in New England with over 40 exhibitors. Plus, dozens of presentations.
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The rapid advancement of geospatial intelligence has gained the attention of Intelligence leaders across the globe. The benefits of geospatial intelligence to our WarFighters and first responders are crystal clear and GID 2006 offers you a forum to push the potential of geospatial intelligence to its limits!
2006 Washington GIS Conference
Date: May 8 - 10, 2006
Place: Tacoma, WA USA
The Washington State Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (WAURISA) has begun accepting presentation proposals for the 2006 Washington GIS Conference, to be held May 8 - 10, 2006, in Tacoma, Washington. WAURISA is seeking potential speakers to provide fresh, dynamic solutions to today's challenges. Presentations are invited that address the subjects of interest to GIS practitioners. This is an opportunity to share your experience, expertise, and knowledge with colleagues and offer solutions for success. Individuals chosen to present will gain recognition by their peers, raise awareness of critical issues and identify current trends in the industry.
Pennsylvania GIS Conference 2006
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The BE Conference is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley users and their managers who want to sharpen their skills and expand their knowledge. The BE Conference includes hundreds of information-rich sessions.
GeoAlberta 2006
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How to Avoid Being Published
Here are 10 ways NOT to get published – unfortunately, most of them are tried and tested.
- Stick to your first draft. After all, your writing is perfect as it is. Who needs an editor?
- Revise, revise, revise, revise. It's just not 100% perfect yet. Chuck Sambuchino from Writer's Digest suggests changing one word at a time, then rereading the entire novel aloud to see if that actually improved the book.
- Get creative. Cut your manuscript into a cute bunny shape. Include plastic spiders if your manuscript is a horror tale or rainbow glitter if it's a romance. Try adding a chocolate bar bribe – especially if you're sending the manuscript to a publisher in Florida in mid-Summer.
- Ignore the market. You don't have to read in your genre. So what if the average first novel runs around 80,000 words? Yours is 500,000 words and every single one is essential.
- Hand-deliver your manuscript. Editors really aren't busy. They love personal visits, especially if you show up unannounced.
- Blast the competition. Leave horrible reviews for every other book in your genre. Bash other writers on your Facebook page. After all, they're the enemy, right?
- Get defensive. Be like The Donald and defend yourself vigorously against every critique. After all, you're an artist. They're just not intelligent enough to understand you.
- Threaten the editor. If you do get a rejection, immediately lambaste the fool who couldn't spot your genius. Let him or her know you're not going to stand for such humiliation.
- Ignore your audience. After all, everyone is your audience. Grandmothers and toddlers both will love your book. Your gun-toting Uncle Bob will give a copy to pacifist cousin Willy. Middle school kids will adore you. Who needs to specialize?
- Keep it to yourself. Nobody can hurt your feelings if you just shove that manuscript into a drawer and sit on it. Those nasty editors and their rejections? Who needs them?
What are some un-helpful things you've seen writers doing to sabotage their careers?
Gifts for Writers
What do you get for that writer in your life?
Here are some great gift ideas for you:
- Software: Scrivener is one of the best writing platforms out there in my humble opinion – it's $45 (unless you won NaNoWriMo and got the discounted price) and it's fantastic. It's like a virtual cork board where you can post not only your scenes (and move them around however you want), but research ideas, websites, photos, character sketches and settings.
- A spa day: check out your local spa and get your writer away from the keyboard for a couple of hours of relaxation. They'll thank you afterwards.
- A new notebook – Here's a great Top 10 List of the sorts of notebooks out there today. I like Moleskine myself, but there are lots of different types available. Pick something your writer would love.
- A keyboard for their iPad – I've got one of these and it's great. You can type just like a laptop, but you've got the portability of the iPad. Plus, it comes in a nice leather case.
- A laptop bag or general tote bag – there are so many choices out there that I'm not going to pick just one. Browse your local leather store for a high-end bag, or just check out Amazon or Cafepress.
- A magazine subscription – get your writer a subscription to their favorite magazine, whether it's Writer's Digest or Poets & Writers.
- A writing conference – for this, you'll have to either consult with your writer or be super-sneaky because you have to know which conference your writer wants to attend. Either pay the entire fee or contribute toward the total. This might make a good group gift.
- New pens – you can spend anything from a few bucks to several thousand, depending on what sort of pen you'd like to gift.
- Free time – arrange for your writer to have the time they need to write. Do the chores for a day. Take the kids to the zoo. Give your writer a day at a local hotel. Whatever it takes.
NaNoWriMo – What Now?
So you hit 50,000 words in November — or maybe not quite so many. Now what?
Once you've got your first draft down — or at least gotten a good start on one! — what should you do now?
- Put the blasted thing away – you heard me. Put it into a drawer and forget it for a few weeks. Close the file (remember to save your work!) and start something else. You need a bit of time before you can start editing your draft, so you'll see it with fresh eyes instead of overlooking things because it's old and tired to you right now.
- Start something new – edit an older draft. Start a new project. Do something completely different. You've been cooped up with that draft for 30 days now, and both of you need some space. Shake things up and do something else for a bit.
- Focus on the holidays – did you forget it's December? You've got decorating to do and gifts to buy and traditions to uphold!
How to Win NaNoWriMo
I've finished a day early – 50,000 words in 29 days.
Here's how to do it:
- Write every day – this isn't an option during November. Even if you don't make the 1667 words a day goal, you need to get something down daily.
- 1667 words per day is more of a guideline, not a rule – aim for over 2000 words a day on days when you have more time. That way, when you're busy, you can slack off a bit and only write a few hundred words.
- Don't wait for the muse – this is a first draft, after all. Write crap. Write anything. If you're stuck, have your characters make out your grocery list for you, or give one of them a newspaper article to compose. Just write.
- Turn off your editor – during November you cannot edit your work until you've hit your daily goal. This is also not an option. If you start erasing and changing things, you're never going to get to 50,000.
Did you try NaNoWriMo this year? Did you win?
NaNoWriMo – Pantser or Plotter?
Current word count: 30,433 …
and I've just come up with a major subplot for the lads
Thought I'd discuss the two basic types of writers this post. Well, actually there are three, because I believe you can be a combination.
A plotter is a careful planner, a writer who outlines the entire novel ahead of time. A plotter sometimes writes such a thorough and detailed outline that it's practically a novel in itself. Some plotters outline down to the scene level, while others simply write rough ideas for each chapter.
If you're a plotter, you know what's going to happen next. This helps prevent writer's block and gives you a target. However, if you get stuck or decide to change something, you often find that you must redo your entire outline.
A pantser is a writer who writes "by the seat of your pants," without an outline. Pantsers just like to start writing and see how it goes, letting the characters loose to do as they choose and to pick the direction of the story.
If you're a pantser, you have the freedom to change anything at all, at any time you so choose. However, not knowing where you're going sometimes means you get stuck. Many pantsers have strings of unfinished projects trailing along behind them.
I believe that you can be a combination of both extremes, and NaNoWriMo agrees with me, for it's come up with this designation this year. A plantser is a writer who has a basic idea where the story is going, but likes the freedom to explore tangents. Plantsers usually have a rough outline of some sort, or at least a vague idea of the plot.
I think this is the best of both worlds. You've got the road map, but you're giving yourself the opportunity to try different routes along the way.
Blathering: Reality Interrupts My Virtual Life Once Again
As with all of my creative friends, I spent yesterday in a state of shock. It's still hard for me to believe that a doctrine of hatred, bigotry, racism, name-calling and pomposity actually carried the popular vote. As long as I'm putting my politics on the line, I can admit that neither candidate had my total support, but I was willing to take a chance on Hillary rather than go with the hate ballot.
Based on what we have seen this past year or so, America is now in for four years of fear and loathing, with occasional rants and tantrums and massive propaganda campaigns against … well, pretty much anyone who isn't a white male.
Not being a white male, I feel it is only natural that I feel trepidation when faced with this new regime. Being friends with so very many non-white males and females, I feel it is only natural that I fear for their safety as well. I fear for everyone in this country who is different, for that is what Trump and his Trumpettes are afraid of.
We are entering an age where the dumbing down of America has reached its climax, where it is no longer admirable to seek to better your education, your mind, or anything other than your wallet. In our new America, it is better to be ignorant and afraid of anything you don't understand — and since you're ignorant, that will be pretty much everything in the universe.
Even though I am not Jewish, the Holocaust has always terrified me because it is so very easy for ignorance to be stirred to horrific acts against others. It is so very easy to fan the flames of fear and hatred, to turn human against human.
I have no good advice for getting through these next four years because I just don't understand their fear-based thinking well enough. My reaction to fear has always been to learn as much as I can about whatever it is I'm afraid of, so that I can conquer it. Their reaction is to destroy whatever they suspect might be causing their fear.
Keep your heads down, my friends. Act dumb and go along with things so long as nobody is getting hurt. But if the violence starts, we're going to have to stand up and get hurt rather than step back and let someone else take a beating. Don't stand aside as they come for someone else, because it will end with them coming for you. Stand up for the true American values: freedom to be who we are, love for all humanity, and a sincere desire to better yourself in all ways.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope Americans are not going to degenerate into violence against Americans. I hope Trump does a 180 and becomes, if not a wise leader, at least one who listens to his advisors before acting. I hope we can love one another as Americans have always tried to do before. I hope everyone lives through this.
Be safe.
It's That Time Again!
No, not the holiday season – though it is getting to that point as well.
No, I mean it's National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo!
NaNoWriMo is an event where you pledge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. There's a website, local live chapters, and lots of inspiration and help.
If you manage to reach your goal, not only do you have what's technically a novel (even though mine run more to 90-100K), but you get some nice virtual prizes as well.
So if you don't see me as often this month, it's because I'm trying desperately to reach my 1667 daily word goal.
People have asked me how I organize my work. Do I use a stack of index cards? A cork board? Computer files?
The answer is yes.
I do have a cork board where I keep the really important stuff that will never change for the series, like a map of the city in the 1800s and a "blueprint" of their house and offices.
I used to use index cards – until I discovered Scrivener.
This is a software program that is designed for writers. You specify whether you're writing a fiction novel, a nonfiction book or a screenplay – and the program gives you different tools for each one.
For the fiction novel, I have a cork board with all my scenes on it – I can arrange these by chapter, or combine several scenes in one chapter, or move them around however I want to.
There's a section for research, and you can even "pull in" websites so you can find your source material immediately.
You have another section for character notes and one for places.
Scrivener also allows you to attach a note to a section of work, like a word or phrase. The notes show up in the margin so you see them whenever you go to that scene. For example, if you want to name a character, but don't want to bother now, you could put down "John Doe" and link a note to that saying "Look up a good old-fashioned European name for this dude!" That way, when you're working away, you don't constantly interrupt yourself trotting off to do research – and the notes are immediately visible when you go to that scene, so all you have to do is pull it up and the note's right there.
What sort of organization do you use in your writing?
The Mind Wanders
As you may already know, the state is under the eye of Hurricane Matthew this weekend. I'm hoping everyone who chose not to evacuate will survive. They're predicting something equal to, if not greater than, Hugo.
Having been through Hugo, I can barely imagine anything worse. The Lowcountry looked like it had been hit by a bomb – acres of trees downed, all lying in parallel lines; debris and flood water everywhere, making it hard to walk safely; homes destroyed outright or damaged beyond repair. We were without power for about two weeks, and we were lucky it was that quickly repaired. We were also lucky to be inside a brick building, so we had less damage than others around us, and we were about 30 miles inland, so we missed the storm surge from the surf. It took weeks to clear the roads entirely, though, and many downed trees were just sawn through and left beside the road instead of being cleared completely.
At this point, Matthew is still Category 2 (Hugo was 4 and 5), but is expected to strengthen before it hits South Carolina. Our hotels here in the Upstate are already full of evacuees and late-comers are having to travel further in search of shelter. We'll be keeping a close eye on this storm – I'll post anything significant on my Facebook account.
I'm also dealing with the death of a friend's mother. She had Alzheimer's, but was a funny and loving woman. My friend made her last years happy ones, and that's always a comfort.

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Nampak Says Profit Gains on Africa Drinks-Can GrowthChristopher Spillane
Nampak Ltd., a South African maker of packaging and beverage cans, said full-year earnings gained 7 percent after the company expanded operations in fast-growing African economies.
Profit rose to 1.29 billion rand ($127 million) in the year through September from 1.21 billion a year earlier, the Johannesburg-based company said in a statement today. The improvement was largely the result of a 60 percent profit gain from Africa outside its domestic market, it said.
Nampak shares traded 5.2 percent higher at 32.40 rand at the close of trading in Johannesburg, the biggest gain in almost five months. About 5.9 million shares traded, or more than five times the three-month daily average.
Nampak said Nov. 18 it would expand its beverage container plant in Africa's second-biggest oil producer Angola, responsible for much of the growth on the continent, and buy a Nigerian drinks-can manufacturer for $301 million.
The company also signed an option to purchase a plastics manufacturer in the west African country, which it plans to take up in 12 to 18 months, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Marshall said in a phone interview. The company doesn't see significant acquisition opportunities beyond that, he said.
Trading profit in South Africa decreased by 15 percent and the margin declined to 8.4 percent from 10.5 percent, Nampak said. This was partly because of lower selling prices agreed to secure long-term supply contracts in the metals and glass businesses, as well as lower demand for food cans and glass bottles.
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A Funeral Song for Tyre
27 The Lord spoke his word to me. He said: 2 "Human being, sing a funeral song for the city of Tyre. 3 Speak to Tyre that is at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. For the people of many lands along the seacoast, Tyre is a place for trade. 'This is what the Lord God says:
Tyre, you have said,
10 "'Men of Persia, Lydia and Put
12 "'Tarshish traded with you for many kinds of things. They paid for them with silver, iron, tin and lead.
13 "'People of Greece, Tubal and Meshech traded with you. They traded slaves and bronze things for the things you sell.
14 "'People of Beth Togarmah traded work horses, war horses and mules for the things you sell.
15 "'People of Rhodes traded with you. You sold your things on many coastlands. They paid you with ivory tusks and valuable black wood.
16 "'Aram traded with you because you had so many good things to sell. They traded turquoise, purple cloth and cloth with designs sewed on. They also traded fine linen, coral and rubies for the things you sell.
17 "'Judah and Israel traded with you. They paid for the things you sell with wheat from Minnith. They also paid with honey, olive oil and balm.
18 "'Damascus traded with you because you have many good things. They paid for them with wine from Helbon and wool from Zahar.
19 "'The Greeks from Uzal traded for the things you sold. They paid with wrought iron, cassia and sugar cane for your good things.
20 "'Dedan traded saddle blankets to you.
21 "'Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar traded with you. They traded lambs, male sheep and goats to you.
22 "'The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you. They paid with all the best spices, valuable gems and gold.
23 "'Haran, Canneh, Eden and the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Kilmad traded with you. 24 They paid with the best clothes, blue cloth and cloth with designs sewed on. They traded carpets of many colors and tightly wound ropes.
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text: College Football Pickoff: Week 2 Saturday, Sept. 11 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)No. 12 Miami (1-0) at No. 2 Ohio State (1-0)Remember when Vince Young went into the Horseshoe and beat the Buckeyes on a last-minute touchdown throw? It's possible to envision Miami junior Jacory Harris delivering his own statement moment on Saturday. But I'm not sure his O-line will be able to handle the pressure from Cameron Heyward and Co., and OSU should be able to run the ball on Miami.2321 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)No. 18 Penn State (1-0) at No. 1 Alabama (1-0)This game is the first in a home-and-home between the two schools that was originally scheduled to take place in 2004 and '05. As Joe Paterno tells it, Alabama, reeling from NCAA sanctions at the time, asked Penn State if it could postpone the series a few years "so we can get our feet back where we think we should be." Wish granted -- perhaps regrettably, from Penn State's perspective.2810 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC)No. 17 Florida State (1-0) at No. 10 Oklahoma (1-0) It was bound to happen eventually: Stoops vs. Stoops. Oklahoma coach Bob meets his brother, 'Noles defensive coordinator Mark, for the first time. FSU fans are looking to this game to find out whether Mark has been able to resuscitate last year's anemic D. It's got to be better -- but not better enough to stop DeMarco Murray and Ryan Broyles.3427 Noon ET (ESPN2)No. 22 Georgia (1-0) at No. 24 South Carolina (1-0)So much for my Georgia-to-the-BCS prediction. Can the Dawgs win a couple of their next three games (all against SEC foes) without suspended receiver A.J. Green? Sure. All of them, though? Doubtful. The Gamecocks showed off a bevy of playmakers against Southern Miss, and they'll continue to score points. New Georgia QB Aaron Murray sure could use a playmaker of his own.2724 3:30 p.m. ET (NBC)Michigan (1-0) at Notre Dame (1-0)Whatever the result, a segment of fans and media will inevitably declare the victorious program "back." Back to a bowl game, perhaps, but the only truly eye-opening outcome will be if either side's defense shuts down the other's quarterback. More likely, both Michigan's Denard Robinson and Notre Dame's Dayne Crist will go off, but Crist has more weapons alongside him.2824 7 p.m. ET (ESPN2)No. 7 Oregon (1-0) at Tennessee (1-0)Last week, the Ducks (against New Mexico) and Vols (vs. UT-Martin) beat their foes by a combined score of 122-0. One of these teams is going to score on the other this week, and the logical choice seems to be the side that scored 72 last week without 1,546-yard rusher LaMichael James, who reclaims his role in the Oregon backfield alongside Kenjon Barner this week.4522 12:21 p.m. ET South Florida (1-0) at No. 8 Florida (1-0) Urban Meyer has promised the Gators will have that whole center-snap thing worked out by Saturday. Just in case, the defense would be well-advised to put the clamps on versatile Bulls quarterback B.J. Daniels, who won a game in Tallahassee last year. Florida's offense can't get any worse than it was last week, but don't expect it to come out and roll against a better opponent just one week later. 2413 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC)Iowa State (1-0) at No. 9 Iowa (1-0)People are sleeping on the Cyclones, but quarterback Austen Arnaud and the boys came out sharp in their opener against Northern Illinois. Of course, the Huskies didn't have Adrian Clayborn. Or Tyler Sash. Or the rest of an Iowa defense that figures to be among the best in the country and may need to be Saturday in what is typically a grind-it-out game.1910 4 pm. ET (Versus)BYU (1-0) at Air Force (1-0) BYU's new quarterback tandem of Riley Nelson and Jake Heaps got off to a solid start in last week's win over Washington. Now they get their first road test against a team that boasted the nation's fifth-ranked pass defense a year ago and returns all the key rushers from its prolific option-based offense. The Falcons haven't beaten BYU in six years, but circumstances are finally aligning in their favor.2320 10 p.m. ET (ESPN)No. 25 Stanford (1-0) at UCLA (0-1)UPSET SPECIAL: Last week's 31-22 loss at K-State made it clear the Bruins still have a ways to go, but there were also signs of hope. Most notably, the Pistol offense seems to have sparked a fire in UCLA's previously dormant running game. Now along comes Stanford, not exactly a defensive juggernaut. With Houston and Texas looming, UCLA badly needs an early W, and this mat be its best hope.2624 Record Last Week: 8-2 Record Last Season: 83-57


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Grammy award-winning Mezzo Soprano Angelika Kirchschlager to perform in final Sunday Matinée Series concert of autumn 2014Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager will perform with pianist James Sherlock, at the National Concert Hall on Sunday 23 November at 3pm in the last of the autumn season concerts of the Sunday Matinée Series . Angelika enjoys an international career as one of the most important vocal artists performing today and is recognised as one of the foremost interpreters of Richard Strauss and Mozart.
She is a celebrated recitalist and concert performer whose repertoire reaches from Bach to Berlioz, and Debussy to Dvořák; her programme for the afternoon performance will include Brahms, Schubert, Strauss and Liszt.
The Grammy award-winning artist has released a variety of CDs and DVDs which have won numerous accolades; in 2013 she won the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Award for her recording of Liszt. She received the European Cultural Award for her contributions to classical music on stage and as a teacher keeping the fascination of classical music alive for the younger generations.
Angelika is a frequent guest on the most prestigious stages such as La Scala in Milan, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opera Bastille in Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Boston Symphony Hall as well as Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre in London.
Angelika Kirchschlager's recital is part of the Dublin Song Series, curated by Dearbhla and Finghin Collins in association with the National Concert Hall and Sundays at Noon Concert Series at Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane.
The Chamber Music Series at the National Concert Hall is supported by the Irish Times and RTE Lyric FM.
BrahmsMeine liebe ist grün Op. 6 No. 5
Übe die Heide Op. 86 No. 4
Der Gang zum Liebchen Op. 48 No. 1
Therese Op. 8 No. 1
Von Ewiger Liebe
SchubertAn Silvia
Gretchen am Spinnrade
SchumannLiebeslied Op. 51 No. 5
Die Soldatenbraut Op. 64 No. 1
Die Lotosblume
Die Kartenlegerin
LisztIm Rhein
Der König im Thule
Die drei Zigeuner
Der du von der Himmel bist
Angelika Kirchschlager / Sunday 23 November 2014: Tickets: €20
NCH Box Office Tel: 01 417 00 00 or www.nch.ie
For further information please contact: Ruth Moloney, Marketing Executive, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 417 0084 / 087 278 6382


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Shorts: the encyclopedia of tragic attitudes
Premier: "reich & berühmt 2002" Festival, Podewil, Berlin May, 2002
1 hour
Five short performances studying the trail of tragedy - from its roots in the classical Greek theatre, through the cornerstones of American and Russian tragic drama, to the short comings on the personal résumé.
Encyclopedia of Tragic Attitudes - with Xavier le Roy
Death of a Salesman (pages 1+2) - Text: Arthur Miller, 1949
Lazy Legs - Music: Frieder Butzmann, Text: Diana R., Maya S., Shannon M., Charlotte R., Tina S., Lindy A.
Auerbach's Keller - Text: Lindy Annis after Goethe's Faust
The Cherry Orchard -Text: Anton Chekhov, 1903, Music: various Russian artists of the 1920's.
SHORTS follows in a long line of works in compact form. Since her arrival in Berlin, (west) in 1985, Annis has produced over 50 pieces: mostly solos, all in simplest English, and few longer than a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
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- Daniel Schreiber, "Immer wieder Zitate" Theater der Zeit, Sept. 2002
"Where are the remains of subculture? Lindy Annis provides the most plausible answer. The New York performance artist, based in Berlin since 1985, demonstrates with the performance "Shorts" that great theatre needs nothing more than attitude. Lindy Annis" attitude of choice is an emotionless tidiness: the voice remains calm and constant, the face expressionless. The performer becomes her own projection screen where each word and gesture leaves a foot print. Thus she performs five exceptionally delightful short pieces on a tiny stage. With the support of the French artist Xavier Le Roy, Annis portrays a (gently ironic) "Encyclopedia of Tragic Attitudes, Volume 1" and with this vocabulary, she then presents by Arthur Miller"s "Death of a Salesman". She crosses Chekhov"s melancholic stillness with the propaganda gestures of a mighty Soviet power, and in "Auerbach"s Celllar" she develops a lament between sadness and the absurd word-plays of Gertrude Stein. But the highlight of this minimalist theatre is "Lazy Legs" where Annis relates biographical snippets whose respective characters are portrayed by just her two fingers walking over the table-top like torso-less legs."
-Matthias Dell, "Das Jenseits ist auch keine Lösung", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 04.06.02.
The wonderful Lindy Annis shows "SHORTS, five melancholic to tragic works" - In barely an hour the Antique and Auerbach's Keller, Arthur Miller's "Death of a salesman" and Chekhov's Cherry Orchard", along with half a dozen biographies including that of the artist, are creatively transformed into minimalist solos - from an "Encyclopedia of Tragic Attitudes" to the condensed version of "the Cherry Orchard".
- Laudenbach, Peter, "Tiger ohne Ente", Der Tagesspiegel 31.05.02