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OPINION: I'm hoping for a flurry of retractions. A Marine spokesperson said yesterday that she couldn't confirm or deny that Beyoncé wasn't lip-synching, and pretty much every media outlet in the United States assumed that was an admission.
On NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams said that Beyoncé wasn't lip-synching, but, "in effect, lip-synching"; comedian Jon Stewart's jokes on the Daily Show took it as a given that she faked it; public radio network NPR is wringing its hands.
It's bunk. That lady was singing live. She sang to a prerecorded track-a canned band-and perhaps there was a guide vocal in her earpiece, audible only to her, but that was absolutely a genuine performance.
Kelly Clarkson performed to a prerecorded track, too. So did the choir.
I've done a bunch of lip-synching, in music videos, and it's very easy to spot. Anyone who performs in, shoots, or edits music videos can see the tiny, observable latency endemic to lip-synching.
Beyoncé either sang live, or she's the most gifted lip-syncher in the history of humanity.
Below is the video for my cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads. My lips lag pitifully behind the words. It's because-and this is extremely common-the way I sing a song changes very slightly every time, and, six months later, the phrasing can be significantly different.
Video directors have asked me to spend three hours listening to my own song, lip-synching all the while, but I've never done it. The result is an eminently mediocre lip-synch. Ignore the mountaineer in Cazals, and watch my mouth:
Now here's Beyoncé at the inauguration. Again, don't look at anything but her mouth:
For comparison, here's Beyoncé's video for Work It Out, in which she's lip-syncing. It's difficult to ignore her thighs, but, please, focus solely on the lips:
If she was indeed lip-synching at the inauguration, give her the Nobel Prize in mime.
A soldier can differentiate one type of gun from another by the sound of it; a bird-watcher can hear the difference between warblers.
If your job is predicated on microphones-as an engineer or a singer-it's not that hard to tell the difference between a live vocal and a prerecorded one.
The easiest way to say it would be that a recorded vocal sounds perfect, in the way that a live vocal can't, and, to those who spend time meticulously mixing imperfect vocals to bring them closer to perfection, it's as plain as day.
In a recording studio, troublesome variables can be smoothed out. The reverb on the vocal can be exactingly calibrated. You can use a much more expensive, sophisticated, delicate microphone; a hand-held, onstage mic needs to be rugged.
You can put a "pop screen" in front of the mic-in a live vocal you'll hear Bs and Ps go pmpp!; you'll hear a little more breath; Fs and Ss will make a slight whssh! sound.
The US national anthem is a bi**h to sing-it's the K2 of national anthems. The low notes are really low; the high notes are super high. The tune was an 18-th century drinking song, and I'm sure that half the fun of it was that it turned a room of drunks into blissful Biz Markies.
Even Beyoncé seemingly had to decide which notes were worth the risk of flubbing, when choosing a key to sing it in. She chose the lows, at the beginning of the tune.
"Oh say can you see" is barely audible; that's probably because if the sound engineer mixed the vocal expressly to make her shakier, lower range louder, the big dramatic notes at the end would shriek. A prerecorded vocal would be mixed such that those low notes would be just as audible as the high notes.
A singer with a big voice learns to pull the mic slightly further from her mouth on big notes, because it gets louder, and she doesn't want to kill people. Rewind that video, and note the words "twilight" and "ramparts." They vary slightly in volume-the low notes are louder than the high notes.
Most dramatically, sound waves actually blow around in the wind. Sometimes, when I do a big outdoor festival, I sound-check in calm weather, but the wind picks up when the actual show begins, taking my voice and throwing it someplace other than where I'm expecting it. It's easy to get confused.
A politician might choke, like, "I'm not speaking right! Or the sound's not right! I better be super loud! Or use the mic differently!" That would be a Howard Dean moment. If you're the sound engineer at the inauguration, a big part of your gig is preventing Howard Dean moments.
Beyoncé, being a samurai, clearly came expecting that possibility. So she compensates: She sings the word "bursting" a little too close to the mic, causing a little bit of discernible distortion-it's like a subtler version of when you're talking into the mic on your phone, and you suddenly get loud, or too close, and for a moment the voice gets kind of larger and fuzzier.
When she pulls out her left earpiece-more on that in a moment-she's adjusting how she sounds to herself, and she subsequently pulls the mic further from her face. Notice how the echo suddenly gets more obvious-for a split second, the vocal sounds like it's going through a tin can.
Right after that, you can tell that the sound person is scrambling to adjust the sound, because she's adjusted her mic position. It sounds noticeably different until "Oh say does that star-spangled banner still wave," when the sound is dialed in again.
So: about the in-ear monitors. The sight of her earpiece begat the conspiracy theories, but an earpiece is not, by any means, a sign of lip-synching. In-ears are worn by almost all singers who can afford them.
Everybody who sings in arenas does. It may sound surprising, but, even for fantastic singers, it can be difficult to sing in tune if you're only hearing yourself on an enormous sound system-overhead, flanking you, and facing not you but the audience.
Anybody who would sing outdoors, in the wind, in front of hundreds of thousands of people (and millions on TV), without in-ears would be gambling absurdly. The choir was probably too large for everybody to have in-ears, but I bet the soloist did; if Kelly Clarkson didn't use them, I'd be stunned.
Probably she popped it out because the sound was weird-see above. Possibly, she usually performs with just one in, and used both at the inauguration to be extremely cautious-upon beginning to sing, she might've thought, Oh, wait, I don't need this. (When I use in-ears on longer tours, when I can afford to bring along a sound engineer, I always keep one popped out so I don't feel insulated.)
Look, lip-synching irritates me. It's everywhere. I was stunned that, after the Ashlee Simpson debacle, SNL continued to have musical guests who lip-sync.
And even more grating to me is the use of canned backing tracks when you could just put a real band there. Every single performance at the inauguration was done to prerecorded tracks-as was every performance in 2009, including Yo-Yo Ma's.
(He actually did fake playing his cello, because cold weather makes the wood and the strings of delicate instruments freak out.) I wasn't an enthused viewer of the Bush inaugurations, and I was high during Clinton's, but I'd bet you any sum that performances on those occasions were largely to canned music.
That sucks! America, the richest country in the world, can't afford to hire an orchestra and put microphones on them? Is it, like, hard, or something? What is this, pregame at the Gator Bowl? But that's not the scandal-supposed lip-syncing is. It's weird that nobody in a TV news department, where remote reporters are always wearing an earpiece to hear the anchor back in New York, would explain why singers would use them.
For me, the most compelling evidence that Beyoncé was doing it for real is the HELL YES smile on Joe Biden's face. Now, that is, clearly, a dude standing two feet from an electrifying lady singing like a mother***r.
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Transient IgA nephropathy with acute kidney injury in a patient with dengue fever
ABSTRACT Dengue virus infection can clinically manifest as dengue fever, dengue shock syn-drome and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Acute kidney injury as a result of dengue virus infection can occur due to various reasons including hypotension, rhabdomyolysis, sepsis and rarely immune complex mediated glomerular injury. However, glomerulonephritis associated with IgA Nephropathy in dengue virus infection has not been reported previously. We report a case of 15-year-old boy who was admitted with dengue fever and dialysis dependant acute kidney injury. Urine examination showed microscopic glomerular hematuria and proteinuria. Kidney biopsy showed mesangial proliferation with mesangial IgA dominant immune complex deposits and acute tubular necrosis. A repeated kidney biopsy 6 weeks after clinical recovery showed reversal of glomerular changes as well as resolution of mesangial IgA deposits.
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ABSTRACT: Worldwide there is a need to develop simple effective predictors that can distinguish whether a patient will progress from dengue fever (DF) to life threatening dengue hemorrhagic (DHF) or dengue shock syndrome (DSS). We explored whether proteinuria could be used as such a marker. We included patients admitted to hospital with suspected dengue fever. Starting at enrollment until discharge, each patient's daily spot urine protein creatinine ratio (UPCR) was measured. We classified those with confirmed dengue infection as DF or DHF (including DSS) based on WHO criteria. Peak and day of onset of proteinuria was compared between both groups. Compared to those with DF, patients with DHF had significantly higher median peak proteinuria levels (0.56 versus 0.08 g/day; p < 0.001). For patients with DHF, the median day of onset of proteinuria was at 6 days of defervescence, with a range of -2 to +3 days after defervescence. There were three patients with DF who did not have proteinuria during their illness; the five remaining patients with DF had a median day of onset of proteinuria of was at 6 days of defervescence with a range of 0 to +28 days. Peak UPCR could potentially predict DHF in patients with dengue requiring close monitoring and treatment.BMC Infectious Diseases 08/2011; 11:212. · 3.03 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Glomerulonephritis occurs as a rare form of renal manifestation in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Herein, we report a case of falciparum malaria-associated IgA nephropathy for the first time. A 49-yr old male who had been to East Africa was diagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Microhematuria and proteinuria along with acute kidney injury developed during the course of the disease. Kidney biopsy showed mesangial proliferation and IgA deposits with tubulointerstitial inflammation. Laboratory tests after recovery from malaria showed disappearance of urinary abnormalities and normalization of kidney function. Our findings suggest that malaria infection might be associated with IgA nephropathy.Journal of Korean medical science 04/2012; 27(4):446-9. · 0.84 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We report a case of nephrotic range proteinuria with 24-hour urine protein level of 335.7 mg/kg/day which developed following dengue hemorrhagic fever. Due to prolonged hypoalbuminemia from renal loss, right pleural effusion persisted and required pleuracentesis. The patient did not have classical nephrotic syndrome. The proteinuria improved without specific treatment. A renal biopsy was not performed due to self-resolution of the proteinuria and azotemia. Heavy proteinuria is not a typical characteristic of dengue virus infection, therefore the pathophysiology of this nephropathy has not been well described to date.The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health 05/2011; 42(3):579-82. · 0.61 Impact Factor


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I stumbled upon this workshop by accident while searching for art classes and thought the formula was great. This is my first time on a forum but I really wanted to give it a shot. This is my first study, Rocks at Nahant by William Stanley Haseltine.
Unfortunately, I don't believe I have captured my main observation which is the continuity. The line created by the rocks at the bottom left leading into the painting is stopped by the curve coming from the top of the rocks on the right, leading to the 2 figures. It is also aligned with the main wave coming from the direct opposite...I think this helps sell the impact of the wave. I spent most of my one hour trying to get the right proportions but I realize it would have been much easier (and more accurate) if I had started with the main continuity lines. I hope I posted this properly.
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Here is my second study, Venetian Interior (I believe) by John Singer Sargent.
I really like the lighting in this image. I first noticed the rhythm created with all the varied rectangular shapes, mainly the frames on the left wall. I think this also ties into the variety and repetition of all the various rectangles like the cabinets and doors. I also like how he used economy (am I wording it right?) around the main figures on the floor and walls, even on the black sweaters of the figures, to contrast the detailed dresses, which seem to be the focal point.
Here is a third study, A Street in Venice by John Singer Sargent. I took more time with a sketch to focus on the proportions and placement. I spent 2 hours on this one.
I chose this painting because of the how the silhouetted figures stand out in the simple composition. I noticed the balance of the image. It is almost symmetrical with a figure and the lightest shape of the painting splitting it in the center. The second person on the right could cause the balance to shift to the right of the image but it looks like the detail concentrated on the left side pull it back. It's mainly on the stone wall but even on the ground.
As with the previous painting, the simple ground and walls around the figures contrast with the details in the dress and help draw attention to them.
Here is number five. Another one by Mead Schaeffer. Not sure what the title is but it's one of my favorite paintings.
I really like how it could be broken down to 2 simple values and the light shape in the center. What strikes me the most is the continuity. The wooden detail at the bottom follows a path up to the space between the couple on the right even into the dragon in the background who's looking towards the woman...the path mimics the dragon as well so even though it's a little faint it kinda runs through the whole image.
This one took me two hours. It took around forty minutes just to block in the right proportions (which are a little off). I'm wondering if I should stick to getting it all done in one hour or taking more time trying to get it right?
Here's number 6. I can't see my 4th post...I'll wait a while and see if it shows up, if not, I'll try again. Anyways, this one is Fuji from Funatsu, a woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida. I like the overall look of his works with the thin outline and flat colors. Elements at different distances are very often grouped together, I find it simplifies the composition and creates a nice sense of depth.
This one took an hour and a half.
Here's number 6. James Abbott McNeil Whistler by William Meritt Chase. I'm not sure it was a good piece to do a study so small because it's hard to see all the subtleties. I really like when a large part of the figure is blocked out and his expression and pose are cool though.
My main observation is the emphasis on the face. There was talk about the falloff of focus in the lecture and I thought this was a good example. The silhouette gets more blurry as we get farther from the face, especially at the feet. Even his cane is sharper near the hand and there is very little detail anywhere else in the painting.
Wow nice job! I particularly love the number 5
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Here's number 8, Study of Rosina Ferrara by John Singer Sargent.
My main observation would be the rhythm in the brush strokes. He used economy in the whole piece to highlight the face but the brush strokes in the background define the rest, going up the v neck and around the head, even down her left shoulder.
It looks like my fourth study didn't show up. Forbidden Lover by Mead Schaeffer (if the internet is correct).
I like the repetition in this piece. The half circles in the arches create a rhythm along the bridge and the same shapes are repeated, upside down, on her dress. The overall dress shape in also a half circle and is also repeated in the large arch framing the piece.
Here's my ninth study. A painting by Carl Spitzweg. Sorry, I couldn't find the title. I chose this piece because I like the looseness of it all, how the figure is framed and though you can't see them, the colors.
What I noticed in this painting was the primary emphasis on the character. He is a relatively dark, standing in front of the lightest wall (which I believe is the secondary emphasis) in the painting, which is bordered by darker elements. To add even more focus to the figure, his shadow side is against the lightest part of the wall and his light side is against the dark part of the wall.
Looking for paintings could be very time consuming if, like me, your knowledge of art history is limited. I found a blog that has a large library of really nice paintings here http://greatilluminators.blogspot.ca/
It made things a lot easier for me and that's even where I found out about this painter. Hope it can help someone out there.
Here's number 10. Another one by Carl Spitzweg. I chose this because of the staging in the piece. Many of his works have a clear path for someone to arrive in the scene.
This one took almost 3 hours and still doesn't look finished. It took me an hour just to block in the proportions...I hope I'm going about this the right way.
Here's a study of a painting by Mark Tennant. I chose it because I like the use of the brush strokes and how they give so much volume to the figure. I worked a little differently because I wanted to try and get the right value in one stroke to match the feel of the painting. It didn't always work as planned so I had to go in with a hard brush and adjust it.
I like your analysis on each painting is very informative! your shots paintings are also solid. Special mention for textures brushes. nice work
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Thanks antomio! I was unsure about the brushes, it's a real challenge to get similar texture especially working so small and I'm glad you like them!
Here's number 12, a painting by Abbott Handerson Thayer. It was a challenge trying to match the shapes because they are very organic and very close in value. It seemed every time I looked at the original, my brain was cutting the shapes differently. I added a noise layer on my study and that helped with my attempt in matching the values. I also sharpened certain areas.
Here's number 15, a study of Jean Béraud.
I like how the painting is balanced. The mid range values are concentrated along the horizon and separates the image in two, a light sky and a light ground. The darkest values overlap the horizon and are all in the figures. There are two large ones on the right but against slightly darker buildings. Emphasis is given to the character on the left by being slightly larger and having the brightest values of the painting (on his shirt). I believe that the many smaller figures behind him makes it so the image doesn't lean to the right and also give the main character more importance through scale contrast.
Here's number 15, Fumée d'Ambre Gris by John Singer Sargent. I chose this because I like how he handles the whites.
My main observation was the economy. The architecture is very simple but is maintained in the outer edges of the figure's costume, with most of the detail in the upper body. I like how the detailed carpet leads to the incense burner and follows the smoke across a less detailed robe up the figure and the shape of the hood seems to stop the smoke from escaping. There always seems to be a contrast of simple vs detailed along the path of the eye.
Strong shape, smooth and nice gradients on this, better and better.
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Thanks antomio, your comments are very encouraging (and reassuring)!
Here is number 18. I chose this because I like the dynamic created by the diagonal lines and I love to see the variations in white. This one was very challenging...in fact, there doesn't seem to be an easy study. The variations are very subtle and sometimes real hard to see what's going on...struggled with the face as well.
Here's number 20. I really like the lighting on this painting and the shape the figure occupies. I really struggled with the head again...the next assignment is going to be a challenge for sure.
I have a new found appreciation for all the works I like to look at. By analyzing all the composition elements, I understand that a lot of thought goes in to making a beautiful image and it isn't just a question of tastes or chance. I especially appreciate the skill of these artist after struggling to reproduce their images...Imagine that in addition, the artists had to start with a blank canvas and figure it out for themselves! It's pretty inspiring to see how much there really is to learn out there.
Great job! I think you made the right call to focus on shapes first - it's something I struggle with to try and not get too detailed too fast. As a result your studies look pretty darn close. After a while you stopped posting times... did you feel yourself getting faster?
Thanks likeThePlant!
No, unfortunately, I wasn't getting faster, I stopped posting times because they usually took me the same amount. The two first ones took me an hour but then I really started focusing on putting things in the right place. I would usually stop my timer after 2 hours and mess around with my image for another 10-15 minutes. The more complex ones like 10 and 16 took around 3 hours each.
Great job for all of this 20 studies!
Thanks Sculptlab, I look forward to seeing your next works!
wow. your analysis is excellent and very thoughtful. LOVE that. you are doing a nice job on the studies too.
You are getting about 90 percent there with the three most important things...shapes, values and edges. are you flipping your images horizontally and vertically every minute or so to check accuracy for each of these?
Make a pass at the end where you double check the following, in this order.
a. shapes.
b. values
c. edges
At this point all I think that is needed is double checking things at the end in a quality control pass...so to speak.
Keep up the great work.
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Ongoing classes are very important for young actors to be able to nurture their talent and bring it to new exciting levels. The students enrolled in our on-going classes will learn from the best teachers in the business and build their skills in a positive, supportive setting.
Broadway Triple Threat | Monologue
We are thrilled to announce Broadway star Monette McKay (Broadway's Spiderman, Mamma Mia, Memphis) will be teaching this amazing class. Monette has been part of the Broadway Workshop team for the past few years and we could not be more excited to have her teaching this class.
This class will allow students to take the next step in building acting, singing and dance technique. We will focus on how to better approach material, sharpen audition & performance skills, understand direction and adjustments, make strong choices, relax and, most of all, have confidence. This class is designed to help unlock imagination and overcome inhibitions. Class will culminate in a small performance for parents and friends that will feature scenes where students will work with a partner and a full cast production number. ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOMED.
MONETTE MCKAY Broadway: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Memphis, Mamma Mia! National Tours: Mamma Mia! TV: Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Monette has been teaching for years starting at her dance studio back in NJ, For Dancers Only, to master classes on tour with Broadway Connection. Currently, she teaches a mock audition class at her alma mater, Wagner College. She is thrilled to join to staff of Broadway Workshop with this Broadway Triple Threat class!
This class was designed to help students who are auditioning for College Programs or Performing Arts High Schools. A Broadway Workshop guest teacher will work with students on how to select the right monologue and how to bring it to life. Each student will work in a small group setting and have the opportunity each week to build a strong monologue audition. Students will share in the process of self-discovery and personal growth as they bring their creative self to their material.
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Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment Debuts, Providing an Accelerated Path to Unified Communications
Avaya Aura Applications now VMware Ready™; Brings High Reliability, Simplicity and Flexibility to Virtualised Collaboration Applications
Avaya customer RealPage uses new Avaya solution to Virtualise UC Core, Speed Customer Service Deployments by up to 20%
Basking Ridge, New Jersey - Avaya today unveiled its new communications architecture for virtualised unified communications (UC) applications, Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment (Avaya Aura VE), to help businesses accelerate mobile collaboration applications across their organisation. With Avaya Aura VE, businesses maintain the high reliability, simplicity and functionality of Avaya Aura - the company's next-generation collaboration platform - while gaining flexible new options for deploying Avaya's UC and customer service solutions in virtual architectures.
Avaya Aura VE applications are designated as VMware Ready™, which is VMware's highest level of endorsement for virtualisation technologies. More companies are choosing virtualisation to reduce the complexity, equipment and costs of their IT operations. The critical next step is the virtualisation of unified communications, with 70 percent of companies planning to virtualise their UC applications, according to Nemertes Research[1].
Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment—combined with Avaya's expertise in open, mobile collaboration—helps ensure that the reliability, quality and availability companies rely on in Avaya hardware-based environments get delivered into the virtualised world. Key Avaya Aura VE features include:
Redundancy and resiliency: All of the critical systems availability features of Avaya Aura's server-based platform—including software duplication, redundant session controls for SIP access and a survivable core—are maintained in Avaya Aura VE, driving business continuity and risk reduction in virtualised environments. In addition, the solution integrates with VMware vCenter™ Server tools for diagnostics, provisioning and traffic management to further ensure and simplify unified communications continuity.
A simplified, open path: With Avaya Aura VE, businesses continue to benefit from the same open standards approach driven by Avaya Aura. In addition, virtualisation allows businesses to easily expand UC functions and users without adding new equipment, and do so quickly by cutting deployment times from hours to minutes. Companies with VMware cloud infrastructure in their data centres can now integrate Avaya Aura applications onto their existing server environment, further simplifying UC virtualisation.
Agile customer service operations: Avaya Aura extends virtualisation to its call centre application, Call Center Elite. With less equipment required, companies can add contact centre agents more swiftly and cost-effectively based on seasonal, sales and purchasing trends. This brings the unique ability to improve the oversight and delivery of customer service using virtualisation.
With today's announcement, businesses also have several flexible options for enhanced mobility and collaboration. Businesses can choose full virtualisation with Avaya Aura VE or continue with the dedicated hardware approach already offered by Avaya Aura. They can also combine virtualised and dedicated servers for application deployment. As another option, Avaya Collaboration Pods for Avaya Aura VE will be offered as pre-packaged, all-in-one UC solutions for virtualised storage, computing and networking.[2]
Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment: Key Components
The Avaya Aura® platform is a next-generation solution for mobile collaboration, and is comprised of the following components, now available in virtualised versions:
Avaya Aura Communication Manager is the open, highly-reliable and next-generation communications foundation for Avaya's UC solutions.
Avaya Session Manager provides a SIP based core communication architecture for on-demand access to collaboration services and applications.
Avaya Application Enablement Services provides developer interfaces for both off-the-shelf and custom integrations with communica¬tions and business applications.
Avaya Aura Presence Services delivers scalable, high performance presence aggregation service.
Avaya Agile Communications Environment enables application integration with business communications processes.
Avaya Aura Call Center Elite is part of the company's contact centre suite, and the leading call-routing software for contact centres.
For more information on these Avaya Aura products visit here; For Avaya Aura Call Center Elite, visit here.
"Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment helps us deliver collaboration and customer experience capabilities in a faster, more efficient way. We virtualised our entire core UC infrastructure, while retaining the continuity and resiliency required to keep a busy 1,400 employee company like ours operating in real-time.
"To ensure top-notch customer service, virtualised Aura also lets us ramp up contact centres quickly - up to 20 percent faster. This is great for seasonal spikes, when we need to add contact centre resources on the spot. We were able to set up a temporary 70-agent contact centre using no equipment, streamlining operations considerably. Avaya Aura VE is a major advancement for us and for Avaya customers, bringing Avaya's speed, ease and reliability to the virtualised environment."
-Joe McCorkle, Director, IT UC/Voice Services, RealPage, Inc. a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and services for the rental housing industry
"As interest in virtualised solutions continues to expand, and organisations realise the benefits of the software defined datacentre, we see the shift of real-time collaboration applications using VMware solutions as a step forward. Having completed joint testing and validation of the Avaya Aura UC applications—and now releasing them as VMware Ready™ applications—we are delivering a strong combination to customers. Avaya and VMware will continue to work to meet customer needs for performance and reliability as more real-time collaboration applications are virtualised."
-Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
"Driven by a desire to reduce costs, improve flexibility, and enhance resiliency, more than 70 percent of companies are planning to virtualise their UC applications, leveraging the same infrastructure that supports other business critical applications. But before IT architects adopt UC virtualisation, they must ensure that available solutions can meet performance, management, and high availability requirements associated with traditional telephony platforms.
-Irwin Lazar, vice president and service director, UC and Collaboration, Nemertes Research
"Avaya recognises that any path to collaboration requires a platform that prioritises high reliability, functionality and flexibility. This is why we've seamlessly brought these benefits from Avaya Aura into virtualised environments. With Avaya's UC applications now VMware Ready™ for virtualisation, our customers can travel a faster, more efficient route to next-generation collaboration."
-Gary E. Barnett, senior vice president & general manager, Collaboration Platforms, Avaya
Additional Facts & Information:
According to IDC, 75 percent of organisations said virtualisation is considered for the default build of new server hardware.[3]
The top concern preventing companies from increasing virtualisation is reliability, according to V-Index, a virtualisation industry quarterly survey.[4]
Avaya Aura VE will be included in Avaya's current Triple 7 Promotion, which helps customers of the Avaya CS1000 platform move to an Avaya Aura solution.
VMware, VMware vCenter and VMware Ready are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
All trademarks identified by ®, TM, or SM are registered marks, trademarks, and service marks, respectively, of Avaya Inc. Avaya and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein.
[1] Nemertes Research 2012-13 Communications and Computing Benchmark.
[2] Avaya Collaboration Pods begins trials in 2013.
[3] IDC Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Enterprise Virtualization Software, 2011, doc #232074, December 2011.
[4] V-Index: Virtualization Penetration Rate in the Enterprise report ,Q3 and Q2 2011, by Vanson Bourne market research.
About Avaya:
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. For more information please visit http://www.avaya.com/.
Certain statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "potential," "predict," "should" or "will" or other similar terminology. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While we believe these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. These and other important factors may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a list and description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Avaya's filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. Avaya disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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Toto Wolff dismayed by low attendance at Hockenheim
Jul 19, 2014, 9:30 AM EST
Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff has said that the low attendance at Hockenheim is "not satisfying" given Germany's current success in Formula 1.
Germany is currently enjoying a spell of dominance in the sport. Sebastian Vettel has won the last four world titles for Red Bull, German marque Mercedes is the runaway leader this season, and a German driver leads the drivers' championship in the shape of Nico Rosberg.
However, for practice on Friday at Hockenheim, the grandstands were nearly empty, and the attendance for the race on Sunday is predicted to be less than 50,000. For the British Grand Prix, well over double that figure packed into the stands at Silverstone to cheer Lewis Hamilton on to a home victory. For Wolff, the situation is very disappointing.
"It's not satisfying," he said. "If you compare Hockenheim Friday to Friday at Silverstone and Friday in Austria, it's a different world and we have to understand why that is."
Even on the Thursday in Austria, fans flocked to the circuit purely for driver signings and events, causing severe traffic delays en route to the Red Bull Ring.
Wolff still thinks that the figure could surpass the predictions given that some may have not bought a ticket yet, but he does agree that something must be done to improve the situation.
"I'm not sure whether we have an exact number for Sunday already," he said. "You know, there are lots of people probably deciding at short notice, depending on the weekend. "We have to analyse the phenomenon. If the weekend continues like it does now, we need to think about it."
The attendance for last year's German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring was also low, and even when combined with the Bahrain and Monaco Grands Prix in 2013, the three races did not match the single figure for the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.
In a feature on MotorSportsTalk yesterday, I looked at the current 'golden generation' of sportsmen in Germany, and how the nation has dominated the F1 scene since the turn of the century. However, the reasons why this is not translating into ticket sales – be it high prices or lack of access – need to be assessed.
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Now that I live here, it's time to start shining more light on the many amazing artists based out of Montreal. We last covered electronic producers Thomas White and Dear Lola, and this time I'm turning to some delightful indie pop from Les Passagers. To be completely honest, they seem to have a pretty small following so there's not a lot out there about them. This only means that they're really underappreciated because the music is fantastic.
As a side note: if you're looking for more Francophone music, I just stumbled across this blog called La Playlist Du Lundi that posts a new French-language playlist every Monday. Not where I picked this song up, but they've got some good selections.


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