Every now and then, I get promotional e-mails from various websites or services. They are looking for–wisely–promotion for their product.
I have been receiving a steady stream of e-mails from a company that is attempting to fund its services via a Kickstarter campaign (looking to raise $20,000, I believe), called MyMuCo.
The idea behind MyMuCo is to be a socially-based (interaction between student, parents, and teachers) learning management system for music. You can watch the introduction video and get the jist of the product.
I do not support or endorse this product, nor do I have anything against it. I leave the resources provided by the company for you to make your own mind as to whether you would like to support their Kickstarter campaign or not.
Some time ago (November of 2010), Dan Swirsky, creator of Choir Pro Software, contacted me about his software project, Choir Master. Choir Master was a Windows PC-based product that was intended to help choral singers (really, any vocalist) to learn their music, through an interaction of MIDI, recorded audio tracks, and even a video of the conductor conducting. As a Mac user, the program wasn't something that I would consider, and truthfully, I make my own resources for my students with music notation software. That software project has been discontinued and its resources invested in his next project.
Since that time, Mr. Swirsky has been in touch with me, discussing his dream of creating an iPad app. He was able to find a developer, and invested his own funds into the project. I was a bit skeptical of the app's purpose, as the goal of the app was to make a way for vocalists to enter music for rehearsal purposes without a lot of music knowledge.
Well, the app is out, and my skepticism has been proven wrong. Samuel Wright (an Australian music education technology leader) tweeted about a YouTube video. The video features a music technology instructor demonstrating how to notate a vocal part in a MIDI app without any "traditional" classical music concepts.
In watching this video, I realized something: most people don't have a background in music education, and most are musicially illterate (not an insult, just a fact). How are they going to transcribe music? By using music technology as demonstrated in the video; likewise, by using apps like Sonja.
Sonja™ is designed to help singers and musicians of any music reading level learn and practice music. Simply import a Sonja™-format file or a MIDI file, and the notes of each part are displayed in a separate tab on a music staff in what is called a notation track, where each notation track may be assigned a different instrument. The user practices his/her part by selecting the desired tab, while the notes of the notation tracks in the other tabs may be viewed transparently in the background or hidden, and their volume lowered or muted. When the user has learned his/her part, the user can mute his/her part and perform along with the other parts.
Sonja™ differs from other sheet-music or MIDI players in that it uses non-standard, visually-intuitive notation that is designed for singers and musicians who cannot read music well or at all, while acquainting users with the music staff, note timing and duration, and other basic music concepts.
I have had a chance to use the app, and it works. You enter the notes, and then put the notes to rhythm. This differs from the Dubspot tutorial video, as that video determines the rhythm first, and then changes pitches of the rhythm on a piano roll. Sonja reverses that sequence, and instead of using a piano roll, asks the user to enter notes on a musical staff. So, really, Sonja does build some level of music literacy above and beyond the use of a digital audio workstation with a piano roll. You can create multiple parts, each on their own "tab," but each part also remains visible.
Sonja also can import MIDI and audio files, and the choralpro website offers a sequence of "how to videos" to help you learn how to use the program…which is easy to use. You can add text to your inputted notes (I'd more or less call this an "entered MIDI line").
On a related note, I wish the iPad GarageBand app offered the ability to turn a piano roll into traditional music notation as the Mac version of GarageBand can do so; and if I had any wish for ChordPro, that would be my final wish…a line of "traditional music notation" on the bottom of the screen generated by your created MIDI notes…therefore building literacy. But that's the music teacher in me speaking, and there's a good chance that the average person wouldn't want that–or use that. Do look for future updates and additional in app purchases that add even more functionality.
I think this app is a tremendous success for Mr. Swirsky…it is so much fun to witness this as an outsider: he had a goal to make an app, found a developer, and now has an app in the App Store. Unlike a few recent apps, this app works (I experienced one crash with Sonja, but I haven't been able to replicate it). And as I stated earlier, the Dubspot instructional video tells me that this app has the potential to help a lot of people.
So..go download the app. It's free. Give it a try, and think outside of the box of the musically literate music educator. If you keep an open mind, you might find that your skepticism (if you had any) is also challenged.
I want techinmusiced.com to be a resource for teachers of music, and that includes app reviews. But as the App Store grows, and as new apps enter the field each and every day, I cannot possibly review them all. Some apps fall outside my area of expertise, while others simply hold no appeal for me. That doesn't mean that they are bad apps. So I recently edited my review policy to state that I welcome developers to send me some copy about their apps, as well as some pictures, and I will be happy to post those apps here on the blog. This doesn't mean that I endorse the app–but for the sake of information, I want the information to be available to those that read this blog.
Why is practicing with a metronome often difficult? As music teachers, we think traditional metronomes (and metronome apps) are missing an important feature: real-time feedback. A strong sense of rhythm is not just something you're born with–it's a skill that anyone can learn through practice! A good teacher can certainly help you improve, but how do you know if you're practicing correctly when you're not at your lesson?
BirdSound has provided the answer with tempoTeacher, a new universal app for iOS. TempoTeacher has all of the features you'd expect from a traditional metronome and adds the missing piece: clear, real-time feedback to help you improve. It's simple to use: just turn it on and start playing. TempoTeacher displays, analyzes, and scores your playing for rhythmic accuracy in real time. All you need to do is try to make the score go up! TempoTeacher automatically remembers and displays your top 10 scores, so practicing with a metronome feels more like playing a game than you ever thought possible!
Just started playing? Think you're a virtuoso? TempoTeacher lets you adjust your skill level from beginner to expert, providing the optimum challenge for players of all abilities. In addition, Real-time feedback makes it easy for you and your music teacher to set practice goals and track your progress, giving you a greater return on your investment in music lessons.
A familiar, attractive user interface makes tempoTeacher a snap to use, even if you've never used a music app before. Loads of additional features and a nice price make tempoTeacher a great value–and the only metronome app you'll ever need. Welcome to the future of music education–let birdSound be your guide!
Ultra-accurate metronome with loud, pleasant "click" sound. Quickly and easily adjust tempo and beat division to fit your practice goals.
Teacher Mode: Accurate, adjustable real-time audio analysis with no additional accessories needed (works great with apple earpods, though)!
Built-in low-latency headphone/practice amp with Tone, Gain, and Reverb controls.
Built-in tone generator (E-A-D-G-B-E) with simple transposition for alternate tunings.
Familiar, intuitive layout and navigation with attractive, retina-optimized graphics.
Built-in help mode for quick explanations of all tempoTeacher's controls.
Compatible with most iOS audio adapters/microphones.


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I wasn't aware when we accepted your offer of an arc for "Hugh and Bess" that it is actually a novel following in the footsteps of Jean Plaidy and Norah Lofts. I grew up reading those accounts of English Kings and Queens and even though I know now that some of the happy endings were merely cutting off the telling of the tale before the sad ending, I still recall them fondly.
To me it has always seemed like it would be harder to write within the confines of the historical facts known about people than to make everything up. Not that you didn't do a fine job of adding shading to the known facts and filling in the knowledge gaps with some educated deductions. After finishing the book, I tried to find information on the internet about Bess and Hugh and let me tell you, as if you didn't already know, you must have done some incredible sleuthing to find what you did. I'm impressed.
I was delighted that the story was filled with a gentle, dry, very subtle sense of humor. I think this helped leaven the sometimes ghastly reality of this world. This was real and some not so nice things can show up in books like this. Child brides, or who wouldn't want to be married at age twelve? The siege of Calais, or let's all eat rats when the dogs run out. The manner of Hugh's father's death, which was a major squirming owie read but then the man was voted as the most hated man in 14th C England. And finally the Black Death, or one out of every three of us will be dead by year's end. Yipee.
I think you boiled down the complicated politics of the time very well. The shifting alliances called for adroit tacking in high winds as evidenced by Hugh's recovery from the pit his father's and grandfather's actions had sunk the family into. I could see why Bess was a little reluctant to marry him, not to mention the differences in their ages. The fact that you could make me believe in the possibility of such a love between these two speaks well for your writing abilities.
Jayne, thanks for the great review. You've brought back some memories. I grew up reading Norah Lofts, too. I sometimes get nostalgic about the kinds of romances I read as a teen in the '70s. At least I think they were romances. Did you also read Victoria Holt, Roberta Gellis, Janet Aiken Hodge, Dorothy Eden, Joan Aiken, or Susan Howatch? They were a palate cleanser for the Sweet Savage Love type trash I read as well.
I did read Dorothy Eden and Victoria Holt then. I've since tried some of the others you mention and would agree about what you said. I used to love the old Fawcett Crest Regency and Georgian books.
Jayne, is the Hugh in the book Hugh Despenser? If so, making him the hero must have been quite a feat! I'll have to look for this one.
Well, there was Hugh Despenser, Hugh Despenser Jr and Hugh Despenser the third. The book is mainly about Hughie III. His father is in a few scenes at the start and the grandfather is mentioned.
I am so pleased to see that Susan's book got such a positive review! Maybe one of these days I will read her first book, and then get to this one!


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Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider will return to Broadway April 9-15 when he joins the cast of Rocktopia as a special guest artist. Snider made his Broadway debut in 2010 in Rock of Ages. His one week special appearance in Rocktopia comes following the April 8 departure of Train's Pat Monahan and prior to the April 23 arrival of Cheap Trick's Robin Zander. An explosive ... [read more]
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Dee Snide will be the host for this year's event, with Kenny Loggins and Sheila E also among the headlining performers announced for the 2019 voyage of The 80s Cruise. This will be the fourth sailing of the cruise, which charters an entire cruise ship for a week of concerts, meet-and-greets, Q&As and other 80s related entertainment. Other performers include Berlin, OMD, The ... [read more]
HOH host Dee Snider Co-producing an off-Broadway, Muppet-style show "Puppet Titus Andronicus"
August 4, 2014 By House of Hair
Master of Puppets? Twisted Sister frontman and HOH host Dee Snider is co-producing an off-Broadway, Muppet-style puppet show called Puppet Titus Andronicus. The show runs now through August 17 at the Beckett Theatre in Manhattan. It's a modern spin on Shakespeare's "worst" play, with silly-string gore, angry goths, a villainous anthropomorphic boar and all of the deaths, ... [read more]
Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale to Play Holiday Run in Chicago – Cast and Creative Team Announced
July 29, 2014 By houseofhair
Broadway In Chicago will present the world premiere of Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale beginning Nov. 4 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place in Chicago, IL. Written by and starring rocker Snider — who was seen on Broadway in Rock of Ages — the production will play a limited engagement through Jan. 4, 2015. Directed by Adam John Hunter, the cast will ... [read more]
Black Carpet coverage of the Revolver Golden Gods Awards featuring Dee Snider
June 8, 2014 By House of Hair
Got an hour or more? You can catch up on all the interviews and news from this year's Revolver Golden Gods Awards show with this "black-carpet special" uploaded by Artisan News. Interviews include Dee Snider (pictured), Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver), Alice Cooper, Ace Frehley (Kiss), Rex Brown (Pantera) and many more. ... [read more]
Twisted Sister Celebrate 30th Anniversary of 1984's Stay Hungry
May 26, 2014 By houseofhair
Twisted Sister rocked the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ, last Saturday night, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of their 1984 hit, Stay Hungry. Frontman Dee Snider, guitarist Jay Jay French, guitarist Eddie Ojeda, bassist Mark Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero treated the crowd to songs from the album and more. Check out some fan-shot footage of the band ... [read more]
Dee Snider receives Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award
May 10, 2014 By House of Hair
Congrats to our own Dee Snider, who was honored with the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award at this week's Music Business Association convention (formerly known as NARM and DigitalMusic.org). Dee's philanthropic efforts include Dee Snider's Ride (his annual motorcycle ride benefiting Long Island Cares, Inc.), the Jam For Autism, established by Dee in 2012 to benefit ... [read more]
Dee Snider's Philanthropic Work to be Honored at Music Biz 2014 Awards Luncheon
April 29, 2014 By House of Hair
The Music Business Association, formerly known as NARM and digitalmusic.org, will celebrate the philanthropic work of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, chart-topping pop star and actress Ariana Grande, the record-breaking soundtrack to Oscar-winning animated film Frozen, and the lifetime of creative contributions of artist Paul Rodgers at the Music Biz 2014 Awards Luncheon on ... [read more]
Robert Plant opening for Dee Snider… At a wedding?
April 28, 2014 By houseofhair
Robert Plant opening for Dee Snider..at a wedding? Yup. It actually happened back in 1998. Dee attended the wedding of his manager's son; also invited was Robert Plant. When Dee asked him if he had any intention at all of getting dragged up on stage to perform at the reception, the former Led Zeppelin frontman said no way. In fact, Dee and Robert planned to slip out of the ... [read more]
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Sequence logos visualize protein and nucleic acid motifs and patterns identified through multiple sequence alignment. They are commonly used widely to represent transcription factor binding sites and other conserved DNA and RNA sequences. Protein sequence logos are also useful for illustrating various biological properties of proteins. Create a sequence logo with Sequence Logo. Paste your multiple sequence alignment and the sequence logo is generated automatically. Use the sequence logo maker to easily create vector sequence logo graphs. Please refer to the Sequence Logo manual for the sequence logo parameters and configuration. Sequence Logo supports multiple color schemes and download formats.
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Typhoon Texas celebrated its grand opening in May 2016.
Katy's Typhoon Texas Waterpark will become the new operator of a water park located near Austin in the city of Pflugerville.
Pflugerville officials have agreed on an estimated $1 million per-year lease contract with Typhoon Texas for the rights to operate the park. The deal comes only months after Typhoon Texas held its grand opening at its location near Katy Mills Mall, and the move is indicative of water park officials trying to expand the business' footprint to other areas of the state.
"The timing was right," said Ray DeLaughter, a co-owner of Typhoon Texas. "This is a unique opportunity because there's not many markets that are able to support a water park, and especially not one two hours away from our own location." The lease deal will run through 2043, with Typhoon Texas having the option to own the park then, according to DeLaughter.
The water park in Pflugerville, which covers about 23 acres, has been operated by the financially struggling Hawaiian Falls.
Typhoon Texas officials became aware that Hawaiian Falls would no longer continue to lease the space and decided that the opportunity to take over in Pflugerville, which has a population of more than 50,000 people and is located near the major market of Austin, would be profitable, according to Bernard Kaplan, a Typhoon Texas spokesperson.
Kaplan said the group was also encouraged by a successful first summer in Katy, though it will not reveal attendance numbers and other performance figures for competitive reasons.
Water park officials plan to upgrade the Pflugerville park and add a kids play structure, as well as a "splash pad" for its first year and other attractions in the future. DeLaughter said.
Typhoon Texas opened in May to much fanfare as the Katy area's first major attraction besides its well-known mall. It's one of just a few large water parks in the region. The 25-acre park, which is privately owned, includes nine water rides, a 25,000-square-foot wave pool, a lazy river and a Texas-style barbecue restaurant. It also has 18 acres next to it for expansion.
The park is hosting its "Winter fest," which offers attractions such as ice skating, miles of lights and a Christmas-themed theatrical performance.
The Pflugerville water park will open in May under the Typhoon Texas banner, Kaplan said. Park officials do not have plans for another expansion.
"Typhoon Texas is looking to bring the same water park experience found here to Pflugerville," Kaplan said. "Typhoon Texas was looking at the possibility of growing its brand in the state, and this was a good fit."


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Solar Orbiter mission spots eruption from the sun
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Published 3:33 AM EDT, Tue May 18, 2021
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A happy accident has resulted in the Solar Orbiter mission spying eruptions from the sun. These eruptions, called coronal mass ejections, blast out solar particles across the solar system and have the potential to disrupt technology if they reach Earth.
These eruptions were detected by multiple instruments on the spacecraft during a close flyby of the sun, which is called a perihelion, on February 10. This flyby brought the spacecraft within 46.5 million miles of the sun – that's half the distance between the massive star and Earth.
This is the first time the orbiter has witnessed such eruptions.
This imagery comes from three different instruments on Solar Orbiter showing eruptions happening on the sun.
Solar Orbiter/EUI Team/Metis Team/SoloHI team/ESA/NASA
The mission, which launched in February 2020, is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency. Although Solar Orbiter's main scientific agenda doesn't begin until November – to study the sun's north and south poles – it has already made close passes by the sun that captured the closest images ever taken of our star and revealed "campfires" near its surface.
Currently the spacecraft is in its cruise phase, which allows for calibration of some of the 10 instruments aboard. During the cruise phase, four of its instruments are up and running and have been since launch. The February flyby presented mission teams with an opportunity to conduct observations and test out some of their instruments.
Solar Orbiter's Metis instrument blocks out the bright light from the sun's surface, so the eruption of particles to be seen in visible light (left) and ultraviolet light.
Solar Orbiter/Metis Team/ESA
Once the scientific mission begins in earnest, all 10 instruments will work together to create joint observations of our sun.
This flyby was unique in that the spacecraft was actually behind the sun from the perspective of Earth, causing a lag in data transfer rates. This delayed the data's delivery to mission scientists, so some of it is still being analyzed.
ESA's Solar Orbiter is revealing the many faces of the Sun. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) Full Sun Imager (FSI) took the images in the top row and far right column across the week following 30 May 2020, and contributed to the central image. The yellow images, taken at the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 17 nanometres, show the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, which exists at a temperature of around one million degrees. The red images, taken at a slightly longer wavelength of 30 nanometres, show the Sun's transition region, which is an interface between the lower and upper layers of the solar atmosphere. In this region, which is only about 100 km thick, the temperature increases by a factor of up to 100 to reach the one million degrees of the corona. Solar Orbiter will travel around the Sun and out of the ecliptic plane, which loosely defines where the planets orbit. So, EUI will be able to image the far side of the Sun as well as the solar poles. The middle image shows projected, simultaneous solar images from EUI FSI (red) at Solar Orbiter's position during its first perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, and the NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory mission (gray) in Earth orbit. The image in the middle of the first column, was taken by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument on 18 June 2020. It shows a "magnetic map of the Sun" that reveals the magnetic field strengths on the solar surface. In the bottom right-hand corner there is the beginning of an active region. It can be seen from the closely neighbouring black and white regions, which signify opposite magnetic polarities. In times of increased magnetic activity, plots like this will show many more such active regions. The blue, white and red image at bottom left is a tachogram of the Sun, again taken with PHI. It shows the line of sight velocity of the Sun, with the blue side turning to us and the red side turning away. In times of increased magnetic activity, this plot will become more turbulent. Next to this image, is a view of the Sun in visible light, taken by PHI on 18 June 2020. There are no sunspots because there is very little magnetic activity. Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; PHI Team/ESA & NASA
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Solar Orbiter mission shares closest images of the sun, reveals 'campfires' near its surface
The mission team wasn't expecting Solar Orbiter to record any data as it passed behind the sun and looped back around in orbit on the other side, so capturing these eruptions was a happy accident.
So far, the data tells an interesting tale. During the flyby, three of the spacecraft's instruments all registered a pair of coronal mass ejections. These tools included the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), the Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) and the Metis coronagraph.
Meanwhile, other spacecraft like ESA's Proba-2 and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory both witnessed these events from the Earth-facing side of the sun. A NASA mission called STEREO-A also spied the event from a different perspective.
Speaking of #CMEs, the first @ESASolarOrbiter movies showing #CMEs, or coronal mass ejections, including during the spacecraft's February perihelion pass, released today 👉 https://t.co/jYBGMZx3bJ #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/JoQtsBCbu9
— ESA (@esa) May 17, 2021
The instruments on Solar Orbiter, as well as data collected by the other missions, shows a sudden eruption of particles from the sun, occurring in tandem with a visibly bright burst.
Tracking space weather
Understanding coronal mass ejections is key to decoding space weather, which is activity from the sun that can cause impacts on Earth. These can affect astronauts on the space station in low-Earth orbit, as well as satellites that support global communications. The more researchers learn about these eruptions, the better they can track and anticipate solar activity.
While NASA spacecraft have been observing coronal mass ejections for years, Solar Orbiter offers the best look yet.
"We've realized in the last 25 years that there's a lot that happens to a (Coronal Mass Ejection) between the surface of the Sun and Earth," said Robin Colaninno, principal investigator for SoloHI at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, in a statement. "We're hoping to get much better resolution images of all of these outflows by being closer to the Sun."
ESA's Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter reached its first perihelion, the point in its orbit closest to the star, on 15 June 2020, getting as close as 77 million kilometres to the star's surface.
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Solar Orbiter is the first mission that will provide images of the sun's north and south poles. Having a visual understanding of the sun's poles is important because it can provide more insight about the sun's powerful magnetic field and how it affects Earth.
Solar Orbiter's instruments can capture observations of the sun's corona (which is its atmosphere), the poles and the solar disk. The tools can also measure the sun's magnetic fields and solar wind, or the energized stream of particles emitted by the sun that reach across our solar system.
Understanding the sun's magnetic field and solar wind are key, because they contribute to space weather. The sun's magnetic field is so massive that it stretches beyond Pluto, providing a pathway for solar wind to travel directly across the solar system.
Illustration of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.
Illustration/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
NASA's mission to touch the sun is unraveling our star's mysteries
The mission will work in tandem with NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is currently orbiting the sun on a seven-year mission and just completed its fourth close approach of the star. It launched in August 2018 and will eventually come within 4 million miles of the sun – the closest a spacecraft has ever flown by our star.
The Parker probe is "tracing the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the sun's corona and solar wind; determining the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind; and exploring mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles," according to NASA.
Together, the missions can help unlock the mysteries of the sun and provide more data to researchers than either could accomplish on its own. Parker can sample particles coming off the sun up close, while Solar Orbiter will fly farther back to capture more encompassing observations and provide broader context.


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We develop nanotools and single molecule methods to understand intracellular biological mechanisms and interactions in realtime in single living cells using single molecule fluorescence methods, plasmonic sensing, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. We achieve this by integrating optics and instrumentation, nanomaterials with multifunctional properties, and single molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.
We develop single molecule spectroscopic methods for detecting and mapping protein interactions in the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments. We use these tools to understand the inheritance of epigenetic modifications, one of the fundamental mechanisms essential for understanding human diseases. The plasmonic platforms developed using gold nanostructures are used for quantifying mRNA in single cells as well as other desired genetic material at atto Molar sensitivity. We create dynamic single cell chemical imaging tools enabled by Raman spectroscopy to study phosphorylation and redox sites in single cells. These efforts will be useful in drug screening. The overall tools developed in our group has the capacity to impact both the basic and applied sectors of the community.


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atWork Australia partners with Essential Employment & Training
atWork Australia and Essential Employment Training agreement expands Disability Employment Services offer into Wollongong, Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands
WOLLONGONG – Leading national Disability Employment Services (DES) provider atWork Australia and local provider, Essential Employment Training, have entered into an agreement to deliver disability employment services in Wollongong, the Southern Ranges and Shoalhaven areas of NSW, under the atWork Australia brand.
Chris Gandy, Chair of Essential Employment Training said the provider had been actively looking for the right partner for the ongoing delivery of DES across the region.
"It has been our privilege to deliver services to people with disability in the Illawarra and Southern Ranges region for many years. We recognised we could deliver even better Disability Employment Services by partnering with atWork Australia. The agreement means the people with disability and employers we work with get all the intimate community knowledge and commitment of the Essential Employment Training team, backed with the strong foundation of a well-resourced and equally committed national company," he said.
Essential Employment Training will continue to provide support to people with disability under the NDIS and look forward to strategically partnering with atWork Australia to provide improved disability employment services. Mr Gandy said: "We are proud of our legacy and will continue to be an active member of our community through our delivery of NDIS services."
General Manager of atWork Australia, Michael Kolomyjec, said the agreement expanded atWork Australia's footprint from 48 Employment Service Areas to 50, providing employment support to people with disability across 184 locations in six states.
"We are also delighted to welcome 19 talented Essential Employment Training people to the atWork Australia team. People with disability who are looking for a job will still be dealing with the same great people, in the same locations offering an excellent service.
"The Essential Employment Training team is deeply connected to their local areas and part of the community fabric. Thirty-two years of participating in the community and changing lives is a huge achievement.
"That's why this is such a great fit for us. While we are now a large DES provider, the key to our success remains building local connections and relationships and putting our clients at the heart of what we do. Together we will support hundreds of people with disability into meaningful employment across Wollongong, Shoalhaven and the Southern Ranges."
The agreement took effect on 16 July 2018. Services will be delivered by the same people in the same locations with no disruption to clients. In the coming weeks, the disability employment locations will be branded as atWork Australia.
About atWork Australia
atWork Australia is a leading employment services provider working with Australians across the nation. We empower job seekers, supporting them to build better working lives.
To do that, we work with people to identify their goals and aspirations, build skills and job-readiness and support them through interviews and into employment – as well as work with prospective employers to ensure their needs are met. In short, our approach is to support a person in the way that most helps them transform their life.
Our people and the employers we work with regularly win national awards for excellence, including National Employment Services Association (NESA) awards and National Disability Services (NDS) awards.
Part of the Work Health Group, we deliver services under the Disability Employment Services, jobactive, Vocational Training and Employment Centre, ParentsNext and Career Pathway Pilot for Humanitarian Entrants programs, helping thousands of people into meaningful work since 2003.
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Review: Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN Art (The Colors Are a Dream)
No, the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art isn't the same lens as the DSLR version.
If you were to spring for one wide-angle zoom lens with a fast aperture on the market, chances are you'd go for the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art. Sigma is arguably the best lens maker of our time even if you need to lift weights to use them. And with the case of the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art, you're going to get fantastic image quality. The cityscape, landscape, event, and travel photographers who use this lens will appreciate that it can more or less stay mated to your camera while providing a lot of versatility. It's not a portrait lens, so if you're the type of photographer who avoids photographing people, then the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is probably your choice.
Editor's Note: Some of these images were shot while on a press trip with Leica to their headquarters in Germany. The trip was all expenses paid. However, we maintain that our opinions and views are sincerely our own. We express this to you as part of our commitment to our readers to be transparent.
Weather sealed
Fast to focus
Sharp image quality: some of the best we've seen in a wide-angle zoom actually
Sigma proves to us that they still have yet to figure out how to make a small zoom lens for mirrorless cameras
L mount's autofocus is very slow
It's big
We tested the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art with the:
Leica SL2
Panasonic S1R
Specs are taken from the Adorama listing for the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art:
14 to 24mm
f/22
Format Compatibility
Full-Frame
114.2 Degree to 84.1 Degree
Macro Reproduction Ratio
11″ (27.94cm)
18 Elements in 13 Groups
11, Rounded
Gel Filter (Rear)
Dimensions (Diameter x L)
3.35 x 5.16″ (85 x 131mm)
28.04 oz (795g)
When you look at the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art, you'll see a lens with a fixed lens hood, two different rubber ring controls, and otherwise smooth textures. To ensure you've got a hold on it, you should be gripping the grooved rubber rings. Sigma lenses have been like this for years though, so for many of us, that's nothing new.
The front element of the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is pretty large. If you want to use a filter with it, you'll need to get a filter you can insert at the lens mount. From experience, I can tell you that the front element will pick up on rain and other things.
On the side of the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is the A moniker to indicate this is an Art lens. The rear ring is for zooming. Considering the size of this lens, that is a logical spot for it.
On the side of the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art you'll find an AF/MF switch along with an AFL button. In all honesty, I never ended up using these. I'm certain you'll be the same.
We took the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art out in the rain on more than one occasion. It survived and continues to operate. The photographer who will pull the trigger on the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art should know that it's going to stand up to abuse like this. If you're shooting Real Estate with this lens, then know that your lens will keep working. If you're the type to do urbex or landscape photography, then note that your lens will keep working and can survive a lot of rough and tumble. Indeed if we put it through this much rain, then it's also going to survive being in a camera bag and going through a subway turnstile. What's more, it's still going to remain nice and grippy in the hand. We can't say a bad thing about the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art's build quality.
The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art has a few controls. There is the focusing ring, the zooming ring, the AF/MF switch, and an AF/L button. But otherwise, you'll mostly be zooming in and out. With this in mind, the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is simple to use. If you're the type to want to manually focus your lens, then you're going to be better off using the LCD screen and checking focus peaking. Combine this with stopping the lens down, and you should get a sharp landscape. What is unfortunate is there is no depth of field scale on the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art. But that's difficult to make with any zoom lens.
On the Pansonic S1R, the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art focused as quickly as it really could. I'm sure it would do a lot better on Sony's camera. But for what it's worth, I wouldn't use the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art for anything beyond a stationary subject with the L mount alliance cameras. On the Leica SL2, the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art focused quite a bit faster. For the most part, it's accurate. I sincerely photographers have nothing to worry about with the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art's autofocus performance.
It comes as no surprise to us that the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art gives us solid image quality each and every time. Sigma developed a similar lens for their DSLR cameras and this one isn't that far off. Every sort of photographer that uses this lens will feel satisfied with the results they get. The best things about the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art's image quality are the colors and the sharpness. It's capable of rendering bokeh, but you shouldn't look to this lens for shooting beautiful bokehlicious images. Instead, accept it as a wide-angle zoom. With a wide angle comes a deeper depth of field.
The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is capable of delivering images with bokeh thanks to its close focusing abilities. At 24mm and f2.8 you'll get the best bokeh this lens can offer, but it's nothing worth writing home about. I doubt it's even worth printing the image and hanging it on your fridge to remind yourself of how gorgeous the bokeh is. If you really want bokeh, you will need to spring for a prime lens. However, this lens exhibits great color, and because of this the bokeh can look really nice. But by and large, I wouldn't purchase this lens for the bokeh.
Chromatic Aberration
As far as fringing or any issues like that go, the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art doesn't have any we were able to find. Sigma is again delivering higher quality at a lower price point. Photographers who like to complain about this will be elated to know that they don't have to click a box to get rid of the fringing. In all sincerity, the photographers that like to get it right in-camera will be happy about this. If you're of the mentality of getting it right in post-production, then you'll want to complain about it.
So here is where we were able to still find distortion. I'm working on a personal project where turn scenes into images with painting-like qualities. I essentially pull a camera and lens down in a straight line while firing at slower shutter speeds.
Theoretically (and in reality) if a lens isn't distorting a scene, then the lines here should be straight. But instead, the lines are concaving, and this means there is distortion. Of course, if you're not doing this with the lens, you wouldn't mind it. But when you embrace your creativity, you'll start to see it. While you'll find distortion, I can't complain about it because this perspective can be used effectively too.
Color Rendition
During our testing, we tended to shoot in either auto-white balance, tungsten, or daylight. Throughout the test, we didn't have any complaints about the colors. The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art creates vivid images. We found this across both Panasonic and Leica's cameras. The market Sigma is targeting with this lens cares about that. The saturated colors will look just as good in the rain and they will when shooting a landscape.
You'll get the most sharpness from the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art when stopped down just a bit. However, when shooting wide open the lens is capable of being very sharp as is. This again comes at no surprise. When photographers mate this lens with a high-resolution sensor, they'll be happy to know that the images are going to be sharp, considering that their subjects are in focus. When you think about it, you're almost always going to be focusing out to infinity or close up.
Extra Image Samples
Weather sealing
Autofocus speed
Big size, but that's understandable
Sigma had a chance to make a lens that was different from everyone else's and I wonder why they didn't try to make this an f2.5 or something.
The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art is a good lens in many ways. Not only does it have solid image quality, but you'll be hard-pressed to best its build quality. For Sony E mount, you've got very good options with this, Sony's 16-35mm f2.8 G Master, and Tamron's 17-28mm f2.8 lenses. However, this lens is the best compliment to Sony's trinity of zoom lenses. Event photographers, photojournalists, and landscape photographers will really enjoy this lens mated to their camera. Couple this with the autofocus speed and you've got something that's bound to stay in your bag. It's heavy and large for Sony, but with the L mount, it's pretty much the same size as everything else. You have to expect big glass there. My only wish is that Sigma found some way to make it stand out from the rest of the crowd more through features or apertures. But you can't always get what you want!
The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art gets five out of five stars. Want one? The Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DG DN Art can be had at Amazon,
Chris Gampat
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