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Friday, January 31, 2020

NSF Awards SIUE $300K to Create Safe, Inclusive Archaeological Field Schools

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville $300,000 in support of research aimed at preventing sexual harassment from occurring during undergraduate field-based courses. The endeavor is in partnership with researchers from the Arkansas Archeological Survey and Mississippi State University.

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"Several studies have demonstrated high rates of sexual harassment that take place while scientists and students conduct research in the field," explained principal investigator Carol Colaninno, PhD, research assistant professor in the SIUE STEM Center. "The issue plagues disciplines dependent on field-based research such as biology, ecology, geology and archaeology. Click here to read the latest news.

"Our research team plans to develop evidence-based practices and policies that field school directors can implement to prevent sexual harassment and make field schools safer and more inclusive for undergraduate students aspiring to become archaeologists."

The researchers are all members of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) and include:

"As a discipline, we require students to participate in a field-based course where we now know sexual harassment is more likely to occur, compared to a traditional classroom setting," explained Beahm. "Unfortunately, our discipline has done little to understand what field directors do to prevent sexual harassment from occurring at their field school, and if field directors can improve upon their current practices. Our team is passionate to see this research conducted and to be able to provide recommendations that can improve archaeological learning."

The researchers note that sexual harassment may be one factor contributing to the leaky pipeline among field-based sciences and STEM during undergraduate education, resulting in a loss of diverse intellectual thought.

"Research demonstrates that students who have been historically underrepresented in STEM, including women, students of color, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and students with diverse abilities, have an increased likelihood to experience harassment compared to those individuals who do not identify with these groups," said Lambert.

"If students, particularly those who identify with groups underrepresented in STEM," continued Drexler, "are harassed or assaulted, they may decide to leave the scientific community altogether. When this occurs, science loses the diversity of intellectual thought and personal experiences that these students who have brought to the field, and their potential to serve as role models and mentors to the next generation of diverse scholars."

During the three-year grant period, the research team will conduct a landscape analysis, work with field directors and students, and then develop recommended practices, and finally, help implement them documenting how these practices help create a safer and more inclusive field learning environment.

Field directors interested in the project, can find more information at siuestemcenter.org/safe-field-schools. Questions can be sent to safefieldschools@gmail.com.

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach comprises an independent group of researchers and educators, innovating ways to engage students and the public in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Within the SIUE Graduate School, the Center brings together research faculty, graduate students and practitioners to conduct education research. The Center contributes educational expertise to SIUE undergraduate classes and provides professional development for K-12 teachers. The Center boasts a significant library of equipment and resources, which are available for loan at no cost to campus and regional instructors. For more information, visit siue.edu/stem/ or contact STEM Center Director Sharon Locke at (618) 650-3065 or stemcenter@siue.edu.

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Republic Ranches Lists 40,000+ acre Monarch Ranch in West Texas

Republic Ranches, an elite farm, ranch and rural properties brokerage firm serving Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas, is offering the Monarch Ranch, a sprawling West Texas ranch of 40,138 acres in Val Verde County. Home to Texas' largest volume cave, with over five miles of Devils River flowing throughout and the remains of the historic Fort Hudson, the ranch is prime property for adventure, hunting and fishing.

Fern Cave, located on the western portion of Monarch Ranch, is home to one of the world's largest remaining bat populations. Also known as Bat Cave, it is the nesting spot for the Mexican free-tailed bat, the dominant species in Fern Cave. The majority of Texas free-tailed bats migrate south into Mexico for winter, though extra-cool areas near entrances are used in winter by Western big-eared bats and Eastern pipistrelles and may be used by other species such as Peter's ghost-faced bat.

The spring fed Devils River is considered some of the cleanest water in Texas. Indigenous people, Spanish explorers, ranchers, military outposts, Texas Rangers and outlaws have called this basin home for thousands of years. Monarch Ranch is located 30 miles upstream from Lake Amistad and with pristine waters running the Devils River, outdoorsmen find the ranch ideal for hunting and fishing.

"Monarch Ranch is an outdoorsman's dream. Fantastic hunting opportunities for a huge variety of game exist during the winter, as multiple ecosystems converge on the ranch," Republic Ranches Partner Jeff Boswell said. "You can hunt bobwhite quail behind dogs in the upper grasslands, hunt mallards in the river bottom, white-tailed deer in the canyons and chase aoudad sheep through the mountains. I do not know of many places where that is even remotely possible.

"Floating along the Devils River with crystal clear water and the feeling you are alone on the planet is almost magical; hat such a river can exist in the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas is almost inconceivable and yet there you are" Boswell added. "The fishing on the ranch is truly unique with an exceptional small mouth bass population that thrives in the river because it is spring fed and stays cool all summer. This ranch can and should be used year-round with both excellent hunting and fishing available across all seasons."

Monarch Ranch is full of historical adventure dating back to John Coffee Hays, the first American to visit Val Verde County in 1848 to establish a road from San Antonio to El Paso. Also known as Camp Hudson, a fort named for Lieutenant Walter W. Hudson, who died in action in April 1850 at the hands of Native Americans. A post office was built on Fort Hudson the same year it was established in 1857. Although troops were pulled from the post when the Civil War began, the post office continued to operate, serving military troops and area settlers until 1866. Soldiers occupied the post again in 1867 and were tasked with protecting travelers and newly arrived settlers. By January 1877, the threat of attacks by Native Americans was over and the post was abandoned. The remains of Fort Hudson are still found on the ranch today, in addition to a small gravesite. The fort was recognized with a centennial marker by the Texas Historical Commission in 1936.

Access to the property is convenient, with an airport on the west side of the ranch, including a paved 6,000 foot runway, large hangar and fuel tanks. Access across the ranch is highly improved with the addition of over 13 miles of paved roads, and a very rare private bridge over the Devils River. Read related news now.

About Republic Ranches
Republic Ranches was founded in 2011 as an elite farm, ranch and rural properties brokerage firm serving Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas through their offices in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Austin, and Hondo (Texas); Albuquerque (New Mexico), Pagosa Springs and Telluride (Colorado). With over $1 billion in real estate sales, Republic Ranches works to successfully manage the divestiture of their clients rural land assets and identify the right property for its buyers. With listings ranging from raw land to farmland and working cattle ranches with the basic amenities, or the most elegant vacation homes with pools, golf courses, and runways and hangars for private planes, Republic Ranches has professional representation of some of the finest ranches in North America. To learn more, visit republicranches.com.

Audio Design Desk Debuts Transformative Sound Design App with Sonic Intelligence for Real-time Audio to Video Sound Editing

Audio Design Desk, an entirely new breed of Digital Audio Workstation that uses AI-assisted content creation tools to enable filmmakers, editors, sound designers and creators to produce cinema-quality sound in seconds, has made its official debut in the media and entertainment market. The brand new audio creation tool is already earning industry accolades, being named on the shortlist of the 2020 SXSW Innovation Awards in the Music & Audio category.

An audio design app that comes with more than 20,000 sounds, add.app completely transforms the process of adding music and sound effects to picture, cutting down what can typically be a full day project to just a few minutes. Using patent-pending Sonic Intelligence™, every sound in the add.app library is assigned identifying characteristics and carries an embedded sync point, which means that as sounds are previewed and chosen, they automatically land on the timeline in the exact right position relative to the video. The user simply imports a video file into the app and presses keys on their keyboard – H for hits, R for rises, D for drones, and so on – making it a Smart Sampler. The user can then strike the keys to position sound elements in real-time while watching the video playback – in effect, using the QWERTY keyboard to play add.app like an instrument. For users who would rather select audio manually, add.app can search, audition and place sounds right from the timeline, completely eliminating the need to parse through libraries, import sounds and then find where they sync.

Once a composition is set, add.app understands where sound connects to video and, by adjusting replacement criteria such as intensity, complexity, genre or feel, Audio Design Desk can use its Sonic Intelligence™ to instantly turn a single composition into infinite alternates without losing sync. Perhaps the most mind-blowing of all, add.app uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has built the foundation for Machine Learning (ML) to understand which sounds a user likes, and which sounds they reject so, over time, add.app will learn and adjust to its user's taste.

Audio Design Desk was first conceived by Gabriel Cowan, a multi-platinum recording artist and award-winning filmmaker, to address the challenges he faced while finding and placing sound effects, sound design and music for his films. Frustrated with the time-consuming and creatively limiting process, he set out to modernize this workflow. Cowan teamed up with creative partner Sam Music, also a multi-platinum recording artist and acclaimed sound designer, who has created sounds for blockbuster trailers such as Spider-Man, World War Z, Rogue One and many others. Using Sam's sounds, Cowan and Music joined forces with Ryan Francesconi, an accomplished musician and software engineer who was a core contributor to AudioKit and streaming technologies underpinning the likes of YouTube, to develop the innovative audio software application that would truly transform the art of sound for film and allow anyone to create a cinema quality soundscapes in seconds.

"This application is to audio software what Pro Tools was to the tape machine. It shows what AI-assisted content creation can do. Television, advertisements, podcasts, and Instagram stories are filled with sound, yet there hasn't been a single piece of software built from the ground up dedicated to connecting sound to picture, which is why the process is so frustrating," says Gabe Cowan, CEO and Product Architect of Audio Design Desk. "While solving this problem, we discovered that we could advance the process tenfold to create a tool that becomes an inspirational partner that learns its users' taste. The industry feedback has been extraordinary." Read all the latest news.

"Audio Design Desk is a piece of software that revolutionizes the way I am able to produce content," explains Matt Cooke, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and guest host for Larry King. "I'll record a five- or seven-minute monologue and then create a short film out of it. Normally that's something that could take a month to do, but because of add.app I'm able to do the soundtrack and cues in less than a day, every time. It gives me the power to instantly put onto the timeline what I'm thinking in my head. There isn't another piece of software that allows you to immediately create something at this level of professionalism."

At the time of launch, add.app already offers an incredibly robust set of features and capabilities that both professionals and enthusiasts can use for designing cinema quality soundscapes. Cowan states, "Professionals love the cinema quality sounds and the time add.app saves them, while a first-time filmmaker or someone posting a story on Instagram or TikTok can now transform their work into an A-grade sonic experience with a few keyboard clicks. It is a game changer for creatives of all stripes."

Feature highlights include:

Perform Sounds in Real Time
Turn the QWERTY keyboard into a Smart Sampler to perform Hits, Rises, Footsteps, Punches, Gunshots, or any sound effect in real time, as the video plays back. Find the perfect music for your film, flipping through music options while playing video and saving selects with a single click. Audio Design Desk is by far the fastest and easiest way to find and place cinematic sounds.

Infinite Compositions
Once sounds are placed, add.app understands where the sync points in the video are, so swapping drama for action or horror for comedy or one shoe type for another, can happen in a single click – presenting the user with an infinite range of alternate compositions.

Search from the Timeline
In add.app, users can search for sounds right from the timeline, auditioning them with their video. This saves hours hunting through massive libraries and manually placing and editing sounds.

Integration with Today's Leading NLEs and Hardware Controllers
Upon its entry to the market, add.app already boasts integration with the industry's leading NLE software, including Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Apple® Logic, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, Avid® Pro Tools, and Avid® Media Composer, enabling users to easily export their compositions as an XML or AAF and open their sessions within the NLE of their choice – placing all the sounds in the timeline exactly as designed. add.app also works with hardware controllers like the Elgato Stream Deck, which makes the process of adding sound effects via keystrokes even easier. Read related news here.

Intelligent Sound Import
The highly intelligent sound importer in add.app makes the process of importing additional sound effects and music into the application incredibly easy. Users can attach metadata to their own audio files, giving their unique audio tracks the same rich information that enables add.app to automatically sync audio to the right moment on the video timeline.

Sculpting Perfect Soundscapes
Once the sounds are placed, users can tell add.app what genre, mood, or general "vibe" they'd like for their audio design. They can select how intense or complex they'd like the composition to be and then turn one sound design composition into infinite alternates without losing sync.

Audio Design Desk will be on display at the 2020 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalist Showcase on Saturday, March 14, 2020. For more information or to schedule a demo with an expert from the add.app team, contact Megan Linebarger at megan@zazilmediagroup.com.

About Audio Design Desk
Audio Design Desk (add.app) is to audio software what Pro Tools was to the tape machine. It's an entirely new breed of Digital Audio Workstation that artists can play like an instrument, revolutionizing the process of adding music and sound effects to picture and cutting down what can typically be a full day project to just a few minutes. It comes bundled with 20,000 sounds embedded with patent-pending Sonic Intelligence™, using AI-assisted content creation tools to enable filmmakers, sound designers, composers, and creators to produce cinema-quality compositions at the speed of thought, giving them a level of creative control that is unmatched by any other software. Visit https://add.app/ to learn more.

Girl Pow-R Have Inspired 500,000+ Teens and Young Adults Worldwide With Newest Video

Canadian pop/rock band Girl Pow-R continue their mission of empowerment this week, having inspired more than 500,000 teens and young adults worldwide with their newest video "Never Let Go" — available now!

The clip dazzles with the all-girl supergroup's dynamic dancing, and comes complete with an important message to their fellow female fans: 'stay true to you'.

It's a message dear to their hearts: Girl Pow-R have been seen around Canadian cities as of late inviting audience-members and passersby to write on their signature #GirlPowRment #Wall. "We started as a group by writing messages about friendship, acceptance and support that we find inspiring," said the band. "We really enjoy seeing what other girls and women add!"

In continuing their inspirational mission of spreading confidence and kindness, Girl Pow-R — as seen on YTV, TVO Kids, CityTV, eTalk Canada, Girls' Life, Tiger Beat, J-14, Celeb Secrets, Fresh 95.3 and more — are hoping "Never Let Go" will encourage girls to stay confident in their individuality and avoid the pitfalls of peer pressure and online influence in today's hyper-digital age.

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"It's about never becoming someone you're not, even when there is pressure from your peers and the media," said Girl Pow-R alum Kalista. "Young people already face challenges with knowing who they are, they don't need the added pressure of looking like a runway model. You feel like you have to change who you are to please others."

"Be you, and be proud of who you are."

With members ranging in age from 10 - 17, Girl Pow-R's greatest strength lies in the diversity in their ages, backgrounds and life experiences. The universal things that join them together, however, are dynamic skill sets and a shared mission of empowerment among young women in the world today.

"I think we're growing more," said Kalista. "We're realizing life isn't just about having fun all day and having a good time. We've realized there are pressures and issues that everyone goes through, but nobody really talks about it."

"It grew as we grew," said Krisalyn, considering the lyrics and their message, compared to when Girl Pow-R started. "We are all a bit older now, and experiencing more mature situations." Be alert to the latest news.

ABOUT GIRL POW-R
It's been several years now of engaging with their growing audience. Girl Pow-R first came together, and the roster of talented singers, songwriters, multi-instrumentalists and dancers grows each passing year. The group was formed on International Women's Day in 2017, and is looking to have a busy 2020.

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DADvocacy Opens New Office Location in Fort Lauderdale Area

DADvocacy® has announced the opening of its second office location in Plantation, Florida. The opening of the new office will strengthen the firm's presence in the local Fort Lauderdale community and will make their services more accessible to clients. This expansion also positions the firm as one of Florida's biggest family law firms specifically dedicated to advocating for dads. The firm already has a previously established office location in Miami. Click here.

The decision to expand the firm's footprint and open another office in Fort Lauderdale was a logical step in the firm's business growth strategy. The firm has seen steady growth in recent years and sees the ability to meet clients where they live as the best way to service them effectively.

The Law Offices of Chantale L. Suttle DBA DADvocacy® was previously recognized by Expertise as one of the leading law firms in the state of Florida. Suttle, a family law attorney, founded DADvocacy® to serve clients in and around Miami, Key Biscayne, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Miami-Dade County and now in the Fort Lauderdale area as well.

Having served as a prosecutor, defense attorney and magistrate judge, Suttle has ample experience, more than eighteen years of experience, with the child support enforcement system from three different seats. Today, DADvocacy® works exclusively in the areas of divorce, child support, custody, visitation and prenup agreements. DADvocacy® focuses on making it easier for fathers to seek out help if they are facing the child support enforcement system and offers flat fee representation.

In addition to serving fathers, Courts regularly appoint Chantale to represent the interests of children in marital disputes as a guardian ad Litem. She is a member of the Florida Bar Family Law Section Child Support Issues Committee, and chairs Florida Bar Grievance Committee 11-N.

The new office is located at 150 South Pine Island Road, Suite 373, Plantation, Florida 33324. For clients who are interested in scheduling a consultation to meet with a Florida family lawyer, DADvocacy® has requested that interested parties place a request via the firm's contact form on their website at DADvocacy.com. Further assistance is also available by contacting the firm at (800) 925-FATHERS.

About DADvocacy®: Founded by family law attorney Chantale Suttle, DADvocacy® is a family law firm that specifically caters to the needs of dads who are facing the child support enforcement system in Florida. They focus exclusively on representing dads and alleged dads before family and child support courts in Florida. As the sole lawyer in Miami-Dade County who has dealt with the child support enforcement system from all three angles—prosecutor, defense attorney, and magistrate judge, Suttle has more than eighteen years of legal experience. To learn more about DADvocacy® and the services offered by the firm, go to DADvocacy.com.

1099 MISC Form Filing Deadline Is Handled Easily With 2019 ez1099 Software From Halfpricesoft.com

Ez1099 software developers at Halfpricesoft.com offer extended hours for the January 31st deadline for assistance with filing form 1099 MISC. The January 31st deadline only applies to Form 1099-MISC with an amount in box 7, Nonemployee Compensation. The filing due date for other Forms 1099 & 1096 remains February 28th, 2020 if filing by paper, and March 31st, 2020 if filed electronically.

"Customers are accommodated with extended support hours for assistance in filing 1099 MISC form with the latest 2019 ez1099 software," Dr. Ge, Founder of Halfpricesoft.com says.

Cost is only $79 per installation for the basic version of ez1099 Software or $139 per installation for the advanced version with a bulk printing feature, import feature, PDF file creation and electronic filing capability.

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Apex Human Capital Management Transitions to the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Apex HCM, a leader in payroll and human capital management technology, today announced a new version of Employer OnDemand and the move to Microsoft Azure Cloud. The new capabilities introduced in the release and adoption of Microsoft Azure enable higher productivity, increased reliability, improved performance, and provides additional browser choices to the end user. Leveraging continuous innovation from Microsoft supports our development today, and our product vision for the future. Microsoft's embedded best in class security from the ground up, backed by a team of Microsoft experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises worldwide provides an additional layer of protection. The following advantages will be delivered to Apex HCM Payroll Service Bureaus by the transition to the Azure cloud:

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Robert Digby, CEO, Apex HCM, commented, "Building a resilient platform that is 'always on' while optimizing core software and infrastructure that enables reliability, scalability, and availability for our Payroll Service Bureaus, their clients, and employees." Digby continued, "with migrating to Microsoft Azure we are already seeing Payroll Service Bureau's and end client satisfaction with exponential system performance improvements."

Kevin Lenahan, CIO, Apex HCM noted, "Microsoft Azure will have a fundamental impact of the agility of our business allowing us to focus on building our product, instead of building a private cloud infrastructure." Lenahan continued, "Apex HCM, combined with Microsoft Azure, will make Payroll Service Providers even more efficient in a scalable, safe and secure environment, and provide their customers with a better experience."

About Apex HCM
Apex® HCM is a market leader in cloud‐based payroll and HR software technology and used by over 300 payroll service firms and vendors nationally. Apex's customizable suite of products and services include payroll, payroll, tax, human capital management, applicant tracking and onboarding, time and attendance, reporting, manager and employee self‐service, ACA compliance, mobile apps, workers' compensation, payroll debit cards and other business management tools normally reserved for large enterprises, now available to any business size. Apex's cutting‐edge, cloud‐based technology allows its customers to effectively compete feature‐for‐feature with larger established firms while dramatically improving their workforce productivity.

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For more information, please visit https://apexhcm.com or call 877‐750‐APEX (2739).

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