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December 2019
Word Gets Around... We've just gotten a contract to build a conference/membership system for the Northern Finance Association (NFA). The NFA is a Canada-based network of finance professors and people from related industries. They were using some frustrating conference and membership management systems, and... the word on the street was that the WFA had a new system that they really liked. So... the people from NFA talked to the people from WFA, and SkyMark got the nod, and we're building a system for NFA right now, on a fast-track for January use.
November 2019
A Record Year for a Client. We've built and extended a web-based conference/membership system for the Western Finance Association. Supported by our latest improvements, the association just set a new record for paper submissions, and its operations management people have remarked on a smoother-than-ever-before process.
March 2019
SkyMark has worked closely with the American Finance Association (AFA) over the past few months to study and evaluate their website and its related technology infrastructure. The primary goal of this analysis was to construct a set of recommendations that would result in an improved website experience for Journal of Finance readers, and for AFA members, and a more flexible and effective administrative UI for AFA staff. After the analysis was complete and the recommendations were delivered, the AFA chose to hire SkyMark's web development team to carry out the key recommendations. SkyMark got to work right away designing and building a new website for the AFA. The new site was set up to seamlessly integrate with their membership management system and provided authenticated access to the Journal of Finance online, via their publisher's website. The new site was launched successfully and smoothly on 3/19!
September 2018
Brother's Brother Foundation is a medical/humanitarian supplies, re-use, and re-distribution organization based in Pittsburgh. SkyMark has provided a purpose-built inventory system since 2014, supporting BBF's growth and expansion to new locations. It's a cloud based system, and uses a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. One of BBF's challenges is how best to allocate inventory to places in need. It's essential for BBF staffers to be able to offer items to a potential recipient, and hold that offer until the recipient can come back with a request for the quantities needed. SkyMark has recently been working with BBF to build an enhanced allocation system that BBF can use to readily make offers, match requests, and keep products moving towards the places with the most pressing needs.
August 2018
SkyMark has received a contract to work with the prestigious American Finance Association, consulting on IT-related matters. Like many professional associations, the AFA is lightly staffed, and yet works with a fairly complex set of information systems relating to publishing a top-ranked finance journal, running conferences, and providing member services. How can the the AFA keep doing what it needs to do, with the highest quality results and efficient operations? SkyMark is bringing its process improvement expertise to bear on that question.
July 2018
The big Bible study site we've been building for the non-profit New Christian Bible Study has shown rapid traffic growth, topping 200,000 visits per month, and averaging almost 90% growth per year for the past 4 years. It's driven by a Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/PHP/Symfony stack, and is presented in 12 UI languages.
June 2018
We built a new website for The Cole Foundation, a small non-profit which promotes scholarly research around the cross section of religion and culture. It is a simple site, built with SquareSpace, that acts as their organiztion's calling card and is easy for them to keep up-to-date.
May 2018
In April, we got a contract to rescue a website for the new Multi-Sensory Institute at PNCS, a private school in Pittsburgh. This was a classic case of a WordPress site whose graphic design had some good elements, but its problems under the hood were crippling. WordPress is a very capable platform, but it's fairly easy to get in trouble with it. SkyMark was able to use its WordPress experience to get the site sorted out pretty quickly. So, now, if you happen to live in Pittsburgh, and you're searching for a school that focuses on teaching kids with dyslexia -- you'll find PNCS/MSI on the first page of results, and you can browse a nice site.
November 2017
The conference management system that we build for WFA powered them to a record-breaking year for both the number of papers submitted, and the number of attendees. We've continued to automate key steps in their process.
July 2017
Conference Management System - Our conference management framework has raised the bar again. Conference programs, mobile conference apps, and name tags are now all easy to create, or update, with the click of a button. The Western Finance Association, a global network of finance professors, economists, bankers, and policy-makers, just used our system to run their large annual conference last week. It went off without a hitch.
June 2017
CRM Migrations - SkyMark's team includes some engineers with a lot of experience. This comes in handy, when clients need help migrating old data to new platforms. We've recently helped several companies move their data from old homegrown CRM systems to Salesforce.
May 2017
Document Management and API - We recently teamed up with Digital Wave to make a document management system for a network of churches and schools. The system allows teachers, ministers, and others to publish curricula, lessons, articles, media, and more. SkyMark was able to deliver a low-cost, fast-delivery system built using elements of from its existing document management frameworks. SkyMark's deliverables included a database, an administrative system with user interface, document search capabilities, and an API.
March 2017
We deployed a website for The Lord's New Church, a Christian denomination with congregations in six countries. The work involved a substantial overhaul of an older site. We used Weebly for this project; it's a good fit for this situation. Weebly offers ease of use for site administrators, while still allowing for substantial customization.
January 2017
Flowmeter Configurator - For many years, the Varea-Meter® variable area flow meter made by UGSI Chemical Feed have been providing reliable readout, transmission, and control of liquids or gases for most industrial process applications. There's a lot of engineering that goes into flow meters, and customers need just the right options for their situation - the appropriate meter for their particular fluid or gas, temperature range, pressure range, viscosity, flow rate, pipe connections, and monitoring methods. It's complicated! But the new online configurator that we've built for UGSI Chemical Feed makes it a lot easier and faster for customers to choose and order the best meters for the job, and to get quick consults from application engineers. It's a web-based system that can be used by customers and distributors, at their desks or out in the plant or refinery. The system embeds the broad expertise of UGSI Chemical Feed engineers, and is designed to support the growing product line, and specialty applications.
December 2016
Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) is one of the top-rated charities in America. It accepts donations of surplus medical and humanitarian supplies, and sends them to the many places in the world where they are badly needed. It's a great purpose! SkyMark has built an inventory management software system for BBF. The new software was deployed in mid-2015. We've been working closely with their management team since, doing quick development/deployment cycles for new modules and functions to meet the needs being generated by their rapid growth. This month, we deployed new updates that enhance the linkages between the inventory system and the accounting system, making the all-important year-end closing and audit process less time-consuming, and providing more options for data analysis and tracking.
October 2016The New Christian Bible Study Project has become another longtime client for SkyMark, dating back more than 5 years now. This project is ambitious; on a limited budget, the clients want a top-tier Bible Study site. There's a lot of text to process, there are many languages involved. It's open-ended and has roller-coaster funding. So... there lots of interesting challenges for our designers and developers! Over the summer, one of our projects for this client was the development of a system to import texts, in many languages, and correctly identify and link all the Bible references, as well as cross-references to other theological works. Many of the source texts are old, and there are many different methods used by authors and printers for citing passages. We've dramatically reduced the amount of time needed to import a source document; testing suggests that it's 3-4 times as fast as it was prior to this deployment, saving roughly 25 man-hours per work. We think we can do even better, so we are working on another upgrade for that; more news on that front will be coming soon.
June 2016
We just built a nice little product configurator for UGSI Chemical Feed, Inc.. This tool allows customers and internal engineers to size and order Encore® 700 pumps that perfectly fit their required specifications.
May 2016
Completed a round of updates to the drawing and document management system we built for Duquesne University's Facilities Management Department.
May 2016
Finished the contracted work to build the inventory management system for Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) and have moved into the maintenance and support phase of the project.
April 2016
We have been continuing our web development work for the New Christian Bible Study Project. Recent accomplishments include:
December 2015
Launched the Encore® Pump Sizer for models E, M, and S for UGSI Chemical Feed, Inc..
November 2015
The Western Finance Association successfully launched their new website and conference management application that we have been developing for them over the past 6 months. The paper submission deadline came and went with a record number of papers submitted and a very happy WFA team!
June 2015
Launched an updated and redesigned website for the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania.
June 2015
SkyMark has been building a new inventory management system the Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF), an outstanding charity that deploys used or surplus medical and humanitarian supplies and equipment to areas of need around the world. Brother's Brother is headquartered in Pittsburgh, and also has operations in northern Virginia. As BBF has grown, its need for a better inventory system has become more pressing. SkyMark was brought in to BBF by a CMU Tepper Business School team, originally, and - after evaluating several options - we've opted for a PHP/MySQL framework using rapid application development tools.
May 2015
We are working on a new project for a professional society that includes members from academia and the banking and finance fields. Each year, the group holds a global conference that features some 150 peer-reviewed papers, presentations, and discussions. The society wants to streamline the whole process of paper submission, review, selection, and organization. SkyMark has designed and is implementing a fully web-based process for this, and we are working closely with the client to make this membership/conference system a smooth, seamless operation that's well-suited to a decentralized global organization.
April 2015
The Swedenborg en Español Spanish-language website that we developed for the GCIC has gone live. It's a major update from its predecessor site. The site features books and articles by Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, and others, as well as links to Swedenborg's works translated into Spanish.
November 2014
One multilingual Bible-oriented project has led to another. This one is smaller, but still interesting: a project to redo and expand a web site for Spanish-speaking readers of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological works. This one is being done in Wordpress, but it will have crosslinks to the New Christian Bible Study site.
June 2014
We're continuing the development work on the New Christian Bible Study Project. Our work to date has been well received, and our contracts have been extended by orders for further advances in functionality. In this project, our team is using a Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/PHP stack, with Symfony and the Doctrine ORM. It's a multilingual project, and the requirements include the need for a responsive UI for use on smartphones and tablets. It's been an interesting project, giving us new respect for the world's Bible scholars and translators, and at the same time driving the development of our team's skill set in making web applications for global use.
March 2014
SkyMark is undertaking the development of a self-contained rotation tracking system for use in underground pipe-laying applications. It's a contract R&D project for a client, with demanding engineering constraints and a tight time-frame. We're building on the groundwork and some inertial navigation instruments that we used in developing the MineComms Mapper system.
April 2, 2013
SkyMark has been working on a Bible Study web application for the Pittsburgh New Church. We're all about web application development, and this project has provided a good set of challenges. The site now contains some 60 Bible translations, and commentary and theological works, linked artwork, and explanations of Bible stories, words, and topics. Update from May 1, 2013: The site's now ready for public use: (New Christian Bible Study).
January 2013
SkyMark's TrailMapper software and our custom-designed mine survey buggy/trailer were used by engineers from Virginia Tech's Center for Coal and Energy Research (VCCER) to complete extensive field data collection at mines in West Virginia. Survey results will be analyzed and used to help improve mine communications and location tracking, to support further enhancements to the safety of miners working underground.
January 25, 2012
SkyMark worked with the University of Memphis's Center for Research in Education Policy (CREP) to update and open new versions of two major survey modules: the Technology in Education Survey System which helps develop an understanding of the ways in which Tennessee schools are using technology, and the Private School Enrollment and Participation Survey, which tracks trends in Tennessee's 600+ private schools.
December 16, 2011
SkyMark's work on the development of an underground mine radio coverage mapping test system has moved to the second phase of development. Phase II will involve the production of location-aware mobile test units with signal detection and processing software, leading to underground testing later in 2012.
July 24, 2011
SkyMark has received a contract from the Pittsburgh New Church to spearhead the development of an online Bible Study web application. SkyMark had previously developed websites for the church, and its related school. Steve David, SkyMark's CEO, noted: "There are a lot of Bible Study sites on the web already. The Pittsburgh New Church wants to do something a little different - combining the literal text of the Bible in multiple languages and translations, with the Swedenborgian explanation of its meaning, both from Swedenborg's own publications and from more modern commentators. It's an interesting database challenge for us, and there's going to be a premium on user-friendliness, too, so it should be a fun, worthwhile project."
June 1, 2011
SkyMark has launched a new version of the mmp|BENCH benchmarking system for Childrens' Hospitals. Named the BENCH Exchange, the web application combines a content management system with a set of modules that help staff people at the member hospitals interact, collaborate, and compare data on outcomes and best practices."
November 22, 2010
SkyMark is teaming with a major US university to create a portable test bed and a standardized set of test procedures and modeling software for underground mine radio systems. Details of the project have not been released, but, according to Steve David, SkyMark's CEO, the project leverages SkyMark's earlier work on its MineComms Mapper™ system: "We're building the next generation of mine-capable communications test vehicles. They're going to be able to keep track of their whereabouts as they move around in a mine, while they log all the radio signals they can detect, across a wide range of communication protocols. It creates a unique ability for mines to do pre-installation and post-installation coverage surveys."
January 22, 2010
SkyMark's new MineComms Mapper™ system rolled in to action at Consol Energy's Enlow Fork Mine in West Finley, PA last week.
SkyMark was providing support to L3 Communications, as it was verifying the accuracy of its new TRU-TRACKER Precision Location System. The TRU-TRACKER system uses "reverse" radio frequency identification (RFID) to determine the real-time location of miners underground.
L3 needed accurate, independent location data to verify the estimated miner location data provided by their system. Tom Eldridge, Project Manager for L3, calls it "ground-truth." To get that ground-truth, he called SkyMark, and arranged for our engineers to bring a MineComms Mapper™ cart down to Enlow Fork for the survey.
SkyMark used the MineComms Mapper™ to survey over 5,000 ft. of entries where TRU-TRACKER tags had been placed, collecting 2,285 data samples. These data samples were then provided to L3 to compare with the data collected by their TRU-TRACKER system. The results of the verification study will be published in L3's final report to NIOSH.
The Enlow Fork Mine is one of the largest underground coal mines in the US, providing a large-scale environment to test the capabilities of the MineComms Mapper™. Laird Cooper, Product Engineer for SkyMark, said, "We were really happy with the location accuracy we were getting with the cart. We got precise scaling measurements from Paul Kelly, the Mine Engineer, calibrated the cart, and then just pulled it along, and it was right on target at each crosscut."
For futher information, please contact: Steve David, SkyMark Corporation. 412-371-0680.
August 20, 2009
SkyMark reported today that it had received a contract from Touchtown.us, a Pittsburgh firm that is pioneering emergency communications systems for senior residential living communities. SkyMark will use its wireless network survey and design tools and experience to help Touchtown engineer and install its new low-power Zigbee device-based system, which uses mesh networking and advanced proprietary communications devices to provide a robust but user-friendly system.
July 31, 2009
SkyMark announced today that it had completed delivery of the first MineComms Mapper™ system to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The MineComms Mapper™ is a 3-wheeled "smart" trailer/cart that can be pulled around a mine. As it goes along, it detects the radio signals in the frequency band of choice, AND overlays it with accurate location data. The first unit was built as part of a contract with Helium Networks, Inc. a strategic partner of SkyMark's. In its final test runs, SkyMark conducted two surveys of the Safety Research Mine at Bruceton - one for measuring Wi-Fi 2.4GHz signal coverage, and one to test a Kutta DRUM medium frequency system. On the second tour, with the mine jeep towing a MineComms Mapper™ trailer, the system collected 2643 location points with matching RF data, covering a little over 3000 feet of entries, in about 19 minutes.
February 8, 2009
Duquense Mine Supply Company launched its new SkyMark-built website today. This Pittsburgh-based firm designs and manufactures DUKANE parts and tools for electrical locomotives and cranes. The DUKANE brand has been a longtime leader in US mining markets, and the company is expanding into Chile, Mexico and other countries where electrical haulage is being used. The new website address is www.duquesneminesupply.com
January 5, 2009
SkyMark completed work on a new web site for Underground Solutions, Inc. Underground Solutions is a Pittsburgh, PA and Poway, CA based company with a product that seems mundane: PVC water pipe. But, it's actually very exciting, very environmentally important, and it's making waves. :) PVC is a really good material for making water pipe - strong, durable, stable, and not too expensive. But, when you want to use it for pipelines, you had to use special expensive joint hardware, or else put up with leaky gasketed joints. Not any more! Underground Solutions has formulated a Fusible PVC compound that can be successfully butt-fused, to make a very strong, simple joint - allowing long, strong water pipes that act as though they are one piece. And now, they have excellent water pipe - they also have a really nice-looking, effective web site, if we do say so ourselves.
June 20, 2008
SkyMark finished work on phase one of the web site for the University of Memphis's Center for Research in Education Policy (CREP), one of the nation's top education research facilities. CREP has experienced dramatic growth over the past 5 years, as more and more attention has been focused on how to improve the nation's schools. CREP's research database, also developed and supported by SkyMark, contains nationwide survey and observation data over many years, giving the center a powerful basis for comparing the effectiveness of various methods and programs.
April 1, 2008
SkyMark announced today that the Center for Research in Education Policy had expanded its contract for using a SkyMark-built data collection system for evaluating Supplemental Education Services to 14 states in 2008. CREP, is part of the University of Memphis, and it has amassed one of the nation's largest research databases on school stakeholder perceptions, opinions, and practices.
March 7, 2008
SkyMark has been tapped as lead sub-contractor on a project to create a mine-wide communications verification system for NIOSH. Helium Networks, another Pittsburgh-based technology company, is the main contractor, and SkyMark will be providing a wide range of software design, prototyping and program management services.
September 14, 2007
SkyMark launched the next generation COMPIO.net website today. COMPIO is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based executive coaching and team facilitation firm, led by Tracy Fuller. COMPIO has a strong track record of increasing innovation and creativity, and the new website features some free, simple but effective creativity tools - a sampling from over useful 200 tools in COMPIO's storehouse.
August 15, 2007
New Leaders for New Schools awarded a Phase 3 contract to SkyMark, for new enhancements to its standout admissions and recruiting software system. New Leaders has been chosen three years running as a winner of Fast Company/Monitor Group's Social Capitalist Awards for its outstanding work in finding and training high-quality principals for urban schools.
August 1, 2007
SkyMark announced that it had received a Phase IV development contract from Medical Management Planning Corp., the leading provider of benchmarking services to children's hospitals. In this development, MMP is launching its Core Measures of Quality data services to serve its benchmarking group. Each participating hospital needs to submit data on asthma and psychiatric quality of care to the Joint Commission, the body that accredits most hospitals nationwide.
June 8, 2007
SkyMark announced today that it has acquired all the rights to the Theseus Learning System from Knosis LLC. Theseus is a new software tool that helps people develop clear arguments, with optional prompts and guidance. SkyMark had been a strategic partner to Knosis for several years, helping to develop its software.
SKYMARK CEO Steve David said, "This acquisition makes a lot of sense for both companies. We make software tools that people use to plan, think, decide, and act. Theseus advances the art of logical thinking; it's a good fit for our toolbox. Knosis had targeted the education market with Theseus; we think there's a lot of potential there, and in other markets where people have to think for a living: lawyers, analysts, journalists, consultants, managers, designers and pretty much anyone else who has to think logically for a living."
October 15, 2006
Medical Management Planning Corp., a Washington-based provider of healthcare benchmarking services, has tapped SkyMark (again!) to automate the collection, processing and charting of ORYX performance indicator data for their BENCH group, which includes the foremost childrens' hospitals nationwide. SkyMark has been an MMP development partner for several years; this latest effort will save hospitals data processing time, and it will make comparative performance data available to hospitals right away, instead of the usual JCAHO turnaround time of 3-4 months.
July 1, 2006
SkyMark has been awarded a Phase II contract for the buildout of an online recruiting and admissions system for New Leaders for New Schools, the New York-based non-profit that is leading a nationwide effort to find and train great principals for urban schools.
June 24, 2006
Motiledge, a Pittsburgh-based start-up venture, has awarded a longterm development contract to SkyMark for the implementation of its mobile inspection system. SkyMark has a well-established expertise in database-driven web application development, but Steve David, SkyMark's CEO, noted that this was the company's first major commitment to the development of handheld applications. David said, "We are really excited to be working with Motiledge; they have a great concept, and we are pleased to have the chance to get more heavily into development of systems for mobile use. It adds to our capabilities, and will pave the way for handheld versions of ipathmaker and other SkyMark products.
May 28, 2006
Skematek, a provider of online construction document services to facilities managers, has chosen SkyMark to implement its next-generation web system. Phase I of the contract begins immediately, and an ongoing strategic partnership has been agreed.
October 11, 2005
SkyMark released Version 6.0 of its flagship PathMaker software today. The PathMaker 6.0 release focuses on team speed and ease of use. Project and team setup and communication have been streamlined. The new software also adds one-click exports of tools, e.g. outputting an affinity diagram into a Cause and Effect format, or generating an instant election from a set of ideas. Snapshots of tools can easily be saved to office applications, and document files and web resources can be saved in shared pathways.
August 3, 2005
Underground Solutions has contracted with SkyMark for building its extranet, for support of its rapidly growing network of strategic partners, pipe distributors, engineering firms, customers, suppliers and contractors.
July 21, 2005
New Leaders for New Schools has chosen SkyMark to provide two new systems that will be integrated with its ongoing web-based survey management system. One will be an online Recruiting and Admissions system, to allow NLNS to scale up its recruiting efforts towards its long-term national goals, and streamline its admissions process. The other system is a Management Information System that will support the New Leaders Community, facilitating coaching, mentoring, inter-leader communication, the support of best practices, and overall management of the program.
April 4, 2005
SkyMark has been selected to collaborate with the Center for Research in Education Policy at the University of Memphis and New Leaders for New Schools to provide a web-based survey, interview and data analysis system that will allow New Leaders for New Schools to test, validate and continuously improve its ambitious program to train new school principals.
December 23, 2004
SkyMark announced today that Quality Education Systems (QES), one of America's leading school improvement models, has extended its existing ipathmaker contract to include more schools at all three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. School leadership teams use ipathmaker over a three year period to work virtually with QES consultants on strategic planning, curriculum design, data collection and analysis. Steve David, SkyMark's President, noted that schools can communicate readily with their many stakeholders via ipathmaker, working not only with QES, but also with parents, community leaders, school boards, district and state level educators, and others, on a variety of school improvement efforts.
October 14, 2004
One of the world's leading suppliers of automotive components has released the results of an internal Six Sigma Black Belt study. The study compared teams that were equipped with PathMaker to teams that were not. In a study covering 16 comparable projects, PathMaker-equipped teams had a 59% reduction in time-to-impact, and a 70% reduction in overall project cycle time.
October 5, 2004
SkyMark and the Center for Research in Education Policy have agreed to work together on a Private School Perofrmance reporting system for the Tennessee Department of Education. The new software will be released in January 2005.
July 28, 2004
SkyMark received a contract from Grane Healthcare to design and develop a Patient Admission System for Grane's network of long-term care facilities. The first phase of the contract will provide a rapid decision support system for case managers.
July 15, 2004
SkyMark has been awarded another custom development contract with by Medical Management Planning Corp. SkyMark will be extending the BENCH Performance Suite, a web-based benchmarking system used by the nation's leading Childrens Hospitals.
April 2, 2004
SkyMark has received contracts to develop web survey, reporting and data analyis systems for Professional Development, Paraprofessional Development, and Performance Reporting for Tennessee's Department of Education. SkyMark will be working with the Center for Research in Education Policy at the University of Memphis. The state's 60,000+ teachers will be using the SkyMark-developed system.
November 24, 2003
SkyMark has been awarded a set of project contracts with the Center for Research in Education Policy at the University of Memphis. The two organizations will work together to produce a full set of web-based surveys for schools, with advanced data analysis and reporting. The No Child Left Behind Act has made the Center's proven paper-based surveys of vital importance, since educators need to gather better data on what really works in schools. SkyMark has already helped the Center with database management and survey design systems, and these contracts represent a major expansion of an existing productive relationship.
August 5, 2003
SkyMark has been awarded a Phase 2 development contract by Medical Management Planning Corp. for an extended web-based system for pediatric healthcare benchmarking. The application will help participating children's hospitals to mine data, to easily see areas where they lead or lag their peers, and to learn rapidly from each other to improve care.
August 5, 2003
SkyMark released PathMaker 5.5 for Windows. According to Xia Jun, SkyMark's Vice-President for R&D, PathMaker 5.5 includes a worthwhile set of small feature additions, fixes, and improvements. Mr. Xia said, "PathMaker 5.0 was a major milestone - a powerful, feature-rich, stable, friendly package. PathMaker 6.0 will be out this fall, and it will include some major new tools and functions. PathMaker 5.5 is in between. It doesn't break new ground, but it is full of little things that customers have been asking for, and will like very much. We wanted to bring it out now, to get the best software to our customers as soon as possible. I highly recommend it."
July 24, 2003
One of SkyMark's licensees, Knosis LLC, launched its Argutect 3.0 software today. SkyMark did the development of Argutect 3.0 under contract from Knosis. The new product includes a unique LogicScope function, which helps users examine and improve the logic of their thinking. Argutect takes computer-aided thinking to a new level.
May 16, 2003
SkyMark reached agreement with NileSoft International, a Cairo-based software firm, under which SkyMark's fast-growing projects group can tap into offshore development resources as needed. NileSoft is the Borland distributor for Egypt, an Oracle and Microsoft partner, and has a rapidly growing development team, currently 80 developers strong. Steve David, SkyMark's CEO, says that the agreement gives SkyMark an increased capacity to handle large projects. "We're going to have ready access to a pool of highly skilled developers next door to Europe, with a low-cost environment. Their software development methods are of a very high standard, and they have a strong track record. They can help us with projects anywhere, and if we need Arabization services for our push into service, education and healthcare segments in the Middle East, they can help with that, too." Under the terms of the agreement, NileSoft will also be a reseller of SkyMark's PathMaker and ipathmaker software.
May 15, 2003
SkyMark announced a new distribution agreement with Analyst House Co. Ltd, a Riyadh-based software firm. Analyst House is already the Borland distributor for Saudi Arabia, and SkyMark's PathMaker and ipathmaker products will fit well with Borland's fresh focus on process improvement in software development. Analyst House's mission is to bring and create best-of-breed technical solutions for the Saudi market, where the growing number of large enterprises is creating demand for cutting-edge management solutions. Mohammed Joudeh, Sales Manager for Analyst House, said, "We're excited to be adding the PathMaker and ipathmaker solutions to our product line. There's a big need for good planning and quality tools in our market, and we now have the best offering."
May 1, 2003: SkyMark announced a partnership deal with Nobel Mantrich Co. Ltd., an international strategic planning and change management consultancy based in Valletta, Malta. Under the terms of the agreement, Nobel Mantrich will be able to offer SkyMark's PathMaker and ipathmaker products to its clientele, and SkyMark will rely on Nobel Mantrich's consultants for product support and training in the Mediterranean, Europe and the Middle East. Martin Testa, Managing Director of Nobel Mantrich, said, "We have liked SkyMark's philosophy and products for a long time; there's a very good fit with our own methods. Our customers tend to be in manufacturing, banking, and telecom - and they can all benefit from the planning and process improvement capabilities of SkyMark's software."
March 21, 2003: SkyMark has been awarded a development contract by the Center for Research in Education Policy, an education-improvement think-tank arm of the University of Memphis. SkyMark will enhance the data warehousing capabilities of the Center, and automate some of the Center's extensive school-survey capabilities. Steve David, SkyMark's CEO, said, "This is a neat project. The Center has a large store of data that can be brought to bear on education policy-making decisions. Our job is to bring together the data, provide ready access to it to the Center's analysts and school leaders, and ultimately make it easier to improve schooling across the US. We'll be able to show what works, and what doesn't."
March 18, 2003: SkyMark has been awarded a development contract by Medical Management Planning Corp, a Seattle-based consulting firm whose focus is on improving pediatric health care. SkyMark will build a database of quality and performance indicators, with historical data from between 20 and 30 large independent childrens' hospitals. An advanced interface will allow data mining and exploration of best practices, and support extensive information sharing between hospitals as they work through performance improvement projects remotely. MMP and SkyMark have already been working together for over a year, using SkyMark's ipathmaker web application.
January 30, 2003: SkyMark announced the release of PathMaker 5.0 for Windows.There are some 1200 new features and fixes in PathMaker 5. There's a new comparison chart tool, a QFD matrix, a Strategic Initiatives Grid, a Critical-to-Quality Matrix, enhanced formulas in Data Analyst and Forms, robust real-time collaboration and improved interoperability with common office applications.
January 2, 2003
SkyMark management announced record annual sales for 2002, after another year of strong growth. SkyMark CEO, Steve David, said that the company had seen 70% sales growth since 2001, despite the flat economy, and that new product introductions should spur continued growth in 2003. The company's new ipathmaker web software is off to a strong start, and its PathMaker 5 release is due this month. SkyMark is expecting to show an operating profit for 2002 despite its continued heavy investments in product development. The company is a privately held firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October, 2002
SkyMark's ipathmaker software was adopted as the standard project management, planning and team support framework for the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, a collaborative effort by the hospitals in and around Pittsburgh to reduce medication errors and increase patient safety.
July 1, 2002
SkyMark and Medical Management Planning Inc. (MMP)announce a major contract for SkyMark's new web-based performance improvement system, ipathmaker.com. MMP, a leading healthcare consulting group with offices in the Seattle and Los Angeles areas, coordinates a project in which over 20 children's hospitals nationwide work together to improve care. The effort has been slowed by the difficulties of getting the hospital staffers together to share ideas and plan changes, especially with travel restricted by tight budgets. SkyMark's web-based system was chosen because it supplied the infrastructure for collaboration, plus powerful tools for team data collection, creative thinking, and decision-making. The hospitals had been pilot-testing the system since the beginning of the year, and initiated the contract in their new budget year, beginning today.
June 20, 2002
SkyMark and Minitab Inc. (State College, PA) agree to a licensing and co-development agreement. The two companies are teaming up to develop a new software package, the Minitab Quality Companion. Under the agreement, SkyMark will license some of its PathMaker code to Minitab, and the two parties will co-develop a new package with an advanced version of SkyMark's tools. SkyMark will receive both cash payments and royalties in undisclosed amounts. Steve David, SkyMark CEO, said, "We're really excited to be working with Minitab on this project. They've got the leading statistics software for quality improvement, and our team thinking and decision-making tools are an ideal fit. It vindicates our hard work, and - though it won't have our label on it - our tools will be even more widely used at the world's top companies."
March 22, 2002
SkyMark and Knosis LLC, both Pittsburgh-based software companies, reached an agreement to co-develop a software package for thought design and argument mapping. The planned product will build on existing SkyMark code from its flagship PathMaker software, with substantial extensions to the brainstorming and tree diagramming tools. User testing will be ongoing through the summer, with a software release planned for late in the second quarter. SkyMark will take an equity stake in Knosis, and will receive royalties from sales of the planned product.
February 18, 2002
PathMaker 4.0 for Windows is released. The new software includes a Bubble Chart tool, designed to help track the performance of multiple people or processes over time. One frequent use will be in classrooms, where teachers want to plot test scores week by week, to see if the teaching is effective. Another new feature is the SpellChecker, a 3rd party component from WinterTree Software. PathMaker 4.0 also adds new templates for forms, data analysts, cause and effect diagrams and pathways, and many other improvements. Download upgrades and new free trials today.
November 28, 2001
PathMaker Reader, a new free reader PathMaker 3.0, is released. Now licensed PathMaker users can give unlicensed users read-only access to project files. It's a great solution for publishing project results that the whole team can read, even if not everyone has a PathMaker license. Download the Free Reader version from this site.
September 24, 2001
SkyMark unveils ipathmaker.com, its new web-based application for team collaboration, planning, problem-solving and process improvement. Please visit: ipathmaker.com to check it out.
September 6, 2001
SkyMark released PathMaker 3.0.1, a service pack release for the PathMaker 3.0 product.
July 3, 2001
PathMaker 3.0 was released. It is a new enterprise version of the PathMaker software series, with more than 600 improvements, including the much-in-demand charting features we've been promising. Now you can add annotations, lines, and pictures to your charts. You can change chart colors, backgrounds, marker sizes and shapes, line weights and colors, label spacing on axes, 3D angles and more. You can even autofill dates, add formulas, and link to databases. There's a new tool, for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, and everything is faster, tighter, and easier to use. Who should get it? Every PathMaker user. It's that good.
December 10, 2000
SkyMark announces the release of its PathMaker 2.5 software. For the first time, people, working in teams, can use all the core tools of process improvement in real time across networks. No one else offers this strong a combination of a collaborative platform and key management tools.
October 31, 2000
SkyMark announces the successful testing of its PathMaker 2.5 software over the Internet. Users will be able to use a hosted version of PathMaker inside their web browser, using Citrix software to push the application over the web. Performance is good, even over a dial-up connection, making this the most powerful suite of tools for remote web-based collaboration on the market. The application is ideal for supporting projects that cross company or organization lines, since security and access are handled by the ASP. The commercial release of this service will be ready before the end of the calendar year.
October 7, 2000
PathMaker II Version 2.5 Beta 2 is posted for public beta testing. This version not only has the full multi-user capability on all the essential quality and management tools; it is also much faster, and requires less resources than its predecessors. Team members can now collaborate in real time of LAN's, WAN's and VPN's.
July 31, 2000
PathMaker II Version 2.5 Beta 1 is released.
April 12, 2000
PathMaker II Version 2.09 is released. Customers and free-trialers should update their software to the latest version, to get the benefit of the latest improvements. Anthony Frayling, SkyMark's Director of R&D, said "In 2.09, we've been focusing on making it easier for new users to get started. Some users were getting confused by the new interface in PathMaker II; we've listened to the questions we've been getting, and we've made some design changes which will help make the program friendlier."
March 31, 2000
SkyMark announces record first quarter sales. A growing network of consultants and distributors, and the compelling new features of PathMaker II combined to show revenue growth of 240% from the first quarter of 1999.
March 7, 2000
PathMaker 2.08 and its corresponding Service Pack are now available for download.
February 15, 2000
A patch for PathMaker II has been posted that prevents the Slide Show tool from crashing if Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later is not your default browser. If you have Internet Explorer 3.0 or earlier, or Netscape Navigator or Communicator, set as you default browser please download the patch in our Updates Section.
As with any new software release, we have done our best to detect and correct any bugs that may be in the software. However, there are always some things that slip by testers. If you notice a bug, please let us know about it so that we can take care of it and correct the problem as quickly as possible.
February 8, 2000
Finally PathMaker II is available to the general public. This version offers numerous improvements over the old version. The best way to experience it is to request a free trial and explore the new options yourself. If you've been here recently, you'll also notice our new site design. Please let us know what you think about it.
December 21, 1999
We've developed two new ways to assist our distributors and resellers on the web by ensuring we know that they were referred by you, and thus ensuring you get the credit you deserve on purchases made by your referrals. If you would like to become a distributor or re-seller of PathMaker, drop us a line and we'll work out the details.
December 9, 1999
With all the press being generated over the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report that scolded the American medical community for making "preventable mistakes" that lead to "44,000 to 98,000" deaths a year, we've added Health Care to our list of ways that PathMaker can be used. Granted, it's more specific than our other examples, but in this case we feel it's appropriate. Read the article or see who's using PathMaker already in the health care industry.
December 6, 1999
Welcome to the newest version of SkyMark's web site. We've redesigned it to make navigating easier than ever. Please check back often as we continue to update the content in order to make skymark.com your management resource home on the web. Tell us what you think about the new design.


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When she is not holding the needles, she can be found hiking, camping, paddling, snowshoeing, enjoying musical theatre, and making up new things to stitch. In her real life grown up job, she is the Artistic Director at MadCAP (Madison Creative Arts Program), a school of the arts in Madison, WI, where she lives in a cottage in the woods in the city with her husband, piano, and lots and lots of wool.
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Quirky tween humor abounds in silly TV show promo. GameAdvice.org Gives This A 3/5 Overall Rating.
Quick Content Overview of What Your Child Will Experience:
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Parents need to know that Sky Whale is a marketing tie-in for a Nickelodeon show, Game Shakers. The show is about two seventh-graders who make millions of dollars off an app they create; Sky Whale is that fictional app. The game is pretty simple with lots of tween humor: Junk food, toilets, and other random quirky objects feature in the purple narwhal's flying quest to catch donuts. It's pretty much all silly fun with the purpose of promoting the show, which is advertised periodically throughout the game.
Sky Whale is a Arcade Games app that is designed for those 7. The app has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 and a learning rating of out of 5.
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Here's my small list of the places I know about, which all seem to lack a little in the ambience department, I wouldn't mind something a step up in vibe.
- Pho Paradise and its sister Phonatic: Vietnamese cuisine with the best pho in town. (Pho Paradise is on Broad Street and Phonatic is on Angel Street, a few steps off of Thayer.)
- Tina's Caribbean: Right on Federal Hill, this place is a gem. Wednesday nights all entrees are $9 and you can bring your own Red Stripe. You really can't beat it.
- Tokyo: Japanese food on Wickenden Street.
- Meeting Street Cafe: Located on Meeting Street, just off of Thayer.
- United BBQ: Relatively new place on Ives Street. Tasty food, but I'd prefer to bring it home and enjoy it from there.
- Fellini's: Again, Wickenden Street.
- Sakura: Wickenden Street. I've never been here, but it's been recommended.
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Pandora Ratings Beat Some Top Radio Stations for Young Listeners
Pandora's first set of traditional radio ratings show that the popular streaming music service is doing strong numbers in the Top 10 markets, particularly among listeners 18 to 34 years old, Crain's New York Business reported.
In New York, Pandora garnered a 0.7 average quarterly hour rating among that younger demographic, beating out terrestrial stations Z100 and Hot 97, according to an analysis by the industry website Radio and Internet Newsletter. In New York it had a 0.5 rating among 18 to 49 year olds.
The company released the numbers in an effort to attract more advertising dollars from traditional radio media buyers.
"Radio is radio," Pandora's founder and chief strategy officer, Tim Westergren, said in a statement. "Pandora is simply a smart buy for local advertisers as well as national ones."
The rating represents a percentage of the target audience that listened to Pandora for at least five minutes within a quarter-hour period between 6 a.m. to midnight. The numbers were calculated by Edison Research from data provided by Pandora. Edison's analysis excludes Pandora One subscribers who are not served any ads.
The ratings were even higher in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, where Pandora garnered a 0.9 rating in the younger demo.
The strong numbers don't necessarily mean that advertisers will start pouring money into Pandora. The service, which is a kind of personalized, streaming juke box, has no disc jockeys or on-air personalities, which are considered key to building trust with audiences.
"Terrestrial radio engages with listeners in a unique way that Pandora cannot," said Deborah O' Rell, president of media buying agency Urban Communications. "But those numbers are [good] enough to be considered."
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In High Spirits
By Joe Mandese
Here's a sobering fact: The amount of broadcast ad dollars devoted to spirits is dwindling, but the amount spent on cable is rising. Ever since the liquor industry's self-regulated moratorium on TV ads began eroding, cable has become the gin to their tonic.
Most telling, the uptick comes at a time when overall ad spending in the liquor industry is flat. To evade the wrath of advocacy groups and government regulators who worry about reaching underage consumers, sellers have reined in their broadcast purchases—on both TV and radio. But since TV remains the dominant media strategy for distilled brands, major media buyers prefer to buy drinks for cable viewers—and a handful of cable networks in particular. Financial considerations are one reason; reaching a targeted adult
audience is another.
"There are budget issues," says MediaCom Chairman Jon Mandel, noting that the shift to cable has less to do with public policy and more to do with the economics of distilled-spirits marketers. Broadcasters make it difficult to buy time for hard liquor; cable networks make it easy, particularly E!, FX and Bravo, which reach viewers in their 30s and 40s. "Not only does cable target better from an age point of view," notes Tom Winner, director of global media buying at Wieden + Kennedy, "but from demographic and program-environment points of view, it's easier to find suitable places for liquor ads."
Through July of this year, cable networks accounted for 44% of all ad spending by liquor-company brands, more than $19 million. That's up from 27% in 2003 and a paltry 20% in 2002, when broadcast netted $113 million.
Since then, groups that fret about the impact of TV spots on underage drinkers have pressured lawmakers to stop the practice, even though other forms of alcohol advertising—especially beer marketing—have flowed with impunity. Unlike spirits makers, beer has no NAB codes, no laws and no alcohol self-regulatory guidelines to follow.
The hard-liquor issue came to a head in 2002, when NBC pulled its Smirnoff vodka spots after three months. The commercials came with a laundry list of strict guidelines, part of an agreement NBC struck with the distiller. The so-called sobriety ads were designed to caution underage viewers against drinking irresponsibly.
At the time, the Distilled Spirits Council, a trade group representing liquor makers, claimed that NBC buckled, in part, because of pressure from the beer industry, which accounts for the majority of alcohol spots. In addition, NBC reported that both parties in Congress asked it to reconsider.
The move had a chilling effect on TV alcohol spending overall, which fell from $182 million in 2002 to $86 million in 2003 and will probably be slightly less than that in 2004. The downward spiral is credited to cutbacks in overall ad spending by the category, which went from $203 million in 2002 to $96 million in 2003 and will likely register the same in 2004.
One overarching reason: TV spots produce better results with fewer advertising dollars than print and outdoor ads. (Allied Domecq Spirits, which includes Kahlua, Stolichnaya and Malibu rum, says it will boost holiday spending by 20% over 2003, including its TV ads. But Diageo, which sells J&B, Cuervo and Tanqueray, among others, tops the list, spending nearly $26 million on advertising in the first two quarters of 2004.)
Both the cable migration and the rise of hard-liquor ads has been duly noted by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown University. It recently released a study analyzing 2003 data that found a concentration of alcohol ads, particularly spirits spots, heading to cable, as well as to some youth-oriented broadcast outlets, such as The WB.
Instead of a decrease on TV, as CAMY has been urging, the study found that the volume of all alcohol ads appearing on TV actually rose 11% in 2003 to more than 289,054 units and that 23% of those spots were "more likely" to be viewed by underage viewers than by those of legal drinking age, a reality that makes broadcast TV especially vulnerable.
Although cable executives declined to discuss their liquor sales plans, one industry chief says the industry is just being pragmatic: "It's a legal product to sell, and cable is more effective than magazines ads at selling it. And we're more efficient at targeting viewers than broadcast TV." Media buyers cite another key factor that accounts for cable's growing success in the category: The industry's ability to provide critical marketing extras that heighten support from local retailers and bars distributing specific brands.
"When you do cable, you get lots of other stuff that can be important. Billboards or integrated marketing make it more akin to buying radio," says MediaCom's Mandel. For the distilled-spirits companies, that's everything, he says: "It translates into more opportunity to merchandise their brand."
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March 25, 2010 – Highline Products is pleased to announce the appointment of two new regional mangers. Joe Duberson is the new Regional Manager for the Northeast including the New England states, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Joe joins Highline after a long and successful career with Pencell Plastics where he served in both regional and national roles. Joe is headquartered in New Jersey.
Andy Burgraff has joined Highline and will serve as the company's Western Regional Manager serving both the C&I and utility markets. Andy's extensive experience includes many years in our industry at both Quazite and New Basis, where he was most recently the Vice President of Sales. Andy brings to Highline his in depth knowledge of, and experience in the telecommunications, DOT, and CATV industries. Andy is headquartered in California.
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ADO (Athens Development Office) SA is an independent Greek consulting engineering firm founded in Athens in 1989. During the 28 years of its existence ADO SA has been successfully providing the following Engineering Services:
- Project Management
- Construction Management
- Supervision (including FIDIC contracts)
- Technical Consultant Services
- Program Management
- Concession Projects
- Design & Studies
- Appraisal, Evaluation and Construction Management for Multistory Buildings
The head office of ADO SA is in Athens, Greece where a group of qualified professionals offer their services in all the above sectors. ADO SA has also been cooperating with external consultants covering all aspects of any project that may come up. Through partnerships with reputable international firms, the company witnesses a dynamic evolution of its activities in most fields of the engineering sector.
Throughout its history, ADO SA has co-operated with leading international firms such as EGIS, DORSCH, WSP, HILL and DHV.
The Board of Director of ADO SA consists of Civil Engineers with large experience in projects in Greece and abroad. Managing Director of ADO SA is George Kavalieratos, Civil Engineer NTUA, MSc. George Kavalieratos has been involved with ADO SA since 2000 and has participated in all levels of the firm starting from field works in small projects reaching up to the levels of higher management. He has experience in all the business sectors mentioned above and has participated in projects in Greece, the Balkans and the Middle East.
In ADO SA we aim to expand despite the demanding environment of the recent years and we believe that we can grow out of it by offering high quality consulting engineering services.
Click HERE to download our brochure in PDF format.


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Band Instrument Repair
Band Instrument Repair Price List
The JC Music Pro Shop repairs hundreds of instruments each year for schools across the state, for individuals and for professional players from around the world.
Repairing band instruments is a craft and an art, and each instrument repair is unique. Our staff members may not be repair techs, but they are usually able to give you an accurate estimate. We check your instrument in and then have a tech ascertain the true nature of the service.
We believe in transparency during service, and if our tech's quote is higher than the estimate provided, we will contact the customer BEFORE the repair work is done.
Minimum Bench Charge on All Band Instrument Repairs is $30.00
Average Repair Waiting Time is 10-14 Days.
NOTE: All Prices Listed Are Estimates
Playable Condition
Playable Condition includes up to 4 pads, refitting flute tenons, up to 2 clarinet or oboe tenon corks, refitting saxophone neck & replacing neck cork, checking springs, leveling pafs and keys, regulate action, replace up to 4 damaged/missing keycorks, check/adjust springs, oil/grease and final play test.
Cleaning Only
Includes cleaning instrument and polishing keys. Instrument is cleaned using a soap & water solution or chemically cleaned where necessary. This is for cleaning and disinfecting only. No repair work or part replacement is included and play-ability is not guaranteed.
Includes all new pads, new tenon corks, new key corks as needed, recondition/replace springs as needed, recondition/replace springs as needed, straighten bent keys, cleaning, seat all pads, regulate action, oil/grease, final adjustments and play-test.
Note: Intermediate and pro model instrument charges are extra and will require an estimate from our repair tech. Dent work is extra.
Individual Woodwind Repairs
(minimum repair charge is $30.00)
Key Corks – $3.65 each
Replace Pad – $13.75 each
Springs – $15.00 each
Solder – $30.00 (first), $14.00 (each additional)
Silver Solder – $43.00 each
Tenon Corks – $23.00 each
Sax Neck Corks – $25.00 each
Piccolo Head Cork – $25.00
Flute Head Cork – $25.00
Refit Flute Tenon – $36.00 each
Replace Thumbrest (Clarinet or Oboe)- $22.00
Replace Case Latch – $25.00 each
Replace Case Hinge – $25.00 each
Replace Plastic Handle – $35.00
New Sax Guard – $25.00 each
Refit Flute/Sax Tenon – $15.00 each
NOTE: All Prices Listed Are Estimates
Playable Condition
Includes minor bell dents (bell to rear brace); cleaning and polishing of valves and slides; refitting slides; replacing valve felts, waterkey corks, guides and springs as needed; pull valves & slides; solder up to one broken joint; relube/oil; final adjustments and play-test.
There will be additional charges for excessive dent work, more than one solder point and for very stuck valves and slides.
Flush & Chemical Clean
Instrument is disassembled and all parts are chemically cleaned. Tubing is brushed inside and out. Instrument is lubricated and play-tested.
Includes internal chemical cleaning, plus re-plating of re-lacquering the instrument. We will call with an estimate after the tech has inspected the instrument. Average Overhaul waiting time is 5 weeks.
We will call with prices for any repairs not listed.


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The CANtact USB-CAN adapter offers a simple way to update the device's firmware: Just place a jumper on the BOOT pin onboard the PCB, plug the device to a USB port and you're all set for flashing via USB-DFU. This works via the USB bootloader, which is present in board's ST microcontroller's ROM.
Under Linux there is a simple console command, which will upload your .bin file to the desired flash address via DFU: dfu-util (see also this post). A Windows version of the tool exists, too, which can be downloaded from here. However, many Windows users are more inclined to use a colourful GUI, rather than console commands. Such users may be better served by ST's proprietary DfuSe utility. Also, using dfu-util under Windows might make it necessary to enable libusb for the CANtact using the Zadig USB driver installer, which might be too complicated for the average Windows user.
If you have an account registered at ST.com, you can download the DfuSe utility from here (There's a download button at the bottom of the page below "Get software"). Unzip the archive and run the Setup.exe.
Once installation has completed, you will have two executables: One to create or extract .dfu files and one to flash them onto the device. Start the second one by clicking the "DfuSe Demo" icon on the Desktop or the Windows menu.
If you attach a CANtact in DFU mode to your PC, the software will recognize it and show some information about. In order to flash a .dfu firmware image, proceed with the following steps:
- Select target "Internal Flash" in the "Actions" box
- Select "Verify after download": This will read back the written target memory area after flashing and evaluates, if the write was successful.
- Click "Choose" to select the .dfu file, you wish to upload
- Click "Upgrade"
If nothing goes wrong, the write and verification processes will take no longer than a couple of seconds and it will look like this:
Congratulations, you have updated your CANtact's firmware!
Unplug the USB, remove the BOOT jumper and continue using your adapter as you're used to.


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Most Surprising Reasons You are not Losing Weight
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Many people work their best for losing weight but it doesn't have amazing results why it happens here I will tell you most surprising reasons you are not losing weight. You will just surprise to know about these common reasons. Let's know about these common mistakes.
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Opting For the Lowest in Calories
Many people eat outdoor snacks which have undoubtedly hidden all sugary calories and shown that these are fewer calorie meals.This is the very common mistake of everyone just eat simple homemade meals which are low in calories and keep away from outdoor snacks.
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Not Enough Shut-Eye
Weight loss can be tough if you don't take enough sleep because sleep stimulates your weight loss hormones if you skip your one night sleep it affects your whole day work out. Night sleep is a blessing and essential as well as it gives you mental and physical freshness. It sooth you in many ways and can also disturb you if not taken correctly. There are several benefits which we get after fulfilling the specific sleeping hours of a day. Good mood, victorious, attractive, energetic and fresh are the greatest outcomes of having a good sleep and it also affects your weight.
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Too Little Protein
If you eat and count your calories it's right but sometimes you take little-unused portion which is not a good thing in this way you miss critical proteins which are crucial for losing weight. According to Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS, high-protein foods take more work to "digest, metabolize, and use, which means you burn more calories processing them."
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Always Thirsty
Drinking water before eating food helps you eat a smaller amount and keeps belly bloat in check. But if you remain hydrated all day, it can help you burn more calories. One study proved that people who drank eight to 12 glasses of water a day burned more calories than those who only drank four. Always keep your water bottle handy, and fill up whenever you're running low. Not only will proper hydration help with weight loss, but it will also keep you in good health all year long.
No Fuel For Exercise
If you routinely exercise without eating first, it's time to review. When you work out on an empty stomach, research proved that the calories burned come from muscle, not fat. Since muscle burns more calories than fat, the more muscle mass you have, the better it is for weight loss. Not only will fueling your body help you keeping away from losing muscle, but you'll also have more power to push yourself harder through your workout.
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Big Bites
Eat humbly and peacefully studies had revealed that if you eat in the hurry in big bites, it makes metabolism very slow as a result of slow metabolism your weight does not reduce as good final results so eat in small bites very humbly.
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Snacking While Standing
Standing at the fridge or the counter to chow down isn't saving time or energy it's a common sign of emotional eating. When you eat from the refrigerator in standing position, it's not good for digestion don't eat while standing.
Here I have mentioned very common mistakes. I hope you must have enjoyed reading it. Share it with your friends and family members. Remember to leave your feedback in the comment box below.
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Joanne Weir
Joanne Weir was awarded the inaugural IACP Cooking Teacher Award of Excellence in 1997. She is the author of award-winning You Say Tomato, Broadway Books 1998 and From Tapas to Meze, Crown, 1994, both of which were nominated for James Beard Cookbook Awards. From Tapas to Meze was also selected by Julia Child as one of her twelve personal favorites out of 1000 cookbooks published in 1994. Joanne authored the four-part series titled Seasonal Celebrations, released in 1997 by Williams-Sonoma. Joanne also is a regular contributor to national magazines and newspapers.
Joanne's professional experience includes five years of cooking at Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. Her professional training includes a year of full-time study and apprenticeship with Madeleine Kamman in New England and France after which she was awarded a Master Chef Diploma. Joanne tours and teaches extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and France, spending 7 to 8 months per year teaching all over the world. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, the James Beard Foundation and the San Francisco Professional Food Society.
Joanne's association with food and enthusiasm for cooking comes from a long of chefs. Her great-grandmother operated Pilgrim's Pantry, a restaurant in Boston at the turn of the century, and her mother, also a professional chef and caterer, worked with cookbook author Charlotte Turgeon for ten years. Joanne continues in their footsteps. She holds a Fine Arts Degree in Art Education from the University of Massachusetts and taught Fine Arts in Boston for five years before pursuing a career in food.
Joanne has an extensive culinary background with regards to the history, theory and technique of Mediterranean cuisine, as well as the regional foods of the United States, particularly California. These elements are brought to life in her creative, thoughtful, enthusiastic classes, written articles for magazines and periodicals, and television series.
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Wisconsin state government veteran Bob Hanle is sharing his knowledge of public budgeting with La Follette School students this semester.
As an adjunct associate professor of public affairs, Hanle is helping his students understand budget preparation, adoption, and execution; proposed reforms of the budget process; and competing theories of the politics of budgeting.
"The course focuses on the expenditure aspect of budgeting," says Hanle, who spent 25 years with the Wisconsin State Budget Office where he specialized in issues related to elementary and secondary education, higher education and children and families. "By the end of this class, students should understand the roles of the major players in the budget process, the factors that influence budget decisions, the technical steps in preparing public budgets, and the steps in getting the budget across the finish line."
While at the Budget Office from 1986 to 2011, Hanle served five Wisconsin governors, from Anthony Earl to Scott Walker. Among the issues he worked on were the creation of the Department of Children and Families, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, and the SAGE program to reduce class size in the early elementary school grades. In addition, he provided analytical support for a number of modifications to the state's school financing system and staffed several gubernatorial task forces.
Prior to the State Budget Office, Hanle spent eight years conducting program evaluations at the Legislative Audit Bureau. He started his professional career as an administrator and psychology instructor at Viterbo University in La Crosse, along with future La Follette School Outreach Director Terry Shelton.
In addition to teaching for the La Follette School, Hanle works as a part-time school policy and finance consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. He also teaches classes on the state budget process in the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Certified Public Manager Program.
Hanle received his undergraduate degree in physics from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and his master's and Ph.D. in education from Northwestern University.


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What homeschooling parent doesn't consider sending their kids to "real" school this time of year? The Christmas season has passed, the bills are due, the winter doldrums are setting in and most of all, we look at our progress for the school year and compare it to our goals at the beginning of the year and we judge ourselves failures.
Welcome to my world. I have the advantage of doing this on a regular basis for the past 20 years, so I know there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Just as I know the days are starting to get longer and before I know it, summer will be here; I also know that we probably won't finish every book I'd planned on reading, or achieve every educational goal I'd set for ourselves.
I can handle that knowledge because I've also learned to look realistically at what we have achieved. Because I made some modest as well as challenging educational goals at the beginning of the year, I can see that my kids have accomplished many of those goals already. Some we will likely carry over to next year.
But what about the parent or the kid who considers going to a "real" school as a remedy for what is apparently lacking in our homeschool? What makes a "real" school better? What makes a "real" school more real than what we do every day in our homeschool?
I don't believe "real" schools are any more real than homeschooling. In fact, I would argue the opposite. Homeschooling is where "real life" takes place, while brick and mortar schools are contrived, unreal examples of man-made social groupings.
The family is the cornerstone of society. The push by the progressive main stream media notwithstanding, western civilization has thrived these past two millenia because of the stabilizing influence of the family.
"Real" schools have problems of their own. First of all, they have security problems. The sheer size of a student body in a "real" school is likely going to be greater than even the largest Duggeresque homeschooling family. As a result, they have to implement measures to ensure the security and integrity of their schools. Lockdown drills are held. Hall passes must be issued. Role must be taken. Kids have to line up and wait to be called upon and wait for the teachers to dismiss them. Prisons come to mind. Sunny, colorful and faux cheerful maybe, but prisons all the same. They have to make rules and enforce them. The bigger the schools, the more complex the rules. Enforcing these rules takes time away from educating the kids.
Another problem that "real" schools have to face is the fact that the kids don't all learn the same way or at the same pace. Some kids forget to do their homework, while others work ahead and always seem to know the right answer. How's a teacher supposed to effectively teach when she has such a diversity of students? She often teaches to the middle group, leaving those who are slow to become further and further behind and those who are advanced to become bored and disaffected with school. Result: not all the kids are getting the educating they need or deserve.
"Real" schools divide kids into groups according to age. They reinforce the idea that your peer group contains the most important and influential friends you're ever going to have. What they think about you and what they say about you is of greater importance than what your parents or siblings think or say about you. The result is the rise of the idea that teenagers have their own culture, their own ideas and their own way of dealing with the world. Instead of teaching our children to become adults, we're teaching our children to become teenagers and stay there as long as possible to avoid becoming adults. Adults continue to pay for all the things the teenagers want (iPods, cell phones, cars, clothes, piercings, hair colorings), but don't require they have the responsibilities of adults. We let the teenagers make the rules. A "real" life example of this is from a local charter high school that has been rated very high academically. All freshmen are required to take a class called "Teen Choices," which indicates to me that "teen choices" are somehow different from "adult choices." I'm not sure I want my teen making choices that I wouldn't make as an adult.
"Real" schools teach kids that following their rules and conforming to their expectations are the most important thing to do during your formative years. Turning in your assignments, doing the extra credit, pleasing your teachers and being recognized by your peers as being "cool" are the "real" life lessons taught in school.
On the flipside we have the life of a homeschooling family. Family life is messy, noisy, dramatic, chaotic, emotional and very, very real. Our kids don't always get up at the same time every day. They don't always turn in their homework on the day it is due. They have to work at getting along with their siblings. They have to learn to apologize. They sometimes have to do chores or help a younger sibling instead of doing their own math lessons. They sometimes take the entire day off to go exploring the drainage ditch down the street or to learn how to play cribbage with Grandpa. They sometimes spend so much time engrossed in one subject that we run out of time to do anything else that day. And we parents sometimes spend so much time working on discipline and character issues that it seems we haven't accomplished anything academically.
It's amazing our kids learn anything at all. How is it possible that homeschoolers often score higher on standardized testing even when they spend their days like this?
My theory is simple. We don't go to "real" school because life is real. Family life, with all it's interruptions and inconveniences is real life and our kids are learning exactly what they need to know to be real men and women.


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Comedian Julia Sweeney, or It's Pat as she is known to SNL fans, is writing a pilot about famed food critic Gael Greene.
Julia Sweeney
The pilot is based upon the critic's best-selling memoir Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess about her encounters with New York restaurants and New York men. I'm guessing that the pitch is Sex and the City with the "Carrie" writing a food column instead of about sex.
Gale Grenne presenting an award at this year's Tribeca Film Fest
I have hopes for this show because I think Julia Sweeney is hilarious and Gael Greene is a great New York character. She's brash and blunt and wears weird hats — all of which can be found in her tell-all book.
I just hope that if the show goes to series that they don't force Sweeney to cast a bland 20-year-old in the Greene role. I think Patricia Clarkson would be perfect.
Who would you like to see play an eccentric foodie like Gael Greene? And have you been keeping up with the work of Julia Sweeney since she got out of the fat Pat suit?


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Joseph Anthony Petro
Spring is trying,
The trees turning into carnivals of flowers are trying,
The roots are trying,
The sky is trying,
And the robins, the hawks,
The invisible, but audible owls are trying,
So many people are trying,
I know they are asking
Their gods to try,
I know you are trying.
I only hope it's not too late.
That I am not already dead,
That the block not letting the air
Into my heart isn't too massive,
Too menacing to let any breath
Escape in or out. I only hope
I can trust the kiss, the passage
Of your strength and courage
Into my chest. I only hope
The breathing will catch hold
And then gradually level into calm.
And I might need to hold your hand,
And I might need you to tell me
To hold on, or to let go,
And I might need you to have me,
To not let me drift into nothingness
Once I do let go or hold on,
Whichever the case may be once
The stream of your breath begins swirling
In my lungs, and I open my eyes
And live again.
And I might need you to remind me
There is white light around me
And within me.
And I need it be OK with you that I need you.
And I might need you to be the white light for awhile
And embrace me with healing gentleness like there's no tomorrow,
Until I rise again a new creation.
I only hope it's not too late.
That I am not already dead.
That once I begin to feel
The warmth of your breath
That whatever it is within me that is frozen
Will begin to thaw,
Will have its own experience of spring,
And will suddenly and without shame
Blossom into a life that is alive.


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Hull City vs Watford team news: Game too soon for Omar Elabdellaoui, Ben Watson misses out for Hornets
All the latest information as the Hornets travel to face Marco Silva's Tigers at the KCOM Stadium on Saturday
HULL CITY will be looking to improve on their excellent home form when they welcome Watford to the KCOM Stadium on Saturday.
Marco Silva's side have won their last three Premier League matches in front of their own fans, and another three points will go a long way in their quest to avoid the drop.
They will know the Hornets will provide stern competition, as the Londoners have won three out of their last four games.
Here's the latest information from the clash on the weekend.
What time does Hull City vs Watford kick-off?
The Premier League fixture kicks-off at 3pm on Saturday, April 22 at the KCOM Stadium.
What TV channel can I watch Hull City vs Watford?
The match will not be broadcast on TV but you can follow all the action on the SunSport live blog.
Alternatively you can download the Sun Football app and be first to watch the goals.
What is the latest Hull City and Watford news?
The game comes too soon for Moses Odubajo who remains out on the sidelines after fracturing his patella.
Omar Elabdellaoui is also out after being out with a back problem.
Star man Roberto Pereyra remains out with a knee injury, plus Ben Watson has failed to recover from a groin problem.
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- Hull have lost their last two league games against Watford, both by a 1-0 scoreline. They last lost three in a row against them in 1989.
- Watford won on their last visit to Hull in the league, thanks a Troy Deeney winner in April 2013. They've never won back-to-back away league games in Hull.
- The Hornets won the reverse fixture in October 1-0 via a Michael Dawson own goal. They had 23 shots in the match, with none on target, which is a record for a winning team in a Premier League match (since 2003-04).
- Hull have claimed 25 points in home games this season, compared to five away, accounting for 83% of their total (25/30).
- Marco Silva has won five of his six home games in charge of the Tigers, drawing the other. No Hull manager before him had won three home Premier League games in a row.
- Only in one previous Premier League campaign have Hull recorded more wins than the eight they have this season (10 in 2013/14).
- Watford have surpassed the 40-point mark for the second consecutive season, something they last did in the top-flight in 1987.
- A win for the Hornets would equal their win total for last season (12). In their other two Premier League campaigns, they had 11 wins combined (6 in 1999/2000 and 5 in 2006/07).
- Harry Maguire has netted in back-to-back league games for the first time in his career (two goals) – he had scored twice in his previous 93 league outings prior to this run.
- Only West Brom (29y 324d) have used an older starting lineup on average than Watford this season in the Premier League (29y 250d).