Whether you're working on a brand new website or a stylish redesign, inspiration and dreaming up the style you want to portray is always the first step. This may sound like a difficult task if you've been in an inspo-rut. On the other hand, you could be brimming with inspiration but struggling to organize all of your fun ideas into a cohesive plan.
As you read through this guide, you will realize that it is easy to hone-in-website design inspiration and manage it into digestible concepts and drum up new ideas to make your site its best. This mood boarding process works well whether your website is for your personal brand, your own company, or for a client! Mood boarding is the best way to synthesize everyone's input, too.
Mood boarding refers to a creative process used by web designers to collect a wide range of images or pictures as well as other things that define and express a personal or brand identity. If you are thinking to develop a website for yourself, then creating a mood board will help you dream up the color palette, the stylistic elements, and other visual notes. The use of cohesive visual elements on your website is ideal for inspiration, communication, guidance, and affirmation for the ideal target audience. The key purpose of using images/visual elements is to effectively express the mood and position of your inspiration to the target customer – so, by drawing inspiration from a mood or attitude first, will make sure that your audience feels spoken to on every page of your site.
There are several reasons why mood boards are created by designers. Typically, the purpose of a mood board is to help you put up an inspiration website that wow clients and drive your work. Plus, establishing a color palette, and ensuring that you stay on-brand with everything you design, can all be driven from the mood or overall visual aesthetic. For example, if you're creating a website for a bakery and the mood of that bakery is vintage, cozy, and European – you could throw together images that evoke those motifs into a mood board and you'll know that if your website sticks to those colors, those feelings, and those aesthetics, it will please the client.
Coming up with a mood board involves a lot of creativity because there's no right or wrong format for a mood board. You could cut pictures out of magazines to make a collage, doodle together a bunch of different inspirational elements, or make your mood board digitally via Pinterest, in Illustrator, or in an Instagram collection. The process should then be to take the information about what your client wants in a website and translate that into a visual mood with inspiration trimmings. You can decide if it benefits your business to share this mood board with your client or whether it will just drive your internal decisions.
Images: Did you know that images woo clients more rapidly than describing your vision through copy? You can get photos from Instagram, Pinterest and other photo sharing platforms. As long as you don't publish them, you don't need to worry about their origins. This is just an internal project. Illustrations, vectors, logos, icons and your own sketches are welcome here, too.
Bits of Text: Choose the quotes, phrases or words that can tie into the message intended to be communicated. Designers ought to slot in specific fonts whenever they are using text in a mood board, to create more visual impact.
Colors: Use your creativity and mind's eye to figure out the best colors that define or make your brand stand out. If your client or your own brand already has branded colors, start with those. However, those are not the only 1 to 3 colors your website will employ, so make sure you find those complementary shades to fit the theme of the site. Pair them together on your mood board to get a feel for how they'll play together online. This way, you can settle on the exact hex codes for the colors that express the mood you want.
Shapes and Silhouettes: It has been found that natural shapes like leafy vines or ocean waves are ideal in reflecting the sense of tranquility. Angular, geometric silhouettes will bring a modern and urban feel to your site. If you're looking for a classy and luxurious mood, play with elegant shapes like fleur de lis, filigrees, and other dainty curls.
Patterns and Textures: Likewise, add swatches of different patterns or textures to your mood board. If you're looking for a regal mood, use a silk swatch or something in a marble pattern. For casual, comfortable websites – try a woodgrain texture or a familiar, nautical stripe. Recurring patterns play an important role in creating visual energy and familiarity, as well as movement.
After you have gathered and sorted your images, you can arrange them on your mood board to achieve the desired organization and hierarchy. At this stage, it is important to work on key themes with larger pictures and position the smaller images along with texts to make your message visually clear. Once you start layering, feel free to discard any image or bit of text that starts to look out of place, or explore in a new direction if you're drawn to. The best part of a mood board is its impermanence – since these aren't final products, there's no wrong answer and no wasted time creating something that doesn't work.
Crafting a mood board successfully for your website is an abstract and fluid process. Some designers would find this process excessive or taxing while others will see it is just the kick-off to ensure that the website they design will be on brand, mood-suitable, and inspired.


Dorritville: TV Show of the Week - "Brooklyn Midge"
TV Show of the Week: "Brooklyn Midge"
Weekly situation comedy. Everyday life in Brooklyn, New York, as seen through the eyes of Midge, a miniature horse who lives in a 100 year old brownstone with a lesbian couple: Nicky, a goofy, often unemployed freelance writer, and Alison, her "opposites attract" corporate executive girlfriend. Tonight's episode: despite Alison's (Dana Delaney) warning not to, Nicky (Julie Brown) dresses Midge (Peppy the Pony) up as a baby and puts her in a carriage. Then she wheels Midge over to Prospect Park and sits on a bench waiting to see if anyone will actually come out and admit they think her "baby" has a face like a horse. The police get involved, but Alison comes to the rescue as usual and buys Midge cotton candy on the walk home.


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School psychologists help children and youth succeed academically, socially and emotionally. They collaborate with educators, parents and other professionals to create safe, healthy and supportive learning environments that strengthen connections between home and school.
Learn more about ACPS school psychology services and find additional resources on the ACPS website.
Cora Kelly's School Psychologist
Megan Vaganek, School Psychologist
Megan Vaganek has been the school psychologist at Cora Kelly since Fall 2012 and she is assigned to the school five days a week. Originally from New Jersey, she has been in the DC Metro area for the past 10 years. She earned bachelor's degrees in Psychology and German from The Pennsylvania State University. She earned her master's specialist degree and PhD from the University of Maryland. She lives in Maryland with her husband, toddler, and two dogs.
Megan works with students, staff and families in a variety of capacities. At Cora Kelly, Dr. Vaganek provides academic, behavioral, and social-emotional support for students in both general and special education settings. Specific responsibilities include individual and group counseling services, psychoeducational and character education lessons for classrooms, psychoeducational assessments for special education and gifted programs, and school-based prevention and intervention plans. She also consults and collaborates with staff, families, and the community and is a member of the crisis response team. Dr. Vaganek chairs Child Study and Eligibility meetings and facilitate Cora Kelly's the MTSS process. Dr. Vaganek is the team leader for Cora Kelly's Student Support Team, otherwise known as the Cougar Support Team. She works in close collaboration with CK's school social worker, school counselor, school nurse, and administration. Please feel free to contact Dr. Vaganek with any questions or concerns that can be addressed by Cora Kelly's Cougar Support Team.

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I don't often quote Bible verses but this seems like an appropriate time for "to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." I have served on the Network Time Foundation (NTF) board since its inception in 2012. It has been interesting being involved in the start of the foundation. But as the verse says, everything has a season and a purpose.
My primary responsibilities should always be to my family, career, and to my own free software project RTEMS. All of these need more of my attention. I want to do right for everyone and everything I am involved with.
After years in the free software community, I am always happy to share experiences and provide advice to other projects. I have seen a lot happen since the inception of RTEMS and learned a lot of lessons the hard way. If I can help someone avoid those pains, I am happy to. That offer applies equally to projects under the NTF umbrella as well as any others.
I will close with one piece of advice for all free software projects. Remember that it is all about the code and community. Get those right and the rest will fall into place.
What Android Apps Do I Use?
Google apps - I am just going to lump the ones I use into one bullet item. I use Gmail, Calendar, Messenger for SMS/MMS, Chrome, News, Maps, Drive for documents (not backup), Voice, Translate, YouTube occasionally, and am experimenting with Keep.
K-9 Mail - I probably spend more time in this application than any other. I used the Google Email client for years until I started getting complaints that sometimes messages from me did not thread properly in the RTEMS mailing list discussions. Chris Johns had me send email from every computer and client I used. Turned out that the Google Email client does not send the proper headers. This means that the threading that is relied on by open source community mailing lists is broken, has had a long outstanding bug, and doesn't seem like it will ever get fixed. I tried K-9 and never looked back. It is a very capable Email client for "work" accounts. I used Gmail for my personal mail.
TVFoodMaps - This is one I used when traveling to see which restaurants have been featured on television shows on the FoodTV network. It sounds kitschy but it is a neat way to find a local place I would never think of trying otherwise. Review sites often recommend the same places but often travelers don't find the truly historic, unique places, or know what a local specialty that shouldn't be missed.
TripIt Travel Organizer - Another handy app for traveling which provides a mobile interface to the web site. TripIt works by you forwarding email with hotel reservations, car reservations, and plane tickets to it. It then builds an itinerary for you and reminds you of upcoming travel. When on travel, it makes it easy to get destination addresses, confirmation numbers, etc. This is much easier than carrying paper.
Fly Delta - This app has improved a lot since I first used it. Everyone hates some airline but Delta has the best options from Huntsville. This gives me notices on gates, arrival time, bar code for paperless boarding, and Sky Club locations. Not essential since I could likely do all this with the website (except paperless boarding) but handy.
OpenIntents - This project has a collection of apps which include a Notepad, Shopping List, and a File Manager. The shopping list is one of those specialty apps which is very handy.
Astro File Manager - Just a nice file browser.
Untappd - Log beers, earn badges, see what friends are drinking and get recommendations. I am a big fan of craft and unusual beers. I like to try different beers as much as I can and this helps me keep track.
Vintage Comic Droid - This is a neat application that lets you read comic books that have fallen into the public domain. I primarily use it in off-line mode to kill time.
TV Guide - An application with functionality that matches its name. It is nothing more than TV listings but it does know cable systems and highlights new shows as well as let you search, and set alerts. A bit painful to use on small screens but handy.
Probably not that unique a set of applications but it is how I get by. Most of these I have used for years and through multiple Android versions.
In most cases, I refuse to load apps which are only a front end to a website. I can just use Chrome and get there. And I get irritated when a site pushes me to load an app -- LinkedIn comes up high on this list. If anyone is listening, asking me every time if I want to load your stupid site specific app is a turn off for your site in general. If you want to lose me as a user, remember my preference.
November 25 - order replacement Nexus 4 and Nexus 6 which was TBD delivery. You can see the box to the right and not have to wait as long as I did.
November 26 - replacement Nexus 4 arrives, migration goes smoothly, updates to Lollipop, and then I discover radio part of phone is bad. It won't connect to cell network. Back to old Nexus 4.
November 28 - second (or third depending on how you count) Nexus 4 arrives. This time the transition is painful. I ended up spending almost two hours the next day manually loading applications and entering passwords. Luckily, I had a spare screen protector and used the old case. Back in action again.
I have been experiencing Lollilop with all of those Nexus 4's and even got the 5.0.1 upgrade last week. It is a nice experience with my only complaint being that I somehow can't seem to stay on the screen for a call in-session. That means I have to switch apps to hang up. My Nexus 7 upgraded smoothly but it went through another round of slow down and I had to another factory reset. This seems to be a common occurrence with the 2012 Nexus 7 models as they age and the Flash memory ages. I have seen reports on the net of switching apps taking a minute. Mine got that way under KitKat before I factory reset it. If someone has a good way to speed it back up, let me know.
Today the Nexus 6 arrived while I was blowing leaves. Somehow I resisted abandoning the yard work. The first step was copying the files off my Nexus 4 yet AGAIN. The box has a nifty embossed "6" on it and that's the top side. The first picture is what I thought was the top side. When I opened it using "that" top side, it almost fell out. Glad I had a towel on the table, just in case.
Of course, the phone couldn't stay in the box like that very long. It would take all the fun out of it. I was concerned that the high speed charger was going to be an accessory that was not included with the phone. That would mean another order and I just didn't want to have to do that a few days before Christmas. On average, I travel a week every four to six weeks and keeping a phone charged can be a challenge. Many times I am in meetings in buildings which are very effective Faraday cages. Nothing drains a battery faster than spotty or no service. I have learned to keep it in airplane mode and rely on my old Nexus 7 tablet but still I need to recharge using my external battery or wall charger. The Turbo Charger was a feature I was really looking forward to.
The phone was in a tray so I pulled the tray out. There was more in the box than was included with the Moto G or replacement Nexus 4. I am pretty sure that the Nexus 4 included a similar set of accessories when it was new though. Inside the box, there is the phone (obviously) along with an instruction packet, what I hope is the quick charger, and a USB cable. Not immediately seeing a tool to open the SIM slot, I am let wondering if it included a tool to eject the SIM slot, I opened the instruction packet and did find a tool to open the SIM slot. Unwrapping the wall charger, I see the magic words Turbo Power Supply and that makes me happy. That makes me two for two on this so far.
Now on to migrating my information to the new phone. I had forgotten to back up my SMS and MMS so ran Backup to Gmail one last time, When this was done, I was ready to turn off cellular data on the Nexus 4, power it off, and remove the SIM. While this was running, I decided to compare the two phones in size. On paper, the sizes don't sound that different but when you see them side by side, the difference is very clear.
Side by side, the Nexus 6 is clearly quite a bit larger than my old Nexus 4. My concern with a phone this large was (1) would it fit in a dress shirt pocket (it does) and (2) will it tend to fall out of a shirt pocket since it is taller and thus has a higher center of gravity. I tested (1) at the T-Mobile store and only time will tell about (2). I have a screen protector and case for the Nexus 6 and hope this will be enough to protect it if it drops.
Enough with the pictures already. I want to use the phone. I eject the SIM from the Nexus 4 and eject the holder on the Nexus 6. First surprise! The SIM in the Nexus 6 is smaller than that in the Nexus 4. I smile when I notice there is a SIM in the Nexus 6 already so I don't 'have to make an extra affort to acquire one. That was a nice touch. Now to call T-Mobile and get the new SIM activated.
All calls for support to any large company start with an automated system asking you all sorts of questions that eventually lead you to a human if you are lucky. T-Mobile is usually better than most companies for support and this time was no different. It took all of about two minutes before he asked me to boot the new phone. I stayed on the line with them through this. I get to the screen where it asks me if I want to Tap my old device and transfer settings. I turn on NFC on the Nexus 4 and tap the back of the devices. After a few seconds, it went on to set itself up quickly.
It immediately found an LTE tower, asked me for my Google account, and began synchronizing. By the time I went to check on the status of WiFi, it had connected to the 2.4 Ghz channel of my access point. I switched it to the 5.0 Ghz and apps continued to update. One of the first updates was Android 5.0.1 which required a reboot. The phone had about 40% remaining on the battery when it first powered up and I expect that will be enough to finish the app installations. After clicking accept a few times, I decided to quit watching them download and begin to transfer files from my PC back onto the device.
Then began the tedious process of entering account and passwords for various applications that were not covered by Google. I had done this a month ago when I went through the Nexus 4 swap and it is just as tedious this time. After a while doing this, I began to put the apps back on the main screen. In doing this, I noticed the Hilton app says it is incompatible with my device and refuses to load. Odd since it worked with the Nexus 4 on Lollipop. After about an hour from first power on, it is mostly setup.
I left it attached to the computer and it charged to 90% while downloading applications and updates. After the downloads stopped, I started playing with it. It is definitely large enough where it is more like a tablet when browsing. It is much faster than my Nexus 5 or Nexus 7. I am finishing this up the next morning and I have no complaints so far. I still need to tweak the notifications so I recognize the apps and go back to the ring tone I had before my phone got stolen last year but those are my problems.
If anyone cares, I will write another blog entry on what apps I have on my phone.
The Intel Edison is now (11 December 2014) is now running RTEMS but there are issues to resolve and features which need adding. This post is a list of what needs to be done.
Break conditionals in build system and C code from "if Edison" to more features oriented conditionals. This requires being able to disable at least VGA, IDE, and legacy COM ports at BSP configure time.
Split the current Edison specific polled console code into its own file.
Review dynamic console selection code and see if the current code can be improved so Edison specific conditionals are not needed.
Generally split the one large patch into smaller discrete patches and try to not make them Edison specific.
There may be other clean up but that should be enough to get the current Edison support into the tree.
Longer term, there is more to do and it involves coding. Some of this can be done without access to Edison System On Chip documentation. But other parts will require having access to the details.
Add support for APIC interrupt controller.
Figure out why clock tick isn't working. This may require using different hardware for the clock tick driver.
Provide access routines for the memory mapped PCI configuration space.
Provide glue so hacked NS16550 console support can use libchip driver like COM[1-4] do. There is support already for PCI cards with multiple NS16550s so this should just be a matter of having the information once PCI configuration space is working.
Add support for the discrete I/O and analog inputs.
Evaluate supporting the Flash. We may want to be careful to not destroy the Linux installation or we may want to simply take over the entire Flash as long as we avoid conflicts with other uses. Having the Linux and USB file loading is nice.
Add WiFi support. This is a more involved project as RTEMS currently does not support TCP/IP over USB or WiFi.
Since the new FreeBSD 9.x TCP/IP stack came with the USB stack, supporting wired Ethernet over USB is a logical first step and is also needed to support Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi.
Once wired Ethernet over USB works, then the wireless part can be addressed including applications to manage connecting to access points.
There is probably more to do to fully support the Intel Edison board but it does work now and provides a baseline for future enhancements. At this point, interested users can fund core developers to add capabilities or volunteer to add it. That is how open source works.
Overnight, I realized that the error the RTEMS hello world sample was failing with was RTEMS_UNSATISFIED (13) likely indicated a miscalculation in the RTEMS Workspace by . A quick look showed that the primary difference between the pc586-sse BSP variant and all other pc386 variant was that because of SSE, all tasks were forced to be floating point tasks. This results in the allocation of floating point contexts for all tasks and apparently the calculation is a bit too low on the x86 port. I switched the edison BSP variant to be compiled like the non-SSE pc586 and this solved the problem. A short time later, this output was posted to the RTEMS Users mailing list.
At this point, the next step was simply to remove most of the debug output and get a clean run. Then we tackled seeing if enabling the timer calibration code in the pc386/startup/bspstart.c file would work. The calibration failed and likely indicates some combination of interrupt controller or timer hardware is different from legacy PCs. Fixing this is left for future work.
The failure to have a working clock tick meant that we needed a fall back. RTEMS has a target independent fake clock tick driver which is a special IDLE thread which repeatedly calls rtems_clock_tick() each time it is executed. When a "clock tick" occurs which wakes up another task, the IDLE thread is preempted. This is an effective way to run most RTEMS tests on a simulator with no interrupt sources.
With the IDLE thread clock tick in place, Jeff and I ran the ticker example which has three tasks executing every 5, 10, or 15 seconds. It runs for 35 seconds. Jeff and I tuned a delay in the IDLE thread until time appeared to pass reasonably close to it would on real target hardware if the system were lightly loaded.
After a few iterations, we moved on to the fileio sample test. This demonstrates the shell, IDE file access, and requires user input. On the first run, the test hung and we had to disable the IDE driver because the Edison does not have one. On the second run, it just worked.
how long it took to get the RTEMS up on this board.
It wasn't long at it was unboxed, that we were looking at a GNU/Linux prompt in a PuTTY window. Poking around, it quickly became apparent that the Edison didn't use Grub so my first hope that we could just add an RTEMS executable as an option on the boot menu was off the table. We had to identify a way to boot an RTEMS executable.
SoC documentation won't be out until later this month.
Has U-Boot and doesn't appear to have a 16-bit mode at all.
Looks like U-Boot will want a binary image to boot.
This turned out to be wrong. We figured out how to boot an ELF executable.
There is a comment in the OS Dev forum that the PCI configuration space is memory mapped and not IO mapped like a regular PC. This means the PCI initialization and support code needs to be different for Edison from other PCs.
All serial ports are on the PCI bus. It looks like the PCI layout is constant so for a start, we are hacking a simple polled driver for one UART and go from there. U-Boot initializes that port so we can skip initialization. Besides the person on the forum couldn't figure out the clock rate for the UART. This should be enough to at least temporarily get around the lack of PCI config space code.
There is a watchdog on it that needs to be disabled or managed.
Looks like it doesn't have a legacy i8254 timer and may not have legacy interrupt controller.
A user named mutex on the OS Dev forum had poked and prodded at the Edison board and managed to post a few very useful pieces of information.
Commands to boot a binary image.
I contacted this user. It was clear that he had been the most successful in booting something that wasn't the Linux that came with the board. He quickly replied. Thomas Nilsen has his own kernel and was kind enough to send me a binary which we were able to run. He is owed a big thank you.
This was the end of Monday with the board.


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Biografia
Nasce a Zurigo da una famiglia di origini italiane e cresce a Chiasso. Da sempre portato per la musica in modo del tutto naturale, non avendo parenti con un'esperienza musicale alle spalle che lo avessero iniziato a tale arte, è attratto da qualsiasi attività musicale fin da bambino. Canta nel coro della chiesa, nel complesso pop dei giovani della sua città e suona il flauto dolce.
Il violino diventa l'unico protagonista della sua vita dopo che, a dodici anni e mezzo, vedendo un film sulla carriera del famoso violinista e compositore Niccolò Paganini scopre la bellezza di questo strumento. A quindici anni viene premiato al "Concorso Nazionale della Gioventù" in Svizzera e ricevendo l'invito a diventare membro dell'Orchestra Sinfonica Svizzera della Gioventù, partecipa come elemento più giovane nei primi violini. Il padre, piuttosto scettico fino a questo momento, convincendosi del talento di Manrico, lo porta a sostenere un'audizione al conservatorio di Zurigo, dove viene ammesso come studente più giovane.

Nel 1992 consegue il SolistenDiplom sotto la guida di Aida Stucki-Piraccini, insegnante anche di Anne-Sophie Mutter, presso il conservatorio di Zurigo-Winterthur.
Manrico si perfeziona ulteriormente allo "Sweelinck Conservatorium" di Amsterdam dove viene ammesso nella ristrettissima cerchia degli allievi ufficiali del più noto violinista olandese Herman Krebbers e partecipa a numerosi corsi internazionali con artisti di fama mondiale, tra di loro K.H. Stockhausen,
R. Ricci, B. Belkin, U.Ughi e I. Gitlis.
Sono significativi i riconoscimenti che ottiene negli anni, come il "Premio del Giubileo" della Banca UBS, il "Ruggiero Ricci's International Master Competition" di Berlino, ma anche l'assegnazione dalla Nippon Music Foundation di Tokyo del preziosissimo ed originale violino Stradivari Jupiter, costruito a Cremona nel 1722.

Manrico debutta nel 1992 nella grande sala del Casino di Basilea ed è ospite di alcuni prestigiosi festival europei come il "Lucerne Festival", le "Interlakner Festwochen", il "Bad-Kissinger Sommer" e il "Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival", esibendosi in seguito in Europa, in America del Nord e del Sud e in Asia.
Svolge intense attività concertistiche in tutto il mondo come la sala dorata del Musikverein di Vienna, la Alte Oper di Francoforte,la Ohji Hall di Tokyo, la Phoenix Hall di Osaka, la Philharmonie di Colonia, la Smetana Hall di Praga, il KKL di Lucerna, il "National Theatre" di Bucharest. Collabora a livello internazionale con diverse orchestre come l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Stoccarda, la Sinfonia Varsoviae, l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Praga, la Nord-Tschechische Filharmonie, l'Akademische Staatskapelle di San Pietroburgo, sotto la direzione di prestigiosi direttori specie R. Barshai, M. Viotti, H. Griffiths, B. Perrenoud, C. Olivieri Munroe, A. Boreiko, Jia Lü e P. Altrichter.

Nel 2006 si distingue dagli altri violinisti per aver eseguito a Zurigo, come primo svizzero, il ciclo completo dei 24 Capricci op.1 per violino solo di Niccolò Paganini in un unico concerto.
Il repertorio musicale di Manrico spazia dal barocco di J.S. Bach alla musica dei giorni nostri, passando anche per differenti generi come il pop, il crossover, il jazz e la musica indiana. Negli anni intraprende diversi progetti collaborando e duettando con pop star spagnole come Daniel Diges e Manolo Carrasco ed eseguendo per primo anche composizioni scritte appositamente per lui da Thomas Fortmann e Stefano Mongiusti. Nelle sue registrazioni discografiche, pubblicate su CD e DVD, spiccano i concerti per violino ed orchestra di J. Brahms, L.V. Beethoven, S. Prokofjew nr.1 e N. Paganini nr.1.
É uno dei pochi ad aver utilizzato nel concerto per violino di L.V. Beethoven la cadenza di Leopold Auer, al posto della cadenza Kreisler e per il concerto di Paganini nr.1 la cadenza di Émile Sauret, la più difficile scritta per tale concerto.
Manrico Padovani collabora con il regista svizzero Erik Bernasconi, incidendo parte della colonna sonora del suo lungometraggio "Sinestesia", presentato al Festival internazionale del cinema di Berlino nel 2010. Sostenuto anche dalla grande violinista tedesca Anne-Sophie Mutter tramite la sua Fondazione, partecipa come membro del gruppo "Mutter's Virtuosi", alla prima tournée europea che tocca undici delle principali città europee nella primavera del 2011, suonando come solista e musica da camera con la sua famosa sostenitrice.

In onore di Papa Benedetto XVI, si esibisce insieme alla nota violinista Natasha Korsakova, nella Sala Nervi di Città del Vaticano, davanti ad un pubblico di 9000 persone. Il concerto avviene in collaborazione con la Fondazione "Sorella Natura" di Assisi, fondazione per la quale lui è testimonial.
Grazie alle sue competenze, Manrico Padovani è ospite come professore presso alcune famose Università in Giappone, USA, Canada, Messico, Germania, Slovenia e Svizzera.
Effettua numerose registrazioni radiofoniche e televisive per Rai 1, Rai 2, LA7, RSI e SRF.

Studi
Manrico Padovani nel 1992 consegue il Diploma di Solista-Solistendiplom sotto la guida di Aida Stucki-Piraccini, insegnante tra gli altri di Anne-Sophie Mutter, presso il conservatorio di Zurigo-Winterthur. Si perfeziona ulteriormente allo "Sweelinck Konservatorium" di Amsterdam dove viene ammesso nella ristrettissima cerchia degli allievi ufficiali del più noto violinista olandese Herman Krebbers, partecipando inoltre a numerosi corsi internazionali con artisti di fama mondiale come K.H. Stockhausen, R. Ricci, B. Belkin, U.Ughi e I. Gitlis.

Sono molteplici i riconoscimenti che ottiene in questi anni. Nel 1992 riceve il "Premio del Giubileo" della Banca UBS e più volte il premio "Kiefer-Hablitzel" dell'"Associazione dei Musicisti Svizzeri".
Nel 1995 vince il "Concorso Internazionale di Musica" di Vienna e presso l'Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena ottiene un Diploma di Merito, una borsa di studio e viene selezionato per suonare al "Swiss Youth Music Festival Prize". Vince premi e riconoscimenti nazionali dalle fondazioni Habisreutinger (uso dello Stradivari Aurea del 1715), Fondazione Bär (prestito di un prezioso Vuillaume del 1845) e Fondazione Schuler.

Vince per tre volte (1993-1994-1995) il "Ruggiero Ricci's International Master Competition" di Berlino.
Nel 2012 riceve il "Contributo Artistico" del Kuratorium del Canton Argovia.
Nel 2011 e 2012 riceve in dotazione dalla Nippon Music Foundation di Tokyo, come primo svizzero e come primo italiano, il preziosissimo e originale violino Stradivari Jupiter, costruito a Cremona nel 1722.

Carriera
Manrico Padovani è descritto dalla rivista londinese "The Strad Magazine" come "Eroe del violino" e dalla critica specializzata anche con aggettivi come "Liricità penetrante", "Violinista indiavolato", "un violino che incanta", "Virtuoso fulminante", "Mago del violino" per la sua intensità musicale e agilità tecnica.
Debutta nel 1992 nella grande sala del Casino di Basilea ed è ospite di alcuni prestigiosi festival europei come il "Lucerne festival", le "Interlakner Festwochen", il "Bad-Kissinger Sommer" e il "Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival", esibendosi in seguito in Europa, in America del Nord e del Sud e in Asia.
Nel 2006 si distingue dagli altri violinisti per aver eseguito in un solo concerto a Zurigo, come primo svizzero, il ciclo completo dei 24 capricci op.1 per violino solo di Niccolò Paganini. Lo stesso Paganini, disponibile ad eseguirli in tre serate separate, non lo fece mai in pubblico.

Svolge intense attività concertistiche esibendosi in grandi sale come la sala dorata del Musikverein di Vienna, la Alte Oper di Francoforte, la Ohji Hall di Tokyo, la Phoenix Hall di Osaka, la Philharmonie di Colonia, la Smetana Hall di Praga, il KKL di Lucerna, il "National Theatre" di Bucarest, collaborando con orchestre come
l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Stoccarda, la Sinfonia Varsoviae, l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Praga, la Nord-Tschechische Filharmonie, l'Akademische Staatskapelle di San Pietroburgo, sotto la direzione di prestigiosi direttori come R. Barshai, M. Viotti, H. Griffiths, B. Perrenoud, C. Olivieri Munroe, A. Boreiko, Jia Lü e P. Altrichter.

Il repertorio musicale di Manrico Padovani spazia dal barocco di J.S. Bach alla musica dei giorni nostri, con particolare predilezione per autori come L.V. Beethoven,  W. A. Mozart, J. Brahms, P. I. Chaikovski, R. Schumann, S. Prokofiev e N. Paganini, passando per differenti generi come il pop, il crossover, la musica indiana e il jazz.
Negli anni intraprende diversi progetti con pop star spagnole come Daniel Diges e Manolo Carrasco ed esegue per primo anche composizioni scritte appositamente per lui da Thomas Fortmann e Stefano Mongiusti.
Nelle sue registrazioni discografiche, pubblicate su CD e DVD per diverse etichette, emergono i concerti per violino e orchestra di J. Brahms, L.V. Beethoven,  S. Prokofiev nr.1 e N. Paganini nr.1.
É uno dei pochi ad aver utilizzato nel concerto per violino di L.V. Beethoven la cadenza di Leopold Auer, al posto della cadenza Kreisler e per il concerto di Paganini no.1 la cadenza di Émile Sauret, la più difficile scritta per tale concerto.
Manrico Padovani collabora con il regista svizzero Erik Bernasconi, incidendo parte della colonna sonora del suo lungometraggio "Sinestesia", presentato al Festival internazionale del cinema di Berlino nel 2010.
Sostenuto anche dalla grande violinista tedesca Anne-Sophie Mutter tramite la sua Fondazione, partecipa come membro del gruppo "Mutter's Virtuosi", alla prima tournée europea che tocca undici delle principali città europee nella primavera del 2011, suonando come solista e musica da camera con la sua famosa sostenitrice.

Uno degli impegni più culminanti delle passate stagioni è il concerto in onore di Papa Benedetto XVI nella Sala Nervi di Città del Vaticano, insieme alla nota violinista di origini greco-russe Natasha Korsakova, davanti ad un pubblico di 9000 persone. Questo concerto avviene in collaborazione con la Fondazione "Sorella Natura" di Assisi, fondazione per la quale Manrico è testimonial.

Grazie alle sue competenze, Manrico Padovani è ospite come Professore presso alcune famose Università in Giappone, Usa, Canada, Messico, Germania, Slovenia e Svizzera.
Effettua numerose registrazioni radiofoniche e televisive per Rai 1, Rai 2, LA7, TSI e DRS.

Strumenti
Manrico ama coinvolgere e affascinare il pubblico con i suoi racconti sui programmi che affronta tramite una chiave di accesso divulgativa semplificata, suonando strumenti preziosi di Antonio Stradivari, di Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Parigi, 1870), di Joseph Gagliano (Napoli, 1780) e di Giovanni Battista Rogeri (Brescia, 1695).
Durante questi anni, insieme a Natasha Korsakova, concede l'esposizione dei violini in loro dotazione in vari musei. Nel 2014 espongono al Museo d'arte di Mendrisio lo "Stradivari Ex-Nachez" (Cremona, 1716) e lo "Stradivari Ex-Vogelweith" (Cremona, 1711), generosamente messi a disposizione dalla A. Scheitele Rare Violins. Nel 2016 per i 300 anni dalla costruzione dell'originale Stradivari Messiah (Cremona,1716) espongono al "Museo dei Violini" di Cremona i loro due violini da concerto Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume costruiti a Parigi nel 1870 e 1873.

Premi e riconoscimenti
 1992 "Premio del Giubileo" UBS
 1993-1995 "Ruggiero Ricci's International Master Competition" di Berlino
 1995 "Accademia Chigiana" di Siena. Diploma di Merito, borsa di Studio e selezionato per lo Swiss Youth Music Festival Prize
 1995 "Concorso Internazionale di Musica" di Vienna
 1996 Stradivari Aurea del 1715 dalla Fondazione Habisreutinger
 1996-1997 Premi nazionali e borse di studio presso le Fondazioni "J. Bär" e "Schuler"
 2010 Registrazione colonna sonora lungometraggio "Sinestesia" di Erik Bernasconi, presentato al Festival di Berlino
 2011 Premio Musica Classica del Kuratorium del Canton Argovia
 2010-2012 Prestito dello Stradivari Jupiter (1722) dalla Nippon Music Foundation di Tokyo

Discografia
Nelle sue registrazioni discografiche, pubblicate su CD e DVD per diverse etichette, emergono i concerti per violino e orchestra di J. Brahms, L.V.  Beethoven, S. Prokofjew nr.1 e N. Paganini nr.1.

CD
Tabula Rasa: 4 Concertos for 2 violins and Orchestra by J. S. Bach Concerto in d minor BWV 1043 for 2 vl and orchestra Arvö Pärt; "Tabula Rasa" for 2 violins, string orchestra and prepared piano (1977); Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in a minor for 2 violins and orchestra RV 522; Alfred Schnittke, Concerto grosso n.3 for 2 violins, cembalo, piano, bells and orchestra (1985)
Manrico Padovani et al.: T. Fortmann: Sonata for Violin and Piano: A Southern Diary; Four Pieces for Two Violins: Con Pepe e Zucchero; Piano Trio: Prolitheus Suite
Neujahrskonzert, Smetana Hall, Prague (live): C. Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondò Capriccioso, Op. 20 J.; J. Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs; P. de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasie Op. 25 (Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, B. Perrenoud)
Padovani plays Paganini: N. Paganini: Violin Concerto in D major Nr. 1, Op. 6 (Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra / B. Perrenoud)
Nippon Music Foundation: Best of 2007-2012: Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, Paris (2010)
Nippon Music Foundation: Encounter with Stradivari: Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, Paris (2010)
Manolo Carrasco: 1812 Viva la Pepa: Featuring Manrico Padovani (2012)
Manrico Padovani: L. van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61; Romance in G major Op. 40; Romance in F major Op. 50; Russian Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow / B. Perrenoud
Manrico Padovani: J. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77; S. Prokofjew: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 19 Nr. 1; Academic State Capella Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg / B. Perrenoud;
Manrico Padovani: C. Debussy: Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano; F. Poulenc: Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano (Ed. Corrigée 1949); L. Janáček: Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano; A. Honegger: Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano Nr.1 (Yukiko Hori, Piano)
Manrico Padovani: C. Gilardi: Opus 2, "Se un'onda sapesse …" (for Violin solo, composed for Manrico Padovani)
Manrico Padovani: F. Krommer: Three String Quartets. 18 (Quartetto di Milano)
Manrico Padovani: J. Raff String Quartet in D minor Op. 77; String Quartet in D major Op. 192 / 2 "La belle Meunière" (Quartetto di Milano)

DVD
Nippon Music Foundation:  Best of 2007-2012: Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, Paris (2010)
Nippon Music Foundation: Encounter with Stradivari: Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, Paris (2010)
Padovani plays Paganini: N. Paganini: Violin Concerto in D major Nr. 1, Op. 6 (Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra / B. Perrenoud)

Repertorio
Il repertorio musicale di Manrico spazia dal barocco di J.S. Bach alla musica dei giorni nostri, passando anche per differenti generi come il pop, il crossover, il jazz e la musica indiana.

J. S. Bach:Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in A Minor BWV 1041;Violin Concerto Nr. 2 in E Major BWV 1042;Violin Concerto in D Minor BWV 1043 for 2 Violins;Violin Concerto in D Minor BWV 1052;Violin Concerto in D Minor BWV 1061 for Violin and Oboe;Violin Concerto in G Minor BWV 1075
B. Bartòk: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 (1908); 2 Rhapsodien (1928)
L. van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 61; Romances Nr. 1 in G Major Op. 40, Nr. 2 F major Op. 50; Triple Concerto in C Major Op. 56
A. Berg: Violin Concerto "To the memory of an angel" (1935)
J. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 77; Double Concerto in A Minor Op. 102 for Violin and Cello
M. Bruch: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in G Minor Op. 26; Violin Concerto Nr. 2 in D Minor Op. 44; "Scottish Fantasy" Op. 46
J. Conus: Violin Concerto in E Minor
A. Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A Minor Op. 53; Romance Op.11
A. Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor Op. 82
J. Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major Nr. 1 Hob VIIa:1; Violin Concerto in G Major Nr. 2 Hob VIIa:4
K.A. Hartmann: "Concerto funèbre" for Violin and String orchestra
A. Khatchaturian: Violin Concerto in D Major (1940)
E. Lalo: "Sinfonie Éspagnole" Op. 21; "Norwegian Fantasy"
W. Lutoslawsky: "Partita" (1984 Rev. 1991)
F. Martin: Violin Concerto (1950)
F. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64; Violin Concerto in D Minor (1822)
D. Milhaud: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 Op. 93; Violin Concerto Nr. 2 Op. 263; Concertino di Primavera Op. 135 (1934); "Le Boef sur le toit" Op. 58 (1919)
W.A. Mozart: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in B flat Major KV 207; Violin Concerto Nr. 2 in D Major KV 211; Violin Concerto Nr. 3 in G Major KV 216; Violin Concerto Nr. 4 in D Major KV 218; Violin Concerto Nr. 5 in A Major KV 219; Violin Concerto Nr. 7 in D Major KV 271a
N. Paganini: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in D Major Op. 6 M.S. 21; Violin Concerto Nr. 2 in B Minor Op. 7 "La Campanella" M.S. 48; "Suonata con Variazioni" on a Theme by J. Weigl M.S. 47; "La Primavera" M.S. 73; "Mosés Fanatasie" M.S. 23
S. Prokofjew: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in D Major Op. 19; Violin Concerto Nr. 2 in G Minor Op. 65
M. Ravel: "Tzigane", Rhapsodie de concert
M. Rózsa: North Hungarian Paesant songs and dances (1930)
C. Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto Nr. 3 in B Minor Op. 61; "Introduction et Rondo capriccioso" Op. 20; "Havanaise" Op. 83
P. de Sarasate: "Carmen Fantasy" Op. 25; "Gipsy Airs" Op. 20; "Introduction and Tarantella" Op. 43; "Navarra" Op. 33 for 2 Violins; "Magic Flute Fantasy" Op. 54
F. Schubert: Adagio and Rondò in A Major D. 438
R. Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor (1853); Fantasy Op. 131
O. Schoeck: Violin Concerto "Quasi una fantasia" in B flat Major Op.21
D. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in A Minor Op. 77
J. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 47; 6 Humoresques Op. 87 1-2 / Op. 89 1-4
L. Spohr: Violin Concerto Nr. 8 in A Minor Op. 47; "In the form of a vocal scene"
I. Strawinsky: Violin Concerto (Concerto in D) (1931)
K. Szymanowsky: Violin Concerto Nr. 2 Op. 61 (1932/33)
G. Tartini: Violin Concerto in D Major D. 28; Violin Concerto in E Minor D. 56; Violin Concerto in A Major D. 96; Violin Concerto in A Minor D. 113; Violin Concerto in B Minor D. 125
P. Tchaikowsky: Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35; "Serenade melancolique" Op. 26
H. Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto Nr. 5 in A Minor Op. 37
G.B. Viotti: Violin Concerto Nr. 20 in D Major; Violin Concerto Nr. 22 in A Minor
A. Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni" : Violin Concerto Op. 8 Nr. 1 in E Major "The Spring",Violin Concerto Op. 8 Nr. 2 in G Minor "The Summer", Violin Concerto Op. 8 Nr. 3 in F Major "The Autumn", Violin Concerto Op. 8 Nr. 4 in F Minor "The Winter"; Verschiedene Konzerte aus Op. 3, aus Op. 8 und aus Op. 10
H. Wieniawski: Violin Concerto Nr. 2 Op. 22 in D Minor; Legende Op. 17

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Patent application title: ADAPTABLE WATERTIGHT BARRIER
Inventors: Thomas Joseph Prestella (Sherwood, AR, US)
IPC8 Class: AB60R1301FI
USPC Class: 296 392
Class name: Bodies lining open truck bed
An adaptable barrier for transforming a cavity defined by at least one rail into a watertight compartment, wherein the watertight compartment may conform to various sized cavities while attaching thereto. The adaptable barrier may include a base sheet having a front edge joined to a sidewall comprising a more elastic material, forming the watertight compartment, whose opening is defined by a second edge. A peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, wherein the peripheral rim may be positionable from a folded up position to a folded down position engaging the at least one rail.
1. An adaptable barrier for reception within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, providing a watertight compartment therein, comprising: a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, and wherein the sidewall provides a drain conduit, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge; and a peripheral rim comprising malleable material, wherein the peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object, whereby the peripheral rim urges a hugging effect on the at least one elongated object.
2. The adaptable barrier of claim 1, wherein the sidewall further comprises a plurality of constituent wall segments.
3. The adaptable barrier of claim 1, wherein the peripheral rim further comprises a L-shaped component of malleable material formed and biased in the L-shape, wherein two legs of the L-shaped component are pivotably positionable to form at least an I-shape, whereby the L-shape is the folded down position and the at least I-shape is the folded up position.
4. The adaptable barrier of claim 3, wherein one leg of the L-shaped component is generally pivotable about the second edge.
5. (canceled)
8. An adaptable barrier for reception within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, providing a watertight compartment therein, comprising: a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge, and wherein the sidewall provides a drain conduit; and a peripheral rim pivotably joined to the second edge, wherein the peripheral rim is a L-shaped component of malleable material formed and biased in the L-shape, wherein two legs of the L-shaped component are pivotably positionable to form at least an I-shape, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object, whereby the peripheral rim urges a hugging effect on the at least one elongated object.
10. The adaptable barrier of claim 8, wherein one leg of the L-shaped component is generally pivotable about the second edge.
11. An adaptable barrier for reception within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, providing a watertight compartment therein, comprising: a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge; and a peripheral rim comprising malleable material, wherein the peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object, wherein the peripheral rim further comprises a L-shaped component of malleable material formed and biased in the L-shape, wherein two legs of the L-shaped component are pivotably positionable to form at least an I-shape, whereby the peripheral rim urges a hugging effect on the at least one elongated object.
12. The adaptable barrier of claim 11, wherein one leg of the L-shaped component is generally pivotable about the second edge.
[0001] The present invention relates to watertight barriers and, more particularly, to an apparatus providing a watertight barrier to a pick-up truck bed.
[0002] Truck beds are inherently not watertight. This is because they are manufactured to allow liquids to pass freely through cracks formed on the bottom and sides of the tailgate when the tailgate is in the closed position. Also, many truck beds are manufactured with drains at the low points (to prevent rain and moisture accumulation).
[0003] Lining truck beds with conventional tarps to make them watertight is labor intensive and inefficient. The one-dimensional square or rectangular shape of a tarp makes it difficult to effectively line the interior of a multi-dimensional truck bed. Also, they require many abrasive ropes and/or bungee cords to hold them in place, which is problematic because tarps tend to be designed to deflect water not contain large quantities of it in a confined space. As a result, they easily tear at the tie-down points or burst under the intense stress caused by holding large amounts of weight.
[0004] Pickup truck bed inserts of various types are known in the prior art to accommodate fluid filling for bathing and recreation events. However, such inserts are hard and rigid in construction, tailored for only one specific truck bed design, and so would require impractical numerous dimension alterations to be received by various truck bed designs and wheel well housings.
[0005] As can be seen, there is a need for an apparatus for creating a watertight barrier within a truck bed, wherein the apparatus is adaptable to the interior dimensions of various truck bed designs, and can be self-secured without abrasive ropes or bungee cords.
[0006] In one aspect of the present invention, an adaptable barrier for reception within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, providing a watertight compartment therein, comprises: a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge; and a peripheral rim comprising malleable material, wherein the peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object, whereby the peripheral rim urges a hugging effect on the at least one elongated object.
[0007] In another aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a watertight compartment within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, comprises the steps of: providing an adaptable barrier comprising a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge; and a peripheral rim comprising malleable material, wherein the peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object; placing the adaptable barrier within the cavity; and positioning the peripheral rim to the folded down position so as to operably engage the at least one elongated object.
[0008] In yet another aspect of the present invention, an adaptable barrier for reception within a cavity defined by at least one elongated object, providing a watertight compartment therein, comprises: a base sheet comprising a front edge; a sidewall comprising an elastic material, wherein the sidewall comprises a first edge and a second edge, wherein the base sheet and the sidewall are connected along the front edge and the first edge, forming the watertight compartment, wherein an opening is defined by the second edge, and wherein the sidewall provides a drain conduit; and a peripheral rim pivotably joined to the second edge, wherein the peripheral rim is a L-shaped component of malleable material formed and biased in the L-shape, wherein two legs of the L-shaped component are pivotably positionable to form at least an I-shape, and wherein the peripheral rim is positionable in a folded up position to a folded down position operably engaging the at least one elongated object, whereby the peripheral rim urges a hugging effect on the at least one elongated object.
[0009] These and other features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings, description and claims.
[0010] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, illustrated in use;
[0011] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
[0012] FIG. 3 is a side view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
[0013] FIG. 4 is a front view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
[0014] FIG. 5 is a section view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, taken along line 5-5 in FIG. 3;
[0015] FIG. 6 is a section view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, illustrating a peripheral rim in a folded up position;
[0016] FIG. 7 is an exploded view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 8 is a section view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the peripheral rim in a folded down position;
[0019] FIG. 10 is a section view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, taken along line 10-10 in FIG. 1; and
[0020] FIG. 11 is a section detail view of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[0021] The following detailed description is of the best currently contemplated modes of carrying out exemplary embodiments of the invention. The description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, but is made merely for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention, since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended claims.
[0022] Broadly, an embodiment of the present invention provides an adaptable barrier for transforming a cavity defined by at least one rail into a watertight compartment, wherein the watertight compartment may conform to various sized cavities while attaching thereto. The adaptable barrier may include a base sheet having a front edge joined to a sidewall comprising a more elastic material, forming the watertight compartment, whose opening is defined by a second edge. A peripheral rim is joined along the second edge, wherein the peripheral rim may be positionable from a folded up position to a folded down position engaging the at least one rail.
[0023] Referring to FIGS. 1 through 11, the present invention may include an adaptable barrier 10. The adaptable barrier 10 may include a substantially flat base sheet 26 and an adaptable sidewall 30 providing a peripheral rim 14. The base sheet 26 may be made of material that can be repeatedly bent without fracturing, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, vinyl, nylon, rubber, various impregnated or laminated fibrous materials, various plasticized materials and the like, and have a front edge 28. The adaptable sidewall 30 may be made of elastic material to form a generally tubular configuration with a first edge 28 and a second edge 34. The base sheet 26 and the adaptable sidewall 30 may be connected along the front edge 28 and the first edge 28 forming a generally 90 degree angle defining a box-like compartment, having an opening defined by the second edge 34, as illustrated in FIG. 2. Such connections may be provided by a bonding process, such as heat sealing, welding, applying adhesive glue, a combination thereof or the like. In a certain embodiment, the adaptable sidewall 30 may be a unitary construction. In an alternative embodiment, the adaptable sidewall 30 may be comprised of a plurality of constituent wall segments.
[0024] In certain embodiments, the base sheet 26 may have four sides along the front edge 28 forming a rectangular shape complementing of a rectangular-shaped first edge 28. The dimensions of the rectangular base sheet 26 may be adapted to accommodate any truck bed dimensions.
[0025] The second edge 34 may provide a generally U-shaped peripheral rim 14 made of a malleable material forming at least one component. The peripheral rim 14 may be formed by bonding a first planar component 54 along the second edge 34 so that it perpendicularly extends to a pivot point 44, and then further formed by bonding a second planar component 64 from along pivot point 44, wherein the second planar component 64 extend to an end point 74, as illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6. In certain embodiments, the peripheral rim 14 may be formed by a unitary L-shaped component and/or an L-shaped component formed from a plurality of constituent planar components.
[0026] The peripheral rim 14 may be biased in the L-shape, though substantially pivotably about the pivot point 44 and/or the second edge 34 to a generally unbiased state. As a result, the peripheral rim 14 may be positionable in a folded up position and a folded down position enabling a "turn-back" property. This "turn-back" property is urged by the U-shape biasing, creating a self-securing "hugging effect" about an elongated object that the peripheral rim 14 extends from a first side thereof, and then "turns back" down the second side thereof. The "turn-back" property enables the adaptable barrier 10 to conform to different sized spaces defined by the elongated object(s), for example a truck bed 18 of a pickup truck 16 defined by the truck's rails 20 (the elongated object).
[0027] The adaptable sidewall 30 may provide a drain conduit 11 therethrough for draining a fluid 24. The drain conduit 11 may have a conduit plug/valve 12 removably mounted thereto. The drain conduit 11 may be disposed along the rectangular sidewall 30 on a short rectangular leg so that it faces a tailgate 22 when used in a truck bed 18, as illustrated in FIG. 2.
[0028] The method of using the present invention may include the following. The adaptable barrier 10 disclosed above may be provided. With the tailgate 22 in the closed/shut position, a user may position the adaptable barrier 10, with the peripheral rim 14 in the folded up position, in the truck bed 18 of a pick-up truck 16 so that the drain conduit 11 faces the tailgate 22. The adaptable sidewall 30 may conform to the interior structure of the truck bed 18, for example, by dimpling and bending to stretch to the truck bed top-rails 20 while accommodating wheel well housings. The user may move the peripheral rim 14 to the folded down position so that the peripheral rim 14 folds over at least one of the truck bed top-rails 20. In certain embodiments, the peripheral rim 14 and/or the sidewall 30 may dimple in the corners to accommodate the stretch to the truck bed top-rails 20. After ensuring that the drain plug/valve 12 is in a closed position, the user may fill the compartment with a fluid 24, such as water, to the desired level. Upon completion of use of the fluid-filled compartment, the user may open the drain plug/valve 12 to allow the fluid 18 to drain from the compartment and through cracks on underside of tailgate 22. Alternatively, the user may first let down the tailgate 22 prior to opening the drain plug/valve 12. When the fluid 18 has drained, the user may remove the adaptable barrier 10.
[0029] In certain embodiments, the adaptable barrier 10 can be used as a bathtub for hygienic bathing, to convert a truck bed into a watertight ice chest for serving food and beverages at outdoor events, or otherwise be inserted into any suitable cavity so as to provide a watertight compartment.
[0030] It should be understood, of course, that the foregoing relates to exemplary embodiments of the invention and that modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
Patent applications in class Open truck bed
Patent applications in all subclasses Open truck bed
2013-07-18 Expandable barrier
2014-11-27 Adjustable partition
2015-04-09 Portable padded armrest
2016-02-18 Wear surface
2015-03-05 Liner system for truck bed
2014-12-11 Truck bed liner with integrated storage system
2014-12-04 Wear resistant lining element for edge protection and method for manufacturing the same
2014-11-06 Wear resistant lining element and method for disengaging material
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Bantario: Former eHealth execs in new contract controversy!
Some of the same executives involved in the eHealth scandal helped approve a lucrative consulting contract for a friend's firm four years ago when they were running another provincial health agency, sources tell CBC News.
The McGuinty government had tasked Cancer Care Ontario in 2005 with finding ways to reduce hospital wait times for cancer surgery. At the time, Sarah Kramer was a vice-president and the chief information officer at the agency, and Alan Hudson was the CEO.
Kramer later went on the head eHealth Ontario, while Hudson became the chair of eHealth. Kramer was fired from that job in June, and Hudson resigned as chair soon after it emerged they doled out millions of dollars in untendered contracts.
Cancer Care Ontario put out a call for tenders on June 30, 2005, to develop a computer system to measure wait times for such procedures as cardiac surgery, hip replacements and MRIs.
The agency considered 11 proposals to land the contract and narrowed the list to two contenders.
But the company that eventually landed the contract, Accenture, did not make that final short list, CBC News has learned.
The company, which was among the 11 original bidders, was contacted by Cancer Care Ontario and told it had not made the final two, Accenture told CBC News.
That changed after a senior partner at the firm, Will Falk, made a phone call to Kramer, who was on holiday when the short list was drawn up, three sources close to the bidding process told CBC News. Accenture won the contract a day or two after that phone call in mid August 2005, the sources said.
They requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
"We have no reason to believe our team acted inappropriately in the contract bidding process," Accenture said in a statement. "We have both won and lost competitive work for CCO."
The statement did not deny that Falk made a call to Kramer.
Kramer, who similarly said she wasn't involved in any wrongdoing, also did not deny that she received a call from Falk.
"No single person at CCO was responsible for awarding this contract to Accenture, rather a full committee with appropriate representation and expertise decided that Accenture was the most appropriate candidate to do this work," Kramer said in a statement to CBC News.
Kramer and Falk were close personal friends — Falk was one of Kramer's references when she applied for the position of eHealth CEO.
The Cancer Care Ontario contract was initially supposed to be worth $5 million, but the sources said that amount later ballooned to close to $20 million.
The next year, Accenture secured another contract — this one was tendered — to implement the program it had designed in 50 Ontario hospitals.
Cancer Care Ontario denied CBC's request for a copy of Accenture's wait times contract. Although it's a government agency, Cancer Care Ontario is not subject to the province's freedom of information rules.
The agency acknowledged in a statement to CBC News that Accenture did not make the final two companies. But after reviewing oral presentations from the two, "questions were raised about the financial stability of one of the vendors and the project management approach of both organizations," said Mitchell Toker, spokesman for Cancer Care Ontario.
"In addition, there was a concern that one of the vendors lacked technical expertise with the software in question."
Accenture, which was the next vendor in waiting, was asked to make an oral presentation and then secured the contract, he said.
Falk and Hudson declined requests for interviews.
eHealth was set up last September by the Liberal government. It was tasked with developing a digital record system by 2015 to allow health-care providers to electronically share patient information to prevent medical errors and reduce costs.
Kramer and Hudson left eHealth in June soon after the health agency doled out $16 million in contracts without any apparent attempt to open the deals to outside bidders within the first four months of its creation in September 2008.
The agency paid consultants millions of dollars for — among other things — watching TV, reading the New York Times and holding a conversation on the subway.
Ontario's auditor-general is due to release the results of his investigation into eHealth on Wednesday.


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New Gods and Old Soldiers:
Kirby in the '70s
by Rocko Jerome | in Editorials | Thu, 28 August 2014
To put it simply, it's impossible to imagine comic books existing in their modern form without Jack Kirby. It's hard to fathom what Marvel Comics at their inception and heyday might've been like without Jack drawing most of the books, stretching imagination to its limits, all while establishing a house style. During the celebrated Marvel Age of the 1960′s, Kirby, a workhorse of uncanny proportions, produced more books a month than most creators do in a year today.
He was often and easily taken for granted, and stretched thin to the point that the work he's most recognized for, unfortunately, isn't really his best work. As much as I love his 100 issue marathon run on Fantastic Four, his truly epic Thor issues, wall to wall action in Avengers, all Marvel Comics he brought to life, and characters he created, it was his '70s leap to DC Comics that brought his truest vision to paper. Foreseeing the trade paperback market of today, Jack knew that comic fandom was strong enough that at some point, the slowly rotting newsprint of floppy comics would give way to more permanent reprint collections, and started writing his New Gods saga for an eventual collection and larger audience one day. Basically a story of generational struggle told with cosmically Shakespearean characters, Jack's new world was launched initially in the pages of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, because when the heads at DC told him he could have any book, he only wanted to take on one where it wouldn't result in anyone else losing their jobs.
Mister Miracle, chronicling the adventures of an escape artist hero based on Jim Steranko, and Forever People, which was like the cast of Godspell as outer space explorers, were both fun an interesting books, but the real mainline dose of brain melting head zap came through loud and clear in New Gods. New Gods followed the reign of destruction and terror that Orion, the very estranged and maladjusted son of Darkseid, wrought against his father and his lackeys. With the puckish and well-meaning Lightray ever attempting in vain to yin his yang, Orion might've just been the most brutal comics anti-hero of the '70s. Not since Bill Everrett's Sub-Mariner of the 40′s did the main character of a book so gleefully cause chaos.
His cruelty culminated in a brutal moment when Orion crushed the "Mother Box," the sort of sentient cellphone every New God carried, of one of his enemies, who was laying prone and defeated…for no good reason. He then laughed hysterically. "She's gone Slig!! When she couldn't serve you- your Mother Box chose to die!! She loved you, Slig!!! Hahahahaha!!!!"
Orion's usually handsome face would slide into a monstrous visage whenever he got this far gone, his "true face" that was hidden by Mother Box reconstruction, courtesy of his upbringing on New Genesis. Kirby seemed to be the ultimate proponent of nature over nurture, as evidenced by the story that unfolded in New Gods #7- "The Pact." Many have said it's Kirby's single greatest issue of all time, in which the backstory is revealed that Darkseid of Apokolips and his ultimate opposite, Highfather of New Genesis, traded sons decades previous in order to avoid war. While Orion was brought up with hugs and love, he still turned out embittered and furious, while Highfather's boy Scott Free would grow up to become the Devil-May-Care Mister Miracle, in spite of growing up tortured and tormented.
Unfortunately, '70s DC Comics wasn't the time or place for the innovations in deeply personal and heady comics he was making, and the three books that made up the continuing story were canceled after about a year. Although DC would go on to utilize the characters he created there to great success, especially the villainous patriarch Darkseid, the saga Jack intended to tell with a beginning, middle, and end was cut short.
Never one to be discouraged, Jack went ahead and kept on at DC for a while, creating more characters in Demon and Kamandi, but he ended up returning to Marvel and getting carte blanche doing story and art on Captain America, which became a trippy and occasionally existential journey into madness. For the first time in a very long time, Jack was back home, working on perhaps the strongest character that he created, and his imagination really ran wild.(This was where Cap would hop dimensions and encountered incredibly bizzare and surreal foes like Arnim Zola and Doughboy.)
The books were unpopular in the bullpen of the time. Certain creators were known to call them "stupid" and considered them embarrassing, even as they created books that were mere shadows of what Jack was doing. Attempts to top the late '70s Captain America for sheer surreality were chronically doomed to failure. I always like to think that Kirby covertly dropped acid at some point and that his wild creations came from somewhere besides just pure imagination…but I also like to believe that he didn't, and they were.
These were the first Kirby books I saw as a young kid, and I couldn't completely make heads or tails of them. They're challenging. You have to sit with them. In my case, it took decades to fully get my head around them. There's a certain vibe to the work that he did there, the images are hypnotic and explosive. The sensibility is grandiose, but there's such grit to what he did. Like all the best tastes, Kirby in this period is an acquired one.
In the mid '80s, Jack returned to DC to finish his New Gods story. It was a great coup, as Marvel was celebrating a 25th anniversary, and Kirby was noticeably absent from their self-celebratory products. It was the perfect time for DC to celebrate the genius they had shafted years prior. The initial issues of New Gods were reprinted on fine, thick Baxter Paper, the first issue of the compilation series featured the great line "Read the New Gods –As they really are!" A number of writers and artists since had their way with the New Gods (and continue to do so), but this continues to be the reality of company owned IP. Stung with Darkseid and company, the plan had been that they would all be Kirby from start to finish.
In the conclusion to the saga called Hunger Dogs, the fated final confrontation between Darkseid and his son Orion transpired, and ended in a way that no one had predicted. It's not a beloved piece of work by most, but it is by me. Jack's art takes on almost a Picasso like post-impressionistic tone, and the story told is ultimately one about moving past trauma and a thirst for getting even. Darkseid, although often depicted as some sort of noble character, was intended by Kirby to be the ultimate dishonorable, conniving mensch. He was the personification of everything that Kirby hated about anyone he ever didn't like, and was primarily based on Richard Nixon, whom he despised. So of course, when Orion showed up to duke it out with dad for once and for all, he encountered a hidden firing squad that took him out without Darkseid breaking a sweat.
A barely alive yet recuperating Orion would initially plot revenge, but in the end, he met a girl he liked and changed his mind. In one series of memorable panels, Darkseid grew smaller and smaller in his rocket's rear view as he blasted off to explore the universe with his new found love.
This wasn't what most people were expecting or desired, but to me, it was perfect. The final fate of Darkseid was explored in the Super Powers comic, oddly enough a toy line tie-in, told in two miniseries soon after. Usually dismissed offhand as "non-continuity," it's hard to imagine Jack gave a damn what the book was called when he drew it, or what editorial's larger plan for how it related to their other books was.
In those stories, Darkseid's lapdog Desaad (As in The Marquis De Sade, the real life inspiration for the character) ultimately betrayed his lord and master, blowing his mind for good with a wild device at what would've been his moment of greatest triumph. That was the last time Kirby drew him…so that was his final fate as far as I'm concerned. I accept no substitutes, and I read the New Gods…as they really were.
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Keyth Danielsen says:
4 January 2015 at 5:58am
Oh, please. I am so tired of the Jack Kirby hagiography which excuses his massive failings as a writer and the fact that from 1970 onward, with the exception of Kamandi (which was a ripoff of Planet of the Apes), he was not able to come up with one successful title. After Neal Adams I consider him the greatest comic book artist of all time. There is no doubt he was a creative dynamo responsible in large part for the success of Marvel in the 60s. But left to his own devices his storytelling was unfocused, poorly plotted and filled with some of the clunkiest dialogue in the history of the medium. Of course the reason for the cancelation of his titles was always somebody else's fault according to him. I guess that's what happens when you delude yourself the way he did that he was solely responsible for Marvel's success. My initial enthusiasm for the New God's tetralogy quickly dissipated due to shortcomings in the execution and the horrible dialogue. Everything that followed: the Demon, Kamandi Dingbats of Danger Street, Devil Dinosaur, the Eternals, Black Panther was just as bad. Being the Marvel/DC zombie I was in those days I would pick up his output then ask myself why after suffering through another issue. Following Steve Englehart's great run on Captain America, Kirby's was juvenile and just plain awful. It's a shame that someone as talented as Jack Kirby couldn't be humble enough to see he couldn't go it alone. Instead he seemed to spend a good chunk of the latter part of his life playing the victim, blaming others for his lack of success. Unfortunately he was enabled in this by too many people such as yourself who were calling his output better than it was and making excuses for his own self-inflicted failures.
Rocko Jerome says:
28 August 2015 at 9:11am
You calling me a l'il bastard?


My new friend, Monika, who lives in Germany, posted a photo of this on the doll quilt swap group and started a firestorm! It was decided that a swap was in order and I was enlisted to run it. We had people from all over the world signing up to take part and we've closed the sign-ups now and have 127 people swapping mug rugs. They'll all get their partner info on Saturday. It's been very time-consuming and that's why I'm not blogging much, or visiting other blogs. Plus, I'm a swap mama in 2 other big swaps, one is winding down and the other is just starting, so there's a lot of initial stuff to do. Plus I have orders to fill AND Jim just came home with an abandoned dog, who needed a bath desperately and it looks like we're keeping her, dangit.
I don't need another dog, this will put us back up to 3 big dogs. God, I hate people who dump their animals. She's maybe 7 months old, part yellow lab and was covered with seed ticks, covered! And one flea. Grrrr. She's very sweet though, for a new girl. Acts submissive to the other dogs, which is smart. Gosh darn it. Just when we were getting used to having just the 2 big dogs, now these 2 are all crazed and acting like morons. The cats will freak out once they see her, we haven't let her in it because of all the ticks. They're dying though and falling off and being combed off, like crazy. She has a vet appt this afternoon for shots and a heartworm test, please let it be negative! And she needs a name. Photos later.
I did find time to make a practice mug rug for Jim, he likes it and so do I.
I like the mug rugs and wish I had know about it soon enough to join in. Have fun with the new family member.
How do you find out about these? This one was small enough that I could have played. I have had such fun reading about the placemat, and doll quilt swaps, but I didn't read anything about where you could do this... Help!
I think you should name her Dolly Mug....she came at the end of DQS9 and at the beginning of the Mug Swap!;) You all are kind, kind people...there needs to be more Flossie and Jim's in this world!!
You have done a wonderful job on this swap! Thanks again for doing it!
Super excited about the mug rug swap! I know the new dog is loving his new home.
Wow!! This is going to be a huge swap! I can't wait to get my name tomorrow. Congratulations on your new family member. She sounds like she needs some TLC and you guys rescued her just in time. How sad that she had to live with all those ticks. Very sad.
You have your hands full girl. And thanks so much for handling this new swap.
Hi Susan! I'm so with Alice R!! How do you know? For me, the shipping is doable too as well as the size! I would love to join you all on the NEXT round! How do we find out about these???
I totally love your dear-mug-rag ! I have the painters pallet color dots,but not the rest og the line. Looks like hard to find.. Anyway, bet Jim is happy !


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Browse > Home / Thriller / Shallow Grave: Criterion Collection - WhatDVD.Net
Shallow Grave: Criterion Collection
Director: Danny Boyle,
Starring: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen, Colin McCredie, Peter Mullan,
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Shallow Grave (1994) announced the arrival of a formidable trio of Scottish filmmakers: screenwriter John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle. Their calling card was a nasty little thriller starring then relatively unknown actors Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor. The film was a modest international hit but a big success in the United Kingdom, paving the way for future success for all involved.
"If you can't trust your friends well what then?" asks David Stevens (Eccleston) at the beginning of the film via voiceover narration. He and his roommates Alex (McGregor) and Juliet (Fox) are looking for one more person to fill the occupancy in their spacious Edinburgh apartment. They're single young professionals and are a tight-knit trio who rigorously screen prospective roommates by mocking them, insulting them and basically playing on any perceived weaknesses.
They haven't found anyone good until Hugo (Allen), a writer who charms Juliet and impresses Alex and David with his directness. Everything goes swimmingly until Hugo's prolonged absence begins to mystify them. Eventually, curiosity gets the better of them and they break into Hugo's room to find him dead from a drug overdose. While searching the room for signs of what killed him Alex finds a suitcase full of money. Instead of reporting it to the police, they decide to dispose of the body and keep the money. Of course it isn't that easy as Hugo's criminal associates and also the police come calling. If that wasn't enough, Alex, David and Juliet start bickering amongst themselves (well, more so than usual) and all that money tests their loyalties to one another. Pretty soon any trust between them is gone and they're at each other's throats, both literally and figuratively.
Where most thrillers of this kind offer someone for you to empathize with, the three protagonists are all quite unlikable. In fact, they're downright amoral, from how casually they decide not to report Hugo's death and keep the money, to how they dispose of the body (which Boyle doesn't show but we hear the gruesome sounds). One has to give it up to the talented actors that play the three protagonists for not trying to illicit our sympathies, which would be the traditional thing to do. Instead, we have three unapologetically amoral characters excellent realized by Eccleston, Fox, and McGregor.
They are, in turn, ably supported by Boyle's slick, confident direction that cribs a bit from Hitchcock and a bit from the Coen brothers (Blood Simple) but has enough of his own emerging, energetic style that he would employ in future films to even greater effect. He and his collaborators, Hodge, Macdonald, along with McGregor would follow up Shallow Grave with an adaptation of Trainspotting (1996), which became an international sensation and whose success subsequently overshadowed their feature film debut. Regardless, Shallow Grave remains a striking debut and a clever thriller that explores the limits of friendship.
The extras-loaded Criterion Collection Blu-Ray is a fantastic upgrade from the bare bones MGM DVD from years ago. There is no artifacting on this top notch transfer, which really shows off the reds and blues in various scenes. The electronica music sounds fantastic on the sound side of things, giving the DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel a nice workout.
There is an audio commentary by director Danny Boyle. He starts off talking about where they got the money for the film and his initial reaction to the screenplay. He was working in television and carried over what he learned on Shallow Grave. Naturally, he talks about the camerawork while also touching upon casting. Basically, he talks about how to make a decent film for a million pounds on this engaging and informative track.
Also included is a commentary by screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald. Hodge cites Blood Simple (1984) and Sex, Lies & Videotape (1989) as cinematic influences on his script. Macdonald recalls meeting the writer and how they both were fans of American independent cinema. Those films inspired him to make Shallow Grave outside the studio system. They also talk about the casting of the lead actors and how Kerry Fox was the most well-known of the three at the time, which helped get it financed.
Actors Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor are interviewed individually and look back at the film, recalling their experiences making it. They all talk about getting involved in the project and their initial impressions of the script. Naturally, they talk about their respective characters and put the film in context of the U.K. socio-economic situation at that time. They all come off as engaging and intelligent as they recount filming anecdotes.
There is a rather amusing video diary by Andrew Macdonald and his brother Kevin done in 1992 while shopping the script for Shallow Grave at the Edinburgh Film Festival. They talk to the likes of director Sam Fuller, actor Robbie Coltrane and various film critics. It seems like everyone wants to see the script or ask what their budget will be. At the end they even manage to get Sean Connery on the phone but nothing comes of it.
"Digging Your Own Grave" is a 30-minute documentary done when the film was released. It takes us inside the production, from raising the money to completion. We see some of the challenges of making a low budget film by a bunch of first-timers.
Also included is a theatrical trailer.
Finally, there is a "Trainspotting teaser," which was attached to Shallow Grave when it was released on home video and while their next film was still in production. Interestingly, it features footage not in the film.
Website: http://www.criterion.com/films/27981-shallow-grave
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Q: Codeigniter doesn't work without index.php I'm using MAMP with alias named works.
Codeigniter is at localhost/works/project/web
controllers doesn't work without index.php before them (localhost/works/project/web/index.php/auth/register)

$config['base_url'] = 'localhost/works/project/web/'; //with http://

$config['index_page'] = '';

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

(I tried all of them for uri_protocol)
I created and edit .htaccess file at /User/me/works/project/web/
I tired all the .htaccess files about this issue.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Users/me/works/project/web

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#This last condition enables access to the images and css folders, and the robots.txt file
#Submitted by Michael Radlmaier (mradlmaier)
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

creates error, which is:
[error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Users/me/works/project/web/auth
it is same when I use RewriteBase /
mod_rewrite is active in phpInfo.
I couldn't find the solution.

A: Your RewriteBase is wrong. It should not be the relative file path for your server, it should be the relative URL path for your rewrite rules and such. More info here.
If you've ever used HTML's <base> tag, it's pretty much the same principle. If your main localhost URL is http://localhost, and your project is in the subfolder http://localhost/my-project, then you would use RewriteBase /my-project/.
If you didn't use RewriteBase, and your project is in a subfolder, you'd have to add the subfolder to every one of your URLs and rewrites, like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-project/index.php/$1 [L]

Food for thought:

*

*Start your .htaccess files as simple as possible. The more you throw at it right away, the more that can go wrong, and the harder it is to debug. Especially if you're a noob to .htaccess files. Don't blindly copy and paste -- figure out what things actually do.

*The system folder access part is redundant now -- the system folder has its own .htaccess to restrict requests, just like the application folder.

A: 1.Make below changes in application/config.php file
$config['base_url'] = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/Your Ci folder_name';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

2.use this in .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

and enable rewrite mode using below command
 a2enmod rewrite

and Edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
change the AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.

and finally Restart your server

A: You certainly don't have mod_rewrite on or you did not install it with MAMP
Open your httpd config file and change
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride None

To
AllowOverride All

uncomment this line:
#LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

Also make some changes to users here: /etc/apache2/users/username.conf
LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

DocumentRoot "/Users/username/where/ever/you/like"

<Directory "/Users/username/where/ever/you/like">
    Options Indexes MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Get more info here http://adam.merrifield.ca/2010/08/09/apache-mod_rewrite-php-and-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/

Restart MAMP

To find out if mod_rewrite is on, follow this answer in Stackoverflow:
How to check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php?

Just to be sure your .htaccess is not the issue, could you try this one. It's been tested:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /Users/me/works/project/web/

    # If the start of the URL doesn't match one of these...
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt|assets|cache|themes|uploads|css|images|js)

    # Route through index.php
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

Access to certain folders are granted above and the rewritebase has a trailing slash.

Make sure you have any other nested .htaccess overriding this very one.

A: I fixed the problem by instead of using .htacces, I write them to httpd.conf.
I checked the AllowOverride is All but I'm not sure why .htaccess isn't working. Because of I lost too much time with this issue, I'm going to use this way.
Thanks for the answers.

A: Use AllowOverride All on your vhost:
<Directory "/path/to/your/site">
    ....
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

A: Open your httpd config file
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so then AllowOverride All
          <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs"> //example for xampp
               Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
               AllowOverride All
               Order allow,deny
               Allow from all
           </Directory>

A: I have installed codeigniter in a url like the format: http://11.12.34.45/~project/
I tried different suggestions and finally this following url provided the solution:
https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/urls/remove_index.php.html

A: You need to change two files of Apache,
httpd.conf
httpd-vhosts.conf
change this in httpd.conf
<Files ".ht*">
Require all denied
</Files>

to,
<Files ".ht*">
Require all granted
</Files>

and add below code in httpd-vhosts.conf,
<VirtualHost *:8000>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www
<Directory  "c:/wamp64/www/">
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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