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Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak
Yasuhiro Gotoh, Takako Taniguchi, Dai Yoshimura, Keisuke Katsura, Yuji Saeki, Yasutoshi Hirabara, Mayumi Fukuda, Ichiro Takajo, Junko Tomida, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Takehiko Itoh, Naoaki Misawa, Akihiko Okayama, Tetsuya Hayashi
応用幹細胞医科学
病態制御学
Helicobacter cinaedi is an emerging pathogen causing bacteraemia and cellulitis. Nosocomial transmission of this microbe has been described, but detailed molecular-epidemiological analyses have not been performed. Here, we describe the results of a multi-step genome-wide phylogenetic analysis of a suspected intra-hospital outbreak of H. cinaedi that occurred in a hospital in Japan. The outbreak was recognized by the infectious control team (ICT) of the hospital as a sudden increase in H. cinaedi bacteraemia. ICT defined this outbreak case based on 16S rRNA sequence data and epidemiological information, but were unable to determine the source and route of the infections. We therefore re-investigated this case using whole-genome sequencing (WGS). We first performed a species-wide analysis using publicly available genome sequences to understand the level of genomic diversity of this under-studied species. The clusters identified were then separately analysed using the genome sequence of a representative strain in each cluster as a reference. These analyses provided a high-level phylogenetic resolution of each cluster, identified a confident set of outbreak isolates, and discriminated them from other closely related but distinct clones, which were locally circulating and invaded the hospital during the same period. By considering the epidemiological data, possible strain transmission chains were inferred, which highlighted the role of asymptomatic carriers or environmental contamination. The emergence of a subclone with increased resistance to fluoroquinolones in the outbreak was also recognized. Our results demonstrate the impact of the use of a closely related genome as a reference to maximize the power of WGS.
https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000236
Fluoroquinolones
Gotoh, Y., Taniguchi, T., Yoshimura, D., Katsura, K., Saeki, Y., Hirabara, Y., ... Hayashi, T. (2019). Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak. Microbial Genomics, 5(1), [000236]. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000236
Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak. / Gotoh, Yasuhiro; Taniguchi, Takako; Yoshimura, Dai; Katsura, Keisuke; Saeki, Yuji; Hirabara, Yasutoshi; Fukuda, Mayumi; Takajo, Ichiro; Tomida, Junko; Kawamura, Yoshiaki; Ogura, Yoshitoshi; Itoh, Takehiko; Misawa, Naoaki; Okayama, Akihiko; Hayashi, Tetsuya.
:: Microbial Genomics, 巻 5, 番号 1, 000236, 01.2019.
Gotoh, Y, Taniguchi, T, Yoshimura, D, Katsura, K, Saeki, Y, Hirabara, Y, Fukuda, M, Takajo, I, Tomida, J, Kawamura, Y, Ogura, Y, Itoh, T, Misawa, N, Okayama, A & Hayashi, T 2019, 'Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak', Microbial Genomics, 巻. 5, 番号 1, 000236. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000236
Gotoh Y, Taniguchi T, Yoshimura D, Katsura K, Saeki Y, Hirabara Y その他. Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak. Microbial Genomics. 2019 1;5(1). 000236. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000236
Gotoh, Yasuhiro ; Taniguchi, Takako ; Yoshimura, Dai ; Katsura, Keisuke ; Saeki, Yuji ; Hirabara, Yasutoshi ; Fukuda, Mayumi ; Takajo, Ichiro ; Tomida, Junko ; Kawamura, Yoshiaki ; Ogura, Yoshitoshi ; Itoh, Takehiko ; Misawa, Naoaki ; Okayama, Akihiko ; Hayashi, Tetsuya. / Multi-step genomic dissection of a suspected intra-hospital helicobacter cinaedi outbreak. :: Microbial Genomics. 2019 ; 巻 5, 番号 1.
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Un ardoisier est une personne qui travaille l'ardoise. Le travail de l'ardoise peut se faire dans des carrières ou sur des chantiers de construction (ou de rénovation) de bâtiments, en particulier pour les toitures.

Dans le bâtiment, l'ardoisier travaille habituellement avec un marteau qui lui permet de couper l'ardoise sur une enclume spéciale. Le marteau comporte un tranchant permettant  de couper les ardoises, une pointe pour faire des trous dans l'ardoise, un arrache-clou, la tête, qui existe pour tous les marteaux. L'enclume, en forme de T est très légère car elle est destinée à aller sur le toit.

Aujourd'hui, ce métier est souvent considéré comme relevant de la tradition et les ardoisiers se concentrent essentiellement sur la restauration de bâtiments.

Chez les catholiques, le saint patron des ardoisiers est saint Lézin d'Angers.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Scailteur

Métier de l'artisanat
Métier du bâtiment
Ardoiserie
Couverture (construction)
Métier de la pierre

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Q: Reference on Infinite Dimensional Manifold I am studying manifold. For comprehension, I read the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold, and there is some information about infinite dimensional manifold.
Now I have two questions or requests:
(1) When was infinite dimensional manifold introduced? I guess this may be related to Functional Analysis. But I want more details about its history.
(2) I am still curious about the properties about infinite dimensional manifold, especially local same as topological vector space. Could someone give a reference about it. Thanks.

A: The book "Riemannian Geometry" by Wilhelm Klingenberg does include an infinite-dimensional setting from the start, if I remember correctly, that is, your manifold is modelled on any separable Hilbert or Banach space (for a Riemannian metric, you obviously need a Hilbert space though).
The most extensive treatment that I know if is the Book "The convenient setting of global analysis" by Peter Michor, that treats manifolds modeled on any locally convex vector space. This book has a lot a stuff and a lot of functional analysis in particular.
Regarding the first question, I don't know a definite answer, but I think that infinite-dimensional manifolds where considered first in Physics, where the appear somewhat naturally (even though they may not have been called that way or were given a mathematically rigoros treatment).

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USAGE = """robot.testdoc -- Robot Framework test data documentation tool

Version:  <VERSION>

Usage:  python -m robot.testdoc [options] data_sources output_file

Testdoc generates a high level test documentation based on Robot Framework
test data. Generated documentation includes name, documentation and other
metadata of each test suite and test case, as well as the top-level keywords
and their arguments.

Options
=======

  -T --title title       Set the title of the generated documentation.
                         Underscores in the title are converted to spaces.
                         The default title is the name of the top level suite.
  -N --name name         Override the name of the top level suite.
  -D --doc document      Override the documentation of the top level suite.
  -M --metadata name:value *  Set/override metadata of the top level suite.
  -G --settag tag *      Set given tag(s) to all test cases.
  -t --test name *       Include tests by name.
  -s --suite name *      Include suites by name.
  -i --include tag *     Include tests by tags.
  -e --exclude tag *     Exclude tests by tags.
  -h -? --help           Print this help.

All options except --title have exactly same semantics as same options have
when executing test cases.

Execution
=========

Data can be given as a single file, directory, or as multiple files and
directories. In all these cases, the last argument must be the file where
to write the output. The output is always created in HTML format.

Testdoc works with all interpreters supported by Robot Framework (Python,
Jython and IronPython). It can be executed as an installed module like
`python -m robot.testdoc` or as a script like `python path/robot/testdoc.py`.

Examples:

  python -m robot.testdoc my_test.html testdoc.html
  jython -m robot.testdoc -N smoke_tests -i smoke path/to/my_tests smoke.html
  ipy path/to/robot/testdoc.py first_suite.txt second_suite.txt output.html
"""

import sys
import os
from os.path import abspath, dirname
import codecs
import time

# Allows running as a script. __name__ check needed with multiprocessing:
# http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1137
if 'robot' not in sys.modules and __name__ == '__main__':
    import pythonpathsetter

from robot import utils
from robot.running import TestSuite, Keyword
from robot.conf import RobotSettings
from robot.parsing import disable_curdir_processing
from robot.htmldata import HtmlFileWriter, ModelWriter, JsonWriter, TESTDOC

class TestDoc(utils.Application):

    def __init__(self):
        utils.Application.__init__(self, USAGE, arg_limits=(2,))

    def main(self, args, title=None, **options):
        datasources = args[0:-1]
        outfile = abspath(args[-1])
        suite = TestSuiteFactory(datasources, **options)
        self._write_test_doc(suite, outfile, title)
        self.console(outfile)

    def _write_test_doc(self, suite, outfile, title):
        output = codecs.open(outfile, 'w', 'UTF-8')
        model_writer = TestdocModelWriter(output, suite, title)
        HtmlFileWriter(output, model_writer).write(TESTDOC)
        output.close()

@disable_curdir_processing
def TestSuiteFactory(datasources, **options):
    if isinstance(datasources, basestring):
        datasources = [datasources]
    return TestSuite(datasources, RobotSettings(options))

class TestdocModelWriter(ModelWriter):

    def __init__(self, output, suite, title=None):
        self._output = output
        self._output_path = getattr(output, 'name', None)
        self._suite = suite
        self._title = title.replace('_', ' ') if title else suite.name

    def write(self, line):
        self._output.write('<script type="text/javascript">' + os.linesep)
        self.write_data()
        self._output.write('</script>' + os.linesep)

    def write_data(self):
        generated_time = time.localtime()
        model = {
            'suite': JsonConverter(self._output_path).convert(self._suite),
            'title': self._title,
            'generated': utils.format_time(generated_time, gmtsep=' '),
            'generatedMillis': long(time.mktime(generated_time) * 1000)
        }
        JsonWriter(self._output).write_json('testdoc = ', model)

class JsonConverter(object):

    def __init__(self, output_path=None):
        self._output_path = output_path

    def convert(self, suite):
        return self._convert_suite(suite)

    def _convert_suite(self, suite):
        return {
            'source': suite.source or '',
            'relativeSource': self._get_relative_source(suite.source),
            'id': suite.id,
            'name': suite.name,
            'fullName': suite.longname,
            'doc': self._html(suite.doc),
            'metadata': [(n, self._html(v)) for n, v in suite.metadata.items()],
            'numberOfTests': suite.get_test_count(),
            'suites': self._convert_suites(suite),
            'tests': self._convert_tests(suite),
            'keywords': list(self._convert_keywords(suite))
        }

    def _get_relative_source(self, source):
        if not source or not self._output_path:
            return ''
        return utils.get_link_path(source, dirname(self._output_path))

    def _html(self, item):
        return utils.html_format(utils.unescape(item))

    def _convert_suites(self, suite):
        return [self._convert_suite(s) for s in suite.suites]

    def _convert_tests(self, suite):
        return [self._convert_test(t) for t in suite.tests]

    def _convert_test(self, test):
        return {
            'name': test.name,
            'fullName': test.longname,
            'id': test.id,
            'doc': self._html(test.doc),
            'tags': utils.normalize_tags(test.tags),
            'timeout': self._get_timeout(test.timeout),
            'keywords': list(self._convert_keywords(test))
        }

    def _convert_keywords(self, item):
        if item.setup.name:
            yield self._convert_keyword(item.setup, type='SETUP')
        for kw in getattr(item, 'keywords', []):
            yield self._convert_keyword(kw)
        if item.teardown.name:
            yield self._convert_keyword(item.teardown, type='TEARDOWN')

    def _convert_keyword(self, kw, type=None):
        return {
            'name': kw._get_name(kw.name) if isinstance(kw, Keyword) else kw.name,
            'arguments': ', '.join(kw.args),
            'type': type or {'kw': 'KEYWORD', 'for': 'FOR'}[kw.type]
        }

    def _get_timeout(self, timeout):
        try:
            tout = utils.secs_to_timestr(utils.timestr_to_secs(timeout.string))
        except ValueError:
            tout = timeout.string
        if timeout.message:
            tout += ' :: ' + timeout.message
        return tout

def testdoc_cli(args):
    """Executes testdoc similarly as from the command line.

    :param args: command line arguments as a list of strings.

    Example:
       testdoc_cli(['--title', 'Test Plan', 'mytests', 'plan.html'])
    """
    TestDoc().execute_cli(args)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    testdoc_cli(sys.argv[1:])


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New York Attorney Tries to DISSOLVE the NRA with Series of Lawsuits
(FreedomJournal.org)- Letitia James, New York's activist Attorney General, has filed several lawsuits against the National Rifle Association in an attempt to dissolve the group. It follows decades of smearing and slandering from the Democrats about the pro-Second Amendment organization, and recent calls by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to ban the sale of AR-15s.
James filed lawsuits not just against the National Rifle Association, but also against several high-profile leaders of the organization, claiming financial irregularities.
James announced on Thursday that her office would soon make a major announcement that would have an impact nationally. Many media outlets and pundits predicted that it might have been legal action against President Donald Trump or members of the Trump family, but it soon turned out she was going after the NRA instead. James said that she was intending to "dissolve" the NRA over what she claims is "fraud and abuse" from within the organization.
James cited reports of financial mismanagement.
Does anyone believe James wants the NRA shut down because of financial mismanagement, and that this isn't just an attempt to get rid of a pro-gun organization that the Democrats have hated for years?"
New York Attorney General Letitia James: "For these years of fraud and misconduct, we are seeking an order to dissolve the NRA in its entirety." https://t.co/yHU8ulrU7v pic.twitter.com/DGrEN0OZvb
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 6, 2020
"I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct," James claimed. "The @NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse. No organization is above the law."
In the lawsuit, James suggests that the NRA has violated New York charity laws for years by diverting millions of dollars away from its charitable mission for personal use by senior membership of the organizational leadership.
"Our lawsuit charges the NRA as a whole and four senior leaders, including Wayne LaPierre, with failing to manage the NRA's funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws. These actions contributed to the loss of more than $63 million in just three years for the NRA," she claimed.
The suit alleges that LaPierre and other leadership figures used money that should have been used to defend the Second Amendment on private travel, meals, and other expenses.
The New York Attorney General office also accused the NRA of engaging in "illegal conduct" which included "awarding contracts to the financial gain of close associates and family, and appearing to dole out lucrative no-show contracts to former employees in order to buy their silence and continued loyalty."
Well, this could get messy.

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McCain wins big on Super Tuesday
Feb. 6, 2008 12:00 a.m.
Republican John McCain won the most delegates and states, including California, on Super Tuesday, dealing a serious blow to rival Mitt Romney's struggling campaign.
Romney planned to huddle today with senior advisers for "frank discussions" about the future of his campaign, although he did not cancel a speech scheduled for Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington, D.C.
"This campaign is looking forward and planning our speech at CPAC and our ongoing effort towards the nomination," Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told The Examiner.
Fellow Republican Mike Huckabee also vowed to fight on after turning in a surprisingly strong performance Tuesday.
But McCain was the big winner in states that stretched from coast to coast. He won Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Missouri. But it was his victory in California, the biggest prize of all, that deflated Romney.
"Although I've never minded the role of the underdog — and have relished as much as anyone come-from-behind wins — tonight I think we must get used to the idea that we are the Republican Party front-runner for the nomination of president of the United States," McCain told supporters in Arizona.
McCain gave his speech before the California results were announced. So did Romney, who had been counting on a win here to keep his lackluster campaign alive. Romney did win Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Utah.
"There are some people who thought it was all going be done tonight, but it's not all done tonight," Romney told supporters in Massachusetts. "We're going to keep on battling. We're going to go all the way to the convention. We're going to win this thing."
Huckabee won his home state of Arkansas, as well as Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia. He appeared to take delight in disproving naysayers who predicted Super Tuesday would be his political swan song.
"So many people said you can't get there," he told an audience in Arkansas. "And tonight we're proving that we're still on our feet."
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What Can A Wrinkle in Time Teach Us About Writing?
I don't know about you, but I'm excited about the new movie version of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. Excited and nervous, the way I am every time one of my favorite books is turned into a movie.
Disney's A Wrinkle in Time comes out March 9, and I'm really hoping it'll be good.
I'm not sure how I feel about Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, but overall I'm loving the non-traditional casting. Protagonist Meg Murray is a person of color, the Happy Medium is played by Zach Galifianakis, and the magical beings who take the children on their interstellar adventure are played by three diverse and super famous women: Witherspoon, Mindy Kahling, and Oprah. (Yeah, freaking Oprah.) So that's pretty cool.
In preparation for the movie, I decided to revisit A Wrinkle in Time, a book I had already read more times than is probably normal.
Completed in 1960, L'Engle says the manuscript was rejected by at least twenty-six publishers because it was "too different." It finally found a home in 1962 with the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and it went on to win the Newberry Medal along with many other honors. A Wrinkle in Time also became the first book in the Time Quintet, a series of novels L'Engle wrote about the Murry and O'Keefe families.
So anyway, what can we kidlit writers glean from this classic novel? Glad you asked! Here are five lessons writers can learn from Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
Just as playing a sport with someone better than you can help you improve, reading something a little above their level can help kids increase their vocabulary and become better readers. Plus, there's nothing kids hate more than being talked down to.
Not only does L'Engle give her kid readers lyrical and adult-like prose, she also trusts them with some adult-like ideas and themes such as conformity, the fifth dimension, and good versus evil.
No one is perfect, so don't forget to give your protagonist some real flaws. In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg is stubborn, impatient, impulsive, quick-tempered, and insecure. And with her glasses, braces, and unruly hair, she's flawed (or at least she thinks so) in the looks department, too.
In many novels, the protagonist must overcome their weaknesses in order to reach their goal. In A Wrinkle in Time, however, Meg's flaws are actually what help her defeat IT and save her little brother's life. Instead of completely overcoming her flaws, she realizes that her greatest weaknesses can also be her greatest strengths. Her stubbornness makes her strong, her impatience and impulsivity come from passion. And, most importantly, despite her flaws, her family loves her, and she loves them. In the end, it's love that saves the day.
One of the things I think works so well about A Wrinkle in Time is that Meg is so deeply flawed. She's someone we can identify with, and hopefully she helps kid readers realize that one doesn't have to be perfect or "fit in" in order to be loved.
A Wrinkle in Time is both. First, strange Mrs. Whatsit shows up at Meg's house in the middle of the night, in the middle of a wild storm. As it turns out, Mrs. Whatsit and her friends have arrived in order to take Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and her new friend Calvin on a journey across time and space.
The pacing of A Wrinkle in Time is on point. In the middle of Chapter One, Mrs. Whatsit shows up. I would call this the inciting incident – what gets the story started.
At the end of Chapter 3, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin are whisked off into space with Mrs. Whatsit and her friends. I would call this the climax of Act One. According to Blake Snyder, author of Save the Cat, the act one climax is when "the main character enters an "upside down world" where they're completely out of their element." In Meg's case, her "upside down world" is strange planets in other galaxies!
My copy of A Wrinkle in Time is approximately 200 pages. The children begin their intersteller journey around page 50: one-fourth of the way through the novel. And that, my friends, is what's called good pacing. If it takes you longer than one-fourth of your novel to get to Act 2 and the real meat of your story, you're probably spending too long getting your story started.
The protagonist realizes her goal is not what she thought or not what she wants.
The protagonist realizes she will need to change her plan of action.
The protagonist gives up her old goal in place of a new one.
I'll give you a classic example first. In The Wizard of Oz, the turning point is when Dorothy and her friends reach the Wizard (their goal), and realize that he won't help them unless they kill the Wicked Witch of the West (which then becomes their new goal and new plan of action).
She had been so certain that the moment she found her father everything would be all right. Everything would be settled. All the problems would be taken out of her hands. She would no longer be responsible for anything.
And instead of this happy and expected outcome, they seemed to be encountering all kinds of new troubles.
Meg reaches her goal but realizes it's not what she thought. She saved her father, but in the process they had to leave Charles Wallace behind, in the grips of the terrible IT. At this point Meg realizes her father is not all-powerful, and she can't depend on him to fix everything. Now she has a new goal: to save Charles Wallace. And she must do it all by herself.
"How did you know this was Charles Wallace's house?" Meg asked.
"By the smell." Mrs. Whatsit untied a blue-and-green paisley scarf, a red-and-yellow flowered print, a gold Liberty print, a red-and-black bandanna. Under all this, a sparse quantity of grayish hair was tied in a small but tidy knot on top of her head.
In my opinion, these are some of the best and most memorable characters literature has to offer. I sincerely hope the Disney movie does them justice!
What do you think about A Wrinkle in Time? What can it teach us about writing? And are you looking forward to the new movie version?
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I've never read the books but I'm looking forward to the movie. This was an interesting breakdown. Yes, I've been spoiled but it's my own fault and it hasn't dimmed my interest in the film. As a writer myself, I like how you approached it as writing lessons.
Can you believe I still haven't seen the movie!! I plan to go this weekend.


Today most of the things are driven by technology.
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To this, internet plays a major role in real time accessibility of data and information using the Property Management System (PMS).
There are two different types of PMS available in the market; 1) On premise (Installed), 2) Cloud Computing (Web-based) software.
On premise software comes with hardware. Large hotels who can provide space and have budget for additional hardware often choose On-Premise software over the fears that cloud data can be compromised.
While Cloud Computing or web-based software does not require any additional hardware and it makes data and information accessible from anywhere on a strong internet.
Cloud Based Hotel Software comes with multiple benefits which can help big hotels to manage their hotels easily.
On security apparatus cloud property software is secured and risk free and it is safe to access important data and files even when if your system is damaged.
Everything important to hotel, including files, guest's information and data all is stored automatically on cloud and is totally secure from the risk of hacking.
What could be more interesting and helpful than this that you can access your property's information and data while you are away from your property?
The cloud property software gives you this power to browse all important files, housekeeping status, reservation and bookings from any remote location with a strong internet.
Cloud based PMS uses internet to automatically store information.
With cloud property software you aren't only using a secure system but also using a flexible system which genuinely designed to suit the needs of hoteliers.
It automatically accommodates any new feature you want to add and updates it in real time.
This also means that you can customize the interface with your choice of features which are helpful to your business.
Cloud Property Software is designed user friendly, which is easy to use and adapt.
You do not require technical knowledge or know how to use Cloud based PMS.
It runs on basic internet connection, which means you do not have to maintain discs or go through lengthy installation process.
Time conflict is a genuine issue when it comes to different locations. However, with cloud property software this conflict can be solved as it allows you to access and available anytime from anywhere developing a quality rapport among your client and customers.
Onsite installation of software is expensive and requires space. Moreover, this kind of set up needs to be maintained regularly which in itself is huge expense for any business.
While Cloud property software does not require any kind of hardware or have any maintenance cost which automatically drops the expense.


How do you all feel about these kinds of things in game?
The only boxes worth buying are McDonalds' Happy Meals because 100% chance of getting a fun toy or KFC's $5 Fill Up box because it will fill you up! Also, Japanese bento boxes because you are guaranteed all kinds of delicious food!
Idc if they're cosmetic and give no stats boosts, but I hate it when it's like in Maplestory that you REQUIRE them to get better gear or like other games when it's special gear that gives boosts.
@HawtNoodle do you feel they "fixed" that with the Reboot server?
@captain Kinda, since you could buy them with meso only. But that's the reason there's so many hackers in Reboot now so 50/50. 50 for a decend solution, 50 for all the hackers...all the hackers is one of the reason I stopped playing all together.
New Rime trailer is out and it looks awesome as heck. Reminds me of Prince of Persia with really beautiful, Anime-like graphics and robots thrown in.
Another trailer for the Miyazaki-inspired, animated film "The Witch's Flower" is out.


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Story By: Don Jakoby
Screenplay By: David Diamond & David Weissman & Don Jakoby
Directed By: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Akiko Ann Morison (Lieutenant Lucy Mai), Andrew Francis (Wayne Green), Cusse Mankuma (Professor Harry Phineas Block), Fiona Hogan (Dr. Allison Reed), John Payne (General Woodman), Kirby Morrow (Dr. Ira Kane), Lee Tockar (Gorby), Mark Acheson ( )
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Written By: Paul Quinn & Michel Trouillet
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La Sartiglia è una corsa alla stella che si corre l'ultima domenica e martedì di carnevale ad Oristano, dove carnevale e Sartiglia sono praticamente sinonimi. È una delle più antiche manifestazioni equestri che ancora si svolgono in area Mediterranea si tratta di una fra le più spettacolari e coreografiche forme di Carnevale in Sardegna. Riecheggia riti di rigenerazione agraria.

Il termine Sartiglia deriva dal castigliano Sortija, a sua volta derivante dal latino sorticula, ossia anello, e trattiene in sé il diminutivo sors, fortuna. Le origini della giostra affondano negli antichi tornei cavallereschi militari, nella corsa alla stella con spada e sciabola che si è tramandata negli anni. Essa consiste nel tentativo dei cavalieri di centrare il bersaglio appeso a un nastro verde, sfidando la sorte.

Origine della Giostra
L'introduzione in Europa dei giochi militari utilizzati per l'addestramento delle milizie è avvenuta probabilmente grazie ai Crociati intorno all'XI secolo, i quali a loro volta ne avevano appreso la pratica dai loro nemici Saraceni. La gara subì molte evoluzioni e fu conservata con alcune varianti. Col passare del tempo e con l'introduzione della polvere da sparo, la lancia cadde in disuso e le giostre equestri vennero usate solo come esercizio per le reclute della cavalleria. Nel corso del XV e XVI secolo le corse equestri persero la valenza militare e si trasformarono in veri e propri spettacoli pubblici. Anche la giostra oristanese rientra nell'ambito delle corse all'anello offerte al pubblico da sovrani, feudatari o corporazioni di mestiere in occasione di speciali festività.

Non si conoscono documenti di età medievale che riportino notizie sulla Sartiglia, tuttavia le visite dei giudici di Arborea presso i signorotti dei Comuni italiani del XIII e XIV secolo nonché i soggiorni nella penisola iberica, erano molto frequenti e ciò induce a pensare che i sovrani arborensi conoscessero i giochi di addestramento militare e che anche a Oristano i nobili si cimentassero nelle corse a cavallo con la spada e la lancia. Nel corso dei secoli la pratica della Sartiglia si mantenne viva dapprima come manifestazione delle classi nobiliari, poi borghesi coinvolgendo infine strati sociali prima esclusi, diventando in tal modo un'espressione di vita, di costumi e di cultura popolari.

Nei secoli di dominazione spagnola abbiamo testimonianze di giostre equestri nelle Città Regie di Oristano, Cagliari, Sassari e Iglesias, organizzate per celebrare importanti avvenimenti come l'ascesa al trono di un nuovo sovrano, matrimoni reali o importanti festività del calendario liturgico.

La più antica testimonianza della corsa oristanese si conserva in un registro di consiglieria datato 1547-48, rinvenuto dall'archivista paleografa Ilaria Urgu nell'Archivio Storico del Comune di Oristano. Nel documento si registra il pagamento effettuato dalla Città Regia a favore di Nicolao Pinna per la fornitura di un drappo di tessuto nero utilizzato in occasione di una Sortilla. La corsa venne organizzata in onore dell'Imperatore Carlo V, presumibilmente nel 1546.

Fonti documentarie successive fanno riferimento all'acquisto da parte dell'autorità cittadina di stocchi da utilizzarsi in occasione della corsa, ciò induce a pensare che in origine la Sartiglia fosse organizzata dall'istituzione municipale e solo successivamente venne affidata ai gremi, corporazioni di mestiere attive a Oristano dal Cinquecento, che ancora oggi si occupano di curare le fasi cerimoniali della manifestazione.

Sono numerosi i documenti sulla giostra risalenti all'XVII e XVIII secolo. Uno dei più significativi, in quanto riferisce per la prima volta la corsa all'anello nella variante della stella, è datato 1722. Si tratta di una cronaca dei festeggiamenti organizzati per celebrare le nozze di Carlo Emanuele di Savoia con la principessa Anna Cristina Luisa Palatina di Sulzbach, ai quali parteciparono numerosi figuranti e tutti i gremi della città di Oristano, che per qualche giorno divenne teatro di mascaradas e corse equestri. Questo tipo di rappresentazioni teatralizzate tipiche dell'Italia rinascimentale, infatti, godevano di una certa diffusione ed erano apprezzate anche nella Sardegna barocca. Il prezioso documento nomina tra i protagonisti di questo magnifico spettacolo i contadini, i quali si cimentarono nella corsa alla stella.

I documenti a oggi conosciuti, fanno supporre che nella seconda metà del settecento sia stata istituzionalizzata la Sartiglia di carnevale la cui organizzazione fu demandata ai gremi. A questo periodo si dovrebbe ascrivere la volontà di un canonico della cattedrale arborense di donare al Gremio dei Contadini di San Giovanni Battista un fondo rustico i cui proventi avrebbero garantito le spese della manifestazione. Ancora oggi la tradizione ricorda su Cungiau de sa Sartiglia, il fondo la cui rendita avrebbe garantito le spese della corsa in perpetuo, pena la perdita dei diritti su quel terreno da parte del Gremio dei Contadini. Diversamente, il Gremio dei Falegnami di San Giuseppe, storicamente sosteneva le spese dell'organizzazione della corsa attraverso i fondi raccolti dalla questua effettuata dai soci e dagli apprendisti del gremio e dalle offerte fatte alla corporazione da famiglie nobili e benestanti della città.

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I Gremi
I gremi sono le antiche corporazioni delle arti e mestieri che nascono sotto la dominazione aragonese, dotate ognuna di un proprio statuto di derivazione barcellonese. Il termine Gremio si ritrova solo a partire dal XVIII secolo e deriva dal mettersi "in grembo" cioè sotto la protezione di uno o più santi patroni. A Oristano fino al XIX secolo erano attivi sette Gremi: Muratori, Scarpari, Ferrari, Falegnami, Figoli, Sarti e Contadini. Vennero aboliti per legge nel maggio del 1864 ma alcuni sopravvissero trasformandosi in società di mutuo soccorso, perdendo gli obblighi legati al mestiere ma preservando quelli religiosi. Ad oggi sopravvivono il Gremio dei contadini, sotto la protezione di San Giovanni Battista, quello dei falegnami, sotto la protezione di San Giuseppe e quello dei muratori sotto la protezione di Santa Lucia. Al Gremio dei Contadini sono affidate le fasi cerimoniali della Sartiglia che si corre la domenica, mentre a quello dei Falegnami quelle del martedì. Entrambi sono custodi della tradizione ed è loro compito assicurarne lo svolgimento in qualsiasi condizione meteorologica, economica e sociale. La loro attività si svolge durante tutto l'arco dell'anno ed è strettamente correlata con la giostra equestre. In occasione della festività del santo patrono vengono rinnovate le cariche sociali e si procede alla nomina de is Oberaiu Majoris per il Gremio dei Contadini e del Majorale en Cabo per il Gremio dei Falegnami, cui spetta il compito di scegliere su Componidori.

  Gremio dei contadini: ha bandiera rossa, è devoto a S.Giovanni Battista e organizza la Sartiglia della domenica
  Gremio dei falegnami: ha bandiera rosa e azzurra, è devoto a S.Giuseppe e organizza la Sartiglia del martedì

Su Componidori

La Sartiglia della domenica si svolge sotto la protezione di San Giovanni Battista, quella del martedì, organizzata dal Gremio dei Falegnami, sotto la protezione di San Giuseppe.
Le usanze stratificate nel tempo fanno da contorno all'unico vero protagonista: su Componidori e la sua maschera androgina. È lui il Signore della Festa. Uomo e donna al tempo stesso, né femmina né maschio, su Componidori nasce nel corso di una vestizione pubblica, celebrata da ragazze che indossano costumi antichi. La Sartiglia comincia con la vestizione del Capo Corsa, uno dei riti più impenetrabili della tradizione sarda. Un tempo il diritto di essere scelto come Componidori era appannaggio dei soli nobili oristanesi. La prima donna Componidori gareggia nel 1973.

Tamburini e Trombettieri
Essendo la giostra di origine cavalleresca ogni momento è scandito dai ritmi dei tamburi e dai suoni delle trombe a sottolinearne l'importanza e contribuendo così alla sua solennità. Ogni passo ha il suo significato, viene tramandato da secoli e imparato a memoria. Il suono dei tamburi e gli squilli delle trombe hanno inoltre una funzione di sicurezza, avvisano infatti della discesa in pista di un cavaliere, invitando così a sgomberare il percorso per evitare incidenti. Dal 1861 i trombettieri suonano le prime 6 note dell'inno del Regno D'Italia come Regio Decreto del 1861 n°1654 come volere di Sua Maestà il Re Vittorio Emanuele II che fu il primo a indire la Sartiglia come festa nazionale sarda.
I ritmi:
 Su passu de su Componidori (Il passo del Componidori). Viene suonato durante la vestizione, durante la cerimonia d'incrocio delle spade, quando su Componidori riporta la spada al Gremio e prende su stoccu ed infine durante la svestizione.
 su passu de istrada (Il passo della strada). Eseguito durante la sfilata, accompagna il capo corsa dalla casa dellOberaju Majore o Majorale en Cabo del Gremio (rispettivamente dei Contadini e dei Falegnami) al luogo in cui avviene la vestizione, dalla vestizione alla via Duomo per la corsa alla stella, poi dalla corsa alla stella alle pariglie che avvengono in via Mazzini e infine viene suonato nella sfilata che porta il capocorsa al luogo della svestizione.
 Su passu de sa gil. Viene eseguito quando scende in pista su Segundu Cumponi, assistente de su Cumponidori.
 Su passu de tres (Il passo del terzo). Accompagna la discesa de su Tertzu Cumponi, aiutante di campo de su Componidori.
 Su passu de s'atru Cumponi (Il passo dell'altro Componidori). Accompagna il percorso del capo corsa dell'altro Gremio che si porta alla partenza.
 Su passu de is bachetas (Il passo delle bacchette). Accompagna su Componidori che si reca dal presidente del Gremio per ricevere sa pippia de maju con cui benedice la folla chiudendo la corsa alla stella.
 Sa curreba''' (la corsa). Si esegue prima che inizi la vestizione de su Componidori, durante la discesa dei cavalieri alla stella, durante le pariglie acrobatiche ed infine quando su Componidori sveste la maschera. I tamburi tengono un ritmo che accompagna la corsa del cavallo, segnalandone la velocità crescente con il diverso rullare. È il ritmo che ha anche la funzione di avvisare il pubblico dell'arrivo di un cavallo al galoppo.
I Gruppi di Tamburini e Trombettieri che curano la colonna sonora della Sartiglia di Oristano sono: il Gruppo "Tamburini e Trombettieri Pro Loco" , lo storico fondato nel 1954 dalla quale successivamente si sono formati negli anni '80 Il Gruppo "Sa Sartiglia" ed il più recente degli anni 2000, Gruppo "Città di Oristano" . Un quarto gruppo denominato "Eleonora d'Arborea" fondato nel 1999 è stato sciolto nel 2013, senza tuttavia partecipare ad una sola
Sartiglia. Tutti gruppi nati dalla tradizione oristanese,  annoverano fra le loro file dei veri e propri veterani della giostra equestre.

I Momenti
La Candelora
L'organizzazione della giostra impiega cavalieri e gremi per buona parte dell'anno, ma è il 2 febbraio, festa della Candelora, il primo atto ufficiale in vista dell'evento.

La mattina, i rappresentanti dei due gremi si recano a messa nella propria chiesa: a San Giovanni dei Fiori quello dei contadini e in Cattedrale quello dei falegnami. Durante la cerimonia religiosa vengono benedetti i ceri, il più grande dei quali, riccamente decorato con fiori e ornato di nastri, è riservato a su Componidori. Al termine della cerimonia il presidente del Gremio, accompagnato dalle massime cariche del gremio stesso, si reca a casa del Componidori prescelto e gli consegna il cero benedetto, comunicando così in forma ufficiale a tutta la città il nome di colui che avrà l'onore di guidare la manifestazione, fino a quel momento segreto.

In tempi recenti, tuttavia, il nome del Componidori viene comunicato qualche mese prima della candelora, soprattutto per motivi organizzativi, ma la cerimonia non ha perso la sua solennità ed è comunque un momento emozionante.

Il Bando
Per lunghi secoli l'attività dei banditori rappresentava una delle principali fonti di informazione di un'intera comunità. Tale formula di comunicazione e di avviso pubblico non mancava di segnalare eventi e cerimonie importanti quali potevano essere spettacoli ed avvenimenti celebrativi. È verosimile che sin dalle più antiche edizioni, anche la corsa della Sartiglia venisse annunciata da un araldo nelle principali piazze della città. Attualmente non si hanno documenti storici relativi a questa fase della giostra che ormai da alcuni decenni, ad opera della Pro Loco cittadina, risulta istituzionalizzata e quindi parte integrante della manifestazione.

La figura dell'araldo a cavallo e la lettura del bando risultano oggi i primi atti del giorno della Sartiglia. L'avviso della corsa viene dato nella mattina della Domenica di Quinquagesima e del martedì successivo, partendo dalla piazza Eleonora, la piazza prospiciente il Palazzo di Città. Il banditore, scortato da alfieri recanti le insegne della città e accompagnato da tamburini e trombettieri, percorre le strade del centro storico cittadino, raggiunge i borghi più vicini, e, soffermandosi nei principali crocevia, da lettura dell'annuncio dell'imminente corsa. Per provvedere all'utile e nobile divertimento dell'intera comunità, l'autorità cittadina invita cavalieri e pubblico per correre ed assistere alla corsa, a recarsi presso "sa seu de Santa Maria", ovvero nel piazzale antistante la cattedrale dell'arcidiocesi arborense.

L'araldo rende note le volontà dell'autorità civica, l'orario d'inizio della gara e i premi riservati ai cavalieri vincitori che, secondo l'antica costumanza, dovranno cimentarsi nelle prove di abilità con la spada e la lancia. Nel bando si comunica inoltre la disposizione affinché tutti i cavalieri partecipanti siano sottoposti al comando e all'ordine de "su Mastru Componidori", ovvero del capocorsa già nominato.

La Vestizione

Sono i due Gremi a scegliere e selezionare chi, tra tanti aspiranti, vestirà i panni di Componidori. C'è un antico rituale che viene rispettato e raggiunge il suo culmine nella vestizione del Capo Corsa, il giorno della Sartiglia. Un rito denso di sacralità, perché su Componidori deve essere forte, puro e coraggioso, deve diventare un sacerdote della fecondità, la cui purezza è legata —nella vigilia della Sartiglia— alla confessione e alla comunione.

Il cavaliere prescelto si presenta, accompagnato da un drappello di tamburini e trombettieri, vestito con una maglietta bianca, calzoni corti di pelle aderenti e con stivali anch'essi di pelle. Accompagnato dal suono delle launeddas sale su un tavolo (sa mesitta) vero e proprio altare, posto all'interno della sala, dove abbondano grano e fiori. Da quel momento, su Componidori non può più toccare terra (non podit ponnî pei in terra). Qualunque contatto diretto con la Grande Madre deve essere evitato perché egli conservi la purezza necessaria a gareggiare e vincere. A vestire il Cavaliere ci pensano is Massaieddas, giovani fanciulle in abito sardo, guidate dalla loro maestra, sa Massaia Manna, mani esperte appartenenti a donne del Gremio. Al Capo Corsa non è nemmeno consentito di toccare gli abiti. È una vera funzione, un rito lungo seguito in silenzio da un numero ristretto di persone, i cui passi salienti sono sottolineati da squilli di tromba, rulli di tamburi e applausi, il cui culmine è il momento in cui viene cucita sul viso la maschera. L'espressione profonda di questa maschera trasforma su Componidori, lo rende inavvicinabile, inarrivabile. Da quel momento in poi, sino alla fine della corsa, il Cavaliere diventa un "semidio" sceso tra i mortali per dare loro buona fortuna e mandare via gli spiriti maligni. Alla fine su Componidori, vestito con in capo un cilindro nero, il velo, una camicia ricca di sbuffi e pizzi, il gilet (cojetto) e il cinturone di pelle, sale sul cavallo che è stato fatto entrare in una sala disposta a religioso silenzio per non innervosirlo, gli viene consegnata sa pippia de maiu e, completamente sdraiato sul cavallo, si porta all'esterno, dove lo attendono gli altri cavalieri e una folla plaudente.

I due Componidoris si distinguono per gli indumenti e le maschere indossate: sono rossi i fiocchi che raccolgono gli sbuffi della camicia del capocorsa della domenica, rosa e azzurri quelli del martedì, anche le camelie che arricchiscono gli abiti sono distintive dei colori dei due gremi, rosso e rosa. Differenze si ritrovano poi nel coietto, la giacca, chiuso da lacci in pelle per il Componidori della domenica e da borchie d'argento a forma di cuore il martedì. Elemento fondamentale è infine la maschera, color terra e impenetrabile per il Gremio dei Contadini, pallida e impassibile per il Gremio dei Falegnami.

La Corsa alla Stella

Ultimata la vestizione su Componidori, preceduto da un corteo in abito tradizionale sardo, dai membri del gremio e da tamburini e trombettieri, unitamente ai suoi luogotenenti su Segundu Cumponi e su Tertzu Cumponi, si mette alla testa di altri 117 cavalieri mascherati, con cavalli riccamente bardati, e si dirige verso la via Duomo. Qui, dopo aver benedetto la folla che lo attende, consegna sa pippia de maju a s'Oberaju Majore per riceverne le spade con cui effettuerà la cerimonia dell'incrocio delle spade: al di sotto della stella che è stata appesa sul percorso, per tre volte incrocia la propria spada con quella de su Segundu con evidente valore propiziatorio.
Sarà poi lui stesso a poter tentare per primo la sorte, lanciandosi al galoppo con la spada tesa nel tentativo di infilzare la stella. L'onore sarà concesso poi dapprima ai suoi aiutanti di campo e poi, cavallerescamente, alla pariglia dell'altro Componidori. Il capo corsa concede via via la spada ad altri cavalieri, in segno di fiducia o di sfida nei confronti della loro abilità. Quanti e quali cavalieri avranno l'onore e l'onere di calcare la pista è sua esclusiva decisione. Una volta soddisfatto del numero di stelle colte per il proprio gremio e per la città, ritorna sul percorso per restituire le spade a s'Oberaju Majore e ricevere su stoccu col quale tenterà ancora una volta di cogliere la Stella. Potrà concedere di sfidare la fortuna con quest'arma anche ai suoi luogotenenti, dopodiché, con in mano ancora una volta sa pippia de maju, lancerà il cavallo al galoppo e, completamente sdraiato su di esso, benedirà la folla con ampi gesti: è sa remada, con la quale dichiara conclusa la corsa alla stella e al termine della quale il corteo si riunisce per spostarsi nella via Mazzini, lungo la quale si corrono le pariglie.

Le Pariglie

Uscendo lanciati al galoppo dal portico che si apre all'inizio della Via Mazzini, tutti i cavalieri, ad eccezione delle pariglie dei Componidoris (che non possono rischiare di cadere da cavallo compromettendo così la propria sacralità) si esibiscono in spericolate acrobazie sulla groppa dei propri destrieri, fino a quando le condizioni di luce lo consentono. È qui che maggiormente vengono evidenziate qualità quali il coraggio, la destrezza e assume primaria importanza la simbiosi uomo-cavallo. La competizione da individuale passa ed essere un gioco di squadra e solo chi, durante il corso dell'anno, è riuscito a sviluppare particolare affiatamento con i propri compagni e con gli animali, sarà in grado di esibire numeri di grande destrezza e abilità.
Le corse a pariglia sono diffuse in tutta la Sardegna e, in principio, non facevano parte della giostra. Furono introdotte in seguito, quando iniziò a partecipare alla giostra anche la parte non nobile della popolazione, anticamente esclusa dalla corsa alla stella. Emblematico a questo proposito è il fatto che si corra su un percorso situato all'esterno delle mura giudicali (un tempo acquitrinoso) e quindi più popolare.
Le corse a pariglia sono oggi la parte più spettacolare della giostra, una giuria valuta le esibizioni proposte e il riuscire ad eseguire un buon numero permette di essere ammessi di diritto a partecipare all'edizione successiva della manifestazione.

La svestizione
Al termine delle pariglie su Componidori saluta la folla benedicendola ancora una volta supino sul cavallo al galoppo, ora assistito dai suoi luogotenenti che gli tengono le briglie e, ricomposto il corteo, si dirige verso lo stesso luogo dove qualche ora prima si era celebrato il rito della vestizione. Qui, sempre a cavallo, si avvicina al tavolo, scende dalla sella badando a non toccare terra e le Massajeddas provvedono a rimuovere gli abiti che ne fanno un semidio e il cavaliere che, per un giorno, è stato re della città, riceve gli applausi e i brindisi in suo onore coinvolgono tutti i presenti. Al contrario della vestizione, che è un rito quasi privato a cui è molto difficile accedere, la svestizione, altrettanto emozionante, è in genere aperta a tutti. Si dà mano ai fiaschi di vernaccia e alle zippole, dando inizio ai festeggiamenti che si protrarranno per tutta la notte. Tutti i cavalieri, tamburini e trombettieri e i componenti del gremio si riuniscono per la ricca cena offerta dal gremio stesso, mentre la folla presente si accalca per le vie del centro storico della città mangiando e bevendo sino a notte fonda.

I simboli
Sa Spada e Su StoccuSu stoccu è un'asta di legno lavorato con la quale il capocorsa e su segundu cumponi (a discrezione de su Componidori anche su Terzu) si possono cimentare una seconda volta nella corsa alla stella.
Essendo questa sorta di lancia più grossa rispetto alla spada, centrare la stella è più difficile e riuscire nell'impresa è considerato indice di grande perizia, particolari acclamazioni vengono tributate al Componidori che riesca a centrare la stella sia con la spada che con su stoccu, guadagnandosi la stella d'oro. Per questo rimane agli annali la Sartiglia 2003 del Gremio dei Contadini, guidata da Gabriele Pinna, il quale riuscì a cogliere due volte la stella, evento che per un capocorsa non si verificava da 25 anni (1978).
Ancora più raro è che lo stesso cavaliere riesca a centrare tre stelle nelle due giornate fregiandosi della stella di platino, dopo decenni l'impresa riuscì ad Angelo Bresciani nel 1988.

Sa pippia de majuSa pippia de maju (mazzo di mammole), è una sorta di scettro che sta a simboleggiare l'arrivo della primavera e quindi la fertilità.
Le due estremità sono composte da mazzi di viole mammole che, con alcune ore di lavoro, vengono unite ad un fascio di pervinche avvolto in una fettuccia di lino verde che ha la funzione di robusta impugnatura.
Brandendola il capocorsa manifesta la propria autorità e, con ampi gesti a forma di croce, impartisce la propria benedizione.

La stella
Obiettivo dei sartiglianti è centrare con spada o stoccu l'anello a forma di stella. Attualmente vengono utilizzate stelle a sei o a otto punte, ma fino al XX secolo si ha notizia di stelle a cinque punte e con un foro più grande di quello attuale, il che rendeva la Sartiglia più ricca di stelle centrate rispetto ai giorni nostri.

Oristano e la Sartiglia
È così che l'ultima domenica e il martedì di Carnevale, ogni anno, Oristano diventa capitale della Sardegna. C'è la Sartiglia. Festa dai mille simboli, festa della magia, della prosperità e della miseria, del dolore e della speranza.

Da Via Sant'Antonio, passando per il Duomo, sino a Via Vittorio Emanuele e Piazza Manno, un fiume di persone, provenienti dalle città e dai paesi di tutta l'isola, si accalca ai bordi di un tracciato di terra e paglia. Ad ogni edizione, su quel percorso pestato dagli zoccoli dei cavalli si riversano secoli di storia. E un fragore di urla e applausi guida le gesta del cavaliere, quando la spada trafigge la stella.

Prima delle acrobatiche e spericolate Pariglie, che regaleranno emozioni e paure sino al tramonto, su Componidori dovrà tenere fede ad un ultimo rito, sa Remada, con il Cavaliere costretto a percorrere di corsa la pista disteso di schiena sul dorso del cavallo. Solo allora la Sartiglia potrà essere dichiarata conclusa e il rito definitivamente consumato. Ma sarà una semplice pausa. In attesa dell'edizione successiva, quando ancora una volta la folla si identificherà in quell'eroe, uomo e donna insieme, protagonista di una cerimonia pagano - cristiana che continua a ripetersi inalterata da secoli, forse da millenni.

La Sartiglia tra cultura e tradizione
La Sartiglia non è una semplice celebrazione dei riti carnevaleschi, non è nemmeno la riproduzione di una giostra medioevale, né una mera esibizione di audaci e aitanti cavalieri. Dentro la Sartiglia convivono elementi di tradizione e cultura tramandati da centinaia o forse migliaia d'anni. In questa manifestazione, che ad Oristano è vissuta con intensità emotiva indescrivibile sin dai tempi del Giudicato d'Arborea, sopravvivono probabilmente alcuni degli aspetti più interessanti e inesplorati della ritualità pagana, contaminata dai cerimoniali di origine cristiana. La Sartiglia di Oristano trae presumibilmente origine dal gioco dell'anello, sortija, contaminandosi di tutti quegli elementi pagani che sono propri di questo popolo. La corsa della Sartiglia è infatti legata alla ciclicità delle stagioni e ha ragione di esistere in quanto propiziazione del raccolto. Il Componidori è il tramite divino che agisce per l'ottenimento del risultato.
Al termine della Sartiglia su Componidori ricompone le pariglie, formate da terzetti di cavalieri e cavalli affiancati, e percorre la via Eleonora, la piazza Eleonora, il corso Umberto fino alla piazza Roma, immettendosi nella via Mazzini per dar vita all'esibizione delle pariglie; questa corsa consiste nel percorrere la lunga e diritta via Mazzini mentre i cavalieri fanno delle evoluzioni di vario tipo sui propri cavalli lanciati a galoppo sfrenato.
I più abili e temerari sono capaci anche di stare in piedi ai due lati tenendo sulle spalle il compagno al centro che sta in verticale governando i tre purosangue che appaiati galoppano alla massima velocità.
L'unica pariglia (Terzetto) che non può esibirsi è quella de su Componidori, che si dovrà limitare a fare una galoppata mentre i due compagni ai suoi lati gli reggono le redini (talvolta poggiando le mani sulle spalle dei compagni); infatti, non potendo rischiare di cadere e toccare il suolo, non gli è concesso tentare acrobazie.

I giochi equestri

In Sardegna arrivano con la dominazione spagnola nel XIV secolo e sono altamente diffuse in tutto il territorio regionale. Nascono in epoca medievale in Francia, per l'esigenza dei principi di tenere in allenamento le truppe durante i periodi di pace. Osteggiate dalla Chiesa, queste manifestazioni venivano ritenute illecite più della guerra. La guerra infatti rispondeva a motivazioni di pace violata che attraverso la battaglia e lo scontro venivano ripristinate. I giochi equestri, al contrario, per la loro componente ludica e le implicazioni amorose e giocose che le caratterizzavano, distoglievano il popolo che assisteva in massa al loro svolgimento, dalle normali attività lavorative.

Albo d'oro parziale

Musica
Il cantautore Vinicio Capossela, nell'album Canzoni della cupa, ha dedicato una canzone alla figura di Componidori.

Bibliografia

 Giulio Angioni, Sagre, riti e feste popolari della Sardegna, (a cura di) G. Deidda e A. Della Maria, Newton Compton, Roma 2002
 Francesco Alziator, La Sartiglia, Sestu, Zonza Editori, 2007.
 Gianfranco Casu, Sartiglia, testi a cura di Maurizio Casu e Francesco Obino, Ortacesus, Nuove grafiche Puddu, 2011.
 Maurizio Casu, Francesco Obino, Il Gremio dei Contadini di San Giovanni Battista di Oristano. La Sartiglia, Associazione culturale Aristiane-Oristano, Ortacesus, Sandhi Editore, 2012.
 Maura Falchi, Raimondo Zucca, Storia della Sartiglia di Oristano'', Oristano, S'Alvure, 1994.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Oristano
Sartiglia
Competizioni storiche italiane
Eventi in Sardegna
Tradizioni popolari della Sardegna


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Four poets you didn't know were King's alumni (and one you did)!
John Keats might be the most famous King's poet, but he's only one of the brilliant alumni to have courted the poetic muse. Here we've selected a few of our favourites.
Abse was also a Fellow of King's. In 2009, King's held a literary event to celebrate his New Selected Poems. The event marked 60 years since Abse's first collection of poems, After Every Green Thing.
'If so, you're quite forgotten.
Duffy has also edited the plays of 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn and written plays, screenplays and 19 novels. Her 1966 novel The Microcosm became a best-seller, and was one of the first novels to depict a wide range of contrasting gay women of different ages, classes and ethnicities.
Typescripts of Duffy's work are held in the King's College London Archive.
The first collection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Wessex Poems, was not published until 1898. Although the 'Wessex' novels such as The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd gained him most recognition during his lifetime, Hardy regarded himself primarily as a poet.
Hardy wrote over 800 poems, and nine collections were published in his lifetime. He originally trained as an architect in Dorset before enrolling at King's to study Modern Languages. He worked on architectural projects in London until the late 1860s when he moved back to Dorset to concentrate on his writing.
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Interior Night (2010), Stammers' third collection, includes A Dramatic Monologue, Stammers' take on our final poet, Keats, meeting Coleridge when out walking.
Keats trained as an apothecary, registering as a medical student at Guy's Hospital in 1815, where he assisted surgeons during operations - the equivalent of a junior house surgeon today.
Abandoning medicine to focus on his writing, he moved to Hampstead in 1817 and mixed with other poets, including Coleridge. In 1818, Keats and Coleridge had a long – and for Keats, inspirational - walk together on Hampstead Heath, an event which John Stammers reimagines in his poem A Dramatic Monologue.
Keats was diagnosed with tuberculosis and in 1820 he traveled to Rome for his health but died there the following year aged just 25. Although he had only written poetry seriously for about six years, his work matured dramatically during that time.
We hope this list goes to prove that while our famous poets chose to pursue their academic dreams, that didn't dim their creative pursuits. They say everyone has a novel in them, how about a poem? Why not give it a go? As a King's alumnus, you are in good company.


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Back in June, I visited a special educational needs center in Connecticut to deliver Clicker 7 training with one of my co-workers. One topic that came up several times was the idea of having a customized picture library for Instant Pictures, the Spell Checker, and the Predictor.
With school budgets often stretched thin, finding the funding to purchase special education software can be challenging. But grants can make it possible—if you know where to look.
During a recent chat with one of the schools I work with, they mentioned how much value one of their teachers was getting from our 'Idioms' resources on LearningGrids.


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For those who did not watch the preceding video, Ferrada calls it a Comet-Planet because it has the size and mass of a planet, and the speed and elliptical orbit of a comet.
Not only does the Vatican operate the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope at Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) located in southeast Arizona's Pinaleno Mountains, they share the same facility with the The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory.
The level of absurdity and confusion throughout society is a dead giveaway. Things are now experienced hourly which provide clues to the average person about the altered becomes more fabricated and foreign by the day.
There are several names and nicknames which refer to the Planet-Comet. Some of them, however, are also used to refer to the stationary dark star which is the companion to our Sun. Some call it the Raja Sun or King Star.
Perhaps the PHOENIX is just another name for Nibiru, like Hercolubus and the many other labels for Planet X. After all, the myth associated with this legendary bird does portray the oft-prophesied ending of the Iron Age with uncanny precision. The PHOENIX self immolates on its own funeral pyre only to rise from its ashes, just as human society is now doing during this twilight period of the Kali Yuga. Who among us has not heard of the coming Golden Age — an age that can only begin after a complete dissolution of the current planetary civilization?


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Will More Charging Stations Mean More EVs?
This morning, Bloomberg published a feature exploring the changing face of automobile fuel— or rather, charge. For a long time, the electric car market has been stuck in a cyclical problem. Consumers aren't buying electric vehicles because of perceived range anxiety, and many electric charging stations haven't been built because there hasn't been enough demand for them. Even though that's been the dominant narrative for a while, Kyle Stock and Dana Hull share new information from the DoE: charging stations have reached critical mass.
In the charging standoff, it looks like stations have made the first move. With the influx of available stations, consumers won't be asking the "but where do I charge?" question. But even though there are more stations than ever, American electric car sales will still be slow on the uptick. Electric car sales are climbing, but they still pale in comparison to automobiles with a traditional internal combustion engine. The reason for this is a lingering range anxiety, cheap gas (as low as $2 in some parts of the country), and a healthy labor market. Together, these factors are encouraging Americans to drive more.
Even though traditional gas stations aren't going anywhere soon, plenty of companies are sure that the surge of charging stations will be the fuel the electric car market needs to take hold of American consumer habit.


FIRST, THE good news: According to Ateneo's Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC), the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program's cash grants and the conditionalities have kept students in schools and brought children and pregnant women for regular check-ups at health centers.
CCT beneficiary-families are also very thankful and happy about the benefits they receive from the program.
And while there have been no widespread changes in the sources of independently-generated income and income-levels of 4Ps households since the program began, the cash grants have eased the severity of lean periods and enable more expenditures and consumption of basic necessities and some non-staple commodities and services during abundant periods.
At the barangay level, the program seems to have helped increase the number of children who have been immunized, as well as in improving children's weights and families' ability to manage sickness in the household. Greater awareness of maternal health concerns was also observed.
One significant change, though, was in the physical and material readiness of the children to attend school. Indeed, the IPC researchers note that the CCT children came to class clothed more properly, equipped with the necessary materials, and with full stomachs. The clothing, materials and projects, and food also seem to have made students more interested to come to school and be more active in class.
Parents as well were more participative, interacting more with teachers to monitor their children's performance. At the very least, they no longer had to feel ashamed about any unpaid school fees.
A reduction of child labor in the areas visited by the IPC was attributed to the program's frowning on child labor. The need for children to work at an early age remained just so poor households could survive, but the CCT program seems to have led to greater awareness and sensitivity about child labor.
Now the bad news: It remains unclear whether the positive behavioral changes observed were simply a result of the beneficiaries' compliance with the CCT conditionalities (and could therefore disappear once the program ends) or actually signal the onset of long-lasting improvements.
The CCT families themselves were very unsure of how they would fare once the program ends, seemingly convinced that their future was still bleak. Majority did not see how their children could continue without the CCT, much less complete their schooling.


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Topic: Is SG alone enough to burn fat without extra cardio?
Noel: that's incredible Thanks for sharing! I can't even imagine doing that myself when I can barely clean my brother's 25 lb. k-bell one time -trying as hard as I can too!
mjn wrote: I have been trying to get at least 10,000-12,000 steps in a day. I have never felt better.
mnj, that's wonderful! I hope to have your commitment and stamina some day soon.
Is SG alone enough to burn fat without extra cardio?


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Q: Error with Admin login page in PHP and mySql When i run this code everything seems to be fine... But when I login with the right username and password i get the following: That information is incorrect, try again Click Here I should be taken to the index.php file.
I also have echo the sql query and it gave me this Resource id #4
Can anyone spot the problem here.
Here is the PHP

$manager = preg_replace('#[^A-Za-z0-9]#i','',$_SESSION["username"]);
$password = preg_replace('#[^A-Za-z0-9]#i','',$_SESSION["password"]);

include"db_connection.php";

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM admin WHERE username='$manager' and password='$password' LIMIT 1");

$existCount = mysql_num_rows($sql);
if ($existCount ==1){
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
        $id=$row["id"];
    }

    $_SESSION["id"]=$id;
    $_SESSION["manager"]=$manager;
    $_SESSION["password"]=$password;
    header("location:index.php");
        exit();
    }else{
        echo'That information is incorrect, try again Click Here';
        exit();
    }
}

?>

Here is the HTML:

<title> Admin Login Page</title>

 Please log in To manage the store

        <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post"   action="admin_login.php">
            User Name:

            <input name="username" type="text" id="username" size="40"/>

            Password:

            <input name="password" type="password" id="password" size="40">

                <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="LogIn">

        </form>

A: Look at your first two lines. You're using $_SESSION whereas the form submitted data will be in $_POST.

A: You have an extra curly brace, }.
As good practice, never build a query from unescaped strings (especially if they are stored in $_SESSION since they can be easily hijacked), never store a user's password in raw format in the database, and never save a raw password to the session. All these issues make your application very vulnerable and with great security risks which not only are subject for revealing users' sensitive data, but also can compromise your system. This being said, you should use mysql_real_escape_string() to escape user input when querying the database, you should encrypt your password with MD5/SHA/whatever (maybe add a salt too) and you should store only the user ID in the session because the other don't matter anyway.
Also, there is no reason to loop over the query results, since you are sure to have only one record returned.
Furthermore, I assume that the code you have posted is incomplete. Otherwise, your session variables won't work because you have not started a session with session_start(). Also, if you want to work with the username and password provided in the form, you must use $_POST["username"] and $_POST["password"], since this is how you grab the posted data, not by using sessions.


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Beginning in 2014, many individuals will be required to have minimum essential health insurance coverage or pay a penalty (an individual mandate).
Navigating health reform
A Health Care Overview After the Supreme Court Decision
Just days after the Supreme Court's decision, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated its analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and its companion law, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA). The Supreme Court upheld the PPACA/HCERA on June 28, 2012, with the exception of the mandatory expansion of Medicaid, in National Federation of Independent Business et al. v. Sebelius.
CCH take away: "The Supreme Court held that Congress did not have the Constitutional power under the Commerce Clause to force individuals to purchase health insurance," Kimberly McCarthy, partner, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, LLP, Providence, RI, told CCH. "However, Congress does have the power to tax people to encourage them to purchase health insurance, just as it provides incentives for conduct elsewhere in the tax code (such as the deduction of home mortgage interest to promote home ownership). It does not matter that the health care legislation used the label penalty as opposed to tax in the individual mandate; it functions like a tax and is collected by the IRS, so as long as the penalty is not so high as to leave people with no reasonable choice other than to purchase health insurance, it is Constitutional under the power to tax."
Beginning in 2014, many individuals will be required to have minimum essential health insurance coverage or pay a penalty (an individual mandate). Certain employers with more than 50 employees that do not offer qualified health insurance may be subject to penalties if any of their full-time workers enroll in exchanges and receive premium assistance tax credits.
Comment: In H. J. Res. 112, GOP lawmakers expressed their concern that the IRS's regulations on the health insurance premium tax credit exceeded the scope of the PPACA. The IRS indicated that the PPACA supports the interpretation that credits are available to taxpayers who obtain coverage through a state or federal exchange. The IRS further observed that Congress did not intend to limit the premium assistance tax credit to state exchanges.
Before the Supreme Court's decision, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimated that the law's insurance coverage expansion would cost $1.39 trillion over 10 years, CRS reported. However, they projected offsets of $350 billion from penalties, excise taxes, and net savings, for a net cost of $1.04 trillion over 10 years. In March 2012, CBO and JCT increased their projection of the net cost by $40 billion.
At the same time, CBO and JCT projected direct spending savings (primarily from slowing Medicare growth) and new revenues of $1.25 trillion over 10 years. The revenues include additional Medicare payroll taxes, taxes on investment income, fees on insurers, and fees on pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Before the Supreme Court rejected the mandatory expansion of Medicaid, the law was projected to increase the number of nonelderly Americans with health insurance by 33 million in 2021, CRS reported. Expansion of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was expected to bring in 17 million additional individuals, while a net of 16 million people were expected to purchase their own private coverage through insurance exchanges.
Comment: "Since 1982, all 50 states have adopted the Medicaid program, and Medicaid funding provides 10 percent or more of the budgets of those states," McCarthy explained. The Supreme Court ruled that the expansion fundamentally changes Medicaid so that it "is no longer a program for the neediest among us, but rather an element of a comprehensive national plan to provide universal health insurance coverage." States that do not agree with that transformative new Medicaid strategy cannot be penalized by taking away their existing Medicaid funding. Even though that provision was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court held that the provision was severable, and the rest of the PPACA stands, McCarthy observed.
©2012 CCH. All Rights Reserved.


The Irving FAC offers free counseling services for victims of crime, domestic violence and families with high-risk juveniles in family, couple or individual therapy settings, as well as education classes. Group counseling and education classes are offered for parenting, anger management, overcoming domestic violence, trauma from crime victimization, child abuse and others. Play therapy counseling is provided for children victimized by abuse or witness to domestic violence.
Parenting Group: Clients meet with a group facilitator for eight to 12 weekly sessions to learn various parenting techniques and have an opportunity to process how this information might be applied in their families. Parents have stated that hearing others share about dynamics within their families help them know they are not alone and they feel supported.
Anger Management: During eight to 12 weekly sessions, clients will be better able to cope with life's stressors. They will learn coping mechanisms and how to express their anger in healthy ways.
Overcoming Domestic Violence: Clients who think they may be experiencing some type of domestic violence – such as emotional, verbal, physical or sexual – attend this group for eight to 12 weekly sessions. After learning about the Cycle of Violence, The Power and Control Wheel and Red Flags in Relationships, they can make more informed decisions about their safety.
Children's Domestic Violence Group: While parents are attending the group for adults, children ages six to 12 can participate in activities designed to help them express their feelings in effective ways. They are given opportunities to safely discuss their emotions and explore healthy coping mechanisms.