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Exclusive signature treatments for moms and mothers-to-be at ESPA at Mondrian Doha
Mondrian Doha, from leading global lifestyle hospitality company sbe, is excited to announce the launch of all new signature pre- and post-natal treatments at ESPA, one of the most luxurious and largest spas in the Middle East. Moms can take time out before and after their treatment in the spa stunning relaxation spaces.
These unique and thoughtful hydrotherm therapies are the most comfortable pre- and post-pregnancy treatments in the world of well-being and take into consideration the different stages of pregnancy and beyond. Warm water-filled pillows fully support the body and to enable clients to comfortably and safely lie on their back for the duration of the treatment.
Set among this Marcel Wanders designed spa with twelve treatment rooms and world-renowned traditional Hammam, the pre and post-pregnancy offerings include a thoughtful range of treatment such as the Trimester Specific Massage. When performed during pregnancy, this therapy can reduce anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, enhance sleep, and reduce swelling. As for legs and ankle swelling, The Lighter Legs Treatment helps reduce the water retention as well as relieve symptoms of restless legs syndrome, common in expectant mums.
Guests can also enjoy a Belly Facial, a gentle treatment that softens the skin of the belly, assisting in the prevention of stretch marks. During the treatment, mothers-to-be can choose from a hand, foot or head massage, leaving them feeling relaxed and refreshed. ESPA also offers, post-natal treatments including the Post-Natal Massage to rejuvenate and repair the upper back, neck, and arms, which tend to get stiff during the first months after delivery, in addition to the post-natal toning wrap, focusing on the midsection for toning and stretchmark reduction.
Additionally, Mondrian Doha's ESPA is going to be the only spa in the country to offer a DNA test for nutrition and fitness, complimentary within the 6 and 12-month memberships. DNA testing uses genetic science to usher in a new era of nutrition, fitness and wellbeing, helping to determine the DNA effects of each person's body's reaction to nutrition and exercise. The results, which are provided through an all-inclusive report, are used to identify a comprehensive fitness plan including specific meal suggestions and exercises with personal trainers at The Fitness Centre at Mondrian Doha.
Says Rachel Lowe-Mukherji, Director of ESPA: "We are extremely proud and excited about the launch of our pre- and post-natal offerings at ESPA. With international level training we can ensure the well-being of expectant and new mothers in a luxurious and relaxing atmosphere. The DNA testing for nutrition and fitness is also very exciting as we are the first spa in Doha to offer this complimentary to our members, enabling them to enhance their own well-being journey."
Expectant mothers can enjoy the female spa which creates a magical illusion of a secret garden exuding femininity. It has been designed with soft, warm tones and curved lines, along with golden and sparkling accents to create a space that is luxurious and peaceful and an ideal haven to enjoy these newly launched treatments at Mondrian Doha.
For further information about Mondrian Doha visit www.mondriandoha.com
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I was recently invited to contribute to an Australian magazine about the relationship between local and global, where I addressed the false choice between the two that can often undermine social activism.
To behave sustainably, so the three divergent interests of business, society and environment are maintained in balance, markets need governance! Moreover, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that, to be effective, governance has to be on the same scale as the market it's trying to govern. A global economy needs global governance. Absent that governance, it shouldn't surprise us that the market runs riot, goes pathological, and causes all sorts of negative fall-out, much of which is increasingly felt in local communities. This isn't some crack-pot call for world government. Rather it's simply a call to practical global cooperation: that nations need to coordinate their policies so that they achieve global coverage and global effect.


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Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2014 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: David Migoya
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FEDS: CASINOS MUST TRACK CUSTOMERS WITH LINKS TO POT
Colorado's 40 casinos - and hundreds of others, including in the
gaming mecca in Las Vegas - are bound by the same money-reporting
rules that have made banks reluctant to let legal marijuana
businesses open bank accounts, federal authorities now say.
That means casinos can keep anyone associated with legal weed
enterprises-from dispensary to grow operations - away from gaming
tables anywhere in the country.
And if they do allow them to play, casinos must file the same
suspicious activity reports banks must file whenever they handle
money derived from pot profits, according to the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, a division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"FinCEN's guidance applies to all financial institutions covered
under FinCEN regulations, including casinos," FinCEN's public affairs
director Stephen Hudak told The Denver Post.
Because the government says casinos are financial institutions, like
banks, they must have stringent anti money-laundering programs in place.
Filing suspicious activity reports, or SARs, to crack down on money
laundering by criminal and terrorist organizations is not new for casinos.
What is new is that it now extends to the legal marijuana trade.
While FinCEN in February announced how banks could work with legal
marijuana businesses, the government only now realized it extends to casinos.
That's in any casino in the country - whether in Colorado, Atlantic
City or Las Vegas-on land, on water or on sovereign American-Indian
soil. So a casino on the Las Vegas strip would, by law, have to pay
attention to the owner of a marijuana dispensary in Colorado who
heads there to gamble.
Currently, 22 states have legalized the sale of medical marijuana and
two- Colorado and Washington - have legalized recreational sales.
Colorado and 41 other states have some form of legal casino gambling.
The news-revealed June 12 at a Las Vegas conference directed at
curtailing money laundering - has stopped state regulators and the
casino industry in its tracks.
"The (Colorado) Division of Gaming was unaware of the FinCEN
guidance," spokeswoman Cameron Lewis told The Post. "Division
management will be taking this matter under discussion."
Similarly, the Colorado Gaming Association, the trade group that
represents the state's casinos, was unaware of the requirement.
"To my knowledge, we have not been contacted by FinCEN regarding any
issues dealing with ... marijuana suppliers," executive director Lois
Rice said.
Like banks, casinos must "know their customer" and have some
knowledge of their source of funds. The casino industry keeps close
track of gamblers through a variety of methods including high-roller
clubs, frequent-player programs and other in-house incentives.
"Casinos most comply with the government's guidance on filing
suspicious-activity reports" said Jim Dowling, an
anti-money-laundering consultant.
"Their alternative is to not conduct a financial transaction with
these individuals who were involved directly, or indirectly in the MJ
business," said Dowling, a former IRS agent who was also an adviser
on money-laundering issues to the White House.
Because marijuana is illegal under federal law, FinCEN's requirements
for doing business with the marijuana industry modified how financial
institutions are to file SARs.
The reports must now reflect that clients are in states where
marijuana sales are allowed.
Although the pot industry saw it as a first step in obtaining banking
services - and more recent efforts have included the theoretical
creation of a marijuana financial cooperative - Colorado banks have
mostly shied from opening the door too widely.
The marijuana-specific reports would either identify the
cannabis-related businessor employee as legally operating under
appropriate guidelines, identify them as one conducting suspicious
activity, or as one where the casino has ended its banking
relationship "in order to maintain an effective
anti-money-laundering" compliance program.
The seven-page guidance also notes a number of "red-flag" scenarios
that would require a bank or casino to file a SAR, including for a
customer "depositing cash that smells like marijuana" who might be
trying to conceal involvement in marijuana-related business activity.
"There are a number of ways money laundering can occur in a casino,"
Dowling said, "and keeping track of this is very labor-intensive."
FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery told attendees at the Las
Vegas conference that it's no secret casinos are targets of organized crime.
"Illicit actors are also looking to game the system so that they can
move or hide funds among the many cash and non-cash transactions you
conduct daily," she said. "Think about what happens each time a
customer enters your casino. Often, the first thing a customer does
is conduct a financial transaction-they buy chips. And the last
action a customer takes is usually also a financial transaction-they
cash out those chips."
Casinos, like banks, must know who is bringing them money, she said,
and meeting that obligation relies on the casino's ability to
understand with whom it is doing business.
"It's one thing when it's organized crime or terrorist money
laundering, when the individuals might be unknown," Dowling said.
"It's quite another matter when it's a licensed business and the
individuals associated with it are indeed known."
With a dispensary's difficulty in obtaining a banking relationship,
casinos could become an easy substitute.
For instance, "chip walking" - when chips are not redeemed-is a
well-known problem at casinos. A marijuana business without a bank
account could choose to pay its employees with casino chips, which
are redeemed for cash, a transactions that is, by definition, now laundered.
Chips purchased with marijuana-derived funds also can be redeemed for
cash or a casino's check, which could then be deposited into a
personal bank account.
Though Colorado has a $100 limit on the size of a bet, there is no
limit on how many chips a customer can purchase. FinCEN's rules
require casinos to file SARs when it "knows, suspects, or has reason
to suspect" a transaction is suspicious, but only when the amount of
money involved-typically buy-ins or cash-outs-is at least $5,000, at
once or in a single day.
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: Hmmm.
I really enjoy those comics, insightful *and* geeky.
US Congressmen are citizens of this country too, and the rights set forth by the Constitution apply to them too. Saying that "Christians need not apply if they believe weird things" is infringing on their rights as US citizens.
Soo... if the point isn't that congressmen shouldn't talk about what they believe, what IS the point?
Awww, LVC is just one big happy family.
No all the political hugging and back-slapping is making me sick.


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Q: Objective - C, fastest way to show sequence of images in UIImageView
Possible Duplicate:
How to efficiently show many Images? (iPhone programming)

I have hundreds of images, which are frame images of one animation (24 images per second). Each image size is 1024x690.
My problem is, I need to make smooth animation iterating each image frame in UIImageView.
I know I can use animationImages of UIImageView. But it crashes, because of memory problem.
Also, I can use imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@""] that would cache each image, so that the next repeat animation will be smooth. But, caching a lot of images crashed app.
Now I use imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:@""], which does not crash app, but doesn't make animation so smooth.
Maybe there is a better way to make good animation of frame images?
Maybe I need to make some preparations, in order to somehow achieve better result. I need your advices. Thank you!

A: You can find your answer here: How to efficiently show many Images? (iPhone programming)
To summarize what is said in that link, you get better performance when showing many images if you use low level API's like Core Animation and OpenGL, as oppose to UIKit.

A: You could try caching say 10 images at a time in memory (you may have to play around with the correct limit -- i doubt it's 10). Everytime you change the image of the imageView you could do something like this:
// remove the image that is currently displayed from the cache
[images removeObjectAtIndex:0];
// set the image to the next image in the cache
imageView.image = [images objectAtIndex:0];
// add a new image to the end of the FIFO
[images addObject:[UIImage imageNamed:@"10thImage.png"]];

A: You could create a buffer of several images using an array.  This buffer array of images can be loaded/populated using imageWithContentsOfFile from a background thread (a concurrent GCD asynchronous, for example).

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Gender Equality Plan
Equality Project
The Equality Gender Observatory develops a wide range of activities every year under the scope of the University. They are designed in order to aware the community about the gender gap, to spread the importance of mainstreaming in research and to highlight the achievement of women over the years.
The University launches the Mª Helena Maseras Award for the promotion of mainstreaming and gender studies in teaching and research. There are different categories: Secondary School, Bachelor Degree, Postgraduate Studies and PhD.
The Mª Antònia Ferrer Distinction i a special honor awarded by the University to the person or organization with a strong commitment the women rights defense.
Equality Week
Annual two-week conference to disseminate the role and contribution of women to the scientific knowledge and making progress. The target group is the whole university community and the society. It coincides with the International Women's Day.
Open day at the Engineering School of the University for promoting engineering as a vocational choice of girls. Click here for further information.
Course on "European Integration and Gender", focused on analyzing the most recent legislation and jurisprudence as well as the European political initiatives of gender equality for current needs. Funded by the European Commission. Click here for further information.
Publication of a serie on gender
Quaderns de la Igualtat (Equality Notebook) is a serie published annually for disseminating research activities on gender. It aims to provide the university community a new tool for knowledge transfer about women and feminism. The content of the collection provides some research results and the speech of the annual winner of the Mª Antònia Ferrer Distinction. See the serie.
Women Calendar
The Gender Equality Observatory publishes a Calendar to pay homage to some of most remarkable women over the history in different fields. Each month is dedicated to different women explaining their story and highlighting their achievements in their field of knowledge. Download the current Calendar.
Women and Science Searcher
A tool designed to rescue and disseminate the scientific contribution of women by disciplines over the years, which sometimes has been made invisible by a discourse of scientific neutrality. Visit the searcher (in Catalan).


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Moves the camera such that the specified bounding box lies entirely within the camera's field of view.
Orients the camera to face toward the specified point.
Sets the camera's position and orients the camera to face toward the specified point.
A transformation matrix that determines the extent of a scene visible to the camera.
The style of projection transform used by the camera.
Options for camera projection styles, used by the projection property.
The camera's near depth limit.
The camera's far depth limit.
The camera's field of view, in degrees.
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The scale factor to meters from the world coordinate system containing the camera.
The first coefficient for determining the radial distortion applied to pixels rendered using the camera.
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Red, green, and blue factors to be used in brightening darker areas of the camera's image.
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Eduardo de Woodstock KG (Woodstock, -Londres, ), llamado el Príncipe Negro, fue el primogénito del rey Eduardo III de Inglaterra y su esposa, la condesa Felipa de Henao, y padre del rey Ricardo II de Inglaterra.

Fue el primer duque de Cornualles (desde 1337), príncipe de Gales (desde 1343) y príncipe de Aquitania (entre 1362 y 1372) siendo presunto heredero a la Corona desde su nacimiento.

Llamado por sus contemporáneos simplemente como Eduardo de Woodstock, debido al lugar de nacimiento, no fue llamado el Príncipe Negro hasta el , haciendo referencia a la supuesta armadura que portaba.

Era un líder militar excepcional, y sus victorias sobre los franceses en las batallas de Crécy y Poitiers lo hicieron muy popular en vida. En 1348 se convirtió en el primer caballero de la Orden de la Jarretera, siendo uno de sus fundadores.

El príncipe Eduardo murió un año antes que su padre, convirtiéndose en el primer príncipe de Gales que no llegó a ser rey de Inglaterra. A la muerte de su padre, Eduardo III, el trono pasó a su hijo Ricardo, en ese entonces aún menor de edad.

Richard Barber considera que Eduardo "ha atraído relativamente poca atención de los historiadores serios, pero figura ampliamente en la historia popular."

Biografía

Eduardo nació el 15 de junio de 1330 en el palacio de Woodstock, en Oxfordshire siendo el primogénito del rey Eduardo III de Inglaterra y su esposa Felipa de Henao. Fue nombrado conde de Chester el 18 de mayo de 1333, duque de Cornualles el 17 de marzo de 1337 (siendo el primero que llevó dicho título) y finalmente investido como príncipe de Gales el 12 de mayo de 1343 cuando tenía 12 años de edad. En Inglaterra, Eduardo sirvió como regente simbólico durante ciertos períodos de los años 1339, 1340 y 1342, mientras que su padre Eduardo III se encontraba en campañas militares. Durante este tiempo asistió a todas las reuniones del consejo y realizó las negociaciones con el papado respecto a  la guerra en 1337. Además desempeñó el cargo de Gran sheriff de Cornualles en 1340-1341, 1343, 1358 y 1360-1374.

Eduardo se había criado con su prima Juana, "la bella doncella de Kent." Eduardo obtuvo permiso para el matrimonio del papa Inocencio VI y dispensa por casarse con una pariente de sangre, como había ocurrido con sus padres, Eduardo III y Felipa de Henao, que eran primos segundos. Se casó con Juana el 10 de octubre de 1361 en el castillo de Windsor. El matrimonio causó algo de controversia, principalmente debido a la enrevesada historia marital de Juana y al hecho de que el matrimonio con una inglesa desperdiciaba una oportunidad de formar una alianza con una potencia extranjera.

Cuando estaba en Inglaterra, Eduardo residía normalmente en el castillo de Wallingford en Berkshire (desde 1974 en Oxfordshire) o en el castillo de Berkhamsted en Hertfordshire.

Nombrado por su padre príncipe de Aquitania, como representante del rey inglés en ese territorio, donde Eduardo junto a Juana mantuvieron una corte. Además fue el lugar de asilo de reyes exiliados como Jaime IV de Mallorca y Pedro I de Castilla.

Este último, derrocado por su medio hermano, Enrique de Trastámara, ofreció a Eduardo el señorío de Vizcaya en 1367 a cambio de su ayuda para recuperar su trono. Eduardo salió victorioso en la batalla de Nájera (3 de abril de 1367), en la que derrotó a los ejércitos combinados de Francia y Castilla, mandados por Bertrand du Guesclin. Sin embargo Pedro no pagó por completo y se negó a ceder Vizcaya, alegando la falta de consentimiento de sus estados. Eduardo se retiró a Guyena en julio del mismo año.

Regresó a Inglaterra en enero de 1371 y murió el 8 de junio de 1376 (una semana antes de su 46° cumpleaños) después de padecer durante años lo que probablemente fue una disentería amebiana, contraída diez años antes durante su campaña militar en Castilla.

Eduardo y la caballería
Eduardo vivió en un siglo de decadencia para el ideal de la caballería. Por un lado, después de capturar a Juan el Bueno, rey de Francia, y Felipe el Atrevido, su hijo menor, en la batalla de Poitiers, los trató con gran respeto, dando incluso en un momento dado permiso a Juan para regresar a su hogar, y se narra que rezó con Juan en la catedral de Canterbury. Destacadamente, permitió que durante un día se preparara la batalla de Poitiers, de manera que ambos bandos pudieran discutir la batalla entre sí, de manera que el cardenal de Périgord pudiera apelar a ambos para mantener la paz. Sin embargo, algunos señalan que "él podía haber estado ganando tiempo para terminar de colocar a sus arqueros".

Por otro lado, sus tendencias caballerescas eran superadas en ocasiones por su eficacia y rapidez. El repetido uso por parte de Eduardo de Woodstock de la estrategia de cabalgadas, quemando y saqueando las ciudades y las granjas, no coincidía con las nociones contemporáneas de caballería, pero era bastante efectiva para conseguir el objetivo de sus campañas y debilitando la unidad y economía de Francia.

Campañas militares
Fue un brillante caudillo militar. Intervino en la campaña de Flandes de 1345 en el frente septentrional, que tuvo escasa relevancia y acabó después de tres semanas cuando uno de los aliados de Eduardo, Jacob van Artevelde, anterior cervecero y gobernador interino de Flandes, fue asesinado por sus propios ciudadanos.

Mostró su bravura a los 16 años en la Batalla de Crécy, en el frente septentrional, que dañó al ejército francés durante diez años, permitiendo el asedio de Calais con poca resistencia convencional antes de que estallara la plaga. Incluso cuando el ejército de Francia se recuperó, las fuerzas que desplegaron eran alrededor de la cuarta parte de la que tuvieron en Crécy (como se vio en Poitiers). Normandía pasó a estar virtualmente bajo control inglés, pero se decidió centrar los esfuerzos en el norte de Francia, dejando en lugar de ello Normandía bajo control de aliados vasallos de Inglaterra.

Además participó de forma arriesgada y decidida contra los franceses durante la Guerra de los Cien Años.

Intervino en el sitio de Calais, durante el cual los habitantes sufrieron enormemente y se vieron reducidos a comer perros y ratas. El asedio dio lugar al control personal y vasallático de los ingleses sobre el norte de Francia antes de la paz temporal debida a la peste negra. Hubo una contraofensiva francesa, pero Calais permaneció en manos inglesas.

También estuvo en "Les Espagnols sur Mer" o la batalla de Winchelsea en aguas del canal de La Mancha, en la que la flota inglesa derrotó a la castellana.

Realizó una gran cabalgada en el año 1355 por toda la región de Aquitania-Languedoc, que dañó el sur de Francia económicamente, y provocó el resentimiendo hacia el trono francés entre los campesinos franceses. Esta cabalgada también estableció una preparó la zona para la conquista, abrió alianzas con los vecinos de Aquitania, siendo la más destacada la de Carlos II de Navarra, e hizo que muchas regiones se orientaran hacia la autonomía respecto a Francia, pues no era un país tan unido como Inglaterra. Después de este pacto con el rey Carlos de Navarra, combatió contra los ejércitos de Juan II de Francia.

Las campañas por Aquitania le dieron un control más firme sobre la región, mucha tierra de la que obtener recursos y personas con las que poder luchar por el rey Eduardo.

En el año 1356, participando en las operaciones de la guerra contra Francia, Eduardo mandó un ejército de más de siete mil soldados. Dirigió a sus fuerzas en la lucha y logró una grandiosa victoria sobre la caballería pesada francesa en la batalla de Poitiers. En esa decisiva acción apresó al rey Juan II de Francia, al que llevó como rehén a Inglaterra. Esta campaña de Poitiers en la región del Loira-Aquitania privó a los franceses de jefes militares y supuso un desafío para Carlos el Sabio; más aristócratas murieron en Crécy y Poitiers que por la Peste Negra. El ejército francés quedó debilitado durante los trece años siguientes y el descalabró fomentó la anarquía y el caos que llevó en último término a la firma del Tratado de Brétigny en 1360.

Intervino en la campaña de Reims, después de la cual se alcanzó finalmente el acuerdo con el tratado de Brétigny. Por medio de este acuerdo diplomático, el rey de Francia recupera su libertad cediendo valiosos territorios a los británicos quienes no obstante reciben alrededor de un tercio de Francia más que un poco menos de la mitad que es lo que habrían recibido por el tratado de Londres. Esto se debe al fracaso a la hora de tomar Reims, lo que llevó a la necesidad de un salvoconducto para salir de Francia. Como resultado de ello, se llevó a un acuerdo menor y Eduardo III se vio obligado a dejar a un lado sus pretensiones al trono francés. Francia aún se vio obligada a pagar un enorme rescate de alrededor de cuatro veces el producto interior bruto de Francia por Juan II de Francia. El rescate que se pagó, no obstante, fue un poco inferior al exigido por los ingleses, y Juan el Bueno no fue devuelto a los franceses. Así, esta campaña dio lugar resultados ambivalentes, pero en su mayor parte fue positiva para Eduardo. Uno ha de recordar que Eduardo III nunca renunció explícitamente a su pretensión al trono, y que alrededor de la mitad de Francia estaba controlada por los ingleses, de todas formas, a través de sus muchos vasallos. En aquella ocasión su padre el rey Eduardo III lo nombró duque y lugarteniente de Guyena y Aquitania.

Posteriormente traslada su residencia a Castilla, se vincula políticamente con el rey Pedro I y juntos luchan contra Enrique de Trastámara, aliado de Carlos V de Francia. En dicha guerra sus fuerzas vencen en la batalla de Nájera en 1367. Salvó temporalmente a Pedro el Cruel de un golpe, confirmando así la dedicación castellana a la causa del Príncipe. Luego Pedro I entró en constantes desavenencias y toda una serie de acciones en contra del Príncipe Negro, a causa de no pagarle lo acordado por prestarle ayuda armada, por lo que éste decide abandonar Castilla, dejando solo a Pedro I en la lucha.

Como resultado del asesinato de Pedro, el dinero que el príncipe invirtió en el esfuerzo de guerra no le rindió beneficio y Eduardo quedó en la práctica en bancarrota. Esto obligó a gravar Aquitania con fuertes impuestos para aliviar los problemas financieros de Eduardo, lo que llevó a un círculo vicioso de resentimiento en Aquitania y la represión de este resentimiento por Eduardo. Carlos el Sabio, rey de Francia, supo aprovecharse de este resentimiento contra Eduardo en Aquitania. Sin embargo, el príncipe se convirtió temporalmente en Señor de Vizcaya.

El sitio de Limoges en 1370 en la región aquitana, después de lo cual Eduardo de Woodstock se vio obligado a dejar su puesto debido a su enfermedad y problemas financieros, pero también debido a la crueldad del asedio, que vio la masacre de alrededor de tres mil residentes de acuerdo con el cronista Froissart. Sin el príncipe, el esfuerzo de guerra inglés contra Carlos el Sabio y Bertrand Du Guesclin estaba destinado al fracaso. El hermano del príncipe, Juan de Gante no estaba interesado en la guerra con Francia, sino más bien en la guerra de sucesión en Castilla. Nuevos datos ponen en evidencia que el relato de las atrocidades inglesas fue exagerado por Froissart. Pero esta pretensión no encaja con el servicio de Froissart a Felipa de henao, reina consorte de Eduardo III.

El rey Eduardo III y el príncipe navegaron rumbo a Francia desde Sandwich con cuatrocientos barcos que llevaban cuatro mil hombres de armas y diez mil arqueros, pero después de seis semanas de mal tiempo, perdieron el rumbo y volvieron a Inglaterra.

Enfermedad

Eduardo de Woodstock parecía tener buena salud hasta 1366. No enfermó hasta su campaña en España para restaurar a Pedro I en el trono de Castilla. En esta expedición, su ejército sufrió tanto de disentería que se dice que uno de cada cinco ingleses no regresó a su país. Eduardo, el Príncipe Negro, contrajo una enfermedad en esta expedición que lo afectaría el resto de su vida, hasta su muerte en 1376. Está generalmente admitido que contrajo disentería amébica pero algunos se manifiestan en contra de esta creencia por considerar que no podría haber seguido viviendo diez años luchando contra la disentería. Otros diagnósticos posibles son edema, nefritis, cirrosis o una combinación de estas enfermedades. Su enfermedad le impidió continuar en el campo de batalla. No obstante, en 1370, el príncipe tuvo que dejar su lecho de enfermo y organizar un ejército para defender Aquitania contra Carlos V de Francia.

En 1371, la salud de Eduardo declinó hasta el punto de que sus médicos le aconsejaron abandonar Burdeos y regresar a Inglaterra. Después de hacer mucha dieta y descanso en Inglaterra, el príncipe tuvo cierta mejoría. En 1372, navegó con el rey Eduardo III pero fracasó a la hora de alcanzar la costa francesa debido a los vientos contrarios. Después de esta expedición fracasada, la salud del príncipe declinó drásticamente. A menudo se desmayaba de pura debilidad. Así siguió hasta su muerte en 1376, a la edad de 45 años.

Muerte y enterramiento

Eduardo falleció en el palacio de Westminster el 8 de junio de 1376, a los 45 años de edad. Pidió ser enterrado en la cripta de la catedral de Canterbury, más que cerca del santuario, y se preparó una capilla allí como una capilla para él y su esposa Juana, condesa de Kent. Actualmente es la capilla protestante francesa, y contiene en la bóveda representaciones de su rostro y de los escudos de los dos. Sin embargo, esto fue ignorado después de su muerte y fue enterrado en la parte sur del santuario de Tomás Becket, detrás del coro. Su tumba está formada por una efigie de bronce bajo un baldaquín representando la Santísima Trinidad, con sus "logros" heráldicos colgando sobre el baldaquino. Los logros han sido reemplazados hoy por réplicas, aunque los originales aún se pueden ver cerca. El baldaquín fue restaurado en 2006.

Matrimonio e hijos

Eduardo tuvo hijos naturales, nacidos todos antes de su matrimonio.

De Edith de Willesford (fallecida después de 1385):
 Sir Roger Clarendon (1345/60 - ejecutado en 1402); se casó con Margarita (fallecida en 1382), hija de Juan Fleming, barón de la Roche.

De madres desconocidas:
 Eduardo (nacido h. 1349 - murió joven)
 Sir Juan Sounder
 Sir Carlos FitzEdward (nacido h. 1352-)

El 10 de octubre de 1361, en la localidad de Windsor, se casó con la prima de su padre Juana de Kent (1328-1385), nieta de Eduardo I. Era hija y heredera de Edmundo de Woodstock, conde de Kent, el hijo menor del rey Eduardo I y su segunda esposa, Margarita de Francia. Este matrimonio fue por auténtico amor, habiéndose realizado sin el consentimiento del rey Eduardo III —por el escándalo ocasionado por la bigamia de la condesa de Kent—, teniendo los novios que permanecer en Francia hasta 1371, cuando pueden volver a Inglaterra, ya con la bendición del soberano.

Del enlace nacieron dos hijos, ambos en Francia, cuando el príncipe y la princesa de Gales habían asumido sus deberes como príncipe y princesa de Aquitania:

 Eduardo (Angulema, Francia, 27 de enero de 1365 - Burdeos, Francia, enero de 1372).
 Ricardo II (Burdeos, Francia, 6 de enero de 1367 - Pontefract, h. 14 de febrero de 1400), a menudo conocido como "Ricardo de Burdeos" por su lugar de nacimiento.

De este matrimonio con Juana también se convirtió en padrastro de sus hijos, incluyendo a Thomas Holland, II conde de Kent cuya hija, Juana Holland, se casaría con el hermano de Eduardo, Edmundo de Langley. El otro hijastro de Eduardo John Holland, I duque de Exeter, se casaría con la sobrina de Eduardo, Isabel de Lancaster, hija de su hermano, Juan de Gante.

Títulos, tratamiento, honores y armas

Armas y emblema heráldico
Armas: En cuartos, primero y cuarto en azur semée de flores de lis de oro (Antigua Francia); segundo y tercero de gules, tres leones de oro, lampasados (Inglaterra); por encima, una banda de tres puntos de plata. Cresta: Sobre un sombrero de gules con vuelta de armiño, un león alzado con un lambel de tres pendientes de plata. Manto: gules alineados con armiño.
Como Príncipe de gales, el blasón de Eduardo era el del reino, diferenciado por un lambel de tres pendientes de plata.

Eduardo también usó un emblema alternativo de Sable, tres plumas de avestruz en plata, descrito como su "escudo para la paz" (probablemente significaba que era el emblema que usaba en las justas o torneos). Este escudo puede verse varias veces en su tumba, alternando con las armas reales diferenciadas. Su hermano menor, Juan de Gante, usó un escudo similar en el que las plumas de avestruz eran armiño.

El "escudo para la paz" de Eduardo se cree que inspiró el emblema de tres plumas de avestruz usado por posteriores príncipes de Gales.

El nombre "Príncipe Negro"
Aunque a menudo se alude a Eduardo como el "Príncipe Negro", no hay ningún documento que lo denomine así contemporáneo del príncipe, ni durante más de 150 años después de su muerte. En lugar de ello, era conocido como Eduardo de Woodstock (por su lugar de nacimiento), o por alguno de sus títulos. El apodo de "Príncipe Negro" se encuentra por vez primera por escrito en dos notas manuscritas del anticuario John Leland en los años 1530 o principios de los 1540: en uno, Leland se refiere en inglés al "the blake prince"; en la otra, se refiere en latín a "Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri". La aparición más antigua en letra impresa es en la Chronicle at Large (1569) de Richard Grafton: Grafton lo usa en tres ocasiones, diciendo que "algunos escritores lo llaman el príncipe negro", y (en otro lugar) que él era "habitualmente llamado el Príncipe negro". Lo usa Shakespeare, en sus obras Ricardo II (escrito h. 1595) y Enrique V (h. 1599). Más tarde aparece de manera destacada en el título de The History of that Most Victorious Monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and First Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: Being a Full and Exact Account Of the Life and Death of the said King: Together with That of his Most Renowned Son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, Sirnamed the Black-Prince ("La historia de aquel el más victorioso de los monarcas, Eduardo III, rey de Inglaterra y Francia, y señor de Irlanda, y primer fundador de la más noble orden de la Jarretera: siendo un relato completo y exacto de la vida y la muerte del mencionado rey junto con la de su hijo más famoso, Eduardo, príncipe de Gales y de Aquitania, apodado el Príncipe Negro", 1688), de Joshua Barnes.

Los orígenes del nombre son inseguros, aunque se han propuesto muchas teorías. Son de dos tipos principalmente:

 la que lo hace derivar del escudo negro de Eduardo, y/o su armadura negra.
 la que lo deriva de la brutal reputación de Eduardo, particularmente hacia los franceses en Aquitania.

El campo negro de su "escudo para la paz" está bien documentado (véase las Armas arriba). Sin embargo, no hay evidencia firme de que Eduardo luciera nunca una armadura negra, aunque John Harvey (sin citar ninguna fuente) se refiere a "una evidencia bastante vaga de que era descrito en francés como vestido en la batalla de Crecy "en armure noire en fer bruni" – "en armadura negras de acero bruñido". Richard Barber sugiere que los orígenes del nombre podrían haber estado en la pompa, en que una tradición podría haber crecido en el  de representar al príncipe con armadura negra. Apunta que varias crónicas se refieren a él como Eduardo el Cuarto (el título que habría tenido de haber sido rey si hubiera sobrevivido a su padre): este nombre obviamente habría sido confuso con el auténtico Eduardo IV, que ascendió al trono en 1461, y esto podría haber sido el período cuando tenía que encontrarse una alternativa.

La brutalidad de Eduardo en Francia está también bien documentada, y David Green cree que aquí están los orígenes del título. El soldado francés Philippe de Mézières se refiere a Eduardo como el mayor de los "jabalíes negros" - aquellos agresores que habían hecho mucho por romper las relaciones dentro de la Cristiandad. Otros escritores franceses hacen asociaciones similares, y Peter Hoskins señala que una tradición oral de L'Homme Noir, que había pasado con un ejército, persistía en el sur de Francia hasta años recientes. En la obra de Shakespeare Enrique V, una referencia por el rey de Francia a "ese nombre negro, Eduardo, el Negro Príncipe de Gales" sugiere que la obra de teatro podría haber interpretado el nombre de esta manera. Aquí permanece, sin embargo, una considerable duda sobre cómo el nombre podría haber pasado de Francia a Inglaterra. En 1642, Thomas Fuller comentó que el Príncipe Negro era "llamado así por sus terribles actos y no por su complexión".

Recientemente, sin embargo, su nombre asociado con brutalidad o felonías ha sido puesto en duda por varios historiadores. La mayor mancha en la mala reputación de Eduardo fue el saqueo de Limoges en 1370, que el cronista Jean Froissart describe así: "Fue un asunto de lo más melancólico - pues todas las clases, edades y sexos se arrodillaron ante el príncipe, rogando clemencia; pero estaba tan inflamado de pasión y venganza que no escuchó a nadie, sino que todos fueron pasados por la espada. Más de tres mil hombres, mujeres y niños fueron muertos ese día". Sin embargo, un documento más contemporáneo escrito por el propio Eduardo fue descubierto recientemente en un archivo español. La carta fue escrita al conde de Foix y describe que durante la invasión de Limoges el Príncipe Negro tomó "200 caballeros y hombres de armas prisioneros". Una fuente local contemporánea de una abadía en Limoges documentó "300 bajas en total en la ciudad". No hay ninguna mención a la masacre de tres mil personas o más. Es muy probable que Froissart en gran medida exagerara los acontecimientos que dieron su nombre al Príncipe Negro.

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 Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376), en Internet Archive
 Cómo se elaboró la efigie de la tumba de Edward de Woodstock, en Internet Archive
 BBC History site
 Encyclopedia.com
 La extraña historia del príncipe negro de Canterbury
 Britannia Biographies
 Cordouan lighthouse and the tour of the Black Prince

Casa de Plantagenet
Nobles de Inglaterra del siglo XIV
Príncipes de Gales
Miembros de la Orden de la Jarretera
Sepultados en la Catedral de Canterbury
Militares de la guerra de los Cien Años
Historia del País Vasco
Personajes de Shakespeare
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The Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum was the residence of the former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. It was in this house that she was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards on 31st October 1984. The house was converted into a museum after her assassination.
The museum conserves some of the belongings of Indira Gandhi, including the sari she was wearing when she was assassinated. There is a collection of photographs, which record the Nationalist movement and the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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Six Sigma has been described in many ways: a business management strategy, a highly disciplined process, a statistical method, a data-centred approach, but what does all this really mean?
This article won't attempt to teach you Six Sigma, but it will provide some facts about Six Sigma, which should help you, as a manager, understand the term better when you next encounter it.
Sigma (a letter in the Greek alphabet) is a statistical term for measuring the deviation of a process from the point of perfection. Perfection being that it has no defects or errors.
The objective of Six Sigma is to identify and eliminated defects in a process. Originally developed for manufacturing processes, it can be applied to any business process, and is one of the most commonly used tools in business for achieving continuous improvement. Six Sigma can be applied to any process: for example to design or create a product, or the delivering or a service.
Six Sigma focuses on achieving process improvements, striving to achieve as near to perfection as possible. This is often described as "zero defect".
Six Sigma Quality is when a process produces no more than 3.4 defects for every million opportunities. An opportunity is where there is a chance not to meet the required customer needs.
Six Sigma consists of a collection of tools including: project definition, prioritisation, quality management, means analysis, variance analysis, hypothesis testing, cause and effective analysis and many others.
Six Sigma was developed by Motorola to improve its internal procedures, and is a registered trademark of Motorola.
Six Sigma consultants are referred to as "Black Belts". This has been expanded to include Green Belts and Master Black Belts.
What is a Defect? At its simplest, a defect occurs when a process fails to deliver what the customer wants.
Inherent in the definition of Defect is the definition of Quality: Quality is what the customer wants. No more and No less. To understand the required quality is to understand exactly what the customer wants.
Process capability is what the process can deliver.
Variations are what the customer sees and feels.
Stable operations build on the previous point, and focuses on improving the variations exposed to customers.
The design of Six Sigma is to produce the most effective process to meet the needs of the customer and process capability.
Six Sigma has both technical and management components.
The technical components aim to improve process performance through process data, statistical analysis and methods. The five key stages are Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control.
The management components focus on ensuring the right projects get the necessary attention and the right people. Management should ensure, via the use of process metrics and project tracking, that objectives and quality targets will be achieved and that long term benefits can be sustained over time.
Six Sigma is based on the principle that business success is dependent on reducing the amount of variation in the business process. Achieving quality improvements, that can be sustained into the future, can only be achieve when the entire organisation works together towards a common goal.
Six Sigma is used in a variety of organisations including General Electric, 3M, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Honeywell, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, to name but a few.
Six Sigma is a highly disciplined methodology that, where implemented successfully, has saved many organisations large sums of money. Its goal is simple: through the elimination of defects, or anything that makes the customer dissatisfied, the most optimised process can be achieved which leads to the most successful outcome.
Numerous training organisations and training programmes are available covering certification in Six Sigma Belts as well as organisation wide education.


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The Prophets (Unabridged)
Robert Jones Jr
Best Book of the Year
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• Finalist for the National Book Award
• One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year
• One of the New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year
• Instant New York Times Bestseller
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony.
With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets fearlessly reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.
This is a historical romance like no other we've ever heard. On a Mississippi plantation, two enslaved young men, Samuel and Isaiah, secretly find happiness in each other's arms. But their sliver of joy is threatened by seemingly every aspect of their life in bondage—even sympathetic figures like the kindly housemaid Maggie could potentially cause their ruin. Robert Jones, Jr.'s prodigious debut uses dozens of richly textured characters to tell the story of the two men, from ruthless slave drivers to fellow enslaved people and even African royalty. Award-winning narrator Karen Chilton is graceful with Jones' lyrical prose, utterly transported us throughout this moving listen. We could feel the brutal heat of the cotton fields just as much as we could the strength of Samuel's and Isaiah's boundless spirits.
Karen Chilton
hr min
DioniDaley , 09/06/2021
It's one of those books you end up not needing the audio for because they won't read it how you are reading it. Overall 10/10
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