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Diana – commonly referred to as the ‘People’s Princess’ – died on Sunday 31 August 1997, when she was aged just 36-years-old.
Many will remember the horror they felt after discovering the princess had been killed after the Mercedes S-280 she was travelling in crashed inside the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris.
The ex-wife of Prince Charles and mother of princess William and Harry suffered fatal injuries in the crash and died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
She was travelling with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul, who both died as a result of the collision, as well as her bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who survived.
They were travelling from the Ritz Hotel in Paris at around half past midnight with dozens of paparazzi, who took photographs of the crash scene, in pursuit.
An inquest into her death was also held in 2008, concluding that Diana had been unlawfully killed. The inquest attributed this to negligent driving by Henri Paul, who was said to be drunk and on anti-depressants, and the paparazzi recklessly pursuing her and causing the driver to speed up to try to shake them off.
Diana’s funeral was on 6 September 1997 and took place at Westminster Abbey.
It was televised on the BBC, with 2.5billion people tuning in across the globe to say goodbye to the princess.
Tens of thousands of people turned out to leave flowers and tributes outside Kensington Palace in the wake of her death.
She was buried on an island in the Althorn Estate, the Spencer family home. The burial was held in private.
There are several memorials to the ‘People’s Princess’ including the Diana Memorial Playground in Kensington gardens, the Princess Diana Memorial Garden at Kensington Palace (for the 20th anniversary of her death) and the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park.
Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July 1961 and inherited her father Edward John Viscount Althorp’s title Earl Spencer in 1975 becoming Lady Diana Spencer. Her mother was Frances Ruth Burke Roche.
The Spencer family had served the Royal Family for generations with Diana’s great-grandfather being Lord Chamberlain to Edward VII and George V, her father was equerry to George VI and the Queen and four of Diana’s great aunts were also members of the Queen Mother’s household.
When she married Prince Charles at St Paul’s Cathedral on 29 July 1981, she was given the title the Princess of Wales. She also was given the title, the Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay ad Countess of Chester. The couple had met at Althorp when Lady Diana was 16 years old.
Princes William and Harry were born in 1982 and 1984 and the royal couple separated in 1992, five years before her death.
Princes William and Harry led tributes on the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana in London last year.
A number of events took place across London, including an exhibit at Buckingham Palace of the princess’ possessions and several charity events for children through The Diana Award charity.
A documentary with ITV called ‘Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy’ also aired on TV in July 2017, to mark the anniversary.
An interview with the princes aired on the BBC on 31 August 2017.
This statement condemning the continuing U.S. blockade against Cuba was issued by the Workers World Party 2016 Presidential Campaign.
The Workers World Party Presidential and Vice Presidential Campaign joins with the Cuban people and millions globally who declare #YoVotoVsBloqueo — “I vote against the blockade.” We reiterate our party’s longstanding support for revolutionary socialist Cuba and respect for its sovereignty and self-determination against the imperialist bully to the north.
There is now a commonly held, but false and dangerous, illusion that the genocidal financial noose around Cuba has ended. This illusion is fostered by the U.S. government’s positive agreement on Dec. 17, 2015, to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, which it broke in 1961. President Barack Obama visited Cuba and commercial flights to the island began on Aug. 31. The unique restriction banning U.S. travel to Cuba has been reduced to a computer check box. However, Cuba’s 2016 report states that the blockade has in fact been toughened.
In its 40-page document, Cuba details the large, small and even new ways the web of U.S. laws and regulations that make up the blockade hurt the Cuban people, while touching every continent with their extraterritorial reach. The full report can be read in English at cubavsbloqueo.cu.
Here are a few examples.
Cuba’s Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) has exported pharmaceuticals to Thailand for many years. An order from PharMaLand pharmaceuticals for 60,000 bulbs of Cuba’s HeberBiovac HB Hepatitis B vaccine could not be filled because the bank in Thailand handling the order received a warning it should not enter into transactions with Cuba due to U.S. sanctions.
Payment for work in Ecuador and Ethiopia by Cuban technical and professional teachers was held back because that would violate U.S. sanctions. In Guatemala, Cuban sports technicians could not provide services because there were no banking channels through which remittances could be sent to Cuba. The bank subsidiaries there have relations with U.S. banks.
Between April 2015 and April 2016, the U.S. imposed 61 measures against foreign banks because they had relations with Cuba. These included closing bank accounts, holding back funds, refusing to provide banking services and to process letters of credit, delays due to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control requiring permits to process documents and turning back bank transactions in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Cuba offers more than 200 internationally recognized, quality medical programs in 47 health institutions serving 15,000 foreign patients annually. But medical treatment does not fall into the 12 categories of travel permitted by the U.S. government. In short, it is illegal for a U.S. resident to seek medical treatment in Cuba, even though Cuba has developed effective treatments like a vaccine for lung cancer and Heberprot-P, which prevents more than 70 percent of diabetic foot ulcers. These treatments reduce medical costs and markedly improve quality of life, yet are out of reach for U.S. residents.
Cuba constitutionally guarantees free education and health care as well as access to culture and sports. The well-being of the people, not profits, is the purpose of its socialist organization of society. The blockade hurts all aspects of Cuban society, from construction to food import and production to the right of development itself.
President Obama has not done all that he could to dismantle the blockade of Cuba. He continues the Medical Professional Parole Program, a brain drain that offers special benefits to Cuban medical professionals who abandon international assignments.
According to Cuba’s 2016 document, Obama could allow Cuban banks to open accounts in U.S. banks; authorize direct exports of U.S. products to Cuban companies; permit imports of Cuban services or products like biotech products, including those manufactured in third countries containing Cuban raw materials; authorize U.S. companies to invest in Cuba; and allow ships that have docked in Cuba to dock in U.S. ports, eliminating the present six-month waiting period.
As the vote against the U.S. blockade in the United Nations General Assembly nears, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) has begun days of action under the title, “We remember: Solidarity against the blockade and terrorism.” On Sept. 4, ICAP began by commemorating the 1997 bombing of a Havana hotel that killed the young Italian Fabio di Celmo. The days of action will end on Oct. 27 with the twenty-fifth consecutive United Nations vote calling on the U.S. to end its blockade of Cuba.
JOHOR BARU: Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Osman Sapian has played down the issue of the appointment of his private secretary, saying it was done for professional reasons.
He denied that Fizwan Rashidi was appointed for political reasons, saying that the former Kota Tinggi district council president is a Johor Civil Servant (JCS) and added that his appointment was suggested by State Secretary Datuk Azmi Rohani.
“Fizwan comes from JCS and not Umno, and I held discussion with the State Secretary who endorsed his appointment due to his experience," said Osman.
Osman said that he needed all the help he can get to adapt to the new environment as he was still new to his role as the Mentri Besar.
“Fizwan has years of experience in serving several past Mentri Besars and as a new government, we need to carry out our duty immediately,” he added at a press conference on Wednesday (May 16).
Osman said this in response to a report by an English daily which said that cracks have started to appear in the new Johor state government following Osman’s choice of his private secretary, allegedly a person close to the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) government and believed to be an Umno member.
Aidan Halligan, who has died suddenly aged 57, was a compassionate surgeon who challenged the status quo in healthcare. His lasting contribution lay in demonstrating how to create safer and more effective ways for doctors, nurses and others to work together, in an environment of learning from mistakes. The work he pioneered, and was passionate about, resulted in safer and better care for patients.
As director of clinical governance for the NHS (1999-2006), and then as deputy chief medical officer for England from 2003, under Liam Donaldson, he helped establish consistent standards of care across the English NHS. He ran an innovative training establishment in Leicestershire, Elision Health (2006-2008), where surgical and multidisciplinary teams could develop their skills.
In 2007, as director of education at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), he commissioned a state-of-the-art education centre, a learning hospital equipped with cameras and simulated theatre and wards, and rooted in the science of human factors, which seeks to understand how people behave and interact in particular situations.
The death of a homeless man outside UCLH resulted in Halligan and Nigel Hewett setting up a specialist homeless team in 2009. Halligan saw there was both system failure and profound injustice in the way homeless people were treated by the NHS, and he set up an independent charity, Pathway, in 2010, to address this problem. There are now Pathway teams in 10 hospitals across the UK, and many thousands of homeless people have received better care as a result of Halligan’s vision.
As chief of safety for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (2008-13), he appointed the first-ever independent patient safety ombudsman, with a whistleblowing remit. During this period he visited Camp Bastion field hospital in Afghanistan, the busiest and clinically most challenged A&E in the world, a multinational hospital led by British regular and NHS reservist doctors and nurses.
The experience convinced him that if well-led teams, with a holistic focus on the patient, can function in such an environment, then that must be possible within the NHS. This led him to establish an NHS Staff College at the UCLH Education Centre in 2010. Its role was to allow clinicians, and managers in particular, to learn how the best of the Camp Bastion clinical approach could be adapted to improve NHS care.
In Life in the Slow Lane: Making Hospitals Safer, an article published in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2012, Halligan and colleagues set out evidence of a successful approach to learning from mistakes.
From 2014 until his death, Halligan was director of Well North, a Public Health England initiative to improve the health of underprivileged people across the north of England. He sought to help people voice what matters to them and, with the support of their community, take action to address those concerns.
Halligan was born in Dublin, son of Michael and Maureen (nee O’Connell). He went to school at Templeogue College, Dublin, and qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin, in 1984, alongside Carol Furlong, whom he married the following year.
Halligan was appointed lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at Leicester University in 1993, and in 1997 became the youngest professor in his speciality of foetal maternal medicine.
A voracious reader, he was particularly interested in military history, always on a quest to learn more about leadership. He also played the accordion.
Halligan is survived by Carol, and their daughters, Molly, Becky and Daisy.
What is the Scully Effect? It's no coincidence that female fans of 'The X-Files' are inspired to choose careers in STEM fields.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny never expected “The X-Files” to be a hit when it first aired in 1993. But what was perhaps more surprising to Anderson was the impact her character Dana Scully—a sharp, skeptical medical doctor turned FBI agent—would have on female fans of the show.
It’s known as the “Scully Effect,” and it describes how many women have cited the character as inspiration for their decision to enter careers in science, medicine, or law enforcement.
Now, a new report brings some data to back up the claim.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit research organization and advocacy group, and 21st Century Fox conducted an online survey that asked 2,021 women to rate how the character Dana Scully influenced their career choices and attitudes. The survey respondents were all female, all ages 25 or older (so they would have had a chance to enter the workforce, and have seen the show), and comprised an overrepresentation of women in STEM fields and fans of the show.
About one-third (29%) of respondents were aged 25 to 39, while the remainder (71%) were aged 40 or older.
Roughly half (49%) of the sample studied a STEM field in college, or currently works in STEM.
Among women who are familiar with Scully’s character, half (50%) say Scully increased their interest in STEM.
Among women who are familiar with Scully’s character, 63% say Scully increased their confidence that they could excel in a male-dominated profession.
Anderson and other female writers described the Scully Effect in a video after the report was released.
The report also included a word cloud featuring the most frequently cited words respondents used to describe Sully.
Madeline Di Nonno, CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, talked about the power of representation in media.“Characters’ images and storylines in media shape our everyday lives in very profound ways. In the case of ‘The Scully Effect,’ it shows that when, in media, we have non-traditional roles for women and girls it helps them envision these pathways for themselves,” she said in a statement.
The unthinkable is now the reality, and the hard work for both those who supported Trump and for those who opposed him is now just beginning.
The woman I love — who is much wiser than I will ever be — walked with me through the eerily quiet streets of Manhattan late Tuesday night. She has said all along that Donald Trump might well win the presidency, and she has argued that as much as she hated the idea of a Trump victory, it might be a good thing for America, the kind of shock to the system we need to wake up to the racism, sexism, and other chasms that divide our society. She emphasized, as she often does, that the first step in the wake of a development like this is not to analyze; it is to listen and really hear what the results are saying. As I said, she is wise.
We stepped into a local bar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to hear the latest from CNN. It was packed. And it was silent. Columbia University students stared at the screens dumbfounded and, in many cases, appeared heart-broken. Emails from my friends and colleagues trickled in. One very smart woman with whom I have the privilege of working wrote, “David, there are no words. I am so ashamed, and embarrassed, and fearful of this country right now.” My sister wrote asking for comfort for her young son. My daughters wrote asking me if I could make sense of what was happening. Sadly, I could not.
We at Foreign Policy co-hosted an event at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village for election night. It was packed with people who wanted some laughter along with insight into the political events of the night. But as the returns came in, broadcast on monitors, there was nothing anyone on stage could say to distract the audience from what was happening — an outcome that virtually all in the room had thought, a few hours before, was unthinkable.
When the evening in the comedy club drew to a close and as we later walked through the streets of New York and into that bar, it was that very unthinkability that appeared to be the central issue. Manhattan is, as one woman shouted in the audience earlier in the evening, an island. She meant we were isolated from reality. And in that sense, many of my friends and colleagues in Washington and on the West Coast were also on that island. To them, the red America voting for Trump (not to mention the majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives) was as alien as the dark side of the moon. The two sides had so lost touch with each other that perhaps the main reaction of my pro-Hillary friends was disorientation. The dawning reality that Trump was claiming victory seemed to defy the laws of logic and human nature.
After all, Trump was a racist and a misogynist, an incompetent, and a puppet of Vladimir Putin during the campaign. And indeed, he remains all those things now that he will soon occupy the White House. Hillary Clinton was exquisitely well trained for the presidency and is an extraordinarily capable individual. Electing her would have been a long awaited watershed and moment of justice for America’s majority population.
It was inconceivable that these facts could be overlooked. But they were. Or Clinton’s qualities and qualifications were overshadowed by the anger many people felt at Washington insiders, at a system that they view as corrupt and unfair to them. Or perhaps they felt threatened by shifting demographics or the consequences of hyper-productivity.
I said the president’s powers are limited and that, in fact, the U.S. system is designed to keep even a really bad apple from doing too much damage. I also said I felt the things that make America great — Trump’s declinist slogans aside — still do. We’re still the richest and most powerful country on earth because of our people, our entrepreneurs, our military, our scientists and technologists, our universities, and even because of the strengths of our admittedly deeply flawed political system.
But I will admit, I was shaken, and she could tell. She was, as ever, smart and kind and comforting and refocused the conversation. She underscored that the consequence of the election was not just that Trump had won but rather that it redefined the work each of us now had to do based on our beliefs.
The morning after the Trump victory will be the first morning at work fixing what is broken in America. It will be the first moment of building the firewalls that will contain Trump’s racism, misogyny, inexperience, deeply flawed temperament; the first day of taking steps toward counterbalancing his softness toward despots like Putin, his destructive policy views, and the vile nature of many of the extremist groups that support him. It is the first day of the next campaign — because that’s the way democracy works. And the first step in all these things will be to stop and spend some serious time thinking about what happened this election day and why, to hear those who seem so remote and try to understand them. Because divided as they appear to be, the red and the blue regions of America are still part of one country — indivisible.
My dear companion, also deeply saddened and shaken by the election results, walked a block or so in silence and then reminded me of a moment early this year when David Gergen stood up to a high-level foreign audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos and explained how Trump could win. It was January. There was palpable shock in the room, a collective sharp intake of breath, she remembered, and she wondered aloud what could these people possibly be thinking now. That, of course, underscored that part of the new reality of tomorrow will be that the world is going to have to adjust to the reality of a Trump-led America. We in our line of work will have the responsibility of helping our friends and allies and rivals around the world understand what has happened here and what it means … and of finding a way forward. I believe deeply that an important part of that responsibility will be for publications like FP to do what we have always done — to cast a light on the new administration, to help explain it, to help it understand the consequence of its actions around the world, and, in the end, to challenge it when such challenges are required.
The problems the world faced before this election we still face. I worry that this inexperienced leader and his dubious team may make some of them worse. I worry that there will, once again, be too much learning on the job. I worry that Trump’s victory along with developments in Europe and elsewhere will embolden the extreme, nationalist, populist right. We have seen in the past the dark consequences of similar political power shifts, and we will have to be especially vigilant and resolute to ensure it does not happen again there or here in the United States.
But all this will not be taking place in a void. Many other forces are at work beyond the president and his team. Checks and balances at home and abroad. They begin right here … with those of us who feel defeated and deflated and disturbed by the results of this election committing ourselves to work within the system to change the system, to engage even more to ensure that we influence outcomes. Because that’s how democracies work. Those who lose must recommit themselves to the system in which they lost, to be more successful in defeat than they were in the campaign just ended.
That’s tough on a morning like this one. That’s tough when the candidate in question is associated with such dangerous ideas and allies. That’s tough, but it is our responsibility, and it underscores that our responsibility within a democracy continues on between election days, the good ones and the bad ones and even those that are utterly incomprehensible.
Hundreds of people flocked to Hoddesdon town centre on Saturday to celebrate May Day and the town's heritage.
Various groups put on a range of stalls at the May Fair and Heritage Day, such as the Spotlight Theatre and Lowewood Museum, as well as food and game stalls.
In the first for the event there were vintage bus tours around the area, in bright red double decker London buses, while those who wished to explore the area's heritage on foot could do so in a pair of pre-planned walks.
Hoddesdon's firefighters were also on hand to pitch in with the community spirit, happy to pose for pictures with interested children.
There were even stalls with sizzling food being cooked in front of visitors in giant pans, all for benefit of those who had come to enjoy themselves at the fair.
Last post of our Top 10 series about the most famous content and contributors on FXStreet in 2015. Today, we take a look at the pieces of news, live video shows and trading books that received the biggest amount of clicks on our website during the year that just closed.
2015 was a year that swung from extreme volatile events, including SNB’s black swan, to periods of excessive calm. While the volatile period came courtesy of the SNB’s EUR/CHF peg removal, Greece’s never-ending debt problems or China’s currency devaluation and the burst of its domestic stock bubble, the calm also settled in as the market awaited for over a year until the Fed finally decided to raise interest rates by 0.25bp in a historical decision.
1. Forex + China: EUR/USD towards 1.1300 before long run to 1.2000 – August 25, 2015: Dale Pinkert and Mauricio Carrillo comments China’s decision to cut interest rate and Reserve Requirement Ratio and EUR/USD forecast.
2. Greece + Forex: Buy EUR/USD on weakness; sell GBP/USD on strength – June 30, 2015: Pinkert and Carrillo talk about stocks and DXY sell-off following Greece concerns.
3. Martin Armstrong: Sovereign debt crisis underway; fuse lit in Europe – June 8, 2015: Pinkert interviews Martin Armstrong about the sovereign debt crisis and why the Euro is a disaster.
4. Vicki Schmelzer @MNIEyeOnFX: Fair EUR/USD price: 1.1050; 1.1500 possible – March 27, 2015: Pinkert interviews Vicki Schmelzer about the EUR/US, its fair price and the liquidity in the Forex Market.
5. Forex Forecast 2016: What will 2016 bring to the Forex traders? – December 18, 2015: Ivan Delgado and Dale Pinkert interview Ashraf Laidi, Valeria Bednarik, Boris Schlossberg and Adam Button about 2016 in Forex.
6. Valeria Bednarik @ValBenarik: Market focus on ECB QE; 1.1000 is EUR/USD target – February 25, 2015: Pinkert and Valeria Bednarik talk about ECB QE, EUR/USD and the AUD/USD.
7. USD Forecast: US Dollar rebounds; but EUR/USD long term run to 1.1700-1.2000 – June 19, 2015: Pinkert and Carrillo talk about Grexit, the ECB and the Greek banks’ crisis with a USD focus.
8. Greece Forecast on economic and Forex: EUR/USD further declines; USD/JPY to 121.10 – June 29, 2015: Pinkert interviews Valeria Bednarik on What’s going on in Forex? And how Greece crisis affects currencies?
9. Booker @robbooker: EURUSD to 1.1250; then one more intense selloff to 1.0400 – June 2, 2015: Dale Pinkert and Rob Booker talked about the EUR/USD and why is nothing wrong taking profits prior to targets.
1. “Opportunities in Forex Calendar Trading Patterns” by John Forman – This ebook covers all of the major pairs and crosses, looking at the data in several ways. The research which went into it unearthed numerous interesting patterns.
2. “Beyond Technical Analysis” by Tushar S. Chande – This book by Tushar S. Cande provides a classic technical analysis, newly updated to help traders develop and forward-test a high-performance trading system for today’s markets.
3. “Millionaire Traders” by Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg – In Millionaire Traders, Kathy Lien and Boris Schlossberg have interviewed twelve people who started with as little as $1,000 and turned those modest stakes into a six- to seven-digit fortunes training themselves to become true professionals.
4. “The Ruff Guide to Trading” by Steve Ruffley – In this book, Steve ruffley shows the markets through his eyes of a veteran trader. He reveals how he sees trading as a whole, how he assesses and exploits trading opportunities, and how he thinks about risk. He also describes three of his winning strategies.
5. “Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market” by Kathy Lien – In this book, Kathy Lien describes everything from time-tested technical and fundamental strategies you can use to compete with bank traders to a host of more fundamentally-oriented strategies.
6. “The Sensible Guide to Forex” by Cliff Wachtel – The book “The Sensible Guide to Forex: Safer, Smarter Ways to Survive and Prosper from the Start” is focused on reducing the high risk, complexity, and time demands normally associated with forex trading.
7. “Kathleen Brooks on Forex” by Kathleen Brooks – In her book, Kathleen Brooks reveals the secrets of this approach, demonstrating the indicators she uses, and showing through detailed examples how she plans and executes profitable trades.
8. “How to Trade a Currency Fund” by Jarratt Davis– In this book, Jarratt Davis dispels many of the myths surrounding professional trading, and gives an insight into his own unique tale of how he went from complete novice to fully fledged Forex Fund trader.