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"Thanks to Fujitsu, we have a stable, predictable and scalable HPC solution that is helping us make more accurate simulations of the copper and energy markets. This allows us to make the best decisions in a rapidly changing market."
Dr. Christoph Tietz Senior Key Expert Engineer, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
Working in the field of electronics and technology on such a large scale, Siemens must purchase significant amounts of commodities such as copper. It also recently established a treasury division to trade commodities at its own risk. The company realised that if it could predict the market more effectively it could make big savings on procurement. Using 30 networked Linux workstations, it rolled out its own bespoke modelling application – Simulation Environment for Neural Networks (SENN) – designed to simulate the commodity markets.
"Commodity prices are essential to Siemens and can have a major impact on the procurement process. But calculating a single forecast is not enough because we must take into account so many variables. Instead we need to build multiple models for multiple scenarios, look at the distribution of results and establish the most probable outcomes," explains Dr Christoph Tietz, Senior Key Expert Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology. "We were using a number of Linux workstations initially to perform these calculations but this posed a number of problems."
Firstly, the Linux workstations were a shared resource so Dr Tietz and his team could never be sure there would be enough computing power available. There were also reliability issues which affected performance. Moreover, because it was a heterogeneous mix of devices, it was impossible to tell how long it would take to complete any given task.
"We carry out most work over the weekend so we need to be absolutely sure that it will perform successfully without human intervention," adds Dr Tietz. "We realised that this diverse collection of Linux workstations just couldn't provide the levels of stability and predictability we required."
The faster Dr Tietz and his team get results, the better they can understand the forecasts. Previously it would take three days to model a 20-day outlook based on 200 individual forecasts. Now it happens overnight. That enables Siemens to be much more responsive to volatile markets and unexpected events.
Siemens Corporate Technology decided that a dedicated HPC cluster would solve its problems and allow it to process the complex calculations more quickly. It asked a number of companies to propose a solution; Fujitsu was selected because of the standard of its hardware, the added value services included and its collaborative approach. It was also the most cost-effective solution submitted.
"The other companies all came back with a very prescriptive, commoditised response, dictating what we needed. Fujitsu, on the other hand, were flexible and more interested in working together to design a system tailored to our specific needs," continues Dr Tietz. "We had access to people who really knew their stuff and it was genuinely fun to work and learn together."
Following six months of planning and design, the new HPC cluster went live in October 2011. It consists of 18 PRIMERGY BX900 blade servers, each containing 12 CPU cores. The cluster is housed in regular office space rather than a dedicated computer room, meaning Fujitsu and Siemens had to plan well for heat ventilation.
"The new cluster is stable and because it is homogeneous – running on the same kernels – we can predict exactly how long each simulation will take," says Dr Tietz. "And we don't have to share the computing resource so we can use it to run our SENN simulations 24x7. That means we are getting a lot more done."
The cluster runs HPC Software PCM Fujitsu Edition and is linked to an ETERNUS DX60 storage array from Fujitsu. The core OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is so reliable that it has not experienced any downtime in the year it has been up and running.
The HPC cluster is delivering a faster, more reliable experience, enabling SENN to produce more accurate simulations. Time not spent in production is invested in refining the modelling process.
"It is three times as fast as the previous solution so we can perform three times as many calculations and still have plenty of capacity to put into making the simulations as accurate as possible," comments Dr Tietz. "It's also giving us a better understanding of how the real world affects our models. There are some variables you just cannot predict, whether it is a political event or a natural disaster. We can now react to these much more quickly and build models that can cope with these 'data shocks'."
"Our forecasts act as decision support for the procurement and treasury divisions," explains Dr Tietz. "Since we installed the HPC cluster, we have received fewer complaints about the accuracy of our simulations. As far as I am concerned the best feedback is no feedback."
Siemens Corporate Technology is currently using the Fujitsu HPC cluster to forecast copper and energy prices but is looking to expand gas, oil, aluminium and foreign exchange. As new commodities are brought on board, the company will increase the computing power accordingly by adding more blade servers and cores.
"Thanks to Fujitsu, we have a stable, predictable and scalable HPC solution that is helping us make more precise simulations of the copper and energy markets. We now know how accurate our forecasts will be and can put a percentage probability on various outcomes. This allows us to make the best decisions in a rapidly changing market."
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Looking for your something borrowed? Just look to A-list brides like Blake Lively, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Drew Barrymore, or Natalie Portman, who all tied the knot this year and set a fresh batch of celebrity wedding trends. In 2012, weddings were all about natural elements and a sense of romance. Several couples opted for outdoor ceremonies, and brides kept things simple with long, loose hair and white flowers. Many of this year's brides weren't afraid to stand out, either, choosing colorful gowns, elaborate headpieces, and destination weddings where family and friends flew out to celebrate. On top of style and location choices, we also noticed that celebrity weddings reflect a growing societal trend: couples are getting married after they have children. We saw lots of little ones running around at celebrity weddings!
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Thursday, March 30, 2006, 11:36 AM - Video Games For SaleA few months back some new mini-arcade style games were released. These were develeoped like the old style designs of coleco mini-arcades. You can find them at many places on the web for about $25 each. Spencer Gifts has them all. Frogger, Space Invaders, and The Family Guy Pinball. Very cool! These are color LCD instead of VFD (vacuum flourescent display) screens. All the repros now are LCD, and if someone makes a reproduction in VFD I'll be in tears...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 04:49 PM - News and EventsMadrigal has released another simulator after a very long while. The one and only epoch galaxy 2 tabletop VFD!! Play it now!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 11:29 PM - Submit to the Blog...I encourage anyone here who wants an announcement made, to submit with all the details and url links to pages or graphics or whatever. I will try my best to post your announcements to this blog. Events, rare games for sale, new or weird items currently on the internet, and so forth. Surprise me! But please, don't ask me to post because you are selling a $20 Game & Watch or something normal like that - we are looking for rare, special, or strange news related to video game culture!
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 11:22 PM - General InfoHello! Today you may have noticed a few changes to miniarcade.com. The most obvious, is the creation of this blog and also the addition of google advertisements. Miniarcade.com has been completely ad-free since 1999, but now 7 years later here they are - oh no! Well....what can I say - I basically just need for this website to pay for itself. I once posted a donation campaign through paypal to help pay for hosting, domain, and bandwidth costs. Not one single person donated money! Not a dime! Ha Ha Ha rather funny actually.
So now I have added text only advertisements to help offset the yearly costs of maintaining the website. Sorry about that, but I tried to keep it to a reasonable level. When I was testing the ads, I actuall saw some pretty good, often funny sites come up. For instance a strange 'pac-boy' lcd handheld game from China came up for sale through a linked site. I purchased that straight away! If you happen to click an ad every now and then, this helps to support the miniarcade site and keep it alive. If you don't click and totally ignore them, that's OK too.
The other new addition to the site is this blog page. I figured this would help offset the ill-ness of the google ads. So in return I will post things here as often as possible. I will update you on things I see happening in the crazy world of video game culture - both retro and new. Events, news, expositions, new releases, strange finds and discoveries, ebay insanities, handheld games and retro items for sale, yada yada.
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Grievous - Chapter 6
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Chapter 6 - Grievous Intrigue[edit]
You'll confront Grievous and some of his Bodyguards almost immediately. Take out the bodyguards in the way and then Force-throw a movable object at Grievous. The hearts in his health meter should turn from silver to red, which is your cue to quickly attack him with your lightsaber. After a few hits, a cut scene will trigger and you'll be taken captive in part because of the irresistibility of coffee.
As Anakin and Adi Gallia, ascend the ramp in the background and continue until your path is blocked by red and blue force fields. To destroy the blue force field, you'll have to blow up three orbs in quick succession. To begin, head to the left side and cut open the panel behind the Jedi insignia. Destroy the orb inside of it and then quickly head to the right and destroy both orbs there (throw your lightsaber for the higher one). If you do this fast enough, you'll be able to advance.
When you enter the next room, you'll have another force field blocking you, which means you have three more orbs to destroy. Start at the left again and Force the large object onto the purple panel next to it. Next, head to the two orbs on the right. You'll notice one is guarded by a golden gate. Use the Force to grab one of the Super Battle Droids and aim his fire at that gate to destroy it. Finally, hit all three orbs like before and you'll be able to pass through.
When you enter the next room you'll find a room full of enemy droids and a console that needs a droid-head to interact with. Destroy everything and then go attack the blue droid in the back of the room. Pick up its head, put it on, and then interact with the console in the center of the room.
Next, you'll switch over to Master Kenobi. Grievous, his Bodyguards, and a handful of droids will stage an assault your position, so be prepared to fight. Destroy the irrelevant droids and then use the Force to toss any of the movable objects in the room at Grievous. When his silver hearts turn red, attack him with your lightsaber. Repeat this process until he retreats.
Follow him into the hall and he'll advance on you with his four lightsabers. Retreat into the open room behind you and begin the next phase of your battle from there. Besting him will involve, you guessed it, throwing objects at him. However, this time, instead of attacking him with your lightsaber when he's stunned, pick him up with the Force and throw him. After three hits, he'll retreat once more. Cut open the door and follow him.
Adi Gallia will join you in the next phase of your duel with Grievous. As Grievous attacks Obi-Wan, switch over to Adi and attack him from behind. After he's damaged, he'll go berserk and spin around, so back off. He'll then try to attack Adi, so switch back over to Obi-Wan and attack him once more. Repeat this until Grievous (what an idiot) makes his exit.
Next, switch over to Anakin in his ship and land on the red cross in front of you. Move up the stud trail and use your lightsaber on the light blue part of the wall. Use the Force to blow away the wall and cut open the next wall you see. Cut the cables inside and switch over to Obi-Wan.
Some platforms are now available to assist you in your climb. First, use the Force to create a platform out of the blocks on the ground for you to jump on. Then, jump up until you see a hanging yellow rectangle on the right. Use your lightsaber or blaster to attack it, and a platform should fall down for you to jump on.
Climb up to the top and into the next area, using trampolines when necessary (hold the Jump Button). Fight your way through the hallway as you follow General Grievous. He'll eventually escape into a ship, which will trigger a cut scene.
Next, make your way down the hall until you see the blue insignia that practically yells for you to interact with it. Slash the console inside to open the door to your right. After entering the next area, head to the rear right side of the room and destroy the three blocks next to the contraption with red lights. Then, manipulate the pieces with the Force to create a console to interact with. Pull the switch and you'll activate some proton torpedoes for Anakin to use.
Hold the Change Character Button to switch over to Anakin. Then, head back to your ship and pick up some of those proton torpedoes. There are four pink panels to destroy, so hop to it.
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- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:06
Great news! Well done SKopje :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:09
So I wonder what people who were saying that SKP was a balloon that would pop and would no longer have any passengers have to say.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:25
It is still a balloon and it will deflate. And no one said it would have no passengers any longer.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:29
lol neko se oseca prozvanDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:35
lol čovek je postavio pitanje i lepo mu je odgovoreno. Šta ti postavljaš osim sposobnosti da se smeješ kao lud na brašno?Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:43
Ma gluposti. Admin izgleda ceka na neki out of bounds komentar da bi izbrisao thread.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:17
I'm still hoping that a second LCC airline arrives - either Ryanair or easy jet although it is looking increasingly unlikely.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:38
Forget easyjet (its owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou a greek conservative) They could have started BSL-SKP and GVA-SKP same time when they started PRN services from both cities.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:40
Haha true didn't think of it that way :DDelete
- Nemjee18 August 2016 at 13:24
Nonsense, Stelios doesn't have that much say in the way U2 is run and for the record, he is a Cypriot from the UK so he doesn't really care about the whole name issue.Delete
Finally, U2 is not that strong in ex-YU so...
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 13:36
Easy has obviously focused on PRN and I think the ship has sailed for them to fly from Skopje. If they wanted to they would have applied for government subsidies like Wizz Air. I remember reading here in an interview that easy said that Skopje is not of interest to them.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 13:54
ignoring a cash cow like BSL-SKP is epic (they had 2 years between their arrival at PRN and Wizz at SKP)Delete
- Nemjee18 August 2016 at 14:58
If it was such a cash-cow then they wouldn't have ignored it. It's obvious that SKP is W6's playground so U2 is smart to expand in PRN. Maybe that's why FR has been expanding so aggressively in INI.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 15:16
Wizz was not present at SKP when EZY launched PRN services from Switzerland. SKP was nobodys playground back then.Delete
Now even OHD got its BSL year round flights.
- Tranquilis18 August 2016 at 15:18
Nemjee, re U2: it is, and they did. A major oversight.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 19:03
So U2 is a SKP hater and that is why they chose not to fly there?Delete
LOL, the staff that is written in this blog!
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 19:30
the only SKP hater is obviously you. People are dicussing here about missed opportunities. It surely must hurt them since Basel is a U2 base.Delete
- Purger18 August 2016 at 21:10
Stelios was removed from position to decide several year ago. He still has biggest share of bonds bud he is not CEO or decision maker any more.Delete
If you remember it was nasty story with lot of dirty things during taking over Board, and after that Stelios get huge amount of money for using "Easy" name which was copyright registered on him personally.
- Nemjee18 August 2016 at 22:50
Tranquilis but don't forget that DS' cost structure is much higher and there is a good chance they would have to operate the route with an A319. So one airline's cash cow is another's black pit.Delete
- Tranquilis19 August 2016 at 09:30
On any other route the argument might have stood. There are a couple of markets key to W6/SKP success, and this is one of those. It's a golden goose really.Delete
Anyway, I'm glad they didn't, since the cost base argument still stands, both in the level of fares available and opportunities for development. The product would have eventually been inferior, strictly as a function of days per week.
Just a note - DS, unlike the parent company, has a 50/50 split between A319 and A320.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:21
Congrats to SKP, I'm wondering when will actually SKP hit the ceiling, do you guys think they can reach and maintain 2mil+ every year soon?ReplyDelete
Which other airlines can start flights to SKP? I doubt Lufthansa will, since OU and Adria are feeding their network. AF is codesharing with AZ and CZ. KLM might be distant wish.
On the other side I'm seeing possibility for Aegean to start flights once the ball will be on the ground with the south neighbor. Aeroflot might be a possibility too if we continue the politics as we do now.
SAS is another possible airline but I think W6 has covered that region good at this moment.
Other than that, if for example Ryanair will start flying, not sure which destinations they can offer, will the airport management allow them to get in battle with W6 for same destinations?Replies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:29
Unfortunately the chances of KLM coming are low. I talked to one of their managers a month ago and they told me that they are not interested in the Balkans, especially ex-yu because it is a low yielding market and that they have left over the Balkans to Transavia if they are interested.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:41
Also wondering when Skopje will hit its ceiling. I thought it would have happened a while ago but it didn't. Also very interesting if Wizz bases another plane there who knows where the numbers could go.Delete
This years ceiling should be around 1.7 million, while my optimistic expectations are 2 millions in two years, with struggle to stabilize around 2.1 by 2020, which is half of the terminals capacity of 4.2 millions passengers per year.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:43
Yeh, what happened with the Aegean rumors? ATH-SKP two weekly with Ryanair would be perfect (and no politics involved haha)Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:46
I'm not that well informed. Is there a lot of traffic between Macedonia and Greece given their relations? Do Macedonians go there or vice versa? I'm sorry my question may seem ignorant but just wondering and have no idea.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:55
@anon 9.46 Yes,Greece is stil the No.1 holiday destination of the Macedonians plus weekends in Thessaloniki are popular troughout the year.Cheap fares to ATH could come in handy for exploring the south of GreeceDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:09
Thanks :)Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:08
Ties with the south of Greece are really weak. Olympic in its glory days in the late 90s used to operate SKP 4 p/w but most of pax were transfer to Australia and North America.Delete
I don't see a real demand for ATH. Nothing to do with the politic.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:28
ok i agree somewhere with the "week ties" but lowcost travel can open markets where you didnt expect it, just look at SKP-BCNDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 13:14
Ties with the North of Greece are important, business and trade links, tourism (especially Macedonians going to Greece on as little as daily basis), the port of Thessaloniki and family links (the ones from mixed marriages).Delete
The ties with the rest of Greece are weaker, the region of Attica (Athens) is at around 700km from Skopje.
However, I do believe there is a potential in the tourist market, if there are flights to ATH, at say, prices around 50-60€ per return flight, I think there is a room for 3 or 4 weekly SKP-ATH flight. Athenians are less sensitive to the political aspect of the relations between both countries, so there could be a market.
Sadly, I don't see much more possibilities in trade and scheduled air traffic, the name issue being important, but the most important reason being the weak state of the Greek economy.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:22
I'm happy that legacy carriers are strengthening their presence. Still hoping for LH or KL. We are still missing direct flights to FRA, LHR or AMS!!ReplyDelete
Btw. Results are great!! Congrats ��
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 09:51
ZAG-BEG upravo sada 18.8.216. 10.05 JU ATR 72ReplyDelete
37/66 = 56%
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:01
Maintaining these figures will be quite tough. Also, reaching 2 million pax is another story. If LJU relies heavily on JP then SKP definitely does on W6. The sole solution will be a 4th W6 a/c or a couple of FR destinations which I doubt after the launch of so many in INI and SOF.ReplyDelete
OS need to launch more flights to VIE and LH starting MUC!
QR we might see by Q3 2017.
JU need to add more flights to BEG
OU need to add more flights to ZAG
SKP needs to apply the PRN and TIA model - having an excellent mix of LCC + main cities.Replies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:48
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:03
-1 (JU,OU and OS have enough rotations from SKP)Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:09
People seem to be forgetting that Croatia Airlines is opening a base in Skopje next year which will surely drive passenger numbers.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:19
Do you have any more details about that? Since the initial announcement nothing else has been said? How many planes? Which destinations?Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:47
I'm not so sure that OU's arrival in Skopje is a done deal.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 15:34
Wishful thinking, a.k.a. Jatovanje.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 23:17
Or Cro-vanjeDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 10:48
Great to see Berlin increasing in winter and in such a short time. Must be doing really well.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:46
Where you see Wizz will double Berlin...they are 2 per week all winter ?Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:57
They will add flights on Tuesday and Saturday afternoon @ 18.15.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:24
Really happy that SKP is continuing to develop. Great news.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:25
We will see what will happen when EU ends investigation into subsidies.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:42
*yawn this must be the director of PRNDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:27
SKP will very soon become third busiest airport in ex-Yu with an excellent chance to havelong haul flights, at least seasonal in the next couple years.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:33
Hopefully Qantas will consider flights to Sydney as wellDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:34
lol :DDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 14:27
well said, tourism is booming, I am hoping for Cathay or Singapore Airlines.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 14:31
Are you serious o.ODelete
United Airlines to LAX is a real possibility too.Delete
I heard that they bought 787-9s specifically for routes like that.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 19:34
much better is New Jearsey:Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:44
Potencial for SkopjeReplyDelete
SKP-STN (hub)
SKP-Warshaw (unique in the region)
SKP-Lissabon (unique in the region)
SKP-Zadar (seasonal)
SKP-Podgorica (seasonal)
SKP to Moskow
LH to FRA
LH to MUC
AF to CDG
KLM to AMS
BT to LHRReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:46
What do you mean under unique in the region?Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:51
it means that there is in 400km distance no direct fly!!!Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:53
Not so sure about the demand to/from the Croatian coast. Last year Croatia Airlines started seasonal flights from Split. I think they only operated 1 or 2 flights since the demand was low.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:58
Croatian sold expensive tickets (i wanted to buy by myself), to rarely (at least twice per week is a MUST), with a turbo-prop and the advertisement wasn't very good. A LCC could make it much better!Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 12:01
SKP - Portugal seasonal will work for sureDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 12:02
^ I agree. I'm really surprised how well Skopje - Barcelona worked out. Thought it would be cancelled quickly but has turned out very successful.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 12:21
SKP-SPU direct was 250-300€ (pa nisu normalni) no surprise they called it off after two weeksDelete
add SKP-CFU(Corfu) and OHD-IST/SAW to the list
- Nemjee18 August 2016 at 13:28
Lot flies to SOF which is in SKP's region and there are also seasonal flights between Thessaloniki and Modlin on FR.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 13:51
I would like for Pobeda to stark flights from Moscow. I know last year, there was a comment from someone in Pobeda (it was either the CEO, or some kind of manager), that they would like to start flights to the Balkans. I dont believe they would go for BEG, as Aeroflot already flights there, so in my opinion SKP and INI are the logical. I hope that they will choose SKP. However, it might be a long shot, as there have not been any developments regarding this route for quite a while.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 17:18
Both aren't unique. There are direct flights from SOF to both of them even WAW is double-daily. And Sofia is only 200 km from Skopje.Delete
SKP-Warshaw (unique in the region)
SKP-Lissabon (unique in the region)
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:45
I hope Ryan will come to Skopje. It is much more important than Croatian or Qatar.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 11:51
I absolutely agree with you.Delete
- Purger18 August 2016 at 21:13
My information from Ryanair told me today that they have no plan to come to Skopje.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 12:41
OT: Ryanair to add ten aircrafts to the italian market and 44 new routes from summer 2017. Do you maybe know if they got more planes and if they'll open new routs from the Balkans? Ljubljana, Zagreb, Serbia, Skopje...?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 14:30
Sooner or later they will fly to all those cities! +PRNDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 23:23
From the Balkans or to the Balkans?Delete
- Milivoje Rodic18 August 2016 at 15:13
OT: MA sign today codeshare with ASL on routes to JFK, AHU, OTP, ZAG and others. Director Kostic say that 20% passengers from flights JFK-BEG have final destination Montenegro.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 15:27
Montenegro is a nice niche market for JU. How big is the drop of pax to Montenegro in winter in general?Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 15:21
Good work Skopje. Which year could we expect 2 million passengers?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 15:56
If we add the increase of the number of passenger till July 2016 to the number of passengers for 2015, SKP is standing at 1 610 878 passengers. Expecting the solid growth in the following months, I would say that SKP will easily reach at least 1.7 million.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 19:58
By the time SKP reaches 2 million, then PRN and TIA will also be ahead. Not to mention INI next year and during the upcoming ones, they will be heading the 200 thousand mark and why not half a million?ReplyDelete
BEG will reach 5 million but not more.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 20:20
SKP will reach 2 Mio. mark next year - don't doubt and hate!ReplyDelete
When the new airport was built everyone was asking how will it reach 1 Mio. This proved to be very wrong estimation led by some people here.
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 20:30
Pobeda is really interested for establishing MOW-SKP flight, but they don't want to make it at only their own risk. As i've talked with TAV heads, Pobeda already confirmed that they will come to Skopje, if one touristic agency from Macedonia and one touristic agency from Russia, make an agreement for cooperation with Pobeda, which will participate on the market together.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 21:06
I really hope that what you're saying is true and that Pobeda will find partners for this route. However, Ryanair were in advanced talks with SKP, but nothing has happened as of yet.Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 20:42
What are the chances of W6 opening SKP - SKG? Skopje- Thessaloniki is indeed a popular route year round. I doubt A320 could be filled in for daily, but 3 pw could easily work with super-low prices. Maybe OU could consider that if they open a base in SKP.. Just speaking my mind hear, don't really know if it could work, especially since OU is only flying to ATH in Greece. Also, OU's A320 on the evening rotation to SKP could also fly summer charters to the Greek islands which is exactly what CSA is doing atm from Skopje. But OU obviously thinks their birds need a beauty sleep on the Skopje tarmac :)ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 21:03
cute, why would they fly to SKG for "super-low" prices when they can use the a/c on other more profitable routes for them :)Delete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 23:26
True dat dawg.Delete
- Anonymous21 August 2016 at 14:23
I don't quite get why Croatia didn't bid for the summer charters to Heraclion, etc that are now operated by CSA- they do have large a/c stationed overnight at SKP during summer monthsDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2016 at 23:41
Odlicno je da su se osatle legacy carriers i ASL dobro snasli i pored W6.ReplyDelete
OMG. A friend of mine just bought a ticket JFK-BEG-JFK-SDQ on Air Serbia and Jetblue and paid 370 DOLLARS! In the middle of September! That's a crazy price!!ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous19 August 2016 at 00:46
I find that very hard to believe.Delete
- Anonymous19 August 2016 at 01:07
Yes. It's error fare. I've just checked it... :) Good for your (JU500) friend!Delete
- Anonymous19 August 2016 at 02:09
What dates?Delete
- Anonymous19 August 2016 at 08:35
Will JU keep the fare or will they cancel it like United or Emirates do?Delete
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VENICE, Fla. — Terminally ill with cancer, Jackie DeVita, a 42-year-old mother of three school-age children, made a special request of her unmarried sister.
A once-in-a-lifetime request.
Removing her wedding ring and handing it to Colleen Leary, Jackie said, "I want to know that this is the three of us," referring to Colleen, Jackie and her husband, Richard. "Don't ever leave my kids."
Four years ago, Jackie knew she was losing it all -- her husband, her three children, the magnificent home they had built on a ranch in rural Venice, and her life. She wanted continuity for her family. Colleen, Jackie's best friend and her junior by less than a year, could provide that.
Colleen said no to the ring, but couldn't say no to the children.
A year later, in 2008, Jackie died. But she knew a stranger would not inhabit her home and raise her children. Or love her husband. Three months after Jackie DeVita's funeral, Colleen Leary became Mrs. Richard DeVita, and the promise was kept.
"I know we have her blessing," says Colleen DeVita, now wearing the ring that was once her sister's.
Jackie and Colleen were "Irish twins," born 50 weeks apart in 1963 and 1964. In family photos, it is hard to tell one from the other. "Even though she had blue eyes and more auburn hair, and I have dark hair and dark eyes, people would mistake us for twins," Colleen says.
They grew up in Binghamton, N.Y., until they were teenagers, then moved to Florida, then Pennsylvania. Jackie loved northern winters, especially skiing, hunting and fishing. She loved the holidays and all the over-the-top preparations.
"Jackie was always a girl who knew what she wanted," Colleen said. "We would walk into a clothing store and I would try on 20 things, and she would look at one thing and say, 'I want that.'"
Colleen was a tomboy, preferring summer sports: kickball, softball and swimming. But they both liked dancing. They both loved to cook.
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After graduation, Jackie studied to become a medical assistant. Colleen, fed up with cold weather, moved to Florida.
"I was 20 years old, very young ... enjoy the warm weather and the beach," Colleen said.
In 1988, Colleen took a job with endodontist Richard DeVita, who was building a dental practice doing root canals at an office in Bradenton. Richard was a cold-weather refugee, too. He grew up on Long Island as a devout Catholic, attended Stonehill College, a Catholic school in Easton, Mass., then studied dentistry at Emory University in Atlanta.
In 1993, Jackie joined Colleen in Florida. Soon both Leary girls were working in Richard's dental office.
One Thursday afternoon a month after she was hired, Jackie mentioned to Richard that she had two tickets to a Phil Collins concert the next day in Tampa.
"At first, I thought she was beautiful," he said. "She was attractive as hell. But it was her whole personality" that made the difference.
At the concert, Collins sang one song, complained of a sore throat, then left. Richard and Jackie drove back to Sarasota for a walk on Siesta Beach. Richard was a beach person, living on Siesta's Point of Rocks at the time, and they took many such walks.
In April 1994, they took a different sort of walk, down the aisle at the palatial Oheka Castle in Richard's hometown, Roslyn, N.Y.
Said family friend Carol Clark, a Realtor with Signature Sotheby's in Sarasota: "He worshipped the ground she walked on."
The DeVita house has space -- lots and lots of space -- and fixtures, finishes and furnishings that might have impressed John Ringling.
It is a home that easily captures your attention, a 101-acre ranch and 19,114-square-foot house hidden behind gates and oaks near Jacaranda Boulevard in rural Venice. It is on the market -- has been for years -- for $13.5 million.
Jackie and Richard bought the property in 2000, after six years of marriage and the birth of three children. They liked the property because their children could get out and ride bikes in a safe environment. Richard also saw potential for a profitable future sale.
The very large home, built in 1974, was incomplete. Having sold a house on Siesta Key at a then-record price, the DeVitas set about creating a showplace. They put in a swimming pool and a playground. Jackie hired art students from Ringling College to paint murals on the walls of the children's rooms, including one on the ceiling of Gabby's bedroom reminiscent of circus artist Willy Pogany's ceilings in John and Mable Ringling's Cá d'Zan. A wall in her pink bathroom is painted with a mural of ballerinas dancing around maypoles.
Richard managed the project, acting as his own general contractor, but Jackie was the creative force.
"She had a vision; she knew what she wanted," Richard said. "When we first came here, it was just gigantic, and who knows what to do? Upstairs was like six bedrooms in a row. So we went, phoom, and knocked everything down."
Colleen said Jackie would march through the stone store, taking command like a general.
"This house is all Jackie," says Colleen, sitting at a round table in a cozy corner of the 1,000-square-foot kitchen. "An amazing organizer -- she just had that knack. I could never have done it. Just to organize the closet for me would be huge."
A casual glance at his property reveals that Richard is a perfectionist. There is nothing dirty, broken or run-down. But Richard admits he is neither a farmer nor terribly outgoing, which is notable because he lives on a ranch and has a house that is made for entertaining large groups of people. "I'm not a social guy," he admits.
"He is so far from a farmer," said Colleen.
Single, Colleen would spend a lot of time with the couple after their marriage.
"From the time Jackie and Richard met, we were constantly together, the three of us," Colleen said. "We hung out every week at the beach. I wasn't dating or anything, so I was always the tag-along, but I loved it because I knew Richard and I loved Jackie."
When Richard was working, the sisters would take the kids to Disney World.
"I wasn't a stranger to these children. They knew me like they knew their mother," Colleen says.
"We often talk about that: 'Why didn't I ever get married? Why were we so close?' Jackie would go to Montana with Richard for a week to 10 days, and leave the kids with me. We just did that."
Richard said it was in "God's plan" that Colleen remained unmarried. "I wondered, too," why she had never married.
Jackie, Richard and their children -- Richie, Mikey and Gabby, now 16, 14 and 12, respectively -- had lived in the house for three years when Jackie's headaches started.
By then -- 2005 -- the DeVitas had decided to sell the house. Their middle child, Michael, has Down syndrome. The DeVitas felt the best option was "an amazing Catholic school" in Colorado. Richard bought an office in Colorado and put the house -- now called Villa DeVita, or "House of Life" -- up for auction, which was a trendy way to sell high-end property at the time. (It didn't work.)
Richard thought the headaches were from tension, but Colleen says Jackie was never stressed. "She would just calm people down -- you would be in her presence and you felt a sense of peace."
Jackie and Colleen were in the car -- the three children in the back seat -- on June 17, 2005, when Jackie's doctor called.
"He told her, in the car on the cellphone, 'You have a mass the size of an orange in the back of your brain.' She is driving. She dropped the phone," Colleen says.
They drove straight to the emergency room.
Colleen quit her job with Richard's office, on U.S. 41 near Southside School in Sarasota, and moved into the Devitas' guest suite.
The family looked to Richard, with his medical background, to find Jackie the best care. He chose Duke University's medical center in Durham, N.C. He chartered private jets to shuttle her to treatment.
"She had all the doctors that Ted Kennedy had at Duke," said Richard, referring to the senator who died from cancer in 2009.
There were months of treatment, and the tension wore on the brother- and sister-in-law.
"Oh, we used to fight," Richard said. "We had good arguments, even when she was sick. It was tense. We were on the edge. And I was dealing with the doctors because of my medical background, so I was the middleman between the doctors and explaining to everybody."
Says Colleen: "I wanted Richard to fix my sister."
After two years of treatment, "things weren't working," Richard says. "You get frustrated. Somebody must have a better idea, so we went to M.D. Anderson," a well-known cancer center in Houston, where Jackie underwent a final, massive surgery.
After that, the family returned to Venice.
Jackie could not walk. With so much of her brain removed, her personality was gone.
On June 3, 2008, at 44, so was she.
Some couples fall in love in a single moment. For others, it's gradual.
For Richard, now 55, and Colleen, 46, it was a little of both.
In the early years at the office, "I never really liked her," said Richard. "She was always a pain in the ass."
Over the years, that changed. Then they were united by fighting Jackie's illness.
"There were the kids, and we found something that Jackie wrote -- 'Sorry, Richard, I want Colleen to take care of the kids, and I hope you understand.'"
Colleen says Jackie passed similar messages to her.
"I remember being in the hallway a year and a half into her illness, and she took off her wedding band, this band," says Colleen, pointing to the ring on her left hand, "that Richard had given her, and she handed it to me, and I refused it. And she said: 'I want you to have this. I want to know that this is the three of us. Don't ever leave my kids.'"
Jackie's funeral was in June 2008. Richard and Colleen flew to visit family in July.
"Coming back on the plane, I don't know what caused me to get up from my seat -- I am terrified of flying -- and I remember just going over to him and leaning on him, and at that moment, all that anxiety and stress that was within me for three years just kind of let go," Colleen says. "I feel like it was God's way of saying, 'Be at peace, just let it go.'"
She says she was left thinking she was in the right place. The decision to marry was simply the next step.
Colleen did not like the idea of living in the DeVita house as a single woman, caring for her sister's children with her grieving brother-in-law under the same roof.
"There was no reason to wait," she says.
So for the second time in his life, Richard DeVita asked John Leary for his daughter's hand in marriage.
"He was busting my butt the whole time because for some reason, he knew," Richard said. "Then I asked him. And he gave me a hard time about it. And then he laughed.
"My mother -- I thought I would have a problem with her, but I didn't."
Richard and Colleen wanted the children's approval, so Richard took the group to church. "He asked for the children's permission -- and Jackie's permission, it being a church," said Colleen.
"The kids were excited. They weren't in shock or anything."
"All that mattered to me was that it would be OK with my sister, and I could hear her talking to me," Colleen said. "This is where she wanted me. She wrote it in a letter. She handed me her wedding band. She talked to both of us.
"It took me a while, because I do care about what people think. But it mattered more to me that I had peace, and I felt peace for my sister, knowing that this is what was supposed to happen if she couldn't be here to raise her children."
Three months after the funeral, Richard and Colleen married.
"I am happy. I loved this man as a boss, a brother-in-law, and now as a husband," Colleen DeVita says. "I always say to people, 'Was I in love with him? No. Do I love him now? Yes.' He's a good man.
"Are there regrets? Absolutely not. Is this where we are supposed to be? Absolutely."
Not all the DeVitas' friends and relatives saw it that way.
Some friends -- "we thought they were, anyway," Richard says -- whispered their disapproval, particularly over the length of time between Jackie's death and Richard's remarriage.
Colleen said her mother, Christine Leary, struggled with the marriage.
"I think my mother went through a lot of grief. We're good now," Colleen said.
"People handle grief in different ways," Richard said.
That is how they converse. There is no fear of interrupting each other, and they often finish each other's sentences.
The memory of Jackie is ever-present in Villa DeVita. It sometimes overwhelms Colleen, especially given that the photographs and mementos are so openly displayed.
"There are days where I walk in the hallways and keep my head down because I don't want to feel what I am missing," Colleen says. "But there are days I can look at them and smile and say, 'I am still here. I am here for you.'"
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The third and the most beautiful of the six Mitford sisters (daughters of the 3rd Lord Redesdale), she left her first husband Bryan Guinness to unite her destiny with Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. The uncompromising temperament of the Mitfords, combined with Mosley's rebarbative politics, involved renouncing the social life of which she had previously been a leading ornament.
Three of Diana Mosley's sisters would follow her in forswearing England for a mixture of a man and ideology. Nancy, her eldest sister, found in Gaston Palewski the personification of her drooling Francophilia. Unity became enamoured of Hitler and shot herself at the outbreak of the war. Jessica became a Communist and married an American of that persuasion.
In Diana Mosley's memory, Sir Oswald was a figure of unequalled glamour. "He had every gift, being handsome, generous, intelligent, and full of wonderful gaiety and joie de vivre. Of course I fell in love with him . . . and I have never regretted the step I took then."
She left Bryan Guinness in 1932, just as Mosley was forming the British Union of Fascists. To the horror of her family and friends - her father forbade her younger sisters to see her again - she set up house with her two small sons in Eaton Square, and placed herself at the Leader's disposal.
Yet it was for an uncertain future that she had cast herself away. Mosley's first wife Cimmie, Lord Curzon's daughter, was still alive; and Mosley showed no disposition to leave her. "I never dreamed of marrying him," Diana remembered.
It was as though the fairy princess had been carried off by the demon king. As Diana Guinness, she had been a leader of a set which included Augustus John, the Sitwells, Henry Yorke, Evelyn Waugh, Roy Harrod and Robert Byron. Lytton Strachey paid her court.
Her photograph regularly stared from the covers of the society weeklies; her portrait was painted again and again. The face always seemed to come out the same - large, calm, and staring vacantly into space. "She was getting like that in real life too," her sister Jessica acidly observed.
The death of Cimmie Mosley from peritonitis in May 1933 made possible a lifetime commitment to the Leader of the Blackshirts, which she would honour through every adversity. At first, it seemed that she might keep him within the bounds of respectability. "The Leader is so clever and in his way so civilised and English," she explained to Roy Harrod in 1933, "that [his Blackshirts] could not be comparable to the German movement. But if everyone of sensibility, charm and intelligence shuns him, there is definitely a danger that he will come to regard those virtues as vicious and the possessors of them as enemies."
But that same year, on the invitation of Hitler's stooge Putzi Hansfstaengl, Diana Guinness visited Nazi Germany. For her sister Unity, who accompanied her, the holiday was the beginning of an obsession that would destroy her life. Diana was also deeply impressed, and ever afterwards disposed to ignore what she heard of anti-semitism and concentration camps.
Unity Mitford finally succeeded in making Hitler's acquaintance in January 1935, and in March proudly introduced him to her sister. Diana Guinness, in the full flower of her beauty, made a considerable impression; she herself was dazzled. "His eyes were dark blue," Diana rhapsodised about Hitler, "his skin was fair and his brown hair exceptionally fine. In certain moods he could be very funny. He was extremely polite towards women. He was the most unselfconscious politician I have ever come across. He never sought to impress, he never bothered to act a part. If he felt morose, he was morose. If he was in high spirits he talked brilliantly."
Later in 1935 Irene Ravensdale, sister of Mosley's first wife, found the picture of Hitler in Diana Guinness's house at Wootton, in Staffordshire, "particularly painful". Certainly, Diana's partiality for the Führer quite outran that of Mosley, who later in life would refer to Hitler as "a terrible little man".
On October 6 1936, two days after the Blackshirts' humiliating withdrawal from Cable Street, Diana secretly married Mosley in Berlin - a wedding arranged under the auspices of Dr Goebbels, whose wife Magda was a friend of Diana's. Hitler came to dinner after the wedding, presenting a picture of himself in an eagle-topped silver frame. Afterwards, the newly-weds had a fierce quarrel: "We went to bed in dudgeon."
Diana Mosley continued to visit Germany frequently, being involved in negotiations to set up an independent radio station to broadcast to Britain from Heligoland; Mosley hoped that this scheme would finance his movement. She had several private late-night meetings with Hitler in the Chancellery, and he invited her to Bayreuth.
Mosley, meanwhile, took the line that Britain should stay out of any conflict with Germany, in order to preserve the Empire by leaving Hitler a free hand in Europe. As Hitler swept through France in May 1940 Mosley was arrested and imprisoned in Brixton under Defence Regulation 18b, which empowered the Home Secretary to detain in prison "any particular person if satisfied that it is necessary to do so".
In fact, Mosley had frequently declared he would fight for his country in the event of an invasion. But there were many politicians, particularly in the Labour Party, who had scores to pay off. By this time the Mosleys were such pariahs that when Diana gave birth to their youngest son in April 1940 many Britons were inspired to write that they were coming to pour vitriol over her babies.
The Mitfords were cousins of Clementine Churchill, the Prime Minister's wife, and as a girl Diana Mosley used to stay with the Churchills at Chartwell. This did not prevent her imprisonment in Holloway at the end of June 1940.
The conditions under which Diana was imprisoned were ghastly, but she was never one to sue for mercy. Interviewed by a Home Office Advisory Committee under Lord Birkett in 1940, she put her worst foot forward. She admitted that she would like to replace the British political system with the German one "because we think it has done well for that country". Did she approve of the Nazi policies against Jews? "Up to point," she declared. "I am not fond of Jews."
When her lawyer asked if she knew anyone in the government who might help, she gave further hostages to fortune. "Know anyone in the government?" she cried. "I know all the Tories beginning with Churchill. The whole lot deserve to be shot." This was reported to Churchill, who was not amused.
Not until December 1941, after the intervention of Diana's brother Tom with the Prime Minister, was Mosley allowed to join her in married quarters at Holloway. After two more years, in November 1943, they were both released on grounds of Mosley's health, and placed under house arrest until the end of the war.
Evelyn Waugh, who encountered Diana Mosley when she was just out of prison, told his daughter that he was shocked to observe that his friend was wearing a swastika diamond brooch. But then the Mitfords had been brought up to pay scant attention to the opinion of others.
Diana Freeman-Mitford was born on June 17 1910 into a family which her sister Nancy would immortalise in Love in a Cold Climate. Their parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale, featured as Uncle Matthew and Aunt Sadie. The family first came to prominence in the 18th century, when John Mitford was Speaker of the House of Commons and (as Lord Redesdale) Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His son was raised to an earldom in 1877, but nine years later both titles became extinct.
The Redesdale title would be revived for a cousin, Bertie (pronounced "Barty") Mitford, whose great-grandfather was William Mitford, celebrated as the author of The History of Greece. Bertie's second son, David, Diana's father, married Sydney, daughter of "Tap" Bowles, the founder of Vanity Fair and The Lady. Their only boy, Tom, was killed in Burma in 1944. Of the more orthodox daughters, the second, Pamela, married Professor Derek Jackson; and Debo, the sixth, is the present Duchess of Devonshire.
Diana remembered her father with a great deal more affection than Nancy or Jessica did. "Not only did he make us scream with laughter at his lovely jokes," she wrote, "but he was very affectionate. Certainly he had a quick temper, and would often rage, but we were never punished."
In 1919 Lord Redesdale sold the house his father had built at Batsford, Gloucestershire, and moved to Astall Manor in Oxfordshire. The children loved it, and Diana, "in a supreme effort to make money", kept chickens, pigs and calves. A succession of governesses - Diana thought 15 - abandoned the attempt to instil some education. Nevertheless, Diana read avidly, and though regarded as soft-hearted by her sisters imbibed her share of the family's tough style. "Do try to hang on this time, darling," Jessica remembered her saying when riding. "You know how cross Muv will be if you break your arm again."
The idyll at Astall did not last; after six years Lord Redesdale decided to build a new house on the hill above Swinbrook. It turned out to be a monstrosity, but for the children there was the compensation that he also bought a large house in London, at 26 Rutland Gate. In 1926 Diana was sent to stay in Paris, where she attended a day school and in six months learnt more than she had during six years in England.
Evelyn Waugh thought that her beauty "ran through the room like a peal of bells". Jim Lees-Milne, who was a friend of Tom Mitford's at Eton, remembered her as "the most divine adolescent I ever beheld: a goddess, more immaculate, more perfect, more celestial than Botticelli's sea-borne Venus". In 1928 this vision came to the attention of Bryan Guinness, and within weeks they were engaged.
Lady Redesdale objected strenuously to her prospective son-in-law on the grounds that he was "so frightfully rich". Nancy Mitford thought he was perfectly all right, but could not imagine why her sister should want to marry him. Eventually, though, consent was granted, and the wedding took place on January 30 1929.
Apart from her two sons, the most notable achievement of Diana Guinness's first marriage was a spoof exhibition of the works of a mythical artist called Bruno Hat. Brian Howard produced most of the paintings; Evelyn Waugh wrote the catalogue and Tom Mitford impersonated Hat.
At Biddesdon, their country house near Andover, Diana was able for the first time to employ her talent for interior decoration. At the end of her life she expressed gratitude for having lived in three beautiful houses: Biddesdon, Wootton and, from 1950, the pretentiously entitled (though not by the Mosleys) Temple de la Gloire on the outskirts of Paris; the house was known to their foes as "The Concentration of Camp".
After the Second World War, the Mosleys lived on a farm at Crowood, near Ramsbury in Wiltshire. Though largely ignored by the local residents, they appeared content in their self-sufficiency; whatever else might be said about them, no one could deny the success of their marriage.
In 1951 Mosley, now obsessed with the ideal of creating a united Europe, decided to leave England and divide his time between the Temple de la Gloire and a house he had bought in Galway. "You don't clear up a dungheap from underneath it," he commented of his decision to leave England.
In France, Diana Mosley edited The European, a magazine that boasted contributions from Ezra Pound, Henry Williamson and Roy Campbell. She herself contributed reviews and comment, showing a sharpness that would not have shamed her sister Nancy.
Her loyalty to Mosley remained absolute, though she did venture to suggest, when he stood for North Kensington in 1959, that the use by his supporters of such terms as "fuzzy wuzzies" was not likely to bolster his credentials as a serious politician. In Paris, the Mosleys discovered that they had much in common with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and in 1980 Diana published a book on the Duchess.
If Diana Mosley never enjoyed the literary success of her sister Nancy, she was undoubtedly happier. Thrusting aside all remembrance of Nancy's betrayal of her during the war, Diana proved the main consolation in her sister's painful and protracted final illness, which ended in 1973. But she never made her peace with Jessica, who had declared at the end of the war that the Mosleys should be thrown back into prison. "She's a rather boring person really," Diana concluded.
Sir Oswald Mosley died in 1980, and a year later Diana Mosley suffered from a brain tumour. It turned out to be benign and was operated upon successfully. While convalescing she was visited by Lord Longford. "Of course, he thinks I'm Myra Hindley," Diana remarked.
Although her book of memoirs, A Life of Contrasts (1977), was deliberately provocative, most of those who met her found her a delightful companion, while to her sisters' children she was Aunt Honks. On one subject, however, she remained incorrigible.
"They will go on persecuting me until I say Hitler was ghastly," she acknowledged. "Well, what's the point in saying that? We all know he was a monster, that he was very cruel and did terrible things. But that doesn't alter the fact that he was obviously an interesting figure. It was fascinating for me, at 24, to sit and talk with him, to ask him questions and get answers, even if they weren't true ones. No torture on earth would get me to say anything different."
"I was very fond of him," she admitted in an interview in 2000. "Very, very fond."
Of her sons from her first marriage, the elder, Jonathan, is the 3rd Lord Moyne, while the younger, Desmond, founded the Irish Georgian Society. There were two sons from her second marriage; the younger, Max, is President of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile.
Published August 13 2003


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Since arriving in Los Angeles from Japan in 1962, the Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki, who is 105 years old, has taught thousands of Americans at his two Zen centers in the area and one in New Mexico. He has influenced thousands more enlightenment seekers through a chain of some 30 affiliated Zen centers from the Puget Sound to Princeton to Berlin. And he is known as a Buddhist teacher of Leonard Cohen, the poet and songwriter.
Mr. Sasaki has also, according to an investigation by an independent council of Buddhist leaders, released in January, groped and sexually harassed female students for decades, taking advantage of their loyalty to a famously charismatic roshi, or master.
The allegations against Mr. Sasaki have upset and obsessed Zen Buddhists across the country, who are part of a close-knit world in which many participants seem to know, or at least know of, the principal teachers.
Mr. Sasaki did not respond to requests for interviews made through Paul Karsten, a member of the board of Rinzai-ji, his main center in Los Angeles. Mr. Karsten said that Mr. Sasaki's senior priests are conducting their own inquiry. And he cautioned that the independent council took the accounts it heard from dozens of students at face value and did not investigate any "for veracity."
Because Mr. Sasaki has founded or sponsored so many Zen centers, and because he has the prestige of having trained in Japan, the charges that he behaved unethically — and that his supporters looked the other way — have implications for an entire way of life.
Such charges have become more frequent in Zen Buddhism. Several other teachers have been accused of misconduct recently, notably Eido Shimano, who in 2010 was asked to resign from the Zen Studies Society in Manhattan over allegations that he had sex with students. Critics and victims have pointed to a Zen culture of secrecy, patriarchy and sexism, and to the quasi-religious worship of the Zen master, who can easily abuse his status.
Disaffected students wrote letters to the board of one of Mr. Sasaki's Zen centers as early as 1991. Yet it was only last November, when Eshu Martin, a Zen priest who studied under Mr. Sasaki from 1997 to 2008, posted a letter to SweepingZen.com, a popular Web site, that the wider Zen world noticed.
Mr. Martin, now a Zen abbot in Victoria, British Columbia, accused Mr. Sasaki of a "career of misconduct," from "frequent and repeated non-consensual groping of female students" to "sexually coercive after-hours 'tea' meetings, to affairs," as well as interfering in his students' marriages. Soon thereafter, the independent "witnessing council" of noted Zen teachers began interviewing 25 current or former students of Mr. Sasaki.
Some former students are now speaking out, including seven interviewed for this article, and their stories provide insight into the culture of Rinzai-ji and the other places where Mr. Sasaki taught. Women say they were encouraged to believe that being touched by Mr. Sasaki was part of their Zen training.
The Zen group, or sangha, can become one's close family, and that aspect of Zen may account for why women and men have been reluctant to speak out for so long.
Many women whom Mr. Sasaki touched were resident monks at his centers. One woman who confronted Mr. Sasaki in the 1980s found herself an outcast afterward. The woman, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, said that afterward "hardly anyone in the sangha, whom I had grown up with for 20 years, would have anything to do with us."
In the council's report on Jan. 11, the three members wrote of "Sasaki asking women to show him their breasts, as part of 'answering' a koan" — a Zen riddle — "or to demonstrate 'non-attachment.' "
When the report was posted to SweepingZen, Mr. Sasaki's senior priests wrote in a post that their group "has struggled with our teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi's sexual misconduct for a significant portion of his career in the United States" — their first such admission.
Among those who spoke to the council and for this article was Nikki Stubbs, who now lives in Vancouver, and who studied and worked at Mount Baldy, Mr. Sasaki's Zen center 50 miles east of Los Angeles, from 2003 to 2006. During that time, she said, Mr. Sasaki would fondle her breasts during sanzen, or private meeting; he also asked her to massage his penis. She would wonder, she said, "Was this teaching?"
One monk, whom Ms. Stubbs said she told about the touching, was unsympathetic. "He believed in Roshi's style, that sexualizing was teaching for particular women," Ms. Stubbs said. The monk's theory, common in Mr. Sasaki's circle, was that such physicality could check a woman's overly strong ego.
A former student of Mr. Sasaki's now living in the San Francisco area, who asked that her name be withheld to protect her privacy, said that at Mount Baldy in the late 1990s, "the monks confronted Roshi and said, 'This behavior is unacceptable and has to stop.' " However, she said, "nothing changed." After a time, Mr. Sasaki used Zen teaching to justify touching her, too.
"He would say something like, 'True love is giving yourself to everything,' " she explained. At Mount Baldy, the isolation could hamper one's judgment. "It can sound trite, but you're in this extreme state of consciousness," she said — living at a monastery in the mountains, sitting in silence for many hours a day — "where boundaries fall away."
Joe Marinello is a Zen teacher in Seattle who served on the board of the Zen Studies Society in New York. He has been openly critical of Mr. Shimano, the former abbot who was asked to resign from the society. Asked about teachers who say that sexual touch is an appropriate teaching technique, he was dismissive.
"In my opinion," Mr. Marinello said in an e-mail, "it's just their cultural and personal distortion to justify their predations."
But in Zen Buddhism, students often overlook their teachers' failings, participants say. Some Buddhists define their philosophy in contrast to Western religion: Buddhism, they believe, does not have Christian-style preoccupations about things like sex. And Zen exalts the relationship between a student and a teacher, who can come to seem irreplaceable.
"Outside the sexual things that happened," the woman now in San Francisco said, "my relationship with him was one of the most important I have had with anyone."
Several women said that Zen can foster an atmosphere of overt sexism. Jessica Kramer, a doula in Los Angeles, was Mr. Sasaki's personal attendant in 2002. She said that he would reach into her robe and that she always resisted his advances. Surrounded almost entirely by men, she said she got very little sympathy. "I'd talk about it with people who'd say, 'Why not just let him touch your breasts if he wants to touch your breasts?' "
Susanna Stewart began studying with Mr. Sasaki about 40 years ago. Within six months, she said, Mr. Sasaki began to touch her during sanzen. This sexualizing of their relationship "led to years of confusion and pain," Ms. Stewart said, "eventually resulting in my becoming unable to practice Zen." And when she married one of his priests, Mr. Sasaki tried to break them up, she said, even encouraging her husband to have an affair.
In 1992, Ms. Stewart's husband disaffiliated himself and his North Carolina Zen Center from Mr. Sasaki. Years later, his wife said, he received hate mail from members of his old Zen group.
The witnessing council, which wrote the report, has no official authority. Its members belong to the American Zen Teachers Association but collected stories on their own initiative, although with a statement of support from 45 other teachers and priests. One of its authors, Grace Schireson, said that Zen Buddhists in the United States have misinterpreted a Japanese philosophy.
"Because of their long history with Zen practice, people in Japan have some skepticism about priests," Ms. Schireson said. But in the United States many proponents have a "devotion to the guru or the teacher in a way that could repress our common sense and emotional intelligence."
Last Thursday morning, at Rinzai-ji on Cimarron Street in Los Angeles, Bob Mammoser, a resident monk, said that Mr. Sasaki's "health is quite frail" and that he has "basically withdrawn from any active teaching." Mr. Mammoser said there is talk of a meeting at the center to discuss what, if any, action to take.
Mr. Mammoser said he first became aware of allegations against Mr. Sasaki in the 1980s. "There have been efforts in the past to address this with him," Mr. Mammoser said. "Basically, they haven't been able to go anywhere."
He added: "What's important and is overlooked is that, besides this aspect, Roshi was a commanding and inspiring figure using Buddhist practice to help thousands find more peace, clarity and happiness in their own lives. It seems to be the kind of thing that, you get the person as a whole, good and bad, just like you marry somebody and you get their strengths and wonderful qualities as well as their weaknesses."


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Maurice Stevenson Bartlett
Born: 18 June 1910 in Chiswick, London, England
Died: 8 January 2002 in Exmouth, Devon, England
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Maurice Bartlett's parents were William Stevenson Bartlett and Eva White. William Bartlett was a clerk when Maurice was born; he was the youngest of his parents' three children, having two older siblings Connie and Gerald. Maurice was four years old when World War I broke out and his father joined the army. The family had always been relatively poor but with William away from home the family were in even more financial difficulties. Eva took in a lodger to provide enough money to feed the children. Maurice did not shine at elementary school, and he was considered quite slow on the uptake. This, however, must have been an impression created by his nature rather than his abilities for he won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Latymer Upper School, in King Street, Hammersmith, London. This was (and still is) a famous selective independent school with a great reputation dating back to its founding by Edward Latymer in 1624. He wrote [1]:-
My interest in probability began at school with the chapter in Hall and Knight's 'Algebra'.He also enjoyed sports, particularly tennis and cricket. His parents thought that he should leave school and get a job when he reached the age of sixteen, but [44]:-
... the headmaster of Latymer summoned them to his office to impress upon them the desirability that the young Bartlett should continue his education. The headmaster also secured a continuation of the grant.After graduating from Latymer Upper School, he took up the state scholarship he had been awarded to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1929. He studied the Mathematical Tripos and, in his first year, took an analysis course taught by Frank Ramsey. He was enjoying the rigour combined with simplicity that Ramsey's lectures contained but sadly the course stopped when Ramsey took ill (and died soon after). For Part III of the tripos, Bartlett was able to take a number of courses which were of particular interest in containing significant amounts of statistics. In fact this was a quite significant time for statistics at Cambridge for, when Udny Yule retired from his Cambridge lectureship in Statistics in 1931, there was a reorganisation of statistics teaching at the university. A Readership in Statistics was created in the Faculty of Agriculture to teach courses in that Faculty and courses in Mathematics. A separate lectureship in Economic Statistics was also created. John Wishart was appointed to the Readership in the Faculty of Agriculture and the first time he gave his Part III course on 'Statistics' Bartlett took the course. Wishart had both a flair for mathematical statistics and a flair for very practical applications of experimental design and his course had a major influence on Bartlett. He took other courses with a statistical content in Part III, for example 'Combination of Observations' given by Arthur Eddington, and 'Statistical Mechanics' given by Ralph Fowler. Although Bartlett enjoyed these courses and had graduated as a Wrangler in 1932, they did not encourage him into an academic life [1]:-
At that time, as my undergraduate days at Cambridge drew to an end, I was anxious to be finished with study, and what I felt to be a surfeit of mathematics, and to get a job; I elected to try for the Home Civil Service (administrative grade), with the Inland Revenue as a second string. Statisticians were not recognised as such in the Civil Service until later, and although statistics was a subject in the Home Civil Service examination it was, with its 100 mark maximum, insufficient to make up my required quota, and I was obliged to take physics instead. I did well in the Inland Revenue examination, but was not good enough in the Home Civil Service to qualify for a vacancy (no mathematicians were that year, a change of examiners making things more difficult for us).We should note that he had made these decisions despite having his first paper Distribution of second-moment statistics in a normal system, a joint work with John Wishart, appear in print in 1932. Although offered a position in the Inland Revenue, Bartlett took the opportunity to stay at Cambridge for another year presented to him when his scholarship was extended. He thought that he would continue his studies for this extra year and then try again in the Home Civil Service examination. He became Wishart's first postgraduate student and, in 1933, as well as the two single-authored papers Probability and chance in the theory of statistics and On the theory of statistical regression, he published a second joint paper with Wishart entitled Generalised product moment distributions in a normal system. This was a highly successful year for Bartlett, and he was awarded the Rayleigh Prize. Also, during this year, [1]:-
... I attended further lecture courses for "fun," including Eddington's "Relativity" and Dirac's "Quantum Mechanics," as well as Colin Clark's "Statistical Sources" (which I found rather dull) and Udny Yule's "Vital Statistics" (still given in spite of his retirement).In addition to this high level of activity, at Yule's suggestion, he submitted an essay Mortality and the trade cycle for the Royal Statistical Society's competition for young statisticians (which did not win) [21]:-
Bartlett also found enough time to row for his college, and to win a competition for the design of the front cover of the college journal.When he began his postgraduate year it was with the intention of taking the Home Civil service examination again but, enthused by his postgraduate studies in statistics, he felt that a career in statistics would be more enjoyable than one in administration. Wishart recommended him to Egon Pearson who was looking to appoint a lecturer to his new Statistics department of University College, London. Bartlett was offered the post and happily accepted, taking up the position in October 1933.
At University College, as well as Egon Pearson, he joined Jerzy Neyman and R A Fisher. It was a great opportunity for research but other aspects worried Bartlett [1]:-
... my task of "preaching" statistics before having adequately learned to "practise" made me feel uneasy, especially as teaching as such has never been all that attractive to me.A frequent visitor was J B S Haldane and the two began to collaborate, writing the joint papers Theory of inbreeding in autotetraploids (1934) and Theory of inbreeding with forced heterozygosis (1935). Bartlett felt that he wanted to become involved in statistics in a more practical way and, after only one year at University College, the opportunity arose when he was offered the position of statistician at ICI's Agricultural Research Station at Jealott's Hill. It was a move that he certainly did not regret since he regarded the four years he spent there as [1]:-
... not only the happiest period of my life (professionally), but also the most creative.He explained the way that he worked [44]:-
... you had scientists of different disciplines - chemists, biologists and so on. We'd meet together every week to discuss the problems that were involved, and there would be cooperation. At the same time, you were free to develop your own ideas.He achieved remarkable advances at the Agricultural Research Station [15]:-
During these years he published pioneer papers on the 2 by 2 by 2 contingency table, on the geometry of the linear model, on transformations in analysis of variance, on estimation problems in factor analysis, on spatial aspects of design in field trials, as well as a remarkable group of papers on foundational problems in statistical inference and the role of the likelihood. In one of these he gave the test of homogeneity of variance that bears his name, essentially introduced marginal and conditional likelihood and investigated the adjustment to the likelihood ratio test that is also called after him.In 1937 ICI decided to cut back drastically on their research budget and, although Bartlett was offered a new job in the company, he was no longer a researcher. His productivity had been extraordinary with six papers appearing in 1935 followed by seven in each of the following two years. By the end of 1938 he had 32 papers in print. We should make special mention of one of them, namely Properties of sufficiency and statistical tests (1937) which was reprinted in the first volume of Breakthroughs in Statistics published in 1992.
George Waddel Snedecor had been appointed as director of the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State College, Ames, when it was founded in 1933. He approached Bartlett with the offer of a position in the Statistical Laboratory and Bartlett applied for leave of absence from ICI so that he could try out the new position. His request was turned down, so he decided to apply for a vacant lectureship at Cambridge. Although this was a position in mathematics, they were looking for someone with expertise in statistics. Bartlett was appointed and took up the lectureship in October 1938. This was a mathematics lectureship and, although he was teaching statistics courses, he also had to teach a mechanics course and an analysis course. This was quite hard for someone who had been away from the academic world for a while, but he was hardly into his stride before World War II broke out.
Bartlett was assigned to war work relating to the development of rocketry. Certainly his statistical skills were put to good use and he analysed the effectiveness of different weapons studying the data from trials. During these war years he was moved around spending time in Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Wales, and London. After the war ended in 1945 it still took some time before life returned to normal and it was 1946 before he was able to return to take up his duties again at Cambridge. By this time he was undertaking research on time series and stochastic processes and gave a lecture course on his research interests. He spent four months, later in 1946, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the invitation of Harold Hotelling. There he gave a course on stochastic processes and published a mimeographed version of these lectures given at the University of North Carolina. These notes formed the basis for his famous text An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Special Reference to Methods and Application (1955).
In 1947 Bartlett was offered the Chair of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Manchester; he happily accepted. This was a new chair so he became immediately involved with syllabus design both at undergraduate level and at postgraduate level where a Statistics Diploma course was introduced. In research he developed an interest in applying statistical methods to study epidemics. On this topic he published the papers Deterministic and stochastic models for recurrent epidemics (1956), Measles periodicity and community size (1957), and The critical community size for measles in the United States (1960).
It was in 1957 that Bartlett married [44]:-
... Sheila, daughter of C E Chapman and sister-in-law of the film actress Margaret Lockwood; Sheila had herself at one time been on the London stage. The couple had a daughter Penelope (Penny) Robinson, who survives them. Sheila died in 1998, leaving a grieving but stoic Maurice in their home at Exmouth. There he spent his retirement, enjoying visits by friends, his collection of paintings and listening to music.Egon Pearson retired from his chair at University College, London, in 1960 and the university approached Bartlett and offered him the chair. He had been happy at Manchester and was somewhat reluctant to move but there was a certain historical prestige associated with the University College chair which made the offer irresistible. He gave his inaugural lecture Probability, Statistics and Time on taking up the post. However, the administrative burden associated with a University of London chair, brought about by the college structure, was "rather daunting". Research became only possible in vacations but he still published two or three papers in each of the years 1962 to 1966. In 1967 he moved to Oxford to take up the new Chair of Biomathematics which had been created there. He held this position until he retired in 1975.
We have already mentioned Bartlett's most famous book An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Special Reference to Methods and Application (1955). Reviewers comments on this, and his other books, make interesting reading. We give a few extracts at THIS LINK
This link also provides extracts from reviews of his other books: Stochastic Population Models in Ecology and Epidemiology (1960); Essays in Probability and Statistics (1962); Probability, Statistics and Time (1975); and The Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern (1976). It also contains a review of his inaugural lecture Biomathematics which he gave on taking up the Oxford chair. We note that throughout Bartlett's career, there was an interplay between practical and mathematical statistics. The reader will notice that reviewers came from both the practical community and from the mathematical community, and their comments often reflect the position from which they are coming.
Joe Gani gives us a nice understanding of Barlett's character in [21]:-
Under his quiet and reserved exterior, there was a sensitive and kindly soul, whose good will could always be relied upon. He was scrupulously fair to colleagues and students; many of them recall with affection his gentleness and kindness to them. ... He had a marked artistic talent: about four years ago, he showed me in his home at Exmouth a very lifelike pencil sketch he had made of Egon Pearson. He appreciated paintings, and developed an enthusiasm for nineteenth century watercolours, often tracking them down in dusty sales rooms. He also loved music, and would often listen to records on his return from work.Of course Bartlett's remarkable achievements led to him being honoured by many different bodies. We have already mentioned above the Rayleigh Prize which he received in 1933. Other honours include: elected member of International Statistical Institute (1949); awarded the Guy Medal in Silver (1952) and the Guy Medal in Gold (1969) by the Royal Statistical Society; elected president of the Manchester Statistical Society (1959-1960); elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1961); elected president of the Biometric Society (British Region) 1964-66; elected president of the Royal Statistical Society (1966-67); received the Weldon medal from the University of Oxford (1971); made an Honorary Member of the International Statistical Institute (1980); elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1993); awarded honorary degrees from the University of Chicago (1966) and the University of Hull (1976). Finally let us mention the three volumes of his papers published, with commentary, by University of Manitoba Press, under the editorship of R G Stanton and others in 1988.
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