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10 Book Signing Essentials
When I began to have my own book signings, I found it fortunate in that the larger stores, Border's Books and B. Dalton, provided not only tables but white cloth covers as well. Not till a little later did I realize that this did not hold true for all stores. I began to make a list of essentials a writer needs in order to present themselves in a professional manner.
1) Even larger stores sometimes have no table cloths. Carry your own. One store had an ample sized table but the cloth only covered the top. I prefer to tuck my travel bag of promotional materials under the table when possible for an easy grab when I need them. Therefore, my larger cloth was thrown over what the store provided, hung all the way down in front, and I was able to keep my bag out of site.
2) Carry a letter-sized plastic picture frame with your photo and book cover for display on your table. Sometimes, but seldom, stores will have their own stand-up table sign already made. I found these to be lacking. In addition to my photo and book cover, I also include a brief Bio of two to three small paragraphs. It's amazing how many perspective buyers like to read about the author. It seems to draw them closer emotionally. They feel they know you and didn't have to spend time asking you about yourself. Instead, they ask about your book.
Something extra I do is put a full-sized book cover photo on the back side of the clear plastic frame as well. The book cover can then be seen from various directions.
3) Have another stand to place your book in an upright position. Books lying flat on the table top can only present their edges to viewers. You want your cover showing in all its magnificence.
4) The major book stores have their own signs made and hanging on the front of the table cover, in addition to other areas in the store. However, for those shops that do not have posters, hopefully, you will have had some made. If your book signing is in your area, take some posters to the store to have those hung at least a week prior to your arrival.
5) Postcards. You can mail postcards to friends and even store and business owners in the area where your book signing will take place. When I run out of bookmarks, I use these cards instead.
6) Bookmarks. I often run out of bookmarks because people want to take one as a reminder to buy the book later. It's unfortunate that they don't buy it right away, but if a bookmark helps them remember, give it freely. This has worked for me. Too, at your table, every book should have a bookmark stuck into it.
7) Business cards. Though I'm not intending to show favoritism, I use vistaprint.com for all my cards. Wherever you prefer to buy them, Kinko's maybe, make sure to have enough. Try to put your book cover on the card. If that's not possible, make it something related to writing or to your Web site. Have these on your tabletop too.
8) Brochures. If you have a Web site and books to sell, you might consider having some brochures made – or make them yourself. Make them professional looking and not looking like a Xerox copy of a Xerox copy. If a signing is in your area, pass them out to people you meet in your daily routine of shopping and such. Ask local stores to display a few. If in a town outside your locale, arrive early and hand out some brochures to people in the area. This works well in malls. Have some of these on your table top. People will pick up anything to learn more. That means they spend more time at your table.
9) Flyers. Store managers are grateful for any help you can offer. Ask them if they would like some flyers to display around the store. Your flyers should be professional in appearance and not something you threw together and printed out on a bad printer. No Xerox copies as mentioned in #8 above.
10) Many other items can be given away to those who purchase your books. This is a simple way of saying thank you and building rapport with a reader who potentially will look for your next book. Too, one good item is pens or pencils with the book's title, or your Web site URL. For promoting my Egyptian suspense novel, The Ka, I purchased huge quantities of tiny hand carved Egyptian scarabs in real colored stones. I allowed those who bought books to sort through the bin to find two that would match, possible to make earrings or whatever. Giving out little inexpensive extra items produces an aura of fun too.
Any or all of the above items serve to enhance your professional appearance and express to the store managers and prospective book buyers your sincerity, intention and commitment to your craft.
In today's economy, when people cannot afford little luxuries, even one or two of these items will serve you well. Stand up at your table and get a lively conversation going with those who come to see you. It's amazing what a smile can do.


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I'd been looking forward to the annual BelleWood Acres Ciderfest for weeks, and I finally got there on Sunday afternoon. When I came in the door I was enveloped in the sweet, fruity smell of fresh apples and the lively sounds of the fiddle and guitar combo of the Gallus Brothers.
I got there just in time for a late lunch, so I made my way through the crowd to the Bistro area. Fresh cider, hard cider, cider cocktails–the beverage menu options seemed endless. It was clear that the heart of this event was an apple orchard farm. Continue Reading

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This user-friendly device consists of a sweat collection clip, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) biosensor, and a color densitometry-based iPhone app to monitor wellness. The noninvasive system measures cytokine concentrations in sweat to indicate health or illness. Inventors Riley Ennis '15, Katherine Franklin '15, Robert Lauzen '15, and Kiah Williams '15 won the Phillip R. Jackson Award for best overall performance in ENGS 21: "Introduction to Engineering." Their TA was Anne Lape '13.
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JAMIE LEE CURTIS called more magazine a few months ago. She had an idea for a story and photo shoot. The result is in the issue that hits newsstands today. The actress is photographed in her underwear as she looks in the privacy of her own bedroom, without benefit of stylists, makeup or flattering camera angles.
Curtis, famously fit in movies such as "Perfect" and "True Lies," looks like what she is: a 43-year-old mother of two. Squishy in the middle. Chunky in the thighs. Flabby in the back. Thick at the knees and ankles.
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Because in 2002, more than three decades into the women's movement, it is still a radical act for a woman to accept her body as it is.
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'Today' interviewer Campbell Brown seemed aghast at Curtis' boldness, as if being photographed as she really looks is more shocking than being photographed topless (as Curtis was in "Trading Places").
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Curtis has just written her fifth children's book, "I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem," which is what prompted the idea for the photo.
"I felt that if I'm going to try to promote something where I'm trying to explain self-esteem to children, I needed to live it," she said on the "Today" show. "And for me to live it means I need to be the person I look at every morning when I wake up and stand in the mirror, you know, kind of as God intended me to look."
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- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:02
I think it is obvious now that the Chinese have won the BEG tender.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:13
My thoughts too.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:16
Remember when they made the bid for BEG they said it involves investments in several areas including tourism and making BEG a transfer point to the region for the Chinese.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:08
I wouldn't be so sure.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:21
Who then?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:01
Deadline for concession had been moved one more time to December. All other bids have arrived except HNA. If they are slow to write a document for months, imagine how delayed they will be to build a terminal? Belgrade airport will not get new terminal until 2040 if NHA wins.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:02
They just started Beijing with questionable loads and they are already negotiating Shanghai. Crazy.ReplyDeleteReplies
Questionable based on what info exactly?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:14
Do you have some info on loads Nemjee?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:36
Šangaj ima 24 miliona stanovnika, kao jedna cela evropska država. Najveći je kineski grad i luka. Vize su ukinute i normalno je da se teži uspostavljanju letova. Mislim, Kina je toliko velika da su potencijali neverovatni i mogu samo da se uvećavaju.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:38
Anon 09.14Delete
From what I've heard and seen, there are around 100 passengers departing Belgrade to Prague. What's interesting is that the plane arrives packed with cargo which is always great.
When the Prague stop is removed, cargo will most likely play a key role in keeping the route profitable.
Like I already wrote, Hainan's A332 has 186 seats in economy so BEG fills more than half of it which is great.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:49
I think BEG is operated with A333 not A332. Good to hear about the loads and cargo :)Delete
You are correct, sorry for that. I guess that's another indicator of how well the route is performing. If the loads weren't there then they would have sent their smaller aircraft.Delete
I still think it's a shame Hainan doesn't have a stronger network in PEK. The number of connections they offer is rather limited, especially to places like Japan or South Korea.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:56
Out of those 100. how many did book PRG and how many ant to fly to PEK? It´s good there are 100 Pax boarding- the question is just where is the demand going?Delete
That I don't know but since most passengers seem to be Chinese I would say that they are going to Beijing.Delete
Don't forget that Hainan's schedule to Prague is quite awkward and their times are less convenient than Air Serbia's.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:04
Air Serbia should have started Shanghai.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:11
With what plane exactly?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:55
Air Serbia is starting Canada next year, so the east has been left to eastern airlines to pick the low lying fruit.Delete
All in all, good growth for BEG. After the concession, the hub system will take off considerably.
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 06:31
It will be so much fun!Delete
New York
hope for
Chicago as well
there might be more suprises like
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:05
I have never seen more talk initiated by the Serbian govt. for long haul flights - NY, Beijing, Toronto, New Delhi and now Shanghai. What's going on?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:18
I think it has more to do with the fact that Air Serbia has reinvigorated the market and made it more noticeable and competitive. Also global trends are changing, new aircraft which can operate more economically are coming onto the market allowing airline to open new routes with less risk.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:09
Local electionsDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:58
Of course. The outcome of elections for Belgrade municipalities hangs by the thread on flights to Shanghai. Gimme a break and come up with something more original.Delete
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 06:34
Because its reality. Its important to have all of these counties connected.Delete
its starts will highways then aviation.. its important to have all of these flights. BEG deserves that as the biggest airport in the region.
I could see 10 million pas. bu 2020
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:07
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:08
If they do start these flights it will be empty.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:12
Do you have a crystal ball to see into the future?Delete
No, but I have common sense. Unlike Dr Sinisa mali.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:55
Zavist ključa, ne valja ti to za zdravlje. Ne brini se ti za Kineze, gledajte kako svoju državu da povežete bar jednom celogodišnjom long haul rutom.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:56
And none of the background information, unlike Dr Sinisa Mali.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:11
@9:55 +1Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:23
Sinisa Mali:Delete
may 2016: flights to Teheran are in final phase of negotiation
july 2016: there will be flights to Astana
september 201: second A330 will come to Air Serbia till end of 2016, and flights to Toronto and Chicago will start
So, can you still believe to that guy?
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:26
Said flights to Beijing would launch in 2017 - DONEDelete
Said flights to New York would launch in 2016 - DONE
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 00:09
So that means 3 fail : 2 successDelete
that is good result for you?
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:15
Would be nice to see Air China in Belgrade.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:48
After 25 years :)Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:16
What's going on with Mali? He seems to be talking a lot on aviation lately.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:22
Well he will need a new job soonDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:16
I'm certain he will become the CEO of Air Serbia next year when his term as Mayor ends. I've heard Dane is planning on leaving anyway.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:43
That is highly unlikely. He's already the Chairman, has no direct experience in the aviation business and most importantly, isn't an Etihad cadre.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:54
Dane had limited airline experience yet here we areDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 12:04
Well, that explains how Air Serbia is there where it is today. Dane was placed to just be a puppet of Etihad. That's the main criteria at EY for selecting its managment.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:19
Interesting about most Chinese being from two provinces near Shanghai. When did the current Chinese community settle in Serbia?ReplyDeleteReplies
In late 90s, that's when they start arrivingDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:23
The biggest move was in late 90s early 2000 as above anon rightly says. Slobo issued them visas quickly and many of them used it to escape to EU. That is why JAT started flights to Beijing in 1998. When Slobo was toppled the EU requested for the JU flights to be suspended and for visas not to be issued so easily to Chinese. During these migrations, naturally thousands of Chinese stayed in Serbia. Their numbers have decreased in the last decade. It peaked in 2000.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:36
Thanks. Very interesting.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:13
And to think now they can travel to Serbia without a visa and the EU has no problem with it.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:28
Well it is a very different time now. China in 1998 and China in 2018 are two different worlds.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:39
haha yes - but Serbia in 1998 and in 2018 - exactly the same world.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 12:50
Nah, it was better in 1998.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:25
No BA or Air France in Belgrade but two routes to China. Madness in my opinion.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:29
BA and especially AF are fading airlines not something to measure with in 2017 World of airlines.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:31
How needs AF and BA. We have 2 weekly flights to Prague with a Chinese airline.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:42
Both AF and BA failed during the Jat era around the time Wizz Air launched flights fro Beauvais and Luton. What do you expect Serbia to do to attract them back? Pay them? Wizz Air and Air Serbia are doing very well on both routes. AF and BA just could not adapt and lower their costs on the routes. Besides, BA serves only Croatia and AF Slovenia and Croatia. They are not very successful on ex-Yu market.Delete
Actually, AF suspended BEG long before W6 launched BVA. They had phenomenal loads, yearly average of some 86% but their main issue were the costs.Delete
Like you said, it's not like BEG is not connected to either city. Air Serbia maintains double daily flights to Paris and 9 weekly to London in summer. I guess if the market was larger someone like easyJet, Ryanair or Norwegian would have reacted the same way Transavia did.
Ono, Kina raste i postaće u doglednoj budućnosti najjača ekonomska sila. Srbija sa njom ima odlične odnose i treba na vreme da se povezuje i zauzima strateške pozicije. A letova do Pariza i Londona iz Beograda ima sasvim dovoljno-treba li da molimo AF i BA da uvedu let?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:26
I don't like that all these routes are being negotiated by politicians. When their party fails to win elections you risk loosing all these routes.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:38
You think Hainan Airlines started Beijing-Belgrade because they love Vucic and he goes they will end flights too? LOL.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:03
Kako ste ljudi tako kratkovidi? Kina sve više jača i žele da se pozicioniraju i u ovom delu Evrope. Kakav Vučić, kakvi bakrači. Ovoj vlasti jedino treba čestitati na agilnosti u želji da povežu Beograd i Srbiju sa najvažnijim svetskim gradovima. Te naše želje se odlično poklapaju sa željom Kine da proširi svoj uticaj u svetu.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:37
I actually think Shanghai is much more logical route to BEG then PEK.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:29
Shanghai would actually serve O&D and transfers. This route to PEK by Hainan is mostly leisure traffic.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:45
Meanwhile in Croatia, tsunami of Chinese tourists expected.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:53
Nice. I hope it results in a nonstop flight soon.Delete
Link in English. Hold onto your hats!Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:20
If they had so many tourist they wouldn't have to drive their empty buses to Belgrade Airport to steal tourists from Serbia:Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:43
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA this is so hilarious. :DDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 18:59
@AnonymousNovember 13, 2017 at 2:20 PMDelete
This is a joke, right ???
Slovenian and Croatian bus drivers stealing Turkish and Chinese tourist and riding around Serbia ??? Cause Visa is still an issue, you can't take Chinese to Croatia without valid EU visa !!!
Or perhaps more likely Chinese visitors to Croatia and Slovenia use Belgrade airport only, as cheapest air link???
Croatia had 156000 Chinese visitors so far this year, Serbia 28000???
By year's end Croatia will have over 170 000 Chinese visitors, Serbia barely over 30 000.
Next year at least 250 000 Chinese visitors to Croatia, Serbia if it gets 45000 Chinese visitors, Serbia will be celebrating, not to mention supposedly 300 000 or even 500 000 Chinese ghost visitors visiting Serbia in 2017 and 2018 according to "Chines ambassador and Serbian PM".
When China Eastern, Southern or Air China start regular flights to Zagreb, I can only imagine headline in Serbia, Croatia stealing Chinese air carriers, cause Serbia had them before Croatia.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 19:39
When China Eastern, Southern or Air China start regular flights to Zagreb? I think you are missing the point of today's article, it's BEG that's getting the second flight. ;)Delete
You can use your statistics all you want but it won't change the reality
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 00:15
Now really someone wrote this bullshit? Wasn't B92 media sometimes during Milošević era? What on earth happens to them?Delete
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 00:20
We have so many tourists because we still them from Serbia. Now we find logical reason. Most of tourist comes to Belgrade but dirty Croatian tourist worker still them and bring them to Croatia. All that time they think they are in Serbia.Delete
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 00:22
Blaming the media because you don't like the news? Would you like to shut them down?Delete
It was reported in another media as well. Report is true, deal with it.
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 01:59
Sells newspapers I guess, i'll just ignore it and move on.Delete
Croatia expects 18.5 million visitors this year, 17 million of them foreign, 170-180 000 of them Chinese from Mainland, 35000 from HK and 150 000 from Taiwan. I can say happily things are moving in the right direction.
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 03:22
Yet bus drivers ignore those millions and keep coming to BEG to poach tourists. Keep your head planted in the sand and keep ignoring the reality.Delete
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Serbian tabloids are even more hilarious than Croatian Newsbar. Only...unintentionally.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:46
Too much too soon. First make Beijing work.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:50
It already works, twice a week.Delete
Isn't that the responsibility of the carrier to make it work? Who said Hainan is opening a second one and is struggling info the current route? Having 186 seats info economy and apparently over 50% coming to Belgrade to me says that Prague was failing and this was their way of filling up aircraft to not lose or shut down the route.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:57
Thanks for the concern.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 09:54
China Southern is pretty horrible. Air China is not bad but I still have nightmares of their Sydney-Beijing flight I took a few years ago in economy. The definition of being in a sardine can. Best to stick to Hainan actually.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hainan momentalno ima 12 linija do US najvise od svih prevoznika. Samo toliko.Delete
Fantastic news reflecting the booming ties between RC and RSReplyDelete
Maybe they can also try a triangle with INI where tourist board the plane on the way back to China (if they would disembark in BEG and travel south from there + B&H)Replies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:34
China is PRC, RC or RoC would be Taiwan :)Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:41
can INI receive jet like A330 at all?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:53
TK Cargo has a scheduled flight once a week so yesDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:01
Why would the Chinese create competition for themselves if they already have the Beijing route. A route from Shanghai would take passengers away from it.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:02
Because it seems they are mostlyt after O&D passengers not transfers.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:08
No it won't. People have to understand that the BEG route for Hainan is purely for tourists who bought a holiday package through Hainan tours. They are not competitive for other sorts of passengers.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:14
Šangaj ima 24 miliona stanovnika, gde je još sva okolina. Jesi li video na kolikoj su udaljenosti Peking i Šangaj? Kakva oni konkurencija mogu biti, to je kao da gledaš dve posebne evropske države. Razdaljine ogromne, milijarda stanovnika..Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:17
Good luck.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:20
Mali also promised a second A330 for Air Serbia last year. We are still waiting...ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:40
I kad stigne sta cete onda?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 19:04
Next year Etihad will cut all its links with Air Serbia, they themselves face major financial vows, the last thing they need is another failing air carrier on their backside.Delete
I highly doubt Air Serbia can survive beyond 2019.
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 00:30
Next year Etihad will cut all its links with Air SerbiaDelete
Do you have a phone number or address where we can tell it to your face that you were wrong about this next year? Not so brave now?
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:23
And while other airlines look to take a piece of their cake on this market, Air Serbia's only offer is a codeshare with Air China from Vienna to Beijing where passengers have to wait for hours in VIE to transfer.ReplyDelete
Meanwhile they are involved in a pricing war with Hainan on BEG-PRG route and are dumping fares on the day Hainan operates. Fares are 100 euros return! Looks like there will be no codeshare between these two and they are officially competing against each other.Replies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:32
True. I know they have a GSA in China. They made a big deal of it last year when they selected them so I do wonder what they are doing.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:33
I assume most people book with Etihad to go to China and as far as I know Air Serbia has a codeshare on EY flights to China don't they?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:35
Air Serbia is proving to be a completely stupid airline, now they have chased away all the smart and capable people.Delete
Instead of a codeshare, price agreement and funnelling pax through BEG, they engaged in a price war with Hainan on the days they operate to Prague.
Pathetic really.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:40
I guess Hainan takes away the most passengers on Fridays.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:43
Padaju cene, a vi kukate ko zadusne babe? Neverovatna nacija.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:07
Mentalitiet je ubitacna stvar.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:27
WTF? o.O are they serious?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:30
Yes. I remember similar comments when they said that flights Beijing-Belgrade were likely.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:50
Or BEG-JFKDelete
Time for round #2 of haters here.ReplyDelete
We had to listen to them about how PEK-BEG won't happen. Now time for those same comments except replace PVG instead of PEK.Replies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:13
The dose of bitterness and the number of nervous breakdowns have already exceeded all expectations. It is really interesting how a single piece of positive development in aviation can trigger tsunamis of hate. Even more interesting how the whole thing is location-dependent. Had it been another place in exYU, standard numeric would not be able to count all "Bravo!" comments.Delete
At the end of the day, it is good to see some good news. The more the merrier. Haters may or may not find a cure and that's it.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:53
Srbija predlozila Kini jos jedan let :)ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 10:54
Sorry NO NO: Croatia proposed China one more destination for Serbia.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:10
The self-sufficient, self-declared tourist mecca of the world proposing something to better any of its neighbours? Maybe in another dimension, in a galaxy far far away.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:25
Meni kao Hrvatu drago da kinezi dolaze u BG, to može biti samo dobro za sve. Dio će neminovno doći i do Hrvatske i ostaviti novce tu. S druge strane sve da i ne dođu ostavit će ih u Srbiji šta će potaknuti njen gospodarski razvoj, a time i razvoj moje domovine. Nema goreg susjeda od sirotinje, zato želim sve najbolje Srbiji u poslovanju s Kinezima.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 11:37
Verovatnmo isto tako Slovenci govore o vamaDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 12:14
I say good on them. Why not exploit the visa free regime to boost tourism.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 12:15
Interesting that the city is negotiating these, probably more effective than to rely on the incompetent losers working in ministries. Maybe Bandic should do the same.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 12:17
2017: Beijing-BEGReplyDelete
2018: Shanghai-BEG
2019: Guangzhou-BEG
2020: Chengdu-BEG
2021: Kunming-BEG
2022: Shenzhen-BEG
2023: Xi'an-BEGReplies
Dont forget INI :)Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 18:02
Btw INI handled almost as many passengers in October as they did in July so I wouldn't rule them out just yet.Delete
A evo sta nam kaze PurgerReplyDelete
"Ona nije slučajno otvorena, kao što nije slučajno istovremeno odlučeno da se ne otvori već najavljena linija za Zagreb. Upravo ova linija je vrlo indikativna. Otvorena je iako Beograd ima neusporedivo manje potencijala nego Zagreb ili neki drugi aerodromi u široj regiji"
Beograd ima manje potencijala za letove ka Kini a pregovara se o drugom direkntom letu dok ZAG nema jos nijednu. Zanimljivo
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 13:53
Opste je poznato da se ovde redovno tvrdi da je Beograd inferiorniji od Zagreba iako ima duplo vise putnika.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:50
Zagreb this year will have 3,1 million Pax. Belgrade will have 5,3. The difference of 2,2 million is covered by airports in the same country which are scattered across the Adriatic. Why would someone be flying to ZAG when his destination is ZAD, SPU, DBV, RJK or PUY. If you want to go to any destination in Serbia, you more or less have to fly to BEG. So "duplo vise" is not quite true.Delete
It is not.Delete
Both Belgrade and Zagreb are the capitals of their countries, not located on the coast.
If Serbia had sea coast the airports located there could not have been blamed to "steal" the passengers from Belgrade.
The passengers who fly to the Croatian sea side actually have nothing to do with ZAG. They want to swim in the sea and have a good fun on the beach.
If Czech Republic had sea coast they would have done the same there.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 15:21
OK, so the passenger from Novi Sad and Krusevac do not fly at all because there is no airport for them while not Rijeka or Zadar local would fly from ZAG because they have their local airports. right!Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 15:29
Nebosa, your argument does not hold. It is exactly because of the lack of airports in those two countries that people fly from the nearest available, regardless of sea or whatever. Switzerland also has more airports and no seaside. If BSL, GVA did not exist, people would drive 2 hours to take a flight from ZRH. The same with Croatia. Why would any local from ZAD or PUY take a flight from ZAG if PUY or ZAD have the flight. You are basically implying that the passengers from INI did not fly before, since there were no flights before. If any of the pax before flew from BEG to ZRH, that passenger is lost for BEG if the flights and customer base remain the sameDelete
Number of passengers who have Novi Sad, Kraljevo or Uzice as their final destination cannot be compared to the number of passengers Croatian coast gets. It is simple as that, especially taking in consideration that many people from western Serbia use Tuzla as airport, many people from eastern Serbia use Nis and Sofia and almost whole Vojvodina is less than 3 hours far from Budapest that offers many connections. Lets also not forget TSR where FR and W6 have internal war with low prices is also not that far from Serbia.Delete
All of these airports (except Nis) are not in Serbia but passengers from Serbia are regular guests there so therefore we can not count that all of them use BEG.
The story we had heard here could be valid if Belgrade would have been an island with only one airport located there, but we all know it is not the case.
At the same time we could say that people who have Pozega or Varazdin as the final destination shouldn't be counted as ZAG passengers and we all know it would not be correct.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 16:39
How many local passengers do BEG and ZAG handle, without those transferring?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 18:01
Are you implying that the two would be the same if there weren't for transfer passengers? You are seriously disillusioned. BEG would still be miles ahead.Delete
So are you impying that people who live in Serbia don't use SOF, SKP, TZL, TSR, BUD...? The last time i checked people who fly from these airports are not stopped at the border and then forced to use either BEG or INI.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 20:58
Momentarily Belgrade has more passengers, but in a long term Zagreb will catch up and surpass Belgrade. By 2025 Zagreb will hit 8 million pax, no idea how many passengers will Belgrade have by this point, but Zagreb Airport strategy is to get legacy carriers in, they pay for landing and services. LCCs don't Zagreb airport had €158.7 million turnover in 2016, Belgrade airport less than €60 million.Delete
Massive difference, considering larger airport had 4.9 million pax. By 2025 Zagreb will catch up and I predict surpass Belgrade in number of passengers. It already is larger by revenue and turnover, not profits yet, cause most profits are eaten by investments, and will continue to do so until €323 million are paid for.
However, Zagreb airport unlike Belgrade airport has massive advantage and that is, Croatian coastline, major carriers from Asia and North America already recognize that fact, question of when major carriers come to Zagreb, from these parts is not if, but when.
Belgrade Airport on other hand, has very few legacy carriers serving it, Air Serbia with $824 million worth of obligations can't go on for much longer. Question is, when Air Serbia goes bust, be in 2019 or even if it survives to 2020, who will pump numbers in to Belgrade? Wizz, Ryan Air?
As I've see it, arrival of Chinese carriers is a positive thing for Belgrade, however it might not last long, perhaps in 2018 Chinese carrier will withdraw cause they're losing money on this route, even with transfers for Zagreb, it won't be sufficient. Etihad who is facing massive internal financial issues might also pull out of Belgrade as early as late 2018.
I simply don't see reason for optimism when it comes to Belgrade airport long term survival strategy. If Chinese get the concession, perhaps there could be something, Chinese continue to fly to Belgrade beyond 2020, however there's little prospect for much else.
I guess Belgrade could always do what Riga, Budapest, Krakow, Gdansk, Vilnius and number of other eastern European cities have done, become LCC base.
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 21:03
You need help and a reality checkDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 21:06
We can all clearly see that good news for your neighbors don't agree with youDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 21:12
I seriously think he is not serious. He has to be trolling us.Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 21:14
Funny there is no mention of OU in your grand scheme of things. You know something we don't? What did you see from your mushroom induced visions?Delete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 21:34
Just let him be. Those are all just his wishes, he doesn't have a clue about BEG's progress or HU's success on the route. Just his fantasies and nothing moreDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 23:33
Last year I flew from Split to Zagreb. I was the ONLY passenger to disembark in Zagreb. EVERY OTHER passenger headed to transfers. So much about number inflation.Delete
- Alen Šćuric Purger14 November 2017 at 00:29
Krajnje je neprimjereno izvlačiti rečenice iz konteksta. U istom tom tekstu samo par redova dalje napisao sam:Delete
U svakom slučaju linija Peking-Prag-Beograd velik je iskorak za Beograd i još jedan vrlo jak potez za zadržavanje dominacije Beograda u zračnom prometu regije. Bez obzira na dolazak Emiratesa u Zagreb, te velik broj novih linija i povećanja frekvencija nakon otvaranja novog terminala ovog proljeća u Zagrebu, Beograd je još uvijek superioran i dominantan u regiji. Pekinška linija ovu dominaciju ozbiljno je učvrstila.
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 06:16
pruger jesi ti napisao onaj anon u 8:58pm.. budi iskren lolDelete
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 07:48
Poor guy. He is probably suffering from a mental breakdown after ZAG's allure started to fade away with LH suspending mainline flights and after Eurowings started to expand. You know, an LCC.Delete
Seems like ZAG will turn into Krakow or Budapest much faster than Belgrade. At least BEG can make LH mainline work. :/
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:04
Jedino normalno rešenje je PVG-PEK-BEG.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 14:24
A Hejteri u nevericiReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 November 2017 at 15:07
Another political route, right guys?ReplyDelete
Hell, BEG must be some kind of record holder by the number of political routes.Replies
Hell, and you must be that type of guy that always drops a tear or two when BEG gets a new route, with the pace BEG is getting new routes you will run out of tears very soon.Delete
its Unreal how much hate there is when BEG and Air SERBIA are in question.. why guys why??? why cant this forum be constructed. And WHY do "we" always have to compare ZAG to BEG?ReplyDelete
ZAG will never NEVER catch up to BEG.. that is a fact. ZAG is doing great right now amd im happy for the airport. truly i am. but guys please stop being children..
Dont Hate! Be happy that there is flights coming from all sides of the world to all airports in ex-yu.Replies
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 07:26
"ZAG will never NEVER catch up to BEG.. that is a fact"Delete
How is that a fact? How do you know the future?
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 07:47
It's an assumption based on logic and facts/trends.Delete
- Anonymous14 November 2017 at 07:40
But i know history..
ZAG will always say behind BEG. Ots a smaller city what do you want.
Why does this bother you so much. You can hope all you want. Its you right.


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by Barbara Sherf
Mt. Airy resident Mildred Coates is known around town as "The Book Lady." This spry 84-year-old spends her days using public transportation to get to thrift shops, used book stores, flea markets, libraries and 'wherever books are sold.' She matches books in a wide variety of genres to dozens of avid readers who are part of an informal group called "For Love of Books" (FLOB).
With a colorful turban on her head, she came rushing into the Chestnut Hill Branch of the library on a recent Monday afternoon apologizing for her slight delay in getting there. "I'm sorry, but I was having lunch, and the waitress needed a math book for a test she was taking tonight. I ran to the thrift store a half-block away and got what she needed," said Coates. "She was having problems with division, and I found just the right book."
Finding just the right book for just the right person is her calling. One of 12 children, Coates grew up near Willow Grove and fell in love with books in the first grade. She eventually married and moved to a little down in Virginia, about 75 miles south of Washington D.C., serving as the manager of the Ace Book Store for 21 years. Once her husband died, she moved back home to be near her remaining family, and now lives with her sister. She never had children, but has plenty of nieces and nephews for whom (you guessed it) she finds books.
The Friends of the Library weekly used book sale in Chestnut Hill is one of her regular haunts on Monday afternoons. Molly Russakoff, owner of Molly's Used Books near the Italian Market in South Philadelphia, was there because of Coates. "She was in my book store, and she started telling me about this sale. Now she helps me find books for my store and is a regular customer. She is a true book lover."
Chestnut Hill resident Renee Poulsky oversees the Friends group and started the used book sale more than 10 years ago. The Friends will be out by the fountain at the Top of the Hill Plaza during the May 1 Chestnut Hill Garden Festival with boxes of used books for sale from 11 to 5, and Coates plans to be there.
"Oh I never miss it. I like the Monday afternoons because it's indoors, but if it's nice out, I'll be there because they dig deep and bring out a lot of good finds."
Coates is always on the lookout for "good finds." Her day begins with taking a bus locally or a regional train into Center City to look for books. She doesn't keep a list. It's all in her head. With few exceptions, she doesn't have a regular routine.
"Some days I'll walk outside and feel like heading over to Rising Sun (Avenue) in the Northeast. Other days I'll head into Center City and go to Robin's Books or maybe even one of the stores that sells new books just to see what's hot. It depends on my mood and the bus or train schedule," said Coates, showing the SEPTA pass tucked in her pocket. "This is my ticket. The bus is free, and the train is a buck."
When asked how much she spends on used books in a given week, she had to think about it very hard. "Hmmm. I never really thought about it. Maybe $20, sometimes more, sometimes less." On a crisp Friday morning she was in the Bargain Thrift Shop in Germantown looking for books for Glenda McCall, who has a unique Halloween project.
"I came up with the idea of handing out gently used books to children with the candy. I put a little note in the book telling the parent to hold onto the book if the child is not ready for it yet," said McCall, who worked as a teacher in the Philadelphia School District for more than 35 years. "We met here one day as I was perusing the books and now Mildred scours the city for books for me, and she won't take a penny."
"That's just how I work," said Coates. "The books are usually only 10 cents or 50 cents at most. I don't charge." If members of FLOB persist, she asks them to make a donation to one of two scholarship funds she has set up; one in her husband's name and one in her parents' names. "One man sent me $250 toward the fund. I was shocked."
She has also collected and donated 16 boxes of books to the Imani Charter School, located on Chelten Avenue, not far from her home. "I hate to see good books go to waste. Some people actually put books at the curb for the trash men to take. Can you imagine that?" she said shaking her head and noting that she was raised during the Depression.
Coates' devotion to bringing people together with the right books is almost a religious experience. "The Bible says it is better to give than to receive. So I give."
Mildred gives antique and collectibles books to George Hobe, who has an antiques business in Chestnut Hill. She gives books to 91-year-old Chestnut Hill resident Carmella Upright, who likes books about Philadelphia and its history. She sends books to former customers in Virginia. She gives books to a young man who is interested in chess. She gives books to an 89-year-old man who is fascinated with Napoleon. She gives to anyone who is in need of a book.
"What else am I going to do? Sit around watching TV all day." But come 7 in the evening, don't call her at home. "That's Jeopardy time. Anyone who knows me knows my sister and I are watching Jeopardy," she laughs.
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Tough First Half
October 30, 2010
Revise and Resubmit
October 30, 2010
October 30, 2010
Reversing Momentum
October 24, 2010
Eagles-Titans game today is one of the most extreme reversals of momentum I have ever seen in a football game. Fucken fucke.
Fall Continued
October 23, 2010
Democrats Make Me Fucken Puke
October 23, 2010
This whole Juan Williams thing is a perfect fucken example of how fucken puketastic the Democratic Party is. For the Republicans, every time the Democrats or anyone who can be associated with the Democrats–like some NGO or a low-level govt bureaucrat–does the slightest fucken obscure little thing that can be spun appropriately (which is basically everything on earth), the Republicans come out with fucken guns blazing ready to ATTACK! KILL! DESTROY! IMPEACH! FIRE! DEFUND! everyfucken Democrat and Democratic leaning everyfuckenthing on the face of the Earth. And then the Dems start running around appeasing these assholes hoping the assult will stop. Consequence: Republicans win again.
Some wacked out fucken Republican candidate for the motherfucken CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES states that if the Republicans don't win congressional majorities it would be appropriate to violently overthrow the motherfucken FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and the Democrats fucken run away like the fucken scaredy-cat little crybabies that they are, because they are so fucken afraid of being called "shrill" or "intemperate" by the Republicans and the press. Consequence: Republicans win again.
This kind of abject total complete lack of any fucken spine at all is nauseating. Independently of any policy issue concerns at all, who the fucke wants to support a political party that won't even stand up for its own political power? SACKE THE FUCKEN FUCKE UPPE, YOU DUMSHITTE INEFFECTUAL ASSHOLES!


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Ignoring Social Reality
On the bus from Delhi to Lahore early this year, I chatted with an elderly Muslim man from Delhi who was travelling to Pakistan to visit his relatives. He identified himself as a socialist.
"I don't want to go to Lahore but my wife insists I should," he said to me frankly. "I get so bored there. I can hardly find any like-minded people to talk to," he went on. "You'll soon discover," he warned me, "that the level of intellectual discourse is so limited in Pakistan. Quite awful actually."
I thought the man was exaggerating, but I was soon to discover that he was not entirely wrong.
In my interactions with a wide cross-section of people in various places that I visited in Pakistan during my one-month visit I was shocked at the pathetic state of intellectual discourse that seemed to pervade the country, which I often unconsciously contrasted with the situation in India.
There are, I discovered, less than half a dozen good bookshops in the whole of Lahore, once considered to be the intellectual capital of India, that stock books in English. The vast majority of these books are, curiously enough, published in India, a few in the West and the rest, a very small proportion, are local Pakistani publications.
Books on the "Ideology of Pakistan"
Books on Pakistani society, based on empirical realities, are almost impossible to find, although the number of titles on the so-called "Two-Nation Theory" and the history of the Muslim League, as well as on elite politics in Pakistan, run into the hundreds. So do books on Jinnah and Iqbal, the two major ideological heroes of Pakistan, after whom a vast number of public institutions throughout the country are named.
As a Lahori friend of mine quipped, "The intellectual scene in Pakistan is so bad that our rulers think we have almost no one else to name our institutions after."
Even on Islam and Kashmir, two issues that are central to the way in which the Pakistani state has sought to construct the notion of Pakistani national identity, I discovered hardly any decent literature in English in the numerous bookshops that I visited.
Many of the few English books on Islam I came across were actually published in India. A few others were by Western writers, while the rest, not more than three dozen titles, many of these being were poorly-researched and ideologically-driven propaganda tracts of the Pakistani Jamaat i Islami and its associated publishing houses.
Many of the relatively few English books on sale in Lahore's bookshops are textbooks, and several of these, particularly those on the hard sciences, are published in India. The school texts that I glanced through are carefully tailored to reproduce what is officially called the "Ideology of Pakistan", with Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies being compulsory subjects in the school curriculum. The Islamic Studies texts present Islam as the only true religion.
Few books
The Urdu publishing scene in Pakistan is somewhat different, although I found it almost as uninspiring as its English counterpart. Lahore's famed Urdu Bazaar, located in a chaotic, run-down part of the old town, consists of several narrow lanes lined with filth-clogged drains, almost impossible to wade through.
I made it a point to spend two entire days in the bazaar and to visit every of the dozens of small bookshops that it boasts of. On the lookout for literature on lived social realities in Pakistan, I was sorely disappointed.
The vast majority of the titles on display were about Islamic rituals and theology, hagiographic accounts of the Prophet, early Muslim warriors, saints, rulers and ulama, treatises on the ideological founders of Pakistan and on the "Two-Nation Theory", tomes on the history of the Muslim League and the alleged perfidy of the Hindus, accounts of Pakistani rulers by their supporters and critics, besides hundreds of texts containing gems of Urdu literature.
Although important as sources of Pakistani history and national identity, they had little to reveal about the actual social realities of Pakistan today that I was keen on knowing more about, a telling reminder, once again, of the poverty of intellectual discourse in the country.
No equivalent of the Indian Islamic scholars
As a student of Islamic history, I was particularly interested in procuring books by socially engaged Pakistani scholars articulating progressive positions on various issues through engaging creatively with the Islamic scholarly tradition.
However, wading through the books on display in the shops in the Urdu Bazaar, I found that few such texts are actually available. This starkly suggested to me that there appears to be no counterpart in Pakistan to the numerous Indian Islamic scholars that have sought to creatively engage with the Islamic intellectual tradition and the myriad challenges posed by the pressures and demands of contemporary life.
There is simply no Pakistani equivalent of the Indian Islamic scholars Asghar Ali Engineer and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (incidentally, both of whose books are widely read and published in Pakistan), a sad commentary on the state of Islamic intellectual discourse in a country that was created ostensibly in the name of Islam and in order to protect Muslims from "upper caste" Hindu domination.
The only noted socially engaged Islamic public intellectual that Pakistan has produced, the scholar Fazlur Rahman, was forced to flee Pakistan in the 1960s and seek refuge in Canada because of the vociferous opposition that he faced from the Jamaat-i Islami and various ulama groups for his progressive utterances.
The task of offering socially progressive responses from within the broadly defined Islamic tradition to the challenges of modernity and to the lived realities of widespread poverty and exploitation has hardly begun in Pakistan.
Hence, today certain radical Islamist as well as conservative ulama groups and their propagandists are able to powerfully assert their claims to speak for Islam quite unchallenged, offering responses that are, overall, decidedly distasteful: fanning sectarian rivalries, promoting hatred against the country's religious minorities, condemning moves to promote gender and economic justice and redress ethnic imbalances, pronouncing communism and leftists as "enemies of Islam" and as allegedly conspiring to divide Muslims, and lambasting the West and India as the very epitome of evil.
A combination of Marx and Muhammad
Some of the publishing houses in the Urdu Bazaar are run precisely by such groups, and their magazines, I was told, have hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
"We urgently need a combination of Marx and Muhammad today," said a friend, a well-known leftist activist, who accompanied me to the Urdu Bazaar and who was pained at my disappointment with the market that had failed to yield up the treasures I had been dreaming of procuring.
"Because religion is so deeply-rooted in people's lives," he continued, "we cannot ignore it. We need to articulate socially progressive interpretations of religion in order to make appeal to people and to prevent radical Islamists and conservative ulama as well as the state from monopolising the terrain of Islamic discourse."
"But, as you can see from the books sold in this market," he added, "the Pakistani Left has almost completely ignored this vital task."
The warning of the elderly Muslim man from Delhi whom I had met in the bus to Lahore swirled in my mind almost each time I entered a bookshop or research institute or even in meetings with NGO activists during my stay in Pakistan, in all the several places I visited.
Punjab University in Lahore, the largest university in the country, I discovered, does not possess a single bookshop, and the only students organisation that is legally allowed to function on campus, or so I was told, is the Islami Jamiat-i Tulaba, the students' wing of the Jamaat-i Islami.
The day I visited the university, one day after the anniversary of the fall of East Pakistan to the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini, the campus was splattered with posters put up by the Jamiat denouncing what it termed as "Indian Imperialism". I saw a few other posters pasted on notice boards in the university, but most of these were about forthcoming religious events.
I could not help contrast this to what I had been reared on in the five years that I spent at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where almost every day we were treated to a talk or a seminar by intellectuals, politicians, journalists and social activists on a whole range of pressing social issues, almost none of these being on theological niceties.
Dissent not loud enough
Notable exceptions apart, my limited conversations with students and teachers in Punjab University proved to be hardly inspiring. A friend suggested that I speak to the students of the Sociology department on some aspect of Indian society, but the head of the department was clearly reluctant. "Speak on the importance of studying Sociology instead," he suggested, and, of course, I politely declined.
It appeared that an unwritten rule was in force in the university to prevent any dissenting views being expressed that might challenge the official line of the state from intruding.
All over the university were boards painted with quotations from the Quran and the Traditions of the Prophet, stressing the importance of knowledge as well as, at the same time, pious behaviour, this probably being also envisaged as a means to ensure obedience to the authorities. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, I was told, was a retired senior Army officer.
The correlation of education and protest
The pathetic state of intellectual discourse in Pakistan has much to do with the country's political economy. Pakistan has the dubious distinction of being among the countries that spend the least per capita on education. The Pakistani public education system is said to be in a state of complete shambles, even worse than in India, if that can be imagined.
As in India, mass education of an emancipatory sort, is seen as a potent challenge to ruling authorities. In Larkana district in Sindh, I was informed by an officer in the local education department when I visited the area, half of the government schools do not function because the landlords are afraid that education might help provoke pathetically poor peasants and labourers to protest and revolt. A similar situation is said to prevail in several other parts of the country.
"What both India and Pakistan desperately need," a Lahori friend told me while talking about the state of intellectual discourse in our part of the world, "are organically rooted public intellectuals that articulate the lived realities and concerns of the masses. Only then can the radical transformations that we desire ever come about."
"But," he sombrely added, "given the pathetic state of intellectual discourse in Pakistan, that will probably take decades to happen."
I told him that he was probably right about Pakistan, but, I quickly added, the same was true for India as well.
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The Blurred Borders between Pakistan and India
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Changes are afoot at Ballet San Jose, but a graceful transition still eludes the embattled company, which has delayed its spring season announcement, shortened its "Nutcracker" run and announced a new partnership with American Ballet Theatre, new artistic leadership and the departure of Ballet San Jose's board chair. Now, founder Dennis Nahat, whose future with the company had been in question, confirmed this week that he has received a letter from Executive Director Stephanie Ziesel removing him as artistic director.
"I am flabbergasted at how this has happened," Nahat said during a phone call Wednesday evening. "I don't understand the rationale behind it, and I guess one cannot rationalize it at this point."
Nahat, who co-founded the Cleveland Ballet 40 years ago, piloted his dancers through a cooperative venture as San Jose Cleveland Ballet and oversaw its transition to Ballet San Jose, says that his immediate plans are to concentrate on his commitment as adjudicator of the Silicon Valley International Art Competition in Cupertino. He will also enter discussions with Ballet San Jose over granting permission for the company to continue performing the more than 80 ballets he choreographed for the company, to which he still owns the rights.
This turn of events caps what some board members have characterized as a "hostile takeover" that was years in the making. In interviews with former board members and staff, a picture has emerged of an organization whose control was consolidated into the hands of John Fry, a wealthy patron. Karen Loewenstern, who helped found the dual-city San Jose Cleveland Ballet in 1985 and was the first board chair, says that during the dot-com bust, faced with an alarming deficit, the company found a benefactor in Fry, CEO of Fry's Electronics, whose wife, Ramune Ambrozaitis, was on the board.
In 2003, he made a $1.767 million loan to the company - secured by company assets, including sets and costumes - and offered sizable donations that, in Loewenstern's words, "kept the doors open." Unconfirmed estimates of his giving to Ballet San Jose range from $14 million to more than $20 million since he took over.
On Jan. 5, Fry resigned from the board. Lorraine Gilmore of Edison Pharmaceuticals will succeed him as chair. Loewenstern says that Fry's resignation does not mean that he or Fry's Electronics will exert any less influence on the company, pointing out that Fry's Vice President Kathy Kolder remains on the board and that Fry reportedly intends to continue his financial support of the company.
"Nothing is going to be decided without running it by him," she says matter-of-factly. "I would say that he bought himself a ballet company."
Fry declined through a press representative to be interviewed for this article.
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In 2004, when Fry took over as chairman, he oversaw a reorganization that split the board into two entities, an elite governing board and a larger community-driven operating board. Over the next several years, Loewenstern says, responsibilities of the operating board were gradually diminished until it folded. She claims Fry stymied attempts by herself, other board members and Nahat to recruit new blood to the governing board by withholding approval for prospective members. The volunteer council was disbanded and the annual fundraising galas ceased.
In May 2009, Fry recruited Ziesel, ostensibly to bolster fundraising efforts, and told Nahat, who had been an ex officio member of the board as artistic director, that he was no longer to attend board meetings. Executive responsibilities, including jurisdiction over repertoire, casting, hiring and firing of dancers and staff and union negotiations, were transferred to Ziesel.
In 2011, former staff members describe marked changes in company policies and management. Contract negotiations with the dancers union in early 2011 stalled, and later that year, they say, Fry's employees changed the locks to the warehouse where the company's sets and costumes were stored, preventing staff members from accessing them. Staffers say decisions and purchases in their departments became subject to approval by Fry, creating confusion and delaying important transactions.
Amid the turmoil, Ziesel says, conversations with her sister Mary Jo Ziesel, the director of education and training at American Ballet Theatre, led to the idea of incorporating ABT's national training curriculum into the Ballet San Jose school and grew to encompass an artistic arrangement as well, in which Ballet San Jose would gain access to ABT's repertoire and coaching staff for upcoming productions.
In late December, Fry contacted Nahat for a meeting, also attended by Karen and Walter Loewenstern, at Nahat's home, in which Fry laid out the details of the new partnership. Both Nahat and Loewenstern say Fry confirmed his intention to continue Nahat's salary through June 2012 and said the scores of ballets he created would remain in the company's active repertoire, but under a new arrangement there would be no artistic director. Instead, regisseur Raymond Rodriguez would become principal ballet master, charged with rehearsing the ballets, with Wes Chapman as artistic consultant.
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"Dennis was absolutely in shock. It was absolutely painful to watch," says Loewenstern. "He had just been shoved out of his life's work - out of everything he built and ever cared about.
That deal has apparently enabled the ambitious three-program season announced Monday, which includes six works new to Ballet San Jose, as well as David Lichine's "Graduation Ballet" and another work to be announced. Among the premieres for the company are Jerome Robbins' "Interplay," George Balanchine's "Allegro Brillante," Jessica Lang's "Splendid Isolation III," Clark Tippet's "Bruch Violin Concerto" and Ben Stevenson's full-length "Cinderella." None of Nahat's ballets are listed for the season.
"I wish them luck," Nahat said. "I really do. I hope that the company doesn't suffer and I hope that no one is hurt by this. If Ballet Theatre will propel this company into the 21st century, I'm all for it, but there will be a cost. This will not come cheaply."
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From stolen antiquities to the Elgin Marbles to Nazi-looted art, returning plunder to its rightful owner is not as straightforward as it may seem, since who the "rightful" owner is often depends on your point of view. Although there are numerous professional and ethical codes for the return of stolen, looted, or confiscated art, contested cultural property continues to be a highly controversial topic for museums and international law today.
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Dora Apel, associate professor of art history at Wayne State University, specializes in modern and contemporary art, photography and visual culture
Graham Beal, director, president, and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts
Guy Stern, Director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills
Andrew I. Port, associate professor of modern German history at Wayne State University, will moderate the discussion.
Forbidden Art is free and open to the public at St. Andrew's on the campus of Wayne State University, 918 Ludington Mall, Detroit, MI 48202. St. Andrew's is on the north-bound M-10/LodgeFwy Service Drive just north of Warren Avenue, between Manoogian Hall and Parking Structure 2. Regular public hours are: Thursdays and Fridays, 11:00–5:00; Saturdays and Sundays, Noon–4:00; September 7–28.


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