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Confessions: Disturbing Writer Moments
Writers come into contact with all sorts of people, but our readers are our favorites. We like hearing the thoughts others have on our work, both positive and negative. It helps us to be better writers. But what happens when interaction strays from books to other topics, and really fucked up things happen?
Below are the confessions of several writers/people in the book industry.
Audrey Lusk (Audiobook Voice):
"Years ago when I did phone sex, this guy used to call and talk to all the girls (being for our five of us doing 3-4 voice each) and not wanting to talk dirty, but rather to ramble on about his ex girlfriend leaving him for a black guy, and why women preferred black guys over white guys.
"He quickly 'unmasked' each of the other operators, catching them as being multiple voices. But, he never caught me since I made sure to give each of my personae different attitudes and opinions (being a writer and all).
"This just meant that I got more of his calls as he unfolded this obsession with his ex, and how he had a scrapbook about her and her new boyfriend, and how he thought about her with him all the time... It was deeply weird, and if I'd had a clue who he was, I might have warned his ex to be very careful."
Morganna Williams (Erotica Author):
"Mine was a man messaging and telling me I was the woman he'd been looking for, and we would be married. Then he sent a pic of him and his kid, and said, "Look, honey, it's our son." Yeah... Block, delete. Super creepy!"
Alice K Wayne (Author):
"I had a gay man read my books. He started messaging me to discuss them after, and I thought he was really cool. After a few days I felt like we had a pretty alright Internet friendship going. Then he tells me he has to make a confession. He says he's been fantasizing about me and feels ashamed for liking the sex in my books so much. He wants me to 'punish' him. He starts sending me messages telling me to 'make him hurt himself' and that he'll do anything I say--put any object inside himself I want, and hurt himself in any way that I say--and then send me photos or videos for proof. I could not hit the block button fast enough."
Bryce Calderwood (Erotica Author):
"A woman PM'ed me out of the blue and wanted to be my muse. I asked her what she meant by that, and she sent me a picture of a crop, wanting to know if I wanted to use it on her. The whole episode was pretty icky."
Linda Sanders (Erotica Author):
"A sixteen year old girl friended me on FaceBook, and on our first chat she sent me naked pictures, asking me when I wanted to meet her. I explained to her that it could mean trouble for both of us if I were to accept such a proposal, and that I thought she might be a fat guy in his mom's basement. Either way, I wasn't that desperate for a hook-up."
Anonymous (Fiction Author):
"I met a guy who lived in my building. Nice guy. We talked from time to time. He always seemed to be heading out clubbing with his wife. One night he found out I wrote a book and said that I should write his biography (for free). Keep in mind, this was not a fighter pilot who ditched behind enemy lines and went on to become an astronaut. He was a relatively wealthy guy that worked and partied in equal amounts. Late one night he caught me in the lobby of my building, totally hammered. He had me sit and listen to a one hour drunken lecture on how: a) he is rich; b) kinky his wife is; and c) so many people will want to read about his life. He wanted me to start taking notes. It was an hour of my life I will never get back. I am also 75% sure I was propositioned for a three-some in the process. The autobiography project is currently stalled due to total lack of interest."
And ME, Angora Shade?
Besides the typical dick pic and marriage proposal, here are some of my WTF? and disturbing moments:
I had a religious fanatic follow me on Twitter. He started preaching bible verse at me, claiming he trying to save my soul
I was discussing the BDSM/fetish book "A Normal Girl" with a fan. He invited me to come over to his home, tie him up, and spank his penis in a fashion consistent with one of my more psychotic characters from the book. I politely declined, giving the excuse that I lived hundreds of miles from him, and that a spankable dick was in my immediate household if the spirit moved me
I once had a random erotic fiction fan approach me to become his online Dominant. He said he would be a good little submissive bitch, take orders, and follow through with whatever I said (both online and in the real world). He even said he'd create a fan page for me, completely devoted to my published works. He caught me on an off day... I thanked him for his praise, but explained I didn't have the time to commit to such a relationship.
Recently a random new FaceBook "friend" (before saying hello, before getting to know me, before any kind of normal contact) PM'd me a sonnet of an extremely explicit nature, telling me what he could and was able to do to me and make me feel. I made sure to tell him off before blocking his ass. I'm now careful to screen through a profile, making sure there are multiple mutual friends, before accepting any FaceBook friend requests.
Let's remember that writers are people too! We grocery shop, we do sports, have families and hobbies. We are not the characters in our stories, and most of us do not think, act, or feel in the same way as our characters. These WTF moments should never have happened, where the only saving grace is the amusement found in hindsight. Click for additional information on "Shit You Shouldn't Do On Social Media"
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Amtrak Gateway Tunnels - Freight Usage
Re: Amtrak Gateway Tunnels
by JohnFromJersey
west point wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:50 pm Cannot schedule freights over a draw span same time every day. The tides are a contributing problem.
Even still, the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge crosses over some of the busiest waters on the Eastern Seaboard, and they account for tides by having the time it closes each day change, but it's always a consistent 15 minute period.
They could definitely do the same for a freight bridge crossing the Hudson
JohnFromJersey
Re: Amtrak Gateway Tunnels - Freight Usage
by Jeff Smith
I split this topic from the main Gateway topic, as there currently no provision for freight through the new tunnels.
Some observations:
1. I don't think it's feasible for many of the reasons noted above.
2. CSX and NS aren't going to invest in any type of project which would not be of minimal utility to them, if any.
3. They also haven't shown any interest in a Cross-Harbor Freight tunnel, which was the original mission of the Port Authority. Why move an interchange point to Brooklyn when they just transload in Jersey?
4. Freight offloading would be a huge lift in Manhattan. That possibility was foreclosed when the Westside Yards near Riverside at the foot of the Henry Hudson Parkway was developed.
5. The West Side freight improvement (the High Line) would not have supported modern freight weights. The demand dropped late in its use anyway, and the demolition of the St. John's freight terminal foreclosed any increase in usage.
6. A tunnel through Manhattan doesn't do anything to help freight traffic into Manhattan. Where would you offload it? You're just moving trucks from one bridge to another, because you'd have to put the yard in Brooklyn.
7. I can't think of anywhere in Manhattan where you could put a freight yard, certainly being unable to compensate for grade issues in the northern tip. It would be a massive cost to acquire the real estate, unlike when the Pennsy was buying up the land in midtown for NYP.
8. The closest freight yard existing is Oak Point, and you can't access the Hell Gate from the link IIRC. You could use the NEC coming off the New Haven, but you have limitations with Amtrak and Metro North, plus clearance issues. It works for local freight, and P&W stone. So the connection is Selkirk or Cedar Hill.
9. That's not to say that a freight tunnel is not a worthwhile idea, but not as part of the Gateway project. But it would be a vast, expensive undertaking, one which the Class 1's won't fund. It might make the NY&A happy, but that's about it. But it would take trucks off the road.
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Jeff Smith wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:07 pm 9. That's not to say that a freight tunnel is not a worthwhile idea, but not as part of the Gateway project. But it would be a vast, expensive undertaking, one which the Class 1's won't fund. It might make the NY&A happy, but that's about it. But it would take trucks off the road.
Yeah, that's my thinking as well. At least get some offloading of those trash trains off the Metro North Hudson line.
by photobug56
As you noted, the PA's only reason for being created was to build a rail tunnel. It's not about Manhattan except that it avoids freight trucking through Manhattan to get to the 4 counties of Long Island. And that is still badly needed. Now I don't know what it would take, but like Congressman Jerry Nadler I still think it must be built, though I don't trust the PA to get it right.
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photobug56 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:25 pm As you noted, the PA's only reason for being created was to build a rail tunnel. It's not about Manhattan except that it avoids freight trucking through Manhattan to get to the 4 counties of Long Island. And that is still badly needed. Now I don't know what it would take, but like Congressman Jerry Nadler I still think it must be built, though I don't trust the PA to get it right.
I don't think much freight is trucked through Manhattan unless you count the ~3/4 mile stretch of I-95 between the GW and the Alexander Hamilton. I think most the draying from the terminals/docks on the Jersey side either takes the GW then Cross Bronx to the Whitestone/Throgs Neck or the Staten Island Expressway to the Verrazano Bridge and the BQE/LIE. At least that's certainly my impression as a periodic motorist on those roads. I don't see many 40' boxes on trailers grinding across Midtown on 42nd St.
If the goal of this tunnel is to improve rail freight traffic into the 5 boroughs and LI, the easiest solution probably isn't a freight tunnel straight across from Greenville Yard to Bay Ridge. It's a tunnel connecting the West Shore to the Hudson Division somewhere in the neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil so freights from the west can access Oak Point without going through Selkirk or Cedar Hill. Plenty of excess capacity on the Hell Gate Bridge.
This tunnel was meant to bring in freight from south and west and obviously has to connect into the Long Island rail network. Part of of it would be LIRR over night to freight depots with intermodal and maybe some less than car load and of course lumber. That doesn't mean we couldn't do more over Hellgate - the idea is to get the trans Hudson and East River freight off jammed highways and streets. I think we do need the original PA tunnel in some form, but also Hellgate. Time to retire the Cross Harbor barges and replace by rail.
Now if there was a viable way to add commuter / passenger rail to the south and west, great. Not expecting it.
by ElectricTraction
Gateway cannot handle freight. The clearances in and through Penn are way too tight. The smallest clearance for freight on 99.9% of the US freight rail system today is Plate C 15'6", Penn is 14'6" with rounded corners. The freight tunnel linking Brooklyn and New Jersey is a totally separate project which should be done, but has nothing to do with Gateway.
ElectricTraction
Hence the need for PA to build the freight tunnel they were created to build.
by andegold
Wouldn't a tunnel also facilitate the development of ports on the island anywhere from Brooklyn in the east all the way out to Montauk? Unload the ships on the island right onto the train and express to the mainland. Quicker (marginally) time to port for the ships but also no worries about bridge clearances or harbor traffic. Of course shoreline real estate is way too expensive for this now but it could have worked 50 or 75 years ago.
andegold
andegold wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:48 am Wouldn't a tunnel also facilitate the development of ports on the island anywhere from Brooklyn in the east all the way out to Montauk? Unload the ships on the island right onto the train and express to the mainland. Quicker (marginally) time to port for the ships but also no worries about bridge clearances or harbor traffic. Of course shoreline real estate is way too expensive for this now but it could have worked 50 or 75 years ago.
Brooklyn still does, in fact, have an active container terminal. https://goo.gl/maps/2W5VrsgLtyuAMkoQA
But once you're past NY Harbor there are no suitable deep-water anchorages on the rest of LI. Even a WW2-era Liberty ship drew 28', too much for anything other than Fort Pond Bay out in Montauk and the dredged channel at Port Jefferson. A modern Panamax container ship draws 39' and a Suezmax (like the M/V Ever Given) draws 66'. The closest harbor east of NY that could accommodate even a Panamax ship is Providence.
The original reason for the LIRR building to Montauk was to develop a port a half-day's steaming time closer to Europe. Even in the 1890's it turned out to be unworkable.
The reasons today are different. The problem to be solved is to get all but local delivery trucks off the road.
by Tom V
Speaking of increasing freight rail service into the city, the most obvious is to add back the fourth track to the Hells Gate Bridge. It used to have two passenger and two freight tracks, now it's three ( 2 passenger 1 freight). That and improvements in Queens and Brooklyn to the existing freight lines can really do wonders for increasing freight rail into the city.
Tom V
It was built for four tracks using 1900's clearances for safety between passing trains when cars were 40' long and a lot lighter.
The trend for the past 40+ years has been to increase space between track centers due to longer and sometimes wider cars.
Will the bridge support those wider clearances? Heavier cars? Longer cars?
Eoleson: good points. IMO 4 tracks needed but 3 passenger and one freight if clearances possible. Needed for MNRR service to NYP. Freight track should also be available for passenger service.
These questions make me think "More bridges please."


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Note: Kamran Mir Hazar prepared this report, including evidence, two years ago when he was the head of the News Department at Radio Kleed in Kabul. Unfortunately, the Attorney General's Office of Afghanistan has done nothing yet to arrest or question the accused people. They have been contacted repeatedly and been provided with documents and other evidence.
Mr. Gary K. Helseth, General Director of the 600 millionUSD-a-year United Nations Office of Project Services-Afghanistan(UNOPS) who had worked in Afghanistan for over 20 years, left the country two months after this report was first published. His U.N. e-mail addresses are not functional, and so far, we have been unable to contact him for additional information.
In 2002, the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan asked UNOPS to add 50 more beds to the 52 bed Khairkhana Hospital. UNOPS accepted the project. The Italian Government Foreign Office then committed funding up to 2,200,000 USD for this project.
After the funds were delivered to UNOPS- Afghanistan, they were released to the global Italian aid organization, Intersos— less 270,000 USD of the original amount, which apparently was taken by UNOPS. Intersos is a corporation that operates as an NGO in Afghanistan and has an office in Shahr-e-Now, Kabul. It was organized primarily by the Italian Trade Union Confederation in 1992, and has a current annual budget of approximately 30,000,000 USD.
The Intersos Corporation did not work on the project but signed a contract with another Afghan Corporation called Ahyaye Mojadad Char Dehi, led by Engineer Amin for 920,000 USD. Where did the balance of 1,010,000 USD go?
The Attorney General's Office claims that they have found some concrete evidence and documents for this project. They are looking for Engineer Amin who they suspect may have embezzled some funds, but he cannot be found. Mr. Samadi says that Engineer Amin once phoned the Attorney General's Office and threatened them not to investigate this case.
The Legal and Consulting Board of the Office of President sent us a letter in which it indicated that it is within our jurisdiction to make a claim against Intersos in an Afghan court. We then contacted the Italian Embassy and said that if they refused to assist us with this case, we would take it to the World Court in The Hague through our Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN. This was too great of an amount of money for poor Afghanistan to let just go missing, and possibly embezzled.
The question remains: Why is the Attorney General's Office, despite its legal jurisdiction and separation of judicial power from the executive, still under the influence the Office of the President. Do the foreign people involved in this project deserve political immunity from prosecution?
It is clear that the Attorney General can prosecute foreigners based on domestic laws. Only Ambassadors, Diplomats and C and D grade foreign officials of the UN have political immunity, so in this case all of the Intersos people involved in this project may be legally prosecuted.
While the Attorney General's office did not know Intersos' Kabul address, I found it in Shar-e -Now (New City) Kabul. I visited the office and found a Mr. Marco Rotelli, who did not answer my simple questions but refered me to UNOPS. I tried to contact the responsible persons at UNFPA and UNOPS in Afghanistan. Eventually, I made an appointment with the spokesperson and the Director of UNFPA.
Mr. Gary K. Helseth firmly rejected the possibility for any kind of embezzlement in this project. He said that the project was very successful and they were satisfied with its completion.
He added that they had employed an Afghan Engineer and a foreign engineer for this project and all the contracts had been already signed in New York.
Regarding the amount of 2,200,000 USD, he said that Intersos Corporation received 2,000,000 for the project, and 200,000 USD was spent on travel expenses and salaries of experts and employees. He said that the Intersos Corporation had been introduced to UNOPS by the Italian Government.
When I asked Mr. Helseth why Intersos did not do the project itself but instead signed a contract with Ahyaye Mojadad Char Dehi, he answered, "It is not true!" He added that Intersos signed a contract with a different corporation, and the money was spent by that corporation. He said they have documents that show that this project was done well.
Regarding a question of the term of the warranty for the constructed building, Mr. Helseth said that this project was guaranteed for one year . "A few years ago we could not guarantee a project for even a year. Most projects in Afghanistan are guaranteed for just three or four months." He agreed that the amount of 80,000 USD was too much for the demolition of two old rooms in the hospital and said he would check the documents.
"Mr. Helseth, please count and check this project penny by penny and kindly give me the documents to see when ready," I said and he agreed to do so.
A few days later, I received a call from Mr. Helseth. He happily said that he had some ten kilos of documents on this project showing that it was completed successfully, and added that I could come pick them up at his office. When I arrived, he was photocopying the documents, so we agreed that he would send them to my office in Radio Kaleed.
After they arrived, I looked for some experts regarding these documents.
The experts who accepted my request did want me to reveal their names. One of them still works with the USAID and has completed many projects with that organization. He said, the total cost of this project is 646,900 USD Compared to the budget of 2,200,000USD about 1,550,100 USD is unaccounted for. This expert emphasized that the budget belonged to 2002 and currently it must be more because costs are higher.
Now we should ask Mr. Gary Helseth, former Director of UNOPS in Afghanistan how he defends his organization and Intersos in this project.
When I was making this report, I went to Khairkhana Hospital and met some of the patients. Asked if this hospital met global standards, Mr. Mohibullah Nejat the Director said; " The main problem of the new constructed building is its plumbing system, which was to some extent repaired by the coalition forces about four months ago, and is a bit better now.
"The building that was built by Intersos does not have a ventilation system or a medical waste system, which are required for a medical complex. Medical complexes need special engineers, who know about these things," he added.
Unfortunately when evaluating completed projects in Afghanistan more carefully, we discover even greater numbers of possible embezzlement. It is the responsibility of the government to oversee the operations of the NGOs and corporations. The Attorney General's Office also has a legal duty and responsibility to prosecute the people who steal from society.


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Reading: The New Research Assessment Reform in China and Its Implementation
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Lin Zhang,
School of Information Management, Wuhan University, CN
Gunnar Sivertsen
Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, NO
A radical reform of research assessment was recently launched in China. It seeks to replace a focus on Web of Science-based indicators with a balanced combination of qualitative and quantitative research evaluation, and to strengthen the local relevance of research in China. It trusts the institutions to implement the policy within a few months but does not provide the necessary national platforms for coordination, influence and collaboration on developing shared tools and information resources and for agreement on definitions, criteria and protocols for the procedures. Based on international experiences, this article provides constructive ideas for the implementation of the new policy.
Policy highlights
In response to the three main messages of the new policy, we suggest these possible solutions for the implementation:
Farewell to "SCI worship": With the move away from Web of Science as a standard, an integrated research information system and a national journal evaluation system is needed.
From metrics to peer review: The function and weight of peer-review evaluation needs to be differentiated between the levels of the research system: individuals, units, institutions, and national agencies.
New priority to local relevance: The optimal balance between globalization and local relevance must be allowed to differ by type and field of research.
Keywords: Research evaluation, Research policy, Peer review, Bibliometric Indicators, Journal evaluation, Research information system, Research integrity, China
How to Cite: Zhang, L. and Sivertsen, G., 2020. The New Research Assessment Reform in China and Its Implementation. Scholarly Assessment Reports, 2(1), p.3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29024/sar.15
Accepted on 23 Apr 2020 Submitted on 01 Apr 2020
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education in China recently published two policy documents (Ministry of Education 2020; MOST 2020) that have aroused intense discussion among Chinese academics and gained worldwide interest as well (Editorial in Nature 2020; Mallapaty 2020). The new policy aims to restore "the scientific spirit, innovation quality, and service contribution" of research and to "promote the return of universities to their original academic aims" (MOST 2020). The point of departure is that, for the last decade, China's research evaluation and funding policies have had a strong focus on quantitative indicators and publications in journals covered by the Web of Science. Indeed, it was partly this focus that helped China surpass the USA as the largest contributing nation to international scientific journals (Tollefson 2018). However, the government now wishes to balance further internationalization with domestic needs and its traditional quantitative evaluation methods with qualitative peer review. The main messages are:
Farewell to "SCI worship". Indicators based on Web of Science will not be applied directly in evaluation and funding at any level. An alternative citation index with Chinese characteristics and international influence will be established.
From metrics to peer review. A new focus on novelty, scientific value, research integrity, innovation potential and societal outcomes will replace the "paper only" orientation in panel evaluations. Publications will be presented for review as a limited set of "representative work" with explicit relevance for the evaluation. Number of publications and journal impact factors will not count any more.
New priority to local relevance. Publications in high-quality Chinese journals will be encouraged, and the development of such journals will be supported.
The burning question in China now is how the new policy will be implemented and with what consequences. The universities are urged to implement the policy locally by the end of July at the latest. The government trusts them to find their own solutions in doing so, which is a good sign of respect for autonomy. However, the need for national coordination and services seems to be underestimated. We will relate some problems of implementation and their possible solutions to the three points above.
The background for the new policy
The two new policy documents did not come out of the blue. In recent years, there have been several calls to change research evaluation and funding protocols from a quantitative to a more qualitative focus in China. In 2016, President Xi Jinping called for reform towards a more comprehensive evaluation system for individual researchers (Xinhua News Agency 2016). Further, in 2018, a document issued by the joint force of three ministries and two national central institutions specifically proposed moving away from the "Four only" phenomenon of "only papers, only titles, only diplomas and only awards" (MOST 2018). Among these, the "only papers" focus has received the broadest attention, for good reasons.
The phenomenon has been called "SCI worship" in China for a long time (the original name of Web of Science was the Science Citation Index). Publications indexed in WoS and WoS-based indicators (e.g., the Journal Impact Factor and ESI highly cited papers) have become the core indicators for research evaluation, staff employment, career promotion, awards, university or disciplinary rankings, funding and resource allocation during the past years. Even individual cash incentives for WoS publications are widespread (Quan, Chen & Shu 2017).
The effects have been twofold. On the one hand, Chinese researchers have been encouraged to publish according to world standards and communicate more broadly and visibly with international communities. Chinese researchers have benefited from the advice gained from international peer-review processes and improved their research performance. On the other hand, the heavy reliance on "SCI papers" has been much debated as a form of goal displacement. Some individual researchers and institutions have pursued high numbers of publications while disregarding the quality and societal value of their research, even at the cost of research integrity, which has become a major concern for the Chinese government.
More than half of the world's scientific articles are published in "international" journals owned by publishers in the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. China is now the largest contributing country to these journals, but only around 200 of the 11,000 indexed journals in Web of Science are published in China. This imbalance has caused attention in China. As one of the leading countries in science and technology, publishing academic journals with international reputation is still an outstanding goal to achieve. A challenge for the growth of domestic journals in China has been to attract high-quality submissions, partly due to the fact that publications in Chinese journals were not valued much in research evaluations. "SCI worship" is perceived as a vicious circle for raising the standards and profile of domestic journals.
Despite the rapid development of open-access publishing all over the world, much of China's scientific output is still locked behind paywalls. "NSFC funds about 70% of Chinese research articles published in international journals, but China has to buy them back with full and high prices", said XiaoLin Zhang, chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the National Science and Technology Library at the Ministry of Science and Technology in Beijing (Schiermeier 2018). Due to paywalls and language barriers, papers published by Chinese researchers in international journals are rarely read by general Chinese audiences. This is interpreted as a lack of benefit of research to the Chinese society and is part of the explanation for the increased focus on domestic publishing in the new evaluation and funding policy.
The new direction in China has similarities with initiatives in other parts of the world, such as the DORA declaration on research assessment (DORA 2013), the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics (Hicks et al. 2015), and the EU policy for Responsible Research and Innovation (European Commission 2020). None of these initiatives have resulted in easy solutions in any country. Instead, there are international collaboration projects among funders, institutions and countries for developing common standards and information sources for holistic evaluations that go beyond publication and citation metrics. The aim is to ensure fairness and predictability as researchers are mobile between collaboration networks, funders, institutions and countries.
We believe that the new policy in China will lay the ground for more mutual understanding, learning and collaboration between countries in the domain of research evaluation and funding. Other countries will not only recognize the positive scientific and societal values that the new Chinese policy is based on, but also some problems with implementation that we will discuss here in relation to the three main messages of the policy listed in our introduction.
Farewell to "SCI worship"
By moving away from Web of Science (or Scopus) as a standard for their national research evaluation and funding system, China is empowering its own academic communities, research institutions and funding organizations in defining the principles, criteria and protocols for evaluation. Essentially, the country is moving from a commercial product-based system to a self-determined and self-organized criteria-based system (Aksnes & Sivertsen 2019). To fulfil this move, an integrated research information system and a national journal evaluation system is still needed.
The new policy is aware of the need for a journal evaluation system to replace the use of journal impact factors and to cover journals beyond Web of Science. However, the ideas about how to implement such a system need to be further developed. The policy speaks of blacklisting journals with questionable purposes and of giving extra weight to "three types of high-quality papers, including those published in domestic scientific journals with international impact, internationally recognized top-level or important scientific journals, and papers reported at top academic conferences in China and abroad" (MOST 2020). The selections are supposed to be narrow and made locally by "the academic committee of the unit" without clearer criteria than in these sentences.
Other existing initiatives in the same direction will need to be coordinated. A narrow selection of journals is already launched by the "Chinese Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan", which was released in 2019 with the aim of improving the quality of a selected number of scientific and technological journals (285 journals in total), as well as to speed up the process of establishing those Chinese journals as world-class (CAST 2019). In addition, China has citation indexing services that cover selections of domestic scientific journals. These services even include the social sciences and humanities. The services are organized differently by different institutions or companies. They are 'products' with different criteria for inclusion of journals, and there is no direct influence of the Chinese academic communities on their criteria. Now, the new policy wants to establish an alternative Citation Index with "Chinese characteristics and international influence", to replace the SCI where Chinese journals are underrepresented. How can all these initiatives be coordinated?
To set a new legitimate standard with transparent procedures, there is a need to create a comprehensive list of acknowledged journals representing a continuum of all research fields and including both domestic and international journals while taking care of marginal fields and interdisciplinarity. The list must be dynamic to reflect a changing journal market, and it needs to be organized to represent a balanced influence of expert advice by all disciplines in China through inter-institutional representative bodies. The same organization of expert advice is needed if extra weight is to be given to specific selections of journals on the comprehensive list. Examples of such dynamic lists already exist in several non-English speaking countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin-America, e.g. the Latindex and the Nordic list.
The new policy demands a broader perspective in research assessment on novelty, scientific value, research integrity, innovation potential and societal outcomes. How will panels be informed about and be able to compare such achievements? There is need for more comprehensive sources of information to supplement Web of Science. These sources could be integrated in a national Current Research Information System (CRIS). We will shortly describe the idea, based on Sivertsen (2019), and the potentials and challenges for its implementation in China.
Current research information systems (CRIS) are databases or other information systems used within and among research organizations to store, manage, and exchange data for documentation, communication, and administration of research activities. CRIS usually contain information about researchers and research groups, their projects, funding, outputs, and outcomes. In the most advanced versions, CRIS help produce integrated data for what used to be documents for separate purposes, such as individual applications for funding, institutional annual reports, project reports, CVs, publications lists, profiles of research groups, project reports, information for media and the general public, etc. Searchable bibliographic references may lead to full texts in local repositories.
With an integrated CRIS providing data that are structured and quality assured for statistical purposes, research performing and funding organizations may also use CRIS for monitoring and evaluating research activities and outputs, allocating funding, supporting decision making on their policies and strategies, tracking researchers' careers, and describing their systemic role to policy-makers, stakeholders, and the public.
A CRIS has information about identifiable persons (not only authors). This would solve the author-name disambiguation problem in China. It has updated institutional affiliations, titles, and positions (not only published addresses), which may support and reflect mobility in a more efficient way. It can have more complete information than is available in funding acknowledgements in publications, such as CVs, projects, networks, and memberships. A CRIS may also cover publications more comprehensively than existing bibliographic data sources do. A Chinese CRIS could integrate the international and domestic indexing services mentioned above and go beyond them within a limit set by definitions and criteria (Aksnes & Sivertsen 2019).
CRIS are now widespread in the world, but most of them operate at the institutional level only and are closed systems. The existing commercial solutions, e.g. Converis from Clarivate and Pure from Elsevier, are designed for such local use only. It seems to be a challenge, mainly in the larger countries, to agree on an integrated and open national solution. However, a few countries, e.g. Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, New Zealand, and Norway, have managed to integrate a CRIS nationally with the help of non-commercial solutions.
In China, most Chinese universities and other research organizations already have their own local systems. An example is Shanghai Tech University with one of the most advanced technical CRIS solutions worldwide, but only for local use (kms.shanghaitech.edu.cn). At the national level, the Ministry of Education (MoE), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have built databases for research and education information (with different focuses, strengths and coverages), but they are mainly used as internal sources.
An integrated research information system in China would relieve individual researchers and institutions from providing all the information themselves every time they are evaluated. The national research information system should comprise both international and domestic scientific publications, and other types of research outputs and information such as books for teaching and general audiences, inventions, education, government advice and interaction with culture, society and industry.
From metrics to peer review
The new policy targets evaluation and funding at all levels in the Chinese research and innovation system. It seems to us that the ideas in the new policy for evaluation at more aggregated levels (institutions, thematic programs, research sectors) are modeled on the relevant methods for individual-level research assessment. The background might be that up to now, a predictable "evaluation currency" of indicators based on Web of Science has been used at all levels in the Chinese research system. With the present move from metrics to peer review, a multi-level application model for roles and procedures in research evaluation is needed (Moed 2020). According to this model, the institutions themselves in their internal assessment and funding processes combine indicators and expert knowledge to evaluate individuals and groups. Externally, national meta-institutional agencies use aggregate indicators at the level of institutions and thereby assess the evaluation and funding processes inside institutions. Following this model, it would be inappropriate and in conflict with institutional autonomy for a meta-institutional agency to be concerned directly with the assessment of individuals or groups at the institutional level.
As an example, the new policy requires a small maximum number of representative publications to be read and evaluated at all levels. We are not sure that individual publications need to be read in evaluations at all levels and for all purposes in the world's largest research system. In Europe, there are some countries with national evaluation systems where scientific publications are read and evaluated for the third or fourth time by expert committees (before publication, before recruitment or promotion, before external funding, and then again in the national evaluation) even if it has been proved that metrics would give approximately the same evaluation outcome at the aggregated level (Harzing 2019; Traag & Waltman 2019).
We think the new policy needs to differentiate more clearly between appropriate methods at different levels of aggregation. Depending on the purpose, metrics can be quite useful at aggregate levels (Sivertsen 2017), and the data and indicators do not need to be limited to WoS. Alternative or supplementary data sources already exist that have a more comprehensive coverage of all fields and of both domestic and international publishing (Engels & Guns 2018; Pölönen 2018; Sivertsen 2018a), and indicators exist that can provide a more balanced representation of the publishing patterns in all fields (Sivertsen, Rousseau & Zhang 2019). Such indicators are usually only applicable at aggregate levels (Aagaard 2015).
Different criteria and procedures will also need to be applied according to the type and field of research, and the purpose of the evaluation, e.g., recruitment or promotion versus external project funding versus program evaluation. Evaluation protocols, as well as rules for appointing expert peers, will need to be drawn for these different contexts.
The policy seems to imply that the universities themselves should be responsible for developing evaluation protocols with specification criteria and procedures. We support this trust in institutional autonomy but still think inter-institutional disciplinary collaboration will be important in developing the protocols and putting them into practice. External peer review may be needed. In small countries, 'external' usually means inviting experts from other countries. In larger countries, e.g. in the Research Excellence Framework of the United Kingdom, the invited experts must at least come from different institutions. In our view, a combination is preferable. National experts are needed to provide insight into local research conditions and specializations while experts from abroad are needed for external perspectives and independent views. A completely internal institutional peer review system may suffer from cronyism and bias due to conflicts of interest. This may be a concern among young researchers in China, particularly, who are now accustomed to the verdicts of international peers when they publish.
Furthermore, moving towards peer review allows for formative evaluations. A formative evaluation learns from the past (strengths and weaknesses), looks forward (opportunities, threats) and serves strategic development. A summative evaluation looks at past performance, checks whether goals or expectations have been reached, and serves accountancy, decisions and/or resource allocation (Scriven 1967; Lepori & Reale 2012; Sivertsen 2017). Summative evaluation has dominated in China. The idea of formative evaluation is not present in the new policy. National coordination could allow for organizational learning at the aggregate level of institutions and for inter-institutional disciplinary collaboration. Institutions may have different strengths and can improve from collaboration even more than from competition.
In addition, some of the criteria that the new policy wants to stress instead of 'only papers' are difficult to record and measure, e.g., innovation and collaboration with industry, improving health outcomes, professional education and other forms of societal impact. Depending on the profile and purpose of a university, such potential outcomes of research are often explicitly stated in the aims of the institution. A formative evaluation could be focused on how the institution organizes and performs according to such aims (Sivertsen & Meijer 2019). Moreover, an evaluation of what every researcher does to reach the same aims might not be needed. Individual researchers might have different roles, talents and opportunities to accomplish important societal aims of research. An organizational level evaluation would allow for such differences and still give advice for improvement at the university level.
Local relevance
For some years now, there has been a concern that research funded and performed in China and expected to be useful for Chinese society is published in English in very distant journals. Recently, there was a debate about the fact that one of the first scientific articles carrying an early warning of the Coronavirus was published by Chinese scientists in a Western international journal before the general public in China was informed about the epidemic (CDC 2020). The debate turned into a more general discussion of whether new scientific results from China should be firstly published in international or domestic journals. This was one of the main controversies in Chinese social media in the early stage of the Coronavirus outbreak. Those against international publishing argued that it would delay the immediate use of the new knowledge needed to control the epidemic in China (Zhang et al. 2020). This reaction in the general public is understandable, but experts in the field will know that international and local publishing cannot replace each other. Both are needed, and it is a question of balance. Time has also shown that global exchange of information and advice is crucial to stop the Corona epidemic itself as it reaches other countries and continents.
The new policy encourages researchers to publish more in domestic journals. It even specifies that "in principle, when researchers provide representative publication lists, papers from domestic journals should account for at least one third of all the publications". In our view, this criterion might work as a general policy aim but needs to be applied with differentiation according to field and type of research and the purpose of communication. As examples, most studies in law will be published in national law journals in a country's native language because the research is most often about national law and aims to serve the country's legal system. On the other hand, most studies in astrophysics are published in English in all countries to ensure global research communication on topics that all countries share. But these publications in English are not preventing astrophysicists all over the world from communicating their knowledge to a general public in their native language. Publications in English are not in themselves making Chinese research less useful to the Chinese society.
There is also need to specify what 'domestic journals' means in China. There are numerous professional or general journals where researchers publish in Chinese for broader audiences. In addition, all disciplines have several scientific journals where researchers publish in Chinese for domestic research communication. This is a strong tradition in China with a clear hierarchy of prestige among journals in each field. While there is need for more journals to compete for good manuscripts at the top, the less important journals are abundant and in need of improvement of the general quality of their procedures and contents. Finally, an increasing number of scientific journals are edited at, and published by, Chinese research organizations to serve international research communication among authors from all countries. Some of them operate with so-called 'diamond' Open Access, i.e. without article processing charges, and might have international success for this reason. This third group seems to be a meaningful target as the new policy speaks of "three types of high-quality papers, including those published in domestic scientific journals with international impact" (MOST 2020).
The balance between globalization and local relevance needs to be empirical and dynamic, that is reflecting a statistically informed policy for reasonable change (Sivertsen 2018b). Although China is now the largest contributing country to publications indexed in Scopus (Tollefson 2018), most scientific publications are still published in Chinese in China, with variations among fields. Some fields are internationally visible and impactful, others are not. The annual volume of domestic articles indexed by the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) is still around ten times higher than the annual volume of articles from China indexed by the Social Science Citation Index for the Web of Science (Zhang et al., 2020). Young researchers are generally more active in publishing internationally than older researchers. Hence, the new policy resonates differently in the academic community. Some researchers are happy to leave behind the policy of globalization. Others are concerned that support for collaborating and publishing abroad will be taken away from them. China needs to find a differentiated and dynamic balance between local relevance and globalization of research.
To conclude, the new evaluation and funding policy in China makes an important effort to replace a focus on WoS-based indicators with a balanced combination of qualitative and quantitative research evaluation, and to strengthen the local relevance of research in China. It trusts the institutions to implement the policy quickly but does not provide the necessary national platforms for coordination, influence and collaboration on developing shared information resources and tools and agreed definitions and protocols. In response to the three main messages of the new policy, this is our summary of possible solutions to the implementation problems:
With the move away from Web of Science as a standard, a national research information system and a journal evaluation system will be needed. The journal evaluation system may support the legitimacy and transparency of the general evaluation and funding system and help to promote an empirical and dynamic balance between globalization and local relevance. It will also encourage domestic Chinese journals to perform better. A national research information system would provide research assessment with relevant information according to its new broader scope, not only a more comprehensive coverage of publications, but also information about innovation and collaboration with industry, improving health outcomes, professional education and other forms of societal impact.
The function and weight of peer-review evaluation needs to be differentiated between different levels in the research system. At aggregate levels, responsible use of metrics can be relevant. The metrics need not be based on the Web of Science. Alternative indicators already exist that have a more balanced representation of all fields, and of both domestic and international publishing. Instead of reading papers, expert advice can be used in formative organizational-level evaluations focusing on what is done to support individual researchers in achieving the aims of the organization.
The balance between globalization and local relevance needs to be empirical and dynamic, that is reflecting a statistically informed policy for reasonable change, considering that the optimal balance will differ by type and field of research. Researchers should be confident in finding a relevant publishing practice where balanced international and domestic publishing contribute together to research quality and local relevance.
Researchers and their organizations should not only be subjected to research evaluation. They should also be involved in deciding the criteria and designing the evaluation protocols. Collaboration between research performing and research funding organizations, and with representative disciplinary bodies at the national level, is needed to develop shared criteria and protocols for use in different contexts at the local level.
With these implementations of the new policy, we believe that researchers in all fields and their different organizations will more easily identify with the new criteria and procedures for research evaluation and funding. This might take away some of the burden of the current evaluation system. The burden can also be reduced by general changes in governance. The performance-based portion of funding allocation can be reduced as a move from continuous control to trust-based governance of projects and organizations. By trusting researchers and their organizations to spend their resources efficiently and responsibly, more funding can be spent with long-term predictability for projects and organizations. This could also contribute to the main aims of the new policy, which is to re-establish the original scientific and societal values to guide research in China.
The authors have no competing interests to declare.
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The boy, identified by police as Miguel Torres of Jackson Heights, was crossing at the intersection of 80th Street and Northern Boulevard at around 9 a.m. when he was struck by the truck, police said.
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Q: Row Count for GridView with paging So I have user controls with GridView tables. I have more tables that are much bigger than this one and have paging enabled, but I'm using this as an example. I want each table to display like this one, where a table with a hundred rows will say "Showing: 1 - 10 of 100" on the first page, "Showing: 11 - 20 of 100" on the second, etc.

This is how it is coded now (in my html file):

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Showing: 1-6 of 6

Here's the ascx code:
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I don't know how to get the row count in the first place. Is it possible to have it display in the div I have here?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.

A: To get the total amount of rows across all pages of the grid, then use the GridView.Rows, because it represents a collection of all the data rows in your grid. You can use the Count property of that collection, like this:
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int totalRowsCount = GridView1.Rows.Count;

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Dim totalRowsCount As Integer = GridView1.Rows.Count

Now, your problem is that, from what I can see of your posted code, your user control does not expose this information via properties or events that the page can use. I recommend putting this Showing 1-6 of 6 message into the user control itself, so it has component level access to the grid and can easily get the information it needs to display. Either a footer row in the grid or a label that sits right below the actual grid itself.

A: You said that your Gridview has a paging. By using Dim cnt As Integer = Gridview1.Rows.Count, it only returns the number of rows in Gridview and not the total number of rows the datasource has filtered.
Since you are using SqlDataSource, try this code:
Protected Sub SqlDataSource1_Selected(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSourceStatusEvent Args) Handles
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By now, you will have (probably) done at least one lateral flow test. They're needed in order to travel, plus to get into some venues and important events.
And thankfully, the rapid tests are free for most purposes except travel, where you'll need to pay for private testing. Some work places will even provide lateral flow tests for free and expect you to take them regularly.
Lateral flow tests – also known as rapid antigen tests – are quick and easy to use. And with Christmas fast approaching, many of us will be using tests more frequently this month ahead of seeing vulnerable friends and family. So, here's a reminder of how to access and use the tests.
Where can you get a lateral flow test?
If tests are available via your work, school, college or university this should be your first port of call.
For those who don't have access via these routes, lateral flow tests are available via the NHS website and can be sent to your home. If you cannot use the online service, call 119 (free from mobiles and landlines). Lines are open every day, 7am to 11pm and can provide instruction in over 200 languages.
Pharmacies including Boots and Lloyds are also giving out tests for free, and some community centres and testing sites also stock lateral flow tests.
Each test pack contains seven tests, one for each day of the week, though you may able to collect two packs. More than one person can use the tests available in the pack.
When should you take a lateral flow test?
If you have Covid symptoms, you should do a PCR test, either at a local testing site or by ordering one to be sent to your home. But if you don't have any symptoms, a lateral flow test is for you.
Lateral flow tests help to identify those who could be spreading the disease without knowing they have it.
The NHS website advises you to do rapid tests on days when you're more likely to catch or spread Covid. For example, do a test before you:
Mix with people in crowded indoor places
Visit someone who is at higher risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19.
Many workplaces pushing ahead with Christmas parties are also asking staff to test before mixing.
If you're required to take a lateral flow for whatever reason, it should be taken no longer than 24 hours before the event. Any longer than that can mean you've picked up the virus in that time.
You can register the results of the test via the barcode on the test strip, which will send you the results through email and text. This is normally what you would show at the venue (as opposed to taking the strip with you to show a negative result).
How quickly will an infection show on a lateral flow?
If you're at a busy event and want to test whether you've picked up a viral load the next day, it may be too soon for a lateral flow to pick up whether you're positive.
This is because rapid antigen tests are less sensitive than PCR tests and require a higher viral load to record a positive result. Because of this, it's possible to get a false negative from a lateral flow test – the tests often only identify people during their most infectious period (people are infectious two to three days before symptoms start to show and are most contagious in the first 10 days of catching the virus).
However, that doesn't mean lateral flow tests are pointless. As the government website states: "They can find positive cases with high levels of virus that are easy to transmit to others, helping to intercept and reduce further infections."
The best way to use lateral flow tests effectively is to ensure you're testing often – especially if you're socialising frequently this month.
And remember, if you've got Covid symptoms or you've been exposed to someone who has tested positive, you should order a PCR test through the NHS website.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost UK and has been updated.
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Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 – Another Fabulous Ride Day at Skymont!
After a busy couple of days, we set aside today to map out yet another section of the Skymont Trails, and learned from Ranger Dave's wife Ellen that Ike and Rebecca, the organizers of the SERA endurance race for which I had volunteered a few weeks ago were actually camping in the back, so I was looking forward to introducing Hubby to them when we passed by. After getting saddled up and riding through their camp, it became obvious they were all out on a trail ride, naturally, as it was a beautiful day. We headed out over the dam, this time heading north to mostly follow part of the orange trail. I had mapped out about 6.75 miles of riding, but got a little turned around, as most of the flags near where the buildings and other scout facilities were had been removed, and since they had the most roads and options because it was the most used and populated area, it made it a bit more confusing. Following my GPS, though, we managed to get on track after awhile. Once again it was a gorgeous ride. The leaves are starting to change color, adding to an already gorgeous experience. After about 4 miles, however, after cantering up a hill, we looked back and realized that our little dog Billy was missing! I asked Hubby when was the last time he had seen him, and he couldn't really remember, because he had been running lines of a one-man show he's getting ready to perform next month. So we turned around and headed back to see if we could find him, and after about half a mile and lots of yelling, Billy finally came bounding up the trail towards us. We figured he must have gotten distracted or tired somewhere, and because he's getting a little deaf in his old age, he couldn't hear us well enough to track us down again. Once he caught back up with us, though, we headed back on up the trail, as it was longer to go back than to continue forward, even with the extra mile of backtracking. My horse Apollo wasn't exactly thrilled at going back and forth (he tends to get bored easily, and retracing his steps is boring for him, he always wants a new trail!), so he got a little ornery for a few minutes, but settled down again once we got going. We were afraid Billy would have trouble keeping up (he is over 12 years old, and has tiny little dachshund size legs, after all!), so we slowed down and waited for him more often, which made what should have been a 2.5 hour ride into more of a 4 hour ride. But, of course, any time on the back of my horse is a good time! We finally reached camp, and by then, the other campers were back, and we stopped and chatted with them for a while, comparing notes. We knew from the fresh manure on the trail that they had been on many of the same trails as us, so we talked mostly about the orange trail What a great ride, though! Perfect weather, a gorgeous day! Got back and got everyone put away, gave Billy a baby aspirin because I knew he was going to need it, and settled down for the evening. Wonderful!
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 – RIDE DAY AT LAST!!
Finally got a ride in today! Can't believe our last ride was way back in June! The weather has finally become perfect for riding, low 70's, clear skies, gorgeous! After having met the new Ranger at local Skymont Boy Scout Reservation during the SERA Endurance Race ten days ago, we got permission to come and ride, and we volunteered to help GPS the trails to help build an accurate trail map, though the one SERA was really good. Anyway, we packed up the horses into the trailer and drove the quick 5 miles down to the camp, checking in with the Ranger and heading back to where the riders had camped during the race. We got the horses saddled up in no time. Frankly, I was a bit nervous about how the horses would behave after such along layoff, but they were perfect! Everything about the ride was perfect! We've had no rain here for a few weeks, so the trails were perfect. Mostly flat through woods, but with several hillocks that provided some challenge. Hubby got a lot of canters in to keep up with Apollo's fast walk, and we got both got some nice trots in as well. Fabulous, fabulous day, can't wait to come back! Hopefully, later in the week, we'll get another chance, while the weather continues to be perfect!
Had another busy day in the morning, though it slowed down more in the afternoon since we didn't have any more new riders come in. Last riders came in at early dusk, before heading over to the dining hall for a repeat of the awards ceremony. It was a great weekend, made lots of friends, laughed more than I had in a long time, and enjoyed myself thoroughly. Made friends with the new ranger of the Boy Scout Camp and his wife, Dave and Ellen, and offered to help him GPS the trails so we can make an even better map than the ride had provided, which was pretty detailed. He was open to Hubby and I coming over to ride any time we wanted, which I plan on doing in the very near future, as the weather is just cooling off nicely. Can't wait to get back in the saddle!


Remember that discussion we had the other day about leaping? Well I took a little leap last week and I'd like to tell you about it.
Ever since I began creating my journal pages, I have wanted to include hand lettering along with my other hand drawn elements, but I have not been confident in my lettering skills. That is something that I think is about to change and it's all thanks to an artist named Alex Savakis.
Not only does Savakis post his own stunning hand lettered pieces, but he links to other lettering artists, gives his readers a peek into the work and processes of those artists, and encourages readers to submit their own designs.
I left a comment on a particularly fitting quote by Van Gogh that he'd lettered -- "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." -- and he invited me to submit a design. Just like that. And I thought, yeah, I'd really like to do that. Except that I have zero hand lettering experience and probably an equal amount of skill in that regard.
I spent all of my spare time over the next two days -- two days -- drawing on my pen tablet; starting with cursive handwriting, discarding it, and ultimately deciding on a super simple (and much neater) variation of my own printing. Then, not entirely sure that it was a good idea, I sent it off to Savakis with an email describing my beginner status and welcoming any and all words of advice.
You know when you hit that send button and then you think what, on earth, did I just do? Well, he posted it. But better than that, he sent me the most gracious email in reply with advice and some concrete starter tips and words of encouragement that made me feel like this was a good leap after all.
To see more of Savakis's work, check out his website agsavakis.com.
HAPPY Monday! I'm SO glad you went out on that limb, lettered, and submitted. Hooray for you!!! Still love the Colette quote you chose. However, this time was hardly a foolish endeavor but definitely full of enthusiasm!
It's beautiful! Great job! I'd love to have really "cool" handwriting/printing. Maybe I should look into this!
It's awesome, Christie, great job!
Yay for you...congratulations! It looks terrific - you CAN do it!
Ooo, Christie, that's really GOOD! You did so awesome! Truly! And, I have to tell, I just fell in love with that quote you mentioned: "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." This kind of describes a lot of what I like to do -- dabbling in many crafty things -- because I want to try my hand at it. I like to say I'm a Jill-of-All-Trades, Mistress of None. And ... Van Gogh is my favorite painter. I can't believe I've never heard that quote before. Yay, thank you!
AWESOME! I love your lettering sample and it doesn't look the slightest bit beginner-ish to me!
I, too, wish I had nice lettering and i often feel frustrated at my lack.
I'm so glad that your 'leap' had such positive results and that you shared about it here with us. This was a very inspiring and uplifting post to read!
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I plan to practice, practice, practice and hopefully add some hand lettered elements soon. Hmmm, maybe on the next giveaway page. It's been a while.


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I chose to make small cups using a mini muffin pan rather than large ones, but you can do whichever you prefer. Bruce loves peanut butter cups, so I was sure that it didn't matter which size they were since he would have complete access to them once they were done.
They look so fun! And are quick, even taking the intervals in the freezer into account! If you want a fun treat that will impress, look no further.
Line two mini-muffin tins with paper liners.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave until smooth. Pour the chocolate into a piping bag (or ziplock bag with a corner snipped off) and pipe a small amount of chocolate into the bottom of the prepared tins. Tap the pans on the counter to smooth out the chocolate. Place in the freezer for about 10 minutes or until the chocolate is hardened.
Meanwhile, mix your peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar with a hand mixer until smooth. Pour the peanut butter mixture into another piping bag (or ziplock bag with a corner snipped off) and pipe a small amount of peanut butter on top of the frozen chocolate. Tap the pans on the counter to smooth out the peanut butter. Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
Once chilled, remove from freezer and pipe the remaining chocolate onto the peanut butter, tapping the pans as you go to smooth out the tops of the peanut butter cups. Chill in the freezer until hardened.
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I tell my students that "in case its Raining or Gale Force Winds at class time, we will meet at the SB Museum of Art. This day was very close to those scenarios in that it was sprinkling and gusting winds at class time. However, I chose to go ahead with the plein air class and demonstration.
The class was held at Lake Los Carneros in Goleta. I found a spot to paint slightly out of the wind, and painted a little 8x10 painting for the demonstration. I used the drawing and extracting technique where I had a couple of neutrals on my palette which I drew from to mix my colors to a certain harmony. All colors on the painting were influenced by those neutrals. The painting had a harmonious feeling as a result.
Twice during the demo it started to rain, and the wind buffeted more than a few times. I am glad we came out to paint because in my opinion, it develops character: when forcing yourself to paint in adverse conditions, it makes one feel alive!


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