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import { Component, ElementRef, EventEmitter, HostListener, Input, Output, Renderer, ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';
import { isPresent, isTrueProperty } from '../../util/util';
/**
 * \@name SegmentButton
 * \@description
 * The child buttons of the `ion-segment` component. Each `ion-segment-button` must have a value.
 *
 * \@usage
 *
 * ```html
 * <ion-content>
 *   <!-- Segment buttons with icons -->
 *   <ion-segment [(ngModel)]="icons" color="secondary">
 *     <ion-segment-button value="camera">
 *       <ion-icon name="camera"></ion-icon>
 *     </ion-segment-button>
 *     <ion-segment-button value="bookmark">
 *       <ion-icon name="bookmark"></ion-icon>
 *     </ion-segment-button>
 *   </ion-segment>
 *
 *   <!-- Segment buttons with text -->
 *   <ion-segment [(ngModel)]="relationship" color="primary">
 *     <ion-segment-button value="friends" (ionSelect)="selectedFriends()">
 *       Friends
 *     </ion-segment-button>
 *     <ion-segment-button value="enemies" (ionSelect)="selectedEnemies()">
 *       Enemies
 *     </ion-segment-button>
 *   </ion-segment>
 * </ion-content>
 * ```
 *
 *
 * \@demo /docs/demos/src/segment/
 * @see {\@link /docs/components#segment Segment Component Docs}
 * @see {\@link /docs/api/components/segment/Segment/ Segment API Docs}
 */
var SegmentButton = (function () {
    /**
     * @param {?} _renderer
     * @param {?} _elementRef
     */
    function SegmentButton(_renderer, _elementRef) {
        this._renderer = _renderer;
        this._elementRef = _elementRef;
        this._disabled = false;
        /**
         * \@output {SegmentButton} Emitted when a segment button has been clicked.
         */
        this.ionSelect = new EventEmitter();
    }
    Object.defineProperty(SegmentButton.prototype, "disabled", {
        /**
         * \@input {boolean} If true, the user cannot interact with this element.
         * @return {?}
         */
        get: function () {
            return this._disabled;
        },
        /**
         * @param {?} val
         * @return {?}
         */
        set: function (val) {
            this._disabled = isTrueProperty(val);
            this._setElementClass('segment-button-disabled', this._disabled);
        },
        enumerable: true,
        configurable: true
    });
    /**
     * @hidden
     * @param {?} cssClass
     * @param {?} shouldAdd
     * @return {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.prototype._setElementClass = function (cssClass, shouldAdd) {
        this._renderer.setElementClass(this._elementRef.nativeElement, cssClass, shouldAdd);
    };
    /**
     * @hidden
     * On click of a SegmentButton
     * @return {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.prototype.onClick = function () {
        (void 0) /* console.debug */;
        this.ionSelect.emit(this);
    };
    /**
     * @hidden
     * @return {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.prototype.ngOnInit = function () {
        if (!isPresent(this.value)) {
            console.warn('<ion-segment-button> requires a "value" attribute');
        }
    };
    Object.defineProperty(SegmentButton.prototype, "isActive", {
        /**
         * @hidden
         * @param {?} isActive
         * @return {?}
         */
        set: function (isActive) {
            this._renderer.setElementClass(this._elementRef.nativeElement, 'segment-activated', isActive);
            this._renderer.setElementAttribute(this._elementRef.nativeElement, 'aria-pressed', isActive);
        },
        enumerable: true,
        configurable: true
    });
    return SegmentButton;
}());
export { SegmentButton };
SegmentButton.decorators = [
    { type: Component, args: [{
                selector: 'ion-segment-button',
                template: '<ng-content></ng-content>' +
                    '

',
                host: {
                    'tappable': '',
                    'class': 'segment-button',
                    'role': 'button'
                },
                encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
            },] },
];
/**
 * @nocollapse
 */
SegmentButton.ctorParameters = function () { return [
    { type: Renderer, },
    { type: ElementRef, },
]; };
SegmentButton.propDecorators = {
    'value': [{ type: Input },],
    'ionSelect': [{ type: Output },],
    'disabled': [{ type: Input },],
    'onClick': [{ type: HostListener, args: ['click',] },],
};
function SegmentButton_tsickle_Closure_declarations() {
    /** @type {?} */
    SegmentButton.decorators;
    /**
     * @nocollapse
     * @type {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.ctorParameters;
    /** @type {?} */
    SegmentButton.propDecorators;
    /** @type {?} */
    SegmentButton.prototype._disabled;
    /**
     * \@input {string} the value of the segment button. Required.
     * @type {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.prototype.value;
    /**
     * \@output {SegmentButton} Emitted when a segment button has been clicked.
     * @type {?}
     */
    SegmentButton.prototype.ionSelect;
    /** @type {?} */
    SegmentButton.prototype._renderer;
    /** @type {?} */
    SegmentButton.prototype._elementRef;
}
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged Nigerians, especially residents to enter the New Year with a rekindled and renewed hope in themselves and the nation that things will get better in 2021.
Also, despite ravaging COVID-19 challenges, Senator Tokunbo Abiru, representing Lagos East Senatorial District has expressed optimism that Year 2021 will be the beginning of economic recovery and transformation in Nigeria.
Sanwo-Olu in his New Year's message while speaking to journalists at the State House, Marina on Thursday, advised people not to enter 2021 with any grievance, pain or regrets, saying that all negative things should be left with 2020.
He said: "I wish every Lagosian a happy New Year. We pray that 2021 will be a year of rekindled hope for all of us in our homes, offices, schools, health facilities and every facet of life that we find ourselves.
"We want to say to all our people that indeed as difficult as 2020 might have appeared to each one of us, we should not be lost in the learning and lessons of 2020. We should not enter 2021 with any grievance, pain and regrets because that should just be left with 2020.
"In 2021, we must have that belief and rekindled hope that things would get better. We should not forget the learning and the lessons because it is only when you have learnt from what has happened that you can become a better person going forward. And there should not be any form of bitterness and anger."
Sanwo-Olu who wished all residents a prosperous 2021, said, "Let us enter the New Year afresh, refreshed and with a renewed hope in ourselves and in our nation because indeed, this is the only place we have and we all can build it together. And this government is committed to ensure that it is always the greatest good for the greatest number and we will ensure that in all facets we would impact the lives of our citizens positively.
Also, biru, in his new year's message, titled: "Welcome to Year 2021, noted that despite all its low moments, residents and Nigerians in general still have every cause to appreciate God for all the events of Year 2020.
The message read in part: "Year 2020 has finally folded into the armpits of history. It was possibly the most challenging year in our recent history as a federation given the outbreak of COVID-19 that plunged our economy into a recession and the eruption of EndSARS protests that called for a more accountable, transparent and citizen-focused policing structure.
"For us in Lagos East, Year 2020 will remain unforgettable for two major reasons. First, we lost notably Senator Adebayo Osinowo, Chief Lanre Rasaq and Tunde Braimoh at the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.
"May God Almighty continue to comfort and uphold their families. Secondly, we held our bye-elections in which we recorded a 87.19 per cent landslide in the senatorial contest and 82.61 per cent in the state legislative race with your support.
"Despite all its low moments, Dear Compatriots, we have cause to appreciate God for all the events of Year 2020.
"We are alive, hale and healthy to witness the New Year amid hope and optimism. For this reason alone, I rejoice with you all, believing that Year 2021 will, by the grace of God be the beginning of our economic recovery and transformation.
"As we step into the New Year amid great expectations, let me first assure that I shall, by God's grace keep and fulfill the promises made during our electioneering campaigns.
"As the Federal Government pursues the implementation of its economic recovery plan and the Government of Lagos State rolls out different initiatives to improve the quality of life in the state, I will
Join hands with my colleagues to provide necessary legislative support required towards repositioning our economy in the New Year."
Abiru added that plans have been concluded in the first quarter of this year to formally inaugurate an Endowment Fund, a personal empowerment initiative set up for the indigent brilliant students, the aged, the youths and the vulnerable, including persons with special needs.
The fund, he said would complement the efforts of the federal and state governments in the areas of skill acquisition and capacity development.
"Welcome to Year 2021. It shall bring us expected and happy ends by the grace of Almighty Allah."
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Fortified wines, Ports, Sherries and Port style wines.
Churchill's 1994 Vintage Port. A gorgeous, voluptuous young Port, best Churchill ever. Intense aromas of dark chocolate and grapes. Full-bodied, with powerful, chewy tannins.
Cockburn's Special Reserve Port Light nose, with a little fruit. Sweet, rounded, mildly fruity. Bigger than you expect on the palate. An accessible blended port.
Cucina Marsala Fine I.P. Lombardo has been making Marsala on Sicily since 1881. This particular one has been made with the kitchen very much in mind. Full of nuttiness with plenty of character and flavour, it's perfect for Zabaglione and Tiramisu.
Graham's 2000. Aromas of ripe plum, pleasantly smooth on the palate, despite its youth. Full and rich in the mouth with fresh blackberry and red plum notes. Despite the hallmark Graham sweetness in the mouth the finish is long and clean.
Graham's Fine White Port. A sweet white port. Lovely aromatic nose. Notes of honey. Good, structured, rounded, honey-influenced palate. Firm body, with lovely integration. This is delightful. Serve chilled.
Merchant Vintners Fine Ruby Port A great value Ruby port specially selected by our wine buyers from the wine makers at a famous port house.
Smith Woodhouse Vintage Port 2003. Some dark, spicy fruits. Rounded. More integrated. Very ripe, seamless, pure fruit profile on the palate. But masses of tannin.


20 Oct - 42 min - Uploaded by PrinceofMacedon This is a Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2 online battle. I am not in this battle. I am. 26 Aug - 10 min - Uploaded by Q36BN I used "BFME2 Widescreen Enhanced" so its was finally playable. The Lord Of The Rings. The story for The Battle for Middle-earth II is divided into Good and Evil Campaigns. The Good Campaign focuses on Glorfindel, an Elf who is alerted to a Gameplay - Plot - Development - Release and reception.
Embark on a gripping single-player campaign that takes you deep into the War in the North as three new factions: the Dwarves, Elves, and Goblins. 13 May Wage war in the North and assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history - the Elven and Dwarven armies - or. 5 Sep Battle for Middle-earth I and II were two excellent RTS titles in which the armies of Tolkien's iconic fantasy setting vie for supremacy, with the.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (BFME II) is a real-time strategy computer game published by Electronic Arts, based upon the fantasy book. 5 Jul For starters, we've got Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II, which looks to pave the way for real-time strategies on consoles in this. 7 Feb By EA LA Over the next few weeks before the release of Battle for Middle-earth II, we'll be bringing several enlightening pieces of information. Battle For Middle Earth II Patch Is Now Live. By Val` - 9th March - 23 PM. IPB Image. Hi All, Patch is finally here for download. It's been a long, . 7 May LOTR: Battle for Middle-earth 2 wiki at IGN: walkthroughs, items, maps, video tips, and strategies.


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Flavour of the Week: Mahjong Bar
Behind an unassuming pink-hued convenience store lies Toronto's newest hidden watering hole inspired by classic mahjong parlours
by Jessica Huras
Published: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Finn O'Hara
What's the vibe
Mahjong Bar is an ultra hip, Asian-influenced bar hidden behind a modest shop. While the concept of a "secret" bar could easily feel contrived, Mahjong Bar's execution is effortlessly cool. The sign for the Portuguese sports bar that previously occupied the site still hangs over the entrance. It leads to a small bodega with a consciously sparse selection of drinks and snacks. To the left of the cash register, a vinyl curtain shifts to reveal a second room illuminated in glowing red light, luring visitors back into to the not-so-secret bar.
Beyond the curtain lies a 2,000-square-foot space with a stylish, 1960s Hong Kong aesthetic. The inspiration for the design comes from co-founder Kyle Wong's family restaurant, Cosy Restaurant & Tavern, in St. Catharines, which opened in 1964 – the bar's name is a reference to the games of mahjong his family would often play in the restaurant's back room after hours. A 36-foot mural by Toronto artist Gabriella Lo dominates one wall, set across from an equally eye-catching bar topped with pink marble. There's space on the black-and-white checkered floor for dancing and DJs perform on weekend nights but, in true Dundas West style, the vibe is low-key and chilled out.
What to drink
The drink menu is anchored by a selection of Asian-inspired cocktails, which range from a simple Japanese Highball made from Suntory Toki whisky and soda to the subtly sweet Tropic Thunder, which features coconut soaked rum, lime, pineapple and pandan.
Bottled and tap beers include Asian favs Tiger and Yanjing, along with offerings from local brewers like Blood Brothers and Bellwoods. The wine menu branches beyond Asia, with around a half dozen French, Italian, South African and Ontario wines offered by the glass and bottle. Whisky is also available in 1 or 2 oz pours, with an emphasis on Scottish and Japanese varieties.
With its red trim and winged script, Mahjong Bar's menu is playfully reminiscent of an old-school Chinese takeout menu. Featuring a brief selection of Asian small plates, the menu was developed with the help of the team behind Malaysian restaurant, Soos.
Dishes have the freshly-fried satisfaction of Chinese takeout, but with more thoughtful ingredients and presentation. Plate sizes are better suited to nibbling alongside cocktails rather than a full dinner, although the Shanghai noodle bowl topped with melt-in-your-mouth tender braised beef is certainly large enough to order as a main. Other must-trys include the Mahjong Half Moons, deep fried pastries wrapped around well-seasoned meat or veggie fillings; and the savoury bowl of eggplant, preserved veggies and crispy pork, which comes with a side of sweet, fluffy mantou buns.
Dinner and drinks for two: around $75
1276 Dundas St. W., 647-291-6097, mahjongbar.com
Flavour of the Week


Meniscal Repair - Ortho Regenerative Technologies Inc.
The meniscus is the "shock absorber" of the knee joint. It comprises a figure 8 shaped tissue between the end of the bones and serves to spread and absorb the high loads and stresses that are produced through the joint during normal; motion, and especially stair climbing, running and other exercise.
The meniscus is often described as having three zones: the red, red-white and white zones, which are differentiated, based on the amount of blood supply that they receive. The white zone has essentially no blood supply, and conversely the red zone has a plentiful supply. The red-white zone is somewhat intermediate.
Tears are caused by excessive load or degeneration and can occur anywhere in the meniscus. They are typically classified by their positioning and shape e.g. vertical, horizontal, complex etc.
In the same way as for the tendons of the rotator cuff, those tears that occur in the white zone of the meniscus (i.e. with no blood supply) do not spontaneously heal and can cause significant pain and morbidity. Physical therapy to increase muscle strength and help to stabilize the joint can be effective in some cases, but surgery is frequently indicated.
For some very simple (often vertical) tears, repair is possible through the surgical use of sutures or tacks, which simply hold the edges of the tear together. Alternatively, allograft menisci can be used to totally replace the affected tissue, although size matching and tissue quality have often been cited as reasons for success. The number of high quality allograft menisci remains insufficient to treat any but a small fraction of the overall need. The only other surgical option remains a partial or full meniscectomy, in which either the injured area or the entire meniscus is surgically removed. It clearly follows that such procedures will change the pattern of loading through the joint, and also deprive the joint of its major shock absorber. For this reason, both partial and full meniscectomy have been well documented to initiate degenerative changes in the joint, leading to osteoarthritis.
Meniscus injury is very common, and results in approximately 1,200,000 surgeries in US alone each year. The vast majority of these surgical procedures (c. 880,000) involve meniscectomy, with a minority (under 350,000) being repaired and only about 1% involving a meniscal replacement.
It is therefore clear that a product with the ability to reduce the number of meniscectomy procedures will have long term benefit for patients who are sufficiently young to have no degenerative changes in the knee joint. According to CDC, the average cost of OA in US is $5,700 per patient per year, with job related costs of up to $13billion per year. Reducing that economic burden is therefore an extremely attractive proposition, not just for the patients involved.
RESTORE-M will therefore be targeted predominantly to expand the number of procedures which involve repair, at the expense of meniscectomy procedures. It is again important to note that there is no required change to the surgical technique or procedure, but that the Ortho-M product is placed into the lesion prior to being repaired with whatever physical fixation is indicated.


I'm a Motion Designer and Creative Director based in LA. Over the past 17 years I've been fortunate to work and collaborate with some of the most talented and award-winning commercial and broadcast CG artists in the industry. I've even managed to win a few myself. I've designed and animated for all major studios including Sony, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, HBO and the Disney Channel.


The new premises are in a superb business location, about 0.25 miles from Southampton railway station and with good access to the M27 and M3. This enables us to cover Hampshire, the South East and South West.
The offices have provided us with the space we required for the recent expansion of the company as a whole and coupled with the premises in Shropshire shows our commitment to improving and expanding as a company, continually looking after all your Fire Safety requirements efficiently and cost effectively.


From the Wilmer/Carrel street trail, looking over the airplane parking lot.
Morning colors of orange and blue.
This morning I made a quick trip down to Lunken Airfield via the Ohio River Trail through East End. I was running a bit late because I stopped at UDF on the way to get a coffee fillup. I ended up arriving at Lunken Airfield just in time to see the sun bursting over the ridge with a tight orange display. I think I missed a bright pink dawn by about 5 minutes unfortunately!
Don remembers when there were only 8 baseball teams. Eight! Including the Cincinnati Reds, of course!
He remembers the last of the inclines.The Cincinnati Inclines. The things that have been gone for decades and now are "ancient history" to me. The last one closed over 60 years ago.
When he was a small boy, the families around Clifton were still "new", having only moved up from "downtown" about 50 years prior. The huge homes that now lie in disrepair were, at that time, fresh and well kept.
He remembers vividly what factories, companies, and buildings were at the R.K. LeBlond factory site. Not just before they built the Rookwood Shopping Center, but even when the buildings were in use.
He made a great point that Proctor & Gamble got their start in Cincinnati making soap because of the booming pork business. There was so much abundant local pig lard that P&G had a huge competitive advantage.
Sometime this fall I'd like to expand on some of these ideas and see what I can track down. Maybe I'll track down what's left of the old incline systems with Don's help.
Orange sunrise coming up. This was taken about fifteen minutes after official sunrise time.
A close-up of the sun behind the clouds over Lunken.
There was a break in the cloud layer that was pushing in from behind me, revealing a brilliant blue atmosphere.
A plane taking off! I'm not sure if this is the "7-am" plane I see most days. It actually turned around and went off the diagonal runway (away from Ault Park).
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The guiding force that made the National Wrestling Alliance the most powerful governing body of all-time, Sam Muchnick, passed away Dec. 30 in St. Louis at the age of 93.
Muchnick was the promoter in St. Louis from 1945 through 1982 when it was one of the wrestling capitols of the world.
Muchnick was the president of the National Wrestling Alliance for much of that period, when the NWA was the largest and most powerful group in wrestling. Under Muchnick's direction the NWA World heavyweight championship was the most universally recognized title and was considered the most important championship in the sport.
Joe Blanchard starred on Muchnick's cards in St. Louis. Blanchard would later start his own successful promotion in south Texas, Southwest Championship Wrestling.
Blanchard talks about his memories of Muchnick, what made Muchnick special as a promoter and what he learned from Muchnick in creating his own promotion.
Mark Nulty is a professional journalist that has been in the professional wrestling industry since the mid-80s as an announcer, referee and promoter.


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Mayor Jane Castor says Tampa's Super Bowl LV plans are moving forward
Mayor talks to Anchor Paul LaGrone on her first year in office
From re-imagining transportation in Tampa to trying to create more affordable housing, and now managing how Tampa rebounds from a global health crisis, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor's first year in office has at times felt more like a New York minute.
By: Paul LaGrone
TAMPA Fla. — From re-imagining transportation in Tampa to trying to create more affordable housing, and now managing how Tampa rebounds from a global health crisis, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor's first year in office has at times felt more like a New York minute.
She told ABC Action News Anchor Paul LaGrone, she's been so busy she did not even realize it was her first anniversary as Mayor.
"It has gone by very quickly, to a point, and as a friend of mine said during this COVI-19, that the month of March was the longest year of my life," says Castor.
Mayor Castor is laser-focused these days on lifting the city of Tampa up and out of the grips of the coronavirus.
Q: How does the city of Tampa rebound from this?
A: We are going to do a great job of rebounding. We did very well through the virus. We were able to keep the positive cases down, and I'm pleased with the governor focusing on the science of opening the state back up. And doing it very slowly and incrementally so that if we do have a surge in cases, we can dial back quickly and deal with whatever comes our way.
Q: Do you have a goal in mind of when you would like to be back at a certain level of normality by?
A: You know it's funny people ask about that. I just left a meeting and staff meeting, we were talking about the opening of the restaurants and how we are going to craft that plan and help move that along and people are asking for dates, and it's difficult to provide any definitive date. But I am hopeful that by the end of this summer, we can get kids back to school and start getting back to a sense of normalcy in our community.
Meanwhile, the Mayor says the city is still working on long term projects like improving mass transit in Tampa, and providing more affordable housing.
HILLSBOROUGH NEWS | The latest headlines from Hillsborough County
Q: What about the Super Bowl in Tampa next year?
A: With the Super Bowl, we are still planning for that and are hopeful that we get a vaccine by that time. If not, I'm confident that there will be a series of tests or steps that will allow us to identify who has had COVID-19 — therefore has antibodies and a level of immunity and that we will be able to identify. You know it may be a Super Bowl that has a requirement of facial coverings; I believe that is going to be a new normal for our country as well.
Q: So as far as you know, the Super Bowl is still on with fans or is that a mountain we have to climb, we have to earn it, I guess as a country.
A: In my mind, we are there, but clearly you can't predict with a great deal of accuracy the future. Although I have predicted the Bucs will be the first to win in our own backyard.


Florida's staffing levels rank relatively low when compared to other states. Moreover, the staffing levels for most types of government services tend to be comparable with other states. Florida's state agency staffing levels exceed other states' primarily in the public safety and justice services area. When local government full-time equivalent (FTE) positions are added to the analysis, Florida shows higher-than-average staffing levels in the natural resources services area.1 These levels must be interpreted with caution because they are linked to unique social, economic, and political factors in the state that have created demands for labor in these service areas.
Although the census data analysis shows that Florida has relatively low staffing levels, the data cannot be used to determine whether Florida has the appropriate level of staff. Assessing whether staffing levels are appropriate requires a detailed analysis of efficiency that is dependent on more specific information about performance, staffing, and costs. The ability to assess the reasonableness of state agency staffing levels is particularly critical under the PB² initiative. However, one weakness in the current initiative is that prior to 1998, agencies were not required to develop measures for administrative and support activities. At present, decisions concerning staffing levels suffer from a general lack of pertinent information. The state's major sources for staffing information, the personnel classification system and the personnel information system, do not currently provide the type of information needed to accurately and uniformly assess staffing. Moreover, the state's accounting system does not collect costs by PB² programs or by activity.
Report No. 01-33 Progress Report: DMS Adopts OPPAGA's Workforce Recommendations; However, a Strong Outsourcing Contract Is Imperative, published in July 2001.
Report No. 99-01 Bringing Administrative and Support Functions Under Performance-Based Program Budgeting, published in August 1999.
Report No. 98-01 Program Evaluation and Justification Review: Workforce Program Administered by the Department of Management Services, published in July 1998.
Report No. 97-54 Review of the Performance of the Department of Management Services' Workforce Program, published in February 1998.


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David Gilmore's Blog
Writing process insight + old abandoned project
Today, I thought I'd write up a blog post explaining my writing process, why I abandon a lot of projects and why it takes me a long time to publish new work. The abandoning is the reason I simply don't talk about works in progress anymore. Or rather, give plot details. I don't want people disappointed when I fail to finish something. However, I also wanted to write this blog post to show a rough draft of an abandoned project, warts and all (with scenes ending abruptly and unpolished), which I've pulled some concepts from that form the basis of the current story I'm working on. I'm finally starting to feel it now, though the writing is not at the level I want it to be at yet in what I've currently written. Anyway, while you read the rough draft, hopefully it's obvious why I abandoned it. Certain elements didn't feel like they worked, and as a result, you may as well say the story would require an entire rewrite from a content perspective. Nor did it feel like there was anything going for it, above it being a simple creature feature, which doesn't interest me too much.
So, before showing the rough draft in its entirety (it was not finished), my writing process, as I explained in the afterword for The Dead Should Stay Dead, if you picked it up, is very chaotic. I don't plan at all. I like to see where things go, though I start with a very basic idea. Normally, when I start a story, I get so far into it and I find that it doesn't work at a certain point. This leads to me restarting the project over, because I don't see the point in finishing something if it's going to be entirely rewritten from a content perspective anyway. However, like I said above, I normally take some parts and concepts from each version and apply them to the one I'm currently working on. This is a process that's continued until I start 'feeling it'. Hence the length of time it takes me to write these things, and I don't use beta readers these days, plus I edit everything myself now. Same with the covers. And to think some people say writing is easy and not hard work. But yes, another reason things take a long time is because I care a lot about my work and I wouldn't publish something I feel is subpar. It's not fair on readers and, to be frank, I wouldn't want to anyway. As the rough draft shows below, I could have quite easily finished it and published it after some polishing, but I didn't.
So, this brings me to the rough draft. It is nearly 4,000 words and unedited, nor is it finished. However, like I mentioned above, I've culled certain elements from it for the project I'm finally feeling. I think, if I can get the writing of a very high quality, it has the potential to be very powerful if I do it right, given the themes I'm working with, despite the harsh length when it comes to the word count (probably novelette size, 7,500 - 17,500 words).
Below is the rough draft. Again, the story that I'll eventually publish will only feature a few similarities. If you do read the story I'm working on when it's published, called Shifters, then you should be able to spot the elements I've taken from here. I should, however, warn that it is quite gruesome in places, though I'm not sure the desired effect has been gained due to the rough quality of the writing.
Can you run from fate and your past? I think not.
The Murder
Sheriff Ted Perkins had received the radio message a short while ago. And it was only now when [DL1] he pulled up outside ol' Bobby's trailer that he realised his deputy hadn't been lying that it was a damned grisly scene. His car's headlights highlighting every bit of blood spatter on the white trailer and on the ground, never mind ol' Bobby's corpse itself, as night's darkness began to shroud the surrounding desert.
He got out of the car and slammed the door shut, hitched his gray pants up and straightened his hat, with cowboy spurs making a noise, before walking over to his deputies and the grisly scene. "Shit, you certainly weren't lyin'."
"No boss. Haven't the foggiest what killed him," said Deputy Rainer, the second oldest on the police of Cougar's Run. The other deputy, Lenin, was younger and wet behind the ears.
"Can't say I do either, Rainer." Sheriff Perkins knelt in front of the corpse, slumped against the trailer with his tilted to the right, and examined every gruesome detail. Ol' Bobby's throat had been bitten, and the skin spat out onto the ground it looked like. His white vest, where it wasn't covered in blood or torn, was dirtied. The blood itself stemming from the throat wound and the claw marks on his chest and face. "Like some wild animal savaged him, though I ain't sure what could have done it. Looks like no coyote attack to be sure."
Sheriff Perkins looked to his deputies and they shrugged, as perplexed as he was. "We have an army boy up at Carl's Beer and Grill, don't we?"
"Believe so, boss," said Lenin. "One of those who likes to keep to himself, though. A drifter."
"He'd have tracking skills," said Perkins. "I'll have a word with him. I can be persuasive."
"What're we meant to do with the corpse?" asked Rainer.
"Get him taken away, but keep the murder on the quiet. Don't want to scare everyone by telling 'em there's a murderous animal of unknown origin on the loose. I'll meet you both back 'ere."
"Right you are, boss."
"See you boys in a bit. I'll be bringing soldier boy back 'ere no matter what." With that, Perkins went back to his car, opened the door and got in with a slight moan as he felt the ache of arthritis in his aging hips. If there was one thing he could do without at his age and health, it was a hunt through the harsh desert of California. That is beside the fact that they were hunting god knows what, judging by the claw marks and the size of the killer's teeth/mouth.
As he drove away to Carl's Beer and Grill though, there was one thing he looked forward to. Meeting the army boy, who he'd not had the pleasure of meeting yet. An older relative had been the in the army.
The Reluctant Drifter
The drifter, known as Johnny Demore, washed the glasses and plates. It was quite the step down from being in the army, but he preferred it honestly, and while he didn't earn a wage from Carl, he did have a free room up top and free meals for helping out around the place. He couldn't ask for more than that really. Food may not have been too tasty, but it was better than eating out of trash cans, which is what he'd have to resort to if he wasn't kept. And he was basically a free employee for Carl, so it worked out both ways.
In the background, country and western music blared as it so often did. The current words being sung were 'Oh yeah, baby, we're going to party tonight like we've never partied before!' Johnny couldn't say he cared much for the music but it was either that or listen to the chatter of patrons or the staff. To that, he preferred the music. Sometimes, people would try to be his friend, but he wanted none of it. Ever since Afghanistan, he'd wanted no contact if he could avoid it. He plain and simply didn't feel a part of the world anymore and he was quite content to mind his own.
Over the past few days while he'd been here, one woman had been trying to attract his attention. She was pretty, usually wearing loose fitting t-shirts and jeans, with long brown hair. Tonight was no different, because as he cleaned a glass behind the bar, he noticed her looking over at him with her legs crossed on the stool she sat on. Her elbow resting on the counter. He did his best to keep his head down, because getting romantically involved when he was as fucked up as he was didn't appeal.
The establishment itself was unusually quiet though. He could only sum it up as being thanks to the recent murder that had taken place on the outskirts of the small town of Cougar's Run. Apparently, an animal had committed said murder. Coyote or something, Sheriff . . . Sheriff Perkins had said.
And on cue, as he thought about the sheriff, the door opened with a whoosh of chill air and in he walked. Perkins looked around and stopped when his eyes landed on Johnny. Johnny returned the look, wondering what the hell Perkins wanted. "Sheriff." Johnny nodded, still cleaning the glass behind the counter.
"You're the army boy, right?" asked Perkins, moseying on over.
"Not anymore." Johnny placed the glass and cloth down.
"Don't give me that bullshit, son. Once you've been in the army and seen action, you'll always be in it. And you'll always keep that patriotic shit about never leaving behind one of our own with you."
"If you say so and I'm not your son."
Perkins rested his hands on the counter, removed his hat and eyed Johnny. "I do. My dear ol' dad was in the army. So I know what I'm talking about. And no, you ain't my son, but you're young enough to be and I reckon I have the wisdom of age over you."
"Whatever. You just here to talk me to death or do you actually want something?"
"Yup, I want something alright. You."
"Me? Good luck with that, because I haven't done anything wrong. Now, do y—"
"I ain't said you did something wrong. I need your help with something, assuming you got some survival skills and you ain't rusty."
"And if I refuse to help?"
"Listen, I'm guessing you and I speak the same language, son. If you refuse, I'll gently escort you to my car and if you resist, I'll charge you with resisting arrest or assaulting a police officer. It may not be fair, but you ain't in the city anymore. Out 'ere, only what I say matters. So, makes no odds to me how we do this, but you're helping me one way or another."
"Fine." He was dressed for the occasion, so he didn't see any need to prolong the agony. "After you." He walked left the counter, lifted the bar flap and walked over to the sheriff.
"Good choice, son." The sheriff grabbed his hat, slipped back onto his head.
It was then that Carl appeared from the kitchen, white apron dirty, and stopped them from leaving. "Where you going?" His face was portly and his head bald headed.
"Out. I'll be back later, I guess?" Johnny looked to Perkins.
"You can't go. What am I supposed to do while you're gone and the customers start pouring in?"
Perkins answered. "That look like my problem, Carl? It ain't, so find a way to manage."
"You think that shiny badge gives you the right to just order folk around?"
"Nope, but it sure gives me the right to arrest anyone giving me or my deputies a hard time."
"You wouldn't."
"Try me, Carl."
"Go on, get out."
Perkins nodded, smiled slightly. "A pleasure as always, Carl."
They exited the building and left the grumbling Carl behind. Perkins spoke, "Your name's Johhny, right, son?"
Perkins nodded. "Seems he's become friendlier since you started staying there. You must be rubbing off on him."
Johnny cracked a smile for what felt like the first time in his life. "He's normally friendlier than that."
"That so? I'd like to see him in his friendlier moods." Perkins opened his cruiser's door. "Get in the front with me."
"All right." Johnny went around the other side of the car and before getting in, he took one last look at Carl's Beer and Grill, the neon lettering standing out as dusk began to give way to full dark. The words 'Carl's' and 'and' were blue, while 'Beer' and 'Grill' were red. To the left of the establishment's name was a mug of beer, glittering around the edges. With a sigh, he got into the car.
Perkins started the engine and Johnny noticed him look over towards his seat belt. "Always good to see someone fasten their seatbelt." He started away then onto the barren road. "You heard about 'em animal attacks, right?"
"Yeah. No bodies found afterwards?"
"Yup. Another's disappeared. Ol' Bobby just a ways down the road. Ain't got no idea what could carry a full grown man off with no tracks, other than the animal's large paws."
"Strange. And let me guess, you want me to help find it?"
"Yup. Need your tracking expertise."
"I assume I'll get a gun?"
"Sure you will. I have me two deputies waiting at the scene."
Johnny nodded slightly and looked out of the window, noticing the odd tumbleweed pass fly past. He hadn't held a gun for a year and he hadn't wanted to again. He wanted nothing more to do with death and its instruments, having become well acquainted with them back in Afghanistan.
"You served in Afghanistan, right?"
"I did, though I'm not going to talk about it."
Perkins glanced at Johnny, before returning his gaze to the road. "Fair enough. I respect your privacy. Must be some horrible shit you saw out there to make you as messed up as you are though."
Why couldn't people just mind their own? And by whose definition was he messed up by? The old man's car? Maybe the sheriff's the one that's messed up? Perhaps Johnny saw so clearly what people were capable of now that he simply wanted nothing to do with own kind? All of those thoughts mixed in with a reluctance to get close to anyone else and with guilt. Getting close to others and seeing them die had an effect on a man, so that they never wanted to lose a cherished one again. "I'm not messed up."
"All right. You know, I've seen my fair share of shit too."
"This the part where you claim to have insight into what I've been through. Truth is you don't. Everyone claims that." Johnny looked at Perkins, not removing his eyes. "You ever seen a child brainwashed into strapping a bomb to them, all in the name of religion, and walking into a crowded area before committing suicide, so he could be with his brothers and his god? The kid probably no more than eleven."
Perkins glanced at Johnny, shook his head. "No . . . Point taken."
Johnny nodded, looking back out of the window. "Truth is, I've seen what people are capable of and I simply want nothing to do with the world these days. That's all. It's all fine and dandy you getting me to help you find whatever's killing folk, but don't expect me to give much of a damn."
Fair enough? Good. Perkins would shut up now, mind his own, and give up the therapy and psycho-analysis bull shit now. But the worst part of it was that what he just said wasn't the conversation killer he liked to use. No, that was something else, something that made him loathe himself and what gave him a guilty conscience.
And from that point on, they sat in silence until they arrived at their destination.
Margie & Carl
Margie Parson wandered over to the counter in Carl's Beer and Grill. "Carl, what do you think the sheriff wanted with him?" She'd watched him ever since he came into town and started staying above the establishment. It was rare to ever hear a peep from him, but she felt drawn to him and couldn't explain why. Sure, he was a cute guy, but it was more than. He seemed than most and he was like a puzzle box waiting to be unravelled. It wasn't like she wanted to rip his clothes either. The attraction wasn't like that, but she simply wanted to get to know him. She hoped he'd be safe, so that she might get the chance to solve the puzzle of Johnny Demore. And with the establishment being quiet, she thought now was the best time to quickly probe Carl.
Carl frowned and looked up, hands rested on the counter. "How the fuck am I supposed to know that, Margie? All I know is Perkins thought it's all right to leave me short-handed and not even feel sorry about it. But I'm sure your boy toy will be fine."
"He's not my boy toy. And don't you care about him at all?"
"Oh I care about him all right. I care about his safety because I need his help in keeping the place running."
Hunting the Beast
Johnny and Perkins pulled up outside the trailer, one other police jeep present. The two deputies outside, sat on the trailer's steps by the front door. Johnny exited the sheriff's jeep as did the sheriff, the sight of the blood covered trailer hitting him full force as he gazed at it, mouth agape. Memories of Afghanistan flooded back, the sights of blood stained walls riddled with bullet holes vivid. Bodies in front of them and the screams of the dying rung in his ears as plain as the day he first heard them, their arms outstretched as they sought aid in their time of dying. Hoping for someone to ease their suffering or hoping someone could stop them from dying.
He shook his head, approached.
"'Bout time you showed up, boss," said the older looking deputy.
"Well, we're here now." Perkins looked at Johnny. "This 'ere," he pointed at Lenin, "is Deputy Lenin. He's young and wet behind the ears, but he's dependable. Just . . . make sure you keep him in front of you."
Johnny laughed quietly.
"Hey, I'm no coward."
"I'm just teasing you, Lenin." Perkins looked to the older deputy. "And this 'ere is Deputy Rainer. My oldest man and very dependable. Ain't got the skill set you have, I'm sure, but he's good enough."
Johnny nodded to them both. He looked around the area, seeing the blood covering the floor as well and looking at the door torn off its hinges. "There was a struggle inside?"
"Yup, whoever took ol' Bob made a right mess in there. I'm guessing it attacked him inside and brought him out 'ere after he'd given up fighting. Don't ask me what could have done it."
"No animal that I know of could tear the door from its hinges and enter the trailer." With that, he made to enter the trailer itself. "Excuse me."
The deputies looked to Perkins who nodded. They moved to the side and Johnny walked up the steps. The sight greeting him was one of a wreck. Clothes were strewn everywhere with the odd spatter of blood, the back windows were smashed and the drawers from the cupboard were on the floor. The television set, small and dinky, destroyed and smoking.
He examined the blue carpet. A long, brown hair could be seen. He picked it up and studied it. "Well, there's a hair at least. But I doubt we have a grisly around here. And coyotes sure as hell couldn't do this."
The deputies stood in the doorway nodded their head. Perkins said, "Agreed. That's why I want to go and hunt it down. You seen enough in 'ere?"
Johnny stood and nodded slightly. "Yes, but why not call in help?"
"It'd take a while and we've had two disappearances in two days. Ain't wanting there to be another. Besides, as we ain't sure what's done this, I'm not sure I want a lot of publicity around 'ere. We kinda like our town nice and quiet."
"I can understand that." Johnny pushed his way through them again to the outside. "You got the guns and everything we'll need? If I can find a track."
"Sure have. And you'll be able to find the thing's tracks all right. We saw them out there, but we don't want to be tracking it when we're not too skilled. Besides, we thought you'd be handy to have around."
Johnny nodded again. "I guess I am. We going on foot?"
"No, you'll hop in the back of my jeep and we'll drive along the desert nice and slow like, so you can keep your eyes on the tracks."
"All right." With that, Johnny walked around, taking care not to disturb any tracks. And sure enough, he saw some. Something stood upright must have made the tracks, though the tracks looked like they were made by paws. "It walks upright." Johnny shook his head, perplexed. "All right, let's get the show underway?"
"Yup, we're just wasting time 'ere."
The deputies, Perkins and Johnny got into their cars and began the hunt, taking it nice and slow with Johnny looking at the tracks as they drove over the rugged, desert countryside.
The tracks eventually led them to a cave, where the mountains lay. It was at their foot, thankfully, and Perkins had spoken about how relieved he was, complaining about how his arthritis would have made it hard going up a mountain. And besides, they didn't have the equipment to go scaling mountains anyway. The cave and mountains themselves were a ways away from the small town of Cougar's Run. They were positively out in the middle of nowhere and Cougar's Run, with a population of only around one hundred to two hundred by Johnny's estimation, was already in the middle of nowhere.
They slammed the doors shut and each picked up a flashlight and shotgun. "Well shit, I never thought I'd be entering a cave at my age. I'm liable to have a heart attack if anything comes at me in there."
"You just keep at back, boss."
Perkins looked at Lenin. "And let you go in front? I may as well just have my heart attack out 'ere, right now."
"You'll be fine," said Johnny. He pointed the flashlight into the cave's pitch black mouth, loaded shotgun held in his other hand, muzzle pointing down.
"You see anything?" asked Rainer.
"No. Just darkness. Looks like we're going to have to go in."
"Just my luck. I should have retired when my wife starting nagging me to."
"No point dwelling on that now. I'll lead," said Johnny. Flashlight held beside the shotgun, which was pointed in front now, he cautiously walked into the cave. The occasional of bats could be heard from within and the police followed him in, close behind.
The sound of boots walking on the hard cave floor echoed ever so slightly, the drip of water from stalactites and the bats' noises drowning it out. The walls, with the exception of the odd gap, were barren and bland as expected. The cave's winding path narrow. There were no off-shoots for them to explore, just one long path.
A screech sounded and a few bats suddenly flew right past them. Johnny glanced behind him, seeing that Rainer and Lenin had been startled a bit, but it was Perkins that worried him slightly, though he didn't much care happened. It was just that there was safety in numbers and he was holding his chest, like the living daylights had been scared right out of him and he was feeling a heart attack coming on as he panted.
"Jesus," said Perkins, quietly.
Johnny held his hand up to his mouth, signalling for Perkins to be quiet.
It was then that he heard a gnawing sound and what distinctly sounded like the crack of bones coming from up ahead. Reluctantly, Johnny shone the torch's light down the cave tunnel and what he saw was a naked man – dirtied and bloodied – with short, brown hair, crouched over the corpse of the man who he assumed had been the one to go missing. His body was basically disembowelled and what the naked man gnawed on was an arm, skin completely gone with the bone exposed halfway up.
The naked man turned his head as the torch hit the back wall of the cave room, just in front of him. His eyes were savage, flesh dangling down from his lips. An inhuman scream erupted from him and hair began to grow all over his body, just like his nails extended, as he leapt up and charged towards them.
Johnny wasted no time in pointing the shotgun at the man and pulling the trigger, the force of the kickback knocking him back slightly and making his arms ache. The naked man flew back and hit the wall hard, his chest now a bloody mess. His growing nails and hair seemed stuck, in mid-transformation into whatever it was he was turning into. He gurgled blood and his entire body shook.
With the others approaching close behind, mouths agape, Johnny approached. He stepped over the bloody corpse of the man they had sought; the corpse of the other man who'd went missing in a corner.
The naked man tried to force out some words. "You'll . . . You'll regret . . . this." He started to laugh madly.
"Sure we will." Johnny pumped the shotgun, aimed it at the man's head and fired. The man's head exploded and Johnny's face was showered with blood, as was his clothing. Johnny pumped the shotgun again, aimed it at the man's chest—
"He's dead!" yelled Perkins, placing a firm hand on Johnny's shoulder.
Johnny turned around, eyes wild. Perkins stumbled backwards, and Johnny shook his head slightly, disbelieving that he nearly struck Perkins. "Sorry . . ."
"It's all right," said Perkins, and his deputies surrounded him on either side. "Jesus, what the hell was this fuck? Hair suddenly growing and nails lengthening. Eating another man. He couldn't have made those paw prints, could he?"
Johnny wiped his hands on his shirt, but it was no good. He looked to Perkins. "If he could turn so hairy and grow fingernails that long in such a short amount of time, I'd say it's possible he could have been the one responsible for the paw prints." He shook his head again. "Werewolves. . . . All of that shit could be true."
Johnny noticed Rainer move to inspect the corpse by the wall, also half-eaten. "Well, what do we do now? The freak's dead and so are these two."
"I didn't like the warning he gave," said Lenin.
"Most likely just empty threats."
"Possibly," said Johnny. "Look, we want to scare everyone, telling them about this freak? I say we leave him here, possibly take the corpses back."
"Good idea. We'll do that."
"All right. The bar will be about ready to close, but I reckon we might be able to convince Carl to let us get a few drinks to celebrate and relax. I know I sure as hell could use it."
"Sounds like a plan, right boys?"
"Yeah," said the deputies in unison.
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The XXI edition of the Matinal de la Evolució that took place on May 16 in an online edition was dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was coordinated by Juli Peretó, professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the University of Valencia. In the monographic session David Alonso, Mireia Coscollà, Xavier López-Labrador and Carolina Moreno participated. Carolina Moreno, professor of journalism and Main Researcher of ScienceFlows group, analyzed throughout the day how the COVID-19 pandemic has made the concept of an infodemic come true. In her presentation, Carolina Moreno offered the...
Charlatans of the pandemic
The ninth edition of Ciencia en Redes, scheduled for March 13, has been held virtually thanks to the enormous effort of the organizing committee, that has been able to adapt the format. The changes in the initial program have allowed us to enjoy, among others, the presentation "Charlatans of the pandemic" by Javier Ordóñez, member of ScienceFlows. The charlatans have been with us for as long as we can remember, however, in times of a pandemic, when the information multiplies, the need to analyze the quality of the information we receive is even greater. For this reason, the study of...
CORICOVA, Divulgación
Communicating the risks. Science and technology in the information society
The coronavirus pandemic has put on the table, among others, the essential role played by the media in times of crisis when health and safety may be threatened. The analysis of contemporary scenarios of sanitary and environmental history that are included in Communicating the risks. Science and technology in the information society offer a learning that can contribute to institutions, journalists and disseminators to effectively communicate during this global crisis. Risk communication was originally conceived in the 1960s as a communication aimed at "informing non-experts". Since then, the approach to risk management has been expanding. Today it is indisputable that,...
By Carolina Moreno
Proyecto No Rumour Health
ScienceFlows starts a research on the characteristics of hoaxes and fake news about COVID-19 received via WhatsApp
Ana Serra/ Since the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, announced last Saturday, March 14, the decree of the State of Alarm throughout the country, different hoaxes and fake news have been spread and disseminated via WhatsApp about the COVID-19. To carry out this study, we contacted our colleagues from Agencia SINC, Maldita Ciencia, Salud Sin Bulos and the Asociación para Proteger al Enfermo de Terapias Pseudocientíficas (APEPT) to to collect the largest volume of documents to analyse. Also, we have enabled an email account (coronavirus.scienceflows@gmail.com) and a WhatsApp line (+34 623 03 73 76) in case someone wants to send...
Divulgación, Proyecto No Rumour Health, ScienceShop
The spread of hoaxes can pose a threat to public health
Ana Serra/Fake news and hoaxes have found the ideal ecosystem for disseminating on the Internet and in instant messaging applications. Research papers, such as the one published in the 2018 Health Policy and Technology magazine, have shown how fake news can pose a threat to public health. Likewise, an article published in the BMJ magazine pointed out the characteristics of what is known as denialism, that is on occasions, the prelude to disinformation; that is,identification of conspiracies; use of false experts; selectivity of citation; creation of impossible expectations of research; misrepresentation and logical fallacies and manufacture of doubt. A time...
PERSIST_EU project
The PERSIST_EU project seeks university students to participate in a European science debate
Empar Vengut/ Next April 4, the PERSIST_EU science debate will take place at the University of Valencia with the aim of knowing what university students think about four topics that currently generate social controversy: vaccines, climate change, complementary and alternative medicine and genetically modified organisms. This debate is part of the cycle of European debates that will take place in the upcoming months in Italy, Portugal, Germany, Spain and Slovakia. In total, 500 students will contribute to this research whose objective is to know how the training of university students influences their decision making. For the debate that will take place...
ScienceFlows
A year of scientific research at ScienceFlows
Ana Serra/ The three European projects coordinated by ScienceFlows have been the protagonists of the work of this group of the Polibienestar Institute of the University of Valencia during the year 2019. Through CONCISE, PERSIST_EU and No Rumor Health, the research team has advanced in two of the lines of study on public understanding and social perception of science. In addition to these international projects, a new project funded by the Ministry of Science of the Government of Spain, ESMODA-ECO, has also been launched. Its goal is to study the image and trends of food from through the study of...
ESMODA-ECO project
Science feeds plants-based diets
Éric Úbeda Mompó, a journalist specialising in science communication, has presented his Master's Thesis (TFM) "Science feeds plant-based diets". This work, framed in the project "Study of fashions in food through the communicative ecosystem" (ESMODA-ECO RTI2018-099663-B-I00), aims to determine if the scientific evidence available so far endorses vegetarian and vegan diets. Over the past few years, the number of people who choose to follow a vegetarian or vegan diet has remarkably increased. Among the main motivations there is ethics, respect for animals, the environment and health. However, there is still some rejection for this food style in Western societies. The...
We present several ScienceFlows researches in Burgos, at the CCSC2019
Carolina Moreno Castro (translation Amaia Crespo) / Six members of the ScienceFlows team participated in the Social Communication of Science Conference (CCSC2019 due to its initials in Spanish), held from October 8 to 11, 2019, in the city of Burgos. The CCSC2019 received around 200 communications from experts in dissemination, communication, journalism and teaching of journalism and science communication, from Spain, Latin America and Portugal. The aim of this conference, organised by the Spanish Association of Scientific Communication, is to bring together everyone who is working on the innovation of knowledge transfer and dissemination to share new models of professional practices...
ScienceFlows participates in the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Biology
Empar Vengut Climent / ScienceFlows researcher, Isabel Mendoza Poudereux, has attended the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Biology (SEB), held in Seville during the 2-5 of July. Her presentation "How does the public build their opinions and beliefs related to scientific issues?" has made it possible to bring attendees the H2020 CONCISE project, led by our research group. This meeting is one of the most important international events in the area of biology. For four days, around 800 scientists from all over the world have gathered at the Conference and Exhibition Centre, FIBES II, to present their work,...
Valencian Mental Health Federation
The ScienceFlows research group, at the initiative of the Valencian Mental Health Federation, carried out a study whose objective was the representation of mental health in the media. Analysing the content of the digital press, studying Google searches, as well as Facebook pages dedicated to mental health, allowed the team to offer some conclusions: A1. Although the presence of news and negative representations on mental health is not the majority, they are present in the media sphere in a way that contributes to the creation of stigma 2. The spread of negative stereotypes has a greater impact on the fixation...
PERSIST_EU meeting gives a boost to the development of this Erasmus+ project
Empar Vengut Climent / From May 27 to 31, a training seminar was held at the headquarters of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia, aimed at Erasmus + Persist_EU project partners, coordinated by ScienceFlows. For five days, representatives of each of the countries that form the consortium met to define the characteristics and content of the ICT tool that will allow the evaluation of changes in the knowledge, perception, beliefs and confidence in science of university students. Likewise, it was defined what kind of training activities are going to be taught so as to be...
ScienceFlows participates in the conference "Communication and Health: Innovative experiences"
Empar Vengut Climent / The ScienceFlows researcher Empar Vengut Climent has participated in the conference Communication and Health: Innovative Experiences, held on May 3 at the Catalunya Campus of the Rovira i Virgili University. Her lectured entitled "Design and implementation of an ICT tool to measure the impact of training on the perception of science of university students" has allowed to bring the Erasmus + Persist_EU project to the attendees, led by our research group. This conference was a meeting point to reflect and discuss different strategies of convergence between health and technology, with the aim of improving the communication...
ScienceFlows collaborates with Experimenta Fair-Contest 2018 for the promotion of scientific vocations
Empar Vengut Climent / The XIV Edition of the Experimenta Fair-Contest 2018 was held on Sunday, April 7. Experimenta is organised every year by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Valencia. This initiative aims to convert Secondary Education students (ESO girls and boys, Baccalaureate and Intermediate Training Cycles) into active and creative protagonists, as well as science communicators. During the whole morning, the students show and explain their Physics and Technology experiments to all visitors approaching their stands. It is surprising how high school students interact with their audience, how they offer them direct interaction with their project...
Seminar by Javier Ordóñez "Radioactive rains. Journalistic umbrella: Building opinion for survival in the cold war"
Empar Vengut Climent / On March 26 and 28, Javier Ordóñez, Emeritus Professor of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and member of the ScienceFlows team, held a seminar aimed at the Journalism undergraduate and postgraduate students of the UVEG in order to show different propaganda audiovisual formats that were made years after dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to alert the population about how they should act in the event of a nuclear bomb. The main objective of the seminar was to reveal the great responsibility that journalists have when it comes to reporting on the devastating...
The UPF hosts the pilot citizen consultation of the CONCISE project in which vaccines and climate change are discussed
Empar Vengut Climent / After several months of preparation, the consortium of the CONCISE project meets on March 21 and 22 at the Studies Centre on Science, Communication and Society of the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), to carry out the pilot test that will serve as a working guide for the five consultations that will take place in five European cities throughout 2019. This trial has brought together a total of 20 citizen volunteers to establish a dialogue on through what channels they have shaped their opinion on vaccines and climate change. The objective of this pilot consultation is to...
ESTENAS project
Impact in digital media of the ScienceFlows article on users Google searches about complementary therapies
Empar Vengut Climent / A total of six digital media wrote about the article by the ScienceFlows researcher Lorena Cano, published in the Panace@ magazine. This work has allowed dismissing a relationship between the interest shown by the population that turn to Google in search of information about complementary therapies, their presence in digital media, and the use of these therapies by the Spanish population. For its part, the Europapress agency highlights that "the research conducted by Lorena Cano, also, allows us to understand how behavioural patterns work when looking for information and to know to what extent media influence...
Impact on media of the ScienceFlows research on the sociodemographic profile of the homeopathy user in Spain
Empar Vengut Climent / The research work entitled "Perfil sociodemográfico del usuario de la homeopatía en España" ('Sociodemographic profile of the homeopathy user in Spain') conducted by ScienceFlows researchers Lorena Cano, Isabel Mendoza and Carolina Moreno, and published first online in the magazine Atención Primaria, last September appeared in, at least, 11 digital media, among which Agencia Sinc and El País stand out. The study was carried out based on the results of the CIS survey of February 2018. For this purpose, a subsample of 124 people was selected, who answered that they were homeopathy consumers. Based on the answers...
Scienceflows coordinates a European project on the role of Science Communication in society
Empar Vengut Climent / On December 13th and 14th, the kick-off meeting of the European project coordinated by ScienceFlows CONCISE (Communication role on perception and beliefs of EU Citizens about Science) was held at the House of Science in Valencia. This project, with a funding of almost 1.2 million euros from the Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission, intends to study the role of science communication on the perception and beliefs of citizens of the European Union regarding science. Nine entities, including universities and companies, as well as the Spanish Association of Scientific Communication, are part of the consortium. The...
Scienceflows leads an Erasmus+ project which will evaluate the influence of training in decision making in science related issues of university students
Empar Vengut Climent / On December 13th, the kick-off meeting of the higher education Erasmus + Project PERSIST_EU (Knowledge, beliefs, Perceptions about Science of European Students) was held at the House of the Science of Valencia. The main objective of this project is to quantify and measure the value of training and education in university students when making personal decisions related to science, technology, health and environment. Members from the seven institutions participating in PERSIST_EU gathered together last month to discuss about the main points to progress in unison for the correct development of the project. PERSIST_EU partners will develop...
ScienceFlows at the 10th Edition of the 'Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social' (10th CILCS)
The researchers Yolanda Cabrera and Vanessa Roger Monzó, members of the ScienceFlows group, have attended the 10th Edition of the 'Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social', held at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife) from December 3rd to 7th. Their communication entitled 'Los discursos pseudocientíficos en las redes sociales: un análisis a través de canales temáticos' was included in the panel discussion 1030, which took place on Friday December 7th. This panel addressed the subject of communicative uses and interaction of stablished or surging social networks. In their presentation, the ScienceFlows researchers presented the results of the analysis carried out...
ESTENAS project, ScienceShop
On Scienceflows we support the scientific vocations of Secondary Education students
On Sunday, April 22, the XIII edition of the Experimenta Fair-Contest 2018 was held convened and organised every year for thirteen years by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Valencia. This initiative aims to convert Secondary Education students (ESO girls and boys, Baccalaureate and Intermediate Training Cycles) into active and creative protagonists, showing their experiments in physics and technology to all audiences. The event will take place at the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, in Valencia. During one morning, young students also become disseminators of science, since they explain the experiments selected for the fair to all the groups...
By Isabel Mendoza
CIS included the complementary and alternative therapies, in its February barometer
Last February 2018, the CIS (Center for Sociological Research) included in its barometer a questionnaire of 19 questions related to health issues, including questions about knowledge and use of 20 complementary and alternative therapies. The questionnaire asked about the therapies considered most popular among the Spanish population such as acupuncture, homeopathy, yoga and osteopathy. On March 8, the first results were made public, arousing great curiosity on traditional and social media. Until April 17, up to 21 news items have been counted in 18 digital media, including some of the main Spanish newspapers such as El Mundo, El Economista, 20...
Six members of ScienceFlows attended PCST2018, in Dunedin, New Zealand
The Public Communication Network of Science and Technology (PSCT) held from 4-6 April 2018, its XV PCST, in Dunedin, New Zealand. This conference is the one with the greatest international relevance in the field of scientific communication, bringing together professionals from all over the world, including journalists specialized in STEM (science and technology), representatives of scientific institutions, such as museums. and the entire academic and research community. The general theme of PCST2018 was "Science, Stories and Society – the Soul of Science Communication", in addition to a series of subtopics, the congress has been open to presentations in many different...
ScienceFlows at the 9th Edition of the "Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social" (9th CILCS)
On December 4th, 5th and 7th, the 9th Edition of the "Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social" (9th CILCS) was held at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife) with the general theme of "The end of a policy model" and the hashtag # 9CILCS. The 9th CILCS included, during its three days of celebration, a multitude of discussion tables and keynote presentations on social communication. Lorena Cano and Isabel Mendoza, members of the Scienceflows group, presented some of their preliminary results on the representation of five of the most used by Spaniards complementary therapies (homeopathy, acupuncture, lymphatic drainage, reflexology and...
ScienceFlows takes part at the "VI Congress of Social Communication of Science" (CCSC2017)
From November 22 to 25, the 6th Congress of Social Communication of Science (CCSC2017) was held under the slogan "Culture and Science. Old challenges, new media ", jointly organized by the University of Córdoba and the Spanish Association of Scientific Communication (AECC). The congress included posters, presentations and communications on the communication of science and welcomed more than 385 attendees. The hashtag chosen for the event was # CCSC2017 and became a trending topic on a national level, both on Thursday 23, and on Friday, November 24. The Congress was inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Research, Development...
ScienceFlows participates in the 3ICHC – 3rd International Conference on Health Communication
On October 19 and 20, the 3rd edition of the International Conference on Health Communication was held at the Carlos III University of Madrid under the theme "Health in the 21st Century". The 3ICHC included several discussion panels, presentations and communications on communication and health. As a novelty on this occasion, the participation of the congresspeople was both in person and online. As was done in the previous editions, all abstracts accepted in the 3ICHC have been published in the indexed journal RECS (Revista Española de Comunicación en Salud). Lorena Cano and Isabel Mendoza, members of the ScienceFlows group, presented...
ScienceFlows takes part in the 1st Scientific Conference on Quality and Information Challenges
On the 18th and 19th October, the "I Jornadas Científicas de Calidad y Retos informativos" (I Scientific Conference on Quality and Information Challenges), was held at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia, organized by the working group "Journalism and quality information" of the Spanish Association of Communication Research ("Asociación Periodismo e información de calidad" de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación" or AEIC). Researchers from different universities, both national and international, met for two days to share and discuss the results of their work. This work was of an interdisciplinary nature and...
Homeopathy in the spotlight
Lourdes Ramiro Carrillo, 4th year student of Journalism of the University of Valencia, has presented in June 2017 her Final Degree Project entitled: "Homeopathy in the spotlight", carried out within the framework of the ESTENAS project, under the direction of Carolina Moreno. Lourdes Ramiro has collected statistics from public sources and has interviewed different actors and representatives of interest groups, both for and against homeopathy. Her work can be downloaded and consulted through the following link.
Conference of doctor Mario Alonso Puig on leadership in a VUCA world
On May 12, members of the ESTENAS team attended the conference that Dr. Mario Alonso Puig gave at the ESIC Business & Marketing School's main hall. Alonso is a specialist in general surgery and of the digestive system, as well as a professor and speaker, expert in leadership, creativity, and business innovation. Entitled Liderazgo en un mundo VUCA: Una enseñanza imprescindible ("Leadership in a VUCA world: An essential education"), Dr. Alonso addressed concepts such as leadership, success and healthy lifestyle habits, and stressed the importance of maintaining a balance between reason and emotions. Later, we were able to discuss aspects related to...
By Lorena Cano-Orón
Seminar on the placebo effect with Josep Eladi Baños
On April 1, Josep Eladi Baños, doctor of Medicine and lecturer of Pharmacology at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), gave a seminar entitled "The incorporation of complementary therapies in medicine studies and approximations on placebo and nocebo effects", in the Language Theory and Communication Sciences Department of the Universitat de València. From the beginning of the seminar, given to the members of the ESTENAS team, Josep Eladi Baños insisted on the need to clarify some points to be able to approach the complementary therapies also called natural or alternative. In the first place, he pointed out that there are practitioners...
Book promo "Institutional campaigns in public health"
On February 24th, at "Casa del Libro" in Valencia, book promo of "Institutional Campaigns for Public Health. The Case of the HPV Vaccine " (in spanish "Campañas institucionales de salud pública. El caso de la vacuna contra el virus VPH") took place. Next to the editor, Carolina Moreno, were Javier Ordóñez, coauthor and professor of History of Science of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and writer Carmen Amoraga. The three speeches emphasized the three main and defining aspects of Professor Moreno's work. First, the discursive polyphony of the book, that presents arguments for and against immunization and gathers testimonies of the...
Public offer of a senior research support technician position
The deadline for submitting applications is from February 1 to February 10, 2017 In ScienceFlows we are looking for a research technician to support the ESTENAS project. The regulations of the call can be found in the DOCV published on January 31: www.dogv.gva.es/datos/2017/01/31/pdf/2017_622.pdf The general conditions of the job offer are: 1. To work on the project «Study and classification of the natural, complementary and alternative therapies through the media and the social networks. Ideas and values applied to the social imaginary» (ESTENAS). 2. Position: Senior research support technician. 3. Working hours: 20 weekly hours. 4. Object and duration: Support to field work, development and...
Carolina Moreno publishes a monographic on the social debate of the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV)
Do I vaccinate her, yes or no? This is the question asked by the parents of girls between the ages of 11 and 14 who, according to the official vaccination calendar of many Western countries, administer the three doses of the vaccine against HPV. Although the vaccine is included in the official calendars, approving all safety protocols of the regulatory agencies, uncertainty and doubt regarding its safety and side effects has been socially disseminated through the media and social networks. Campañas Institucionales en Salud Pública: El caso de la vacuna contra el virus VPH, the new book coordinated by the...
Videos of the #ComDigCV Data Journalism are now available
Last November 9 the Digital Communication Congress in the Valencian Community, focused on Data Journalism reached its eighth edition in the University of Valencia. As in previous years, the Congress hosted the interventions of journalism and communication academics and professionals, who presented their point of view and debated animatedly, among themselves and with the abundant public, formed by Journalism students of the University of Valencia and by professionals in the communication sector. The Congress began with the conference of José Luis Dader, Professor of Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and the main exponent of research and analysis in...
VIII Congress of Digital Communication
On November 9 and 10, in Valencia, the eighth edition of the Digital Communication Congress took place, focused on this occasion in Data Journalism. The event was divided into two parts: the conference of the first day offered a theoretical vision on data journalism. After an inaugural lecture, the rest of the day was organised in three round tables in which reference keynote speakers from the academic and professional field discussed and debated the latest trends in data journalism; the second day consisted of a workshop of practical exercises introductory to the subject. José Luís Dader (Professor of Journalism at...
Emilia Lopera publishes a book about the causes and consequences of the anti-vaccine movement
Emilia H. Lopera Pareja, member of the research group ScienceFlows and of the CIEMAT Scientific Culture Research Unit, has published the book El movimiento antivacunas. Argumentos, causas y consecuencias ('The anti-vaccine movement. Reasons, causes and consequences'), in which she explores the origins and multiple implications of vaccine rejection that is taking place in some developed countries. Published by Los Libros de la Catarata, this volume is part of the Essays on Science and Society series, an initiative of the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI) to promote studies that combine research with accessibility and knowledge transfer to society. Although in Spain there...
VIII Digital Communication Congress: Data Journalism
In November, the Digital Communication Congress in the Valencian Community reaches its eighth edition, this time specialising in Data Journalism, a form of journalism that although it seems new and has set the media agenda of the past year (Los Papeles de Panamá, Los Papeles de la Castellana), has its roots in the 1950s. As you can see at the end of the post, the programme is full of experts who, of course, will leave no-one indifferent. The congress begins with an inaugural lecture by José Luis Dader (the academic who introduced data journalism in Spain with his monograph on...
Attendance to the conferences 'The path of well-being'
Yolanda Cabrera, researcher of the ESTENAS group, attended together with other members of the research team, during the days 19 and 20, the conferences, which under the motto "The path of well-being", have been held at the Mercantile Athenaeum of Valencia, organised by the Ágora Bienestar Valencia (http://www.agorabienestar.es/). Throughout the presentations, talks and debates efforts have been made to offer a global vision of welfare thanks to the presence of experts in the field that have addressed the issue from a triple perspective. First, the wellbeing of the body to be healthy, with the presentation of some of the most...
ScienceFlows at the PCST-2016
The 14th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference: The Global Conference on Science Communication was held on 26, 27 and 28 April in Istanbul, Turkey. The event was organized by the International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST). This network includes scientific journalists, museum staff and science centers, academic researchers, scientific communicators, publicists, educators, broadcasters and people interested in these issues. Therefore, as can be deduced, it is a multidisciplinary network with the objective of addressing the public communication of science and technology. Carolina Moreno and Emilia Lopera contributed in the congress with the presentation...
II Conference on Media and Mental Health
After the success of the I Conference on Media and Mental Health, the second edition was held today in the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. On this conference, the importance of the media in topics and news related to mental health has been delved into. The ability and importance of the journalist to contribute to the elimination of discrimination and stigma suffered by people with mental illness has been highlighted. The first round table, entitled "Mental Health in the Media", was formed by Juan Cruz (writer and journalist in El País), Concha Tejerina (editor in Agencia EFE) and Alejandro...
Valérie Poinsot, CEO of Boiron, says homeopathy is just another medicine
Researchers of the ESTENAS team have attended the press conference of the Boiron Laboratories. Investigadores del equipo ESTENAS han asistido a la rueda de prensa de Los Laboratorios Boiron. Valérie Poinsot, CEO of Boiron Laboratories, before the criticism from journalists, mass media and agents of the health sector has explained in press conference, in a central hotel of Madrid, today March 9, how her pharmaceutical group has participated between 2006 and 2010 in a study on the effect of homeopathy on 8,559 patients of the French health system. A total of 825 physicians have been part of a study, in...
ScienceFlows in the I International Congress on Data Journalism
What stand do political parties take towards non-conventional therapies? And what stance was taken on Twitter during the election campaign of the 2015 General Elections? Lorena Cano and Carolina Moreno presented on February 26 at the First International Conference on Data Journalism: New Narratives for Specialised Journalism, held at the UMA, a research that aimed to assess and study the treatment of non-conventional, complementary, alternatives or integrative therapies through electoral programmes of the 2015 General Elections of five political parties: Ciudadanos, Podemos, PP, PSOE and Unidad Popular, as well as the tweets of their leading candidates The researchers have used...
I Conference on Media and Mental Health
On November 17 the first conference on Media and Mental Health was held at La Nau (Universidad de Valencia). The participants were professionals in journalism, the health sector and academia, whose combination turned out to be a very enriching multidisciplinary meeting. The program covered different perspectives in order to give voice to the different actors involved and researchers who are part, in one way or another, of the object being addressed. The main theme of the conference was how the media addresses mental health. The Janssen laboratories, represented by Ramón Frexes, provided a more practical view of the drugs related...