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WR #15
College: LSU
QQuestionable
vs. CAR: #6 vs opposing WR - 31.97 FPA
Bye Week9 Rank125 % Rostered0.7 % Change0.7 WK 17 Pts20.10 WK 18 Pts0.00
2 ATL
4 @NE
6 @PHI
8 @NO
- - - - - 1 50 1 - - - - 12.00
9 Bye - - - - - - - - - - - - 0.00
10 @WAS
15 NO
Loss, 0-9
16 @CAR
- - - 14 - 3 81 - - - - - 12.50
17 @NYJ
18 CAR
2 ATL,
4 @NE,
6 @PHI,
7 CHI,
8 @NO,
- - 50 1 - 12.00
9 Bye - - - - - 0.00
10 @WAS,
15 NO,
16 @CAR,
14 - 81 - - 12.50
17 @NYJ,
18 CAR,
Deemed questionable
Grayson (hamstring) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Rams, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson's return to a limited practice Friday gives him a shot to play, but it's far from a sure thing, which means Scotty Miller, Jaelon Darden and even John Brown could see snaps behind Mike Evans and Tyler Johnson at wide receiver. Fellow Bucs wideout Breshad Perriman (abdomen/hip), who had been filling in for Grayson, is ruled out for Sunday's game.
Not practicing, but improving
Grayson (hamstring) remained a non-participant in Thursday's practice, but he was on the field in a helmet working out off to the side during the portion of the session that was open to the media, Jenna Laine of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Grayson was a spectator for the Buccaneers' wild-card win over the Eagles last weekend while he continued to recover from the left hamstring injury he sustained early in Tampa Bay's Week 18 win over Carolina. Though the speedy wideout hasn't taken reps in practice since suffering the injury and looks in line to miss a second straight playoff game Sunday against the Rams, Grayson's presence at Thursday's workout is at least a step in the right direction. According to Laine, Grayson was mostly…read more
Published: Thu, Jan 20 at 8:41am by Rotowire.com
Not practicing Wednesday
Grayson (hamstring) was a non-participant at Wednesday's practice.
Analysis: Since sustaining a hamstring injury in the Buccaneers' regular-season finale, Grayson hasn't mixed into any drills and missed the team's playoff opener this past Sunday against the Eagles. He still has a pair of chances to get back on the practice field this week and put himself in a position to suit up for Sunday's divisional-round matchup with the Rams, but his availability remains up in the air for the time being.
Will sit out wild-card game
Grayson (hamstring) won't play in Sunday wild-card game against the Eagles, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Analysis: Head coach Bruce Arians ruled out the wide receiver shortly after he missed a third consecutive practice Friday. With Grayson out of the lineup after injuring his hamstring in the regular-season finale, the Bucs will likely deploy Mike Evans, Tyler Johnson and Breshad Perriman (hip) as the primary grouping in three-receiver sets. Scotty Miller, Jaelon Darden and Justin Watson (quadriceps) are the other options at the position.
Published: Fri, Jan 14 at 9:54am by Rotowire.com
No practice Thursday
Grayson (hamstring) was a non-participant at Thursday's practice, Carmen Vitali of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson was quickly ruled out of a Week 18 win against the Panthers after six offensive snaps, the result of a hamstring issue. Since then, coach Bruce Arians' line on Grayson more or less has gone from questionable to doubtful to play in Sunday's wild-card game versus the Eagles. With no practice yet this week, Grayson seems destined to be ruled out for the Buccaneers' playoff opener, which could be confirmed as early as the release of Friday's injury report.
Published: Thu, Jan 13 at 1:50pm by Rotowire.com
Unlikely to play
Head coach Bruce Arians said Wednesday that he considers Grayson (hamstring) doubtful for Sunday's wild-card game against the Eagles, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson injured his hamstring early in the Bucs' Week 18 win over Carolina, after catching nine passes for 162 yards and a touchdown between Weeks 16 and 17. His likely absence Sunday leaves Tyler Johnson and Breshad Perriman as the favorites for snaps alongside Mike Evans, while Scotty Miller and Jaelon Darden are still expected to stick in reserve roles.
Published: Wed, Jan 12 at 9:53am by Rotowire.com
Availability in question
Coach Bruce Arians said Monday that Grayson's hamstring injury isn't as bad as initially thought, but the wideout's availability for Sunday's playoff game against the Eagles "will be in question," Jenna Laine of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Grayson suffered the injury during Sunday's win over the Panthers, and he may end up being unavailable for the first round of the playoffs. Breshad Perriman had five catches for 44 yards versus Carolina and could have a similar workload if Grayson is unable to play this weekend.
Published: Mon, Jan 10 at 12:16pm by Rotowire.com
Injures hamstring
Grayson has been ruled out for the remainder of Sunday's game against the Panthers with a hamstring injury.
Analysis: Grayson didn't catch a pass prior to his exit from the contest. In his absence, Mike Evans and Tyler Johnson are in line to head the Buccaneers' shorthanded wideout corps in Week 18.
Officially joins active roster
Grayson signed a contract with the Buccaneers on Saturday, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: The hero of Week 17 will finally get a spot guaranteed on the active roster after being elevated from the practice squad in back-to-back weeks. Grayson's six receptions obviously marked a career high but more crucially might have indicated the former track star could be an integral part of the offensive plans in the absence of both Chris Godwin and the recently waived Antonio Brown. Expect Grayson to see a handful of targets once more with the Buccaneers still playing for seeding in Week 18.
Makes game-winning TD grab
Grayson secured six of eight targets for 81 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers' 28-24 win over the Jets on Sunday. He also returned one kickoff for seven yards.
Analysis: A week after posting a solid 3-84 line against the Panthers, Grayson made his return to the active roster Saturday and paid big dividends Sunday. The third-year wideout recorded a game-winning 33-yard touchdown grab with 15 seconds left, a catch that was preceded by a 10-yard reception on first down. With Antonio Brown slated to be let go following his unauthorized exit from the game Sunday and Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times relaying Tom Brady has already expressed his trust in the…read more
Grayson was elevated to the Buccaneers' active roster Saturday, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Grayson will be active for the second game in a row and for the fourth time this season. Last week, the 5-foot-9 wideout caught three passes for 84 receiving yards and also rushed one time for 14 yards. However, his role is expected to be diminished in Week 17, as Breshad Perriman (illness) is active and Mike Evans (hamstring) is expected to play.
Published: Sun, Jan 2 at 8:20am by Rotowire.com
Grayson reverted to the Buccaneers' practice squad Monday, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson was elevated from the practice squad Saturday and immediately occupied a substantial role in the Buccaneers' offense. He totaled 84 receiving yards and three catches -- the highlight came on a 62-yard reception late in the second quarter -- and he also chipped in 14 rushing yards. Grayson is a candidate to be elevated from the practice squad once again in Week 17, though he'll likely see a lessened role due to the return of Breshad Perriman (illness).
Bumps up to active roster
The Buccaneers elevated Grayson from the practice squad Saturday, Scott Smith of the team's official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson earned back-to-back elevations Week 7 and 8 and made a splash play in the second one, a 50-yard TD catch during a 36-27 loss at New Orleans. Considering Mike Evans (hamstring) was ruled out for a Week 16 visit to Carolina, Chris Godwin (knee) is on injured reserve, and Breshad Perriman and Jaelon Darden are on the reserve/COVID-19 list, Grayson could find his way onto the field Sunday, but Antonio Brown, Tyler Johnson and Scotty Miller figure to earn most of the WR reps.
Published: Sat, Dec 25 at 7:11pm by Rotowire.com
Reverts to Bucs' practice squad
Grayson reverted to Tampa Bay's practice squad Monday, per the NFL's official transactions report.
Analysis: Grayson flashed big-play potential by taking his only target for a 50-yard touchdown during Sunday's 36-27 loss to the Saints. All said, he played eight offensive snaps and 11 snaps on special teams. However, Grayson may not have an opportunity to be elevated again in Week 10, after Tampa Bay's bye, because Antonio Brown (ankle) looks set to retake the field then.
Published: Tue, Nov 2 at 5:12am by Rotowire.com
Flashes with big TD in loss
Grayson brought in his only target for a 50-yard touchdown in the Buccaneers' 36-27 loss to the Saints on Sunday.
Analysis: The LSU product made quite the splash with his first reception since 2019 and only his second NFL grab overall, getting loose downfield on a busted coverage to haul in a 50-yard bomb for a walk-in touchdown with just over five minutes remaining. The play was one of only eight snaps from scrimmage for Grayson, who'd been elevated from the practice squad with Antonio Brown (ankle) inactive. Despite the undeniably impressive play, Grayson appears destined for a demotion with Brown seemingly having…read more
Published: Mon, Nov 1 at 10:30am by Rotowire.com
The Buccaneers elevated Grayson to the active roster from their practice squad Saturday.
Analysis: With Antonio Brown (ankle) out for a second straight week, Grayson will once again join the active roster to add depth to Tampa Bay's receiving core. The 27-year-old played 13 offensive snaps in Week 7, but he failed to record a target. Grayson will likely see a similar workload against the Saints on Sunday night.
Grayson reverted to Tampa Bay's practice squad Monday, per the NFL's offical transaction log.
Analysis: Grayson made his 2021 debut in Week 7 with Antonio Brown (ankle) ruled out against the Bears. The wideout played 13 offensive snaps but failed to see a target. Grayson will now head back to the practice squad and hope to be elevated again.
Published: Tue, Oct 26 at 6:08am by Rotowire.com
Grayson was elevated to the active roster Saturday, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Analysis: With Antonio Brown (ankle) ruled out for Week 7, Grayson will get his first promotion of the 2021 campaign. The 27-year-old wideout has appeared in five contests for the Buccaneers over the past two seasons and caught just one of four targets, so he likely won't have a sizeable role for Tampa Bay's offense Sunday.
Moves to waivers
Grayson was waived by the Buccaneers on Tuesday, Scott Smith of the team's official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson has suited up for the Buccaneers in five games over the past two seasons, recording a three-yard reception on four targets. The LSU product will likely shift to a familiar role with the Buccaneers' practice squad after he clears waivers.
Published: Tue, Aug 31 at 4:44pm by Rotowire.com
Stands out in second exhibition
Grayson (undisclosed) secured four of eight targets for 57 yards in the Buccaneers' 34-3 preseason loss to the Titans on Saturday night.
Analysis: Per Greg Auman of The Athletic, Grayson was the only one of the fringe wideout candidates to step up in Saturday's game, with a 35-yard reception the highlight of his night. Grayson has seen five games of regular-season action with the Buccaneers over the last two seasons, posting one reception for three yards on four targets and adding 20 yards on kickoff returns. A former sprinter during his college days at LSU, the 27-year-old's likeliest initial slotting for 2021 still could be the practice…read more
Likely out Saturday
Grayson (undisclosed) is not expected to play Saturday, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson hasn't practiced since Tuesday so it's not a surprise to see him held out for the team's opening preseason game. The 27-year-old is expected to compete for one of the team's final roster spots at wide receiver.
Published: Sat, Aug 14 at 3:28pm by Rotowire.com
Dealing with injury
Grayson (undisclosed) is not practicing Tuesday, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: The nature of Grayson's injury remains undisclosed, and he only has a few days before Saturday's preseason matchup against the Bengals. The depth wideout spent most of the 2020 season on Tampa Bay's practice squad.
Published: Tue, Aug 10 at 7:03am by Rotowire.com
Signs reserve/future contract
Grayson signed a reserve/future contract with the Buccaneers on Tuesday, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports.
Analysis: Grayson will remain with the Super Bowl champs after spending the majority of the season on their practice squad. The 27-year-old was active for three games in 2020 but failed to record a reception.
Published: Tue, Feb 9 at 7:27pm by Rotowire.com
Off practice squad injured list
Tampa Bay restored Grayson (undisclosed) to its practice squad from the injured list Friday.
Analysis: Grayson suited up with the Buccaneers for three games this season and logged 42 snaps overall, but he was unable to haul in any of his three targets. The LSU product had recently been saddled with an undisclosed injury that's apparently now behind him.
Placed on injured list
Grayson (undisclosed) was moved to the Buccaneers' practice squad injured list Monday, per the NFL's official transaction log.
Analysis: It has yet to be revealed what variety of injury is beleaguering Grayson, but the LSU product now leaves the fold until further notice. The 27-year-old has gone without a reception over three targets and 42 offensive snaps this season, adding a 20-yard kick return against the Packers in a Week 6 rout.
Jettisoned from practice squad
The Buccaneers cut Grayson from the practice squad Monday.
Analysis: The Bucs also let go wide receiver Josh Pearson. Grayson played in three games with the Buccaneers this season but failed to catch a pass over 42 snaps on offense.
Removed from COVID-19 list
The Buccaneers activated Grayson (illness) from the reserve/COVID-19 list Thursday, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson will now be eligible to resume participating in practice squad activities. Prior to being placed on the COVID-19 list Nov. 14, Grayson had also been on the team's 53-man roster as a healthy scratch for two contests.
Published: Thu, Nov 19 at 2:41pm by Rotowire.com
Placed on COVID list
The Buccaneers placed Grayson on the practice squad COVID-19 list, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Analysis: Grayson joined the Tampa Bay's practice squad in early November after being cut from the active roster. It is unknown if he tested positive for the virus or had close contact with an infected individual.
Published: Sat, Nov 14 at 10:24am by Rotowire.com
Back in Tampa
Grayson signed a contract with the Buccaneers' practice squad Wednesday, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Grayson was cut by the team Tuesday to make room for Antonio Brown, but he quickly returned to the team. Grayson has suited up in three games this season with Tampa Bay, failing to haul in any of his three targets. The LSU product will replace John Hurst on the practice squad.
Published: Wed, Nov 4 at 6:37pm by Rotowire.com
Let go following AB addition
The Buccaneers cut Grayson on Tuesday, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports.
Analysis: This opened up a spot on the 53-man roster for the Buccaneers to activate Brown from the reserve/suspension list Tuesday. Grayson has suited up in three games with the Bucs this year, and he was targeted three times but didn't record a reception. The 26-year-old wideout is a practice squad candidate.
Published: Tue, Nov 3 at 1:53pm by Rotowire.com
Inactive Week 7
Grayson (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's Week 7 tilt against the Raiders, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: The reserve receiver saw some action from scrimmage Week 6 and also has logged time as a returner this season, but he'll be in street clothes with the Bucs' receiving corps at full health Sunday.
Sees action from scrimmage
Grayson failed to bring in either of his two targets and returned one kickoff for 20 yards in the Buccaneers' 38-10 win over the Packers on Sunday.
Analysis: Grayson logged 12 snaps on offense overall but came up empty, with his only production limited to his one kickoff return. The second-year LSU product is likely to either head back to the practice squad or continue to play a minimal role when active, unless multiple injuries simultaneously strike the receiver corps.
Signs with active roster
The Buccaneers signed Grayson to the active roster Tuesday, Scott Smith of the team's official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson was on the team's practice squad and has only suited up once in Week 2 against the Panthers. The Buccaneers' wide receiver corps has been torched with injuries, as Mike Evans (ankle), Chris Godwin (hamstring) and Scotty Miller (hip) are all battling injuries heading into Thursday's game versus the Bears. Depending on how their respective recoveries progress, Grayson could enjoy a decent workload Thursday along with Tyler Johnson and Jaydon Mickens.
Published: Tue, Oct 6 at 12:31pm by Rotowire.com
Logs one target in win
Grayson, who reverted to the Buccaneers' practice squad Monday, failed to bring in his only target during the 31-17 win over the Panthers on Sunday.
Analysis: Grayson was active with Chris Godwin (concussion) sidelined, and the second-year wideout actually logged 18 scrimmage snaps. However, the LSU product unsurprisingly saw little of quarterback Tom Brady's attention in what was Grayson's third professional game. Godwin has cleared concussion protocol and is expected to be available for Sunday's Week 3 road matchup against the Broncos, but Jenna Laine of ESPN.com reports the Bucs designated Grayson as one of their three protected practice squad…read more
Sent to practice roster
Grayson reverted to the Saints' practice squad.
Analysis: Both Grayson and Bennie Fowler were elevated to the active roster for Week 1's win over the Buccaneers, although Fowler was the only one to get on the field. Now, Michael Thomas (ankle) is expected to miss multiple games, so both receivers could be brought back up soon.
Inactive against Saints
Grayson (coach's decision) is inactive for the team's Week 1 matchup against the Saints, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson was elevated from the practice squad to the active roster Saturday, presumably as insurance for Mike Evans (hamstring). However, with Evans able to suit up Sunday, Grayson is inactive.
Published: Sun, Sep 13 at 12:23pm by Rotowire.com
Elevated from practice squad
Grayson was promoted from the practice squad to the Buccaneers' 55-man roster Saturday, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports.
Analysis: It's no guarantee that Grayson will be one of the 48 players active for the team's Week 1 contest against the Saints. That decision will likely be determined by Mike Evans' (hamstring) ability to play, as he's currently expected to be a game-time decision. Even if Grayson does suit up, he figures to serve solely in a depth role.
Published: Sat, Sep 12 at 12:16pm by Rotowire.com
Moves to practice squad
Grayson cleared waivers Sunday and signed with the Buccaneers' practice squad, Scott Smith of the team's official site reports.
Analysis: Grayson made his NFL debut in Week 16 last season but didn't make much of an impact. The Buccaneers' wideouts were hit by an injury bug late last year, and Grayson likely won't be activated unless a similar situation plays out.
Heads to waiver wire
The Buccaneers waived Grayson on Friday, Greg Auman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Grayson played for the Bucs in Weeks 16 and 17, catching one pass for three yards in the latter contest. However, the receiver room became too crowded with the draft addition of Tyler Johnson (undisclosed). If Grayson clears waivers, he'll likely land on the practice squad.
Published: Fri, Sep 4 at 7:38pm by Rotowire.com
PIcked up by Bucs
Grayson was signed off the Cowboys' practice squad by the Buccaneers on Monday, Jenna Laine of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: With Chris Godwin and Mike Evans both dealing with hamstring issues, Grayson has been added to the Bucs' roster to help provide depth at wide receiver. This will be the LSU product's first stint in on an NFL roster after going undrafted in 2018.
Added to Dallas' practice squad
Grayson signed with the Cowboys' practice squad Tuesday, Michael Gehlken of The Dallas Morning News reports.
Analysis: Grayson will provide some receiver depth after Cedrick Wilson suffered a knee injury in the Week 14 loss to the Bears. The Louisiana native has yet to appear in an NFL game.
Published: Tue, Dec 10 at 8:36am by Rotowire.com
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Can't-Miss Play: Brady lasers 33-yard game-winning TD to GraysonSun, Jan 2 at 1:13pm
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady delivers a game-winning 33-yard touchdown pass to Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Cyril Grayson in Week 17 of the 2021 season against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium.
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20 years of experience administering Linux systems with cryptographic authentication and cryptographically encrypted data. PGP encrypted email experience. Involved with Bitcoin since 2012 as an investor and evangelist. Former assistant coordinator of Silicon Valley Bitcoin Meetup. Bitcoin miner. Commentator on Internet Security as it relates to cryptocurrencies at Joebitcoin.org. A past guest on Bill Still and JSnip4 youtube channels.
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Q: Bordered element with display:table extends out of parent This code seems to have a different effect in each browser.

.container {
    display: inline-block;
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.box {
    display: table;
    width: 10px;
    height: 10px;
    background-color: red;
    border: 5px solid blue;
}

In Chrome 43.0, the table is not confined to the container:

In Safari 5.1, the border completely overlaps the table because it seems to interpret the width as inclusive of the border width:

In Firefox 38.0 and Internet Explorer 11.0, the table renders correctly:

The ideal would be that all browsers behave similar to Firefox/Internet Explorer.
Using box-sizing: border-box and increasing the width of .box to include the width of the border makes all browsers show the Firefox/Internet Explorer version, but assuming that the width of the border is unknown, is there any way to make all major browsers render the model according to Firefox/Internet Explorer (without using JavaScript)?
The following doesn't help at all:

*

*Using table-layout: fixed on the .box.

*Using border-collapse: separate on the .box

*Using box-sizing: content-box on the .box

*Using
 instead of display: table (This just makes Chrome's preview look the same as Safari's and I would prefer to not use a table element.)

This issue seems to be similar to Chrome vs. box-sizing:border-box in a display:table, but that problem was already fixed.

Just for frame of reference:
That was all just a minimal example demonstrating the same problem. The actual issue is that I have a
 with display: table that will have its width only defined by the width of its cells (which is equal to the height of the cells) and the padding between them. That div also happens to have a border. That div is contained by another element that is floated to the right. However, because of this problem, when the floated container is completely on the right, the div overflows off the screen.

A: Set box-sizing: border-box to .box and then give it a size to .box taking in count it border-width
Like this:

.container {
    display: inline-block;
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.box {
    display: table;
    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    background-color: red;
    border: 5px solid blue;
    box-sizing:border-box;
}

The behavior that you have is because .container is adjusting to the content of .box and the default value of box-sizing is content-box so the border are being left out.
Added another solution because the above solution requires the border width to be known beforehand
Trying set display: table-cell to the content inside of .box

.container {
    display: inline-block;
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.box {
    display: table;
    border: 5px solid blue;
}

.cell {
    display: table-cell;
    width: 10px;
    height: 10px;
    background-color: red;
}

A: You can add in the .container : width: 20px

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December 16: T Clutch Fleischmann wants you to read Samuel Delany
The year is 2012 so the notion of Advent doesn't sit quite right. Typically, Advent involves contemplative wait for the celebration of the Nativity. It is cyclical in the way that cyclical things also suggest rebirth and the rejuvenation of what came before. Like, Here comes the Advent, and then a year later we'll wait, and then Here comes the Advent, &c. So we're weirdly always waiting for what has already happened, and then eventually that will be the Second Coming, and then who the hell knows what's up after that, except for that it will just be a bigger cycle began again.
But this year is 2012, and Western culture has gotten obsessed with the idea that the Ancient Mayan calendar will end on December 21 and then the Entire World will end. This all despite the fact that many Mayan people today have kindly asked that those of us who are not Mayan please stop using this date to misinterpret their traditions so that we can express our own apocalyptic fears. But the idea lingers, an inverse of the traditional Advent in that we are not-so-calmly waiting for a massive destruction that will end all we know and that, hidden in its background, contains the suggestion of renewal and fresh life.
All of this is an oblique way to introduce Samuel Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, a book I have been obsessed with for a couple years now. Often I will be having a conversation that has no connection to the book and I will bring it up anyway, saying "That makes me think of Samuel Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue" and then talking about the book as though it related to whatever was said before (kind of like right now). The book performs two core functions. In the first, Delany chronicles his extended experiences in the now-closed porn theaters that once held a prominent place in Manhattan. As a regular in these low-cost establishments, Delany had countless sexual encounters with other men, most taking place within the establishments and some transitioning outside, to a home or the street. In a narrative that is both charming and unsentimental, Delany describes these encounters, focusing on a number of men whom he recalls in extended detail while peppering the account with the suggestion of anonymous, perpetual hook-ups. When this concludes, the remainder of the text draws on that narrative in order to develop a theory of what was gained socially by those theaters (and, likewise, what was lost when forces like heterosexism, classism, and sex negativity forced them out of Manhattan). In this overtly academically-minded section, Delany develops a theory built along ideas of social contact ("a fundamentally urban phenomenon" in which people help one another and rely on one another through their daily interactions in the public sphere) and social networking (a "professional and motive-driven" form of interaction that explicitly cannot provide many of the benefits of contact), praising the porn theaters precisely because of the rare opportunity for cross-class contact they provided, and notably looking to writers' conferences to demonstrate the falterings of networking.
Delany's essays are a rare treat in so many ways. Besides the fact that the book is super, super gay and that is has brilliant ideas about sex, architecture, and community, it is also composed of two hybridized essays that are deftly unique, accessible, and engaging. Of the many different beasts it becomes, the beast through which it tells straightforward narrative/memoir and the beast through which it performs abstracted social critique seem as unlike one another as any of the essay genre's many forms. Yet Delany here seamlessly amalgamates them into one lovely animal. Take these two excerpts. The first, from the narrative-driven section, reads:
"Furthest down the block from the Capri, the Venus was generally a little too scroungy even for me. The drug activity there was often so high as to obliterate the sex activity. Still, on and off through the years, it provided me with a couple of memorable regulars. Gary was one, a handyman who worked at a Catholic church on Tenth Avenue. A lanky, affable guy with a brown ponytail, he impressed me as someone with very fixed habits who, as long as he was within them, was comfortable. And he always seemed comfortable in the theater. I first met him up at the Hollywood when he was about thirty-seven, but their patrolling and monitoring turned him off, so he moved down to the Venus. Regularly he brought in his two forty-two-ounce bottles of beer, generally to sit in the last three or four rows of the orchestra on the right as you came in, settling back to wait for one of three older guys to service him, me among them. He had a regular girlfriend, he claimed, who'd introduced him to the pleasures of getting things shoved up his behind when he had sex, but her overall sexual appetites simply weren't as high as his. That's why he came to the movies. He liked two or three fingers thrust deep up his asshole while you sucked his rather thick, cut seven inches, but he was a little reticent about explaining this to new guys. So he pretty much stuck to the three of us."
while the second, from the theory-nerd-head section, reads:
"As are the spaces of the unconscious and the space of discourse, the space where the class war occurs as such is, in its pure form, imaginary-- imaginary not in the Lacanian sense but rather in the mathematical sense. (In the Lacanian sense, those spaces are specifically Symbolic.) Imaginary numbers-- those involved with i, the square root of minus-one-- do not exist. But they have measurable and demonstrable effects on the real (i.e. political) materiality of science and technology. Similarly, the structures, conflicts, and displacements that occur in the unconscious, the class war, and the space of discourse are simply too useful to ignore in explaining what goes on in the world we live in, unto two men yelling in the hall, one a landlord and one a tenant, if not mayhem out on the streets themselves, or the visible changes in a neighborhood, like Times Square or, indeed, the Upper West Side, over a decade or so, and the specificities of rhetorical shift."
Despite the dissimilar tones employed, however, the two are made within the book as whole to be inseparable from one another, with moments of theory and of narrative regularly intruding across the others porous boundaries. The same subject, glanced at from two angles at once, reveals the dependency of both angles in order to understand it at all. The text darts astutely through the history of AIDS, of immigration and housing practices, and of public sex, narratives running parallel to and intersecting social theory. Which, of course, how could it be any other way? Delany went to the porn theaters in Manhattan countless times, and there he gave strangers nameless blowjobs, and there he cared for other humans and was cared for by them, and there social categories existed in modes in which they do not otherwise exist, and to understand how lovely and important that all is you need to think about it in a few different ways. Which is what Delaney is generous enough to let us as readers do, refusing to sensationalize or censor, insisting at once on the winsome details and their broad implications.
In her book Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories, Elizabeth Freeman talks about the visceral pleasure we can achieve when we engage with history-telling and the past in a queer way. Queer people, she claims, have "risked experimentation with our bodies and those of others, with affiliation, and with new practices of hoping, demanding, and otherwise making claims on the future, and this has entailed an enormous commitment to the pleasure and power of figuration." Her work is part of a larger academic thread in which our own relationship to the past is reconsidered with the tools and tropes of contemporary queer affinity and gender. Because it's complicated: sometimes it seems like the world might be ending, and sometimes that is terrifying and sometimes it might be the only option for our renewal, but either way there's a fast-coming future while so many bits of the past are there, too, whether we wait in an Advent of religious calm or stock pile ammunition. If this is the present we're at, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is the future and past that we need. It refuses accepted modes of analysis, of narrative, and of essaying. Instead, it mourns the losses of our past to suggest tools for a better future. It declares the interrelatedness of our intellect and our body, our narratives and our theories, by telling them together. And it does this all so wonderfully because of how god damn skilled Delany is with the essay as form. It makes sense that a science fiction writer, invested in the union of fact and fantasy, would pull this off, just as it makes sense that the temporal and routine act of giving some dude a blowjob will, in the mind of the right writer, become an indelible moment of insight.
T Clutch Fleischmann's first book, Syzygy, Beauty, is available from Sarabande. A Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM, they live in rural Tennessee.
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Perfect for stopping that pet hair going down your plugholes!
Pets of all sorts need a good clean from time to time. Some are washed at home, while others go to the pet parlour.
Professional Pet groomers generally use a bath or a large, specialist sink to wash their doggie clients, but whichever one is used, the result is the same: a lot of hair, which can block the plughole and hold up business until the plunger or the plumber set it free.
The Sinkie was invented because of a visit to the hairdresser. A backwash was completely blocked and customers were forced to wait because of the lack of sinks. The plumber arrived rubbing his hands with glee, thinking of the big, fat fee he would earn.
Where do we like to go and relax to unwind? Yes the bath and don't you just hate it when, after a lovely bath or shower, that relaxed and clean feeling disappears as we have to clear debris and hair from the bath? Pop any Sinkie over the plughole as you pull the plug and all the debris is neatly collected, making for easy removal.
Dossil's range of high quality, compressed silicone rubber accessories keep the kitchen sink area clear, clean and scratchfree.
Nobody likes scraping out the plughole, reaching for the plunger or, worst of all, calling out the plumber for a blocked sink. Be it food waste or in food preparation, the Sinkie can be used to catch any vegetable peelings, soggy cornflakes or cat-food and keep your plughole clear of waste.
The narrow pipes in caravans and campervans are prime candidates for becoming blocked: they simply aren't wide enough to carry away all the debris. Whether it's in the kitchen or the shower area, the same applies. What's more, the plugholes are often in the most awkward places, and given the amount of space available it's good to be able to keep kitchens and bathrooms clean and hygienic while keeping chores to a minimum.
That's where the Sinkie comes in - keeping the plugholes clear of waste.


I generally try to swim 20 – 25km per week through the "off season".
In the lead up to a big swim the goal is to double that, getting to 40km to 50km per week, but that is really just through long weekend swims of 10km or longer.
It is tough to swim in open water in the UK as the water temperature needs to be over 12°C or 13°C for a safe swim over several hours. Some of the lakes, such as the Serpentine in London, get over 12°C in mid-April, however, the sea water in Dover really only gets over 12°C in mid-May. So I am often confined to the pool until Summer. I find that there is little point doing over 10km or 12km in the pool, so once I hit 10km I just try to go a little faster or keep a more consistent pace throughout the swim.
Anyway, here is my standard training week for the 15 weeks prior to the Manhattan Island Swim.
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There's this episode of Astro Boy that I always remember. There's an older boy, Matthew Tennyson, who Astro admires because he's training to become a space pilot and will be made a captain when he turns 18 in a few days. However, on his birthday, it turns out that Matthew is actually also a robot. Unlike Astro Boy's parents, the boy's father had just 'upgraded' his body once a month so it looked like he was growing. The boy – now Captain Tennyson – is devastated to find he's not a real human.
"I'm just a mechanical doll!"
Captain Matthew Tennyson
He's also worried that his Captainship will now be in question, since his crew are all humans. It was, naturally, up to Astro to show him that being a robot was actually pretty cool.
For some reason, that horrible moment of disconnect: realising you are not, in fact, what or who you always believed, really resonated with me. I remember it very clearly. The tall, dark and handsome Cap'n Tennyson looking beseechingly into the huge Japaname child-eyes of Astro for help, guidance and the reassurance that he, too could be loved, even if he was not the person he always thought himself to be.
I guess it's a good analogy for growing up. Or any sort of major change.
I also remember the scene showing the discarded, last-month's robot body of the 'growing boy' being dispatched into space, spinning off, lifeless, into infinity. Quite a visceral image of how we must, perhaps, literally shuck off our former selves in order to grow and change. But then we often get stung by imposter syndrome!
I just re-watched the episode and it was mostly as I remember. The 'older boy' was actually 20 was already a captain. He discovered his robot nature when he spied his beloved father sneaking the 'corpse' of his former self into the space-waste chute. Once everything had been worked out, there was also a touching moment when the father (wonderfully named Eldritch Tennyson) explained he only did it because he so wanted a child but couldn't have one any other way, and how much he loved his son no matter whether he was human or not (understandably this resonated more with me now as a parent, than it probably did when I first saw the episode aged 8!)
"Keeping a secret like this is too hard on an old man like me." –Eldritch Tennyson.
What's the take home? I guess it pays to remember that, as we move, change, grow, and maybe look back at the corpses of our former selves floating, discarded through space, we nonetheless retain in our core the bits that are worthy of love and deserving of respect. And, hopefully, we will also make friends with pointy-haired robot superheroes along the way!
Pics: http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Astro-Boy-1986/
Watch the episode "Outer Spaceport" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5eQ-TuVFFQ
Posted in Life and tagged Astro Boy, Astroboy, change, Eldritch, growth, love, old beliefs, respect, space pirates, Tennyson on January 28, 2018 by Claire. 11 Comments
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I haven't heard of Astro Boy. Interesting plot. Just imagine finding out you're nothing but a mechanical doll. If he's concerned about it – doesn't it mean he's got feelings just like a human?
D-Claire says:
In the world of Astro Boy, robots have feelings. Astro himself is "Brave and gentle and wise!" 😉
I've been struggling with this since repatriating three and a half years ago! But it's not just the repatriation. It's getting older and realizing there will be unfulfilled dreams. It's being finished having babies, but still aching for a newborn. It's so many grand changes that all point to mortality and our finite existence. I've been pondering where I'm from, and along with that sense of "formlessness" growing up a TCK, then being an expat, then a repat, where on earth (literally) I would want to be laid to rest.
I think the answer is – a space burial? But seriously… yes, all the things. I suppose it's no coincidence I had a significant birthday this month!
sunstylefiles says:
Not sure if we've ever seen Astro Boy! Heard of it though! Seems like a cartoon that drives the message home which most newer cartoons these days seem to miss.
Yeah, Astro Boy is quite interesting in that it's adapted from a Japanese comic from the 1960s, so very much post-atomic etc. There's a huge focus on science, scientists, robots. A lot of questions around can we replace human characteristics (and even entire humans) with robots … quite fascinating
Very philosophical post… Love it.
Tanya Simone Simpson says:
I love how kids' TV has the potential to present genuinely meaningful and thought-provoking concepts. I've never watched Astro Boy but I want to now!
Astro Boy is pretty awesome! I'd sort of forgotten about it
Haven't heard about Astro Boy before but the plot seems to be interesting!


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Policing women's bodies in Malaysia — Fifa Rahman & Azrul Mohd Khalib
September 6, 2016 September 8, 2016 admin
BY FIFA RAHMAN & AZRUL MOHD KHALIB
SEPTEMBER 5 — Of late, it seems like everyone has been giving their opinion as to whether or not a woman should cover up and to what degree. Some have even gone to the extent of legislating a ban on a specific type of clothing, believing that to wear the latter would be representative of support for terrorism and violent extremism.
We have seen burly armed members of the French police surround a woman on a Nice beach forcing her to take off her burkini, an outfit apparently not "respecting good morals and secularism". The resulting controversy and outcry against such discriminatory behaviour by a state institution continues to reverberate throughout Europe.
Not since the invention of the bikini has a female garment caused such consternation, distress and public debate.
On this side of the world, those from the religious quarter or those who consider themselves better Muslims and self-anointed "defenders of the faith", are busy slut-shaming those who decide to not cover up and are also determining for women what is acceptable clothing to wear in public. Therein is marked hypocrisy.
Most of the debates in Malaysia seem to centre around the hijab, skirt length and what constitutes acceptable female attire. Moral policing of women, in particular, seems to be a favourite pastime. Read more →
Opinions & Statements	Azrul Mohd Khalib, Fifa Rahman, gender inequality, policing of women's clothing, women
Police detain 174 individuals in Selangor under POCA since January
September 6, 2016 Raevathi Supramaniam
Source: Malay Mail Online
Selangor police chief Datuk Abdul Samah Mat congratulating police personnel who receive awards during the monthly assembly at the district police headquarters in Petaling Jaya, September 6, 2016. — Bernama pic
PETALING JAYA, Sept 6 — A total of 174 individuals were detained in Selangor under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (POCA) during the first eight months of this year.
Selangor Police Chief Datuk Abdul Samah Mat said this was the biggest arrest in the country compared to other states.
"This number involves those who were involved in secret society criminal activities (24), serious crimes (114), property (33) and gambling activities (3)," he told reporters after attending the Selangor Police Contingent's monthly gathering at the Petaling Jaya Police Headquarters here today.
He said the number recorded this year was less compared with the same period last year which was 209 comprising 21 secret society cases, serious crimes (102), property (46), gambling (14) and human trafficking (six).
Commenting on online gambling activities, he said 3,602 raids were carried out on illegal gambling premises from January to August this year and 5,609 individuals arrested.
"Also seized were computers, gambling machines, laptops, tablet, hand phone and simulator worth RM31.3 million as well as cash amounting to more than RM200,000 seized," he said. — Bernama
Human Rights & Wrongs	Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (POCA), Selangor
'Is bid to rein in Malaysian Bar a retaliatory action by AG?'
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Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) today questioned if the planned amendments to the Legal Profession Act 1976 is attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali's way of retaliating against the Malaysian Bar for criticising him.
The think tank's chief executive director, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, said the proposed amendments, which would, among others, introduce government representatives in the Bar, did not appear to be a cabinet initiative.
He cited as proof Tourism Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz's criticism against the amendments.
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Court throws out challenge against raid, seizure and arrest over Irshad Manji's book
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KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court threw out a legal challenge against the raid, seizure of Irshad Manji's controversial book and the related arrest of the book publisher's director four years ago.
Judge Datuk Hanipah Farikullah today dismissed the judicial review application by ZI Publications Sdn Bhd and its director Mohd Ezra Mohd Zaid. During open-court proceedings,
Hanipah allowed a preliminary objection by Assistant State Legal Advisors Naziah Mokhtar against the legal action. Naziah acted for the Selangor government. Naziah argued that the judicial review application should be dismissed as a Federal Court ruling on Sept 28 last year had already decided on the central issue in the legal action.
On Sept 28 last year, the Federal Court ruled that a provision in the Selangor state Syariah law – criminalising Muslims for publishing and disseminating religious books against the Islamic law – is valid.
The apex court said that it was within the power of the Selangor state legislative assembly to enact Section 16 of the Syariah Criminal Enactment 1995, the provision under which Ezra was charged in the Syariah Court in 2013. Read more →
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Malaysia's Muslim trans community in a struggle for human rights
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BY MARCEL THEROUX
Malaysia's transgender community finds itself on the front line of a struggle between civil society and an increasingly intrusive and moralistic version of Islamic law.
Image drawn from SBS
Shortly after midnight a white patrol van rolls out of the compound that houses the headquarters of Kuala Lumpur's religious police. Inside are eight uniformed enforcement officers, seven men and one woman, whose navy blue uniform is set off by a multi-coloured tudung, or headscarf. The mood of the team is a strange combination of joviality and religious zeal.
Officer Akmal Adzin, a cheery, moon-faced man, is leading the patrol. "We have received complaints from members of the public about offenses relating to close proximity," he tells me.
Under Malaysia's version of Sharia law, the crime of khalwat or 'close proximity' between unmarried, unrelated Muslim members of the opposite sex is punishable by a fine of $US750 and up to two years in prison.
The patrol's first stop is a budget hotel out in the suburb of Sungai Besi. At the reception desk, an employee obligingly prints out a list of all the Muslim hotel guests and the team ascends to the upper floors in a lift. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs	transgender, transgender rights
Behind the 1MDB Scandal: Banks That Missed Clues and Bowed to Pressure
September 6, 2016 August 11, 2017 Raevathi Supramaniam
AmBank in Kuala Lumpur handled private bank accounts for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. PHOTO: SHCHERBAK ALEXANDER/TASS/ZUMA PRESS
Financier Jho Low, who investigators believe is at the center of one of the largest-ever financial scandals, kept up a stream of messages to an official at AmBank Bhd. Mr. Low was obsessed about how the bank handled the peculiar accounts of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Don't let people outside the bank or more than a few people inside know about the accounts, he instructed. Use Gmail, not the bank's email system, for communication. Whatever you do, don't send credit-card statements to the prime minister's house.
"No no no," Mr. Low wrote, according to transcripts of BlackBerry messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "Super sensitive." He instead had someone collect the statements by hand.
Between 2009 and 2013, Mr. Low, a family friend of the prime minister, and his associates helped embezzle at least $3.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Bhd., a state investment fund created by Mr. Najib, the U.S. Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit filed in July.
It couldn't have happened without the cooperation of a handful of bankers and the failure of a host of financial institutions and regulators to detect the alleged fraud, investigators believe. Mr. Low and his cohorts for years eluded detection or interference by at least eight banks, big accounting firms, a central bank and various government regulators, according to the Justice Department, investigative documents from other countries and people familiar with the affair. The banks included Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Standard Chartered PLC. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs	1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Low Taek Jho, Najib Razak


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an entire student neighborhood in college park bites the dust
New investment is pouring into College Park, seeking to turn this town known for undergrads and traffic into an urban hub for all ages. As part of that transformation, the famous Knox Boxes student neighborhood is transforming from the ground up.
College Park's Knox Boxes are just a memory. All photos by the author unless noted.
For decades, the Knox Boxes epitomized the University of Maryland's image as a party school. The cluster of 25 low-rise 1950s-era brick apartment buildings was just south of the campus, behind the seedy bars and pizza joints on Route 1.
The same intersection (Guilford Drive and Hartwick Road) in 2006.
For many undergrads, a Knox Box apartment was their first taste of living on their own, and the small backyards and proximity to other neighbors made for comfortable college living.
But they were also cheaply built and poorly maintained. During my freshman year at Maryland, two students died in separate Knox Box fires.
As Maryland became known more for academics than basketball riots, the university and the City of College Park started looking at ways to redevelop the Knox Boxes.
Getting multiple landlords to sell was difficult, but by 2013, a single owner had purchased most of the Knox Boxes. That year, the city approved a plan from developer Toll Brothers, usually known for suburban McMansions, to replace the Knox Boxes with Knox Village, a luxury student apartment complex for over 1,500 students.
The future Knox Village (as seen from Guilford and Hartwick). Image from WDG Architecture.
Like most of the new student housing going up in College Park, Knox Village's apartments and townhomes will have gourmet kitchens and amenities like a pool, gym, and covered parking garage. The complex will have a series of courtyards with a grand staircase (which Toll Brothers compares to the Spanish Steps in Rome...), and two spaces for shops and restaurants.
Mayor Andy Fellows called the vote a "landmark occasion." Construction began last summer, though a few of the Knox Boxes whose owners didn't sell remain.
Change in College Park goes well beyond the Knox Boxes
Knox Village is just one piece of a bigger plan to recast College Park as more of a college town, hoping to attract post-graduates or even families. The university and the city recently opened a charter school to keep more faculty in the area. In a reversal from 10 years ago, when the administration opposed the Purple Line running through campus, president Wallace Loh has been a strong supporter.
More high-end student apartments are going up on Route 1, and last week Target announced plans to open one of the nation's first Target Express stores inside one of them. The university itself has been buying up properties in downtown College Park, and they're partnering with developer U3 Advisors to buy a former bar and turn it into a branch of Milkboy, a Philadelphia music and art venue. Even Ratsie's Pizza, a longtime favorite of the drunk and hungry, will become a Nando's Peri-Peri.
Even as new development comes to College Park, bits of the old remain.
Not even six years since I graduated from Maryland, much of College Park is unrecognizable. Having lived on Knox Road as an upperclassman, I admit I'm a little nostalgic about losing the Knox Boxes. It's also worrisome that so much of the new student housing is very expensive and might make the already high cost of attending college even higher. On the other hand, thousands of new student apartments are coming in, and as the supply increases, rents are likely to fall.
When I lived there, College Park could be frustrating if you weren't into the party scene. There wasn't even a grocery store within walking distance of campus. It's exciting to see College Park develop into more of a college town. That's not only great for students and faculty, but also for neighbors who aren't even affiliated with the university.
Check out these photos of the Knox Boxes in 2006 and today.
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On Thursday, November 19th, Starwood hotels will be opening the doors of their new Westin Denver International Airport property. The hotel, which began construction in 2012, will be part of the new hotel and transit center at Denver International. The property also features an outdoor plaza and a public transit center that will offer rail service to Union Station in downtown Denver (expected to start in April 2016). This is exciting news for frequent travelers to the Denver area, as there are currently very few options for travel to and from Denver International and the downtown area. The overall development plan also provides infrastructure and connections for future terminal and rail service expansion.
It's no secret that we here at Thrifty Traveler love Starwood properties and the SPG program, so naturally we were thrilled to get a sneak peak of the 519 room property, including 35 suites, last week before the November 19th grand opening.
We must say the Westin is very impressive. The grand lobby will feature a full bar with fantastic views of the mountains, runways and the main terminal of Denver International Airport.
The bar and restaurant makes for a great place to have a cocktail and do a little planespotting before checking in for your flight. This looks to be a nice change from your typical depressing hotel bar!
Each of the guest rooms features floor to ceiling windows that offer fantastic views of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding plains.
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By Scott E. Beeler on	 July 23, 2021 Cooking Techniques
Paul Prinsloo, Elissa Abou Mug, Marcus Gericke and Callan Austin have brought out their own cookbook that offers a lot of inspiration and encouragement to try new techniques – the S.Pellegrino Young Chef cookbook.
This cookbook contains 41 recipes specially compiled by the regional finalists of the S. Pellegrino Young Chef Edition 2019-2021. It was launched to keep the young chefs connected, engagement and visibility when the grand finale, which was supposed to take place last year, was postponed due to the pandemic. Their challenge was to create a personal recipe from simple local ingredients that home cooks can recreate in a normal kitchen. This has made it a fascinating read. Each recipe is presented in an easy to understand format with great tips and step-by-step photos that illustrate the whole process.
Below, the four finalists in the Africa & Middle East region share the stories behind their recipes as well as some additional tips.
Elissa Abou mug won the Acqua Panna Award for Connection in Gastronomy. The cookbook recipe from Abou mug, Explosion of Beirut, takes a traditional Lebanese rice and meat stuffed cabbage dish flavored with pomegranate molasses and takes it to new heights. In her recipe, she recalls the explosion of the grain silos in Beirut last year and symbolically uses broken wheat instead of rice in the bowl. Abou Mug gives detailed instructions on how to prepare veal tongue, an affordable and tasty cut that many home cooks are no longer able to use.
"We don't always have to buy expensive products. I take humble products and respect them to prepare an upscale meal. "Instead of using the complex techniques she would use in a restaurant, she turned to the home cooking of the past. The finished dish is beautiful: "I made it as if my grandma was cooking it and I was serving," she says.
Paul Prinsloo is the 2019 S.Pellegrino Young Chef winner for the Africa & Middle East region. Prinsloo's cookbook recipe is a homely yet creative take on the traditional Sunday roast he grew up with. He hangs a rack of lamb in a chimney to cook slowly and soak up the smoky flavor, confiscates potatoes and purees vegetables for a nice but oversimplified version of his usual cooking style.
"The challenge was to make it in a home kitchen that didn't have all of the tools I'm used to at work. Without the Thermomix, I had to try to get the texture of the puree with a home mixer, which was both fun and challenging, "said Prinsloo.
If you don't have a suitable chimney, he recommends cooking the lamb in a Weber or Big Green Egg over low heat to preserve the smoky flavor. Otherwise, Prinsloo recommends caramelizing the fat briefly in a pan before slowly simmering it in an oven at 100 ° C. He leaves the choice of the spice mixture up to you, but loves to use a Moroccan Ras el Hanout Spice mix that, in his opinion, goes perfectly with the lamb.
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"If people don't have access to nature to collect various herbs, I would suggest replacing the wild herbs with fresh fennel, dill fronds, store-bought edible flowers or garnishes, coriander sprouts or leaves, small basil leaves, and deep-fried curry leaves for texture", he added.
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"The change with the seasons and the time shows development and growth in a dish. The recipe name leaves it open to interpretation and allows for seasonal twists and personal tastes, "he added.
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Zbyněk Zbyslav Stránský (1926-2016), Czech museologist, considered the "father of scientific museology". Between the years 1960 and 1970, he was responsible for one of the first attempts to structure a theoretical basis for museology, when directing the Department of Museology of the Moravian Museum, in Brno. With the support of the museum director, Jan Jelínek, he founded a School of museological thinking in Brno, aiming to connect museum practice to a specific theoretical system. Zbyněk Z. Stránský, as he used to sign his texts, was the pioneer in the construction of a Museology that is conceived as social science, creating an autonomous system of thought based on specific concepts.
Born in Kutná Hora, the old Czechoslovakia, in 26th October, 1926, Zbyněk Z. Stránský studied history and philosophy at Charles University, in Prague, from 1946 to 1950. During the 1950s, he worked in several Czech museums and in 1962 he was appointed the head of the innovative Department of Museology of the Moravian Museum and the J. E. Purkyně University, in Brno, in which he has established, under the influence of Jan Jelínek (1926-2004), the museum director, the first teaching school of museology devoted to museological theory in the world. Already in the 1960s and 1970s, Stránský was considered the leading person of the Central-European museological school.
→ Role in the international community
Between 1980 and 1990, Stránský was an active participant of the International Committee for Museology – ICOFOM, of the International Council of Museums – ICOM, being in charge, from 1985, of the terminological project that aimed to create a Treaty of Museology and a Dictionarium Museologicum. Until the beginning of the 1990s, ICOFOM has expressed its mission to "establish museology as a scientific discipline". Stránský has continually influenced this committee and participated in several of its meetings, becoming an elected member of its Executive Board in 1986.
→ The training in museology and the "Brno school"
Throughout his whole carreer, Zbyněk Z. Stránský worked to establish a complete and coherent training in museology, aiming to secure a place for museologists as thinkers and researchers. In 1962, a few professionals from the Moravian Museum created the Department of Museology, institutionally connected both to the museum and to J. E. Purkyně University, establishing a line of museological training that was going to be characterized as the "Brno School". The craved transformation envisaged "making a real profession of museum work".
In 20th June, 1968, the students of the first class of museology received their university diplomas in Brno. As reported by Stránský, most of them were museum directors or professionals who already had a degree in another disciplinary field. The museology course had the duration of two years, with four sessions composed of one hundred lessons each, including theoretical courses and practical lessons. The themes of the classes were divided between general museology and special museology.
In the year of 1986, his training program in museology, in Brno, would gain an increasing number of new followers from every part of the world, with the creation of his International Summer School of Museology – ISSOM. Inside the structure of the so-called Masaryk University and with the support of UNESCO, the ISSOM lasted until the year 1999, disseminating the theoretical knowledge of Museology. In 1998, Stránský leaves the city of Brno to live in Banská Bystrica, a city of Slovakia, where he has created the Department of Ecomuseology, which he would coordinate.
Stránský continued to teach Museology at the University of Matej Bel, in Banská Bystrica, until the year 2002. In the following years, he returned to Brno as an invited lecturer. Stránský continued to publish texts on the Theory of Museology, trying to reaffirm and adapt his structured system for this science until the first decade of this century. He passed away in Banská Bystrica, on the 21 January, 2016.
POINTS OF VIEW IN MUSEOLOGY
Museology, a term that acquired different connotations throughout the 20th century and even before, thanks to the attempt to obtain academic legitimacy by some Czech museum professionals, it would gain a new dimension, from the 1960s, either as a science or as an autonomous disciplinary field, providing the necessary bases for museum work.
In his structural theory, Stránský was committed to the investigation of essential points considered by him as indispensable for the constitution of a scientific discipline:
first, a science must have defined a specific subject of study;
then, a science must use its own set of methods;
a science must have a specific terminology, a language;
and, at last, it must be based on a theoretical system.
The search for scientific legitimation, thus, should be followed by the concomitant construction of a theoretical system of museology accordingly to the framework of contemporary sciences.
→ Metamuseology
In the context of the 1960s, Stránský has appointed that there were objective reasons for the "birth of museology as a science", however, its internal prerequisite, i.e., the logical structure, was inexistent. His question on the character of museology, then, made him think on the theoretical base of the very theory. In other words, Stránský has built a metatheoretical problematic as the starting point for structuring the scientific discipline, introducing the notion of metamuseology. The term designates "the theory whose subject is museology in itself", in a certain way being strictly bound to museology, but also related to philosophy, to history and to the theory of science and culture.
In his metamuseological approach, the first problem raised concerned museology's subject of study. Stránský proposed some disconcerting questions for the field under development. With his initial declaration, in which he denies the museum as the scientific subject, the author opens the way towards a long process of self-reflection that marked museology in its bases in Eastern Europe.
By stating that the "subject of museology is not and cannot be the museum", Stránský intended to separate the "instrument" – or the means, i.e., the museum – and the "end" to which it serves. He alleges, in effect, what could have been considered obvious in the context of post-war museums, which is the fact that the museum, as an institution that serves to a certain end, could not be the study subject of a science. Nevertheless, and in a tautological approach, according to some of his critics, he would propose that museology's subject of study should be searched in the very museum work, in the "systematic and critical" task of producing the museum object or musealia, in Stranskian terminology.
→ Museality
This thinker was, then, responsible for the dislocation of museology's subject from the museum, as a historic institution, to museality – understood as a "specific documentary value". This last concept, central to his theory, would lead Stránský to conceive the cognitive intention of museology as the scientific interpretation of an "attitude of man to reality". In his opinion, this seizing of the museum character of things, which he called "museality", must be "in the center of the gnoseological intention of museology" as this discipline's scientific task, delimiting its position within the system of sciences.
Hence, the concept of museality ("muzealita"), understood as the "quality" or "value" of musealia, appeared in Stránský's works in 1970, being proposed as museology's true subject of study. The first attempts to define the term, however, have presented logical problems.
The museologist from the ancient German Democratic Republic, Klaus Schreiner, for instance, hasn't conceived museality as the property of an object as such but as something that is attributed to the object only in the context of a particular, specialized discipline. According to Schreiner, there cannot be a value "in itself" and the concept of museality in the Stranskian sense is the product of a "bourgeois-imperialist axiology". He considers that the philosophical value propagated is "timeless, classness and generally not human" and that, as such, it "absolutizes the bourgeois class interests". As noted by Peter Van Mensch, Stránský would modify the concept of museality over the years, changing its sense from a value category to the "specific value orientation" itself.
There can be appointed several influences to the work of Zbyněk Z. Stránský. However, not all of them can be attested with direct citation in his texts. Some authors will suppose, for instance, that the knowledge of studies by the Belgian Paul Otlet on Bibliology would have influenced Stranskian thinking on scientific museology. In his theoretical texts, it is possible to note, among the most quoted authors, the Czechs Jiři Neustupný and Josef Beneš, as well as the Russian Avram M. Razgon. It must be acknowledged, still, the fundamental support of the Czechs Jan Jelínek and Vinoš Sofka who have contributed to the dialogues established between Stránský and the international context of museology through his insertion in ICOFOM and the creation of ISSOM.
Influenced authors
The referencial thinking of Stránský for Central and Eastern Europe would be cited in publications mainly since the 1970s, by authors such as the Russian A. M. Razgon, the British Geoffrey D. Lewis, the German, from GDR, Klaus Schreiner, the Czech Anna Gregorová, the Brazilian Waldisa Rússio and the Dutch Peter van Mensch, among others.
In the years 1990, several museology authors, from the connection with Stránský and his works in ICOFOM and ISSOM, would take his own interpretations from the reflections he initiated assimilating their own ideas to the thinking in their respective countries; this would be the case, for instance, of Bernard Deloche, in France, and Tereza Scheiner, in Brazil.
In general, even if some Anglo-Saxon museologists try to reduce the discipline to a set of techniques, those from the countries located in the ancient Eastern Europe, such as Anna Gregorová and Klaus Schreiner, define it as a science under construction. In effect, the first critics to this conception are Kenneth Hudson (UK) and George E. Burcaw (United States), so that the more theoretical approach to museology, from Stránský, was followed by authors in countries with a bigger tendency to theorization: the German and Latin schools, as well as Latin America.
Authors such as the Dutch Peter van Mensch proposed to structure the discipline based on the model initiated by Stránský. He understood museology according to five aspects: general museology, theoretical museology (or metamuseology, for Stránský), special museology, historic museology and applied museology. To these five aspects Stránský would propose to include social museology, to study the phenomenon of musealization in current societies. Furthermore, Peter van Mensch would amplify his reflection on the professionalization of museology. He proposes the PRC model (Preservation, Research and Communication), based on the recognition of the discipline as a true science.
→ The influence in ICOFOM LAM
According to the de spirit of the Declaration of Santiago of Chile (1972), and with the goal to decentralize the action of the International Committee for Museology, it is created in 1986, the Regional Subcommittee of ICOFOM for Latin America and the Caribbean – ICOFOM LAM, conceived by Nelly Decarolis (Argentina) and Tereza Scheiner (Brazil). The scientific profile of the field and the theoretical reflections would be reaffirmed, considered as central matters for the Region. However, Tereza Scheiner and Luciana Menezes de Carvalho (Brazil) pointed out that, differentiating itself from Stránský, "museology has the character of a theory, but not of a science".
Particularly in the context of Brazil, the theoretical perspective developed by Stránský was introduced in the country in the 1980s, mainly in the works of Waldisa Rússio (in São Paulo) and Tereza Scheiner (in Rio de Janeiro), both responsible for the creation of "schools" based on this author's thinking and marked by the configuration of museology as a science.
RECOGNITION BY THE FIELD
In 1993, with the work "De museologica" (manuscript), Stránský received the title of Associated Professor (in the Czech language, Docent).
In 1996, getting the title of regular professor, he rejected it with the justification that museology is not an official credential Science.
In 2006, Stránský was given the Silver medal of Masaryk University from the hands of the rector Petr Fiala.
In Brazil, with the support of ICOFOM, an homage for Stránský was organized by the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, in the III Debates Cicle of the Museology School, organized in October, 2015, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stránský's declaration on museology's study subject, in 1965.
In 2015, ICOFOM LAM has dedicated the year for the work of Stránský and his influence in the Region, in the occasion of the XXIII Annual Meeting of ICOFOM LAM, in Panama City.
After his death, in 2016, the Czech journal Museologica Brunensia organized a special issue dedicated to Zbyněk Z. Stránský.
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