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A Thanksgiving Dressing
No Southerner I know stuffs the bird. In my experience we always serve dressing on the side. My Grandmother Harbison made a cornbread dressing and Grandmother Journey served a fancier oyster dressing, still using cornbread as a base. I like both but Mother is partial to a plain cornbread dressing without oysters so her cornbread dressing is what we have for the holidays.
Near Thanksgiving last year I shared memories of my Grandmother Harbison's kushmagudi, a cornbread and potlikker dish which has become a staple of our cold weather holiday table. During my father's extended hospital stay, Mother has often mixed up a quick kushmagudi when she gets home from the hospital at night.
As my Grandmother Harbison's health made it more challenging for her to cook the holiday feasts, Mother began to make her own cornbread dressing from a recipe she found somewhere. It's a very easy recipe, moist and rich, and even though it wasn't exactly the same as Grandmother Harbison's dressing, it got Grandmother Harbison's seal of approval.
The celery in the cornbread recipe reminds me of another Thanksgiving tradition at my family's house. In addition to using celery in the dressing, Mother has always put out a dish of raw celery sticks with our turkey. I grew up with raw celery as part of the Thanksgiving meal and never thought it was unusual until people from outside the family informed me that they had never heard of such a thing. Even so, it is a nice complement to turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce. We put celery sticks on our turkey sandwiches on Friday and that is a crunchy and delicious addition to the Thanksgiving leftover tradition too.
Even though circumstances dictate a spartan Thanksgiving this year, I packed Mother's cornbread dressing recipe just in case I find the time to make it. And remember that a proper cornbread recipe does not include sugar.
Simple Cornbread Dressing
4 cups crumbled cornbread
2-3 slices crumbled white bread
Sage, to taste
1 can cream of chicken (or cream of mushroom) soup, undiluted
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour (or overnight) for flavors to blend. Pour into 2-quart baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
This entry was posted in cornbread dressing recipe and tagged celery, cornbread, food, kushmagudi, recipes, southern foodways, Southern Thanksgiving, the south, turkey and dressing on November 25, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
My first extended post-Katrina visit to New Orleans in 2007 coincided with the New Orleans Wine and Food Experience. Held in May, that event showcases local restaurants and is a draw for food and wine aficionados from many places. I met a couple who were restaurateurs from Napa and the husband's work required him to travel all over the world. When I mentioned that I was from Birmingham, he said, "You know, Birmingham is a great food city. Not many people know that."
I already knew but it was nice to hear it from somebody from the west coast.
Growing up in Birmingham, there was good dining to be had and there was always an abundance of Greek-owned eateries from hot dog stands to white tablecloth establishments. The place has long been a mecca for classic southern "meat and three" places and the quality and variety of barbecue and barbecue styles in the area is an embarrassment of riches.
But when Frank Stitt opened Highlands Bar and Grill (www.highlandsbarandgrill.com) in Five Points South in 1982, the bar for Birmingham dining was significantly raised. A few years later Stitt opened Bottega and Bottega Café (www.bottegarestaurant.com) a few blocks away on Highland Avenue and then Chez Fonfon (www.fonfonbham.com), a more casual bistro, next door to Highlands.
Add to that a preponderance of good eats from other chefs, many of whom worked for Stitt before striking out on their own. There are always a new attitude and a new swagger creating a great and unpretentious urban destination for dining at every level and taste. In the Five Points South area near Highlands, I am partial to Ocean (www.oceanbirmingham.com) and Hot and Hot Fish Club (www.hotandhotfishclub.com) but every time I go to Birmingham lately it seems that a "must visit" new dining option has opened somewhere in the city. I am falling way behind on keeping up and checking them out.
Highlands, however, is still the flagship. It is pricey and elegant and provides an unmistakable sense of occasion when one enters the door. However, it is never snooty nor pretentious, it features the best locally grown and fresh ingredients, and a meal at Highlands is always an opportunity to relax and breathe. Frank Stitt and his wife, Pardis, create gracious and memorable dining experiences for their guests.
The wait staff is knowledgeable, efficient, and playful. I like to eat seafood from the Gulf when I am at Highlands; for my taste, Highlands prepares fish better than anybody. But everything on the menu pleases. We celebrated my mother's milestone birthday at Highlands last summer and she declared her steak that night to be "the best steak I've ever eaten." The menu is seasonal and changes often but Highlands baked grits, a signature dish, is always on the menu.
Two of my most often thumbed through cookbooks are by Frank Stitt. The first, an instant classic, is Frank Stitt's Southern Table. It was followed by Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita. In each, the reader and cook find a delicious assortment of unique takes on food preparation and presentation culled from Stitt's extensive experience. Stitt is a native of Cullman, Alabama, who attended college at Tufts and Berkeley, apprenticed and cooked in France and the Caribbean, and ultimately opened his restaurants less than an hour from where he was born.
Highlands Bar and Grill and Frank Stitt are on my mind this week because the 25th presentation of the James Beard Awards (JBAs) for restaurants and chefs will be held in Chicago on Monday, May 4, 2015. Highlands Bar and Grill is one of the five finalists for Outstanding Restaurant for the seventh year in a row. The other four finalists this year are in New York.
I have been paying attention to the JBAs (www.jamesbeard.org) for many years and have paid particularly close attention since Stitt and Highlands have been regular contenders. Stitt was inducted into the JBA Who's Who of Food and Beverage in 2011 and was named Best Chef – Southeast in 2001. I find that very often the winner for Outstanding Restaurant is a top five finalist several times before it wins so every year I tune in to see if this year is Highlands' "turn." I feel good about lucky 7.
A confession: I will be watching the James Beard Awards on Monday night. They are streamed every year on livestream.com and I am just enough of a food nerd to watch a couple of hours of restaurant awards. I want to be a witness when Highlands gets its much deserved honor. It will be an honor for the whole city. On the down side, it may make it even harder to get a reservation at Highlands Bar and Grill.
(The photograph is of my mother, Jean Journey, and my nephew, Truman, outside Highlands in June 2014.)
This entry was posted in Birmingham dining, Frank Stitt, Highlands Bar and Grill and tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Bottega, Chez Fonfon, dining in Birmingham, food, Frank Stitt, Highlands Bar and Grill, Hot and Hot Fish Club Birmingham, James Beard Awards 2015, Ocean Restaurant Birmingham, the south on April 30, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
On Food Memory and Alabama Literature
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is about to have an additional impact on Alabama in the form of current legislation proposing that the Lane Cake, which has an undisputed Alabama provenance and is mentioned several times in Lee's novel, be designated as the state's official dessert.
I am often intrigued with the ways in which writers use food. Good writing about food is all around us – in cookbooks and food magazines and newspapers; in memoirs and novels and short stories and scripts for performance on stage or screen. In much culinary writing, including that of the legendary food critics James Beard and Craig Claiborne, the idea of "food memory" is pervasive. The powerful connections that food tastes and smells evoke are a shared sensibility providing powerful associations, emotions, and longings.
It is this sense of the sacrament of food which has led me increasingly to seek out and savor food writing. Writers – whether they intend to or not – use this idea of "food memory" to stoke and create a shared sense of ritual and place with the reader. As my career took me around the country and far from Alabama and the South, I found that some of the most visceral emotional connections that I have to my roots are memories of food and of food associated with family.
Food is frequently prominent in the writing of a number of writers with Alabama roots including Rick Bragg, Mary Ward Brown, Mark Childress, Melissa Delbridge, Fannie Flagg, Charles Gaines, Winston Groom, Zora Neale Hurston, and others. In looking at Alabama authors and their writing about food, it is hard to find something that is truly unique about a certain community because rich or poor, black or white, rural or urban, our food heritage is so universally "local." "Southern cooking" and "soul food" are essentially the same and a love for barbecue is ubiquitous. I looked for obvious delineations but I found instead that there were constants. Is it any wonder, really, that many of the earliest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights movement were department store lunch counters?
Scout's assertion in To Kill a Mockingbird that "Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between" captures a key memory of Southern existence. We are defined by the tastes and memories of our youth. This is one of the reasons that Sook's declaration that "it's fruitcake weather" resonates so vividly for readers of Capote's "A Christmas Memory" whether we grew up in Monroeville's dusty streets or under the sooty skies of mid-20th century Birmingham. I grew up in Birmingham and did not have first-hand experience with the adventures Capote describes but still, because of that story, I thought I had a clear sense of when "fruitcake weather" had arrived on crowded Avenue N in Birmingham's Green Acres neighborhood.
In Capote's lesser-known Monroeville story "The Thanksgiving Visitor" he describes nostalgia for the breakfast repasts of
ham and fried chicken, fried catfish, fried squirrel (in season), fried eggs, hominy grits with gravy, black-eyed peas, collards with collard liquor and cornbread to mush it in, biscuits, pound cake, pancakes and molasses, honey in the comb, homemade jams and jellies, sweet milk, buttermilk, coffee chicory-flavored and hot as Hades.
Capote's litany of memory inspired me to pull down a favorite passage in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book's subject matter is firmly entrenched in the soil of Alabama's Black Belt. Here is Agee's description of the Depression-era Hale County tenant family's breakfast ritual:
the gestures of a day here begin; and in just such silence and solitude: the iron lids are lifted; the kindling is laid in the grate: and the lids replaced: and a squirting match applied beneath: and the flour is sifted through shaken window-screen, and mixed with lard and water, soda, and a little salt: the coffee is set on the stove, its grounds afloat on the cold water: more wood laid in: the biscuits poured, and stuck into the oven: and the meat sliced and sliding, spitting, in the black skillet: and the eggs broken, and their shells consigned; and the chairs lifted from the porch to the table, and the sorghum set on, and the butter, sugar, salt, pepper, a spoon straightened, the lamp set at the center; the eggs turned; the seething coffee set aside; the meat reheated; the biscuits looked at; the straight black hair, saturated with sweat and smoke of pork, tightened more neatly to the head between four black pins; the biscuits tan, the eggs ready, the coffee ready, the meat ready, the breakfast ready.
Norman McMillan, in his memoir Distant Son, tells us that
Summers meant lots of food. We didn't think about it that way but we were more or less vegetarians. During the summer when we were at home, each lunch table was filled with seven or eight bowls every day. Pans of golden cornbread or plates of thick biscuits accompanied the vegetables. Except for white meat, which was used to season the vegetables, we saw little meat at all. Occasionally Daddy would bring steak home, and after pounding it with the side of a saucer he would fry it and make gravy. At times we raised a few chickens and we also ate squirrel and rabbit in the winter, and sometimes even possum and coon.
From the time I received a copy of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook as a gift I have savored cookbooks which also have a literary flair. Birmingham and Cullman, Alabama's native son Frank Stitt went from studying philosophy at Berkeley to becoming an acclaimed chef and restaurateur. As the owner of Highlands Bar and Grill in Birmingham, a perennial finalist for the annual James Beard "Outstanding Restaurant" award, he is the acknowledged master of contemporary Alabama food. His 2004 cookbook Frank Stitt's Southern Table includes the following discourse on tradition:
As an adult, I came to appreciate the blessing as a time to open our minds to a greater awareness of the beauty of the food we are about to eat. Instead of asking my family to endure a rote blessing, I wanted to pay homage to food as a sacrament. I have since refined this idea, incorporating it into the at-table stories I share with friends and family. I want everyone to come to understand the ancient rhythms of life, to know what it felt like to break bread at my mother's table, to understand why upon walking by my maternal grandmother's long-closed smokehouse I was transported back to the days when our people slaughtered their own hogs. I want them to understand that such acts were honorable, that to harvest a hog with your own hands, by the sweat of your own brow, was to know intimately the consequences and benefits of humanity.
Pat Conroy's entertaining The Pat Conroy Cookbook includes a chapter entitled "The Pleasures of Reading Cookbooks No One Has Ever Heard Of" which includes lengthy considerations of several Junior League and church-sponsored cookbooks, including several from Alabama. One passage in Cotton Country, the Decatur Junior League cookbook, particularly pleases Conroy. He quotes this passage describing Mrs. Barrett Shelton Sr.'s Stuffed Country Ham:
To call this merely "Stuffed Ham" is an injustice. "Spectacular" is the only word to describe this ham: spectacular in appearance and taste. Trouble – perhaps – but for a buffet dinner or cocktail party mainliner, nothing could do more for your reputation as a good cook or hostess.
This passage sends Conroy into a spasm of appreciation. He writes,
Have you ever seen three sentences more confidently rendered by a hand so fine and sure – the disdainful dashes surrounding that intimidating "perhaps" and that bold, two-eyed colon stopping you in mid-stream for emphasis. A small history of the South could be composed just by studying the cadences and assuredness of position in Mrs. Barrett Shelton Sr.'s place in Decatur society. It would be paradisiacal for me to pass down a Decatur street and have the imperious Mrs. Shelton whisper to a group of lunching friends, "Mr. Conroy's new in town, but I think he has the makings of a cocktail party mainliner."
Indeed, much of my favorite food writing takes on such a lyrical and meditative tone. Mobile's inimitable Eugene Walter seasons his recipe for pot likker with this advice: "Take a day off and wash wash wash 3 or 4 big bunches of fresh (yes, I said fresh) turnip greens, younger the better. Then sit down and pluck the leaves. … This takes time. Sit down, put on some Mozart."
I find that there are few "grand themes" about the place of food in writing. There are, instead, comforts. The comforts come in familiarity, common ritual, and respect for the sacrament of being at table with friends, with family, with peers and, on occasion, with adversaries.
This entry was posted in Alabama, books, food, literature and tagged Alabama, Eugene Walter, food, Frank Stitt, Frank Stitt's Southern Table, Highlands Bar and Grill, James Agee, Lane Cake, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, literature, Norman McMillan, Pat Conroy, southern foodways, the south, To Kill a Mockingbird, Truman Capote on March 22, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
Shopping for Cast Iron in South Pittsburg
The first time I heard about the small town of South Pittsburg, Tennessee, I was living in Indiana and a friend mentioned that his mother's family hails from South Pittsburg. I asked if there was a North Pittsburg in Tennessee and he was pretty sure there was not. Since then, I have learned that the closest thing they have to North Pittsburg is that Pittsburgh up in western Pennsylvania, one of my favorite cities.
Years later, when I found myself living in north Alabama, I discovered on my first trip from Huntsville to Chattanooga that South Pittsburg is on Hwy. 72 on the Tennessee River nestled against the Cumberland Plateau and the Alabama state line. It is a little over an hour from my house. Most interesting was the discovery that South Pittsburg is the home of Lodge Manufacturing Co., makers of Lodge cast iron cookware – the only cast iron cookware still made in the United States. I try to have plenty of it on hand.
Now, whenever I go to Chattanooga, I try to schedule a stop in South Pittsburg at the Lodge Cast Iron Factory Store near the foundry. For anybody who loves cooking with cast iron, this is a pilgrimage to take. The store is full of cast iron cookware in about any configuration one might imagine. I must show restraint in my purchases, but the place is filled floor to ceiling with shelves of cast iron temptation. The parking lot always has cars with tags from all over. On my recent visit, a Lodge cast iron hibachi grill was calling my name.
It should be no surprise that the home of cast iron skillets is also home to the National Cornbread Festival on the last full weekend in April. The calendar of events includes all kinds of cornbread cook-offs, "Cornbread Eatin', Buttermilk Chuggin', and Ice Cream Eatin' Contests," and the crowning of a slew of Miss National Cornbread Festivals from various age groups.
A short walk through the cozy downtown reveals a historical marker commemorating South Pittsburg's baffling and sad "Christmas Night Shootout" of 1927. I am interested in the history of the labor movement in the South, and especially in the Birmingham iron and steel industry, but the South Pittsburg event is news to me. It stemmed from a labor dispute at a local stove factory and pitted local law enforcement officers against one another. According to one account, the county sheriff and his deputies supported the strikers and the town police force sided with the factory owners. At the end of the shootout, six officers were killed including the Chief of Police and the Sheriff.
On a happier note, down the street from the "Shootout" marker, I saw a coin-operated horse named Thunder on the sidewalk. I have not seen one of those in ages. It was in front of a music store (I think) that bills itself "The Most Unique Store in Tennessee." I have to trust the sign since the store was closed when I was there. The fact that Jim Morrison was staring down at Thunder from an old Doors poster was delight enough and I'll try to catch the unique store sometime when it's open … perhaps at the next National Cornbread Festival.
Take time to discover small towns. There's always something interesting to learn.
This entry was posted in Lodge Cast Iron, South Pittsburg, Tennessee and tagged Christmas Night Shootout of 1927, food, Lodge Manufacturing Co., National Cornbread Festival, South Pittsburg, the south, travel on March 11, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
A Menu for the End of the Carnival Season
My attraction to Mardi Gras is directly tied to my attraction to the Gulf Coast. Growing up inland, Mardi Gras always seemed mysterious and somehow "foreign" and like a place I'd rather be. I would see news reports of the activities in New Orleans and Mobile and other celebrations on a smaller scale along the Gulf and they seemed to be in stark contrast to the grey late-winter life around me. I was raised in the Southern Baptist church and we did not observe Ash Wednesday. When I realized the Christian tie-in to the revelry of Mardi Gras and better understood the season that begins on Epiphany and ends precisely at midnight on Shrove Tuesday, that knowledge gave the events of the season even more mystery and appeal.
Age, experience, and knowledge began to de-mystify the events of the carnival season leading up to Mardi Gras and more and more the events began to move farther inland. When I was living and teaching in Indiana in the 90s, I began to throw beads at the end of my Fat Tuesday classes to give myself a sense of connection to my home region. Huntsville, where I live now, had its 2nd annual Mardi Gras parade on Saturday, February 14, but it's a sad substitute for the real deal on the coast.
I am a bit of a traditionalist and a purist when it comes to the proper way to do things and I bristle a bit at the fact that one can now stand beneath a New Orleans Bourbon Street balcony and be showered with Mardi Gras beads on virtually any night of the year. In my mind, Mardi Gras beads should only be thrown in the season. And then they should be packed away until the following January.
The appeal of tradition and the desire to recapture the mystique of "The Season" on the Gulf Coast of the Deep South is one of the reasons Joe Cain Day, observed in Mobile on the Sunday preceding Fat Tuesday (and the subject of my previous essay), has engaged me.
I hosted my first Joe Cain Day celebration this Sunday, February 15, and it brought some levity to a blustery February afternoon in north Alabama as still another cold front – "the weather of northern aggression" I call it – moved into the area. On the invitations I wrote "Masks and mourning attire optional." My guests, some of them wearing masks and almost all dressed in some form of black in "mourning" for Joe Cain, enjoyed the respite before the cold and icy work week resumed.
One of my favorite images in New Orleans is that of Mardi Gras beads that never came down to earth during parades and got caught in the live oaks along the parade routes. They hang there throughout the year, gradually fading but always a reminder that the season has gone but will always come back again in January. I look for these stray beads on streetcar rides along St. Charles. With that image in mind, I threw beads from my second story bedroom window on the day before the party and let them catch in the cherry tree in my front yard so that my guests would have that image of beads in the trees upon arrival. (Now I will spend the rest of February retrieving Mardi Gras beads from the cherry tree.)
I designed the menu to reflect regional and seasonal tastes and as usual there was much more food than was needed. I made a lot of the food myself. I purchased other things from favorite vendors. Here's my menu.
A Joe Cain Day Celebration / February 15, 2015
Boiled Peanuts
Breads, Toasts, and Crackers for dipping and spreading
Lobster and Shrimp Salad
Alabama Gulf Shrimp w/cocktail and garlic buttermilk sauces
Hot Seafood Dip w/ shrimp and crabmeat
Moon Pies
Bloody Marys, Hurricane Punch and assorted beverages
The gumbo was ordered from Wintzell's (www.wintzellsoysterhouse.com), a Mobile-based oyster house and restaurant that makes one of my favorite gumbos. The King Cake, a carnival season standard, came from Paul's Pastry Shop (www.paulspastry.com) in Picayune, Mississippi. My friends G. Todd and Anita brought a couple of other dishes — a crawfish beignet with a savory sauce and crostini topped with shrimp, red pepper jelly, and sweet potato. The chocolates were from the Chocolate Gallery in Huntsville (www.chocolategalleryal.com).
"Mardi Gras Chicken" was a clear favorite of the day. When I was on the Gulf Coast in December, I was toying with the idea of a Joe Cain Day party. I asked my friends, the Brunsons – who are natives of Mobile, for a dish that their mother, Jean Brunson, would have made for Mardi Gras and Joe Cain Day. The response was unanimous – "Mardi Gras Chicken!" – and a recipe was produced. Mrs. Brunson was the caterer for the First Baptist Church of Mobile for many years and had a sizable repertoire. "Mardi Gras Chicken" is really an adaptation of a chicken tetrazinni recipe but Mrs. Brunson always made it around Mardi Gras and her children still refer to it as "Mardi Gras Chicken."
I made my own revisions to the recipe and my adaptation of Mrs. Brunson's adaptation is what I'm offering here. It's a hit.
1¼ lbs. boiled chicken
1 large pkg. rotelli pasta
1 cup green, red, and yellow peppers, diced
6 pieces of celery, diced
6 strips of pimento, chopped
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
¾ cup of sour cream
1 cup of sharp cheddar cheese, finely grated
4 ozs. almonds, minced
Cook rotelli pasta in chicken broth. Since it will be baked in a casserole, it is best to cook it until it is fairly limp. Drain pasta. Add chicken to pasta (chop chicken into fairly large bites). Add peppers, onion, celery, and pimento. Stir in cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, and ½ cup cheese.
Place mixture in large casserole dish and top with ½ cup cheese and minced almonds. Bake at 350 degrees for I hour.
This entry was posted in food, Joe Cain Day, Mardi Gras, travel and tagged Alabama, Carnival Season, culture, food, Jean Brunson, Joe Cain Day, King Cake, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Chicken, Mobile, Paul's Pastry Shop, recipes, Southern Foodways Alliance, the south, travel, Wintzell's on February 17, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
The Bright Star
Bessemer, AL It seems that every family has a restaurant where it convenes for special events and commemorations – the place where the family goes to celebrate graduations, birthdays, and anniversaries, and to gather after funerals and hospital visits and other more somber occasions. For my family, that restaurant in the Birmingham area is The Bright Star west of the city in Bessemer. The Bright Star, Alabama's oldest restaurant, opened in 1907 and has been family-owned ever since. The Bright Star was awarded as an "America's Classic" by the James Beard Foundation in 2010.
Mine is a family of strong, vocal, and often divergent opinions on pretty much everything, including food. The Bright Star is one of the places that is in every family member's "comfort zone." In addition to being a safe choice, it also has a good and diverse menu with offerings for every taste. I always look forward to eating at The Bright Star, whether it is a quick lunch or a leisurely evening meal.
Frank Stitt triggered Birmingham's ascent on the national culinary map with the opening of Highlands Bar and Grill in the 1980s. But the culinary history of the Birmingham area is full of the stories of Greek families and immigrants who opened restaurants. Many of their descendants are still restaurateurs into the 21st century. The Bright Star is the anchor of that Greek-influenced dining tradition in Birmingham with off-shoots that range from fine dining establishments to fish markets, barbecue joints, and hot dog stands.
The Bright Star was started by Tom Bonduris and has been continuously owned by Bonduris and Koikos family members ever since. Jimmy and Nick Koikos, sons of long-time owners Bill and Tasia Koikos, are the current faces of the restaurant, along with a large and long-serving support staff. Much of my recent planning with the restaurant has been coordinated through the invaluable and gracious help of Jimmy and Nick's niece, Stacey Craig, and maître d' Marlon Tanksley. The restaurant always bustles and the place is full of regulars as well as people who are traveling through or have made the effort to come to Bessemer just to check it out.
The Bright Star has grown over the years in its current building in the middle of downtown Bessemer. The vibe of The Bright Star reminds some of New Orleans' Galatoire's. (It is a lesser known fact that the first Galatoire's was in downtown Birmingham before Jean Galatoire ended up in New Orleans and opened his iconic Bourbon Street bistro.) The Bright Star menu that features seafood and steaks in the evenings serves a classic Southern "meat and three" lunch menu each day. The shredded cabbage with the signature slaw dressing is a staple, as is a superior bread pudding and an array of fine pies. The Bright Star serves one of my favorite gumbos. Tipping its hat to the New Orleans influences on the menu, The Bright Star does an annual "Taste of New Orleans" event in August that usually features the executive chef of New Orleans' Commander's Palace.
Fresh seafood is delivered daily and Alabama Cattlemen's Association has named Bright Star's beef the best steak in Alabama. The large foyer entrance to the restaurant is full of memorabilia including awards, national magazine and newspaper articles, and archival photographs of the many celebrities and dignitaries who have enjoyed a meal at The Bright Star. One finds photos of Sandra Bullock and her father dining there among an array of celebrities and sports figures from earlier times.
The main dining room is flanked with highly varnished pastoral murals painted by an itinerant German painter in 1915. A century of varnishing and cigarette smoke creates a warm glow from the murals and the combination of the murals and the high wooden booth backs creates an intimate and cozy feeling in the large room, even as the aisles are full of servers and patrons coming and going.
Far in the back of the main dining room is the enclosed booth that was Alabama Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's favorite booth. For a recent birthday dinner, my mother reserved the Bryant booth and I dined there for the first time with a large portrait of "the Coach" looking down from the west wall.
When The Bright Star turned 100 in 2007, a book, A Centennial Celebration of The Bright Star Restaurant, was released. The book, a project by nieces of Jim and Nick Koikos with assistance from Niki Sepsas, is a compilation of history, memories, recipes, and photographs of the restaurant.
Bessemer, a vibrant industrial town in the early 20th Century, lost much of its industry in the 1970s and has suffered economic downturns and redefinition. Through it all The Bright Star has endured. I was in the restaurant this past weekend and am convinced that The Bright Star will be serving good meals to happy patrons for generations to come.
Note: The top image is a detail from Scott Smith's assemblage, "Ensley" (2010), featuring the menu listing for The Bright Star's "famous snapper almondine." "Ensley" was a commission celebrating my parents' marriage. Each pin represents a place they have lived during the marriage. Images of Ensley, the Birmingham neighborhood where they met, and other aspects of their marriage are represented, including images from The Bright Star menu.
This entry was posted in Alabama, Bessemer, food, The Bright Star Restaurant and tagged Bessemer, food, Galatoire's, Greek restaurateurs in Birmingham, Jimmy and Nicky Koikos, The Bright Star Restaurant, the south on February 12, 2015 by gedwardjourney.
"I Love You, Alice B. Toklas"
I bought my first Gertrude Stein book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, at the late great Smith and Hardwick Bookstore on 20th Street in downtown Birmingham in the '70s when I was an undergraduate at Alabama. Smith and Hardwick was one of those amazing bookstores with an outstanding jumble of books on two levels in seeming disarray. It was owned by the Praytor sisters – Virginia and Anna – and by Anna Praytor alone when Virginia died in 1974.
If you were looking for a particular title in the store and couldn't figure out where it might be in the dusty stacks, one of the Misses Praytor always seemed to know exactly where it was located. Here's what great locally-owned bookstores were like back then: I was in school in Tuscaloosa and if there was a book I needed I would telephone Miss Anna Praytor in Birmingham. She would mail the book the same day and enclose a handwritten bill and thank you.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) was Stein's own autobiography told in the voice of Toklas, her long-time companion, secretary, cook, confidante, hostess, and handler. Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) met on Toklas's first day in Paris in 1907 and were never apart until Stein's death thirty-nine years later. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was a huge hit and led to Stein and Toklas's triumphant first tour of the U.S. that spanned seven months in 1934 and 1935. Stein captured the experience of the American tour and other events in a 1937 book titled Everybody's Autobiography. Whatever else Gertrude Stein may have been, she was never modest.
Over the years I have been fascinated with Gertrude Stein and have directed and adapted her plays, delivered papers about her oeuvre and influence, and conducted acting workshops based on the enigmatic short ditties she referred to as "plays."
And the more I have learned about Stein, the more interested I have become in Toklas and her quirky and ongoing influence. Eugene Walter knew Toklas (of course) in Paris in the '50s and "adored [her] because she had this little moustache, and I swear she waxed it." He says that upon meeting her "Right away you could see cat and monkey" (his two favorite creatures). "She had a logical mind, but she also had the gift of the parenthesis."
Walter and Toklas exchanged cooking ideas and recipes and it was The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954) that brought Toklas a surge of attention after Stein's death. The Cookbook is really a fascinating memoir with recipes presented in a witty, earnest, and distinctive voice. In a chapter entitled "Murder in the Kitchen," Toklas discusses the unpleasant tasks of preparing live animals for the kitchen: "The first victim was a lively carp brought to the kitchen in a covered basket … So quickly to the murder and have it over with."
As Toklas assesses and deals with the fish she observes:
The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second, and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed ready for a cigarette, lighted it, and waited for the police to come and take me into custody. After a second cigarette my courage returned and I went to prepare poor Mr Carp for the table.
Later in the same chapter Toklas describes her preparation of "Six white pigeons to be smothered, to be plucked, to be cleaned and all this to be accomplished before Gertrude Stein returned for she didn't like to see work being done."
In addition to being very readable, educational, and entertaining, the Cookbook continues to inspire into the 21st Century. A brief passage in Toklas's chapter entitled "Servants in France" about the hiring of an Indo-Chinese cook named Trac inspired the creation of a beautiful and award-winning 2003 novel, The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong. Truong's seductive and meditative book explores a fictional Vietnamese cook, Binh, who comes into the Stein-Toklas household.
No doubt the part of the Cookbook which caused the most stir is a recipe for "Haschich Fudge" in a section of the book called "Recipes from Friends." The marijuana brownie recipe "which anyone could whip up on a rainy day" was given to Toklas by Brion Gysin and is described as "an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR." The chapter of recipes from friends was inserted to fill the book out and Toklas might have been clueless about what she was presenting with the fudge recipe. Even so, the American publishers left the recipe out of the first American edition but it was included in others and became notorious and sort of a code, especially when the hippie movement of the 1960s took hold.
That recipe is the reason that a fairly insipid and badly dated 1968 Peter Sellers comedy directed by Hy Averback is called I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! Sellers plays "Harold Fine," a strait-laced attorney who falls in with a group of very stereotypical hippies and is especially enamored of one particular hippie, Nancy, played by Leigh Taylor-Young. Nancy, of course, bakes Alice's brownie recipe that fuels much of the frolic. The title song, penned by Elmer Bernstein (who was no hippie) and performed by Harpers Bizarre, has the refrain "I love you, Alice B. Toklas / And so does Gertrude Stein." Other lyrics evoke "Coriander baby elephants singing 'Silent Night'/ Sweet cinnamon and nutmeg Che Guevara." (The ladies would be so proud.)
Sly references to Toklas's fudge recipe had a way of sneaking in to pop culture. In a 1969 episode of the sitcom "Bewitched," Samantha's mother Endora is offered a cookie. Endora asks if it's from an Alice B. Toklas recipe. When she's told it's not, Endora says, "… I'll pass."
My favorite recipe from the cookbook is "Oeufs Francis Picabia" from the chapter titled "Dishes for Artists." Here it is:
Break 8 eggs into a bowl and mix them well with a fork, add salt but no pepper. Pour them into a saucepan – yes, a saucepan, no, not a frying pan. Put the saucepan over a very, very low flame, keep turning them with a fork while very slowly adding in very small quantities ½ lb. butter – not a speck less, rather more if you can bring yourself to it. It should take ½ hour to prepare this dish. The eggs of course are not scrambled but with the butter, no substitute admitted, produce a suave consistency that perhaps only gourmets will appreciate.
I am no gourmet, and this recipe is too rich to serve a lot, but I have prepared it and can attest to the fact that it is delicious.
In 1963, needing money, Alice B. Toklas finally got around to writing her own autobiography. It is called What Is Remembered. Even though she outlived Gertrude Stein by over two decades, she chose to end her own life's story with the death of Gertrude Stein.
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Those Thai Kids are Safe, and We Hold Out Hope for the Rest of Us
July 11, 2018 By The Central Standard Times in Politics Tags: " spelunking, action-adventure movies, Australia, British, cave, coach, rescue, SCUBA, soccer team, Thailand, Trump, tweets, world wide television	Leave a comment
Tuesday's news was full of the usual worrisome developments, but at least those dozen Thai boys and their soccer coach were at long last rescued from that awful cave they've been trapped in since June 23, which gave us a hopeful feeling about all the rest of it.
In case you've been trapped in a cave of your own for the past few weeks, the youth soccer team and its coach went on a routine spelunking adventure but found themselves trapped beneath a mountain when an unexpected torrential rain storm flooded all the exit routes. Nine days passed before a SCUBA-diving rescue crew could find them hungrily huddled in an improbable air pocket, a seeming miracle that was broadcast around the world by waterproof television cameras, but even then it seemed another 13miracles would be required for all of them to get out alive. More torrential rains made it difficult to bring food and oxygen to the unlikely survivors, a brave Thai naval frogman and former Buddhist monk died in the effort, and getting them all through the tunnels filled with muddy water and back to safety seemed impossible.
All of which made for compelling television around the world, even though the realists and fatalists among us figured all along that this hit reality show would end tragically for everyone involved. Four of the children were eventually rescued and rushed to hospitals by heroic methods a few days ago, though, and another four were treated to the same action-adventure movie heroics the next day, but it wasn't until Tuesday that the rescuers beat the torrential rains and rescued the final four players and the 25-year-old coach who had bravely volunteered to be the last one out, and only then did such such realistic and fatalistic sorts as ourselves breath a sigh of a relief that miracles do indeed happen and that some times they even come in bunches of 14 or more.
The ingenious and heroic exploits of the rescuers make for a riveting based-on-a-true-story action adventure movie that will surely be coming soon to a theater near you, and there are all sorts of feel-good subplots to the story. Thailand's dubious government came through for those poor kids and and their soccer coach, and an entire world offered its sympathy and help. Even President Donald Trump took time out from his "America First" agenda to "tweet" his sympathy and offer some American help that proved somewhat useful, but it was the brave and ingenious Thai and more nearby Australian and British divers who pulled off the miracle, and in a rare moment of global unity everyone everywhere celebrated the feat.
Despite our realistic and fatalistic sensibilities, it reaffirms our religious faith in miracles and bolsters our hope that the rest of the news might also turn out more or less well. Here's hoping that all those Thai kids and their selfless soccer coach lead long and satisfactory lives, and that so do the rest of us.
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It could be something real magical: a conversation with Susan Pasowicz and Allison Wade
February 7, 2018 By vincent-uribe
Allison Wade is a local Chicago artist who has been working collaboratively with Susan Pasowicz, an artist at the Arts of Life Chicago studio, for almost 9 months now. Ariella Miller, Arts Coordinator at the Chicago studio, recently sat down with them to talk about their collaborative work and process.
Ariella Miller (AMM): How long have you two been working together?Allison Wade (AW): I think we started last summer?
Susan Pasowicz (SLP): I think so.
AW: Nine months, maybe longer.
AMM: What is your process like?
AW: We work well together. How do we get started?
SLP: What to do next.
AW: Do we talk about it or do we just draw at the same time?
SLP: I don't know.
AW: I feel like we each choose colors and then work on the drawing together and fill in the spaces. If you make a shape I'll draw around it. If I make a shape you'll fill it in.
SLP: First you show them and then explain the facts how you want it done. However they like the thing to turn out.
AW: When we start we don't know what the finished piece will be. We don't plan it out in that way
SLP: It becomes imaginary. Something could become out of it. It could be something real magical. Or a feeling, like when you have feelings about something. When you look at the picture the feeling will come to you.
AW: Are you thinking of those feelings when we're drawing?
SLP: Yes
AW: I like what you said about it being magical. Sometimes it feels magical to me. Sometimes it feels happy, sometimes it feels tired
SLP: As long as it doesn't make you feel sad. A lot of times when you look at what we made it makes you smile and feel happy.
AW: I think we're trying to make art that allows people to feel happy when they look at it. I think we do that through color. A lot of times we choose colors that are bright
AW: Last week you were into the dark colors. You had a headache last week, that makes sense
AMM: What do you like about collaborating with each other?
SLP: I find it fun.
AW: Yeah me too!
SLP: And joyful. I like working with Allison because she's joyful.
AW: I agree, I think Sue is easy to work with and very kind.
SLP: We like coffee. (both laugh)
AW: Sometimes we'll just talk when we're working, other times we're quiet. It's just kind of easy.
SLP: We like to chat with each other. When we have problems we talk about it.
AMM: What themes are present in your work?
SLP: Sometimes you could make it darker, or lighter. It looks better this way because it brings out the satisfaction in the whole picture the way it is.
AW: Composition choices. Thematically I think we both tend towards shapes and forms. Theme of form and how things fit together. We usually work on a drawing until every space is covered. Everything has to flow into one another.
AMM: How is your collaborative work different from your individual practices?
SLP: It's different because when you work together we can talk together about what to do next or put down on the paper next. When I'm doing it by myself then I concentrate more.
AW: I agree there is a freedom in collaboration. Some of the pressure is shared. The decision making is shared so there is more freedom. I'll respond to something you do, you respond to something I do. It makes room for surprises
AMM: Has the collaboration changed your individual practices?
AW: I haven't figured out how yet, I haven't been working as intensely on my own practice. In that way it's been great because I'm doing work here (at AoL) and my individual practice is in a transition stage. I've been glazing ceramics lately and I have noticed things have gotten a lot denser, every area has to be touched or covered.
SLP: I think more about what to draw next. If you put it together its like your own original.
AW: your work seems to have less obvious objects. You're not really drawing suns as much, it's more about shapes and colors.
SLP: Before I used to draw flowers.
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People with Moon Quincunx Uranus
Birth Charts of People with Moon Quincunx Uranus
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In lists of people filtered by their Moon Aspects, only those with a known birthtime are used. This is for accuracy, because the Moon position, of all the planets, changes the most throughout the day.
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, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese tarento, actress, singer and gravure idol. She was raised in Kurashiki, Okayama, but was born in Matsue, Shimane. She is currently affiliated with Suns Entertainment. She dropped out of Kurashiki Suishō Senior High School (at the time an all-girls school).

Personal life
In July 2008, after discovering she was pregnant, Megumi married Dragon Ash lead singer Kenji Furuya, whom she had been dating since 2005.

On February 6, 2009, Megumi gave birth to their first child, a son, who weighed in at 3 kg.

Roles

Variety shows
Aa! Hanano Ryōrinin (March 20, 2008, Nippon TV)
Africa no Tsume (Nippon Television)
Akashiya Santa no Shijōsaidai no Christmas Present Show (2001)
Bachikoi! (Setonaikai Broadcasting Corporation)
Blog Type (April–September 2005, Fuji TV)
The God of Entertainment (Nippon Television)
Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende (Nippon Television)
Ken Shimura's Baka Tonosama (Fuji TV)
Hashire! Gulliver-kun (Kansai Telecasting Corporation)
Hey! Spring of Trivia (Fuji TV)
Tora no Mon (TV Asahi)
Zenkoku Issei! Nihonjin Test (April 2008, Fuji TV)

Educational Television
Onishi Hiroto's Basic English Recipe (April 2022, NHK Educational TV)

Radio
MEGUMI-X (FM-FUJI)
MEGUMI no MAKE ME HAPPY! (April–September 2005, Nippon Broadcasting System)

Commercials
Asahi Breweries (2007)
GyaO
Japan Racing Association (2006)
Morinaga & Company Weider in Jelly "Diet Weider"
Nestle Japan Nescafe Santa Marta
Okayama Prefecture
Okayama Prefecture police (Improvement of traffic manners campaign)
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co. FamilyMart Natural Cycle
Sapporo Brewery
Yellow Hat

Film
Hero (2007), Sakurako Kōno
SS (2008), Girako
The Blood of Wolves (2018)
Little Nights, Little Love (2018)
Neet Neet Neet (2018)
The Stormy Family (2019)
One Night (2019)
Stigmatized Properties (2020), Kaori
The Way of the Househusband (2022), Kazuko Tanaka
What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? (2022), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Mado (2022)
The Last 10 Years (2022)
Downfall (2023), Nozomi Machida
Scroll (2023)
December (2023)
Insomniacs After School (2023), Isaki's mother

TV drama
 Ossan's Love: In the Sky (2019), Haruka Neko
 The Way of the Househusband (2020), Kazuko Tanaka
 The Naked Director Season 2 (2021)
 A Day-Off of Ryunosuke Kamiki (2022)
 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (2023), Ōoka Tadasuke

Books

Photoalbums
Gekkan MEGUMI (Shinchosha)
Megami (Gakken)
meg (Aqua House)

See also
Kenji Furuya (Dragon Ash) (husband)
Ikkō Furuya (father-in-law)

Awards and nominations

References

External links
Suns Entertainment
Yahoo fan club
Geneon Entertainment

1981 births
Japanese gravure idols
Japanese television personalities
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
Japanese voice actresses
Living people
People from Kurashiki
21st-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese women singers
21st-century Japanese singers


To broaden and develop our worship, led by the Holy Spirit, to ensure that it is owned by our entire congregation, fully inclusive and open to all.
To reach out to our village community, working as one with other Christian groups, through the offering of our building, our care and concern for individuals, and our involvement in village life.
To recognise that we are part of the worldwide church of Christ and to encourage an interest in, and Christian response to, national and international concerns and issues.
Perhaps it will be useful, both for Methodists and non-Methodists if I write about our Methodist DNA, what makes Methodism distinctive, what makes Methodism tick.
To some extent we're haunted by the ghosts of John and Charles Wesley, to both of whom we owe a great deal. But we aren't tied to the past. Since their time things have moved on and much has changed. Methodism has proved adaptable, flexible, and good at reinventing itself.
This led to the missionary movement. Wesley famously said: "I look upon all the world as my parish." That sounds arrogant, but he added, "thus far I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right and my bounden duty to declare unto all who are willing to hear the glad tidings of salvation." And now there are Methodists in most of the countries of the world, as witness the Methodist Prayer Handbook, published annually, an excellent guide for our private prayers, and a means of widening our horizons.
Social concern is another hallmark of Methodism. Wesley cared about people's health, opening a free clinic for the poor of London in 1745, a remote precursor of the NHS, and publishing "Primitive Physic". He cared about education, founding Kingswood School in Bristol. He cared about slavery. In the month before he died, Wesley wrote to William Wilberforce, calling it: "That execrable villany, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature." From our church sprang Action for Children, Methodist Homes, Methodist Relief and Development Fund, etc.
The structure and organisation of Methodism derive from Wesley. Connexion, District, Circuit, hold the church together, enforcing a strong sense of fellowship and pastoral care. Wesley disliked Christians falling out over matters of opinion, recommended tolerance to one another, and stressed the fundamental importance of Christian love.
All this is part of our heritage, of which we should be more aware than we are. Of course Methodism has its faults, but it also has much of which it can be justifiably proud. I owe more than I can say to Methodism, and I thank God for the people called Methodists.


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PRS/STIM/GEMA joint venture gets the go ahead
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 17 June 2015
The European Commission has given the all clear for European collecting societies PRS, STIM and GEMA – which represent publishers and songwriters in, respectively, the UK, Sweden and Germany – to form a central hub to license and process royalties from multi-territory digital services.
The three societies announced the joint venture back in 2013. It will mean that digital services seeking multi-territory licences – which is most digital services – will now be able to licence the PRS, STIM and GEMA song repertoires for Europe through one licence, rather than three.
And while it's worth noting that the bigger publishers now licence most digital services directly (albeit via joint ventures with the societies), meaning that PRS, STIM and GEMA are no longer licensing their entire repertoires to digital, the number of songs collectively represented by the three organisations is still significant.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the new scheme means that royalties due to the three societies from the digital services will be calculated and invoiced together, utilising a combined database of copyright ownership information built on the PRS and STIM's existing data alliance, aka the International Copyright Enterprise or ICE.
The aim is to make it easier for pan-European digital services to licence song rights and to make the processing of streaming usage-data and monies more efficient, which seems like a fine idea in principle, not least because legislators in Europe are always telling the music rights sector to make licensing simpler.
But competition regulators in Europe nevertheless raised concerns about the joint venture, because PRS, STIM and GEMA collaborating means less competition, and less choice in the market for both licensees and creators/rights owners (sort of, but not really). And while it's true that the growth of direct licensing of digital in the publishing sector is reducing the dominance of the collecting societies to a point, they are still partners in that direct licensing system.
As previously reported, the EC announced in January that it was opening an 'in-depth investigation' into the competition implications of the PRS/STIM/GEMA joint venture because preliminary conversations had suggested the collaboration could "result in higher prices and worsened commercial conditions for digital service providers in the European Economic Area".
But yesterday the EC announced that, having done that in-depth investigating, it was giving the joint venture the green light, subject to some commitments, mainly to ensure publishers have some flexibility over what administration services they choose to use.
The Commission said in a statement: "The approval is conditional upon the proposed joint venture implementing commitments that will enable other players to compete with the joint venture in the provision of copyright administration services. The Commission had concerns that the creation of the joint venture would make it more difficult for other collecting societies to offer copyright administration services by raising the barriers to entry and growth in this market. The commitments submitted by the companies address these concerns".
Needless to say, the three societies welcomed the decision, as you will see from the quotes fest below. We now wait to find out the timescales involved in shifting multi-territory digital licensing and royalty processing from the individual societies to the new hub.
Meanwhile, quotes…
PRS For Music CEO Robert Ashcroft: "This is a very significant day for online music licensing as our new joint venture is uniquely positioned to deal with the rapidly transforming online music market. What this clearance means is that we are now able to work even more effectively on behalf of songwriters, composers and their music publishers, while at the same time helping to develop the Digital Single Market across Europe".
STIM CEO Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen: "Today's competition clearance announcement is testament to the incredible work that has gone into the design of this new offering, which will provide a seamless service for both music rights holders and pan-European digital service providers. It's the result of years of productive collaboration between STIM, GEMA and PRS For Music to deliver a solution that will help the digital market grow".
GEMA CEO Dr Harald Heker: "Our hub enables fluidity, agility and speed in the multi-territory market, facilitates the licensing process for digital service providers and improves the quality of rights administration for the benefit of rights holders and users. The JV constitutes an important new chapter for the whole rights management industry and a huge step forward towards the development of an EU-wide Digital Single Market for music".
READ MORE ABOUT: GEMA | ICE | PRS For Music | STIM


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Gunman Gets 45 to Life for Killing NYPD Cop from LI
Timothy Bolger
The North Carolina man who killed a New York City police officer from Long Island during a botched home invasion has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison.
Brooklyn Judge Alan Marrus handed down the sentence Thursday to Lamont Pride, 28, who was convicted two weeks ago of murdering NYPD Officer Peter Figoski, a 47-year-old divorced father of four from West Babylon.
Pride fatally shot Figoski in December 2011 when officers caught him trying to rob a drug dealer. Figoski's partner apprehended Pride shortly later.
Michael Velez, Pride's 22-year-old alleged getaway driver, was tried before the same judge but a separate jury acquitted him. He was reportedly sentenced to two years in prison for a parole violation.
Two other suspects, 28-year-old Nelson Morales and 31-year-old Kevin Santos, both of Queens, have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
A fifth man involved in the robbery, 23-year-old Ariel Tejada of Queens, had pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the others in exchange for a lighter sentence.
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Fans Remember Whitney Houston On Her Would-Be 50th Birthday
By Lauren James in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 12 August 2013
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We look back at the career of one of the world's most famous singers on what would have been Whitney Houston's 50th birthday.
Last week, 9th August 2013, would have marked Whitney Houston's 50th birthday had she still been alive. Instead, the occasion has been used by her many fans to remember one of the world's most talented singers who died on 11th February 2012.
Fans Remember Singer Whitney Houston Over A Year After Her Death.
Fans were dealt a shocking blow on the singer's unexpected death, which coinciding with the 2012 Grammy Awards. It was reported that the 48 year-old popstar had drown in the bathtub in Beverley Hills' Beverley Hilton Hotel as a result of heart disease and cocaine use. In her consistently successful performing career that saw her begin as a backing singer in the mid-70s to artists like Chaka Khan then rise to stratospheric fame, she sold over 200 million records. Her legacy includes 31 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, seven Grammys, two Emmys and many other awards and nominations.
Relive Whitney Houston Performing 'One Moment In Time At The 1991 Grammy Awards:
Having initially been scouted as a model whilst singing with her mother, Cissy Houston, she was featured on the cover of Glamour and Cosmopolitan whilst she made sure that her singing talents weren't put to waste. In the early eighties, Houston featured frequently on other artists' albums and was eventually offered record contracts to produce work under her own name. However, although her mother was a singer too, Whitney was instructed to finish high school before she signed anything. Eventually, in 1983 she signed a worldwide recording contract and her popularity never stopped growing.
Talented Performer Whitney Houston Will Be Remembered Long After Her Death.
Houston went on to produce six studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums; in one of which she acted. The Bodyguard in 1992 marked her foray into acting and she starred alongside Kevin Costner. The film's romantic lead track 'I Will Always Love You' showcasing Houston's incredible vocal range and ability to evoke emotion in her songs sold 45 million copies worldwide and became the biggest selling soundtrack song ever.
Whitney Was A World-Class Performer.
She became one of the biggest selling acts of all time and in 2009 was ranked as the most awarded female artists ever. Her drug problems and troubled personal life would overshadow her later years in the run up to her 2012 death but she was, and will always be, one of the brightest shining stars the music industry has ever produced.
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Elettronica Group sponsor del Salone Electronic Warfare GCC
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Elettronica Group is attending the Electronic Warfare GCC conference in the Emirates. We are proud sponsor of this conference where the very best international EW technology suppliers are able to build strong connections with leading local defence companies, tasked with meeting regional military and security objectives. Graziano Lubello (PL Lawful Interception Manager at CY4GATE) and Claudio Dainelli (Training Support System Manager) will be holding a workshop aimed of exploring the threat posed by drones, analyzing the full operational cycle of the Innovative Counter Drone Systems, to be effective in future scenarios. The following day, Timothy Battisti, (System Analyst, R&I Department) will cover the boost of Artificial Intelligence in Homeland Security.
09-Oct-2018 – 10:30/12:00 Workshop Room 4:Innovative Counter Drone Systems
The threat posed by drones (or small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) must now be regarded as a resilient threat. Organizations of irregular fighters and terrorists have already started to use drones in an organized and structured way to acquire intelligence and perform hard-kill attacks. No more sporadic and isolated actions but organized in accordance to precise plans often orchestrated across different operational scenarios from Syria to Iraq.
Innovative Counter Drone Systems, are usually composed of different sensors and actuators, but nowadays there is the need to overcome the concept of the "single-and-simple" system to provide the End User with a real operational capability to fully and effectively combat the threat of drones.
Innovative Counter Drone Systems need to implement a full operational cycle composed of Planning, Detection, Identification, Tracking and Neutralization, Intelligence, and finally Briefing and Libraries Update phases.
10-Oct-2018 – 08:30/10:00 Workshop Room 1:Border Surveillance & Traffic Analysis: the Boost of Artificial Intelligence in Homeland Security
The modern border surveillance networks collect an enormous quantity of data, processed by one or more Command and Control (C2) Centers, in order to generate a complete and exhaustive operative picture. This requires:
"Persistent" (always available) capability of an immediate optical feedback whenever the border surveillance network detects anomalous activities and behaviors of the monitored platforms;
"Persistent" capability of extending patrolling and surveillance beyond the electromagnetic horizon;
Protection of all border surveillance network nodes from "cyber-attacks" in order to guarantee integrity/confidentiality of the collected data
Two innovative functions are enabled by the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques:
The Specific Emitter Identification (on both Radar and COMM signals) that provides a method to associate in a unique way the received waveform with the corresponding radio transmitter;
The Anomalous Behavior Detection that provides a method based on analysis trajectory/kinematic and waveform behavior to detect anomalous activities of the platforms under monitoring.
Given the huge amount of data, it is necessary to introduce, in each node to be protected, the functionality of Advanced Cyber Defense. This functionality is also based on "Artificial Intelligence" techniques and it is able to detect, identify and classify harmful ad malicious network traffic flows (e.g., intrusions/infections).
About Elettronica
Elettronica Group, as a European leader in Defence & Security, has been on the cutting edge of Electronic Warfare for more than 60 years, supplying Armed Forces and Governments of 30 Countries with more than 3000 high technology systems.
Privately controlled by Benigni's family, with Leonardo and Thales in the shareholders structure, the Group is composed by three industrial assets, Elettronica S.p.A, headquarter, based in Rome, leader in full EW capabilities, CY4GATE, a joint venture with Expert System, born to address today's emerging and evolving needs in cyber domain, specialized in Cyber EW, Cyber Security and Intelligence, and Elettronica Gmbh, the German subsidiary specialized in EW signal processing design and production and Homeland Security solutions. Elettronica's systems are deployed for a variety of key operational missions, from Strategic Surveillance, to Self Protection, Sigint, Electronic Attack and Operational Support for airborne, naval and ground applications. Elettronica Group boasts a strong record of successful domestic and international collaborations on all the key modern military platforms such as the Italian PPA, the fighter Eurofighter Typhoon, the NFH-90 helicopter, the Italian and French ship class Horizon and FREMM, and a wide range of projects in the Gulf, Middle East and Asia.
Fonte: comunicato Elettronica Group
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