Selina S. Lee, teaching at her Banchan Workshops. Photo © Lisa Wong Jackson.
Meet chef, cooking instructor and blogger Selina S. Lee, who moved from Seoul, South Korea to the Bay Area when she was 12. After 20 years of working as a graphic designer she made the shift to focus on her passion: teaching Korean cooking.
"Every day I was conflicted," she says. "I was working at my job and I was thinking about cooking. Everyone thought I would just retire from that same company, but I just had to walk away." Leaving her career in design behind, she began to teach small classes about Korean cuisine, called "banchan workshops," after the small dishes traditionally served with meals. They were a hit. (She's particularly excited about an upcoming bibimbap workshop.) She left her day job, launched a website and a culinary class business, and the rest is history.
Selina S. Lee cooking a spicy pork stir-fry.
What's a common misunderstanding about Korean food?
People think it's too hard. There's a layer of intimidation. They think the prep time is long and it's too much work. That's pretty much what my blog and the workshop are about: Try to make it a little more approachable but without losing the traditional flavor and nuances. Also, I get a lot of comments about Korean food being unhealthy. [People are] more exposed to what's on offer at restaurants… like Korean BBQ houses. But it can be healthy and it can be approachable.
Banchan are largely vegetables, right?
Yes. There are vegetables, but it's such a big array of stuff. Primarily vegetables, but a lot of fermented stuff like fish, pickles, and kimchi.
Were you a lifelong Korean cuisine cook?
I wasn't really into cooking; I'd been a graphic designer for 20 years. The cooking—I didn't get into the kitchen till I had my kids. Obviously, somebody has to cook! I had no idea that I had a talent or interest or passion for it, but always had good influences, from my mom and grandmother. I saw them cook. There was a lot of talk about it.
How'd you start a banchan workshop?
I started hosting these small gatherings. This is my fourth year into it; I started them because I wasn't into cooking. It was stressful, but I wanted to find a way to like it. I thought, "If I do it with my friends, I could kind of get into it," so I invited my close friends over. We cooked up a storm and had a feast at the end.
How'd it become a business?
After two or three pilots, I decided, "Why not open it up to the public?" I started partnering with all these different platforms & people who might be interested in collaborating with me. This coming Sunday, I'm hosting a bibimbap workshop. For each workshop, I've been doing a different theme. Kimchi, obviously, is the most popular one. Then very basic Korean rice and noodles, Korean street food, soup and stew.
Yes. This year I have some really exciting ones coming up, like "king's table," Korean food passed down from the king's court. There's a part of Korean cuisine that's like a royal cuisine. It's the food that's been served and passed down for generations. It was served to the king in the Joseon era in the 15th-18th century. The core [of Korean cuisine] stems from that, especially the region of Seoul that I'm from. I've been doing a lot of research and focusing on classic ones served at king's table and how it's eaten and prepared now.
What else don't people know about Korean cuisine?
Korean food is very regional. You find very different flavors from the northern part, to as you go down south, where it gets really spicy and funky. There are 100 different types of kimchi. Each region has its own version of [the cuisine]. There's so much to explore. My entire family is from Seoul, where the food is very classic, clean and delicate, and very mindful.
Lee's Korean "medicinal rice cake," to celebrate the Lunar new year.
Any tips for stocking up on Korean ingredients?
Get familiarized with the pantry items. On my website, there's a a short list of basic Korean pantry stuff, mostly seasoning. Most people are already familiarized but don't know where to get them or what brand is good. Lots of American groceries carry them these days, and with amazon, it's much more accessible. It's important to know the basic pantry, start there, and then stock up. Once you have all your stuff, it's so much easier to follow recipes.
What are the top 3 ingredients you use?
Gochujang, the Korean chili paste, doenjang, the fermented paste, and soy sauce (ganjang). They're the three pillars … three key Korean sauces.
Gochujang is more savory, spicy and sweet. It's used in a lot of fiery dishes. Doenjang is more like miso, if you're familiar with miso, for soups and stews. Soy sauce, of course, is more widely used. It's like adding a depth of flavor.
What do your boys eat?
I have the pickiest kids. At 11 and 9, now they're much, more better and much more open to trying new things. There was a time where I would just give up and not offer them new things, but I tried to stick with keep offering new foods. Even if they didn't eat it, I would put it out on the table. It really made me a creative cook; I had to find a way to make them eat veggies. They wouldn't eat anything green. I did a lot of micro-chopping and putting it in soup or a blender.
What's a typical dinner in your household?
They're much better now, especially when it comes to Korean food, our favorite cuisine. We often eat a pretty typical Korean dinner: soup, rice, and some type of protein and some type of side dish or vegetable. They like banchan. The spicy ones they shy away from a little bit, but they like it. They love seaweed, and seaweed crisps. It's the most popular thing at school. My kids bring the rice, and [other kids are] like, "that's not how you eat it." I've packed them Korean food. At first I thought they might be embarrassed about not eating PB&J. They love it. I think kids hover around them and ask them what they're eating. They keep asking me to pack them rice and seaweed and anchovies.
Head here for Selina's sweet Korean rice recipe and here for her spicy Korean pork stir-fry recipe.
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So thrilled for you and can't wait to come to a workshop!! Congrats!!
Love this Selina! You're one of the hardest working people I know and your food is damn good!


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Children's playgroup returns home
PUBLISHED: 10:00 19 January 2010 | UPDATED: 07:33 02 July 2010
Karl Tutt with his Daughter Alex (4).
A children's playgroup which had to find a new place to go after the church where it met was attacked by arsonists is celebrating a return to their original home.
St Thomas' Toddlers used to be housed inside St Thomas's Church in Earlham Road, Heigham, which was attacked by arsonists in 2007.
The fire started in a corridor at back of the extension to the church hall and left all toys and games used by the mothers and toddlers club in shreds. The kitchen and toilets were also destroyed and the roof was also damaged.
But the group have made a welcome return to the church, which has now been fully restored.
Chloe Manka from the group said: "We were a well established toddler group providing entertainment and a great social rest-bite for many local parents, but after the arson attack it was really hard to keep that fantastic community spirit alive."
The group moved to another church after the attack in Trinity Street, but their numbers became less. They then moved on at the beginning of this year to The Belevedere Centre in Belvoir Street, Norwich.
Ms Manka said: "I stepped in to help Karl Tutt, who runs the group, and to bring about some much needed changes to the group.
"We acquired some new toys from car-boots and generous donations. I also introduced a healthy snack for all children present and an after snack group activity.
"Our return to the church will be an exciting one, it's a much bigger venue and we're hoping to establish ourselves as a safe, friendly and strong part of the community.
"We'd like to make the most of the kitchen facilities and continue to offer a healthy snack for each child present, we'd also like to offer teas and coffees for the parents but in order to do this we will be calling on volunteers."
To find out more about the group, which meets every Wednesday in term time, contact Mr Tutt on 01603 470507.

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Short preview video of the new Kia Rio to be campaigned in World RX by the Italian loon Gigi Galli! Hope theyv'e got lots of spare panels but car looks sweet. Always hoped Kia would do something with the Rio as its pretty little car.
Re: Gigi Galli World Rallycross team Kia Rio!
That looks very nice indeed.
Maybe a WRC entry might follow?
Pretty little thing in plain white.
Brave move to develop a whole new car when there are other platforms that have been developed already. That said, it's good that there is some variety amongst the Supercars and they're not all Polos, Pugs and Fiestas!!
Good luck Gigi, I say!
Pics of car in full livery on Galli's Facebook pages now. Looks great in Castrol colours.


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The Affair Season 3: Alison to Break Cole and Luisa's Marriage, Helen Might Not Stay with Noah!
The Affair Season 3 is going to see Alison (Ruth Wilson) completely alone. Alison had lied about her pregnancy to Noah. She had told him in the beginning that the baby was his and he had happily left his wife and had settled for a new life with Alison where he had started loving the little baby, Joanie.
It was only in the finale of The Affair Season 2 that Alison comes clean about the baby's parentage and Noah (Dominic West) is distraught. He goes to a pub where he meets Helen (Maura Tierney) and the two strike up a conversation. Noah realizes how badly he had treated his family and Helen on her part is ready to forgive him.
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Lawrence Edward Kasdan (* 14. Januar 1949 in Miami) ist ein US-amerikanischer Regisseur und Drehbuchautor.

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Lawrence Kasdan wuchs mit seinem später ebenfalls als Drehbuchschreiber und Produzent tätigen Bruder Mark in verschiedenen Kleinstädten im US-Bundesstaat West Virginia auf. Laut eigener Aussage wurde Kasdan aufgrund seiner jüdischen Abstammung von seinen Freunden gehänselt. 1971 heiratete Kasdan die Schriftstellerin Meg Goldman. Aus der Ehe gingen die beiden Söhne Jake und Jon hervor, die ebenfalls als Drehbuchautoren, Regisseure und Produzenten im Filmgeschäft wirken.

Lawrence Kasdan machte zunächst seinen Master of Arts (M.A.) an der University of Michigan, um Lehrer zu werden. Mangels Anstellung wurde er Werbetexter und errang sogar den renommierten Clio Award. Mit seinem Umzug nach Los Angeles begann er Drehbücher zu schreiben. 1976 konnte er Bodyguard an den Mann bringen, das aber erst im Jahre 1992 mit Kevin Costner und Whitney Houston in den Hauptrollen verwirklicht wurde. Ursprünglich war die Rolle von Kevin Costner für Steve McQueen vorgesehen.

Kasdans Drehbuch für Zwei wie Katz und Maus zog die Aufmerksamkeit von Steven Spielberg auf sich. Spielberg stellte Kasdan daraufhin George Lucas vor, von dem er dann für das Drehbuch zu Indiana Jones – Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes engagiert wurde. Nachdem Leigh Brackett, die den ersten Entwurf für Das Imperium schlägt zurück geschrieben hatte, 1978 verstorben war, beauftragte Lucas Kasdan mit der Fertigstellung des Drehbuches. Auch an der Star-Wars-Fortsetzung Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983) war Kasdan als Drehbuchautor beteiligt. Mehr als 30 Jahre später schrieb Kasdan das Drehbuch für Star Wars: Das Erwachen der Macht. Auch an Solo: A Star Wars Story, der 2018 erschien, wirkte er als Autor mit. Als Regisseur inszenierte er mit Light & Magic (2022) eine dokumentarische Miniserie über Industrial Light & Magic.

1981 gab er sein Debüt als Regisseur mit dem Film Heißblütig – Kaltblütig. Zu seinen weiteren Filmen als Regisseur zählen so unterschiedliche Werke wie der Western Silverado (1985), die Komödie Ich liebe Dich zu Tode (1990) und die Liebeskomödie French Kiss (1995) mit Meg Ryan.

Darüber hinaus trat er auch als Schauspieler auf, unter anderem als Dr. Green  in Besser geht's nicht (1997) mit Jack Nicholson.

Filmografie

Drehbuchautor
 1980: Das Imperium schlägt zurück (The Empire Strikes Back)
 1981: Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
 1981: Heißblütig – Kaltblütig (Body Heat)
 1981: Zwei wie Katz und Maus (Continental Divide)
 1983: Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (Return of the Jedi)
 1983: Der große Frust (The Big Chill)
 1988: Die Reisen des Mr. Leary (The Accidental Tourist)
 1991: Grand Canyon – Im Herzen der Stadt (Grand Canyon)
 1992: Bodyguard
 1994: Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende (Wyatt Earp)
 2003: Dreamcatcher
 2012: Darling Companion – Ein Hund fürs Leben (Darling Companion)
 2015: Star Wars: Das Erwachen der Macht (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
 2018: Solo: A Star Wars Story

Regisseur
 1981: Heißblütig – Kaltblütig (Body Heat)
 1983: Der große Frust (The Big Chill)
 1985: Silverado
 1988: Die Reisen des Mr. Leary (The Accidental Tourist)
 1989: Ich liebe Dich zu Tode – Auf der Kugel steht Amore (I Love You to Death)
 1991: Grand Canyon – Im Herzen der Stadt (Grand Canyon)
 1994: Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende (Wyatt Earp)
 1995: French Kiss
 1999: Dr. Mumford (Mumford)
 2003: Dreamcatcher
 2012: Darling Companion – Ein Hund fürs Leben (Darling Companion)
 2022: Light & Magic (Miniserie, 6 Episoden)

Produzent
 1985: Silverado
 1987: Was nun? (Cross My Heart)
 1988: Die Reisen des Mr. Leary (The Accidental Tourist)
 1991: Grand Canyon – Im Herzen der Stadt (Grand Canyon)
 1992: Bodyguard
 1994: Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende (Wyatt Earp)
 1998: Verliebt in Sally (Home Fries)
 1999: Dr. Mumford (Mumford)
 2003: Dreamcatcher
 2012: Darling Companion – Ein Hund fürs Leben (Darling Companion)

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 Saturn Award im Jahr 1982 für das Drehbuch zu Indiana Jones – Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes
 Nominiert für den Oscar 1984 für Der große Frust in der Kategorie bestes originales Drehbuch
 Nominiert für den Oscar 1989 für Die Reisen des Mr. Leary in den Kategorien bestes adaptiertes Drehbuch (gemeinsam mit Frank Galati) und bester Film
 Goldener Bär auf der Berlinale 1992 für Grand Canyon
 Nominiert für den Oscar 1992 für Grand Canyon in der Kategorie bestes originales Drehbuch
 Nominierung für die Goldene Himbeere 1993 für den Schlechtesten Film zu Bodyguard
 Nominierung für die Goldene Himbeere 1993 für das Schlechteste Drehbuch des Films Bodyguard
 Goldene Himbeere im Jahr 1995 für die schlechteste Neuverfilmung oder Fortsetzung zu Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende
 Nominierung für die Goldene Himbeere 1995 für den Schlechtesten Film zu Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende
 Nominierung für die Goldene Himbeere 1995 für die Schlechteste Regie zu Wyatt Earp – Das Leben einer Legende

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Drehbuchautor
Filmregisseur
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Geboren 1949
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J Clin Gynecol Obstet
Journal of Clinical Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISSN 1927-1271 print, 1927-128X online, Open Access
Article copyright, the authors; Journal compilation copyright, J Clin Gynecol Obstet and Elmer Press Inc
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Volume 2, Number 2, September 2013, pages 56-60
Evaluation of Uterine Volume in Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy for Uterine Leiomyomas
Aiko Shigemitsua, Naoto Furukawaa, b, Fuminori Itoa, Juria Akasakaa, Yasuhito Tanasea, Shozo Yoshidaa, Hiroshi Kobayashia
aDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara, 634-8522, Japan
bCorresponding author: Naoto Furukawa, 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara, 634-8522, Japan
Manuscript accepted for publication August 2, 2013
Short title: Evaluation of Uterine Volume
doi: https://doi.org/10.4021/jcgo179w
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Background: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate uterine volume in patients who underwent transabdominal hysterectomy (TAH) or total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) for uterine leiomyomas in our teaching hospital and to determine the appropriate uterine volume in patients who could undergo TLH.
Methods: This retrospective study was based on a cohort 47 consecutive cases that underwent TLH for uterine leiomyomas in our institution between April 2008 and April 2012 (TLH group). Controls were defined as 134 patients who underwent TAH for uterine leiomyomas in our institution between April 2008 and April 2012 (TAH group).
Results: The TLH group comprised 45 cases because two surgeries in the TLH group were converted to TAH. Uterine volume was significantly smaller in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 342 g vs. 788 g). Surgical duration was significantly longer in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 214 minutes vs. 152 minutes). Blood loss was significantly lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 0 mL vs. 250 mL). The incidence of postoperative complications was lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group (0/45 vs. 15/134). The hospital stay was significantly shorter for the TLH group than for the TAH group. In the TLH group, surgical duration correlated with uterine volume (regression coefficient = 1.6598, P = 0.0014).
Conclusion: There seems to be no limitation of uterine volume in TLH for uterine leiomyomas because TLH is safer than TAH except for the longer surgical duration.
Keywords: Total laparoscopic hysterectomy; Uterine volume; Leiomyoma
Introduction ▴Top
Uterine leiomyomas, including fibroids or myomas, are frequent benign tumors of the uterus among women of reproductive age [1]. Treatment options for uterine leiomyomas include surgery, drugs, and embolization. Hysterectomy is commonly selected when patients do not wish to have more children or have hypermenorrhea. The number of laparoscopic hysterectomy procedures has recently increased, but transabdominal and transvaginal hysterectomies are also common approaches. In the United States, laparoscopic hysterectomies accounted for 30.5% of hysterectomy procedures in 2010 compared with 24.3% in 2007 [2]. The first laparoscopic access was combined with vaginal removal of the uterus and was referred to as laparoscopy-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). In general, uterine vessel ligation and stump closure are performed vaginally in LAVH. This procedure, however, has now been replaced worldwide by total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). In TLH, the uterine vessel, cardinal ligaments, and stump closure are performed laparoscopically, and thus TLH is more difficult than LAVH. A recent Cochrane review reported that laparoscopic hysterectomy is associated with less blood loss and a shorter hospital stay compared with abdominal hysterectomy [3]. In contrast, laparoscopic hysterectomy is associated with longer surgical duration and urinary tract injuries [4]. Uterine volume is also a factor in the selection of the hysterectomy approach. The reported cut-off uterine volume for laparoscopic hysterectomy is 280 g [5]. Few studies, however, have compared uterine volume with hysterectomy approach.
The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate uterine volume in patients who underwent transabdominal hysterectomy (TAH) or TLH for uterine leiomyomas in our teaching hospital and to determine the appropriate uterine volume in patients who could undergo TLH.
Patients and Methods ▴Top
This retrospective study was based on a cohort 47 consecutive cases that underwent TLH for uterine leiomyomas in our institution between April 2008 and April 2012 (TLH group). Controls were defined as 134 patients who underwent TAH for uterine leiomyomas in our institution between April 2008 and April 2012 (TAH group). Assignment of the hysterectomy approach was as follows; one patient was placed in the TLH group, and three consecutive subsequent patients were placed in the TAH group. Patient data were collected from the medical records.
Surgical procedure for TLH
After the induction of general anesthesia, patients were placed in a dorsal lithotomy position. A uterine manipulator (Thomas Medical Inc., Indianapolis, IN) was used. The pneumo-occluder was slipped over the tip and into the shaft, followed by attachment of an appropriately sized KOH ring. A 10 mm trocar was put through the umbilicus to hold the laparoscope with the mounted camera and create the pneumoperitoneum. Three 5 mm trocars were placed in the lower abdomen, with the lateral trocar positioned laterally to the epigastric vessels at the level of the superior iliac spine. After bringing the patient to Trendelenburg position, the round ligament was sealed and dissected using a Harmonic Ace (Johnson and Johnson, Tokyo, Japan), and the peritoneum was dissected down to the vesicouterine pouch using the Harmonic Ace. The bladder peritoneum was dissected from that of the uterus. The pararectal space was opened, and the external and internal iliac arteries were identified to visualize the ureters. By following the internal iliac artery, the origin of the uterine artery was identified. The uterine artery was completely isolated and sealed and dissected using the Harmonic Ace, or ligated by Vicryl (Johnson and Johnson) and dissected by scissors. The infundibulopelvic or utero-ovarian ligaments were sealed and dissected using the Harmonic Ace.
Circular colpotomy was performed along the rim of KOH ring using the Harmonic Ace and the uterus was removed. After detaching the uterus, it was extracted through the vagina if possible. If the uterus was too big, a morcellator (Olympus or Gyrus ACMI) was used through a 10 mm port after augmenting the left lateral access. The vagina was closed laparoscopically by running sutures with poly-dioxanone delayed absorbable sutures (PDSII; Johnson and Johnson). Finally, cystoscopy was performed to confirm urine flow from the ureters.
All statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS software Version 17 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The Chi2 test and Fisher's exact test were used for analysis of categorical data. Quantitative measures were analyzed using the two-tailed unpaired Student's t test. Probability values of less than 0.05 were considered to indicate statistical significance. Linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the relation between uterine volume and surgical duration.
Results ▴Top
Two surgeries in the TLH group were converted to TAH, due to anesthesia problems and a large uterine volume of 1,320 g. The TLH group therefore comprised 45 cases. There were no differences between groups with respect to age and parity. The patient characteristics are shown in Table 1. Body mass index (BMI) and history of previous intra-pelvic surgeries were significantly lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group (P = 0.0092, 0.0136, respectively). The intra-operative data and complications are shown in Table 2. Blood loss was significantly lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 0 mL vs. 250 mL; P < 0.0001). Uterine volume was significantly smaller in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 342 g vs. 788 g; P < 0.0001). Surgical duration was significantly longer in the TLH group than in the TAH group (median 214 minutes vs. 152 minutes; P < 0.0001). In the TLH group, the median surgical duration tended to decrease year by year, 230.3 minutes in 2008 (n = 3), 232 minutes in 2009 (n = 9), 243.6 minutes in 2010 (n = 14), 194.1 minutes in 2011 (n = 11), and 190.8 minutes in 2012 (n = 8). In the TLH group, median uterine volume was 272 g (n = 3) in 2008, 382 g (n = 9) in 2009, 330 g (n = 14) in 2010, 268 g (n = 11) in 2011, and 343 g (n = 8) in 2012. No intraoperative complications occurred in either group. The incidence of postoperative complications was lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group (0/45 vs. 15/134; P = 0.0190). The details of the postoperative complications are shown in Table 3. The hospital stay was significantly shorter for the TLH group than for the TAH group (P < 0.0001). In the TLH group, surgical duration correlated with uterine volume (regression coefficient = 1.6598, P = 0.0014); (Fig. 1). The uterine volume in patients undergoing TLH was estimated to be 272 g, based on the result of linear regression analysis using 152 minutes, which was the median surgical duration in TAH.
Click to view Table 1. Patient Characteristics
Click to view Table 2. Intra-Operative Data and Complications
Click to view Table 3. Postoperative Data and Complications
Click for large image Figure 1. Linear regression between blood loss and uterine volume in TLH. Regression coefficient = 1.6598, P = 0.0014. Uterine volume (g) = 21.454628 + 1.6597504 × surgical duration (minute).
Discussion ▴Top
The results of meta-analyses indicate that vaginal hysterectomy is the most beneficial procedure for hysterectomy for benign disease [3]. In addition, patients who underwent laparoscopic hysterectomy reported a better quality of life compared with those undergoing abdominal hysterectomy [6]. Therefore, LAVH and TLH are preferable to TAH when a vaginal hysterectomy is not feasible [3]. The benefits were not significantly different between TLH and LAVH [3]. Uterine volume, however, was significantly greater in patients who underwent TLH compared with those who underwent LAVH, consistent with a previous report [7], and less blood loss occurred in TLH vs. LAVH, also consistent with a previous report [3]. Therefore, TLH is preferable to LAVH for resection of large uteri such as those with leiomyomas. Recent results of a meta-analysis indicated that TLH might offer benefits such as less postoperative pain and a shorter hospital stay, compared with vaginal hysterectomy for benign disease [8]. In the present study, BMI and history of previous intra-pelvic operations were significantly lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group. A selection bias might have occurred, though, because the present study was retrospective although patients were selected as described above. Based on the intra-operative data, blood loss was significantly lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group. In contrast, surgical duration was significantly longer in the TLH group than in the TAH group. These results are the same as those in a previous report [3]. Intra-operative complications, however, did not occur in the present study. The postoperative data revealed that hospital stay was significantly shorter for the TLH group than for TAH group, as reported previously [3]. The results of a meta-analysis indicated no significant differences in the occurrence of pelvic hematoma, vaginal cuff infection, or urinary tract infection between TLH and TAH [3]. In contrast, no postoperative complications occurred in the TLH group in the present study. The reason no postoperative complications including vaginal cuff dehiscence and wound complications occurred may be because BMI and history of previous intra-pelvic operation were lower in the TLH group than in the TAH group, and there was a small sample size in the TLH group. Among patients with a BMI of more than 30, complications including hemorrhage and hematoma, requiring blood transfusion, traumatic or burning bowel, and urinary tract injury, were more common than among patients with a BMI of less than 30 [9]. Surgical wounds were wider in TAH than in TLH, making wound disruption more common in TAH than in TLH. TLH was estimated to be, and experienced as, significantly more difficult than TAH [10]. Surgical duration tends to be longer in TLH than in TAH [3]. In the present study, the surgical duration was significantly longer in the TLH group than in the TAH group, and uterine volume was significantly smaller in the TLH group than in the TAH group. Surgical duration was significantly correlated with uterine volume in TLH in the present study. The results of a large-number case-control study indicated that uterine volume and physician experience are independent predictors of surgical duration [11]. In the present study, surgical duration was shorter in 2012 than in 2008. It is expected that surgical duration can be further decreased as physicians acquire experience. An appropriate uterine volume for TLH is estimated to be 272 g when the uterine volume in TLH is calculated using 152 minutes, which was the median surgical duration in TAH in the present study. Surgical duration, however, is more likely related to the morphology of uterus, mobility of the uterus, and the presence of adhesions than to uterine volume. Furthermore, there are other merits of TLH, including less blood loss, fewer complications, and shorter hospital stay compared with TAH, based on both the present study and many previous reports [3]. Therefore, a uterine volume of 868 g, which was maximal in the present study, can be operable by TLH based on the results of the present study. TLH is feasible and safe, resulting in a short hospital stay, minimal blood loss, minimal operating time, and few complications for patients regardless of uterine weight [11]. TLH is considered feasible for selected patients with uteri weighing more than 1,000 g [12]. Some studies, however, have reported a limitation of TLH related to uterine volume as well. A laparoscopic hysterectomy approach is reported to have a cut-off uterine volume of 280 g [5]. In addition, a uterine volume of more than 500 g seems to be risk factor for the occurrence of intra-operative hemorrhage and postoperative complications [13]. When the uterus is too enlarged, working space is limited, and identifying uterine vessels may be difficult or morcellator-related visceral injuries may occur [14]. The limitations of the present study include the small sample size and the fact that it is a retrospective study.
In conclusion, the present study showed that TLH is feasible in patients with uterine leiomyomas with a volume up to 272 g. There seems to be no limitation of uterine volume in TLH, however, because TLH is safer than TAH except for the longer surgical duration. TLH must be safely performed in consideration of factors such as uterine morphology and uterine volume. Moreover, the surgical duration can be decreased by additional surgical experience.
All the authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
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Month after my proposed design (but in truth i am working on this for longer time), i am finally finished basic functionality for wireless section of mobile settings. Basics of UI is also almost done, even it's need some polishing and good criticism of designers.
While thinking of design, i looked on biggest "competitors" on mobile OS market – Android and iOS. Mainly i am taking design ideas from Android, since i am thinking it has good proportion between usability and functionality, while i am studying/following KDE Human Interface Guidelines, https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG and as recommended i am using Kirigami 2 framework, which implement most of HIG rules by itself.
so here it is, my first blog post ever, so my first bigger project, contribution to open-source and Linux desktop ever.
My name is Martin, currently student of Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, and i am developing new setting module for Plasma Mobile project https://www.plasma-mobile.org/, module which should be replacement for current KCM network settings.
This project proposed me Jan Grulich (http://www.jgrulich.cz), developer of NetworkManager and desktop applet used in Fedora. He supports me with mentorship a introducing to KDE development.
My own fork where i am developing module is on https://github.com/MartinKacej/plasma-nm. I will be glad for your advices and help from end-user viewpoint , since i am mostly struggling on design part.
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January 1, 2022 – New York, NY — Prager Metis, a leading advisory and accounting firm with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Metaverse, announces the promotion of Marianna Mooney to Managing Partner-Long Island Office effective January 1, 2022. Marianna has over twenty years of experience within the accounting industry and takes great pride in providing high-value service to her clients and acting in a strategic planning role.
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Q: Using pandas over csv library for manipulating CSV files in Python3 Forgive me if my questions is too general, or if its been asked before. I've been tasked to manipulate (e.g. copy and paste several range of entries, perform calculations on them, and then save them all to a new csv file) several large datasets in Python3.
What are the pros/cons of using the aforementioned libraries?
Thanks in advance.

A: I have not used CSV library, but many people are enjoying the benefits of Pandas.  Pandas provides a lot of the tools you'll need, based off Numpy.  You can easily then use more advance libraries for all sorts of analysis (sklearn for machine learning, nltk for nlp, etc.).
For your purposes, you'll find it easy to manage different cdv's, merge, concatenate, do whatever you want really.
Heres a link to a quick start guide.  Lots of other resources out there as well.
getting started with pandas python
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html
Hope that helps a little bit.

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Q: Tunneling using Plink to localhost on Windows Currently im using following command (in cmd) to tunnel using PuTTY, and it's working fine:
putty.exe mylinuxuser@10.24.0.5 -P 22 -L 10.24.0.200:2022:localhost:22

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*10.24.0.5 = my application server (CentOS 7)

*10.24.0.200 = my workstation (Windows 10)
I'm running the above command on my workstation (10.24.0.200) and it's working fine. I'm able to connect to
10.24.0.200 port 2022 from my PC.
The question is: what is the equivalent command for plink.exe for tunneling?

A: Plink has the very same command-line syntax as PuTTY:
plink.exe mylinuxuser@10.24.0.5 -P 22 -L 10.24.0.200:2022:localhost:22


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Horror Movie Review: THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT
On September 9, 2018 October 20, 2018 By Lionel Ray GreenIn movie review
Ten years between films is too long for a horror sequel, which may be why THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT tanked at the box office when it was released in March.
By every metric, the original tops the sequel. THE STRANGERS more than doubled PREY AT NIGHT's ticket sales ($52.5 million vs. $24.5 million); received more positive critical praise (45% vs. 38% on Rotten Tomatoes); and received more positive audience scores (47% vs. 36%).
But damn if I didn't enjoy PREY AT NIGHT more than THE STRANGERS, the atmospheric original starring Liv Tyler released in 2008.
For horror fans like myself, PREY AT NIGHT had all the ingredients for a scary-good experience. Three masked psychopaths. Check. A deserted trailer park setting. Check. Parents fighting for their lives alongside their children. Check. An efficient runtime of 85 minutes. Check.
More intense and brutally violent than the original, PREY AT NIGHT slams its bloody foot on the pedal and never lets off the gas. The trio of killers — the Man in the Mask, Dollface, and Pinup — return from the first film, and they seem more recklessly eager to dispense their brand of random violence.
This time the victims are a family of four on a vacation to an aunt and uncle's secluded mobile home park. Adding a couple of teen kids to the mix amps up the tension and the stakes as the parents have more to worry about than their own necks.
The cast is excellent with Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson as the parents, and Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman as the teen siblings. Director Johannes Roberts, who helmed the shark-horror film 47 METERS DOWN, keeps the action and violence moving at a brisk pace.
According to the critics consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, the knocks on PREY AT NIGHT were "its thin story and ironic embrace of genre tropes."
Really? That sounds like almost every slasher movie ever made. PREY AT NIGHT is not trying to reinvent the genre. It's just a film about what happens when a family of four encounters a trio of psychos on a mission to kill. It's wrong place, wrong time. No need for much backstory.
What do I want from a slasher? Just give me a few chills and thrills over an hour and a half, and I'm a happy horror camper.
PREY AT NIGHT delivers the chills and thrills, and it's my pick for the most underrated horror film of 2018.
Check out the trailer on Youtube here.
RATING: ♥ ♥ ♥ (out of 4)
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5 thoughts on "Horror Movie Review: THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT"
Great review, I like how you broke all the elements of the movie down and evaluated each.
Lionel Ray Green
Thanks, Jessica. I thought it was an excellent slasher, but for whatever reason, it didn't impress critics or audiences.
iamahorrorfanatic
Haven't watched, but the first one really amazed me… 😀
I enjoyed the original, too. It was really well done. PREY AT NIGHT was just more my style of slasher. Thanks for the comment!
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The Hidden Hand: The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Karl Evanzz reviews the Malcolm X assassination, arguing cogently for U.S. intelligence interest in controlling and eventually eliminating the threat he represented.
"I know, too, that I could suddenly die at the hands of some white racists. Or I could die at the hands of some Negro hired by the white man."
~ from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Conspiracy theories have engulfed the four major American political assassinations of the 1960s since inception. Even before the controversial Warren Commission was empaneled, reasonable doubts emerged about Lee Harvey Oswald being the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Within days of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968, his confidantes and constituents expressed skepticism over government claims that James Earl Ray, an ill-educated, inept stick-up artist from the south side of St. Louis acted alone.1
When Robert F. Kennedy was felled inside a Los Angeles hotel during a campaign stop on June 6, 1968, many Americans questioned the official version about a poor Palestinian immigrant shooting the presidential candidate in the back of the head, primarily because key eyewitnesses stated that Sirhan Bishira Sirhan was facing Kennedy when he fired.2
More than half a century later, government accounts stick to the "lone assassin" theory in those cases despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Most Americans harbor the delusion that every government but their own assassinates its citizens on occasion.
Only in the fourth case, the assassination of Malcolm X, is there incontrovertible proof of conspiracy. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X, a charismatic African American revolutionary, was shot to death inside New York City's Audubon Ballroom just seconds after greeting a crowd of about three hundred. To many, the assassination was the predictable culmination of a battle between him and the black separatist sect that ousted him eleven months earlier.3
Once home to Rabbi Max Koppel and Congregation Emes Wozedek in the 1930s4, the Audubon was located in a Washington Heights neighborhood bordering Harlem, where Malcolm had until recently headed Muhammad's Mosque Number Seven. (Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska in May 1925.)
Now an orthodox Muslim, Malcolm used the Audubon for weekly rallies sponsored by his newly formed group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). The group was patterned after the Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded in 1963 with the goal of uniting African nations that had recently wrestled their independence from American, Russian, and European colonialism.
Both the OAU and OAAU had a common goal: to promote Pan Africanism as a vehicle for alleviating economic, social, and political oppression. Sensing that his organizational skills, intelligence, and understanding of American politics could be instrumental in altering the world's geopolitical landscape, African, Asian, and Latin American leaders had begun appealing to Malcolm X to champion their causes.
An electrifying orator, Malcolm had impressed Third World leaders during two extended trips to Africa in April and July of 19645. The first trip occurred weeks after his official break with the so-called Nation of Islam, a quasi-religious group promoting segregation in a quixotic quest for a separate nation within America exclusively for African Americans.
Malcolm X drew large crowds during rallies in Harlem. His popularity was seen as a national security risk by the FBI.
Malcolm quit the sect in March 1964 after discovering that Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the NOI who claimed to be a divine prophet, had fathered over half a dozen children by at least six of his former personal secretaries, some of them teenagers. Muhammad denied the allegations and blamed Malcolm for spreading malicious "rumors," precipitating helter-skelter plots against Malcolm, former national representative of the NOI.
Nearly a dozen attempts were made on his life between December 1963, when Malcolm was suspended as spokesman for the NOI, and February 1965. He was ostensibly excommunicated for describing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a case of the "chickens coming home to roost." (At the time, the Central Intelligence Agency was suspected of the actual or attempted assassination of numerous Asian, African and Latin American heads of state, among them Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala, and Fidel Castro of Cuba.6 As such, Malcolm postulated that American violence against foreign leaders had boomeranged and claimed the life of an American president.)
Newspaper account of the suspension of Malcolm X from the Nation of Islam in December 1963.
But the underlying cause of his suspension was a scandal that had shaken Malcolm to his core. In 1962, a rumor began circulating that Elijah Muhammad had fathered children by several of his secretaries. Since nonmarital and extramarital sexual relations were verboten and grounds for expulsion, almost no one in the sect believed it, and certainly not about their "infallible" messiah (Muhammad claimed to have been educated by God in "the person of Wallace D. Fard," founder of the Nation of Islam in Detroit in 1931.) For them, anyone making such an outlandish claim was a demonic hypocrite "worthy of death." Like the majority of NOI members, Malcolm ignored the salacious gossip. In the fall of 1963, however, the rumors were confirmed by three unimpeachable sources: Wilfred X Little, minister of the Detroit NOI mosque and Malcolm's oldest brother, and Wallace Muhammad, Elijah's son and putative heir to the throne upon his father's demise. The third source was none other than Elijah himself.7
UPI story broke in early 1964 about paternity suit filed by two young black women against Elijah Muhammad, the married leader of the Nation of Islam.
In explaining his actions during a private meeting at his Chicago mansion, Elijah said that his extramarital affairs were merely the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. "When you read about how David took another man's wife, I'm that David," he said. "You read about Noah, who got drunk—that's me. You read about Lot, who went and laid up with his own daughters. I have to fulfill all of those things."8 Weeks after recovering from the paralyzing shock of the confession, Malcolm suggested that Elijah permit his ministers to tell their assemblies that his moral transgressions were akin to what other prophets had done and yet held favor with God.
Thinking that Elijah had approved, Malcolm told several prominent ministers that the rumors were true, and that they should explain it in biblical terms to followers. Several ministers, among them Louis X [Farrakhan] of Boston, called Muhammad and told him that Malcolm was one of the "hypocrites" spreading the rumors about the secretaries.9
Louis Farrakhan denounced Malcolm X in Muhammad Speaks newspaper as the "chief hypocrite" in the Nation of Islam and said that Malcolm was "worthy of death."
Elijah summoned Malcolm to his home in Phoenix and castigated him for telling them. Malcolm apologized, saying that he thought he had Elijah's approval. Elijah retorted that he had in no way approved of Malcolm's suggestion and said that his three-month suspension for the JFK comment was now indefinite. A few days after the meeting, Elijah contacted several prominent East Coast members of the NOI and said that Malcolm was the sect's chief hypocrite and that it was therefore time to "close his eyes."10
Declassified FBI memo summarizes wiretapped telephone conversation between NOI leader Elijah Muhammad and a Boston mosque official in which murdering Malcolm X is discussed.
Several attempts to kill Malcolm soon followed. When he discovered from a prominent Muslim that Elijah had sanctioned the plots to kill him, Malcolm publicly denounced the Nation of Islam and warned that any further attempts to harm him would be met with the biblical justice. He vowed to exact an "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life."
Malcolm was bearing a heavy cross when he arrived at the Audubon on February 21. The war with Muhammad had taken its toll; it was one man fighting a legion of zealots. Associates were alarmed by his appearance that morning. They recall him looking haggard, anxious, and exhausted.
The most notable attempt to kill him had occurred seven days earlier. Around two o'clock on Valentine's Day, Molotov cocktails crashed through bedroom windows of his tiny Elmhurst home. If his four-year-old daughter had not been awakened by breaking glass, Malcolm and his wife Betty would have perished along with their four daughters. Betty was pregnant with twin girls.11
An around-the-clock harassment campaign which followed the bombing had unnerved Malcolm. He told several colleagues that he could understand why Elijah Muhammad wanted him silenced, but he could not fathom the religious leader approving the murder of women and children to accomplish that goal.
He was debilitated by the fire not only because of the near-death of his entire family, but because, he said, the fire revealed that the NOI's attempts were being aided by the New York Police Department, the New York Fire Department and possibly even the federal government. "The police in this country know what's going on. This is a conspiracy that leads to my death," he said at a press conference.12
A few hours after the fire, investigators claimed that they discovered an unlit Molotov cocktail on a dresser in his daughters' bedroom. The explosive concoction was in a whiskey bottle. Police officials insinuated that Malcolm might have set the house on fire because he had been evicted days earlier by court order. NOI officials who filed the lawsuit repeated the claim, noting that Malcolm's home legally belonged to the sect.
New York Police Department and Nation of Islam both argue that Malcolm X firebombed his own house.
Malcolm and Betty dismissed the speculation as nonsense. To begin with, Betty replied, they would never have alcoholic beverages in their home. Malcolm said angrily that only a madman would set fire to his home with his family asleep inside. Moreover, a black fireman who secretly met with them said that he saw a white man in a firefighter's uniform place the Molotov cocktail on the dresser after the fire was extinguished. The revelation nearly caused Malcolm to have a psychotic break, the reason being that he knew his death was both imminent and inevitable if governmental forces were in cahoots with the Nation of Islam. A close friend noticed his agitated state and arranged for him to see a doctor to get something to help him sleep.
On the evening of February 20, Malcolm checked into a downtown New York hotel under a pseudonym. Nearly undone by the arson attack, he took a sedative and fell asleep. His rest was interrupted, however, by the loud ringing telephone. "Wake up, Mr. Small," the caller said before hanging up. The call was ominous because only his wife and two close aides knew where Malcolm planned to stay that evening. Unbeknownst to him, a group of Muslims had shown up at the hotel a few hours after he checked in, demanding the desk clerk to tell them which room Malcolm X was in. The clerk said he knew nothing about Malcolm X being there.
At three o'clock on February 21, with his wife and children looking on, Malcolm stood at the podium on the ballroom's stage. "As Salaam Alaikum," he said, meaning "peace be with you."
Suddenly, two young black men seated in the middle of the room stood up and started arguing. "Niggah," one of them said, "get your hand out of my pocket!"
"Hold it, hold it, hold it," Malcolm pleaded. Three young black men on the center front row stood up, removed firearms from underneath their coats, and fired at Malcolm. Two were armed with handguns while the third had a sawed-off shotgun. A tall tout black man with the shotgun crouched before the stage and fired twice, striking Malcolm in the chest. Three pellets landed near his heart. The force of the blasts hurled Malcolm backward, and his head hit the stage with a loud thud.
During the ensuing pandemonium, the shotgun assassin wrapped up his weapon in a jacket and dropped it on the ballroom floor as he escaped. The assassin with the German Luger fired at crowd members trying to capture him as he made his escape. The third gunman wasn't so lucky. He was shot in his left thigh by a member of Malcolm's security team. As he fell, he dropped his .45 automatic and was tackled and beaten by the crowd.
On the afternoon of the assassination, police were conspicuous by their absence. On past Sundays, there were nearly two dozen officers present in and outside the Audubon. Police arrived as people dragged the man outside. As police tangled with Malcolm's supporters for custody of the assassin, the other two assassins and the two men who caused the initial distraction escaped.
Thomas Hagan, the wounded suspect, refused to divulge the name of his accomplices. Eyewitnesses, however, gave police descriptions consistent enough to lead them to Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, lieutenants in the Harlem mosque where Malcolm was minister until his ouster. Butler and Johnson were well-known as enforcers with a reputation for brutalizing wayward Muslims.13 In fact, they were awaiting trial for attempted murder of Benjamin Brown, a NOI defector who had recently opened his own storefront mosque. When the defector refused to remove a photograph of Elijah Muhammad from the front window, Butler and Johnson went to his home. After he opened the door, Johnson shot him at point-blank range in his chest with a rifle. The defector somehow managed to survive the blast.
Butler was arrested on February 26 and Johnson shortly thereafter. All three suspects pleaded not guilty. Following a joint trial one year later, a jury found them all guilty of the assassination and each received a life sentence.14
Case closed, or so it seemed.
Butler and Johnson both steadfastly denied involvement in the assassination. Their case was buttressed by some of Malcolm's chief aides, who claimed that it would have been virtually impossible for Butler and Johnson to have entered the ballroom that day without detection by the OAU's security team.
But Johnson and Butler had shaky alibis. Both men, incredulously, claimed to have been immobilized by leg injuries at the time of the assassination. Johnson's case was helped somewhat by eyewitness accounts, nearly all of whom described the shotgun assassin as a tall, stout, dark-skinned black man sporting a short beard.15 Johnson had a caramel-colored complexion, was of average height, and clean-shaven but for a pencil mustache. Conversely, eyewitnesses described Butler perfectly. One of them, Sharon X Poole, even said that she recognized him as a fellow member of the Harlem mosque.16
Although Norman 3X Butler denies involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X, he appears on film outside the Audubon Ballroom moments after the murder, attempting to get a look at Malcolm X's body."
For ten years, there was little to refute the official version of the assassination. Malcolm X was killed as a result of a feud with Elijah Muhammad stood as gospel despite suspicions by his admirers and Third World leaders of American government involvement.
In March 1971, white radicals broke into the FBI's document storage facility in Media, Pennsylvania and made off with a goldmine of files detailing the agency's decades-long clandestine wars against political and social organizations of every hue and stripe, the Ku Klux Klan and Nation of Islam among them.17 A counterintelligence program—COINTELPRO—which started in the 1950s to combat the spread of Communism in America, soon engulfed thousands of groups, even the benign National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
When several thousand pages were released from the COINTELPRO operations against Malcolm X in the early 1980s, they revealed a massive campaign against him and the Nation of Islam. The initial campaign, started in 1953 (a year after he was released from prison), was intended to retard the astronomical growth of the Nation of Islam.
They also show that in 1964, following a complaint by White House aide Benjamin H. Read that Malcolm's affiliations with Third World leaders were damaging American foreign policy in Africa, the Central Intelligence Agency was asked to consider killing Malcolm X.
White House official Benjamin H. Read asked the CIA to consider treating Malcolm X the way it did hostile foreign leaders.
Richard Helms, the CIA's Deputy Director of Plans, told Read that the CIA had serious qualms about killing American citizens but would nonetheless explore the possibility of neutralizing Malcolm.18 The FBI had been spying on the Nation of Islam since the 1940s after its male members refused to register under the Selective Service Act. By 1964, it had informants in the highest ranks of not only the NOI but inside Malcolm's Organization of Afro-American Unity as well.
In addition to being under surveillance by the CIA and FBI, the New York Police Department's Bureau of Special Services and Investigation (nicknamed BOSSI) had Malcolm under close surveillance and had several high level informants in the OAU. At least one of them, Eugene "Gene" Roberts, was a member of Malcolm's security detail and on duty at the hour of reckoning.
Gene Robert (in circle) was an undercover NYPD detective who infiltrated Malcolm X's organization and became part of his main security detail.
Malcolm X had been on around-the-clock surveillance by the FBI for more than six months before his assassination. Transcripts of wiretapped telephone conversation between Malcolm X and other prominent black activists are included in the files, some of them heavily redacted.
Declassified FBI documents include a detailed account of the FBI sending anonymous letters to Elijah Muhammad's wife and NOI ministers across the country about Elijah's extramarital activities. Bureau agents bragged in several memos about starting the disputes which led to the ouster of Malcolm from the NOI and fomenting a war between Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad.19
The FBI was alarmed that Malcolm X had begun courting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders following his ouster from the Nation of Islam in March 1964.
While the CIA and State Department have been reticent to release many documents from their files on Malcolm X, those released thus far reveal an urgent counterintelligence campaign to "neutralize" Malcolm X after several African and Arab countries offered him financial support in 1964 and vowed to support his petition to the United Nations in which he accused the United States government of violating the human rights of African Americans.
Along with Che Guevara, the physician-turned-revolutionary who played a major role in Cuban revolution of 1959, Malcolm X was expected to be one of the preeminent attractions at the Second Asian-African Congress commencing on February 26 in Algeria. The conference was postponed due to the overthrow of Ahmed Ben Bella, an event most reputable historians attribute to the CIA and British intelligence.20 Ben Bella and Malcolm had become friends, and the Algerian leader was a staunch supporter of both Malcolm X and the civil rights movement.
The CIA was concerned about Malcolm X's impact on US foreign policy in Africa.
Declassified FBI and CIA documents suggest that the American government was extremely eager to prevent Malcolm from attending at all cost. He was assassinated five days before the aborted assembly. As it happens, Malcolm's assassins were recruited in late June 1964, within weeks of the White House's request to the CIA to handle Malcolm X the way it did hostile foreign leaders.21
In April 2011, Newark NOI member William Bradley was identified as the shotgun shooter. The day after the New York Times asked the Justice Department whether it would investigate the allegations against Bradley, a spokesman said that there was nothing the FBI could do because no federal laws had been violated.
William Bradley (standing, in circle), the man who fired the shotgun at Malcolm X, was captured on film outside the Audubon as he attempted to free assassin Thomas Hagan from police and angry Malcolm X supporters.
That was, of course, an egregious error. The assassins had traveled from New Jersey to New York to assassinate Malcolm X. Traveling across state lines to commit murder is a federal crime. And under both federal and state laws, there is no statute of limitations for murder.
The Justice Department's hasty decision to reject reopening the case was predictable. After all, it was revealed more than three decades ago that the man seen in the famous Life magazine photo administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Malcolm X was none of other than Gene Roberts, an undercover detective for BOSSI. Moreover, a top aide to Elijah Muhammad was linked to the FBI. Although he has denied any involvement with the FBI and the assassination, prosecutors of Malcolm's assassins had an eyewitness willing to testify that the aide met at the Americana Hotel with the assassins the night before the assassination.
1 Schechtman, Jeff. "The Plot to Kill King: A Look at Who Really Killed Martin Luther King," April 4, 2018. https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/04/04/the-fbi-in-peace-war-and-assassination/.
2 "The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination," https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Robert_Kennedy_Assassination.html
3 Drash, Wayne. "Malcolm X Killer Freed After 44 Years," April 28, 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/26/malcolmx.killer/index.html
4 Lowenstein, Steven M. Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, Its Structure and Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991). pp. 109-110. Also see: http://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/audubon-ballroom. Rabbi Mas Koppel, founder of the Emes Wozedek Congregation, was murdered in 1974. Seigel, Max H. "Neighbors Call Slain Rabbi Friend to All," New York Times, December 18, 1974, A49.
5 Jacobs, Sean. "When Malcolm X Went to Africa," June 2011. https://africasacountry.com/2011/06/malcolm-x-in-africa1/
6 "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders," (1975). https://cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp83-01042r000200090002-0
7 Haley, Alex with Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Grove Press, 1965) See, in general, 'Chapter 16: Out."
10 FBI Main file on Malcolm X, memo dated March 23, 1964.
11 "Malcolm X's Home is Firebombed in 1965," (reprint) New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/malcolm-x-home-firebombed-1965-article-1.2529655
12 Scott, Stanley. "Recalls Prophetic Words: Newsman Witnesses Murder of Malcolm X," Desert Sun, February 22, 1965, pA6.
13 Newman, Andy and John Eligon. "Killer of Malcolm X is Granted Parole," New York Times, March 19, 2010, A13.
14 "Three Men Convicted of the Assassination of Malcolm X in 1966," New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/men-convicted-murder-malcolm-x-1996-article-1.2558206
15 Based on documentary footage from local television news in the archives of the University of Los Angeles Film School.
16 Kihss, Peter. "Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here; Three Other Negroes Wounded—One is Held in Killing," New York Times, February 22, 1965, A1.
17 Mazzetti, Mark. Burglars Who Took On FBI Abandon Shadows," New York Times, January 7, 2014, p. A1.
18 CIA file on Malcolm X, memo from Richard Helms dated August 11, 1964.
19 See, in general, the FBI New York Field Office file on Malcolm X and the New York Police Department's Bureau of Special Services and Investigations file on Malcolm X.
20 Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. (North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
21 The assassins, all of them from the Newark mosque of the Nation of Islam, was recruited in late June 1964, according to Thomas Hagan.
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Discussion in 'Sausage' started by SonnyE, Feb 17, 2019.
So yesterday my stuffer finally arrived. To pooped to to switch, I finished my Bacon packaging, took a bit of a break, then jumped in.
I had gotten 5 pounds of my packaged Beef and Pork out to soften up from the deep freezer. It was still frozen as I ground it into a pile of layers in the mixing bowl with the 3/8" slotted plate. My Goodness it made a big pile, almost a bowl full. I worried it might not mix.
For naught. It mixed fine when I took it back out of the fridge to mix in the seasoning and cure. I weighed out the cure and added it to the seasonings mix to assure the cure was well dispersed.
I added 1 cup of ice water as it danced and stirred in the mixing bowl blending the meats and seasonings. It seemed to mix very well.
Then back through the grinder and a 1/8" plate for the final grind and I let it discharge into the LEM Stuffer tank. The tank, filled and stuffed as it could go, went back into the fridge to chill and rest while I got ready to shove the huge pile of goo into a tube through a 3/8" Stuffer tube and 17 mm casings. Fingers crossed, a full tube of 17 mm casing on the horn, I began the cranking and out came the meat mixture. I twisted up the tip of the casing and there came the long rope of snack stick.
I folded it into one of my 1/4 sheet pans, in ~12" folds. Even when the casing ran out, there was more to do. So I grabbed some 19 mm casing I had been fooling with and finished the meat with that, about 2 1/2 feet.
Then pre heated to remove the chill of the fridge and the condensation before lighting up the tray of dust to smoke it. After about an hour, the torch fired off the AMNPS in my "Mailbox Mod" and we were officially Sm00kin my first 5 pound batch of Snack Sticks.
Finished. These made two Quart sized Ziplock bags of 6" stix.
Size wise, I really couldn't say there is any size difference between the 17 mm and the 19 mm.
They taste great! Even my dog is full.
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The sticks look fantastic Sonny!
SE, Nice job on the sticks !!!!!!
Looks great! Have you ever used 16mm collagen casings? If so do you like the bigger casings better? Thinking if trying a larger casing myself but not sure I want the larger stick?
Yours sure look good! May have to order some to try.
Looks good Sonny would like some pictures of work in progress.
LIKE. Nice job! I think this thread has moved a stuffer into first place over my other smoking tool wants (and SV). I gotta ask: did it go better or worse than you expected?
Thanks SonnyE for the like it is greatly appreciated.
Now I need to replace the Kitchenaide stuff with a real stuffer!
The sticks look great... Point to you!
Just like that fresh made smoked sticks..
Thanks 73Saint, I like them!
It was a long wait on the stuffer. Still PO'd about that. But the wait is over.
Thanks Tom. It's a ramping process. Started out low to acclimatize them and dry the sweat off (warm the ropes slightly). Then set at 140° F, and went up 10° each hour. I stopped at 180° F for hours and hours, finally I set it at 200°, but the smoker nor the sticks would go up. At 149° F I decided to look in on my shriveling sticks and merifully put an end to the torture. Then Ice Water Bathed them.
Thank You, Al. And WOW! Thank You!
No, thought about it. But got a package deal on a 3/8" horn X 1 9/16" (Fits the LEM stuffer, Stainless steel) and a package of 5ea - 17 mm Collagen casings. So I bought that. It arrived before the stuffer.
I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked. So I have the 3 plastic horns, and a skinny steel one.
I'm sorry Warren, I didn't take any. I was too focused on not messing up my first real stuffing. I can say I'm happy using the KitchenAid Pro 600 as my Grinder/Mixer, It performed effortlessly do 5 pounds of a Beef (Stew meat) and Pork shoulder mixture. I did 3# Pork, 2# Beef Stew Meat, For the most part, the meat was still frozen, some hard.
The LEM stuffer worked flawlessly, and I would recommend it for us home users.
On mine, there is the slightest tightness to the gearing. I think the backlash could be less. It tends to 'gallop' when free cranking. But not a bother to me. I don't feel it is even worth taking the cover off to look. I want to let the gears lap themselves first, before fooling with it. Maybe a touch of lube would slick it up.
It came out of the box tight, so not something I did. Has a two year warranty with LEM. So no worries.
Much, Much easier, SAM. The KA mixing bowl caught and held the meat mixture well. 5 pounds of ground meat almost looked too full.
Then the KA mixer effortlessly mixed the meat and seasonings. I added 1 cup of Ice Water (from the fridge), just to assure myself the seasonings and cure got folded in well. For as little of added water as I did, it also stuffed easily.
Anytime the meat was idle, it was in the fridge chillin. I mixed up my Seasoning and Cure #1 while the meat rested from the 3/8" plate grind.
Then used the stock aluminum paddle to mix the meat, seasoning/cure, and cup of water. Rested the meat again while I cleaned and prepped to stuff. Incidentally, the clamps for the LEM are perfect for our island counter-top. Heavy duty!
The meat rested while I got the grinder ready for the final grind. I put the plate on that had ~1/8" holes in it.
Since the mixing bowl was full of meat, I decided to grind into the stuffing cylinder. That actually worked well, I packed the meat down as it piled up. My 5# did all fit, but squished out when I started the ram plate into the cylinder. I probably had ~3-4 ounces to add later, from squish out, and stuffing horn fill.
The actual stuffing went very well and easily. I simply slid the section of collagen casing on the tube as it comes out of the package, I don't fiddle with it. Then pull the end to start it and twisted it closed without wasting any at all. Once it begins to feed off, the casing remains closed and it's a matter of cranking slowly and feeding the unfolding tube as the meat mixture is extruded into the casing.
I went slow and easy, stopping to feed the 'rope' onto my little 1/4 sheet pan. It made 12" lays of stuffed casings. Then I merely pinched and folded, making 12" sticks.
The one tube of casing almost did the 5# load. But I resorted to my 19 mm to finish off the meat. And I added the squish meat.
I think henseforth, the better plan would be to get going a little bit, backing off the plunger and adding the jettisoned meat, and running the load out. Doing it the way I did was wrong.
The bottom line was almost all the meat was pushed out. There was a small patty amount left in the port and tube. I decided to fry it for a taste. Not as good as I would have thought, but then, not smoked either. I think the finished stix taste better.
Well, no, not really. The KA does the grinding and mixing fine for me. I see no reason to change that part.
But a real stuffer worked wonders over the grinder horns.
nepas, Rick, Thank You for sharing your experiences and knowledge.
I think the 5 pound stuffer is probably the cats meow for me, and our SMF home users. Your advice is spot on!
Personally, I really do not think I would need anything bigger, because I'm just small potatoes, Mr. Small Batch, anyway.
But the 5 pound stuffer is the MVP in making these little boogers.
I have my sites set on Kielbasa and Hot Italian Sausages. Daveomak put me onto AC Legg, and I got a package of #103 while twiddling my thumbs waiting for Amazon to S and GOTP on shipping.
I have a bunch of supplies now. Including another 5 pounds of Beef/Pork chunks to play with.
I used Butcher twine to hang my ropes from bars made of 1/2" copper pipe I had on hand. I have this idea that hooks might make things go a bit easier. Should I stick with the twine (and stop the whine)? Or do you know of a place for some S-hooks? I tried TSM, and others. So far, shower curtain hangers are looking the best. Crazy as that might seem.
Good looking snack sticks Sonny. I see you enjoy the new stuffer. I see a lot of good things coming out of that in the near future. Good job and congrats on the carousel ride.
I've always loved Slim Jim snack sticks. But not the Mustang Ranch price of them.
Now I can make some any time I'd like.
This Smoking Meat addiction is multifaceted.
The stuffer sure made it easier. 5 pounds of meat makes a lotta sticks!
What, no pics of them in smoker ?
Sonny, how many pipeloads did you have? Able to get all 5# on the top rack of your MES 30?
I'm fresh out of any dowels. So the next best thing was some 1/2" copper pipe.
I cut two pieces, and put them in the converted MES 40.
Funny that, I was looking at Hangin Meat Friendly Smokers, wishing I had more vertical room than the MES 30 has to offer. When a new member offered up a free MES 40 with a failed controller. Struck me as a perfect place to put my Inkbird PID, and make a Cold Smoker out of.
So the racks all live stacked on the bottom position, and the pipes make a good place to hang bacon slabs, or now Sausages as I begin to roll with them.
This smoken meat thing is a lot like owning a boat.
You know what a boat is?
It's a hole in the water you throw money in.
Only with Smoken, you just burn your money.
Naw, I like getting hard things back when I spend money, like tools.
And tools that make great tasting food are a Lot of Fun!