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ON LAKE MICHIGAN NEAR POVERTY ISLAND, Mich. (AP) - In a remote part of northern Lake Michigan, divers have started looking at an underwater pit, hoping to find the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle.
The origin of the search, which began Saturday, can be traced back to 2001, when expedition leader Steve Libert discovered a timber slab wedged in the lake bed. U.S. and French archaeologists examined sediment removed from a hole dug near that slab and found a 15-inch slab of blackened wood that might have been a human-fashioned "cultural artifact," although more analysis will be required to determine whether it was part of a vessel, project manager Ken Vrana said.
Libert, who has spent about three decades searching for the Griffin (also known by its French equivalent Le Griffon), said he hoped that by Sunday, the excavation would reach what sonar readings indicate is a distinct shape beneath several feet of sediment. The object is over 40 feet long and about 18 feet wide - dimensions similar to those the Griffin is believed to have had, Vrana said.
But he said it was too early to declare the site a shipwreck, let alone the object of their quest.
"Soon we will find out whether our assumption is correct or not," Vrana said aboard the Proud Maid, a 45-foot commercial fishing boat that ferried journalists and crew members to the search area near Poverty Island in Michigan waters north of the entrance to Green Bay. "We've got to get those test pits dug and hit (the) structure, because anything else is pure speculation."
After meeting with team members Saturday night, he told reporters that "within a couple of days we should know" whether a ship graveyard lies beneath the surface.
Although Libert and his associates have dived at the site numerous times and conducted several surveys with remote sensing equipment, they hadn't conducted archaeological excavations until receiving a permit from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources this month after years of legal squabbles. The agency claims ownership over all Great Lakes shipwrecks in the state's waters, although it acknowledges France would have rights to the Griffin because it was sailing under the authority of King Louis XIV.
Taking part in Saturday's dive were Michel L'Hour, director of the Department of Underwater Archaeological Research in the French Ministry of Culture and a noted authority on shipwrecks, and associate Olivia Hulot. The U.S. leaders said they hoped the visitors, with their knowledge of design and construction features of French ships from the 17th and 18th century, could help confirm whether the Griffin had been found.
"The Griffin is very important to the early history of America," L'Hour said in an interview before taking his first look at the site. "If this is the Griffin, it will teach us many things."
Rene Robert Cavelier de la Salle ordered the Griffin built near Niagara Falls in 1679 to support his quest for what was widely - but erroneously - believed to be a passageway to China and Japan. It was the first European-style vessel to traverse the upper Great Lakes, crossing Lake Erie and venturing northward to Lake Huron, then across Lake Michigan to the eastern shore of modern-day Wisconsin.
La Salle ordered the ship to return for more supplies and to deliver a load of furs, while he continued his journey by canoe. The Griffin was never heard from again. There are various theories about its fate, but none that have been proven. Libert, who spent years studying the writings of La Salle and a companion, believes it sank in a fierce storm only a few miles after setting sail.
Libert said Saturday the recovery of the slab of wood and prospects for reaching what may be the ship's hull shortly were promising signs.
"Right now I'm pretty excited, from what I know so far," he said, but added: "Scientific (proof) is 100 percent. It's not 99.9 percent."


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1. N.Y. State of Mind
2. If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill)
3. The World Is Yours
4. It Ain't Hard to Tell
5. Nas Is Like
6. The Message
7. Represent
8. Get Down
10. Halftime
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Beginning with his classic debut, Illmatic (1994), Nas stood tall for years as one of New York City's leading rap voices, outspokenly expressing a righteous, self-empowered swagger that endeared him to critics and hip-hop purists. Whether proclaiming himself "Nasty Nas" or "Nas Escobar" or "Nastradamus" or "God's Son," the self-appointed King of New York battled numerous adversaries for his position atop the epicenter of East Coast rap, none more challenging than Jay-Z, who vied with Nas for the vacated throne left in the wake of the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 assassination. Such headline-worthy drama informed Nas' provocative rhymes, which he delivered with both a masterful flow and a wise perspective over beats by a range of producers: legends like DJ Premier, Large Professor, and Pete Rock; hitmakers like Trackmasters, Timbaland, and will.i.am; street favorites like Swizz Beatz, Megahertz, and the Alchemist; and personal favorites of his own like L.E.S., Salaam Remi, and Chucky Thompson. Nas likewise collaborated with some of the industry's leading video directors, including Hype Williams and Chris Robinson, presenting singles like "Hate Me Now," "One Mic," and "I Can" with dramatic flair. Throughout all the ups (the acclaim, popularity, and success) and downs (the expectations, adversaries, and over-reaching), Nas continually matured as an artist, evolving from a young street disciple to a vain all-knowing sage to a humbled godly teacher. Such growth made every album release an event and prolonged his increasingly storied career to epic proportions.
Born Nasir Jones, son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas dropped out of school in the eighth grade, trading classrooms for the streets of the rough Queensbridge projects, long fabled as the former stomping ground of Marley Marl and his Juice Crew as immortalized in "The Bridge." Despite dropping out of school, Nas developed a high degree of literacy that would later characterize his rhymes. At the same time, though, he delved into street culture and flirted with danger, such experiences similarly characterizing his rhymes. His synthesis of well-crafted rhetoric and street-glamorous imagery blossomed in 1991 when he connected with Main Source and laid down a fiery verse on "Live at the Barbeque" that earned him up-and-coming notice among the East Coast rap scene. Not long afterward, MC Serch of 3rd Bass approached Nas about contributing a track to the Zebrahead soundtrack. Serch was the soundtrack's executive producer and had been impressed by "Live at the Barbeque." Nas submitted "Halftime," and the song so stunned Serch that he made it the soundtrack's leadoff track.
Columbia Records meanwhile signed Nas to a major-label contract, and many of New York's finest producers offered their support. DJ Premier, Large Professor, and Pete Rock entered the studio with the young rapper and began work on Illmatic. When Columbia finally released the album in April 1994, it faced high expectations; Illmatic regardless proved just as astounding as it had been billed. It sold very well, spawned multiple hits, and earned unanimous acclaim, followed soon after by classic status. The two years leading up to Nas' follow-up, It Was Written (1996), brought another wave of enormous anticipation. The ambitious rapper, who had begun working closely with industry heavyweight Steve Stoute, responded with a significantly different approach than he had taken with Illmatic: where that album had been a straightforward hip-hop album with few pop concessions, the largely Trackmaster-produced It Was Written made numerous concessions to the pop-crossover market, most notably on the two hit singles, "Street Dreams" and "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)." These singles -- both of which drew from well-known songs, Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled the World," respectively -- broadened Nas' appeal greatly and awarded him MTV-sanctioned crossover success. This same crossover success undermined some of his hip-hop credibility, however, and a minor backlash by purists resulted.
Nas addressed his critics on "Hate Me Now," the second single from his next album, I Am (1999). The album had originally been planned as a double-disc concept album comprised of autobiographical material, but when some of the tracks were leaked, I Am was scaled down and released as a single disc, with the DJ Premier-produced "Nas Is Like" chosen as the lead single. Besides "Nas Is Like" and "Hate Me Now," which both broke into the Billboard Hot 100, "You Won't See Me Tonight" and "K-I-S-S-I-N-G" also charted as singles. Originally scheduled by Columbia as a follow-up album comprised of the pirated material from the I Am sessions, Nastradamus (1999) -- released in time for the holiday shopping season, roughly six months after its predecessor -- was instead comprised almost entirely of new material, recorded quickly to meet the late-November release date. Nastradamus signaled a drop-off in quality as well as sales. The album failed to garner the abundance of critical praise that had become customary for Nas. Moreover, unlike its two predecessors, Nastradamus failed to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at number seven instead, and failed to go double platinum. Though relatively disappointing on these counts, Nastradamus still went platinum and spawned two charting singles, "Nastradamus" and "You Owe Me," so the album wasn't a failure, just disappointing.
In the late-'90s wake of the Notorious B.I.G.'s assassination, Nas reigned atop the New York rap scene alongside few contemporaries of equal stature . In addition to his endless stream of hits by the industry's most successful producers -- "If I Ruled the World" (produced by the Trackmasters), "Hate Me Now" (Puff Daddy), "Nas Is Like" (DJ Premier), and "You Owe Me" (Timbaland), among others -- he popularly co-starred in the Hype Williams-directed film Belly (1998) alongside DMX and contributed to the soundtrack. Furthermore, Nas led a short-lived supergroup of New York rappers known as the Firm (also comprised of rappers Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature, with producers Dr. Dre and the Trackmasters) and assembled a broad coalition of fellow Queensbridge rappers for the QB Finest compilation (2000). Amid all of this publicity, though, criticism began to mount. For every crossover fan Nas won with his dramatic MTV-aired videos, he lost support among purists, some of whom felt he had sold out and abandoned hip-hop ideals in favor of commercial success. The relative disappointment of Nastradamus was symptomatic of this downturn.
A series of incidents in 2001 provided a key turning point for Nas' decline. The rapper's personal life was becoming increasingly complicated, as he encountered relationship trouble with the mother of his daughter and, of greater consequence, as his mother began suffering from cancer. To make matters worse, longtime rival Jay-Z pointedly dissed Nas on "Takeover," the much-discussed leadoff song from his acclaimed Blueprint album (2001). Among other charges, Jay-Z called out Nas for not having put out a "hot" album since Illmatic, and also alluded to sleeping with the mother of Nas' daughter. It didn't help that Jay-Z had risen atop the New York rap scene, giving him ample justification to call out Nas, who had fallen from favor and receded from the public eye while he dealt with his personal issues. Nas responded strikingly in December 2001 with Stillmatic, the title a reference to his classic Illmatic album, which had been released nearly a decade earlier. Stillmatic opened with the song "Ether," a very direct response to Jay-Z, followed by the aggressive lead single "Get Ur Self A" These two songs in particular rallied the streets while the moving video for "One Mic" received heavy support from MTV. Throughout 2002, Nas continued his comeback with a number of guest appearances, among them Brandy's "What About Us?," J-Lo's "I'm Gonna Be Alright," and Ja Rule's "The Pledge," as well as yet more news-making controversy, this time involving his no-show at popular radio station Hot 97's annual Summer Jam.
Amid all of the drama, Nas managed to salvage his esteemed reputation and reclaim his lofty status atop the New York scene. Stillmatic earned immediate acclaim from fans and critics alike and sold impressively, while Columbia furthered the comeback campaign with two archival releases, one of remixes (From Illmatic to Stillmatic [2002 released a new studio album, God's Son (2002), and Nas once again basked in widespread acclaim as the album sold well, spawned sizable hits ("Thugz Mansion," "Made You Look," "I Can"), and received rampant media support. Two years later Nas returned with Street's Disciple (2004), a sprawling double album that delved deeply into various issues, most notably politics and his impending marriage to Kelis. The two-sided "Thief's Theme"/"You Know My Style" single dropped in summer 2004, several months before the album's release, and was followed that fall by the proper lead single, "Bridging the Gap."
Street's Disciple came and went, however, without the level of commercial success that had become customary, as it struggled to go platinum. More troubling, new kid on the block 50 Cent took a swipe at Nas on "Piggy Bank," a call-out song on The Massacre (2005), further bringing the veteran rapper's status into question. In a surprising turn of events later that year, Nas made a surprise appearance at Jay-Z's much-hyped I Declare War concert in October 2005. Together the two rivals performed "Dead Presidents," Jay-Z's 1996 debut single; the classic song, produced by Ski Beatz and featured on Reasonable Doubt (1996), features a prominent sample of "The World Is Yours," a 1994 classic by Nas. The reconciliation of Jay-Z and Nas opened the door to a deal with Def Jam. The record label, overseen by Jay-Z as president at the time, signed Nas and, in turn, released Hip Hop Is Dead (2006). The album didn't sell especially well, but it did inspire a lot of commentary about the state of hip-hop and included a much-anticipated collaboration with Jay-Z, "Black Republican." Greatest Hits (2007) followed a year later, including the newly recorded single "Surviving the Times."
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Israeli Couscous & Cheese – It Takes a Lot of Balls to Make this Recipe
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If one can't find Israeli couscous, do you think regular couscous would work? If so, are there any tweaks to the recipe that you'd suggest?
- August 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- Chef John said...
no, totally different. Just use the smallest pasta shape you can.
- August 29, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Thank Chef John, it looks great ! definitely going to try this one !! to bad so many people disliked the video only because the name Israel on the head line.
- August 29, 2012 at 9:27 PM
When my mother next tries to make her bland risotto I'm going to hoick the pan from her hands and make this for her, because let's be honest if you add a splosh of cream and hunk of cheese to anything and it's amazing!
- August 29, 2012 at 9:33 PM
since when couscous became Israeli?
- August 29, 2012 at 11:30 PM
- EatAtlanta said...
First of all, Chef John you are amazing. I am a fairly advanced armature cook and every time I am afraid to try something that I have always wanted to make (i.e. scallops or a souffle) you make it seem so easy and doable. I am also an educator and I sincerely applaud you for making everything so approachable, understandable, and entertaining!
Second, I love Israeli couscous, man and cheese, and risotto. Thanks and bravo!
Cheers! - August 29, 2012 at 11:40 PM
I have just discovered Israeli couscous and I love it. I have been putting it in allot of salads. But never thought of browning it before. I am sure this will only make it taste better. So I am going to try this tonight. Thank You for all your wonderful receipes.
- August 29, 2012 at 11:57 PM
- Adriana @ FoodCocktail said...
I must confess I didn't know about Israeli couscous until now, but I love the regular one so I must try the Israeli thing also. Thanks for the ideea!
- August 30, 2012 at 4:27 AM
i have always been eating israeli couscous that ended after adding chicken stock and reducing. I am so excited! this is an incredibly cool variation.
- August 30, 2012 at 5:09 AM
- Inna said...
I'm an Isreali!I love your blog and watch your videoall the time just for fun or whenever I'm looking for new techniques or ideas ! too bad we don't have a lot of the American ingredients you use here.
We call these little guys "Ptitim" here and it's considered a children's favorite. They are a classic side dish to hot-dogs or schnitzel :)
never seen these made with cream and cheese. looks good ! - August 30, 2012 at 6:17 AM
- Chris K. said...
This looks great! I'm curious to try out different combinations of cheese and other ingredients.
...and then I'm going to deep fry it. - August 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Beerorkid said...
Been looking for another side and this looks delicious. My wife makes awesome risotto and this is close enough I know she will want to try it.
Love your stuff. We now make our potato soup the quick way like you showed and will not go back to our old way.
My wife is not very food adventurous, but your blog has given me ideas many times. once we can get the windows open we will be making the baby roasted potatoes for sure. - August 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Mmm...cheese... :)
- August 30, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Dear Chef John,
how do you do do cut your chives like that?
Mines looks like they've been shredded. I can't get entire little pieces! What's your secret?
Love your blog!
Best wishes, Marina. - August 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM
- Chef John said...
Use a sharp knife! That's it. Super easy if you have a real knife.
- August 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM
- edvige said...
Wonderful recipe but I not found Israeli couscous I will made with another. Ciaoooo
- August 31, 2012 at 6:01 AM
- Daeril said...
I know this pasta!
We call it "tarhonya" and for long I thaught it was some Hungarian speciality. My mother and grandmother made it for us as side dish with stews. (perfect to soak up the rich sauce)
We ususally just fry it a bit in oil then add water and salt. When "al dente" you pour off the excess water and let steam covered for 5 minutes.
This risotto method is totally new for me, it must be very delicious! - August 31, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- MikkiW809 said...
I make something very similar to this with orzo! The smaller the pasta, the more surface area to cover with cheese. :) Thanks Chef john for another great recipe!
- August 31, 2012 at 5:22 PM
- Joshua said...
Hey Chef John,
I plan on making this tomorrow, I was thinking about putting them in ramekins and topping with some breadcumbs and popping them under the broiler to brown a little. Any advice as far as making a nice breadcrumb topping? Possibly some garlic/parsley in there, not really sure how thats done. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks a ton, you rock! - August 31, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Chef John said...
No advice needed! Just buttered crumb plus whatever you like. :)
- August 31, 2012 at 8:04 PM
- Chef John said...
Any topping from any of our casserole recipes will work.
- August 31, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- Deirdre said...
Love your videos
- September 2, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Just fyi, the video on this post is for "cheater pierogis" not isralei couscous. (It did this on firefox, both on your page and in google feed reader.) I can go to your youtube and see the couscous video no problem. At least it's that way on my computer, which may or may not be out to make my life hell.
- September 3, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Holy cow Chef! I made this over the weekend and it is now my new FAVORITE side dish. I ate almost the entire pot...my boyfriend almost missed out. The only change I made to it was, instead of pimento, I had to substitute with roasted red pepper. The store was out of pimentos...but isn't pimento red pepper anyway? Nevertheless, this dish turned out amazing and I'm going to make it over and over again!
I love your vlogs Chef John!
Julie - September 10, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Chef John said...
Thank you!!
- September 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM
- Aascot said...
My fiance and I made this tonight and it is a KEEPER! We are of the frugal college student variety, and this will be a favorite for a long time. THANK YOU!!
- September 16, 2012 at 10:54 PM
I just made this with Tarhonya, still worked out great!
- October 3, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- Rob Pitingolo said...
Is there another color pimento?
If there isn't then I got ripped off at the farmers market buying some green and orange peppers marked as pimentos!
But I digress, this recipe is a winner! I'm a fan of mac and cheese, but those backed mac and cheese recipes that use a pound of cheese are so heavy and dense I can barely stand it. This, on the other hand, is the perfect balance of flavor and lightness. - October 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- dave said...
I have made this 3 times, the second time I did it, I forgot the pimentos, and my wife preferred it. That said, I love the pimentos. My only point is you can make this more of a family/kid friendly dish without the pimentos nd it is really good.
- November 4, 2012 at 10:39 PM
- Julie. -- said...
They call it Ptitim here in Israel.. it's roasted pasta anyways.. it's nothing like couscous. There are different shapes of Ptitim.. there are star, rice, donuts, and balls shapes.. :))
- January 3, 2013 at 9:03 AM
- Randy said...
I loved this. Had it with pork loin on the grill. It was perfect and so easy to make.
- April 13, 2013 at 9:31 PM
- Mark said...
I'm shocked that no one actually told the "story" behind "Israeli couscous", it's fascinating actually.
"Ptitim" was invented during the 1950s when rice was very poor and was unable to import rice. The prime minister David Ben-Gurion, asked the food engineers to come up with a wheat-based rice substitute. They resulting rice-shaped roasted wheat pellets became a huge success and later on different shapes were introduced such as round couscous-like shapes which are being used in the recipe. - January 21, 2014 at 7:19 AM
- Unknown said...
Thank you, Thank you! Finally something to do with the Couscous I have that my sister got me. She got me the wrong stuff. I tried to make it like reg delicious Couscous, and it was awful! I didn't know what it was really called. So it made it hard to find a recipe for it. Oh hubby will love the cheese in this!!!
- March 11, 2014 at 4:11 PM
- aijiko said...
I have made this a few times since it was posted and finally got it just right. I never get pimentos but I use diced up fresh, red pepper. When I don't have chives, I use a bit of green onion. I also add just a bit of ground mustard like in homemade mac and cheese. But the kicker was when I served it with fresh steamed cauliflower. Have you ever had cauliflower with cheese? Yeah this is even better. Yummy!
- February 29, 2016 at 8:46 PM
- laura duque said...
What's the percentage of fat on the heavy cream you use? I live in Canada, and i either buy one that has 35% or one that has 15% and my pasta taste delicious fresh made, but the texture after a few hours is just not right, too many "crumbs" (if you know what i mean, it doesn't have this gooey, delicious texture).:( :(. Great video as always!
- March 15, 2017 at 10:48 PM
- ScienceSusan said...
Shoulda decorated with chive flowers if for no other reason than to keep them from spreading and taking over the world. Friends don't give friends chives.
- October 19, 2017 at 7:57 PM
- Jackie Patti said...
I particularly like that you mention it is good nuked. My husband is a truck driver, so I gave up cooking dinner at dinner time years ago. I cook whenever is convenient and dish up in a cold Pyrex rather than a hot plate, and stick in the fridge to be nuked when anyone is ready to eat, which can vary between 3 PM and 2 AM.
Anything that is REALLY better right when it's cooked, like pancakes, poutin, most pasta dishes or risotto, I make on the weekend. But 90% of my cooking is for reheating.
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As the downward pressure continues on the price of Facebook's newly issued shares, let's see what our collective financial wisdom tells us.
The initial public offering was priced at $38 a share. After technical snafus on Friday, and only thanks to lots of help from Facebook's bankers, that's about where the stock settled its first day.
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As Business Insider has pointed out, at $38 Facebook's shares were priced "at about 65 times consensus 2013 estimated earnings per share" for the social media giant. Compare that to Apple's stock, which trades at about 10 times projected earnings per share.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week with a medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby, its 4,000-year-old mummy, in hopes of piecing together more information about the mummy itself and better understanding the early history of the mummification process.
While it isn't the first time a mummy has gone under the digital knife, only a handful from the time period have been examined in this fashion. The information gathered will help provide greater detail of the body, create a 3-D digital model and even reconstruct the face of the mummy that has been on display off and on since being acquired by the museum in 1953.
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Little is known about Tjeby, who was buried in a rock-cut tomb at a site known as Sheikh Farag in upper Egypt and excavated in 1923.
What museum officials do know is that he dates to between 2150 and 2030 BCE, a time of instability in Egypt, with the breakdown of central authority and economic decline. Previous research suggests Tjeby was 25 to 40 years old when he died.
Experts hope a closer look at data will help piece together more biographical information, such as Tjeby's specific age, diet and cause of death. They also will look at the materials used to mummify the body and the amount of soft tissue that has survived, and will determine whether organs have been removed, as they were in mummies from later periods.
Researchers say the technology allows them to learn about the mummy in remarkable detail without invasive or damaging procedures.
"It's easier to unlock that door of mystery to discover the secrets of the past," said Alex Nyerges, the museum's director. He anticipates incorporating information gleaned from the scan into the display of the mummy, which also includes its coffin and other artifacts from inside, such as a model of a boat and a granite statue.
The first mummy CT scan took place in 1977. But back then -- and even when Tjeby had his first imaging scan in 1986 -- the technology was fairly primitive, and little could be seen, said Jonathan Elias, director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, a Pennsylvania-based organization that has collected imaging data on about 30 mummies and offered to help the Virginia museum analyze its information.
"We're really at the beginning of the process, even with modern technology, to unravel what's gone on in this culture," Elias said. "Compared with 1986, 2013 is just like going to another planet in terms of what we're now able to do."
On Friday, museum employees removed the mummy, wrapped in preservation material, from his coffin and used Velcro ties to secure him to a platform, readying him for the 15-minute van ride from the museum to suburban Richmond for the scan. One employee rode in the back with Tjeby as the van drove slowly, trying to avoid sudden bumps or movements.
When he arrived at HCA's Independence Park Imaging Center, Tjeby was carefully rolled in on a gurney, placed on a sliding table head-first and uncovered, revealing aged, brown-tinted cloth wrapping. A group of technicians, doctors and museum employees began snapping photos to personally document the occasion.
Then, with the click of a button, an automated voice urged the patient to lie still and not breathe for the CT scan.
"He's the ideal patient," joked Peter Schertz, curator of ancient art at the museum. "If he only stopped fidgeting."
Within seconds, thousands of images began to flash on the computer monitors.
"He's like a jigsaw puzzle," said Dr. Jim Snyder, a diagnostic radiologist who assisted the museum with the scan.
Immediately apparent to the group was that some of Tjeby's bones had fallen or moved into the mummy's chest cavity at some point in his history -- likely after he had been mummified. Doctors and the museum staff noted that the main portion of his body was wrapped separately from the limbs and other parts of the body were a bit "jumbled."
A more in-depth examination of the images will take some time, but Snyder was able to do a quick 3-D rendering, giving Tjeby his first close-up in more than 4,000 years. Museum officials did not provide a timeline on the rest of the process, but were excited about the prospects.
"It's amazing that we are able to do this," Schertz said. "This is history."


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Teen Patti is a card game played using a standard 52-card deck without jokers, typically between 2 to 6 players. The Teen Patti game originated in India. Commonly known as Indian Poker, it is inspired from an English game called three card brag. With the advent of technology, now you can play Teen Patti online and ger a chance to win real money. Be on the lookout for regular tournaments and low entry fee cash tables on the MPL app. With its Fairplay policy and 24x7 customer support, you can play the card game as many times as you want, without the fear of fraudulent activities.
The objective of Teen Patti Game
To play teen patti, the objective is to have the best 3 cards in hand. Players have to bet the strength of their hands, and the game goes on with a series of betting rounds until two players remain or someone asks for a show of hands. The player who has the highest ranking hand wins the pot. Overall, the gameplay of teen patti remains the same for online as well as offline versions.
How to Play Teen Patti Game?
In Teen Patti, the aim is to create best three card combinations, or learn to bluff expertly in front of other players that it is the best. The game continues in various betting round. The player with the highest ranking hand wins the game. Here's everything you must know to learn how to play teen patti game.
Teen Patti Hand Rankings
Trio, Trail, or Three of a Kind
A trio or three of a kind consists of three cards sharing the same rank. For example, a set of three aces (A♥A♠A♣) represents the highest trio combination, while triple twos (2♣ 2♦ 2♥) constitute the lowest-ranking three-of-a-kind combination.
Pure Sequence or Straight Run
Three consecutive cards of the same suit are used to form a pure sequence or straight run. The highest straight run is exemplified by A♠ 2♠ 3♠, followed by A♠ K♠ Q♠ and K♠ Q♠ J♠, with 4♠ 3♠ 2♠ constituting the lowest straight run in the Win Patti skill game. Notably, 2♠ A♠ K♠ does not constitute a valid run.
Sequence or Normal Run
A sequence of three consecutive cards, not all of the same suit, forms a normal run. The top-ranking normal run is represented by A♠ 2♥ 3♠, followed by A♥ K♣ Q♠, K♦ Q♠ J♥, and so forth, with 4♠ 3♥ 2♦ being the lowest normal run in the Win Patti skill hand.
Color or Flush
Any three cards sharing the same suit create a color hand or flush. For example, A♣ K♣ J♣ can constitute a flush. When comparing two flush hands, the comparison starts with the highest card. If the highest cards are of the same rank, the comparison extends to the second-highest cards, and so on. The highest flush hand is A-K-J, while the lowest is 5-3-2.
A pair occurs when two out of the three cards share the same rank, such as A-A-K or Q-Q-J. The least powerful pair is 2-2-3.
High Card or No Pair
A high card or no pair hand comprises three cards that do not fit into any of the aforementioned hand rankings. The best high card hand consists of A-K-J of mixed suits, while the least powerful hand is 5-3-2.
Common Terms Used in Teen Patti Game
Teen Patti is a game that is often called Indian poker. It is a game of Indian origin and is played with a single deck of 52 cards and can be played between 3 to 6 players. To understand the game, you must know the following terms.
Boot: Boot is the minimum stake put into the pot before the dealing of the cards. This is a bet that every player has to make, and that serves as the beginning point for the pot.
Pot: The total money that players contribute while playing a hand. The winner of that round wins the pot.
Blind Player: The player who hasn't seen the cards is called a blind player. They play completely, depending on their luck. The blind player's bet is half that of a seen player's bet.
Seen Player (Chaal): A player who has seen their cards is called a seen player. The player makes decisions based on their cards. A seen player's bet becomes double the amount of a blind player's bet.
Fold (Pack): If a player does not want to place a bet, they can fold their hand. This makes the player drop out of the current round.
Show: The term used when players reveal their cards to decide the winner of the teen patti game. This is only allowed when there are two players remaining.
Sideshow (Compromise): If the player plays Teen Patti as a seen player, they can ask the player who bet before them for a sideshow. If the party agrees, both players can compare their cards privately. The player who has the lower hand must fold.
Trail (Set): The highest-ranking hand in Teen Patti is called a Trail (Set) and consists of three cards of the same rank.
Teen Patti Gameplay
Know the Teen Patti game rules below , learn the tips and strategies to win the next game!
Choosing the dealer
Choose a dealer by drawing a card from the deck. The player who owns the highest card becomes the dealer. Next, place the boot amount. Each player contributes a fixed amount, called the boot or ante. This will happen before the cards are dealt. The pot is the central area where all the players place their wagers.
The Deal
The dealer shuffles the cards, and each player gets three cards face down. The cards are distributed one at a time in a clockwise direction.
All the players place a bet based on the strength of their hands. In teen patti, the game starts with the player to the left and then goes clockwise. There are two types of rounds - seen and blind. Seen players can choose to bet or fold depending on how their cards are. They have already seen their cards, so they can bet double the amount. Blind players who have not seen their cards yet can also decide to bet or fold, but their bets are lower than the other seen players.
There are three types of betting actions that players can make - Seen, Blind, and Fold. A player can either see their cards and play, go blind, or fold if their cards are not satisfactory.
This happens only when two players are remaining in the game, and one of them asks for a show. If both players are going blind, the player who requests the show has to pay equal to the current stake. If one is playing blind and the other is seen, they have to pay twice the current stake. If both players are playing seen, the player requesting the show has to pay four times the current stake.
If a player asks for a sideshow and both the players have the same hand, the player that asked for a sideshow has to fold. If a previous player rejects it, the player sitting to the left continues betting. The player having the highest hand combination at the end of all the rounds wins the game.
How to Play Teen Patti Real Cash Game Online?
Teen Patti is an easy game, ideal for beginners. The gameplay and rules of the teen patti game are the same while playing the game online. If you are a new player, you must familiarise yourself with the rules and how to play teen patti. Once you understand them, you can start a real cash game with low stakes and master your skills. Teen Patti requires both skill and strategy to win. Hence, practice is required while mastering the game.
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How to Win at Teen Patti Real Cash Game?
Understand the Game Before You Start Playing
Learn the rules, hand rankings, and different variations of Teen patti real cash game. Fully familiarizing with the game's workings, strategies, various probabilities and outcomes will give you an edge over others and help you make informed decisions during gameplay.
Begin with Small Bets
Beginning with smaller bets helps you understand the game features and evaluate your opponent's playing style. It helps in reducing the losses and changing the strategy as the game gains its pace.
Setting Limits
Set your limits whether you are winning or losing. Having a set goal helps you maintain your bankroll and prevents you from overspending. Stay close to your limits to ensure reasonable and controlled gameplay.
Don't Fear Losing
Losses are a part of any game. Instead of focusing too much on losses, make the best decisions based on the information that is available to you.
Managing a Bankroll
Fix a budget for your gameplay and stick to it. Avoid betting on more than your limit because that may lead to more losses. Manage your bankroll wisely throughout the game. Teen patti games need to be played strategically in order to win.
Observe Your Opponents
Pay attention to how other players have placed a bet, raised, or folded. Look for patterns and tendencies that can help you judge their hand strength and make decisions accordingly.
Evaluate Starting Hands
Play weaker hands carefully and play aggressively with strong starting hands. These include pairs, high cards, or consecutive cards. Also, determine the starting hand and consider how to improve it.
Bluff Cautiously
Bluffing is effective in Teen Patti, but use it only when necessary. Having perfect timing and reading your opponent's reactions are crucial for bluffing successfully.
Utilise Side Shows Strategically
Ask your opponent to have a side show when you have a decent enough hand and suspect that they have a weaker hand. This will help you gain information and potentially win the pot without a full show.
Control Your Emotions
Avoid emotions overpowering your decisions. Showing emotions can give away information to opponents, so maintain a poker face and have a calm, collected mindset.
Practice and Learn
Practice makes perfect. Similar to other card games, the more you practice Teen Patti, the more skills you will acquire. Analyzing your game and learning from your mistakes will help you to improve your strategies and win real cash.
Teen Patti Probability
In the Teen Patti game, there are odds or probabilities of making a hand or a sequence. Given below are the probabilities of making 3 Patti hands in the game:
3 Patti Hands | Frequency | Probability | Odds |
Trail or Three of a Kind or Trio | 52 | 0.24% | 424.00:1 |
Pure Sequence or Flush | 48 | 0.22% | 459.42:1 |
Sequence or Straight | 720 | 3.26% | 29.69:1 |
Color or Flush | 1096 | 4.96% | 19.16:1 |
Pair | 3744 | 16.94% | 4.90:1 |
High Card | 16440 | 74.39% | 0.34:1 |
Teen Patti Card Game Variations
The variations of the game add diversity and excitement to the traditional version game and offer players new challenges and strategies to explore the game.
Best of Four
In the Best of Four version of Teen Patti, the dealer distributes four cards to each player, and players must make the best hand using any three of their four cards. The player possessing the best three-card hand emerges as the winner of the pot.
Stud is a variation of 3 Patti where players get a combination of face-up and face-down cards across multiple betting rounds. The quantity of face-up and face-down cards can vary, and this introduces more strategic elements into the game.
In Community Teen Patti, the dealer distributes a set of community cards at the center of the table. All players must share this table. Each player combines their hole cards with the community cards to make the best hand possible.
Bust Card Draw
In this Teen Patti variant, the dealer randomly draws one card and reveals it face-up. Designated as the "bust card," this card is taken out of play. Any player holding a bust card has to fold. This reduces the amount of potential card combinations for the players, hence they have to come up with new strategies to make the best hand out of the available cards..
Wild Draw
Wild Draw Teen Patti brings in one or more wild cards into the game. These wild cards have the flexibility to substitute for any other card. Following the distribution of cards to players, the dealer randomly draws one card and designates all cards of the same rank as wild cards.
Low Wild
In Low Wild, a player's low-ranking cards are targeted as wild cards solely within that player's hand. These low-ranking cards can be employed to complete combinations and enhance the strength of hands.
High Wild
In High Wild, a player's high-ranking cards are selected as wild cards exclusively within that player's hand. Similar to Low Wild, these wild cards can be utilized to finalize combinations and augment the potency of hands.
Two-Lowest Wild
In this variation, a player's two lowest-ranked cards function as wild cards solely within that player's hand. Participants can utilize these two lowest cards as wild cards to stand in for any other card, heightening the prospects of assembling stronger hands.
Lowball Teen Patti is a variant where the objective is to formulate the lowest possible hand. In this iteration, hand rankings are reversed, signifying that the least powerful hand secures the pot.
How do I earn money with Teen Patti online?
Play the teen patti game online to win real money. Learn the game and understand its rules properly. Practice with a few games before joining an actual real money table.
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Free Teen Patti is where you do not require to register with an entry fee. You can play the game and earn real money. In case of real cash Teen Patti, you have to register at an entry fee table to win the game.
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Here's a big, giant question for you: Why do we believe what we believe? And how is it that two people can look at the exact same set of circumstances and see two completely different things? That philosophical question is at the center of a new book where, to put it another way, one person's beautiful miracle is another person's ecological crisis.
Here to talk more about that miracle - or crisis, depending on your point of view - is the writer Barbara Kingsolver. Her previous books include "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and "The Poisonwood Bible." She's been awarded the National Humanities Medal. Her new book is "Flight Behavior." It's a novel. She joins us from WHYY in Philadelphia. Thanks for joining us today.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER: You're welcome. I'm glad to be here.
LICHTMAN: Give us a sense of the plot of the book. And I just want to tell people - give people a spoiler alert, because I think we have to reveal a twist that occurs early in the book, first 50 pages or so. Yeah, just give us a thumbnail sketch of what this book is about.
KINGSOLVER: This book is about a shocking, very beautiful and probably disastrous biological event that happens on a farm in southern, rural Appalachia. And I don't want to be the spoiler, but if you do, that's on you.
KINGSOLVER: Basically, this is - this event, it's a very freakish, amazing thing that should happen somewhere else in the world, and suddenly one winter, it occurs on a mountaintop in eastern Tennessee, among rural, conservative farmers who are prone to see it as a miracle from the Lord. But it attracts a lot of attention, and the media come in and scientists come in. And they declare it - at least the scientists declare it - a disastrous manifestation of a changing climate.
And I will go so far as to say that it has to do with a migratory shift of a migrating species that normally congregates somewhere else in the world, and they have congregated here. So it is fiction. It's a novel in which I use this device to talk about climate change, about the methods of science, because that's a really big part of this novel.
These scientists who come in have to really have a conversation with the people who live here. And it's really about this, as you said in the beginning, why we decide to believe what we believe and why it's so difficult for us to have this conversation about climate change.
LICHTMAN: OK. This is the point where you can lodge your complaints at me, because I am about to spoil it. So turn off your radio if you don't want to know. The event is a migration of monarch butterflies, and it's not clear originally what it looks like. It looks like a lake of fire is how you describe it. And then later, you describe it this way: Even the tree trunks wore butterfly pelts, all the way up, like the bristling hairy legs of giants. Have you seen these monarchs in person?
KINGSOLVER: Well, yes, of course, I have. I had to. When I realized that I wanted to write this novel and this is the way I wanted to do it, I wanted to use the monarchs - OK, we'll say it - the monarchs as a device. I, of course, had to be able to describe this phenomenon infinitely, in many different ways, and to express in language how amazing and how beautiful it is.
So I had to go and see that, and I did go to Mexico and spend time on the mountaintops in Michoacan, where these - the whole species or the whole population of eastern monarchs congregates in the winter. And so I had to be able to recreate that. So, yes, I have seen them. And it's - it is a wonder of the world.
LICHTMAN: Hmm. You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY, on NPR. I'm Flora Lichtman, talking with Barbara Kingsolver about her new novel, "Flight Behavior."
It comes through as a real phenomenon in the book, too. I mean, it just seems - you can see why people would look at it and think it's a miracle.
KINGSOLVER: Especially if they were unprepared to see it any other way.
LICHTMAN: Right.
KINGSOLVER: And the story is conveyed through the eyes of this young woman, this farmer's wife, who discovers it, actually, in a - she's kind of in an awkward situation. She's going somewhere where she's not supposed to be, and she sees it and she's not allowed to tell anyone. But she feels it's her personal burning bush. She takes it as a warning to go back.
I wanted to write it initially through her eyes so that you, too, would not know what you are seeing. But later...
LICHTMAN: If SCIENCE FRIDAY didn't spoil it.
KINGSOLVER: Well, yeah. But you see what I mean? Because it is about perception and how we need to be - to understand what we're seeing before we can really see it, that's really key to understanding this whole issue of climate change and why we see or don't see what's right in front of us.
LICHTMAN: What drew you to monarchs in the first place?
KINGSOLVER: I had really wanted to write about the subject for a long time. I live in southern Appalachia. I am surrounded by neighbors and friends - people I respect very much - who don't really understand climate change or believe in it, even though, as farmers, they're getting socked by it. We've had unprecedented, disastrous weather time and again. So it's such a strange contradiction that the people in our continent who are first to feel the harm of a changing climate are the last to be able to talk about it.
That was such a conundrum and such rich territory for a novel to tread, that I was just looking for the right way to get into the subject. And one morning, I just woke up with this vision in my eyes of millions of butterflies covering the forest behind my house. I just - I mean, I didn't actually see it. I imagined it. I woke up and there it was, and I knew that was it.
I was really excited, because to write - the difference between journalism and fiction is that you need - it has to be symbolic. You need a plot. You need characters, and you need a way to enter the story that isn't telling, but showing. And you need, of course, extraordinary events. You need conflict.
LICHTMAN: I mean, you also seem sort of perfectly positioned to write this, because you have a background in science. You have a degree in biology, right?
KINGSOLVER: Several of them, in fact.
KINGSOLVER: That's right. I always loved reading and writing as a kid, but I didn't imagine that I could be lucky enough to be a writer for a living. I thought I should study something practical. So - and I love science. I'm - I really feel I am a scientist. I was cut out to be a scientist. I studied biology in college, and I actually have a master's degree in evolutionary biology. And I have always loved science, but somehow apparently love writing novels more. But there are very, very...
LICHTMAN: You combined the two.
KINGSOLVER: Exactly. And I feel a kind of compunction to do this, to write about science and fiction, because almost nobody is doing that. There - I mean, the number of trained, pure scientists who - well, I don't know what pure means. But, you know, people who are trained in pure sciences who are writing fiction are very, very few.
LICHTMAN: I want to talk lots more about this.
KINGSOLVER: So I've got to do this.
LICHTMAN: I want to talk lots more of this when we come back from this break. We're talking with Barbara Kingsolver, the author of the new novel "Flight Behavior." And if you have questions for Barbara Kingsolver, give us a ring. Our number is 1-800-989-8255, 1-800-989-TALK.
LICHTMAN: I'm Flora Lichtman. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, from NPR.
LICHTMAN: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Flora Lichtman. We're talking with Barbara Kingsolver about her new book, "Flight Behavior." And when we left for the break, we were talking about how you have to do this and you're sort of well-positioned. But I wonder, why aren't other - many other people writing these stories? I mean, it seems to me like climate change is so ripe for good symbolism. I mean, the world is melting. There are floods. There are catastrophes. It seems well-suited.
KINGSOLVER: Not to mention an urgent matter. But you're right. Very few novelists have tackled it. And I really think part of that is that - well, it's a scary subject, in every way. But also, most novelists aren't trained in science. We have this divide in our culture. I think kids decide pretty early on whether they groove on the math and chemistry classes, or whether they're going to run for their lives into history and AP English. And it just goes on from there. We establish this - we kind of establish these roots for ourselves in which we're not going to really cross over. And it becomes increasingly difficult to do that.
I think a lot of people are afraid of science, really, which is bad news for everybody, because we really all need to understand a certain amount of science in order to make decent policy about the world we live in. But the truth is, translating scientific ideas from physics and mathematics and biology into vernacular English is difficult enough, and then translating it into fiction so that it's all there unobtrusively is extremely challenging.
And that was both a daunting and a really fun part of this novel, because I had to - in order to write about - in order to bring the reader into this world of scientists studying climate change in front of their eyes, they have to know something about the physics of why warm air holds more moisture. I wrote in this novel about the difference between correlation and causation. One of my pet peeves...
KINGSOLVER: ...with journalists who - when they report on science. There - this novel even mentions the ice-albedo effect. I was really excited listening to your previous half hour when I heard that word, albedo effect. That's in my novel. But it's not every easy to do, and it requires a certain comfort with the literature and with the subject to begin to translate that into plot and character and to make it really compelling so that people who might think they're afraid of science can read this novel, enjoy this novel without knowing that they're being educated in science.
LICHTMAN: I mean, it sounds like you felt compelled to really get the science right in this, even thought it's fiction, to get that accurate.
KINGSOLVER: Well, absolutely. That would be a sin for me...
KINGSOLVER: ...to put inaccurate science into my work. So you're right. And it's true. Even though this transposition or this abrupt shift of the monarch migratory pattern is an invention, I wanted to frame it in a plausible way. And the fact is, one of the manifestations that we're already seeing that's really very straightforward to document is migratory shift in - especially birds. Almost - the great majority of North American bird species have already shifted their migratory patterns and their breeding ranges.
And so I thought this is a sensible beginning place, so that if I could ground this fictional event in real science, that would be - it wouldn't be a sin. It would be both good fiction and good science, if you see what I mean.
LICHTMAN: I do. Did you have to do a lot of reporting?
KINGSOLVER: I did a lot of research. Of course, I'd - as I said, I went to see the monarchs and what that looks like. But I also did a lot of scientific research. I did - I read pretty much everything there is to be read about monarch butterfly migration, monarch parasites, monarch science. I've got all those journals on my desk in giant piles.
And I also - I sought out and gained the friendship of a very great scientist, Dr. Lincoln Brower, who knows more about monarchs than anyone on the planet. And Dr. Brower and his wife Dr. Linda Fink were very helpful to me. You can imagine when I went to them to talk about this idea that I have some trepidation to go to a scientist and say, well, OK. I know that the species that you know everything about have never done this, but what if it did? You know, I didn't know if they...
LICHTMAN: Yeah. I can imagine.
KINGSOLVER: ...run me out of the lab on a rail. But they were delighted. They were so imaginative and they were so - well, they're both fiction readers, which helps, so they understand what literature can do, that it's symbolic and how you can sort of tell the truth in a fictional way.
So they - we just have a great time. We spent hours in conversation about this. If it did happen, then what would be the reasons? You know, we sort of backed up and had all of these hypothesis and, you know, Dr. Brower was even saying, oh, and there's another species of milkweed, and if that range shifted a little too - so we were really - they were very enthusiastically helping me create this imaginary world, which gave me a lot of confidence in the final manuscript because they vetted it for me and they made sure that every degree of temperature was accurate and all the equipment used by the scientists in this novel were, you know, I haven't positioned them upside down. You know, everything, every detail has to be right.
So I really appreciate, not just Dr. Brower and Dr. Fink, but all of the scientists who have done a lot of work on monarchs that I relied - on which I relied to get my facts straight.
LICHTMAN: Well, one of the interesting things with - about how this novel is structured is that we get a really full explanation of climate science, I think, without any condescension, because the protagonist is learning about it herself. Do you think that there are ways in which fiction might be actually better suited to take on issues like this than non-fiction?
KINGSOLVER: I absolutely do, and that's why I do it. As I said earlier, for one thing, you can introduce ideas to people in a non-threatening way. You can introduce science to people who didn't know they were interested in science. You can also talk about how people come to their truths, which was really a big part of this novel ultimately, even though the science and the butterflies are the essential device here. A novel has to be about people.
And what I really wanted to get at was the opening question that you made very clear. Why do we believe or disbelieve the evidence we see for climate change? And because I live in Southern Appalachia and have great respect for communities of people who have chosen to believe otherwise, I really wanted to look into how we make those choices and how it's possible to begin a conversation across some of these divides - between scientists and non-scientists, between rural and urban, between progressive and conservative - that when it comes to understanding the scientific truths about the world, there must be another way to bring information to people that is - that's beyond simply condescending and saying, well, if only you had the facts. If only you knew what I did, then you would be a smart person. That gets you nowhere.
And again, this is my community. This is my culture. Another rarity in literature is not very many people write about Southern Appalachia very respectfully. And that was important to me as well. The spiritual and religious life of the people in this novel was something - was an important component of how, you know, to me, portraying of how people arrive at their belief systems and their truths about the world. So...
LICHTMAN: Well, I mean, your main character definitely holds her own?
KINGSOLVER: Yes. She does.
LICHTMAN: She definitely did. I actually want to read a little excerpt from your book. We're in a scene where the lead scientists, the McArthur Genius monarch biologist Ovid Byron, is sort of an little diatribe. And he says, I'm not a zookeeper. He said, I'm not here to save monarchs. I'm trying to read what they are writing on our wall. Dellarobbia (that's the main character) felt stung. If you're not, who is? She could think of some answers: the knitting woman, the boys with the duct tape clothes, people Cub and her in-laws thought to be outside the pale of normal adulthood.
That is the concern of conscience, Ovid Byron says. It's not a biology. Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. That must be why people don't like it, she said, surprised at her tartness. Do you hope that scientists will read your book and reconsider that role?
KINGSOLVER: Well, I hope anyone would read it and take from it what they may. But it's a worthy consideration for scientists. Of course, science isn't proscriptive. It's about learning what is, not about what should be. And that is a problem. I want to just illustrate that in the book. That is a problem people outside of science have with it, is that it refuses to say what should be. It only says what is. It also refuses to overstate the case, which is also a reason why people misunderstand, often. If there's a two percent possibility that the head-on collision won't kill you, a scientist will not say a head-on collision will kill you. You know, they just - scientists cannot overstate. And we're so accustomed to politicians and advertisers and everyone sort of overstating the case, that this also - it creates misunderstanding.
People say, well, if they can't tell us for sure that Hurricane Sandy was, you know, then they say, well, then it must not be true at all. So these communication difficulties are really a lot of what I wanted to illustrate in this novel and maybe just create a new way of looking at some of the problems and some of the potential for conversation.
LICHTMAN: You have a scene in the book where Dellarobbia is up on the mountain and for the first time, looking with the scientists, at the monarchs. And she end up sort of characterizing or doing her own little survey of the scientists themselves. And many of them, to her, seem younger, even though they're her peers, pretty much. But they have money, and they have the privilege of spending, although being curious. Do you think that there is a connection there, that privilege begets science in some way or that you have to be - it's easier to be a scientist if you're privileged or - I don't know. You tell me.
KINGSOLVER: Well, there's definitely a class difference here, that's sort of glaring. Dellarobbia notices that these graduate students, you know, who have come to help document this strange event are wearing shoes that cost more than her husband earns in two months of driving that gravel truck. So she's - it kind of stings that these kids have extraordinary worldliness. They've already traveled a lot to study the monarchs. They have access to a lot of resources and information that's just beyond her.
She's lived her entire life in a - in one county. She hasn't even - she's hardly been off this farm since she married 11 years earlier. She's very worried about her own kids and thinking how - if they want to go to college, how can they compete with these - with kids who are just - already know everything by kindergarten?
So, sure, this novel is also about class and some of the basis for frustration and, perhaps, suspicion between scientific and non-scientific communities. This novel doesn't explain how to fix everything. Obviously, a novel can't do that. It only asks questions that, I think, are worth considering.
LICHTMAN: It's interesting because I've heard you in an interview that the role of the artist or the job of the artist is really only to make great art, which I - I mean, you know, personally, I think you achieved with this book. And I wonder if you also feel a sense of mission, also, with your writing.
KINGSOLVER: Well, I think...
LICHTMAN: Social mission, I guess.
KINGSOLVER: Well, I think every writer hopes to bring information to a reader or a viewer. Every artist wants to reach another person through the heart. Something that a novel can do is bring you information in a different way from journalism or all other forms of acquiring information. It brings you inside the mind of another person. So it creates empathy for the theoretical stranger, and that's - it's a fresh avenue, really, for bringing science to a reader, to get to the head via the heart.
LICHTMAN: Do you have science - we have 30 seconds left. But will we see science in your next book?
KINGSOLVER: Absolutely.
LICHTMAN: Well, I look forward to it. Thank you for joining us today.
KINGSOLVER: It's my pleasure.
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[Update: Friday, 6:10 AM]: I received an email from someone who visited the trial yesterday. This person does not know the people being tried or anyone else involved in the case. This is a description of what this person saw, and it is quite germane to the subject of my post. Read on:
House looked pale and spooked. Other posters aren't kidding when they say he watches the prosecutors for his cues -- he actually watches the prosecutors most all of the time period.I think these words speak for themselves. You have to understand that what this person has described above in the last paragraph is prima facae evidence of ex parte conversations between the judge and the prosecutors. This violates judicial ethics and because House has not reported these conversations with the prosecutors to the defense, he is in violation of the judicial codes that supposedly govern his actions. Food for thought.
Gregor and Aren't (my own joke) honestly acted like children -- if they were my son I'd have gone up and pulled him up by his ears and told him to stop acting like an idiot. As the defense questioned a Mr. Walker on the stand, the two of them couldn't sit still. On purpose, of course, they acted like 12 year olds -- they'd put their heads in their hands and shake them, they'd put their arms behind their heads and sigh -- they were like baby monkeys!
The (prosecutors) left through their doors -- laughing, joking, waiting on House to leave with them. Tim Deal (that's an entire, scary story all to itself) prissed out behind them, as if begging them to wait up so he could be part of the gang.
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One of the most common sets of complaints I receive involve the behavior of Chris "Facebook" Arnt and Len "The Man" Gregor, who remind me of the bullies in high school who sat in the back of class, made noise, were rude and utterly narcissistic.
Since Gregor has been making much of the word narcissist, I decided to look it up, and here is what it says about someone who is a narcissist:
Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, often used as a pejorative, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.Yes, I think that narcissism definitely applies to a couple of men who make catcalls, laugh out loud at the testimony of defense witnesses, openly mock the attorneys, roll their eyes, smirk, and engage in the kind of behavior that one might expect at the Delta House.
Why do they do it? They do it because "Judge" Brian House encourages this behavior. Interestingly, when someone from the defense apologized to a defense witness after the Dishonest Duo had been trying to scream at this woman and humiliate her, then House sprang into action and sanctioned the defense team.
A friend of mine who has testified in more than 500 cases, and who is a better-qualified expert than the entire staff of the Children's Advocacy Center combined, told me that she was testifying in court when an assistant district attorney (like the Dishonest Duo) simply rolled his eyes at a statement by someone else, the judge immediately called him out and fined him $500.
Will we see Brian House demand such decent behavior from his good friends, Facebook and The Man? I seriously doubt it.
As a journalist and writer, I have been to a number of trials, and I cannot recall one time seeing a prosecutor act in the rude, obnoxious and bullying manner of Len Gregor and Chris Arnt. I have seen Gary Gerbitz, Frank Groves, and many more, and I can tell you that to a person, whether you agreed with them or not, they were ADULTS.
What is going on in the courtroom of Brian House is nothing more than two bullies pushing around other people who are not permitted to fight back, and you can tell they are enjoying themselves. Arnt and Gregor are nothing but dishonest bullies who apparently get their jollies from falsely accusing people and seeing how far they can push their attempts to frame innocent people.
However, it is not enough for Len Gregor that he is bullying witnesses and acting like a jerk. No, he had to call out Melydia Clewell from Channel 3 because, apparently, she has not bowed down and worshiped him and his "evidence" that is built upon perjury. Clewell's lack of reverence for "The Man" seems to throw him into a rage, snd it is clear that "The Man" really feels most like a man when he is bullying women.
(Someone else pointed out to me that as soon as the Today Show crew left the courtroom, he started his bullying routine again. Hey, "The Man," why don't you show that lady from Today how tough you are?)
This weekend, I will be doing a series on the evidence, and at the end, I think I will demonstrate that House, Arnt, and Gregor are not "mistaken" in their interpretation of the evidence. To a man, each of them knows that they have seen perjured testimony from the prosecution witnesses, and that they have approved of it, and that they will continue to do as they damn well please because, after all, they are like the jock bullies running around.
However, I do recall one prosecutor who laughed out loud, bullied witnesses, rolled his eyes, smirked, and acted as though he owned the courtroom. His name was Mike Nifong, and the last I saw of Mikey, he was in a hearing room bawling like a child because the North Carolina State Bar had stripped him of his license.


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