Puzzle corner 42

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

YBBG AWTI XPRB PZUPAK
DWUPIJ DSB KTMKSCMB
-- PMJ KSPJWUK UCZZ XPZZ
HBSCMJ AWT. -- UPZD
USCDLPM

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Keep your face aways toward the sunshine -- and shadows will fall behind
you.
Walt Whitman

Solving: always, keep your face, toward the sunshine

> First taken care of by tenants, he was completely bedridden for most
> of his time in Mickle Street. During this time, he began socializing
> with Mary Oakes Davis—the widow of a sea captain. She was a neighbor,
> boarding with a family in Bridge Avenue just a few blocks from Mickle
> Street.[107] She moved in with Whitman on February 24, 1885, to serve
> as his housekeeper in exchange for free rent. She brought with her a
> cat, a dog, two turtledoves, a canary, and other assorted
> animals.[108] During this time, Whitman produced further editions of
> Leaves of Grass in 1876, 1881, and 1889.

WW's big health problem was his TB.

> An autopsy revealed his lungs had diminished to one-eighth their
> normal breathing capacity, a result of bronchial pneumonia,[111] and
> that an egg-sized abscess on his chest had eroded one of his ribs.
> The cause of death was officially listed as "pleurisy of the left
> side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and
> parenchymatous nephritis".

> In the 19th century, TB killed about a quarter of the adult
> population of Europe

> By the late 19th century, 70–90% of the urban populations of Europe
> and North America were infected with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
> and about 80% of those individuals who developed active TB died of
> it.[66] However, mortality rates began declining in the late 19th
> century throughout Europe and the United States.

> Hopes that the disease could be completely eliminated were dashed in
> the 1980s with the rise of drug-resistant strains. Tuberculosis cases
> in Britain, numbering around 117,000 in 1913, had fallen to around
> 5,000 in 1987, but cases rose again, reaching 6,300 in 2000 and 7,600
> cases in 2005.[125] Due to the elimination of public health
> facilities in New York and the emergence of HIV, there was a
> resurgence of TB in the late 1980s.[126] The number of patients
> failing to complete their course of drugs was high. New York had to
> cope with more than 20,000 TB patients with multidrug-resistant
> strains (resistant to, at least, both rifampin and isoniazid).


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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

There is a tendency for mainstream media to refer to the conservative
Christian right in the .us as 'evangelicals'. That doesn't seem like
the right term to me; that is, just because one is a Protestant
conservative Christian right doesn't make them an evangelical; so I
tried to understand from the wp article.

> By the late 19th to early 20th century, most American Protestants
> were Evangelicals. A bitter divide had arisen between the more
> liberal-modernist mainline denominations and the fundamentalist
> denominations, the latter typically consisting of Evangelicals. Key
> issues included the truth of the Bible—literal or figurative, and
> teaching of evolution in the schools.

I don't even believe that 1st sentence above.

> A 2004 Pew survey identified that while 70.4 percent of Americans
> call themselves "Christian", Evangelicals only make up 26.3 percent
> of the population, while Catholics make up 22 percent and mainline
> Protestants make up 16 percent.[336] Among the Christian population
> in 2020, mainline Protestants began to outnumber Evangelicals.

I'm still doubtful there are so many Evangelicals; yes Christian, yes
Protestant, not 'Evangelical' per se.

I have a good friend for some 50+y who wasn't religious at all when we
first met who is quite 'evangelical' in his religious nature now, but
I'm not sure he would call himself an Evangelical; he would more likely
characterize himself as whatever Protestant church he attends, even if
it isn't one of the main Protestant faiths.

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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> There is a tendency for mainstream media to refer to the
> conservative Christian right in the .us as 'evangelicals'.
>

>> By the late 19th to early 20th century, most American Protestants
>> were Evangelicals.
>

> I don't even believe that 1st sentence above.
>

> I'm still doubtful there are so many Evangelicals; yes Christian, yes
> Protestant, not 'Evangelical' per se.
>

Aha. A more rational wp article:

> News media often conflate evangelicalism with "conservative
> Protestantism" or the Christian right. However, not every
> conservative Protestant identifies as evangelical, nor are all
> evangelicals political conservatives

'not every' - I would say 'few to very few' id/s as evangelical.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> There is a tendency for mainstream media to refer to the conservative
> Christian right in the .us as 'evangelicals'.

Aha. I think I get it. The liberal left-leaning mainstream media, make
that liberal-left mainstream media is calling the entire adversarial
conservatives 'evangelicals' pejoratively as if to characterize them as
zany Bible-thumping born-again crusaders against abortion.

'You are either a progressive like us, or you are a zany evangelical.'

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

R MUWPE AZLP WDP ARKWZLP MU
WDRELREH WDZW KMAPWDREH
WDZW RK MNBRMTK WM AP
RK ITKW ZK MNBRMTK WM
PBPSFMEP PJKP. -- VDRAZAZEXZ
EHMYR ZXRVDRP

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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to
me is just as obvious to everyone else.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Solving: that, I, the, mistake, thinking, something. I gave up on the
source name which was 'atypical' and had too many unknowns.

CNA is a now 46 y/o Nigerian .ng writer. She was born and raised and
received her early education and the beginning of secondary at a .ng uni
where her dad was a prof and her mom was registrar. Then she came to
the .us and completed her ed and started her successful writing career.
wp article.

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

QDFF, Z XLVQ LVQ. Z XLVQ T
FZMMFD CVSD WVQ CPEW T
GZCAFD MWZLI FZXD T GLVQKTFF
ETL CDTL MV T ADSGVL. -- GBFHZT
AFTMW

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Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a
snowfall can mean to a person.
Sylvia Plath

Solving: well I, know now, a little more how, simple thing

At first I tho't snowball, but that didn't really work right.

SP's wp article teaches a lot about clinical depression and suicide,
which SP finally accomplished at age 30 after several earlier feeble
attempts since her early 20s. The tendency to blame antidepressant meds
or other people for someone's suicide is kinda crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

> Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was
> treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive
> therapy (ECT).[3] She ended her own life in 1963.

> Catlett, Lisa Firestone Joyce (1998). "The Treatment of Sylvia
> Plath". Death Studies.



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Mike Easter

[Apd]

"Mike Easter" wrote:
> Solving: well I, know now, a little more how, simple thing

Did it by letter: i, a, e, l, t, w ...

> At first I tho't snowball, but that didn't really work right.

I stuck with that, despite it seeming odd. Never considered it could
be "snowfall".

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

MTUNHT APQONDOG RW
WTUOM, RM RW ARVVPZ
KRMT VUMW UA VUYP DXZ
WKPPM WNOJORWPW.
-- BTDOSDRXP E. AUOZP

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Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet
surprises.
Charmaine J. Forde

Solving: it is, surprises, sweet, with. I didn't guess her middle I.

CJF is an author from Barbados, no wp and Amazon lost her bio.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> Amazon lost her bio.

Oops. I found it under 'editorial reviews' of her book there.

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

CT EZBBUL NPZB, CTATMF
SZC BZOU ZNZF BPU MZCSUV
FTH'RU ZKLUZMF PZM.
-- YZALQUK YZLSQZ EZLXHUJ

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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

GGM 1927-2014
> was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and
> journalist,

> Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century,
> particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972
> Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize
> in Literature.

> He is the most-translated Spanish-language author.[4]
>
> Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the
> president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever
> lived."



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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>
> GGM 1927-2014
>> was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and
>> journalist,

In '22 Oct Netflix announced:

> We commemorate the 40th anniversary of the announcement of Gabriel
> García Márquez’s Nobel Prize in Literature with an exclusive preview
> of the preparations of the physical Macondo, in the first
> audiovisual adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, as well as
> some of the names of the talent behind production.

The novel OHYoS is considered GGM's 'magnum opus'

> Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by
> Editorial Sudamericana, One Hundred Years of Solitude has been
> translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million
> copies.[6][7][8][9] The novel, considered García Márquez's magnum
> opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most
> significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon[10] and in
> world literature.

> Although Netflix has not yet announced the premiere date, speculation
> suggests that the series will be released in mid-2024,

The trailer I saw from '22 Oct was in .es w/ .en subtitles.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

I've done quite a bit of reading about calendars over the decades, but I
haven't spent much time 'understanding' lunisolar. Here's an example of
the long lead par in the wp article about .cn:

> The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, combining
> the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and religious
> purposes. More recently, in China and Chinese communities the
> Gregorian calendar has been adopted and adapted in various ways, and
> is generally the basis for standard civic purposes, but
> incorporating traditional lunisolar holidays. However, there are many
> types and subtypes of the Chinese calendar, partly reflecting
> developments in astronomical observation and horology, with over a
> millennium plus history. The major modern form is the Gregorian
> calendar-based official version of the People's Republic of China,
> although Taiwanese and diaspora versions are also notable along with
> Chinese-influenced versions of various cultures; however, aspects of
> the traditional lunisolar calendar remain popular, including the
> association of the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac in relation
> to months and years.

... and ...

> The date of the Chinese New Year accords with the patterns of the
> lunisolar calendar and hence is variable from year to year.
>
> The invariant between years is that the winter solstice, Dongzhi is
> required to be in the eleventh month of the year[38] This means that
> Chinese New Year will be on the second new moon after the previous
> winter solstice, unless there is a leap month 11 or 12 in the
> previous year.[39][40]
>
> This rule is accurate, however there are two other mostly (but not
> completely) accurate rules that are commonly stated:[39]
>
> The new year is on the new moon closest to Lichun (typically 4
> February). The new year is on the first new moon after Dahan
> (typically 20 January)
>
> It has been found that Chinese New Year moves back by either 10, 11,
> or 12 days in most years. If it falls on or before 31 January, then
> it moves forward in the next year by either 18, 19, or 20 days.

... and ...

> Chinese New Year is a festival that celebrates the beginning of the
> lunar new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In
> Chinese, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival

... and ...

> Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese
> culture, and has strongly influenced Lunar New Year celebrations of
> its 56 ethnic groups, such as the Losar of Tibet, and of China's
> neighbours, including the Korean and Vietnamese New Years,[5] as
> well as in Okinawa.[6] It is also celebrated worldwide in regions
> and countries that house significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone
> populations, especially in Southeast Asia. These include
> Singapore,[7] Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar,[8] the
> Philippines,[9] Thailand, and Vietnam. It is also prominent beyond
> Asia, especially in Australia, Canada, Mauritius,[10] New Zealand,
> Peru,[11] South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States,
> as well as in many European countries.

...and...

> The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears
> between 21 January and 20 February

Pretty good article at WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/10/chinese-new-year-lunar-dragon/

> What to know about Lunar New Year: The Year of the Dragon

... starting Feb 10 this year.

If you think all of that is whacky, study when the Christian Easter
occurs; which is what got me into calendar interest a long time ago.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

LUCZ ZPNFVL BNFQUVZ RN
RQFKR GNCZ NPZ ENQZ RSEZ
UPT UGIUXK NPZ ENQZ RSEZ.
-- EUXU UPVZGNF

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou

Solving: Z>E, one, enough, have, courage to,

MA the queen of autobiographies, 7. She died at 86 y/o while writing
another one, and wrote 4 books in her last 10 y. wp has a separate
article for her works.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Sunday cryptoquip:

UB ASCIF MDSRIE LSRI XD SJGUBUVUSM
UXYJIFUIXGE SG SMM, U EZNNDEI DXI TUYLG
GLUXC DB GLIT SE NZJIAJISFE.

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If baked loaves have no artificial ingredients at all, I suppose one
might think of them as purebreads.

Solving: if, I suppose one might think of them as

The usual tool for OCR I use at onlineocr.net is very 'faulty'; I'm
assuming that it is the webserver and the ads, as opposed to my
browser's fault. Chrome is the browser, an older unsupported one on W7
(109.0 + more digits). The symptom is the Aw Snap! reaction which
chrome help discusses at
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95669?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=0

This awsnap problem arises more than half the time and during that
'majority' of the time, happens repetitively, potentially preventing use
of the site if too many attempts occur at the same access.

I usually mitigate the problem w/ the strategy of using chrome's
incognito mode, suggested at the help site. Cache clearing didn't help
the time I tried it. Incognito almost always works, even when normal
mode has failed 2 or 3 times.



--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

GUF LVG OHTHX BOUK KAVC
XHRFZCR IULH UP GUFX
VICNUOR, SFC NP GUF MU
OUCANOW, CAHXH KNZZ SH
OU XHRFZCR. -- LVAVCLV
WVOMAN

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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do
nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Ghandi

Solving: you, your, may never know what results

I found the wp 'pictorial' of MG throughout his life interesting.

Start at 1931, 1886, London law student, stretcher bearer in Boer War,
1902 & wife, S Africa '09, '18, 1921, '42 w/ a Nehru, millions at
funeral, and more of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#/media/File:Mahatma-Gandhi,_studio,_1931.jpg



--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

SLD NKJE SLHKX FD KDIDG
XDS DKNWXL NY HR JNID; TKZ
SLD NKJE SLHKX FD KDIDG
XHID DKNWXL NY HR JNID.
-- LDKGE BHJJDG

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The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we
never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller

Solving: the, never, thing, only, enough

Interesting choice of HM today; his middle name was Valentine. Does
reading his lead par from the wp encourage you to read his bio?

> Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an
> American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with
> existing literary forms and developed a new type of
> semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social
> criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness,
> explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and
> mysticism.[1][2] His most characteristic works of this kind are
> Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy
> The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York
> City and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until
> 1961).[3] He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and
> painted watercolors.


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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

NAGKZO AT DG EH JZFP, WSK
ZKZOGFB TQOAGV AT AG EH
JZFOK. -- LAUKDO JSVD

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor Hugo

Solving: is in, is on, head, heart

Context:
> Winter is on my head but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I
> approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal
> symphonies of the world to come. For half a century I have been
> writing my thoughts in prose and verse; but I feel that I have not
> said one-thousandth part of what is in me. When I have gone down to
> the grave I shall have ended my life’s work; but another day will
> begin the next morning. Life closes in the twilight but opens with
> the dawn.

Try the Memorials (and veneration) section of VH's wp article; some
curious surprises in there. Here are a diverse two:

> Hugo is venerated as a saint in the Vietnamese religion of Cao Đài, a
> new religion established in Vietnam in 1926.[95]
>
> A crater on the planet Mercury is named after him.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

LME XIIGA BEPI LMIX ZER'PI
QEN BEK? NMIZ SENM
ANYXW, SRN EXBZ EXI
NUANIA QEEG. -- "NMI
JUDPIBERA JDA. JUYAIB"

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Who needs love when you've got lox? They both stink, but only one tastes
good.
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

- What kind of (negative) thing is that to say about love?
- What the hell is TMMM?

So I skimmed 3 articles:
- context
https://thistimetomorrow.com/marvelous-mrs-maisel-in-washington-square-park
- context2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Mrs._Maisel
- since I don't do Amazon Prime anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video


--
Mike Easter

[Apd]

"Mike Easter" wrote:
> Who needs love when you've got lox? They both stink, but only one tastes
> good.
> "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
>
> - What kind of (negative) thing is that to say about love?
> - What the hell is TMMM?

Exactly, to both; and WTF is lox? I've never heard salmon called that.
To me, LOX is liquid oxygen.

> - since I don't do Amazon Prime anything

Me neither.

[Mike Easter]

Apd wrote:
> "Mike Easter" wrote:
>> Who needs love when you've got lox? They both stink, but only one
>> tastes good. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
>>
>> - What kind of (negative) thing is that to say about love? - What
>> the hell is TMMM?
>
> Exactly, to both; and WTF is lox? I've never heard salmon called
> that. To me, LOX is liquid oxygen.
>

I recognized lox; I think of 'NY Jews' and 'lox and schmear' for the
bagel + smoked salmon + cream cheese; but it doesn't have to be Jewish
/nor/ NYC. The word comes/derives from Yiddish.

My local Costco has some 'good deals' on smoked salmon thin fillets on
an annual basis and when I get some, I do create a schmear situation,
using bite-sized salmon + cream cheese glop on some flavor of trisquit
cracker. Trisquit makes too many flavors to decide on which is best.
Otherwise, I never eat trisquits, preferring instead 'regular ol' soda
crackers for snacks such as PB + cracker or slices of colby-jack cheese
+ cracker.

I much more often 'think of' your capped LOX because of its popularity
on the launch pad.

Here's a tidbit from its wp article, which also contains some others:

> if soaked in liquid oxygen, some materials such as coal briquettes,
> carbon black, etc., can detonate unpredictably from sources of
> ignition such as flames, sparks or impact from light blows.
> Petrochemicals, including asphalt, often exhibit this behavior.

Whoa!

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Thursday's CQ:

DP ZA, IROTYV OMRCA
LZDDTCB VPZJ RJOA RJPZCE
MRQS PDSMJ RCE FMTCB
DSMJM. -- FRJFRJR FZAS

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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush

I did it yesterday; I don't recall the solving order; I think it started
w/ 'there'.

--
Mike Easter

[Apd]

"Mike Easter" wrote:
> I much more often 'think of' your capped LOX because of its popularity
> on the launch pad.
>
> Here's a tidbit from its wp article, which also contains some others:
>
>> if soaked in liquid oxygen, some materials such as coal briquettes,
>> carbon black, etc., can detonate unpredictably from sources of
>> ignition such as flames, sparks or impact from light blows.
>> Petrochemicals, including asphalt, often exhibit this behavior.
>
> Whoa!

Fast oxidization. I bet steel wool goes up nicely if dipped in it.
That will burn in normal air.

[Mike Easter]

Sunday cryptoquote:

 XWHU E KFCJ KWZK PFGEUL SFQH, E LYHNN EK
 SYNK  JEJU'K XFVQ. PHIZYNH E WZJ KF HGRCZEU
           KWH RYUlW CEUH.

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When I told that boxing joke, I guess it just didn't work, because I had
to explain the punch line.

Solving: I guess it, didn't, to, the, punch line, explain

The OCR site and my browser/cache situation aren't getting along at all;
neither the conventional nor incognito even began to function. I used
my IrfanView which worked better than usual. I may have to abandon the
site (or alternatively figure out how to re-rig my cache situation). I
think the problem is that the site's handling of ads is whacky and
'overloaded' and it gags my browser's config. I don't really need any
kind of cache on that system, so I may turn it into nothing.


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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> Sunday cryptoquote:

No; that was a crypto-*quip*.

NASA is running an ad for 'Martians' -- volunteers to live in a
simulated environment for a year.

Think about what that would be like; it'll be interesting to see how
many vol/s they get; deadline is Apr 2.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/martians-wanted-nasa-opens-call-for-simulated-yearlong-mars-mission/

> NASA is looking for healthy, motivated U.S. citizens or permanent
> residents who are non-smokers, 30-55 years old, and proficient in
> English for effective communication between crewmates and mission
> control. Applicants should have a strong desire for unique, rewarding
> adventures and interest in contributing to NASA’s work to prepare for
> the first human journey to Mars.

> Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and
> working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at
> NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars
> Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars, including
> resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, and
> other environmental stressors. Crew tasks include simulated
> spacewalks, robotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and
> crop growth.



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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> volunteers to live in a
> simulated environment for a year.

The first of these missions started '23 Jun 25, so they'll be getting
out this summer.

Two men and two women; presumably there was no screwing around.

> Kelly Haston, Ph.D (commander)
>
> Ross Brockwell (flight engineer)
>
> Nathan Jones, M.D. (medical officer)
>
> Anca Selariu, Ph.D (science officer)



--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

FNEZQJ PVSS ZRK FRLJ VU PJ
PEVK URB GRLJ RKNJB CJBGRZ
RB GRLJ RKNJB KVLJ. PJ EBJ
KNJ RZJG PJ'TJ XJJZ PEVKVZQ
URB. - XEBEFD RXELE

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other
time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Barach Obama

Solving: will, we are the, wait for, other person

BO is 62; Michelle is 60.

What has BO done lately?

> In March 2023, Obama traveled to Australia as a part of his speaking
> tour of the country. During the trip, Obama met with Australian Prime
> Minister Anthony Albanese and visited Melbourne for the first
> time.[488] Obama was reportedly paid more than $1 million for two
> speeches.[489][490]
>
> In October 2023, during the Israel–Hamas war, Obama declared that
> Israel must dismantle Hamas in the wake of the October 7 Hamas
> massacre.[491] Weeks later, Obama warned Israel that its actions
> could "harden Palestinian attitudes for generations" and weaken
> international support for Israel; any military strategy that ignored
> the war's human costs "could ultimately backfire."

I still don't understand why it isn't /possible/ for the non-combatant
civilians to get out of Gaza, except for the fact that no country wants
them living in *their* country. And, make no mistake, Gaza IS in
Israel's country to manage according to its needs and security.

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Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

Y PYIN XCV HC TDCP HNLH
XCV NLJA KAAD HNA OLIH
WUALZ CS ZX ICVO.
-- MNLUOAI WYMTADI

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. Charles
Dickens

Solving: that, I, wish you to know, the,

Even w/ more context, I don't know what CD was 'saying'/meant there.

> “I wish you to know you have been the last dream of my soul. Since I
> knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would
> never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices
> impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I had
> unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth
> and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a
> dream, that ends in nothing…
>
> But I wish you to know that you inspired it. And yet I have had the
> weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what
> a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into the
> fire.”

A site says:

> Quote Meaning: This poignant quote is a declaration of profound love
> and attachment, often attributed to Charles Dickens. It conveys a
> sense of deep emotional connection and the idea that the person
> being addressed is the ultimate fulfillment of the speaker's desires
> and aspirations.

'often attributed'? My understanding is that it is from A Tale of Two
Cities.

Another site:
> Spoken to Lucie Manette by Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities,"
> the classic novel by Charles Dickens. Carton not only professes his
> love but also tells her that she is the reason he wants to be a
> better man.

Whenever I hear that 'better man' line, I think of Jack Nicholson/ Helen
Hunt in As Good As It Gets.

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

Today's CQ:

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FDUQNND CQULSW CDFSR
DWPXUO LES JQLKESU RLPFS.
-- MDKJ JSWPXDK

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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
Jack Kerouac

Solving: what didn't work: APIEPPO > BETWEEN. what did work: FDUQNND >
VANILLA and LES > THE

JK has an interesting wp article. A tidbit:
> Of French-Canadian ancestry,[5][6] Kerouac was raised in a
> French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English
> at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens."

JK ruined his liver w/ alcohol w/ all the sequelae such as lack of
clotting factors and esophageal varices, so when he started vomiting
blood nothing at a hospital could save him and he died at 47 y/o in '69.

There's an interesting NYT article about him during his years as a
'deadbeat' (as opposed to a leader of the Beat Generation) barfly from
'58 to '64.

> The King of the Beats was already a literary celebrity when he moved
> with his mother, Gabrielle, to this Long Island harbor town in 1958,
> but the locals remember him mainly as a broke barfly who padded about
> barefoot or in bedroom slippers.
>
> “He never had any money, so he’d get your ear till you bought him a
> drink, always Schenley’s whiskey,” Bob Reid, a 69-year-old clammer,
> recalled of Jack Kerouac’s six years here, much of them spent in
> Murphy’s, a salty bar overlooking the public dock where the
> fishermen, lobstermen and clammers would come in still wearing their
> smelly hip waders.
>
> “He dressed like a bum, wore an old ratty overcoat and always needed
> a shave,” Mr. Reid added. “We knew he was a writer but we didn’t know
> he was famous. He never talked about books, maybe because we weren’t
> exactly a book crowd.”
>
> Another clammer, Denny Teal, 63, stepped off his work boat and waved
> his hand dismissively when asked about Kerouac. “He liked to sit by
> the gas heater in the back of Gunther’s,” Mr. Teal said, referring to
> another tavern Kerouac frequented, “and he could talk up a storm when
> the drinks were flowing. If he could’ve wrote down half of what he
> was rambling on about, that’d be the best Kerouac book of them all.”
>
> Using some of his advance from “On the Road” for a down payment,
> Kerouac, at 36, bought a house on Gilbert Street, but he shunned the
> persona of suburban square.
>
> He did not mow his lawn, drive a car or have a job. He read avidly
> from the local library, but refused to enter, choosing instead to
> have a librarian retrieve his books while he waited outside. He drank
> at home late into the night, playing music from his vast collection
> of reel-to-reel tapes, often blasting macabre selections from requiem
> Masses past midnight.
>
He actually had money in those days from the sales of On The Road.

--
Mike Easter