BALTIMORE, Maryland March 23 - Searchers may have found real crash debris. Or maybe they didn't. The new satellite information from a French satellite may be a photograph or it may be a kind of radar sweep based on information from the satellite. And the weather in the southern part of the Indian Ocean that planes and ships from two dozen nations are criss-crossing is getting very bad. In fact, that was the problem with the wooden pallet, or what looked like a wooden pallet, and straps and other floating things of different colors all around it, that was visualized Saturday by spotters on a search plane. They couldn't get a picture of it, try as they might. The fog was thick from the water right up to the altitude where the plane was operating. And when Australian Authorities sent their best high-tech planes to the scene as fast as they could, the things could not be found. Airline companies use wooden pallets to load cargo on large jets. But shipping companies use the same kinds of pallets to load cargo on ocean-going vessels.
And despite all of this, Autralian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there is a feeling of optimism among searchers. The reason: they feel there are a number of bright leads, including the French satellite data and the spotting of the pallet. This, according to a report in the Daily News Watch in Lagos, Nigeria. See their story at http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/
The French satellite spotted something in the water about 575 miles from the spot identified by an American satellite one week before. Malaysian and Australian autorities are tight-lipped about what the French satellite spotted and how it spotted it. No pictures have been released and the AP said numerous requests for access to the French data, but could not get a response. This may well be because the primary purpose of the satellite is intelligence gathering, and the French don't want other countries to know what their orbiter can do. The output of the satellite has been described differently by different people. But Authorities are intrigued by it, that is for sure.
Three USA Companies in Private Business Version of Race to SpaceThree American Corporations are vying with each other, each trying to be the company that dominates the private business version of the race to space. One of the gentlemen at the forefront of this race is Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president and head of SNC's Space Systems. There is a fascinating interview with him in the current edition of Popular Mechanics. You can read the article on-line at this web address:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-dream-chaser-americas-next-space-plane-16610110?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1457_49922221
Last Perfect Bracket Standing in Warren Buffett's Billion Dollar Challenge Hits the Skids Only one bracket out of the hundreds of thousands submitted was still perfect after Friday, when the first round of the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament ended. Now, even that bracket has been soiled. Find out what game did him in and all the other ins and outs at http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/no-more-perfect-brackets-as-dayton-ends-brad-binder-s-magnificent-run-012649333.html
Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison
A sonnet written by John Keats (English, 1795 - 1821)
What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state,
Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he,
In his immortal spirit, been as free
As the sky-searching lark, and as elate.
Minion of grandeur! think you he did wait?
Think you he naught but prison walls did see,
Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key?
Ah, no! far happier, nobler was his fate!
In Spenser's halls he stray'd, and bowers fair,
Culling enchanted flowers; and he flew
With daring Milton through the fields of air:
To regions of his own genius true
Took happy flights. Who shall his fame impair
When thou art dead, and all thy wretched crew?
Note: Leigh Hunt was an important figure to Keats. As a very young writer and poet, Hunt recognized his talent and published some of his early works.
The Gospel of Saint Luke
Chapter 17. Verses 11 through 19.
Chapter 17. Verse 11. On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. Verse 12. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance Verse 13. and lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." Verse 14. When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." Verse 15. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; Verse 16. and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Verse 17. Then said Jesus, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Verse 18. Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" Verse 19. And he said to him, "Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well."
Complaint about the announcers - both TV and radio - of Kentucky v. Wichita State contest Kentucky is what it is, a fine state university with a proud basketball heritage. If the NCAA folk and enough other people are comfortable with the way the basketball program operates there and several other places, I won't waste a single second worrying about it. John Calipari is a fine basketball coach. He recruits a very limited number of athletes, a great many of whom will play exactly one season at Kentucky and then leave for the millions of dollars offered by the NBA. I understand that men I respect, greatly, men like John Thompson, think it is fine for the kids with that kind of talent to do this. All that being said, this is what really bothers me: the broadcast crew at CBS and even the ones on CBS radio, were calling the game like Kentucky was the home team and everybody in America was rooting for Kentucky. Speaking for myself, I almost always root against Kentucky. Those kids, or at least many of them, are fixed for life. The kids at Wichita State and their coach Greg Marshall, have worked like junkyard dogs to get where they are. For a school in Wichita, Kansas to be that superior - undefeated until today - is a remarkable achievment. Their best player, Cleanthony Early, came to Wichita after two years at a junior college. He was the best player on the floor. That was remarkable. I like the CBS play-by-play man, Jim Nance, and he was less guilty of rooting for Kentucky than the other announeers. I don't know who any of them were, don't really want to know. Maybe they can explain to me why they thought we were all rooting for the ones who have multi-million dollar contracts waiting for them whether they win or lose this tournament. I guess what I want them to tell me is what it is about Kentucky's program, at least the way it is these days, that makes them want to root for them in a game against a team like Wichita. Rooting for Kentucky against Wichita is like rooting for Goliath in a match-up with David.
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