Thought For The Day

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
- Tom Landry -

OFFICIAL Football Top 25

1. Oklahoma - Sooners renew Red River Rivalry vs Texas in Dallas Sat.
2. LSU - Rested after bye week. At Florida, could get down and dirty.
3. Missouri - Big win @ Nebraska. Hosts undefeated Okla. State.
4. Alabama - Bye week, then hosts dangerous Ole Miss.
5. Texas - Longhorns vs Sooners Saturday in the Cotton Bowl!
6. BYU - Averaging 41 pts. per game. Hosts New Mexico.
7. Penn State - Might be underrated. At Wisconsin Saturday.
8. Texas Tech - Run and gun Red Raiders host Nebraska.
9. Florida - Party Boys host LSU. Tebow, watch your knees.
10. Georgia - After bye week they should pound Tennessee.
11. Southern Cal - Entertains Ariz. State - both starting QB's are hurt.
12. Ohio State - Big win vs Wisconsin. Should beat Pudue at home.
13. Utah - Squeaked by Oregon St., should win at Wyoming.
14. Vanderbilt - Huge SEC win vs Auburn. at Mississipi St. Sat.
15. Virginia Tech - 5-1. Tough schedule, @ BC, then @ Fla. State.
16. South Florida - Lost Big East battle to Pitt., Syracuse next.
17. Oklahoma State - 5-0. Are they ready to upset Missouri?
18. Michigan State - Best 1 loss team? Hosts Northwestern
19. Ball State - Cardinals are ranked for the first time in 84 yrs.
20. Boston College - vs Va. Tech., old time Big East rivalry.
21. Massachusetts - Nice win vs Delaware. at Northeastern Sat.
22. Framingham State - 3-2 Rams entertain 2-3 Bridgewater Sat.
23. Saint Anselm - Struggling Hawks travel to Merrimack Fri. night.
24. Natick High School - 5-0, beat Braintree 35-14. Bye week.
25. Dennis-Yarmouth - 2-2, lost to strong Marshfield. @ Somerset.

Thought For The Day

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson -, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

Thought For The Day

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
- Sam Levenson -

Thought For The Day

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller -

Thought For The Day

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong -, On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969

The Space Elevator

A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating

The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe that the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes.

Indeed, if successfully built, the space elevator would be an unprecedented feat of human engineering. A cable anchored to the Earth's surface, reaching tens of thousands of kilometers into space, balanced with a counterweight attached at the other end is the basic design for the elevator.

It is thought that inertia -- the physics theory stating that matter retains its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force -- will cause the cable to stay stretched taut, allowing the elevator to sit in geostationary orbit. The cable would extend into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting in space.

Engineers hope the elevator will transport people and objects into space, and there have even been suggestions that it could be used to dispose of nuclear waste. Another proposed idea is to use the elevator to place solar panels in space to provide power for homes on Earth.