August 27, 2009

If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader.

--Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/thanks-for-leading.html

August 26, 2009

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

--Norman Schwarzkopf

August 25, 2009

A leader is a dealer in hope.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

August 24, 2009

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

--Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/thanks-for-leading.html

Leadership… again – our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

[Hat tip for today’s and Thursday’s quotes: Wally Bock]

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August 21, 2009

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

--Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)

August 20, 2009

Our problem usually is not that God is not speaking, but rather that we're not sure we want to hear what He has already said.

--Mart de Haan II

August 19, 2009

Don't let self-confidence replace your trust in God.

--Our Daily Bread 04/05/05

August 18, 2009

To hear God's voice, turn down the world's volume.

--Our Daily Bread 08/28/05

August 17, 2009

To find God, we must be willing to seek Him.

--Our Daily Bread 04/13/04

Seeking God this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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August 14, 2009

Every evening I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.

--Mary C. Crowley

August 13, 2009

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

--Corrie Ten Boom

August 12, 2009

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.

--Church billboard in Colorado

August 11, 2009

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

--Swedish proverb

August 10, 2009

What worries you, masters you.

--Haddon W. Robinson in Chris Widener's Weekly Ezine i05

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

--Arthur Somers Roche

I was worried about what the theme should be this week when the answer struck me – worry, that’s our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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August 7, 2009

At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived.

--Thomas a Kempis

August 6, 2009

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it. A different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

--Murial Clark

August 5, 2009

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

--Walter Cronkite

August 4, 2009

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

--Barbara Tuchman

August 3, 2009

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

--Franz Kafka

A bit of a late start this week, but books is our theme at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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July 31, 2009

A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to shovel it off your driveway.

--Author Unknown

Yes, we’re back in Phoenix today, where it is sorta hot.

July 30, 2009

The colors are such as no pigments can portray. They are deep, rich, and variegated and so luminous are they that the light seems to flow out of the rock rather than to be reflected from it.

--Clarence Dutton

Applies to Monument Valley which we toured yesterday.

July 29, 2009

You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a good mood.

--Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

It was a rainy day yesterday in northern Arizona with spectacular lightening.

July 28, 2009

On the walls, and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed. So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features – carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds, and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name?  We decide to call it Glen Canyon.

--John Wesley Powell

Sadly, the canyon Major Powell found is now under water, but at least they named the lake after him (and it’s visible from our hotel room window).

July 27, 2009

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer.

--Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s

An old man’s grandchildren are his crowning glory.

--Proverbs 17:6a TLB

Grandchildren in Arizona, not so much a theme as a fact this week as our two oldest grandsons are touring Arizona with us.

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July 24, 2009

At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

--Robert Jastrow quoted by Francis Collins in The Language of God

July 23, 2009

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshiped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful—and it cannot be at war with itself. Only we imperfect humans can start such battles. And only we can end them.

--Francis Collins in The Language of God

July 22, 2009

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

--Frank Lloyd Wright

July 21, 2009

Some call it evolution and others call it God.

--W. H. Carruth

July 20, 2009

Here's the question: "Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings? (1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process. (2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process. (3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."

In 2004, 45 percent of Americans chose option 3, 38 percent chose option 1, and 13 percent chose option 2. These statistics have remained essentially unchanged over the past twenty years.

--Francis Collins in The Language of God

Francis Collins was recently nominated to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by President Obama.   Says Tevi Troy “Collins is an evangelical Christian and a scientist, which some see as an odd juxtaposition, although there is no reason that those characteristics cannot coincide.”  Having read The Language of God, I also see no odd juxtaposition.  He positions a middle ground in the creation vs. evolution argument without compromising either.  (Not everyone thinks so; see debate here and here.)  I’m a little late starting this week’s Carl’s Quote of the Day, but this week’s creation, evolution, science, religion theme was prompted by my visit to Lucy (the fossil) in NYC today in juxtaposition with the Collins nomination

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July 17, 2009

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

--Thomas Sowell

July 16, 2009

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

--Samuel Johnson

July 15, 2009

When you see someone in need,

Love demands a loving deed;

Don't just say you love him true,

Prove it by the deeds you do.

--Sper in Our Daily Bread 8/6/03

July 14, 2009

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

--Helen Keller

July 13, 2009

The life that counts must toil and fight,

Must hate the wrong and love the right,

Must stand for truth, by day, by night—

This is the life that counts.

--Anon. in ODB 7/22/03

It’s eclectic week at Carl’s Quote of the Day (translation: no theme, just unrelated quotes).

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July 10, 2009

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

--David Ogilvy

July 9, 2009

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

--John Stuart Mill

July 8, 2009

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

--Bertrand Russell

July 7, 2009

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

--Andre Maurois

July 6, 2009

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

--Mark Twain

Eccentric theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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July 3, 2009

It would hardly be too much to say that for the latter part of his lifetime and a century after his death John Calvin was the most influential man in the world, in the sense that his ideas were making more history than those of anyone else during that period. Calvin’s theology produced the Puritans in England, the Huguenots in France, the ‘Beggars’ in Holland, the Covenanters in Scotland, and the Pilgrim Fathers of New England, and was more or less directly responsible for the Scottish uprising, the revolt of the Netherlands, the French wars of religion, and the English Civil War. Also, it was Calvin’s doctrine of the state as a servant of God that established the ideal of constitutional representative government and led to the explicit acknowledgment of the rights and liberties of subjects. . . . It is doubtful whether any other theologian has ever played so significant a part in world history.

--J. I. Packer

[Calvin] easily takes the lead among the systematic expounders of the Reformed system of Christian doctrine. . . . Calvin’s theology is based upon a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He was the ablest exegete among the Reformers, and his commentaries rank among the very best of ancient and modern times. His theology, therefore, is biblical rather than scholastic, and has all the freshness of enthusiastic devotion to the truths of God’s Word. At the same time he was a consummate logician and dialectician. He had a rare power of clear, strong, convincing statement. He built up a body of doctrines which is called after him, and which obtained symbolical authority through some of the leading Reformed Confessions of Faith.

Taking into account all his failings, he [Calvin] must be reckoned as one of the greatest and best of men whom God raised up in the history of Christianity.

--Philip Schaff

July 2, 2009

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

--John Calvin

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

--John Calvin

July 1, 2009

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

--John Calvin

June 30, 2009

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

--John Calvin

June 29, 2009

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

--John Calvin

As guest editor this week, I've decided that in recognition of the upcoming 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth (he was born July 10, 1509, we'll quote from Calvin and his critics.

- Jeffrey

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06/26/09

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

--P. J. O'Rourke

06/25/09

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

--Unknown

06/24/09

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

--Francis Bacon

06/23/09

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

--Stephen King

06/22/09

Books, the children of the brain.

--Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745

“Books” is also our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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06/19/09

Congressmen are like diapers. You need to change them often, and for the same reason.

--Pete McCloskey

06/18/09

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.

--Gore Vidal

06/17/09

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.

--Mark Twain

06/16/09

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

--John Adams

06/15/09

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

--Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65

Our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day is Congress.  And, like Congress, the quotes will go downhill from here.

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06/12/09

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

--Mark Twain

The report contains so many extrapolations derived from guesswork based on estimates inferred from unsuitable data sets that you have to ask some serious questions about the methodology.

--Richard Cable on the Global Humanitarium Forum's report that climate change is killing 300,000 people per year

06/11/09

There is not such thing as consensus science. If it's a consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't a consensus. Period. The greatest scientists in the world are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

--Michael Crichton, Science writer and author 'State of Fear'

06/10/09

The (global warming) alarmists have confused cause and effect. As solar radiation warms the earth, CO2 is released into the atmosphere from the world's oceans.

--Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, Head of Space Research, Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg, January 2007

06/09/09

The positive aspects of global warming appear to have been downplayed.

--A UK House of Lords report on the science of Kyoto

We say that if human beings were not contributing to global warming, it would become real cold in the next 50 years,

--Jud Hale "Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway"

There’s a lot made out of the people who died in heat waves. And there is no doubt that we have heat waves and people die. What they don’t say is actually five times as many people die of cold in winters as die of heat in summer.

--Freeman Dyson in "Freeman Dyson Takes On The Climate Establishment" by Michael D. Lemonick

(hat tip: ultraguy)

[A rare Carl’s Quote of the Day triple play.]

06/08/09

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

--attributed to Mark Twain (1835–1910)                                                         

Climate change. Global warming. Weather. Somewhere in there is a theme for this week’s theme at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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06/05/09

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

--Henry Kissinger

06/04/09

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership - you are practicing followship.

--Margaret Thatcher

06/03/09

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

06/02/09

Followers are focused inwardly, and they wonder, “How will this affect me?” Conversely, leaders are focused outwardly, and they ask, “How will this affect others?”

--John Maxwell in Leadership Wired v10i14

06/01/09

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

--John Buchan in Leadership Wired v11i8

It’s been too long since we had a leadership theme here at Carl’s Quote of the Day.  We’ll remedy that this week.

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05/29/09

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

--Billy Boy Franklin

05/28/09

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

--Josh Billings

05/27/09

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

--Eugene McCarthy, 1916 - 2005

05/26/09

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

--John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-, American Economist

05/25/09

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.

In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

--Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

As promised (threatened?) this week’s theme at Carl’s Quote of the Day is politics.

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05/22/09

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

--Lao Tzu

05/21/09

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

--Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

05/20/09

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.

--William Gladstone (1809 - 1898), British Prime Minister and Liberal Party politician

05/19/09

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

--John Jay Chapman, 1862-1933, American Author

05/18/09

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

--G. W. F. Hegel

I choose a weekly theme for Carl’s Quote of the Day based on the quotes that I see leading up to the week.  Lately I have been inundated with quotes about government and politics.  So this week, government –next week, maybe politics.

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05/15/09

Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim.

--Captain Kirk

05/14/09

After a while, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

--Spock

05/13/09

In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us.

--Dr. McCoy

05/12/09

Those of you who have served for long on this vessel have encountered alien life-forms. You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. But there's no such thing as 'the unknown,' only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.

--Captain Kirk

05/11/09

Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

--Leonard 'Bones' McCoy in Star Trek (2009)

For us long-time science fiction fans – long-time Star Trek fans – the release of the eleventh Star Trek movie last week was a big deal.  So Star Trek is our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.  The rest of the week’s quotes are from ST:TOS (Start Trek: The Original Series).

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05/08/09

Wisdom has two parts: 1)-Having a lot to say. 2)-Not saying it.

--Church billboard in Vermont

05/07/09

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

--Lord Chesterfield

05/06/09

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

--1 Corinthians 2:6 (NIV)

05/05/09

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

--Isaac Asimov

Special note for those that enjoyed the committee quotes a couple weeks ago: my favorite quote master has more on the topic at http://archive.mail-list.com/drmardy/msg00079.html.

05/04/09

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

--Sid Taylor

Wisdom is… also our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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05/01/09

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

--Richard Whately

04/30/09

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

--Michel de Montaigne

04/29/09

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

--Leonardo Da Vinci

04/28/09

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

--Ayn Rand

04/27/09

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

--Lord Hailsham

Sometimes I have to argue with myself about what the theme will be at Carl’s Quote of the Day.  I won this argument when I decided to make the theme: argument.

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04/24/09

Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.

--Ken Iverson

04/23/09

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

--John Steinbeck, author

04/22/09

Committee: a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

--Fred Allen

04/21/09

Moses didn't go up the hill with a committee; if he had, he would never have come down.

--Ken Blanchard in "Turning Vision into Reality" ChritianityToday.com

04/20/09

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature:

      it is not a structure but a plant.

      It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering

      the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

--C. Northcote Parkinson

Maybe the only committee that works is the committee of one.  Today this committee of one has decided to make committees the weekly theme at Carl’s Quote of the Day.

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04/17/09

A little boy wanted a bicycle very badly, but was told he couldn't have it because it would cost $100, and the family just didn't couldn't afford that in this bad economy.

He prayed for weeks, but nothing happened, so he decided God just couldn't hear his tiny little voice, so he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.

When the postal authorities received the letter to "God, USA", they decided to send it to the President. And sure enough, it was one of the sample letters that reached President Obama's inbox.

The president was so touched that he put a $5 bill in the envelope and sent it to the little boy. The president thought that this would appear to be a lot of money to such a young child.

The little boy was delighted with the $5 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God:

Dear God,

Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington D.C., and those damned Democrats took $95 in taxes.

--http://www.jumbojoke.com/a_letter_to_god.html

04/16/09

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin

--Mark Twain

04/15/09

As Will Rogers said, both death and taxes are certain, but the difference is that death does not get worse every time Congress meets.

--George F. Will in Newsweek

04/14/09

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

--Unknown

04/13/09

Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in private jets, Congress approved a tax break in the stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes.

--AP at http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=186468

Yep, taxes are logical.  Ok, maybe not, but they are the theme of this week’s Carl’s Quote of the Day.  Reminder to US subscribers: tax day is April 15.

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04/10/09

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

--Joe Garagiola

04/09/09

Cy Young’s "Rules for Pitching Success” (published in Baseball Magazine in 1908):

>Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made.

>Cultivate good habits: Let liquor severely alone, fight shy of cigarettes and be moderate in indulgence of tobacco, coffee and tea ... A player should try to get along without any stimulants at all.  Water, pure cool water is good enough for any man.

>A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.

>Learn to be patient and cool. These traits can be cultivated.

>Take the slumps that come your way, ride over them and look forward.

>Until you can put the ball over the pan whenever you choose, you have not acquired the command necessary to make a first-class pitcher. Therefore start to acquire command.

-- in Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy

04/08/09

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

--Martin F. Nolan in A Ballpark, Not A Stadium

04/07/09

Lives there a man with soul so dead

But he unto himself has said,

"My grandmother shall die today

And I'll go see the Giants play?"

--Rollin Lynde Hartt in Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy

04/06/09

The feeling begins in January, a speck of warmth in winter's cold heart. It builds slowly, layer by layer, melting the memories of last year's missed opportunities. Or, for the fortunate, thawing recollections of exquisite execution upon which victories were forged.

By February, the feeling is palpable, an expectation spreading as naturally as wildflowers in spring. And by the first week in March, when an Arizona sun warms to medium high and turnstiles open for glove-toting 8-year-olds, crumpled tickets in hand, that feeling has turned to passion.

With spring arrives baseball, and with it our sense of place in a sport that touches fans like no other.

--Scott Craven, "Baseball's mystical bond" The Arizona Republic, Mar. 12, 2005

Yes, the baseball season begins this week.  I’ve attended a requisite Diamondbacks spring training game.  They start playing for real today.  And Carl’s Quote of the Day starts baseball quoting today.

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04/03/09

If what most people take for granted were really true—if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now…What a strange thing! In filling myself, I had emptied myself. In grasping things, I had lost everything. In devouring pleasures and joys, I had found distress and anguish and fear.

--Thomas Merton

04/02/09

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

--Anthony de Mello

04/01/09

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other.

--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

03/31/09

God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness.

--Vance Havner

03/30/09

I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

--Beverly Sills, 1929 – 2007

Our theme this week at Carl’s Quote of the Day is “Happiness, but not quite.”  I found this quote in one of the few quote email subscriptions that I get; this one from www.qotd.org.

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03/27/09