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I try and post some information every Sunday.    We always end up going to bed late and then I wake up later than my usual around 5:00 AM.  Last night it was about 11:00 PM when I went to bed.  Dennis, my brother, was in town and we were staying up with him.   So I didn’t wake up until 6:30 AM.  The difficult thing with this is that Kate will wake up between 7:30 and 8:30  and then I am done with…

Super Bowl Sunday 2018

I am trying to think of some things I’ve learned this week.  One of them is that Java has a shortcut to the for-next loop.  I try and spend a few minutes everyday learning java.  However, I haven’t even installed an IDE. I learned that inContact can spawn one action while waiting for another thing to happen to play hold music.   However, I haven’t actually tried it yet to see how it works.   I…

Tested Persistent MAX Panels Tested API Requested Local Numbers

I have been reminded of several different places recently that keeping a journal is a good thing.  One of the suggestions is to keep track of what I do each day.  I started last Sunday but have only made that one update.   I have made it easier.  Now I need to work on making more of a habit.    Here are some of the things I learned this week.  Last Sunday, Christian Bradley, the other guy I teach…

I set up my site to work more like a journal. I taught the Lesson in Primary – (Primary 6 – Old Testament – The Creation) Copied School Readings to Google Drive

Violence, Society, Religion, And The Progress Paradox

How can we make the lives of people better? The synthesis of my ideas today has stemmed from a couple of sources. First is a book I am studying. Second is an article about jobs and wages from the Wall Street Journal yesterday, 2017-11-04. Over the past several weeks I have been listening to the book The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker a Harvard professor. it was published in 2011 His…

Another trip to the MTC

Our daughter entered the MTC this week on her way to Japan. I am more excited this time for a couple of reasons. I know it will be good for her and I think she is better prepared than our son. We’ve also been through this before, and everything turned out fine, so I am less afraid that things will go badly. Roman has been home for a couple of years, and he is doing really well. I suspect it will…

Why Can’t Schools Find Bus Drivers?

Why are their hiring signs in the window of every fast food joint in America?  The Answer to this question is pretty simple, “Pay More!”  The sad part is they don’t know how to pay more.  Profit Sharing is the way to do this. For several years I was hoping I could be a consultant that could have companies pay me to show them how to pay their employees more with profit sharing.  Sadly, most owners…

Or maybe a better way to explain the learning process for me is what things have come into better focus this week.  Because learning for me a lot of the times it little bits of information from here and there start to gather into a bigger realization and then it comes into focus and becomes more clear. Yesterday I had breakfast with a fellow I recent met at work.   He stated that marketing is…

I was working late one evening and I saw one of the owners in the office working.  It was about 10:00 PM.  I thought I would drop in to say, “Hi” and to see how things were going. It was a bit of a mistake because I had to listen to her rant for about 20 minutes about how ungrateful and backstabbing employees were.  Especially the ones she had done special things for.  While she didn’t mention…

Profit Sharing Will Overcome Gender Pay Gap

Utah is close to the bottom of the barrel in America for the Gender Pay Gap according to a Fortune article at the end of January. (Farber, 2017) It is embarrassing to live here.  I’ve known this for some time, and I’ve often felt helpless as to how to change this problem.  However, last week I had an epiphany.  There is a way to overcome the gap! I had been listening to a podcast from the Dave…

My real choice for leadership

My heart was heavy with despair over the several weeks after the election.  The noble United States has been sinking into a quagmire of desecration for some time.  The great country which founded by men who were religious and believed in God.  They created a wonderful form of government that would  protect freedom of religion and speech.Which really put the government into the hands of the…

I am grateful that I have had teachers, friends, and relatives that have asked me to question the world around me.   When I was in High School I was speaking to a history teacher about communism and that I was against it.  She said, “You believe in communism, your church’s united order set up by Joseph Smith is communism.”  I did not agree with her.  However, I did a bit of research and it is…

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Commentary on Political Correctness

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