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I'm Rick Willoughby. I live in Utah, working as a Software Engineer. I'm a Mormon, married with 5 children and 3 grandchildren.
I emigrated from England in my late twenties, bringing with me one small suitcase and $1,000. I appreciate the opportunities America gave me and the friendliness of the people to new citizens.
I blog about my family as well as politics, religion, finance, technology, and other topics.
Currently Rickety has an average of 17,000 pageviews a month and 380 visitors a day. Thank you for being one of them.
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“may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration. Most of you already know that if you have access to the Internet you can start a blog in minutes and begin sharing what you know to be true. You can download videos from Church and other appropriate sites, including Newsroom at LDS.org, and send them to your friends. You can write to media sites on the Internet that report on the Church, and voice your views as to the accuracy of the reports. This, of course, requires that you, all members of the Church, understand the basic, fundamental principles of the gospel.
We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us. Far too many people have a poor understanding of the Church because most of the information they hear about us is from news media reports that are often driven by controversies. Too much attention to controversy has a negative impact on peoples’ perceptions of what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints really is. ”
Last week we launched the site and we would love to know what you think about it. As an LDS Blogger we were hoping that you would be willing to write about our new site and share your thoughts with your readers. We would also like to invite you to do a banner exchange with us if you are interested. We have created a section of the site to display a list of all of the LDS Blogs, you can sign up yourself by going to this link:
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Update: Site no longer in operation.
This looks like a good place to list your blog and get it noticed by a LDS audience that is generally more tuned in to what you have to say. I signed up.
It would be useful to have the Categories and Archives drop down boxes on the left side below the search box.
Makes sense to have the tools to find what you want all in the same place. Done. Thanks for the suggestion, now get your homework done!
Ha ha, I am doing my homework…. or was until I started reading the old archives.
Does anybody knows of ANY credit Union that offers a reward checking aact.
And accepts nation wide funds NOT just local funds ???
Thanks.
Yehuda,
I believe http://www.connexuscu.org and Lake Michigan CU are effectively national. They recently dropped their rates below 5% though. Why not go with a bank? There are still many that have a 5% rate and accept customers from the whole US. See Rewards Checking on my blog.
Thanks. I really want to support credit unions and NOT MEGA BANKS. Looks to me that credit unions do GOOD for their area than mega banks. Thanks anyway, I’ll check those credit unions you mentioned.
Bye, keep up the good work !
Yehuda,
Most of the banks offering rewards checking are small local banks.
Hey Rick, you had some interesting posts about Yadyap a while back. Do you know what became of them?
No news at all. I have checked their website occasionally but there is no change.
Rick,
I was looking at the pictures you have of the Manti Temple and was wondering if it’s possible to print them for use at my home. I read the copyright rules, but they weren’t too clear on that respect.
Thanks for your help and keep up the good work, your site is amazing!
Maggie
I would be pleased if you can use my photographs. After your comment I have now updated the copyright policy by adding:
“If you wish to make prints of any of my photographs I waive the attribution requirement. Contact me to see if there are higher resolution versions available.”
Others have also asked about prints so I should have figured out that I needed to clarify my policy.
The Manti Temple photographs I posted are the highest resolution so you are all set.
Maggie, thanks for stopping by.
FYI: Endura Financial Credit Union will allow Rewards Checking accounts to be opened from any state if you join (for free) the Minnesota/American Consumer Council. Instructions are at the bottom of their website at:
https://www.endurafinancial.com/join.php?DocID=111
They are a member of a national association of credit unions, so you can generally find a local credit union to use ATMs for free, etc