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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz feed off electric playoff atmosphere in Vivint Arena during Game 3

  22-04-2018 23:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... e days.” There were chants of “Rubio! Rubio! Rubio!” throughout the night as Jazz guard Ricky Rubio went off for the franchise’s first triple-double since 200 ...
  
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• Commentary: How the new LDS president can be a prophet of change

  22-04-2018 23:51
  2018 is proving to be a year of big change for the Mormon church. The passing of President Thomas S. Monson in January opened the way for Russell M. Nelson to become the 17th president of the church. During this month’s General Conference, Nelson made significant changes to the church. He announced the first Latino apostle as well as the first Asian-American apostle, adding diversity to the church’s top leadership for the very first time. He also announced the elimination of the home
  
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• Utah Jazz feed off electric playoff atmosphere in Vivint Arena during Game 3

  22-04-2018 23:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — A huge smile crept across the face of Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell as a sellout crowd of 18,306 fans roared at Vivint Arena on Saturday.After Utah’s 115-102 win against the OKC Thunder in Game 3, sideline reporter Kristen Kenney asked Mitchell, “How about this for your first playoff experience here at home?”“This is the loudest crowd I’ve ever played in front of, so thank you to you guys, man,” Mitchell announced.https://twitter.com
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Spring, playoffs in Utah take David Stockton back

  22-04-2018 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... rs ago the elder Stockton was running the offense and the Jazz were a threat to win the championship? Try 20 years. David, now a Jazz guard ...
  
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• Brad Rock: Spring, playoffs in Utah take David Stockton back

  22-04-2018 23:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — Trees and flowers outside Vivint Arena are blooming. The promotional tents are up, the bands playing, the banners fluttering.As if any other reminders were necessary, John Stockton is in town for the playoffs. Both he and son David were there Saturday for the Jazz’s runaway win over Oklahoma City. Time flies. Wasn’t it just five or six years ago the elder Stockton was running the offense and the Jazz were a threat to win the championship?Try 20 years.David, now
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Tied up: Giannis' tip-in lifts Bucks over Celtics in Game 4

  22-04-2018 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... itter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Rubio's triple-double leads Jazz past Thunder 115-102 "Playoff P" Paul George scores 36, leads Thunder past J ...
  
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• Utah-made statue honors Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in Arizona wildfire

  22-04-2018 22:17
  Phoenix • A life-sized statue was unveiled Saturday honoring 19 members of a firefighting team known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in a 2013 Arizona wildfire.The statue was dedicated at a state memorial park established where all but one member of the team died in a canyon in mountains near Yarnell on June 30, 2013.Matt Glenn of Provo, Utah-based Big Statues said the “Returning the Favor” television show hosted by Mike Rowe commissioned his team to make the bronze sc
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Treat all roads like Cottonwood Canyon

  22-04-2018 22:00
  “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
  — Samuel JohnsonThere are other, less drastic circumstances that can encourage people to focus their thoughts and come up with useful new ideas. Sometimes, there’s no choice. Other times, it is a decision to think more creatively.One example of the former is trying to figure out how to handle the increasing flow, or lack thereof, of traffic up the highways to the ski resorts in the
  
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• Commentary: Bears Ears could become a nightmare

  22-04-2018 22:00
  I’ve always had mixed feelings about designating Bears Ears a national monument. It’s not that I dislike monuments. I just don’t like big crowds. Bears Ears can’t handle that.I have wandered these canyons for more than 20 years and hardly ever see another soul. It’s quiet, peaceful, lonesome. I take lots of photographs, but more than anything else it’s just nice to be there.I commend Utah Diné Bikéya for their persistence in creating the monument
  
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• RSL’s attack starts to click again in 3-0 win over Colorado

  22-04-2018 21:46
  Saturday night was the first time since August that Real Salt Lake has scored three or more goals.It came against a 10-man Colorado team, but the adjustments were there. The quick ball movement was there, the switches were there.Real Salt Lake got some of its attacking identity back in a 3-0 win over the Colorado Rapids Saturday. It scored three goals in the final 10 minutes of the match, after pounding the Rapids defense with 29 shots, 10 of which were on target, throughout the game.“It w
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: 3 takeaways from Game 3 vs. Thunder

  22-04-2018 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... Pelicans by Raymond Simms Oklahoma City Thunder: 3 takeaways from Game 3 vs. Jazz by Daniel Lubofsky ...
  
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• Trump says North Korea agreed to denuclearize. It hasn’t.

  22-04-2018 20:33
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed North Korea has agreed to “denuclearization” before his potential meeting with Kim Jong Un. But that’s not the case.North Korea said Friday it would suspend nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches ahead of summits with the U.S. and South Korea. Kim also said a nuclear test site would be closed and “dismantled” now that the country has learned how to make nuclear weapons
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Kragthorpe: OKC’s Russell Westbrook guarantees he’s going to shut off the Jazz’s Ricky Rubio

  22-04-2018 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... d compete evenly with Westbrook, much less outplay him in Games 2 and 3. The Jazz point guard has totaled 48 points, 19 assists and 18 rebounds with 44 percen ...
  
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• Kragthorpe: OKC’s Russell Westbrook guarantees he’s going to shut off the Jazz’s Ricky Rubio

  22-04-2018 20:29
  Jazz guard Ricky Rubio’s shooting, passing and rebounding created all kinds of aftereffects late Saturday night. Rubio’s triple-double achievement (26 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists) evoked the name of John Stockton, the last Jazz player to do so in a playoff game, 17 years ago. The work of Rubio and his teammates created a big enough lead that David Stockton made his first playoff appearance at the end of the Jazz’s 115-102 victory, with his father as a witness.Fielding a
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 20 years ago: Utah Jazz open playoffs with Houston Rockets

  22-04-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  ...in the second quarter to the opening 71/2 minutes of the third quarter, the Jazz made six foul shots. The Jazz were the aggressors in Game 2, evening the ser ...
  
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• Utes raised the bar offensively this spring, with added depth at skill positions going into preseason camp

  22-04-2018 20:00
  There’s nothing that gets college football fans more excited than potential, and there’s nothing that causes more sorrow and angst for a fan base than potential unrealized.This offseason put Utah solidly in the former category.
  The most striking takeaway from the Utes’ recently completed spring practices might be that the offense’s ceiling has grown higher, with some major additions still to come. There’s no guarantee they’ll reach lofty heights, but it appear
  
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• Joe Scarborough: It’s becoming clear that Trump won’t run in 2020

  22-04-2018 20:00
  It has been nearly three years since Donald Trump descended his faux-gold escalator to announce an improbable run for president, and Republican politicians seem just as baffled by the reality TV star’s future as they were the day he first launched this publicity stunt gone wildly wrong.It is true that GOP leaders stand silent as President Trump trashes the rule of law, attacks federal judges and declares America’s free press the “enemy of the people.” These lap dogs even
  
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• Commentary: Real heath care reform will have to come from the states

  22-04-2018 20:00
  Yet again Americans have signaled that health care is at the top of the electorate’s agenda, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.Cost is our principle health care problem, yet elected officials repeatedly offer “reforms” that increase American health care costs, which already are twice as high as the average per-person cost in all other First World countries. All of the federal debt now and on into the future is due to unsustainable and unfunded health care costs.We have hi
  
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• Anne Applebaum: The subtler ways democracy can fail

  22-04-2018 20:00
  “I hope that one day we’d be able to return to a country we recognize.”For the first time since she was murdered by a car bomb six months ago, members of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family have spoken publicly about the circumstances that led to her death. Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist who wrote about corruption and money laundering in a country that had turned a blind eye to it. As one of her sons says in a video recorded by an international consortium set up to
  
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• 20 years ago: Utah Jazz open playoffs with Houston Rockets

  22-04-2018 20:00
  Editor's note: Every Sunday, the Deseret News takes a look back into our archives.The Utah Jazz went 11 consecutive minutes without a basket in a 103-90 loss at the Delta Center in Game 1 of the first round against the Houston Rockets.During that time, from 3 1/2 minutes left in the second quarter to the opening 71/2 minutes of the third quarter, the Jazz made six foul shots.The Jazz were the aggressors in Game 2, evening the series with a 105-90 victory. Karl Malone had 29 points and 10 rebound
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Game 4s: Jazz look for 3-1 lead, Wolves aim to tie Rockets

  22-04-2018 19:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... 9F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Updated: April 22, 2018 @ 10:56 am AP Game 4s: Jazz look for 3-1 lead, Wolves aim to tie Rockets Rick Bowmer Apr 22, 2018 Update ...
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Game 4s: Jazz look for 3-1 lead, Wolves aim to tie Rockets

  22-04-2018 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... he French safety net with the 7-foot-9 wingspan who protects the rim for the Jazz. ”You feel more secure on the wing. … The whole season, I’ve been saying if...
  
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• Letter: Stop putting a price tag on a person’s existence because of their disability

  22-04-2018 18:43
  This is in response to “Lifelong implications” by Joan Provost (The Tribune, April 20).I was very disturbed by her comments about Down syndrome and its lifelong implications. Her remarks lead me to believe she has not lived or worked with an individual that has Down syndrome. I have a sibling who has Down syndrome, and I have been blessed with the opportunity to be loved unconditionally and experience a kindness and love that is unfailing.I am against abortion whether a fetus is free
  
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• Letter: Idling is like trashing Utah landscapes — neither is acceptable

  22-04-2018 18:41
  I am writing in support of your editorial of April 19: “Stop idling your car, our ozone is killing us.”We all have read about the very real respiratory health risks to children posed by automobile exhaust. We should not forget that there are respiratory, cardiovascular and neuro-cognitive risks to adults as well.Just like wearing a seat belt, “no idling” needs to become our standard default. Local ordinances are important and necessary but social pressure, especially by c
  
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• Letter: To all the medical marijuana obstructionists: What happens on the 181st day?

  22-04-2018 18:40
  Regarding the exceedingly lame attitudes of various pillars of the state — including Gov. Gary Herbert, the LDS Church and (shame, shame) the Utah Medical Association, which should know better — regarding the legalization of medical marijuana: Pray tell, what happens to the unfortunate patient given the six-month sentence who dares to still be breathing on the 181st day? Thank you, Lord, or Heaven forbid?Judith Griffin, Midway
  
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• Islamic State suicide bomber kills 57 in Afghan capital

  22-04-2018 18:30
  Kabul, Afghanistan • A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 57 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majro said another 119 people were wounded in Sunday’s attack, updating an earlier toll. Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said the suicide bomber targeted civilians who had gathered to receive national identification cards.The large explosion echoed across the c
  
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• Why is Donovan Mitchell excelling in the playoffs? He’s leaning on the NBA’s best for advice on the fly

  22-04-2018 18:01
  Donovan Mitchell has given himself some extra homework for his first trip to the playoffs.The Utah Jazz rookie spends hours breaking down film with his coach, Quin Snyder, and even more time working with Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant. But even that’s not enough for Mitchell. So as the 21-year-old has prepped for the postseason, the Jazz’s star guard has been getting some tutoring on the side.“But aside from getting the help from the coaching staff, I’ve been going t
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Russell Westbrook vows to shut down Ricky Rubio in Game 4

  22-04-2018 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... yoff P’ nickname. The three of them have certainly come to realize that this Jazz team isn’t one to be trifled with and know that the challenge ahead of them...
  
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• Manhunt underway after rifle-wielding gunman kills four at Tenn. Waffle House, police say

  22-04-2018 17:36
  Police are looking for a man who they said opened fire at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville early Sunday morning, killing four and injuring several others.A man, later identified as Travis Reinking, arrived at the restaurant just before 3:30 a.m. and shot two people outside with a rifle, killing them, Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron told reporters. The suspect then went inside and fired several more shots, killing a third person, Aaron said.At one point, a customer s
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City must find a way to recycle plastic bags

  22-04-2018 17:24
  Some weeks ago we read that recycling plastic bags in our recycling bins jams up the compacting mechanism of the collection trucks, and we needed to stop doing it. Guiltily, we immediately stopped this destructive habit.As an alternative, we approached our grocery stores about accepting and recycling our used plastic bags, but none I know of started up such a service.All has gone quiet on the subject. Are people patiently storing their plastic bags, awaiting further instructions? Or what?The env
  
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• Utah Jazz: Russell Westbrook vows to shut down Ricky Rubio in Game 4

  22-04-2018 17:22
  After Ricky Rubio’s sensational performance in Game 3, OKC’s Russell Westbrook vowed to shut him down in Game 4 against the Utah Jazz. Between the absolutely electric atmosphere within Vivint Smart Home Arena to the incredibly entertaining performance on the court that saw the Utah Jazz snag a Game 3 victory over the Oklahoma City […]
  Utah Jazz: Russell Westbrook vows to shut down Ricky Rubio in Game 4 - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion a
  
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• Letter: High school world civilizations classes should focus on culture, languages

  22-04-2018 17:19
  I believe high school world civilizations classes should be structured around languages, not geography.I remember my own high school world civilizations class, where we memorized names and copied maps.While that information is useful, it would be better to anchor world knowledge in world cultures. (Isn’t the class called “world civilizations,” not “world countries”?) By organizing class units by language family, these classes would focus instead on the accompanying
  
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• [Deadspin] - Grim And Gritty Ricky Rubio Has The Thunder On The Ropes

  22-04-2018 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... Rubio Ricky Rubio 2018 nba playoffs Utah Jazz Oklahoma city thunder Russell Westbrook NBA Basketball Highlight Reel Ricky...
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Racism is a white problem

  22-04-2018 17:17
  Racism is a white problem.I know that many white people will instinctively and emphatically resist that observation. They’ll note the self-evident truth that prejudice is confined to no one culture or color. Having known more than a few African-American bigots, homophobes and anti-Semites, I’ll be happy to concede the point.But racism is more than prejudice. It is, rather, the system by which prejudice is encoded into the laws and customs of a society so that, to take an example not
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Aren’t we lucky everyone gave ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a chance to be on TV?

  22-04-2018 17:13
  What if I told you that Hulu was about to air a new show in which women have all their rights taken away from them and become little more than property for men; they are forced to become sex slaves; and they are forced to bear children?Women are prohibited from working, owning property and having money, or even reading. Women are physically and psychologically abused. Their names are taken away from them, and their new names are derived from their male “masters.”And all of this happe
  
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• Cemeteries are known for perpetual care. Salt Lake City’s cemetery needs some.

  22-04-2018 17:11
  Salt Lake City Councilman Chris Wharton’s family has roots in Utah that run six generations back — and 6 feet deep.At least 31 of his relatives have their final resting place with 124,618 other souls in the city’s historic, bucolic 150-acre cemetery, the largest municipally run burial ground in the United States. And one day — hopefully not too soon — he expects to join them in the family plot. Long before that, though, the 170-year-old cemetery, with costs running
  
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• Toxic heavy metals in soils may pose risk to recreation in American Fork Canyon, new report finds

  22-04-2018 17:08
  Federal officials worry about the increasing popularity of American Fork Canyon, where they say contaminated soils could pose a health risk to frequent hikers, campers or ATV riders.According to a report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, soil samples collected near historic mine sites in the upper American Fork Canyon contained high levels of arsenic, lead, mercury and other harmful metals.Tests of all the samples measured arsenic in concentrations 27 times higher than standard EPA sc
  
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• Rideshare diaries: Passengers tell me their secrets and troubles and I drop one of my own in the backseat of an Uber

  22-04-2018 17:08
  I picked him up in the University neighborhood. I was in a talkative mood, as the last passenger had been a child actress and there were stories and stories and more stories. He got in the front seat carrying a brown paper bag and smelling slightly of some sort of herb. The kind you smell at a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young show, which was my first concert ever. I asked my sister what that smell was, and she said “nature.” I learned later she was partially correct. It was grown in na
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Analysis: Strong defensive stretch in 3rd quarter helps Utah Jazz build lead over Thunder in Game 3

  22-04-2018 17:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...a 115-102 victory to take a 2-1 series lead. In all during the stretch, the Jazz outscored the Thunder 14-5 to stretch a five-point lead to 14 heading into t ...
  
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• Ricky was en fuego 🔥🔥🔥 Click below to check out all the highlights! >> on.nba.com/2HklYbD https://t.co/tC7Zcvuad7

  22-04-2018 17:06 via twitter.com
  
  Ricky was en fuego 🔥🔥🔥 Click below to check out all the highlights!>> on.nba.com/2HklYbD https://t.co/tC7Zcvuad7
  
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• Analysis: Strong defensive stretch in 3rd quarter helps Utah Jazz build lead over Thunder in Game 3

  22-04-2018 17:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — While the Utah Jazz were excellent defensively throughout the regular season, they occasionally put together long stretches of individual games in which they were particularly good, shutting down the opponent to key a big run.On Saturday night during Game 3 of the Jazz’s first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Vivint Arena, the final four minutes of the third quarter was such a run as Utah came away with a 115-102 victory to take a 2-1 series
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Jazz fan ethers Russell Westbrook with the most Utah insult ever

  22-04-2018 17:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... ogler (@cjzero) April 22, 2018 Hot damn, that’s some real heat. You see, the Jazz fan is comparing Westbrook to a baby because he, in this fan’s humble opinio ...
  
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• Grim And Gritty Ricky Rubio Has The Thunder On The Ropes

  22-04-2018 16:55 via deadspin.com
  It can be a little disorienting to remind yourself that grim and gritty Ricky Rubio, the veteran point guard of the Utah Jazz, has played exactly the same number of playoff games over the course of his NBA career as Donovan Mitchell has. Rubio, whose transformation from doe-eyed, baby-faced sidekick to leathery,…Read more...
  
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• [Sporting News] - NBA playoffs 2018: Three takeaways from Jazz's impressive Game 3 win over Thunder

  22-04-2018 16:46 via sportspyder.com
  ...smothered Westbrook on defense and pushed the ball in transition to get the Jazz easy looks. It seemed like everything good that happened had Rubio's fingerp ...
  
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• Two new priests look to young people to help Salt Lake Valley’s Greek Orthodox community grow and move beyond past rifts

  22-04-2018 16:32
  The challenges facing the Salt Lake Valley’s Greek Orthodox community are many, from reversing years of eroding attendance and healing still-fresh memories of an intraparish rift to raising revenue for renovation and repairs.But as he nears the beginning of his second year in Utah, the Rev. Archimandrite George Nikas sees a brighter future ahead for his parish and its churches — downtown Salt Lake City’s Holy Trinity Cathedral and Holladay’s Prophet Elias Church.“We
  
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• Kirby: OK, Mormons, remember the No. 1 rule of ministering: Make sure you’re helping, not hurting

  22-04-2018 16:31
  At a recent Brigham Young University devotional, a high-ranking LDS leader gave students tips on how to conduct proper “ministering.”This, of course, corresponds to the Mormon church’s new program to improve function over the staid form of home and visiting teaching. Rather than assessing success statistically, we’re supposed to look for actual ways to minister.Right upfront, we should recognize who needs to be ministered. Toward that end, LDS apostle Neil L. Andersen gav
  
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• [The Basketball Network] - Ricky Rubio Is Picking Apart The Oklahoma City Thunder

  22-04-2018 15:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... Derrick Favors, Mitchell and Gobert. With that effort on the backboards, the Jazz’s offense has a few ways of operating. Rubio can push the ball himself or ou ...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz fan heard on live TV calling for ‘always whining’ Russell Westbrook

  22-04-2018 15:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... kens him to a toddler as he protests what appears to be a ticky-tack foul on Jazz Aussie Joe Ingles. A post shared by (@bleacherreport) on Apr 21, 2018 at 9:3 ...
  
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