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Helping people to help themselves, goal of LDS Charities

LDS Church News - The overarching goal of LDS Charities is to help people help themselves. Therefore, each humanitarian project requires that beneficiaries do all they can before help is provided. Then, funds donated to the Humanitarian Fund are allocated to projects where they will serve the most people with high-priority needs. For large projects like the Luputa water project, a site monitor — usually a local returned missionary — is hired to oversee the project. Trusted organizations staffed with local people are enlisted as partners. Finally, welfare missionaries orchestrate the entire project from beginning to end. Much of the humanitarian work is done by...

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Austin Collie Cover Shoot

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Austin Collie: Pushing toward Perfection

Jamie Lawson - Although new to the NFL, 24-year-old Austin Collie has already earned the reputation of being a perfectionist. The 6-foot, 200-pounder is well known for spending countless hours reviewing game film and for repeatedly running routes until he masters them with precision timing. “That drive is something you’re born with,” he says. “There are many people who are more athletic and have more God-given ability than I have, but the one thing that separates me is the mental aspect—everything has to be perfect. I can’t just walk away from the practice after feeling sloppy or running the wrong route. It has to...

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Taste Test

Angie Sullivan - Many of us create our daily recipes without considering all the little products that make the recipe look and taste its best. We don’t think about these items until we unexpectedly run out of them. I bet each of us can remember a time when we realized mid-recipe that we were out of baking powder, butter, or sugar. What starts as a simple recipe can end in a cooking catastrophe! Imagine how many recipes you will be unable to make if you fail to store some baking powder and baking soda . Many of the quick breads your family enjoys would...

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'Catholic guilt,' 'Jewish guilt,' 'Mormon guilt' not just a joke, it's essential

USA Today - Guilt gets a bad rap as a relentless joke: Catholic guilt. Jewish guilt. Mormon guilt. Even Lutherans have guilt, or, some say, guilt envy. We dub our trivial naughtiness "guilty pleasures" to put a little frosting on those thorns of conscience. But as Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement nears (it begins at sunset Friday), experts say guilt is not passé, it's essential — and probably inescapable. "Guilt has been with us as long as humans have psyches, "but we still don't know definitively how it works in the human psyche or the best way to deal with it," says...

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'Our People' Videos

Newsroom - Rose Dall: Paris Thomas: Robert Comstock: Valentin Pavia: Rochelle Tallmadge: ...

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For Madison (Mormon Messages for Youth)

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BYU research predicts path of lost hikers

BYU News - The next time a Boy Scout is lost in the wilderness, search and rescue teams could have better statistics on their side in deciding where to look. Lanny Lin, a Ph.D. candidate in Brigham Young University’s Computer Science Department, has developed computer models to predict where a lost hiker will go when he or she encounters tough terrain. These techniques – which appear in the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory – could help searchers better allocate their resources as they race against time and nature. “As time progresses, the survivability of the missing person decreases and the effective search radius...

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Global disasters impact Church members

LDS Church News - Members in various parts of the world have been impacted by a variety of natural disasters. While many have been displaced by the disasters, no members or missionaries have been killed or injured. In Mexico, weeks of heavy rainfall has caused widespread flooding in the southern states of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes while others who have chosen to stay at their residences are sleeping on rooftops. The flooding has been especially dramatic in Tabasco, where more than 125,000 people have had their homes flooded and more than 460,000 acres of crops...

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An Adopted Linebacker With an Unlikely Story

Wall Street Journal - Bryan Kehl leans back, smiles and says his dad has always been a "storyteller." He wraps exaggerated finger quotes around that last word to make it clear the stories his father tells aren't always rigorously fact-checked. Six of Gary and Nancy Kehl's nine children were adopted, including Bryan. As a rule, there were never any distinctions made about whose genes came from where: Everyone was to be treated equally. But there was always one exception—and it always involved Bryan. In one of those yarns that his dad was so fond of telling, Bryan's biological father was an NFL running back. "I...