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There is not enough time or bandwidth to answer that question.

<sniff> So romantic!  

That's commendable, but they are still woke.

TFW you're doing pre-dawn deliveries and the sky suddenly looks like a Quiet Riot album cover...

Taylorsville, Utah.  There is gonna be an open temple there soon.  Just mark my words.

The president and matron of that temple spoke at my recent stake conference. They don't know when it will open. 😞

Taylorsville, Utah.  There is gonna be an open temple there soon.  Just mark my words.

I agree that this probably comes down to Tim not believing he crossed the line (abuse of 'name' and relationship) and the Church believing he did. The message was communicated clearly though--don't even come close to abusing the church or its leaders for personal gain. No hint or whiff of that will be tolerated. 

I don't think it takes an outside view to have this impression. It's mine as well.
I believe Tim Ballard name dropped anecdotally. I believe that was perceived by Elder Ballard as name dropping for gain. I think it's irresponsible of the church to condemn him publicly like they did though. Assuming the other allegations are false, they may have entirely destroyed his career. Someone should have called him and asked him to not use Elder Ballard's name any more. He probably (from my best understanding...which may be way off), would have complied -- even apologized.
But by publicly "denouncing" him, if all he made was a rather innocent mistake of telling what he felt was an interesting anecdote, not good.
I think, maybe, why I feel this way is I can see anyone in Tim Ballard's position doing the same. If I was working on a project and one of the prophets or apostles said, even in passing, "You're doing great!" or anything akin to that, I might well share that and get myself into trouble too. Which, you know.... lesson to learn I suppose.
Of course there may be things that went on that I'm unaware of. I only know that Tim Ballard stated that he never used Elder Ballard's name to self promote, and I believe that he believes that.

The Church’s response to Vice is legit; the Deseret News published the full statement. There are those suggesting that the author of the statement (LDS media relations director Doug Anderson) has somehow gone rogue; but the statement is now six days old and every day it goes unretracted/ unrebutted/ unsupplemented by the Church  (and, every day that Anderson keeps his job) seems to bolster the conclusion that the statement said substantially what the Church leadership wanted it to say.  

Which is what makes me suspicious...well that and it is Vice.  
 
Even @NeuroTypical's link to the Deseret News does not have a direct connection to the Newsroom site which I find very strange.

Cannot wait for Halloween, it is by far my favourite time of year. 

I threw him in the river.

What exactly do you think Putin can do to materially help Trump in the election? And what exactly (or even approximately) do you think Trump would be willing to do to help Putin win a wildly unpopular war?

That's not the horrifying thing.   The horrifying thing is that the leader of the free world had some rando staffer just butt in to announce that the president was done and the event was over, while the president was still speaking.  Then another rando staffer cut his mike and turned up the music.
Watch it again.
You tell me - if you're happily working away at the university doing research on a normal day, and your teammates just up and decide you're done, and they take your keyboard away from you as you are typing and turn off your computer, what would you think?