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5 PRAY, THEN PREACH Edward McKendree Bounds Reprinted by: White Wing Publishing House P.O. Box 3000 Cleveland, TN U.S.A. 2010
6 INTRODUCTION We are social creatures. It is normal to desire association with others, to enjoy the company of those who are likeminded with us. When a prisoner is placed in solitary confinement, it is generally viewed as extreme punishment. For the God-called preacher, however, times of solitude, in which he can have undistracted communion with his Master, are a necessity and must be sought out. In the midst of a very busy time of ministering, when all the city of Capernaum was seeking Jesus, bringing to Him those who were sick and devil-possessed, witnessing His healing and delivering power, Mark records, And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed (Mark 1:35). Jesus considered these times of solitude to be vital. He had to have time alone with the Father, time when divine communion would be uninterrupted by anything or anybody. There are times when corporate prayer is desirable, when we join others in a fellowship of seeking God together. In Acts, chapter four, we read of such corporate praying, And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they 6
7 were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (v. 31). Such praying together, as wonderful as it may be, however, cannot take the place of those times when the preacher must seclude himself to spend time alone with God. Jesus found such praying necessary, and by example He taught its necessity for all those who follow Him in public ministry. To fail at this point will be to fail in the work for which God has singled us out to preach His blessed Word. Our churches must once again become praying churches. There is no way for them to become powerful churches in ministry and outreach until they become powerful in prayer. Until those who fill our pulpits are recognized as praying preachers it is not likely that our pews are going to be filled with praying saints. This little booklet is being provided our ministers with the hope that it will inspire a more serious commitment to prayer deep, intercessory prayer. Nothing must be allowed to take priority over time spent alone with God. These excerpts from E. M. Bounds book titled, Power Through Prayer, show something of the importance this Methodist preacher attached to prayer. In fact, they will give you an idea of the consuming burden of his life. 7
8 Edward McKendree Bounds was born in Shelby County, Missouri, in When he was twenty-four years old he acknowledged his call to preach, and pastored churches in his denomination in Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama. Later he served as an editor of The Christian Advocate. His work was finished and he went home to be with the Lord, the One whose communion in prayer he had treasured so much, on August 24, Although he wrote prolifically on a number of subjects, E. M. Bounds is best known for his books on prayer. The book, Power Through Prayer, from which the selections in this little booklet are taken, has been reprinted several times by different publishers, and has been published in a number of translations. Because much of what is contained here is written to preachers, I have used as a title, Pray, Then Preach. My prayer is that as you read these messages they will inspire you to become a preacher who will be identifiable as one who has been with God. Billy Murray General Overseer The Church of God of Prophecy 8
9 Men of Prayer Needed Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer. Robert Murray McCheyne We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. 9
10 The world s salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success. The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him, he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This vital, urgent truth is one that this age of machinery is apt to forget. The forgetting of it is as baneful on the work of God as would be the striking of the sun from his sphere. Darkness, confusion, and death would ensue. What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men men of prayer. An eminent historian has said that the accidents of personal character have more to do 10
11 with the revolutions of nations than either philosophic historians or democratic politicians will allow. This truth has its application in full to the gospel of Christ, the character and conduct of the followers of Christ Christianize the world, transfigure nations and individuals. Of the preachers of the gospel it is eminently true. The character, as well as the fortunes, of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. The pipe must not only be golden, but open and flawless, that the oil may have a full, unhindered, unwasted flow. The man makes the preacher. God must make the man. The messenger is, if possible, more than the message. The preacher is more than the sermon. The preacher makes the sermon. As the life-giving milk from the mother s bosom is but the mother s life, so all the preacher says is tinctured, impregnated by what the preacher is. The treasure is in earthen vessels, and the taste of the vessel impregnates and may discolor. The man, the whole man, lies behind the sermon. Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon, because it takes twenty years to 11
12 make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. The sermon is forceful because the man is forceful. The sermon is holy because the man is holy. The sermon is full of the divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction. The sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces above the man. Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher. Under the Jewish dispensation the high priest had inscribed in jeweled letters on a golden frontlet: Holiness to the Lord. So every preacher in Christ s ministry must be molded into and mastered by this same holy motto. It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood. Jonathan Edwards said: I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness. The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a 12
13 projecting, eccentric, an all-commanding, selfoblivious force. The energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself, with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-consuming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men. Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the Church nor the world for God. The preacher s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for 13
14 this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God. 14
15 Our Sufficiency Is Of God But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and fullness of his words have often struck even strangers with admiration as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverend frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his prayer. And truly it was a testimony. He knew and lived nearer to the Lord than other men, for they that know him most will see most reason to approach him with reverence and fear. William Penn of George Fox The sweetest graces by a slight perversion may bear the bitterest fruit. The sun gives life, but sunstrokes are death. Preaching is to give life; it may kill. The preacher holds the keys; he may lock as well as unlock. Preaching is God s great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. It is an easy matter to destroy the flock if the shepherd be unwary or the pasture be destroyed, easy to 15
16 capture the citadel if the watchman be asleep or the food and water be poisoned. Invested with such gracious prerogatives, exposed to so great evils, involving so many grave responsibilities, it would be a parody on the shrewdness of the devil and a libel on his character and reputation if he did not bring his master influences to adulterate the preacher and the preaching. In face of all this, the exclamatory interrogatory of Paul, Who is sufficient for these things? is never out of order. Paul says: Our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made. The Spirit of God is on the preacher in anointing power, the fruit of the Spirit is in his heart, the Spirit of God has vitalized the man and the word; his preaching gives life, gives life as the spring gives life; gives life as the resurrection gives life; gives ardent life as the summer gives ardent life; gives fruitful life as the autumn gives fruitful life. The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and 16
17 in whom by the power of God s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river. The preaching that kills is nonspiritual preaching. The ability of the preaching is not from God. Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant. The Spirit is not evident in the preacher nor his preaching. Many kinds of forces may be projected and stimulated by preaching that kills, but they are not spiritual forces. They may resemble spiritual forces, but are only the shadow, the counterfeit; life they may seem to have, but the life is magnetized. The preaching that kills is the letter; shapely and orderly it may be, but it is the letter still, the dry, husky letter, the empty, bald shell. The letter may have the germ of life in it, but it has no breath of spring to evoke it; winter seeds they are, as hard as the winter s soil, as icy as the winter s air, no thawing nor germinating by them. This letter-preaching has the truth. But even divine truth has no life-giving energy alone; it must be energized by the Spirit, with all God s forces at its back. Truth unquickened by God s Spirit deadens as much as, or more than, error. It may be the truth without admixture; but without the Spirit its shade and touch are deadly, 17
18 its truth error, its light darkness. The letterpreaching is unctionless, neither mellowed nor oiled by the Spirit. There may be tears, but tears cannot run God s machinery; tears may be but summer s breath on a snow-covered iceberg, nothing but surface slush. Feelings and earnestness there may be, but it is the emotion of the actor and the earnestness of the attorney. The preacher may feel from the kindling of his own sparks, be eloquent over his own exegesis, earnest in delivering the product of his own brain; the professor may usurp the place and imitate the fire of the apostle; brains and nerves may serve the place and feign the work of God s Spirit, and by these forces the letter may glow and sparkle like an illumined text, but the glow and sparkle will be as barren of life as the field sown with pearls. The death-dealing element lies back of the words, back of the sermon, back of the occasion, back of the manner, back of the action. The great hindrance is in the preacher himself. He has not in himself the mighty life-creating forces. There may be no discount on his orthodoxy, honesty, cleanness, or earnestness; but somehow the man, the inner man, in its secret places has never broken down and surrendered to God, his inner life is not a great highway for the transmission 18
19 of God s message, God s power. Somehow self and not God rules in the holy of holies. Somewhere, all unconscious to himself, some spiritual nonconductor has touched his inner being, and the divine current has been arrested. His inner being has never felt its thorough spiritual bankruptcy, its utter powerlessness; he has never learned to cry out with an ineffable cry of self-despair and self-helplessness till God s power and God s fire comes in and fills, purifies, empowers. Self-esteem, self-ability in some pernicious shape has defamed and violated the temple which should be held sacred for God. Life-giving preaching costs the preacher much death to self, crucifixion to the world, the travail of his own soul. Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man. 19
20 The Letter Killeth During this affliction I was brought to examine my life in relation to eternity closer than I had done when in the enjoyment of health. In this examination relative to the discharge of my duties toward my fellow creatures as a man, a Christian minister, and an officer of the Church, I stood approved by my own conscience; but in relation to my Redeemer and Saviour the result was different. My returns of gratitude and loving obedience bear no proportion to my obligations for redeeming, preserving, and supporting me through the vicissitudes of life from infancy to old age. The coldness of my love to Him who first loved me and has done so much for me overwhelmed and confused me; and to complete my unworthy character, I had not only neglected to improve the grace given to the extent of my duty and privilege, but for want of improvement had, while abounding in perplexing care and labor, declined from first zeal and love. I was confounded, humbled myself, implored mercy, and renewed my covenant to strive and devote 20
21 myself unreservedly to the Lord. Bishop McKendree The preaching that kills may be, and often is, orthodox dogmatically, inviolably orthodox. We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear-cut teaching of God s Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well-shaped, well-named, and well-learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy, too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray. The preaching that kills may have insight and grasp of principles, may be scholarly and critical in taste, may have every minutiæ of the derivation and grammar of the letter, may be able to trim the letter into its perfect pattern, and illume it as Plato and Cicero may be illumined, may study it as a lawyer studies his textbooks to form his brief or to defend his case, and yet be like a frost, a killing frost. Letter-preaching may be eloquent, enameled with poetry and rhetoric, sprinkled with prayer, spiced with sensation, 21
22 illumined by genius, and yet these be but the massive or chaste, costly mountings, the rare and beautiful flowers which coffin the corpse. The preaching which kills may be without scholarship, unmarked by any freshness of thought or feeling, clothed in tasteless generalities or vapid specialties, with style irregular, slovenly, savoring neither of closet nor of study, graced neither by thought, expression, or prayer. Under such preaching how wide and utter the desolation! how profound the death! This letter-preaching deals with the surface and shadow of things, and not the things themselves. It does not penetrate the inner part. It has no deep insight into, no strong grasp of, the hidden life of God s Word. It is true to the outside, but the outside is the hull which must be broken and penetrated for the kernel. The letter may be dressed so as to attract and be fashionable, but the attraction is not toward God nor is the fashion for heaven. The failure is in the preacher. God has not made him. He has never been in the hands of God like clay in the hands of the potter. He has been busy about the sermon, its thought and finish, its drawing and impressive forces; but the deep things of God have never been sought, studied, fathomed, 22
23 experienced by him. He has never stood before the throne high and lifted up, never heard the seraphim song, never seen the vision nor felt the rush of that awful holiness, and cried out in utter abandon and despair under the sense of weakness and guilt, and had his life renewed, his heart touched, purged, inflamed by the live coal from God s altar. His ministry may draw people to him, to the Church, to the form and ceremony; but no true drawings to God, no sweet, holy, divine communion induced. The Church has been frescoed but not edified, pleased but not sanctified. Life is suppressed; a chill is on the summer air; the soil is baked. The city of our God becomes the city of the dead; the Church a graveyard, not an embattled army. Praise and prayer are stifled; worship is dead. The preacher and the preaching have helped sin, not holiness; peopled hell, not heaven. Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preacher creates death, and not life. The preacher who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces. The preacher who has retired prayer as a conspicuous and largely prevailing element in his own character has shorn his preaching of its distinctive life-giving power. Professional praying there is and will be, 23
24 but professional praying helps the preaching to its deadly work. Professional praying chills and kills both preaching and praying. Much of the lax devotion and lazy, irreverent attitudes in congregational praying are attributable to professional praying in the pulpit. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow. A plea for short praying, live praying, real heart praying, praying by the Holy Spirit direct, specific, ardent, simple, unctuous in the pulpit is in order. A school to teach preachers how to pray, as God counts praying, would be more beneficial to true piety, true worship, and true preaching than all theological schools. Stop! Pause! Consider! Where are we? What are we doing? Preaching to kill? Praying to kill? Praying to God! the great God, the Maker of all worlds, the Judge of all men! What reverence! what simplicity! what sincerity! what truth in the inward parts is demanded! How real we must be! How hearty! Prayer to God the noblest exercise, the loftiest effort of man, the most real 24
25 thing! Shall we not discard forever accursed preaching that kills and prayer that kills, and do the real thing, the mightiest thing prayerful praying, life-creating preaching, bring the mightiest force to bear on heaven and earth and draw on God s exhaustless and open treasure for the need and beggary of man? 25
26 Tendencies To Be Avoided Let us often look at Brainerd in the woods of America pouring out his very soul before God for the perishing heathen without whose salvation nothing could make him happy. Prayer secret, fervent, believing prayer lies at the root of all personal godliness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a mild and winning temper, a heart given up to God in closest religion these, these are the attainments which, more than all knowledge, or all other gifts, will fit us to become the instruments of God in the great work of human redemption. Carrey s Brotherhood, Serampore There are two extreme tendencies in the ministry. The one is shut itself from intercourse with the people. The monk, the hermit were illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with God. They failed, of course. Our being with God is of use only as we expend its priceless benefits on men. This age, neither with preacher nor with people, is much intent on God. Our hankering is not that way. 26
27 We shut ourselves to our study, we become students, bookworms, Bible worms, sermon makers, noted for literature, thought, and sermons; but the people and God, where are they? Out of heart, out of mind. Preachers who are great thinkers, great students must be the greatest of prayers, or else they will be the greatest of backsliders, heartless professionals, rationalistic, less than the least of preachers in God s estimate. The other tendency is to thoroughly popularize the ministry. He is no longer God s man, but a man of affairs, of the people. He prays not, because his mission is to the people. If he can move the people, create an interest, a sensation in favor of religion, an interest in Church work he is satisfied. His personal relation to God is no factor in his work. Prayer has little or no place in his plans. The disaster and ruin of such a ministry cannot be computed by earthly arithmetic. What the preacher is in prayer to God, for himself, for his people, so is his power for real good to men, so is his true fruitfulness, his true fidelity to God, to man, for time, for eternity. It is impossible for the preacher to keep his spirit in harmony with the divine nature of his high calling without much prayer. That the 27
28 preacher by dint of duty and laborious fidelity to the work and routine of the ministry can keep himself in trim and fitness is a serious mistake. Even sermon-making, incessant and taxing as an art, as a duty, as a work, or as a pleasure, will engross and harden, will estrange the heart, by neglect of prayer, from God. The scientist loses God in nature. The preacher may lose God in his sermon. Prayer freshens the heart of the preacher, keeps it in tune with God and in sympathy with the people, lifts his ministry out of the chilly air of a profession, fructifies routine and moves every wheel with the facility and power of a divine unction. Mr. Spurgeon says: Of course the preacher is above all others distinguished as a man of prayer. He prays as an ordinary Christian, else he were a hypocrite. He prays more than ordinary Christians, else he were disqualified for the office he has undertaken. If you as ministers are not very prayerful, you are to be pitied. If you become lax in sacred devotion, not only will you need to be pitied but your people also, and the day cometh in which you shall be ashamed and confounded. All our libraries and studies are mere emptiness compared with our closets. Our 28
29 seasons of fasting and prayer at the Tabernacle have been high days indeed; never has heaven s gate stood wider; never have our hearts been nearer the central Glory. The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given. It does not mean the closet absorbed in the study or swallowed up in the activities of ministerial duties; but it means the closet first, the study and activities second, both study and activities freshened and made efficient by the closet. Prayer that affects one s ministry must give tone to one s life. The praying which gives color and bent to character is no pleasant, hurried pastime. It must enter as strongly into the heart and life as Christ s strong crying and tears did; must draw out the soul into an agony of desire as Paul s did; must be an inwrought fire and force like the effectual, fervent prayer of James; must be of that quality which, when put into the golden censer and 29
30 incensed before God, works mighty spiritual throes and revolutions. Prayer is not a little habit pinned on to us while we were tied to our mother s apron strings; neither is it a little decent quarter of a minute s grace said over an hour s dinner, but it is a most serious work of our most serious years. It engages more of time and appetite than our longest dinings or richest feasts. The prayer that makes much of our preaching must be made much of. The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong, gives it unction, and makes it stick. In every ministry weighty for good, prayer has always been a serious business. The preacher must be preeminently a man of prayer. His heart must graduate in the school of prayer. In the school of prayer only can the heart learn to preach. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men. More than this, prayerless words in the pulpit and out of it are deadening words. 30
31 Prayer, the Great Essential You know the value of prayer; it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it. Sir Thomas Buxton Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray, pray, pray. Edward Payson Prayer, in the preacher s life, in the preacher s study, in the preacher s pulpit, must be a conspicuous and all-impregnating force and an all-coloring ingredient. It must play no secondary part, be no mere coating. To him it is given to be with his Lord all night in prayer. The preacher, to train himself in self-denying prayer, is charged to look to his Master, who, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. The preacher s study ought to be a closet, a Bethel, an altar, a vision, and a ladder, that every thought might ascend heavenward ere it went manward; that every part of the sermon might be scented by the air of heaven and made serious, because God was in the study. As the engine never moves until the fire is kindled, so preaching, with all its machinery, 31
32 perfection, and polish, is at a dead standstill, as far as spiritual results are concerned, till prayer has kindled and created the stream. The texture, fineness, and strength of the sermon is as so much rubbish unless the mighty impulse of prayer is in it, through it, and behind it. The preacher must, by prayer, put God in the sermon. The preacher must, by prayer, move God toward the people before he can move the people to God by his words. The preacher must have had audience and ready access to God before he can have access to the people. An open way to God for the preacher is the surest pledge of an open way to the people. It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing. Such praying has no connection with the praying for which we plead. We are stressing true praying, which engages and sets on fire every high element of the preacher s being prayer which is born of vital oneness with Christ and the fullness of the Holy Ghost, which springs from the deep, overflowing fountains of tender compassion, deathless solicitude of man s eternal good; a consuming zeal for the glory of God; a thorough conviction of the 32
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Barcelona: Busquets cleared over racial slur, can face Man United
BARCELONA (AP) Barcelona said midfielder Sergio Busquets has been cleared to play in the Champions League final after UEFA dismissed claims Monday he racially insulted Real Madrid defender Marcelo during the semifinals.
Busquets was facing a five-match ban if UEFA's disciplinary panel found the racial abuse allegation proven at a hearing held on Sunday.
"Sergio Busquets will be able to play the final of the Champions League," Barcelona said in a statement on its website. "UEFA has notified FC Barcelona that it has rejected Real Madrid's complaint."
He can now play in the May 28 final against Manchester United at Wembley Stadium.
Marcelo, who is black, alleged that Busquets called him a "monkey" during an ill-tempered first-leg match on April 27 in Madrid, which Barcelona won 2-0.
The Brazilian defender and Madrid submitted statements and video evidence of the incident to support their claim.
Later Monday, UEFA's appeals body was examining a separate complaint from Madrid seeking to open another case against Busquets.
Madrid has challenged a UEFA ruling which cleared the Spain midfielder and his Barcelona teammates Dani Alves and Pedro Rodriguez of feigning injuries during the first-leg match.
Madrid also wants UEFA to look again at a red card shown to Pepe for his tackle on Alves at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
Barcelona drew the return home leg 1-1 to advance to the final.
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Performance in the last year for Time Warner Inc. has been 11.86%. For EPS growth, Time Warner Inc. has seen a growth of 4.10%, and is looking to grow in the next year to 11.30%. More long term stats show that EPS growth has been 15.30% over the last five years and could be 14.42% for the next five years. Time Warner Inc. has seen sales growth quarter over quarter at -52.00%, with EPS growth quarter over quarter at -47.50%. The 20-day simple moving average is 0.30%, with the 200-day simple moving average coming to 7.44%.
Since the IPO date for Time Warner Inc. on the 3/19/1992, Time Warner Inc. has seen performance year to date to be 23.95%. With Time Warner Inc. trading at 78.84, the dividend yield is 2.04%, and the EPS is 4.98.
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Youths learn about sacrifice
By Karen S. Peterson, USA TODAY
Andrew Crum is "dumbfounded" by the life stories he is
hearing from elders and "overwhelmed with heartache by what they have been through."
"It makes me feel fortunate about how easy I have had it," says Crum, 30, of
Cincinnati. Crum is one of a team of younger workers with the Hampton Inn hotel
chain who are interviewing elders at retirement centers around the country for
a book in 2002 on intergenerational communication. The nature of the interviews
has changed since Sept. 11, with memories now peppered with references to Pearl
Harbor and the importance of family then and now.
Crum is amazed at what he is discovering from a generation
whose wisdom often goes untapped.
"They have endured hardships with a more positive attitude
than we have in today's society. We are so spoiled. We dwell on being constantly
stressed and depressed," he says.
He is surprised to learn that "people worked to stay married
then. They cherished one another. They spent family time at dinner," without
having to dash kids off to soccer practice and other activities.
Some of the interviewees went hungry during the Depression.
"They talked about not knowing what Mom would put on the table for dinner,"
Crum says. " 'We didn't have meat. We had stewed tomatoes for breakfast and
dinner.' First of all, I hate stewed tomatoes. "
Elders provide much food for thought. They report they
disciplined their children, sometimes with a swat on the behind, Crum says.
"Today, that is called child abuse. And they think that is part of the reason
for today's bratty kids."
Shelly Ericksen, 18, of Los Angeles, also learned "their
families came first. They took care of each other. They knew how to be a family."
And they knew how to work. "It was instilled in them that
they would work and take care of their families." Getting a nickel was special,
she says. "Then they went off and bought stuff for their siblings."
Her interviewing has caused her to plan holiday time with
her grandmother and record her words, says Lori Frazier, 31, of Memphis.
"When my husband and I start a family, the children will
know their grandmother's stories. I am not going to miss that opportunity."


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A. It sounds as if this employee is nonexempt. If that is the case, he needs to be paid only for the hours he actually worked. You don't need to pay him for the time after you sent him home.
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Token Ring is a protocol that is the second most widely-used protocol on Local Area Network (LAN) after Ethernet. In a Token Ring network, all computers are connected in a ring or star topology and a bit- or token-passing scheme is used in order to prevent the collision of data between two computers that want to send messages at the same time.
The Token Ring network was originally developed by IBM in the 1970s. It is still IBM's primary LAN technology, and was eventually standardized with protocol IEEE 802.5. The related IEEE 802.5 specification is almost identical to and completely compatible with IBM's Token Ring network. In fact, the IEEE 802.5 specification was modeled after IBM Token Ring, and it continues to shadow IBM's Token Ring development. The term Token Ring generally is used to refer to both IBM's Token Ring network and IEEE 802.5 networks.
Token Ring (IEEE 802.5) is deterministic star-wired ring architecture, and the sequence in which users gain access is predetermined. The controlling station, called the active monitor, generates a special signaling sequence called a Token that controls the right to transmit. This Token is continually passed around the network from one node to the next. When a host has something to send, it captures the Token, and changes it to a frame, setting its status to busy. It then adds the frame header, information and trailer fields. The header includes the address of the hosts that will copy the frame. All nodes read the frame as it is passed around the ring to determine if they are the recipient of a message. If they are, they extract the data, retransmitting the frame to the next host on the ring. When the frame returns to the originating station, it removes the frame and reissues a free token which can then be used by another host. The token-access control scheme thus allows all hosts to share the network bandwidth in an orderly and efficient manner. The advantages of Token Ring, in addition to deterministic, are excellent throughput and efficiency at high load. The major minus point is the presence of a centralized monitor function, which includes a critical component. Another disadvantage is that the ring is broken whenever one host is down or the cable breaks.
Stations on a Token Ring LAN are logically organized in a ring topology with data being transmitted sequentially from one ring station to the next with a control token circulating around the ring controlling access. This token passing mechanism is shared by ARCNET, token bus, 100VG-AnyLAN(802.12) and FDDI, and has theoretical advantages over the stochastic CSMA/CD of Ethernet.


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Roughly two hours after White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced his resignation, Reuters disturbingly set up shop outside Spicer's house and provided a livestream for viewers to follow along with. It doesn't take a whole lot of decency to conclude that this is a disgusting and tasteless display by an organization who's White House correspondent (Jeff Mason) is the president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA).
On Good Morning America Wednesday, anchor Robin Roberts joined one actress in gushing over meeting former President Obama. Actress Issa Rae, who stars in HBO's Insecure, shared with Roberts how, as a newcomer to Hollywood, she still gets starstruck when meeting famous people. After mentioning meeting actress Queen Latifah, Roberts prompted Rae to tell the story of when she met President Obama.
No siempre pueden ser identificados los sesgos de una organización mediática basado solamente en lo que reportan, Como comprueba esta nota, lo que un medio puede ser igual o más importante.
You can't always identify a media organization's bias based solely on what they say. As this story proves, what a news organization keeps quite about can often be just as important, if not more so.
El actor, compositor y dramaturgo Lin-Manuel Miranda volvió a acaparar los titulares tras la difusión del video musical "Immigrants...We Get The Job Done", difundido para intesecar con los temas patrióticos del Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos. Pero esos titulares bien parecen irónicos, dada algunas de las letras antiestadounidenses de la canción.
Celebrated actor, playwright and composer Lin-Manuel garnered friendly headlines again with his release of the music video "Immigrants...We Get The Job Done", timed to intersect with the patriotic thematics of the July 4th holiday. But those headlines and the well-timed release actually seem quite ironic, given some of the song's anti-American lyrics.
Pulitzer-Prize winning American novelist Michael Chabon rather desperately hates Donald Trump, In an interview on an Israeli radio show in Tel Aviv, he discussed how he woke up every day hoping Trump will suffer a "massive stroke" and be "carted out of the White House on a gurney."
Tonight (Monday), CBS-affiliated Showtime begins The Putin Interviews, a four-night series of interview excerpts with Russian President Vladimir Putin, conducted by far-left film maker Oliver Stone who, judging by a previous series on Showtime, has an affinity for KGB-connected strongmen.
On Friday afternoon, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell joined the Fox Business Network's Cavuto: Coast to Coast and tag-teamed with host Neil Cavuto to trash both the "sophomoric" liberal media's attacks on President Trump and Kathy Griffin's pathetic behavior since she held up a bloodied, fake severed head of Trump.
On Wednesday afternoon, CNN announced that it has fired far-left lewd comedienne Kathy Griffin from her long-running New Year's Eve show after Griffin took a page from ISIS's playbook 24 hours earlier by holding up a bloodied (but fake) severed head pretending to be President Trump.
Ordinarily, when someone gets their life together, congratulations or encouragement of some kind is in order. Amanda Petrusich of the New Yorker seems to think otherwise. In her article published last week, "Miley Cyrus's Creepy Return To Wholesomeness," Petrusich analyzed Cyrus's new song, "Malibu," which is, in her opinion, "equal parts bohemian and smarmy."
Petrusich did not approve of Cyrus's new direction, mainly because she found that the superstar's decisions in the past were those of a "creative risk-taker" which made her a "figure to root for."
As previously demonstrated in this space, the "big three" networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC are relentless in attacking conservatives, Christians, and President Trump. Here's the thing: It's not just in their morning and evening newscasts, but also their primetime scripted programs.


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Sweden—Commitment to Development Index
The Commitment to Development Index ranks 27 of the world's richest countries on policies that affect people living in poorer nations. This is the country report for Sweden. For results of all countries, visit the main CDI page.
Sweden ranks 3rd on this year's Commitment to Development Index. Sweden performs above average in all components except security, with a top position in aid, environment, and migration.
Sweden has the best aid policies of all CDI countries. It performs slightly stronger in aid quantity: in 2014 Sweden provided 1.09% of its GNI for development assistance, which is the highest amount of all developed countries and far above the international commitment of 0.7% GNI. Furthermore, the quality of Sweden's foreign aid is above average in three of the four dimensions forming the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) indicator. Sweden's development aid excels at promoting transparency and learning, and it places only low administrative burdens on recipient countries, making aid more efficient.
At sixth place, Sweden is one of the leaders in the finance component. There is room for improvement in Sweden's international investment agreements, through better accounting for the public policy goals of its investment partners. However, with regards to its institutional commitments, Sweden has a good score due to its compliance with the OECD anti-bribery convention. On the finance sub component, Sweden receives a relatively high score as it is considered to be only moderately secretive. It has efficient tax and financial regulations and a high degree of international cooperation on tax and financial matters. However, it could improve by requiring companies to make ownership details available online.
Sweden's performance in the technology sector is slightly above average. Its current rank (11th) is mainly because of relatively high government support to research and development; in 2014 the Swedish government provided 0.84% of its GDP to research and development and had relatively high incentives for business R&D. Sweden provides substantial financial support to all R&D sectors reflected by the CDI, but especially to its universities. On the contrary, Sweden does not play a leading role in the diffusion of technology to developing countries with a low score on intellectual property rights. It could do more to facilitate knowledge sharing, especially establishing less strict database protection rights and anti-circumvention rules which are more development friendly.
Sweden has effective environmental policies as is ranked in the top 4. Its scores relatively high due to its impressive performance in all indicators. Sweden has a role-model commitment to combatting climate change through its low rate in greenhouse gas emissions and for not producing fossil fuel. It is also committed to its biodiversity treaties obligations and by only having low imports of tropical timber (overall score for all European countries). By increasing its gasoline taxes, Sweden could further improve its score.
Sweden ranks in the top 5 for the trade component. Sweden imposes relatively few restrictions on imports by requiring only a small number of documents, the cost of importing a container are among the cheapest, and it takes less time than in other CDI countries. Sweden has a good score on trade in services, but could improve its rank by imposing fewer restrictions on service providers from other countries. The rest of the trade component reflects EU tariffs and quotas for products from developing countries – in this case all EU countries have essentially the same performance–above South Korea, Japan, Norway, and Switzerland, which impose high tariffs on selected imports (esp. South Korea and Japan), and below New Zealand, Australia, and the United States which all have significantly smaller (if any) tariffs on imports from developing countries.
Compared to the rest of the CDI components, Sweden performs poorly on security. Even though it is party to all international security agreements taken into account in the CDI, its contributions to international peacekeeping efforts and patrolling global sea lanes are only average, and Sweden's exports of arms to poor and undemocratic countries exceed those of all other CDI countries. These combined factors leaves Sweden at the bottom of the security ranking.
Sweden ranks 2nd on migration policies. It has the best migration policies of all European countries. These positions reflect Sweden's general openness towards migrants, with good scores across most indicators. It is highly committed to international burden sharing, reflected in the high score on the refugee acceptance indicator. Together with Portugal, its integration policies are the best among the CDI countries. However, Sweden could improve in its commitment to international frameworks by ratifying the Migration for Employment Convention and by accepting more students from developing countries.


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I know I focus too much on chorus too much of the time, but Corinne Bailey Rae's is damn near perfect in 'Put Your Records On.' It quite literally put me to tears. She's as inspiring in words, for the most part, as she is in vocal zest and Nehzui's remix gives it the extra oomph it deserves. His electro brass is a bit… brass but essential for the sing-a-long.
Turns out I had heard the Gordon City's version first, but I got to say this one is miles better. We love our house deep here, which Gordon City provides, but the slight piano in this version gives Laura Welsh the silence her voice can handle.
First Odesza with Zhu and now Classixx with Rufus. There's nothing I love more than when my favorites remix my favorites (I've got a lot of favorites).
We didn't do a write up on Rufus's Atlas album simply because we didn't really have much to say on it. It's not as easy as you'd think bringing in some other insights. Take this post for example. But with our move towards playlists, our words won't get in the way of good music no mo. Stay Tuned.
I don't know if you're gonna like the chorus, I didn't, but listening to the full thing through gives a good story to picture. Steven A. Clark has some smooth southern draw to his R&B, which ranges into some sort of indie.
Better question – not that there was a question before – who the hell is the gal? I really don't understand why musicians don't give proper credit to their features… [ frustrating ] She does only make a small appearance a minute in and one other on repeat, but somewhere on SoundCloud is not asking much.
I didn't quite listen to the lyrics on Phonat's 'Never' at first, it's all about the sound at the start, but they're my favorite thing about it now. The sound however is something to talk about, especially in Icarus's version. We're trying to lay off the remixes right now and save 'em for a collection, but Icarus speeds up the tempo and lays in some disco-house synths to livin' this one up to where it's needed.
Sitting here listening to NTEIBINT's 'Never Without You,' trying to think up anything to write on so we can get Stella's voice out there, gets me thinking about how music has gotten me through so much. We can't pick our lives or even our minds, but at least we've got music to help us cope with this shit show.
As much as NTEIBINT has supported Stella with a fairly fresh beat, the girl gets most our praise. Stella's got a country blues tone that reminds me of Stevie Nicks. Though Stella leans more city proper than Stevie's country swang.
[I'm really just comparing the two so I can show off this clip of Stevie practicing 'Wild Heart' – but listen to Stella first!]
If you had to pick between Banks, Lana Del Rey, Lorde & Lykke Li, who'd it be? Mine's definitely the baddest bitch of the bunch. I don't know what it is. And how long it'll last. But I know it has something to do with how she slips her personality in her songs in such small spaces. How she sings "only then, can we begin" melts my heart every time I hear it.
Check it out in one of Lykke's latest, 'No Rest for the Wicked.'
I swear I've heard Izzy Bizu's White Tiger before, but the best ones always feel that at first. Izzy's got a pop in that faint rasp voice and her piano counterpart Mika Barroux plays off it well. Kinda jealous of him right now – for that piano dexterity, yes, but more so this look she gives him in their music video.
Shiny Toy Guns reminds me of a few different music influences all rolled into one. First off, Chad Petree's vocals sound a helluva lot like Damon Albarn's of Gorillaz and Blur. A similar inflection in their voices, which seemed like a British thing but Chad's from Oklahoma.
Other influences include Last Lynx and their 'Killing Switch' song. It's that male // female duet against a lighthearted, upbeat beat that lump the two songs together. It also reminds me of Shallow Hal's club montage with that 90's perception of what 70's disco sounded like — but I'm not even gonna try to attempt to convince or prove it to you.
Forget our favorite ladies (and one dude) of 2013. 2014 is her' and it's already topping them all.
And only someone such as Yukimi from Little Dragon could make it so obvious. She's got something in her voice few singers can compete with in personality & character. Not only that, but the boys behind her are giving her production, like in "Klapp Klapp," the compliment her sound needs to stay in the spotlight where music's progressing right now. The only ones that may be able to do them better are Disclosure. Better yet, wouldn't that be one hell of a collaboration.
Who do you think would collab best with Little Dragon? Gorillaz is tough competition.


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Iran has Alien technology!!! the world will be dominated by the Mighty Persian Empire AGAIN.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 2855420:MV8xNzM3NzA2XzMwMTgwMTI0X0I2OUY0Qjc3] [quote:moeskyhigh:MV8xNzM3NzA2XzI4Nzc5MDcwXzFCMDM2NEEz] [quote:ASLEEPNOMORE:MV8xNzM3NzA2XzI4Nzc4OTgzX0IyRkY3NTND] OK, so now we should attack Iran because it may have alien technology ? Listen, I know it is your job to sway public opinion toward a conflict with Iran, but you are going to have to do alot better than that. How about weapons of mass destructions ? It worked before Or biological / germ developement that will wipe out the world population. Sorry, but the drums of war are beginning to beat awfully loud lately. Can you turn it down a little please. peace [/quote] im not sure if you read my post correctly.... what i meant was that Iranian regime has changed its own people's fate, and they are loosing power. the iranians are fed up with islamic laws. thats a good thing Iran has had a great culture and history, and since islam took power in 79, ppl are living under oppression. this is what the secret society (not illuminati) of iran wanted they want to restore the original persian religion (Zoroastrian) back in place. after the regime has fallen iran will be the new dominant empire, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are going to attack first! they are waiting for america to be the first to strike America is the new Rome. every empire goes up and crash. its now the end of the cycle, and it will be Irans turn half a century later but thats just my opinion [/quote] I get it you have a very vivid imagination but lets just peek into "REALITY" for a minute, Iran doesnt even come close to having the necesary military capabilities to become a new empire and dont give me your peace bullshit because those of us that know how the world actually works know that a strong military is needed to sustain that empire not to mention the fact that Iran would need to get by Russia and China first,you can talk about alien tech all day but in the fundamentals of combat Iran isn't up to par it doesn't matter what secret tech they have when the enemy is walking all over them, Iran can bluff all they want but believe me when I tell you the US military would destroy the Iranian military in a direct confrontation but as always you will believe what you want to regardless of any real evidence or even common sense [/quote]
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This might sound very unlikely to you, but its true, and heres why
First you should know that the current regime of Iran (islamic radicals) are loosing their grip on power. Thus, this corrupted regime will fall soon or later.
Iran will be ruled by a democratic gov once and for all. However, Iran has a top secret military since the SHAH days, and they have been working and testing on alien type technologies.
there is a massive site in the deserts of Yazd province, that is well known for being the property of the gov's military. this site has fences all around it with signs stating that they have the obligation to shoot trespassers.
this area is much like the area 51, with very deep bunkers. there have been a lot of UFO sightings around the area as well.
The Iranians are advancing and spending a lot in knowledge and technology.
the ahmadinejads campaign has had the most money flow since the 70's. they received $700 billion in one year and $650 billion of it is now gone, as if though it has never been there.
they have twisted there words and lied to the general public. ahmadinejad came and said that he gave it away for Imam Mahdi
you should know that technology research requires a descent amount of energy. and whats the best way to produce energy? Nuclear energy
The Americans and Israelis are well aware of their advantage, and now using propaganda to somehow stop their advancement.
The Chinese and the Russians are monitoring Iran, and want a piece of their advancement. this is why they are standing up for Iran all of a sudden.
They have been also working on weapons that could stop nuclear explosions. they have been testing them deep underground by the help of the Russians.
Iran is now waiting patiently for Israeli and american strike.
long story short
Gradually Iran will boost their Economy, and Military prowess, and will be the new empire that will lead the world in peace if the current regime is gone by that time
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