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Hourglass At-A-Glance
Strengths: Most of the products are fragrance-free; unique Veil Mineral Primer SPF 15 has an innovative texture complete with a non-irritating mineral-base; phenomenal Ambient powders; packaging is well-constructed and stylish.
Weaknesses: Expensive; some of the complexion products lack shades that match a wide variety of skin tones; underwhleming mascaras; bronzer duo shade is all wrong; skincare isn't their forte.
According to founder Carisa Janes, Hourglass Cosmetics are "homegrown luxury cosmetics." Sounds like an intriguing marketing angle—but what does that mean for the consumer? The "luxury" element becomes overly apparent in the price tag, and the "homegrown" aspect seems to be related to the brand's humble beginnings as a small storefront in 2004. Other than those points, there is really nothing inherently special about this relatively small line of makeup, which is now available at most Sephora stores nationwide.
The most hyped product in the Hourglass line is their Veil Fluid Makeup SPF 15. This liquid foundation gets a lot of chatter online as being a "must-have" product, but that doesn't mean it's the only one or even the best option out there. In reality, although this foundation has a beautiful, lightweight texture that provides good coverage with reliable sun protection, it has a serious problem in that it noticeably separates in the bottle, which really puts into question the stability of the sunscreen. For $60 an ounce, this really should be perfect!
What you should know about any cosmetic product is that expensive doesn't necessarily mean better; there are good and bad products in all price ranges. Unfortunately, many consumers find it hard not to expect a line like Hourglass, with its luxury price tag, to be far better than "bargain" brands. But, even when an expensive product is great, you can almost always find a more affordable alternative that is just as good (if not better!) than the expensive one. The bottom line: In making the decision to purchase any cosmetic, you shouldn't rely solely on how much it costs, and Hourglass is no exception.
Case in point: Hourglass's exquisite, expensive makeup brush collection. Yes, these are soft, beautifully made and completely luxurious brushes, but so are plenty of other Taklon (synthetic hair) brushes that are available for far less money. Or even consider Hourglass's silly Oxygen Mineral Powder, a pressed powder that overhypes its mineral content (it's a stretch to call this product "mineral" at all) and makes unsubstantiated claims that it can deliver oxygen to the skin. But, worst of all, this $46 product seriously underperforms when compared to many $10 powders at the drugstore (Neutrogena, L'Oreal, Sonia Kashuk, and Rimmel come to mind).
Hourglass's underlying philosophy (and brand-name symbolism) is meant to speak to the benefit of using well-formulated products that ward off the ever-marching effects of time. Unfortunately, this lofty goal is nearly unattainable for any makeup company. For Hourglass, it extends only to their foundations with sunscreen, not exactly earthshaking given the number of companies who can provide this benefit, and it certainly doesn't take super-expensive products. In fact at Hourglass's prices, it's unlikely you'll apply these as liberally as needed for adequate sun protection. Just another example of how expensive doesn't mean better!
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This epistle was written when St. Paul was a prisoner at Rome. The design appears to be to strengthen the Ephesians in the faith of Christ, and to give exalted views of the love of God, and of the dignity and excellence of Christ, fortifying their minds against the scandal of the cross. He shows that they were saved by grace, and that however wretched they once were, they now had equal privileges with the Jews. He encourages them to persevere in their Christian calling, and urges them to walk in a manner becoming their profession, faithfully discharging the general and common duties of religion, and the special duties of particular relations.
A salutation, and an account of saving blessings, as prepared in God's eternal election, as purchased by Christ's blood. (1-8) And as conveyed in effectual calling: this is applied to the believing Jews, and to the believing Gentiles. (9-14) The apostle thanks God for their faith and love, and prays for the continuance of their knowledge and hope, with respect to the heavenly inheritance, and to God's powerful working in them. (15-23)
ephesians 1:1 ephesians 1:2 . All Christians must be saints; if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory. Those are not saints, who are not faithful, believing in Christ, and true to the profession they make of relation to their Lord. By grace, understand the free and undeserved love and favour of God, and those graces of the Spirit which come from it; by peace, all other blessings, spiritual and temporal, the fruits of the former. No peace without grace. No peace, nor grace, but from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ; and the best saints need fresh supplies of the graces of the Spirit, and desire to grow.
Verses 3-8 Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. This was from the choice of them in Christ, before the foundation of the world, that they should be made holy by separation from sin, being set apart to God, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, in consequence of their election in Christ. All who are chosen to happiness as the end, are chosen to holiness as the means. In love they were predestinated, or fore-ordained, to be adopted as children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and to be openly admitted to the privileges of that high relation to himself. The reconciled and adopted believer, the pardoned sinner, gives all the praise of his salvation to his gracious Father. His love appointed this method of redemption, spared not his own Son, and brought believers to hear and embrace this salvation. It was rich grace to provide such a surety as his own Son, and freely to deliver him up. This method of grace gives no encouragement to evil, but shows sin in all its hatefulness, and how it deserves vengeance. The believer's actions, as well as his words, declare the praises of Divine mercy.
Verses 9-14 Blessings were made known to believers, by the Lord's showing to them the mystery of his sovereign will, and the method of redemption and salvation. But these must have been for ever hidden from us, if God had not made them known by his written word, preached gospel, and Spirit of truth. Christ united the two differing parties, God and man, in his own person, and satisfied for that wrong which caused the separation. He wrought, by his Spirit, those graces of faith and love, whereby we are made one with God, and among ourselves. He dispenses all his blessings, according to his good pleasure. His Divine teaching led whom he pleased to see the glory of those truths, which others were left to blaspheme. What a gracious promise that is, which secures the gift of the Holy Ghost to those who ask him! The sanctifying and comforting influences of the Holy Spirit seal believers as the children of God, and heirs of heaven. These are the first-fruits of holy happiness. For this we were made, and for this we were redeemed; this is the great design of God in all that he has done for us; let all be ascribed unto the praise of his glory.
Verses 15-23 God has laid up spiritual blessings for us in his Son the Lord Jesus; but requires us to draw them out and fetch them in by prayer. Even the best Christians need to be prayed for: and while we hear of the welfare of Christian friends, we should pray for them. Even true believers greatly want heavenly wisdom. Are not the best of us unwilling to come under God's yoke, though there is no other way to find rest for the soul? Do we not for a little pleasure often part with our peace? And if we dispute less, and prayed more with and for each other, we should daily see more and more what is the hope of our calling, and the riches of the Divine glory in this inheritance. It is desirable to feel the mighty power of Divine grace, beginning and carrying on the work of faith in our souls. But it is difficult to bring a soul to believe fully in Christ, and to venture its all, and the hope of eternal life, upon his righteousness. Nothing less than Almighty power will work this in us. Here is signified that it is Christ the Saviour, who supplies all the necessities of those who trust in him, and gives them all blessings in the richest abundance. And by being partakers of Christ himself, we come to be filled with the fulness of grace and glory in him. How then do those forget themselves who seek for righteousness out of him! This teaches us to come to Christ. And did we know what we are called to, and what we might find in him, surely we should come and be suitors to him. When feeling our weakness and the power of our enemies, we most perceive the greatness of that mighty power which effects the conversion of the believer, and is engaged to perfect his salvation. Surely this will constrain us by love to live to our Redeemer's glory.
Ephesians 1:1-23 . INSCRIPTION: ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH IN THE FATHER'S ETERNAL COUNSEL, AND THE SON'S BLOODSHEDDING: THE SEALING OF IT BY THE SPIRIT. THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER THAT THEY MAY FULLY KNOW GOD'S GRACIOUS POWER IN CHRIST TOWARDS THE SAINTS.
1. by--rather, "through the will of God": called to the apostleship through that same "will" which originated the Church ( Ephesians 1:5 Ephesians 1:9 Ephesians 1:11 ; compare Galatians 1:4 ).
which are at
to the saints . . . and to the faithful--The same persons are referred to by both designations, as the Greek proves: "to those who are saints, and faithful in Christ Jesus." The sanctification by God is here put before man's faith. The twofold aspect of salvation is thus presented, God's grace in the first instance sanctifying us, (that is, setting us apart in His eternal purposes as holy unto Himself); and our faith, by God's gift, laying hold of salvation ( 2 Thessalonians 2:13 , 1 Peter 1:2 ).
2. ( Romans 1:7 , 1 Corinthians 1:3 , 2 Corinthians 1:2 , Galatians 1:3 ).
3. The doxologies in almost all the Epistles imply the real sense of grace experienced by the writers and their readers ( 1 Peter 1:3 ). Ephesians 1:3-14 sets forth summarily the Gospel of the grace of God: the FATHER'S work of love, Ephesians 1:3 (choosing us to holiness, Ephesians 1:4 ; to sonship, Ephesians 1:5 ; to acceptance, Ephesians 1:6 ): the SON'S, Ephesians 1:7 (redemption, Ephesians 1:7 ; knowledge of the mystery of His will, Ephesians 1:9 ; an inheritance, Ephesians 1:11 ); the HOLY SPIRIT'S, Ephesians 1:13 (sealing, Ephesians 1:13 ; giving an earnest of the inheritance, Ephesians 1:14 ).
the God and Father of . . . Christ--and so the God and Father of us who are in Him ( John 20:17 ). God is "the God" of the man Jesus, and "the Father" of the Divine Word. The Greek is, "Blessed us," not "hath blessed us"; referring to the past original counsel of God. As in creation ( Genesis 1:22 ) so in redemption ( Genesis 12:3 , Matthew 5:3-11 , 25:34 ) God "blesses" His children; and that not in mere words, but in acts.
us--all Christians.
blessings--Greek, "blessing." "All," that is, "every possible blessing for time and eternity, which the Spirit has to bestow" (so "spiritual" means; not "spiritual," as the term is now used, as opposed to bodily).
in heavenly places--a phrase five times found in this Epistle, and not elsewhere ( Ephesians 1:20 , Ephesians 2:6 , 3:10 , 6:12 ); Greek, "in the heavenly places." Christ's ascension is the means of introducing us into the heavenly places, which by our sin were barred against us. Compare the change made by Christ ( Colossians 1:20 , Ephesians 1:20 ). While Christ in the flesh was in the form of a servant, God's people could not realize fully their heavenly privileges as sons. Now "our citizenship (Greek) is in heaven" ( Philippians 3:20 ), where our High Priest is ever "blessing" us. Our "treasures" are there ( Matthew 6:20 Matthew 6:21 ); our aims and affections ( Colossians 3:1 Colossians 3:2 ); our hope ( Colossians 1:5 , Titus 2:13 ); our inheritance ( 1 Peter 1:4 ). The gift of the Spirit itself, the source of the "spiritual blessing," is by virtue of Jesus having ascended thither ( Ephesians 4:8 ).
in Christ--the center and source of all blessing to us.
4. hath chosen us--Greek, "chose us out for Himself" (namely, out of the world, Galatians 1:4 ): referring to His original choice, spoken of as past.
in him--The repetition of the idea, "in Christ" ( Ephesians 1:3 ), implies the paramount importance of the truth that it is in Him, and by virtue of union to Him, the Second Adam, the Restorer ordained for us from everlasting, the Head of redeemed humanity, believers have all their blessings ( Ephesians 3:11 ).
before the foundation of the world--This assumes the eternity of the Son of God ( John 17:5 John 17:24 ), as of the election of believers in Him ( 2 Timothy 1:9 , 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ).
that we should be holy--positively ( Deuteronomy 14:2 ).
without blame--negatively ( Ephesians 5:27 , 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ).
before him--It is to Him the believer looks, walking as in His presence, before whom he looks to be accepted in the judgment ( Colossians 1:22 ; compare Revelation 7:15 ).
in love--joined by BENGEL and others with Ephesians 1:5 , "in love having predestinated us," &c. But English Version is better. The words qualify the whole clause, "that we should be holy . . . before Him." Love, lost to man by the fall, but restored by redemption, is the root and fruit and sum of all holiness ( Ephesians 5:2 , 1 Thessalonians 3:12 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ).
5. predestinated--more special in respect to the end and precise means, than "chosen" or elected. We are "chosen" out of the rest of the world; "predestinated" to all things that secure the inheritance for us ( Ephesians 1:11 , Romans 8:29 ). "Foreordained."
by Jesus--Greek, "through Jesus."
to himself--the Father ( Colossians 1:20 ). ALFORD explains, "adoption . . . into Himself," that is, so that we should be partakers of the divine nature ( 2 Peter 1:4 ). LACHMANN reads, "unto Him." The context favors the explanation of CALVIN: God has regard to Himself and the glory of His grace ( Ephesians 1:6 Ephesians 1:12 Ephesians 1:14 ) as His ultimate end. He had one only-begotten Son, and He was pleased for His own glory, to choose out of a lost world many to become His adopted sons. Translate, "unto Himself."
the good pleasure of his will--So the Greek ( Matthew 11:26 , Luke 10:21 ). We cannot go beyond "the good pleasure of His will" in searching into the causes of our salvation, or of any of His works ( Ephesians 1:9 ). ( Job 33:13 .) Why needest thou philosophize about an imaginary world of optimism? Thy concern is to take heed that thou be not bad. There was nothing in us which deserved His love ( Ephesians 1:1 Ephesians 1:9 Ephesians 1:11 ) [BENGEL].
6. ( Ephesians 1:7 Ephesians 1:17 Ephesians 1:18 ). The end aimed at ( Psalms 50:23 ), that is, that the glory of His grace may be praised by all His creatures, men and angels.
wherein--Some of the oldest manuscripts read, "which." Then translate, "which He graciously bestowed on us." But English Version is supported by good manuscripts and the oldest versions.
us accepted--a kindred Greek word to "grace": charitos, echaritosen: translate, "graciously accepted"; "made us subjects of His grace"; "embraced us in the arms of His grace" ( Romans 3:24 , 5:15 ).
in the beloved--pre-eminently so called ( Matthew 3:17 , 17:5 , John 3:35 , Colossians 1:13 ). Greek, "Son of His love." It is only "IN HIS BELOVED" that He loves us ( Ephesians 1:3 , 1 John 4:9 1 John 4:10 ).
7. In whom--"the Beloved" ( Ephesians 1:6 , Romans 3:24 ).
we have--as a present possession.
redemption--Greek, "our (literally, 'the') redemption"; THE redemption which is the grand subject of all revelation, and especially of the New Testament ( Romans 3:24 ), namely, from the power, guilt, and penal consequences of sin ( Matthew 1:21 ). If a man were unable to redeem himself from being a bond-servant, his kinsman might redeem him ( Leviticus 25:48 ). Hence, antitypically the Son of God became the Son of man, that as our kinsman He might redeem us ( Matthew 20:28 ). Another "redemption" follows, namely, that "of the purchased possession" hereafter ( Ephesians 1:14 ).
through his blood--( Ephesians 2:13 ); as the instrument; the propitiation, that is, the consideration (devised by His own love) for which He, who was justly angry ( Isaiah 12:1 ), becomes propitious to us; the expiation, the price paid to divine justice for our sin ( Acts 20:28 , Romans 3:25 , 1 Corinthians 6:20 , Colossians 1:20 , 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 ).
the forgiveness of sins--Greek, "the remission of our transgressions": not merely "pretermission," as the Greek ( Romans 3:25 ) ought to be translated. This "remission," being the explanation of "redemption," includes not only deliverance from sin's penalty, but from its pollution and enslaving power, negatively; and the reconciliation of an offended God, and a satisfaction unto a just God, positively.
riches of his grace--( Ephesians 2:7 ); "the exceeding riches of His grace." Compare Ephesians 1:18 , Ephesians 3:16 , "according to the riches of His glory": so that "grace" is His "glory."
8. Rather, "which He made to abound towards us."
all wisdom and prudence--"wisdom" in devising the plan of redeeming mankind; "prudence" in executing it by the means, and in making all the necessary arrangements of Providence for that purpose. Paul attributes to the Gospel of God's grace "all" possible "wisdom and prudence," in opposition to the boasts of wisdom and prudence which the unbelieving Jews and heathen philosophers and false apostles arrogated for their teachings. Christ crucified, though esteemed "foolishness" by the world, is "the wisdom of God" ( 1 Corinthians 1:18-30 ). Compare Ephesians 3:10 , "the manifold wisdom of God."
9. "He hath abounded," or "made (grace) to abound toward us" ( Ephesians 1:8 ), in that He made known to us, namely, experimentally, in our hearts.
the mystery--God's purpose of redemption hidden heretofore in His counsels, but now revealed ( Ephesians 6:19 , Romans 16:25 , Colossians 1:26 Colossians 1:27 ). This "mystery" is not like the heathen mysteries, which were imparted only to the initiated few. All Christians are the initiated. Only unbelievers are the uninitiated.
according to his good pleasure--showing the cause why "He hath made known to us the mystery," namely, His own loving "good pleasure" toward us; also the time and manner of His doing so, are according to His good pleasure.
purposed--( Ephesians 1:11 ).
in himself--God the Father. BENGEL takes it, "in Him," that is, Christ, as in Ephesians 1:3 Ephesians 1:4 . But the proper name, "in Christ," Ephesians 1:10 , immediately after, is inconsistent with His being here meant by the pronoun.
10. Translate, "Unto the dispensation of the fulness of the times," that is, "which He purposed in Himself" ( Ephesians 1:9 ) with a view to the economy of (the gracious administration belonging to) the fulness of the times (Greek, "fit times," "seasons"). More comprehensive than "the fulness of the time" ( Galatians 4:4 ). The whole of the Gospel times (plural) is meant, with the benefits to the Church dispensed in them severally and successively. Compare "the ages to come" ( Ephesians 2:7 ). "The ends of the ages" (Greek, 1 Corinthians 10:11 ); "the times (same Greek as here, 'the seasons,' or 'fitly appointed times') of the Gentiles" ( Luke 21:24 ); "the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power" ( Acts 1:7 ); "the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the prophets since the world began" ( Acts 3:20 Acts 3:21 ). The coming of Jesus at the first advent, "in the fulness of time," was one of these "times." The descent of the Holy Ghost, "when Pentecost was fully come" ( Acts 2:1 ), was another. The testimony given by the apostles to Him "in due time" ("in its own seasons," Greek) ( 1 Timothy 2:6 ) was another. The conversion of the Jews "when the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled," the second coming of Christ, the "restitution of all things," the millennial kingdom, the new heaven and earth, shall be severally instances of "the dispensation of the fulness of the times," that is, "the dispensation of" the Gospel events and benefits belonging to their respective "times," when severally filled up or completed. God the Father, according to His own good pleasure and purpose, is the Dispenser both of the Gospel benefits and of their several fitting times ( Acts 1:7 ).
gather together in one--Greek, "sum up under one head"; "recapitulate." The "good pleasure which He purposed," was "to sum up all things (Greek, 'THE whole range of things') in Christ (Greek, 'the Christ,' that is, His Christ)" [ALFORD]. God's purpose is to sum up the whole creation in Christ, the Head of angels, with whom He is linked by His invisible nature, and of men with whom He is linked by His humanity; of Jews and Gentiles; of the living and the dead ( Ephesians 3:15 ); of animate and inanimate creation. Sin has disarranged the creature's relation of subordination to God. God means to gather up all together in Christ; or as Colossians 1:20 says, "By Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, whether things in earth or things in heaven." ALFORD well says, "The Church of which the apostle here mainly treats, is subordinated to Him in the highest degree of conscious and joyful union; those who are not His spiritually, in mere subjugation, yet consciously; the inferior tribes of creation unconsciously; but objectively, all are summed up in Him."
11. In whom--by virtue of union to whom.
obtained an inheritance--literally, "We were made to have an inheritance" [WAHL]. Compare Ephesians 1:18 , "His inheritance in the saints": as His inheritance is there said to be in them, so theirs is here said to be in Him ( Acts 26:18 ). However, Ephesians 1:12 , "That we should BE TO . . . His glory" (not "that we should have"), favors the translation of BENGEL, ELLICOTT, and others, "We were made an inheritance." So the literal Israel ( Deuteronomy 4:20 , 9:29 , 32:9 ). "Also" does not mean "we also," nor as English Version, "in whom also"; but, besides His having "made known to us His will," we were also "made His inheritance," or "we have also obtained an inheritance."
predestinated--( Ephesians 1:5 ). The foreordination of Israel, as the elect nation, answers to that of the spiritual Israelites, believers, to an eternal inheritance, which is the thing meant here. The "we" here and in Ephesians 1:12 , means Jewish believers (whence the reference to the election of Israel nationally arises), as contrasted with "you" ( Ephesians 1:13 ) Gentile believers.
purpose--repeated from "purposed" ( Ephesians 1:9 , Ephesians 3:11 ). The Church existed in the mind of God eternally, before it existed in creation.
counsel of his . . . will--( Ephesians 1:5 ), "the good pleasure of His will." Not arbitrary caprice, but infinite wisdom ("counsel") joined with sovereign will. Compare his address to the same Ephesians in Acts 20:27 , "All the counsel of God" ( Isaiah 28:29 ). Alike in the natural and spiritual creations, God is not an agent constrained by necessity. "Wheresoever counsel is, there is election, or else it is vain; where a will, there must be freedom, or else it is weak" [PEARSON].
12. ( Ephesians 1:6 Ephesians 1:14 ).
who first trusted in Christ--rather (we Jewish Christians), "who have before hoped in the Christ": who before the Christ came, looked forward to His coming, waiting for the consolation of Israel. Compare Acts 26:6 Acts 26:7 , "I am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come." Acts 28:20 , "the hope of Israel" [ALFORD]. Compare Ephesians 1:18 , 2:12 , 4:4 .
13. In whom ye also--Ye Gentiles. Supply as English Version, "trusted," from Ephesians 1:12 ; or "are." The priority of us Jews does not exclude you Gentiles from sharing in Christ (compare Acts 13:46 ).
the word of truth--the instrument of sanctification, and of the new birth ( John 17:17 , 2 Timothy 2:15 , 1:18 ). Compare Colossians 1:5 , where also, as here, it is connected with "hope." Also Ephesians 4:21 .
sealed--as God's confirmed children, by the Holy Spirit as the seal ( Acts 19:1-6 Romans 8:16 Romans 8:23 1 John 3:24 ). validity to the contract in it ( John 3:33 , 6:27 ; compare 2 Corinthians 3:3 ). So the sense of "the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost" ( Romans 5:5 ), and the sense of adoption given through the Spirit at regeneration ( Romans 8:15 Romans 8:16 ), assure believers of God's good will to them. The Spirit, like a seal, impresses on the soul at regeneration the image of our Father. The "sealing" by the Holy Spirit is spoken of as past once for all. The witnessing to our hearts that we are the children of God, and heirs ( Ephesians 1:11 ), is the Spirit's present testimony, the "earnest of the (coming) inheritance" ( Romans 8:16-18 ).
that Holy Spirit of promise--rather, as the Greek, "The Spirit of promise, even the Holy Spirit": The Spirit promised both in the Old and New Testaments ( Joel 2:28 , Zechariah 12:10 , John 7:38 John 7:39 ). "The word" promised the Holy Spirit. Those who "believed the word of truth" were sealed by the Spirit accordingly.
14. earnest--the first instalment paid as a pledge that the rest will follow ( Romans 8:23 , 2 Corinthians 1:22 ).
until--rather, "Unto the redemption," &c.; joined thus, "ye were sealed ( Ephesians 1:13 ) unto," that is, for the purpose of and against, the accomplishment of "the redemption," namely, not the redemption in its first stage, made by the blood of Christ, which secures our title, but, in its final completion, when the actual possession shall be ours, the full "redemption of the body" ( Romans 8:23 ), as well as of the soul, from every infirmity ( Ephesians 4:30 ). The deliverance of the creature (the body, and the whole visible creation) from the bondage of corruption, and from the usurping prince of this world, into the glorious liberty of the children of God ( Romans 8:21-23 , 2 Peter 3:13 ).
of the purchased possession--God's people purchased ("acquired," Greek) as His peculiar (Greek) possession by the blood of Christ ( Acts 20:28 ). We value highly that which we pay a high price for; so God, His Church ( Ephesians 5:25 Ephesians 5:26 , 1 Peter 1:18 , 2:9 ; "my special treasure," Malachi 3:17 , Margin).
15. Wherefore--because ye are in Christ and sealed by His Spirit ( Ephesians 1:13 Ephesians 1:14 ).
I also--on my part, in return for God's so great benefits to you.
after I heard--ever since I have heard. Not implying that he had only heard of their conversion: an erroneous argument used by some against the address of this Epistle to the Ephesians since he was with them, as to their Christian graces. So in the case of Philemon, his "beloved fellow laborer" ( Philemon 1:1 ), he uses the same words ( philemon 1:4 philemon 1:5 ).
your faith--rather, as Greek, "the faith among you," that is, which many (not all) of you have.
love unto all the saints--of whatever name, simply because they are saints. A distinguishing characteristic of true Christianity ( Ephesians 6:24 ). "Faith and love he often joins together. A wondrous pair" [CHRYSOSTOM]. Hope is added, Ephesians 1:18 .
16. ( Colossians 1:9 ).
of you--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. Then the translation may be as English Version still, or as ALFORD, "making mention of them" (your "faith and love").
17. A fit prayer for all Christians.
the God of our Lord Jesus--appropriate title here; as in Ephesians 1:20-22 he treats of God's raising Jesus to be Head over all things to the Church. Jesus Himself called the Father "My God" ( Matthew 27:46 ).
the Father of glory--(Compare Acts 7:2 ). The Father of that infinite glory which shines in the face of Christ, who is "the glory" (the true Shekinah); through whom also "the glory of the inheritance" ( Ephesians 1:18 ) shall be ours (John 17:24'2 Corinthians 3:7-4:6').
the spirit of wisdom--whose attribute is infinite wisdom and who works wisdom in believers ( Isaiah 11:2 ).
and revelation--whose function it is to reveal to believers spiritual mysteries ( John 16:14 John 16:15 , 1 Corinthians 2:10 ).
in the knowledge--rather, as Greek "in the full knowledge of Him," namely, God.
18. understanding--The oldest manuscripts, versions, and Fathers, read "heart." Compare the contrary state of unbelieving, the heart being in fault ( Ephesians 4:18 , Matthew 13:15 ). Translate, "Having the eyes of your heart enlightened" ( Ephesians 5:14 , Matthew 4:16 ). The first effect of the Spirit moving in the new creation, as in the original physical creation ( Genesis 1:3 , 2 Corinthians 4:6 ). So THEOPHILUS to AUTOLYCUS (1.3), "the ears of the heart." Where spiritual light is, there is life ( John 1:4 ). The heart is "the core of life" [HARLESS], and the fountain of the thoughts; whence "the heart" in Scripture includes the mind, as well as the inclination. Its "eye," or inward vision, both receives and contemplates the light ( Matthew 6:22 Matthew 6:23 ). The eye is the symbol of intelligence ( Ezekiel 1:18 ).
the hope of his calling--the hope appertaining to His having called you; or, to the calling wherewith He has called you.
and--omitted in the oldest manuscripts and versions.
riches of the glory--( Colossians 1:27 ).
his inheritance in the saints--The inheritance which he has in store in the case of the saints. I prefer explaining, "The inheritance which He has in his saints." Deuteronomy 32:9 ).
19. exceeding--"surpassing."
power to us-ward who believe--The whole of the working of His grace, which He is carrying on, and will carry on, in us who believe. By the term "saints" ( Ephesians 1:18 ), believers are regarded as absolutely perfected, and so as being God's inheritance; in this verse, as in the course of fighting the good fight of faith.
according to--in accordance wit,h, what might be expected from.
working--Greek, "the energizing"; translate, "the effectual working" ( Ephesians 3:7 ). The same superhuman power was needed and exerted to make us believe, as was needed and exerted to raise Christ from the dead ( Ephesians 1:20 ). Compare Philippians 3:10 , "the power of His resurrection" ( Colossians 2:12 , 1 Peter 1:3-5 ).
of his mighty power--Greek, "of the strength of His might."
20. in Christ--as our "first-fruits" of the resurrection, and Head, in virtue of God's mighty working in whom His power to us-ward is made possible and actual [ALFORD].
when he raised him--"in that He raised Him." The raising of Christ is not only an earnest of our bodies being hereafter raised, but has a spiritual power in it involving (by virtue of our living union with Him, as members with the Head) the resurrection, spiritually of the believer's soul now, and, consequently, of his body hereafter ( Romans 6:8-11 , 8:11 ). The Son, too, as God (though not as man), had a share in raising His own human body ( John 2:19 , John 10:17 John 10:18 ). Also the Holy Spirit ( Romans 1:4 , 1 Peter 3:18 ).
set him--Greek, "made Him sit." The glorious spirits stand about the throne of God, but they do not sit at God's right hand ( Hebrews 1:13 ).
at his own right hand--( Psalms 110:1 ). Where He remains till all His enemies have been put under His feet ( 1 Corinthians 15:24 ). Being appointed to "rule in the midst of His enemies" during their rebellion ( Psalms 110:2 ), He shall resign His commission after their subjection [PEARSON] ( 16:19 , Hebrews 1:3 , 10:12 ).
in the heavenly places--( Ephesians 1:3 ). As Christ has a literal body, heaven is not merely a state, but a place; and where He is, there His people shall be ( John 14:3 ).
21. Greek, "Far (or high) above all ( Ephesians 4:10 ) principality (or rule, 1 Corinthians 15:24 ), and authority, and power ( Matthew 28:18 ), and dominion (or lordship)." Compare Philippians 2:9 , Colossians 1:16 , Hebrews 7:26 , 1 Peter 3:22 . Evil spirits (who are similarly divided into various ranks, Ephesians 6:12 ), as well as angels of light, and earthly potentates, are included (compare Romans 8:38 ). Jesus is "King of kings, and Lord of lords" ( Revelation 19:16 ). The higher is His honor, the greater is that of His people, who are His members joined to Him, the Head. Some philosophizing teachers of the school of Simon Magus, in Western Asia Minor, had, according to IRENÆUS and EPIPHANIUS, taught their hearers these names of various ranks of angels. Paul shows that the truest wisdom is to know Christ as reigning above them all.
every name--every being whatever. "Any other creature" ( Romans 8:39 ).
in this world--Greek, "age," that is, the present order of things. "Things present . . . things to come" ( Romans 8:38 ).
that . . . to come--"Names which now we know not, but shall know hereafter in heaven. We know that the emperor goes before all, though we cannot enumerate all the satraps and ministers of his court; so we know that Christ is set above all, although we cannot name them all" [BENGEL].
22. put . . . under--Greek, "put in subjection under" ( Psalms 8:6 , 1 Corinthians 15:27 ).
gave . . . to the church--for her special advantage. The Greek order is emphatic: "HIM He gave as Head over all things to the Church." Had it been anyone save HIM, her Head, it would not have been the boon it is to the Church. But as He is Head over all things who is also her Head (and she the body), all things are hers ( 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 ). He is OVER ("far above") all things; in contrast to the words, "TO the Church," namely, for her advantage. The former are subject; the latter is joined with Him in His dominion over them. "Head" implies not only His dominion, but our union; therefore, while we look upon Him at the right hand of God, we see ourselves in heaven ( Revelation 3:21 ). For the Head and body are not severed by anything intervening, else the body would cease to be the body, and the Head cease to be the Head [PEARSON from CHRYSOSTOM].
23. his body--His mystical and spiritual, not literal, body. Not, however, merely figurative, or metaphorical. He is really, though spiritually, the Church's Head. His life is her life. She shares His crucifixion and His consequent glory. He possesses everything, His fellowship with the Father, His fulness of the Spirit, and His glorified manhood, not merely for Himself, but for her, who has a membership of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones ( Ephesians 5:30 ).
fulness--"the filled-up receptacle" [EADIE]. The Church is dwelt in and filled by Christ. She is the receptacle, not of His inherent, but of His communicated, plenitude of gifts and graces. As His is the "fulness" ( John 1:16 , Colossians 1:19 , 2:9 ) inherently, so she is His "fulness" by His impartation of it to her, in virtue of her union to Him ( Ephesians 5:18 , Colossians 2:10 ). "The full manifestation of His being, because penetrated by His life" [CONYBEARE and HOWSON]. She is the continued revelation of His divine life in human form; the fullest representative of His plenitude. Not the angelic hierarchy, as false teachers taught ( Colossians 2:9 Colossians 2:10 Colossians 2:18 ), but Christ Himself is the "fulness of the Godhead," and she represents Him. KOPPE translates less probably, "the whole universal multitude."
filleth all in all--Christ as the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of the world, constituted by God ( Colossians 1:16-19 ), fills all the universe of things with all things. "Fills all creation with whatever it possesses" [ALFORD]. The Greek is, "filleth for Himself."


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I used the -10dB gain from the "beam" information. That corresponds to the green "dots" on my previous map, which looks like it covers slightly more.
I always interpreted the signal strength maps with -10 dB as being the point at which one should be able to get a reasonable signal with Dish's standard dish i.e., a D500 or D1000. Outside the -10 dB area, a larger dish would probably be needed. In the case of Ciel-2 at 129 W, one may want a separate D500 dish pointed at 129 W outside of the -10dB area. Based on the downlink maps that have been posted for Ciel-2, I don't see the need for a bigger/separate dish for much of the area in the Western Arc.


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Vice Mayor Kelly Kirschner had suggested previously that the Palm and Ringling roundabout be delayed, because he wasn't sure if the traffic at that intersection warranted a roundabout.
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The proposed roundabout at 10th Street is part of a bayfront-connectivity plan, which calls for a total of five roundabouts along U.S. 41. Commissioners thought it would be a good idea to build a test roundabout to see how people liked it.
However, it could be three years or more before construction could begin.
Davis Shaw explained to commissioners that because some city land would need to be used to make room for the roundabout and the Florida Department of Transportation requires that the city transfer that land to the state, the process takes a long time.
She said a six-year time frame was estimated for a roundabout at Gulfstream Avenue and U.S. 41.
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Davis Shaw said she'd investigate whether there would be a similar delay at 10th Street.
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- What happens when people decide to circumvent 41 and use coconut because they don't like manuvering round-a -bouts. It will happen. People use Washington so they don't have to go through St Armands. Nice residential street gets extra traffic. There is a trickle effect the commissioners are going to start. Why? Round-a-bouts look nice? Tenth St no less. That will be fun. There is more pedestrian traffic there than at Gulf Drive. Quite a lot headed to the boat ramp for a bench. Sorry but it's the truth. Wonder how many will be hit? Traffic coming in and out of Publix and the gas station. That ought to be a nice build up. We live on 18th and the only way we can get out to go south on 41 usually is when the light at tenth is red and the traffic is stopped for a bit. I've written the DOT to protest these things on 41. Please take a few minutes and do the same.
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- Please, please do not put in round abouts. New Jersey has many round abouts and they are a problem. People do not know who has the right of way, those entering the circle or those already in the circle. They are confusing. New Jersey is getting rid of them because they do not work like intended. It would be a huge mistake to put round abouts on Hwy 41.
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Cygnet fire? Posted in Greater Yellowstone Area
Has the Cygnet fire messed with any of the fishing over there? It sounds like it's pretty close to the Gibbon?
discussion BY Rachel ON August 30 - 6 COMMENTS
Anyone fished the Gibbon by the old road? Posted in Greater Yellowstone Area
I haven't had a chance to fish the Gibbon along the old road bed since they moved the road. The water always looked great, but I was always afraid I'd hook a motorcyclist on my backcast.
Has anyone gotten in there and explored? How's it fishing?
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I started where I left off, underground of the Ruins of Alph ! We headed, west, north, and west. We came to a dead end! We then headed off on the long way backm which seemed shorter on the way back! We went up the ladder and out of the building! We were running away from Wild Unown most of the time! We explored the Ruins , including going south, including Surfing on water. We got into a building with a Aerodactyl Puzzle ! We completed it! The floor shook and the floor fell out from under us! We were underground, below the Ruins of Alph ! We went west to a dead end! We then went back east, north, west, north, and west. We found a ladder! We went up it! We were in a building, which we excited. We came out of the same building that we came out of before! We explored the Ruins of Alph some more, including a building with a Kabuto Puzzle that we tried to complete, and it looked completed, but apparently it wasn't! We explored more of the Ruins , including have Cameron the Photographer take a Picture of us! We explored the Ruins of Alph some more, mainly finding a Great Ball and a TinyMushroom with my Dowsing Machine , but we didn't find much else to do! We then flew to Azalea Town ! We headed east until we shortly got to the Slowpoke Well ! We entered it! We explored it! We found the ladder to downstairs soon! We went downstairs! We Surfed around, also landing, exploring. We found a TM18 , Rain Dance ! We explored more, including running away from Wild Pokemon as we also did on the First Floor ! We found a Scientist who talked about Slowpoke and their Evolution , and their relation with a King's Rock ! He was nice! I thanked him! I then thanked him! We talked, and he said that he would stay here longer and observe the Slowpoke more! I then saved on the same area as he was, rather close to him. 99:43,4
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — If you're a Notre Dame fan, you need to be open to the possibility that God has taken to wearing red plaid pants.
It's either that or admit your team had no business being in the national championship game.
Alabama is in a different league when it comes to football, that league looking suspiciously like the NFL. No college team could have beaten the Crimson Tide in the BCS title game Monday night, but it's fair to ask how many programs would have put up a better fight than the Fighting Irish did inside Sun Life Stadium. Five? Ten? More?
That's one of the many questions we were left to ponder while the Tide was crushing Notre Dame 42-14.
If the Irish had been asked about their worst nightmare heading into the title game, it's hard to believe they would have come up with anything as brutally horrific as what happened Monday night. But it became readily apparent a play or two into Alabama's victory that one side had men, and, boy, was the other side overmatched.
The front seven was supposed to be a strength for the Irish in this game, but Alabama's offense bulldozed it at the line of scrimmage. A 20-yard touchdown run by Eddie Lacy on the first drive set the tone. You would have had to dust for fingerprints to see if he had been touched on the play.
"That was most surprising to me, that we were able to control the line of scrimmage,'' Alabama coach Nick Saban said. "… I think their guys got a little tired early in the game.''
Size, speed, coaching — you name it, Alabama had more of it. It was like a 13-year-old with five o'clock shadow lining up against a 10-year-old who suddenly realizes he would prefer to be doing homework, eating his vegetables or being grounded for a month.
"That's what [a national champion] looks like,'' Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. "Measure yourself against that, and it was pretty clear across the board what we have to do. I don't want to minimize the fact that we've made incredible strides to get to this point. Now it's pretty clear what we have to do to get over the top.''
The Irish had luck on their side this season, and they don't need to apologize for it. But luck had no chance against Alabama. I'm not sure the Jacksonville Jaguars would have had a chance against Alabama.
The Irish could have brought a tractor-trailer full of miracles and shamrocks with them, and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. This wasn't Pittsburgh, BYU or Stanford. This was a nasty team in hot pursuit of history.
Alabama has won three of the last four national titles, including two straight. That D word? Dynasty? It's OK to say it, even if Saban and his hermetically zipped lips struggled with it.
"I don't think words like dynasties are words I'm interested in,'' Saban said. "I'm worried about accomplishments.''
A real accomplishment? Saban admitting, "Whether I look like it or not, I'm happy as hell.''
Notre Dame football appears to be back as a national power, but it's hard to say that definitively after what happened here. That's what Alabama does. It reduces teams to rubble, makes them have crises of confidence. It's where the Irish are right now, wondering what the hell just happened. Even now, it's hard to believe Notre Dame came into this game as the No. 1 team in the nation, with Alabama second.
"They were absolutely, by far, the fastest, biggest, strongest team we have played,'' ND linebacker Danny Spond said.
The Irish rushed for only 32 yards. Lacy ran for 140 yards, and teammate T.J. Yeldon had 108. That would be your ballgame right there.
The last time Notre Dame won a title was 1988. That's still how the school measures itself. So although this season might have been fun, it won't be looked on as good enough.
"It definitely sucks, to be quite honest,'' linebacker Manti Te'o said. "But I wouldn't trade [the season] for anything.''
This game will be looked on as an embarrassment that shouldn't happen again. But that might depend on whether the Irish play Alabama again.


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Today and tomorrow, MEGA will get assistance finishing up projects at its location on 1503 Broadway Street in Shelby from fellow nonprofit Growing Power, based in Milwaukee, Wis.
Dorothy Grady-Scarbrough, creator of MEGA in 1999, has partnered with Growing Power multiple times in the past, and the group sent seven members last month to begin a greenhouse project.
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"This weekend will be a two-fold experience," added Grady-Scarbrough. "Participants will be volunteering their time for a good cause, but this is also a great learning opportunity."
The goal for the weekend is to complete the greenhouse that will house an aquaponics project in which MEGA will maintain a tilapia fish population.
Grady-Scarbrough said the facility in Shelby has been a plentiful food source since the site opened in March of 2012.
"We have grown nine varieties of peppers, greens, butterbeans, squash, cucumbers and a fruit orchard with 19 fruit trees."
MEGA is still seeking volunteer support for this weekend's efforts, and those interested can contact Grady-Scarbrough at 662-402-4798.
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With the Turkish foreign minister and Istanbul governor paying homage, the body of Ertegün is laid to rest on Dec 18. (Osman Orsal | AP)
Istanbul | New York Times popular-music critic Jon Pareles refers in the opening paragraph of his appreciation to the "sheer improbability" of Ahmet Ertegün's career ("A Mogul Who Helped Mold Pop Culture," Dec 16). A reading of Ertegün's life, even a superficial reading, demonstrates the often covert international influences on seemingly indigenous American art forms—on soul music and rhythm and blues, in Ertegí¼n's case—and on American soccer.
Ertegün's death on Dec 14 at 83 as well as the death a day earlier of Lamar Hunt, 74, meant the loss of two men whose interests and largely beneficent wielding of money and influence beginning in the mid-1960s provided momentum for a moribund sport.
Hunt, the son of billionaire oilman Haroldson Lafayette (H. L.) Hunt, has been American soccer's constant since a terrace-based encounter with Shamrock Rovers in Dublin in 1962 and his viewing, with other Americans, of the BBC broadcast of the 1966 World Cup final from Wembley Stadium (Frank Dell'Apa, "Hunt a Quiet Pioneer of U.S. Soccer," ESPNsoccernet, Dec 13). Andrei Markovits and Steven Hellerman in Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (Princeton, 2001) deliberately choose "ubiquitous" to characterize Hunt's involvement.
For one, Hunt seemed attracted to upstart projects and mixing in the alphabet soup of nascent sport leagues. In 1959, he joined several prospective team owners to create the American Football League, a rival to the burgeoning popularity of the NFL whose 12 franchises had proven a closed shop. The AFL would launch with eight teams the following year, before merging with the NFL in 1970. Four "Super Bowls"—a name suggested by Hunt—were contested between the two leagues, with Hunt's Kansas City Chiefs winning the last between the AFL and NFL on 11 Jan 1970.
Almost simultaneously to the heated AFL-NFL wars, Hunt, as owner of the Dallas Tornado, joined the leadership of the North American Soccer League, a quickfire merger of two leagues—the National Professional Soccer League and the United Soccer Association—that launched in the spring of 1967 to fill a soccer void. In just two years, however, club soccer's presence in America had dwindled to five professional teams. The league's survival, according to Markovits and Hellerman, until the Cosmos' founding and the infusion of overseas talent was due to league commissioner Phil Woosnam and Hunt, who brought the credibility of the Chiefs' 1970 championship.
The presence of Hunt, a highly respected businessman from an extremely wealthy family, gave the shaky league its sole anchor of legitimacy and hope. Yet, highlighting the ephemeral nature of professional soccer in America and the completely unconventional—even weird—manner of building its teams, Hunt's Tornado embarked on a global odyssey that carried the team to twenty countries, playing forty-five games of which it won ten, lost twenty-seven, and drew eight before the team had played its very first game in Dallas. (165–66)
The Dallas side folded in 1982. No NASL team ever made a profit. Yet more important than the unworkable business model was the investment that Hunt and others had made in developing a nationwide awareness of the world's most popular entertainment. "[G]reater numbers of American youth and, notably, American women," write Markovits and Hellerman, "began to take up the sport as the saga of the NASL wound down." While the recently released film Once in a Lifetime emphasizes the Cosmos' excesses and glamour, soccer found its form in America in open fields, as a game for girls and boys who might not have found comfort in the more indigenous sports.
Columbus general manager Mark McCullers says "the embodiment of [Hunt's] legacy is Crew Stadium," pictured on 29 Apr 06. (pinkertons | Flickrâ"¢)
Hunt's place as "soccer's guardian angel"—the words of former FC Dallas (née Burn) general manager Andy Swift—became assured with his sustained interest in the sport through the 1994 World Cup finals and with the Hunt family's ownership of three Major League Soccer teams in Columbus, Dallas and Kansas City. (The Kansas City Wizards were sold in August to local owners.) Perhaps Hunt's most vital contribution to the American club game was seeing, from his study of stadia abroad during quadrennial trips to the World Cup finals, the ingredient offered by the game's surround. The first American arena constructed for outdoor soccer, Columbus Crew Stadium, rose after Hunt persisted through two earlier denials in 1997 and 1998 (Shawn Mitchell, "Hunt Saw His Vision of Soccer Come True," Columbus Dispatch, Dec 15; not available online). These investments in concrete, made also in stadia in the Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Denver areas (Toronto, New York and Washington, D.C., to come), show that soccer has established a physical as well as a cultural presence in its last frontier.
"I have no doubts that [soccer] will be a major sport in the United States," said Hunt in 2002, although he might have had reason to employ the present tense.
I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good. … [W]e've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years. But I have no question that we're going to see the sport become a major success in the United States, with high attendance at club games.
Markovits and Hellerman emphasize Hunt's contribution toward a global perspective among the next generation of soccer investors, "a cogent sense that soccer is the world's only truly global team sport and the world's most popular form of entertainment" (185).
Born in Istanbul, the son of the one-time Turkish ambassador to the United States, Ertegün's international credentials are more immediately apparent. Due to his father's posting, Ertegün found himself in Washington, D.C., by the mid-1930s, and one imagines him plying the city's U Street corridor, the home ground of Duke Ellington, as well as listening to jazz music at desegregated soirées in the Turkish Embassy. Social gatherings in the capital still were segregated, as well as housing, schools and shops (see "Explore DC: The Segregated City").
Ahmet (left) and Nesuhi in the Turkish Embassy record room, sometime in the 1930s. (William P. Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division)
Ertegün earned his undergraduate degree at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, a unique American college based on a great-books curriculum in literature, philosophy, theology, political science and history. Three years later, in 1947, with $10,000 in start-up capital Ertegün created Atlantic Records and would cultivate his early exposure to jazz and gospel music through the business, signing artists such as Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and, later, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.
His founding of the Cosmos, partnering with brother Nesuhi, had origins in the label's acquisition by Warner Communications. According to the account in Once in a Lifetime, Nesuhi remained in the fold only after convincing Warner CEO Steve Ross to invest in a New York NASL franchise that would become Cosmos.
Pareles in his New York Times appreciation emphasizes that an interfaith coalition of the Muslim Ertegün, African American musicians rooted in the church and Jewish producers helped forge a new direction in American popular music. A similarly offbeat blending of these members of the Turkish diaspora, glad-handing American moguls, an iconic Brazilian (Pelé) and elite European footballing talent created a media burst that for a period made North American soccer palatable for mass consumption.
But beyond such flash, Hunt's and Ertegün's connections to a wider world facilitated the humble gift of a kicking game.


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The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State Univeristy will open its 2012-13 One More Night series with "Speaking in Tongues: The Chronicles of Babel" on Nov. 17.
Updated: December 19, 2012 11:29AM
Governors State University's Center for Performing Arts will open its 2012-13 One More Night series with playwright Shepsu Aakhu's "Speaking in Tongues: The Chronicles of Babel" at 8 p.m. Nov. 17.
"Speaking in Tongues," presented by MAAT Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre Productions, is the story of an extended family living in Chicago's now-demolished Washington Park housing project.
Aakhu based his play on many hours of oral history recollections gathered from family members.
"My family and their collective voices helped to define a way of life in the Washington Park projects that no longer exists," Aakhu said. "The world that we revisit here now exists only in our collective memories."
In "Speaking in Tongues," the mosaic of voices portrays the life of this extended family, the housing project and the greater American experiment with housing for the urban poor.
Andrea J. Dymond directs "Speaking in Tongues."
Cast members include Eddie Jordan III, Felicia McNeal, Sidney Miller, Delali Potakey, Mateo Smith, Demetria Thomas and Tina Marie Wright.
Critics applauded the play when it was first performed at Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center.
"This is a brilliant play to which I give my highest recommendation," Chicago Theater Beat wrote.
"Aakhu's insightful, engaged, articulate interviewees make extraordinary company, and director Andrea Dymond's exquisite cast speak with the kind of graceful candor that makes everything ring true," wrote the Chicago Reader, which is now a sister publication of the SouthtownStar.
Tickets for "Speaking in Tongues: The Chronicles of Babel" are $30 at the box office, off University Parkway east of Governors Highway, University Park; centertickets.net or (708) 235-2222. The box office is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and two hours prior to performances.
"Speaking in Tongues" is the first of four One More Night productions in the Center for Performing Arts' 2012-13 season.
One More Night, funded for a second year by a grant from the Chicago Community Trust, brings the finest in Chicago-area theater to local audiences.
Other shows in this season's series are:
◆ "Braid Tales" presented by Kuumba Lynx/FootworKINGz and featuring the South Shore Drill Team, on Jan. 26.
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