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Rahm Emanuel's office, which is no more than a three-second walk from the Oval Office, is as neat as a Marine barracks. On his desk, the files and documents, including leatherbound folders from the National Security Council, are precisely arranged, each one parallel with the desk's edge. During a visit hours before Congress passed President Barack Obama's stimulus package, on Friday, February 13th, I absently jostled one of Emanuel's heavy wooden letter trays a few degrees off kilter. He glared at me disapprovingly. Next to his computer monitor is a smaller screen that looks like a handheld G.P.S. device and tells Emanuel where the President and senior White House officials are at all times. Over all, the office suggests the workspace of someone who, in a more psychologized realm than the West Wing of the White House and with a less exacting job than that of the President's chief of staff, might be cited for "control issues."
Because the atmosphere of crisis is now so thick at the White House, any moment of triumph has a fleeting half-life, but the impending passage of the seven-hundred-and-eighty-seven-billion-dollar stimulus bill provided, at least for an afternoon, a sense of satisfaction. As Emanuel spoke about the complications of the legislation, he was quick to credit colleagues for shepherding the bill to victory—Peter Orszag, the budget director; Phil Schiliro, the legislative-affairs director; Jason Furman, the deputy director of the National Economic Council––but, in fact, nearly everyone in official Washington acknowledges that, besides Obama himself, Emanuel had done the most to coax and bully the bill out of Congress and onto the President's desk for signing.
That afternoon, Emanuel and his team were already concentrating on the next major project: the President's budget, which will be released on February 26th. Emanuel had just come from a budget meeting in the Roosevelt Room with the President's senior staff. (The President was downstairs in the Situation Room; coincidentally or not, hours later U.S. Predators attacked a Pakistani Taliban compound in South Waziristan.) After the budget meeting broke up, staffers hurried through the West Wing reception area: Carol Browner, who is in charge of energy policy; Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser; Gene Sperling, an adviser to the Treasury Secretary; Orszag; Furman. Like Emanuel, all had worked in the Clinton Administration, all are strong-willed, and all know how to navigate the White House bureaucracy to advance their views. Emanuel personally recruited several of them, and it is now his job to manage their competing egos.
Hard copies of that morning's issue of Politico were strewn across desks in the West Wing; the paper depicted Emanuel on its front page as a lordly giant ruling over the White House, Congress, and the rest of Washington's political architecture. Not all the world's commentators, however, were as awestruck by his achievements. In Granma, the Cuban government's leading propaganda organ, Fidel Castro wrote of Emanuel, "Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands." After a rambling meditation on the similarities between the chief of staff and Immanuel Kant, the retired jefe concluded that "Obama, Emanuel and all of the brilliant politicians and economists who have come together would not suffice to solve the growing problems of U.S. capitalist society."
Emanuel, for his part, seemed indifferent both to the praise in Washington and to the oddball critique from Havana. In a few hours, he would be leaving for a ski trip with his family to Park City, Utah, and he was anxious to get out of the White House and start the weekend. Asked about Castro's article, he said, "Well, you know, ever since I stopped sending him my holiday card he's been ticked off. I don't know what to think about it. Do you know what I'm thinking about? I'm going to finally get to see my kids after a month. So that's all I give a fuck about."
Unlike recent chiefs of staff from the Bush and Clinton eras, who tended to be relatively quiet inside players, Emanuel is a former congressional leader, a Democratic Party power, and one of the more colorful Beltway celebrities. He is a political John McEnroe, known for both his mercurial temperament and his tactical brilliance. In the same conversation, he can be wonkish and thoughtful, blunt and profane. (When Emanuel was a teen-ager, he lost half of his right middle finger, after cutting it on a meat slicer—an accident, Obama once joked, that "rendered him practically mute.") And, like McEnroe, Emanuel seems to employ his volcanic moments for effect, intimidating opponents and referees alike but never quite losing himself in the midst of battle. "I've seen Rahm scream at a candidate for office one moment and then quickly send him a cheesecake," Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic representative from Maryland, and a friend of Emanuel's, told me.
Emanuel has long since learned to balance his outsized personality, which has made him a subject of intrigue in Washington, with a compulsion for order, which makes him an effective manager. As a child, he attended a Jewish day school in Chicago, where students received written evaluations, instead of A's and B's. "My first-grade teacher," he told me, "said two things that were very interesting: 'Rahm likes to clean up after cleanup time is over.' " He pointed to his desk. "I am fastidious about it. In fact, this is messy today." The second point was about Emanuel's "personality being larger than life." In the first grade.
By any measure, what Obama's White House has achieved in passing the stimulus bill is historic. The last President to preside over a legislative victory of this magnitude so early in his Administration was Franklin Roosevelt, who on the sixth day of his Presidency persuaded Congress to enact a wholesale restructuring of the banking system. (That, too, is likely in the offing for the Obama team.) Yet praise for Obama was surprisingly grudging. Some liberal Democrats said that Emanuel and his team had made too many concessions to House Republicans, all of whom voted against the legislation. Meanwhile, conservatives complained that Obama had broken his pledge of bipartisan coöperation. Both arguments infuriated Emanuel, who spent hours on the Hill during the negotiations, arranged private meetings with Obama in the Oval Office for the Republican senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter, whose votes were critical to the bill's passage, and personally haggled over the smallest spending details during a crucial evening of bargaining that lasted until the early morning.
"They have never worked the legislative process," Emanuel said of critics like the Times columnist Paul Krugman, who argued that Obama's concessions to Senate Republicans—in particular, the tax cuts, which will do little to stimulate the economy—produced a package that wasn't large enough to respond to the magnitude of the recession. "How many bills has he passed?"
Emanuel has heard such complaints before. As a senior aide in the Clinton White House, he successfully fought a Republican Congress to pass the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), which now provides health care for seven million kids. "I worked children's health care," he said. "President Clinton had pediatric care, eye, and dental, inside Medicaid. The Republicans had pediatric care, no eye and dental, outside of Medicaid. The deal Chris Jennings, Bruce Reed, and Rahm Emanuel cut for President Clinton was eye, dental, and pediatric, but the Republican way—outside of Medicaid. At that time, I was eviscerated by the left." He slammed his fist on the desk, his voice rising. "I had sold out! Today, who are the greatest defenders of kids' health care? The very people that opposed it when it passed," Emanuel said. "Back then, you'd have thought I was a whore! How could we do this outside of Medicaid? They warned that it had to be in Medicaid—not that they gave a rat's ass that the kid had eye or dental care. But, for getting it outside of Medicaid, we got kids' eye and dental care. O.K.? That was the swap. Now, my view is that Krugman as an economist is not wrong. But in the art of the possible, of the deal, he is wrong. He couldn't get his legislation."
The stimulus bill was essentially held hostage to the whims of Collins, Snowe, and Specter, but if Al Franken, the apparent winner of the disputed Minnesota Senate race, had been seated in Washington, and if Ted Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, had been regularly available to vote, the White House would have needed only one Republican to pass the measure. "No disrespect to Paul Krugman," Emanuel went on, "but has he figured out how to seat the Minnesota senator?" (Franken's victory is the subject of an ongoing court challenge by his opponent, Norm Coleman, which the national Republican Party has been happy to help finance.) "Write a fucking column on how to seat the son of a bitch. I would be fascinated with that column. O.K.?" Emanuel stood up theatrically and gestured toward his seat with open palms. "Anytime they want, they can have it," he said of those who are critical of his legislative strategies. "I give them my chair."
His task has been made no easier by Obama's desire for bipartisanship, which Emanuel argues the press has misunderstood. "The public wants bipartisanship," he said. "We just have to try. We don't have to succeed." Still, he insisted, they have been succeeding. All Obama's other major accomplishments to date—winning approval for three hundred and fifty billion dollars in additional funding for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, expanding S-CHIP, signing an executive order to shutter the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay and a memorandum to increase the fuel efficiency of cars—were supported by at least some Republicans. The G.O.P., Emanuel said, decided that opposing the stimulus "was definitional, and I will make an argument to you, both on political and economic grounds: they will lose. I don't think the onus is on us. We tried. The story is they failed."
When Emanuel said this, I noticed that over his left shoulder, on the credenza behind him, was an official-looking name plate, which he said was a birthday present from his two brothers. It read, "Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself."
The office of chief of staff was created by Dwight Eisenhower, who redesigned the working structure of the White House along the hierarchal staff system he had learned as supreme commander of Allied forces in the Second World War. His chief of staff—though he didn't officially use the title, because Eisenhower worried that "politicians think it sounds too military"—was Sherman Adams, who accrued enormous influence, power, and enemies. Neither John F. Kennedy nor Lyndon Johnson had a chief of staff, and largely managed the White House themselves. Richard Nixon returned to Eisenhower's system and delegated vast managerial authority to H. R. Haldeman, the Watergate conspirator whose ironfisted management of the White House abetted Nixon's own self-destructive behavior in office. In reaction, both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without chiefs of staff, but both men reversed course when the flat management structure of their respective White Houses produced staff disarray. Since Carter, every President has acknowledged the need for a strong chief of staff.
Over the years, some clear patterns about what kind of person succeeds in the job have emerged. James Pfiffner, a professor at George Mason University who has written extensively on the history of the office, cites four chiefs of staff as notable failures: Adams, Haldeman, Donald Regan, who was Ronald Reagan's second chief of staff, and John Sununu, George H. W. Bush's first chief of staff. "All of them got power-hungry, they alienated members of Congress, they alienated members of their own Administration, they had reputations for a lack of common civility, and they had hostile relations with the press. And each one of them resigned in disgrace and hurt their Presidents," Pfiffner said. "Being able to be firm and tough without being obnoxious and overbearing is crucial."
Emanuel's début as chief of staff featured him on the Hill making deals with lawmakers—politely and with due deference, by all accounts—but a chief of staff's primary job is to serve as the gatekeeper to the President, controlling the flow of information and people into the Oval Office. Constrict that flow too much and you deprive the President of opposing points of view; increase it too much and you drown him in extraneous detail and force him to arbitrate disputes better settled at a lower level. Emanuel saw both extremes in the Clinton White House. Clinton's first chief of staff, Thomas (Mack) McLarty, a childhood friend from Arkansas, was known as Mack the Nice, and under his leadership the White House was chaotic. Leon Panetta, who is now Obama's C.I.A. director and, like Emanuel, was a congressman, took over from McLarty. Arguably, he overcompensated for McLarty's laxness, limiting access to the President so drastically that Clinton surreptitiously sought counsel outside the channels that Panetta controlled. "The President set up a parallel White House, led by Dick Morris, while Leon was chief of staff," a former senior Clinton White House official told me. "If you clamp down too tight the principal says, 'You're not letting me have access to the people and the information I really want, so I'm just going to go build some other structure.' "
Obama's managerial instincts tend toward a looser operation, with lots of staff and outside input. The fact that he will keep a BlackBerry to stay in touch with friends outside the West Wing fishbowl is one sign of this. (Emanuel grimaced when I mentioned his boss's devotion to the device.) But early in his Senate career Obama also learned the perils of not having one strong manager in charge. When he arrived in Washington, in 2005, he told one of his senior aides, "My vision of this is having six smart people sitting around the table batting ideas around." A month and a half later, tensions erupted between Obama's Chicago staff and his Washington staff, making it difficult for them to agree on his schedule. Obama was frustrated that no single person was able to make decisions. The aide reminded him, "Don't you remember: 'six smart people sitting around the table'?" Obama replied, "Oh, that was six weeks ago. I'm not on that now."
Emanuel's task will be further complicated by what is a fairly top-heavy White House. David Axelrod, Obama's longtime political strategist, Valerie Jarrett, a close friend and counsellor, and Pete Rouse, Obama's Senate chief of staff, are "senior advisers," a title that in the White House denotes a special place at the top of the hierarchy. Part of Emanuel's job will be to stitch Obama's old campaign hands together with powerful new figures on the policy side, such as Summers—"a dominating personality," according to a senior White House official—and James L. Jones, a retired four-star general and Obama's national-security adviser. In addition, Obama has created four new policy czars at the White House—for health care, energy, Native American affairs, and urban affairs—making the West Wing a more crowded place. Meanwhile, Vice-President Joseph Biden has been promised a high-level role in decision-making. Joshua Bolten, George W. Bush's last chief of staff, told me that Emanuel has "the challenge of fitting a lot of large personalities and brains and portfolios into a relatively small space."
Perhaps Emanuel's greatest challenge, however, will be making the adjustment from being a prominent elected official to being a staffer. Bolten, who hosted Emanuel and eleven former chiefs of staff for breakfast at the White House in December, said, "One of the interesting bits of advice that emerged from the breakfast was that you probably shouldn't be a political principal yourself. You need to put aside your own personality and profile and adopt one that serves your boss. I'm not saying you necessarily have to have a low profile, but it can't really be your own independent profile. It's got to be the profile your boss wants reflected, and it has to be a profile that does not compete with the rest of the Cabinet." Emanuel said that he has thought about that advice. "There's no doubt" that this is an issue, he told me. "There are pluses to who I was and what I was and there are perils to who I was and what I was, and you've got to be conscious of them."
David Axelrod is one of Emanuel's best friends. (When Emanuel got married, to Amy Rule, Axelrod signed the ketubah, the traditional Jewish marriage contract.) The two men met in 1982, when Emanuel was a spokesman for a Naderite group called the Illinois Public Action Council and Axelrod was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Emanuel's organization had just helped elect Lane Evans as the first Democratic representative from western Illinois in many years, and Emanuel was eager to get Axelrod to write about it. "He was just relentless," Axelrod told me recently. "Rahm chased me down to the recovery room after my second child was born. He says, 'What is it, a boy or a girl?' I said, 'It's a boy.' He said, 'Mazel tov,' and then a little pause. Then he says, 'When do you think you'll be back at work?' "
Emanuel and Axelrod crossed paths again in 1984, when Axelrod left journalism to run Paul Simon's Illinois Senate campaign and Emanuel worked as a junior fund-raiser and field organizer for Simon. By 1988, Emanuel was a top staffer at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or D.C.C.C. (the same organization that he ran as a congressman seventeen years later). "I did campaigns in '86 and '88 for him and with him," Axelrod said. "Including the famous dead-fish race."
More than any other story about Emanuel's tactics—and there are lots of them—the tale of the "dead-fish race" came to define his public persona as a Democratic operative. He and Axelrod were working for David Swarts, a Democratic official from Erie County, New York, running an underfunded campaign for a congressional seat long held by Republicans. "We were rolling the dice on the race, just spending the money we had as it came in to try and get these numbers up," Axelrod said. Their plan was to take a poll at the end of the contest which they hoped would show a competitive race and then use the results to help raise last-minute funds and overtake their opponent.
"The poll came back a week or two before the end, and it said we were down by seventeen," Axelrod said. "And that was it." According to Axelrod, Swarts's campaign manager later studied the poll's findings and concluded that the pollster had botched the analysis: the survey showed that Swarts was just five or six points behind. (The pollster says that the error was actually minor and quickly caught.) Axelrod added, "Had we gotten that correct poll then, we would have put our foot to the pedal. But it was too late. So Rahm, being as invested as he was in the thing, expressed himself as only Rahm can." After the election, Emanuel and his colleagues hired a Massachusetts company called Enough Is Enough, which specialized in "creative revenge," to send the pollster a box with a dead fish inside. Emanuel laughed mischievously when I asked him about the prank. "We had our choice of animals," he said.
When Emanuel is in Washington, he stays in the basement of the Capitol Hill home of Representative Rosa DeLauro, of Connecticut, and her husband, the pollster Stanley Greenberg, an old friend. ("It's part of my workout room," Greenberg said recently of the accommodations. "He walks out of his bedroom into where I work out.") Greenberg argues that Emanuel's antics have been integral to his success. "Understand that the caricature and the mythology have always been helpful," Greenberg said. "Sending the fish to the pollster that he thought had failed sent a message about how public he can be about his displeasure, and showed that he's willing to step beyond the normal bounds, that he's willing to be outrageous and he doesn't suffer fools. He doesn't mind bad publicity. It's part of his cachet, it's part of why he's able to be effective." [#unhandled_cartoon]
Emanuel has succeeded in almost every professional endeavor he has undertaken. In Chicago, in 1989 and 1991, he raised money for the successful mayoral campaigns of Richard M. Daley, and this caught the attention of Bill Clinton's campaign, which hired him. Emanuel then raised a record amount of money for Clinton, which kept his Presidential campaign from collapsing during the darkest days of the primaries, when he was fighting allegations of adultery and draft-dodging. In the Clinton White House, after a brief setback—he was demoted after clashing with Hillary Clinton—Emanuel rose to become a top adviser to Bill Clinton, securing for himself the small but coveted office next to the President's private study, the office that Axelrod now occupies. When Emanuel left the Clinton Administration, in 1998, he moved back to Chicago, took a job as an investment banker, and in less than three years earned nearly twenty million dollars. In 2002, he won a congressional seat in the city on his first attempt. Three years later, he took over the D.C.C.C., and, more than anyone else, was responsible for restoring Democrats to power the following year. (Not a single Democratic incumbent lost in the general election.) By the time Obama came calling for a chief of staff, Emanuel was the Democratic Caucus chair, making him fourth in the House leadership, and on a path to becoming Speaker.
Obama settled on Emanuel as early as last August. "It was months before the election when Barack said to me, 'You know, Rahm would make a great chief of staff,' " Axelrod said. "He spent six years in the White House, knows this place inside and out, spent four or five years in Congress, and became a leader in a short period of time. He really understands the legislative process, he's a friend who the President has known for a long time from Chicago, and whose loyalty is beyond question, and who thinks like a Chicagoan."
Emanuel did not want the job. A few months before Election Day, Obama sent him an e-mail, with a warning: "Heads up, I'm coming for you." Emanuel was a key negotiator in moving the TARP legislation through Congress, in October. After the bill cleared Congress, Obama, who supported it, sent Emanuel another e-mail. "I told you we made a great team," he said. Emanuel wrote back, "I look forward to being your floor leader in the House."
While Obama was wooing Rahm, Rahm's older brother, Ezekiel, an oncologist and a bioethicist, served as a sounding board. "I probably spent half an hour every day being screamed at on the telephone by him," he said. " 'I don't want to do this. Why do I have to do this? Tell me I don't have to do this.' All of which said to me he knew he had to do it." (Ezekiel told me that the rivalry among himself, Rahm, and their third brother, Ariel, a Hollywood agent who is the basis for the Ari Gold character on HBO's "Entourage," was so intense that they had to pursue careers in different cities. "We couldn't possibly be within a thousand miles of each other, because the force fields just wouldn't let it happen," Ezekiel said. Rahm is now his boss; he works at the White House as an adviser to the budget director on health policy.)
Over lunch two days before the Inauguration, Emanuel explained to me his decision to give up his congressional seat and return to the White House. We were in a brasserie in the lobby of a Washington hotel, and Emanuel, dressed in a black sweater over a white button-down, was frequently interrupted by people who wanted to wish him well or have their picture taken with him. "The main hesitation was family, because there's no way you will convince me this is good for my family," Emanuel, who has three children, ages eleven, ten, and eight, said. "No matter what every White House says—'We're going to be great, family-friendly'—well, the only family we're going to be good for is the First Family. Everybody else is, like, really a distant second, O.K.?"
Then there was the issue of his congressional ambition. In 2005, when Obama first arrived in Washington, he and Emanuel had dinner and discussed their futures. "He knew what I wanted to do, I knew what he wanted to do," Emanuel told me. "He was going to be President one day, and I was going to run for Speaker. It was not that he was deciding on 2008 but his course was one day he was going to run for President." For Emanuel, being chief of staff meant abandoning his goal. "I was putting together the pieces of my puzzle for Speaker," he said. "I'd been to the White House—that was a dream, but I'd been there. Now I was on to another dream and professional goal and career. And so I had to give that up." He added, "I had my own personal desire of being the first Jewish Speaker. That's why I took on the D.C.C.C. job, that's why I ran for Caucus chair, that's why I stayed involved."
Emanuel grew up in a political family. His Israeli-born father, Benjamin, was a member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group from which the modern Likud Party eventually emerged. His mother, Marsha, was a civil-rights activist who was arrested several times. "We were attacked because we were white Jews with African-Americans," Ezekiel said. When Martin Luther King, Jr., marched in Chicago in 1966, and was pelted with eggs, Marsha and her children marched along with him. Ezekiel told me that he knew Rahm would take the job of chief of staff because of Marsha's father, Herman Smulivitz, a boxer and a union organizer. It was Herman who instilled in Rahm a commitment to service, and Rahm was particularly close to him.
When I asked Rahm about his grandfather, his eyes welled up with tears. "I'm a little too tired, a little too stressed," he said. "It's too emotional about Gramp." He poured himself a glass of water and took a sip. Earlier, he had explained his decision in pragmatic terms: "If you got into public life to affect policy, and to affect the direction of the country, where could you do that on the most immediate basis? Everybody knows: chief of staff."
Obama's decision to hire Emanuel says two things about his Presidency. First, like his decision to make Biden, an expert in foreign policy, his running mate, it shows that he is honest enough about what he doesn't know to try to fill in the gaps in his own experience. There are people working for Obama who know as much as Emanuel does about the legislative process, and others who know as much as he does about running the White House, but there isn't anybody who knows as much about both. Obama's choice also says a great deal about the ethos of his White House. He recently characterized his team as a group of "mechanics," which suggests an emphasis not on ideology but on details and problem-solving. In the Clinton White House, Emanuel's specialty was helping to pass legislation that required centrist coalitions, like NAFTA, a crime bill, and welfare reform. "He's a partisan in the sense that he's a strong Democrat, but he's not an ideological Democrat," Stanley Greenberg said. "He's not ideologically liberal. He comes out of Chicago politics, which is more transactional."
During the Senate negotiations, Obama agreed to pare back his tax cut for workers, from five hundred dollars to four hundred dollars. It was Emanuel's job to sell the decision to House Democrats. "Nancy was opposed to it," he told me, referring to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who asked him why he would put the President's tax cut on the table. "I said, 'Because at the end of the day the President believes we have to get this done.' " Emanuel thinks that the stimulus bill speaks for itself: "It is the most progressive tax bill in the history of the United States, bar none, by a quotient of two."
Emanuel laughed as he recounted the final sticking point in the negotiations. It was not, as many people have thought, an argument between the five centrist senators—Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman, Collins, Snowe, and Specter—and the House but a debate among the centrists themselves. The dispute was over a formula for how Medicaid funds in the bill would be allocated to the states. In the House version of the legislation, fifty per cent of the funds would go to all states and fifty per cent would go to states with high unemployment. In the Senate, where rural interests are more dominant, the formula was 80-20. A deal had been reached between the two chambers to split the difference and make the formula 65-35. "Everybody signed except for Ben Nelson," Emanuel said. "He wants 72-28, or seventy-two and a half, and he says, 'I'm not signing this deal.' Specter says, 'Well, I am not agreeing with you.' " Without Nelson, Collins wasn't likely to vote for the deal, either.
"Collins and Snowe are kind of like, at this point, looking at their shoes," Emanuel went on, "because Specter says, 'Well, why make it seventy-two? What do you mean? We all have it at sixty-five, in the middle.' " Emanuel politely declared that the formula would stay at 65-35. He then asked Nelson to step out of the room with him. After a brief conversation in the hallway, they returned, and Nelson agreed to the stimulus package.
Emanuel stood up and removed his tie as he finished the story, making it clear that he was ready to leave for the airport. He seemed more cheerful, knowing that he was that much closer to seeing his family. I asked him what he promised Nelson to persuade him to drop his objections. Emanuel just smiled. "Everything is going to be O.K.," he said, in a mock-soothing voice. "America is going to be a great place." ♦


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And this time, they're coming to the UK!
Don't get your hopes up for Sony's new Carnival Colours PlayStation Portable series launching in the UK. The Japanese electronics giant's just unveiled a simple trio of re-sprayed PSPs for Blighty instead.
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Of course, one thing Pentecost does is reverse the scattering that took place at Babel where languages--or "tongues"--were confused. But recently I discovered another possible background. Let me explain.
In Jesus' day "messianic" hopes went hand-in-hand with the idea of a restoration of the tribes of Israel scattered to the nations. This is evident from numerous texts and has been observed by a plethora of scholars. In fact, the idea that God would one day restore Israel from exile is even found on the lips of Moses at the end of Deuteronomy. After first warning Israel that falling away from the covenant would mean judgment and exile, he goes on to say:
"And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, 2 and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you this day, with all your heart and with all your soul; 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you (Deut 30:1-3).E. P. Sanders has even gone so far as to say: "In general terms it may be said that 'Jewish eschatology' and 'the restoration of Israel' are almost synonymous" (Jesus and Judaism, 97). In addition, this eschatological ingathering would include not only the Israelites but the Gentiles as well.[1]
So there would be an ingathering of Israel from the nations. But where would they be gathered to? The answer was also clear to ancient Jews: the Temple. This is also evident in many texts. See for example Isaiah 2, which offers a programmatic vision for the restoration:
"It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, 3 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths" (Isa 2:2-3).Much more could be said (believe me, my dissertation covers a lot of this ground!). In fact, the book of Acts, and especially the account of Pentecost is loaded with texts relating the fulfillment of these restoration expectations. I've already discussed that here.
In fact, Jesus himself is described in the New Testament as the New Temple (e.g., John 2:19-21; cf. Mark 15:38). The ingathering thus takes place as we come to Jesus.
So how do the tongues of fire fit in here?
Well, one of the most prominent passages relating a vision of tongues of fire is found in 1 Enoch 14. There Enoch is led into the heavenly temple. Here is how it is described:
"…and in the vision, the winders were causing me to fly and rushing me high up into heaven. And I kept coming (into heaven) until I approached a wall which was built of white marble and surrounded by tongues of fire; and it began to frighten me. And I came into the tongues of fire and drew near to a great house which was built of white marble, and the inner wall(s) were like mosaics…And I entered into the house… And behold there was an opening before me (and) a second house which is greater than the former and everything was built with tongues of fire. And in every respect it excelled the other)―in glory and great honor―to the extent that it is impossible for me to recount to you concerning its glory and greatness… And I observed and saw inside a lofty throne―its appearance was like crystal and its wheels like the shining sun; and I heard the voice of the cheribum; and from beneath the throne were issuing streams of flaming fire. It was difficult to look at it. And the Great Glory was sitting upon it…" (1 Enoch 14:8ff).The heavenly house is almost certainly meant to be understood as the heavenly temple. Language such as "I drew near" and the image of God's throne were closely associated with Israel's worship of God in the Temple (cf. Ps 11:4).
The key here is that the heavenly temple is characterized with tongues of fire.
Much more could be said about 1 Enoch, but for the simplicity of this post let's move back to Acts 2. That the Church is the temple of God is attested elsewhere in the New Testament. Paul explicitly calls the Church the temple in 1 Corinthians 3:16: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" The idea is also found in Ephesians 2:21, which describes the Church united to Christ growing into a "holy temple". In fact, for a great treatment of dozens of other passages relating the Temple to the Church see G. K. Beale, The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God (New Studies in Biblical Theology 17; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004).
Given the prominence of the tongues of fire in the vision of the heavenly Temple in 1 Enoch―a book well-known to the early Jewish believers and even cited in the book of Jude―it seems to me that the tongues of fire in Acts may be read in terms of New Temple imagery. It would seem hard to believe the early readers of Luke would not have made the connection. Thus, Acts 2 describes how the ingathering to the heavenly Temple would be realized through the Church's ministry. By uniting oneself to the Church one was gaining access to the heavenly temple. The Church therefore is not merely an earthly phenemona―it is heavenly.
Important support for such a reading may be found in Revelation 1-3 where one encounters a vision of Jesus in the heavenly temple, surrounded by seven lampstands, each with seven "torches" burning. We are told that "the seven lampstands are the seven churches" (Rev. 1:20). Many have also seen the seven torches as in image of the Spirit [cf. Zech 4:10; Beale, The Book of Revelation (NIGTC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 189]. Warning the churches not to fall away, Christ warns those who will not hear him that he will "remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent (Rev 2:5). The idea seems to be clear. Somehow the churches have a presence—a lampstand—in the heavenly temple. If they do not repent, they will be removed.
The heavenly dimension of the Church's existence is even more clear in Hebrews 12.
"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel" (Heb 12:22-24).Note the language―not you will come to "innumerable angels...the assembly...spirits of just men made perfect...and to Jesus", but you have come. By the way, the word for "assembly" in Greek here is ekklēsia--"Church". The author says, "you have come to the Church" of those enrolled in heaven.
The tongues of fire in Acts 2 therefore seem to evoke 1 Enoch and teach us that the ingathering is taking place at the heavenly temple through the Church's ministry.
[1] Sanders, Judaism: Practice and Belief, 289-98; Wright, New Testament and the People of God, 299-338; Dunn, Jesus Remembered, 393-96. Especially of note is the recent treatment by Michael F. Bird, Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission (Library of Historical Jesus Studies 331; New York: T&T Clark, 2007), 26-29, which offers an extensive examination of the presence of such hopes in ancient Judaism. Bird cites a number of texts where the restoration of Israel is linked with the idea of the salvation of the Gentiles either en masse (cf. Isa 11:6-10; 42:1-12; 49:6; 66:23; Zeph 2:11; Zech 2:15; Tob 14: 6-7; T. Jud 24:6; 25:5; T. Sim 7:2; T. Dan. 5:11; T. Ash. 7:3; T. Zeb. 9:8; T. Benj. 10:5; 2 Bar 68:5; Sib. Or. 5:493-500) or as merely a remnant (cf. Jub. 2:28; T. Naph. 8:2-3; Amidah 13; 4 Ezra 3:36; 2 Bar 42:5; 72:2-6; also cf. t. Sanh. 13:2; T. Naph. 8:3-4), acknowledging and praising the God of Israel (cf. Dan 3:28-29; 4:1-37; 6:26-28; Pss. 66:1-12; 22:27-28; 46:10; 96:7-10; 117:1-2; Ezek 39:7; 2 Macc 2:28; T. Jud 25:5; Bel. 41-42; Ep. Arist 177, 187-294; Jos. And As. 15:7-8) and accepting the Law of God (cf. Philo, Vit. Mos 2:36, 43-44; Sib Or 5:264-66; 2 En. 33:9; 48:6-9). A number of texts attest to the idea of Israel's conquering of the Gentiles (cf. Num 24:7, 17 LXX; Pss 2:8-11; 10:15-16; 22:28; 46:6-11; 47:1-9; 48:1-8; Isa 49:23; 54:3; Dan 2:44; 7:14, 27; Obad 21; Zech 14:9; Amos 9:11-12; Zeph 2:1-3; 3:14-20; Mic 5:9; 7:16-17; 1 Macc 4:11; Bar 4:25, 31-35; 4 Ezra 6:26; Jub 26:23; Sib Or 3:49; T. Jud. 24:6; T. Zeb 9:8; 1 En. 48:7-10; T. Mos 10:1-7; Pss. Sol. 17:1-34; Philo, Praem. Poen. 79, 93-97; Vit. Mos. 1.290; Tg. Isa. 30:18-33; 1 QM 1:4-5; 6.5-6; 12:10-16; 19:3-8; Josephus, B. J. 6.312). However, Bird importantly also observes that in many texts the expectation of the destruction of the Gentile nations appears alongside hope for their (partial) salvation (cf. e.g., Isa 66:15-21; 2 Bar 72:2-6; t. Sanh. 13:2; Pss. Sol. 17:22-25, 30-31). Thus, Bird rightly concludes, "views of defeat and admission of the Gentiles were not necessarily mutually exclusive."


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For a little while I've been thinking about writing a series of reviews, each based on a single word, like epic, majestic, lucky... some form of adjective, like a word association review - which game matches that word to my mind and why.
To kick what will probably be a sporadic enterprise off, and in keeping with episode 323 of The Dice Tower, a podcast about board and card games that I am a sometimes contributor to, this review will be based on the word 'epic'...
An epic game...
I could write about burgeoning space empires exploring and exploiting their way to domination, or fantasy slug fests where armies of untold steely eyed warriors do battle for dominion. But instead I want to focus on the historical, the type of game that charts the growth, development and ascendancy of empires and civilisation. No theme could so fully engulf the term epic as this.
There are many of course, some great and long lasting like the empires they simulate, there are others that are less so, they burst forth in a maelstrom of forum post laden excitement and fade into the footnotes of game history.
The game I want to talk about seeks to compass a scope and span of human history that no other game I know of dares to assault. It is Origins: How we Became Human, by the inestimable Phil Eklund. Now, I need to begin by stating the typical Eklund Caveat - this game is obtuse, unbalanced and complicated, and is certainly not for everyone, not even for most perhaps.
However, for those fascinated by the theme, Origins: How We Became Human is a civilisation game like no other.
Is it epic? Well four letters do little to expound on it. It is a game of evolution, beginning some 120,000 years ago it tells multiple tales as players guide their civilisations through this enormous gulf of time. In the first age players represent a variety of hominds, from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon man, to Homo Floresiensis and Homo Sapien. The goal is the achievement of consciousness, and players develop social and technological practices that will help them spread, develop and unlock aspects of their developing selves, literally unlocking parts of their brains, and access to behaviors that may have been beyond them at an earlier stage.
In the second age the variety of hominds have disappeared and players represent cultural groups struggling to reach modern consciousness through the invention of metaphoric language - a Jaynesian and controversial perspective.
In the third age players struggle with ideologies, and seek to build and develop the most advanced and complete civilisation before the game winds to a close.
It is a game that seeks to explore not only the rise of civilisation, but the rise of us ourselves, it compasses not only the development of technologies, but explores the impact those technologies had on our potentials, it's a controversial perspective on the evolution of modern human consciousness, and in every game, every player walks away with a story to tell.
This is not simple civilisation building, where the drive and output of generations of a people is anatomised and boiled away to a short race to build the biggest building. Origins How we Became Human, by Phil Eklund, is not an epic civilisation building game, it is a game the charts history as we know it. This is a game that seeks to explore, through play, the journey of our species from our humble beginnings to the scintillating glories of our modern achievements, in short, this game tells the story of us.
If you have any suggestions, words or phrases that would be fun to base reviews around for this series - feel free to add a comment and suggestion!


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I have been working lots of hours, lately, on some on-going high impact litigation. That leaves me little time for writing, much less for reading or watching television. So I tend to get my information through filters. Like many people, I figure that saves time, and I still get the information I need. But it also means I get a lot of inaccurate information in the process. Because with filters, comes bias.
The Media Isn't Paid to Tell the Truth
Media pundits are not paid to tell the truth, but are paid to increase ratings — and sell advertising. Take for example, President Obama's latest "Jobs" speech. I was working late Thursday and didn't have time to listen or watch. But I did hear radio pundits talk about Congress' reaction to The President as he was speaking. While nothing as disrespectful as the infamous "You Lie!" was reported, radio personalities described a cheering Democratic base, with stoic Republicans ignoring The President and playing with their Blackberries.
One pundit who tends to express himself with serious Moral Outrage even goes so far to say not one Republican applauded or stood for anything, even when The President spoke about our Veterans. But today I watched the speech in its entirety. And while Democrats did look a lot like Methodists on Sunday – standing up and sitting down so often they probably burned three days' calories in the process, Republicans also stood and applauded at a number of comments including this one:
Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us an economic superpower. And now we're going to sit back and watch China build newer airports and faster railroads? At a time when millions of unemployed construction workers could build them right here in America?
And this one:
But know this: The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here — the people who hired us to work for them — they don't have the luxury of waiting 14 months.
Had I been lazy, just listening to the views of others with a biased agenda, I might never have known the truth — or worse, would have passed along false information as "The Gospel."
That brings me to wine reviews and rating systems.
Wine Ratings are Subjective
How many of us have by-passed a wine because Robert M. Parker, Jr. or one of his minions deems it an 89 or below? While Parker may not be responsible for Kenny G, his followers are sometimes a bit more like iFans than Android Users. How many wine makers change the style of their wines to big, bold and fruit forward, because a 90 means big sales, and an 89 might doom them to only Flash-site sales? How many wine writers have tasted a wine she or he think is good, only to withhold the review upon finding the Big Boys gave the wine an 87 or 88? God forbid should anyone risk his reputation by speaking his own mind — or palate, giving his own opinion and introducing his readers to a perfectly good wine.
Don't Be a Wine Spectator
Sometimes I am amazed at what others deem a fabulous or inferior wine. There is one particular wine writer tasked by the State with promoting Texas wine. He is fabulous at doing so, but not always 100% honest in the process. While some wines he anoints are perfectly acceptable, in his zealotry he often criticizes California, Washington or Oregon wines made with the same grape declaring them inferior to their Texas cousins. When they're not in any way shape or form inferior. Much like the radio pundit who chooses to Preach to the Choir — the writer knocks down the other side rather than simply praising his own.
Nearly every wine writer — unless she has a policy against it — gets lots and lots of free wine to sample. So reviews are based on comparisons. Wine reviews and ratings
are bullshit can be useful, but you cheat yourself if all you taste are wines that someone else recommends. You cheat yourself further if you ignore a wine that someone else says is inferior. Just because Parker, Heimoff or Suckling does not rave about it does not mean you won't like it.
We don't write negative reviews. But just because we do not write about something does not always mean it is not good or enjoyable. It might mean that, based on all the wines we tasted that week, it did not stand out. Or perhaps it did, but not enough to justify the high price point. In our opinion. Or perhaps we just didn't have time to write about it — and when we find the time, something else captured our attention.
The best way to tell if you will like a wine, is to sample it yourself. Take advantage of store samplings, tasting rooms opportunities and restaurant wine lists. If you do not like the wine consider any money paid as cost for the experience.
Now there are some things we might never experience — playing in a Superbowl, getting sacked by Ndamukong Suh, drinking a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux or listening to The President speak while sitting in a joint session of Congress. For those things we can learn or enjoy by being a spectator.
But there are plenty of opportunities for us to experience life first hand. To find our own truths we must avoid the filters, tune-out the media, and drink in the wine of life ourselves.
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Sen. Coburn urges White House to freeze hiring, curb traveling to ease budget pain
A top Republican lawmaker countered warnings about the purportedly devastating impact of looming budget cuts, calling on the administration to lessen the blow by taking two simple steps -- stop hiring, and stop traveling.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in a letter to the White House budget office, called Monday for a "hiring freeze" on non-essential positions. He pointed out that, amid pronouncements about the dire impact of spending cuts poised to hit starting this Friday, the administration is still advertising for a host of "lower priority jobs" -- like a staff assistant to answer phones at the Labor Department, and a policy coordinator to set up meetings at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The request follows a letter Thursday in which Coburn urged the Obama administration to cancel a 100-city tour aimed at connecting federal officials with local leaders.
Coburn is among the Republicans on Capitol Hill who claim President Obama is exaggerating the impact of the cuts. Some claim the administration already has the flexibility to target the cuts; others are looking to draft legislation to give the administration that flexibility.
Regardless, Coburn disputed claims that the cuts automatically mean customs agents, Defense civilian workers and food inspectors will have to be furloughed or laid off, as the administration has warned. Perusing the roster of federal job openings, he listed 10 positions that "could save as much as $1.4 million" -- money that could be directed toward saving other jobs, he said.
The Labor Department staff assistant position pays up to $81,204; the HHS post pays up to the same amount. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the $85 billion in cuts poised to hit this year. But Coburn suggested far more could be saved by instituting a broader hiring freeze, as he continued to draw attention to what he's long described as Washington's poor spending decisions.
"Instituting such a hiring freeze and re-assigning any of the necessary duties associated with each to current employees will allow federal agencies to adapt to the current fiscal realities without laying off or furloughing civil servants who are performing truly critical or absolutely necessary functions," Coburn wrote.
Democrats, though, argue that Obama's hands are tied, and that the only way to avoid the so-called sequester is for Congress to pass a "balanced" package to avert the automatic cuts -- replacing them with a mix of spending cuts and tax increases, achieved by closing tax loopholes.
Obama, speaking Monday to a gathering of the nation's governors at the White House, again urged Congress to pass an alternative package.
"The longer these cuts are in place, the bigger the impact will become," Obama said, adding that the cuts could be turned off "with just a little bit of compromise."
Shortly afterward, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that looming cuts to her department would inconvenience travelers at airports across the country. She said TSA cuts would increase wait times for domestic passengers, and cuts to Immigration and Customs Enforcement would mean curtailing detention and investigative operations in that agency.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also downplayed the idea that Congress could minimize the problem by giving the administration more flexibility. And in answer to Coburn's letter complaining about upcoming travel, Carney claimed administration officials were not going on a "tour" but were traveling the country to highlight important projects.
Republicans reportedly are working on a bill this week that would grant Obama's Cabinet more leeway to target the cuts in a responsible way.
In an interview with Fox News, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker seemed to get behind the plan.
"Why not empower the president and his administration, give them the authority within their budgets to make those changes?" Walker said Monday.
Walker said he thinks some of the administration's warnings amount to scare tactics. "There's no doubt about it, that's why I said call the bluff, give them the authority to do this," Walker said. "There's always a better way, there's certainly enough waste to be cut in this town. Why not give the president and his Cabinet ... the authority to do that."
There is an ongoing debate over how much flexibility the Obama administration currently has. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday, warning that FAA cutbacks and furloughs would lead to delays at airports across the country, adamantly denied that Cabinet secretaries such as himself had the flexibility to target the cuts.
Politifact.com, examining these competing claims, noted last week that the cuts are largely across the board, in that the same percentage cut is supposed to impact all programs within a budget.
However, the fact-check site said federal managers do have "a fair amount of discretion" on what to cut within specific programs.
Democrats have a bill of their own that would blend tax hikes and spending cuts, along the lines of what Obama has recommended. Both parties are expected to push their respective plans, but so far little headway has been made toward a bipartisan compromise.
The so-called sequester now approaching was never supposed to happen. It was designed as an unpalatable fallback, to take effect only in case a specially established bipartisan congressional super-committee failed to come up with $1 trillion or more in savings from government programs.
Obama has not been able to find success for his balanced approach of reducing deficits through a combination of targeted savings and tax increases. Obama has proposed closing tax loopholes that benefit the top earners and corporations.
"Unfortunately, it appears that Republicans in Congress have decided that instead of compromising -- instead of asking anything of the wealthiest Americans -- they would rather let these cuts fall squarely on the middle class," Obama said on Saturday, in his last weekly radio and Internet address before the deadline, but unlikely to be his final word on the subject.
House Republicans have said reduced spending needs to be the focus and have rejected the president's demand to include higher taxes as part of a compromise. They say legislation passed in early January already raises taxes on top earners to generate an estimated $600 billion for the Treasury over a decade.
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Yorkshire Vikings face a nervous evening on Friday as they wait to find out whether they will qualify for the Natwest T20 Blast quarter-finals.
Following the record-breaking win over Northants Steelbacks, Yorkshire sit in second place in the North division – but five teams below them can still leapfrog them tonight.
Yorkshire need two of Derbyshire, Birmingham, Leicestershire and Northants to lose in their final group games.
The Vikings moved above the quartet on Thursday night as their net run rate rose to 1.127 courtesy of Adam Lyth's record innings of 161.
With uncertain forecasts for the Midlands, abandonments could prove pivotal to Yorkshire's hopes.
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Not every child is going to have that bold, outgoing personality that can't wait to speak up in class or take the stage for the class play. But every child can learn to feel confident about own self-worth and unique gifts. With a good foundation, confidence can grow. One of the easiest ways to build confidence is to encourage any special interests or attributes your child has.
People to tend to feel more confident about things they enjoy so if your child loves to draw, read, play sports, or dance, foster these interests. Positive experiences build self-esteem. However, it's important not to over-emphasize these activities. Building confidence is about letting the child explore something he or she has fun doing; it should never become an obligation. Children should not be pushed to achieve a certain level of excellence unless they themselves set that bar.
If you are not sure where children's interests lie, ask them and let them try a few different things. Stepping out and trying new things is also confidence building. Remember, if they are happy doing an activity, it does not matter whether they are a stand-out or not. They feel good about it and that is most important.
Confidence can also be encouraged by commending children for good deeds. If they are good at helping with household chores, taking care of pets, or being thoughtful of their grandparents, commenting on those attributes can build confidence by showing them that they have important attributes. There's a saying, "When you're digging a gold mine, you don't dig for dirt. You dig for gold. So why should it be any different with kids?"
Remember, recognizing a child's talent or contribution is not about lavishing praise, but rather to be observant and encouraging. For example, don't say "You are the best artist!" but rather "I can see all the effort you have put into that picture! Good job!" When it comes to commenting on deeds, remarks such as "I really appreciate the help around the house; you did a great job dusting for me" work well because they are honest and specific. Rather than praising a child for feeding the dog, say "Being kind to animals is important. I'm glad you remember to take care of Shiloh."
Chores are a good way to build confidence as they give children tasks to learn and master and teach them that they can and should help contribute toward running the family home. They learn that their help is important.
Confidence can also be built by letting children take small risks. Maybe it's walking the dog for the first time or jumping into the deep end of the pool. Maybe it's something they half want/half fear, like trying out for the clarinet solo. Whatever the challenge, being brave enough to try can help instill confidence. If they succeed, they know the risk was worth the effort. If they fail, they learn that they were brave enough to try and that failure is something to overcome and learn from.
Parents can also show by example that it's all right to try new experiences, and that it's OK if you have some ups and down. For example, if a parent struggles to run a 5K for the first time, the child learns that it is OK that the parent did not win the race. The important thing was that mom or dad did not give up and finished what he or she set out to accomplish.
Overcoming shyness
Shyness can be closely related to confidence. Encouraging a skill or interest can help a child overcome shyness. Positive feedback for achievements can make a child feel more confident and outgoing. Children may meet others with similar interests and find that it is easier to talk to other children with whom they already have something in common. If your child loves quieter pursuits, such as reading or drawing, see if your library has a book club or if your child might volunteer there. Artists might join the local art society, see if they can help with an art show, or if the school theater department needs scenery painters.
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Children need to know that parents are always available if they need to talk or want support. Make time to talk about their day and hear about any concerns or worries. Younger children usually open up more easily, but with older children parents may need to "read between the lines." Older children may also be less apt to sit down for a chat, and often share more at informal moments, such as while doing chores or in the car or maybe taking a walk. Make sure these opportunities are available.
When children do present concerns, resist the impulse to rush in and fix things. Take their worries seriously because they are important to them, but at the same time, guide them toward finding their own solutions. Obviously, serious issues may need parental intervention, but day-to-day concerns can provide great opportunities for building your child's life skills.
For example, if your child is worried about talking with a teacher about test scores, maybe do some role playing about approaches he or she might take. If your daughter is concerned because she missed a key play at yesterday's softball game, talk about how other famous athletes have overcome errors. Are there skills she needs to work on or was it a fluke that she just needs to shake off?
Helping your child look at the incident from a practical perspective takes the emotion out of it and lets children see the steps they need to take to improve for future games.
Find outlets for outbursts
We all experience times of rage and frustration, and children are no exception. Many parents have had to put younger children in time out until such fits pass. But older children also need to learn how to manage emotions when they are running high. Talking things through with a parent is certainly advised, but sometimes emotions need to cool down before talking can take place. Or, what if a parent is not home? Encourage your child to expend energy and frustration at the same time — kick a soccer ball, hit a baseball, run around the yard. When he or she cools down, physically and emotionally, then take a look at the problem. Teach your child that it's OK to say "I need a moment," go let off steam, then have a discussion.
At the same time, there may be times when physically burning off frustration is not possible. Teach your children that taking deep breaths while counting to 10 or breathing deeply while picturing a favorite tranquil scene, can also help them get their emotions under control.
The important thing is for children to learn how to vent emotion without harming themselves, others or property. Of course, this can be difficult for a child to learn, so the help of a counselor can prove helpful.
Encourage imagination
Today's children often lead very intense lives. Even from a young age, much of their time is scheduled, whether they are at school, sports practice, clubs, work, or fitting in increasingly heavy loads of homework. The children of the '70s, '80s and '90s had much more free time to engage in unstructured play and to let their imaginations take flight. Encouraging this free time is more than just indulging a whim of childhood. Letting the imagination flourish can be important to children's mental health, and can also nurture their natural gifts of creativity and innovation.
During imaginary play, children learn how to face conflicts and fears as they battle imaginary foes or rescue pets or friends from disasters. They are the heroes, the problem solvers, the leaders. This type of play helps make them feel stronger, braver, bolder and helps teach them they can be what and who they want to be.
Even when children are not actively playing — maybe they are just watching clouds or focused on bugs crawling in the grass — they are learning and growing. The mind is thinking, pondering, observing. Many of our greatest inventions have come from times of letting the mind wander like this, and many of our greatest geniuses learned this from time spent as a child engaged in simply being one with the universe.
Let children have time to indulge their imagination, and time to do nothing at all. Such time may be rewarding for parents as well.
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Puccini's opera La rondine is full of waltzes. There are delicate toe-tapping ones with a solo voice, and full-blown whirling ones with dramatic pauses in the Viennese fashion and the entire company singing and dancing. What is it about a waltz that is so captivating?
The elegant, respectable and restrained gliding we associate with 'Strictly Come Dancing' is not how it was first viewed. The waltz grew popular in Vienna in the late 1700s and began to appear in continental dance halls. But it was a suggestive and dangerous dance in comparison to the propriety of the main shared dances in formal groups. Think of those Jane Austen period dramas with everyone in long lines – men on one side, women on the other, changing partners and everyone watching and listening to everyone else. But with the waltz the couple dancing were together, alone, and their bodies were even pressed against each other. There was suggestive physical contact and the couple could have private conversations.
Clearly, the waltz was not thought respectable and decent. On the occasion of her 18th birthday party, Princess Victoria – later Queen – wrote in her diary that 'Count Waldstein looks remarkably well in his pretty uniform'. She wanted to dance with him, but 'He could not dance the quadrille and, as in my station I unfortunately cannot waltz and gallop, I could not dance with him!' This romantic and even erotic air has contributed to the mystique of the waltz. Through the 19th century it became the soundtrack for love.
The waltz also finds its way into musical comedy, where Rodgers with Hart and then with Hammerstein gave it a particular American, 20th-century twist ('Falling in Love with Love' and 'Wonderful Guy' are just two of many examples). The use of the waltz to signify romance allowed Sondheim to write the lyrics of the show title song 'Do I Hear a Waltz?'. In other words, if you hear a waltz, then you know it must be love.
When Johann Strauss II – the 'Waltz King' – began writing operettas, he naturally put waltzes in them as the perfect means of combining lilting music with romance and drama. In fact, the waltz is now intrinsically associated with operetta. In Lehár's Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) the tensions and final resolution of the love affair between Hanna Glawari and Count Danilo are developed through a shared melody, the famous 'Merry Widow Waltz'. Puccini wrote La rondine as an opera – he as very clear from the start that it was not an operetta. But something about that original commission he had from Vienna put the possibility of using the waltz into his mind. From the music Puccini wrote, it's clear that this was an opportunity he wanted to indulge.
The appeal of the waltz has much to do with its three beats in a bar. We have two feet, so anything in threes immediately makes us move differently with more continuity, which thus leads to turning. The energy of this whirling propels dance into what feels like perpetual motion. And the music responds to this too. To listen to the main waltz section in Act II of La rondine is to experience this uplifting feeling, and be drawn into it, as are the dancers in the drama.
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