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12 And David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they went away, and no man saw [it], and none knew [it], and none awaked, for they were all asleep; for a deep sleep from Jehovah had fallen upon them.
13 And David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off; a great space [being] between them.
14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a man? and who is like to thee in Israel? and why hast thou not guarded thy lord the king? for one of the people came in to destroy the king thy lord.
16 This thing is not good which thou hast done. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not guarded your master, Jehovah's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.
17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
18 And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
19 And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 And now, let not my blood fall to the earth far from the face of Jehovah; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when they hunt a partridge on the mountains.
21 And Saul said, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have acted foolishly, and have erred exceedingly.
22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear, and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
23 And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for Jehovah gave thee into [my] hand this day, and I would not stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.
24 And behold, as thy life was highly esteemed this day in mine eyes, so let my life be highly esteemed in the eyes of Jehovah, that he may deliver me out of all distress.
25 And Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt certainly do [great things], and shalt certainly prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
SEATTLE — Ervin Santana is still being affected by the surgery that cleared out the calcium deposit in his middle finger, Paul Molitor said Friday, so his next rehab start will take place with the Class A Fort Myers Miracle, not Chattanooga or Rochester.
“He’s been throwing for awhile, but he hasn’t got everything back, in terms of how he’s spinning it and how hard he can throw it,” Molitor said. Santana, an All-Star for the Twins last July, threw 45 pitches over two innings in Chattanooga on Wednesday, never eclipsing 90 mph, and showed signs that more healing is necessary.
Santana’s arm obviously needs to build up, too, considering that rehab start was his first competitive outing of 2018. Rather than have him battle through only a couple of innings against higher level hitters, the Twins want Santana to pitch a longer outing, just for the repetitions. So he has returned to Fort Myers and will travel with the Miracle to Clearwater — Santana’s offseason home is nearby — to start Tuesday’s game. The Twins will want him to move up to Class AAA at some point, but for now, they want him to focus on recovery, not results.
While Santana rehabs in Florida, the Twins are in the opposite corner of the country, opening a three-game series with the Mariners. Joe Mauer isn’t here — he won’t rejoin the team on this road trip, which continues in Kansas City next week, as the Twins take care to avoid triggering any concussion symptoms — but Miguel Sano is, and he seemed excited to play again. He’ll be at first base tonight, while Logan Morrison gets the night off with Mariners ace lefthander James Paxton on the mound.
as they host the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.
Canucks 5-2 in Tortorella’s return to Madison Square Garden.
time in three games after an 0-for-5 effort against the Bruins.
Tuesday, leaving Henrik Lundqvist to back him up.
Friday, falling 2-1 to Philadelphia.
Noel’s team was outshot 34-26 and 13-2 in the first period.
Winnipeg had won five in a row against the East.
Nash, meanwhile, has scored in three straight for the Rangers.
Winnipeg, a 4-2 Rangers win at MSG on April 1.
five goals and five assists in that span.
power play in the past four games.
Donald Trump has reportedly been left angered by the Democrats’ rejection of his proposal to end the shutdown. On Saturday, Trump floated a proposal which would extend three years’ protection to the so-called Dreamers — immigrants without proper documentation who entered the U.S. as children — and TPS recipients. But Democrats rejected the plan outright, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the proposals “unacceptable,” a “non-starter,” and “hostage taking,” according to BBC.
Now Peter King, the Republican U.S. representative from Long Island, says that Trump should not be surprised by the Democrats’ rejection because they were never going to negotiate with him in the first place. Appearing on John Catsimaditis’s radio show, King said that any agreement with Trump would have angered the Democratic base of supporters.
“Any compromise with President Trump is going to look like a surrender. And Nancy Pelosi made it very difficult when she said that a wall is amoral. Because once you say something is amoral, how can you possibly compromise?” King retorted to the rejection, according to the Hill.
With the Democrats rejecting Trump’s proposal, there is no end to the government shutdown in sight. Pelosi’s stern statement rejecting Trump’s plan called it “a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.” It is highly unlikely that the Democrats will budge from their original position and the ball seems to be in Trump’s court. Democrats have said that any negotiations about the wall will only take place once Trump re-opens the government.
King, who claimed that Democrats won’t negotiate with Trump no matter what, nonetheless urged them to give him the money he needs for the wall. He said that even if the Democrats decide not to approve the entire $5.6 billion, they should at least give Trump something for the government to reopen.
Why was the Clinton health care plan rejected by Congress in 1994? Was it because of big-money lobbying from the health insurance industry? Or was the plan doomed from the first because Americans--anti-statists to the bone--simply would not stand for "socialized medicine"? Perhaps there was more to it than those simplistic interpretations suggest. Maybe it was, in fact, a fine example of how Congress works and has always worked: with influential lawmakers, both attentive to and manipulating public opinion, ultimately laying the plan to rest. And maybe, given different leaders in Congress, it could have gone the other way, powerful lobbyists notwithstanding.
Political scientists--and in a more inchoate fashion, much of the public--tend to view individual members of Congress as little more than agents of the various special interests or public constituencies. But David R. Mayhew argues that they often act with a fair degree of autonomy from outside influences. It's the inner workings of Congress, in Mayhew's view, that can play a decisive role in determining how great national debates unfold.
"Whatever it is that motivates [members of Congress] to take stands," Mayhew writes in America's Congress, "sometimes they really do try to change the content of public opinion; ... some House and Senate members during the past two centuries have spent a great deal of energy trying to 'educate' not just their home constituencies but the entire country--and, so far as one can tell, often with effect."
Mayhew's argument is that the seemingly sclerotic, separation-of-powers functioning of the federal government--in which American political parties seldom receive decisive, unfettered mandates to pursue their programs--actually undergirds the rich public sphere of political contest and debate essential to the country's political culture. So-called responsible parties (disciplined political organizations operating in a streamlined political structure that, once elected, are able to enact their programs more or less intact) would simply never do in the United States. Americans, Mayhew writes, "would never accept a party linkage system taken straight. It would be too blunt and clumsy as a connection between voters and government, too centralized, too unsmart between elections, and too authoritarian between elections; citizens would see themselves as relegated to the status of subjects."
The implications of Mayhew's argument are many. And those who bewail the effects of polling on public life should take particular note. As the science of public-opinion research has become more precise and ubiquitous, American politics has been increasingly subject to the charge that it is in the midst of what might be called a crisis of statesmanship: Politicians are so addicted to polls, and so eager to follow them to ensure election, that nothing of principle or statesmanship is left in the process.
But Mayhew makes a good case to the contrary. Elected officials have a rather more complex relation to public opinion. Certainly members of Congress will seldom vote against the manifest wishes of their constituents on prominent issues. But the correlation between voting behavior and constituent views is an uncertain one. And, more important, skillful members of Congress can oppose, stymie, and pick apart legislation in ways that shape public debate. They can poke and prod at contradictory and ambivalent threads of public sentiment, pulling some to the fore and pushing others to the background.
The demise of the Clinton health care plan was certainly an instance of this. And so too, in a hoarier example, was the defeat of American membership in the League of Nations at the end of World War I. As Mayhew notes, the principal opponent of League membership, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, was convinced that the "second thought" of the people would be with his side, even if the first thought wasn't. But to help the public to get to that second thought, Lodge and his cohorts needed to clog up the legislative mechanisms long enough and to sufficiently tease out the League's negative implications. One imagines a similar game plan animating the minds of congressional Republicans in 1993 and 1994.
One of the most intriguing aspects of Mayhew's study is his examination of how America's political "public sphere" has been affected by shifting trends in media and other changes external to Congress. Take the role of congressional investigations. Such investigations have long been a congressional hallmark; they constitute one of the legislature's most robust and autonomous sources of power. Yet the impact of these congressional probes has undergone a dramatic arc over the past century. The modern-day congressional investigation came into its own in the early 1900s as a sort of legislative analogue to journalistic "muckraking," which appeared at around the same time. Evidently, the popular-press culture that had come of age at the end of the nineteenth century made this sort of grand congressional exposé a potent political weapon--and the myriad abuses of nascent corporate capitalism provided plenty of muck to rake.
But equally striking, as Mayhew notes, is the decline of such endeavors over the past quarter-century. We have had many investigations of late--perhaps more than ever before (thank you, Dan Burton). But no congressional inquiry since the Church committee investigations of the CIA in 1975 has produced any tangible new revelations or deeply affected the course of the story at hand. In the hearings over Iran-contra in 1987 and impeachment in 1998, congresspersons and their staffs were reduced to picking through and regurgitating material that had already been thoroughly worked over by countless investigative reporters (and even Independent Counsel lawyers). The sound and fury of congressional investigators, which once had some consequence, really did signify nothing.
The change seems to signal an evolution in the nation's public sphere, which early in the century made Congress a powerful platform for a particular sort of political action but then, in a sense, outgrew it. Perhaps the multiplicity of media outlets and their armies of investigative journalists have simply outstripped Congress in the work of "gotcha" and exposé.
However that may be, it's fertile ground for further inquiry, into both the nature of America's public sphere and Congress's functioning within it. This is a challenge Mayhew never quite takes up. Again and again throughout the book, the material cries out for a deeper exploration.
And this points to the book's basic shortcoming. The study is based on a coded dataset of so-called congressional actions--roughly any public action of lasting consequence by a member of Congress, like legislating, taking a public stand on an issue, filibustering a bill, or impeaching a president. Mayhew systematically culled data from some three dozen well-established history texts covering the American republic (some covering all of both centuries, others focusing on specific eras) and compiled a list of actions as they appeared in these texts. In other words, his "data" are actions--some from as long as two centuries ago, as selected and distilled by historians writing in the past two generations. Mayhew is anything but indifferent to the problems of source bias this approach might entail. But there is a constant, jarring contrast between the precision with which the author analyzes the data and the fuzziness and uncertainty of the data itself, an inconsistency that no level of sensitivity to the problem can quite overcome. It's not clear what other tack he could have taken, given the broad scope of time involved and the difficulty of analyzing so much material in any other way. But the problem is no less real for the challenge of overcoming it. One wishes Mayhew would have given freer rein to the interpretive questions he raises and spent less time raking over in exquisite detail a collection of data so questionable and uncertain.
On a recent episode of Called to Coach, we hosted Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach Dan Shundoff.
A majority of Dan’s work with strengths has typically centered on entrepreneurship, beginning with Gallup’s Entrepreneurial Acceleration System (EAS) and now Gallup’s Entrepreneurial Profile 10 (EP10).
Gallup’s EP10 assessment gives individuals a breakdown of dominance for each of 10 entrepreneurial talents. Dan emphasizes that you don’t need to be dominant in all 10 talents to be a successful entrepreneur. When he encounters individuals who want to be entrepreneurs, but who don’t necessarily have the talents to be successful on their own, Dan helps them understand the importance of viewing their talents in the context of others. By doing this, people are more likely to create purposeful partnerships and collaborate with others who have complementary talents.
Dan gets a thrill from conducting speaking engagements -- large group presentations where he guides dozens of people through educational workshops. Still, though, he says he gets more out of intimate group sessions where he facilitates conversations with a small number of people. He credits this preference to his Relator theme. This is why it’s important for strengths coaches to become fully aware of their talents. Not only will it better serve your clients, but you’ll also be able to make more purposeful decisions for yourself.
To hear more about Dan and how he uses strengths to help people live happier, more productive lives, watch the full video above.
Dan is a 20-year veteran CEO in the technology services sector. He brings unique experiences and deep insights to strengths-based coaching for individuals, teams, managers and entire organizations committed to improving their performance. Before becoming one of the first group of graduates from Gallup’s Accelerated Strengths Coaching course, Dan led a successful implementation of several Gallup sciences within his own organization, including StrengthsFinder, Employee Engagement (Q12) and Customer Engagement (CE11).
There's no shortage of festive fun this Thanksgiving weekend in Austin. Sing along to tunes from hit musical Annie or witness the Zilker tree lighting ceremony with the whole family. For a full list of Austin happenings, visit our events calendar.
America's sweetheart is taking over the Long Center stage this weekend with memorable tunes like "Tomorrow." Director and original lyricist Martin Charnin reinvents the classic musical in a fresh-yet-familiar production, and you can bet your bottom dollar this is a show you don't want to miss. Through Saturday.
More than 125 local artisans will showcase their unique creations at the fall installment of the Renegade Craft Fair. The free event at Fair Market, running through Sunday, features food and booze, live music, and much more.
Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year at the South Congress location of Jo's. Attendees can shop sweet finds at the local vendor marketplace, jam to live music by Jo's House Band, and meet Santa Claus himself. Bring a toy for the Blue Santa toy drive, and enjoy a free coffee while you hang out.
The Austin Trail of Lights celebrates all things merry and bright with the lighting of the iconic Zilker tree. Bring the whole family down to this free affair.
Grammy Award-winning Lauryn Hill will perform at ACL Live for one unforgettable night only. Revisit Hill's hit songs from her solo career and her time with the Fugees. Tickets are going fast — get them while you can.
The runoff was almost guaranteed as the April 11 election featured four candidates who ultimately split the vote and prevented any candidate from getting the needed majority of 50 percent plus one vote.
Voters approved a city charter amendment in November 2016 to create runoff elections in the Gables.
Ebbert earned about 33 percent while Mena got about 44 percent of the vote. Their opponents, retired police officer Randy Hoff and civil engineer Serafin Sousa, secured about 18 and 5 percent, respectively.
Mena said he was encouraged by the support he got as a first-time candidate. He said he hopes to continue pushing his platform in the next week or so.
“We’re going to keep doing what we’ve been doing, which is working really hard getting out to the community,” Mena said.
He also defended the large amount of mailers his campaign sent out to residents and said that he wanted to make his message clear as he was jumping into city politics for the first time.
“I think the result of Tuesday’s vote in our race reflects people’s reactions to [the mailers] more than anything else,” Mena said.
Getting that message out was costly for the political newcomer as Mena spent about $119,000 of the $136,540 in campaign funds he raised through March 28. Ebbert raised a little more than $21,500 in that same amount of time, filing for office about a month after Mena did.
Ebbert said that she felt less nervous in this campaign compared to her 2013 run and said she will continue being visible at city events and listening to residents.
“I’ll be trying to get more support from some of the people that voted other ways,” Ebbert said.
And while development concerns and strategies have been major talking points of the campaign season and one of the reasons Ebbert decided to run, she and Mena both hope to address other issues before the runoff vote.
“While I appreciate the concern that certain residents have on the development issue, and I understand my opponent in the runoff has made it a key in her campaign, I think there’s a variety of issues facing the citizens of Coral Gables,” Mena said.
Addressing issues like traffic and public safety have been focuses of Mena’s platform. Ebbert said she agrees that those are important issues but she also has some other projects she’d like to tackle.
“I’ve been very involved in sustainability efforts and I want to continue that. I don’t want to be a one-subject candidate,” Ebbert said.
She has also pushed for changing the city’s elections to coincide with larger elections in November to improve voter turnout. Only about 26 percent of registered voters participated in Tuesday’s election.
The other races were settled Tuesday as former mayor Raúl Valdés-Fauli won the mayoral seat over Slesnick. And Commissioner Patricia Keon was reelected to her Group 3 seat over former commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers.
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With a multitude of restaurants under his belt, one of which is arguably among Portugal’s most famous, Jose Avillez, I presume, will be harried, full of one-word answers, and eager to talk about his Michelin-starred Belcanto restaurant in Lisbon. However, Avillez is none of those things. Instead, the accomplished 39-year-old overarchingly displays one endearing trait: humility.
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“A lot of the people who work beside me are much better than me,” Avillez says, leaning over a bare wooden table in his new Dubai restaurant. “I have an amazing team.” The chef has brought some of them with him to the UAE to open Tasca, a Portuguese restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, which opened last month.
Situated on the sixth floor, the relaxed dining spot fuses the best of what Dubai has to offer: gleaming Burj Khalifa views through the floor-to-ceiling windows to one side, and from the other a glittering glimpse of the Arabian Gulf across a pool-speckled terrace.
However, despite the impressive mise en scene, Avillez wants the restaurant to be without a modicum of fussiness or pretension. “Tasca is the word for a casual restaurant in Portugal, like you have the bistro in France or a taverna in Spain [and Greece],” he says, downplaying any ideas of formality as he gestures to the linen-free tables.
“Having the pool, and being able to serve some snacks and some drinks there, we have a completely different experience. This almost could be the Maldives.” Then he points towards the world’s tallest tower, barely visible amid the Downtown mid-afternoon haze.
We brought a lot of influences back, we left a lot of influences there. Portugal was very influenced by Arabs, so I feel at home in the Middle East.
Such influences can be found in the chef’s chicken peri-peri, named after the chilli pepper found across Africa, and adopted by the Portuguese in the signature dish’s spice blend. Cooked sous-vide and then grilled, served with a side of smoked avocado and expertly crisped fries, it will banish all thoughts of a certain chicken restaurant chain from your mind.
Tasca is also swimming in fresh seafood (excuse the pun), from codfish and octopus to red shrimp and lobster, which is brought to the city from Portugal and cooked in the restaurant’s open kitchen. Carnivores might instead prefer Avillez’s version of the bitoque: Wagyu beef topped with a quail’s egg and truffle sauce, while vegetarians will struggle to order just one serving of the tempura avocado, still surprisingly green and substantial inside its spiced, battered casing. “We also play around with different Portuguese desserts, the pasteis de nata, known as the custard tart, but served on a millefeuille like the French one,” he adds.
A glistening orange globe, formed from mandarin ice cream encased in a fruity sorbet, is a particular standout, with the concept borrowed from Belcanto.
Avillez is used to working with the best of the best, having interned under Alain Ducasse, Ferran Adria and Jose Bento dos Santos, before branching out on his own. Decades later, though, the chef says he is “still learning” – and he’s now sending those working under him to do the same, with some of Tasca’s cooks visiting Portugal to become at one with the nation’s gastronomy.
Having spent years building up his business, Avillez hopes to devote more time to his family going forward, he reveals when quizzed on his professional bucket list. “There are a lot of things to do, the world is so big. I need to reconsider every one of my ideas and dreams,” he says.
Focusing on training and development is one of his interests, as is introducing more casual food with a Portuguese twist to his menus, he adds. But, for a gastronome, it’s matters of the heart, rather than simply the stomach, which he is focused on. “I want to try to be happy, but not giving myself that as a goal, because if it is a goal it’s impossible to achieve,” he says, sagely.
Winterthur's first outdoor exhibition will feature garden structures throughout estate, some created or procured by H.F. duPont and others newly built.
Gail Obenreder is a Wilmington arts professional, writer and producer. obenrederg@gmail.com.
There was a 13% rise in the number of tourists coming to Malta throughout 2018, meaning that the country received 2.6 million visitors from all across the globe, statistics revealed by the Malta Tourism Authority on Tuesday show.
The volume of tourism has doubled since 2010, when it stood at 1.3 million visitors. Leslie Vella, the Deputy CEO of the Malta Tourism Authority's Strategy Development department, said that 2010 was taken as a benchmark for this statistic as it was the year when the global economy emerged from the 2009 financial crisis.
A growth in tourism expenditure was also registered in the annual statistics, with tourists spending €2.1 billion during their stay in Malta. For comparison's sake, in 2009 the spending by tourists had dipped below €1 billion.
Addressing a conference organised by the MTA, Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi said that the positive results obtained in the tourism sector were due the government's efforts in diversifying Malta's markets and in making Malta a destination with less seasonal fluctuations throughout the year.
Mizzi said that through new air routes the country had both consolidated its core markets and opened up into new fringe markets as well. He cited new routes to Cardiff and Exeter in the UK; Verona, Genoa, Perugia and Lamezia in Italy; and Bordeaux in France in the case of the former; while new routes such as those flying to and from Amman in Jordan - operated by Ryanair - and the opening of a route between Malta and Cairo operated by Air Malta, and between Malta and Doha operated by Qatar Airways, the minister said, will serve to further improve Malta's connectivity to new areas of the globe.
Mizzi was pleased to note that as a result of this diversification and the MTA's marketing strategies, the United States became one of the top 10 countries of origin for tourists coming to Malta; around 50,000 American tourists came to Malta during 2018 - a rise of 31%. There were similarly strong rises in Australian tourists (around 46,000 travelled to Malta) and in Japanese tourists (whose expenditure is double the average).
The minister said that for Malta to continue to develop, the country needed significant investment in visa infrastructure whilst it also needs a "world class" infrastructure. Mizzi said that the government was currently looking at six proposals for the regeneration of Paceville, whilst similar regeneration is also planned for the Strand in Sliema, for lower Valletta and for the Three Cities. He added that both Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga were being regenerated and that once these projects are completed, St. Paul's Bay and Bugibba will be next on the list.
He added that one of the central points of the development of the tourism sector as of late was making Malta a centre for world class events, listing various events which had taken place pertaining to different sectors. He said that a "world class" theatre production will also soon be announced and will take place in Malta during November and December. To support these events however, Malta needs to have a fully equipped convention centre which can take large capacities, such as one of 10,000 people, an investment which would cement Malta's credentials as a world class venue for events.

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