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The 13th Annual West Davidson Soccer Camp will be held on June 17 through June 20. The camp will be held at Tyro Middle School from 8 a.m.- 11 a.m. The camp is open to ages 5-14. The camp will be run by West Davidson's Head Coach Chris Brown and his staff. If you have any questions feel free to contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 853-7795.
Come to poor man's supper at Shiloh UMC
Reeds Childrens Ministries will be serving a poor man's supper beginning at 5 tonight in Shiloh United Methodist Church's family life center with all profits going to this summer's Vacation Bible School. The poor man's supper will be followed at 6:30 with Shiloh's annual spring auction. All profits from the auction go to the family life center building fund.
Shiloh's annual homecoming is scheduled for May 19 with the Rev. Bobby Beck bringing the message at the 10 a.m. worship service. A covered dish luncheon will follow in the family life center.
The community is reminded about Shiloh's playground behind the family life center. It's one of just a few shaded playgrounds around.
Chicken pies are available at post
The Veterans of Reeds American Legion Post No. 162 will be selling chicken pies on from 9:30 a.m. until noon Saturday mornings through June 29. The pies are frozen and ready to cook. Mixed meat pies are $9 each and all-white meat pies are $10. Gravy and cooking instructions are included. To place an advance order or to schedule a pick-up appointment outside regular Saturday hours, call 247-2488, 225-6881 or 853-7212. Proceeds from the sale of the pies go to veterans projects in the west Davidson area and to the State Veteran's Home in Salisbury.
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(WOIO) - Jimmy Dimora has a new home. The former Cuyahoga County Commissioner will serve his 28 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer which is located in Glenville, West Virginia. He had been housed since his conviction at a private prison in Youngstown. Dimora got the longest sentence of the more than 60 people convicted in the county corruption investigation. His crimes included racketeering and corruption involving bribes from contractors wanting to win contracts with Cuyahoga County.
Dimora, 57, has been staying at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, a private federal prison in Youngstown, since he was sentenced last summer to 28 years in prison for racketeering and corruption-related charges.
The city of Glenville is located some 200 miles from Cleveland and is about 85 miles northeast of Charleston, W.Va. There is a prison camp and a prison on the site. Because of the length of Dimora's sentence he is not eligible to be housed at the camp so will be in the more restrictive setting. The Bureau of Prison's web site does not indicate if Dimora has already been moved or will be moved shortly.
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Allen Combs was named the executive director at Vocational Solutions in September. Vocational Solutions is a nonprofit employment firm that helps people with mental and physical disabilities find work. Combs not only heads up the nonprofit, but also coaches tennis at West Henderson High.
When you were first approached about the job to head up Vocational Solutions, what was your reaction?
My first reaction was surprise. Being on the board, I was aware that we had been actively searching and interviewing for the position for about seven months and partly because of our financial position, we were having trouble finding qualified candidates that would actually take the job for the compensation we could afford.
After discussing the offer with my wife and receiving her blessing, I quickly became excited about the possibilities and the challenges that Vocational Solutions faces in the near future. I wanted to lead the "turnaround."
You have an extensive business background. How has that helped you in this position?
I have close to nine years working in the manufacturing industry at Rockwell International, which is now Meritor, in the IT department, and I ran my own construction business for 14 years. I had successes and failures in the construction business, and I believe both of these have prepared me for the challenges that we face.
We are facing tough economic conditions as well as some accumulated debt, loss of some long-time industrial contracts and reductions in funding, so we are being very aggressive in turning our challenges into opportunities.
What is your main goal as the executive director?
We have several goals, but I think the most important is for us to become a self-sustaining business entity while maintaining our mission to serve our clients. We must re-educate our community about the significance of what we do here. We must regain the trust of our giving community so they are confident that their donations will not only help us survive, but will be used to further our mission. We must increase our industrial contracts and partnerships with local businesses; these things must happen for this organization to continue operating and to expand our services to those in need.
Has anything surprised you since you've taken the job?
I have been surprised by the number of people I meet who don't know what Vocational Solutions is. I've also been surprised about just how important this place is to our clients. As a board member, I was not aware of the extent of the day-to-day activities, so I was also surprised by the community outreach work that our clients do; we serve Meals on Wheels, clean CPR mannequins for the Red Cross, help feed and water animals and clean barns at Carl Sandburg Home, and we assist patients with games and such at the Pardee Care Center.
Our clients also take exercise and swim classes at the YMCA, take field trips to places such as Foam and Fabric for art supplies, art galleries on Main Street and Walden's Book Store, and recently they got to go to Grove Park Inn to view the gingerbread houses.
What would be your message to the community about Vocational Solutions?
My message is simple; come take a tour and see what we're doing for those in need in our community. You will be warmed by the love our clients will show you, and you will be impressed by the contribution they can make and the work they can do.
If you are employed at a business that could provide us with work placement opportunities, give us a call. And if you want to contribute to a place that is making a positive difference, this is one of those places. More information can be found at www.vocsol.com.
Talk about tennis. It's a big part of your life, right? What are some things that you've accomplished on the tennis court?
I really enjoy coaching tennis the best. I coach the men and women's teams at West Henderson, and I'm going into my third year. The men's team last year won the WNCAC Conference, so they made it to dual-team state, four players made it to regionals playing doubles, and two players went on to state in doubles.
The ladies team last year won the WNCAC 3A Conference, so they made it to dual team state, and three players made it to regionals. In the two years, I've had 11 All Conference players and two All Region players. I play USTA tennis on adult teams out of the Hendersonville Sports Club.
Got a Minute with Allen Combs
Allen Combs was named the executive director at Vocational Solutions in September. Vocational Solutions is a nonprofit employment firm that helps people with mental and physical disabilities find work. Combs not only heads up the nonprofit, but also coaches tennis at West Henderson High.


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Twin Park Taichung, Taiwan
- Client: Pao Huei Construction Company, LTD.
- Architect: Studio One Eleven at Perkowitz+Ruth Architects
- Interior Designer: Kay Lang + Associates
- Photos: © Pao Huei Construction Company, LTD.
- Date::12 Oct 10
Located in Taichung, Taiwan, The Twin Park Towers are 25-story luxury condominiums which front a city park. The towers feature unique city views as they are the only buildings within the district allowed to exceed 14 floors. Studio One Eleven was asked to design the exterior building envelope with Kay Lang + Associates to provide the interior design. The envelope provides a modern clean design with the combination of granite, tile, aluminum, steel and glass in an elegant and refined composition. Interior finishes follow suit, but with a warmer residential tone. Integrated lighting highlights the architectural and interior design while adding a unique decorative touch.


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Nor'easter Winds Down With Sleet, Snow and Cold
New Jersey's pre-Thanksgiving Nor'easter is in its final stages with rain turning to snow and sleet as cold air sweeps through the area.
Heavy rain fell all night across the state leading to flooding on some roads. Any remaining rain could turn to black ice especially on road surfaces overnight. Around 3 inches of rain fell around the state although Hanover received 4 inches according to the National Weather Service's observation.
There was flooding during the morning commute on I-287 and the Garden State Parkway. A truck went off Interstate 95 southbound just past the Scudder Falls Bridge in Bucks County closed the right lane backing traffic back up into New Jersey which has since cleared.
Temperatures started the day around 60 on Wednesday morning but fell during the afternoon into the 40s. The rain could end as some snow on Wednesday afternoon and roads could freeze up as the cold air moves in. A Wind Advisory for coastal areas was canceled although winds will still reach 20-30 MPH out of the south.
PSEG, JCP&L and Atlantic City Electric power outages from earlier today have been restored across the state.
Most flights were on time at Newark, JFK, Philadelphia and LaGuardia airports according to FlightAware.com as of 3:40 p.m. Earlier, flight cancellations piled up at East Coast hubs. By midday Wednesday, around 250 flights to, from or within the U.S. had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com. But that was a small fraction of the thousands of planes airborne over the U.S. at any given moment.
The rest of the holiday weekend looks good with high temperatures in the 40s with sunny skies while Sunday will be cloudy but with no precipitation.
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Mommy says crazy things!There's a reason kids say the darndest things. It's because they've been listening to their parents. Over at 18 Years to Life, they're hosting a link-up where all moms can blog about the things they honestly can't believe they've said to their kids. I'm playing!
I will certainly cop to throwing out a, "I said so, that's why," immediately following a, "Mommy knows EVERYTHING!" conversation. I also admit to stealing a Betty Draper and -- in a moment of pure frustration -- when my child, who has a ton of toys, books, and a baby brother, announced she was bored. I did it. I said, "Only boring people are bored."
But really the things that have shocked me go much further than the ones I simply stole from my own mother. Including the following (three of which I actually said today):
Do you want to go poop with your sister?
Stop touching yourself in the car.
No zerberts until you put on a diaper.
Your uncle doesn't believe in God.
Yes, I do love rock and roll. For the 500th time! Stop asking.
Take your finger out of your butt and eat.
You have to finish your French fries before you get any more fruit.
I let Santa in through the front door, but made the reindeer stay outside.
Did you see that cat eat that gopher?!?! Look!!!
Your boobies might get as big as mine, or they might stay small. Like Grandma's.
What's the craziest thing you've caught yourself saying to your child?


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Porter's Full Throttle Wins Melges 24 Key West, Colahan Captures Corinthian Title
25 January 2013
The second day of the five day series at Premiere Racing's 2013 Quantum Key West Race Week has commenced with Alec Cutler's hedgehog leading the competition with an impressive 3-1-2 punch. As the overall leader Cutler hasn't left the podium yet in this competition.
Close on his heels is Brian Porter sailing Full Throttle who also came up big today with a 2-3-1 finish landing him in second place overall. The two teams have battled throughout the entire competition constantly exchanging the lead and challenging eachother with every move. Another sailor who had a wonderful day on the water is Bora Gulari on West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes with a solid 1-4-4 day earning him third overall spot for day two.
The Melges 24 Corinthian competition teams made great strides today for the with the leaders holding strong on the podium. Loren Colahan's Lounge Act remains atop the leader board with Marty Jensen's Zig Zag a close second. Jens Wathne's Party Girl continues to battle in third place for day two.
The Melges 24 fleet will be back in action tomorrow for day three of Key West Race Week to continue sailing towards the coveted trophy.
1.) Alec Cutler, hedgehog; 2-2-3-1-2=10
2.) Brian Porter, Full Throttle; 7-1-2-3-1=14
3.) Bora Gulari, West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes; 6-4-1-4-4=19
4.)Argyle Campbell, Rock N Roll; 5-8-4-6-3=26
5.) Bruce Ayres, Monsoon; 1-9-10-2-10=32
6.) Loren Colahan, Lounge Act; 3-7-15-7-13=45
7.) Don Wilson, Convexity; 9-12-8-12-5=46
8.) Guy Mossman, Battle Rhythm; 4-11-9-8-15=47
9.) Thomas Ritter, Tramp; 10-5-12-13-7=47
10.) Marty Jensen, Zig Zag;12-3-6-9-20=50


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Sept 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th - shows at 6 pm & 8 pm
Hosted by Kevin O'Shea and George Chen. featuring Karinda Dobbins!
Socio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell has emerged as the post-modern voice of comedy. Kamau is best known for his critically acclaimed, but criminally short-lived FX comedy series, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. The New York Times called Kamau "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." And Salon.com listed Kamau on their "Sexiest Men of 2012" list, calling the series "surreptitiously revolutionary in its effortless diversity and humanism." Kamau has appeared on Comedy Central, Real Time with Bill Maher, Conan, WTF with Marc Maron, Henry Louis Gates Jr's Many Rivers To Cross, MSNBC, The View, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and NPR, among others. The SF Weeklycalled Kamau "smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle," though he was more excited that they called him "handsome."


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Title: Shirley Sarvis papers, 1957-2007
Primary Creator: Sarvis, Shirley (1935-2013)
Extent: 19.0 Boxes
Arrangement: The collection is organized into sixteen series: 1) Wine and Food Pairing, Luncheons; 2) Woman's Day; 3) Published and Unpublished Recipes; 4) Entertaining; 5) Tastings, Consultations; 6) Julia Child; 7) Sarvis Bio and Pictures; 8) Personal Photos; 9) Magazine Clippings; 10) Magazine and Newspaper Clippings; 11) Recipe Clippings; 12) Dinner, Dessert Recipes and Wine; 13) Europe and Mexico; 14) First Trip to Europe; 15) Trip to Europe; 16) Personal Recipe Notes.
Subjects: Kansas life and culture
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President Bush has harshly censured the regime:
"We feel admiration and compassion for the monks and peaceful protesters calling for democracy... Every civilized nation has a responsibility to stand up for people suffering under a brutal military regime like the one that has ruled Burma for too long."He added a little bite to his words by imposing economic and travel sanctions on some of the regime's top officials. China does not feel obligated to rid the world of tyranny, however. It blocked UN hand-wringing directed at Burma last January, and has been reluctant to share Bush's stance on the situation:
At a press conference in Beijing Thursday, Jiang Yu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, "We hope all parties continue to exercise restraint and properly handle the current issue." But when asked whether Beijing condemned the killings of protestors in Rangoon, Jiang declined to answer directly. She also criticized the foreign press for "exaggerating and hyperbolizing" allegations that China had failed to play a constructive role in resolving the conflict.As the US continues to weaken on the international stage in the face of persistent trade deficits, the threat of inflation and recession, senescence, demographic decline, and the rapid growth of eastern nations, the torch of Human Rights Crusader will not be passed to Beijing. Instead, it will be extinguished. The PRC is not interested in dictating the social mores of other nations:
China has become the leading state sponsor of common thugs, from Burma to Sudan to Zimbabwe. It has positioned itself as a great power without the pesky complication of conscience, willing to court and support any dictator who supplies a tribute of natural resources.Historian Toby Huff argues that the idea of conscience, tracing its roots back to the Paul of Tarsus and becoming institutionalized as a virtue in Western Europe from the medieval age onwards, is a critical ingredient in the development of a social structure that allows for scientific investigation and technological progress to flourish.
The Chinese government does not seem to agree, with little use for the Occidental understanding of conscience.
It is inaccurate to conflate the idea of conscience with morality in general. Confucian cultures place more weight on societal stability than on individual liberty than Western cultures do (which is part of the reason conservative Americans are more intrigued by Eastern philosophies than leftists tend to be). The idea of increasing the disruption of a sovereign nation's political order on behalf of those who are causing the disruption is not a moral imperative. If anything, refusing to get involved is.
Furthermore, China has a vigorous trade relationship with Burma. While Burmese exports to China are negligible, goods from China represent more than one-third of Burma's total imports, making the PRC Burma's leading supplier by far. Much of what comes from China goes to arm the military junta. Similar relationships exist with African and Muslim countries.
With so much outside pressure, Shwe may be forced to make concessions to the democratic opposition, whose leader he has infamously kept in perpetual detention and whose spokesmen he had arrested earlier this week. Specifically, his regime may be forced to cut lavish spending on itself to reverse the massive fuel-price increase it just levied on the population. China, feeling similar pressure, will likely take a harder line against the regime ahead of the bi-decadal appointing of the politburo and the 2008 Olympics.
But with more than one-sixth of the world's population, GDP and military spending that are set to pass the US to become the world's largest within the next five years, a high IQ, increasingly educated, and prideful Han population, the days in which China will feel obligated to shift course due to the exhortations of Western nations (even today, that really only applies to the US, as European influence has long-since waned) and their human rights NGOs are numbered.
By simultaneously invading, inviting, and becoming indebted to so much of the world, the US is ushering that day along with haste. Better for the US to re-evaluate the overextended commitments it already has piled up than to make gestures suggesting yet another one on behalf of monks in Rangoon. In the words of John Quincy Adams:
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.That we might again adopt this thinking, to ensure such an example will remain standing strong as the world's epicenter shifts to the East.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.


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Designers from around the world are submitting creative designs for mspanish in other design - custom.
Help us develop a fantastic skin for our Flex Spanish e-learning application, including designs for page views. Designs in PSD, Ai, Flash, or Flex are all fine. We would like to the following 2 pages from each designer, in 1024x768 sized images:
Here is a wireframe- very rough - for the HOMEPAGE.
Here is a mockup that can serve as a general idea for the CURRICULUM page we want to see from each designer:
Please look at http://www.wufoo.com and this guide to fantastic Flex interfaces:http://designingwebinterfaces.com/great-flex-uxWe are working with programmers to code an elearning interface in Flex 3 builder. What we need, are a set of gorgeous, uber web 2.0 screens for our interface (rough working demo is here: http://www.instaspanish.com/dev/IFrameDemo.html just click the GO button, no login needed)
For the contest: please 2 samples for 1 or both of these 2 pages:
- Interface Home - http://www.instaspanish.com/dev/wireframe1.jpg- Content Viewer with Curriculum List/Tree
You may like to watch this video about the project to see some rough ideas I've had:
Please note that the gig includes design for all of the screens listed below.
Below are the types of screens we'll need.
Pages (states in Flex):
- login
- Home interface
- Clase de Ninos curriculum
- Beginning Spanish
- Intermediate Spanish
- Features Tour
- Student Admin
pop up windows/panels:
- Welcome
- payment
- help
Obviously you'll develop a theme/skin and just make adjustments based on each page. It would be beyond awesome if you can do this natively in Flex using Degrafa or something similar - but you can also do your designs through flash skinning and even design apps like Illustrator, Photoshop, or Xara, although all artwork must be in layers that we can convert into skins for components or apply via CSS, etc.
One thing people may want to keep in mind for the curriculum organization, is that the 3 levels right now are as follows:
Clase de Niños - 10 units
Beginning - 18 weeks
Intermediate 18 weeks
So most of the designs have like 4 sections you select, when in fact the main system (beginning, intermediate) - will not be done in sections like that, but in WEEKS, just like a school year.
I thought that might be helpful for people to know.
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Some members of MB ChB class of 2018 with Chairman Dept of Surgery and other faculty members in a ward at the UoN Teaching Hospital
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Some members of MB ChB class of 2018 happy in a photo with their lecturers after finishing their final surgery clinical examination (OSCE). Pictured together with Chairman Dept of Surgery and other faculty members.
Paediatric Surgery Thematic Unit
Dr David Kihiko examining a PostGraduate student - 14th November 2018
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UoN and KNH teams at the World Hearing Day 2018 - Observed at KNH on 2nd March 2018
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Otology and FacialPlastic training by University of Kentucky team
Dr Mathew L Bush and Dr Amit Patel of University of Kentucky with local faculty members outside UoN Dept of Surgery
UoN Neurosurgery Alumnus at Cornell University
Dr Rowland Leurander Thabo at Cornell University. He is an alumnus of the Neurosurgery Thematic Unit of University of Nairobi
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The rescheduled end of rotation CAT for year III will take place on teh 16th January 2015 in the New Teaching Laboratories.
Please note the examination is for Groups B1 and B2
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I have a love hate relationship with clam chowder.
No, that's not true. It sounds really bad to say I have a hate relationship with clam chowder, but that about sums it up. I've got some strong negative feelings towards clam chowder. And I've never even eaten the stuff.
I waited tables at so many restaurants during college. Some of them had good food. Lots of them had not so good food. But the clam chowder is the common thread. It was always kind of repulsive.
I probably wouldn't have liked the stuff to begin with, but ladling bowl after bowl of it as it sat in a hot table for hours (or at the really bad places, days) and having to watch it congeal and do all kinds of gross things, I came to the decision that clam chowder was bad news. So yeah, I try to avoid getting preachy about food on this site, but today I'll preach. If you're one of my readers who isn't completely meatless, whatever you do, don't go out to a restaurant and order clam chowder. Make your own vegan clam chowder at home instead!
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"We have a great schedule this season," Skole added. We will be challenged early, there is no doubt about that, but we saw our schedule as an opportunity to help us get better early. The first part of our non-conference schedule will help us to get ready to open the Atlantic Sun season. I anticipate the Atlantic Sun Conference to once again be one of the top Division I baseball conferences in the country."
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The address where a man claims in a YouTube video that police struck his mother has been the subject of more than 60 police calls since 2000, according to a press release issued by Wareham Police.
The video, which is below, includes profanity.
Police provided audio of the dispatch call, which is also below, and copies of the log entries.
The address where a man claims in a YouTube video that police struck his mother has been the subject of more than 60 police calls since 2000, according to a press release issued by Wareham Police.
The most recent past call was for an unwanted guest in March. There were also 11 attempts to serve a summons, and three general disturbance calls in 2013.
According to police records, there were 14 calls to the address in 2013, six in 2012, nine in 2011, four in 2008, five in 2007, two in 2006, six in 2005, and one in each of the years of 2004, 2003, and 2000.
The police on Wednesday were called to the house by a neighbor on a report that two men were fighting outside the home while a 3 year old was present outside, police said.
The release states, "On June 18, 2014 at approximately 10:37 a.m., a Communication Officer at the Wareham Police Dept. received a call concerning two people fighting at 17 Camardo Drive and an unsupervised 3-year-old girl left outside. ... The Communication Officer sent two officers to the scene to investigate the report.
"A 58-year-old female was transported from the scene by Wareham EMS to Tobey Hospital, and released shortly after her arrival from the hospital.
This matter is under investigation."
A man who used his phone to record a portion of the Wareham police stop at his mother's Wareham home on what he said was an abandoned child call alleges during the tape that one of the officer's struck his mother in the face. The video has been uploaded to YouTube.
Interim Police Chief Kevin Walsh said earlier that the incident was being investigated. "When we heard of the incident our investigation began. We don't rush to judgment. We'll do an investigation on the whole context of the incident." He added as of Thursday afternoon police had not received a formal complaint. The officers will remain on duty during the course of the investigation.
Richard Phillips in a telephone interview said he and his brother were at his mother's Wareham home, that his 3-year-old niece had been playing in front of the house, near the wide-open front door. He said when the two officers arrived the child was back inside the home.
He said police were told the child was fine, but refused to leave, and threatened to kick the door in unless they were allowed to see the child. He said he told police they couldn't come in without a search warrant. He said the two officers were able to see the child was safe, but then refused to leave, saying they had a separate call on men without shirts fighting on the lawn.
He said he began recording when they continued to maintain they be allowed in the home.
One of the officers apparently grabs for the phone during the taping and that's when the voice over, which Phillips said was his voice, says he hit his mother. Phillips said during the phone interview that he didn't know if the officer's intent was to grab the phone.
He said he called 911 for an ambulance for his mother. A police sergeant was called to the scene. He said the sergeant told officers to arrest the people within the house if they came out.
Phillips said he had to call 911 for an ambulance more than once, but that one did respond and took his mother to Tobey Hospital and the police left. She was released, but the family was concerned with her heart. She's had heart problems in the past, he said, and they took her to St. Luke's in New Bedford. She was released a little before 4 a.m. Thursday.
Phillips said the family was pursuing legal action, and that he wanted the two officers who responded to the door, subjected to the strictest penalties under the law including losing their jobs, that he felt they were trespassing, and had entered unlawfully, committed assault and battery, and armed home invasion.
The tape shows the officers outside the open door, with Phillips saying he was recording. One of the officers appears to grab for the phone. After that, Phillips is heard on the tape saying the officer had slapped his mother, and he apparently began calling 911.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Nationally-ranked No. 11 Bowdoin College snapped MIT's seven-match winning streak following an 8-1 decision on Friday. The Polar Bears improved to 10-3 on the year while the Engineers' ledger dipped to 11-2 overall.
Samuel Harmatz registered the Cardinal and Gray's lone point of the day with a 6-4, 6-3, victory over Alex White in the No. 4 singles slot. Ken Van Tilburg forced a third set, but Oscar Pena outlasted him in the decisive frame en route to a 6-3, 4-6, 11-9 win. Brian Wee and David Iba fell by scores of 6-2, 7-5, and 6-1, 7-5, respectively. Kevin Pang and Peden Nichols battled formidable foes but their bids to pick up a win fell short.
In doubles action, Pena and Jamie Neely defeated Pang and Iba, 8-3. Alex Caughron and Stephen Sullivan collaborated for an 8-2 win over Van Tilburg and Wee as Nichols and Harmatz lost, 8-0.
No. 11 Bowdoin College vs. MIT
Final Team Score: Bowdoin 8, MIT 1
1. Oscar Pena/Jamie Neely (B) def. Kevin Pang/David Iba (M), 8-3
2. Alex Caughron/Stephen Sullivan (B) def. Ken Van Tilburg/Brian Wee (M), 8-2
3. Alex White/Tyler Anderson (B) def. Peden Nichols/Samuel Harmatz (M), 8-0
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2. Oscar Pena (B) def. Ken Van Tilburg (M), 6-3, 4-6, 11-9
3. Alex Caughron (B) def. Brian Wee (M), 6-2, 7-5
4. Samuel Harmatz (M) def. Alex White (B), 6-4, 6-3
5. Josh Cranin (B) def. Peden Nichols (M), 6-0, 6-0
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Kimberly Ann St John died peacefully in her rural Wyoming home Oct. 30, 2012.
A service of joyous remembrance for Kim will be held Sat., Nov. 17, at Wildlife Prairie State Park. Family will welcome guests beginning at 8 am with a formal service at 10:15 am in the park's Prairie Hall to be followed by a light lunch. Casual clothing and walking shoes are encouraged so guests can enjoy the natural beauty of God's world as Kim often did. The Park is two and a half miles south on Exit 82 of I-74 west of Peoria.


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UPS Coughs Up $40 Million Because It Delivered Drugs From Rogue Pharmacies
from the uh,-secondary-liability? dept
UPS put out a statement that doesn't sound even remotely forced upon it by DOJ people holding guns.
"We believe we have an obligation and responsibility to help curb the sale and shipment of drugs sold through illegal Internet pharmacies," said Susan Rosenberg, a UPS spokeswoman.Of course, what is an "illegal internet pharmacy"? There's a bit of an issue there because the DOJ thinks that an illegal internet pharmacy includes that Canadian pharmacy that is much cheaper, but which is making perfectly legitimate drugs and then shipping them -- gray market style -- into the US. That's a very different picture than the "illegal internet pharmacy" selling sugar pills or worse. But, here's the thing about all that: for all the talk of the risks and dangerous of illegal internet pharmacies there are amazingly few stories of any actual harm. And, in fact, various random tests of the drugs coming from "illegal internet pharmacies" suggest that, for the most part, they're safe (and frequently appear to actually be what they say on the box). So what is the DOJ protecting us from here? The scourge of more affordable legal drugs?
The bigger issue, however, is the question of secondary liability. I don't want UPS going through my packages to make sure they're not illegal drugs. Perhaps the government showed direct plans and strategies by UPS to attract illegal pharmacies, but from the outside, given the information that's been revealed, it looks like the real problem is why is the DOJ even bothering? If UPS and Fedex are going to have to start checking what's inside packages to avoid getting itself fined again, that's a really bad and dangerous precedent.


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EASTON, Mass. - The MIT men's track and field team wrapped up competition at the New England Outdoor Championships with an eighth place finish with 36.50 points. The Engineers finished just ahead of New Hampshire with 35 points. Southern Connecticut State came in first place with 159 points.
To kick off the final day, sophomore Samuel Parker (Menlo Park, Calif.) ran the 800m, coming in 14th place with a time of 1:53.43. In the next event, the 1500m, junior Justin Bullock (Detroit, Mich.) came in 27th with a 4:11.95. After finishing in third place in the 400m Hurdles in prelims yesterday, freshman Michael Kaba (Jackson, N.J.) moved onto finals, coming in second place with a time of 52.20, dropping over a second and a half off his time and breaking both the MIT varsity and freshman record.
The MIT 4x100 relay that was composed of junior Michael DuPlessis (Wantagh, N.Y.), Kaba, senior Josh Duncavage (Austin, Texas) and junior Tyler Singer-Clark (Falmouth, Mass.) came in second place with a time of 41.93. The Southern Connecticut State relay crossed the line just two one-hundredths of a second ahead of the Engineers. The MIT 4x400 relay also finished in second place, finishing with a time of 3:12.42. The relay was made up of freshman States Lee (Charlotte, N.C.), Kaba, freshman Derek Barnes (Coto De Caza, Calif.) and Singer-Clark, narrowly breaking the MIT varsity record and putting them fourth on the NCAA Division III performance list.
Sophomore Benjamin Schreck (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) improved on his performance in the Pole Vault from yesterday, finishing in third place with a vault of 15-05.00. Senior Yida Gao (Marietta, Ga.) also improved, coming in 11th when he cleared the bar in 14-11.00.
To end the day, three Engineers competed in the Triple Jump. Freshman Carrington Motley (Pittsburgh, Pa.) finished highest for MIT, coming in eighth place with a jump of 45-10.00. Classmates Arinze Okeke (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Angel Echevarria (Sacramento, Calif.) finished in 13th and 15th place with jumps of 44-06.75 and 44-02.75 respectively.
The Engineers will return to action next weekend for the ECAC Division III Championships, before gearing up for the NCAA Championships that will be held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse the following weekend.


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Fans May Have to Wait Longer for Xbox Launch
Videogame fans may have to wait longer to get a peak at the Xbox 720 as Microsoft may unveil the new device in May instead of April. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports. (Photo: AP)
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Watched the Phillies advance, the Giants crush Seattle and the Colts pull off a wild one. Rays up early in Chicago. Will watch the Red Sox tonight. If there's anything you'd like to say, feel free.
Just a reminder, tomorrow night at 7 I'll host another Mets Chat Room. Looking forward to your participation.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 22, 2011) – Xan Barksdale has been named assistant baseball coach at ETSU, head coach Tony Skole announced on Friday. Barksdale arrives at ETSU from the University of Louisville, where he served as assistant coach for the last five years.
"I am extremely excited about the hiring of Xan Barksdale," said Skole. "He is one of the top, young coaches in our profession. The energy, passion and excitement he will bring to our program are unparalleled.
"Xan has tons of charisma and is an extremely hard worker. He comes from a very successful program at the University of Louisville and was highly recommended."
Barksdale joined the Cardinal staff after spending three seasons in the Atlanta Braves system. While at Louisville, Barksdale worked with the Cardinal catchers and assisted with the hitters in addition to performing other administrative duties.
"I'm really excited about the opportunity to coach at ETSU," said Barksdale. "The baseball program has been steadily improving over the past few years, and the administration has shown tremendous support by breaking ground on a beautiful new baseball stadium. I would really like to thank Coach Skole and ETSU for giving me the opportunity to become a Buccaneer. Coach Skole and I have the same goals of winning the Atlantic Sun and getting into the NCAA's consistently. I'm really looking forward to working hard and bringing championship trophies to Johnson City."
This past season, Barksdale had a significant impact on freshman catcher Jeff Gardner, who finished second on the squad with a .333 batting average, while also adding three home runs and 13 RBIs. In addition, catcher J.J. Ethel finished 2011 by throwing out 16 baserunners, while being drafted in the 49th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
During the 2010 season, Louisville catcher Jeff Arnold earned Second-Team All-BIG EAST recognition after hitting .306 with three home runs and 32 RBI. Following the season, Arnold was selected in the 26th Round of the 2010 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the San Francisco Giants.
In 2009, Arnold earned All-BIG EAST Tournament honors and was a Preseason All-BIG EAST selection for 2010. Under the guidance of Barksdale, Louisville catchers had a stretch of 77 consecutive games from 2007 to 2009 without committing an error behind the plate.
In 2008, Louisville catcher Derrick Alfonso earned First-Team All-BIG EAST honors throwing out an impressive 20 of 32 baserunners while working with Barksdale. During the 2007 season, Alfonso was named Second-Team All-BIG EAST, throwing out 29 of 60 baserunners.
Barksdale signed a free agent contract with the Braves in July of 2004 and competed for the Braves minor league affiliates in the Gulf Coast (GCL Braves), South Atlantic (Rome) and Carolina Leagues (Myrtle Beach). He played the final two seasons with former Cardinal Mark Jurich.
Prior to his pro career, he played for two seasons at Ole Miss while current Louisville head coach Dan McDonnell was an assistant. He was proclaimed "most dedicated" in 2004 and completed his bachelor's degree in marketing with a minor in math.
Following high school, Barksdale attended Holmes Community College for two seasons - the same JUCO that Major League Baseball star Roy Oswalt attended. While at Holmes, he earned an associate's degree in engineering, was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honorary fraternity away from the field and was a two-time All-State selection and All-Region honoree in 2002 on the field.
Barksdale was All-State and All-Conference and was selected to play in an All-Star Game following his senior season at Madison Ridgeland Academy in Madison, Miss. He was born on December 7, 1981, in Memphis, Tenn.
In addition to his coaching duties, Barksdale also developed the product called Catcher's Thumb (www.CatchersThumb.com) and has a catching website (www.catching-101.com) that is devoted to helping catchers all over the country improve their skills with videos, articles, drills and other useful information.
"Xan is one of the top catching coaches in the country and is extremely knowledgeable on the offensive side of the game as well," said Skole. "Most importantly, he is a great person who our players will benefit from being around on a daily basis. I couldn't be more excited about this hire and having Xan joining our baseball family."
For more information on ETSU baseball please go to ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball link. Also, be sure to follow ETSU Athletics on Facebook (ETSU Buccaneer Athletics) and Twitter (@ETSUAthletics).


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Water Resources Act Signed, Farmers Union Welcomes Class to Institute
- President Obama has signed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, also known as WRRDA, which will put Americans to work modernizing our water infrastructure and restoring some of our most vital ecosystems.
It authorizes construction of 34 Army Corps of Engineers water resources projects for flood risk management, navigation, hurricane and storm damage risk reduction and environmental restoration.
It also modifies previously authorized projects and contains numerous other water resources project-related provisions.
- The National Farmers Union announced the 15 participants selected for the fourth class of its Beginning Farmer Institute.
Institute participants will meet several times over the next year to learn about financial planning, farm management and farmer-owned cooperatives. In addition, they will help determine the agenda based on what they have identified as important to their operation.
Topics include marketing, understanding U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, renewable energy, recording keeping, farm transitioning and understanding the local food system.


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Peak To Peak Gondola set to be an adrenaline rush of a ride.
Until now, the Village at Whistler was the only thing physically uniting Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, but all that is set to change with the announcement of the Peak To Peak Gondola. The gondola will span from Blackcomb's 6,102-foot-high Rendezvous Lodge to the 6,069-foot-high Whistler Roundhouse with only four towers in between. The Peak To Peak is set to be a year-round tourist attraction, claiming both the world record for length and height. But hear this, this ain't no clunky tram-the 28 cabins will be able to move 2,050 people per hour between the two peaks. So say you want to shred deep snow on the peak all morning at Whistler and then hit the Nintendo Terrain Park at Blackcomb in the afternoon without a hike through the village-that's the kind of easy access this is about.
Upon completion, in addition to the adrenaline rush of dangling 1,362 feet in the air over Fitzsimmons Creek and about a mile away from the nearest tower, riders will be able to access over 8,171 acres of terrain on both mountains. Whistler local Etienne Gilbert has a few other ideas of what he'd do with a cool 50-mill' if he was the CEO of Whistler, but in general, he's stoked, he says, "With global warming, the snow level might go up the hill as the years go by, this will help riders to stay in the freezing levels all day." Start making your plans to head to Whistler before all hell breaks loose with the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler.-A.F.
Cost: $51-million ($51,000,000)
Height: 1,362 feet (one and a half Eiffel towers at its highest point.)
Distance it spans: 2.73 miles
Ride time: 11 minutes
Completion date: December 2008


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The Meaning of the Word Hitpallel (התפלל)
By Mitchell First[1]
It is clear from the many places that it appears in Tanakh that התפלל connotes praying. But what was the original meaning of this word? I was always taught that it meant something like "judge yourself." Indeed, the standard ArtScroll Siddur (Siddur Kol Yaakov) includes the following in its introductory pages: "The Hebrew verb for praying is מתפלל; it is a reflexive word, meaning that the subject acts upon himself. Prayer is a process of self-evaluation, self-judgment…"[2]
More recently, when I searched Jewish sites on the internet for the definition that was offered for hitpallel and mitpallel, I invariably came up with a definition similar to the above. Long ago, Rabbi S. R. Hirsch (d. 1888) and R. Aryeh Leib Gordon (d. 1912) also gave definitions that focused on prayer as primarily an action of the self.[3]
In this post, I would like to share a different interpretation offered by some modern scholars, one based on a simple insight into Hebrew grammar. This new and compelling interpretation has unfortunately not yet made its way into mainstream Orthodox writings and thought. Nor has it been given proper attention in academic circles. For example, it did not make its way into the widely consulted lexicon of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner.[4] By sharing this new interpretation of התפלל, we can ensure that at least the next generation will understand the origin of this critical word.
There are two issues involved in parsing this word: 1) what is the meaning of the root פלל? and 2) what is the import of the hitpael stem, one that typically implies doing something to yourself?
With regard to the root פלל, its meaning is admittedly difficult to understand. Scholars have pointed out that the other Semitic languages shed little light on its meaning.[5]
If we look in Tanakh, the verb פלל is found 4 times:[6]
1) It seems to have a meaning like "think" or "assess" at Genesis 48:11: re'oh fanekha lo filalti…(=I did not think/assess that I would see your face).[7]
2) It seems to have a meaning like "intervene" at Psalms 106:30: va-ya'amod Pinḥas va-yefalel, va-teatzar ha-magefah (=Pinchas stood up and intervened and the plague was stopped).[8]
3) It seems to have a meaning like "judge" at I Sam. 2:25: im yeḥeta ish le-ish u-filelo elokim…(If a man sins against another man, God will judge him…).[9]
4) It also appears at Ezekiel 16:52: את שאי כלמתך אשר פללת לאחותך גם (= You also should bear your own shame that you pilalt to your sisters). The sense here is difficult, but it is usually translated as implying some form of judging.
What I would like to focus on in this post, however, is the import of the hitpael stem in the word התפלל. Most students of Hebrew grammar are taught early on that the hitpael functions as a "reflexive" stem, i.e., that the actor is doing some action on himself. But the truth is more complicated.
One source I saw counted 984 instances of the hitpael in Tanakh.[10] It is true that a large percentage of the time, perhaps even a majority of the time, the hitpael in Tanakh is a "reflexive" stem.[11] Some examples:
● "station oneself"; the verb יצב is in the hitpael 48 times in Tanakh (e.g., hityatzev)
● "strengthen oneself"; the verb חזק is in the hitpael 27 times in Tanakh (e.g., hitḥazek)
● "sanctify oneself"; the verb קדש is in the hitpael 24 times in Tanakh (e.g., hitkadesh)
● "cleanse oneself"; the verb טהר is in the hitpael 20 times in Tanakh (e.g., hitaher)
But it is also clear that the hitpael transforms meanings in other ways as well. For example:
● At Genesis 42:1 (lamah titrau), the form of titrau is hitpael but the meaning is likely: "Why are you looking at one another?" This is called the "reciprocal" meaning of hitpael. Another example of this reciprocal meaning is found at II Chronicles 24:25 with the word hitkashru; its meaning is "conspired with one another."
● The root הלך appears in the hitpael 46 times in Tanakh, e.g., hithalekh. The meaning is not "to walk oneself," but "to walk continually or repeatedly." This is called the "durative" meaning of the hitpael. There are many more durative hitpaels in Tanakh.[12]
Now let us look at a different word that is in the hitpael form in Tanakh: התחנן. The root here is חנן which means "to be gracious" or "to show favor." חנן appears in the hitpael form many times in Tanakh (התחנן, אתחנן, etc.). At I Kings 8:33 we even have a hitpael of פלל and a hitpael of חנן adjacent to one another: והתחננו והתפללו. If we are constrained to view התפלל as doing something to yourself, then what would be the meaning of התחנן? To show favor to yourself? This interpretation makes no sense in any of the contexts that the hitpael of חנן is used in Tanakh.
Rather, as recognized by modern scholars, the root חנן is an example where the hitpael has a slightly different meaning: to make yourself the object of another's action. (This variant of hitpael has been called "voluntary passive" or "indirect reflexive.") Every time the root חנן is used in the hitpael, the actor is asking another to show favor to him. As an example, one can look at the beginning of parshat va-et-ḥanan. Verse 3:23 states that Moshe was אתחנן to God. אתחנן does not mean that "Moshe showed graciousness to himself." Rather, he was trying to make himself the object of God's graciousness.
Let us now return to our issue: the meaning of התפלל. Most likely, the hitpael form in the case of התפלל is doing the same thing as the hitpael form in the case of התחנן: it is turning the word into a voluntary passive/indirect reflexive.[13] Hence, the meaning of התפלל is to make oneself the object of God's פלל (assessment, intervention, or judging). This is a much simpler understanding of התפלל than the ones that look for a reflexive action on the petitioner's part. Once one is presented with this approach and how it perfectly parallels the hitpael's role in התחנן, it is very hard to disagree.[14]
Some Additional Comments
1. It is interesting to mention some of the other creative explanations for התפלל that had previously been proposed (while our very reasonable interpretation was overlooked!):
a. The root is related to a root found in Arabic, falla, which means something like "break," and reflected an ancient practice of self-mutilation in connection with prayer.[15] Such a rite is referred to at 1 Kings 18:28 in connection with the cult of Baal ("and they cut themselves [=va-yitgodedu] in accordance with their manner with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them").[16]
b. התפלל is derived from the root נפל (fall) and reflected the ancient practice of prostrating oneself during prayer.[17]
c. התפלל did not originate based on a three-letter root, but was a later development derived from a primary noun תפלה. In this approach, one could argue that התפלל is not even a hitpael. (This approach just begs the question of where the word תפלה would have arisen. Most scholars reject this approach because תפלה does not look like a primary noun. Rather, it looks like a noun that would have arisen based on a verb such as פלל or פלה.)
2. There are other examples in Tanakh of words that have the form of hitpael but are either voluntary passives (like התפללand התחנן) or even true passives, as the role of the hitpael expanded over time.[18] Some examples:[19]
a. Gen 37:35: va-yakumu khol banav ve-khol benotav le-naḥamo, va-yemaen le-hitnaḥem…(The meaning of the last two words seems to be that Jacob refused to let himself be comforted by others or refused to be comforted; the meaning does not seem to be that he refused to comfort himself.)
b. Lev. 13:33: ve-hitgalaḥ (The meaning seems to be "let himself be shaved by others.")
c. Numb. 23:9: u-va-goyim lo yitḥashav
d. Deut. 28:68: ve-hitmakartem sham le-oyvekha la-avadim ve-li-shefaḥot… (It is unlikely that the meaning is that the individuals will be selling themselves.)
e. Psalms 92:10: yitpardu kol poalei aven (The evildoers are not scattering themselves but are being scattered.)
f. Is. 30:29: ke-leil hitkadesh ḥag…(The holiday is not sanctifying itself.)
g. Prov. 31:30: ishah yirat Hashem hi tithalal
h. Jonah 3:8: ve-yitkasu sakim ha-adam ve-ha-behemah… (Animals cannot dress themselves!)
i. II Kings 8:29 (and similarly II Kings 9:15, and II Ch. 22:6): va-yashav Yoram ha-melekh le-hitrape ve-Yizre'el… (The meaning may be that king Yoram went to Jezreel to let himself be healed by others or to be healed.)
3. As we see from this post, understanding the precise role of the hitpael is important to us as Jews who engage in prayer. Readers may be surprised to learn that understanding the precise role of the hitpael can be very important to those of other religions as well. A passage at Gen. 22:18 describes the relationship of the nations of the world with the seed of Abraham:
.והתברכו בזרעך כל גויי הארץ
(The phrase is found again at Gen. 26:4.) Whether this phrase teaches that the nations of the world will utter blessings using the name of the seed of Abraham or be blessed through the seed of Abraham depends on the precise meaning of the hitpael here. Much ink has been spilled by Christian theologians on the meaning of hitpael in this phrase.[20]
Whoever suspected that grammar could be so interesting and profound!
!ונתחזק חזק חזק
(Does the last word mean "let us strengthen ourselves," "let us continually be strengthened," or "let us be strengthened"? I will leave it to you to decide!)
[1] I would like to thank my son Rabbi Shaya First for reviewing and improving the draft.
[2] P. xiii.
[3] The edition of Rav Hirsch's Pentateuch commentary translated by Isaac Levy includes the following (at Gen. 20:7): התפלל means: To take the element of God's truth, make it penetrate all phases and conditions of our being and our life, and thereby gain for ourselves the harmonious even tenor of our whole existence in God…. [התפלל is] working on our inner self to bring it on the heights of recognition of the Truth and to resolutions for serving God...Prior to this, the commentary had pointed out that the root פלל means "to judge" and that a judge brings "justice and right, the Divine Truth of matters into the matter…."
R. Aryeh Leib Gordon explained that the word for prayer is in the hitpael form because prayer is an activity of change on the part of the petitioner, as he gives his heart and thoughts to his Creator; the petitioner's raising himself to a higher level is what causes God to answer him and better his situation. See the introduction to Siddur Otzar Ha-Tefillot (1914), vol. 1, p. 20. The Encylcopaedia Judaica is another notable source that uses the term "self-scrutiny" when it defines the Biblical conception of prayer. See 13:978-79. It would be interesting to research who first suggested the self-judge/self-scrutiny definition of prayer. I have not done so. I will point out that in the early 13th century Radak viewed God as the one doing the judging in the word התפלל. See his Sefer Ha-Shorashim, root פלל.
[4] The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (1994). The authors do cite the article by E.A. Speiser (cited in the next note) that advocates the interpretation. But they cite the article for other purposes only. The interpretation of התפלל that Speiser advocates and that I will be describing is nowhere mentioned.
[5] For example, E.A. Speiser writes that "[o]utside Hebrew, the stem pll is at best rare and ambiguous." See his "The Stem PLL in Hebrew," Journal of Biblical Literature 82 (1963), pp. 301-06, 301. He mentions a few references in Akkadian that shed very little light. There is a verb in Akkadian, palālu, that has the meaning: "guard, keep under surveillance." See the פללarticle in Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 11, p. 568 (2001), and Koehler-Baumgartner, entry פלל, p. 933. This perhaps supports the "assess" and "think" meanings of the Hebrew פלל.
[6] Various forms of a related noun, פלילים, פללים, פלילי and פליליה, appear 6 times. The meanings at Deut. 32:31 (ve-oyveinu pelilim), Job 31:11 (avon pelilim), and Job 31:28 (avon pelili) are very unclear. The meaning at Is. 16:3 (asu pelilah) is vague but could be "justice." The meaning at Is. 28:7 (paku peliliah) (=they tottered in their peliliah) seems to be a legal decision made by a priest. Finally, there is the well-known and very unclear ve-natan be-flilim of Ex. 21:22. Onkelos translates this as ve-yiten al meimar dayanaya. But this does not seem to fit the words. The Septuagint translates the two words as "according to estimate." See Speiser, p. 303. Speiser is unsure if this translation was based on guesswork or an old tradition, but thinks it is essentially correct.
[7] Note that Rashi relates it to the word maḥshavah. Sometimes the verb is translated in this verse as "hope." Even though this interpretation makes sense in this verse, I am not aware of support for it in other verses. That is why I prefer "think" and "assess," which are closer to "intervene" and "judge." Many translate the word as "judge" in this verse: I did not judge (=have the opinion) that I would see your face. See, e.g., The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, entry פלל.
[8] Brown-Driver-Briggs translates ויפלל using a similar verb: "interpose." See their entry פלל. Alternatively, some translate ויפלל here as "executed judgment."
[9] It has been suggested that the "judge" meaning is just a later development from the "intervene" meaning.
[10] The exact number given varies from study to study. I have also seen references to 946, 780 and "over 825." See Joel S. Baden, "Hithpael and Niphal in Biblical Hebrew: Semantic and Morphological Overlap," Vetus Testamentum 60 (2010), pp. 33-44, 35 n.7.
[11] We must be careful not to assume that the hitpael originated as a reflexive stem. Most likely, the standard Hebrew hitpael is a conflation of a variety of earlier t-stem forms that had different roles. See Baden, p. 33, n. 1 and E.A. Speiser, "The Durative Hithpa'el: A tan-Form," Journal of the American Oriental Society 75 (2) (1955), pp. 118-121.
[12] See the above article by Speiser. For example, with regard to the hitpael of אבל, the implication may be "to be in mourning over a period of time." With regard to התמם (the hitpael of תמם; I I Sam. 22:26 and Ps.18:26.), the implication may be "to be continually upright." Some more examples: משתאה at Gen. 24:21 (continually gaze), תתאוה at Deut. 5:18 (tenth commandment; continually desire), ויתגעשו at Ps. 18:8 (continually shake), and התעטף at Ps. 142:4 (continually be weak/faint ). Another example is the root נחל. When it is in the hitpael, the implication may be "to come into and remain in possession."
[13] See T. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (1971), pp. 249-250, and Speiser, The Stem PLL, p. 305.
[14] Rav Hirsch views התחנן as "to seek to make himself worthy of concession." See his comm. to Deut. 3:23. This is farfetched. Hayim Tawil observes that there is an Akkadian root enēnu, "to plead," and sees this Akkadian root as underlying the Hebrew התחנן. He views the hitpael as signifying that the pleading is continous (like the import of the hitpael in hithalekh). See his An Akkadian Lexical Companion For Biblical Hebrew (2009), pp. 113-14. But there is insufficient reason to read an Akkadian root into התחנן, when we have a very appropriate Hebrew root חנן.
[15] See Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 11, p. 568, Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English (1987), p. 511, Brown-Driver-Briggs, entry פלל, and Koehler-Baumgartner, entry פלל, p. 933.
[16] The Soncino commentary here remarks that this was "a form of worship common to several cults with the purpose of exciting the pity of the gods, or to serve as a blood-bond between the devotee and his god."
[17] See Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 11, p. 568, Klein, p. 511, and Koehler-Baumgartner, entry פלל, p. 933.
[18] One scholar claims to have located as many as 68 such instances in Tanakh, but does not list them. For the reference, see Baden, p. 35, n. 7. Baden doubts the number is this high and believes that the true number is much lower. Baden would dispute some of the examples that I am giving. Hitpaels with true passive meanings are found more frequently in Rabbinic Hebrew. The expansion of the meaning of the hitpael stem to include the true passive form took place in other Semitic languages as well. See O.T. Allis, "The Blessing of Abraham," The Princeton Theological Review (1927), pp. 263-298, 274-278.
[19] These and several others are collected at Allis, pp. 281-83. For a few more true passives, see Kohelet 8:10, I Sam. 3:14, Lam. 4:1, and I Chr. 5:17.
[20] See, e.g., Allis, and Chee-Chiew Lee, "Once Again: The Niphal and the Hithpael of ברך in the Abrahamic Blessing for the Nations," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36.3 (2012), pp. 279-296, and Benjamin J. Noonan, "Abraham, Blessing, and the Nations: A Reexamination of the Niphal and Hitpael of ברך in the Patriarchal Narratives," Hebrew Studies 51 (2010), pp. 73-93.


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