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CASTRO VALLEY (CBS SF) – A man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault and other charges after allegedly attempting to stab a Republican congressional candidate with a switchblade over the weekend at in Castro Valley, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
On Sunday, September 9, at approximately 3:45 p.m., deputies working at the Castro Valley Fall Festival were alerted to a possible knife attack at one of the vendor booths.
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Deputies arrived at the booth and made contact with the victim, Republican candidate Rudy Peters, who is running against incumbent Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) for the 15th congressional district seat
The Castro Valley News first reported on the attack.
According to witnesses, 35-year-old Castro Valley resident Farzad Fazeli approached Peters at his booth in an aggressive manner and made disparaging, profanity-laced remarks about the Republican party and President Donald Trump.
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During the incident, Fazeli allegedly pulled out a switchblade knife and attempted to stab Peters. The knife malfunctioned and the candidate became involved in a physical struggle with Fazeli, according to sheriff's Sgt. Ray Kelly.
The suspect then fled the scene, but was detained a short time later by deputies and was found in possession of a switchblade knife, Kelly said.
Fazeli was arrested for felony assault, criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and possession of a switchblade knife and booked into Santa Rita Jail.
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Peters wasn't injured. Fazeli, who lists his occupation as cashier, was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of felony assault, criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and possession of a switchblade knife.
Kelly said the case has been forwarded to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office for charging.
Peters talked to KPIX 5 about the frightening encounter Tuesday.
"He would have stabbed me," Peters said. "I mean, he had it out saying, 'I'm going to kill you MFer! I'm going to kill you!' I could see his thumb trying to get the knife out."
He said the encounters started with verbal threats.
"He picks up a coffee cup to rear back and throw it at us. And I jumped around the table. He throws the coffee cup and misses us. It hits the ground and breaks," remembered Peters. "So I come out and grab him and wrestle him and throw him down to the ground."
He said that was when Fazeli pulled out a knife.
"He's screaming, 'I'll kill you MFer! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!' And he's kind of circling me trying to get the knife out," said Peters
Fazeli made his first court appearance Tuesday for possession of a switchblade and threatening to commit great bodily injury or death. But Fazeli's mother and attorney say he is the victim.
"My client at this point was afraid for his life and afraid for his health and safety. And I believe that it is alleged that he pulls out a folded knife. The knife was never opened," argued defense attorney Frederick Remer.
Fazeli's mother Dolly Adams was at the festival at the Democratic booth.
"Mr. Peters got physical first," said Adams.
While she said she didn't see what happened during the altercation, she talked to her son before he was arrested.
"He said that Mr. Peters has taken him by his shoulders and shoved him to the ground. And there was blood on him and blood on his booth," said Green.
Peters said when Fazeli took out the knife, he shielded himself by reaching for one of his election signs for protection.
He said he never worried about his safety and the safety of his Republican supporters until now.
"I've asked my supporters and followers at open events, I don't want them around me. I don't want their safety in jeopardy," said Peters.
On Tuesday, Swalwell posted on Twitter about the attack, saying he was "glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay." He also discouraged the use of violence in any disagreement, political or otherwise.
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Fazeli's bail was set at $55,000. His family said they plan to get him out of county jail Tuesday night. He has a stay away order to keep his distance from Peters after the incident.
According to his campaign website, Peters is a founder and co-owner of AARD Solutions, a company that specializes in systems engineering and targets U.S. government intelligence agencies. He has lived in Livermore since 1991.
Maxine Waters would approve!
Not only that, she's probably wanting to post his bail for him (maybe even with taxpayer money).
don't go giving her ideas 🙂
So it begins.
It began with Judge Scalia, continued with Steve Scalia, and the next act was Rudy Peters…stabbed by a muzz on 911…
Steven Scalise…whoops…
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Research shows that 15 % of liberals are on some kind of medication for mental issues. The scary part is that means 85% are running around unmedicated.
The Democrat party is not fit for a first world country. Stabbing, shooting at Republicans practicing for a baseball charity game, Maxine calling for harassment of Republicans, and Antifa, the new KKK of the Democrat Party
That is so true Maroon. Since the 1960's the Democrat party has morphed in to the Communist Party USA and this is just more proof of it.
That's odd…. VERY odd. I recall that one of the families that arrived at Plymouth Rock,
Circa 1620 was the Fazeli family! HOW VERY ODD!!
Believe you're right, Duck. They were the first family to introduce Syphilis to North America…
This is what happens with a constant barrage of POTUS hating & republican bashing. It's almost inevitable that guns and bombs will be next. It's like the 1970's all over again.
This is worse than the 70's. The Democratic Party should be disbanded.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome rears its ugly head, yet again. I blame the news media who constantly bashes the President and those politicians who do the same thing. People like Maxine Waters, should be held responsible for these attacks. She has openly called for attacks against the President, his family, his cabinet members and his supporters.
oh Auntie Maxine…….YOU are responsible for this…. tell me again which side is violent?
This must be fake. Because people and knives don't kill, only guns kill.
Knives kill too, just ask a mu slim in London.
apparently no longer a problem. knives are now BANNED in London.
His FB profile reveals he is a far-left nutcase. Imagine that….
Someone should have given this guy a nice anti-hate yard sign or bumper sticker. It seems only Democrats with such talismans can curb their violence and rage.
Say what? I've lost count of the number of "leaders" of anti-gun organizations (most often female-oriented ones) who have been arrested and imprisoned for crimes ranging from illegal gun possession to actual murder with a firearm. I don't think the sign would help.
Want to know who is responsible? The news media. They have been fomenting hate and anger
since before the Presidential election. This is their creation.
Finally a Democrat denounces the violence. It's about time.
Farzad Fazeli? Farzad huh? Really? Check his personal devices for jihad literature.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Just another misunderstanding, by a member of the religion of peace, and brought to you by the Democrat party.
Smallwell, the Dem's most practiced liar, loves it though when his antifa pals start breaking things causing damage and injury.
Didn't hear about this on any news outlet. MSM running interference for the Socialist Party, once again..
He's just doing what the Dems have told him to do. I've never seen such hate as what's coming from the Dems, they're all awful, beyond the pale!
BTW, to any sensible liberals reading this: you need to STOP your fellow socialists…this WILL NOT end well if you don't stop with the violence. Trust me, alot of guys are like me, quiet, unassuming conservatives. we don't yell, we don't protest…..be very careful going forward….you really should not poke sleeping grizzlies. I really do love you all as brothers….UNTIL you come after me or mine. PLEASE STOP THE VIOLENCE. This is not funny anymore.
"But" is liberal dog whistle for "by any means".
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
They banned Alex Jones for not-nice talking. Maxine and her crew of angry stabbers should get the same treatment.
Amazed one of the primary mainstream news outlets even covered this, since it doesn't fit with their (lying) narrative of only right-wingers being violent. Unless… they (CBS & the MSM) hope it serves to inspire and incite more, similar acts.
Dems are some nasty thugs, worse than communists, by far (see antifa) who pretend to be anti fascists, but act like fascists.
Keep a safe distance from the L!BT/\Rds at all times.
If the L!BT/\Rds are within 20 feet of you….SHOOT TO KILL.
Obvious troll account. Try again, Lib.
Oh no, we have a Troll police. Not everyone that disagrees is a troll. Get off the koolaid moron.
I'll bet that pedophile looking democRAT Swalwell put the guy up to it…
I'd like to know how much Swalwell paid the guy and if he's an illegal-alien criminal invader.
And his name is Farzad Fazeli………..so mind-numbingly predictable.
Hate the driving force and in this case it is in both the Democrat voters and in their candidates. IE, Maxine Waters, Feinstein and the beat goes on.
I'd like to find out if any paralegals or attorneys who actually still believe in the rule of law will investigate the legal justification for pressing charges against media personalities and public officials who call for or instigate violence against others….there is plenty of evidence to comb through.
So when is Maxine getting arrested?
Thank you CNN and MSNBC. It's inevitable that a certain percentage of your audience is more unwell than the rest of it and will actually believe that Trump is a Russian spy and that he has done more damage to America than the 9-11 hijackers. Trump gives a news conference and it's Krystalnacht. Trump enforces border security and it's republican nazis marching the jews into the camps.This is what happens CNN and MSNBC. You did this. Own it.
Farzad Fazeli. Another fine upstanding Canadian import. If you value your life, never leave home without Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
What, in California? Good luck with that. That ship sailed long ago.
There you go. Another Maxine Waters controlled zombie…
There is the Arab-Moslem struggle in a nutshell. Technical malfunction, ineptitude, flight, capture, defeat, surrender.
DavidA, Maxine, he failed in his mission. Send another one in.
their leaders set this outrageous example so these idiots think it is the right thing to do. They are all mentally deranged.
Oh, thanks Capt Obvious for letting people know that it's "not OK" to us knives to settle disputes. Although, that probably ISN'T obvious to many of your constituents.
"I'm glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay. But it's NEVER okay to use violence…". Use of the word "But" here implies that the attack was the result of something that Mr. Peters did, that Mr. Peters instigated the attack. How? Because he is a Republican?
Maxine Waters is responsible for manipulating the weak minded with her racist HATE rhetoric the old racist hate hag is as guilty as if her fingerprints were on the switchblade
This falls under the auspices of leftist Dem violence and Typical Raghead Behavior. The victim was luck that Farzad wasn't backing a suicide vest.
And spare me the Dem candidate's crocodile tears! He supports antifa street violence against conservative rallies.
Farzad Fazeli need anymore be spoken?
Maxi needs to call off her attack proxies or she should be charged as an accomplice or for incitement, like the Black Panther leaders in the 60s/70s. (Her mentors)
So how many deadly force attacks do Democrat Crime Syndicate operatives have to initiate before we can conclude Democrats are violent monsters? Just asking.
Typical Liberal DemocRat, can't even operate a switchblade. DemocRats are the most dangerous and destabilizing people on the planet. They need to be investigated and charged with crimes against the US.
They are itching for a civil war, and this time they WILL get one. Stupid libs
Farzad? Is that Irish? Or maybe Is-lam-o–fasci-ist?
One question I have: does Swalwell swallow?
TDS is a real thing, liberalism is a mental illness.
In Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s, street protestors were paid. There were the international socialists on one side and the national socialists on the other side.
Both were demanding their idea of a "Perfect" society.
Now, the authoritarians are demanding a "Perfect" climate.
Walk Away. It's time.
The violence comes from the left.
Liberals are sick, mentally ill pieces of trash. I am telling you now, we are not going to be able to play nice much longer and allow these violent savages to beat and maim people. This needs to stop. There are groups prepping now for the oncoming war because it is going to be necessary, unfortunately.
Can't wait for a leftist to get what they deserve when they attack the wrong person.
The PURGE begins.
Actually, we have been purging knife wielding criminals for centuries. We put them in jail and then impregnate their women. It works fairly well.
It's the new revolution…no talking or debating…go right to the switchblades. BTW a switchblade is the weapon if the assassin, gangster or murderer…better look into his past history.
just another peace loving progressive…who just happens to be a member of the religion of peace…who knew?
Typical liberal soldier…this isn't news, this is expected.
Y'all regressive liberals better get your people under control, and fast. You think this is all fun and games? You think that conservatives are easy targets because we don't fight back? The fear you're feeling is coming from inside you're own mind. You keep walking down this road, and you'll discover that conservatives have a limit; we are peaceful people, until it's time to not be…and then we're very not. (to paraphrase that movie Roadhouse)
Go ahead, keep pushing it; find out the hard way.
Farzad Fazeli………… Did he scream Allahu Akbar while doing it and did the other democrats cheer?
Filthy stinking Democrats, not only corrupt, Violent too!
The violent left.
Just a nice Muslim Democrat doing what they do to people they dislike (ie try to behead them)
Use a knife to attack a person in any of 2500 red counties and he might shoot you dead.
This is the result of the democrat media (all but FOX and some radio) drumming up the crazies on the left. We have a liberal theater actress wanting John Wilkes Booth, CNN and MSNBC cheering on the misnomered ANTIFA which ARE fascists for keeping conservative voices from speaking on college campuses, the whole of the left calling people NAZI's, racists, etc are actually just one big example of projection. I hope you are proud of the liberals who shoot at republicans and conservatives due to political opposition you bunch of fake newsers. YOU REFUSE TO REPORT ON THE GOOD THAT IS GOING ON BECAUSE IT MIGHT MAKE CONSERVATIVE POLICIES LOOK GOOD. Oh and BTW, remember when OBAMA asked how a 4% GDP could possibly happen without a magic wand, and how his administration said it was a good thing to only work 30 hours or less, and the fact that there were more jobs because people were working 2 to 3 jobs, well, because of deregulation, tax cuts, etc. we have more full time jobs than people can fill. Obama, YOU DID NOT BUILD THAT, this is happening because Trump has dismantled all of the road bumps you put in the way for an advancing economy. Want it to stop, vote democrat.
Obviously Trump's fault.
Dem party = The new ISIS
Yet another unhinged liberal freak is "woke".
ISIS? ohh wait!
These are the monsters CNN George Soros and Msnbc created.
You have to applaud the patience and tolerance of conservatives, they were being spit on, attacked, threatened, beat, had bricks thrown at them, had antifa throwing fireworks (real fire works like half sticks) at them, beating them with clubs, etc…… BEFORE TRUMP WAS EVEN ELECTED, the poor conservatives were viciously targeted by the media who drummed up wild accusations baseless accusations of racism and bigotry and nazism slandering entire swaths of people who just wanted to vote for a man who would lower taxes a few points and secure the nation and get the heroin off the streets.
These people that voted for Trump are saints, if they were even 1/100th of the monsters that CNN and liberal news outlets like washington post made them out to be, they would of had a violent revolution and purged society years ago, but here we are 2 years later , they are still taking the abuse and they arent resulting to violence, they just want peace and prosperity and they are willing to take all the hate thrown at them to get it.
Unhinged TRUMP hater Eric Swalwell inspires one of his deranged, violent followers to attempt to assassinate his opponent. The violent rhetoric of the left is over the top and directly responsible for this attempted murder.
Farzad Fazeli will be released and not be charged because he is a Muslim and an illegal alien.
Give Fazeli 10 years to cool off.
When the average citizen thinks about putting a Republican sign in their yard, or wearing a MAGA hat, they will think twice and probably won't do it. I still will, but most people try to avoid confrontation. So Auntie Maxine and the Dems are winning in a way. What can we do to combat this?
Don't worry a Liberal Judge will have him back on the streets in plenty of time for the November elections
If you troll the internet advocating violence against Trump or anyone else, you are partially responsible for this. The democratic leadership is DEF responsible with their resist mantra. You folks cause fascism and violence and then try to play victim.
Liberals have become apoplectic with anger They all need some therapy.
The new face of the dem party. A PLO terrorist attempts to murder a republican running against a moonbat progressive democrat.
This is the result of the hate speech from Maxine Waters and other Democrats.
Okay, now, anybody have any more questions about why I carry?
San Francisco is America's Human Zoo.
Saw this first on http://www.PressCalifornia.com, the Drudge Report of California.
Thanks for the shout out. More about the stabber and his mom at http://www.PressCalifornia.com.
You can't beat that liberal tolerance.
The political left is sheer evil. This kind of attempted murder of their political opponents by the left is exactly why the left should never be allowed power!
You pull a switchblade…I pull a gun
When you won't listen to the other side and shut them down …what's left is Violence
With all this anti-republic hate spewing from the media and leftist politicians, this should be categorized as a hate crime.
The leftist cause is so noble and virtuous that any means is good righteous means to the left.
This happened on Sunday, why are we just now hearing about this?
This is who Democrats are and what they do.
See James T. Hodgkinson.
This is what you are going to get when you vote liberals into office!
Ahhh, one of our garden variety crazy and violent libs.
Sounds like one of mad maxine's acolytes.
The Democratic Socialists of America (funded by
Soros) has commandeered it.
Socialism is an Oppressive form of tyranny and is
OUTLAWED by the tenets of the Constitution.
Sedition is a real threat to this country.
hate-filled Democrats trying to kill people, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, it doesn't matter, they founded the KKK, killed Lincoln, and happily died to keep their black slaves in chains, but its all ok because they are Democrats. Keep voting for the party of Mexican Heroine for all!
register liberals not guns
Eric Swalwell, I assume that he is a smart, intelligent person. Since he peddles half-truths, the only alternative is mentally ill or evil. Mr. Swalwell which is it?…
Hey, hey, hey, all these people jumping to conclusions the attacker was a democrat or liberal and this was poilitical. No it wasn't. The attacker was muslim, so that automatically makes it cultural, and since the object of the poor protected class minority's activism was a cisgender white male, this barely even qualifies as a misdemeanor.
So the mentally unstable perpetual.in a meltdown suffering from DTS, Donald Trump Syndrome, are resorting to violence? Maxine Waters and any politician who incites harassment, bullying or violence should be removed from office. Congress get off your a** and take action.
These demonically influenced leftist will stop at nothing to harm those whom they disagree with.
I believe that what is happening is the beginning of a build up towards civil war. Wake up Pateiotic Americans and armor up!
Aren't Demoncrats great? Oh wait…no, they're the real fascists.
ANTIFA, Wacky Maxy…
Vile, evil and violent
Pray for the death of the left….
Sarah Palin caused this by using the word "target" in a campaign ad. Next up, Pelosi will shed a tear because of violent Republicans. Democrats will say the Republican candidate was the aggressor. The attacker will sue, and the jury of fruits and nuts will award him ten million dollars.
A muslim with a knife trying to kill Americans. It's what they do.
Anyone who is surprised by this assault is simply not paying attention.
Stay classy liberals!
He seems like your normal stupid violent anti-social li bt ard with a menial job angry at the world. Maybe Maxine Waters can hire him to a high cabinet post. Remember vote Red or America's dead.
Hardly anybody in the national media is paying attention to this.
Now imagine if the guy had attacked a Democrat candidate while spewing hateful things about Hillary or Obama. THAT story would go to the top of the list superseding even the hurricane coverage in the national press.
A gun tragedy. So preventable!
For the life of me I cannot understand why Democrats want to be controlled by people like him. This is not your father' or grandfather's Party anymore. They never advocated for violence, they would never take a knee during the National Anthem, they always respected America even if they did not agree with everything. Now we have a generation of wussies with their hands stuck out. I am sick of these people. Vote them all out.
Looks like its time to start preemptively fighting back against the left.
Peters should tell even more people to come out to his events. By telling his supporters the opposite he is giving in to fear. He should just tell them that if any have a permit for concealed carry they are welcome to come loaded for bear. Or deranged lefty psychos, one of the two. If one nutjob like Fazeli gets a free trip to Hell in the act of attacking, maybe other angry tinfoils of his ilk will take notice. Darwin would be pleased, at the very least.
Welcome to "WATERS WORLD"
The left want to disband ICE while they embrace MS 13. What do you think would happen?
The only place I was able to find this story was the Drudge Report. Surprised? The Press-titutes are doing what they do best; Suppressing the News. Imagine if it was some milquetoast White Republican guy that attacked some (Highly likely) Muslim like this Farzad Fazeli, Mental Case. This would be front-and-center at every Mainstream News site.
Typical far left liberal tactic…Our way or no way ! Liberals love free speech…as long as its a liberal speaking ….
"On Tuesday, Swalwell posted on Twitter about the attack, saying he was "glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay." He also discouraged the use of violence in any disagreement, political or otherwise."
– He "discouraged" it, eh? Gee, that's awful nice of him! His language is certainly not very strong. And if you look at his web site, he doesn't say a THING about it! You want to know what his site DOES talk about? Russian "interference", and making it a federal crime to attack journalists.
Yeah, he seems REAL sorry about this knife attack on his opponent.
We can thank CNN and other left-compliant media outlets for this. In their efforts to sway the electorate before the mid-terms, it's non-stop Republican-bashing. They've worked the mindless left into a frenzy.
The violence from the left since Trump got elected is shocking…
Eric Swalwell lives in the gutter with his pimp, Adam Schiff.
Another mom's 'din do nuthin'. The demons are in a frenzy.
So a white guy with an actual knife really does try to kill someone, but he is taken into custody without getting hurt. White guy shoots up an entire movie theatre killing dozens, he gets taken into custody without injury. White guy shoots up high school in Florida- taken into custody without injury. 12 yr old black kid has toy gun- dead. Black man in yard with cellphone, dead. Black man unarmed on highway- dead. This is why they kneel.
Why is this even news? Whether the left is shooting Republicans at a baseball game or stabbing someone at an event this is the standard mode of operations for liberals and backed and approved by the mainstream media. At least the left did not burn the building down!!!!!
"My client at this point was afraid for his life and afraid for his health and safety. And I believe that it is alleged that he pulls out a folded knife. The knife was never opened," argued defense attorney Frederick Remer."
It's astonishing that his moron attorney minimizes the knife by calling it a 'folding knife', when it was in fact a automatic switchblade, switchblades are illegal in California if the blade is longer than 2″
As far as Farzad Fazelli being afraid for his life, I'll agree with, after he assaulted this politician and the politician fought back, he probably was afraid, but the real fear is when Farzad gets tried and convicted. With any luck, every moment of his prison sentence will have this coward hiding under his prison blanket.
Maxine Waters should be in the same prison cell for inciting this type of violence.
Without even investigating, how do I know that this is almost certainly another democrat wacko, who is most likely a "peaceful muslim immigrant" of first or second generation?
Sad but predictable, new Calif. law could let Republican switchblader walk: https://bit.ly/2p3CvJw
Unbelievable. Wait. It's California. It's believable.
Pffft. Somebody was being lazy with their minimizing and tentative wording in the first paragraph. I can do better than that:
A person with outward characteristics, grooming, and clothing that, in the U.S., are traditionally associated with men, was arrested on suspicion of assault—for which the candidate and witnesses described behavior consistent with a felony level charge—and other minor and potentially gratuitous charges after allegedly attempting to move quickly toward a Republican congressional candidate in a manner that could be interpreted as aggressive, with his arm stretched out holding what the candidate and some witnesses believe was a switchblade, that they then assumed was sharp enough to stab the candidate over the weekend in Castro Valley, according to the person claiming to be the dispatcher that answered the phone associated with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
Why did Swalwell use the word But? That is a very strange thing to say. Basically it reads like it was okay.
So throwing a heavy coffee mug is not a threatening move? 'Scuse me? This guy throws a coffee mug and then claims HE got attacked by the candidate. It's always someone else's fault…
The ONLY way leftists can win the argument is to eliminate the opposition, literally if necessary.
Mr. Peters' Democrat opponent tweeted
I'm glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay. But it's NEVER okay to use violence to settle political disagreements (or any disagreement).
This "But" which begins the second sentence is misplaced. Grammatically, the "but" should be removed.
But the "but" is there. So why is it there? Grammatically the "but" would make sense if instead the sentences read
I'm glad Mr. Peters was stabbed. But it's NEVER okay to use violence to settle political disagreements (or any disagreement). So I just got lucky that someone stabbed him while formally I get to denounce the mob mentality that attends my political affiliation.
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VERONA, N.Y. — Ray Halbritter of the Oneida Indian Nation didn't start the movement to change the name of the Washington Redskins, but the upstate New York tribal leader has turned up the heat.
Halbritter, who emerged as a leader in the effort with the tribe's "Change the Mascot" campaign, heads a tribal delegation that is meeting in New York City with senior NFL executives Wednesday. While the Oneidas' land and lucrative casino are about 300 miles north of the Redskins' home field in Maryland, Halbritter is emphatic that the name is a racial slur to Indians everywhere.
"This was the word that was used against our people to push us on reservations — forced us on to reservations," Halbritter told The Associated Press in an interview. "They took our children from our homes forcibly at gunpoint, calling us the r-word."
The NFL team was already facing a fresh round of criticism when the Oneidas entered the fray this season with radio ads and a symposium at the same Washington hotel that hosted the league's fall meeting.
Redskins owner Dan Snyder has called the name "a badge of honor" and said it won't be changed.
But Halbritter believes keeping the discussion public will get more people thinking about the name's hurtful implications. During a recent tour of Oneida territory and the blinking slot machines of their Turning Stone casino, Halbritter argued the 1,000-member tribe cannot rest on its own success when Indians are being told they're "nothing more than a stereotype and a mascot."
"There was a time when calling black people negroes was acceptable and respectable. It's changed. This has changed," Halbritter said.
If the Redskins ever issued a scouting report on the 63-year-old Indian leader, it might describe a veteran out of Harvard Law School who could pose a deep-pocketed threat, thanks to tribal assets built largely on gambling and selling gasoline and cigarettes.
Halbritter said he was fan of the team in the early 1970s when he was an iron worker in Washington. By 1975, he returned to Oneida territory, which was then little more than 32 acres with ramshackle trailers. To illustrate how mistreated the Oneidas were, Halbritter often mentions that a local fire company refused to answer the call for a fire that killed his aunt and uncle.
Halbritter soon became a tribal representative, and in 1993 he helped negotiate New York's first legal Indian casino, which boosted the tribe's fortunes significantly.
Over two decades, Turning Stone has grown into a sprawling resort complex with five golf courses, a spa, restaurants and a 21-story hotel tower jutting up from the rural flats. The tribe employs 4,500 people at the resort and other businesses, which includes 12 convenience stores and an animation studio.
The Oneidas do not reveal revenue figures, but information released by the state this May indicates net revenue on slot machines alone is expected to be $200 million next year.
Halbritter's tenure has included periods of bitter divisions within the tribe, with opponents calling him dictatorial. One longtime critic, Danielle Schenandoah, claims Halbritter is "just buying publicity," with the name-change campaign. Halbritter said the tribe backs his efforts.
Halbritter said he was inspired by students at nearby Cooperstown Central School, who convinced district officials this year to change the high school's nickname from Redskins to Hawkeyes. Halbritter presented a $10,000 check to the district to help buy replacement sports jerseys.
Of course, change is a lot more complicated for an NFL team with a national following. Even as President Barack Obama recently said he would "think about changing" the name if he owned the team, many fans have rallied around a name they see as a tradition or a tribute. One keep-the-name petition started by lifelong fan Sean Boone on MoveOn.org had more than 2,400 signatures by Tuesday.
"It's not something that to me is disrespectful. If anything, it means strength — the symbol of the Native American," said Boone, a firefighter in Durham, N.C.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said that it is ultimately Snyder's call whether the team changes its name. And Snyder has said that will not happen.
Still, Halbitter said he sees a positive sign in merely taking the discussion straight to NFL officials.
"They're now listening to us," Halbritter said. "Were doing something now that they said couldn't be done: Make an American Indian issue a national issue."

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MONTREAL – Authorities in Quebec are expected to travel to Europe in the coming days to gather witness testimony for the trial of Luka Rocco Magnotta.
Jean-Pascal Boucher, a spokesman for the Crown prosecutor's office in Montreal, says lawyers representing the Crown and the defence will leave for Germany and France "shortly" to interview civilians and law-enforcement personnel.
Boucher wouldn't give a precise departure date.
VIDEO GALLERY: The trial of accused killer Luka Magnotta
Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer will decide what information is admissible for the trial due to start on Sept. 8.
Magnotta is accused of killing and dismembering Concordia University student Jun Lin in Montreal in May 2012.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The case triggered an international manhunt that ultimately led to Magnotta's arrest in Berlin a month later.
In addition to the murder charge against him, Magnotta is accused of committing an indignity to a body; publishing obscene material; criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; and mailing obscene and indecent material.


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MONTREAL – If you've been procrastinating on plans for the family's summer vacation, you're going to need to move fast as rising airfares and packed flights have made it tough to find deals, but there are still a few tricks that could help, experts say.
Ticket prices are up one per cent for travel this summer — and that's on top of last year when they were the highest in eight years, said Rick Seaney, CEO of U.S.-based travel website FareCompare.com.
There are several other factors working against late planners, including a number of mega airline mergers in the United States that have put a damper on price competition.
Airlines have also been cutting seat capacity over the last few years in the face of high fuel prices and a weak economy, leaving the industry with fuller planes and less incentive to offer great deals to customers.
"This summer people are going to be shopping for airfares and getting some sticker shock in certain cases," Seaney said in an interview from Dallas.
But he remained optimistic that strategic planning could still unearth a few good deals.
One approach is to plan your trip outside of peak vacation periods, but considering that summer travel season is upon us, you'll have to be a little more crafty.
Consider flying during the last 10 days in August because fewer families embark on big vacations when the kids are about to return to school, which means airlines begin to offer more discounts.
And be prepared to react quickly to a good ticket price, because often they don't stick around.
The best deals this year are Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Spain, while prices are higher on flights to London, Paris and Rome. Korea and Tokyo are cheaper while Australia offers off-season deals.
Prices within Canada are relatively stable because there's just not enough competition to push prices down too much, said Seaney.
Industry observers don't believe that Air Canada Rouge or WestJet Encore will have much immediate impact on fares because they will each operate just a few aircraft this summer.
For travel to the U.S., consider major cities like Austin and San Antonio which are both trying to boost tourism. Fort Lauderdale is in stiff competition with nearby Miami, which often benefits vacationers. There's also last-minute weekend deals and July 4 sales for those who don't mind being spontaneous.
The key to finding a bargain is to compare offers and be willing to take less convenient flights to save the 10 to 30 per cent premium for non-stop flights.
"It's important that consumers shop multiple channels," said Robert Kokonis, president of airline consulting firm AirTrav Inc.
He suggests passengers look at airline websites as well as online sites like Expedia, Travelocity and itravel2000 and fare aggregators like kayak.com and Hotwire. Flight Network promises to give consumers a credit for future flights if their current flights drop in price.
Neighbourhood travel agents are a handy source for more complicated travel or where advice is needed about specific hotels or cruises.
Another way is to avoid airlines altogether by taking a road trip or booking with Via Rail for travel in the Quebec City to Windsor corridor. Seats have been going for as little as $22 in economy and $55 in business class.
For those who insist on flying, they can avoid higher taxes by departing from an airport in the United States. The decision can save hundreds of dollars for a family, but travellers should be aware of baggage fees, charges to change flights, and other costs not included in the ticketed price.
Also keep in mind that more than two-thirds of all airline sales occur Monday evening, so the best time to shop is between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evening when airlines try to match lower fares.
Vacationers can also save by travelling on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Sometimes procrastination pays off, however, when it comes to booking hotel rooms, packages or cruises as many companies slash prices to fill space.
A weak European economy has made hotels relatively inexpensive outside the main tourism meccas. An alternative is to rent an apartment or even room through websites such as www.airbnb.com or www.homeaway.ca.


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Posted on March 1st, 2009 at 8:55 pm by Cheesesteak Hoagie
Well, like I always said, if the Eagles let Brian Dawkins go, I'm quitting the blog.
(I never actually said this. Timing couldn't have been worse, though.)
So this was the big news to which I alluded earlier this month: BountyBowl will be schlepping its schtick over to IgglesBlog. After a fun couple years (really, 20 months), BountyBowl is over.
The decision to shutter BountyBowl had been in the works for a while — I'd say I knew by November that the site would be retiring after the season. To be honest, I didn't think I'd be writing past the end of December, but I got lucky (depending on your perspective) when the Eagles snuck into the playoffs and made a go of it. As much as I was disappointed when the Eagles lost the NFC Championship, I was selfishly thrilled that I got to end the blog with a memorable January for the Birds (and not a second straight year out of the playoffs).
I'm going to miss doing BountyBowl. It's been a treat for me to translate my (admittedly extreme/ exaggerated) interest in the Eagles into something semi-creative. The rationale for all this has always been that if I'm going to talk about the Eagles all the time anyway, I may as well capture all that extra energy and do something productive with it. So I fired up the web site and voila, soon I was harnessing the power of the InterWebs to unleash my boorishness on a grand scale!
As much as I've enjoyed doing BountyBowl, by this past fall, the challenges of maintaining the site and keeping up a daily rhythm of posting were just getting a bit heavy. While I thought I had something moderately original to say about the Eagles and their place in the imagination of the Philadelphia fans, it turns out that I didn't have that much to say, certainly not nearly enough to justify daily updates, and definitely not enough to sustain more than two seasons of coverage. In the end, I guess there's only so many times that one can make jokes about Donovan McNabb's press conferences.
(By the way, for all the jokes that I make at the expense of the local blathertariat, after trying to manufacture daily content on BountyBowl during the season, I have tons of admiration for the local beat writers. The demand for new Eagles content in Philly is pretty significant, and the team isn't always cooperative with the press corps, and yet these folks need to churn out fresh content every morning. I won't say I take it all back, but, well, I'll say that I at least very much respect the work they do.)
I'm psyched to join the team at IgglesBlog, and by "team" I mean "Derek." If you've been here before, you know that I've long been a fan of Derek and all the good work he does at IgglesBlog. What's exciting about IgglesBlog isn't just the content that Derek is generating, but also all the great stuff that comes out of the comments. It's a great community of Eagles fans, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. It's going to be fun. I expect I won't be writing as frequently, but plan to at least stay in the general mix, as well as bring some of my gear — the del.icio.us feeds, some other stuff — to IgglesBlog. We'll figure all that out over the next couple months.
For those folks who bothered to stop by to read or leave a comment, thank you. I remain flattered and humbled that you took the time to visit and give us a looksie.
It's been a pleasure, and I hope you come and join us at IgglesBlog.
Related posts:
- Redlasso is back (and ready to sign)
- IgglesBlog to Acquire BountyBowl
- Iggles Blog Vs. BountyBowl Blogstravaganza (#10): The Final Blogstrav
- After further review, a more reasonable (and oddly enthusiastic) take on the recent unpleasantness
- In response to this week's Donovan McNabb non-story, I offer you a quiz


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Funding & Administration of Graduate Student Awards
Queen's guarantees a minimum funding package currently valued at $18,000 per year for four (4) years for full-time doctoral students though in most cases funding packages are higher. In addition, Queen's guarantees an international tuition award (or equivalent award) valued at $5000 per year for four years for eligible international doctoral students. In all cases, students must maintain good academic standing.
Internal and External Funding
All students (except those in professional Master's programs) accepted for full-time admission into full-time graduate programs are considered for funding the department/program. In addition to department/program funding, there are internal fellowships and scholarships available annually. Applicants and continuing students should check with their department must to ensure that they apply for all awards for which they are eligible to ensure adequate financial support.
Attracting and retaining graduate students who win external awards is an indicator of the academic excellence of our students and enriches the programs. The funding package for Masters or doctoral students is typically comprised of a combination of internal and external awards as well as Teaching and Research Assistantships.
Types of Awards
Registered funding eligible students who are in good academic standing may be eligible for a wide range of internal and external scholarships, bursaries and awards including:
- Queen's Graduate Awards (QGA)
- Robert Sutherland Awards
- International Tuition Awards (ITA - for international students only)
- Graduate Dean's Doctoral Field Travel Grants
- Graduate Dean's Conference Awards
- E.G. Bauman Fellowships
- R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowships
- Franklin Bracken Fellowships
- Arts '49 Principal Wallace Fellowships
- Mackenzie King Traveling Scholarships
- Department of National Defence Scholarship and Fellowship Program
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) awards
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awards
- Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS)
- Ontario Trillium Scholarships (International students only)
Internal Awards
Queen's offers graduate student support annually through internal, or "named" fellowships and scholarships. These merit-based scholarships and fellowships, established by generous benefactors of Queen's University, make an important contribution to the support of our graduate students. For the most part, the Fellowship Committee of the SGS administers these awards on recommendations from the departments through an annual competition.
Students applying to graduate programs or continuing enrolment in a graduate program at Queen's do not make a separate application for these named fellowships (with the exception of the Sutherland awards). Departments will nominate eligible students (normally by the end of April) during the annual competition.
In addition, some graduate departments make nominations for awards in particular fields of study. These departmental awards can be paid out for the current academic session until the last day of February. Departments which have such awards are notified each May about that year's expendable amount and all deadlines and guidelines. Departments nominate eligible students for their awards via a memo addressed to the SGS.
Go to the calendar of the School of Graduate Studies for descriptions of all Awards & Fellowships.
Queen's Graduate Awards (QGA)
Each department's QGA allocation is determined based on the number of full-time funding eligible students (year 1 of one year Master's programs; years 1 & 2 of two-year Master's programs; year 1 through 4 of PhD programs) using the enrolment data from the November 1st student count conducted by the University. This information is communicated to Departments by memo from the SGS in March each year.
Graduate programs use QGA to contribute to their financial offers to graduate applicants.
Funding International Students
Queen's has agreements with the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Ministry of Higher Education in the Arab Republic of Egypt and with the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau / King Abdullah Scholarships nprogram, to help recruit and fund doctoral students who wish to study at Queen's.
Under these agreements, students accepted at Queen's receive funding support from their home country and from the Queen's graduate department or program.
International Tuition Awards (ITA)
The SGS has a limited number of ITAs that are allocated to departments. Each year in February or March, in a memo from SGS departments are advised of the number of ITAs held by continuing international students and whether they can expect to receive any new ITAs for the upcoming academic session.
It should be noted that ITAs revert to the SGS when they are no longer required (if the international student has completed their degree, become a permanent resident of Canada, or withdraws from the program).
When an ITA is not available for an international doctoral student from the SGS, an equivalent award will be provided from the Department's QGA allocation or from the research supervisor's funds.
NB: International students who arrive with full funding support from an external source (e.g. full funding from the home government, are not required to receive a departmental ITA or ITA equivalent. Confirmation of that external support must be provided to the SGS.
Conference Travel Awards
Conference presentations are an important part of graduate training. They build networking opportunities with experts in the field and are important acknowledgements of students' scholarly contributions. The opportunities for students to present at conferences vary greatly depending on the program of study.
The SGS allocates a lump sum of Conference Travel Award (CTA) funding to support our students to present their work at conferences. The minimum CTA allocation for a program is $500. Each program receives its lump-sum CTA based on full-time eligible enrolment. The SGS will send a memo to each program in March with the total amount you have available.
Programs allocate CTAs to their students who meet the award terms and conditions, and have the flexibility to determine the amount of each CTA. As a result, CTAs can be awarded in variable amounts.
The graduate program provides to the SGS a list of award recipients and the amount awarded. The School of Graduate Studies will then process payment of the award to the student in the usual manner.
Payment of awards through direct deposit
All awards (including internal and external scholarships, fellowships and Queen's Graduate Awards) administered by the SGS are paid through direct deposit to the student's bank account of record after registration is finalized.
Needs-based Funding
In addition to scholarships and fellowships, graduate students may qualify for needs-based funding. This is funding granted to students based on an assessment of their individual financial need. At Queen's all needs-based funding is administered by the Office of the University Registrar.
Tri-Council Top-up Award
All Queen's graduate students entering the first year of their program, who win funding from one of Canada's three granting councils (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) automatically receive a $5,000 (Master's) or $10,000 (PhD) Tri-Council Award as a top-up from the University, no application is required.
Queen's provides the Tri-Council top-up Award to new scholarship winners who are incoming graduate students, as a way of both supporting and applauding these students for choosing Queen's for their graduate studies.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program promotes excellence in graduate studies at the Master's and doctoral levels. The value of an OGS award is $15,000. Both SGS and provincial regulations govern this funding opportunity.
Full details of the 2021-22 OGS competition is now available on this website in the Prospective Student section.
Mitacs Funding Opportunities
Mitacs has several training/internship type programs that can assist both the student and the supervisor.
Full details of all the Mitacs programs see the attached Partnering for Innovation presentation from Mitacs held 10th April 2018.
Other Graduate Student Support
Research Assistantships
Faculty who are holders of major research operating grants may provide stipends to their graduate students as graduate research assistant fellowships (GRAF) or may employ a grad student as a research assistant (GRA).
The GRAF is offered to provide funding support to enable the student to pursue research directly linked to their graduate studies (research thesis), and is accepted as financial assistance toward completing the degree requirements through acquisition of research training.
For full details on the Research Assistantships for graduate students go directly to the Human Resources website.
Note to all departments about award payments
With the implementation of PeopleSoft Student, all student awards are now administered by the School of Graduate Studies (if the recipient is a current graduate student) or the Office of the University Registrar, Student Awards (for all other students). This means that the School of Graduate Studies/Student Awards now administers funding that previously was managed by Financial Services and/or an individual department. Specifically, requests for funding to be paid to graduate students from a departmental/faculty trust fund OR from a research fund within a unit are to be processed by SGS. For these kinds of awards, the Student Award Payment Form must be completed and forwarded to the School of Graduate Studies if the recipient is a registered SGS student, or the Office of the University Registrar, Student Awards for all other students.


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Thumbs up, thumbs down
Thumbs up to Mike and Edith Clarken for being named 2013 ELC Education Foundation Champions in Education. It's an award that's very well deserved. Thumbs up to the many sponsors who made the annual banquet last Saturday a success as well as past Champion in Education recipients.
Thumbs up to the youth who participated in the annual fall youth pheasant hunt. A special thanks has to go to Izaak Walton League members, Iowa DNR officers, Emmet County Conservation Board director Eric Anderson and Emmet County Sheriff's deputies for helping out. You all set a great example for the future hunters of tomorrow.
Thumbs up for Estherville in gaining a solid reputation as a literary community with not one but two author readings today – one by author Chad Lewis at the Estherville Public Library at 10:30 and another by Judy Neibergall Heusman at 2 p.m. at the Emmet County Museum. Lewis will talk about his book, The Iowa Road Guide to Haunted Locations, which includes Oak Hill Cemetery in Estherville. Neibergall Heusman will talk about her novel, My Heart's Song Began at Home, the story of a German immigrant family separated when the husband enlists with Wisconsin's 33rd Regiment in the Civil War.
Thumbs up to Iowa Lakes Community College music students who are performing in a special coffee house 7 p.m. tonight at the Estherville VFW on alumni weekend.
Thumbs up to our area farmers on producing a great corn and soybean crop this fall. It was a wet, challenging spring and an even more challenging dry summer, but you have proven again that Iowa farmers are the best in the world because they feed the world.
Thumbs up to the area fall sports state qualifiers including Estherville Lincoln Central cross-country runners Lee Evans and Nic Peters, Spirit Lake runners Tanner Goetsch and Dondi Schmidt and the Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire and Spirit Lake football teams.


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The construction of a traditional Hawaiian hale, or house. This one is at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. A similiar structure is being built at Pu'ukohola Heiau which is also a National Park. It is part of the restoration of damage to the heiau which occurred during the last big earthquake. This hale is at Volcano near the hula mound. Traditional thatching included utilizing ti leaf, pili grass, or loulu palm fronds. I'm not sure if these are loulu fronds or something else like hala. I wouldn't use hala because it also means to pass. Like in death. It would be the house of passing or house of death. No thank you...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Posted by Ka`iana at 4:15 PM
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
LOL, I was about to say, that looks like one "haunted house" in the making!
- May 27, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- Ka`iana said...
You should see it at night...all the wayward spirits congregate in it... : )
- May 27, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- Kaiki said...
This is so inspiring and I resonate with the language you use to describe your experience. How much time and money did it take to make? I'm part-Hawaiian - want to make a traditional hale in Pahoa on some land I found and can afford which is all strawberry guava and some ohia...
- December 20, 2017 at 8:22 AM
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In 2011, a Red Sox collapse for a new generation
BOSTON -- "Fire away," Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein told reporters at the start of his season-ending news conference. And then, because he's seen how things go in Boston when a team doesn't live up to high expectations, he added, "Not literally."
A day after the Red Sox completed an unprecedented September collapse, Epstein told reporters at a somber and largely deserted Fenway Park on Thursday that the entire organization shared the blame for blowing a nine-game lead in 25 days and promised his full effort in figuring out what went wrong.
"The bottom line is, we failed. And our owners deserve better, the fans deserve better and we have to fix it," Epstein said. "We're going to take a look in the mirror and see if we're the ones to fix it."
The Red Sox led the AL East for much of the season and held a nine-game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays in the wild-card race on the morning of Sept. 4. But Boston went 7-20 in September to blow the lead and miss the playoffs entirely, a collapse that wasn't complete until closer Jonathan Papelbon blew a one-run lead with one strike to go against Baltimore on Wednesday night and the Orioles won 4-3.
Just minutes later, the Rays completed their comeback from a 7-0 deficit against the New York Yankees and clinched the wild-card berth.
"A very quiet day in Boston after a terrible, terrible month for the fans. Night after night they came, they tuned in. Rain, quiet streets," Red Sox owner John Henry wrote on Twitter. "Congratulations to the entire Tampa Bay organization on a miraculous, but well-earned passport to the postseason."
Henry did not respond to a request for comment, and co-owner Tom Werner said he was "still absorbing last night's collapse." But it was not just one night of failure that doomed this team.
The Red Sox lost their first six games and opened the season 2-10, but they went a major league-best 81-42 from then through Aug. 31 to take a comfortable lead in the playoff race. As it slowly disappeared, players insisted they would pull out of the slide in time; but Epstein and manager Terry Francona both acknowledged on Thursday that they saw signs of trouble.
"A lot of things went wrong and a lot of things had to go wrong for us to blow the lead, and they did. But I don't think they were completely unforeseen," Epstein said. "The bottom line is we didn't find a way to stop the slide."
Francona said he called a team meeting earlier in the month in Toronto -- even after a 14-0 win. He did not specify what he saw, but said "normally, as a season progresses, there's events that make you care about each other."
"With this team, it didn't happen as much as I wanted it to. I was frustrated about that," he said. "You don't need a team that wants to go out to dinner together. But you need a team that wants to protect each other on the field and be fiercely loyal to each other on the field."
Those problems bubbled to the surface in September, when the Red Sox failed to win consecutive games. Boston finished 90-72, one game behind the Rays and seven behind the archrival New York Yankees; the nine-game lead was the biggest ever held in September by a team that failed to make the playoffs.
"I think we'll be dissecting that forever," Epstein said.
Only a handful of players appeared in the cardboard box-filled Red Sox clubhouse on Thursday afternoon, including Jonathan Papelbon and John Lackey; they did not speak to reporters. Upstairs, Epstein told reporters everything will be evaluated over the offseason, including the front office and the coaching staff.
But Epstein said he would not make a scapegoat of Francona, who led the team to World Series championships in 2004, ending the franchise's 86-year drought, and in 2007. The front office, owners and coaches have already begun meeting to figure out what went wrong, Epstein said, and "nobody blames what happened in September on Tito."
"That would be totally irresponsible and shortsighted," Epstein said. "As an organization we have to look at our successes and failures, and what happened in 2011 -- we take full responsibility for it. All of us collectively look at it as a failure. I'm the general manager, so I take more responsibility than anybody.
"But I know we don't believe in scapegoats, particularly blaming Tito for what happened in September. We all failed collectively. We're all together in this; we've got to live with that. We're not pointing fingers at any one person in particular."
The Red Sox reportedly have 10 days to decide whether to pick up the manager's two-year option. Francona said he and Epstein had already approached the topic, but declined to comment on his future.
"It's still pretty fresh," he said, "and pretty raw."
Epstein said the "silver lining" of the team's collapse was that, had the Red Sox made the playoffs, it would have been easier to overlook the shortcomings of the team that played so poorly down the stretch.
No chance of that happening now.
"When you go through what we just went through, you can't look past anything," Epstein said. "We have to take a hard look at every aspect of the organization -- myself included."
Among the problems Epstein took the blame for were the decisions on some high-priced free agents. Though he didn't call them mistakes, Epstein acknowledged that the team needs more from both Lackey, who was 12-12 with a 6.41 ERA in the second year of a five-year, $82.5 million deal, and Carl Crawford, who signed a seven-year, $142 million deal last offseason.
"The rehabilitation of John Lackey," Epstein said, "I think it's a big priority, for obvious reasons."
And the same is true of Crawford, who was at or near career lows with a .255 average, 18 stolen bases, 11 homers and 56 RBIs.
"Carl has taken full and very public responsibility for having a disappointing year," Epstein said. "The next step is, what are you going to do about it."


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[An announcement from Matt Kirschenbaum and our good friends at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.]
This spring the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities is pleased to present:
Ken Price on "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?" Ken's abstract:
What are the implications of the terms we use to describe large-scale text-based electronic scholarship, especially undertakings that share some of the ambitions and methods of the traditional multi-volume scholarly edition? What genre or genres are we now working in? And how do the conceptions inhering in these choices of language frame and perhaps limit what we attempt? How do terms such as edition, project, database, archive, and thematic research collection relate to the past, present, and future of textual studies? Drawing on a range of resources including the Walt Whitman Archive, I consider how current terms describing digital scholarship both clarify and obscure our collective enterprise. In addition, I'll use the final term, thematic research collection, to discuss yet-to-be-developed parts of the Whitman Archive dealing with place-based cultural analysis and translation studies as a way to illustrate the expansive possibilities of this new model of scholarship.
Our speaker will be Professor Kenneth Price, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Price received his B.A. from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and then earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of Nineteenth-Century American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he also serves as co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Price is the author of over forty articles and author or editor of nine books. His most recent book is co-edited with Ed Folsom and with Susan Belasco, Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). His other recent books include Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work , co-authored with Folsom (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) and To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press 2004), a main selection of The Readers Subscription, a national book club.
Since 1995 Price has served as co-director of The Walt Whitman Archive an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. The Whitman Archive has been awarded federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the U. S. Department of Education, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The Whitman Archive has received many honors, including the C. F. W. Coker award from the Society of American Archivists and a "We the People" grant from the NEH to build a permanent endowment to support ongoing editorial work.
We will meet on Tuesday, March 11 fom 4:00-6:30 PM in the McKeldin Special Events Room (6th floor, room 6137), McKeldin Library, on the University of Maryland campus in College Park. There will be an informal dinner downstairs in MITH after the forum, at a cost of $10 per person. Please RSVP to Matt Kirschenbaum (mgk[at]umd[dot]edu) by March 7, 2008 if you would like to have dinner (money will be collected at the door–please have cash).
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason, the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Rosenzweig Technology and Humanities Forum explores important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars interested the uses of new technology in the humanities to meet and get acquainted.
McKeldin Library is located at the top of McKeldin Mall at the center of the University of Maryland, College Park campus. There is free shuttle service to campus from the College Park Metro station (Green line). Best parking for visitors is the lot next to Stamp Student Union, less than five minute walk to the Library.