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FF. Student Conduct and Discipline
Conduct which reflects adversely upon the student or the college will result in disciplinary action. Examples of misconduct include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Academic Integrity
It is the aim of the faculty of South Plains College to foster a spirit of complete honesty and a high standard of integrity. The attempt of any student to present as his or her own any work which he or she has not honestly performed is regarded by the faculty and administration as a most serious offense and renders the offender liable to serious consequences, possibly suspension.
Cheating: Dishonesty of any kind on examinations or on written assignments, illegal possession of examinations, the use of unauthorized notes during an examination, obtaining information during an examination from the textbook or from the examination paper of another student, assisting others to cheat, alteration of grade records, illegal entry or unauthorized presence in an office are examples of cheating. Complete honesty is required of the student in the presentation of any and all phases of course work. This applies to quizzes of whatever length, as well as to final examinations, to daily reports and to term papers.
Plagiarism: Offering the work of another as one's own, without proper acknowledgment, is plagiarism; therefore, any student who fails to give credit for quotations or essentially identical expression of material taken from books, encyclopedias, magazines and other reference works, or from the themes, reports or other writings of a fellow student, is guilty of plagiarism.
Alcoholic Beverages
Violations include the possession or use of alcoholic beverages on the college campus or while representing the college on an off-campus trip or activity. Violation may also occur when a student's conduct is adversely affected by the consumption of alcohol.
Animals on Campus
Animals are not allowed in any college building except when needed for instruction or where needed by an employee or student with a disability. Animals on campus must be on a leash or be otherwise under the direct and positive control of the owner.
Any expression of hatred or prejudice is inconsistent with the purposes of higher education in a free society. If bigotry exists in any form in the larger society, it will be an issue on the college campus. Therefore, South Plains College is committed to creating conditions where bigotry is forthrightly confronted.
Repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior likely to intimidate or intentionally hurt, control, or diminish another person, physically or mentally (that is not speech or conduct otherwise protected by the 1st Amendment) is strictly prohibited.
Children in the Classroom
Students are not allowed to bring children to class and will be asked to leave in the interest of providing an environment conducive to learning for all students enrolled in the class.
Classroom Conduct
Failure to comply with lawful direction of a classroom teacher relative to maintaining good order is considered misconduct on the part of the student. Repeated violations of disrupting a class may result in the student being dropped from that course.
The college does not permit discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy or state, local, or federal law. Further information regarding discrimination or harassment and procedures for students who believe they have been subjected to discrimination or harassment in violation of this policy can be found in the Student Rights and Responsibility section of this Guide.
The use of force or violence or tactics or behavior which cause obstruction, or disruption of teaching, administration, disciplinary procedures or other college authorized activities on college premises or the use of language or behavior that provokes, disrupts, or annoys others, is strictly prohibited and will result in strict disciplinary measures.
Distribution of Literature, Advertising, Selling or Solicitation
Selling and soliciting are only permitted on the campus with official authorization. Solicitation of students, faculty, or staff members by personal contact or through the distribution of advertising leaflets or handbills to promote sales is not permitted on any South Plains College campus or in any college buildings without prior approval of Director of Student Activities on the Levelland Campus, the Dean of Reese Center, or the Director of the Plainview Center.
Falsification of Records
Knowingly furnishing false information to the College or forging, altering, or making unauthorized use of a College document, record or identification, is strictly prohibited and will result in strict disciplinary measures.
Financial Responsibilities
Students are expected and required to promptly address all financial responsibilities owed on and off the campus. Unpaid debts, returned checks and other cases of financial irresponsibility can result in action that may not be limited to holds placed on records and/or criminal or civil actions.
Firearms, Fireworks, and Explosives
The unauthorized possession or use of firearms, fireworks, or explosives of any description on college grounds or property, including residence halls, is prohibited.
Food and Drinks
Food and drinks are not permitted in the computer labs, classrooms, laboratories, shops, the theatre, library, and other designated areas on campus.
Gambling in any form is prohibited by state law on college grounds or property, including college residence halls.
Illegal Selling of Books
The selling of books belonging to another person, organization, firm or institution constitutes theft.
Illegal Substances
The use, possession or transfer of any illegal substance on campus or at any college related function on or off campus is strictly prohibited. SPC maintains a zero tolerance policy with respect to illegal substances and violations of this policy will result in a one year suspension from the College.
Lewd, Indecent or Obscene Conduct
Lewd, vulgar, indecent or obscene conduct or expression on college property or functions off campus identified with South Plains College is strictly prohibited and will result in strict disciplinary measures.
Misuse of Student Identification Card
The use of a student identification card by anyone other than the person to whom it is issued or failure to present or relinquish student identification card to a member of the faculty, staff or administration is strictly prohibited.
Official Directives
Students are required to comply with the lawful directives of all college officials acting in the performance of their duties. Failure to comply can result in disciplinary action.
Safety and Health Requirements
Students who violate safety and health requirements may be disciplined through academic and Student Code of Conduct sanctions. A student's grade may be downgraded as a result of the student's failure to properly observe safety procedures within the laboratory or shop.
Repetitive and/or menacing pursuit, following, harassment and/or interference with the peace and/or safety of a member of the college community; or the safety of any of the immediate family members of the college community will not be tolerated.
Student Dress
Reasonable standards of decency apply to the college community. The student should dress in a manner which does not distract from the academic atmosphere. Revealing attire or clothing carrying obscene or offensive slogans is not permitted. In all academic buildings, classrooms, offices, the Student Center, and dining facilities, students are required to wear shirts and shoes.
Terroristic Threats
The conduct or participation in activities such as threatening or obscene letters or electronic mail, disturbing telephone calls, bomb threats and false alarms by unknown persons are strictly prohibited. SPC maintains a zero tolerance policy on terroristic threats. Violations of this policy will result in strict disciplinary measures to include suspension and possible criminal charges.
The removal of property belonging to the College or another person or the possession or transfer of such property constitutes an act of theft. SPC maintains a zero tolerance policy on theft. Violations of this policy will result in a one year suspension from the college.
The use of all tobacco products is strictly prohibited in all buildings on campus.
Unauthorized Entry
The unauthorized entry to or use of College buildings, offices, or facilities is strictly prohibited.
Unauthorized Possession of Keys
The possession by students of keys to College buildings or facilities that have not been issued by an authorized College official is strictly prohibited.
The willful malicious destruction, damage or defacing of property whether it belongs to the College or another student constitutes an act of vandalism.
Violent Behavior
The use of physical violence against another person or the threat to do so is strictly prohibited. Acts of violence or threats of violence will result in strict disciplinary measures to include suspension and possible criminal charges.
Violation of Local, State or Federal Law
Any action, event or group of events which provides grounds for a charge or violation of local, state, or federal laws or College regulations is strictly prohibited.
Attempted Violations
In most circumstances, the College will treat attempts to commit any violations of Student Conduct as if those attempts had been completed.
College as Complainant
As necessary, the College reserves the right to initiate a complaint, to serve as complainant, and to initiate conduct proceedings without a formal complaint by the victim of misconduct.
False Reports
The College will not tolerate intentional false reporting of incidents. It is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct to make an intentionally false report of any policy violation, and it may also violate state criminal statutes and civil defamation laws.
Immunity for Victims and Witnesses
The College pursues a policy of offering victims of crimes and witnesses limited immunity from policy violations related to the sexual misconduct incident. While violations cannot be completely overlooked, the College may provide educational rather than punitive responses, in such cases.
Bystander Engagement
The College pursues a policy of limited immunity for students who offer help to others in need. While policy violations cannot be overlooked, the college may provide educational options, rather than punishment, to those who offer their assistance to others in need.
Parental Notification
The College reserves the right to notify parents/guardians of dependent students regarding any health or safety risk, change in student status or conduct situation, related to alcohol and other drug violations. The College may also notify parents/guardians of not-dependent students under age 21 of alcohol and/or drug policy violations. Where a student is not-dependent, the College will contact parents/guardians to inform them of situations in which there is a significant and articulable health and/or safety risk. The College also reserves the right to designate which college officials have a need to know about individual conduct complaints pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Notification of Outcomes
The outcome of a campus hearing is part of the educational record of the accused student, and is protected from release under a federal law, FERPA. However, the College observes the legal exceptions as follows:
- Complainants in non-consensual sexual contact/intercourse, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, stalking, and relationship violence incidents have an absolute right to be informed of the outcome, essential findings, and sanctions of the hearing, in writing, without condition or limitation.
The College may release publicly the name, nature of the violation and the sanction for any student who is found in violation of a college policy that is a "crime of violence," including: arson, burglary, robbery, criminal homicide, sex offenses, assault, destruction/ damage/ vandalism of property and kidnapping/abduction. The College will release this information to the complainant in any of these offenses regardless of the outcome.
Penalties for misconduct include, but are not limited to the following, as determined appropriate by the Dean of Students, Associate Dean of Students, Dean of Reese Center, or the Director of the Plainview Center.
Warning or Reprimand
All offenses that may be punishable by reprimand or warning shall be regarded as minor offenses. Reprimand may include, but is not limited to, counseling with or writing a letter to the student. These actions are cumulative and are considered official college actions and are recorded in the Office of the Dean of Students.
It may be determined that a student should be restricted from specified campus facilities as a part of disciplinary action.
Community Service
A student may be assigned to do additional class work or other community service jobs on campus, as determined by the Dean of Students, the Dean of the Reese Center, or the Director of the Plainview Center.
Disciplinary Probation
Any offense leading to disciplinary probation is regarded as a major offense. Disciplinary probation is applied for a stated period with or without specified restrictive conditions. Restrictive conditions may include but are not limited to: removing the right of the student to receive any college award, scholarships, or financial aid; removing the right to occupy any position of leadership in any college or student organization or activity; removing the right to operate a motor vehicle on campus. The student is required to show appropriate changes in attitude and behavior during the probationary period.
Removal from College Housing
In certain instances, the Dean of Students or Associate Dean of Students may remove a student from College housing and allow him/her to continue attending classes.
Course Grade Reduction
Any offense leading to a reduction in course grade is regarded as a major offense.
Administrative Course Withdrawal
Any offense leading to administrative course withdrawal is regarded as a major offense.
Disciplinary Suspension
Any offense leading to disciplinary suspension is regarded as a major offense. Suspension is normally for a stated period, but never less than the remainder of the semester in which the offense is committed. During suspension, the student shall not attend classes, participate in any college related activity, or be on campus for any reason except application for readmission. Readmission on probation may be granted at the end of the suspension period.
Expulsion is the permanent removal from South Plains College with no opportunity for readmission. Expulsion shall be used only in cases of extreme misconduct.
All offenses of misconduct, both minor and major, shall be dealt with by the Dean of Students, Dean of the Reese Center, the Director of the Plainview Center or their designee, except for those offenses that are regarded as academic issues. Academic issues shall be dealt with by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of the Technical Division, the Dean of Health Occupation, the Department Chair, or their designee. These individuals shall henceforth be referred to as Case Official. All offenses that may lead to reduction in course grade, administrative withdrawal from a course, suspension or expulsion, shall be regarded as major offenses and be dealt with by the following procedures.
Rules of Evidence and Burden of Proof
Disciplinary decisions will be based on the preponderance of evidence. In other words, it is more likely than not an alleged incident occurred. A totality of all available and relevant evidence will be used to establish this preponderance. The burden and responsibility for gathering and evaluating evidence rests with the College. Accused students may elect to not self-incriminate and should be active in presenting relevant evidence to support their position. The intent of the disciplinary process is to provide an educational remedy that is in the best interest of all students and the preservation of the academic process. In extreme cases this may involve utilizing punitive actions such as suspension or expulsion.
Investigative Hearing
The Case Official is responsible for investigation reported student misconduct and evaluating evidence as to its accuracy, credibility, and sufficiency. Upon concluding that a major offense has been committed and that there is sufficient evidence to prove this offense, a written statement is prepared that includes: the alleged violation and charges against the student; a statement of penalties to be imposed; and the explanation of student rights and due process. The investigation should be completed and results communicated to the student within five (5) working days of knowledge of the issue.
Where the accused individual is found not responsible for the alleged violation(s), the investigation should be closed. Where the accused individual accepts the finding that he/she violated college policy, the Case Official will impose appropriate sanctions for the violation.
Hearing Body
In the event that the accused individual rejects the findings in part or entirely, the student has fifteen (15) College working days to request a hearing. The Case Official will convene and chair the hearing. The membership of the hearing body will be determined by the Case Official, but will include a faculty member of the student's choice and the President of Student Government. Additional members may include deans, directors, chairpersons or faculty members, as determined by the Case Official. Others may be invited to substantiate the case, with prior approval of the Case Official. At the hearing, the findings of the investigation will be admitted, but are not binding on the decider(s) of fact. The hearing will determine whether it is more likely than not that the accused individual violated the policies forming the basis of the charge. The goal of the hearing is to provide an equitable resolution via an equitable process, respecting the civil and legal rights of all participants.
Where an accused individual is found in violation the Case Official will impose appropriate sanctions for the violation, as recommended by the hearing body. The Case Official has final decision making authority with regard to formal complaints, subject to appeal.
In the event that an accused individual accepts the findings of the investigation, those findings cannot be appealed. Post-hearing, any party may appeal the findings and/or sanctions only under the grounds described below.
All sanctions imposed by the original hearing body will be in effect during the appeal. In cases where the appeal results in reinstatement to the institution or of privileges, all reasonable attempts will be made to restore the student to their prior status, recognizing that some opportunities lost may be irretrievable in the short term.
The decision of the Case Official and hearing body may be appealed by petitioning the Vice President over the area the original complaint was heard. Accused students or complainants must petition in writing within five (5) business days of receiving the written decision for a review of the decision or the sanctions imposed. The Vice President will determine if the appeal meets the limited grounds and is timely. The original finding and sanction will stand if the appeal is not timely or substantively eligible, and the decision is final. The party requesting appeal must show error, as the original finding and sanction are presumed to have been decided reasonable and appropriately. The ONLY grounds for appeal are as follows:
- A procedural error occurred that significantly impacted the outcome of the hearing (e.g. substantiated bias, material deviation from established procedures, etc.);
- To consider new evidence, unavailable during the original hearing or investigation, that could substantially impact the original finding or sanction. A summary of this new evidence and its potential impact must be included;
- The sanctions imposed are substantially disproportionate to the severity of the violation,
If the Vice President determines that new evidence should be considered, the complaint will be returned to the original hearing body to reconsider in light of the new evidence only. The hearing body will render a written decision on the appeal to all parties within five (5) business days from hearing of the appeal. The committee's decision is final and not subject to appeal.
Authorized: Vice President for Student Affairs
Nature of Revision: Content
Date Issued: 2/18/2013
Approved by Executive Council


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Major victory as Russia bans trade in harp seal skins
I'm thrilled to tell you that the door to one of the largest markets for seal products has now been slammed shut – the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation has banned the import and export of harp seal skins. It's the biggest victory in the campaign to end commercial sealing since the European Union (EU) banned non-Inuit seal products, and we could not ask for a more wonderful holiday gift for everyone who has fought so hard with IFAW to protect seals.
According to the Government of Canada, Russia receives up to 90% of Canada's exports of seal pelts. In 2009, the same year that the EU banned non-Inuit seal products, Russia ended its own hunt for harp seals in the White Sea and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called it a "bloody industry" and something that "should have been banned years ago."
IFAW's campaign efforts have a history of successes in Russia, beginning with our efforts to end the slaughter of whitecoat seal pups by helicopter in the White Sea. Our teams observed and documented the Russian harp seal hunt in the White Sea in 1995 for the first time, and we were the first organization to campaign to end the Russian seal slaughter. Documentaries of the White Sea hunt were produced and widely shown on Russian television, along with photos and news articles. Thanks to IFAW, the Russian seal hunt could not remain hidden, and this cruel slaughter soon became public knowledge. IFAW's exposure of subsidies to the Russian seal hunt, and the growing lack of demand for whitecoat seal products, added further strength to the campaign.
In 2008, ongoing IFAW support of aerial surveys and scientific research began to reveal an alarming decrease in the harp seal population in the White Sea, and IFAW was quick to bring our concerns to the attention of Russian public, media, and policymakers. In 2008 our campaign reached a tipping point as IFAW delivered petitions signed by 400,000 people to the Russian government. In 2009 anti-sealing protests were held in Moscow and 25 other Russian cities, and Russia ultimately ended its commercial harp seal hunt. At the time, Russia's Minister of Natural Resources Yury Trutnev said, "The bloody seal slaughter, the killing of the defenseless animals, which can't be even called a 'hunt,' is now prohibited in Russia as it is in most developed countries. It is a serious step towards the conservation of biodiversity in Russia."
The Belarus-Kazakhstan-Russian trade ban is a significant victory that should be celebrated by all concerned with animal welfare and wildlife conservation. The full implications of this ban, with Russia's recent accession to the WTO, remain to be seen. With the Russian market closed to harp seal fur products, and a long-promised deal to export seal meat to China at risk due to concerns over food security, the future looks bleaker than ever for the dying Canadian sealing industry. The time has come to acknowledge that the world does not want, nor need, cruel seal products. It is time to stop commercial seal hunting once and for all.
Timeline of shrinking markets
- 1972 US Congress passes Marine Mammal Protection Act, which bans the importation of seal products.
- 1983 IFAW helps win crucial ban in Europe on importation of "whitecoat" harp seal and blueback hooded seal products.
- 1987 Canadian Government bans commercial hunting of whitecoats and bluebacks in Canadian waters.
- 1990 With IFAW's involvement, South Africa ends the hunt for Cape fur seals.
- 2006 Mexico bans the import and export of marine mammals, including seals.
- 2007 IFAW campaigns result in Belgium and the Netherlands adopting national bans on the import of seal products.
- 2009 Russia bans the killing of harp seal pups under 12 months of age.
- 2009 European Union bans the import of all seal products, with an exemption for Inuit-derived skins.
- 2010 IFAW continues its fight to protect the EU ban, and continues to expose the cruelty of commercial hunts to governments around the world.
- 2011 Deal between Canada and China to allow export of seal meat products postponed
- 2011 Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation ban the import and export fur skins of harp seals and their whitecoat pups
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Just read a russian article about this prohibition of killing of harp seal pups under 12 months of age, and it still doesn´t sound very optimistic. Apparently it is only prohibited to kill seals from 1st of May to 10th of March, but in between is still a month and a half!!!
The article is from shortly after the banning (2009)
To the short-sighted Canadian who posted about jobs for fisherman. Although this is an unfortunate situation for them (certainly not life threatening?), ending the seal hunt could open up another industry. Eco-tourism. Instead of annually clubbing innocent seal pups while the rest of the world shudders in disgust, perhaps the fisherman can put down their club, stop whining, and instead use their resources to develop the area for eco-tourism. This would protect their natural wildlife while providing a substantial income. I'd love to see the seal colonies up close living peaceful in their natural environment. I'm sure others would too. Just a thought.
Great news made my day!
There is a huge difference between fish, which are consumed, and seals, which are slaughtered in the name of a barbaric fashion.
Great news, I recently sent in to become a new member.
Are fish not also innocent, helpless, weak and killed inhumanly? Strange that the "cute" animals get so much sympathy from Animal Rights Activists, and killing them is brutal and wrong, while other animals are "slaughtered" in larger numbers even less humanly such as cattle or fish, and their "plight" goes largely ignored.
- Nova Scotia
I am so happy about this. It shocks me when people think it's ok to brutally club an innocent, weak and helpless seal over the head to kill them in the most inhumane way. That is the most heartless thing I have ever heard.
Fishermen fish they don't barbarically club helpless seals or hook them and drag them mercilessly. Hard working does not include cruelty to animals
GOD BLESS YOU IFAW!!!! I am so happy about this victory.
It shocks me how people can have more sympathy for the seals than hard-working fisherman who are just trying to support their families. Our fishing villages in Atlantic Canada have been devastated by the collapse of the cod stocks, and are barely clinging on, with thousands going west for work. It's awfully easy for you to pontificate about immorality sitting in front of your computer in a city, when you don't have to worry about think about the consequences of your bans and boycotts on the way of life of thousands of East Coasters.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Kingsize performed an emotionally charged show at the Roxy in Hollywood.
The band consisting of Jason Thomas Gordon, lead singer and drummer, Matt Del Vecchio, bass player and Cary Beare, guitarist, has quickly become a force on the Southern California music scene despite a few setbacks in the past.
Live, the band sounds more refined then ever. Their sound is the perfect tribute to 70is rock with a mixture of classic rock n' roll and post punk. Although some of their songs sounds like progressions from the past this new album called All These Machines features some exciting songs like Heart Surgery, The Technocratic, Overdome and Ambien which sound romantic and defiant with their catchy electric guitar solo or some great vocals.
Kingsize has come far since they first hit the music scene. They have written the theme song for the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried and are featured on the soundtrack of Philip G. Flores' award-winning film The Wheeler Boys. Their song "Rabbits" was recently added to 32 Clear Channel stations from Nikki Sixx's radio show The Six Sense, and "Sweetheart, I'm Only Stopping to Start" just earned a spot in the new Robert DeNiro movie Freelancers co-starring Forest Whitaker and 50 Cent.
But, their most important achievement is the huge part the band plays in the lives of children battling cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Music Gives to St. Jude Kids is a new campaign created by Jason with the sole purpose of raising money and awareness for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through music-based initiatives. Jason's grandfather, Danny Thomas, founded the hospital in 1962. So far, Music Gives to St. Jude Kids. That has given Kingsize the chance to partner with artists like Sheryl Crow, Kings of Leon, and Stone Temple Pilots and has garnered the sponsorship of both Live Nation and Ticketmaster to name a few.
So despite false starts, chaos, heartbreak, and setbacks, the band now definitely shows some guts with this new album All These Machines and proves individual enough to take on the music world with eight cylinders blasting.
All These Machines should be just the ticket to propel these guys to the top of the heap. But, all that matters to them right now is that they're somewhere new. They've made it here together. "And besides that, there's still nothing like a good fight." Long live Rockn'roll!!


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ROCKFORD — As of Monday, the number of concealed-carry firearm instructors in Winnebago County listed on the Illinois State Police's website was 32 and growing.
They are among nearly 1,000 ISP approved instructors statewide whom residents are turning to in droves as they seek the necessary training to obtain their concealed-carry licenses, which Illinois residents can apply for starting Jan. 5.
ISP spokeswoman Monique Bond said an estimated 400,000 applicants are expected to apply for a concealed-carry license next year.
"We are meeting demands," she said of available ISP certified instructors. "For now there has been no issues."
National Rifle Association Instructor Brian Konopa, owner of 2nd Amendment Defense, Inc., 4304 Maray Dr., said business is brisk.
"We went to a gun show last month in Pecatonica and started signing people up," he said.
Konopa said a majority of his clients are middle-aged, and about 70 percent are men.
Applicants must complete 16 hours of training — the most required by any state in the country — with instruction broken into two eight-hour segments.
The first eight hours covers safety, gun handling, maintenance and basic marksmanship principles. The second segment covers state and federal concealed-carry laws, as well as where weapons can and can't be taken, how to interact with law enforcement and when it is acceptable to use lethal force.
The second half of the course also includes a "live-fire exercise," a 30-round shooting qualification. Applicants shoot at an approximately 2-foot-by-3-foot target from a distance of 5, 7 and 10 yards. The applicants are required to hit the target 70 percent of the time.
John Royster, 57, a retired Rockford Park District police officer and a training instructor for Metro Enforcement, a locally based private security firm, boasts several years of firearm instructional training.
He said shortly after his name was added to the ISP firearm instructor registry, his phone started ringing non-stop.
He is advising the public to seek out instructors with experience to get the best training possible.
"Check their qualifications," he said. "Some people met their minimum requirements (to become a firearm instructor) a week ago."
Just how many people will apply for a concealed-carry license is not known, but there are 1.6 million Illinois residents with Firearms Owner's Identification cards, which the state requires people to have before it will issue a concealed-carry license.
Konopa is charging $125 for the first eight-hour segment and $140 for the second. If the applicant takes the first half, they will receive a $25 discount for the second segment.
If the applicant successfully passes both courses, the instructor will issue the applicant a certificate. The applicant can then go online to the ISP website to find, print and complete a concealed-carry application, which along with the certificate and $150 fee can be mailed to the state for a concealed-carry license. The licenses are good for five years.
Chris Green: 815-987-1241; firstname.lastname@example.com; @chrisfgreen


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A deal that would lower interest rates on student loans appears to be taking shape in Congress. Lawmakers and their aides have been in talks about how they might reduce rates on subsidized Stafford loans. The rates doubled to 6.8 percent last week after Congress failed to act. Efforts to restore the rates to 3.4 percent have been abandoned, in favor of a new compromise.
Under the plan being considered, interest rates on new loans would be based on the 10-year Treasury note, plus an additional percentage for administrative costs. Undergraduate students would see a better deal than the current 6.8 percent rate, but could face higher costs if the economy improves and Treasury notes become more expensive. Rates for students this fall would be around 4 percent. They would be capped at 8.25 percent in future years. Graduate students could find better deals next year, but would again face higher rates than the current 7.9 percent. Borrowing for those loans would be at a rate of around 7 percent this fall. The rates would be capped at 9.25 percent in coming years. Lawmakers are still working on specific rates, but they are in rough agreement on the numbers.


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Registration opened this week for Whitecaps FC "Play Like A Pro" Spring soccer camps.
Two types of camps are available: skills camps and prospects camps.
Whitecaps FC skills camps is open to boys and girls from U-6 to U-13 of all skill levels. This camp offers training for all levels, led by Whitecaps FC legend and former Canadian World Cup captain Sam Lenarduzzi. Players will be grouped by age and ability and will be taken through theme-based skills sessions to conclude with a "world-cup" tournament. Participants will receive an official camp t-shirt, poster, prize ticket packs, daily drink, and a visit from a Whitecaps FC player and club mascot Spike.
2013 Skills Camp, upcoming dates:
- Surrey: March 18 to 22, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT daily at South Surrey Athletic Park
- Vancouver: March 25 to 29, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT at Point Grey Field
The Whitecaps FC prospects camp is open to boys and girls from U-9 to U-14 for serious and motivated youth players. This camp offers specialized training for players to take their skills and development to the next level.
2013 Prospect Camps, upcoming date:
- Surrey: March 18 to 21, 12 to 2:30 p.m. PT at South Surrey Athletic Park
For more information on registration costs and dates please visit : whitecapsfc.com/camps.
Register before February 20, 2013 and save $10. Space is limited so register now and don't miss out!


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- Premier League
Benitez angered by wasteful finishing
Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez bemoaned his side's lack of a cutting edge in front of goal, after they were held to a draw by Southampton.
The Blues were 2-0 up against the relegation-threatened side at half-time, but conspired to throw away that advantage as Rickie Lambert and Jason Puncheon combined to ensure Nigel Adkins' side grabbed a crucial point.
And Benitez, who was booed along with the team at the final whistle, criticised his team's poor finishing at Stamford Bridge.
"We have to be more clinical," Benitez told Sky Sports. "At 2-0 up you have to manage the game. We have to have some experience, score the third goal and kill the game but we didn't do that.
"We had chances, we had a lot of chances again. Taking our chances has to be the key."
Prior to the game Chelsea had hoped to pull within four points of second-placed Manchester City, while opening up a gap between themselves and Tottenham.
However, having only managed to move two points clear of their London rivals, Benitez seemed to suggest that finishing in the top three was now the main priority for his side.
The Spaniard added: "We are in the top three so we will try to be as high as possible and try to get three points in the next game - that's it."


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The Indian Health Service (IHS) has retained complementary medicine occupations, including chiropractic, in its Federal Loan Repayment Program. This reversed an earlier proposal to remove these occupations based upon a low response rate from a survey to tribal health directors, asking them to rate the importance of occupations.
The Priority Categories Survey was determined to have significant weakness in its format, distribution and response mechanisms. The survey was sent to tribal health centers, urban Indian health centers, IHS facilities and other sites, asking the medical directors to rate the importance of various professions from low to high. The survey did not state that only "high priority" ratings were to be counted, nor were there follow-up or reminder notices sent. Of the 800 mailings sent, only 103 responses were received.
Chiropractic was listed as a high priority on responses received from four tribal groups – Lac Vieux Desert Tribe, the Chippewa-Cree Tribe, the Sac & Fox Nation and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. It was later determined that the Tulalip Tribe had also responded, but that response was not counted because of its selection of "medium priority" for chiropractic.
Based on faulty survey findings and an unjustifiable 5 percent response rate criterion, there was a campaign to address the possible removal of complementary medicine occupations by IHS. Support for inclusion came from four tribal health centers and their respective DCs who received LRP awards in 2012: the New York Mohawk St. Regis Tribe, Dr. Gerald Lauzon (Akwesasne); Pyramid Lake and the Walker River Tribes in Nevada, Dr. Adrian Emm (Paiute); and Southcentral Foundation (SCF) in Anchorage, Alaska, organized by Dr. Angela Michaud with support from Dr. Genevieve John (Mentasa), both full-time DCs at this large regional health center.
Other support came from Alaska's congressional delegation: Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), with assistance from Dr. Angela Michaud of the Southcentral Foundation, and former American Chiropractic Association Board of Governors member, Dr. Bill Pfeifer, both of the Ketchikan Indian Community. The ACA provided valuable Washington, D.C., coordination and technical support.
For example, in a Jan. 15, 2013 letter from Sen. Begich to IHS Director Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, Sen. Begich stated: "Since its inclusion in the program, all accounts indicate that the addition of chiropractic medicine has been successful and valued by Alaskan Native and Native American patients and communities. Numerous doctors who benefited from the program are currently providing high-quality health care within several tribal health programs.
"It is my understanding that when Alaska Native and Native American patients struggle with acute and chronic pain, access to chiropractic care can reduce the use of pain medications and other drugs. The utilization of the non-drug, non-surgical services provided by doctors of chiropractic in treating pain management can be an effective way to combat the danger posed by overreliance on powerful drugs."
In a similar letter to Dr. Roubideaux sent on Jan. 9, 2013, Kathryn Gottlieb, president / CEO of the Southcentral Foundation, emphasized that "[a]t a time when acute and chronic pain have escalated the use of pain medications and other drugs across Indian Country, complementary medicine providers can be looked to as part of the solution. They offer a non-drug, non-surgical approach to health and wellness for our Native people, which results in both improved health care outcomes and cost savings.
"The Southcentral Foundation (SCF) Complementary Medicine Clinic is integrated into our primary care system. It employs five chiropractors, four massage therapists, and an acupuncturist, and receives over 15,000 visits annually. Our primary care providers refer customer-owners to the clinic for acute musculoskeletal conditions. This collaboration and integration has been recognized around the world as a best practice and helped SCF earn the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2011."
It has been requested that next year's Priority Category Survey include more information about the survey's impact and reminders for deadlines. An electronic survey also has been discussed. As for 2013, Loan Repayment Program applications are being accepted as of Feb. 15. To qualify, individuals must be employed full time at a tribal health center, urban Indian health center or IHS facility. Proof of outstanding college school loans needs to be established. Contact the IHS for more information at www.ihs.gov/loanrepayment.
Dr. Gary Auerbach, founding president of the World Federation of Chiropractic, holds a graduate certificate in public health from the University of Arizona, Zuckerman College of Public Health. He is the administrator of the American Indian / Alaska Native Doctors of Chiropractic Ad-Hoc Committee. If you are an American Indian / Alaska Native DC in the U.S., visit www.aiandc.org to learn more.


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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Republicans stepped up their attacks on the Obama administration over a deepening Veterans Affairs healthcare delay scandal on Thursday, but House Speaker John Boehner again declined to join a growing list of lawmakers calling for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
At a news briefing, Boehner said he was not still convinced that Shinseki's ouster would solve the VA's problems. Instead, he sought to keep the pressure on President Barack Obama for VA scheduling abuses that covered up monthslong delays for veterans' medical care appointments.
"I'm going to continue to reserve judgment on General Shinseki," Boehner said. "The question I ask myself is, is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem, is it going to help us find out what is really going on? The answer is no."
On Wednesday, the Department of Veterans Affairs' inspector general confirmed "systemic" and widespread manipulation of data that understated appointment waiting times, prompting both Democratic and Republican lawmakers to call for Shinseki to quit.
In an interim report on an investigation into secret waiting lists at VA facilities in Phoenix, the inspector general said it was now probing appointment data manipulation at 42 VA locations nationwide.
Asked who should replace Shinseki, Boehner said the key priority was getting to the bottom of the problems at the VA.
"The real issue here is the president is the one who should be held accountable," Boehner said.
The Ohio Republican added that it was "rather shocking" that Obama has professed no knowledge of the scandal when the VA inspector general and the Government Accountability Office have flagged scheduling problems at the VA for years.
The scandal exploded earlier this month after VA doctors in Phoenix came forward with allegations that some 40 veterans had died while waiting months for primary-care appointments.
The inspector general's report confirmed that 1,700 veterans were being held on a secret waiting list that allowed Phoenix VA officials to report much shorter waiting times, data that was used in bonus award calculations.
Republican Representative Peter King said Boehner told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting that he was concerned that simply replacing Shinseki might give the impression that the VA's problems were solved and it "may end the whole situation too quickly."
Republican lawmakers have been formulating strategy to use the VA troubles in their re-election campaigns for November, portraying them as another example of Obama administration mismanagement rivaling the botched launch of health insurance reforms.
The chorus of lawmakers calling for Shinseki to leave grew on Thursday with Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida joining the fray, saying that the inspector general's report "not only confirmed our worst fears about rampant mismanagement and institutional neglect at the VA, it also revealed the problem is even worse than we thought."
Rubio is sponsoring a bill that would be identical to House-passed legislation that would give the VA secretary more authority to fire or demote executives for poor performance. (Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)


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September 14. 2013 9:11PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Lester emerges a leader
Boston starter Jon Lester delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Yankees at Fenway Park on Saturday. (Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports)
Surging Sox roll past Yankees
-- Jon Lester
took the field Saturday with whiskers faintly tracing along his jaw line and chin, the follicles forming a beard not nearly as bushy or robust as those of some teammates, but a beard nonetheless. That practically seems a prerequisite to fit in with these 2013 Red Sox.
But as soon as he got to the mound, it became clear that the lefty doesn't merely want to be one of the boys. He wants to lead them. In October.
Retiring the first nine Yankees he faced, and subsequently surrendering just three hits and two walks over eight sterling innings, Lester pitched the Sox to a 5-1 win in a matinee performance that further strengthened the fast-convincing case that he should start Game 1 of the forthcoming American League divisional series that becomes more inevitable by the day.
"What he's done since the All-Star break has been consistent with how he started the season," manager
John Farrell
said, "and that's been a well-above-average pitcher. A front-line starter.
"That's who Jon Lester is."
Clay Buchholz
returned last week from a three-month stint on the disabled list, much of the focus was on whether Boston's unbeaten All-Star could get back up to speed in time to head its rotation in the playoffs. But in terms of going in with an ace, a bigger factor than Buchholz' return could be Lester's return to form.
After Saturday his earned run average is 1.86 over his last eight starts, and opponents are hitting .214 against him over that span - with every start qualifying as quality despite facing winning teams in all but two of those outings.
Going back even farther, Lester's ERA is now 2.38 since he was given a few extra days to rest coming out of the All-Star break, and with that his ERA for the season is now down to 3.75. If a month-long, seven-start slump that ran from May 20-June 21 is his removed from the equation his ERA would go all the way down to 2.69 - and while history can't be rewritten like that, whatever caused that slide can be corrected.
Clearly Lester has done that. His velocity is back near where it used to be, he's commanding all of his pitches to both sides of the plate, he's throwing everything with confidence.
In other words, he's pitching like an ace.
"I remember facing him, and when he had his changeup it was tough because he threw that cutter in on your hands, and it's tough to hit a changeup strike when he's just pounding it in all the time," said first baseman
Mike Napoli
, ex of the Angels and Rangers. "He's been doing great. He seems confident out there."
"(His) velocity is now in the mid-90s pretty consistently, and it just makes his cutter that much more effective where hitters have to commit early to address the velocity," added Farrell. "Just the consistency, the ability to repeat his delivery, put the ball on the ground and get strikeouts, that combination is a very good one."
Lester got 12 groundouts to go with five strikeouts Saturday, his third straight start where he has induced double-digit grounders, and threw 79 of 115 pitches for strikes in what was his second consecutive outing that lasted eight innings - but when asked if he feels as good as he has in a while, he dismissed the suggestion that success begets success from start to start.
"I try not to worry about getting on rolls, or stringing starts together, or anything like that. Just try to do the best I can every time I go out there," Lester said, and really that's the perfect attitude for the postseason, when yesterday matters little - and four or five days ago is practically irrelevant. In the playoffs, to borrow
Earl Weaver
's adage, momentum is just the next day's starting pitcher.
And it's looking like the more the Sox can see that Lester is that next guy to the bump, the better off they'll be.
And the longer their beards will grow.
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Spoiling a pair of
Joba Chamberlain
pitches with the count full, then letting ball four bounce into the dirt, Napoli staved off history in the seventh inning Saturday. He'd already singled twice in the game, and walked in his other plate appearance, so he remained at 176 strikeouts this season - still one behind
Mark Bellhorn
for the team record that has stood since 2004.
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By now it's abundantly clear how different the Red Sox of 2013 are than the 2011 club. But if one quote can encapsulate that difference, catcher
David Ross
might've delivered it Saturday.
He wasn't here two years ago to see that staff get whittled down by injury, and see the commitment of its pitching staff come into question after an epic collapse. But in talking about Lester, Buchholz,
John Lackey
Jake Peavy
, specifically, he is completely comfortable with the attitude and approach of that staff and the team this September.
"He's been doing it all year," Ross said of Lester, initially. "Buck is back now. Lackey's done it, the unsung hero. Now we've got Peave, he's got that competitive vibe.
"All these guys work so hard, it's fun to go out and compete with them laying it all on the line on a nightly basis. That's what this team does. That's why we are in the position we're in, is because we go out there and we lay it all on the line, we play for each other, everybody prepares, everybody loves playing hard for each other. That's why we haven't been on a long losing streak, because of the performance of the starting pitchers."
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Stat of the week: By notching its 91st win, the 2013 bunch on Saturday became just the second Red Sox team since 1951 to hit that mark in the club's first 150 games. They join the 1986 pennant winners as one of 10 Sox teams ever to do so.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Protecting Against Sunburn from the Inside Out
By Michael A. Smith, MDExcessive sun exposure burns your skin and leads to premature skin aging, which means more wrinkles, discolorations, and risks.
Topical sunscreens still remain the popular choice among consumers, but did you know there's also an oral solution for protecting your skin? There is, and it's called Polypodium leucotomos.
Skin Cancer on the RiseMuch has been written about how the sun's ultraviolet rays harm our health and appearance. Yet despite the warnings, more than two million people in the US will be diagnosed with skin cancer this year alone.
Rates of melanoma — the most dangerous form of skin cancer — have not only doubled over the past 10–20 years, but continue to rise 3% to 7% annually.1
Oral Protection with Polypodium LeucotomosA recent study found that an oral supplement sourced from the fern, Polypodium leucotomos, could possibly become an important anti-aging ingredient for the skin.2 In fact, extracts from this fern have been used in South America for many years to protect against the damaging effects of excessive sun exposure.
This amazing fern protects skin cells by blocking ultraviolet light, thus reducing sun-induced injury.3 Additionally, it also helps ease skin inflammation and blocks protein-destroying skin enzymes.3,4
Polypodium leucotomos extract also contains a high percentage of potent antioxidants which block the formation of dangerous free radicals stopping the oxidative damage that results from excessive sun exposure.4
A Two-Fold Approach is BestRemember, for long periods of sun exposure, you should consider both a topical sunscreen and an oral extract from Polypodium leucotomos. This combined approach will help protect you from the inside out, and offers an ideal defense strategy to ward off premature aging and skin cancer.
How are you protecting yourself against harmful UV rays? Have you heard of polypodium leucotomos before? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
- Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/470300_2. Accessed 7/12/11.
- Arch Dermatol Res. 2009 Aug;301(7):487-95.
- J Photochem Photobiol B. 2006 Mar 1;82(3):173-9.
- J Dermatol Sci. 2003 Jun;32(1):1-9.


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' foreign minister says the Palestinian diplomatic mission to her country has been upgraded to embassy status.
Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis said after talks with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki on Friday that the upgrade is in line with Cyprus' recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1988 along with seven other European countries that have also since become European Union members.
Cyprus supported the Palestinians' successful bid last year in the United Nations General Assembly to elevate their status from U.N. observer to nonmember observer state.
Malki said there are some 100 Palestinian diplomatic missions around the world, most of which have full embassy status.


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Pep Guardiola and Xabi Alonso put past behind them at Bayern Munich
It's hard work keeping up with Pep Guardiola. It's hard work working for Pep Guardiola. It's hard work being around the 43-year-old Catalan on a continuing basis.
Not unpleasant, not boring, not needlessly taxing but confusing, quixotic, tiring and often a pain in the butt.
But, of course, it's usually worth the effort.
However, in case the casual observer isn't up to speed, I'll try to explain starting with a small example.
During the first long-ish interview I had with Guardiola, I offered up a comparison between the football philosophies that drove both him and Sir Alex Ferguson.
It was prior to their first Champions League final as opposing managers in 2009.
Running concurrently through the centre of each man's ethos, I proposed, was a commitment to attacking, front-foot, entertaining football which, in the case of the Scot, had lasted over 30 years and which was becoming the trademark of Pep's first (treble-winning) senior season as a coach.
Over the course of several sentences, it became clear Pep wasn't having it.
Yes, he said, it was good that people came away entertained from Barcelona matches. Regrettably enough he had lifelong friends who were struggling to keep their jobs in the economic crisis of the time or who were without employment and he knew, well, that many thousands in the Camp Nou crowd would be similarly scrimping and saving to afford their match tickets. Raising their spirits; entertaining -- these were nice by-products, he added.
But they were by-products; his team performed to a strict (positional play) system.
What came out between the lines of our chat was that, OK, he respected Ferguson, deeply, but wasn't so keen to have the two brands of football associated as sharing the same philosophy.
United's wave after wave of attack, their combative spirit, Fergie's outright commitment to a style of football he first admired in the Real Madrid superstars of the 1960s -- Guardiola saw that as different to his.
And he wasn't going to feed me any candy in the interview, there were no "...yes, quite right, attacking, entertaining football is our common passion, blah blah..." platitudes. No way.
The Guardiola way
Gradually it emerged that, even in a "nice friendly" gimme-quote as this shaped up to be, he wouldn't waver from the idea that "the Guardiola way" was fundamentally different from anything then on show in England, United included.
And, above all, Guardiola wanted to underline, firmly, that his job was only about winning.
Win, win, win again ... then win again and again.
Football that pleased the eye flowed from his team ONLY because it was the best way, he believed, to control games, to tire other teams, to bring the best from Camp Nou-trained graduates, to dominate Spain and Europe.
Mathematicians would show it as "the Pep formula": Winning > Entertaining.
Please note that, neither from Guardiola then, nor I now, is there any intended disparagement to that United era.
I'm merely giving a small example of what some 100-plus players at Barca B, Barca and now Bayern Munich have discovered since 2007.
Things have to be right. They have to be precise. If they are important, they have to be done Guardiola's way. His hair and beard aside, there is no grey area.
But even when you think you've understood, even when it feels a little like there's a shared wavelength, he'll be off.
Does he have a restless, agitated mind? That's a monumental understatement.
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I bring this up because Xabi Alonso's recent move to Bayern underlines the precise theme of what Guardiola was telling me back in 2009.
I'm lucky to count as friends a group of people who've known Guardiola more or less since he began to be prominent as a footballer under Johan Cruyff's management at Barcelona in the 1990s.
Much though they treasure their close contact with him -- dinners, family time, even some vacation time in Manhattan during the Catalan's 2012 sabbatical -- he can bewilder, surprise and tire them.
It was thanks to these guys that I wrote in the first edition of my book, "Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World," while Guardiola was still in charge at the Camp Nou that I would not be surprised to see him one day manage in German football.
He'd begun to wax lyrical to these mutual friends about the Bundesliga: its passion, the full stadia, the increasing technical and tactical emphasis he saw, the fair (not to say cheap) ticketing.
He saw the communion between fans and players.
Though none of them saw him anywhere other than, say, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United or Manchester City, perhaps Milan, they reported to me that the Bundesliga was beginning to be a repetitive topic of conversation with Guardiola.
The Clasico Wars
Now, one of the things that most helped burn out the Catalan coach at Barcelona was not only the intensity but the nastiness of the "Clasico wars," which began when Jose Mourinho arrived at Real Madrid in 2010.
Rightly or wrongly, Guardiola as well as several of his (Catalan and La Masia) players and the entire Catalan media felt that Mourinho, Alvaro Arbeloa, Pepe and Marcelo -- plus Xabi Alonso -- regularly went beyond the bounds of sporting aggression.
The Camp Nou perception was that Mourinho gave orders aimed not only at polemicising every single Clasico but at deliberately dividing those players who happily united to share the Spain jersey despite playing their club football for the two rival clubs.
Pepe, without question, became regarded by his opposing players at Barcelona as football's equivalent of a street thug. The fury felt by Seydou Keita at being verbally abused by the Portugal player carried on to a heated spat this summer when Madrid met Roma in the United States during the most recent preseason.
But there was a different sentiment regarding Alonso and Arbeloa.
Rightly or wrongly, Barcelona's Spain players decidedly felt that in gamesmanship, aggressive fouling and general attitude, the two World Cup-winning Spaniards had put loyalty to the Mourinho doctrine of scorched earth ahead of fraternal La Roja spirit.
However they feel now, even if time has healed a little, it wouldn't be betraying too many secrets to say that relationships between Alonso and the harder-line Catalans in the Barcelona and Spain squads changed and, decidedly, not for the better.
A by-product of this was the pretty relentless disparagement of Alonso by the Catalan media. In print, and still more significantly off the record, those who were close to the Barcelona inner circle and who also covered La Roja placed Sergio Busquets' skills over Alonso's and murmured that the Madrid man's attitude and behaviour were causing a decline in Spain's unity and team spirit. Some went so far as to disparage Alonso's general ability.
My perception was that this was becoming a hobby horse -- personal not business -- but there you go.
Of course it was manna from heaven to the "Xabi cynics" when Vicente del Bosque's assistant, Toni Grande, admitted in 2012 that Xavi had tried to persuade them to play with only one pivote -- Busquets -- as Barcelona did, to the implied exclusion of Alonso.
Nor was Guardiola immune to all this. He strongly felt that the behaviour and tactics of Mourinho and his team went beyond the bounds.
Having for long enough decided not to "play ball," he famously risked a controlled explosion in the news conference prior to the 2011 Champions League semifinal first leg at the Bernabeu with a speech aimed at Mourinho.
There's also infamous footage, right in the midst of the "sturm und drang" of a Guardiola-Mourinho Clasico, which shows Alonso, on the pitch, having a go at Guardiola, to which the Catalan responds, pretty remarkably, by frantically trying to engage Madrid's pivote midfielder in a heated dialogue, shouting to him while the game proceeded. Alonso, noticeably, pays no heed.
Interestingly, as Guardiola harangues him to try to get his riposte in, he addresses the Basque as Xabi, not Alonso -- a revealing token of respect in the midst of a boiling cauldron moment. In retrospect, it looks incredibly like Guardiola actually wants to regain mutual respect from Alonso.
Far from an unlikely partnership
Xabi Alonso will be 33 on Nov. 25.
He had, by any objective standards, his least effective national tournament for Spain at the World Cup in the summer.
His transfer cost is a basic 8 million euros, which may rise to 10 million depending on bonuses, while his wages, should he stay the two years in Munich, will earn him in the region of 16 million.
Given those figures and the fact Alonso finished last season, domestically and internationally, run down thanks to a combination of age, the immense physical and mental demands of his playing position and his lack of a preseason due to injury rehab, and given the markedly poor relations that existed between Guardiola's club and Alonso under Mourinho, would you have categorised Alonso to Bayern as likely/improbable/the same chance as Keita inviting Pepe round for a night of computer games?
But there you have Pep. There you also have something that distanced him from the marginal, but significant, decline in standards at the club he left.
Some of his ex-pupils let it all get to them, let wounds fester and let slings and arrows diminish or distract from their absolute need to keep winning for club and country. Perceived slights, feuds, work ethic and sacrifices meant the nourishing things dropped a milimetre or two and the debilitating things rose accordingly.
Guardiola became irate at some of the things his team suffered against Madrid but I was always told that he, as a player, had been a win-at-most-costs individual.
Opponents talked to me of studs on toes, muttered insults at strategically-judged moments, elbows in ribs, shirt pulling.
Like it or not, that is the stuff of which winners are made.
Guardiola, thus, never had his perspective on Alonso irrevocably skewed.
What he saw was a man who played the same position as he himself had, whose reading of the game was impeccable, whose ability to do the right thing with the ball, whether simple or complicated, was almost unerring and whose positional sense and ability to dictate what others around him should do was still of a very high level.
Put simply: Guardiola values winning. Not at any cost, but in his mind the equation is: past bad blood < winning team.
From Alonso's point of view: "I came to Bayern to learn under Pep." It's the direct equivalent of Guardiola choosing to play for Roma in 2002 so that he could learn defensive ideas under Fabio Capello.
I'd say that Bayern's Catalan coach not only buying Alonso, but doing so at this age and for this outlay, will initially have knocked some of his Barcelona players and the vast majority of the Catalan media for six.
But there's a small coterie in each group -- those who've known him longest and shared his confidences -- who, after five minutes of reflection, will not have been in the least bit surprised.
Having used at least seven players in the pivote position, having suffered a deluge of injuries and being now utterly possessed by winning a Bundesliga-Champions League double (for which I think they are short odds), the Bayern coach saw much of himself in Alonso.
Guardiola was utterly bewildered and depressed that, on leaving Italian football aged only 32, no major club in England, Germany, France or even Scotland was sufficiently interested in him.
Eleven years on, Xabi is Pep. But Bayern want him.
During the World Cup he even used a Pep-style phrase that caused a storm. After the defeats to the Netherlands and Chile he said, word for word: "We haven't managed to maintain that hunger, that ambition -- mentally we weren't prepared and physically we were on the borderline."
It was interpreted by some media as a direct criticism of others, a statement that some had brought a bad attitude.
Subsequently, however, he made it crystal clear that it had been a global assessment of the competitive hunger that turned good training into hard-nosed match performances.
From what I saw in Brazil, he was bang on the money.
In theme and tone, these were Guardiola-esque phrases.
So to him and Pep.
Previous tiffs? Forgotten. Bad blood? Overtaken by football's white blood cells.
These are two lone wolves now hunting, if not in a pack then certainly more effectively in tandem.
It is one of the most fascinating transfer moves in modern football history.
Graham Hunter covers Spain for ESPN FC and Sky Sports. Author of "Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World." Twitter: @BumperGraham.
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what skill level would you not recommend an Stype?
I am looking for a one board solution (currently using an 80's skinny long board for learning). I can do the basics, tack, gybe, beach start (learning water starts) and can stay dry if I take it easy. Originaly, I was thinking of a 122 or 133 carve but perhaps an Stype would be a good board. I am an aggressively active person to begin with who wants speed and to only buy one board for the next 2 -4 years. In addition I know I would love doing bigger and larger jumps in my fresh water lake and river but one crisis at a time...
So would I be in over my head with an stype 126 ( I weigh 75-80kgs).
|23rd August 2006, 02:53 AM
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RE: what skill level would you not recommend an Stype?
How long have you been windsurfing? I had one of the first 115 stypes and it will forgive all your sins especially in chop the only down side (and it's not really a downside!) the boards feel alot!!!! smaller than they are! I weigh 70kg and I sailed a 91 jp FRC for a year and the s-type 115 which replaced it felt as small if not a little smaller. If you have have good ballence then this is not an issue. I loved the s-type, and it's great for steaming past people because it is so easy to sail and it lets you get away with bad technique! Be interested to hear what Kevin has to say. But I think from what you have said I'd go for the bigger one maybe but which ever you go for you'll love it! You won't be able to wipe the silly grin off your face!
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RE: what skill level would you not recommend an Stype?
I have only been windsurfing less than a year. I hopefully (but doubtfully) completed my catapulting lessons and such... I learn very quicky - afterall, it's not rocket science.... well, except for a double forward.
I just want one board for a wide variety of conditions that is more fun than my loaner old school longboard.
|24th August 2006, 06:14 PM
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Well then maybe the stype isn't the right one right now!
The s-type is a very fast board and after a year of windsurfing I would say it will probably be too much, too fast. If we are talking starboard then maybe a 120 -130 ltr carve would be a better choice! similar in many ways but not quite the performance but by no means slow! plus a bigger sail range!
I don't want to put you off but I have the habit of buying bigger better kit all the time and have made some mistakes by buying technical and fast board and if your not ready for it can make you not enjoy yur time on the water! This in my opinion is the most important consideration!
Now if you want fast but easy to sail the s-types are great but the speed may be a bit scarey for you at this stage! The carves are more useable day to day.
I don't want to put you off the s-type because it is such a nice peice of kit I just don't want you to loose interest in the sport like I did for a while due to a bad choice for your current ability!
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RE: what skill level would you not recommend an Stype?
I had an s-type 115 when they first came out.
Its a very nice board and like you I'm 71kg and sail on a lake.
As Jonnyc said, I does feel small. I had hoped to use it as my main board but have now changed it for a Carve 122 which has given me a lot more planing and non planing time on the water. And when its windy I put in a smaller fin and still find it very quick.
I then got a 95l board for very windy days. Hope that helps.
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RE: what skill level would you not recommend an Stype?
I love the Stype! It is a great board and now I use it for intermediate friends that are learning as well. I think it is a great next level board that is perfect for entering into slalom and having fun!
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