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LIGHTNING STRIKES IN the background of the Ranching Heritage Center Sunday. The Ranching Heritage Center is a Texas Tech museum and historical park dedicated to the preservation of the ranching culture of west Texas.
Lubbock Rescue Mission hosts barbecue fundraiser STAFF WRITER
The Lubbock community came together Saturday to support the newly founded Lubbock Rescue Mission, an organization whose priority is to help the homeless. Lubbock Rescue Mission is a nondenominational faith-based organization that believes in helping those who are in need. The organization hosted a barbecue fundraising event open to the public from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Overton Park. The event included live music and ministry, a silent auction and an opportunity for the community to make donations. The money raised at the fundraiser will go towards helping the mission form a shelter and a kitchen to support a 90-day faith-based recovery program targeting men and women, as well as families with children. Pandy Bell, chairwoman of Lubbock Rescue Mission, said the organization’s mission statement is, “To provide a hope and a future through the gospel of Jesus Christ; to plant seeds of healing in the lives, of the broken in spirit; to provide food, shelter and other resources in order to restore stability to the homeless.” Bell said she herself was homeless once, and she understands what those who are homeless are going through. “I know what it’s like to feel
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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane watches were in effect Monday for a stretch of Gulf coast in southern Texas and northern Mexico as Tropical Storm Alex gained strength and appeared on track to become a Category 3 hurricane before it makes landfall later this week. Forecasters said the storm’s path could push oil from the massive Gulf oil spill farther inland. Alex was swirling through the Gulf of Mexico with winds of 60 mph (95 kph) on a path that would take it very near the Mexico-U.S. border sometime Thursday, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The storm is expected to become a hurricane Tuesday, and could build winds as high as 120 mph (193 kilometers) by Wednesday. Tropical storm-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the storm’s center Monday, and Alex was moving slowly to the northwest.
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storm and weakened into a depression on Sunday as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula. Mexico’s northern Gulf coast braced for heavy rains, and forecasters said precipitation from Alex will keep falling on southern Mexico and Guatemala until Tuesday, raising the possibility of life-threatening floods and mudslides. “It is a fact we are going to get very heavy rains,” said Gov. Fidel Herrera of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. On Sunday, heavy rains prompted a landslide in northwestern Guatemala that dislodged a large rock outcropping, killing two men who had taken shelter from the storm underneath, according to the national disaster-response agency. In El Salvador, Civil Protection chief Jorge Melendez said two people were swept away by rivers that jumped their banks. About 500 people were evacuated from their homes. There were no immediate reports of damage to Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast.
the opening of a new city park. Officials say commemorative plaques and the life-size bronze statue, installed 30 years ago in Holly’s hometown, will be relocated to avoid damage during the fountain work. The statue is
expected to be cleaned during the time away from public display. City spokesman Mark Yearwood says the items could be moved to the Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Park in October or November.
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Heavy rains in the southern Gulf coast state of Tabasco forced the evacuation of about 300 families from communities near the Usumacinta river. The hurricane watches extended about 225 miles (360 kilometers) south of the U.S. border over an area of sparsely populated Mexican coast, and about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north along the Texas coast from the Rio Grande to just south of Baffin Bay. The tropical storm’s center wasn’t expected to approach the area of the oil spill off Louisiana’s coast, said Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. But Alex’s outer wind field could push oil from the spill farther inland and hinder operations in the area, Stewart said early Monday. Alex caused flooding and mudslides that left at least four people dead in Central America over the weekend, though Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula appeared largely unscathed. It made landfall in Belize on Saturday night as a tropical
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hopeless,” Bell said. “I know what feeling of welcome for which he it’s like to just feel worthless and said he had been longing. feel that there is no way out and “It feels nice to just feel welthat you’re just sinking further come somewhere and have people and further down.” come up to me and just talk to Bell said her inspiration for me,” Curtis said with tears in his creating the mission in Lubbock eyes. “I can’t wait to see what was to help this mission those who feel will be able to the way she do for people felt and offer who are in the them hope. same situation She said as me.” she based the C u r t i s mission in said there are Lubbock on many people a rescue miswho are strugsion program gling in the in Colorado Lubbock comSprings, Colo. m u n i t y. H e — where Bell said there are said she comhomeless peomitted her life ple who are in to Go d and need of help was rescued and not very from months many people of homelesswho are willness after ing to lend a struggling hand. He said with subhe is really stance abuse. hopeful that Bell said this mission her future will be able to CHRISTOPHER CURTIS give comfort goal for the mission is to to those who include vocareally need it. “The greatest gift anyone tional and educational programs can give someone,” Curtis said, and housing assistance. Christopher Curtis, a 43-year- “is the gift of just acknowledgold Lubbock man who has been ing that you’re there, you are homeless for two months, at- a person, and you just need a tended the barbecue and said he little help.” enjoyed a nice hot dinner and a ➤➤tristin.walker@ttu.edu
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BP recovery costs reach $2.65 billion amid tropical storm, shares plummet By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN AND VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP’s mounting costs for capping and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $2.65 billion, it said Monday, but the oil giant denied reports out of Russia that CEO Tony Hayward is resigning. The company’s expenses climbed $100 million per day over the weekend, according to an SEC filing Monday, as engineers eyed a tropical storm headed for the Texas-Mexico border. It was expected to miss the oil spill area but could still generate disruptive waves and winds. It was a rocky start to the week after BP PLC stock fell 6 percent Friday in New York to a 14-year low. BP has lost more than $100 billion in market value since the deep-water drilling platform it was
operating blew up April 20, killing 11 workers and starting the massive leak that has fouled the coastline in four states. British-based BP rushed to deny the report by Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency, which said a senior Russian Cabinet official had said Hayward was expected to resign as chief executive. It quoted Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, before a Moscow meeting with Hayward on Monday, as saying that Hayward would introduce his successor. “Hayward is leaving his post, he will introduce his successor,” Sechin said, according to RIA Novosti. BP spokeswoman Carolyn Copland in London said the report “is definitely not correct.” Sheila Williams, also in London, said, “Tony Hayward remains chief executive.”
“They are mistaken,” U.S.-based BP spokesman Mark Proegler said of the Russian report. After the meeting, a spokesman for Sechin said, “The issue of Hayward’s resignation wasn’t discussed.” Spokesman Rustam Kozharov said topics included the Russian joint venture TNK-BP, which accounts for about a quarter of BP’s reserves and production. BP shares gave up some ground in London after the Russian report. But they were still up a fraction at $4.61. BP’s U.S. shares gained about 2.5 percent. Moscow-based oil analyst Konstantin Cherepanov from the Swiss investment bank UBS said he gave little credence to reports of Hayward’s resignation. “I’m sure there has been a misunderstanding. Hayward’s resignation at this time and in this place lacks logic,” he said.
“It would make sense that Hayward would finish his job tackling with the oil spill and step down afterwards so that the new CEO wouldn’t have his burden on his shoulders.” In a filing Monday to U.S.
securities regulators, BP said the cost of its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had reached about $2.65 billion, up from $2.35 billion as of Friday. The costs include spill response, containment, relief well drilling, grants to Gulf states, claims
paid, and federal costs, but not a $20 billion fund for Gulf damages the company created this month. BP said it had received more than 80,000 claims and made almost 41,000 payments, totaling more than $128 million.
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2:48 p.m., accident without injuries at the intersection of Fifth Street and Texas Tech Parkway. 3:06 p.m., accident without injuries at the intersection of Glenna Goodacre Boulevard and University Avenue. June 25 12:24 a.m., investigation of an unknown vehicle striking a street sign and fleeing the scene in the 1100 block of Texas Tech Parkway. 2:28 a.m., criminal mischief in Gates Residence Hall. 7:52 a.m., theft of a parking permit from a vehicle in the R1 parking lot. 7:32 p.m., investigation of harassment at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. ➤➤ralston.rollo@ttu.edu
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday. Eight of 10 were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep cover assignments in the United States on behalf of Russia. Two others were arrested for allegedly participating in the same Russian intelligence program within the United States. Their job, according to the court papers in the case, was “to search and develop ties in policymaking circles” in the United States. Each of the 10 was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, which
carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison on conviction. The cases were filed in U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York. Federal law prohibits individuals from acting as agents of foreign governments within the United States without notifying the U.S. attorney general. Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum 20 years in prison on conviction. FBI agents arrested the defendants known as Richard Murphy and
Cynthia Murphy at their residence in Montclair, N.J., and they were appearing Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Three other defendants also were being taken to federal court in Manhattan — Vicky Pelaez and a defendant known as “Juan Lazaro,” who were arrested at their residence in Yonkers, N.Y., and Anna Chapman, who was arrested in Manhattan on Sunday. Two other defendants known as Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills were arrested at their residence in Arlington, Va., and were appearing in federal court in Alexandria, Va.,
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POLICE BLOTTER Police investigate obscene electronic communication June 15 12:45 p.m., accident without injuries in the C2 parking lot. June 16 9:45 a.m., theft of a bicycle outside the Texas Tech University Library. 6:56 p.m., investigation of graffiti on a bench south of Stangel Residence Hall. June 17 1 p.m., accident without injuries in the 1000 block of Texas Tech Parkway. 2:37 p.m., theft of a toolbox from a truck parked at the Livestock Arena. 2:38 p.m., theft of a cellular telephone at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. 3:02 p.m., accident without injuries at the loading dock outside Student Housing Services. 3:06 p.m., theft of a bicycle from the racks north of the United Spirit Arena. June 19 11:51 a.m., accident without inju-
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thing, the calls that have recently been made to the disappointment of England, Mexico, and the United States have equated not to a close call, but simply bad and inaccurate officiating. Aside from this â&#x20AC;&#x153;universalityâ&#x20AC;? excuse, FIFA also points its finger at costs as a reason not to implement goal refs or equivalent technology. In a recent statement, FIFA said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;So you know, by not putting goal referees behind each net, we save upwards of $500 per game. We stand by our decision.â&#x20AC;? Okay, $500 a game, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put this into context. For this 2010 World Cup FIFA has projected roughly $3.2 billion in revenues. Out of that, there are roughly $1.2 billion in costs related to operating the event. This leaves an estimated $2 billion to be retained by the Federation; and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worried about an extra $500? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s virtually no chance that FIFA would make any changes in their goal-line policies during this World Cup, and the federation has consistently voiced their dislike of video replays in order to determine goal validity. But I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very plausible, especially with the numerous errors and disappointing officiating that has been witnessed this year that FIFA will seriously consider using goal judges in the 2014 World Cup. Human goal judges help to keep this â&#x20AC;&#x153;universalityâ&#x20AC;? quality Mr. Blatter is attempting to preserve, and from their statement on costs of the judges, it is a fairly economical alternative to goal-line technologies. In the end, to preserve its credibility, preserve its good conscience and to be truthful, FIFA will ultimately have to come to its senses and address this situation. â&#x17E;¤â&#x17E;¤chris.leal@ttu.edu
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UT, A&M merchandise donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong on campus By THOMAS LOTT
In the few trips to Wal-Mart that I take during the year, there is something that always seems to bug me. There is more merchandise for the University of Texas than for Texas Tech here in Lubbock. There might even be more for Texas A&M, too. Or at least it seems that way. This would not be that big of a deal if no one ever bought those shirts and jerseys, but it always seems like these jerseys make their way onto campus. This is not such of a big deal right now considering it is the summer. If someone is here for summer school, there is a possibility that they might not go to Tech and then it is understandable. But for those fans that make their way to campus decked out in burnt orange during the school year, I have this to say to you: You go to Texas Tech University, show pride in your school. I have seen so many of these tshirt fans it is disgusting. The shirts always seem to get worn on campus, and quite often no one says anything about it. Well I am saying this now: get those shirts off of our campus. When people wear these shirts,
it reinforces a stereotype about Tech that true fans do not want any part of. I have heard so many times from my friends from UT and A&M that the reason we hate those schools so much, and they are right about us hating them, is that we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get into either of them and are bitter about it. Well I for one did not even apply to UT or A&M, and I hate that stupid stereotype. There are many other people I know at Tech that would say the same thing and these people that sport the UT and A&M colors need to put those shirts away. Not to mention the fact that wearing UT shirts makes that person a fair-weather-fan as well. This does not apply to those of you wearing A&M shirts, A&M would have to win before someone could be a fairweather-fan for them. These types of fans are the lowest of the low. I see it every year and not just for UT. When Alabama started off their season so well a couple of years ago, hats started popping up everywhere with the Alabama â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? on the front. Then when Tampa Bay started playing well in baseball, their merchandise started to show up. For those of us that are true sports
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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s near the end of June and my friend mentioned that July 4 is just around the corner. Oh, I should remember the day, an important day for the United States and for Americans. However, does it have anything to do with me â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Chinese visiting scholar at Texas Tech? The first time July 4 made any impression on me was when I saw the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born on the Fourth of Julyâ&#x20AC;? 20 years ago. For the first time I felt the freedom of the country due to the fact that an anti-war film of its nature could be shown in the United States. Before I came to the United States, I thought I knew a lot about it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most advanced country with a sound democratic system. People are rich. Cars here are like bicycles in China and almost everybody has one. As for freedom, you can jeer at the president in the media even to the degree of insult. Government officials are real servants for the people and they have no chance to be corrupted like Chinese
officials since the whole process of administrative operation is transparent and under close supervision. The United States is a kaleidoscope; there is nothing new and strange under the sky of the United States and the only limit is your imagination. Homosexual activists hold a demonstration every year to advocate their right â&#x20AC;&#x201D; same-sex marriage. Sex workers go on strike for their supposed righteous interest. The United States is one of the countries with a high crime rate. All these things pieced together a strange picture in my mind which puzzled me: whatis the United States really like? Then I came to the United States, the country I had dreamed of visiting. When my friend asked me which city I would go to, I answered him in Chinese word by word: la-bo-ka, just like the monologue way reading â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lolitaâ&#x20AC;? in Nabokovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LOLITA. Yes, Lubbock! This is the place where I began the journey to know the United States. With more American friends I made and more visits to different cities, I began to know why America is a great country and why Ameri-
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fans, nothing upsets us more than the person that comes up to us and starts talking about how good the team they are currently rooting for is. This is even worse when your team is losing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like Astros fans like me that cannot even make it through three innings without fighting the urge to punch a hole through my television. This is not just a problem on Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus, though. The entire city seems to be bathing in burnt orange the second that UT plays any type of game whatsoever. What happened to this being a Texas Tech college town? They say there is a little bit of truth to every joke, and in this situation, I cannot help but think of this one: I wear a Texas Tech shirt because I went there; they wear UT shirts because they went to Wal-Mart. We need to show some pride for the school we are attending, not one that happens to be winning ball games. And in case people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice, we have some pretty good teams here ourselves, not to mention a good education to go along with it. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wear our colors, not the ones that have a convenient band-wagon to jump on.
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cans are great people. First, religion helps the United States to become a great country (also a surprising conclusion). Specifically, religion contributes a lot to the construction of the social ethics of the United States. The phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;In God we trust,â&#x20AC;? printed on U.S. currency, suggests the cornerstone of American belief. Numerous churches around the country have been playing an indispensable role in shaping American national character â&#x20AC;&#x201D; honesty, a sense of justice, kindness and devotion. I make such a judgment by my observation and experience. In Lubbock, many people are Christians. They believe in God and study the Bible. What is the Bible? Before I came here, I had regarded it as nothing more than a mixture of myth and history. But they tell me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word in human language. Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m unable to say much about this within my limited ability. But one thing I know is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a book of great love. God is love. Jesus is love. And Jesus is a perfect example for human beings to follow. What the Bible teaches us is to love others, to devote ourselves. Am I in the United States? Are they Americans? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m under the clear impression from different media that the United States is a crazy streetcar of desires and the Almighty dollar governs everything. However, the other day, I saw a woman park her car in front of a store named â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Council of the Blind Thrift Storeâ&#x20AC;?. She took a package of clothes from her car and donated them. Then I find there are a lot of organizations here that work not for money. Second, America is a great country because the founders of this country cherished a noble ideal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all men are created equal. This thrilling sentence has been resonating in the sky of the United States since its foundation. Whenever I realize that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and 32 years later, a black American was elected the President of the United States, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m amazed and awed by the incredible progress! Equality and social justice are what Americans value and pursue. I strongly feel this when I get along with Americans from different walks of life. Another important factor which makes America a great country is that the founders of this country created a political system with delicate mechanisms of checks and balances. Owing to the best, though not perfect, game rules, democracy survives and thrives, directing the great ship of the United States on the right course. So, on the occasion of July 4, I want to say: I love America! I love American people! God bless America! n Yu is a visiting scholar in the department of educational psychology from Zhejiang, China. â&#x17E;¤â&#x17E;¤seal55@163.com.