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Hannah Grice, a graduate student from Lubbock, and Joe Kimzey, a junior agriculture business student from Houston, take in the work of photographer Scott Cochran in the CASP-Live/ Work Studios during the First Friday Art Trail on Friday. The event also featured works by Tech alumna Lindsey Phillips.

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Lindsey Phillips, a recent Texas Tech School of Art graduate, unveiled her new photography exhibit at First Friday Art Trail this month.

Her collection, “I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream,” debuted at the Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery in the Charles Adams Studio Project, funded through the Ryla T. and John F. Scott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts.

Phillips said the exhibit examines the effects of shame and secrecy through experimental photography techniques.

“Most of my work I do in the darkroom,” Phillips said. “I layer digital film negatives to create these pieces, it’s almost a madsciencey process, but it turns out great. I use black and white as well as digital color photography. It’s very much a process-driven work.”

The exhibit has a range of large and small artworks, from a digital transfer print of a dark house with a half-visible ghost in the frame, to a larger mount of a handprint superimposed over a black and white shot of electrical lines. Each piece uses dark shadows and imagery, but the centerpiece of the exhibit was a small book propped up on a table in the middle of the

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room. Phillips said the book was the basis for the exhibit.

“When I first applied to exhibit at (Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts), I just had the book, and you need more than one piece if you are going to show,” Phillips said. “So the idea for the book led me into the rest of my exhibit, where I use fictional characters to explore my ideas.”

Phillips is from Clifton and she came to Lubbock to pursue her artistic abilities work with DigiPrint, a printmaking process that combines photography and digital processes into a singular subject.

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A piece of Lindsey Phillips, a Texas Tech alumna, hangs in the Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery in the Charles Adams Studio Project during First Friday Art Trail. Her collection, “I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream,” examines the effects of shame and secrecy through experimental photography techniques.

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She said one of her professors at Tech influenced her work significantly.

“I took the intro to photography class with Robin Germany, and she was seriously influential in my decision to create and exhibit here,” she said. “I still consider myself a book artist, and this project is really a marriage between fine arts and storytelling. It’s mostly suited for narrative

types of stories.”

Phillips was rejected the first time she applied to have her work featured at LHUCA, but Germany encouraged her to continue working and apply again.

“I had to apply a year ahead, and include ten images with an abstract about my work,” she said.

Phillips said as an artist, she cares about the attention her work receives and loves the thriving Lubbock art community.

“Lubbock is a college town with so much diversity, yet it has this West Texas persona.

It’s like the two sides are fighting for dominance a little bit, which has led to some really great art and a great community,” she said. @DailyToreador

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Pieces of Lindsey Phillips’ exhibit, ““I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream,” are featured in the Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery during the First Friday Art Trail on Friday. The pieces were created using experimental photography techniques to examine shame and secrecy. The centerpiece of the exhibit was a small book propped up on a table in the middle of the room, Phillips said.

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Prime minister declares ‘total victory’ in Mosul MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Prime Minister Haider alAbadi declared victory Monday evening over the Islamic State in Mosul after nearly nine months of grueling combat to drive the militants out of Iraq’s second-largest city.

“We announce the total victory for Iraq and all Iraqis,” al-Abadi said, speaking from a small base in western Mosul on the edge of the Old City, where the last pockets of resistance had been holding out.

“This great feast day crowned the victories of the fighters and the Iraqis for the past three years,” he said.

Hours earlier, airstrikes pounded the last IS-held territory on the western edge of the Tigris River. In recent days, Iraqi troops, closely backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, con-fined the remaining few hundred extremists in an area measuring less than a square kilometer (less than a mile).

Shortly after al-Abadi’s speech, the coalition congratulated him on the victory against “a brutal and evil enemy,” according to a statement.

“While there are still areas of the Old City of Mosul that must be back-cleared of explosive de-vices and possible ISIS fighters in hiding, the ISF have Mosul now firmly under their control,” the statement added.

Al-Abadi was in Mosul on Sunday, congratulating Iraqi soldiers on recent gains but stopping short of declaring an outright victory.

The battle for Mosul was Iraq’s longest and most punishing conventional fight against IS in the more than three-year war against the extremists.

Launched in October, the massive operation comprised more than 70,000 Iraqi troops drawn from the country’s army, special forces, police, tribal fighters and mostly Shiite paramilitary forces.

Over the course of the campaign, Iraq’s special forces units who largely led the assault have faced casualty rates of 40 percent, according to a report in May from the office of the U.S. sec-retary of defense.

Additionally, thousands of civilians were estimated to have been killed, according to Nineveh’s provincial council.

That did not include those still believed buried under collapsed buildings.

The fight also displaced more than 897,000 people, and the United Nations said there was no end in sight to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq despite the conclusion of the fight.

The U.N. said thousands of Mosul residents will likely remain displaced from the city after the fight is concluded because of “extensive damage caused during the conflict.”

The battle also has decimated Mosul’s infrastructure in its western half, where fighting was fiercest. Iraq’s civil defense rescue teams — a branch of the Interior Ministry — said about 65 percent of the buildings in the Old City, many dating back centuries, were severely damaged or destroyed. In western neighborhoods like Zanjili, destruction was estimated to be 70 percent of all houses, buildings and infrastructure.

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US calls Mosul victory a ‘critical milestone’ BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the victory of Iraqi forces over the Islamic State group in Mosul is a “critical milestone” in the world’s fight against the extremist group.

Tillerson is congratulating Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for the victory and also praising Kurdish forces that have helped in the fight.

He’s also sending condolences to those lost in the operation.

Tillerson says much more must be done to defeat IS. The secretary says the U.S. and its partners will work with Iraq and the U.N. to stabilize the liberated areas and help displaced civilians return home.

Tillerson says IS “terrorized and brutally murdered thousands of civilians” dur-

ing its occupation of Mosul.

President Donald Trump says the recapture of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants means that the group’s days in Iraq and Syria “are numbered.”

Trump says in a written statement Monday that the U.S. will continue to seek the “total destruction” of the Islamic State group.

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Fires looming over northern California

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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Five months ago, it was fears over flooding. Now it’s flames.

When Chuck Wilsey was ordered to flee over the weekend as a wildfire roared near his ranch home in Oroville, he was ready. He started keeping his truck and camper loaded with supplies back in February, when some of the heaviest winter rains on record in Northern California nearly led to catastrophic flooding below the nation’s tallest dam.

“Fire and flood so close together,” he marveled on Monday at a Red Cross shelter.

“We just try to stay prepared,” Wilsey, 53, and his family were among about 4,000 people evacuated as flames raced through grassy foothills in the Sierra Nevada, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Sacramento. Sheriff ’s deputies drove through neighborhoods announcing evacuation orders over loudspeakers.

Crews were making progress against that fire and dozens of others across California, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, and into Canada.

Authorities were hopeful some Oroville evacuees would be able to return Monday as winds diminished and firefighters working in rugged terrain extended containment lines.

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Food Truck Party attracts large crowd

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Top: Kevin Woelfel, a Texas Tech alumnus and owner of Tall Cotton Kettle Corn, slices corn in his food truck at the Food Truck Party on Saturday. The event was hosted by Hub City Food Trucks at the Sutherland’s HomeBase parking lot. Bottom: People line up at one of the food trucks participating in the Food Truck Party on Saturday at Sutherland’s HomeBase. The event, hosted by Hub City Food Trucks, had a variety of food trucks present for people to try.

Despite the 90-degree weather this weekend, people gathered at the parking lot of Sutherland’s HomeBase to get a taste of some of the city’s finest cuisine at Hub City Food Trucks’ Food Truck Party.

As electric generators hummed in a section of the parking lot, people sat in chairs and tables provided by the Hub City Food Trucks while they ate a smorgasbord of local food.

Food trucks are not new to Lubbock. Many Texas Tech students will recognize the Hospitality Services food truck, StrEAT, parked on campus during the school year or the lone taco truck parked by St. Elizabeth’s on Broadway during the busy weekends. Recently, more and more food trucks began showing up at different events around town.

While the food truck movement was still in its infancy, truck owners Adale Hudson, Josh Nelson and Colby Delgado formed Hub City Food Trucks. The group was created in April 2017 to help food truck owners build their businesses and keep the food truck movement alive in Lubbock.

One of the major vendors

was Blue Oasis Italian Ice and Ice Cream, owned by Josh Nelson. After Nelson got out of the Army in 2007, he sold insurance for a while until he realized that it was not his calling. Nelson and his wife take pride in Blue Oasis’ homemade ice cream and Italian ice, which is made similarly to ice cream, but without dairy.

While Nelson still has store front, he enjoys having the flexibility of the food truck.

“We can go anywhere we want,” Nelson said. “We can do cool things like (this event).”

Another favorite vendor at the event was Tall Cotton Kettle Corn, owned and operated by Tech alumnus Kevin Woelfel. He and his son grill and slice corn on the cob for customers and his daughter makes hand squeezed lemonade and sells fresh kettle corn.

One of Woefel’s favorite parts of the event is interacting and making small talk with his customers.

“I had a girl (at the event) who just moved here from Austin, Texas to attend Tech in the fall,” Woelfel said. “She was so excited to see the food trucks because it reminded her of home.”

The Food Truck Party also included vendors who

do not have a food truck, like Kimberly Cantu, who owns Sugarista, LLC. Cantu graduated from Texas Tech in 2007 hoping to be an accountant. Like Nelson’s love of ice cream, Cantu said she wanted to do something she was passionate about and decided to bake cookies for a living.

“People order cookies for their friends and family during good and bad times,” Cantu said. “It’s like a card, but more personal.”

Cantu said she thought the Food Truck Party was a great idea because the event was perfect for families.

“This event wasn’t just about food,” Cantu said.

“There were more things for the kids, like the Disney characters and the face painting.”

Although the Food Truck Party was one of Hub City Food Truck’s smaller events, Woelfel said it made a significant impact on families in the Lubbock area. “(This event) brings together families,” he said.

“They’re able to hang out under the tents and try different foods, snacks and desserts, while their kids get to take pictures with Moana and the Minions. It’s creating memories for the kids and their families.” @DailyToreador

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THERESA, N.Y. (AP) — An Army soldier killed his wife and a state police trooper who had responded to reports of shots fired at the couple’s rural upstate property, authorities said Monday.

Staff Sgt. Justin Walters surrendered after the Sunday night slayings and was charged with two counts of murder, authorities said. A second woman living on the couple’s property was also shot, but her injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, police said.

Trooper Joel Davis, 36, was shot as he approached the home while responding to the report of gunfire at about 8 p.m. in the town of Theresa, near the Canadian border, said George P. Beach II, superintendent of the New York state police.

Walters’ wife, 27-yearold Nichole Walters, was found dead at the scene.

Police haven’t said how she was killed.

State police said Justin Walters, 32, was stationed

at nearby Fort Drum, home of the 10th Mountain Division. Fort Drum officials said Walters, of Zeeland, Michigan, was a combat veteran who has served at the post since joining the Army in 2007. He did one-year tours in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade in January 2009 and again in March 2011.

WWNY-TV in Watertown reported Justin Walters was clad only in shorts when he was brought to a town court around 4 a.m. Monday to be charged with first-degree murder in Davis’ slaying and second-degree murder in Nichole Walters’ death. He was ordered held in the Jefferson County Jail without bail. Walters didn’t have a lawyer at the arraignment.

When the judge asked Walters if he knew why he was in court, Walters responded that he didn’t know, the station reported.

State police said Davis, of Evans Mills, graduated from the Basic School of the New

York State Police Academy in May 2013. He originally was assigned to the Troop D Watertown barracks before receiving his current assignment at the state police barracks in Philadelphia, New York, just outside Fort Drum.

Davis previously worked for the county sheriff ’s office as a road patrol deputy.

His brother, Josh Davis, is a police officer in Watertown, WWNY reported.

Joel Davis is survived by his wife and three children.

In a statement Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said “the entire New York family grieves” for Davis.

“Trooper Davis served as a member of the New York State Police for four years and his death is yet another sad reminder of the risks law enforcement officers face each day in order to protect our communities and serve the residents of this great state,” the Democratic governor said while urging New Yorkers to keep Davis’ family, friends and colleagues in

their thoughts and prayers.

Cuomo later ordered that flags on all state government buildings be flown at half-staff in the slain trooper’s honor.

Jerry Mikels, a friend of Nichole Walters’ from their mutual Syracuse-area hometown, said she was devoted to her toddler-aged son and was always willing to help people.

Nichole met Justin Walters around the time she finished high school in Mattydale, Mikels said.

“She got along with everybody,” he said. “If she knew you needed help, she would help out. She was there for my wife when she had cancer.”

The couple lived just minutes from Fort Drum, a sprawling post that’s home to about 15,000 soldiers who are among the most-deployed in the U.S. military. More than half of the soldiers with families live off base in nearby towns in a region known for its harsh winters and farm-land.

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The July 3 Randy Rogers Band concert was also canceled, according to the website, and Broadway Festivals is offering refunds to event ticket holders. Refunds can be picked up at the Broadway Festivals office, located at 1720 Avenue M, between 6-7:30 p.m. on July 20 or July 21. People must have their red wristband or online proof of purchase to receive a refund. @DailyToreador

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Women’s soccer 2017 schedule unveiled The Texas Tech 2017 soccer schedule has been released by coach Tom Stone Thursday and features eight home matches at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

The schedule consists of matches against six NCAA Tournament teams and three conference champions, according to a Tech Athletics news release. One of the NCAA Tournament teams Tech will face is the NCAA College Cup runner up, West Virginia.

There will be 18 total matches for the 2017 season as the Red Raiders will go up against some strong opponents, according to the release. Of the 18 teams Tech will face, 11 posted double digit win totals last season, while six teams were nationally ranked by the National Soccer Coaches Association.

Stone, in his 11th season at Tech, said the Red Raiders will face some tough competition this season to prepare themselves when the schedule gets deeper into the year.

“As the Big 12 has evolved into one of the top conferences in the country, we have had to be very intentional about making sure that we prepare ourselves for Big 12 competition through our non-conference schedule,” Stone said in the release.

“Two Pac-12 teams, Pepperdine, conference champions and multiple NCAA tournament teams will test us and hopefully prepare us for what’s ahead.”

Last season, Tech posted an overall record of 9-9-2, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech finished the year with a home record of 7-3-1, a road record of 2-5-1 and a Big 12

Conference record of 2-6.

“As for the Big 12, we have the returning NCAA Runnerup in WVU and a wide open field which appears to be as good as we have been in years from top to bottom,” Stone said in the release. “2017 should be a very exciting soccer campaign.”

The Red Raiders will kick off the season with a preseason match against Denver on Aug. 12 in Denver, according to the release.

Tech will compete in the 2017 Lobo Invitational starting Aug. 18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which will be followed by the University of Arizona Tournament on Sep. 8 in Tucson, Arizona. Big 12 action will start on Sept. 22 as the Red Raiders face the Kansas State Wildcats at the John Walker Soccer Complex. @ABoutwell_DT

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Tech forward Gwennie Puente kicks the ball down the field during the game against Oklahoma on Oct. 28 at the John Walker Soccer Complex. The 2017 Tech soccer schedule was announced by coach Tom Stone and begins with a preseason match against the University of Denver on Aug. 12 in Denver.

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MIAMI (AP) — More than two hours after pitching in the All-Star Futures Game, Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brent Honeywell was still thinking about delivery and location.

Where should his newly won MVP trophy go?

“Honestly, I don’t know,” Honeywell said as he held the hardware at his locker.

“My parents are probably going to have to play rockpaper-scissors for it.”

Honeywell, the only pitcher to throw more than one inning, struck out four in two scoreless innings Sunday to help a well-balanced United States slide past the World team 7-6 at Marlins Park.

Honeywell was the first of 10 pitchers for the United States, and the group combined for 11 strikeouts.

The first one came on the only screwball Honeywell threw — to Alex Verdugo of the Dodgers.

“I had thrown him everything else,” said Honeywell, a right-hander who is with Triple-A Durham. “I thought, ‘If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right here.’ And it was a really good one.”

Verdugo agreed.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Post players are scoring at an historic pace in the WNBA. The top three scorers in the league all operate on the low block: Phoenix’s Brittney Griner, New York’s Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles in Minnesota. Never in the history of the league has three post players led the WNBA in scoring in an entire season.

Yes, it’s a good time to be a “Big” in the WNBA. While the NBA has shifted to a free-flowing faster tempo that has decreased the value of a traditional center, the WNBA has not followed suit.

The 6-foot-9 Griner is showing flashes of the dominance she displayed in college at Baylor. She is average a league-best 22.4 points per game for the Phoenix Mercury. She is also posting career highs in rebounds (8.4) and assists (2.1).

Griner, 27, is the most physically imposing player in the league. She’s beginning to figure that out, and that’s scary for the rest of the league.

Griner and Charles combined for 60 points when the Liberty hosted the Mercury on Sunday.

“I think she’s just putting more effort, more focus into her game,” Charles said of

Brent Honeywell helps US tops Post players thriving in WNBA World in All-Star Futures Game fore and knew he had the screwball,” Verdugo said. “It dropped down into the zone.

Sometimes you just have to tip your hat.”

By the fourth inning, the U.S. team had nine hits, one by every starter.

The World team had only one baserunner until the fifth, and by then the score was 7-0.

Josh Naylor of the Padres drove in the World team’s first run with a single in the fifth.

“Regardless of how you do, it’s a unique experience — a taste of the big leagues,” Naylor said.

The World team scored twice in the ninth before A.J. Puk of the Athletics got the final out for a save.

The United States won for the seventh time in the past eight years.

With the major league trade deadline approaching, plenty of scouts were on hand for the showcase of top minor league prospects, which included 16 firstround picks.

Derek Fisher scored the first run and hit a two-run double, and Kyle Tucker hit an RBI double. Both are with the Astros.

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U.S. team’s two-run second inning. Lewis Brinson of the Brewers doubled home a run.

Yadier Alvarez of the Dodgers pitched the first inning, allowed one run and took the loss.

Second baseman Brendan Rodgers and first baseman Ryan McMahon, both of the Rockies, made fine defensive plays for the U.S. team.

“You don’t really realize how big this game is until you look down,” Rodgers said. “It’s the first time I’ve played with USA across my chest. Being able to do that is a lot of fun.”

U.S. right-hander Michael Kopech struck out Yoan Moncada on a 100.7mph fastball to end the third inning. Both are in the White Sox organization, and the Cuban-born Moncada is ranked as the sport’s No. 1 prospect.

“I never thought I’d be able to get a fastball by him, so to do that is exciting,” Kopech said. “I’m going to go talk to him in a minute and give him some grief for it.”

Said Moncada through an interpreter: “It was a fun at-bat. When you’re able to face a teammate, you have to enjoy the moment.”

Griner, who 31 points and 13 rebounds against Charles and the Liberty on Sunday.

Charles finished with 29 points in a losing effort.

“As you grow and you see that your role means a lot to your team’s success, her being a young player she’s coming into that,” Charles said.

Fowles, 6-6, is also scoring at a career-best pace.

She is having an NBAcaliber year. Her 20.1 points per game are up from 13.9 last season.

Where the NBA zigs, it seems the WNBA zags. And for many teams, like New York, that’s proven to be a positive.

“I think a lot of people like to play an open game, being able to be versatile,” Charles said. “With our height, our strengths we definitely still try to use post players.”

A post player has led the WNBA in scoring three times, Lauren Jackson in 2004 and 2007 and Charles last season. In the NBA, the last time a true post player led the league was Shaquille O’Neal in 2000.

Charles, 6-4, has been a consistent scorer throughout her pro career, averaging more than 15 points per game every year since her rookie season in 2010. She said playing with imposing

centers Kiah Stokes (6-foot3) and Kia Vaughn (6-foot-4) has enabled her to expand her range.

The majority of New York’s offense runs through the versatile Charles, who has the ability to step back and hit a jump shot, run the pick-and-roll, post up and find teammates.

“If I have to change my game to make it better for them and maximize their strengths down low, that’s what I’m going to do,” she said.

New York Liberty coach Bill Laimbeer doesn’t believes the plethora of talented post players in the WNBA and the lack of dominant bigs in the NBA are signs that one league values post play more than the other.

“I think they’re just great players,” said Laimbeer, the former 6-11 center of the two-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys.” ‘’Every team has to have certain go-to players. We happen to have Tina Charles. She happens to be a big. Others like (Elena) Della Donne, Griner, they’re going to be go-to players. That’s just how it works.”

Atlanta Dream center Elizabeth Williams believes having an effective post presence makes the game easier.