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Ga. teen abducted from home found alive ELLENWOOD, Ga. (AP) — A 14-year-old Georgia girl abducted in a home invasion robbery was found alive on Wednesday after a wide search by several law enforcement agencies, and two suspects were in custody, police said.

Ayvani Hope Perez had been taken from her suburban Atlanta home early Tuesday after authorities said armed robbers broke in, demanded money and jewelry and were told there was none.

Authorities said Wednesday they hadn’t established a motive for the abduction.

Clayton County Police Chief Gregory Porter said the girl was found in a nearby community, Conyers, and has since been reunited with her family.

“She’s in good health, she’s being evaluated as we speak,” Porter said.

Wildrego Jackson, 29, faces a federal charge of conspiracy to kidnap. The police chief also said Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez, a 40-year-old Mexican national, has been arrested on immigration-related charges.

Agency seeks halt to Colorado River releases AUSTIN (AP) — The agency that regulates water levels of the Colorado River lakes in central Texas voted Wednesday to ask the state to waive temporarily requirements that it release lake water downstream to Matagorda Bay. By a 9-6 vote, the Lower Colorado River Authority board decided to seek the waiver from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for 120 days — with the possibility of a 60-day extension — because of drought in central and western Texas. The board had been hoping for a break in the drought to restore water levels in the Highland Lakes upstream from Austin.

Meanwhile, authority General Manager Becky Motal announced she will retire at the end of the year after serving 2½ years in the job and 27 years with the LCRA.

Lubbock 8th most violent city in state

By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer

The FBI released a report naming Lubbock as the eighth most violent city in the state.

The report revealed Lubbock had 1,962 violent crimes in 2012. The city of Lubbock has seen an increase of murders from eight in 2011 to 11 in 2012. In addition, there have been eight reported in 2013.

Sgt. Jason Lewis with Lubbock Police Department said he attributes the high ranking partially to the size of the city. Because of how low the population in Lubbock is, it is considered a medium-sized city and is compared to the state’s suburbs.

Lewis’ other explanation is Lubbock documents more crimes than bigger cities.

“Lubbock is still small enough and we have enough manpower that we can actually cater to more things than other cities can and we document a lot of things that other cities can’t, especially now that we’re doing online reporting and things like that,” he said. “It’s a great tool and it’s good for the (police department) and the citizens, but it can make your numbers look worse than maybe what they really are.”

Lewis said he contributes many of the crime reports to little complaints and smaller thefts, which raise the statistics. Because Lubbock has the manpower available to respond to many calls, a higher percentage of the crimes occurring are recorded.

“For example, a husband and wife having an argument in a parking lot,” he said. “In a lot of cases, if an officer couldn’t get there

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CUPCAKE WARS BROKE out Wednesday in the Red Raider Ballroom. The event was hosted by the Tech Activities Board for students to enjoy.

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In any city, he said, a college campus environment brings more property crime because college students tend not to be as cautious with locking their cars or concealing valuable items in the car, instead leaving them out in the open.

Hinkle said Tech attracts some criminal element to Lubbock, but mostly for theft, not violent crimes.

“I really don’t think that our crime is any more than any other city,” he said. “As far as our police department, Lubbock Police Department, and the Sheriff’s Department, we all advocate if something happens to report it because we can’t do anything unless it’s reported. It could be the fact that we report more here because we put that out.”

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for a while, it would just be gone. Of course they’re not going to make a report that they both were hitting each other. A lot of the times we can get there because we have the manpower that we can answer some of those calls. Then a report can be made, and that’s an assault. That’s another statistic.”

Captain Steve Hinkle with Texas Tech Police Department said he does not believe Lubbock deserves to rank so high in violence. He agrees with Lewis’ statement and believes Lubbock is not dangerous, but prone to report crimes more than larger cities.

Hinkle said Tech contributes to the violence statistics in the city. There are not many violent crimes and, in comparison to other college towns, Tech is not leading the state in violent crimes.

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TOP: AHDAB MAHDALY, an environmental and interior design graduate student from Saudi Arabia, Rehab Aburas, an environmental and interior design graduate student also from Saudi Arabia, and Sarah Alquimi, a mathematics graduate student from Lubbock, sketch out their ideas for the first challenge during Cupcake Wars on Wednesday in the Red Raider Ballroom. ABOVE: Savannah Thode, a junior political science major from Dilley, focuses on her birthday cake themed cupcake for the first round of Cupcake Wars on Wednesday in the Red Raider Ballroom.

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Teams such as Cupcake Engineers, Safaris and Team Shake N Bake competed for the title of top cupcake decorators at the first ever Texas Tech Cupcake Wars competition Wednesday night.

Tech Activities Board hosted the event, which showcased the decorating skills of 12 teams of students as they competed to create the best looking cupcakes using a limited amount of icing and tools.

Cupcake Ballas were the overall winners of the night, followed by teams Arabian Delight, Decadent and Cupcake Princesses.

The first place winners, Tanner Pierce, a sociology major from Gatesville, and Matthew Wallace, a business major from Gatesville, said they had no experience in cupcake decorating and did not expect to win at all.

“It feels pretty awesome that we carried through,” Pierce said. “We worked well as a team and were just determined to win.”

The format of the competition was influenced heavily by its onscreen inspiration, Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.” With three rounds, each team had to decorate a cupcake within 30 minutes after five minutes of brainstorming time.

McKenzie Hopson, a public relations major from Gatesville, and special programs coordinator for TAB, said planning for the event began in April. TAB members attended the National Association for Campus Activities conference and participated in a Cupcake Wars competition and decided to bring the event to Tech.

Advertising began approximately three weeks ago, she said.

“We advertised through TechAnnounce, posters, a giant cupcake cutout in the Rec, everything,” Hopson said.

“I had some preshow jitters before it all started. We’ve never done this before and didn’t want no one to show up.”

Spectators were given free mini cupcakes, made by Peace O’ Cake Bakery. The bakery, located at 34th Street and Indiana Avenue, also provided the cupcakes used in the actual competition.

The event fulfilled its maximum team count of 12, Hopson said. Team Wreck ‘Em Cake was composed of Micah Lakas, a psychology major from Houston, and exercise sport sciences major Ainsley Shaffer from Bowie. Shaffer said she prepared for the event by looking at cupcakes on Pinterest and would participate in Cupcake Wars again.

Every Monday night, Quaker Avenue between Fourth Street and 19th Street is flooded with traffic as the Panhellenic community lines up and drivers attempt to make it to their lodges by 6 p.m.

Because of the high quantity of students heading to the area at a designated time, many accidents have occurred.

On Tuesday, The Daily Toreador published a story in which students voiced their opinions on the matter. Since then, Sgt. Jason Lewis with Lubbock Police Department spoke about the matter.

Lewis explained officers monitor the area, but do not give the street special attention unless they receive calls about it.

He said the calls on Monday nights have mainly been about students running stop signs and causing issues while trying to reach their meetings in time.

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Tech community celebrates Water Monitoring Day

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

At Texas Tech and around the globe people started monitoring the water around them as World Watering Monitoring Day kicked off.

The challenge is a two-month long process where participants look deeper into their water.

“It’s a public awareness program, essentially, carried out worldwide,” said Venki Uddameri, a professor in civil engineering and interim director of the Water Resources Center.

The event started Wednesday, but is carried into December, he said.

According to the official website of the World Watering Monitoring Day movement, there are more than 18,000 participants in more than 35 countries.

During this process, Tech is doing a number of different water projects, Uddameri said.

Tech is looking at things such as water quality, flooding and seeing how fast it is moving water from the aquifers.

Uddameri compares the event to taking a trip to the doctor’s office.

Water monitoring, he said, is essentially the same as going to the doctor, getting monitored and getting blood pressure checked.

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Students attend engineering job fair

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

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Ethics and Safety in Research Leadership Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Where: Graduate school So, what is it?

Steve Presley, Dimitri Pappas and Anna Gibson will have a discussion about lab safety.

Lunch will be served.

Dr. Walter E. Williams: The Role of Government in a Free Society Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Walter E. Williams will have a book-signing event after a lecture about the role of government in a free society.

“A Year in the Life of Curiosity on Mars” by Dr. Darby Dyar Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

As the Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming the planet, what has it found so far? Darby Dyar will share her insight on the rover for free.

Celloist Jeffrey Lastrapes Performance Time: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Cellist Jeffrey Lastrapes will play his music for free.

Movie in the Park Time: 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Where: Urbanovsky Park So, what is it?

Grab blankets and chairs to watch a movie at Urbanovsky park.

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MYO Dog Tag Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building West Basement So, what is it?

Stop by and create militarystyle dog tags for free with a student ID. Movies@The Museum: Rear Window (1954) Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come watch the classic Hitchcock movie for free.

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Texas Tech students dressed in business casual attire spent Wednesday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center for the semiannual engineering job fair.

Hundreds of prospective employers in the engineering field met and talked to students throughout the day.

“It just gives the opportunity for engineering students to potentially earn internships, co-ops and full-time positions,” said Mackenzie Broughton, the unit coordinator for services in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering.

The employers had the opportunity to sign up for several months on Job Grid, a software allowing students to send their resumes and find out when companies will be on campus, she said.

The first 1,000 students were given a free lunch at the event and by 12:30 p.m. more than 1,900 students arrived, Broughton said. Buses transported students to and from the civic center.

There was more to the event than just free food, said Michael Pebworth, a freshman petroleum engineering major from Midlothian.

It was a good way to meet major companies such as Chevron and BP, he said.

A record number of companies were at the event, Broughton said.

The civic center was filled with companies practically out of the door.

“It’s just reflective of the amazing job the chancellor’s done, the president’s done and the staff of the engi-

According to the website, the main goal of the program is to educate and build awareness on the protection of water as a resource.

“West Texas in general is in a long drought,” Uddameri said.

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MICHAEL PAYNE, A senior engineering major from Lubbock, meets with a representative from the Apache Corporation getting information about the company Wednesday at the Engineering Job Fair at the Lubbock Civic Center.

neering college have done to bring it all together in one place,” said Simon Bainbridge, a junior petroleum engineering major from Middlesbrough, England. “As a student I felt incredibly blessed and incredibly fortunate to be a part of it.”

Bainbridge, who also lived in California and Houston, said he previously worked in construction but wanted something bigger. After two years at a Houston Community College, he came to Tech to achieve that.

“The resources are here to make connections,” he said.

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because of how Tech presents itself, Broughton said. There is a strict, high dress code at the fair and any student who misses an interview has to send an apology letter to that employer.

Many of the companies attending have Tech graduates who led them back.

“What we’re really looking for right now is really motivated mechanical engineers,” said Ashlee Noack, an employee for Cameron/One Subsea and a 2011 Tech graduate.

She said she was in the students’ shoes years ago as a freshman in a sea of men and also as a senior who was

stressed about finding a job, and that the event was very nerve-racking for everyone.

Broughton said she has seen employers starting to value Tech’s engineering students and Tech as a whole.

The majority of the day was geared for just engineering students, but at 2 p.m. the doors were opened to all students, she said.

“The companies with us recognize there is an enormous pool of talent here at Texas Tech,” Bainbridge said.

being replenished.”

The long-term concern is how to manage the water resources so it is available for agriculture and to help build Lubbock — all of which require water, he said.

At the end of the year all of the data is gathered and put into a report, according to the website.

Uddameri said anything relating to water was of interest to him and many other faculty at Tech, leading

them to get involved.

The event helps to understand the rate at which people use water and whether that will be sustainable, he said.

With the very few times Lubbock gets water in terms of rainfall, people have to manage it carefully, Uddameri said.

“It’s a grassroots movement that was started, where people are involved, it raises awareness to people

about water monitoring,” he said.

People across the world will participate in different activities too further understand how the data is collected, the importance of the data and how it can be used, Uddameri said.

This will help manage too much water as well as to little an amount of water, both of which can be problems, he said.

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“Most of the complaints we “There may be bad traffic, but it would be very temporary be- get are from residents and not so cause it’s just them going to their much from students,” Lewis said. meetings and leaving,” he said.

“We try to address that. We’ll Because of the limited time send traffic over there to monitor frame of the traffic, as it only that. We don’t want people runoccurs before and after meet- ning stop signs and getting hit in ings, Lewis said attention is not the front of their car because that directed toward it unless a call is could cause serious injury. Past received. that, we let them do their thing.

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VA: Navy gunman didn’t reveal homicidal thoughts WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who gunned down 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday visited two hospitals in the weeks before the rampage but denied that he was depressed or having thoughts of harming himself or others, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday.

Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist who died in a police shootout after the rampage, complained of insomnia during an Aug. 23 emergency room visit to the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I. He was given sleep medication and advised to follow up with a doctor. He made a similar visit five days later to the VA hospital in Washington, when he again complained of not being able to sleep because of his work schedule. His medication was refilled.

The VA’s statement, presented to lawmakers Wednesday, comes as investigators continue focusing on

the erratic behavior of a 34-yearold man who law enforcement officials say was grappling with paranoia and reported hearing voices and being followed.

Two weeks before his ER visit, for instance, he complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep. Navy officials said the Newport police reported the incident to officers at the base security office, but nothing more was done about it because he did not appear to be a threat to himself or anyone else at the time.

Despite the apparent concerns over his mental health and past run-ins with the law, Alexis maintained his security clearance as he arrived in Washington in late August for a job as an information technology employee at a defenserelated computer company.

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HSC hosts donor appreciation luncheon

By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Allied Health Sciences hosted its annual donor appreciation luncheon at the National Ranching Heritage Center on Wednesday.

The luncheon was hosted to recognize donors who have benefited student scholarships, research, educational programs and faculty development.

“This event is to thank the specific donors of the School of Allied Health Sciences,” Dr. Tedd Mitchell, HSC president, said.

Both donors and scholarship recipients attended the luncheon. Students had the chance to show their appreciation, and donors could meet the people their generosity was benefiting, he said.

This year, donors contributed to more than $160,000, which was used for student scholarships, according to a news release.

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Savanna Bryer, a freshman management major from Magnolia, said she felt surprised when she heard Lubbock was ranked high in violence.

“It’s a little frightening,” she said. “Lubbock feels like a safe city because it’s kind of small. I have never heard of anything weird happening here.”

Alex Gibson, a senior speech language and hearing science major from Amarillo, received a scholarship and said the only reason he was able to attend school this year was because of the generous donations given to the school.

“Thanks to the donors I was able to go to school this year without the worry of money on a day-to-day basis,” he said. “They allowed me to go to school. They paid for my tuition.”

Alex Moore, a senior speech language and hearing science major from Coahoma, also was a recipient for one of the scholarships funded by donations.

Moore said she is grateful for the Lubbock-area support that has been shown through donations.

“It’s nice that they are willing to donate to the school, it’s one of the biggest parts of the Lubbock community,” she said. “We’re really appreciative for that.”

Speakers at the luncheon included Mitchell, Chancellor Kent Hance,

Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences Robin Satterwhite, and two students who were impacted by the scholarship donations, Jennifer Hatmaker and Tracy Fergerson.

Fergerson is earning her master’s degree in speech-language pathology.

She is a mother of twin boys who have required the assistance of multiple therapists throughout their lives.

She said through these life experiences she formed a desire to help others.

“I can’t speak on behalf of every patient who has undergone therapy, but I can speak personally as the very grateful mother of two precious little boys when I tell you your money has been well spent in supporting students at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,” Fergerson said in her address to the audience.

HSC Allied Health Sciences serves more than 1,350 students who are enrolled in 18 degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degree levels.

Colby Moreno, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from San Antonio, said he was shocked when he heard how high Lubbock was on the list, but he did not let it discourage him.

“I’m not really uneasy because I’ve never seen it and it’s never bothered me, so I’m not really sure how I feel about it,” he said. “To me, it always seemed like it’s a safe city. I’ve never seen any violence or anything of that kind here.”

Tech is a safe campus, Lewis

said, but the nature of a college town will bring more crime with it.

“It affects it greatly,” he said.

“The population goes up quite a bit. The other side of that is they’re young people. Those are the people who would be out at more social gatherings and consuming alcohol. You’re going to see assault and you are going to see a lot of that just because it’s just the age group.”

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Assad denies his forces conducted chemical attack WASHINGTON (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said a United Nations report finding “clear and convincing evidence” sarin nerve gas was used in Syria painted an “unrealistic” account, and he denied his government orchestrated the attack.

In an interview with Fox News Channel conducted in the Syrian capital of Damascus and aired Wednesday, Assad said terrorists were to blame for the chemical attack, which the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children. He said evidence that terrorist groups have used sarin gas has been turned over to Russia and that Russia, through one of its satellites, has evidence that the rockets in the Aug. 21 attack were launched from another area.

While the U.S. report did not lay blame, many experts interpreting the report said all indications were that the attack was conducted

by Assad forces. U.S., Britain and France jumped on evidence in the report — especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent, and trajectory of the missiles — to declare that Assad’s government was responsible.

“The whole story doesn’t even hold together,” Assad said. “It’s not realistic. ... We didn’t use any chemical weapons in Ghouta,” a Damascus suburb.

The interview was conducted Tuesday by former Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a Fox News contributor, and Fox News Channel

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Tuesday 5:49 — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries at the intersection of 10th Street and Texas Tech Parkway. A nonstudent driver was charged with driving while license invalid and released. A nonstudent involved with the accident was arrested for an outstanding Terry County warrant.

6:40 — A Tech officer investigated a three-vehicle traffic accident without injuries in the Flint Avenue Parking Garage.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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Assad said his government would abide by an agreement reached with U.S. and Russian officials to give up his chemical weapons. He says he has received estimates that destroying the stockpiles would cost $1 billion and would take roughly a year.

“We didn’t say that we are joining partially. ... We joined fully. We sent the letter. We sent the document. And we are committed to the full requirement of this agreement.”

He said Syria was ready to talk to experts about the technical aspects of what he said would be a complicated task. He said Syria was ready to provide a list of weapons and provide experts access to the sites.

“We can do it tomorrow,” he said.

“It’s not about will,” Assad added. “It’s about technique.”

While he said the Aug. 21 attack was “despicable” and “a crime,” he argued that no one had verified the credibility of videos or pictures of the victims.

“You cannot build a report on

videos,” he said. He later added: “There’s a lot of forgery on the Internet.”

He contended that opposition forces, which have been joined by extremist jihadists, could have gained access to sarin.

“Sarin gas is called kitchen gas,” he said. “You know why? Because anybody can make sarin in his house. Any rebel can make sarin.

Second, we know that all the rebels are supported by governments. So any government that would have such chemical can hand it over.”

Assad said the balance of opposition forces has shifted during the more than two-year conflict, and he alleged that 80 to 90 percent were members of al-Qaida or its affiliates.

“At the very beginning, the jihadists were the minority. At the end of 2012 and during this year, they became the majority with the flow of tens of thousands from additional countries,” he said adding that they were being financed by individuals who shared their extremist ideologies.

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CHANCELLOR KENT HANCE speaks during the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon hosted by the School of Allied Health Sciences on Wednesday at the National Ranching Heritage Center. A total of $160,000 was donated for scholarships to the students of the College of Health Sciences.

Mexico floods kill 80, thousands stranded ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The toll from devastating twin storms climbed to 80 on Wednesday as isolated areas reported deaths and damage to the outside world, and Mexican officials said that a massive landslide in the mountains north of the resort of Acapulco could drive the number of confirmed dead even higher.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal authorities had reached the cutoff village of La Pintada by helicopter and had airlifted out 35 residents, four of whom were seriously injured in the slide. Officials have not yet seen any bodies, he said, despite reports from people in the area that at least 18 people had been killed.

“It doesn’t look good, based on the photos we have in our possession,” Osorio Chong said, while noting that “up to this point, we do not have any (confirmed) as dead in the landslide.” Osorio Chong told local

media that “this is a very powerful landslide, very big ... You can see that it hit a lot of houses.”

Mayor Edilberto Tabares of the township of Atoyac told Milenio television that 18 bodies had been recovered and possibly many more remained buried in the remote mountain village. Atoyac, a largely rural township about 42 miles (70 kilometers) west of Acapulco, is accessible only by a highway broken multiple times by landslides and flooding.

Ricardo de la Cruz, a spokesman for the federal Department of Civil Protection, said the death toll had risen to 80 from 60 earlier in the day, although he did not provide details of the reports that drove it up.

In Acapulco, three days of Biblical rain and leaden skies evaporated into broiling late-summer sunshine that roasted thousands of furious tourists trying vainly to escape the city, and hundreds of thousands of residents returning to homes devastated

by reeking tides of brown floodwater.

The depth of the destruction wreaked by Tropical Storm Manuel hit residents and visitors with full force as Mexico’s transportation secretary said it would be Friday at the earliest before authorities cleared the parallel highways that connect this bayside resort to Mexico City and the rest of the world. Hundreds of residents of Acapulco’s poor outlying areas slogged through waist-high water to pound on the closed shutters of a looted Costco, desperate for food, drinking water and other basics.

Many paused and fished in the murky waters for anything of value piling waterlogged clothing and empty aluminum cans into plastic bags.

“If we can’t work, we have to come and get something to eat,” said 60-year-old fisherman Anastasio Barrera, as he stood with his wife outside the store. “The city government isn’t doing anything for us, and neither is the state government.”

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Raising taxes on rich won’t fix debt Jonathan Silva When thinking about who they may be, a few images of what they look like come to mind.

One may think of big-shot lawyers, business tycoons or doctors who drive fancy sports cars and have big luxury mansions or highrise apartments in the downtown of a big city. In reality, by Obama’s definition, the so-called “rich” include anyone who makes more than $250,000 per year. That’s not the millionaire type you had in mind, was it?

A lot of these folks are probably small business owners or couples filing joint taxes together, living not in fancy highrise apartments or mansions, but single-family homes in suburban

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A m e r i c a . H o w e v e r, O b a m a insists on raising taxes on them as a way to raise government revenue.

So many on the left jump on board with this idea because they view the rich as greedy individuals who are unwilling to share the wealth and should pick up the slack of others.

However, this is not the case at all. Instead, this idea has grown to become a punishment on the hard work and success of others.

Sure there are those individuals who truly are rich and can afford to pay higher taxes, but these new taxes are not aimed directly at them and instead hurt those who should not be seeing tax increases.

Instead of raising taxes for more revenue, the Obama administration should focus on cutting spending and working harder to put the existing funds to better use. It’s the basics of financial responsibility: Only spend what you have. If we’re spending more money than we

It’s the basics of financial responsibility: Only spend what you have.

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et’s face it: raising taxes is never a good idea no matter who proposes it. Nobody likes being taxed and most taxes seem unfair to us. One can say the U.S. was founded on the opposition to taxes because of the long-term effect British taxation had on the 13 colonies and the subsequent segue into the American Revolution.

Now with the still-present squeeze from an economy that has not fully recovered, the thought of more taxes just adds to the burden. So why do President Barack Obama and his administration continue to insist raising taxes is the answer? It’s obvious the nation is up to its neck in debt, but raising taxes is not the solution.

One of the major promises Obama made in his initial election campaign, and again in his re-election campaign was to raise taxes on the rich. This is supposedly in effort to curb the deficit and begin to lower the national debt. The idea can be simply put as: We need more money and the source of this new revenue should come from the rich who can afford to pay higher taxes.

But who exactly is the rich?

raise, we need to really look into where all that money is going.

It’s no doubt the government wastes a lot of the money it raises in taxes, so more money from higher taxes just means more money being wasted. The goal is to get the government to be more efficient with its spending, not encourage the continuance of frivolous spending. If we’re still spending more than we raise, it won’t matter how much higher taxes get because we’ll only be adding more debt.

Obamacare, which is the source of 20 new — or higher — taxes on American families and small businesses, is sure to cause more of a burden on those who should be seeing tax cuts instead of increases. These taxes include the Medical Device Tax, the Surtax on Investment Income, the Medicare Tax and the Flexible Spending Account Tax. In this economy — which is still recovering — there should be more talk about how to cut the spending and get the budget balanced instead of raising taxes that will do nothing to stop the problem.

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Society’s general view of Christianity distorted

By SAM GREER

Iowa State DaIly (Iowa State U.)

“What about you, Sam? Any juju you buy into?”

“Me? Yeah, I’m old school Christian.

You know, hymnals and aca-” Chaos breaks loose in the dining hall; my friends explode backward out of their chairs, hissing and spitting like frenzied felines as they overturn tables and take cover. I blink, only mildly perturbed; this is not the most volatile reaction I’ve witnessed after revealing my faith.

I have always been a very privately spiritual individual, so I am accustomed to people’s discomfort, even incredulity and ridicule, when I confirm my Christianity.

They expect me to (in no particular order) harshly judge them, shove scripture down their throats, threaten them with damnation, water-board them with holy water and then perform an exorcism, just to be thorough.

I am perceived through a lens of scrutiny and distrust that can never be wiped clean; I am instantly labelled a fanatic and a freak.

Things weren’t always this way; there

was a time in history when Catholic Europe, under the pretense of religious duty, waged war against any other faith they encountered. The lens of scrutiny was reversed, and the freaks and fanatics were those who did not submit to the tyranny of the church.

These days, religion has become a nostalgic notion, something our parents dragged us into during the early years of our lives. To most, religion is becoming a thing of the past, and the norm is declaring ourselves the higher power.

But when something becomes the societal norm, it doesn’t mean that those who disagree should be cast out. The church was once considered a structure of persecution and ostracism, making outcasts of anyone who didn’t abide by their law.

Now Christians are the outcasts, socially alienated because of a personal decision, as though each and every one of us is identical in belief and practice.

A question arises that has troubled me since high school, when I was first scorned for my faith: Why are all Christians considered the same?

Is it because of the radicals that stand

on sidewalks, screaming about eternal hellfire? Or is it because your “Christian” roommate brings home a different guy or girl each Saturday night? What is it about all of us that makes us coalesce in people’s minds? We are as diverse a faction of society as any other; I cannot speak for anyone else, but I will try to clear away the shrouds of mystery adorning my personal faith. Allow me to explain what I truly believe.

My religion is love. Above all else, we are meant to love and support one another. Some who claim to be followers of God have so completely forgotten this basic command that they are reverting to the condemnation of anyone who doesn’t constitute their idea of “normal.”

Frankly, Mr. Stand-on-the-sidewalkand-tell-people-they’re-going-to-hell, your hatred is stunting everyone’s spiritual and emotional evolution. Your hatred is driving people away from Christ.

Additionally, your volume alone motivates us to take tedious detours across the street, through bushes, under fences, etc. Tone it down a notch. Mr. Sidewalk-hellfire-and-damnation, when you claim to practice the same faith I

practice, I get positively nettled. You are as narrow-minded and discriminatory as the crusaders of centuries past, and your antics express an inaccurate image of Christianity.

Open the good book and consider the way Jesus actually lived his life. He didn’t associate with men whom society deemed “holy.” Instead, he supported and befriended the morally and spiritually destitute. When he was chastised or questioned, he responded: “Healthy men have no need of a physician,” and kept on healing the sick and loving the wicked.

So many people have been turned away from Christianity by the “hellfire and damnation” message, and I apologize on behalf of the people that spread that message; they are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

I follow in the footsteps of a man who taught love, sacrifice and acceptance; that is my religion. So don’t be afraid when people claim Christianity. It’s highly unlikely that you will be judged, forcefully baptized or exorcised. Give us a chance, because we may just be some of the most loving and accepting individuals you will ever meet.

America selective when remembering tragedies

Last week marked the anniversary of the loss of 2,977 innocent civilians in the 9/11 attacks. We can rest assured that the innocent victims who died that day will be honored and never forgotten.

Honoring the death of American citizens is one thing the U.S. does well. Whether it is the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombings or the sinking of the Titanic, Americans and American media in particular do a great job of remembering the innocent victims of tragic events. The sadder part about America is that we seem to have amnesia when it comes to the loss of foreign civilians, particularly the loss of foreign civilians for which we’re responsible.

I devote this short column, then, to the tragic loss of innocent lives that occurred about 30 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and exactly 28 years before the planes hit the World Trade Center. I’m talking about the first 9/11.

On Sept. 11, 1973, the U.S. government supported the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Chile.

The attack, which included the bombing of the presidential palace, resulted in the death of socialist President Salvador Allende and the establishment of a military junta that would control Chile for the next 17 years with the dictator Augusto Pinochet as its front man.

More shocking about this attack is not the handing over of power from a democracy to a dictatorship, but the seemingly flagrant indifference the U.S. showed to the loss of innocent civilian lives. Sadly, most Americans have no clue this incident ever happened.

The importance of remembering the victims of attacks such as Pearl Harbor or 9/11 is to prevent history from repeating itself. It is our duty to memorialize the death of the civilians lost in Chile on Sept.

11, 1973, for that very reason.

Sadly, since 1973, the American media seems to have forgotten about the incident in Chile, and results show history indeed repeats itself if forgotten.

There have been many similar events since the 1973 attack.

There was the overthrow of the

Chase Hill Argentinian government in 1976, which was supported by the U.S., the attempted overthrow of the Sandinista government in the 1980s and the training and aiding of “death squads” used to prevent the uprising of dissidents in Guatemala and El Salvador, also in the 1980s.

Another incident that is especially shocking is the 1988 massacre of 290 civilians when the USS Vincennes Naval members used a guided missile to shoot down Iran Air flight 655. From 1979-1999, the U.S. government was blatantly complicit with the mass murder of the East Timorese people. It has been estimated up to 200,000 people died at the hands of the Indonesian government during this time.

During President Bill Clinton’s administration, the massacre was at all-time heights and so was the flow of arms to the Indonesian government.

In fact, during the Clinton administration, the Indonesian government was one of the top recipients of U.S. arms.

The now-termed East Timor Genocide culminated with the Dili massacre on Nov. 12, 1991, when 250 civilians were gunned down.

There have been countless examples of the senseless loss of innocent life that I have not mentioned, both before and after Sept. 11, 1973. Not as citizens of any particular nation or member of a political party, but as human beings endowed with the ability to empathize with other human beings, it is our duty to honor the dead of both Sept. 11, 1973, Sept. 11, 2001, and all other atrocities on this planet.

Until we learn to love our brothers in Kabul and Tehran like our brothers in Boston and New York, the vicious cycle of death will continue.

Hill is a freshman philosophy major from Charleston, S.C. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

Brazilian presidential spying announcement should be welcomed by all The reverberations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks continue to affect politics around the world.

According to The Guardian, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has indefinitely put off a meeting with President Barack Obama after allegations of the NSA spying.

The spying allegations stem from the supposed monitoring of Rousseff’s telephone and emails, according to

The Guardian.

“Given the proximity of the scheduled state visit to Washington and in the absence of a timely investigation … there aren’t conditions for this trip to be made,” according to a statement from Rousseff.

Following Rousseff’s statement, the White House released a statement saying, “[Obama] has said that he understands and regrets the concerns disclosures of alleged US intelligence activities have generated in Brazil.”

If the spying allegations do prove true, then the U.S. should be ashamed of its conduct.

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Spying on enemies is one thing.

Spying on allies is another.

Recent spying allegations have only served to worsen the U.S. world image.

If Obama is to regain momentum in his second term, he should permanently reform the way the NSA operates.

If he fails to do so, Obama may go down as a president who only served to continue

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former President George W. Bush’s controversial policies.

According to Russia Times, the NSA violated its privacy policies 2,776 times over the span of a year ending in March 2012.

Although the NSA maintained that the violations were related to employee mistakes, it’s still extremely discouraging to see such a high number

If the spying allegations do prove true, then the U.S. should be ashamed of its conduct.

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As each day passes, more and more is revealed to the American public about the NSA’s controversial policies.

Another startling revelation about the NSA was its alleged online encryption hacks, according to The Guardian.

Files show “that the NSA and its U.K. counterpart Government Communication Headquarters have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them,” according to The Guardian.

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the actions being taken by the NSA. Moving forward, it is clear that Obama’s success as a president is directly linked to his handling of spying controversies.

Rousseff’s decision to postpone a meeting with Obama, pending analysis of spying allegations, should be applauded.

As more and more is revealed about the inner workings of the NSA, people should continue to pay attention to the key developments.

Although some perceive him to be a traitor, it’s clear that Snowden and his bold actions have prompted a debate that won’t likely end anytime soon.

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Texas Tech students turn hobbies into cash

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

From his love of computers, freshman Brad Dennis of Cibolo has turned something some would consider a hobby into the perfect opportunity for making money.

The computer science major said he makes apps for phones and computers.

“People always asked me to help with stuff with computers anyways, so if they wanted anything specific I can just be like ‘sure, I can do that for you,’” he said. “I can make something for them or I can actually build them a computer.”

Dennis said people have asked him to help them, but he’s never really charged them since most of them are friends.

Working with computers, he said, is satisfying and similar to finally finishing a sculpture.

“You see it turn on and you hear all the parts not catching on fire and it’s just so satisfying,” Dennis said. “The same goes for an app or a program, finally getting that little line of code to

work and you’re like ‘oh.’”

He said building computers and making programs and apps is something he enjoys doing.

Dennis said he’s always wanted to do designs and make it look cool.

“I’ve done one with LED lights on the inside,” he said.

Dennis has been designing since his freshman year of high school, he said.

“I’ve always been a geek since I was a little kid,” Dennis said. “I love everything about it.”

He said it’s something someone can do in a residence hall room.

Dennis isn’t the only student cashing in on his talents, however.

Fellow freshman, Kailyn Cox, is using her creativity to create and sell game-day hair bows.

For those who buy on campus, Cox said she sells the bows for $10 each.

The advertising major from Plano, said she started making bows her sophomore year of high school.

“One of my teachers was pregnant with a little girl and

she really wanted hair bows,” Cox said. “I don’t know why she picked me, cause I’d never done bows before. I did a little research on it, and went and bought a whole bunch of ribbon from Michael’s and Hobby Lobby and from there I’ve been making bows ever since.”

She said she also has wall art for sale on her Etsy account.

Cox has sold five hair bows since she’s been at Tech, she said.

“It’s just a simple black canvas and I put a Double T on it and write ‘Wreck ‘Em Tech,” she said. “To make it girly I put silver sparkle polka dots and stuff.”

Freshman Alexandria Fuller is another freshman taking advantage of her talents.

Styling hair out of her room, the history major from Dallas, said her services include sew-ins, quick weaves, braids, perms and clip ins, as well as many more with prices ranging from $10$45, depending on the hair style.

Fuller said she mostly works with African-American hair.

She said she first learned how to style hair after she was put

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KAILYN COX, A freshman advertising major from Plano, creates and sells game-day bows. She began making bows when a former teacher asked her to make a bow for her unborn daughter.

into foster care.

“Instead of going to school looking ugly every day I just learned to fend for myself,” Fuller said. “And then I found

Holocaust survivor, German lit critic dies

Red cape drawing bids during Jackson Jr. auction Bids were fewer and farther between for a framed Bruce Lee autograph: It tallied a mere 16 bids by the evening. The highest was for $450.

Calculating existing bids for all the items being auctioned as of Wednesday evening, the feds looked to rake in more than $7,000 from the Jackson auction.

Dozens of other frivolities he spent his donors’ money on, including two stuffed elk heads and a football signed by U.S. presidents, aren’t part of this auction.

The Jackson items up for auction aren’t the oddest the Marshals Service has sold off to help pay felons’ fines or courtmandated restitution. The underwear of convicted Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff was once auctioned by the same Texasbased company contracted to sell the Jackson belongings.

The notoriety surrounding a criminal case can sometimes boost the value of objects that — ironically in the Jacksons’ case — become celebrity memorabilia in their own right, explained Jason Rzepniewski, an auctioneer at the Texas company, Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers Inc. Buyers have until Sept. 26 to bid at www.txauction.com for any of the Jacksons’ former possessions that tug at their heart strings.

typesetter then sold. This continued until the Red Army arrived the following year.

Reich-Ranicki’s parents and brother were killed in the Holocaust. His sister, Gerda, and her husband escaped to England from Germany shortly before the war.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Reich-Ranicki’s decision to settle in Germany despite losing many of his family in the Nazis’ extermination camps was “one of the events of the post-war era for which we can only be grateful.”

“Not even the murderous hatred of the Nazis could banish Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s love especially for the German poets,” she said.

Having survived the war, ReichRanicki joined Poland’s communist party. He said he and his wife credited their survival to the Red Army and that communist ideas appeared “very attractive” at the time. But, after returning from his stint as the Polish consul in London and as an agent with Poland’s fledgling intelligence service, he was briefly detained and kicked out of the party amid the increasingly repressive atmosphere of the late 1940s.

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The online auction, which will accept bids over two weeks, is the U.S. Marshals Service way of trying to recoup part of the $750,000 in campaign funds the Chicago Democrat and his wife, Sandra, illegally spent — often to satisfy penchants for attentiongrabbing clothes and pop-culture keepsakes.

The red cashmere cape drew the most attention in the hours just after bidding began early Tuesday. By evening, it registered 39 bids — pushing the initial asking price from around $300 to $965. Court documents say Jackson purchased it — with campaign funds — for $1,500 from an Edwards Lowell Furs store.

After a sluggish start, bidding surged during the day for a framed poster dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album — and signed by the pop star himself. By Tuesday evening, there were 45 bids for it,— with the highest bidder willing to part with $1,560 for the pleasure of owning it.

other Jews, was soon forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto. There he worked as an interpreter for the ghetto’s Jewish administrative council.

Speaking to the German Parliament in 2012, he recalled the day in July 1942 when the Nazi SS informed the Jewish council of plans for the inhabitants’ “resettlement” to the east — a Nazi euphemism for deportation to the death camps, and the beginning of the end of the ghetto.

Reich-Ranicki, who took minutes of the meeting, recalled that a “deathly silence” was followed by uproar. He said those present “seemed to sense what had happened: that the sentence had been pronounced for the biggest Jewish city in Europe. The death sentence.”

Discovering that, as an employee of the Jewish council, he was among those exempted from immediate deportation along with their wives, Reich-Ranicki hurriedly married his girlfriend Teofila, whom he called Tosia.

In February 1943, the couple escaped the Warsaw ghetto. A typesetter and his wife on the outskirts of Warsaw hid them in the basement or attic of their house during the day. At night, they made cigarettes, which the

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section of the conservative-minded Frankfurter Allgemeine daily from 1973 to 1988. After that, he became the star of ZDF public television’s “Literary Quartet,” a popular book program.

Reich-Ranicki said he recommended German novelist Heinrich Boell for the Nobel Prize for literature.

Boell won in 1972.

Reich-Ranicki was by turns supportive and critical of Grass — with whom he fell out for a time after describing one of Grass’ books as “a complete failure.”

Reich-Ranicki was born into a Jewish family in Wloclawek, Poland, on June 2, 1920. When he was 9, his family moved to Berlin following the bankruptcy of his father’s construction company.

He recalled his elementary school teacher saying to him as he left: “You are going, my son, to the land of culture.” In Berlin, Reich-Ranicki went to high school but by the time he wanted to attend university to study German literature in 1938, the Nazis had come to power and he was denied entry because he was Jewish. He was then deported to Poland.

After Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, Reich-Ranicki, like

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BERLIN (AP) — Marcel ReichRanicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany, survived the Warsaw Ghetto and went on to become postwar Germany’s best-known literary critic, has died at age 93.

The sharp-tongued Reich-Ranicki established himself as West Germany’s premier arbiter of literary taste after arriving with no money in 1958 from communist Poland, where he had served as a diplomat and intelligence agent in the late 1940s.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, where he led the literature section for 15 years, said Reich-Ranicki died in Frankfurt on Wednesday. It didn’t give further details.

Reich-Ranicki didn’t shy away from hard-biting criticism of authors, saying once that “clarity is the politeness of the critic; directness is his obligation and his job.” In his 1999 memoirs, “My Life,” he conceded that he had a reputation as “a man of literary executions.”

Initially part of the left-leaning literary circle known as Group of 47, along with Nobel laureate Guenter Grass, Reich-Ranicki wrote for the weekly Die Zeit, then led the literature

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Lakas said. “We both like “There are so many superhebaking, so we signed up and roes to choose from, and it was funny seeing everyone hoped we got to eat.”

A panel of three judges choose the same people. It ranked the top-four cupcake was still really creative.” designs following each round.

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When moving to college, students are usually forced to leave any pets they have behind because Texas Tech doesn’t allow animals — except fish or service animals — in residence halls.

Many of the student-centered apartment complexes around campus also adopted similar rules, but some students decided it was worth the risk to bring furry friends into residence halls and apartments.

Sandra Kovall, a senior advertising major from Blackduck, Minn., said she lived in a house where the landlord didn’t allow pets, but she and four roommates kept three dogs and two cats.

She said she now lives in a place where pets are allowed, but she is not sure she would try to sneak pets again because keeping them hidden wasn’t always easy.

“If the landlord was ever around, we just hid everything,” Kovall said. “Cats are a lot easier, I had one, not for very long, but I just hid him if anyone had to come do work. If I would have been caught, I would have just

said they were somebody else’s and I was watching them. Worst case scenario was that I either got rid of them or paid a fee.”

Even students who already have graduated from Tech managed to sneak pets into their living spaces while attending school.

Caitlin Sorrell, an August 2012 graduate with a degree in electronic media and communications from Eden, said in a Skype call she kept a cat with her starting in 2009 when a friend brought the abandoned kitten to her.

“I got him two weeks before I moved to Lubbock to go to Tech,” she said. “My friend came over and she lived on the base in San Angelo and she had found this kitten. She was like, ‘Hey, can you watch this cat for a few hours so that my friend can come pick him up,’ and that person never showed up. I just kind of fell in love with him and kept him.”

Some students even tried to have a pet in the residence halls.

Tech only allows fish, as long as they’re in a 10-gallon or smaller tank, and service animals for stu-

dents living on campus, but that didn’t stop sophomore advertising major Naomi Roszhart from Greenville, from bringing her bearded dragon named Dragon with her.

Roszhart said she was doing fine with Dragon until her mom sent supplies to the residence hall she was living in and the front office staff caught on.

“It worked OK until the whole cricket fiasco,” she said.

“My mom decided it would be a good idea to send live crickets to the dorm. We didn’t really realize that it would say live crickets on the package, but the front office kind of had a huge issue with live crickets being sent to the dorm and wondered why. They went and talked to my CA (community adviser), who came upstairs and talked to me about it.”

Roszhart said she then had to send Dragon to live with a friend off campus for a few weeks before she was able to sneak him back into her room.

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Court Appointed Special Advocates of the South Plains has been an advocate for foster students since it opened in October 1993.

Recruitment and training director Peggy Horn said she has worked as a volunteer at CASA since 1996. In 1998, Horn was put on staff at CASA, has been in charge of this program for many years and oversees training and recruitment of new members.

“CASA is a nonprofit volunteer organization,” she said. “The mission of the program is to provide community volunteers to serve as advocates for kids that are in foster care.”

CASA trains residents of Lubbock and surrounding areas on how to be a guardian ad litem for foster care children.

A guardian ad litem, Horn said, is a person assigned to a foster child when they enter the program.

CASA volunteers step in as the role of guardian ad litem and follow the child’s case until the child ages out of the foster program, she said, meaning they are either returned to their parents, or a relative or nonrelative adopts them.

“We look out for their best interest,” Horn said.

Through phone calls, emails and visits, CASA volunteers follow each case to completion, she said. The end result is getting the foster students into a safe and permanent home.

“It’s an overburdened system,” Horn said.

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LAUREN SHERLEY, COURT Appointed Special Advocates Program Director, answers questions and conducts the training for CASA volunteers for their Voice of a Foster Child Program on Tuesday at the CASA office building.

A caseworker can, at times, work on 30 to 50 cases, she said, which is the reason CASA volunteers step in as a guardian’s ad litem — to help the children.

Michelle Latta, a senior psychology major from Lubbock, said she joined the program to help children who need help.

“We’re just there to make sure that kid doesn’t fall through the cracks,” she said.

There were 1,200 kids in foster care in the Lubbock area last year, Horn said. CASA volunteers make sure these children have someone who cares about them through the whole foster care program.

“It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for quite a while now,” Latta said.

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“My husband read about it in TechAnnounce and he came to the training about a month ago, and he was telling me all about it and he was like, ‘I want to work cases with you.’ So I said, ‘OK, I’ll check it out,’” she said.

Ward has attended two meetings at CASA and will work with foster students as soon as training is done, she said.

The volunteers work with the foster students in Lubbock and surrounding areas about 10 to 20 hours per month, Ward said.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway initially thought the Twitter photos showing young people partying at his family’s second home in upstate New York were a hoax.

Then he saw pictures of teens standing on the dining room table he bought with his Super Bowl bonus.

Holloway’s rural vacation home was trashed during a Labor Day weekend party attended by up to 400 teenagers. Holloway said the partiers caused at least $20,000 in damage, breaking windows and doors, punching holes in walls and spraying graffiti. He saw the whole thing unfold live on Twitter — and now he’s using the teens’ own posts to reveal their identities and to try to set them on a better path.

Holloway, who played offensive tackle for the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders in the 1980s, said his 19-year-old son, a University of Southern Florida sophomore, alerted him to the party after receiving tweets about it the night of Aug. 31.

Holloway was at his home in Lutz, Fla., at the time and watched as more tweets about the party were posted, many of them accompanied by photos of young people drinking throughout his home in Stephentown, on the Massachusetts border 25 miles southeast of Albany.

“We were getting eyewitness reports of what was happening while it was happening. We couldn’t believe what was going down,” Holloway told The Associated Press.

Before he could call police, more tweets reported that officers had arrived, Holloway said. The partygoers scattered across his 200-acre property, which includes the main house and a guest house set amid rolling countryside in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains.

Yvonne Keefe, spokeswoman for the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed Wednesday that a “very large investigation” into the party was underway. Police believe 200 to 400 young people were at the party, but investigators aren’t commenting on the role social media is playing in the probe, she said.

No arrests have been reported.

Word of the party had spread via social media, and it attracted students at high schools from the Albany area and western Massachusetts, Holloway said. Holloway, who’s now a motivational speaker, said he gave anti-drug and alcohol talks at some of those same schools during his playing days, which included an appearance in Super Bowl XX, when the Patriots lost to the Chicago Bears.

Holloway said the partiers broke about 10 windows and glass

doors, punched dozens of holes in the walls, dragged kegs of beer across oak floors and left behind an “enormous amount” of graffiti.

His $20,000 damage estimate does not include personal items that were stolen.

Several teens who weren’t at the party but heard about it showed up this week and helped remove urine-soaked carpets and 10 large trash bags filled with liquor bottles, Holloway said, adding that drug paraphernalia also was found scattered about his property.

Holloway, a father of eight, said he used Twitter postings to compile 200 names of teens he said were at the party. He has been posting them on a website he created, www.helpmesave300. com, in an effort to get them to come forward, take responsibility for their actions and change their behavior.

“It’s not hard to identify who they were. We’ve got 170 tweets.

We have 200 to 220 names already confirmed today. I’m going to go online right now — I guarantee I’ll have 10 more names of people who are sharing who was there, what they did. And that data is all going to the sheriffs,” Holloway said.

He said he is inviting “the 300” to show up and help clean the place up for a celebration picnic he is hosting this weekend for military personnel.

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Research shows food marketing is a leading cause of childhood obesity because the ads and promotions lead impressionable kids to then pester their parents to eat what they saw on TV, consumer

advocates say.

The first lady cited a “cultural shift” taking place in America’s eating habits, and highlighted as examples salad bars that are now in many school lunchrooms and kids’ restaurant menus that offer such items as broccoli and wholewheat pasta.

But while she said there has been progress, including slight reductions in childhood obesity rates in a few states and cities,

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The goal, she said, is to “empower parents instead of undermining them” as they try to make the best choices for their families.

A 2006 report by the influential Institute of Medicine concluded that food and beverage marketing to children “represents, at best, a missed opportunity, and, at worst, a direct threat to the health of the next generation.”

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Tech football renews old rivalry with four-game series against Houston Texas Tech has locked in one of first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury’s former teams as one of their nonconference opponents for four seasons beginning in 2017, according to a news release.

The Red Raiders will travel to Houston for the first game of the series against the Cougars, which will take place Sept. 16, 2017, and the teams will match up in Lub-

bock the following year Sept. 18, according to the release.

The teams will take a break for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, will resume play in Houston in 2021 and play the finale in Lubbock in 2022.

Kirby Hocutt, director of athletics, said it was important for the Red Raiders to maintain their presence in South Texas.

Houston is a familiar Tech

opponent, as the teams faced each other for 20 straight seasons starting in 1975 when the teams were both in the Southwest Conference.

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Jace Amaro added to Biletnikoff Award watch list Junior tight end Jace Amaro has been added to the Biletnikoff Award watch list, an award annually given to the top college receiver in the nation.

Amaro is the leader for the team and the Big 12 Conference in receptions with 20 in three games. He also has 281 receiving yards, which ranks third in the conference.

The Biletnikoff Award is selected by a group of more than 215 prominent college football jour-

nalists, commentators and former receivers. There also is a fan vote that counts as one additional vote.

Tech senior wide receiver Eric Ward also is on the watch list, and this is the first time two Red Raiders have been named to the list since 2011 when Alex Torres and Darrin Moore were both candidates.

Nine student-athletes across the country have been named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list this season.

The award will be presented Dec. 12, on the Home Depot College Football Awards Show, which will broadcast from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on ESPN. The award winner will receive the trophy Feb. 8, 2014, in front of 600 patrons at the annual Biltenikoff Award Banquet at the University Center Club at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla., and will be live streamed on ESPN3. ➤➤ecorder@dailytoreador.com

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Hubert, Rose leading K-State ground game MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Running for 41 yards on 23 carries wasn’t going to cut it in Bill Snyder’s offense.

After all, running the ball has been a cornerstone at Kansas State ever since Snyder arrived on campus in the late 1980s. The school has produced standouts such as Darren Sproles and Daniel Thomas, and last year had one of the nation’s top rushing quarterbacks in Collin Klein.

So when the Wildcats produced 41 yards rushing in a season-opening loss to North Dakota State, it was time to regain their focus. And the result has been 479 yards rushing in a pair of wins, including 329 yards against Massachusetts last Saturday night.

“Ever since North Dakota State, we didn’t do too good with the run,” running back Robert Rose said.

“We kind of took that personally and kind of made it our business to be effective with our ground game because at K-State that is what we do, we run the ball.”

Whether it’s the downhill, between-the-tackles running or starter John Hubert or breakaway speed from Rose — not to mention the slippery skills of backup quarterback

Daniel Sams — the Wildcats are equipped to cause Texas plenty of trouble in their Big 12 opener on Saturday night.

BYU ran for 550 yards against the Longhorns a couple weeks ago, which prompted coach Mack Brown to replace defensive coordinator Manny Diaz with Greg Robinson.

They fared little better last weekend against Ole Miss, allowing 272 yards on the ground.

“That was BYU, that was Ole Miss and those were those games,” Rose said. “It could be a whole different game when we play Texas.

Those guys will be fired up.”

So will the Wildcats (2-1), who are finally starting to get up to speed.

Hubert was limited to fewer than 3 yards per carry through the first two games, but he broke free for 118 yards on just 18 carries against the Minutemen. That performance allowed the senior to become the ninth Kansas State running back to run for more than 2,000 yards.

“Hubert is going to get his chances to get free,” wide receiver Tramaine Thompson said. “And when he does, he’s a beast when he gets going.”

The 5-foot-7 frame of Hubert has a tendency to hide behind the offen-

sive line, but Snyder believes it’s his physicality that is most handy. He’s the best option between the tackles.

“John has that good lower body strength,” Snyder said. “We don’t have anybody that would run it more physically.”

That’s a bit different than Rose, who stands 5-foot-4 and prefers to get around the edges.

Rose had only 13 carries for 44 yards coming into the season, but he finally got a chance to shine against Massachusetts. He ran five times for 39 yards and scored his first touchdown.

“I think I have great assets that can help us win,” Rose said. “I want those to be utilized so I have to continue to put myself in a position to where they could be.”

The fourth-year senior said he’s fine taking any role in the Wildcat offense.

“It doesn’t really matter. I don’t have to get the ball,” he said. “I would do fine with blocking, catching or whatever the case may be. I just want to be utilized.”

Despite his small stature, Rose isn’t a pushover, either. And along with Hubert, he gives the Wildcats a pair of options who can be hard for defenders to find.

Dallas Cowboys’ Morris Claiborne has injured shoulder IRVING (AP) — Morris Claiborne laughed when reminded of his Twitter rant a few hours after a pass interference penalty cost the Dallas Cowboys a final chance to come back against Kansas City.

The easy smile seemed to show he had moved on after feeling compelled to tell “the haters out there your opinion doesn’t matter so keep it to yourself.”

Moving on is what cornerbacks get paid to do, even those playing with an injured shoulder, wounded pride and the burden of being a No. 6 overall pick that the Cowboys moved up eight spots to get a year ago.

Claiborne still thinks he made the right move coming over the back of Chiefs receiver Donnie Avery to break up a pass short of the first down on third-and-10 — even if Cowboys coach Jason Garrett joined the chorus of those saying he was a little too aggressive.

And even if the resulting first down eventually left Tony Romo more than 50 yards from field goal range with 16 seconds left in Kansas City’s 17-16 win.

“Ain’t thinking about it,” Claiborne said Wednesday after the first

practice for Sunday’s home game against St. Louis. “It’s nothing to me. I’m a corner. I learn to let stuff go quickly.”

It’s not the first lesson in moving on for the former All-America from LSU. Last year in Philadelphia, Claiborne got beat for a touchdown and was penalized three times — twice for defensive holding and once for interference.

Garrett says Claiborne impressed everyone with the way he kept playing in that game, and moved on after a 38-23 Dallas win.

But there is a troubling stat for Claiborne: In eight games since that day in Philadelphia, he doesn’t have an interception and didn’t even have a pass breakup in seven of them. He’s up to 17 career games, with just one interception.

Thus, the scrutiny when the glare of the spotlight turned negative again in Kansas City.

“I could care less what somebody else says,” Claiborne said. “As long as I’m not hearing nothing from my coaches or the owner, I don’t really care.”

Garrett doesn’t sound worried about him.

“The opposing offenses are going to have success against corners in this league,” the coach said. “The quarterbacks are too good, the receivers are too good and it’s your job to keep bringing it when you play those kinds of positions.

“They might have some success, but you’re not going away and I think Mo has demonstrated that throughout his career.”

The bigger concern for Claiborne might be his left shoulder. It was dislocated in the opener against the New York Giants, and he kept playing after trainers popped it back into place.

To try to protect the shoulder, Claiborne was limited to nickel situations against the Chiefs, with Orlando Scandrick taking his regular spot.

Even then, Claiborne ended up one-on-one in the open field and fell to the ground in pain trying to make a tackle early in the game. He kept playing, and was in for more than half the defensive snaps.

Claiborne said he did more in practice Wednesday than he had last week — an indication he might be ready for something closer to full-time duty.

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AUSTIN (AP) — These are tough times for Texas coach Mack Brown.

How tough? Brown got booed when he asked Longhorns fans to donate to charity.

That happened last Saturday when his team trailed Ole Miss in the first quarter of what ended in a second consecutive blowout loss.

A pre-recorded public service announcement to promote charitable giving prompted fans to show their frustration with a coach who won a national title in 2005 but hasn’t been able to pull the program out of a three-year skid.

It wasn’t the entire stadium booing, but it was loud enough to be heard in a crowd of more than 101,000.

Brown shrugged off the boos Monday, comparing his team’s 1-2 start to the 1-2 start in 1998, his first season when Texas and Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams won nine of their next 10 games. He even joked about it.

In ‘98, a friend told Brown he was so unpopular that “I couldn’t find enough friends to be pall bearers at my funeral,” Brown said.

Texas fans chuckled along with the folksy Brown when times were good.

They aren’t laughing now.

“He’s done a good job for us.”

And Jamail noted that the crowd at the Ole Miss game was the third largest in stadium history.

Even after three lean seasons, Brown offered hope the Longhorns would return to their place among the national elite this year. Texas returned 19 starters from last season’s 9-4 team.

But that was before losses of 40-21 to BYU and 44-23 to Mississippi.

Brown hasn’t given up hope he can turn things around. Immediately after the Ole Miss loss, Brown said he’d talk to his team about trying to win the Big 12. A conference title would be just his third in 16 seasons at Texas.

“That’s all we have left,” Brown said.

On Sunday, a group of Texas seniors who haven’t won a league title addressed the team, saying they wanted to leave with a title.

“Let’s keep fighting,” sophomore running back Jonathan Gray said.

Brown said he’s looked around the Big 12 and sees a “wide open” conference race in a year the league appears to lack a dominant team. Oklahoma State is the highest-ranked Big 12 team at No. 11. Kansas State visits Austin this weekend.

“It looks to me like the Big 12 is wide open,” Brown said, “so why shouldn’t we have a shot?”

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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS coach Mack Brown walks off the field during the Nov. 3 game against Texas Tech.

Hamilton homers, drives in 3 in Angels’ 5-4 win Manziel, McCarron headline crop of quality SEC QBs OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Josh Hamilton hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth inning then put the Angels ahead with a sacrifice fly in the 11th, leading Los Angeles over the Oakland Athletics 5-4 Wednesday.

Hamilton connected against Grant Balfour, who blew his third save of the season. Jesse Chavez (2-4) was the loser.

Mike Trout added a two-run home run for the Angels, who won for the fourth time in five games.

Coco Crisp and Yoenis Cespedes each hit two-run home runs for the A’s, who lost for the third time in 12 games. But they have a six-game lead over Texas in the AL West. The Rangers play Tampa Bay. Juan Gutierrez (1-4) pitched the 10th for the win. Ernesto Frieri

worked the 11th for his 35th save in 39 chances.

A’s starter A.J. Griffin gave up Trout’s homer with one out in the first. He retired 17 of the last 18 batters he faced.

Griffin allowed two runs on one hit. He walked two and struck out six.

Angels starter Jason Vargas allowed four runs on seven hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out five.

J.B. Shuck doubled leading off the 11th against Chavez. Josh Donaldson mishandled Erick Aybar’s sacrifice bunt for an error, putting runners on first and third. After Trout flew out, Hamilton followed with a towering drive to the warning track in left field against Jerry Blevins that put the Angels ahead 5-4.

Following Jed Lowrie’s single leading off the fifth, the A’s were held to one hit the rest of the way.

Griffin, who gave up his major league-leading 35th homer, faced three over the minimum. He walked leadoff hitter Shuck and got Aybar to fly out to center ahead of Trout’s 26th home run. The only other baserunner was Mark Trumbo, who walked with two outs in the fourth.

Vargas hit Donaldson, who delivered the winning hit Tuesday night, sparking a warning to both teams from home plate umpire Jerry Meals.

Josh Reddick led off the third with a single. One out later, Crisp tied the score with a drive over the left field wall. Donaldson flew out but Lowrie followed with a single ahead of Cespedes’ 24th home run.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel has the Heisman Trophy. Alabama’s A.J. McCarron has the national championships.

Those two are the Southeastern Conference’s most famous quarterbacks, but they’re just the main headliners — there’s a host of talented signal-callers that have offenses rolling across the league.

Georgia’s Aaron Murray, LSU’s Zach Mettenberger, Mississippi’s Bo Wallace and South Carolina’s Connor Shaw are among the many quarterbacks who have had a good start this season, turning the usually smash-mouth conference into an offensive paradise.

“We’re putting so much emphasis on quarterback play, functioning and

taking care of the ball in the system in which we’re asked to run,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. “I know how hard we worked at it, and I’m sure others have done the same. It seems to me that it’s been raised to another level.”

Last week’s Manziel-McCarron showdown, whose teams combined for 1,196 total yards in the Tide’s 49-42 victory, was the most obvious sign that this might be a banner year for SEC offenses — and especially quarterbacks.

But the gaudy stats are popping up everywhere: — Georgia’s Murray threw for 323 yards against Clemson and 309 yards against South Carolina. He’s on pace to become the only SEC quarterback in history to have four straight 3,000-

yard passing seasons.

— Mississippi’s Wallace threw for 177 yards and two touchdowns, and also ran for 57 yards and a touchdown, as the Rebels walloped Texas 44-23. Wallace hasn’t thrown an interception this season.

— LSU’s Mettenberger needed just 18 pass attempts to throw for 264 yards and three touchdowns against Kent State on Saturday. He has the highest efficiency rating in the SEC so far this season, completing nearly 65 percent of his passes for 797 yards, nine touchdowns and no interceptions.

— South Carolina’s Shaw picked apart Vanderbilt’s defense, completing 21 of 29 passes for 284 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 84 yards.