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Gabriella Diaz, an Angelo Rodriguez High School senior, created several outfits from vinyl records for her senior
art project. The assignment was to create a piece of 3D art. The dress is created from about 60 records.
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FAIRFIELD — Gabriella Diaz, an Angelo Rodriguez High School senior has spent the better part of this year working on a portfolio of her art to show to prospective colleges next year. The 18-year-old will be graduating in a little over a month and her final project is a creation that is unique and stunning in shiny, black vinyl. Diaz has created a grand dress completely made from vinyl records. Along with the dress are several other pieces all done with records. “At the beginning of the year the teacher brought in all these
records,” she said. “I looked at them and wondered what I could do with them.” She knew off the top of her head that she wanted to create something with the records that was related to fashion. “I think for all the pieces I have used 100 total records,” she said. It has not been easy figure how to sew records together and make an item of clothing that was bendable and flexible enough to move around in. The project assignment was create something for a 3D project. She needed to create four pieces for a fashion show with fully developed looks. She hopes these pieces impress colleges as she is set on becoming a
professional artist — but, interestingly enough, not a fashion designer. “It has gotten stressful,” she said. After spending months on planning and finishing her first dress, she examined it and found that it didn’t move in the way she wanted it to. “I took it all apart, all of it,” she said. “It needed to be full-length, black and strapless. It needed to be easier to get on.” She changed up the base of the skirt so it was fabric, and the top was still a sleeveless corset. From there she created panels made of records stretching to the floor; about 12, all told. “It is heavy,” she said. See Student, Page A7
Buffalo shooting survivors share stories a year later Tribune Content Agency Survivors of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket continue to feel the effects of the tragedy a year later. Rose Wysocki, who was a produce manager at the Tops Friendly Market where the shooting occurred, experienced symptoms including anxiety attacks and nightmares after returning to work there, she told the Buffalo News in an article published Sunday. During therapy, she
learned she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety and was told she would “never be able to heal” if she kept working at the store. She still goes to that supermarket to visit friends and pick up prescriptions but has since started working at a different Tops location. “I can’t stand when people say to you: ‘Just move on.’ You don’t understand until you go through it,” Wysocki told the Buffalo News. “It’s not that easy to just move See Buffalo, Page A7
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Buffalo Police on scene at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. According to reports, at least 10 people were killed after a mass shooting at the store, with the shooter in police custody.
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Erdogan vote margin narrows as rivals claim lead in Turkish elections Bloomberg News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reported lead over his key rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu has narrowed rapidly as the number of ballots counted increases in Turkey’s most pivotal elections in a generation. With 41.8% of ballot boxes opened, Erdogan won 52.7% of the vote and Kilicdaroglu 41.4%, according to state broadcaster TRT. The opposition said its parallel count shows Kilicdaroglu ahead, without saying by how much. Earlier in the night, Erdogan’s share of the vote was reported at 59.5%. Erdogan, Turkey’s longest-serving leader, has molded the NATO member into a regional power that plays a growing role from Ukraine to Syria. But increasingly erratic economic policies have left
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the 69-year-old incumbent vulnerable to voter resentment after an inflation crisis last year gutted household budgets. Kilicdaroglu, 74, has the backing of the nation’s broadest-ever grouping of opposition parties. He is running on a promise to restore the rule of law, mend strained ties with the West and return to economic orthodoxy. The world’s money managers are waiting for the election’s outcome to decide whether Turkey becomes a “buy” again. Foreign money flooded Turkey’s equity and debt markets during Erdogan’s first decade in power, but investors exited in recent years as Erdogan’s growth-at-allcosts policies debased the nation’s currency. Ankara’s Mayor Mansur Yavas, a member See Turkey, Page A7
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The number of migrants seeking to cross the southern U.S. border has been “markedly down” despite an expected surge following the expiration of pandemic-era border restrictions, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Mayorkas said over the past two days, the U.S. Border Patrol “has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week,” before the border limits, known as Title 42, were lifted. While Mayorkas said it was too soon to say whether the surge has peaked, border agents reported about 6,300 encounters on Friday and 4,200 on Saturday. Authorities said early last week the number stood at an all-time high of 10,000 daily.
An unprecedented surge of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border over recent months has been a political albatross for President Joe Biden, with Republicans and some fellow Democrats questioning if the White House was prepared to handle the influx. Republicans have repeatedly said that the sunsetting of Title 42, a public health measure that restricted migrants during the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic, would lead to a fresh surge in attempted crossings. Mayorkas told ABC’s This Week that he believes the dropping numbers show the administration’s policies are working. “We have been preparing for this transition for months and months, and we’ve been executing on our plan accordingly,” Mayorkas said on ABC. “Our plan is very straightforward, there is a safe, lawful and orderly way to reach the United States.”
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