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South Sudan foundedJUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan celebrated its fi rst day as an independent nation Saturday, raising its fl ag before tens of thousands of cheering citizens elated to reach the end of a 50-year struggle. U.S. President Barack Obama called the day a new dawn after the darkness of war, while visiting dignitaries offered both congratulations and prodding for South Sudan and its former ruler, Sudan, to avoid a return to confl ict over serious and unresolved disagreements.

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Shuttle’s last launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As the miles melted between Atlantis and the International Space Station, the emotions grew — in orbit and on the ground. At Mission Control on Sunday, lead fl ight director Kwatsi Alibaruho declared “this is it” as he gave the OK for the fi nal docking in space shuttle history. Flashbacks to the shuttle’s very fi rst space station docking — with Russia’s Mir in 1995 — fl ooded his mind as viewed the shuttle on the screens. He was a NASA trainee back then.

texasPublic mourns for fanBROWNWOOD, — Relatives, friends and fellow fi refi ghters are among the hundreds of mourners at a public visitation for the 39-year-old Texas Rangers fan who fell to his death trying to catch a ball thrown by his son’s favorite player.Shannon Stone died Thursday after dropping head-fi rst about 20 feet from the seats at Rangers Ballpark. Josh Hamilton tossed a ball his way and Stone wanted to grab it for his 6-year-old son, Cooper. The public visitation was Sunday night and a funeral service is scheduled for Monday.

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Richard Kent, displaced by the Grimes County wildfires, plays the saxophone with Midnight Express in a benefit concert performed by local musicians.

Musicians put on benefit concert for

friend harmed by wildfires

Local musicians came out to support one of their own during a fundraiser Sunday at the Hilton Hotel to benefit a victim of the Grimes County fire.

The Occasional String Band, John Wick and the Full House Blues Band, Cynthia Williams and Francisco Far-ias, Midnight Express, Leannasaurus Rex, Kelsey Taylor, WE B3 and a New Oreleans tribute by the Greg Tivis Dixie Band Jazz Ensemble performed to help raise money for Richard Kent.

All of the proceeds went to helping Kent find a home and recover from the fire which claimed approximately 30 homes and over 5, 000 acres.

Greg Tivis, the facilitator of the fund-raiser, is a local musician and entertainer in Brazos County and runs a jazz ses-sion — New Orleans style — on the first Sunday of every month at Downtown Uncorked. He explained the purpose of the fundraiser was to help out Kent who plays clarinet and saxophone duringjam sessions.

“Many times we’ve seen the com-munity come together to help out the Grimes County wildfire victims and help out the tornado victims in Joplin and the Hurricane Katrina victims when they first came here,” Tivis said. “Rich-ard came here as a Katrina refugee and now he’s lost everything again to the fire out in Navasota; he’s had a double whammy of bad luck.”

Tivis recalls the first time he met Kent while he was managing a local record store.

“I met Richard in a music store and heard him trying out some reeds for a saxophone and knew he wasn’t from around here because I recognized right away that he was a professional player,” Tivis said.

Before Katrina, Kent had been a professional musician in New Orleans for 20 years. He was a graduate of the University of North Texas back in the 1975, and was recorded on a Grammy nominated album with the Texas State Jazz Band.

“He wasn’t a property owner in Na-

Music with motive

See Benefit on page 3

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Swimming coach makes a splash

The Texas A&M Women’s Swim-ming and Diving team added another winning member to the program that has won three Big 12 team titles in the last five years. Last week the Aggies add-ed Tanica Jamison, former University of Pittsburgh assistant to the coaching staff as the team’s new assistant coach.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to work with a great swimming and diving pro-gram like Texas A&M,” Jamison said. “They are driven competitors and they have a championship mindset. I’m very excited about getting the opportunity to coach with and learn from [Head Coach] Steve Bultman, and hopefully I can help the Aggies continue to build their program.”

Jamison is a 2003 graduate of the

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City of Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski announced Saturday he will not run for the recently vacated seat in the Texas House of Representatives.

“After much discussion, thought and prayer, I have de-cided to remain in my current position as Mayor,” Bienski said. “While I appreciate the encouragement of folks here and in Austin, I decided that there is simply too much un-finished business in the City of Bryan to leave the mayorship.”

Bienski said that he would to participate in the hiring of the next city manager, finish the negotiations on the Research Valley Biocorrido and finalize a long-term agreement with the Brazos Valley Animal Shelter.

“Since I have been the point person for the city on these projects, I just did not feel good about leaving them un-finished,” he said.

Bienski has served 14 months of a three-year term as mayor of Bryan. He also served on the Bryan City Council for two terms.

Bienski would have cam-paigned for Fred Brown’s seat on the House of Representatives in a special election in Novem-ber. Brown resigned after 13 years in the Texas legislature to run a car dealership in Temple,

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Seth McK-inney, former A&M and NFL football player who also ex-pressed interest in the position,

also said that he would not run for the empty seat. Former Brazos County Tax Assessor and Collector Gerald “Buddy” Winn is still considering running for the candidacy.

Bienski said he and his team have tried to move Bryan in a positive direction.

“We restructured City Hall, making it more efficient for leaner times, while still invest-ing heavily in streets, police, fire, core services and economic development,” he said. “Plus, we were able to bring both cities together on projects like BVSMA and the Biocorridor.”

Bienski also said that fam-ily concerns played a part in his decision to not run for the empty seat.

“One of the key factors was that my kids are young, and I just was not excited about not seeing them and missing out on their activities during the leg-islative sessions,” he said. “In the future this may be less of a concern, but for right now, quality time with my family is my number one priority.”

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Truck driver arrested in roadside abductionA truck driver has been charged with abducting a woman who was walking home after her vehicle had broken down on the side of the road in Southeast Texas, authorities said. The woman was walking to her family’s Liberty County home about 1 a.m. Saturday when the suspect forced her into his 18-wheeler on U.S. 59, Capt. Rex Evans of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Offi ce told the Houston Chronicle.“No fi rearm was used, but (the suspect) did have a knife in the truck and a club or a small bat,” Evans said. Family members of the woman who were in the area saw the apparent abduction and followed the truck in their pickup truck, authorities said. They were not able to call for help, because they did not have a cellphone.

nation&worldObama presses leaders for debt deal in 10 days President Barack Obama said Sunday that “we need to” work out a debt deal within the next 10 days as he convened a meeting with congressional leaders, aiming to fashion a defi cit reduction package for the next 10 years. Obama and the eight top House and Senate leaders assembled in the White House Cabinet Room for about 90 minutes during a rare Sunday session, less than 24 hours after House Speaker John Boehner abandoned plans to negotiate a massive $4 trillion deal for reducing the debt. As the meeting opened, Obama and the leaders sat around the table in Sunday casual dress. Asked whether the White House and Congress could “work it out in 10 days,” Obama replied, “We need to.”

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vasota – he’s just a musician -- he won’t get an insurance

settlement, he wont get anything, his stuff is gone,” Tivis

said. “We’re just doing this because he’s a musician and mu-

sicians band together.”

Kent has been through a series of tragedies in the past six

years. A Katrina victim in 2005, Kent lost his residency and

was forced to move to Navasota to start over. He took a job

as a security guard and caretaker at the 108-room meditation

center where he worked until the facility burned down in

the fire. Once he lost his home in the fire, Kent went to

Tivis for support.

“I felt like Felix in The Odd Couple,” Kent said. “I

showed up on his doorstep and said hey I’m homeless, how

have you been?”

For the past three weeks Kent has been stay-

ing in an RV “graciously” loaned to him by the Tivis’

which has been a wonderful experience considering t

he circumstances.

“I couldn’t be happier during this transitional period,”

Kent said.

Kent said he doesn’t know what his plans are for the fu-

ture but the fundraiser gives him hope.

“It’s fantastic, I am completely overwhelmed,” Kent said.

“I had no idea that it was going to be an event of this mag-

nitude – I am just astonished.”

Al Davis, the trombonist for Midnight Express,, said he

related to Kent’s situation because, being from New Orleans,

he saw the devastation Katrina caused.

“Richards a great guy and I know the pain he felt during

Katrina; that, as well as the pain he went through during the

fire just demonstrates Richard’s resilience,” Davis said. “Not

many people can go through one tragedy, but to go through

two tragedies and still come out in the right mind is amazing

— he’s a tough guy.”

Cynthia Williams, a faculty member in the performance

studies department at Texas A&M gave a moving rendition

of “At Last” with Francisco Farias, a PHD student, on guitar.

Williams said that for such a short notice, Tivis put on the

event effortlessly. However she isn’t surprised, seeing as Tivis

is like a “well-oiled machine.”

“Hopefully this event will raise enough money for Mr.

Kent to get back on his feet,” Williams said. “This is a very

worthy cause and hopefully we can help him and support

him in any way that we can.”

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Jay Kapadia— THE BATTALION

Attendees listen to music and watch live performances during a benefit concert for Richard Kent Sunday at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center.

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University of Texas where she was an 11-time NCAA All-American. She has continued to swim competitively while coaching. In 2010 Jamison broke six national age group records at the U.S. Masters Short Course Nationals in Atlanta, Ga. She is a two-time U.S. National Champion, a World University Games gold medalist and a two-time U.S. Olympic Tri-als finalist.

“She has competed at a very high level for many years and that experience will be a big plus for us,” Bultman said. “She has swum un-der some very good coaches, and she’s always been a student of the sport. I think she knew she wanted to be a coach and she was definite-ly observing coaching techniques and styles.”

In her time at Texas she was the 2000 Big

12 Freshman of the Year and was a two-time team captain while also being selected as the team’s Most Valuable Swimmer in 2003. Jamison’s ties to Texas give her ties to A&M, where as a Longhorns coach, she built a rela-tionship with the A&M athletes and staff.

“I think Tanica can have a big impact on our team,” Bultman said. “She can combine her experience as a swimmer at those high lev-els with what she’s done in coaching so far. In talking to some of her former coaches, they said very good things about her—her work ethic, her leadership. They talked about her ability back when she was a swimmer to be intuitive about what she needed and helping her teammates. She’s definitely has a passion for the sport and for helping swimmers reach excellence. She has already worked with three girls on our team when she was at Longhorn Aquatics, and they are very excited about Tanica joining our program.”

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LOS ANGELES— It was one small step for man, and one small price that just wasn’t enough.

A strip of fabric shorn from the American flag before it went to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts pulled in a top bid of $60,000 at a Los Angeles auction on Sunday, but didn’t meet the auction house’s minimum reserve price of $95,000 and was not sold.

For now it will stay in the possession of owner Tom Moser, the retired NASA engi-neer who rescued it from the trash in 1969.

“When you’re dealing with a unique item there’s no way to anticipate either value or interest, so it’s really a blind item,” said auc-tioneer Michael Orenstein. “I would say we established a market.”

Orenstein had earlier expressed hope that the strip from what he called “the most-viewed flag in American history” along with a photo bearing Neil Armstrong’s autograph would fetch $100,000 to $150,000.

Orenstein said sometimes there would be minimal interest in an item then, “I put it in the next sale and it goes wild. That’s the nature of the auction business.”

Other items at the space-themed auc-tion met or surpassed expectations including a Collier trophy — the so-called Oscar of aviation — that was awarded to the crew of 1962’s Mercury 7 mission and sold Sunday

for $12,500.Orenstein said the auction as a whole was a

big success with a 95 percent sell-through rate.But the hopes were highest for the seven-

inch strip of red and white fabric on consign-ment from Moser, the retired NASA engineer who was tasked with designing the moon-bound flag in the weeks before Apollo 11’s 1969 launch.

NASA’s original plans didn’t involve plant-ing a flag on the moon because of a United Nations treaty prohibiting nations from claim-ing celestial entities as their own, Moser said.

But after Congress slipped language into an appropriations bill authorizing the flag’s placement as a non-territorial marker, Moser was told to design a flag that could survive the trip to the moon and be planted on its surface upon arrival.

With the spacecraft’s tiny interior too cramped even for a rolled-up flag, Moser de-vised a way to fix an aluminum tube with a thermal liner for the banner on the outside of the vessel, he said.

NASA staff bought an American flag off the shelf of a nearby store and Moser had a hem sewn along its top, so a telescoping aluminum rod could be inserted to hold the banner out straight on the gravity-free moon. On the moon, the rod didn’t extend its full length; the consequent bunching is what makes the flag look like it’s blowing in the wind.

The Associated Press

Piece of moon-bound flag won’t sell at auction

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