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Music with motive Musicians put on benefit concert for friend harmed by wildfires Natalee Blanchat The Battalion 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 Farias, 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 fundraiser, is a local musician and entertainer in Brazos County and runs a jazz session — 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 during jam sessions. “Many times we’ve seen the community 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. “Richard 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-
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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 flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho declared “this is it” as he gave the OK for the final docking in space shuttle history. Flashbacks to the shuttle’s very first space station docking — with Russia’s Mir in 1995 — flooded his mind as viewed the shuttle on the screens. He was a NASA trainee back then.
texas Public mourns for fan BROWNWOOD, — Relatives, friends and fellow firefighters 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-first 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. Associated Press
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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.
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nation&world Obama presses leaders for debt deal in 10 days President Barack Obama said Sunday that “we need toâ€? work out a debt deal within the next 10 days as he convened a meeting with congressional leaders, aiming to fashion a deďŹ 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,â€? Obama replied, “We need to.â€? Associated Press
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Attendees listen to music and watch live performances during a benefit concert for Richard Kent Sunday at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center.
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 musicians 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 staying 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 future 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 magnitude – 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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Piece of moon-bound flag won’t sell at auction The Associated Press
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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 engineer 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 auctioneer Michael Orenstein. “I would say we established a market.� Orenstein had earlier expressed hope that the strip from what he called “the mostviewed 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 auction 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
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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 Trials 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 under 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 definitely observing coaching techniques and styles.� In her time at Texas she was the 2000 Big
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 seveninch strip of red and white fabric on consignment from Moser, the retired NASA engineer who was tasked with designing the moonbound flag in the weeks before Apollo 11’s 1969 launch. NASA’s original plans didn’t involve planting a flag on the moon because of a United Nations treaty prohibiting nations from claiming 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 devised 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.
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 relationship 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 levels 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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