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Local 10-year-old: 'Cheerleading is my football'
Published: Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 10:24 a.m.
Sarah Brown gets a running start.
Sarah's Tricks
Here are a few of the tricks Sarah's mastered so far. Many of these skills are combined to help a tumbler gain momentum and create long tumbling passes.
-- Roundoff: Similar to a cartwheel, but the tumbler lands with both feet together on the ground instead of one foot at a time.
-- Aerial: Similar to a cartwheel, but the tumbler's hands do not touch the ground.
-- Back handspring: The tumbler flips backward, touches the ground and pushes off from the ground using his or her hands to "spring" back and land upright.
-- Back tuck: The tumbler jumps up, tucks his or her knees into the chest and flips backward. The hands never touch the ground.
-- Layout: The tumbler jumps up and flips backward while keeping his or her body completely straight. This is usually preceded by a roundoff or a back handspring to gain momentum.
-- Full Twisting Layout: Similar to a layout, but the tumbler twists their body around completely while in the air.
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She bends down to the ground and her hands hit the soft, green grass in the lot next to her Houma house. The rest of her body springs into action, flipping over and over as she makes her way from one end of the lot to the other.
She bursts into a fit of giggles when she lands on her feet. There's a lot of energy packed into this 10-year-old's body.
Sarah discovered a love for tumbling years ago during a sleepover with a friend who did cheerleading. As she watched her friend practice her routines, she decided it was something she'd like to try.
"She taught me how to do a back handspring," Sarah said. "So I did it and I thought 'Well, this is easy.' "
Before formal training Sarah would routinely be seen during recesses practicing routines on the St. Matthew's Episcopal School grounds.
After getting as far as she could self-taught, Sarah began taking tumbling classes once a week at La. Sports Gym in Houma. She learned how to do a round-off back tuck — a back flip with a running start — on her first day.
She said her coach, Rusty Talbot, was impressed with what she'd learned on her own.
"He said he was so amazed by what I could do," she said.
Rusty said Sarah has progressed quickly since she started tumbling at the gym a year-and-a-half ago.
"She just showed so much talent," he said. "It's her passion for the sport combined with natural talent."
And she always wants to improve her skills, Rusty said.
"She comes in and she's just got a smile from ear to ear," he said. "All she talks about is what she can do better and how she can get it right."
Though she's got nearly a dozen tricks down pat, Sarah wants more.
"There are so many other things I need to learn," she said.
Sarah goes to the gym three days a week for a couple of hours each day. Her mom, Sonda Brown, said she can't get enough.
"She loves it," Sonda said. "She would go five days a week if we let her."
After she'd been tumbling at the gym for a while, Sarah wanted to join one of the gym's competitive all-star cheerleading teams.
The team, LA Sensations, requires members to attend multiple practices each week and several competitions throughout the year. Sarah's parents were apprehensive.
"She wanted to compete last year," Sonda said. "But we told her we didn't want her doing that just yet."
The 10-year-old proved that she could handle the responsibility by working hard at school and helping out around the house. Her parents decided she was ready for the team earlier this year.
"I told her as long as she keeps her grades up, she can do it," Sonda said. "She's very determined."
Sarah immediately qualified for the gym's most-skilled team. She's its youngest and smallest member, so she was chosen as a flyer — the person who is thrown into the air.
But Sarah isn't scared.
She practices on a small mat in the living room, coming dangerously close to the windows, walls and television.
She lets her teammates toss her high into the air and trusts that they'll catch her every time.
"She has no fear," Sonda said. "She'll keep going until she finally gets it right."
Her parents don't always feel the same way.
"It makes me so nervous when they throw her up in the air," Sonda said. "Sometimes I just can't watch."
But the fear washes away when they see their daughter doing what she loves. Sarah's dad, Gary Brown, said he can tell how much fun she has at practice each day.
"When you get her to that gym and she's walking inside, she just glows," he said. "It makes her so happy."
Her parents say they hope their daughter's talents will eventually earn her a college scholarship, but for Sarah, cheering and tumbling is all about the love of the sport.
"It's just fun for me," she said. "Cheerleading is my football."
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I enjoyed the show. Juan Deuce was a really good performer and had a lot energy to start the show. Prolyphic did his thing. Ceschi was my favorite of the openers. He had a Why?/90s indie band thing going on with his rapping which broke up the show really nicely, and I felt like the crowd was super into him as well, so there was good energy for it and everything.
B. came on and laid waste to the mic. Did some of the new stuff, which I liked a lot. The Whose Side are you On song is really really great. And the ODB piece is sort of the grown up not awkward sibling to the justin timberlake piece from the last house of bees recording. In some ways it's a 50 ways type breakdown of the fame machine components.
There was a funny part where B brought a guy up for a dance off who was actually really good at dancing, so it was funny to see that play out, funnier than if the guy couldn't dance. The mustache hat stuff was funny.
Sage came on and joined B for some songs and that was fun to see. Even though I think the last time I saw B. was the also last time I saw Sage--it feels like it's been forever since I've seen Sage rap at a show--so it was a definite treat.
The new house of bees stuff sounds like it's going to be better than the last one. I think the current music sounds very much like "from ground zero of the beginning of the apocalypse" type thing, whereas maybe the last two albums were living in the fallout debris of said apocalypse and looking back. There's an urgent immediacy to it, certainly not helped by it being 2012, with Rick Santorum rounding on the White House.
So that's what happened. It was nice to see friends again. Even though I'm not from Rhode Island, it does feel a lot more like home than home. The good home you want to go back to. Not the bad bergman film home.
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Golden-crowned sparrows arrive in my yard each year on Sept. 18 plus or minus two days. I buy my black oil sunflower seeds the week before in anticipation of their arrival, and they never disappoint. There are always about 20 that line up for breakfast. Two weeks later, a modest collection of about 10 dark-eyed juncos descend from the hills to join them. Again, I can set my calendar by their arrival. These are predictable events.
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Why are varied thrushes visiting this year but not in the previous few years? Great question. The better than average madrone berry crop this year offers a partial answer. It's more likely that conditions farther north in Alaska and British Columbia, where most of these birds breed, could offer a better clue.
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If you are not fortunate enough to have varied thrushes visiting your yard, Lithia Park is a good place to see them. In spring a few remain to breed locally. Their concerts can be heard in the shadows up Wagner Creek and among the towering forests about Union Creek. And, of course, you always can head to the redwoods.
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With the Atlanta Falcons so determined to keep the 49ers quarterback from galloping free, Kaepernick simply found other options on his read-option play.
And that proved confounding for the Falcons, who succeeded in stopping Kaepernick from running wild ... and not much else.
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The Falcons tipped their cap to Kap after the quarterback looked nothing like he did a week earlier. Against the Green Bay Packers, he had 181 rushing yards. Against the Falcons, he had one designed run for minus-2 yards. (He also had a 23-yard improvised scramble.)
The 49ers planned for this kind of game. Running back Frank Gore said he heard all week how Atlanta was going to have a spy shadow Kaepernick. That meant the Falcons would have a defender -- the "spy" -- responsible for staying in front of the mobile QB in case he tried to run, and Gore was a willing double-agent.
"I just knew after hearing the Falcons say all week, 'Spy on Kap. Spy on Kap. Spy on Kap,' that there would be some opportunities," the running back said. "So I told him today: Just make sure you take care of yourself. Be great and make good decisions."
Kaepernick helped maximize the confusion of the read option by showing his passing would be a threat, too. He completed 16 of 21 attempts for 233 yards and a 127.7 passer rating.
That's why Sunday's quarterback looked different from the one who faced Green Bay. "The difference is ultimate conflict we can create when he's throwing like he's throwing," offensive coordinator Greg Roman said.
Kaepnerick's only designed run in this game came midway through the third quarter. On a first-and-10 play from the Falcons' 25, he tried to run around right end, but linebacker Akeem Dent hit him for a 2-yard loss.
Without lanes to run in, Kaepernick had to stay patient.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and the rest of the 49ers have come too far -- literally and otherwise -- to get bounced from the NFL postseason tournament now.
Last week, they took a harrowing trip into the ice age and survived both the permafrost and a prickly challenge from the Green Bay Packers.
This weekend, the 49ers flew cross-country to face flash flood warnings around town Saturday, and Sunday they'll get a rematch against Carolina, which beat and beat up the 49ers in November.
And the 49ers will survive all this, too.
Why? Because the 49ers are destined to play the Seattle Seahawks to decide the NFC championship next Sunday in Seattle, and that means the 49ers are destined to beat Carolina on Sunday.
The 49ers also are destined to beat the Panthers because -- the Nov. 10 Candlestick meeting aside -- the 49ers are the better team, with more ways to win, and with the coach and quarterback set up to win these kinds of games.
The 49ers' biggest edge: Harbaugh over Carolina's Ron Rivera, coaching his first playoff game.
The 49ers' most intriguing matchup: quarterback Colin Kaepernick vs. Panthers QB Cam Newton, also playing in his first playoff game.
With all other things being equal, and they mostly are, Harbaugh and Kaepernick are the two biggest factors for the 49ers in this game.
They're also the two biggest reasons why the 49ers have come so far as a team since that 10-9 loss to the Panthers in their ninth game of the season.
Harbaugh has managed this season with the playoffs in mind the whole time, and it's showing now.
The 49ers defense looks fresh, and the offense has gotten a jump-start since receiver Michael Crabtree returned from his torn Achilles.
And after his early-to-midseason slump, Kaepernick is doing a 2012 flashback: rocketing through defenses and playing without the tentativeness that doomed him against Carolina the first time.
That was not a pretty game or a proud game for the 49ers, who took an early 9-0 lead but couldn't get into the end zone and lost when Carolina scored a touchdown near the end of the first half and kicked the winning field goal in the fourth quarter.
But beyond the scoreboard, it was a telling game: The 49ers gave up six sacks, committed two turnovers, watched Kaepernick struggle throughout ... and still lost by only a point.
This past week, I asked Harbaugh if he thought the 49ers generally played decently in that game.
"We didn't win the game," Harbaugh said. "That's the criteria that we judge ourselves on how we played as a team."
But did you think you matched up physically with Carolina?
"Physically matched up? Yes," Harbaugh said emphatically. "Yes."
That's an enormous point, because the Panthers can be dominant physically and at times overwhelmed the 49ers in November.
But only at times. And that wasn't the reason the 49ers lost the game.
The 49ers lost because Kaepernick didn't make the plays that were there, because the coaching staff abandoned the run game too quickly, and because the defense broke down one time (on DeAngelo Williams' 27-yard touchdown run).
Overall, the 49ers defense stopped Newton and the Panthers offense -- and I think everything points to the 49ers D doing it again Sunday.
Can the 49ers offense get into the end zone this time? It all depends on the 49ers' ability to sustain drives -- because of bad field position and their own struggles on third down, the 49ers had only 21 offensive plays in the second half.
"It was a weird game," 49ers tackle Joe Staley said.
The 49ers also lost because Crabtree was out and Vernon Davis was knocked out in the second quarter after registering one catch for 2 yards. Both are healthy now.
All the same anti-49ers things, of course, could happen again Sunday, or Carolina could win by swamping the 49ers in different ways.
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"Usually the game comes down to what both teams do best," 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said, "and that's probably what's going to happen Sunday."
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Prediction: 49ers 17, Carolina 13.
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In a statement read on state TV late Wednesday, spokesman Yasser Ali said that President Mohammed Morsi recalled the ambassador and asked the Arab League's Secretary General to convene an emergency ministerial meeting in the wake of the Gaza violence.
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text: JUANITO, sencillamente: Juanito Márquez LATEST RELEASES | FREE NEWSLETTER | GIFT CERTIFICATES | VINYL | CART CONTENTS MORE NEW RELEASES SSL September 29, 2008 JUANITO, sencillamente By Raul Fernández Juanito Márquez When you meet and talk with Juanito Márquez you are impressed by his humility, his gentle demeanor, his sencillez. Most people would not guess that they are in the presence of a true musical giant. His significant contributions to the development of Cuban popular music have been largely unnoticed by music fans, even Cuban music writers, though not so by his fellow professional musicians. Juanito Márquez represents an exception among Cuban popular musicians of the 20th century in that he excelled in three separate branches of Cuban music. He composed some Latin jazz tunes that became standards of the style; wrote the music and lyrics of several notable boleros including one of the classics, Alma con Alma; and contributed significantly to the evolution of Cuban dance rhythms (pilón, Mozambique, pa cá) in the 1960s. The story of Cuban music from 1950 to 2008 is inseparable from the musical labors of Juanito Márquez. The life tale of this revered musician among musicians began in the old Oriente province of Cuba where he was born Juan Rafael Márquez Urbino in Holguín on July 4th, 1929. His father Juan Márquez Gómez was a consummate classical guitarist and orchestra leader. Márquez senior had been born in nearby Mayarí and studied music with Spanish musician Caynet Iluibigildo and others. The older Márquez taught music to numerous students in the region, eventually founding municipal music bands first in Puerto Padre and later in Holguín. Juanitos mother, Carola Urbino was a teacher before dedicating herself to the tasks of the home and raising her children. Juanitos uncle Captain José Urbino was a veteran of the Cuban War of Independence which began in 1895, and fought alongside General Antonio Maceo in the latters famed campaign that took rebel troops in a march across the entire length of the island. Juanitos aunt, Teresita Urbino, was a gifted teacher who taught 6th and 7th grade in the public schools and ran her own private school, the Grave de Peralta Academy, in Holguín. Juanito grew up in a very musical ambiance. One older brother played guitar, another played trumpet, and a sister played piano. Juanito began playing guitar on his own around age seven, and began formal studies with his father at age twelve. As a teenager he played in several trios that performed the repertoire of the popular ensembles of the moment like the Trio Los Panchos. The trios also engaged in serenading around Holguín sometimes accompanying a famed local sonero Faustino El Guayabero Oramas (composer of many saucy and double-entendre tunes one of which, !Ay candela!, was popularized world-wide by Buena Vista Social Club). After taking arranging and orchestration classes with his father, Juanito began to try out his own arrangements of what we now call Latin jazz with the Orquesta de los Hermanos Avilés, a time-honored institution in Holguín. His first professional success as a composer/arranger came in the early fifties. Juanito mailed his Latin jazz composition and arrangement La Feria de los Siglos, as the carnival in Holguín was named, to bandleader Bebo Valdés who at that time was busy trying out his ritmo batanga over the radio in Havana. Bebo promptly replied thanking Juanito for the work, and soon enough Bebos orchestra was playing it. A few years later Bebo was to record the tune with his Orquesta Sabor de Cuba; at the piano for that tune making his first professional recording was a young Chucho Valdés. Juanito also started to send dance music arrangements to Havana orchestras. He prepared Pituka la bella and the cha-cha-chà Naricita fría for the Orquesta Riverside. Pituka became part of the standard repertoire of the Orquesta Aragón as well. Venturing into the romantic song field in 1956, he sent a bolero in the hopes that popular singer María Luisa Chorens would record it with Orquesta Riverside. Chorens did sing the tune although she never recorded it. Instead, Riversides director Pedro Vila asked Juanito to prepare an arrangement for a male voice: in the subsequent interpretation sung by Tito Gómez Alma con Alma became one of the classic boleros of the Cuban repertoire. (Many years later Alma con Alma would become part of the soundtrack of the 1993 Hollywood film Carlitos Way.) In 1956 Juanito traveled to Venezuela for the Caracas Carnivals with the Hermanos Avilés Orchestra in which his brother played trumpet. He was brought in at the last minute to play timbales, the orchestras timbalero having fallen seriouslsdy ill. Juanito had never played percussion but had the advantage of knowing all of the arrangements well (after all many of them were his own) and especially the timing of the key cierres (pauses) which characterize much Cuban music. After a 2-week crash course he was the timbalero of the orchestra during its Venezuelan sojourn. During the trip Juanito listened to joropos, and became fascinated by the sound of the Venezuelan merengue (which has nothing to do with the Dominican merengue) in particular the lilt obtained by rhythmically juxtaposing 3 against 2. Upon his return to Holguín he composed a dance tune inspired by the Venezuelan merenguemthat he called Arrímate pa cá (on this tune more below). Juanito also began to send arrangements to Venezuela for Orquesta Casablanca and to Puerto Rico for César Concepcións Orchestra. Sometime before 1959, Juanito traveled to Havana where he orchestrated some music for the Enrique González Mantici Orchestra which played on the CMQ radio station in a show named "Cabalgata." During this trip he made his debut as a jazz guitarist in Cubas capital, playing in a guitar duo with Pablo Cano at a jam session at the Tropicana nightclub sponsored by the Club Cubano de Jazz. Back in Holguín, Juanito continued to send arrangements to Havana orchestras while playing Latin jazz at the Club Ochenta in Holguín with a small group that included the superb, if famously eccentric, pianist Luis Mariano Avilés Cancañón. In 1961 during a trip to Havana, Juanito recorded the core of his Holguín group's repertory of Latin jazz in an album entitled Juanito Márquez y su Combo. Rafael Somavilla, Jr., played the piano on two of the tunes, Lecuonas La Comparsa, and Llavimaso, (which is Somavilla backwards) written and arranged by Juanito. Llavimaso became a classic of Havana jazz. More than 30 years later Paquito DRivera would record it under the name Fifty-fifty on his CD Forty Years of Cuban Jam Sessions. Cancañón played piano in the other cuts which included another classic descarga, Tumbao No. 1. The others in the recording groups were Nilo Argudín (trumpet), Papito Hernández (bass), Guillermo Barretto (drums and pailas), Oscar Valdés (conga), Roberto García (bongo), and Gustavo Tamayo (guiro). Just before that trip Juanito participated, in 1960, in Omara Portuondos recording debut LP Magia Negra in which he and Julio Gutiérrez did the arrangements and Juanito played guitar in Andalucía. In the same year Juanito released his first LP Cuba Sax Cha Cha which got its title from a tune by that name that he composed. The recording featured an alto saxophone solo by Jesús Caunedo; other soloists on the album were trombone player Quillo Caturla and lead trumpet Leonardo Timor. Although he still traveled back and forth to Holguín, by the early 1960s Juanito Márquez had settled in Havana where he worked 24-7. He arranged dance tunes for Enrique Bonne and Pacho Alonso; canciones for several womens quartets that were popular at that time, such as Voces Latinas and the Hermanas Valdivia; prepared numerous arrangements for composer and bandleader Julio Gutiérrez; arranged for vocalists Luis García and Blanca Rosa Gil; arranged most of the tunes for Felipe Dulzaidess jazz album As Time Goes By; accompanied classical music diva Marta Pérez in a concert for television; joined Cachao for a jam session that was recorded but has not been widely available; played occasional jazz and Latin jazz descargas with Frank Emilio Flynn and other jazz musicians A musicians musician, Juanitos work at the arranging craft was largely hidden from public view. But his name became better known amongst music lovers because of events which helped define the musical character of 1960s Havana. First there was the development of his pa cá dance rhythm as part of his pa cá show at the Salón Caribe in the Havana Libre (formerly Hilton), for which a bit of background is necessary. Between 1964-1966 three new dance rhythms appeared more or less simultaneously in Cuba: the mozambique, the pilón and the pa cá. Curiously, the name of Juanito Márquez is associated with all three of them. Pello el Afrokán Izquierdo launched his mozambique dance rhythm in 1963, although he had experimented with the mozambiques drum orchestra format already in the 1962 Havana carnivals. Even earlier, Santiago de Cubas Enrique Bonne had brought a large drum orchestra ( the tambores orientales) to the Havana carnivals, which may have encouraged Pellos drum orchestra ideas. In the midst of the mozambique boom the Orquesta Aragón visited Holguín for the 1964 carnival season where they alternated with the Hermanos Avilés Orchestra. Rafael Lay, the Aragón arranger, became excited over two of the tunes played by the Hermanos Avilés: the danzón-chá Dulce de Guayaba and the Venezuelan-rhythm inspired Arrímate Pa cá, both composed by Juanito Márquez. Soon Aragón recorded both tunes and Arrímate Pa Cá became a big hit played by other groups such as Roberto Faz, Neno González, and Pello el Afrokán. Pellos mozambique-styled version became dominant in the air waves, first using Juanitos original lyrics and later changing them, while keeping the melody, and re-titling it Mozambique de la caña. Also in 1964, Enrique Bonne recorded the ritmo pilón dance style which became identified with the pilons main interpreter Pacho Alonso. Juanito Márquez was present in this new development as he was the arranger of the first two pilón ever recorded, Baila José Ramón, and El bajo cun cun, the success of which led Pacho Alonso to record his own Rico Pilón. It was in this context that in 1965, Juanito officially launched his pa cá rhythm on a television music program and in the cabaret show Ven pa cá which was featured for several years at the Salón Caribe of the Habana Libre hotel. The show included dance choreographies of the pa ca rhythms, instrumental music, and Juanitos guitar playing prowess; he was featured as a guitar soloist in the intermission between the two parts of the show delighting the audience with his interpreations of Tabú, Mi Delirio and other Cuban bolero and canción classics. The pa cá tunes showcased included Pituka la Bella, Dulce Guayaba, Ya llegó mi comay, and Cuidado con la Vela.(This last tune would become part of the soundtrack of the 1994 Hollywood film The Specialist.) One young member of the orchestra who was busy composing his own tunes for dancing received much advice from Juanito. Years later this musician, Juan Formell, became the renowned leader of Los Van Van. Said Formell in 2003: A mí me enseñó mucho un señor que ya no vive en Cuba que se llama Juanito Márquez, quien inventó el ritmo pa ca, y era el director de la orquesta del Habana Libre en los años sesenta. Y aprendí mucho de orquestación con él... In 1966 in Radio Progreso stations Juanito brought together some of Havanas best musicians for another edition of instrumental descargas. The result Descarga Latina by Combo Siboney featured Orlando López Cachaíto, Orestes López Macho, (whose piano can be heard in several of the tunes), Enemilio Jiménez, Generoso Jiménez, Armando Armenteros, Roberto García, Guillermo Barreto, Tata Güines, Rolito García and Orlando Reyes. Juanitos guitar playing was featured in La Clave del Futuro, and in Ecué, Ecué, an Afro-rumba by Tata Güines where Juanito comps with his electric guitar a brilliant conga solo by Tata. While the LP Descarga Latina did not get much circulation, Juanitos and Tatas mano a mano was included by the French label Chant du Monde a few years later in an album celebrating the Santiago Carnival. By the late 1960s Juanitos tunes had become staples of Cuban music. He was widely regarded as a progressive musician who utilized techniques from jazz and symphonic music and applied them to popular tunes. In 1967 at the Sopot International Popular Song Festival in Poland, Omara Portuondo featured Juanitos Como un milagro, a song widely regarded as an outstanding example of the jazz-influenced filin style. Three decades later, in 1997, Omara would record Como un milagro accompanied by Chucho Valdés on piano. Before leaving Cuba for Spain in 1969, Juanito was, in the words of Leonard Acosta the countrys top arranger. Juanito moved to Spain in 1969 where he began to work with help from Ernesto Duarte. For the first two years he performed as a studio musician playing both guitar and bass for a variety of recordings, which included some by vocalists Raphael and Julio Iglesias. He also arranged music for singers Lucho Gatica and Antonio Machín. At the same time he managed to engage in brief tours playing jazz sometimes alternating with the genial Catalan pianist Tete Montoliu. In 1971 Juanito obtained a contract as an arranger for the Spanish label Hispavox, a company for which he would work for the next five years. He became the arranger for all of Hispavox's productions. In addition, he directed the recording orchestras, managed the recording sessions, and often played the guitar and bass lines in some of the recordings. From the top Latin jazz and Cuban music arranger in Havana, Juanito had moved to the center of the pop ballad and pop rock wave which took over the music world (Cuba included) in the late sixties and the seventies. Between 1971-76 Juanito arranged several hundred tunes for a wide variety of artists in the pop and pop-rock styles including the highly successful José Luis Perales, Paloma San Basilio, Tony Landa, Mari Trini and Massiel. Juanito was always interested in the new sounds of popular music. He released an album of his own music in 1973 entitled simply Márquez in which he revisited his pa cá and included some Arsenio Rodríguezs inspired Cuban themes, all updated with the electronic instrumentation that characterized the decade of the 1970s. Simultaneously, in Cuba, Chucho Valdés was bringing the sound of electric instruments, i.e. electric bass, synthesizer, etc, into the early Irakere. Márquez followed closely the development of rock-and-roll as well. In 1973 Hispavox released a unique recording by Juanito Márquez entitled Juan Márquez, El hombre de la guitarra. The album featured emblematic hits of the great rock groups of the 1960s, i.e. "Bad Moon Rising," by Creedence Clearwater Revival; Ruby Tuesday by the Rolling Stones; Spinning Wheel by Blood, Sweat and Tears, and so on. Juanito was featured on guitar in every tune, actually seven different guitars: three electric (Les Paul recording, 12-string Fender, and Gibson stereo); two acoustic (12-string Gibson, and 6-string acoustic); a classical guitar; and a Fender bass. Hispavox followed up in 1974 with another rock-and-roll music release with arrangements and guitar solos by Juanito entitled Instrumental Sonido Torrelaguna (Torrelaguna is the name of the street where the Hispavox studios were located.) Although economically the situation in Spain was very attractive, Juanito moved to Miami in 1976 because otherwise he might lose the opportunity to migrate to the United States with resident status. In his first years in the U.S. he worked in a studio that had been set up in Miami by Pablo Cano and Papito Hernández, arranged for R& B groups, composed commercial jingles, and did arrangements for CBS records. As earlier in his life when he arranged for orchestras in Havana while living in far away Holguín, now he occasionally arranged for New York orchestras including an arrangement of Julio Gutiérrez s "Inolvidablemente," for Tito Puentewhile residing in Miami. Soon the musical art of Juanito Márquez would become key to the Latin music sounds emerging from Miami in the 1980s and 1990s. He participated as composer, arranger and guitarist in dozens of significant recordings which established a characteristic Miami-sound in Latin music. He contributed tunes, arrangements and his own guitar playing for successful recordings by emblematic Miami-based artists: Gloria Estefan, Willy Chirino, Israel López "Cachao," Jon Secada and Albita Rodríguez, among others. Of his many labors we wish to highlight only those that gathered the most public attention. Central to his contributions to the Miami-sound have been his collaborations with Gloria Estefan. In 1985, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and their Miami Sound Machine, were finishing what was going to be their third and last album contracted with CBS Records, the first two having met with limited success only. Márquez was tasked with arranging a basic conguita for which he devised the piano tumbao by Paquito Hechavarría, and he himself played a 12-string guitar modified to imitate the sound of a típico Cuban tres. The result of Juanitos work was Conga which became an international hit and catapulted Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine to immediate fame. In 1986 Juanito contributed music, guitar, lyrics, arrangements, and his own tune Dulce Guayaba to Willy Chirinos Zarabanda album. Later he became thoroughly involved in the production of Gloria Estefans 1993 Grammy Award-winning Mi Tierra. He arranged 8 tunes, which included the Cubanization of Estefans songs, and the music and lyrics of three tunes of his own: Ayer, Sí señor, and Montuno. Juanitos collaborations with the late Israel López "Cachao" also left a mark on Cuban music in Miami and beyond. Márquez participated in Cachaos Grammy-Award winning 1993-1994 Master Sessions Vol I and Master Sessions Vol II, contributing arrangements and the sound of his guitar to both releases. Of special note was his composition and arrangement of Mi Guajira, for Master Session Vol II in which he was featured with a guitar solo. 1995 was also a productive year for Juanito. He arranged several tunes for Jon Secadas recording Amor, which included two of his own, classic, compositions, "Como un Milagro," and "Alma con Alma." With this recording Secada obtained his second Grammy as Best Latin Pop Artist. Márquez also produced Albita Rodríguez' CD No se parece a nada, in the same year, a recording for which contributed arrangements and his guitar and bass playing. In conclusion it must be said that few, if any, Cuban musicians, can claim such varied success in separate musical styles, to have excelled in composing for the mind (Latin jazz), the heart (boleros), and the body (dance rhythms). Juanito is also the only Cuban musician who over the course of 40 years became the most renowned professional orchestral arranger in three major global cities (Havana, Madrid, Miami) covering the gamut of popular music expression: boleros and ballads, pop-rock, jazz and Latin jazz, son montuno, R&B, danzón, mambo. Juanitos Latin jazz tunes and his romantic boleros are performed and recorded on both sides of the Florida Straits. His contributions have had a significant impact on Cuban music and Latin jazz everywhere and have been long recognized by musicians. It is time that his creativity receives the broad recognition it richly deserves. Professor Raul Fernández teaches at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of several books and articles on Cuban music, salsa and Latin jazz including Latin jazz: the perfect combination. His most recent book, entitled HABLANDO DE MÚSICA CUBANA,is composed of 10 biographical essays of Cuban musicians based for the most part on one-on-one interviews conducted by the author in Havana, New York, Miami, Stockholm and other cities over the last 15 years. Musicians featured include Tata Güines, Cachao, Richard Egües, Bebo and Chucho Valdés, Celina González, Celia Cruz, Chocolate Armenteros, Mongo Santamaría, and a special essay on Cuban legendary sonero Ignacio Piñeiro. [Home] [Editor's Picks] [Power Search] [Category Search] [Artist Search] [Journal Archives] [Glossary] [Meet The Writers] [About Descarga] © Copyright 2015, Descarga.com. All rights reserved. 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With the approach of Valentine's Day, love is in the air and a number of local events and activities are planned to celebrate the holiday.
Some of the events being held throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley include:
In Marietta, The Castle will hold its annual Victorian Valentines Workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at 418 Fourth St.
The cost is $10 a person with all materials included. Pre-registration is required due to limited seating by calling 373-4180.
Participants will watch a short presentation on the history of valentines and learn a few Victorian tricks on how to make Valentine's Day meaningful. They can model their projects on an antique card and tweak it, or create something truly unique. Everyone will be able to take home at least one completed card.
The Betsey Mills Club in Marietta will celebrate Valentine's Day with a wine and dessert tasting at 7 p.m. Saturday at the club at Fourth and Putnam streets in downtown Marietta.
The cost is $20. The Betsey will feature several fine dessert wines paired with designer desserts. Wine specialist Larry McDaniel will be the host and raconteur for the evening, which will take place in the Betsey's dining room.
Seating is limited and reservations are recommended by calling 373-4981.
The Just By Chance Barbershop Quartet is planning two days of singing valentines on Monday and Tuesday in Parkersburg and Marietta.
The quartet has been booked to sing love songs and present more than 200 fresh roses to four groups and several individuals this year.
Quartet baritone Lew Yeager, of Marietta, said an individual Singing Valentine consists of two or three love songs plus a fresh rose for the loved one, presented in the home or office of the recipient. The cost is $35 and the contact via email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Yeager said for the first time the quartet has been engaged to sing valentines for four groups, ranging from 20 ladies in a local plant and 40 women in a medical office, to hospital lunchrooms where they will sing to dozens of men and women as they enjoy their noon meal.
The other three members of the quartet are tenor Greg Sutton of Spencer, lead Will Wilburn of Pullman and bass Larry Tarrant of Parkersburg.
In Parkersburg, the Knights of Columbus will host a sweetheart dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday at 1010 Market St. in downtown Parkersburg.
The dance is open to the public and the cost is $10 per person. The KOC will provide snacks but participants can also bring their own.
The Parkersburg Moose Lodge, located in south Parkersburg on West Virginia 95, behind Napoli's, is sponsoring a Seniors/Valentine's Dinner and Dance on Saturday.
A dinner buffet will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. and the cost is $7 per person. Entertainment will be provided by Gary Cunningham from 8 p.m. to midnight. The event is open to all seniors.
For information, contact the Parkersburg Moose Lodge at 304-422-3506.
On Sunday, the Parkersburg Choral Society will present a concert celebrating the role of music in the annual commemoration of love featuring music from many genres, including classical, pop, folk and jazz.
Led by conductor Luke Zyla, the concert will be at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Parkersburg. The choral society will be joined by an instrumental combo including John Schlabach on trumpet, Randy Brannon on clarinet and saxophone, trombonist Sheila Wiseman, Marge Hamperian, the accompanist for the society on piano, guitarist Chris Craig, Rocky Wiseman on electric bass and Jeff Edman on drums.
The concert is made possible through the donations received at the door from audience members, annual donors and the support of Artsbridge. A reception will follow the concert and there will be door prizes.


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Yellowstone Wolverine Study Completed
A final report was just released from a study of wolverines in the eastern portion of the Greater Yellowstone area (not to be confused with a complementary study of wolverines in the western GYA by Wildlife Conservation Society that is still ongoing). The eastern GYA study documented the movements of seven wolverines from 2005 - 2009. Some of its key findings include: (1) wolverines are even rarer than expected in Greater Yellowstone, with many areas of suitable habitat vacant; and (2) Yellowstone's wolverines have a low reproduction rate, large home ranges, and similar survival rates compared to wolverines elsewhere in the western U.S. The researchers also pioneered a helicopter-based survey method that reliably mapped wolverine distribution across their >10,000 sq. mi. survey area. The portion of the Absaroka Range north and east of Gardiner, Montana and the Thoroughfare region south and east of Yellowstone were the most important areas for wolverines in this study (yet wolverines use other areas of the GYA according to studies by Wildlife Conservation Society and Wild Things Unlimited, for example).
This eastern GYA study drives home just how hard it is to study this rare and elusive alpine carnivore. The researchers logged a total of 5,248 trap nights, which is equivalent in effort to putting out a single trap every day, all year long, for more than fourteen years! This amazing amount of effort yielded just seven captures of four unique individual wolverines. Again, if put in terms of a single trap open and maintained yearlong, this is equivalent to trapping one wolverine every two years, and one unique wolverine every 3 ½ years! Regardless of one's opinions on Montana's legal trapping season for wolverines, the loss of one of these precious research animals to a Montana trapper was clearly unfortunate.
One take-home message from this study is that the current vacancy of large portions of suitable wolverine habitat in Greater Yellowstone deserves more study. Even with this "partial" occupancy, the GYA remains an important refuge for wolverines because of its large contiguous expanse of wolverine habitat, which may become still more important due to the projected decline and fragmentation of these areas due to global warming.
Link to the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative webpage where you can download a pdf copy of the final report.
Link to the Yellowstone Park Foundation, the principal funder of this study.


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Knitter's Review
August 28, 2003
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Dark Horse has provided CBR with an exclusive First Look at the covers for "Hellboy" Volume 5, "Lobster Johnson" #5 and "B.P.R.D.: Hell On Earth: O'Donnell"
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Ryan Lindsay gives "Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand" #1 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Tonci Zonjic 4 stars, saying, "with quality this good, you should definitely be supporting this book."
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We spoke with artists James Harren, Tyler Crook, Jason Latour and Max Fiumara, each of whom will draw a new chapter in Mike Mignola and John Arcudi's "B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth" saga, throughout the spring.
Dark Horse has provided CBR with exclusive first looks at "House of Night" #2, "Baltimore: The Curse Bells," the "Brody's Ghost" one-shot and "Kull: The Cat and the Skull" #3, releasing December 14.
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Creators from Guillermo del Toro to John Cassaday to Mike Mignola himself reflect on the shocking events of "Hellboy: The Fury" #3 as the big red guy is celebrated just as his story gets more interesting.
Greg McElhatton gives "Hellboy: The Fury" #3 4.5 stars, saying Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's miniseries as a whole "has been worth every penny and a lot more to boot."
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SPINOFF reports on Hellboy creator Mike Mignola publicly stating his belief that Guillermo del Toro, writer/director of the live-action "Hellboy" films, will not return for a third movie starring the BPRD agent.
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The harnessing of the atom to develop a nuclear bomb 70 years ago unleashed a magnitude of terrifying destruction the world had never witnessed before. The same atomic power also resulted in an "atoms for peace" program, which gave the world nuclear power as a clean source of energy and benefited humanity in the development of nuclear medicine, agriculture, and sciences.
Since its establishment in 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has recognized the need to promote the peaceful purposes of nuclear power while concurrently ensuring that its destructive nature is not proliferated. The brute fact remains that the same fuel-cycle technologies, uranium enrichment and reprocessing that are essential to power a nuclear reactor can, with adjustments, produce material to fuel the core of a nuclear explosive. The challenge remains in controlling the spread of such dual-use nuclear technologies that can be developed and used both for civilian and military purposes. The risks of not managing this process properly are consequential and dire.
The obstacles. Today, 14 states worldwide either operate or are building enrichment plants, while 10 have reprocessing facilities on their soil. Combined, they have produced enough weapons-usable material for over 200,000 nuclear bombs. According to recent estimates by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there are currently 440 operating nuclear power plants in the world. Sixty countries are considering nuclear power (many of which are located in unstable regions), out of which 10 to 25 countries are expected to bring nuclear power plants online by 2030. The World Nuclear Association's conservative estimate on the total number of power reactors expected to come online by 2030 is nearly 600. If states that buy reactors also build uranium-enrichment facilities (such as Iran) or reprocess spent fuel (such as North Korea), they will be equally capable of having the opportunity to develop the technology needed to build nuclear weapons. Theoretically speaking, any of these states can climb the nuclear stairway to within reach of a mushroom cloud while remaining within their international obligations.
The nuclear fuel cycle process needs to be further tightened. Two years ago, former head of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei said, "pretty soon" the world will probably have "another 10 or 20 virtual weapons states," that is countries with the technical know-how and material to build a nuclear weapon rapidly. In a world with additional enrichment and reprocessing capabilities, the risks of theft of fissile material and threat of nuclear terrorism -- particularly in unstable regions or areas of lax security -- are greatly magnified.
There have been successive calls over the years to address the systemic flaws inherent within the current nuclear nonproliferation regime, which has failed to adequately address the dangers of the spread of reprocessing and enrichment capabilities. The concept of providing international nuclear fuel supply guarantees as an alternative for states that may choose to develop their own domestic enrichment and reprocessing facilities has been advocated for years by the arms control community. But this initiative has largely gone nowhere for three main reasons. First, the "haves" refuse to transfer their own sensitive know-how and fuel-making technologies, implicitly asserting that these activities are only allowed for certain countries. Second, the "have-nots," in particular during recent years the Non-Aligned Movement, cite this refusal as further unfair discrimination by the "haves." Moreover, these states feel that it is within their sovereign right to develop or expand their capabilities for peaceful nuclear activities that include all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle. Third, an international fuel consortium poses substantial operational and political complexities that would be difficult for an international agency to manage effectively.
The options. Motivated by many states' resurgent interest to acquire nuclear power, nonproliferation advocates have refocused global efforts to control access to these sensitive nuclear technologies.
The full contents of this article are available in the July/August issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and can be found here.


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Rihanna recently visited Chris Brown in rehab, prompting his girlfriend Karrueche Tran to dump him.
Yeah, this should end well.
A source told the New York Daily News that in late January, Rihanna flew on a private plane to visit Brown at the Malibu rehab center where he is serving a court-ordered stint in an anger management and drug recovery program. She supposedly spent a few hours at the center with Brown, and then jetted back out of town.
When Tran -- Brown's other on-again, off-again girlfriend -- found out, she dumped him, of course. Because that would be the healthy response in a situation in which everyone makes really good choices.
"With Chris in rehab, (he) and Karrueche spoke every day and she stood by his side. She took a vacation to Turks and Caicos and told friends the entire time that they were really good and happy together," the source told the Daily News. "She trusts Chris, but when it comes to Rihanna, she has a zero-tolerance policy. Then she found out about the trip."
Apparently, she no longer trusts him.
Oh, and the insider says Tran hates Rihanna. Go figure.
Brown apparently wasn't the one to spill the beans and initially denied that he saw Rihanna.
"She believed him, but he finally admitted that Rihanna had come to see him. She put her foot down and cut him off completely," the source said.
I wish I had something better to care about.
On March 5, Tran tweeted, "Not dating anyone stop w the bs."
Yes ... please.
Rihanna's rep reportedly did not return the newspaper's attempts to garner comment for the story. Brown's rep called the visit a "rumor" and declined further comment.
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