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The baton has been passed — along with the ballet shoes, wigs, costumes and props.
Marianna Jarrett opened Spotlight Dance Studio on Aug. 1. Her mother, Donna Cesario, longtime owner of Donna's Dancers, closed her business in June. Cesario danced for 42 years, and decided it was time to step aside — or perhaps waltz aside, as the case may be.
"My legs won't do what they did," Cesario notes.
Jarrett, who will be 23 in September, grew up in her mom's dance studio.
"The bus would take me to the dance studio after school," she remembers. "I didn't know I wanted to teach dance until my senior year in high school."
Cesario was hospitalized and Jarrett took over classes for a week.
"I thought, this is what I'm meant to do," Jarrett says. "Once I got the taste for it, I loved it."
Her mom has always loved kids and loved dancing. In a family of four children, lessons weren't in the cards — until Cesario came down with a mild case of polio, and the doctor recommended exercise to strengthen the 2-year-old's legs.
"They put me in dance classes," Cesario says. "It just happened to be my one and only talent."
Jarrett likes the location of Spotlight, which is on Brenner Avenue just a couple of blocks from Catawba College. Already, the school's drama department has asked her to teach mambo and salsa classes. She's also offering a barre sculpting class that combines ballet, pilates and yoga.
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Cesario will continue teaching classes, including eight-week sessions of shag and ballroom dancing, as well as classes for 2- to 3-year-olds and 6- to 8-year-olds.
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"We are offering a broader variety of classes," Jarrett says, "and I would love to include salsa, too."
Jarrett hopes to complete her degree in dance education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but her family is taking priority for now. She and husband, Kiel, have a son, Waylen, born March 28.
Jarrett keeps Waylen while her husband works, and then he takes over when she leaves for the studio late in the afternoon.
"I know what to do here in the studio," she says. "It's not brand-new. Luckily, my husband is very supportive. That's been a big help. He's my studio handyman."
Jarrett continues to offer dance in a Christian environment, just like her mom did.
"I feel like my daughter is safe here," says Leighann Haglan, whose daughter Alee, 11, is a dance student. "She learns dance as an art. I know I'm not going to see her do something that's inappropriate for her age. I like the values. It's so built Alee's self-confidence."
In the dance studio's lobby hangs a huge poster of a pair of ballet shoes with the Martha Graham quote, "The body says what words cannot."
Situated above a cream-colored sofa are two fuchsia stars framing the saying, "Love what you do."
Jarrett's laughter echoes from the dance room around the corner. She's clearly doing just that.
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When Is a Prince Not a "Prince"?
What's emerged in conversations lately (due mostly to Richard Prince's refusal to permit reproduction of his much earlier work for a catalog accompanying an exhibition of it) is a question about authorship, specifically whether an artist can essentially rescind authorship because the earlier work no longer represents their current vision. Can Richard Prince declare that for all intents and purposes an earlier work he created is not "a Richard Prince"?
Roberta Smith summarized the situation in a recent review:
About three years ago Michael Lobel, a professor of 20th-century art at Purchase College, began excavating Mr. Prince's pre-fame roots and found more than 50 early works that had been idling unseen in public, private and corporate collections around the country. All had been made, exhibited, sold and occasionally even written about in the middle 1970s.I'll get right to it: as a gallerist working with artists at the beginning of their careers, this pisses me off. Kathryn Markel and Ellen Sragow galleries presented Prince's work in their spaces in good faith as worthy of purchase, in other words, as accomplished art. Maybe not the most maturely resolved art, but unquestionably as the art of Richard Prince. And there's no evidence to suggest Prince had any problem with it at the time at all. For him to rescind that status now throws into question whether anyone should ever consider buying an artist's earlier work at all.
[...] Mr. Lobel also unearthed some ambivalence. In the exhibition's catalog he notes that Mr. Prince implied in a 1988 interview that he had destroyed all his early work. He also points out that Mr. Prince's early New York shows at the Kathryn Markel and Ellen Sragow galleries, listed in the catalog of his 1993 Whitney Museum show, have been omitted from the chronologies of two recent books about him. So perhaps it was not entirely surprising when he declined to participate in the Neuberger show, as did his dealer, Barbara Gladstone.
Mr. Prince also refused permission to reproduce the works in the exhibition's catalog, although its clever design (by Beverly Joel of pulp, ink) has compensations. With blank rectangles, complete with captions, where the images should be, the slim gray volume is something of a participatory Conceptual Art piece. Read Mr. Lobel's meticulous descriptions, and draw in your own Richard Princes!
Now I understand the desire to control the entire context of one's work. I get the desire to erase or blur one's embarrassing youthful follies, but once a piece has been sold (and many of the works in the Prince exhibition had been), there is IMO an obligation to live with that choice. I'm not saying an artist shouldn't destroy the earlier work they still have if they reach that point of recognition where it makes them cringe, but once they've cashed the check from selling it, they're obligated to let it stand as a product of their efforts (or at least obligated to buy it back [at current market value] and then destroy it). They've agreed to a social contract by accepting money for it, IMO.
Prince could have handled this in a whole host of better ways in my opinion. Perhaps he's pissed because he suspects (as I do a bit) that this exhibition is opportunistically trying to capitalize on his recent financial success, but he still owes the collectors who paid for that earlier work more than this. He could have offered to participate in the exhibition on the condition that they published a preface to the catalog explaining how he felt this earlier work differed from his current work or something. But to essentially un-endorse it is a disservice to those collectors who supported him early on and that's incredibly arrogant.
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And fashion week begins!! I kicked off the week at the IFB conference over at Milk Studios in the Meatpacking District. There, I spoke on the panel "Business and Blogging" along with a few other well known bloggers. It was a really great event and it was pretty refreshing to hear more about the business side of blogging and getting to answer the many questions our readers have in regards to how to market themselves, negotiate rates, connect with clients, etc etc. I was so surprised that my fellow panelists were supermodel Coco Rocha (whom I LOVE), the CEO of StyleCaster, as well as a few other personal style bloggers including Aimee of the blog Song of Style. After just arriving back in NYC from LA, my life (and closet) has literally been all over the place. Being in a constant rush to run out the door that morning, I threw on a very simple yet beautiful maroon skirt along with a cozy cropped sweater. I love how something elegant and girly can be toughened simply with a leather jacket. Layering was a must as the city has been receiving more rain than a girl in 5 inch stilettos can handle! Luckily, the weather has changed and the sun is out, giving us all out at fashion week a little break. I am beyond excited to attend my very first runway show, Nicole Miller, at Lincoln Center tomorrow! I'll be sure to keep you updated on my NYC fashion week events!
And for all my fashionistas in town, MEET ME tomorrow night Saturday, the 10th (6pm-8pm), as I host the TOPSHOP event in Soho (478 Broadway)! Food and Drinks for all!!


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Nob is the common misspelling of "noob", commonly mispelled by illiterate Mexicans, Brazilians, and just about anyone from South America, or people who aren't English in origin. Other common examples by such people are "nib" and "nb". Such people actually believe their misspelled version of Noob is correct, and will not correct their spelling or even acknowledge they're doing it wrong.
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1) nob- noob with a single "o".
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the appendage that projects from a male groinage, also known as a peni. this protusion is used for stabbation of females unless the nob in question expands due to fellow nobs, these nobs should be removed. when the nob enjoys itself it produces a substance which is the staple diet of cock monsters
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Michael Schär (24th place) and Alessandro Ballan (66th) were the only two BMC Racing Team riders to survive Sunday's difficult final stage of Circuit Franco-Belge.
Typical Belgian Race
Jeff Louder and Simon Zahner were in an early move in the 164-kilometer race that ended on a circuit. "It was a pretty technical finale and you had to be very strong and on your game," Louder said. "Lots of gutter riding and echelons." Schär said he tried to look after Ballan, who finished 36th overall. "We came pretty good over the climb (but) it came down to a sprint," Schär said. "I had the wheel of (stage winner) Wouter Weylandt with 400 meters to go, but got boxed in, so it was not a good sprint for myself. We are all happy that we didn't crash."


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Faculty Profile
Adrian S. Onas
Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture
Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009
Appointments at Webb Institute:
Assistant Professor of Naval Architecture, 2011
Other Professional Experience:
Adjunct Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009 - Present
Naval Architect/Senior Surveyor/Tonnage Coordinator, Det Norske Veritas, 1999 - Present
Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant, University of New Orleans, 1997-1998
Deck Officer on ocean-going vessels, 1994-1997
Work Experience:
Seventeen years of experience in the Maritime Industry in Europe and the United States including four years at sea. Over twelve years of work with ships and mobile offshore units classification plan approval, certification of materials, components and systems, newbuilding surveys including sea trials, shipyard and marine product quality assessments.
Carried-out, verified and coordinated the execution of tonnage calculations and confirmatory surveys for newbuildings, conversions and operating ships and mobile offshore units under U.S. Flag and foreign Flag. Single point of contact (POC) for DNV in North America to USCG, Marine Safety Center (MSC-4) for tonnage admeasurement under USCG Alternate Compliance Program (ACP).
Research experience in the high-speed towing tank at Davidson Laboratory, Stevens Institute of Technology with monohull and multihull models. Research work included calm water resistance, roll damping, forced roll and dynamic stability.
Research experience with nonlinear ship motion program WASIM, including time-domain simulations of roll decay, forced roll and parametric roll resonance in regular seas; frequency-domain simulation experience, including the study of trimaran roll response in beam/oblique seas and the resonant wave trapping modes in forced roll and forced heave oscillations. Investigated two nonlinear roll damping models using forced roll tests with a specially designed forced roll apparatus.
Current research is focused on tank wall effects on trimaran roll added mass and radiation damping and validation of forced roll oscillation simulations in WASIM. Numerical towing tank implementation in WASIM is validated by experimental investigation of the hydrodynamic coefficients of a monohull and trimaran in restricted channels at forward speed.
Involved in logistics, work verification and reporting of results related to towing tank and ocean basin tests on a flexible model of a high-speed vessel in regular and irregular seas in order to verify the analytical predictions of the hull girder structural loading, including slamming induced whipping, and confirming the operational profile.
Courses Taught, 2011 to Present:
Ship Vibrations
Naval Architecture V: Ship Dynamics
Ship Design III
As an adjunct at Stevens Institute of Technology:
OE 520 Design of Marine Structures (Ship Motions)
OE 532 Total Ship Design II (Ship Structures)
Important Publications and Presentations, 2009 to Present:
Onas, A.S., Datla, R. - Experimental Analysis of roll damping of a trimaran with varying side hull
stagger and transverse spacing; Presented at WMTC 2009, Mumbai, India, Proceedings.
Onas, A.S., Datla, R. - Nonlinear Roll Motions of a Frigate-type Trimaran, 2011 FAST Conference.
Professional Development Activities:
Attended SNAME Annual meetings.
Attended SNAME/ASNE New York Metropolitan Section meetings.
Regularly attend Annual Tonnage Conference at the USCG Marine Safety Center (MSC-4).
Attended meetings with the Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS).
Honors and Professional Recognition:
Det Norske Veritas, Ph.D. Scholarship, 2006-2009
Torvald Klaveness Cadet Fellowship, 1993
Professional Memberships:
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE)
International Hydrofoil Society (IHS)


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All of our handmade packs and bags are built to last in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Our factory, where we have been building our products since 1911, is home to an extremely talented group of sewers, riveters, and leather craftspeople. Each piece of Duluth Pack gear is painstakingly built by hand with the attention and detail that only a true artisan can provide. We stand behind our work and are proud to offer a lifetime warranty covering all craftsmanship and hardware we use in the construction of our products. Craftsmanship includes our sewing and riveting. Hardware includes all zippers, buckles, D-rings, snaps, and any other parts utilized in the manufacturing of our bags. If at anytime during the life of your Duluth Pack product you have problems in these areas, return the product and it will be repaired free of charge. If the product cannot be repaired due to a defect in craftsmanship or faulty hardware, we will be happy to replace the item at Duluth Pack's discretion. While your Duluth Pack item is designed to provide you with many years of use, Duluth Pack is not responsible for common wear and tear or misuse of your product and is therefore not covered by our warranty. Of course, damages not covered under warranty can usually be repaired at a minimal cost. We sincerely value your patronage and will always do our absolute best to go the extra mile to ensure that you are happy with every Duluth Pack purchase.
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Just got my custom Rucksack, and it is love at first sight. I've been eyeing this pack for over 2 years and finally made the plunge. Added a top grap loop, 2 side lash tabs, and a hanging pocket on the inside for just a bit more money. Duluth was wonderful answering all my questions and getting back to me with my requests. The pack is gorgeous and just how I wanted it. The waxed canvas is beautiful and substantial. The leather straps will need breaking in, but I know from experience that once they are broken in this will be my most comfortable pack. And a huge thank you to Carolyn for making me such a wonderful pack! I can't say enough about the customer service and the quality workmanship. I will continue to recommend Duluth to my family and friends.
Posted on 11/30/2012 by backpackmidwife
- Great looking and functional pack/purse
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I used this rucksack on my trip to Washington. It has all the room you need for day hiking and more. I had two light jackets with me, camera, kindle, wallet, and water bottles for 4 people. It is larger in capacity than it looks on the picture. Only drawback I experienced is that the straps are really wide and hard, and are placed so far apart that the leather in between the straps tends to buckle out and stabs you in between the shoulders. Duluthpack should sew the straps closer together on the top and that will be fixed. Other than that, awesome pack in looks and functionality. I will be using this every day, so I'm hoping when the leather wears a bit the issues will be resolved. Thanks Duluth pack, I love your product.
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I've had this pack for 7 years...used and abused all over Alaska. Way better than any nylon pack ever made. My only wish is for a slightly larger version.
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After lusting after my partner's Rucksack, I finally got one about 2 yeas ago. What a great pack. Here a a few of my favorite things: 1) low profile when not full. 2) fits easily and well over a winter coat! 3) comfortable on a bicycle, 4) leather top flap doubles as a mat for a packed lunch, 5) holds a surprising amount of stuff. It's built to last--about a year ago, my big dog chewed a 1-inch tear into the beefy leather strap. I was able to stitch it closed with leather lacing, and it has performed perfectly since. That says a lot. Recently, our Rucksacks accompanied both of us to New Zealand (along with my Rambler). It was simply perfect on the plane, in the airport, on city walks and bike rides, hiking on beaches, and on the grueling 1-day Tongariro Crossing. And it looks great.
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This bag has been all around the world with me. I use it to commute to work on my bicycle, to travel internationally. Breaks in nicely over time. Quality is superb.
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First of all the picture on the website does not show the true beauty of this pack. I am constantly getting compliments on how nice this pack looks. But looks is not why I purchased this pack. This pack is great! It holds more than you would think. In the main compartment there is enough room for a rolled up windbreaker type jacket, extra t-shirt, water bottle, a couple of books and magazines, toiletries, PSP, small laptop and lunch with room to spare. The external pocket is perfect for passport, small notepad/pens, mini flashlight, ipod, keys, wallet etc...The leather straps are more comfortable than any padded modern pack I have owned. It is a perfect size for air travel. This pack also slips on and off with ease yet fits snug to your back above the waistline. The construction is solid. I also love that when you open up the main compartment, right next to the Duluth tag is an American flag tag, reminding me how much it is worth it to pay a few extra bucks for a quality American product. The only down side to this pack is that it does not have a hand carry loop on top but this pack is so good it really does not matter.
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Carbide moisture testing
Carbide moisture testing
Flooring and adhesive manufacturers have determined tests they honor by choosing tests that reveal the slab conditions which may affect flooring performance. They don't test for color. They don't test for compressive strength. They don't measure the thickness.
What flooring manufacturers wanted to know for about 60 years is how much moisture was in the slab. The previous test of choice was the absorption test using calcium chloride (CaCl) pellets in a dish placed under a plastic sheet (later a dome) which gave a rough indication of the amount of moisture coming from the concrete. They knew that fresh wet concrete emitted a lot of moisture, and in a number of ways that moisture damaged flooring and adhesives. The CaCl test was a way to try and quantify the amount of slab moisture by measuring the rate of moisture emission as the slab equilibrated with its surroundings. This worked well as long as it really didn't matter! We had different adhesives then and they were very alkali resistant.
When we switched to more environmentally friendly adhesives we began to have an increasing number of flooring failures associated with moisture. The old CaCl test wasn't revealing the true moisture level of the concrete as it was easily fooled by steel troweled concrete, sealers, dirt and debris from construction activities and ambient atmospheric conditions.
More recently in this country, we have realized in-situ, or inside-the-slab, moisture testing is a much more reliable and accurate determination of the moisture remaining in the concrete, and more importantly, we have seen that even concrete with a low moisture emission rate can fail miserably if the internal moisture content is high. I call this moisture content the 'Potential' a slab has for failure. High moisture content means the slab has a high potential for failure.
Some folks in the flooring moisture mitigation industry have started asking us to perform the carbide test (D-4944) to prove their mitigation system is functioning. This test is commonly used to test soil moisture. It is not a recognized test by any flooring manufacturer that I know of. While the test may accurately reveal moisture in a sample of concrete that is tested, we need to consider what the results mean to us, and then how we correlate the test data with our know requirements for flooring moisture requirements. This is a job better left to scientific labs!
We do know that a concrete floor remains wetter at the lower horizon of the slab and it dries from the top. We also know that at a depth of 40% of the thickness of a concrete slab we find the same amount of moisture as we will find when the slab is sealed and the total moisture is allowed time to equilibrate throughout the slab. These facts have been proven and documented, and are the basis for F-2170 in-situ RH testing.
My questions then for the proponents of carbide testing are:
1. From where within the slab do you harvest the concrete specimen for testing and why?
2. What mechanical means do you use to harvest the sample, and does that affect the moisture level of the sample?
3. What correlation between test results and manufacturer's requirements can you show?
JD Grafton
Concrete Answers for Flooring Problems
J[email protected]
09-18-2012, 11:01 AM, (This post was last modified: 09-18-2012, 11:06 AM by eaadams.)
RE: Carbide moisture testing
They don't test for color.
- color is used as a basis of examination though, burned slabs and dusty slabs have distinct colors.
They don't test for compressive strength.
- they do require compressive PSI tests.
They don't measure the thickness.
- I think they do in that we look at slab construction for floor recess, curling issues, joint spacing & other joint issues.
I'd like to add a 4th question:
4. What is the cost and who carries the burden.
I add this because one of the largest issues with getting GC's to use RH testing is the cost. They have all been doing CaCl testing for years by 'throwing a test kit on the floor'. While doing it wrong it is still cheap. Carbide testing sounds expensive to me and as such should be the sole purview of the PE doing the owner's testing. To put this burden on flooring or mitigation people will only cause the same issue we have had with CaCl. CaCl is not done because it is correct but because it is cheap (and even cheaper to do wrong). You will never get good acceptance of Carbide testing if the burden falls to the GC's or subs because flooring manufacturers will have to keep allowing CaCl and RH testing (since everyone uses those now) and the GC will always choose the low bid, cheap way to do something.
Wood Flooring Reference to Carbide Testing: http://www.fastfloors.com/media/fastfloors/installationguidelines/hardwood/04-Chap3.PDF
RE: Carbide moisture testing
My contention is that using a cheap test that is close to worthless is more expensive than doing a better test that may cost a tiny bit more initially.
Why not just test the floor by throwing wet chicken feathers at it and seeing how many fall facing due north? I think the same number of flooring manufacturers recognize that test.
The cost of the test is irrelevant if it doesn't provide the results you need to go forward.
JD Grafton
Concrete Answers for Flooring Problems
[email protected]
09-18-2012, 02:02 PM, (This post was last modified: 09-18-2012, 02:27 PM by eaadams.)
RE: Carbide moisture testing
Using a test that is so expensive to do that it is never used is almost the same as chicken feathers.
The point is the specification, to put such a test on div 9 is absurd. It is bad enough I am loosing work by almost the exact cost of my Wagner meters because the cheap sob's just throw a kit on the floor.
If you were to compound it with a new "carbonate" test it would further break the system. Bad enough that I have to talk to structural engineers who don't know what RH is, I talk to concrete contractors who don't know what RH is, the only people who know about RH in my part of California are flooring people and most choose to not use it to guarantee they have lower bid prices. If I had to do a Carbonate test my bids would only go higher.
And don't fool yourself into thinking you can add a 'carbonate' test without the flooring mfg's still listing #/% numbers. Manufacturers would love to add a 3rd test it gives them another out on claims.
RE: Carbide moisture testing
Perhaps you misunderstand my position on carbide testing....
It is a soils test being spec'd by silicate pushers because they think they can fool people into believing it means something.
The way they are testing means nothing to anyone in the flooring industry.
As for CaCl testing, it is nearly worthless for determining the potential a floor has for failure. I'd rather put in 5 Wagners at a cost of $200 (including installation and reading) than 7 CaCl tests for the same cost, when the CaCl tests tell you nothing about the condition of the slab, and the results are unreliable.
JD Grafton
Concrete Answers for Flooring Problems
[email protected]
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