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NEWS / TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
HEALTH
Beat the heat and UV rays
Local company brings safe tanning option to Lawrence
Lyndsey Carroll, a Spring Hill junior, receives a spray tan ever in the comfort of her own home. Red Carpet Tanning, based in Kansas City Mo., offers the service in Lawrence.
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BY LINDSEY CARLTON
editor@kansan.com
With a business on wheels, Ryan Imming and his wife, Anya, bring their product straight to their customer. Their company, Red Carpet Tan, provides customers with an airbrushed tan in the comfort of their own home.
Red Carpet Tan is based out of the Inmings' home in Kansas City, Mo., but they are looking for business in Lawrence.
"I know the college market pretty well and feel our service would make a great fit for students," Ryan Immaging said.
The Immings started their business this year after a year of training to become airbrush certified. While tanning at home has been done by Hollywood's stars and seen on reality shows such as "Real Housewives of Orange County," the Immings saw an open market to bring home tanning to the Midwest.
Imming said he is proud to offer his customers a product that comes with no negative side effects.
Unlike bronzing in a tanning bed, spray tans don't expose the skin to ultraviolet rays. Even high-pressure tanning beds, which are found at some tanning salons and known for being safer for the skin
than a basic level tanning bed, still do harm to the skin. High-pressure beds filter out type B UV rays, but type A rays still reach the skin.
patients interested in getting some color before a vacation should use spray tans over tanning beds.
"It's hard enough to protect yourself from the sun," Angel
said. 'It's not smart to expose yourself to those harmful rays on purpose.'
Because of
According to the American Skin Association, tanning permanently damages the genetic structure of the
"I thought the experience was more professional and comfortable by getting it done in my own home instead of a salon."
skin. When the genetic structure of the skin's outer layer is affected, the risk of skin cancer rises significantly. It has also been found that people 35 and younger who use tanning beds have a higher
The Immings recently began advertising in Lawrence and have already attracted the attention of at least one KU student. Lyndsey
LYNDSEY CARREL Spring Hill junior
risk for mela-
"I know the college market pretty well and feel our service would make a great fit for students."
risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
specials to draw in customers.
"I know tanning is something a lot of college students do, which is why I want to offer them an alter-
the harmful effects of the UV rays, dermatologists discourage the use of tanning beds. Dr. Celeste Angel, a dermatologist at the Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center's Leawood location, said
RYAN IMMING
Owner, Red Carpet Tanning
native," Imming said.
The Innings use the same equipment and solution as tanning salons that provide spray tans, so they said they are relying on their convenience and group
Carrel, Spring Hill junior, had never had a spray tan done before, but was happy with the results she received from Red Carpet Tan.
"I thought the experience was more professional and
comfortable by getting it done in my own home instead of a salon," Carrel said.
The airbrush process takes less than 30 minutes,but the cosmetic bronzer's active compounds continue to work for about six hours after the treatment to bring out color in the skin. The visible results of a spray tan are equal to tanning in a tanning bed about six times.
The spray tan lasts 10 to 14 days. Moisturizing makes it last longer. The spray tan fades like a regular tan, caused by the loss of dead and excess skin cells.
Red Carpet Tan offers groups rates for those interested in hosting a tanning party.
Edited by Cory Bunting
Drum up excitement
Robert Van Sice, director of percussion studies at the Yale University School of Music, gives critiques and advice to tympanist David Vernon, Gulfport. Miss. graduate student, during a KU School of Music master class at Murphy Hall on Monday afternoon. Van Sice is also a faculty member of the Pearl Institute at John Hopkins University and has also taught percussion at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands.
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Cory Hills, Springfield, Va. doctorate student, performs a 'percussion story' during a KU School of Music master class at Murphy Hall on Monday afternoon. Hills recited a children's story while accenting phrases and words with various percussion instruments. The workshop was led by Robert Van Sice, director of percussion studies at the Yale University School of Music.
Miguel Rivera, Humacao, Puerto Rico graduate student, performs "Boléro" by Maurice Ravel during a KU School of Music master class at Murphy Hall on Monday afternoon. The performance was part of Monday's workshop in the School of Music.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL
NORMAN, Okla. — CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted terror plots in the U.S. indicate the terror network is changing its tactics.
US efforts disrupt al-Qaida
"We are a nation at war with al-Qaida and its associates. And that war is persistent." Panetta said during a foreign policy conference at the University of Oklahoma. "They remain determined to kill as many Americans as possible."
Counterterrorism operations directed at al-Qaida in recent months have led to the deaths of more than half of the terrorist group's top 20 leaders, Panetta said. Many of the operations were
conducted in tribal areas of Pakistan that were once considered an al-Qida safe haven, he said.
"Our counterterrorism opera
Our coitions have put senior al-Qaida leaders under intense pressure," Panetta said. "We are effectively conducting operations that disrupt the work of al-Qaida, that disrupt their command
to the U.S. who have no history of terrorist activity or documented connection to the organization.
ZaPanetta said four po
"We are effectively conducting operations that disrupt the work of alQaida, that disrupt their command and control."
LEON PANETTA CIA director
"But this is also a war. And they will keep coming at us any way we can."
four people who the CIA did not know were arrested in the U.S. last year including admitted al-Qaida associate Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado airport van driver who pleaded guilty last month to terror charges.
Panetta said there is growing evidence that al Qaida is changing its tactics by deploying people
zi admitted that he tested bomb-making materials in a Denver suburb before traveling by car to New York intending to attack the subway system.
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