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The maid found her. It was close to checkout time on Saturday, October 18, and a member of the housekeeping staff at the Denver Marriott Tech Center used her pass key to enter the room.
One look, and she knew she would not be cleaning the place.
Kauri Tiyme
A woman with long, thick coils of black hair was lying on the blood-soaked bed, her head and neck wrapped in bandages. A scattering of green pills and two cans of Drano were on the floor, bloody towels under the bed, a blizzard of handwritten notes all over. The woman wasn't breathing.
Hotel staff called paramedics, who called the police. Homicide detectives tried to make sense of the scene. The victim had so many injuries that it wasn't apparent what had killed her.
Some of the wounds — superficial, "hesitation" cuts on the upper left thigh and right forearm — could have been self-inflicted. Others, including the deep lacerations on the forehead and the slashed throat, pointed to someone else. There was blood in various spots around the room, suggesting some kind of ongoing attack, yet there were elements of staging and ritual, too. The body had been washed, bandaged, dressed in black vinyl pants and a black sleeveless top, and placed on the bed with care.
The prolific notes were in two distinct hands and seemed to have been written over a period of days. One of the authors was apparently the dead woman, identified by a driver's license as Kauri Tiyme, 39. The other was her ex-husband, Keenu Tiyme.
This all started as a Suicide Pact and I did what I could to ensure Kauri and I succeeded, read one.
Feeling so out of it depressed sad sad and lonely, the only thing making me happy right now is knowing Kauri is no longer dealing with these feelings, read another.
Keenu had evidently not kept his end of the bargain. The notes claimed that he'd tried to kill himself with Drano and rat poison. Hanging didn't seem feasible, and jumping off the hotel balcony didn't appeal to him, either. He "didn't want to cause a scene," he wrote.
An arrest warrant was issued for Keenu Tiyme, noting that he might be driving his ex-wife's SUV. Four days later, federal marshals spotted the vehicle headed northbound on I-25 in New Mexico. A chase ensued. Keenu rolled the SUV. He was taken to Swedish Medical Center in Denver for treatment, then turned over to Denver police.
Keenu agreed to waive his Miranda rights. He told detectives Brian Campbell and Daniel Wiley that Kauri had wanted to die, and he'd agreed to help her find a painless way to do it.
They had considered guns and jumping from high places before checking into the Marriott with the Drano, pills, duct tape and a bundle of disposable scalpels. He had cut her arm and thigh to try to bleed her to death, he explained. He had tried to strangle her. He had then "hit her in the head multiple times with a bottle, cut her throat wide open, and placed his fingers in her neck to stop her from breathing," Wiley reported. "He then washed her body and taped her wounds up before leaving the hotel in her vehicle."
Campbell and Wiley booked Keenu for murder one. They had some idea now of how the woman had died. But the why of it was not so easily obtained.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star," Lord Byron wrote in his epic poem "Don Juan." "How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!"
A dozen years ago, a younger Kauri Tiyme came across "Don Juan" in the course of her voracious reading. She thought Byron was on to something. She copied the lines into her notebook, amid a stream of other quotes from Schopenhauer, Hobbes, the Cure, Plato, Kipling, Dan Simmons, Jung, Shelley, Faith No More, Nietzsche, Auden, Joy Division and the Weekly World News.
She knew what it was like, hovering between two worlds, not fitting in either place. She didn't always know where she stood, what to make of the endless ideas firing through her brain — or, as she sometimes joked, her "Swiss cheese gray matter" — but she knew she was becoming. Life, in her view, was an uncontrolled experiment in quantum physics. It contained worlds within worlds, all constantly colliding, changing, evolving.
Kauri was an artist. She put ink under people's skin and transformed them. In many ways, she was her own finest achievement. Not just the tattoos; she had made her own body a canvas for others, but anyone can do that. What she did was much edgier, more daring. She changed her name, her identity, her ideas as she saw fit. She modified her physique from head to toe: Medusa-like dreadlocks, piercings, transdermal implants (including studs in her forehead), permanent eyeliner, breast surgery and more. She studied alchemy and cryogenics and invested thousands in treatments that were supposed to extend her life and alter her DNA.
She saw her chosen profession's potential to change people at their core — "so that we can sculpt our realities," as she once put it. Clients who got to know her say she had an indelible effect on them, an impact that went well beyond the stunning original designs etched in their flesh. It was something powerful and spiritual and hard to describe. She was, they say, so alive.
All of which made her sudden and violent death, a murder in which she appears to have been a willing participant, nearly impossible for her friends to accept.
"A couple of weeks before she died, Kauri and I hung out and talked about tattooing and boys for hours," recalls Kim Kosnar, a member of the goth-industrial band Darker Days Tomorrow. "I've been around people who've committed suicide or who are depressed. You hang out with artists, you get that a lot. But there was nothing like that with her. No warning signs at all."
Over the course of two decades, Kauri had built an elite reputation as a tattooist while living the life of an urban nomad, drifting from shop to shop and coast to coast, from the Southwest to the Northeast and back again. Eventually, she opened her own place in Breckenridge, with Keenu as the resident piercing specialist. But last spring that arrangement began to fall apart. Kauri filed for divorce and moved to a warehouse space in Denver, which she hoped to turn into an art gallery and live-music venue. She was quickly adopted by a coterie of local musicians and artists.
Friends say her business was growing steadily and that clients from Breckenridge continued to seek her out in Denver. "We had plans together," says photographer Cora Reed. "She wanted to do political salons in her space. She was writing a book on physics. I just can't believe that she wanted to go out this way."
There was a great deal, of course, that her friends did not know about Kauri Tiyme. Most of her Denver acquaintances had never met Keenu, who followed her quietly to the city two months before her death. Even those who met her in Breckenridge knew little about her life before she showed up there. No one even knew if she had living relatives or how to contact them; her unclaimed body was stored in the city morgue for weeks.
But what they did know was her art, her smile, her buoyant personality and relentless energy. "She was probably the most gentle, loving creature I ever met," says Tara Schinn, who had numerous tattoo sessions with Kauri over the past two years and came to regard her as a close friend. "There was a lot happening in her life, but she seemed really happy. I know in my heart Kauri did not want to die like this."
After Kauri's death, Schinn was told by another friend that Kauri had spent $40,000 in the last year on experimental drug therapy — "strengthening your genetics from within, so you live longer, heal faster, get fewer colds," she says. "Why would someone like that, who was a vegan, an avid mountain biker, never smoked or drank, very fit, the epitome of health — why would she want to kill herself?"
People often shape their histories to suit the occasion, embellishing their adventures in order to appear more heroic, tragic, sympathetic or just plain interesting to those around them. Kauri was probably better at reinventing her past than most. It was part of sculpting her own reality.
After her death made the Summit Daily News, some of her Breckenridge friends were surprised to discover that she was 39 years old. She'd told them she was 36, only a year older than Keenu. A small fib, not unusual at all in a youth-obsessed culture, but it made you wonder.
She told people she'd been featured on CNN, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. That could all be true; she was certainly the kind of articulate and visually striking spokesperson who would draw film crews interested in the exploding field of tattooing. But only one transcript of those interviews turned up in a search of standard databases, a 1995 appearance in a short CNN featurette, in which a woman identified as "Kauri McPhillips" is described as having "adorned herself in the imagery of ancient myth."
McPhillips was one of several names she went by. Records indicate she was born Kauri Greene. She told friends she grew up in Arizona, that her grandfather had worked on the Manhattan Project with Oppenheimer and knew Einstein — hence her passion for physics and theories about the nature of the universe. She was an only child, she said, who embraced punk music and a goth look as a teen and stood out like a beacon of darkness in the sunny, affluent sprawl of the Phoenix suburbs.
"She said her father was an investment banker and that they were very close," says Schinn. "She would go into these beautiful stores and people would treat her badly or turn her away. Then her father would come in, all dapper, and announce, 'Pumpkin, we're leaving.'"
Kauri told Schinn that her father had passed away and that she had become estranged from her mother. Another tattoo artist recalls that Kauri's mother visited one of her early studios but "didn't seem too impressed" by her chosen career. (Members of the Greene family did not respond to requests for comment for this article.)
Another longtime acquaintance says that Kauri had planned to become an air-traffic controller; she abandoned her studies after walking into the Enchanted Dragon, a well-known Tucson tattoo studio, and becoming fascinated with the possibilities of the art form. She had pieces done by the Dragon's Keely Tackett, a trailblazer among female tattoo artists, and persuaded Tackett to take her on as an apprentice. The two worked together for a year, and then Kauri went to work at related studios for another three years.
Now living in Costa Rica, Tackett remembers the Kauri of the early 1990s as sweet, sincere and dedicated to her craft. "I can tell you she was a great student who worked diligently toward the understanding of how to tattoo," she says. "Kauri always wanted to belong and feel her purpose on this planet. She was always searching for something to complete her — yet she was too nice to those who did not deserve it and took advantage of her kindness."
Tackett was a member of the wedding party when Kauri married a man in Tucson. The union ended badly — Tackett says the groom had legal and drug problems — and left Kauri devastated. Despite her fiercely independent spirit, Kauri regarded finding the right man, her soulmate, a matter of utmost importance. A letter she drafted to another early love stresses this:
"I know my belief system is odd, if not downright in left field," she wrote to him. "I must admit when I'm with someone I do like to spend a lot of time with that person. It means extravagant amounts to me to just hang out with you!!!...I love you and feel as if I've been with you for a much more extensive time frame than just this time. You used to tell me like sentiments, that you felt that I was a soulmate and you would have caught up with me now or whenever possible no matter what. This struck me deeply, made me feel on top of the world to think we were just a matter of time."
She was disappointed in her personal quest time and again, even as her professional life was taking off. She proved to be an artist of exceptional talent and originality. Her website boasted that she was "capable of doing any kind of custom art, from Giger-esque scenes of horror and doom to full-color portraits," but that doesn't begin to describe the startling nature of her work. Much of her art is conceptual, building on geometric forms or fractals. She designed epic cosmic scenes involving planets, luminous gases and entire solar systems. Yet she could also do delicate filigree, crystalline structures, freehand fantasies and hyperreal vegetation, usually shunning the thick black lines that frame many conventional tattoos.
"She didn't have a specific artist that she followed," says Josh Hibbard of Manakin Tattoo in Pismo Beach, California, who worked with Kauri four years ago. "She had her own way of doing things, to the point where it almost made me uneasy. Certain lines that I thought should connect, she didn't connect. But when the piece was finally done, it was awesome. She'd take people's ideas of what they wanted done and make them her own."
She insisted on an immaculate workspace, the best tools and the highest-quality inks, so that her work had staying power; her clients emerged so brightly hued that people wondered if their tattoos were real or some kind of body paint. And she had a horror of the kind of quick flash work, using standard designs, that she felt was turning too many artists into "copy machines with tattoo guns."
"One of her catchphrases was that she was not running a McDonald's," says Reed. "She was not a flash artist. She was not going to sit in a shop and do butterflies. Everything she did was unique to her and to the client, right down to what colors and tones to use."
Kauri spent several years on what she called her "tour," helping to launch custom tattoo shops around the country and lobbying state licensing boards for higher standards of operation. She went from Arizona to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York. In 2001, she went to Joplin, Missouri, to work in a shop with Jim Peters, an established artist who had met her during her tutelage under Tackett. By now she had her own distinctive style and a new husband, whom she introduced to Peters as Patrick Williams. She called herself Kauri Williams.
Peters remembers Kauri's companion as a quiet, almost passive fellow, the kind of guy who might collect Star Wars action figures and read a lot of sci-fi. The two had apparently met in New York somewhere; Peters never got the whole story. Pat sat in the corner of the shop, saying little, while Kauri talked a blue streak about an idea she had for a reversible, painless microabrasion tattoo process and some book about physics she was writing.
It was hard to know what to make of much of it, Peters says. But the microabrasion idea was real; Peters had introduced her to a local doctor, and the two were trying to develop a patent for the process. Other than the doctor, the couple didn't seem to have many friends locally. They kept to themselves, and Kauri did most of the talking. It was as if Pat was just drifting along; whatever Kauri wanted was fine with him.
"He was like a mama's boy," Peters says. "He didn't work. He just sat there while she worked. Finally, I thought I might as well teach him how to pierce. That way he could make some money, at least."
A business card from the Joplin venture touts "world famous artist Kauri Williams, specializing in fractal, gemstone and physics conceptual art," as well as "body piercing by Patrick Williams." But the couple only stayed in Missouri a few months. By late 2002 they had moved back east, and they had changed their names again. Kauri had used the name Tiyme as a professional moniker on occasion — the unusual spelling calling attention not only to her obsession with time but the central question of mortality: "Why me?" She had her name legally changed to Kauri Tiyme. Pat changed his to Keenu Tiyme.
Tattoo artist Chris Conant found them working in a "not very good shop" in a small town in western Massachusetts. "Her talent was being wasted there," he says. He persuaded the Tiymes to move to Northampton, where Conant and others had put together a shop that was, at the moment, free of the usual internal drama that drives many tattoo studios into the ground. Conant admired Kauri's work, her professionalism and her endless stream of ideas.
One of the couple's goals at the time involved land they had purchased in Arizona, outside of Sedona. Kauri loved the natural beauty of the area, all the cross-currents of new-age and Indian lore, and hoped to build a solar-powered home there some day. "Her thing was, she always wanted to be off the grid," Conant recalls. "Some place where there was no need to rely on anybody else or leave a trail for the government. I guess you could say there was a certain amount of paranoia about it."
But Conant didn't see anything alarming in the way the Tiymes seemed to interact. Keenu struck him as quiet and thoughtful; Kauri was the extrovert who managed their finances and paid for Keenu's Lasik surgery so he could dispense with his thick glasses. "Kauri was definitely the leader," he says. "But they were a couple where you didn't really expect anything bad to happen."
He adds, "I'm having a hard time swallowing this joint-suicide thing. It doesn't add up. They told me they were part of a cryogenics program, that they were going to freeze themselves and be brought back at a later time."
After a few months in Massachusetts, Kauri was lured to California by a shot at the big time — an offer to work in a West Hollywood shop. She soon had creative and business differences with management, though, and found her way to Manakin Tattoo, then located in Bakersfield. Hibbard recalls that when he first heard her voice on the phone, he had the impression of a maternal, schoolteacher type.
"She was so sweet and calm, like she was talking to a child," he said. "Then I met her, and she was this tall, freaky-looking person with transdermal piercings."
Hibbard admired the sophistication and originality of Kauri's work. But he was also struck by how wrapped around each other she and Keenu seemed to be. "It seemed to me they had some connection only they could understand, something deeper than what most people get to experience," Hibbard says. "I think they took each other incredibly seriously. In a normal relationship, you fall in love, and if it doesn't work out, you find somebody else. They didn't have that. It was this kind of locked-in, weird, made-for-each-other, the-cosmos-brought-us-together soulmate thing."
The couple impressed Hibbard as almost theatrical in their self-involvement. After a few months, Kauri announced that she was once again pulling up stakes, a tearful scene Hibbard still remembers: "She seemed to be somewhat of an actress, you know what I'm saying? When she left the shop, it was such a big deal. She said Keenu's mom was sick, she was crying — it was a little dramatic. She could have just said, 'I'm not happy here, we're going to explore other options,' but it had to be a big production."
Two entries in a notebook that appear to date back to her time in California with Keenu hint at what the relationship must have meant to Kauri. They have an ecstatic, hysterical yet suffocating quality, placing the emotional need almost on par with the need for oxygen.
The first one reads: I don't know what to write when I'm around you only you. When I'm away from you I think of you. Tiyme is still unless I [am] with [you] then it is!
The second: Because your perception is the only one I can see through...For all the people in the room I'm alone without you...I need your insight to feel light...I'm okay but not whole without you...You're air I breathe even when you're not there.
"I don't want to think that she killed herself, but I could see it," Hibbard says. "They were so dramatically, radically off the map of what other people do and think."
Tara Schinn walked into Breckenridge Body Art for the first time in March 2007. A Virginia resident, Schinn came frequently to Colorado for skiing vacations and business trips related to the IT security firm she owns with her husband. An abiding interest in tattoos — an integral part of an online, alter-ego pinup persona she'd cultivated known as Betty Mystique — had brought her to Kauri Tiyme's new shop.
Schinn spent six hours that day with Tiyme, who gave her a half-sleeve of cherry blossoms caressed by wind and snow. She was delighted by the work — so delicate, whispery and feminine, almost Japanese in style, yet amazingly vibrant — and even more so by the company. "It was just a magical experience," Schinn remembers. "We bonded quickly. We talked about cats, makeup, Dr. Who, being a vegan versus a vegetarian, the relationship we had with our moms."
Schinn was back over Labor Day weekend for another session, then several more in 2008. In all, she had five pieces done by Kauri. Her husband came in for five sessions of his own. People stopped them on the street to admire the work and marvel at the color. Schinn resolved that no artist but Kauri Tiyme would ever work on her again.
Other clients felt the same way. Kauri and Keenu had taken the plunge, opening their own shop in Breckenridge — some say they sold the land in Sedona to raise funds for the venture — with the expectation that they would be able to attract a younger, hipper clientele. The resort town wasn't Hollywood, but it wasn't Bakersfield, either. Kauri hoped to find customers more in tune with her art, as well as more varied work for Keenu, beyond the usual teenage girls getting their first nose rings.
Breckenridge Body Art did end up attracting a loyal core of repeat customers — mostly locals, but some regular visitors like Schinn, too. Yet after several months, Kauri began to get restless again. Even Breckenridge was somewhat limiting, she decided. And there was something else, too — a growing frustration with Keenu.
Schinn picked up on the different atmosphere in the shop when she visited last June. Kauri talked excitedly about this warehouse she was going to rent in Denver, where she would continue her tattoo work, open an art gallery, host live music and much more. "Breckenridge is cool, but I don't get to do the art I want to do here," she said.
Keenu was even quieter than usual, Schinn remembers, and went out for smokes often. The tension in the studio was palpable. Kauri waited until he was out of hearing range, then whispered to her, "We're not together anymore."
After almost a decade of being with Keenu, Kauri had filed for divorce in May. She soon had a new boyfriend, Peter Ausan, guitarist for Darker Days Tomorrow, and a new circle of friends in Denver connected with the band or the underground scene. She told them all the same thing: She was ready for a change.
"The impression she gave was that Keenu was not motivated and ill-suited to be with her," says Cora Reed.
"She described him as kind of a slacker," adds Kim Kosnar. "The only time he did anything was when she pushed him to do it."
Yet Kauri's move to Denver was far from a clean break. When Schinn visited her at the warehouse in August, she found her friend stressing over the move, selling her condo in Breckenridge, dealing with a new operator of the shop up there — and still negotiating the breakup with Keenu.
"I asked her how it was going with Keenu, and she said, 'He's a good guy, and I'm sorry it's over, in a way, but he's having a hard time letting go,'" Schinn says. "She said he was going to come down to the new studio and do piercings. She was trying to be nice and extend a hand to him. But I think he saw her friendship as a way for them to get back together."
Kosnar says Kauri paid the rent on Keenu's apartment when he followed her to Denver. He had no car, little work other than what she found for him, and called her frequently — a sore point in her new relationship with Ausan. "Peter told me Keenu would call Kauri, get her to come over for one reason or another, and then he'd try to make a move on her every time," Schinn says. "It was driving her crazy."
Kauri told Schinn that she was planning to train Keenu to do tattoos and set him up in Breckenridge on his own, that she had no intention of bringing him back into her life for long. Most of her energy seemed to be going toward launching the new business. She worked long hours and seemed to eat almost nothing except popcorn.
"It wasn't taking off as fast as she wanted, but she was busy all the time," Kosnar says. "A lot of her Breckenridge people were coming in. It was hard for us to even pencil in coffee time, because she'd say she was tattooing until midnight."
Ausan declined comment for this article. Through his public defender, Keenu also declined to be interviewed. But a blog he was posting erratically on his MySpace page last summer provides a glimpse into his depression following the breakup. He complains of not being able to sleep, of not being able to "break the groggy sluggish mood I've been in." Mostly, the blog is about the loneliness of doing nothing:
August 19, 2008: well finally in denver, its been a long process but well its kind of over...hum well this was my first day here and aside from cutting my finger nothing really happened, just unpacking and getting settled in i'm probably going to take it easy for one more day but then i got to get serious...
August 20: its funny i had plans and stuff but well I just don't feel up to doing anything...
August 21: just have no energy...must have been under more stress then i realized...
August 22: walk around were I live today and discovered nothing of shocking interest or even minor interest...was suppose to do some piercing today too but since they were friends, and talk to sir groggy at his worst well nope on that...
September 7: it's been a nice calm sunday nothing major has happened...
September 16: crap i have no train of thought today i'm just babbiling...
Keenu expected to be working soon at Kauri's new shop, to be called Transposed Fusion. On his MySpace page he described himself as "a body modification artist who does everything from basic piercing to scarification and implants" and Transposed Fusion as "an all encompassing art exposé that also includes tattooing and live shows."
An unfinished website for Transposed Fusion devotes a single page to the piercing services that would be available. It states simply, "Keenu's bed side manner is a comfort to all."
From the moment she first met Kauri Tiyme at Charlie Brown's last August, Cora Reed thought the artist had a kind of beauty, internal and external, that she wanted to try to capture with a camera.
"She had about her a real intensity," Reed says. "When she met people, she'd give her tattoo-girl spiel, which was very concise: 'I've been tattooing for nineteen years, I've been on CNN, I'm working with the state of New York on their tattoo rules.'
"And I said, 'Okay, and who are you really?' Her guard came down entirely, and we were able to talk as people."
By the end of the evening, Tiyme had agreed to let Reed photograph her. The session took place a few weeks later and stretched over six hours. Kauri talked about her ex-husbands and various disaster scenarios that might be around the corner: bird flu epidemics, nukes, who knows.
"We spent a long time talking about what we would do if the Apocalypse came," Reed says. "We decided we would need communities that would hang together and have certain skills that would make the world work."
In early October, Kauri and Ausan went to Sedona for several days to relax. Kauri loved to bike the desert, especially at night, under the naked stars. She may have had other agendas for the trip; she told Kosnar that she hoped to have a heart-to-heart with Ausan about where the relationship was going. But Ausan told Kosnar after the trip that no "we have to talk" moment ever occurred.
The couple returned to town on Saturday, October 11. The next day, Kauri received a call from Keenu, who told her that his grandmother had died. Kauri left in her car, saying she had to help Keenu deal with the situation.
On Monday, October 13, Kauri called Ausan to talk about plumbing problems at the warehouse. She gave the impression that the business with Keenu might take a few days.
"That was the last we heard from her," Kosnar says.
Some of her friends believe that Keenu must have tricked Kauri, then gone berserk. The many injuries she suffered don't suggest the painless death Keenu claims he was trying to give her; they seem more in keeping with a rage killing by a spurned ex. The friends are also skeptical of Keenu's claims of trying to commit suicide himself. They doubt he would have been in any condition to drive to New Mexico if he'd been sampling rat poison and Drano, as his notes claim. As for the notes found in Kauri's handwriting, "who knows how old those notes are?" Conant asks.
Aside from a few excerpts in an arrest-warrant affidavit, the police have not released the notes. But sources familiar with certain aspects of the investigation say there are several details that indicate Kauri was an active participant in her own death. Some notes, for example, have references to Ausan and other people she'd met recently, people she wanted to have her iPod and other personal items. And the autopsy report lists an astonishing amount of diphenhydramine — the chief ingredient of Benadryl — in her system, more than sixty times the normal dose. Although the drug wasn't the cause of death, it's strong evidence of suicidal intent, of a plan to numb out and not return.
Keenu told the detectives that the suicide pact had been under discussion for weeks, possibly since before Kauri's trip to Sedona. The pair were spotted at the Royal Gorge on October 13, the same day Kauri called about the plumbing. And surveillance video police obtained from a gun shop in Cañon City reportedly shows Keenu attempting to purchase a pistol, failing, then Kauri entering the shop and also being rebuffed. They checked into the Denver Marriott Tech Center the next day.
Kauri had long been interested in end-time movements of one kind or another. She was a member of the Singularity Action Group, an online network of futurists and others fascinated by the notion of artificial intelligence evolving to a point well beyond human comprehension. Her notebooks are full of links to sites promoting "transhumanism," a patchwork of hopeful musings about extreme technological modification of human subjects to defy disease and even death. A common idea in transhumanism, though, is closely related to the New Testament parable about the grain of wheat's sacrifice and transformation — unless it dies and goes into the ground, it cannot bear fruit. Quoting sci-fi writer David Zindell, one of the transhumanism sites declares that man is a seed, "an acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
Perhaps Kauri regarded her own death as a similar transformation. Her last tattoo client told one friend that Kauri had talked during the session about "ascension" and how her work was done here. It was not a term that Reed, Kosnar, Schinn or other confidants had heard her use before. But then, Kauri's ideas about life and death and her place in the universe were always changing, always evolving.
With her, nothing was fixed in stone, nothing was permanent — except death, maybe, and a good tattoo.
After Kauri left with Keenu, Kosnar texted her cell several times without a response. At the end of the week, she finally got a message back. It was the Denver police, using Kauri's phone to try to get in touch with her friends.
Kauri left no will. The state became the executor of her estate, and officials went to the warehouse and took her computer and personal effects. Kosnar went to the public auction to try to rescue what she could.
It was a grim scene. Strangers were rummaging through boxes of Kauri's stuff, her books and artwork and even her clothes, still suffused with her scent. "Look at these," someone snickered, holding up a pair of boots that reflected Kauri's flashy sense of fashion. "She must have been a hooker."
By the time it was over, Kosnar was in tears.
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After weeks of effort, an investigator in the Denver coroner's office located Kauri's mother. The body was cremated, the ashes returned to Arizona. Some of her friends felt a sense of relief and closure at the news. Others were still turning over the inescapable questions: Why did Kauri do this? How could Keenu, a man with no history of violence, do what he did?
"I went from really sad to really angry," says Kosnar. "No ends were tied up. If they wanted to die painlessly, why not pills and alcohol? As disgusting as it sounds, I'd like to hear it from Keenu. I'd like to hear his side."
Keenu appeared briefly in court last week in putty-colored jailhouse scrubs, his hands and feet shackled. With his piercings removed, he seemed shaggy and washed-out — a study in gray, except for the bright red-and-turquoise cosmic scene on his left biceps. His preliminary hearing was postponed until February. His side of the story may have to wait until the day, if ever, that the contents of the notes he and Kauri left behind are divulged at trial.
The colors in Tara Schinn's cherry blossom half-sleeve are as bright as ever. But in her last few weeks, Kauri had started work for several clients that she never finished. They remain bare sketches on flesh, mere shadows of what they might have become.


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As I mentioned in my last post, I recently had the opportunity to lead a discussion in my ward on the topic of Doctrine and Covenants 88. One of the most interesting topics which we delved into was that of the multiple kingdoms of glory as they are described in that section. That discussion reminded me of some material I had posted on my blog, Heavenly Ascents a few years back. I went back and reread that post and thought it would be nice to revisit it here.
D&C 88 discusses the idea that God has filled his Creation with various "kingdoms" that can be inhabited by his children. Verse 37 states:
37 And there are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom.
This declaration suggests that the cosmos is somehow divided up into various kingdoms and that within these kingdoms are subdivisions that constitute smaller kingdoms within the larger ones. The revelation describes how these are categorized by their degree of glory — celestial, terrestrial, telestial, or no glory — and how God's children become assigned to a specific type of kingdom based on their adherence to the laws designated for each type. In verse 47, the revelation states that all of these kingdoms, although they be inhabited by mankind, are subject to God.
47 Behold, all these are kingdoms, and any man who hath seen any or the least of these hath seen God moving in his majesty and power.
Although God himself reigns over all of the kingdoms as King of kings and Lord of lords, He has prepared these kingdoms for his children to inherit. The revelation presents the example of the Earth and declares that it will be sanctified and "celestialized." Inhabitants that live the law of celestial glory will, when they have been resurrected and obtained that glory, inherit the celestial Earth.
26 Wherefore, it shall be sanctified; yea, notwithstanding it shall die, it shall be quickened again, and shall abide the power by which it is quickened, and the righteous shall inherit it.
27 For notwithstanding they die, they also shall rise again, a spiritual body.
28 They who are of a celestial spirit shall receive the same body which was a natural body; even ye shall receive your bodies, and your glory shall be that glory by which your bodies are quickened.
29 Ye who are quickened by a portion of the celestial glory shall then receive of the same, even a fulness.
The ideas presented in D&C 88 reminded me of a concept found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (and elsewhere) which concerns the idea that there are several levels of heaven and that each level has an appointed chief or guardian who rules over it. This is actually a fairly common theme in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical literature (See, for example, the Jewish Hekhalot literature or the Jewish/Christian Ascension of Isaiah). As one ascends to the throne of God in the highest heaven, one must pass first through the several (usually seven) firmaments or "sub-heavens" before reaching the highest, where God is present. Each level is generally inhabited by a different class of angels, and in many texts, there is a principal angel or guardian who guards the door to the next level and who sometimes is depicted as having his own throne.
Before I get into some more specific details regarding how this motif is represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, I want to share another latter-day parallel to this ancient type of thinking.
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A study by the Arizona Legislature's independent financial analysts shows Gov. Jan Brewer's proposed overhaul of the state's sales tax collection system could cost the general fund nearly $140 million a year. A second new study by an outside group puts the number at $125 million.
Both studies raise questions about whether the state can risk the overhaul as currently proposed. The lawmaker carrying the bill in the House of Representatives said Thursday the questions raised by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee review may force revisions. Possibilities include a phase-in of the overhaul or "circuit-breaker" language that would kick in if revenues dropped precipitously.
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Everybody hates HPSeptember 27, 2012: 1:01 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
When your stock is trading at just 4 times earnings estimates for the next year, you'd think that the share price couldn't get much lower -- but Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is proving to be the ultimate value trap.
Even though HP appears to be ludicrously cheap, its shares continue plummeting. The stock is down 33.5% this year, making it by far the worst performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Adding insult to its numerous injuries, HP is on track to be one of the Dow's biggest losers for the third consecutive year. HP fell 40% last year, trailing only the losses of Alcoa (AA) and Bank of America (BAC). HP was the worst Dow 30 performer in 2010 as well, falling nearly 20%.
CEO Meg Whitman, who took over the top spot at HP last year after the brief and disastrous tenure of Leo Apotheker, will need to convince an increasingly skeptical Wall Street that the company can turn around its sagging fortunes.
HP has a critical analyst meeting next Wednesday. Unless the struggling imaging and computer giant announces that it has found a new revenue stream by running the printing presses for the Federal Reserve's QE3 program (huge upside!), investors are likely to be disappointed.
HP, like its top rival Dell (DELL), is stuck in a business whose best days are probably behind it. HP didn't embrace the mobile revolution and it is paying the price. You only need to look at the stock prices of Apple (AAPL) and Android developer Google (GOOG), both of which have recently hit all-time highs, to know that consumers and corporations are increasingly ditching desktops and notebooks for smaller smartphones and tablets.>
In a recent interview on the Fox Business Network, Whitman said that HP needed to offer a smartphone. Trouble is, HP already tried that -- and it was a colossal failure. HP acquired mobile device maker Palm in 2010 for $1.2 billion. After heavily promoting a new Veer smartphone (remember those TV ads with boxing champion Manny Pacquiao?) HP essentially shut Palm down and pulled the plug on its phone and tablet business.
Why should investors have any faith that another attempt at the mobile market will be more successful? (Maybe HP can work on developing a better maps app for Apple's iOS6 instead.)
To me, it's pretty telling that Microsoft (MSFT) decided it needed to enter the market with its own tablet, the soon-to-be-released Surface, instead of relying on its usual hardware partners like HP and Dell to come up with the gadgets that would work best with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
Related: Fortune's Most Powerful Women: Meg Whitman and more Queen Bees
Whitman clearly needs to do more to make HP like IBM (IBM) and bulk up on software and services as opposed to PCs, printers and other low-margin gadgets. To be fair, HP has been trying to emphasize services and software since the Carly Fiorina era. Under Fiorina, HP made an offer to buy the PwC consulting business from PricewaterhouseCoopers back in 2000. The deal collapsed after HP and PwC couldn't agree on a price. Big Blue wound up buying the unit in 2002. HP bought Electronic Data Systems in 2008 under CEO Mark Hurd, who also engineered several software purchases.
But that hasn't been enough to overcome the weakness in the hardware business. It's why I keep referring to HP as "IBM Lite" and "Little Blue." HP's sales and profits are expected to fall this fiscal year (which ends in October). Analysts are predicting that earnings per share will only increase by 3% in fiscal 2013, and that revenue will once again decline.
That's why HP might still be the most overvalued company ever to trade at just 4 times earnings estimates. Wall Street is currently forecasting average annual earnings growth of only 2.7% for the next few years, so HP's price-to-earnings-growth (or PEG) ratio is 1.5.
That's not good. PEG ratios are often used to justify higher earnings multiples for rapidly growing companies, i.e. tech stocks that are doing much better than HP. Using this measure, HP is more expensive than Apple (PEG of .55), Google (PEG of 1), as well as IBM and Microsoft (both with PEG s of 1.1). Heck, even Facebook (FB), which is trading at a frothy 33 times 2013 earnings estimates, is more attractive than HP when you factor in Facebook's growth rate. Facebook's PEG is 1.2.
Related: Hewlett-Packard to cut 2,000 more jobs
HP may eventually figure out what needs to be done to revitalize its once-proud brand. Whitman may be forced to revisit the idea of spinning off or selling the PC business, a decision originally made by Apotheker that she reversed. Or, if the company truly decides it needs to be a leader in hardware, it will have to find ways to cut costs and focus more on innovation. My colleague Kevin Kelleher at CNNMoney sister publication Fortune pointed out last week that HP has spent far less on research and development over the past few years than IBM.
But one thing is certain: HP's stock is not a bargain. Traders often point out that you should never try and catch a falling knife. HP looks more like a falling machete ... with a falling ink toner cartridge and desktop thrown in for good measure.


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Two of the world's busiest airports, in London and Denver, were socked with bad weather on Thursday, spreading delays and cancellations to airports around the world and stranding tens of thousands of travelers during the pre-Christmas travel crunch.
As flight after flight was canceled, the situation grew into a logistical horror for fliers, whose vacations were disrupted if not spoiled, and for airlines, who may lose much-needed revenue.
Industry officials said it could take two days to untangle the knot, which is tightest in Denver, where more than two feet of snow kept the airport closed for a second day. Home to one of United Airlines biggest hub operations, it's not expected to reopen until midday Friday. In London, the weekend forecast is for more fog — and more travel delays.
Jodie and Andy Hartfield of Colorado Springs, Colo., spent a sleepless night at the Denver airport with their three young children. Luckily they scrounged a cot and some blankets from a family that left the airport to stay in a hotel. The Hartfields decided to stick around until Christmas Eve in hopes of catching a flight to Seattle.
"We can't go home, the highway's closed," Jodie Hartfield said. "We can't get to the car, it's 10 miles away. And the hotels are not cheap."
Denver pharmacist Robert Helmer fumed about the delays after spending the night at the Denver airport — on the floor. He boarded a United flight for St. Louis Wednesday morning, only to sit on the runway for four hours, first because of a late-arriving flight attendant and then stuck in the snow.
"This isn't an act of God," Helmer said. "It was mismanagement by United."
On Thursday, he waited angrily for a bus convoy organized by airport officials to take passengers to downtown Denver.
"A lot of people are going to lose their holidays," said Joe Brancatelli, who runs a Web site for travelers called joesentme.com. "The smart ones may decide to just stay home."
Inclement weather can make air travel a nightmare under the best of circumstances, and the impact is only magnified around holidays.
But what makes Thursday's snags so daunting, travel experts said, is that airlines have tightened their belts in recent years to regain financial stability. That means there are fewer employees to help stranded passengers than in years past, and fewer empty seats to offer stranded fliers determined to reach their destinations.
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"This is the worst-case scenario," Brancatelli said.
Gummed-up service in London — where more than 700 flights have been canceled since Tuesday — reverberated across Europe, slowing travel to and from Helsinki, Vienna, Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam. The majority of the cancellations at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, affected British Airways travelers.
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"It's bedlam," said Nicholas Velez, 23, from Washington, D.C. "The whole terminal is so packed you can barely walk."
With Heathrow hotels so full that even service rooms were occupied, Velez was one of the 500 people who slept in the chilly terminals overnight while waiting to rebook a flight home. Heated tents, sleeping mats and catering stalls were being set up for anxious travelers.
Zubair Qamar, 33, also heading to Washington, was luckier. He was given a hotel voucher after waiting for six hours Wednesday. "I spent some of my vacation in a five-star hotel, which was not so bad," he said. "But I would have preferred to be back."
London-based British Airways said it was focused on getting long-distance fliers on their way first, since short-haul customers had other options available to them, from renting a car to taking a train.
UAL Corp.'s United, by far the largest carrier in Denver, said that by Thursday afternoon it had canceled more than 2,000 flights systemwide, primarily because Colorado got smacked by the most powerful snowstorm it has seen in several years.
"This blizzard is unprecedented, and it's in our second-largest hub," said United spokesman Jeff Kovick. "It is completely unprecedented for the airport to be closed for two days."
United's nine daily flights out of London were arriving at their U.S. destinations up to an hour late due to the fog in that city that delayed their departures.
Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., whose hub is Denver, canceled 550 flights.
Even as airline officials and air traffic controllers focused their attention on Denver and London, other parts of the country were dealing with or getting ready for their own dose of untimely bad weather.
In Chicago, fog prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to reduce the number of flights coming in for all airlines at O'Hare International Airport. Kovick said he anticipated delays of more than an hour for United flights at O'Hare. Denver's problems added to the misery at O'Hare and by Thursday afternoon, more than 100 flights had been canceled.
At San Francisco's airport, 35 flights to and from Denver were canceled in the past two days, and in Minneapolis weather forecasters were predicting that rain could turn to ice, setting up potential travel delays on Friday.
Most cold-weather airports have runway sensors that detect when the surface temperature is near freezing, so crews can put a de-icing chemical down, said Patrick Hogan, spokesman for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
"It's an annual process for us, so we're ready," Hogan said. But about 700 old Army cots and newer sleeping pads are on hand in case travelers get stranded overnight, he said.
Hotels and resorts aren't likely to refund any money to no shows, but airlines are a bit more flexible toward customers whose flights were canceled.
Southwest Airlines Co. said customers stranded because of a flight cancellation can opt for a full refund, or use their ticket to travel within two weeks of their original departure date. United said passengers have until midnight of the day their flight was canceled to make a new reservation at the same price.
Passenger demand is typically light on Christmas Day, but it isn't likely to be this year, said travel expert Terry Trippler.
If past experience is any guide, Trippler said, "this won't really be totally untangled until well past Christmas."
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It seems like a fairly easy question. But that's assuming that you bother to pick it up at all. For the vast majority of the population (of course it varies regionally), people don't bother to pick it up. I remember having a friend that thought it was actually his duty to create rubbish. He would nonchalantly open the car door along some highway or another and causally lob fast food containers and plastic bottles out the side. In his mind he was doing a public service. His rational was that if there was no garbage to pick up then how on earth were people going to get employment as trash collectors?
Of course it seems like an absurd use of logic and deduction for the average environmentally responsible human being. But that is part of the problem, there just are not that many people that are approaching the issue of debris and refuse seriously enough. There will always be someone with a skewed sense of logic that makes them think it is justifiable or even obligatory to create waste.
Of course the packaging and habits of the manufacturer are always an issue, more responsibility needs to come from the consumer. We need to be more aware. And that is the problem a lot of the time. What kind of packaging do things come in? How is it disposed of? Where exactly does it go? It can't just disappear. Look at the Pacific Trash Vortex. It is a huge area of the Pacific Ocean that is covered in our garbage. A vast majority of that debris comes in the form of plastics. Living here in the Philippines it is very clear how plastic accumulates. The Philippines is a country that thrives off of single serving portions of everything. Sachets of shampoo, soap, coffee, butter, oil and even single serving toothpaste. It is similar to living your life with airplane sized individual packets for everything, every day. With a consumer mindset like that there is bound to be an immense amount of extra packaging and waste created. Sadly the Philippines is not alone in its production of plastic waste.
But how do we address things like this? There is no way to tackle everything at once. How can such a huge problem be tackled? The answer could be as simple as "one dive at a time". As dive professionals we have a huge impact on the mindset of the people that we lead. So sometimes it might really just come down to the simple things.
How do you pick up trash?
When you are diving along a reef and you spot some rubbish in the distance, what do you do? I know some people will cleverly steer their divers away from the refuse. Their hope is that they can divert attention away from the embarrassing mess that is ruining the reef. Others will try to covertly pick it up and secretively cart it away. We are all ashamed to have our premier dive spots cluttered up with garbage and don't want people to see that there is trash on those sites. But what about taking a different approach? Personally I take trash underwater as a learning experience. If there are wrappers or refuse on my dive I make sure to take my divers right toward it. Then when I get to the offending piece of garbage I slowly and deliberately pick it up. Almost like I am demonstrating a skill, I pluck it up and brush off any sand and slowly and methodically fold it up or secure it into my pocket. Like a magician performing a trick, I want all eyes on me. Except I want people to see exactly how the trick is done. I am not ashamed. Rather I am proud. Yes there was crap on my reef. But I got rid of it.
I want people to know that it is something to be addressed not just swept under the rug and ignored. I usually have to talk about it after the dive as well. People remember that their divemaster or instructor spent half the dive carting around a load of garbage. That's not a bad thing in my opinion. It's something that needs to be talked about. I'm not embarrassed to clean up the reef and I don't want anyone else to be either. As dive professionals we need to turn these moments to our advantage. People will remember that piece of plastic and what you did about it for many dives to come. If you ignore it, then you are teaching people that it is okay to do that. All that does is leave our reefs with heaps of trash to look at instead of coral and fish.
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This qualification is designed for Beauty Therapists and includes all the required elements to work effectively as a fully commercial Radio Frequency practitioner.
Learners must achieve all mandatory units which include:
- Principles and practice of non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Advanced consultation for non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Advanced skin care for non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Provide advanced skin needling treatments
learners will also develop their knowledge and understanding of
- The relevant Anatomy and Physiology
- Health and Safety pertaining to Level 5 aesthetic therapies
- Consultation with and analyse clients whilst providing advanced blemish removal treatments
- Principles and practice of non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Advanced consultation for non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Advanced skin care for non-medical aesthetic therapies
- Provide advanced Skin Needling
Skin Needling Advanced Aesthetic Certificate Course Level 4 VTCT Fees Dates and Payments Information
Course Fees
Price Was £2250
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Registration and exam fees
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What is the benefits of this Level 4 Certificate Course
All qualifications delivered in the UK must be accredited to ensure their quality. Any qualification which does not have accreditation may not provide the learner with the ability to use that qualification to seek employment, obtain public liability insurance or set up in business. This qualification will allow the learner to seek employment, set up in business and obtain public liability insurance to treat clients.
Accredited by VTCT for Insurance and Licensing
What are the opportunities after Graduation
Start your own business
After Completing the NVQ Qualifications or many of the short courses you may be able to set up a beauty Business of your own. Please speak with the course coordinator about this when booking your qualification
Obtain Insurance to work
In order to work in the Beauty Industry, you will require the right type of insurance. Insurance companies will only insure Qualified Beauty Therapists who have an approved Accredited Beauty Qualification. Please speak to our course coordinator about this when booking your course.
Work on Cruise Ships
Ever wanted to work on a cruise liner as a Beauty Therapist? ELBA Academy offers the accreditations that will enable you to do so. VTCT, ITEC, and CIDESCO. Ask about recruitment on Cruise Liners when booking your NVQ Qualifications.
Work Abroad or the UK
Many of our students who have qualified at ELBA Academy have travelled overseas to either set up businesses for themselves or have found work abroad. If you intend to use your qualification abroad then please speak with our course coordinator who will advise you on this
Start a mobile business
After Completing the NVQ Qualifications or many of the short courses you may be able to set up your own mobile beauty therapy Business of your own. Please speak with the course coordinator about this when booking your qualification
Start work immediately
We are approached by many Beauty Salons looking for potential candidates to work in their Salons. Why not use this opportunity to join our network of newly qualified therapists and let us support you in this area. Speak with our Course coordinator when booking your course.
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What previous experience do I need to enrol in this Beauty Qualification?
- Level 3 qualification in Beauty
- Learners must be able to read and write and understand English
How can I enrol on this Level 4 Qualification?
- Ensure that this qualification is the correct one that you want. If unsure please call the course coordinator on 0208 981 2558.
- Buy this course using the buy this course button which you on every course page on the website.
- After buying the course complete the purchase course form to start the registration process.
- We will then contact you and send you a Registration Form. with the timetable and other relevant details
What are the benefits of this Qualification?
This qualification will qualify graduates to set up their own beauty businesses and obtain special treatment licenses and insurance. however, you will only be able to offer treatments that you are qualified to perform. This Facial Electrical Level 3 Certificate Qualification delivered in the UK is approved by Government and Local Authority and Qualifies learners to work in the Beauty Industry.
- Work From Home
Many of our learners set up a home beauty business which enables them to build up a client base and offer treatments without having the overheads of a commercial high street salon. Although you will not need a special treatment
- Mobile Beauty Therapist
After graduation, students can set up their own mobile beauty business. This is very convenient for the client as they get to be treated in their own home, however, therapists must have their own vehicle and will have to carry their products and equipment from client to client.
- Work Abroad
Graduates can use this qualification to also work abroad in beauty related business. Please see VTCT websites to check which countries accept the qualifications.
Many Beauty Salons and health Spas approach our college asking for students to work as beauty Therapists within their Salons. Although many vacancies are filled this way, we can only recommend students who have shown that they are seriously committed to training and the beauty Industry.
What coursework must be submitted to pass this Qualification?
Only three sets of documents are required for the Portfolio of evidence folder.
- Treatment Evidence Forms
Learners will be assessed performing treatments on clients. This evidence will be recorded on a Treatment evidence form and placed inside a portfolio of evidence folder. You will perform 5 assessments to cover all the treatment required.
- Assignments
Learners will be required to submit written assignments so that their learning can be evaluated by their tutor. These assignments will also be placed inside a portfolio of evidence folder.
- Mock Exam
Learners will receive a mock test paper before their final on-line MCQ exams to make sure that they are ready for the final exam.
How can I pass this Qualification?
- Register and Book Class
All learners must enrol in their chosen course by completing the online application form and submit it together with their proof of ID and address. Once we have received your application we will then take payment and send you information relating to your course.
- Attend and fully participate in all classes
All courses are scheduled according to the syllabus that needs to be delivered. if students miss classes unnecessarily then we will not hold extra classes for days missed. Students will therefore have to attend future classes which will delay them receiving their qualification. This will also incur a fee of £50 per day per student.
- Complete all assignments and Assessments
As part of the coursework students are expected to complete all assignments and assessments for their portfolio. Learners can then be evaluated to ensure that they are grasping the concepts of the course.
- Complete your portfolio of evidence
A portfolio of evidence folder must be prepared and completed by the learner with the support of their tutor. The portfolio shows that the learner has contributed fully to their course. This portfolio will store all evidence of assessments which is Treatments performed, worksheets, assignments and any other evidence required by the examining body. Portfolios will be checked by the internal verifier
- Set a time to study at home
We appreciate that learners may lead busy lives and therefore have limited time to spend on studying and assignments; however, we emphasize that learners allocate an hour or two per day to keep up with their coursework. We also advise that learners work in an environmentally friendly area with plenty of ventilation and most importantly students must receive adequate rest and a well-balanced diet.
When will I receive my Level 4 Qualification?
- As soon as your portfolio of evidence has been completed, your folder will then be passed on to our Internal verifier for verification.
- If the Internal verifier is happy that your portfolio is completed correctly we then send up to the relevant accreditation board to claim your Qualification.
- All fees must be completed before we can claim for your qualification
- Once we have claimed for your qualification the Accreditation board can take up to a month before we receive your qualification and call you to collect it from the academy.
- We do not post Qualifications to students. However, if learners find it too difficult to collect their qualification they can designate someone to collect it on their behalf.
Do I need to wear a student uniform to attend the Academy?
- Full uniform for all students
All students will require to be in full Beauty Therapists Uniform when attending Practical and Theory Classes and on-line Exams. Students who do not have the appropriate uniform will not be allowed to enter the college to do any scheduled work.
Will I have to provide my own models for assessments?
- Yes, you will need to bring with you your models for you to be assessed on.
- We do understand that some learners may find it difficult to find models for their assessments. However, this is a training environment which aims as near as possible to simulate a real working environment. If learners are not able to find models for their assessments then they have to seriously consider whether this is the career for them. We do however try to assist where we can but it is primarily not the responsibility of the academy.
Are their concessions for people on low income on this qualification?
- East London Beauty Academy is a Private College and therefore do not receive any concessions, Government funding, grants or subsidies.
- The pricing structure for all courses has been reduced considerably in order to give all learners the opportunity to afford their courses.
- All learners will have the option to either pay for the course in full in which case they will receive a further discount of 5% or students are also given the option to pay by monthly payments at 0% interest.
- The main benefit of our courses is that they are intensive, can be completed in a shorter time frame and we have smaller classes which in many cases enhance learning.
- Many of our students enhance their skills by working with live clients in our student salon thus gaining valuable salon working experience. This gives them the opportunity to be referred to salons requiring beauty therapist with experience.
- We also encourage our learners to actively seek employment and we also give advice on how to set up your own business with continuous support even after they have graduated.
- The pricing for all courses has been reduced considerably in order to give all learners the opportunity to afford their courses. Also, learners will have the option to either pay for the course in full in which case they will receive a further discount of 5% and students are also given the option to pay by monthly payments at 0% interest.
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Photo by Cat Lynn from The Smithereens Facebook page.
The Smithereens' concert this past Saturday night at the Schaumburg Prairie Center For The Arts was noticeably different from their show at City Winery Chicago last September. Back in 2016, the New Jersey-based band was marking the 30th anniversary of its stellar debut effort Especially For You. With that celebration finished and the dawn of a new year, The Smithereens have set out with a different playlist. The result was another energetic and well-crafted performance of catchy power pop songs, along with a few covers of The Beatles and The Who.
At one point, lead vocalist Pat DiNizio thanked the audience members for allowing his band to delve deeper into its catalogue. I've been to several Smithereens shows over the years, but I don't recall seeing them do "One Look At You," "If I Never Get Back Home," "The War For Mind," or "Life Is So Beautiful." Even the choice of Beatles covers—"Please Please Me" and "It's Only Love"—were different this time out. In addition to being a first-rate vocalist, DiNizio always serves up a number of bitingly funny comments and anecdotes.
Elsewhere, the songs that have become milestones in The Smithereens' live shows were just as vital as ever. Even though Especialy For You wasn't front and center, DiNizio, guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken, and bassist Severo Jornncion tapped into it for rousing versions of "Behind The Wall Of Sleep," "Only A Memory," and "Blood And Roses." There was also the touching noir of "In A Lonely Place," originally a duet for DiNizio and Suzanne Vega. "House We Used To Live In," with its exuberant call-and-response vocals from all four band members, segued into the instrumental "Sparks" from The Who's rock opera Tommy. The Smithereens returned to The Who for "Behind Blue Eyes" as well as Free's "All Right Now," for a rousing finale that had everyone in the theater up on their feet.


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Debugging Techniques in C#
C# solves three problems I faced when designing the useful and scalable debugging system. These problems exist either in Java, C/C++, or both (my main programming languages).
- Not having very much meta-information (e.g. line number, method name, etc.)
- Having to add and remove debug statements whenever the debug focus shifts
- Having the debug statements compiled into the program affecting performance
Ok, discussing the solution for these problems in order we'll start with number one. Basically a few classes from the System.Reflection and System.Diagnostics namespaces solve this problem. Using the System.Diagnostics.StackFrame class the call stack can be explored and stack details such as what is on the stack level above the current one, what line is a function being called from, etc. And with the System.Reflection classes the names of functions, namespaces, variable types, etc., can be ascertained. Applying all this to the problem at hand here's some code that retrieves the file name, line number, and method name of the function that called it.
// create the stack frame for the function that // called this function StackFrame sf = new StackFrame( 1, true ); // save the method name string methodName = sf.GetMethod().ToString(); // save the file name string fileName = sf.GetFileName(); // save the line number int lineNumber = sf.GetFileLineNumber();
Moving right along to problem number two let's discuss how to selectively debug different sections of a program during runtime. Number two ties in with number one in that information from number one will help us filter debug statements from being displayed. For this example we'll filter by namespace. So say that you have fifteen namespaces in your program and right now you only want to display debug statements from one all you would have to do is tell the debug class only allow that one namespace to display debug statements. Simple enough. Here's some code.
// create the namespaces hashtable namespaces = new Hashtable(); // get the assembly of this class Assembly a = Assembly.GetAssembly( new Debug().GetType() ); // now cycle through each type and gather up all the namespaces foreach( Type type in a.GetTypes() ) { // check if the namespace is already in our table if( ! namespaces.Contains( type.Namespace ) ) namespaces.Add( type.Namespace, true ); }
The above code will create a Hashtable object containing all the namespaces in the same assembly as the Debug class of which this code is a part. Of course, this is only half of the solution so here is the actual filtering code.
// only proceed if the namespace in question is being debugged if( (bool) namespaces[ method.DeclaringType.Namespace ] ) // this is where the debug statement display code would be
Ok, so far so good. With the problems number one and two knocked out that leaves us with the obstacle of removing those darn debug statements when the final release is to be made without actually having to manually comment out or delete each one. This is where those handy little things called attributes come in to play. Assuming you have knowledge of how attributes work in C# I'll cut to the chase and introduce the ConditionalAttribute which is part of the aforementioned System.Diagnostics namespace. So here's some showing how to use the ConditionalAttribute class.
public void Debug( string msg )
// this is where the debug statement
// display code would be
What this will do is when this program is compiled it will check if 'DEBUG' was #defined and if it was then the call to this function will be remain, however if 'DEBUG' is not #defined all calls to this function not will be compiled leaving us with no performance hit.
Now, some of you are probably saying that you could solve some of the problems above in C/C++ and Java. I will note that neither language solves all of them. For example in C/C++ you can #define and #ifdef much like you can use ConditionalAttribute class and C# defines. But getting useful meta-information in C/C++ is limited. And in Java getting meta-information is possible but as far as I know all the code is always compiled (i.e. there's no Conditional type functionality). Thankfully there is C# which does solve (gracefully I might add) all the problems I mentioned above and quite a few more.
To demonstrate these techniques I wrote a small windows application along with this article. The Debug class can be plugged into your own projects. So enjoy and happy coding.
About the author
Mike Borromeo is a college of engineering student at the University of Michigan (AA). He has experience in C/C++, Java, C#, PHP, VBScript, JavaScript, MSSQL, and HTML. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. The ideas and code for this article were developed as part of the Gnutella client project Phosl (http://www.phosl.com).


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'Time to Enjoy' App Finds Local Events When You've Got Time For Them
Finding something to do around town is pretty easy. Finding something to do around town when you actually have free time, however, can sometimes pose quite the challenge. A new app called Time to Enjoy helps you discover events near you at times you're looking for something to do.
"When you think about planning something to do, it always comes down to choosing a time," said Jan Anton, CEO and co-founder of Time to Enjoy. "This inspired us to create a time-driven app designed to sync with your calendar, so you can sift through events that fit your free time and lifestyle with just a few simple clicks."
Rather than focusing on the "what" in event planning, Time to Enjoy focuses on the "when."
The app aggregates details on millions of hyper-local events ranging from sporting events and concerts to art exhibits, yoga classes and kid's activities. The app can be synced with your calendar and suggests activities that are being held when you might be able to attend them.
For instance, if you work 9-5, the app might suggest that you attend a book reading at 6 p.m., but it would leave out info about a wine tasting at 3 p.m.
The app offers information about events, and in some cases directions or the ability to buy tickets directly from your phone. Once you've decided which events you plan on attending, you can invite your friends via email, SMS, Facebook or Twitter from directly within the the app.
"Today's mobile technology is completely changing the way people search for the information they need," said Brendan Boyd, marketing director and co-founder of Time to Enjoy. "Our app is reinventing mobile search, requiring as few as three clicks to find any kind of event. Instead of having to call or text friends to join, app users can click to share with contacts."
The iOS version of Time to Enjoy is available Monday. The Android version of the app is expected to be released later this year.
Do any of you currently use an app to find things to do? What do you think of Time to Enjoy's approach? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.


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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers revealed they had used the words of Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, as inspiration to go and beat beat relegation-battlers Norwich 3-2 at Carrow Road and move five points clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League.
Raheem Sterling scored twice and Luis Suarez broke the 30-goal barrier as the Reds moved a step closer to their first championship in over 20 years.
Liverpool showed their intent to make the most of Chelsea's shock home defeat by Sunderland on Saturday, and romped 2-0 ahead inside 10 minutes as the relegation-threatened Canaries were ripped apart with a superb 25-yard effort from Sterling, before Suarez tucked home from close range.
However, Norwich - just two points above the drop-zone - rallied after Gary Hooper reduced the deficit following a poor punch by Simon Mignolet only for Sterling to slot home a deflected third on the break.
Robert Snodgrass set up a tense finale with his far post header with 13 minutes left, but the Reds secured what looks to be a priceless victory ahead of next weekend's showdown with Chelsea at Anfield.
Rodgers delivered an emotional address at the service which commemorated 25 years since the Hillsborough disaster, when 96 Liverpool supporters lost their lives at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.
The Reds manager again looked for inspiration out of what was such a tragedy for the club and city.
"We were at the memorial service this week, there was hope for the families there as well," said Rodgers.
"I used some words of Margaret Aspinall, we put them up on the wall (in the dressing room), she talked about stress and how it can prove difficult for you, but it can also offer you great determination to fight, and that is what we gave the players today.
"This is all one club at this moment in time and we are all fighting to achieve the ultimate goal."
Rodgers added: "Liverpool is an incredible club.
"To see that (from the fans) is like bringing you back in time, the welcome we got in our last game.
"The supporters have been given hope really. They are proud of us, to watch the team attack and play with the verve they are, they put banners hanging over the training ground, there is a lot of nostalgia there for the supporters because they are proud of their team. This is a real iconic football club and we are trying to set the team up to attack."
Rodgers, who maintains his squad had not looked to take any extra incentive from Chelsea's defeat, praised the way his side took an early stranglehold at Carrow Road.
"We showed great quality and were nerveless in our possession and control, but credit to Norwich because they changed their shape for the second half and got the goal which gave the crowd a lift," the Northern Irishman said.
"It was always going to be tough after that, but we showed everything again, the quality of our movement and play was exceptional.
"We had to show character, resilience and determination, which we did in bundles.
"It was a big victory and congratulations to the players because we can finish no lower than third, which guarantees Champions League football, and at the start of the season everyone thought it would be a struggle for us to get to fourth, so it shows the magnitude of the effort the players have put in."
Rodgers added: "We have cemented the first objective, which was cementing Champions League qualification. Now we will look forward to next weekend, which will be a great atmosphere at Anfield."
The Liverpool manager praised the impact of England World Cup hopeful Sterling, who supported the attack well in the absence of injured forward Daniel Sturridge.
"He is arguably the best young player in European football at the moment, if he does not win the PFA Young Player of the Year this season, it is ridiculous," Rodgers said.
"I have been really pleased with his maturity, because we have tried to play him in different positions, which really tells you how intelligent he is as a footballer.
"He is a really humble kid, and it has been great to see."
Rodgers, though, is determined to keep everyone grounded.
He said: "You never get too carried away when you win, and you never get too disappointed when you lose.
"You cant win every game, but dealing with the expectancy is all part of being at a huge club like Liverpool.
"All I know is my players give me everything and I cannot ask for any more. For me, that is what is important."
While Liverpool look in a strong position to go on and claim the title, Norwich appear unlikely to avoid relegation.
The Canaries are only two points above the drop zone, with away matches at Manchester United and Chelsea before hosting Arsenal on the final day.
However, manager Neil Adams - who replaced Chris Hughton following the 1-0 home defeat to West Brom on April 5 - has to remain positive.
"The way we came out second half, and got about it, the belief, the conviction, I was absolutely delighted with it," he said.
"No doubt people will ask if they have got that in the last three games, but the two performances since I have been in charge have been first class.
"We will go out to get nine points. The belief is there we can get enough to stay in the division."


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Checking in on… the WCCPosted by rtmsf on February 8th, 2010
Michael Vernetti is the RTC correspondent for the West Coast Conference.
Standings (through games of 2/6/10)
- Saint Mary's 8-1 (21-3)
- Gonzaga 7-1 (19-4)
- Portland 5-3 (14-8)
- San Francisco 4-5 (9-15)
- Loyola Marymount 3-5 (12-12)
- Pepperdine 3-5 (7-17)
- Santa Clara 2-7 (10-16)
- San Diego 2-7 (9-16)
Moment of Truth, Part II
Gonzaga triumphed in its trial-by-fire three-game stretch to Portland, Saint Mary's and San Diego last month, and now it's Saint Mary's turn to run the gauntlet. After holding serve at home last week against Santa Clara (74-62) and San Francisco (73-57), the Gaels face a showdown with the Zags Thursday night (Feb. 11) in Spokane, a tough rematch with Portland two nights later, then a final road game on Feb. 18 against San Diego. This is make or break time for Saint Mary's, which can sew up a regular-season WCC title and a probable NCAA bid with a sweep, or face the same uncertainty it did last season when it failed to beat Gonzaga in three tries.
Although the Gaels could salvage their season with a win over Gonzaga in the WCC tournament March 5-8 in Las Vegas, it would do wonders for their peace of mind if they did the trick Thursday night before a sold out and rockin' McCarthey Athletic Center, where the Zags have lost only four times in the last six years. The epic contest, perhaps the most meaningful west coast college basketball game this year, will be televised at 8 p.m. Pacific on ESPN2. Are Randy Bennett's Gaels up to the task?
The consensus of most observers, including Zag fans, is that an upset is possible but Saint Mary's must be hitting on all cylinders to pull it off. Gonzaga dispelled any thoughts that they had fallen into a mid-season funk with their stunning loss to San Francisco on Jan. 30 by thrashing Portland at home 76-49 on Feb. 4, then pulling one of their patented cross-country jaunts to knock off a tough Memphis squad 66-58 two days later. The Zag express is rolling toward a certain trip to the NCAA tournament and will not want to be derailed by the Gaels on its home court.
To accomplish the improbable, Saint Mary's must show it has learned some tough lessons from its 89-82 home loss to Gonzaga on Jan. 14. One of these is not to provide another contribution to a highlight reel that could be entitled "Forwards Go Off," featuring huge games by the Zags' Elias Harris (31 pts), Santa Clara's Marc Trasolini (19 pts), Loyola Marymount's Kevin Young and Drew Viney (27 pts each) and Portland's Robin Smuelders (29 pts), among others. Simply put, the Gaels have inside defense issues stemming most directly from the departure of stout forwards Diamon Simpson and Ian O'Leary. Their replacements, Ben Allen and Clint Steindl, have given Bennett strong offensive performances from the 4-and 3-spots, but have not exactly played shutdown D. The Gaels don't have to worry about their powerful offensive machine, which has proved to be a reliable provider of 80-plus ppg, but must clamp down on the Zags' trio of Harris, Matt Bouldin and Steven Gray.
Eric Reveno must work hard this week to keep his Portland Pilots from licking their lips in anticipation of ambushing the Gaels two nights after they face the Zags. Portland will have a tuneup against unraveling San Diego on Thursday night, then can hope to inflict a disappointing second league loss on the Gaels if they upset Gonzaga or a crippling third one if the Gaels lose in Spokane. "Payback is hell" will be the Pilots' motto this week, remembering their 77-72 loss to Saint Mary's last month.
The hotly-contested fourth-place spot in WCC standings stayed with San Francisco this week, as the Dons squeaked out a 72-70 overtime win over San Diego before stumbling at Saint Mary's. LMU supplanted Pepperdine in the fifth spot by beating the Waves 77-61 at Gersten Pavilion, but both southern California squads travel to San Francisco this week to stage a battle royal for the fourth-place position and first-round WCC tournament bye that goes with it. San Francisco is in the driver's seat by hosting both of its nearest competitors, but even if it wins both games it faces a killing season-ending schedule of Santa Clara, Portland and Gonzaga on the road. This one isn't over yet.