Male manicure sparks discrimination suit, court stops salon from charging men more
Landover, MD, United States (AHN) – A Maryland nail salon is facing a gender discrimination lawsuit for charging male customers more than its female clients.
Norris Sydnor III of Mitchellville is seeking $200,000 in damages from the Rich’s Nail Salon in Landover after he was charged with $10 for a manicure in December.
The salon charges female customer $9 for the same service. Its brochure indicates the cost of nail filing, shaping, cuticle trimming and polishing as $9 for women and $10 for men. Other services are also priced $1 or $2 higher for male customers.
A court ordered Wednesday the salon to stop overcharging men for the meantime, according to Sydnor’s attorney, Jimmy Bell. The hearing of the case starts on July 21.
Rich’s Nail Salon has pulled its brochure and declined to comment.
Bell warned other salon’s charging men more than women to stop doing so.
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Two-day charity recreational fishing tourney kicks off in Massachusetts
A two-day recreational fishing tournament that will benefit the Schwartz Center for Children kicked off just after midnight Friday and will continue Saturday in New Bedford. The Dartmouth-based Schwartz Center for Children is a non-profit organization that cares for the developmentally disabled.
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Fitch Affirms Ratings on New Hampshire HELC (1997)/ HEFA (1998) Master Trusts
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Week 14 Med Check: Times are a-changin, especially with healin
The problem with covering sports medicine is things are always changing, faster than anyone can really keep up. By the time I learn one thing, doctors are on to another. Ligament repair is now both routine and advancing, showing returns in as little as six months. Some are talking about stem cells and re-growing structures the way that some surgeons once talked about the arthroscope. It’s simply astounding and all the better since much of this will trickle down to the rest of us. If you or I went in for knee surgery today, we’d have the same type of procedure an NFL player would have, using those perfected techniques. The difference would be the level of care. I know for me, I’m not in the same physical condition as an NFL player — well, maybe some of the linemen. So I shouldn’t be surprised that when I spoke to doctors this week about Matt Cassel, they were much more optimistic about his return than I had been initially. Asked just after learning he’d had his appendix removed Wednesday, I gave an answer — two weeks — that would have made sense a couple years back. Now I know that answer is from a world where someone had to be famous before they got into Us Weekly, where Lost was still a show on an island, and having an organ removed would cost you a couple games. We don’t live in that world any more. I asked Dr. Matthew Lublin of St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., about this type of procedure and he explained that it was all about pain tolerance. “If he feels healthy enough, he can play. He cannot cause any damage to himself by playing. It comes down to his pain threshold following the surgery,” he said. Honestly, I was stunned. Like many, I’ve had my appendix out and still have the three inch scar to prove it. I wouldn’t have thought about standing up for a couple hours, let alone playing football, in the weeks immediately following that procedure. It’s a different world and Cassel, like all NFL players, are not like me and you. I’ll have more on him below as we take a look around the league:
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Heffernan Insurance Brokers Welcomes Julie Davis as Vice President Specializing in Technology
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Heffernan Insurance Brokers, one of the largest independent brokerage firms in the United States, is pleased to announce that Julie Davis has joined its San Francisco team as a Vice President specializing in the technology industry sector and product
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Gov. Schwarzenegger Calls His Workers’ Compensation Law a Great ‘Success’
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Scientists develop tool to trace metabolism of cancer-fighting tomato compounds
The University of Illinois scientists who linked eating tomatoes with a reduced risk of prostate cancer have developed a tool that will help them trace the metabolism of tomato carotenoids in the human body. And they’ve secured funding from the National Institutes of Health to do it.
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FE Editorial : Realty bites
With the finance minister directing all public sector banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to carry out an independent evaluation of their assets and the documentation they have given loans on the basis of, it does look as if the implication of the arrest of the LIC Housing Finance chief could be a lot bigger than we think.
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Pope edges away from condom ban
HIV campaigners hail positive step forward but church warns that Pope Benedict XVI’s statement is not official teaching
The Vatican today rushed out a “clarification” of the pope’s remarks on the use of condoms, reported in a book to be published this week, insisting he had “not reformed or changed the [Roman Catholic] church’s teaching”.
But the statement made clear that Pope Benedict XVI was prepared to consider the use of condoms in certain, limited circumstances.
The statement, and the pope’s interview, suggested that, notwithstanding the interpretation of remarks he made last year on his visit to Africa, Benedict accepted that condoms reduced the risk of infection from Aids.
His spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the pontiff’s view was that “Aids cannot be solved only by the distribution of condoms”.
But, he added: “At the same time, the pope considered an exceptional situation in which the exercise of sexuality represents a real risk to the lives of others. In this case, the pope does not morally justify the exercise of disordered sexuality, but believes that the use of condoms to reduce the risk of infection is a ‘first step on the road to a more human sexuality’, rather than not to use it and risking the lives of others.”
Benedict caused surprise by taking as his example a male prostitute who used a condom to protect his client. But in so doing he avoided breaching his church’s opposition to artificial contraception: birth control not being an issue in male homosexual relations.
What remained unclear, however, was whether the pope was subtly edging open the door to the use of condoms in heterosexual relations, if only by couples in which one partner was HIV-positive.
The Vatican’s statement was issued as Catholics struggled to get to grips with the pope’s characteristically scholarly phrasing in the interviews, to be published on Wednesday.
In the book, the pope also said that the wartime pontiff Pius XII – accused of not speaking out against the mass deportation and killing of Jews by the Nazi regime – was a “great righteous” man who saved more Jews than anyone else.
Benedict’s “comments fill us with pain and sadness and cast a menacing shadow on Vatican-Jewish relations”, said Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, in an emailed statement to Associated Press at the weekend.
Several theologians have argued that the pope’s remarks on condoms did not represent a change of position, let alone of doctrine. But many ordinary Catholics took them as a green light for “safe sex” and they were welcomed by Aids campaigners. A spokesman for the United Nations’ joint programme on HIV/Aids called the comments “a significant and positive step forward”. He added “This move recognises that responsible sexual behaviour and the use of condoms have important roles in HIV prevention”.
In Zimbabwe, a Catholic priest interviewed by the Associated Press had no doubt about the import. “Now the message has come out that [men and women] can go ahead and do safe sex, it’s much better for everyone,” said Father Peter Makome.
But, as the Vatican noted in a longer, Italian version of its statement, the pope’s remarks were made in a “colloquial and not magisterial” form. In other words, they represented his private opinions rather than official teaching.
Writing for the Catholic World Report website, US academic Janet Smith, argued: “The Holy Father is simply observing that for some homosexual prostitutes the use of a condom may indicate an awakening of a moral sense.”
Spanish theologist Juan José Tamayo agreed. “I don’t detect any change in the words of the pope,” he told the Cadena SER radio network. “They ratify traditional doctrine, opposed to the use of condoms, and even confirm the irresponsible remarks he made in Africa about Aids.”
In 2009, Benedict prompted international uproar when he told journalists condoms should not be used because they could increase the spread of Aids. In the book, he stands by his remark, but in more nuanced terms.
He argues “condoms alone do not resolve the question itself. More needs to happen.” And in the key passage, he says: “There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanisation of sexuality.”
Asked by the interviewer if the Catholic church was not opposed in principle to the use of condoms, the pope replied: “She of course does not regard it as a real or moral solution, but, in this or that case, there can be nonetheless, in the intention of reducing the risk of infection, a first step in a movement towards a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.” Pope Benedict XVI Religion Catholicism Christianity HIV infection Sexual health Sex John Hooper guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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