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News story found by:LOU S 777@aol.com THE POST ZAMBIA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER No. , WEDNESDAY EDITION, JUNE 18, 1997 News DPP's daughter assaults post reporter By Staff Reporter Daughter of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Meebelo Kalima, Cindy, yesterday assaulted a Post reporter who was trying to take pictures of her when she came out of a court-room where she was being tried on an assault charge. Cindy, who is facing assault charges noticed reporter, Amos Malupenga, focusing at her as she stepped out of the court building quickly shielded herself from the camera and advanced to hit him in the face with her hand bag thrice and slapped him before she got hold of the camera. "Don't be stupid, why are you taking pictures of me," she yelled at the reporter, pulling the camera. "I will break it, you bring it here." Her lawyer, Mundia Sikatana quickly came to the rescue of the reporter. "Hey, do not break it, just leave him and his camera," Mundia told her and turned to the reporter. And turning to the reporter Sikatana said: "Just leave her, why don't you take pictures of politicians?" The reporter has since lodged an assault complaint with Lusaka police against Cindy. Cindy Meebelo Kalima, 32, an investigations officer in the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) of house number 15, Chiyengi Court in Northmead is accused of assaulting Mukuka Ng'andu and thereby occa-sioning actual bodily harm when they, in January this year, allegedly fought over a boyfriend. Ng'andu, 31, a hair dresser of flat number 10, Ascot Court in Rhodes Park, told magistrate Richard Choonga that she was assaulted by Cindy on January 4, this year due to the natural tension that exists between the two of them as they share the same man. Ng'andu told the court that on that day, Cindy had brought the two kids she has with her man, Beki Themba Mbuyisa, for lunch at their place in Rhodes Park and that trouble started when Cindy was going back. "I just saw her (Cindy's) maid walking away with a heater and I asked her if it was theirs," Ng'andu said. "Before she could answer, Cindy came back and replied that she was taking it for the kids and I said it was alright then. She walked out but shortly returned. She started telling me that 'don't fuck around with me, I will fuck you. You are a witch and a fat bitch'. She then pulled my rasta hair (dread locks) and scratched my face with her nails and said she had fixed me because I always boasted over my coloured (light) face." She said she sustained three deep cuts and some bruises and after this they traded bad words and called each other bad names. "I told her she was a bigger bitch because she found me already in a relationship with my boyfriend Themba who I knew in 1986," Ng'andu said. But in cross-examination, Cindy's lawyer put it to Ng'andu that the duo fought because Ng'andu not only called his client a big bitch but also that her two children are bastards who will suffer and that her man Themba who is their father would have nothing to do with them. Ng'andu denied this allegation and said as far as she knows, Cindy is not married to Themba. "Themba has not married her, he told me their relationship could not work out," Ng'andu said. Magistrate Choonga adjourned the matter to July 25 for continued trial. The Post / Post Newspapers / post@zamnet.zm #######################################################

April 04, 1998 NYC Restaurateur Elaine Arrested ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) -- The owner of Elaine's, the venerable Upper East Side celebrity hangout, was arrested early Saturday after allegedly swapping insults with a patron and then gouging his face with her nails. Elaine Kaufman was charged with assault and released after the 12:30 a.m. imbroglio inside the Second Avenue restaurant, where regulars include George Plimpton, Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, said police spokesman Detective Mark Patterson. Kaufman was charged with hitting James Sorrels, 45, of Manhattan, who had taken a date to Elaine's for a nightcap. Sorrels said that Kaufman, who was sitting near them at the bar, was apparently angered when he bought just one drink. According to Sorrels, the restaurant owner told him, "You people look to me like poor white trash. I'll bet you $50 you can't afford to buy another drink." Sorrels' date, Linda Arnold, said that she returned from a trip to the ladies room to find "this fat lady sitting in this chair attacking my boyfriend for not buying me a drink." The couple decided to leave at that point. Once outside, Arnold realized that she had left her coat back at the bar. When Sorrels went inside to retrieve it, "Elaine was sneering, 'You're back."' Sorrels then shot back, "You're acting like a pig." Kaufman grabbed his left lapel and raked the nails of her right hand across Sorrel's right cheek, drawing blood, according to the Manhattan man. Sorrels called 911 and Kaufman was arrested inside her restaurant. The injured man was taken to a hospital for a tetanus shot and released a short time later. Kaufman did not return calls for comment left at her Manhattan apartment and at the restaurant. Arnold, who had moved to New York from California just one day earlier, was shocked by the whole episode. "I thought I was coming to New York to get a taste of class," Arnold said. "We went to the so-called classiest place in town, and we wound up getting treated pretty badly." ############################################################

Augusta Georgia: metro@ugusta: Long nails lengthened jail stay 11/10/9 metro@ugusta -- Augusta, Georgia:Metro news and information from The Augusta Chronicle Long nails lengthened jail stay Nails: Length hides fingerprints Web posted Nov. 11 at 02:35 AM By Tracie Powell Staff Writer A fingernail clipper could have gotten Georgia Anne LaFavor out of jail, but she wouldn't use it. Forget that bail of $250 was posted for her release four days ago. Forget that she's been charged with a misdemeanor. Ms. LaFavor, who is a paralegal, was in the Richmond County Jail because she refused to cut her nails. Jailers say the Augusta woman's long, curvy fingernails prevented officials from getting a proper fingerprint, something they are required to do for identification. So sheriff's officials ordered Ms. LaFavor be kept in jail until they could ``properly process her,'' jail officials said. ``Have you ever seen that movie with Freddy Krueger? These nails are just like those. Only they could be worse,'' said sheriff's Capt. Gene Johnson, who is in charge of jail operations. Freddy Krueger was the main character in the 1982 film A Nightmare on Elm Street. But after top jail administrators, Sheriff Charles Webster and city attorneys were contacted by The Augusta Chronicle, Ms. LaFavor was released shortly before 11 p.m. Monday. ``We took the fingerprints the old-fashioned way -- with ink. There was no way we could have done it with our computer,'' said a jail official who requested anonymity. ``This (the release) could have been done this weekend. Some things just take common sense,'' said the jailer, who didn't want her name published because she may get in trouble for releasing Ms. LaFavor. Ms. LaFavor's release took Sheriff Webster by surprise. ``I didn't know she was released. Who released her?'' he said. Jail officials should have released Ms. LaFavor earlier if it was possible to use ink to get her fingerprints, the sheriff said. Ms. LaFavor was arrogant, and she offended some members of the jail staff after her arrest Friday, and that may have been why she was held for four days, the jailer said. Ms. LaFavor's nails are five to six inches long, said sheriff's Chief Deputy A.C. McLane. However, Ms. LaFavor's daughter, Acola Haynes, disputed that. Her mother's nails aren't nearly that long and they aren't curvy, Ms. Haynes said. If Ms. LaFavor would have just trimmed her nails, authorities would have released her sooner to make room at the jail for someone else, sheriff's Capt. Gene Johnson said. A federal judge has ordered officials to reduce the number of inmates at the overcrowded jail. The Augusta woman was arrested Friday and charged with interference with child custody. She maintained jailers trying to force her to cut her nails was a violation of her civil rights. Before her release, jail officials were adamant about keeping the woman in custody until she cut her nails. ``We've never been confronted with anything like this before,'' Sheriff Webster said. ``You have to roll the finger to get a good fingerprint. And the condition her nails are in, you just can't do that. ... You have to understand, they're not just long nails. They're extremely long nails.'' Jail officials are required to process people who are arrested, regardless of their innocence or guilt. Part of the processing is getting a photograph of the person and taking fingerprints for complete identification, Sheriff Webster said. These things must be done to make sure people are who they say they are, Capt. Johnson said. ``I don't know anything about this woman. But she may be wanted in other jurisdictions, other states,'' Capt. Johnson said. ``This sends a message to the criminal community that they can slip by if they grow their nails real long.'' #############################################################

WhiteBoard News for Wednesday, December 23, 1998 South Windsor Connecticut Raquel K. Husman ========== Middletown, Connecticut: A woman was charged with assault for allegedly slashing the groin of a former boyfriend with her fingernails after finding him with another woman. Dr. Lawrence G. Weiner's scrotum was cut open when the woman clawed at him with her fingernails Tuesday morning, authorities said. The woman's nails apepared to be manicured at normal length. Doctors at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown used 24 stitches to close the wound. The ex-girlfriend, Raquel K. Husman, 41, of South Windsor, was charged with felony burglary and assault. Weiner, a 57-year-old staff psychiatrist at Connecticut Valley Hospital's Whiting Forensic Division, was treated and released. The attack happened at Weiner's rented cottage on the grounds of the Connecticut Valley Hospital campus. Husman smashed a side porch window to open a door and get into the house, according to a police report, then allegedly confronted Weiner in an upstairs bedroom. Weiner's new girlfriend was hiding in the bathroom, Assistant State's Attorney Barbara Hoffman said. Judge Antonio Robaina ordered Husman to stay away from Weiner pending a court appearance on Jan. 5. Husman was free after posting $25,000 bail. #####################################################

Broken fingernail sets off big holiday dinner battle Saturday, November 29, 1997 BERGENFIELD -- Sometime between the turkey and the pumpkin pie, things turned ugly, police said. By the the time it was over, Thanksgiving dinner at 66 Howard Drive had turned into a full-scale fight, and it took officers from four police departments to break it up. Police got a call about a disturbance at the apartment shortly before 9 p.m., authorities said. When they arrived, the conflict, which began as a shouting match between two women over a broken fingernail, had escalated, and all 15 family members had poured out into a courtyard where several of them were hitting each other, police said. Police from Bergenfield, Englewood, Teaneck, and New Milford were summoned to help quell the conflict. When it was over, two people were under arrest, police said. Gary DeLeon, 37, a resident of the apartment, was charged with resisting arrest and impeding police, authorities said. Police later learned that DeLeon was wanted on drug charges in New York. He remained in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, and was being held without bail. Also arrested was Etheline Thompson, 32, of Georgian Court, who was charged with disorderly conduct and released on her own recognizance, police said. ######################################################

Woman can finally scratch without her 35-inch nails     It took a doctor and a manicurist just 20 minutes to end Lauretta Adams' dream of setting a world record. The 43-year-old Dallas woman said she had been growing her fingernails for 24 years. Before she cut them, the longest one measured 35 inches, she said. But the inconvenience suffered trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records recently turned to pain. "For about the last year, they'd been hurting me," Adams said. "Besides, the world record holder is a man from India and he has me beat by 76 inches." After having her nails cut, Adams said she did something she hasn't been able to do since the early 1970s: "I scratched." #####################################################

Devers ready to claw for gold medals (c) 1996 Copyright Nando.net (c) 1996 Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Jul 17, 1996 - 15:05 EST) -- If there were gold medals for longest fingernails at the Atlanta Olympics, Gail Devers would win hands down. Devers won't let anyone measure her nails, but they're so long that they're not straight, they curl around. They're so long that during relays she tapes them so her teammate won't get scratched on the baton pass. They're so long that she scrunches her fingers at the start of a race rather than spreading them out, so she won't break the nails on the track. "They don't bother me. I've always had long nails," says Devers, whose brightly painted talons are reminiscent of former Olympic champion sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner. "I don't know why they're so strong, unless it's because I eat a lot of calcium. They don't break unless I do something stupid. "But they don't make me run. My feet make me run." #############################################################

Bermuda Sun Newspaper May 6, 1998 The longest fingernails in Bermuda? By Patrick Meagher BERMUDA'S Sherrylynn Johnston has fingernails so long she dials the telephone with her knuckles and scares the life out of other women behind cash registers. "I go to give them money and they jump," she said. "They think I'm attacking them. They think I have a weapon." Miss Johnston's weapons, which she says aren't sharp enough to cut through skin, curl past her fingers and look like spiders moving about when she opens and closes her hands. The 36-year-old housekeeper from Warwick thinks she could have the longest finger nails in Bermuda, where many women pride themselves in long, pattern-painted nails. Miss Johnston's nails, painted black and white, extend 3 1/2 inches. Her longest is about 3 3/4 inches. They took her 15 months to grow. They've also changed her life. She has to swim with her hands clenched in a fist to avoid snapping off a nail. Meantime, tourists have stopped her and snapped her photograph. She has to wear gloves for housework and washes windows with the back of her hands. She washes out cups using a dish brush and when she falls she's so afraid of breaking her nails she throws back her hands. "I never use my hands to break a fall," she declared. Not surprisingly she has cut open her chin, her knee and her shoulder. She started growing her nails on a bet at age 15. She won $5. "And I've been growing them ever since." She said her boyfriend likes them but thinks they might be getting a little out of hand. She'll wait until they're four inches long before she cuts them back one or two inches, she said. She spends 20 minutes getting her haircut and two hours each month getting her nails done at Fancy Fingers in Hamilton. Acrylic is applied underneath the nail and where the nail grows from the fingers to strengthen them. She sleeps on her back with her hands folded every night to prevent breaking a nail. When a nail does break, she brings it in to her manicurist to glue back on. "The hardest thing is peeling potatoes," she said. "I can't hold the knife." Said her sister Maria: "I like them but I couldn't handle it. She doesn't let you get to close to her. She's constantly in a whirl." ######################################################################

Fingernail Fashion Choices By Vicki Vantoch Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, December 28, 1999; Page C04 I recently ventured into a 12-year-old's lair. Submerged in the bric-a-brac of girlhood, Danielle's room contained all the essentials: small pink containers, large pink containers, heart-shaped containers containing sparkly dangling earrings, a "Danielle" rubber-stamp, "Danielle" spelled out in small colored wooden blocks on the door, hair scrunchies, tiny keys, tiny locks, slightly smaller-than-normal powder blue deodorants, bendable pencils, and plenty of velvety pouches. I breathed in airborne hair products, fruit-smelling lotions and powdery substances--nectars I had once applied devoutly. Remembering my own preteen products, I picked, poked and scrutinized kiwi-flavored lip glosses, beaded pins and multicolored string bracelets. Opening, closing. Twiddling, sniffing. Ahhh, a hanging wire basket of nail polishes. I dropped into an inflatable chair and glazed my toenails in a thick coat of dark and shimmery purple. I had culled nail accouterments from my product supply some years before, relegating them to a corner under the sink with Halloween-only Clinique bonus lipsticks. But now, reinvented in a thick, purple enamel named Fetish, I boldly brandished my sockless digits. My 12-year-old hostess offered a tepid endorsement of my nail paint job. "Whatever," she said with standard teenage nonchalance, but I was intoxicated. I flashed my painted toes. I flashed them to people who probably didn't want to see them. "Fetish," I confided. Between streakings, I inspected nail decor in every corner. "Fetish?" I wondered. Newly alerted to nail colors and lengths, I watched a Rite-Aid cashier with two-inch acrylics futilely stab a renegade dime. With the dexterity of a grape and closely gnawed nubs (neurosis precludes nail growth), I was intrigued. How did she manage day-to-day coin maneuvers with two-inch talons? More important, why? Sheer masochism? Exhilarated by challenge? Sure, it's a gas to use chopsticks at a Chinese restaurant but why retard your manual dexterity everywhere you go? There must be a silver lining. Could there be some use for long nails? A more fulfilling back scratch perhaps? My nail decor musings eventually gave way to a full-blown investigation. The seemingly trivial fingernail is really a whole world of signs and symbols, dangling at the fringes of our bodies. Like other elements of costume, fingernail designs express who we are and what we desire to be. We make fingernail fashion choices based on our cultural aesthetics, values, social classes and ideas about our roles in society. Russian folklorist Petr Bogatyrev wrote, "In order to grasp the social functions of costumes we must learn to read them as signs in the same way we learn to read and understand languages." How should we read stick-on rhinestones, dangling nail jewelry, freehand nail art, air-brushed designs, acrylic nail sculptures and green glitter? The endless possibilities in nail decor raise some crucial questions. Which occasions warrant glue-on jewels? Why do we wear polishes named Whip Cream? In the Buff, and Jaded? French manicures from France? Or, just another example of Francophilia? Is red appropriate for everyone? Why the long nails? Gene Lakin, who teaches fashion history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, says long fingernails may be status symbols. "Long nails in 20th-century America may indicate a leisure class. By wearing long nails, people show they don't need to perform manual labor. Similarly [in the 19th century], a pale complexion was associated with wealth because it meant not needing to work in the fields." "Elegant dress serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive, but also because it is the insignia of leisure," Thorsten Veblen wrote in his classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). "It not only shows that the wearer is able to consume a relatively large value, but it argues at the same time that he consumes without producing." Like the constrictive corset of Veblen's time, long nails today signal which women are too rich and too feminine (wouldn't want the little darling to break a nail) to perform manual labor. Ironically, long nails are no longer popularly considered elite. "In the 1980s, long nails were a status symbol, but in the '90s many women consider shorter nails classier," says Lauren Breeze, a marketing representative at the nail-polish empire OPI. "Everything was bigger in the '80s--big jewelry, big shoulder pads. It was the 'Dynasty' era and long nails went along with that excess." But today's Gen-X arbiters of fashion and culture have disowned that legacy of extravagance and reoriented style toward thrift-store polyester. America's aesthetic shift from '80s excess (ridiculously extravagant consumption equals beautiful) to '90s excess-repulsed grunge is reflected in nail length. The short-nail trend, however, hasn't permeated all corners of American society. Each group has different ideas about what constitutes appropriate conspicuous consumption; thus, canons of beauty vary. While the fashion elite may consider long nails declasse, many working-class women prefer them. A Chicago manicurist sums it up: "Middle-income women may think long nails are 'tacky and impractical,' but working-class women think they're 'cute.' " Fashion historian Lakin says this "inversion" between social classes can be seen throughout history. "After the French revolution, no one wanted to be associated with court clothes and all the excess and wealth. They wanted to wear simpler clothes." The aristocracy began to shun the "vulgarity" of luxurious court clothing, but other social groups found them attractive. Whether vulgar or sexy, nail fashion today can reflect values, anxieties and even culinary preferences. In "Hope in a Jar," a social history of America's beauty culture, historian Kathy Peiss notes that women use cosmetics with "many different, contradictory ends in mind: to play the lady or the hussy, to look older or younger, to signify common identities as 'American' and 'respectable,' or to invoke class and ethnic distinctions." Savvy cosmetic firms tap this market for self-expression by giving polishes expressive names and colors that target every demographic nook and cranny. "Respectable" types may choose traditional pinky, pukey, beigy colors with Hallmark-unoriginal names like Dusk, Bouquet and Sand (not nearly as inspiring as Fetish), but seductresses may prefer long, red nails. Long and red can be sexy--even dangerously sexy, as shown on "The Alarmingly Long and Dangerous Nail Web Page," which features photos of women displaying their long, red nails and sells videotapes of long-nailed women doing God knows what (fetish). Femme fatales, however, can opt for more daring alternatives to the classically sexy red nails. Mate-snagging is easy with Snow Me White (a guaranteed eye-catcher worn with a Lewinsky-style blue dress), Sheer Hot, Sheer Sizzle (notice the heat motif), or, for the recently deflowered, Not in Kansas Anymore . . . Red. But, modern nail polish expression is not limited to just sexiness or prudishness. Rebels lacquer on rebellious colors like . . . Rebellious (made accessible to international misfits through a French translation, "Rebelle"), Wanted . . . Red or Alive ("a hot-blooded red inspired by the infamous duels of the Old West"') and Gun Metal (for the haute couture of the NRA). Finally, polishes for Thelma and Louise. Nonconformists may favor the visual violence of greens like Holy Guacamole Frost, Toad, and Daisy the Pig (the marketing ploy escapes me). Another rebelliously repulsive color is Moray Madness, which looks remarkably like snot. The only definition I could find for "Moray" was "any of various often voracious marine eels of the family Muraenidae, of chiefly tropical coastal waters" (the American Heritage Dictionary). Could this voracious eel have snot-yellow fins trimmed with white glitter? What does Moray Madness express? A passion for eels? Will other eel fans flock? Fetish? These bold and ugly colors express a '90s Zeitgeist by spoofing traditional, girlish primping. Ideal for Gen-X college students and midlife crisis victims alike, these colors are perfect for protesting a mundane world. Though they have lost some of the cachet of rebellion since being co-opted by Hollywood hipsters, these colors still provide the best subversive end-of-finger outlet for budding iconoclasts. My personal favorite is Hard Candy's tinfoil silver polish called Trailer Trash. What's more appealing than adding a dash of irony to an otherwise unaffected look? With the gentle flick of a brush, even the WASPiest intern can be swiftly transformed into a member of the exploited Proletariat. As Adam Gopnik put it in a New Yorker piece, "Anything [can] gain status by being made ironic." Thinking back to Danielle's polishes, it makes sense that a 12-year-old, trying to decide who she is, would immerse herself in a vast and diverse collection of hues. Would she wear Rock the Vote Red, Sushi, Girly, Greed, Miss Understood or a chewed, polishless nub? And as for me . . . Fetish?   E-Mail This Article   © 1999 The Washington Post Company #####################################################################

June 11, 1997 A Kansas City man plead not guilty to assaulting a woman passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight on April 4. When she used the first class lavoratory to change her baby's diaper, he kicked at the door and demanded that she return to coach where she belonged. She, in turn (according to his statement), struck and cut his face with her long fingernails. #######################################################################

Newton, Mass., Fire Chief Edward Murphy told reporters in November that he and other firefighters and police officers spent 15 minutes freeing a woman whose long fingernail had become wedged into the coin slot of the parking meter. ######################################################################

a great news story found by: acesar70@yahoo.com (Anthony) Postal service, employee battling over lengthy fingernails April 24, 2000 Web posted at: 2:59 p.m. EDT (1859 GMT) ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- A Postal Service supervisor has taken a medical leave, claiming that she is stressed out after being ordered to cut her fingernails. Lolita Dash recently went on leave after her bosses said her inch-long nails violated the local postmaster's rule that nails can't extend more than a quarter-inch beyond the fingertip. "Why should the focus be on nails and not mail?" said Dash, 36, a customer service supervisor who has worked for the post office since 1986. "I have been working with them safely." Dash, who once had 5-inch thumbnails and took up to two hours to paint and decorate her nails, says her problems began in 1995, when a new postmaster instituted the rule, citing safety concerns. She cut her nails the next year. "I was in tears the whole time," she said. "It felt like cutting off a part of my finger." She soon let her nails grow to about an inch long, but there were no problems for a few years. But in March, her bosses began disciplinary proceedings. Within days, she went on medical leave and has not returned -- even though she had her nails cut to conform to the rule. No one had been injured because of long nails, but "it's more of a case of preventative safety," said Gary Sawtelle, a postal service spokesman. Six other female employees with long fingernails had theirs measured. One was found in violation and ordered to cut them. Dash said the rule infringes upon employees' personal choices. "It's more than fingernails," she said. "It's the principle." ###############################################################

Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:35:27 -0500 Reply-To: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> Sender: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> From: Ron Hartman Ron_Hartman@WP-EMH1.NOR.FISC.NAVY.MIL Subject: Employee fingernails Comments: cc: Walter_Piland@WP-EMH1.NOR.FISC.NAVY.MIL Dear Safetynetters: We have a situation with an employee who has extremely long fingernails (>6") and must work at a VDT almost all day long. Because of the long fingernails, this person must place her wrists at an awkward position at the keyboard and, thus, place a strain on her Carpal Tunnel. We are afraid that she may develop CTS if she continues working in this position. Can we legally make this person (or any other person) cut their fingernails so that they can assume a better ergonomic position at the keyboard? We have many times made employees shave off their beards in order to wear negative pressure respirators. Is this the same situation or not? Thanks for any suggestions that you can send our way. Ron Hartman, CIH DLA/DDNV Safety Office (757) 445-2005 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:45:30 -0500 Reply-To: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> Sender: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> From: Jay Hammett jhammett@smhs.smhs.MERCY.COM Subject: Re: Employee fingernails My first question is how can this person qualify to enter data at a required amount if they have this long of fingernails. Your are correct, it is a poor posture. I would look firsts at qualification issues. A required typing speed. Either she is or is not qualified. THis is also a problem for assembly line workers. A side pinch is used and does create a greater strain across the joints. I have had to tell many women that the cause of the problem is their nails, not the job. They were not happy to hear that. I told several they were not qualified to do the job with long nails and for some reason they usually cut the nails to remain qualified. Jay ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:11:00 -0700 Reply-To: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> Sender: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> From: Dodds, Brandan Brandan.Dodds@alliedsignal.com Subject: Re: Employee fingernails Comments: To: Ron Hartman <Ron_Hartman@WP-EMH1.NOR.FISC.NAVY.MIL> Legally cut the nails? I don't believe so. But unless she's different from other individuals I've seen with extremely long nails, they are normally very slow typists or use the hunt and peck method to accommodate their lifestyle choice. This being the case, the strain on the Carpel Tunnel is usually minimal. If she is a fast typist anyway, recommend she drink 8 - 16 ounces of water every hour. This will serve to get her away from her station and provide relief (in more ways than one). My Opinions. Brandan --------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:36:20 -0500 Reply-To: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> Sender: Safety <SAFETY@UVMVM.UVM.EDU> From: Robert J. Leonard rjl@ionics.com Subject: Re: Employee fingernails ------ =_NextPart_000_01BBF99C.A5D5FEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People with extremely long fingernails do not constitute a legally protected class that I have ever heard of. #############################################################################

November 13, 1999 Section: PLANT CITY Page: 1 PANKY SNOWTribune Correspondent CORONET - "I think the funniest thing that has happened was in a grocery store," said Vivian Dasher. "I had my hand on the counter and a man came up and put his groceries down on them. When I squealed, he said, "Oh, ma'am, I'm so sorry, I thought they were car keys!' " He was talking about her 15-inch fingernails. Spiraling out from each finger on her left hand, the nails are painted in bright colors. And although they have resulted in numerous funny incidents, Dasher said, they don't give her any real problems. "The kids want to bite them, and I have a little white dog that jumps up and tries to catch them," Dasher said. When one of her grandchildren was given a school assignment to draw a hand, he sketched Dasher's. The other kids asked Javis if his grandmother was "Freddie Kruger" or "Edward Scissorhands," both movie characters. "People always think she is limited in what she can do," said Linda Ross, one of Dasher's sisters. "But she has never been limited. She can do anything." It seems to be true. Dasher, 41, cooks, mows and rakes her yard. She has driven a forklift, spent 10 years peeling shrimp for a shrimp company and worked as a dental assistant. She does housework and works full time for Gourmet Award Foods of Plant City. Her job there is to select the correct cans and boxes of food for the conveyor belt and to keep the belt clear and operating in her section. "Vivian has one of the highest productivity standard rates of any of the 150 or so employees," said Chris Crowder, warehouse manager. "She's always in good spirits and she goes a step ahead of what she needs to do." Dasher's left index finger nail is more than 15 inches long; the nail on her middle finger is 12 inches; on her ring finger and little finger, the nails are 91/2 inches long, and on her thumb, 71/2 The ring finger nail would have measured longer but 4 inches broke off recently. That doesn't happen often, Dasher said. "I started growing them when I was about 25. I never said I wanted them "this long' or "that long.' They just started growing and overnight they were there. "If you have a lot of calcium in your body, they will grow and grow and grow," she added. But, strangely enough, the nails on her right hand seem to stay a normal length. When Dasher is seated, her left hand is placed in her lap or on a table. Although she tries to be inconspicuous, she gets stares. Recently, at a restaurant with her daughter and grandchild, the waitress and nearby diners seemed awe-struck. Dasher looks much younger than her years. She has a small, gold nose ring and a gold tooth engraved with a star. She has done some modeling in the past and said she once posed as a calendar girl for Lowenbrau beer. Dasher is divorced with three children, Reginald Jones, 25; Toshiva Dasher, 22, and Bo Dasher, 21. She also lives across the street from her mother, Ellen Sykes. Asked how she can hold her grandbabies with such long nails on her one hand, she said the babies love to stroke her nails while she holds them close. Those nails, as well as Vivian's hair, are cared for by her niece, Tomeka "Ducky" Hargrett, 21, who also lives across the street. She uses Wet 'n' Wild nail paint and takes about 30 minutes to do the nails inside and out. "I love to get my nails painted but I hate taking off the color," Dasher said. "Fortunately, it will last about six months before the nails start chipping." Dasher's home church is St. Luke Missionary Baptist, but she said lately she has been visiting St. Mary's. "I used to focus on the nails but not any more," she added. "These nails are OK, but Jesus is the best." Cutline: (C) Vivian Dasher has many tales regarding her left-hand fingernails, which range from 71/2 to 15 inches. JIM REED/Tribune photo Vivian Dasher, left, gets a finger-painting touch-up from her niece, Tomeka Hargrett. JIM REED/Tribune photo ###############################################################

Foot-long nails demand attention For owner, they are works of art 06/14/01 By Angela Rozas Kenner bureau/The Times-Picayune Sometimes children stop and point her out to their parents. Many ask if she's a witch, into voodoo, or a fortune teller. Others just stop and stare, jaws slacked, eyes wide. Whether it's amazement, disgust, or even fear, Elizabeth Bates' 12-inch fingernails always get a reaction. "I can't go anywhere without somebody pointing me out, asking me if I would take a picture with them. Or asking me how I do this and that," said Bates, who is as well known in Kenner for her nails as she is for her job as community development director. And how could they not. Bates' nails aren't just long. They're show-stopping. Each nail wraps and coils up around her hands, and each is painted in vibrant colors and decorated with beads, glitter and small crystals. And it all started out with a dare. About 20 years ago, Bates' eighth-grade students at Meisler Middle School, impressed with her already lengthy nails and the tiny Christmas trees painted on them, challenged her to grow her nails even longer. By the time she left teaching 17 years later to take a job with the city of Kenner, her nails had grown to an amazing 26 inches. Twenty-six inches. More than 2 feet. Not nearly the world record -- that belongs to Sridhar Chillal, whose nails are about 4.8 feet long -- but long enough for some serious decorating. "The Christmas trees just kept getting longer and longer," Bates said. "Pretty soon I could add presents to them. Now I do all kinds of things." Fearing some people would think her nails were too long for the city job, Bates said she cut them down to 8 inches three years ago. But pretty soon, everyone got used to them. They're now at more than 12 inches, and Bates said she's never going to cut them again. "I've been doing this for so long, I don't even notice it anymore," Bates said. People often ask her if she's able to write, to type, to put on make-up and put her own clothes on. People want to know how she puts stockings on. Bates said she just tells them she does it just like everybody else -- only much, much more slowly. "I can't be in a rush. That's the only thing. I can do everything else everybody does, but I can't be rushed," Bates said. "I'd break them all off." For Bates, growing her nails long became a hobby, and one that has become a bit expensive. Every two weeks, Bates spends two to three hours and about $80 to get her nails cleaned, chemically treated to ward off fungus, and painted by artist Latonya Young at Baby's Hair Salon and Nail Shop. Young fills the nails in with acrylic to make them stronger, and files them squarely to protect Bates and others from scratches. She uses water paint and paint brushes for her original designs, and never does the same design twice, Bates said. A vacation to Corpus Christi recently warranted a seashell design, complete with real sea shells glued to her nails. Holidays bring pumpkins, American flags and fall leaves. Bates said she received the most compliments for a "money" design: Latonya shredded dollar bills, and glued those on. "It's a conversation piece really," Bates said. "I meet all kinds of people this way." She can type, albeit slowly. Telephone dialing usually is aided by a pencil, and coffee-mug holding is done with a precarious grip. But Bates said she never lets her nails get in her way. "When I drop money on the floor in the store, people say, ‘Oh, I know she isn't going to pick it up.' But I'm not going to leave good money on the floor," Bates said. "After I get it, they usually ask me to drop it and see if I can pick it up again." ###############################################################
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