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BELMONT, CALIF.
— In a July 29 story about Belmont’s moratorium on new massage therapist permits due to concerns about prostitution, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the California Massage Therapy Council said that schools it deemed illegitimate may allow sex workers to set up businesses by selling diplomas. Council CEO Ahmos Netanel said these schools also might have sold diplomas or committed other infractions unrelated to prostitution.
Coach Steve Spagnuolo said Kevin Demoff, VP of football operations, had reported nothing new in negotiations with the No. 1 pick.
Seahawks bulk up with Pitts: Free-agent guard Chester Pitts has agreed with the Seattle Seahawks on a $2 million, one-year contract on the eve of training camp. Pitts started 114 games for Houston, first as a left tackle and then in 2006 as a left guard.
A second-round pick for the Texans in 2002, Pitts is rejoining former Houston line coach Alex Gibbs in Seattle.
Young avoids suspension over tussle: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday he has decided not to suspend Titans quarterback Vince Young over a tussle at a Dallas strip club in June. Speaking to reporters after the Packers’ shareholders meeting in Green Bay, Wis., Goodell said he met with Young this week.
Massage Parlors Under the Scope in Belmont
Updated 2:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Belmont officials have halted issuing any new massage therapist permits amid concerns that some businesses could be covers for sex workers.
The city council imposed the 45-day moratorium Tuesday after learning that 80 percent of Belmont’s massage therapists were certified by schools deemed illegitimate by a state watchdog group. The California Massage Therapy Council says those schools may allow sex workers to set up businesses by selling diplomas.
Now, 37 people who who said they went to those suspect schools could have their licenses revoked or mdified by the city, The San Mateo Daily Journal reported.
State-certified therapists still can set up shop in Belmont without the city permit, but others won’t be able to do so during the moratorium. Officials say existing therapists seeking to renew their permits also will face more scrutiny.
See the full article from “NBC Bay Area”
The telephone poll of 400 likely Republican voters statewide was conducted Monday and Tuesday for the Detroit Free Press and TV stations WXYZ, WJRT, WOOD and WILX. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
AP File PhotoRepublican gubernatorial candidates debate at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., Tuesday, July 13, 2010. From left, State Sen. Tom George, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, Attorney General Mike Cox and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra participated in the hour long debate sponsored by the Michigan Republican Party.
Compared with a mid-June EPIC-MRA poll, Snyder has moved up 6 percentage points, while Cox and Hoekstra have remained about the same. Hoekstra has been pounded by negative ads criticizing his votes for federal bailouts and higher debt ceilings, while Cox has had to deal with attacks on his handling of an investigation into a never-proven wild party allegedly involving strippers at the Detroit mayor’s official residence.
See the full article from “MLive.com”
TAMPA, Florida — Detectives say over the past couple of years, Hillsborough County has become a favorite target of identity thieves, a ring of them. They are made up of of criminals, prostitutes and drug users who have found the Tampa Bay area to be an easy target.
It’s a big city, packed with tourists who police say are too often careless with their wallets and purses.
“They know people forget to lock their cars, or sometimes leave their things out in plain view,” says Hillsborough Sheriff’s spokesman Larry McKinnon.
But this week, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says it arrested five members of the so-called “Felony Lane” gang after they tried to get cash from a Bank of America branch on N. Dale Mabry in Carrollwood.
A bank clerk who spotted the stolen ID’s and credit cards alerted law enforcement officials.
See the full article from “10 Connects”
New Greeting Card Line Gives Hope to Women Escaping Prostitution in the Philippines
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The Dynasty bar is in Old Town north of the Carousel and
draws a lot of male prostitutes because of its proximity to Carousel, but the
new owner has begun to try to move the rent boys out.
If you want a very unique gay bar experience in Old Town,
check out the Tip Top bar. It is on a hill a couple of blocks from the center
of Old Town on Seilergraben 13. It plays “schlager” music made famous
by the wildly popular Eurovision music competition show. The management says
that although most of the clientele is gay, they get a healthy mix of non-gays.
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Prostitution is legal in Switzerland as long as the
prostitutes don’t actively solicit clients. The Swiss aim to avoid the problem
of street prostitutes harassing people in the streets.
Earlier this year, a brothel for gay men opened in Zurich.
It is called the Golden Gay Spa. It was set up like an upscale bathhouse with
options for men to pay for sex. But it recently shut down. Its website says it
is only temporarily closed for reconstruction/conversion.
Cox has an adult daughter by a previous marriage, and his experience in raising her while attempting to extract child support payments from the child´s mother prompted him to leading an aggressive “deadbeat parent” initiative as attorney general.
The well-oiled Cox gubernatorial campaign has made a proposed $2 billion tax-cut its cornerstone. Any remaining questions on the candidate´s positions are referred to the candidate´s 60-plus page, “92-point” plan, which it uncorked last September. One of its more effective TV commercials focused on his four years as a U.S. Marine (1980-´83).
His opponents have used shadow groups to question his decision to use the “urban legend” tag for an alleged party at then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick´s Manoogian Mansion in 2002 which is said to have featured a stripper named “Strawberry” who fought with Kilpatrick´s wife and then turned up dead months afterward. A civil suit filed by the woman´s family that attempts to link the two incidents is being covered heavily by the Detroit media.
See the full article from “City Pulse”
by Ophelia Williams
Ophelia Williams’ little niece and other family members wait for the bus near her mother’s house in Hayes Valley.
Where I’m from, boys don’t become men; they become inmates – lifers whose development is stifled by institutionalization. Girls don’t mature to womanhood; they become baby-mamas who steal and prostitute their adult lives away, their growth strangled by the byproducts of institutionalization.
Mothers don’t stick around to watch their children grow. They abandon them at birth and escape their responsibility to return to the call of the crack-rock. Fathers don’t exist. It’s on the promise of hope that our aging grandmothers attempt to raise children 50 years their younger in their “golden years.” Then, you have the institutions that feed off this prevalent despair.
I have witnessed this all.
BELMONT, CA (KGO) — Belmont city leaders are questioning the growing number of massage therapists in their town and where exactly they’re getting their training. There are now 10 establishments in the city of just 26,000.
Massage therapy is booming in Belmont. There are 10 parlors in town and city leaders want to make sure, they are all legit.
“We are concerned that prostitution is going on,” says Belmont Police Lt. Patrick Latteran.
No massage therapists have been arrested for prostitution, but there is real concern now that the state massage watch dog group, California Massage Therapy Council, or CAMTC, issued this list of un-accredited training schools.
It turns out 37 of the city’s 46 licensed massage therapists, got their training at these schools or others CAMTC didn’t recognize.
“We identified certain schools that the board doesn’t feel comfortable with this type of accommodation and cannot accept the transcript and the diploma from the schools,” says Ahmos Netanel from the CAMTC.
See the full article from “abc7news.com”
