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Rh Of New York Media; Recaps, Gossip, Blogs
Topic Started: Jan 17 2012, 08:51 PM (58,556 Views)
weaver
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Oh yeah, I found the transfer:

https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentDetail?doc_id=2015100200453001

Oh, and Mario moved to a rental a few blocks down, still on UES.
Edited by weaver, Oct 12 2015, 02:10 PM.
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IcyAll
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I wonder if it's for Avery. Ramona has no other children, but if Mario continues to "see" Kasey, he could father another child, who would have rights to his assets when he dies.
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Good detective work, weaver!
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andme
Oct 13 2015, 08:39 AM
Good detective work, weaver!
Thank you andme.

There is more detail on those NYC sites, but they require Java and I don't use Java.



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Finestra
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Weaver did you see the manicurists all went down and picketed City Hall about the new regulations? Saying they were racist and trying to deprive them of making a living? Well maybe not the manicurists, but the owners of the salons.
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Oct 15 2015, 07:32 AM
Weaver did you see the manicurists all went down and picketed City Hall about the new regulations? Saying they were racist and trying to deprive them of making a living? Well maybe not the manicurists, but the owners of the salons.
Oh the manicurists were furious about those articles. The city came to my place and interrogated all the staff about their lunch hour,etc. She thought they didn't understand what the business is like. Business plummeted. They closed to strike one day along with many other places and had a sign in their window to the New York Times to stay out of their business. Lol.

The manicurists in my place seem to do quite well. I see them on the street and they are well dressed.

I didn't read about the picketing. Haha.
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I used to be a nail queen, had them done three times a week, costly. Silk-wraps. Can't afford it now and no one does it where I live. But jeez, going in and getting a basic manicure for $4 (when I first began going) -- shocking cheap price. Not that it was so much work, and they could do four an hour …

I'm behind. What is the beef? What are the new regs?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html


Icy, this is the article that started the whole thing. As a result of the article, city inspectors started coming out to manicure salons and trying to enforce rules like lunch hours, overtime pay, healthy air conditions, etc, etc, etc. Now there is a bill of Rights posted in every manicure salon. Its backfired on the workers because business has gone way down. These workers are not in a position to get other jobs; many of them don't speak English, etc.

This is not to mean they should be exploited. So I don't have a solution. Frankly I can think of many more businesses NYTimes could target, all immigrant based. Newspaper stands staffed by Afghans who work 12 hours shifts, standing all the time, waiters, taxi drivers, dry cleaners, laundries, restaurant delivery people. It seems to be the nature of the immigrant experience, especially if skills are low and language is poor, to work like this in the first generation. The city couldn't survive without them, and people couldn't afford their services if prices were much higher.
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Oct 16 2015, 08:14 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html


Icy, this is the article that started the whole thing. As a result of the article, city inspectors started coming out to manicure salons and trying to enforce rules like lunch hours, overtime pay, healthy air conditions, etc, etc, etc. Now there is a bill of Rights posted in every manicure salon. Its backfired on the workers because business has gone way down. These workers are not in a position to get other jobs; many of them don't speak English, etc.

This is not to mean they should be exploited. So I don't have a solution. Frankly I can think of many more businesses NYTimes could target, all immigrant based. Newspaper stands staffed by Afghans who work 12 hours shifts, standing all the time, waiters, taxi drivers, dry cleaners, laundries, restaurant delivery people. It seems to be the nature of the immigrant experience, especially if skills are low and language is poor, to work like this in the first generation. The city couldn't survive without them, and people couldn't afford their services if prices were much higher.
In the suburbs it's landscapers, day laborers for builders/dry wallers, off the books nannies, restaurant workers (kitchens).
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Thanks for the link. I read a lot before the NYT stopped me with a request to sign up to read the rest! But I got it.

Frankly, I'd stop getting my nails done for a while, at least. Guilt. But it makes it worse for those women. But no wages at all? Working … well, my salon closed at 6PM, so did all of them I ever went to. A few had the "owners" staying late to 8PM, but most of the staff left at 6.

Argh. I feel guilty for all my years of cheap manicures.
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Oct 16 2015, 04:29 PM
Thanks for the link. I read a lot before the NYT stopped me with a request to sign up to read the rest! But I got it.

Frankly, I'd stop getting my nails done for a while, at least. Guilt. But it makes it worse for those women. But no wages at all? Working … well, my salon closed at 6PM, so did all of them I ever went to. A few had the "owners" staying late to 8PM, but most of the staff left at 6.

Argh. I feel guilty for all my years of cheap manicures.
Well I've upped my tip, so I think I pay a fair amount for her time. I rarely get polish, it makes my nails break, so I take very little time. And my place is well run and the workers seem to do well. My manicurist supports her daughter who goes to the Bronx High School of Science. It is very far from slave labor, though they do work long hours. She comes in at 9:30 and leaves around 7, off Sat and Sun. She has an iPhone.

I think the Times wrote about extreme cases and didn't show the other side of the story. I know the people in my place are furious for the lost business. Where is the Times?



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What's an uncredited producer?

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Bethenny Frankel, the founder “Skinnygirl Cocktails,” is an entrepreneur and even she manages her responsibilities related to the reality television shows. She has already appeared on the shows like The “Apprentice: Martha Stewart” and “The Real Housewives of New York City” and this time she is reportedly acting as an “uncredited producer” for the Bravo reality show’s eighth season. Continue reading to know more about this multi-talented woman.


http://www.movienewsguide.com/bethenny-frankel-wants-cocktail-says-liquor-business-hard-marketed-toward-men/107587
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A big mouth buttinski! "Fire Kristen and Heather - they won't cow-tow to me! Ramona, shut up or I will have you fired too! Any mention of my boyfriend, and I will walk."

Really, I think the 2nd half of this season was so much better than the first. I really wish they would have kept both Kristen and Heather. I think Heather is a good match with Bethenny. She kind of keeps Bethenny honest. Carole is too weak and the rest are too insecure to stand up to her and say things like, "You don't have to be a bitch, you choose to be a bitch." Bethenny is good at telling Ramona and Sonja to stop being drunken lushes. She's good too with Luann. It was a good mesh at the end. No more Amador/Imabore. No more homeless, woe is me- I can't trust people to let them in.
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Oct 17 2015, 12:11 PM
What's an uncredited producer?

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Bethenny Frankel, the founder “Skinnygirl Cocktails,” is an entrepreneur and even she manages her responsibilities related to the reality television shows. She has already appeared on the shows like The “Apprentice: Martha Stewart” and “The Real Housewives of New York City” and this time she is reportedly acting as an “uncredited producer” for the Bravo reality show’s eighth season. Continue reading to know more about this multi-talented woman.


http://www.movienewsguide.com/bethenny-frankel-wants-cocktail-says-liquor-business-hard-marketed-toward-men/107587
Uncredited means they do not consider you a producer and you are not getting paid. If you see actors uncredited they could have been extras or they did the part unpaid. At times big names do small cameos uncredited. Most uncredited production credits mean you are not a producer at all. You just want to take credit for being one

I think Fin had it right! I helped judge a casting decision so I am an uncredited producer or uncredited casting director. It's a joke in that sense
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Weaver, when I got my silk wraps, I always tipped $10. But I also always went to the same woman, who was manager if not owner of the salon. Sometimes, because I worked overnights, I'd be the first customer in the salon arriving before the workers who'd show up around 9:30. And I'm certain the place was closed by 6:30 or 7, just as in your case. And the girls were smiling and chatting all day, stopping to eat, etc. So that article did strike me as you say: one-sided. Nevertheless, it would give me pause. As opposed to paws. ;)
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