The owners of two apartment buildings in Dufferin Grove have been fined nearly $100,000 for provincial fire code violations, Toronto Fire inspectors say. Their multi-unit residential properties along Dovercourt Road are adjacent to one-another on Heydon Park Road. The building’s owners, Rakesh Gupta was fined $80,000 and Swarash Gupta was charged $16,250 for the alleged violations, a city news release said.…
The Lee Civic Center, located in North Ft. Myers, Florida, is home to concerts, trade shows, expos and much more throughout the year. It also hosts the Southwest Florida and Lee County Fair every March. Reserve a stay at The Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village and plan a visit to the Lee Civic Center during your vacation. After you visit one of their exciting events, return to your waterfront retreat and enjoy the sweeping views of the Caloosahatchee River, San Carlos Bay and the Gulf of…
Towson Town Center With the creation of the URDL in Baltimore County an issue and challenge for developers and planners was what are they going to develop with this new boundary. During the 1960’s and 70’s Towson (a town within Baltimore County) became a very popular residential area for people to move to after the invention of the automobile, which accelerated urban sprawl. Although when originally developed there was potential prosperity in this area but it did not thrive as expected, which is another reoccurring issue for certain developments in Baltimore County like Owings Mills. Within recent years, at the suggestion of the Master Plan developers have found a solution to this problem by going back and redeveloping existing sites.…
SUBJECTIVE He was seen for two issues. 1. He just came back from Oak Park Heights last Thursday after he had treatment with C. diff; however, he did have a C. diff in the stool that was done on 09/13/2017, and also a fecal lactoferrin and both of them are positive. At this time, he continues to have abdominal cramping and also loose stool about 2-3 times a day. 2.…
The City of Chula Vista is in the process of recruiting an institutional partner for the development of a University and Innovation District on 375 acres of land in the southeastern corner of the city. The difficulty in attracting an institutional partner is not an issue of interest, but rather, it is in identifying the appropriate partner that will meet the established goals of the city while maximizing the potential of the site to transform and strengthen the city and the larger Cali-Baja Megaregion. In adherence with the Recruitment Strategies (see previous section of report), the first step in the multi-phase process is the aggregation of research and data that will help to eliminate and distill the potential institutional partners appropriate…
Factories have been placed in these countries by massive companies seeking cheap outsourcing, usually in the fields of textiles, footwear, and agriculture. Such companies or brands include Nike, H&M, Wal-Mart, Forever 21, and Victoria’s Secret. Wal-Mart is often criticized for their Bangladesh factories, as these buildings have previously collapsed and killed workers. Regardless, “in the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn’t the bottom” (Kristof, N. 2009). Working in a sweatshop factory is at least more comfortable and less dangerous than working in mines or scouring smoldering…
Sweatshops are inhumane facilities that are not efficiently regulated yet they over utilized. Therefore the reputation of sweatshops remains negative. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 employees due to the lack of preparation and safety in the infrastructure of the building, this caused…
One critique of gentrification is that it does not assimilate the lower class into the new middle class environment. Lee (2008) sights that there is a poor evidence base for 'positive gentrification’. She believes that although the new middle classes' desire for diversity and difference, they tend to self-segregate. “Gentrification is part of an aggressive, revanchist ideology designed to retake the inner city for the middle classes” (Lee, p.1, 2008). Lee highlights a major critic of gentrification, the displacement of the lower-class.…
Austin Briffa The Problem of Gentrification: A Policy Brief It is with great concern and urgency that I address the issue of gentrification to you and your cabinet. According to the New York Department of City Planning, your city is projected to grow from its current 8.55 million person-population to 9.03 million in 2040, an increase of about 8.9%. All five boroughs are experiencing varying levels of growth, and although these percentages are lower than in the past, the population will still continue to increase.…
Located in Newark, New Jersey Transit was founded by New Jersey Department of public transportation from the act of 1979, its mission to provide safe, reliable, convenient service with a skilled team of employees, dedicated to Customers’ needs and committed to excellence. NJ Transit purchased the largest private bus company to operate, later added the rail road operations. In 1984, both department of the organizations merge with NJ Transit Mercer to establish a combined organization with the common objective to provide mass transportation. NJ Transit services extends to major points in the North Eastern area from New Jersey to New York and Philadelphia, a wide range of 5,325 square miles. It is well-known as the nation’s third largest buses…
Danielle McMahon Mrs. Elysee U.S. History honors 10/18/14 Child Labor Part I After hand labor was replaced with power driven machines many factories hired children instead of adults because the new jobs did not require adult strength and the children will work for less money. Most children worked before the factories but on farms. The factory working was long hours and hard work for very little pay. Most children starting working around the age of seven and with all this work in the damp, dirty factories caused many children to get ill and with the lack of education due to long working hours children were not able to get better jobs as adults. Because there was lack of education, in “1836 Massachusetts, which was the first state to make this…
Fellow Americans, Today, America thrives on the ideals and values of independence, humanity, and freedom. Despite the many historic occurrences of oppression and inequality within our nation, some of which continue to this day, I believe the many people who continue to fight against injustices and for the rights of others represent what a truly means to be an American. Regardless of the strides our society has made, however, some of the crimes of the past persist in secret and unknown, preventing awareness of the problem and a call to action: Over 200 years have past since the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and yet slavery, the peerless transgression of human rights, continues to eclipse the idealistic vision of a principled global…
In an ethical manner, it is not morally right to endanger another person 's life in order to make a profit, as it creates more harms than benefits. Companies are dumping dangerous and hazardous products on overseas markets and it should be in the company’s best interest to consider the health and safety of the people and animals. Therefore, the companies acted immorally by dumping harmful products. In essence, dumping refers to the procedure of exporting products that have been banned dangerous in the US, to other countries, mainly third world countries. The harms clearly outweigh the benefits, as these manufactures are knowingly dumping dangerous products available to third world countries.…
ACTION PLAN 5. What changes will you propose to approach the problems? I would make big changes to the PV system. To start, I would make the PV team size 3 people, with each team responsible for cleaning 12 rooms and each team would have 1 team leader. The same team that has the first floor will also clean the top floor (still totaling 12 rooms).…
1. Mohammed Barwani Holding Company L.L.C MB Holding was created by Dr. Mohammed Al-Barwani as a multinational organization, where its subsidiaries are spread worldwide. In 1982 when the company established it was known as MB Trading. As a pioneering leader in the market after a decade in 1992 Mohammed Barwani Petroleum Services was founded and so in this short term of successes it became one of the largest growing oil field services company. (MB Holding Company L.L.C, 2013)…