Apartment buildings were seen as futuristic living spaces when designed by architects like Le Corbusier for European cities. People appear happy and efficient living in tiny compartmentalized spaces in Tokyo. But in America, high rise apartment buildings were conscripted for future purposes also, but in the sense of state-run reservations where the working class and poor people were regarded.
The high rise apartment building uses a minimum development of acreage. This confined border is supposed to save on facility maintenance. In regard to Chicago’s public housing, a court case proved that even more money on development was saved by using sub-par construction materials. The fact that Cabrini-Green stood for as long as it did was a testament to the experienced contractors who built those towers with the crappy materials they were provided.
As poverty overcame the public housing communities in Chicago the crime rate rose exponentially. Cabrini-Green closely resembled a dilapidated prison bloc before it was finally razed by the Chicago Housing Authority. Unemployment and poverty still dominate the rolls of public housing residents in the Windy City. In an attempt to reduce the crime rate within it’s properties the Chicago Housing Authority is implementing a controversial program for it’s residents.
This new policy is said to give reassurance that the new mixed-income developments the CHA is building won’t have the same culture that plagued the previous projects. But as long as poverty remains and the housing authority specifies shoddy construction materials then we’ll witness another reservation in the sky.
After the disaster in Japan some of the world’s most industrialized nations are backing away from the use of nuclear fueled power plants. Germany, for instance, is making strides to eliminate ALL of their nuclear reactors. But while Europe is returning to fossil fuels the middle east, particularly Iran is embracing nuclear power as its salvation.
Nuclear power does bring a level of independence to the users and it removes the dependence on oil and petroleum, but one instant is all it takes for the entire planet to feel the fallout from a reactor meltdown. Is the price we are all going to pay worth it? PrA’li not. To save humanity I’m ready to move into the next fuel system. Reggie Watts candles aka Vivoleum.
The ICs are plotting a film that looks at the agricultural industrial complex here in America. The fast rising price of food is a cause for our concern. It won’t be too long where the wealthy America is the land of the impoverished and the malnourished.
I just hope we won’t need to wear bulletproof vests to finish our movie.
My ongoing struggles with the 7-11 corporation continued this week.
There was correspondence from the internets bureau of the conglomerate.
The damage control type and hardly sincere.
I’m in the position of trying to effect a change without calling myself to boycott them altogether.
There isn’t another game in town at 2am. So maybe I need to revise my lifestyle?
Uh, yeah that too.
Back to the future…
The 7-11 will always be on some chicanery. As long as poor people shop there.
Peep the convo after the first video…
Hello – Your email came to 7-Eleven’s communications department, but I would like to get it to the correct people who can investigate what was captured on video. Please let me know the location of the store you visited.- the street address and city. Thanks so much for alerting us to this, and someone will get back to you. — Margaret
Hi Margaret,
Right now I don’t have any faith that 7-11 really cares what these locations do to their customers
-dP
Hi – We do care. That’s why we would like to know so we can take action. I don’t know to whom at 7-Eleven you reported this, but I already sent information to customer relations and the Slurpee category manager. If you can give me the location, maybe we can change this situation. Thanks, again, for taking time to get in touch with us. – Margaret
Margaret,
I would rather use my weblog network to spread this information out to people who might also be encountering the same practices in order to affect proper change. As you said previously in your reply if I give you the location then maybe you can change the situation.
This ‘maybe’ means that even the corporate arm has little control against a dishonest shopkeeper. Thank you for your time and I’ll certainly keep you posted with any subsequent videos I produce
You got to try and keep it icy with 7-11. They have peoples that shoot missiles into your window. I’m on the radar now tho’.
E-mails come from another corporate lackey…
Dear Mr. Penn:
Your emails to the 7-Eleven Marketing and News Media departments were forwarded to my attention. I have viewed the video and appreciate you providing us with this information. Please understand that this is not how we treat our customers. I would like to be able to share this information with management, but I will need the store address where this incident occurred. Can you please provide the store address?
Janey Appia
Manager, Consumer Affairs
Mrs.Appia,
I truly appreciate your reply. This behaviour has occurred repeatedly at this store and I don’t want to think that this store manager’s behaviour comes from the corporation, but instead some arrangement that the franchisee has taught the manager’s and shopkeepers.
My feeling at this point is that I have to continue to document this abuse in order for it to end.
-dP
Mr. Penn:
I believe I have located where the store is. Can you confirm that the store is in Freeport, Long Island?
Janey Appia
Oh shit! They prA’li ran my name thru their #Newmanati database and got my debit card info. They have access to that info you know.
Don’t sleep on #Newmanati
Dear Mr. Penn:
We were able to identify the store that you visited. We contacted the market manager that oversees the operation of the store and she contacted the franchisee. The price of Slurpee® was increased last week and the store received the pricing information, but the signs were not updated. In addition, the franchisee will speak to the employee who waited on you regarding the lack of customer service he provided. We do apologize for any inconvenience regarding this matter. As a goodwill customer service gesture, we would like to offer to send you some Slurpee coupons if you accept. If so, can you provide your address?
(previous e-mail address but no signoff name)
Mrs. Appia,
I shop at 7-11 just like the other members of my community because we don’t have any other options for convenience. I’m sure if you checked my bank card for purchases at your stores you would see my overwhelming affection for Slurpee brand products. Your corporation’s message was delivered to the local store in my neighborhood and they still can’t get it right. I won’t let you buy my silence with free Slurpee products. At least not without some Big Gulp coupons included.
-dP
As I’ve told you a thousand times, Polo Ralph Lauren is built around the aspiration for wealth that Ralph Lifschitz internalized as a child growing up to working class parents in the Bronx. Polo has taken on a life and legend of it’s own and that legend continues to grow as the brand attaches itself to the benchmarks of high society.
There is no organized sport older than the regatta and the oldest trophy in the sport of sailing belongs to the America’s Cup race. Sailors and seamen [ll] from all over the world compete for the prized chalice aboard multi-million dollar yachts. If you thought taking care of a stable of polo ponies was expensive then you ain’t built for the America’s Cup.
To pay his respect to this classic gentleman’s sport Polo Ralph Lauren is releasing a series of knits that will set the summer off right.
I’m trying to choose which one(s) will find their way into my archive.
I also just peeped this red/blue colorblocked regatta knit. FIYAHVERKS!!!
Ralph Lauren jacked my patch swag but I ain’t mad.
If you ever have a good idea make sure you have another one.
