My old-new project is a large bakery. A hottie called Paula had a cute little breakfast shop in the new high-tech zone. She made excellent croissants and a good coffee. She decided to upgrade and bought a failed rather large meat shop and hired the best designers (guess whom), achieved all the permits, and started to build the project. At this point, she sold the project "as is" and a striking ice-blue-eyed blonde appeared as representative of the new owners. Cutiepie Paula moved on to manage a large bakery and put on fifteen kilos. The ice-blue-eyed monument hired an impressive hulk of a project manager, who unfortunately had no idea of what he was supposed to do and/or had no time to oversee the project. On the march, the project evolved to become an industrial bakery with neither coffee nor croissants. The street entrance was walled in and the large glass walls were painted on. The original permit was for a large coffee shop - restaurant. So the business is operating three years without permit and the authorities started a legal action to close it down. Since they cannot sell to large clients, there is little income. The owners are desperate, the business is eating up their capital. They hate the whole situation and they hate the need to invest in additional improvements. They specially hate the original designers. After going through several of them and two or three lawyers, they came back to the original team. But the fire fighters's rules have changed and now they demand better protection. The environmental authorities demand to deal with the hot air and carbon dioxide. The kitchen and the restaurant area are fully equipped but used for something else. The whole thing is wrong. The end is not in sight.
Pic. The water central. Not as I designed it.
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Wow, what a strange combination of new (PEX tubing, ball valves) and old (is that threaded galvanized pipe?) In the US, galvanized hasn't been widely used for water for 50 years. And do they use some kind of hemp as a thread sealant? In the US we've used teflon tape for decades.
Also, why is it that poorly managed food production establishments are always filthy?
Thanks for the learned comment. You are right. I hope you dont expect answer to your question?
I can only point to the map. Israel is not between Switzerland and Austria, it is between Egypt and Palestine. And most of the workers are hardworking Sudanese refugees or illegals. After 100 years of fighting it, we are adapting to the environment. It could not be otherwise.
PS: I welcome your professional feedback. Please comment more frequently.
Sorry the above commenter was just the usual ignorant K - I have no professional plumbing qualifications but I am a "do it yourselfer" type who can fake it (growing up on a farm, we had no choice but to do our own repairs because we could not afford professionals to come daily - I would say my father's plumbing work was at least as neat as that pictured and he was not a very neat workman - he was more concerned with function than aesthetics.) There was an extensive amount of plumbing on the farm (all galvanized iron, BTW - to know it is not to love it) because thousands of chickens drink a surprisingly large amount of water.
Israel may be geographically in the Middle East but economically it is closer to Austria (or at least Italy ). I think that rather than giving in to 3rd world lethargy, Israel should be a force for regional modernization at all levels. I can only wish that Israel was made up of more yekkes and fewer Sudanese.
K
K said...
I can only wish that Israel was made up of more yekkes and fewer Sudanese.
Which is why Israel needs an electric fence around its perimeter to keep the Sudanese out.
Why don't you bus all the illegal aliens to Gaza? They'll stop coming.
No, not sure. Gaza has bad publicity bad surprisingly high living standards. Thanks to the West generosity.
In the periods when the borders w/ Egypt are open, the Gazans who visit Egypt are shocked to see how poor the Egyptians are.
K
Israeli Arabs are positively the richest in the region. More than the Saudis.
Why would the IAs be richer than the Saudis? According to this Israel has per capita GDP of $28,581 and SA has a per capita GDP of $23,272 which works out to a difference of about five thousand dollars. I thought SA would have a higher per capita GDP but the difference is still pretty small. If Israeli Arabs have a lower than average income they would be on par with SA.
Per capita figures are deceptive - SA has every uneven income distribution. The princes literally live like royalty and everyone else gets the crumbs. It's a miracle that they've been able to keep this going - everywhere else on earth the people have overthrown such parasites.
K
I think the royal family of SA comprises one-third of the population of SA. That, ever-present surveillance and Wahabbism serve to keep the people of SA just barely in check.
Mark,
Israeli Arabs's income is more or less the average of the population here, so their income is much higher than the average Saudi's. I see it personally: They come to buy in my town, they drive around in expensive cars, they take their vacations in Europe. Please dont interpret this as that they are stealing or taking something from us Jews - no, they work for every shekel as we do and they pay their taxes too (more or less). Those Palestinian Arabs who went to live in the USA are also quite prosperous. In fact, the world richest person is an Arab in Mexico.
The Arabs that do better tend to be Christian and not Muslim. Islam is conducive to stupidity for some reason. Slim is a Lebanese Christian.
K
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