INSPIRATIONAL: Will the local Gooferment have the stones to have it torn down?

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/sep/27/london-apartment-block-that-deviates-from-plans-must-be-torn-down-says-council?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council

  • ‘Blight on the landscape’ in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children’s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair users

Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
Wed 27 Sep 2023 04.19 EDT
First published on Wed 27 Sep 2023 02.00 EDT

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Buildings rarely look as good as the airbrushed architects’ visualisations produced to persuade planners to grant permission. Extra sharp highlights, implausibly blue skies and deeper colours are all part of the dark arts of the computer-generated rendering.

But the gulf between what was proposed for an apartment complex rising 23 storeys above the Thames in south-east London and what was actually built has finally proved too much.

After counting 26 major deviations from the original planning permission that it granted, the Royal Borough of Greenwich has taken the extraordinary move – “unprecedented”, it said – of ordering the developers of the Mast Quay II development to pull it down. It means tenants in 204 flats now face the prospect of finding somewhere else to live.

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Well clearly the correct politicians and bureaucrats didn’t have their pockets lined right!

Now will the politicians and bureaucrats have the courage to have it torn down?

Seems like a waste, but if they don’t, it sends the wrong message.  I can imagine the lawsuits and pity parties that will ensue.

Perhaps if the “profit” and then a little extra is removed from all involved, a more economic result MIGHT be achieved.  But only if all involved are equally screwed.

Seems a waste of prefectly good building to send a message to the “marketplace”.

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BITCOIN: What will ₿ be worth in 2140?

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Annual inflation over this period was 3.94%. 1971 – 2023 https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1&year=1971 

₿itcoin’s fixed limit will insure it’s value against any fiat currency. The maximum supply of 21 million bitcoins will be reached around the year 2140. What will it be worth then? 10k$, 100k$, 1M$?

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GUNS: Don’t threaten people

Monday, October 2, 2023

One of Colie’s defense attorneys Adam Pouilliard said that his client felt menaced by the 6 foot 4 inches tall Cook during the confrontation, which was designed to provoke a reaction and to draw viewers to his YouTube channel.

Moment YouTube prankster Tanner Cook’s stunt goes badly wrong when shopper he is targeting pulls out a gun and shoots him in the chest | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12583491/Moment-YouTube-prankster-Tanner-Cooks-stunt-goes-badly-wrong-shopper-targeting-pulls-gun-shoots-chest.html

Seems justifiable to me. Big guy was inside the “knife zone” (i.e., 9 foot circle) and was behaving irrationally. IMHO. I might have done the same thing!

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HEALTH: Mushroom “vitamin” linked to several diseases

Monday, October 2, 2023
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/porcini-mushroom-high-in-valuable-ergothioneine-vitamin/?utm_campaign=newsletters
 
​Porcini Mushrooms Rank Among Highest in the World for Rare ‘Essential Vitamin’
By Andy Corbley – Sep 22, 2023 
 
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Porcini have been harvested for probably thousands of years, but it’s only recently that they’ve been identified as having the second-highest content of a powerful nutrient among all mushrooms examined for it.
 
The nutrient is called ergothioneine, styled ‘ERG’ for short, and may very well be the 15th vitamin that science has only just discovered we need. If a vitamin is classified as a compound that organisms need for survival, and which they cannot synthesize themselves, but which isn’t a mineral, a fatty acid, or an amino acid, then ergothioneine is a vitamin. It cannot be created in our own bodies, and we even adapted an endogenous transporter molecule specifically for ergothioneine.
 
Vitamins in large part must be obtained from the diet, and humans’ only whole food source of ergothioneine is mushrooms as near as makes no difference. Some bacteria and yeast can also synthesize ergothioneine naturally, and in consuming them humans consume ergothioneine. However the scientific particulars of that, including the bioavailability of yeast-born ERG, the levels obtainable through consumption, and the potential side effects, are practically non-existent.
 
A broad review of ergothioneine published in 2020 reports that its deficiency in humans has been found in cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome, CVD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pre-eclampsia, overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis, “and is significantly lowered in others such as certain leukemias”.
 
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Gotta eat some mushrooms.  Never saw the two described in any store.  Have you?  I’m looking for the “fountain of youth” and this seems to be protective of brain cells. Interesting?
 
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GOLD: And you thought only baggage handlers were this brazen?

Sunday, October 1, 2023
 
FBI sued after allegedly losing hundreds of thousands in rare coins during raid | Fox News
Jeni Pearsons says FBI may have stolen $2,000 from her safe deposit box: ‘They took it or lost it’
By Teny Sahakian Fox News
Published September 24, 2023 9:00am EDT 
 
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Mellein, a 79-year-old retired civil servant, kept cash and 110 gold coins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in his box to safeguard his financial security. He invested in the precious metals with the proceeds after he and his wife sold their Malibu home in 2002. 
 
Pearsons and her husband Michael Storc similarly rented a security deposit box in 2017 as a financial safeguard, storing around $20,000 in silver and $2,000 in cash. 
 
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Those 110 gold coins represent a tidy sum.  No idea if they were Bullion or Numismatic.  Either way not simething to sneeze at.
 
Why is “civil forfeiture” even allowed?  
 
It’s really just another form of Gooferment theft!
 
Better off digging a hole in your backyard!
 
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