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  • On 19 May 2013 in The New New York Housing Bubble: Park Avenue "Maids Quarters" Studio For $3.9, mell said:

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    In a sense, New York has joined the rest of the world's "wealth parking" capitals, where the only two profitable construction projects are those targeting the uber-wealthy or the mega poor. Middle class: sorry, you are out of luck

    “There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing,” said Rafael Viñoly, the architect who designed the tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street, which is called 432 Park.

    The rush to build these towers underscores the gap between rich and poor in New York City, said James Parrott, chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research organization supported by unions. He said that median family income in the city had fallen 8 percent since 2008.

    “Manhattan’s superluxury condo boom, along with rocketing foreclosures in Queens and record homelessness, present an unobstructed view of accelerating polarization in this recovery,” Mr. Parrott said
    Recovery? Tell that to those countless middle-class New Yorkers (whose annual income as marginal as it may be in the City is what the rest of America can only dream of) for whom stagnant wages will mean an ever greater portion of income has to go to paying rent with little left for boosting the velocity of money.

    Of course, for those close to the banking system's proximity to ZIRP, and the trillions in free reserve-based money (all of which is going into the stock market if not the economy) the current bubble is unlike anything seen before:

    Izak Senbahar, the developer of 56 Leonard, a 60-story tower in TriBeCa where penthouses are going for more than $20 million, signed contracts with buyers for 70 percent of the 140 apartments in just 10 weeks.

    “We were all surprised,” Mr. Senbahar said. “This was not what we expected. There’s a pent-up demand for condos with helicopter views.” A decade or two ago, luxury buildings were largely confined to Park and Fifth Avenues.

    Today, they are rising all over Manhattan — from One57 and the Baccarat in Midtown Manhattan to 825 First Avenue on the East Side, 150 Charles Street in Greenwich Village and 30 Park Place downtown.

    “It’s not that location is unimportant,” said Nancy Packes of Signature Marketing Services. “But it’s now all about bigness, lifestyle and views.”
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  • On 19 May 2013 in Vitamin B12 deficiency:Tracking the genetic causes, mell said:

    This is a very exciting field of current research, the human methylation cycle and the crucial role that B12 in its various forms and the the other b vitamins plus methylfolate play, the genetic mutations that can cause a partial or full breakdown in the methylation cycle and so on. There is research on how a defunct methylation cycle could be responsible for certain forms of autism and other illnesses currently classified as "behavioral disorders" in kids. B12 is indeed very very important.

  • On 19 May 2013 in Non-GMO SALT now available!!! Please walk, don't run!, mell said:

    "The transfer of antibiotic resistance gene to unrelated microorganisms such as Aspergillus niger has also been demonstrated [34]. Biotechnology scientists, however, are of the opinion that the Npt II gene used to develop GM plants currently in the market is safe for use because there is no evidence of allergenicity or toxicity related to it."

    It's nice that they are of the "opinion" that aspergillus niger cannot cause any problems. Well, quite a few don't share this opinion. But I guess as long as the resistance doesn't reach Stachybotrys it's only a problem for immunocompromised and otherwise weak/allergic people. Also, I'd contend that "not reputable" is also an opinion ;) But thanks, interesting article, I will completely read through it when I have more time.

  • On 19 May 2013 in Non-GMO SALT now available!!! Please walk, don't run!, mell said:

    Homeboy says

    mell says

    a genetically modified organism is an organism that has had it's RNA/DNA altered in the LAB (as opposed to crossbred). How fucking hard is that to understand?

    You seem to be making an implication that DNA altered in a lab is inherently bad, whereas DNA altered by selective breeding is inherently good. What is your scientific basis for this belief??

    It carries greater risks and unknowns. The principle of familiarity which means that selective breeding can only work in organisms close enough to each other, so for example you won't have any luck selectively breeding/crossing species, e.g. animals or insects with plants, but it has been done in the labs.

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.0960-7412.2002.001607.x/full

  • On 18 May 2013 in The Nation Should Not Care About Tea Party Targeting by the IRS, mell said:

    bgamall4 says

    Obama should have wound down the wars sooner. However, he wound them down and that is significant. Trust me, the Republicans never saw a war they wanted to wind down.

    That could be changing slowly. But you should embrace the (original) tea-partiers a bit more, as quite a lot of the originators came from Ron Paul's anti-war movement before they meshed with the rest and sold out to big money and politics - there are decent politicians on both sides, just not that many ;)

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