Myrtle Beach Condos - Brand New Preconstruction Opportunities

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Preconstruction Condos

New Coquina Harbour Condos

The Coquina Harbour marina in Little River is already home to some of the most beautiful condos in the Grand Strand. Lighthouse Village borders the right, and on the northern side of the waterway you have the three Coquina resorts that are so popular and scenic. The marina
operates on the water, and boat slips are just steps away.

The new project will be facing Hwy 17 in between the two, beside of the Holiday Inn and Umbertos restaurant. They will all be water-view, and boasting the most sought-after amenities.


Little River is building up and appreciating right along with North Myrtle Beach, which is about 4 miles south of this area. Of all the condo projects in Little River, this group of resorts is the best and most likely to increase in price quickly.

Coral Beach Hotel Conversion

Hot off the Myrtle Beach press is the condo conversion at the Coral Beach Hotel in downtown Myrtle. This fabulous motel has been a hot tourist favorite for more than 20 years, and boasts more pools, lazy rivers, and amenities than about any other hotel around. It even has a bowling alley. With long established in-house rentals, these might be keepers as well as "flippers".

Look at these amenities....

10 Pools (including):
2 outdoor pools
2 outdoor kiddie pools
Lazy river
Indoor heated pool
Outdoor jacuzzi
3 indoor jacuzzis
On-site Recreation Center featuring 8 AMF automatic bowling lanes, video arcade, game room with pool tables, air hockey, foozball, snack bar & grill
General Store & Gift Shop
Fitness Center
Children’s Activity Center
Multiple Guest Service & Concierge Desks
Spacious Meeting Facilities
MacDivot’s Sports Pub & the Comedy Corner featuring the east coast's favorite comedians!
The New! Atlantis Marketplace featuring a variety of specialty cafés.
Sandbunker’s Beach bar & Grill
Live entertainment (in season) including:
Pool party featuring the Beach's best quality entertainment such as the Legends in Concert Band!
Karaoke! Sing like the stars!
Guest laundry
Men's & Women's saunas
Free tennis privileges at a nearby private club
Direct easy access to beach
Covered attached parking - no having to cross busy streets

No information yet except the hotel website at Coral Beach Resort.
This is another one that won't last a week. Be sure and contact New Resorts immediately if you are interested.

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Harbourgate Marina

The complex at Harbourgate Marina in North Myrtle is still selling available units. See Harbourgate Marina for full details on this beautiful waterway resort.

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Scientists Experiment With 'Trust' Hormone

By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA
The Associated Press
Thursday, June 2, 2005; 10:59 AM

-- It sounds like the plot for another Batman sequel: The villain sprays Gotham City with a trust hormone and people rush to give him all their money. Banks, the stock market and even governments collapse.

Farfetched? Swiss and American scientists demonstrate in new experiments how a squirt of the hormone oxytocin stimulates trusting behavior in humans, and they acknowledge that the possibility of abuse can't be ignored. "Of course, this finding could be misused," said Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich, the senior researcher in the study, which appears in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. "I don't think we currently have such abuses. However, in the future it could happen."

Other scientists say the new research raises important questions about oxytocin's potential as a therapy for conditions like autism, in which trust is diminished. Or, perhaps the hormone's activity could be reduced to treat more rare diseases, like Williams syndrome, in which children approach strangers fearlessly.

"Might their high level of trust be due to excessive oxytocin release?" asks University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio, who reviewed the experiments for Nature. "Little is known about the neurobiology of trust, although the phenomenon is beginning to attract attention."
Oxytocin is secreted in brain tissue and synthesized by the hypothalamus. This small, but crucial feature located deep in the brain controls biological reactions like hunger, thirst and body temperature, as well as visceral fight-or-flight reactions associated with powerful, basic emotions like fear and anger.

For years oxytocin was considered to be a straightforward reproductive hormone found in both sexes. In both humans and animals, this chemical messenger stimulates uterine contractions in labor and induces milk production. In both women and men, oxytocin is released during sex, too.
Then, elevated concentrations of the hormone also were found in cerebrospinal fluid during and after birth, and experiments showed it was involved in the biochemistry of attachment. It's a sensible conclusion, given that babies require years of care and the body needs to motivate mothers for the demanding task of childrearing.

In recent years, scientists have wondered whether oxytocin also is generally involved with other aspects of bonding behavior _ and specifically whether it stimulates trust.
Trust is the glue of society and human interactions. Erase it, and you compromise everything from love to trade and political order.

"I once likened trust to a love potion," Damasio writes in Nature. "Add trust to the mix, for without trust there is no love."

In the experiments, the researchers tried to manipulate people's trust by adding more oxytocin to their brains. They used a synthetic version in a nasal spray that was absorbed by mucous membranes and crossed the blood-brain barrier. Researchers say the dose was harmless and altered oxytocin levels only temporarily.

A total of 178 male students from universities in Zurich took part in a pair of experiments. All the volunteers were in their 20s. They got the oxytocin or a placebo.

In the first experiment, they played a game in which an "investor" could choose to hand over to a "trustee" up to 12 units of money that are each equal to .40 Swiss franc, or about 32 cents. The trustee triples the investor's money, then gets to decide how much of the proceeds to share.
Of 29 subjects who got oxytocin, 45 percent invested the maximum amount of 12 monetary units and, in the researchers' words, showed "maximal trust." Only 21 percent had a lower trust level in which they invested less than 8 monetary units.

In contrast, the placebo group's trust behavior was reversed. Only 21 percent of the placebo subjects invested the maximum, while 45 percent invested at low levels.

Overall, those who got oxytocin invested 17 percent more than investors who received a placebo.

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