Loft-y Built Green Central District Townhome

September 29th, 2012 by Matt ? 1 Comment ? Central District

I love this townhome at 825 18th Ave (Marion & 18th).

Loft-y feeling kitchen with exposed wood ceiling, Built Green, garage parking, and a killer BBQ setup. Plus it is within walking distance to 14th and Union which has all kinds of good new places popping up.

Listed at $559k for 3 beds, 2.5 baths, and 1,870 square feet. Sold new in 2007 for $610k.

After 3 days on Redfin it is up to 348 views and 51 favorites. You can check it out this Sunday from 2 to 4pm.

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Can Florida?s Medicaid reform plan be the model for the nation?

Quietly, over the past six years, an experiment in providing healthcare for the poor has been playing out in Broward and four other counties around the state. Its basic goal is to relieve the financial pressures of Medicaid on Florida?s taxpayers by turning over poor and disabled patients to private companies, a move lawmakers believe will cut costs.

Conservatives love the Medicaid reform program, pointing to an in-depth University of Florida study indicating that the experiment has lowered costs while not raising consumer complaints. The Legislature has already approved a slightly modified model of the reform to go statewide. At least one national think tank believes it should be a model for the entire country.

Liberals decry the effort as a way to build corporate profits at the expense of the poor. Howard Mallinger, a Sunrise retiree, thinks they?re right. He has two adult sons with mental health problems who are in a Medicaid health maintenance organization. The HMO frequently won?t provide their medications, or is slow to approve them, causing their health issues to spiral out of control, Mallinger says.

One son has been involuntarily committed under Florida?s Baker Act 44 times in the past five years, he says. That often means expensive three-day hospital confinements. ?The joke is on the taxpayer,? Mallinger says.

With state taxpayers spending $21 billion a year on Medicaid and 3.2 million Floridians depending on it for their care, including 270,000 in Broward, the stakes are huge. The UF research shows the pilot has saved the state about $100?million a year, and Florida?s leaders are determined to take the HMO-style reform statewide as early as 2014.

But three serious problems with the pilot could threaten the plan?s statewide success:

??R. Paul Duncan, the professor who led the much-discussed UF study, says he has yet to answer one crucial question: Does the new system cost less because insurers are providing more efficient care or are they simply giving patients less care?

?That is a very big deal,? he says.

Though discussion of the pilot focuses almost entirely on for-profit HMOs, two of the biggest and most successful groups in the program are nonprofit provider service networks (PSNs) paid on the traditional fee-for-service basis that the state is trying to abolish.

??Many hospitals love the pilot, saying they?re satisfied with the payments they receive. But many doctors hate it, citing complaints from their patients and their own low reimbursement rates. The conservative Florida Medical Association, which represents the state?s doctors, adamantly opposes the statewide expansion.

??The presidential election is likely to play a role as well, since the federal government provides more than half the funding for Medicaid. The Republican platform favors letting states do what they want with Medicaid, while the Obama administration is likely to demand major changes before allowing the pilot to go statewide.

Taxpayers? problem

In the last 12 years, Florida?s Medicaid program has grown five times faster than general revenue. It now consumes 30 percent of the state?s budget and keeps growing.

?Medicaid has commandeered the state budget and crowds out our ability to fund other worthwhile priorities, such as our colleges and universities, public safety and transportation,? complains Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/29/3026293/can-floridas-medicaid-reform-plan.html

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House likely to stay in GOP hands on Election Day

by Associated Press

WCNC.com

Posted on September 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans are spending millions of dollars and airing thousands of TV commercials as they battle for the House's 435 seats.??

But the Election Day result is likely to look familiar.?

Democrats may erode the GOP majority slightly but they seem unlikely to gain the 25 additional seats they need to take control of the chamber.?

Republicans have a money advantage and are using it to link Democratic candidates to President Barack Obama's economic stimulus and health care laws.?

Democrats are accusing Republicans of trying to dismantle Medicare and use the savings to pay for tax cuts for the rich.??

Both sides are trying to figure out the impact GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's recent campaign struggles will have on House races. So far that seems limited.
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Source: http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/House-likely-to-stay-in-GOP-hands-on-Election-Day-171810681.html

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Next Labour government will break up retail and investment banks.

30/09/2012

By Claire West

Ed Miliband is delivering a very clear message to the banks at Labour's Annual Conference telling them that the next Labour government will break them up by legislating to split high street from casino banks.

Ed Miliband said:

?Either they can do it themselves - which frankly is not what has happened over the past year - or the next Labour government will, by law, break up retail and investment banks.

The banks and the Government can change direction and say that they are going to implement the spirit and principle of Vickers to the full. That means the hard ring-fence between retail and investment banking.

We need real separation, real culture change. Or we will legislate.

If they don?t do it voluntarily, embrace the change Britain needs, then we are going to have to do it by law.?

The last year has reinforced the need for change. The Libor interest rate scandal and the revelations about PPI mis-selling show how important it is to achieve real culture change. Making that a reality means tackling the infection of retail banking by the culture of casino banking.

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Smartphone Sex Toys Make Long Distance Relationships More ...

Posted: September 30, 2012

In a long distance relationship? Sad that you can?t get up close and personal with the person you love on a regular basis? A new smartphone sex toy is setting out correct that problem. According to Oh Gizmo, the LovePalz toys are specifically designed to work with Bluetooth technology, meaning the devices are essentially hands-free. The next time you decide to engage in some face time with your significant other on the other side of the planet, perhaps it?s time to insert some technology into your love life, so to speak.

Although the gadgets can be used individually, the real allure of this smartphone sex toy is the ability to use the devices at the same time. Here?s how it works: The female LovePalz participant takes her side of the device, dubbed ?Hera,? and inserts the contraption into an opening of her pleasure. The guy, meanwhile, places his corresponding body part inside ?Zeus,? the yin to ?Hera?s? yang. Once a proper rhythm has been found, technologically-enhanced pleasure is sure to follow.

?When I was studying abroad, my girlfriend and I were apart and had a long-distance relationship, sex wasn?t something we could achieve,? creator Oni Chen explained to ABC News. ?So I thought, why can?t we have something that can help us spike up our relationship when we are not around each other??

All you need to enjoy your own LovePalz experience are the devices, a smartphone, and the corresponding app, the latter of which comes with its very own video conferencing software. After all, what?s the point of getting busy in the modern age if you can?t look at your partner on a digital screen?

?It doesn?t really work, if you don?t see each other,? Chen said of the smartphone sex toy. ?The concept is to stimulate virtual sex ? to feel as real as possible.?

Although you can currently place orders for the LovePalz, Chen readily admits the contraptions have yet to be manufactured and the app hasn?t been approved for inclusion in the Apple Store. In other words, it may be a while before your long distance relationship receives the electronic stimulation you desire.

Would you engage in a little Bluetooh hanky panky with your significant other using this smartphone sex toy?

Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/348560/smartphone-sex-toys-make-long-distance-relationships-more-pleasurable/

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Video: Opportunity, education for girls in Afghanistan

>>> american troops have been here in afghanistan for nearly 11 years. there is a growing population of afghans who have come of age since then. they no longer want to be defined by the struggles of their parents, the soviet invasion , civil war , and the rise of the taliban . richard engel is nbc's chief foreign correspondent. richard , good to see you.

>> it's good to see you here. this war has been going on a long time. the afghans remember when it started. some of the kids were just 5 and 6 years old that we spoke to. there have been some improvements for afghan people . but as we saw, it has not won the american people a lot of loyalty or many thank yous.

>> reporter: there has been undeniable progress for afghans because of america's longest war . without it, many of the newborns at this kabul clinic delivered premature or after complicated pregnancies wouldn't be alive. the director of this clinic wouldn't be here either if it weren't for the war. the taliban banned women from top professions.

>> it was the first time in afghanistan , i think, that a lady leading this unit.

>> reporter: just a few blocks away, more changes. thousands of girls going to school. the taliban banned girls education and used this school as the headquarters. under the taliban , almost no girls went to school. now nearly three million do. in fact, about 35% of all school children in this country are girls. it's a dramatic social change the taliban is still fighting. we met this 17-year-old. bright, pretty, smart, she wants to be an economist someday. but like everyone here, she worries about what will happen after the americans leave.

>> maybe a past situation, like women were not able to go out. they were just allowed to stay at home and do the home chores.

>> reporter: she returned from pakistan with her family after the taliban fell. her family is making contingency plans to leave again.

>> who knows what happens in future. i'm real concerned.

>> reporter: this 15-year-old is the top student in her class. a fan of beyonce and other american poll culture, she isn't convinced the u.s. did any good here. do you think that the americans should or should not have come to afghanistan ?

>> what can i say? leave us guys alone.

>> reporter: the war has been too long. too many deaths.

>> reporter: you think it's time to leave?

>> yeah. pack up and go.

>> reporter: if the united states hasn't won the heart and mind of this 15-year-old, what about the rest of afghans?

>> richard , the fact that a generation is now coming of age post- taliban , is that in itself the best defense of the taliban coming back into power, folks who would stand firm?

>> maybe not. the taliban is an armed group. these schoolgirls are not going to fight against the taliban . they are all very worried about what is going to happen in this country. and we've spoken to politicians, political analysts, and they think after these troops leave that there could be a civil war in this country, and many afghans now don't remember 9/11. they just remember ten years of war. and they're asking themselves why? why did this happen? why did we have to have all of this war for ten years?

>> 300,000 afghan troops, local police , national police have been trained. the strategy to get these folks home is to turn it over to afghan troops. questions about readiness and supplies and that sort of thing. but are they fighting an enemy who has an organization -- are the taliban fragmented? are they the fighting force that they used to be?

>> there are many groups. we all call them the taliban . there's different groups that fall under the umbrella of the taliban . right now the afghan security forces have an advantage. they have the upper hand because they have american fire power , air power behind them. once the americans leave, it will be a much more even fight with the taliban and other militant groups here.

>> all right, richard . thanks again.

Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49222591/

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