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With the election of Donald J. Trump and Republicans firmly still in control of the House and Senate, we are, whether we like it or not, starting all over again on our tortured and very unfinished journey toward a health care system that is available and affordable for all our citizens.
This has been going on for more than 100 years. While other developed nations created more equitable and less costly (and, I would argue, equal in quality) health care systems we have steadfastly resisted the truth that our medical industrial complex works well for some, not at all for others, and costs way more than it reasonably should. So, after the Affordable Care Act's noble effort to provide better access to care through a subsidized commercial insurance marketplace, we seem on the verge of blowing it up. I don't think that will happen as quickly as promised. It's a big, complicated law and it will take a complicated series of maneuvers to actually "repeal and replace" it. The new President doesn't really have a replacement in mind. And his fellow Republicans in Congress have all sorts of proposals, most of them recycled free-market talking points about health insurance that have been tried – not all that successfully – at the state level. Expect to hear a lot more about those in the weeks to come.
Some of these ideas are worthy of consideration, if for no other reason, than we need to acknowledge we have tried a lot of things to bend the cost curve in recent years and they barely have budged it. (We got 20 million more Americans a health care plan, sure. But not enough has changed in terms of helping control costs. Perhaps nothing will. But we should be willing to consider all proposals.) You'll be reading more about them on this blog in the weeks and months to come, if you are interested in exploring them further.
But it boils down to this (it always has): Are we capable of sustaining a thriving, for-profit commercial health insurance industry, a thriving for-profit pharmaceutical industry and a thriving health-care delivery system for a population that has equitable access to all three so that it too may thrive? All the proposals on the table, new ideas as well as the "good parts" of the ACA, should be considered.
One component that bears intense scrutiny and thoughtful reconsideration is Medicaid, the 50 year old program designed to get poor people access to health care. Medicaid, like it or not, has become a whipping boy that some states in recent years have purposely underfunded and undermined. This will be a major component of whatever comes next and it will — as it always has — be the key to the survival of our nation's public, safety-net hospitals.
We should be open to a whole new approach on Medicaid. (Yes, even block grants, assuming – and this is a big assumption – that they aren't being offered strictly for cost-saving reasons.) Perhaps there are some worthy experiments to conduct with the states along these lines. Among other things to consider: Why is Medicaid the payer for long-term care for the nation's elderly and disabled? Shouldn't there be a separate program for how to pay for nursing home care for those who can't afford it? Why put these patients in competition for the same dollars with uninsured pregnant women and their children, or the day-laborer who can't manage his diabetes and relies on the public hospital emergency room because the state says it can't afford to put him on Medicaid?
Okay, everything back on the table. Except…..
There is one inviolable pact on which those of us who have pledged to equal access will not budge. We should muster all our energy and whatever political clout we have remaining to thwart, obstruct and litigate any plan at the federal or state level, where working people and their families living below the poverty level are purposely ignored and forced to go without the care they need.
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The global 3D display market size is expected to reach USD 204.16 billion by 2025, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc., exhibiting a CAGR of 19.4% during the forecast period. Surging demand for enhanced imaging and viewing experience is estimated to be one of the key trends augmenting the market. Rising use of 3D technologies across a variety of applications in several industries will further boost market growth.
North America was the leading revenue contributor in 2016. However, it is projected that Asia Pacific will witness significant growth and become the highest revenue generating regional market by 2025. Robust growth of the entertainment and gaming industries, especially in Japan, China, and India, is poised to play a vital role in revving up the adoption rate over the forecast period.Presence of major OEMs is contributing significantly toward regional growth.
Stereoscopic 3D products are useful in numerous applications including TVs, smartphones, tablets, and computers. Key players in the market have introduced compatibility in HMD with minimum hardware requirement. Multinational conglomerates such as Sony and Samsung prominently operate in the business of HMD.
Emerging display technologies such as OLED are likely to gain increased market penetration over the forecast period owing to increasing implementation in various devices, thereby offering improved picture quality and performance. However, lack of compatible content and high cost of these products are expected to negatively impact the overall market.
Full research report on 3D display market analysis: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/3d-display-market
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The HMD product segment is anticipated to witness significant growth at a CAGR of over 25.0% from 2017 to 2025. The growth of the segment can be attributed to advancements in the technology and lower prices of these displays
The stereoscopic segment represented more than two thirds of the market revenue in 2016. Advancements in autostereoscopic technology are poised to trigger the growth of this segment
The OLED segment is projected to post a CAGR of 27.4% during the forecast period, owing to increasing adoption of OLED displays in numerous electronic devices such as TV, smartphones, tablets, and laptops
TV was the most prominent application segment in 2016, representing closet to 75.0% of the overall market revenue. Consumer electronics manufacturers (CEMs) are trying to enhance viewing experience of users by incorporating 3D display technologies
Asia Pacific is likely to experience the highest growth over the forecast period. Changing consumer preferences in developing economies and flourishing entertainment and gaming industries are escalating the demand for 3D displays
Global players include Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Nikon, Canon, and Fujifilm. These key players are adopting organic and inorganic growth strategies such as investments in R&D, product innovation, and M&A activities to acquire larger industry share.
View more reports of this category by Grand View Research at:https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry/display-technologies
Grand View Research has segmented the global 3D display market on the basis of product, technology, application, and region:
3D Display Product Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2014 – 2025)
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3D Display Technology Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2014 – 2025)
3D Display Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2014 – 2025)
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3D Display Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2014 – 2025)
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Asia Pacific
Rest of the World (RoW)
Access Full Press Release of this Report:https://www.grandviewresearch.com/press-release/global-3d-display-marketAbout Grand View ResearchGrand View Research, Inc. is a U.S. based market research and consulting company, registered in the State of California and headquartered in San Francisco. The company provides syndicated research reports, customized research reports, and consulting services. To help clients make informed business decisions, we offer market intelligence studies ensuring relevant and fact-based research across a range of industries, from technology to chemicals, materials and healthcare.
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A motorcycle with three vehicles behind it stopped at a red light in the Atlanta metro this week. Vehicle four slammed into the third car, and there was heavy vehicle damage to the cars. The motorcyclist died.
As one who monitors news media it is clear to me that motorcyclists are truly endangered. Some are victims, and others are responsible for their own demise. Those are the facts. Today's issue is not with the cyclists as much as it is with the car and truck drivers who share the road.
As I travel the interstates and secondary roads across Georgia, I find it interesting to watch the cyclists as they travel either ahead of, next to or behind me.
Just this past week I came upon a group of "Rolling Thunder" cyclists, and there is a lot to be said for these former military troops and their companions. They are courteous, they tend to stay in a tight group, and they are usually older, more "settled" drivers.
Then there are the smaller groups from two to six cyclists and they, too, tend to ride together but not always as a tight group, and they vary widely by age.
The solo cyclists are an interesting and wide-ranging group from the graybeards to the bullet-bike riders who never saw a speed limit sign they could read.
Let's be honest, the same can be said for the four-wheel drivers.
What is a serious concern is the number of traffic fatalities of cyclists and why they occur. High on my list of what to watch out for are those drivers who don't seem to pay attention to cyclists. Sure, we've discussed distracted driving enough, but cyclists have to be treated with respect every bit as much as other four-or-more wheelers.
In my younger days I greatly enjoyed my Honda 360. It was a pre-bullet bike to say the least, but it was fun to ride, so I understand the perspective of the cyclists and traditional drivers.
If you think about it, cyclists have very little protection, especially when they don't wear a helmet in several states and wear only jeans and a T-shirt. Then there are the middle-of-the-road riders who use helmets and wear decent clothing to help protect in case of an accident. Sometimes there is the cyclist who wears a racing suit, which makes me wonder whether it is speed or safety that concerns those folks.
Motorcyclists do not seem to ride inexpensive bikes any more, but my old 360, a Harley or a touring bike still has a high risk not just for the careless cyclist but even for those who are careful until they are hit by a motorist who just was not paying attention.
Insurers understand the risks for both the drivers of the four-wheelers and the three-or two-wheel kind. For those who ride bikes, insurers encourage taking a safety course to better equip the cyclist for what can happen on the road.
Our member companies also are concerned when drivers accumulate traffic tickets as that indicates an increasing level of carelessness.
Sharing the road puts responsibility on both the cyclists and the drivers of larger vehicles. As I've mentioned previously, driving is truly a team sport and not to be confused with a right to drive. It is most definitely an earned privilege for all who use the roadways.
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Bordeira, though, is where you want to be if you'd like a relaxing, meditative beach experience. After taking in the breathtaking cliffside scenery on Estrada da Praia, we forded the Ribeira da Carrapateira to reach the beach (easy enough — it was only a trickle). Ignacio and I walked the entire length of Bordeira, roughly two miles.
After the first mile or so, we didn't encounter a single person on the perfect white sand beach, save a couple of campers in a tent pitched near a grotto. The only evidence anyone had been on the beach at all was the odd washed-up fisherman's buoy, which Ignacio scooped up and put into a plastic bag.
The rest of Carrapateira is modest but charming. Nearly all the houses are painted white or off-white, and it offers some decent housing options for tourists (I stopped into the cute Pensão das Dunas, with doubles from 25 to 55 euros — $28 to $62 — per night, depending on the season) and at least one very good place to eat, Restaurante do Cabrita. Seafood is the specialty, naturally, and while it offers dishes like grilled bass (€13.80) and fried cuttlefish (€10.50) for reasonable prices, we were looking for something more out of the ordinary.
We found it: The waiter put a steaming platter of some of the strangest seafood I'd ever seen onto the table. They were perceves, or gooseneck barnacles (€45 per kilo), with black-orange tubular bodies and grayish bulbous, pointed tips. A delicacy in Portugal, the locally harvested creatures resemble an alien life form but taste briny and slightly sweet, with a texture like a chewy scallop.
On my way out of Carrapateira I went south and took in the beautiful vistas at the aforementioned end of the world — the town of Sagres and Cape St. Vincent, with its active lighthouse. Stopping for gas, I grabbed a huge and filling eggplant sandwich (€4) from aSagres Restaurant and did a little souvenir shopping at Artesanato A Mó (mugs and cute ceramic refrigerator magnets are €2.90).
With many charming towns and Instagrammable beaches dotting Portugal's southern coast, it's tough to go wrong. Stopping through Lagos is a good bet, however. I parked near the harbor on Avenida dos Descobrimentos and did a little window-shopping among the many street vendors hawking towels, jewelry and handbags made from local cork (small purses were in the €5 to €10 range). From there I strolled down the narrow lanes of Lagos's city center, with its red-tiled roofs, and fell in love with one particularly beautiful building near Luís de Camões Plaza: Bedecked in bright emerald-green tile, the eye-catching structure would not have been out of place in the Emerald City in Oz.
After picking up a quick €2.50 chorizo sandwich from the fast-food favorite A Merendeira, I drove south for roughly a mile to Ponta da Piedade for more jaw-dropping panoramas of jagged cliffs plunging into limpid blue waters. I hiked around for an hour or two on a few of the surrounding coastal trails, some of which can get a bit precarious — use caution when taking photos.
If you haven't had enough of the beach (is such a thing possible?), I recommend stopping in Albufeira, roughly an hour's drive east of Lagos. While the parking situation is a little dicier and the beach slightly coarser, it's still a pleasant place to dip your toes.
Farther down the coast, the town of Tavira, which straddles the Gilão River, is rich with Old World charm. Near the amphitheater-like main plaza on the Roman Bridge, to which bunches of palm leaves were attached (it was near the end of Holy Week), a man with an accordion sat playing "O Sole Mio" — just a touch too perfect but difficult to resist while gazing out over the water and feeling the cobblestones under your feet.
A couple of miles away, I had dinner at Casa do Polvo, the first and only octopus-specialty restaurant I'd ever been to. In whatever form you could possibly want to consume octopus, it's on the menu: croquettes, pies, skewers, boiled, burgers. I opted for a more classic grilled octopus (€13.50) — it was tender and yielding and tasted of onions and herbs.
Southern Portugal's appeal, while great, is certainly matched by that of Seville's surrounding Andalusian towns. And none are more intriguing, perhaps, than Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. The three towns, each no more than a half-hour from the others, comprise what's known as the Sherry Triangle. The popular fortified wine must be produced within the triangle to be officially considered sherry under Spanish law. (The grapes, however, may be grown outside the triangle.) The city of Jerez (the Spanish word for sherry) is the home of the González Byass winery and its most famous brand, Tio Pepe.
Visitors can tour the bodega (€14 with two wines; €20 with four wines and tapas), which dates to 1835, learning about the winemaking process and exploring the cool, musty soleras, where the hulking sherry barrels are kept. The different varieties of sherry are fun to learn about (and taste), from the fino variety, which resembles a dry table wine, to the Pedro Ximénez variety, which is aged until thick and dark, and tastes like a mouthful of liquid raisins. Tours are available in Spanish, English and German.
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T-Mobile, like other carriers, has a special app for its customers that helps them to do things like view their usage and pay bills. T-Mobile's is dubbed "My Account" and, although it includes several handy features, some T-Mobile customers have noticed that a recent update to the app has added something that may be slightly less helpful: advertisements in the Android notification area. As you can see above, the app pushes ads for T-Mobile-specific services to the user's notification bar. T-Mobile representatives have responded to user complaints about the ads in the carrier's official support forums and are working on a way to stop the ads.
This isn't the first time that we've heard about ads being sent to a user's notification area, and although T-Mobile is only showing ads for its services, it's still kind of a bummer to see them begin to pop up in users' notification bars out of nowhere. The good news is that it sounds like T-Mobile is trying to figure the issue out and stop the ads from hitting users' devices. We'll pass along more details on a solution as we get them. Have any of you T-Mobile customers received one of these ads in your notification area?
UPDATE: A T-Mobile spokesperson has issued a statment to our friends at TmoNews concerning the situation, explaining that a message promoting T-Mobile's VIP Zone was mistakenly sent to certain customers after a recent software update. The notifications have now been stopped. You can find T-Mo's full statement below:
"During a recent software update, a message to promote T-Mobile's free VIP Zone was mistakenly sent to certain customers and appeared on the notification bar for some Android devices. After T-Mobile was made aware of this mistake, the company stopped the notifications. T-Mobile apologizes for the inconvenience this may have caused customers."


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A couple of days ago GNOME Shell 2.91.92 (release candidate) was released for some last bit of bug hunting before the big day. The announcement stated that the code is frozen, but important bugs could still be fixed. It also confirmed that GNOME 3.0 would emerge the week of April 4.
It's only been a little over two weeks since the last developmental release, but a substantial list of bug reports have been closed. Several changes have occurred as well. Some of these include:
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A Williams County grand jury has decided not to indict Edon Police Chief Tom Szymczak for his role in the death of a Montpelier area man.
The grand jury convened Nov. 2 and were presented with evidence from prosecutors with the Ohio Attorney General's Special Prosecutions Section. The evidence came from the findings of the BCI's investigation into the officer-involved shooting death of John Anderson.
Upon consideration of the findings, members of the grand jury did not return an indictment. BCI's investigation into the incident will now close, the Attorney General's office stated.
Szymczak has been on administrative leave since the June 16 incident.
Sheriff's deputies responded to request for a well-being check on Anderson who lived on U.S. 20 near CR 7. An area health care facility had been in contact with him and believed he intended to harm himself.
Deputies were assisted by several other officers from local departments including Szymczak. The victim brandished what appeared to be an AR-15-style rifle.
Around 10:52, about 20 minutes after the deputies first arrived, medical response teams went to the scene after Johnson had been fatally shot by an officer. The BCI investigation found that to be Szymczak.
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The ultimate threat in debt cases is jail time for failure to pay. It is a threat routinely used by court officials, lawyers, and constables to force compliance by defendants.
At New Bedford District court last November, a constable who had brought debtors in under threat of arrest was haranguing several of them in the hallway. One woman, Deborah Medeiros, owed $700 to an auto salvage company. The constable, Trent Roderick, told her to come up with the money, or he'd send her before a judge who might lock her up.
''I'm going to jail,'' Medeiros sobbed, tears flowing down her face. In a panic, she called her father, who came to court with the cash.
Paul A. Fournier, a covering lawyer in several western Massachusetts courts, warns debtors in the hallway in Springfield District Court that they'll be incarcerated if they lie on court forms. And, he said, jail threats can be effective. Some judges, if they have trouble with debtors, he said, ''will put the cuffs on them and make a big show of it, and the money comes out from everywhere. The relatives come out and everything.''
Marc Marcelin, a 53-year-old Haitian immigrant, didn't get to his relatives in time.
On the morning of Dec. 13, two constables arrived at Marcelin's home in Brockton. They handcuffed him and drove him to Quincy District Court, where he sat in the lock-up of one of the state's dingiest courthouses for nearly six hours. About 3 p.m., he was called before Judge Mark S. Coven.
''So, you haven't come up with the money?'' Coven asked.
Marcelin was being sued by Madeline Cordon of Randolph, for failing to do a contracting job. She had paid him $2,000 to put vinyl siding on her house. He did two days' work but then didn't return her calls for six days - facts that Marcelin, in an interview, did not dispute. Cordon sued him, and Marcelin twice failed to show up for court.
Marcelin was no stranger to the court system, having faced charges years earlier for using drugs. But that was not the matter before the court on this day. Indeed, he had no idea how high the stakes were when he left home that morning. Standing before Coven, Marcelin told the judge his sister was supposed to be coming to court with money.
''Is she coming today?'' Coven asked twice, according to an audiotape of the session. Marcelin was not sure.
Coven told him he was being found in contempt of court and ordered, ''that you be held at the Dedham House of Correction to be released upon payment of $2,300,'' including fees and interest.
After a long silence, Coven asked, ''Do you understand that?''
Under the law, a judge can fine a debtor $200 for contempt, or put him in jail for up to 30 days. Coven did not give Marcelin a chance to contact a lawyer, as the Massachusetts court standards recommend. There is no constitutional right to a lawyer in civil cases.
When Marcelin's sister called the court that day to arrange payment to free him, she said, a clerk told her ''not to bother,'' because he also owed money in Brockton District Court. The clerk made the same comment about Marcelin's situation to a Globe reporter that day.
Marcelin was locked up for 28 days.
(Read court documents related to this case here.)
Coven defended his ruling. ''He had the keys to the jail cell,'' Coven said. ''All I was trying to do was get a court order satisfied.''Part 3: Behind the badge