Mujjo?s Felt and Leather Cases are the Most Beautiful of All Cases

You want to protect your MacBook Air, but you want to protect it in a way that's worthy of its beauty. Mujjo has a new leather and felt sleeve that is just as lovely as your 13-inch laptop.

Our Kyle Wagner has been using the sleeve recently, and he's really liked it. The materials are wonderful, and every part of it?from the stitching to the snap?feels sure and fitted. And it won't bulk up your bag. The well-made case is $80, which is admittedly too expensive. But otherwise, it's a great complement to a well-made machine. [Mujjo]

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Perfect Casting Alert: Ben Affleck Reportedly Set For 'Gone Girl'

It's safe to say that Ben Affleck's return to the side of good is complete because we're cheering about the news of his latest role. According to Deadline, Affleck is set to play Nick Dunne in David Fincher's adaptation of the hit Gillian Flynn book "Gone Girl." The "Se7en" and "Social Network" director had been [...]

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Muku Labs Muku Shuttr remote shutter release review

Muku means ?passion? in Croatian and ?clean? and ?simple? in Japanese. That name fits the Muku Shuttr very well. What is it? It’s a?small keychain sized fob which uses Bluetooth to pair with iPhones and a variety of Android smartphones to provide a remote shutter release for the built-in camera app. It offers an easier [...]

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Gas, not planets, may be source of rings around stars

Interactions within dust disks may form elliptical patterns

By Jessica Shugart

Web edition: July 10, 2013

Rings around distant stars aren?t necessarily a sign of orbiting planets. That?s the conclusion of a simulation that challenges a tantalizing notion in planetary science: that elliptical voids in a star?s dusty debris disk betray a planet?s presence. Instead, the rings could result from interactions between the dust and gas.

?People claim too often that the rings we see are due to planets,? says planetary astrophysicist Wladimir Lyra of Caltech.

As young star systems evolve, the surrounding gas dissipates and dust particles collide and clump together. The hardiest of those blobs carve out ring-shaped pathways in the star litter and, astronomers think, form planets. While distant planets are difficult to image directly, those rings have been found circling several stars (SN Online: 6/19/13).

But around older stars, traces of gas within the debris disks may fall below the limits of detection, Lyra says. ?People always thought that the effect of gas would be negligible,? he says.

Predicting the outcome of the dance between gas and dust requires powerful computer simulations. Lyra and colleague Marc Kuchner, of NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., created a simulation that accounted for that interaction. In their model, published in the July 11 Nature, dust warmed by a parent star transfers heat to the surrounding gas. This warmed area attracts the dust and gas into clusters that expand sideways and form a ring, Lyra says.

The work will affect astronomers? interpretations of rings in star disks, says planetary astrophysicist Thayne Currie of the University of Toronto. ?We have to be careful about taking every single one of these rings as signposts of planets.?

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UnitedHealthcare sees doubling of accountable care business

By Ransdell Pierson

(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc on Wednesday said it expects its accountable care contracts to double to $50 billion by 2017, reimbursing far more doctors and patients according to how well and how economically medical care is delivered.

The largest U.S. health insurer, whose earnings have been hurt by lower government payments for private Medicare services and prescriptions for older people, said the affordable care contracts will range across its employer-sponsored Medicare and Medicaid health benefit businesses.

"UnitedHealthcare is placing much greater emphasis on rewarding care providers for better care and lower costs as it dramatically reduces the use of exclusively fee-for-service contracts," the company said in a release.

In fee-for-service contracts, insurers reimburse healthcare providers for individual tests, treatments, medical procedures and prescription medicines.

Existing UnitedHealthcare affordable care programs - now worth more than $20 billion a year - instead reimburse patients according to quality and cost-effectiveness outcomes or by paying for bundles of medical services.

The company said it already has accountable care relationships with more than 575 hospitals, 1,100 medical groups and 75,000 doctors across the country, but expects more care providers to move to accountable care contracts over the next five years.

The planned changes come as the company and its rivals are planning how to cope with changes from the federal Affordable Care Act, which sets profit margins for insurers and outlines mandatory coverage requirements changes. In 2014, UnitedHealth and other insurers will start selling coverage on public health exchanges, with the aim of providing benefits to millions of Americans who are currently uninsured.

Dr. Sam Ho, UnitedHealthcare's chief clinical officer, said accountable care contracts now represent more than 15 percent of company revenue and about 20 percent of company reimbursements for medical expenses.

"But beyond 2017, we think this will become the dominant form of reimbursement," Ho said in an interview. "Value-based payment is the major lever we have for improving the quality and affordability of health care."

The accountable-care approach rewards doctors and medical centers for measures that improve patient outcomes, including cancer screening and management of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease, Ho said. Moreover, he said reductions in hospital readmission rates and in the average length of hospital stays imply better patient care.

Shares of UnitedHealthcare were up 0.3 percent at $68.20 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting by Ransdell Pierson; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Chizu Nomiyama and Bernard Orr)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/unitedhealthcare-sees-doubling-accountable-care-business-184313056.html

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