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Modernizing Medicine(R) Receives 2013 Florida Fast 100 Award

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BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwired - Sep 27, 2013) - Modernizing Medicine, Inc., has been recognized by the Florida Business Journals as one of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the State of Florida. The company ranked third out of the entire group of stellar companies.

"We work hard to meet the demand for healthcare technology that truly helps doctors be more efficient," said Daniel Cane, President and CEO of Modernizing Medicine. "Our company has grown into new specialties this year and we look forward to helping a wider range of physicians in the year ahead. We thank the Florida Business Journals for acknowledging our hard work and momentum."

Each year the Business Journals ranks Florida's fastest-growing private companies to come up with the prestigious 'Fast 100.' Companies chosen show a range of industries, including real estate development, manufacturing, technology, healthcare and retail, and in size and annual revenue. The companies are ranked by one-year percentage growth. Last year, Modernizing Medicine ranked #1 among the winners of the 'Fast 50' companies in South Florida, an award given by the South Florida Business Journal.

Details about the 'Fast 100' and the full list of honorees are available on the Business Journals' website. The official company rankings were announced during the awards ceremony on September 27th in Orlando, Florida.

About Modernizing Medicine

Modernizing Medicine is transforming how healthcare information is created, consumed and utilized in order to increase efficiency and improve outcomes. Our product, Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), is a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical record (EMR) system with a massive library of built-in medical content, designed to save physicians time. Available as a native iPad application or from any web-enabled Mac or PC, EMA adapts to each provider's unique style of practice and is designed to interface with hundreds of different practice management systems. Today, Modernizing Medicine provides specialty-specific offerings for the dermatology, ophthalmology, optometry, orthopedics, otolaryngology and plastic and cosmetic surgery markets, and to more than 1,000 physician practices across the country. In 2013 Modernizing Medicine was listed on Forbes' annual ranking of America's Most Promising Companies.

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Sports are outlet for Liberty's Gibson

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Running back has passion for football

Liberty RB Shakree Gibson.NICHOLAS PIATEK/For the Times Herald-Record

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Published: 2:00 AM - 09/27/13

LIBERTY As a young boy, Shakree Gibson was painfully shy, keeping to himself in what his foster mom, Brenda Miller, called his own little world.

Truth be told, young Shakree was more than shy. He was scared and insecure.

However, for Gibson, confidence would partially come in the form of sports. His therapy was provided on soccer fields, baseball diamonds, basketball fields and, most of all, on the football field.

This is why Gibson plays running back. He starts for Liberty, by way of Fallsburg, where he played the last three seasons. Gibson transferred to Liberty in June after completing his junior year at Fallsburg, which folded its football team after last season.

"When Fallsburg lost football, in my head, I was going crazy," Gibson said. "Football was the only way I could get everything out of my head. All the pain, the misery, the depression was stuck in my head. Football is the only way I could get it out of my head."

Gibson could end up being a 1,000-yard rusher for Liberty, a perennial Class C playoff contender, this fall. He put up 1,039 yards and seven touchdowns for Fallsburg last season. Gibson has 281 yards in three games this year.

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Libertarian threatens to spoil GOP hopes in Virginia

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Libertarian Robert Sarvis, center, could pull votes away from Republican Ken Cuccinelli, left, which could help Democrat Terry McAuliffe, right.

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Washington (CNN) -- The Virginia governor's race has often been looked to as an off-year barometer of national political sentiment.

This year's grind-it-out race, an acrimonious spitball contest between two candidates only slightly more likeable than Walter White, is anything but.

In a lesser-of-two-evils campaign, Terry McAuliffe, the longtime Democratic fundraiser and confidante to former President Bill Clinton, is clinging to a modest but sturdy lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general.

Republicans have pilloried McAuliffe as a sleazy political operator and failed businessman who exploited his Washington connections to help his sputtering car company, GreenTech Automotive. Cuccinelli has been targeted as a far-right social crusader who would curb abortion rights and access to contraception. Democrats on Twitter are fond of calling him #creepyken.

McAuliffe is leading Cuccinelli among likely voters by an eight-point margin, 47% to 39%, according to a Washington Post poll out this week.

McAuliffe is hardly bulletproof: A federal investigation into GreenTech has sullied his reputation, and only two-thirds of Democrats -- his own party -- consider him "honest and trustworthy."

But Cuccinelli is on much shakier ground. While Republicans are slightly more fired up about voting for him than Democrats are for McAuliffe, Cuccinelli's favorable ratings are next-to-toxic: More than half of likely voters view him unfavorably.

Enter Robert Sarvis.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Faroe Islands 2- 7 Scotland // FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 Qualifier – Video

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5 things to do when visiting Derawan Islands

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Widely considered a divers paradise, these remote islands in East Kalimantan lure non-divers as well. The Jakarta Post Travel list five things to do in Derawan.

1. Islands and Islets hopping

Those who want to nurture their fantasy of being stranded on an island, where every turn of the eyes finds beautiful white sand beach and the horizon, may realize their dream in Derawan, with the bonus of not really being stranded.

This cluster of islands comprises 31 islands and islets and is much less touristy than areas such as Bali..

Some of Derawans famous islands, aside from the main Derawan Island, are Pulau Kakaban, Pulau Maratua, and Pulau Nabucco where the rare species of coconut crab can be found.

Motor boat rental prices depend on boat size, starting from Rp 300,000 (US $ 27.01) per person.

Use your bargaining skills to get the best deal. Most boatmen here prefer lump sum figures such as Rp 5 million for three days for six people.

2. Explore the village

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Cayman Islands travel guide

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Best for The beach, romance, families, watersports, food, nature, pampering, escapism.

Unless youre a banker, diving is the number one reason to come to this affluent tax haven. Around the trio of islands are over 300 marked dive sites, ranging from pristine, shallow reefs, to stunning, precipitous walls and shipwrecks. Crystal-clear waters, minimal currents and first-rate diving schools make the destination ideal for inexperienced divers, and for snorkelling. At Stingray City, you can even commune with the marine life by simply standing on a sandbar.

All that said, the appeal of this British Overseas Territory does not solely rest with what lies beneath. This is particularly true of Grand Cayman, by far the most developed island. As well as high-quality accommodation and restaurants, it has the fantastic white-sand Seven Mile Beach (actually only five and a half miles long) - lined with shiny high-rise hotels and condominiums, it has something of a Miami feel to it. The smaller islands of Little Cayman, where iguanas have the right of ways on roads, and Cayman Brac, with hiking trails and a parrot reserve, are infinitely slower paced and more down to earth.

Timing advice For diving, November to April, when waters are calmest and visibility is best; the annual Pirates Week festival, with street dances, a parade and fireworks, runs November 7-17 2013.

Book with Caribtours, Dive Worldwide, Kenwood Travel.

More information caymanislands.co.uk.

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Man-made jungle islands spell extinction for the smallest critters

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Nidhi Subbaraman NBC News

Sep. 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM ET

Anthony Lynam

The Chiew Lam Reservoir is surrounded by rainforest, and dotted with more than a hundred forested islands.

In 1987, the Thai government finished flooding 65 square miles of rainforest to feed a hydroelectric dam. The wide blanket of jungle, chock-full of small mammals, became an inland archipelago comprising more than a hundred tiny islands. Stranded, the smallest of the furry critters are now dying off. All but one, that is: The hardy Malayan field rat.

This isn't just a problem in Thailand, say researchers. Jungle tracts across the world are being carved into isolated patches, separated by roads or agriculture. The rapid elimination of the island mammals in the Chiew Lam Reservoir foretells the fate of forests elsewhere.

"We observed the annihilation of an entire group of animals all native small animals," Luke Gibson, a graduate student at the National University of Singapore told NBC News, adding that the "dramatic results are a warning" for other similarly fragmented landscapes. "It seems really bleak for these small forest fragments," he said.

Luke Gibson

This 'moonrat' is among the last of a dwindling population of small mammals still living on the islands of the Chiew Lake Reservoir.

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Islands fight to stay above water amid climate change

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Rising seas, disappearing glaciers, melting ice, storm surges: The threat of climate change still feels distant to many people.

Not for residents of small, low-lying islands in the Pacific. Global warming has arrived, and it's turned their nations - Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and others - into slowly sinking ships. In some regions, the freshwater has turned salty, farmlands are barren and officials say rising waters will submerge entire nations by century's end unless concerted action is taken.

Concerted action has most definitely not been taken.

As a result, many of these countries have resorted to extreme measures. They've engaged global legal experts to figure out whether a drowned nation still exists, have threatened legal action against coal plants a hemisphere away and have tried to drum up support for a case at the International Court of Justice. Quixotic as these tactics may sound, they risk alienating wealthy countries - the very ones they'll rely on for humanitarian aid to help refugees from droughts and floods.

"There's a real existential question for these islands," says Earthjustice attorney Erika Rosenthal, who works with small island states to stem the volatile tides of global warming. For these tiny nations, climate change raises the "most urgent questions of national sovereignty."

Sound like Sturm und Drang? More like Apocalypse Slowly. Well before the water submerges them, the islands will become uninhabitable. Salt water contaminates drinking-water supplies and ruins arable land. Subsidence and increased flooding wipe away coastline dwellings. Then there's the evil twin of global warming, ocean acidification, which harms sea creatures and those who eat and sell them.

In the capital atoll of the Marshall Islands, "The principal source of drinking water is capturing rainwater runoff from the airport runway," because the groundwater has become undrinkable, says Michael Gerrard, a Columbia law professor who advises the tiny nation on legal remedies. Insult to injury: The north of the country is in the midst of a serious drought. It's water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.

Climate-change talks and treaties have offered the islands little recourse. The United States, responsible for 18 percent of global emissions, hasn't ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Canada dropped out last year. Kyoto's successor treaty, to take effect in 2020, is being negotiated now, but carbon-emitting infrastructure moves at a much faster pace than international bureaucracy. "Every time a coal-fire plant is built, they're locking in infrastructure" that contributes to future warming, says Rosenthal - and delaying an inevitable move to renewable energy. Climate-change negotiators generally agree on a goal to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, but analysts say that goal is unrealistic and has likely already been scuttled.

When the survival of your island nation rests with powers much larger than you, what do you do?

In 2009, the Marshall Islands' ambassador to the U.S. asked Gerrard to look into that very question, as well as other queries that sound surreal: Is a country underwater still a nation-state? Does it retain its seat at the United Nations? What happens to national assets like fishing rights? And where should its citizens go? (No easy answers, but the questions are explored in a recent book Gerrard edited.)

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UAW GM Flint Sit-Down Striker Olen Ham – Part 4 (Organizing the South, Health Care, Two Tier) – Video

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Health care reform spurs urgent care centers

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HOUSTON -

You may have noticed more and more freestanding emergency rooms popping up in the Houston area.

Well, you can soon expect to see many more.

With health care reform on the horizon, it is becoming an attractive and convenient option for families.

The spacious waiting room at the newest MedSpring location in Katy seems like a waste considering urgent care facilities like this one claim to slash those dreaded emergency room wait times.

"We know families are busy now and we know all of our time is very valuable, said MedSpring Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jon Belsher. So we want to get you in and out as quickly as we can. Most of our visits are actually under 45 minutes."

Dr. Belsher isn't surprised to learn a recent study by Kaiser Health found urgent care centers around the country have doubled to more than 400 in the last four years.

Houston leads the trend with 41 "freestanding" emergency rooms.

Of their 14 locations, MedSpring has five in the Houston area, including River Oaks, Memorial, Kingwood and Sugar Land.

More are on the way with the timing coinciding with health care reform.

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Gene therapy relieves pain in dogs

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A revolutionary gene therapy developed in Colorado could relieve people's chronic pain, such as arthritis or fibromyalgia but first, it is being tested on pets with incredible results.

A Lafayette veterinarian is using cutting-edge research to heal dogs.

It may not look like it when 9-year-old Amos, a Labrador Retriever mix, is running happily after the ball, but he has arthritis, bad.

His owner, Vicki Riedel knew immediately.

"He is always by my side," said Riedel. "When I would go outside or downstairs,and he wouldn't come with me, I knew he was really hurting."

Their vet tried one medication after the next.

"And they all helped a little bit, but none of them really helped a lot, and he seemed to be getting worse and worse," said Riedel.

But a few weeks ago, Amos met pet pain specialist Dr. Rob Landry.

"Amos has a history of chronic pain in both his elbows," said Landry, a Lafayette veterinarian who has been testing a breakthrough gene therapy for chronic pain for the last two years.

"It's amazing," said Laundry with a smile.

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Futurism is already here

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The multidisciplinary work of Italian painter, sculptor, set designer, writer and designer Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) has never before been exhibited in Spain. But now, Fundacin Catalunya La Pedrera has brought together 200 pieces, the majority of them faithful to Futurism up until 1930, when he returned to Italy after two years in New York, "the Futurist metropolis par excellence."

According to the exhibition's curator, Antonio Pizza, Depero was the artist who best personified the Futurism movement. He and his fellow Futurists, who included such intellectuals and artists as Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Antonio Sant'Elia, Giacomo Balla and, especially, poet and playwright Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - who founded the movement with the manifesto he published on the front page of Le Figaro in 1909 - adored machines, energy and speed and advocated radically doing away with everything from the past. In 1915 Depero and Balla published their Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe where they optimistically anticipated the radical metamorphosis of art in which the esthetic was filled with dynamism and speed, but also an anthropological project that would change social structures in keeping with the new industrial era.

Their works broke traditional ways of thinking. The paintings burst out of the frames, as in Severini's Plastic Rhythm of the 14th of July; and neither did film, fashion, theater, music, dance, advertising, design escape the new Futurist vision. Perhaps Depero's best-known work is his bottle design for Campari soda, but the rest of his oeuvre remains unknown to the general public. On show here are his designs for furniture for bars, restaurants and homes, and dressing rooms, such as the one he devised for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. There are also his architectural projects, such as his plastic book pavilions or the Casa d'Arte Futurista he built in Rovereto, and toys and puppets.

Choosing not to focus on a high-profile personality who would guarantee long lines makes the show a risky bet. But it is a glimpse of things to come. According to Fundacin La Pedrera culture director Marga Viza, the Guggenheims in Bilbao and New York, as well as "a renowned cultural institution" in Madrid, are already planning Futurism exhibitions.

Depero y la reconstruccin futurista del universo . Until January 12 at La Pedrera, C/ Provena, 261-265, Barcelona. http://www.fundaciocatalunya-lapedrera.com

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