lördag 19 maj 2012

20-May-2012 08:06

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal—and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 08:05 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm

20-May-2012 07:04

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal&mdash;and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 07:04 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm

20-May-2012 06:03

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal&mdash;and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 06:03 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm

20-May-2012 05:02

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal&mdash;and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 05:02 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm

20-May-2012 04:01

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal&mdash;and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 04:01 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm

20-May-2012 03:00

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East :: Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from prehistory through antiquity to modern times derives from diverse sources, spanning the biological sciences to the humanities. Nonetheless, it lacks a robust overview that may lead to floating interpretations. This is especially true in the Middle East, considered as the cradle of agriculture, and where the evolutionary history of this emblematic tree is intertwined with that of civilizations. Olive fruit, oil and wood have been, since Prehistoric times, characteristic products of the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In the domestic economy of these countries, the olive tree gradually became a traditional tree crop...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY44077&cid=ct_15_62_f&fid7715&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fresolve%2Fdoi%3FDOI%3D10.1111%252Fj.1469-185X.2012.00229.x

The high costs of vulvodynia are personal&mdash;and public :: In addition to the high personal costs to women who have vulvodynia, the disorder levies a financial
burden on the US economy. (Source: Modern Medicine)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY42019&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid8164&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modernmedicine.com%2Fmodernmedicine%2FModernMedicine%2BNow%2FThe-high-costs-of-vulvodynia-are-personalmdashand-%2FArticleStandard%2FArticle%2Fdetail%2F769574%3Fref%3D25

Auf Wiedersehen Athens? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/rJBgr7Chs4E/

Richemont defies the crisis :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/k8CD-qBURyE/

Apps tackle travel expenses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1VA8vM-Rbys/index.html

Glimmer of hope on UK jobs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7793PqdwTv0/

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Report card: Earth 'going downhill' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QWWlDY2woxU/index.html

Tapping a corporate hidden agenda :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TLMv1NlGPzA/index.html

Careers are works in progress :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yY_TkRdZvEQ/index.html

How to save buying glasses :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XfWxpjQBMio/

Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB38371&cid=ct_15_26_f&fid#276&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fhealth%2FSpeech-therapy-could-help-save.6653832.jp

Stress Shift :: We're so busy and so stressed that we do all kinds of things to shift our stress to other people.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`08088&cid=ct_15_2_f&fid5652&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fblog%2Freal-men-dont-write-blogs%2F201205%2Fstress-shift

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridB93595&cid=ct_15_91_f&fid6976&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NaturalNews.com%2F030853_food_safety_government_spending.html

Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis :: When it comes to building a compelling narative about a complex subject, Michael Lewis is the best in the businessEnter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the ObserverMichael Lewis doesn't write about science. He made his reputation with books and features about business and finance. His most famous works, Moneyball and The Blind Side, are about baseball and American football. Reading him won't help you to understand the intricacies of epigenetics or quantum mechanics, or to get into the mind of a scientist at work. Yet he's an author from whom every aspiring science writer – and every experienced one at that – can learn.That's because, when it comes to building a compelling narrative about a complex factual subject that most ordinary readers ...
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?ridY38119&cid=ct_15_58_f&fid6473&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2012%2Fapr%2F17%2Fscience-writers-big-short-michael-lewis

What if Greece leaves the euro? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Ei_Y3wdy3f4/

Rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vhTfsBY6_kw/index.html

Yahoo CEO resigns: What next? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/B_uoq32i7g8/

Hands on with Pebble smartwatch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BQ0T_w7rawI/index.html

Can Greece legally leave eurozone? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OIJ_XUMtjow/

20-May-2012 03:00 Facebook

Facebook boosts IPO size :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IJ0baFkBN18/

Facebook Prices IPO Shares At $38; Values Company At Record $104 Billion :: Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, valuing its shares at $38.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342414/20120517/facebook-ipo-shares-priced-zuckerberg-social-network.htm

Facebook overvalued? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/FIjeRZ3isN4/

Facebook: Journalism must-buy ? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zRVBxtsp9UY/index.html

SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations: CMS and ONC :: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments.

As I just told a friend on Facebook: "How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell their story, from home? This administration is really open to this, and I have it on close first-hand authority that they actually read every one of these things, and the people in charge making the rules actually do care."
Participate!


At bottom, I listed my personal highlights from these two short letters.

From David Harlow JD MPH, policy chair for our Society for Participatory Medicine:
Click to open letter to CMS (PDF, 183k)

Click to open letter to ONC (PDF, 183k)

I've uploaded SPM's comment letters for Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations,...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
url: http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid`24409&cid=ct_15_22_f&fid9028&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparticipatorymedicine.org%2F2012%2Fspm%25e2%2580%2599s-comment-letters-for-meaningful-use-stage-2-regulations-cms-and-onc%2F

Facebook doesn't want world domination: it needs it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ZIpcYxkDJDI/

Facebook's foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrQ5c0QdPmY/

Faltering start for the new Facebook :: Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group's shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7bfd916-a113-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18125532#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook shares see modest debut :: Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18115914#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Facebook fizzle or sizzle? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/BgVOXGuhkyU/

Facebook IPO: The Inexorable Deterioration Of Human Society Continues :: Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342837/20120518/facebook-ipo-zuckerberg-social-media-communication.htm

Web ponders fate of Facebook :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wd6MOUS4IR4/index.html

Shares In Facebook IPO (FB) Make Bono World's Richest Musician - Or Not? :: The U2 front man is a partner in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that owns a little more than 2 percent of Facebook. That&#039;s $1.3 billion, but not all of that money may be Bono&#039;s.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342810/20120518/bono-facebook-stock-shares-ipo-u2-fb.htm

Facebook IPO: Biggest Tech IPO Ever Soars 10% But Closes With A Whimper :: Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, soared more than 10 percent but closed up by only a fraction.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342791/20120518/facebook-ipo-first-trade-zuckerberg-social-media.htm

Facebook's New Paper Billionaires to Get Richer after IPO :: Facebook&#039;s founders, early executives and investors would be seeing their fortune soaring to new heights after the IPO.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342659/20120518/facebook-ipo-billionaires-getting-richer-founders-mark.htm

Facebook's Historic IPO: Wall Street Braces for One of the Biggest IPOs in History :: Facebook shares priced at $38 (£24) each to start trading at Nasdaq, making it the biggest IPO in terms market capitalisation in US history.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342520/20120518/facebook-ipo-shareprice-market-capitalisation-applicant-s.htm