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Over 700,000 Android Devices Activated Daily

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Google’s Andy Rubin: Over 700,000 Android devices activated daily – latimes.com.

Android-powered devices are the No.1 target for cyber crooks in the mobile phone arena. Popular bill-paying methods and apps on smartphones are expected to be major targets.

via Smartphones offer easy access to malware purveyors | Herald Sun.

OK. I’ll admit to writing somewhat smugly about not owning or using a smartphone in a post two weeks ago.  I’m glad I didn’t make a comment about never owning or using a smartphone because I am now one of the 700,000 Androids that get activated daily.

Resistance is futile.  But you still have to be smart about how you use your smartphone.  See the second link above.

Peace Be With You – Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays 2011

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People are often unreasonable and self centered
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind people may accuse you of ulterior motives
Be kind anyway.

If you are honest people may cheat you
Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness people may be jealous
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough
Do your best anyway.

For you see in the end it was between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Theresa

Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – November 2011

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BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 November 2011.

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 November 2011.

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 November 2011.

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 November 2011.

BBC News – Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan’s ‘wake-up call’

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He began drinking heavily because he thought it would help to prevent his panic attacks – which he had suffered from since he was a teenager. At his worst, he says he was drinking “a gallon of vodka a day”, and then 10 bottles of wine a day “when I was trying to taper down”.

via BBC News – Hardtalk – Guns N’ Roses’ bassist Duff McKagan’s ‘wake-up call’.

For the next time someone asks you why entertainers are underwritten cautiously and carefully.

Norwegian Butter Crisis – Update 12.16.11

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If Norway can’t make enough butter for everyone to slather on their eller mørkt rugbrød, shouldn’t they just import butter from abroad? The supermarket downstairs from my apartment has plenty of butter. Surely we could ship some to Oslo. The problem is that the Norwegian dairy cooperative Tine has a de facto monopoly on the domestic market and is deliberately sheltered from foreign competition (PDF) as a matter of public policy.

via Pension Pulse: The Norwegian Butter Crisis?.

As I have in the past, I will credit the source for my links.  Please note this link itself links to the original article in Slate from which the quote above originates.

Always look for the story behind the story.

Antidepressant Use Soaring – MayoClinic.com

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One in 10 people over age 12 in the United States is taking an antidepressant, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is conducted by the Center for Disease Control.  Women between the ages of 40 and 59 are the most likely group to take antidepressants. In this age range, 23 percent of U.S. women are taking one.

via Antidepressant use soaring among Americans 12 and over – MayoClinic.com.