Randomness 6/365
Day 6 / 365 Feels like I am getting sick time to take some Vitamin C and D.
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Shah Deniz consortium agrees to a deal to obtain a 50% stake in Nabucco pipeline
The Shah Deniz gas group has agreed a deal to obtain a stake in the Nabucco pipeline, boosting the gas pipeline project’s chances against a rival pipeline.
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The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post, with the project name “Nightwatch”, is an aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). To create the E-4 series, four Boeing 747-200 airframes were specially modified to serve as a survivable mobile command post for the National Command Authority, namely the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and successors. The four E-4s are operated by the 1st Airborne Command and Control Squadron of the 55th Wing located at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska.
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Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?
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Rajgangpur, Orissa, India – Rajgangpur is an industrial town situated in the Sundargarh District of Orissa. It is located 400 km to the north-west of the capital city, Bhubaneswar. Places of tourist interest in the vicinity include Mandira Dam, Chhatri Hill, Darjeeng, Vedvyas and Khandahar. Rourkela is 40 km east of Rajgangpur. Nearest airport is at Ranchi. Rajgangpur Railway Station is on Raigarh-Rourkela line. Regular buses are available to Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela and Angul.
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179,069,417
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– GRC.com 63 random printable ASCII characters
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Randomness 5/365
Day 5 / 365 Started early today but set it up to come out mid day.
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James Buchanan, GMU economist who won Nobel
James M. Buchanan, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from George Mason University, whose opposition to deficit spending and support of a balanced-budget amendment helped shape conservative economic and political thought, died Jan. 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg. He was 93.
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The Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was a Dutch ocean liner built in 1925. An onboard fire destroyed her passenger accommodation before she was completed. In 1932, another fire damaged her so severely that she was sold for scrapping, only to catch fire again before she was scrapped.
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To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.
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Brue-Auriac, France – Brue-Auriac is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.
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303,826,076
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- GRC.com 63 random printable ASCII characters
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Randomness 4/365
Day 4 / 365 Almost missed a day woops.
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Baby Sharks Can Sense Danger, Even Before They’re Born
Before they even leave their eggs, embryonic bamboo sharks freeze in response to perceived danger – a behavior that may help scientists develop a more effective shark repellent.
Wikipedia
Disa Park is one of the most notorious pieces of architecture in the Vredehoek area of Cape Town, South Africa.
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The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Location
Carefree, Arizona – Is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 3,799.
Number
961,682,321
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– GRC.com 63 random printable ASCII characters
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Randomness 3/365
Day 3 / 365 Got my books for school, more CES goodness, and make sure you drink lots of water!
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Chinese news organizations rally behind censored paper
GUANGZHOU, China — In a rare show of defiance to China’s censors, news organizations around the country rallied behind colleagues at the maverick Southern Weekly who are threatening to strike over press censorship.
Wikipedia
Is a clade of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous in all continents. Some members include Camptosaurus, Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus, and the hadrosaurids or “duck-billed dinosaurs”. The Ankylopollexia was named by Paul Sereno in 1986 to denote the group within the Iguanodontia that includes the Camptosauridae and the Styracosterna. The name means “stiff thumbs”, referring to a possible synapomorphy, possessing a conical thumb spine. Ankylopollexians were generally large animals, and some (such as Shantungosaurus, which measured up to 50 ft (15 m) in length and weighed up to 8 tons) equaled the largest carnivorous dinosaurs in size.
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Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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Stacy, Virginia – Stacy is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Number
353,980,792
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– GRC.com 63 random printable ASCII characters
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Randomness 2/365
Day 2 / 365 and CES has started today so lots of new laptops and TVs were announced along with some Lego stuff.
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Billions of Earthlike Planets Crowd Milky Way?
Tens of billions of Earthlike worlds are strewn across the Milky Way, many of them circling stars very much like our own sun, astronomers said today.
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Is a song by Japanese rock band Radwimps, released on July 26, 2006, as the second of three singles from the band’s fourth album, Radwimps 4: Okazu no Gohan. The song was popular enough to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan as a full-length cellphone download nine months after its release, one of four songs from Radwimps 4 to achieve this. The music video fo the song was also awarded at the Space Shower Music Video Awards 2007, with the award for Best Art Direction.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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Ovid, Colorado – Ovid is a statutory town in Sedgwick County, Colorado, United States. The population was 330 at the 2000 census.
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241,085,813
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– GRC.com 63 random printable ASCII characters
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Randomness Day 1
Day 1 of my randomness blog post a day for 365 days or 1 year 
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Venezuela faces turmoil as Chavez worsens
Venezuela faced political turmoil and the possibility of new elections on Friday when it became increasingly unlikely that President Hugo Chavez would recover his health in time to be inaugurated for a new term next week.
Wikipedia
Sesheshet, occasionally known as Sesh, was the mother of King Teti, the first and founding pharaoh of the sixth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She was instrumental in enabling her son to gain the throne and reconciling two warring factions of the royal family.In 2008 archeologists discovered what is believed to have been her pyramid
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Copying nature — what is that supposed to mean? Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn’t follow anybody!
– Quoted by Eugène Tardieu, “Interview with Paul Gauguin,” L’Écho de Paris, (1895-05-13), p. 108
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Gornja Trešnjevica – (Serbian: Горња Трешњевица) is a village in the municipality of Aranđelovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 583 people.
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604,694,158
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Starting 365 days of Random
So I had an idea in my head to help me get a post or two each day, this would include a post each day with 1 random news story, 1 random Wikipedia article, 1 random quote, 1 random photo, 1 random YouTube video, 1 random number, 1 random town or city and 1 random weather forecast for that day! Sounds kind of random, it should be I came up with half a few days ago and the other was I was writing this. I won’t just take things that are popular, but also not just take things that aren’t worth your time to read or look at they will still be cool or fun or noteworthy. I may also change up the order in the post to make it look better but it should be fun to do and fun for you to look up each day. Also if I know I can’t post that day I will have something setup so it gets posted that day.
Happy New Year 2013
Just wanted to post a Happy New Year message for 2013, and put out some goals for my websites. This year I have had amazing amounts of traffic to my Handbreake setup guide with almost 600 views in one day to the site the 27th of December 2012. I also started the Tek4.Me site that was starting to get good amounts of traffic but I stopped updating the site the past few months when I change some of my plans, but I am not going to abandon the site more to come on that.
I have been working on building a recipe site for learning and also just for fun, I also have in the works a event listing site that will be my next ground up web project that I hope will become a good place to find events and also post events.
As for WebLuke.Net and Tek4.Me, I have set a goal to blog post every day, my not be on both sites but I should have something. I have set goals like this before but things are changing, this domain is 12 years old, I am starting some new schooling this month and I want to include blogging in my new daily plan.
Hope the year is good for everyone, and we both can work hard to achieve our goals and plans for 2013.
6th Healthiest Isn’t That Good
So I saw this “News” item in Google News today and just thought I would point out a few things. First off the title stating that Connecticut is 6th healthiest state in the nation, OK that’s nothing to be too happy about its not like they are first or second or even third so why waist our time with this? Second if they are “Healthy” why have a photo of a bunch of fat women walking down a street that doesn’t show they are all that healthy. And finally this is the real point of this story “high number of people who get immunized”!
What this is, is a story that was paid for by drug companies to promote that being healthy means you get immunized! But why do they care all that much, its because you cant sue them if you get sick from any immunization, they get you to take there drugs with out even being sick, and they are all putting a lot of money in new immunizations as there new money makers because the patents on expensive medications are starting to run out giving other companies the ability to produce generic versions and let people who need them not have to play a large amount of money for them because one company controls the formula that may save some ones life but only if they are willing to pay!
I’m not saying that all immunizations are a bad thing, most of the ones that you can get for free from a heath office when you were a kid and have been given out for a long number of years should be safe but the ones that are advertised to you on TV and have big budgets you may want to look into what it relay dose, or even better why should you even need it before you get too excited on what it may offer.
This is just something that I noticed and just had to write about, its not my normal thing to bring up but something I want people to understand. May start adding more of this stuff if I feel like writing it up.
Reflecting on the Past few months of Tek4.me
A few months ago I started Tek4.me technology blog website, and started to build out content. The problem is during the past few weeks I seem to have neglected the site a bit and my traffic is showing that. When I started it I didn’t expect to get crazy amounts of people going there each day but things were looking good as far as no real promotion other than just wringing articles and some free Facebook ads that didn’t bring anyone to the site. It was fun to read though the list of announcements and find ones that I found interesting, then put together an article about the product or service. Problem was when I had other things take some of my time and there was a slow or lame bunch of news for a week I lost a lot of interest.
The site isn’t dead but it seems that way based on traffic numbers, and number of new posts. That brings me to one problem, most of my content was only relevant for a few weeks and then it’s just old news. I’m sure that is what the big sites have problems with also, that’s why they have so many of those filler posts that are tutorials or things that aren’t news but just fun to read things. I was trying to make this site all news and nothing else. So that’s one thing I will be working on. The other thing is I wasn’t writing about things I didn’t find cool, but what I need to do is still cover those things just don’t worry about getting full details like I did for products or services I thought were real cool or wanted.
So what’s going to happen, in January I will start going to University for Computer Science (don’t waste your money like I did with ITT-Tech schools don’t transfer your credits and employers don’t thing its good enough) so my focus will be on doing well in my classes, but I hope I can pull myself back to daily posts on Tek4.me. I plan on working to add more content starting this week and get things going again. Also on WebLuke.net I hope I can use this as more of a place to put my experience of school and things. I have wanted also to do more tutorials like my popular Handbrake for Windows 64-bit article. Some other things of note are I have been reading up on how to use PHP again and coding in HTML, I kind of lost my love for things like that a number of years ago and just kind of lost the feeling of how you do things, but I will need to get that all back in my head because I at some point want to build out a recipe site I had once built but lost and also an Events listing website that I have prototype in Drupal but doesn’t work like I would like it to, so if I can get to it that is a long-term project I will work on.
I think this post is me telling myself I need to get things going again and I can do it. With school coming it may make things harder but I have the opportunity to go to school, build my websites, take care of my kids, and learn new things. If only I could monetize this all better things would be a little nicer!
