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Convective Outlook

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REDIRECT Storm Prediction Center#Convective outlooks

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Convective outlook already redirects to Storm Prediction Center#Convective outlooks. Requesting same redirect for "Convective Outlook" with a capital "O."

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Order of the Omniscent

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The Order of the Omniscent is a secret organization at the University of Connecticut. They operate under total secrecy, having only seven core members. Their symbol is a Venn diagram with an exclamation point in one circle, a question mark in the other, and a 7 in the middle representing the seven core members. There is an owl on top representing omniscience.

We are the Order of the Omniscent because we see all and we seek knowledge. 137.99.77.47 (talk) 05:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The Romain Rolland library is an island of peace though located in a busy area housing Government buildings including the State Assembly, the Government General Hospital and the Lt. Governor's official residence, the Raj Nivas. With its huge collection of books and an air-conditioned reading room, the library is a place where many old timers prefer to read in and relax, especially during summer.

Romain Rolland, the great French writer, after whom the library is named, was a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Micah Burkett

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Born on May 9, 1988. He is the most well known person in Indiana, and owns a guitar. He is so tough he could beat up Chuck Norris. He also knows how to make his own Wikipedia pages.

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Declined. While being able to make new articles for Wikipedia can be a good thing, it does not help you to qualify for your own article, especially if you have no third-party sources about yourself. If knowing how to create pages, being able to beat up Chuck Norris, and having a guitar was all it took to qualify for your own article, then mine would be an FA-class. Next! Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 08:06, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Ishq Record as on http://ishqrecords.com

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What stops others from going further and farther a field into the world of music? There is always room for change and that time is now upon us……

As the eve of the millennium came upon us ISHQ was born and brought forth. From Hindi to Bhangra, Reggae to Dance, Mainstream to Underground, Bally Sagoo has been drinking in these influences through a lifetime. Matured in his entirety, loud, proud and fronting ISHQ RECORDS.

Representing the youth of today, Bally Sagoo has laid the foundations of a record label, which is responsible for breaking in new talent from around our musical world.

Each individual representing ISHQ has the expertise combined from an innovative structure that unites with a force to be reckoned with……..An enthusiastic, youthful company that live and breathe the world wide way of universal music.

Respected for achievements made in this harsh and uncompromising musical world known for pushing down boundaries, ISHQ will be the gate and Bally as the gatekeeper holding the key to which will unlock many doors for new talent. Established as a role model and voted as the most influential person within the Asian scene here lies the stepping stone for the new talent. Talent is waiting to be discovered and given a chance to evolve into what they are worthy of, ISHQ is here to comply with them.

Now is the time to break musical boundaries, if its ever going to happen its going to be this generation that will be responsible for it.

We proceed to lay the plans for unity and synthesis, which reflect the importance of an ever growing Asian/Western culture. Within the structure of ISHQ RECORDS you will find a new founded evolution that would serve as the voice for the new and ever evolving Asian scene.

The future will not only see Bally Sagoo producing Asian artists but mainstream / western acts as well. " I am Asian, loud and proud, but I'm also British. I hope to have captured all those influences in our music for people all around the world, to relate to. For me, our music represents bringing different worlds together and uniting them as one", says Bally Sagoo..

ISHQ……ready to take on the millennium……..ready to take on those hostile to something `different`….., ISHQ are ready……. Full stop…….are you????
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Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management

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Senachwine

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Senachwine or Petchaho (Potawatomi: Red cedar) (c. 1744-1831) was a 19th century Illinois River Pottawatomie chieftain. In 1815, he succeeded his brother Gomo as chieftain of their band and was one of the last major Pottawatomie chieftains to live in the region.

A number of places in Illinois are named in his honor including Senachwine Township in Putnam County, Illinois, Senachwine Creek, Senachwine Lake and the Lake Senachwine Reservoir.

Biography

In April 1812, he and other Pottawatomie chieftains met with Governor Ninian Edwards at Cahokia to discuss relations between the Pottawatomie and the United States. Although opposed to an offensive war, Senachwine sided with Black Partridge during the Peoria War and commanded a sizable force during the conflict. He later accompanied the Pottawatomie peace delegation who were escorted by Colonel George Davenport to St. Louis where a peace treaty was eventually signed. ^[1]

Around 1814, a mysterious Baptist preacher and missionary known as Wigby lived in his village. Wigby was allowed to baptize him and later converted Senachwine to Christianity. However, despite Wigby's attempts to dissuade him, Senachwine refused to give up polygamy and retained his several wives. After Wigby's death, he was buried on a high bluff overlooking Senachwine's village. ^[2]

He succeeded his brother Gomo as head chieftain of the Illinois River band and was a signatory of several treaties between the Pottawatomie and the United States during the 1810s and 1820s. He and Black Partridge would remain the leading chieftains of the Pottawatomie for over a decade before their positions of authority and influence were assumed by Shabbona. ^[3] A year before his death, Senachwine believed that the Pottawatomie nation, and eventually all Native Americans, would eventually become extinct. ^[4] His son, Kaltoo (or Young Senachwine), succeeded him as chieftain after his death in the summer of 1831. He was buried on a high bluff overlooking the village, like the missionary Wigby years before, and a wooden monument was placed on his grave. A black flag was also flown from a high pole placed next to the monument and could be seen from the gravesite for several years afterwards. Two years later, his band were removed to the Indian Territory and eventually settled in western Kansas. ^[5]

In the summer of 1835, 23 Pottawatomie warriors traveled over 500 miles to visit the gravesite of Senachwine. Their faces blackened and their heads wrapped in blankets, they performed a ritual invoking the Great Spirit to protect the gravesite and remains of the chieftain. According to a local resident observing the ceremony, the warriors spent several hours knelt around the gravesite as "their wails and lamentations were heard far away". The following morning they performed the "dance of the dead" which continued for several days before departing. A short time after, Senachwine's grave was robbed of its valuables including his tomahawk, rifle, several medals and other personal effects. The chieftains bones had also been scattered around the site. Members of his band returned to the site to rebury his remains and again placed a wooden monument over his grave. James R. Telifarro, who had been present at the reburial, later built a cabin near the gravesite and claimed that "Indians from the west at different times made a pilgrimage to the grave". ^[5]

The Sons of the American Revolution chapter in Peoria, Illinois placed a bronze memorial plaque, engraved with his speech to Black Hawk pleading for peace prior to the Black Hawk War, at the supposed burial spot of Senachwine north of present-day Putnam County, Illinois on June 13, 1937. During the ceremony, an address was given by author P.G. Rennick. Five tribal members of the Potawatomi from Kansas were also in attendance during the ceremony. ^[6]

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Chief Comas

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Chief Comas (fl. 1809-1814) was a 19th century Pottawatomie chieftain who, as one of several leaders of the Illinois River Pottawatomie, was a war chieftain during the Peoria War. Although favoring peace with the United States during Tecumseh's War, he and other Pottawatomie chieftains were forced into war with the federal government.

Biography

One of the major chieftains living on the Illinois River, Comas is first recorded as head of the indian village of Wappa on Bureau Creek. The village was one of the largest Pottawatomie settlements in the region and located eight miles from the river on present-day Tiskilwa, Illinois. ^[7] In 1809, he was one of several chieftains visited by Joseph Trotier who brought "assurances of peace and friendship" from Governor Ninian Edwards. As a token of friendship, Comas presented Trotier with a pair of large elk horns and a panther skin, which he had fashioned himself, as a gift for Governor Edwards. ^[8] ^[9]

The following summer, he was one of several chieftains approached by Tecumseh and other Shawnee but sided with other chieftains, including his father-in-law Black Partridge, who wished to remain neutral during Tecumseh's War. ^[10] ^[11] ^[12] He later took part in the Peoria War, his village being the staging point for Black Partridge's raid against Fort Clark in the fall of 1813, ^[13] and was one of thirteen chieftains sent to St. Louis, Missouri to negotiate peace. Escorted by Colonel George Davenport, the peace delegation arrived in St. Louis where a peace treaty was concluded shortly thereafter. Among those in attendance at the signing of the peace treaty included Black Partridge, Senachwine, Crow and Gomo. ^[14] ^[15] ^[16]

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Chief Gomo

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Chief Gomo (fl. 1812-1816) was a 19th century Pottawatomie chieftain. He and his brother Senachwine were among the more promient war chieftains to fight alongside Black Partridge during the Peoria War.

Biography

Gomo is first recorded as one of several chieftains living on the Illinois River, his village being located 25 miles above present-day Peoria, Illinois. He and other Pottawatomie chieftains were approached by Tecumseh and the Shawnee during Tecumseh's War, however he was one of several chieftains who wished to remain neutral during the conflict. ^[17] ^[18] ^[19]

In July 1811, Gomo spoke with U.S. Indian Agent Thomas Forsyth on behalf of Governor William Clark regarding recent attacks between the Pottawatomie and local settlers. He also informed Clark of the whereabouts of Main Poc who had gone to Detroit for the fall and, with 120 warriors, preparted to begin hostilities the moment Great Britain and the United States went to war. ^[20] He denied his bands involvement, he feared he might be coerced into ceding Pottawatomie lands and avoided meeting with Governor Ninian Edwards the following year to discuss the issue further. In April 1812, he finally agreed to a conference with Governor Edwards at Cahokia. During the conference, Edwards warned the Gomo and the other eighteen minor chiefs and warriors of the British ambitions in the region. Although he assured the Pottawatomie that the United States government had no intentions of forcing the Pottawatomie from their lands, Gomo and the others were reluctant to acceed to their requests.

During the War of 1812, his village was one of a number of Pottawatomie settlements destroyed during an expedition by the Illinois Rangers. Under orders from Governor Edwards, a detachment of Illinois Rangers set fire to every major Pottawatomie settlement on the Illinois River between Edwardsville and Quincy, Illinois. ^[21]

A later participant in the Peoria War, he and twelve other chieftains, including Senachwine, Shick Shack, Comas, Crow and Black Partridge, were escorted to St. Louis, Missouri by Colonel George Davenport to negotiate a peace treaty. He was one of the signatories when the treaty was successfully signed soon after arriving in St. Louis. Gomo was succeeded by his brother Senachwine following his death in 1815. ^[22] ^[23]

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NOOB

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RO Steiner is the third coolest person in the world after Lindsay Irvine and Elvis. Born on September 20, Ro is a 14 year-old genius dedicated to porn and cup-making. She has several websites including rosteiner.com.

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The Human Abstract

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The Human Abstract

Pity would be no more

If we did not make somebody poor,

And Mercy no more could be

If all were as happy as we.

And mutual fear brings Peace,

Till the selfish loves increase;

Then Cruelty knits a snare,

And spreads his baits with care.

He sits down with holy fears,

And waters the ground with tears;

Then Humility takes its root

Underneath his foot.

Soon spreads the dismal shade

Of Mystery over his head,

And the caterpillar and fly

Feed on the Mystery.

And it bears the fruit of Deceit,

Ruddy and sweet to eat,

And the raven his nest has made

In its thickest shade.

The gods of the earth and sea

Sought through nature to find this tree,

But their search was all in vain:

There grows one in the human Brain.

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William Blake- Songs of Experiance

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Johnny Rook

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Redirect to Striated Caracara

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Yashin (band)

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Yashin formed in 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland. the band releced an e.p Pay Tp Play with four songs on it. Since then they recorded in Long Wave Studios in Wales during March of 2008

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Mike - vocals Paul - guitar Lewis - guitar Andy - bass/backing vocals Dave - drums/backing vocals

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Ti Na Na Huang Chung Song

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Ti Na Na released in 1982 This was Huang Chung's seconds single and was released on there first album entitled Huang Chung. This song just like all songs of theirs on their first album didn't hit any charts.

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greg lasarado

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Five years ago Greg Lasrado drove a $500,000 black Lamborghini Diablo, rubbed shoulders with high-powered people such as US president Bill Clinton, lived between multimillion-dollar penthouses and bought racehorses for fun. Today his sole asset is a rusty ute, he lives in his parents' spare bedroom and spends most weekends helping his mum with the housework.

During the 1990s, Lasrado went from being a university student drop-out to Australia's No.1 internet porn tycoon, accumulating a $60million fortune along the way. But an extravagant lifestyle and poor business management sent him on a downward spiral to a broken marriage, heroin addiction and, finally, bankruptcy.

Today Lasrado, 38, reveals for the first time his dramatic rise and fall as an international porn baron.

"Up until five years ago, I was living every man's dream," he told The Sun-Herald in a Brisbane restaurant last week. "I'd wake up on a day like today, have lunch, buy a car, then head to the airport and be in another country by the close of play.

"I was convinced it would last forever. Now, I've lost the lot. If you were to turn me upside down, 10 cents would not fall out of my pocket."

The Australian Tax Office is hot on his tail, chasing $5million, but Lasrado says that is "the least of my worries". If found guilty of dangerous driving charges in September he could find himself in jail, with even more time on his hands to reflect on how it all went wrong.

Lasrado was born in Horsham, Victoria, in 1970 - a year after his parents migrated from India in search of a better life. He grew up in Moree, in country NSW, and has fond memories of his school holidays "driving tractors and working on the local farms".

In 1988, he moved to Brisbane and, wanting to make his "parents proud", enrolled at university, working in ice-cream parlours and pubs to make ends meet. After dropping out of university, he then started a business buying and selling computers from a basement beneath his house. Through "computer contacts" and "a random sequence of events", he suddenly found himself becoming a major player in the rapidly emerging world of online pornography.

The self-described "naive youngster" launched more than 200 individual adult websites, one by one. "It was a crazy time," he says. "I was still this country boy at heart, finding my feet in the world. I remember saying to my business partner at the time, if this makes us $100,000 for the year, we'll be laughing. We ended up making that in our first month."

Lasrado acknowledges there was "no secret" behind his success: "There were people worldwide who had never felt comfortable entering a newsagent's and buying an adult magazine. Then along came the internet and all of a sudden, in the privacy of their own home, they could access it all, including specific fetishes like bondage, big boobs or whatever."

By the mid-1990s, the online porn phenomenon was in full swing and more than 100,000 adults worldwide had subscribed to Lasrado's many sites. With the same number of monthly cash-debits pouring in off customer credit cards, he was suddenly a multimillionaire.

"It was a unique time," he says. "You have to remember, the internet was still in its infancy back then. While there was this huge growing demand for online porn, only a very small number of people were supplying it. We were all young, free and single. We socialised together and of course, we had pocketfuls of cash.

"We didn't give it a second thought at the time but we had just revolutionised the porn industry in a way nobody had ever done before."

With the world at his feet, Lasrado started to live the life of an international playboy. He hosted several weekend-long parties in Las Vegas for friends and web masters who had developed his many porn sites. "The bills for those parties often exceeded $100,000 which, at the time, seemed like nothing," he says.

In 1999 he fell in love - aged 29 - flying his girlfriend, Melissa Croskery, then 21, from Brisbane to Paris so he could propose to her over dinner. On their return he paid $2.88million for a riverfront block of land at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, as an "engagement present". The engagement did not last.

Over the next few years, Lasrado ploughed his cash into stocks and property. His homes included a $7million Palazzo Versace penthouse on the Gold Coast and a landmark $6million pink house at St Lucia, Brisbane.

At its peak his property portfolio was worth $30million. While he also bought race horses "for the fun of it", his real passion was fast cars. "At various stages along the way, I owned four Lamborghinis and seven BMWs," he says. "Looking back now that was was a bit over the top, by anyone's standards."

If Lasrado was anything, he was generous. He donated thousands of dollars to charity. A Brisbane waiter told media that Lasrado not only tipped him a few hundred dollars but a brand new watch worth $15,000.

"I never worried about the money side of things," Lasrado says. "There was always this worldwide client base being billed and charged every month. The money just kept rolling in. Not once did I stop to think what might happen in the future."

In 2000, Lasrado met and married Brisbane girl Sonia Stitchbury. When the couple had a daughter, Isabella, it should have signalled the start of a new era. Instead, Lasrado's empire began to crumble.

"I placed my money and welfare in the hands of others," he says. "I'd never dealt with a bank in my life. I figured, if you pay top dollars for good advice, whether it be accountants, solicitors, financial advisers or stockbrokers, you'll always get treated correctly. Some guys did do the right thing, but with others, the greed factor took over. They bled me dry.

"One long-time friend, in particular, saw an opportunity at my expense and took it. Today, he's one of the biggest pornographers on the planet."

An associate at Lasrado's former stockbroking firm, Tricom, told The Sun-Herald: "He was a polite young bloke, very successful, always a pleasure to deal with. He made significant money in the stockmarket but then ran into trouble outside our firm. It caused a domino effect which is still causing him problems."

As Lasrado's business affairs imploded, so did his personal life. In 2001, his growing celebrity profile in Queensland led to an extortion attempt at the hands of a notorious criminal identity. "I was contacted by a supposed businessman about a money-making idea. When I turned up for the meeting, a shotgun was pointed at my head. They demanded money and said my family would be harmed if I went to police. But, to be honest, I didn't know what else to do."

Lasrado says that, within days, police mounted a major sting operation to catch the gang responsible. However, just as the trap was about to occur, Lasrado pulled the plug. "Under the circumstances, it seemed like the safest thing to do," he says. The Sun-Herald can reveal that researchers for Channel Nine's Underbelly contacted Lasrado, having established a link between him, the extortion attempt and one of the show's central characters. The Sun-Herald has agreed not to publish the man's name.

"I understand why people might want to go there but, seriously, what good would come from me dragging that up now?" he says.

In December the same year, Lasrado was fined $1500 in Brisbane's Magistrates Court after he was caught in possession of an unlicensed semi-automatic handgun, allegedly bought following the extortion attempt and a house break-in.

In 2003, Lasrado's three-year marriage collapsed - and his life began to "cave in". Having borrowed several million dollars from short-term financiers at heady rates, he began to gamble it all away. He lost $1million on the outcome of the 2003 Rugby World Cup final between Australia and England. In 2004, police were called to Brisbane's city botanic gardens after passers-by found Lasrado sleeping in the front seat of his Lamborghini, with the engine still running and several hundred thousand dollars on the passenger seat. "What can I say? I'd had a really big day at the casino," he says.

As receivers began selling Lasrado's dwindling assets, the mismanaged millionaire became hooked on heroin. "Because of the industry I was working in, people will automatically assume I was on drugs from day one. But the truth is, I never touched one single drug until I was in my 30s," he says.

"I had become depressed and was suffering from terrible migraines. I wanted to escape it all. I was able to afford heroin and so I tried it. Within a week, it had taken complete control over me."

By February 2006, Lasrado had reached rock bottom. He was arrested and charged with heroin possession after a police surveillance operation found he had regularly deposited $4500 into the bank account of an alleged drug dealer, who, in turn, would deliver heroin to his door. While Lasrado later walked free from court with no conviction recorded, the experience led him to "a crossroads".

"I needed a reason to beat heroin. That reason was my family," he says. "I figured that while I still had parents and a daughter who loved me, I had a future. It became my biggest-ever hurdle."

Today, Lasrado is back where it all began - living with mum and dad - who couldn't be happier. His mum, Roshan, says: "It's so lovely to have Greg home. He's surprisingly tidy and also a great cook.

"He's always taken life's ups and downs in his stride and we're proud of him for that."

While he is being pursued for unpaid taxes, it is a 2005 road accident which causes him to live in a "permanent state of limbo". In tendered court documents, Brisbane mother-of-three Vairari Inglis alleged she was a passenger in a car driven by her husband when Lasrado's Lamborghini clipped their car, "causing it to spin and flip on its roof".

Medical reports said Mrs Inglis suffered a "significant crush injury and loss of function in her fingers." A psychiatric report states: "She [Mrs Inglis] described being able to see a trail of hair and blood [as] she desperately attempted to pull herself inside the car."

Lasrado will stand trial in the Brisbane District Court on September 1, charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing grievous bodily harm with circumstances of being adversely affected by an intoxicating substance. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

"It was an accident, a terrible accident. I'm so sorry that poor woman was injured," he says.

Other than that, he says, "I have not one single regret. I lived 10 years at the top and not many people can say that. I purchased the most luxurious houses, drove the best cars.

"I know there are rumours about hidden money. I only wish they were true."

So what really goes through the mind of a man who lost $60million and now lives at home with his parents? "Look, it took losing everything for me to sit down and realise there are far more important things in life," he says.

"It's the simplest things which these days give me more pleasure than money ever did. I'm such a lucky bloke. My mum and dad remain my biggest fans. I made my money legitimately, I never once intentionally set out to hurt anybody and they know that.

"I still enjoy a great relationship with my ex-wife and, thanks to that, I get to tuck my daughter into bed most nights and kiss her goodnight. The feeling I get at that precise moment tops everything I've ever personally experienced. My heart melts every time."

Source: The Sun-Herald

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