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|Planet name "Adamida"
|A Planet on which reside the unborn spirits of saints, martyrs, and believers. U'riel, the angel of the sun, was ordered at the crucifixion to interpose this planet between the sun and the earth, so as to produce a total eclipse. Early Christian
|The primeval buddha, is believed to be the primordial cosmic force from which the five dhyanibuddhas arose. This is the embodiment of the concept of emptiness.
|The huntress, a surname of Artemis. At Agrae on the Ilissus, where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera had a temple with a statue carrying a bow. Greek
|Goddess name "Aino"
|The name Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan
|"Aisha aka A'ishah"
|Ayesha, A'isha, or Aisha, "she who lives", was a wife of Muhammad. In Islamic writings, she is thus often referred to by the title "Mother of the Believers"
|A son of Heracles, from whom the town of Amathus in Cyprus was believed to have derived its name.
|God name "Ame-No-Tanabata-Hime-No-Mikoto"
|Star God identified with the Pole-star, is believed to guard the land and to prevent disasters, and more particularly to cure eye-diseases. Japan/Shinto
|Brings believers hope and tranquility. Amoghapasa has four pairs of arms. One pair is held with palms together in a prayerful attitude. Some are raised, others are held slightly away from the body. The hands may be in symbolic positions called mudra or may hold symbolic articles like a lotus blossom, symbol of compassion; a monk's staff; a whisk representing the brushing away of earthly cares; and the lasso. Buddhist
|"Among the Yoruba"
|Africa / Nigeria
|Aja also refer to a "wild wind". It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman". The journey supposedly will have a duration of between seven days to three months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run).
|Hero name "Aon"
|A son of Poseidon, and an ancient Boeotian Hero, from whom the Boeotian Aonians and the country of Boeotia (for Boeotia was anciently called Aonia) were believed to have derived their names.
|A daughter of Aras, an autochthon who was believed to have built Arantea, the most ancient town in Phliasia. She had a brother called Aoris, and is said to have been fond of the chase and warlike pursuits. When she died, her brother called the country of Phliasia after her Araethyrea.
|1. A daughter of Aeolus, from whom the Boeotian town Arne, afterwards called Chaeroneia, as well as the Thessalian Arne, were believed to have derived their name. 2. A woman who betrayed her native country for gold, and was therefore metamorphosed into a jackdaw. (Metamorphoses)
|1. A surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las. 2. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who became by Japetus the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. (Theogony of Hesiod 359.) According to some traditions the continent of Asia derived its name from her.
|Or Attis, a daughter of Cranaus, from whom Attica, which was before called Actaea, was believed to have derived its name. The two birds into which Philomele and her sister Procne were metamorphosed, were likewise called Attis.
|Nymph name "Azan"
|A son of Ares and the Nymph Erato, was the brother of Apheidas and Elatus, and father of Cleitor. The part of Arcadia which he received from his father was called, after him, Azania. After his death, funeral games, which were believed to have been the first in Greece, were celebrated in his honour.
|He is considered by some to be the creator. Others believe he created his son, Burambin, who then created the world. Australia
|Spirit name "Banshee"
|Grey Lady of Death who haunts certain Irish families. A female Spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland
|Nymph name "Begoe"
|An Etruscan Nymph, who was believed to have written the Ars fulguritarum, the art of purifying places which had been struck by lightning. This religious book was kept at Rome in the temple of Apollo together with the Sibylline books and the Carmina of the Marcii.
|Goddess name "Bel"
|Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian Goddess called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian, was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in Akkadian.
|God name "Bel"
|Signifying "lord" or "master", is a title rather than a genuine name, applied to various Gods in Babylonian religion. The feminine form is Belit 'Lady, Mistress'. Bel is represented in Greek and Latin by Belos and Belus respectively. Linguistically Bel is an East Semitic form cognate with Northwest Semitic Ba'al with the same meaning.
|Goddess name "Belet-Seri/ Belitsari"
|Babylon/ Akkadia
|The underworld Goddess that kept track of the dead coming through
|"Beli aka Bele"
|A giant, brother of Gerd, who was slain by Frey. Norse
|Goddess name "Belili"
|Goddess of the moon Mesopotamia
|Goddess name "Belisama"
|A Goddess of crafts & the forge
|Goddess name "Belisama"
|Goddess connected with lakes and rivers, fire, crafts and light. Identified with Minerva/Athena and has been compared with Brigid. Gaul
|God name "Belit Ilani"
|Mistress of the Gods. Evening Star of Desire. Babylon
|Goddess name "Belit Seri"
|Goddess of justice and fairness. She kept the records of human activities. Babylon
|Goddess name "Belit-Ili"
|Mother Goddess, the mother of Enlil. Babylon/Akkadia
|Hero name "Belus"
|A son of Poseidon by Libya or Eurynome. He was a twin-brother of Agenor, and father of Aegyptus and Danaus. He was believed to be the ancestral Hero and national divinity of several eastern nations, from whence the legends about him were transplanted to Greece and became mixed up with Greek myths. Greek
|Goddess name "Bibi the Child-Strangler"
|Sometimes affectionately known as "Aunty Bibi," is a Romany witch-Goddess. Bibi is an old crone who either wears torn black garments or is entirely naked. Like the Romanian goddess Dschuma, Bibi is disease incarnate, particularly cholera. She is referred to as "the child-strangler" because it is believed that disease often effects children, who are young and weak.
|King name "Binzuru-Sonja"
|One of the pupils of Buddha, the first of the Sixteen Rakan. Rakan with grey hair and long eyebrows. Originally he was a retainer of the King, Uuten. He became a priest and attained miracle power by performing Arakan's vow. It is said that he was praised by Shaka for he used the miracle power for the world and that he didn't enter Nirvana and made efforts cultivating ordinary people. He was worshipped on the above in Theravada Buddhism, however, many are worshipped in restaurants in China. He is enshrined in front of a temple in Japan. It is believed that stroking him eliminates distresses. Japan
|Ghost name "Bogeyman"
|Boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary Ghost-like monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance. The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear.
|God name "Bubilas"
|A household God of bees. Later hypothetical reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas. People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better. Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuania
|God name "Bubilas"
|A household God of bees. Later hypothetical reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas. People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better. Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuanian
|A son of Poseidon and Ceroessa, the daughter of Zeus and Io. He was believed to be the founder of Byzantium. Greek
|Deities name "Cacodaemons"
|Minor Deities, one of whom it was believed was attached to each mortal from his birth as a constant companion and acting as a sort of messenger between the gods and men.
|A fabulous Italian shepherd, brother of Caca, who was believed to have lived in a cave, and to have committed various kinds of robberies. Among others, he also stole a part of the cattle of Hercules or Recaranus and, as he dragged the animals into his cave by their tails, it was impossible to discover their traces. But when the remaining oxen passed by the cave, those within began to bellow, and were thus discovered. Greek
|Is thought to be a nexus of metaphysical and/or biophysical energy residing in the human body. The New Age movement, and to some degree the distinctly different New Thought movement, have also adopted and elaborated on this belief. Hindu
|A son of Deucalion, from whom Candyba, a town in Lycia, was believed to have received its name. Greek
|Deities name "Canola"
|Believed to be one of the oldest of the Ireland Deities. Ireland
|Nymph name "Castalia"
|Nymph of the Castalian spring at the foot of mount Parnassus. She was regarded as a daughter of Achelous and was believed to have thrown herself into the well when pursued by Apollo. Greek
|Goddess name "Celedones"
|The soothing Goddesses were believed to be endowed, like the Sirens, with a magic power of song. Hephaestus was said to have made their golden images on the ceiling of the temple at Delphi. Greek
|Supreme god name "Cghene"
|The supreme God of the Isoko people in southern Nigeria. He is believed to have created the world and all peoples, including the Isoko. Cghene is beyond human comprehension and is only known by his actions. Because the God is so distant and unknown he has no temples or priests, and no prayers or sacrifices are offered directly to him.
|King name "Charopus"
|Or Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looKing, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. Greek
|Nymph name "Cirrha"
|A Nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|King name "Cithaeron"
|A mythical King in Boeotia, from whom mount Cithaeron was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|Goddess name "Cleone"
|Goddess of water. One of the daughters of Asopus, from whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|King name "Cranaus"
|An autochthon and King of Attica, who reigned at the time of the flood of Deucalion. He was married to Pedias, by whom he became the father of Cranae, Cranaechme, and Atthis, from the last of whom Attica was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|A son of Poseidon, from whom Cromyon in the territory of Corinth was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|Giants, usually believed to be evil beings. Russia
|Nymph name "Dodon"
|A son of Zeus by Europa, from whom the oracle of Dodona was believed to have derived its name. Other traditions traced the name to a Nymph of the name of Dodone. Greek
|King name "Dvergr"
|A dwarf. In modern Icelandic lore dwarfs disappear, but remain in local names, as Dverga-steinn, and in several words and phrases. From the belief that dwarfs lived in rocks an echo is called dwerg-mal (dwarf talk), and dwerg-mala means to echo. The dwarfs were skilled in metal-worKing. Norse
|"Dysponteus aka Dyspontius"
|A son of Oenomaus or Pelops, believed to be the founder of the town of Dyspontium, in Pisatis. Greek
|Goddess name "Echtghe"
|Believed to be another form of Dana, the first Great Mother Goddess of Ireland.
|King name "Edusa aka Edulica"
|A Roman divinity, who was worshipped as the protectress of children, and was believed to bless their food, just as Potina and Cuba blessed their drinKing and their sleep.
|Monster name "Empusa"
|A monstrous spectre, which was believed to devour human beings. It could assume different forms, and was sent out by Hecate to frighten travellers. It was believed usually to appear with one leg of brass and the other of an ass. Whenever a traveller addressed the Monster with insulting words, it used to flee and utter a shrill sound. The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who assumed the fonm of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae. Greek
|God name "Eros"
|In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the God of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek
|Goddess name "Errata"
|The Goddess of Misunderstandings. This little known Goddess was the cause of the Tsortean Wars; not, as most people believe, Elenor. Understandably not the most liked goddess, Errata wasn't invited to many weddings. Discworld
|An early Latin divinity, and identical with Mutinus or Tutinus. He was worshipped as the protector from sorcery, witchcraft, and evil daemons and represented in the form of a phallus, the genuine Latin for which iafascimtm, this symbol being believed to be most efficient in averting all evil influences. He was especially invoked to protect women in childbed and their offspring.
|Spirit name "Fravasi or Fravartin"
|Denotes the Spirit of the pre-existence of the believer who watches over him as Protective spirit. Iran
|Spirit name "Fravasi/ Fravartin"
|Interesting - The concept denotes the Spirit of the pre-existence of the believer that watches over him as a protective spirit
|Goddess name "Glipzo"
|The Howondalandish tribe of this Goddess believed that their ancestors resided in the Moon. After a signal from their ancestors they were urged to kill anyone who didn't believe in Glipzo. Three years later the tribe was destroyed by a rock falling out of the sky, as a result of a star exploding a billion years before. Discworld
|God name "God of Evolution"
|Is found 'sculpting' animals and since he hasn't figured out reproduction yet, he makes every animal unique. Although no-one believes in the God of Evolution, he survives thanks to his own strong belief. He does not believe in himself, because he is an atheist, but he believes in what he does. Discworld
|A son of Adonis and Aphrodite, from whom the town of Golgi, in Cyprus, was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|1. A son of Pelasgus and father of Thessalus. The ancient name of Thessaly, viz. Haemonia, or Aemonia, was believed to have been derived from him.
|A daughter of Asopus, from whom the town of Harpina or Harpinna in Elis was believed to have derived its name. She became by Ares the mother of Oenomaus. Greek
|"My people call the sun Hekenjuk. We believe she is the sister of the moon, Taktik. They share the same house but visit the sky at different times. There is always one coming when one is going away." The Ihalmiut Eskimo
|A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion. The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to have derived its name from her.
|Nymph name "Houri"
|The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, Nymphs of paradise. Koran
|Goddess name "Huchi"
|Goddess of fire and of volcanic eruptions. The name Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan
|Spirit name "Immat"
|Ensures the balance between the shariah or the exoteric aspect of the faith, and its esoteric, Spiritual essence. Neither the exoteric nor the esoteric obliterates the other. While the Imam is the path to a believer's inward, spiritual elevation, he is also the authority who makes the shariah relevant according to the needs of time and universe. Islam
|King name "Italus"
|An ancient King of the Pelasgians, Siculians, or Oenotrians, from whom Italy was believed to have derived its name.
|God name "Jesus aka Iesous"
|Joshua, Yehoshua, Yeshua. Another Son of God, the second person in the Trinity of Jehovah, and the source of Christian belief.
|The earth and the sky had always existed and had always been the home of Supernatural Beings. The western Aranda believe that the sky is inhabited by an emu-footed Great Father (Knaritja), who is also the Eternal Youth (altjira nditja). He has dog-footed wives and many sons and daughters. "They lived on fruits and vegetable foods in an eternally green land, unaffected by droughts, through which the Milky Way flowed like a broad river...".' They have an Eden-like place where only trees, fruits and flowers flourish. All these sky-dwellers are seen as ageless and beyond death. The Aranda, Australia
|Spirit name "Koolukoolwani"
|"It is agreed among the Zoolus, that their forefathers believed in the existence of an overruling Spirit, whom they called Villenangi [Umvelinqangi] (literally the First Appearer), and who soon after created another heavenly being of great power, called Koolukoolwani, [Unkulunkulwana,] who once visited this earth, in order to publish the news (as they express it), as also to separate the sexes and colours among mankind. Duling the period he was below, two messages were sent to him from Villenangi, the first conveyed by a cameleon, announcing that men were not to die; the second, by a lizard, with a contrary decision. The lizard, having outrun the slow-paced cameleon, arrived first, and delivered his message before the latter made his apperance." Amazulu, South Africa
|Spirit name "Kun Lun"
|The Kunlun mountains are well known in Chinese mythology and are believed to be Taoist paradise. The first to visit this paradise was King Mu. He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu, the 'Spirit Mother of the West' usually called the 'Queen Mother of the West', who was the object of an ancient religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, also had her mythical abode in these mountains.
|Lactans, Lacturnus, and Lacturcia, Lactura, Roman divinities, who were believed to protect the young fruits of the field. Some believe that Lactans and Lacturcia are mere surnames of Ops, and that Lacturnus is a surname of Saturnus. Greek
|The dragon who was believed to guard the apples of the Hesperides. He is said to have been able to assume various tones of voice, and to have been the offspring of Typhon and Echidna but he is also called a son of Ge, or of Phorcys and Ceto. He had been appointed to watch in the gardens of the Hesperides by Juno, and never slept; but he was slain by Heracles and the image of the fight was placed by Zeus among the stars. Greek
|Spirit name "Lemures"
|Spectres or Spirits of the dead, which were believed by the Romans to return to the upper world and injure the living. Some writers describe Lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead and divide all Lemures into two classes; viz. the souls of those who have been good men are said to become Lares, while those of the wicked become Larvae. Greek
|King name "Lethe"
|The personification of oblivion, is called by Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod 227) a daughter of Strife. Lethe is one of the rivers of Hades. DrinKing from the river Lethe caused complete forgetfulness. Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives. Greek
|That is, the Libyan, a surname under which Apollo was worshipped by the Sicilians, because he was believed to have destroyed by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against Sicily. Greek
|An attendant of Heracles. He brought to his master the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from him. Greek
|Nymph name "Limnaea"
|Limnetes, Limnades, Limnegenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, at Tegea, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of Nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes. Greek
|God name "Little-Endians"
|The two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu waged a destructive war against each other, exhausted their treasures, and decimated their subjects on their different views of interpreting this vital direction contained in the 54th chapter of the Blun-decral: "All true believers break their eggs at the convenient end." The Godfather of Calin Deffar Plane, the reigning emperor of Lilliput, happened to cut his finger while breaking his egg at the big end, and very royally published a decree commanding all his liege and faithful subjects, on pains and penalties of great severity, to break their eggs in future at the small end. The orthodox Blefuscudians deemed it their duty to resent this innovation, and declared a war of extermination against the heretical Lilliputians. Swift
|Spirit name "Lur"
|Lurbira. Earth mother of the Sun and of the Moon. One of the main Spirits of the beliefs and mythical traditions of the Basques.
|Nymph name "Lycoreus or Lycoris"
|2 A son of Apollo and the Nymph Corycia, from whom Lycoreia, in the neighbourhood of Delphi, was believed to have derived its name. There are two other mythical personages of this name.
|I. e. the Deliverer, a surname of Pan, under which he had a sanctuary at Troezene, because he was believed during a plague to have revealed in dreams the proper remedy against the disease. Roman
|A son of Zeus and Thyia, and a brother of Magnes, from whom Macedonia was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|Demon name "Magic Rings"
|This superstition arose from the belief that magicians had the power of imprisoning Demons in rings. The power was supposed to prevail in Asia, and subsequently in Salamanca, Toledo, and Italy.
|King name "Manannan"
|Is believed to have three legs and his form of walKing was to roll in a circular motion on his three legs like a wheel in order to get from place to place. Manx
|God name "Mathonwy"
|A benevolent ruler of the underworld akin to Beli, or perhaps that God himself under another title, for the name Math. Welsh
|A Roman divinity, who was believed to protect the honey, but is otherwise unknown.
|A mermaid, believed by Irish fishermen to forebode a coming storm. There are male merrows, but no word to designate them.
|A son of Sisyphus, from whom the town of Metapontum, in Southern Italy, was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|A giant who is said to have been killed by Ares, or by Zeus with a flash of lightning. The island of Prochyte, near Sicily, was believed to rest upon his body.
|Demon name "Mutinus or Mutunus"
|That is, the phallus, or Priapus, which was believed to be the most powerful averter of Demons, and of all evil that resulted from pride and boastfulness, and the like. Roman
|From the Nahuatl word nahualli which was used to refer to practicioners of harmful magic. In the aztec belief system the day of a persons birth caluclated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person - each day was associated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect.
|God name "Nahuti Ollin Tonatiuh"
|("Movement of the Sun") was the sun God. The Aztec people considered him the leader of Tollan, their heaven. He was also known as the fifth sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the sun that took over when the fourth sun was expelled from the sky. Aztec
|"Nixi Dii"
|A general term, which seems to have been applied by the Romans to those divinities who were believed to assist women at the time when they were giving birth to a child. Before the cella of Minerva, on the Capitol, there were three statues, which were designated as Dii Nixi. Roman
|Hero name "Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint"
|Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", son of Beli Mawr, a legendary Hero. Welsh
|God name "Nymphae"
|The name of a numerous class of inferior female divinities, though they are designated by the title of Olympian, are called to the meetings of the Gods in Olympus, and described as the daughters of Zeus. But they were believed to dwell on earth in groves, on the summits of mountains, in rivers, streams, glens, and grottoes. Greek
|God name "Nysa"
|A daughter of Aristaeus, who was believed to have brought up the infant God Dionysus, and from whom one of the many towns of the name of Nysa was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|Hero name "Oetylus"
|A son of Amphianax, and grandson of Antimachus of Argos. The Laconian town of Oetylus was believed to have received its name from him, and he there enjoyed Heroic honours. Greek
|Spirit name "Okitsu-Hiko"
|Is a divinity in Japanese Shinto. His name literally translates to "Great Land Master", and he was originally the ruler of Izumo Province, until he was replaced by Ninigi. In compensation, he was made ruler of the unseen world of Spirits and magic. He is believed a god of nation-building, farming, business and medicine.
|A female Roman divinity of plenty and fertility, as is indicated by her name, which is connected with opimus opulentus, inops, and copia. She was regarded as the wife of Saturnus, and, accordingly, as the protectress of every thing connected with agriculture. Her abode was in the earth, and hence those who invoked her, or made vows to her, used to touch the ground, and as she was believed to give to human beings both their place of abode and their food, newly-born children were recommended to her care.
|A son of Erechtheus, father of Peteus, and grandfather of Menestheus; from him the town of Orneae was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|"Paradise of Fools"
|The Hindus, Mahometans, Scandinavians, and Roman Catholics have devised a place between Paradise and "Purgatory" to get rid of a theological difficulty. If there is no sin without intention, then infants and idiots cannot commit sin, and if they die cannot be consigned to the purgatory of evil-doers; but, not being believers or good-doers, they cannot be placed with the saints. The Roman Catholics place them in the Paradise of Infants and the Paradise of Fools.
|Goddess name "Parvati"
|A Hindu Goddess. She is the wife of Lord Shiva and the divine mother of Lord Ganesh and Lord Murugan. Some communities also believe her to be the divine sister of Lord Vishnu
|The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made his appearance near the sources of Oceanus. Greek
|King name "Phegeus"
|A brother of Phoroneus, and King of Psophis in Arcadia. The town of Phegeia, which had before been called Erymanthus, was believed to have derived its name from him. Subsequently, however, it was changed again into Psophis. Greek
|1. A son of Cretheus and Tyro, and brother of Aeson and Amythaon; he was married to Periclymene, by whom he became the father of Admetus, Lycurgus, Eidomene, and Periapis. He was believed to have founded the town of Pherae in Thessaly.
|The Jewish Rabbi believed that the soul of the deceased was consigned to a sort of purgatory for twelve months after death, during which time it was allowed to visit its dead body and the places or persons it especially loved. This intermediate state they called by various names, as "the bosom of Abraham," "the garden of Eden," "upper Gehenna." The Sabbath was always a free day, and prayer was supposed to benefit those in this intermediate state.
|A Roman divinity who was believed to have received his name from having induced Hannibal, when he was near the gates of the city, to return southward. This divinity was probably one of the Lares of the city of Rome.
|Nymph name "Rhodos"
|A sea-Nymph, according to Diodorus, a daughter of Poseidon and Halia, and sometimes called Rhode. The island of Rhodes was believed to have derived its name from her. Greek
|King name "Rhoeteia"
|A daughter of the Thracian King Sithon and Achiroe, a daughter of Neilos. She was a sister of Pallene, and the Trojan promontory of Rhoeteium was believed to have derived its name from her. Greek
|Spirit name "Rubanga"
|Creator god and it was believed that the best way of praying to God was through Spirits of dead relatives. At harvest time, the first harvest must be offered to the spirits to thank them for successfully interceding to God on behalf of the living. Madi, Sudan
|God name "Sai' Al Quan"
|Nabataean/ W Semitic
|A local guardian God is believed to be the protector of caravans
|Spirit name "Salamander"
|The nature Spirits of fire, the fire elementals. The Greek salamandra was believed to have power over fire.
|God name "Sancus"
|Sangus or Semo Sancus, a Roman divinity, is said to have been originally a Sabine God, and identical with Hercules and Dins Fidius. The name which is etymologically the same as Sanctus, and connected with Sancire, seems to justify this belief, and characterises Sancus as a divinity presiding over oaths.
|Mythical beings who were believed to have the power of enchanting and charming, by their song, any one who heard them. When Odysseus, in his wanderings through the Mediterranean, came near the island on the lovely beach of which the Sirens were sitting, and endeavouring to allure him and his companions, he, on the advice of Circe, stuffed the ears of his companions with wax, and tied himself to the mast of his vessel, until he was so far off that he could no longer hear their song. Greek
|A daughter of Eurotas by Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice. From her the city of Sparta was believed to have derived its name. Greek
|"the sown men;" the armed men who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, and were believed to be the ancestors of the five oldest families at Thebes.
|A son of Dionysus and Ariadne, or of Theseus and Ariadne, was one of the Argonauts (Apollodorus i). By Chrysothemis he became the father of three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos. Rhoeo was beloved by Apollo, and Staphylus, believing that she was with child by some one else, locked her up in a chest and threw her into the sea. Greek
|Goddess name "Syamatara"
|Goddess, believed to be incarnated as the Nepali princess. Buddhist
|"the silent," one of the Camenae, whose worship was believed to have been introduced at Rome by Numa. Greek
|Goddess name "Tamti"
|Tamtu. The personified sea,the primordial humidity, personified as a Goddess equivalent to Belit, the Nature Mother. Assyrian
|A son of Zeus by a daughter of Borysthenes, was believed to be the ancestor of all the Scythians. Greek
|Goddess name "Taurica"
|"the Taurian Goddess," commonly called Artemis. Her image was believed to have been carried from Tauris by Orestes and Iphigenia, and to have been conveyed to Brauron, Sparta, or Aricia. The worship of this Taurian goddess, who was identified with Artemis and Iphigenia, was carried on with orgiastic rites and human sacrifices, and seems to have been very ancient in Greece.
|One of the Attic Home, who was believed to grant prosperity to the young shoots of plants, and was also invoked in the political oath which the citizens of Athens had to take. Greek
|1. A daughter of Prometheus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was believed to have derived its name.
|God name "Thero"
|1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the God. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis.
|1. A son of Haemon, from whom Thessaly was believed to have received its name.
|God name "Thoth"
|Tchehuti or Tehuti. Author of the Book of the Dead was believed by the Egyptians to have been the heart and mind of the Creator, who was in very early times in Egypt called by the natives "Pautti," and by foreigners "Ra." Thoth was also the "tongue" of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great God, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence. His words were almighty and once uttered never remained without effect.
|Nymph name "Thriae"
|The name of three prophetic Nymphs on Mount Parnassus, by whom Apollo was reared, and who were believed to have invented the art of prophecy by means of little stones, which were thrown into an urn. Greek
|According to a belief once popular, the unicorn by dipping its horn into a liquid could detect whether or not it contained poison. In the designs for gold and silver plate made for the Emperor Rudolph II. by Ottavio Strada is a cup on which a unicorn stands as if to essay the liquid.
|Spirit name "Unkulunkulu"
|The creator god and great ancestral Spirit of the Zulu people. Unkulunkulu is believed to have grown on a reed in the mythical swamp of Uhlanga. Zulu
|Spirit name "Veen"
|The Water Mother, a Spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Finnish
|Goddess name "Vesta"
|Was the Goddess of the hearth, and therefore inseparably connected with the Penates, for Aeneas was believed to have brought the eternal fire of Vesta from Troy, along with the images of the Penates. The praetors, consuls, and dictators, before entering upon their official functions, sacrificed not only to the Penates, but also to Vesta at Lavinium. (The Aeneid by Virgil. Book II)
|Spirit name "Veteema"
|The Water Mother, a Spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Estonian
|God name "Wadd"
|The Minaean moon God. Snakes were believed to be sacred to him.
|Spirit name "Yulgen"
|Central Asia
|According to the belief of the Altaians, the good Spirits,aru neme, are all subjects of the good god Yulgen, and the bad spirits, kara neme, of the evil god Erlik. Yulgen is so kind and generous that he never does harm to men. Sacrifices are offered to him by all, but no one fears him. Every bridegroom must sacrifice to him a horse of a light colour after his marriage.
|God name "Zalmoxis"
|A legendary social and religious reformer, regarded as the only true God by the Thracian Dacians. According to Herodotus (IV), the Getae, who believed in the immortality of the soul, looked upon death merely as going to Zalmoxis, as they knew the way to become immortals. Greek


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Re the Aug. 31 letter, "Atom bomb pales compared to Dec. 7":I am shocked and morally appalled. The writer suggests that the Sun-Sentinel story about the Hiroshima Memorial offered a "solicitation of a sympathetic feeling for the bombing of Hiroshima." He further goes on to attempt a lesson of history to justify his feelings of what can best be perceived as hatred toward the Japanese people that manifests itself 54 years after the war came to an end.
As the son of a World War II veteran who is one of the most highly decorated men of his time, and as a student of history, I find great fault with this opinion. While the Japanese planned for and executed a brilliant maneuver of attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States indeed had advance warning about an impending attack. The ignorance and arrogance of our own administration led to the attack being such a surprise. As all wars begin with a small conflict of politics, this war with Japan began over a steel embargo and price war that should have never escalated as it had. While the Japanese were guilty of horrendous crimes, to think that there should be no sympathy given to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is beyond belief.
Unlike the people of Germany who knew exactly what their government was doing under Hitler with the destruction of more than 10 million lives by extermination, not all Japanese were aware of what their emperor and his leadership were doing in China, on all the Pacific islands, and yes, even in Pearl Harbor. The people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were especially unaware of many of the atrocities that their government was committing.
In every war, the innocent suffer and the children cry out in vain. In World War II, countless millions were lost around the world due to the sick arrogance and maniacal beliefs of others. I lost countless family members during the Holocaust itself, but to continue a hatred for a lifetime is beyond logical rationalization. Instead of looking at Hiroshima as a great thing that no apology is owed for, look at it as another sad testament in the annals of war.

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|Rated R - for a scene of sexuality, including brief graphic nudity
|Reviewed by: Jim
|Release date: August 6, 2004
|Released by: MGM
Michael Winterbottom's first sci-fi outing, CODE 46, has much originality to it, through his continued work with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. The director of The Claim and 24 Hour Party People sets up mystery and paranoia in a not too distant future with a greatly diminished oil supply restricting most of the inhabitants to designated zones. Viruses and cloning are integral to this dystopian vision with recent Oscar winner Tim Robins and nominated British actress Samantha Morton headlining.
A subconscious voice-over from Maria, a Shanghai drone, begins Code 46. This surreal transport concludes with her reaching some nebulous location. Then, a Seattle-based insurance investigator, Robbins' William, comes to check out her workplace endowed with an "empathy virus," much like a psychic. He'll find out who is behind the manufacture and sale of "papelles," a visa/passport umbrella of an insurance policy, that is, illegal because it permits users to leave their assigned living area.
Robbins and Morton share a unique, dreamy rapport, fueled by the deep romantic inklings from William and the sexually assertive Maria. Winterbottom fashions a cautionary tale that has much thought (in a short running time) into the advancement of genetic engineering and government control. William's investigation is compromised as he becomes more involved with Maria through one of the forged papelles. A worker is killed through one of them. Fate will have Maria and William considering an alternative to their circumscribed existence.
The futuristic stylings emerge more in the film's second half, after a notable contrast between gleaming city-scapes and the sun-drenched hinterlands, adding to the severity and feeling of isolation. The detail extends to language fusion where English is mixed with Arabic, Chinese, French and Spanish and strong location shooting, along with a moody score by Free Association.
Code 46 downplays special effects as it eschews a more visceral tact than last year's 28 Days Later. The title joins the cloning aspect and like DNA that will spark subtly poignant work by Robbins and Morton, who was the "precog" in Minority Report. A humorous cameo comes by way of Clash vocalist Mike Jones doing "Should I Stay Or Should I Go." To be fair, however, Winterbottom never lets the chillingly mundane and mysterious achieve the right clarity for the human drama unfolding. What ends up being rather affecting has little emotion and empathy for what kind of applications hold for medical science.
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If I bite it, will it pop? Look how he struggles to be free! Poor little guy has his whole life ahead of him. Will no one save him from this hideous fate? You know silicon doesn't breathe like real living tissue does.
It really bugs me when celebrities use little dogs as fashion accessories, although Mimi seems to really love her little Jack, and if she pampers him the way she pampers herself he's living in the lap of luxury. So to speak.
I wonder if Jack gets a fresh towel every time he goes wee-wee. I do know that Jack flies first class, in a private cabin with his amply proportioned mistress. Mariah says it's because she doesn't trust strangers who might "feed him or something" - because we all know she gets first dibs on any edibles headed that way.


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Melting Metal in Crucible
I'm not sure what metal or alloy this is, but it seems to melt at relatively low temperature. It is most likely a tin alloy.
It looks like the cast is for making long bars, rods or sticks, probably for welding or soldering use.
September 15, 2006
Sarıdemir Mh., Kutucular Cd 9-17, 34134 Istanbul/Istanbul Province, Turkey


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week 23 – Royal Blue
Royal blue describes both a bright shade and a dark shade of azure blue. It is said to have been invented by millers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of which won a competition to make a dress for the British queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III).
I have decided to go with the darker version for this post:
Body :- ABAR – eBODY
Shape :- External Appearance – Shae
Skin :- 7 Deadly s{K}ins – Fleur
Hair :- pr!tty – Aoki
Make-up :- Sn@tch – Underworld Makeup (Just Eyes)+ Lush Velvet Lipstick (Burgundy)
Top/Skirt :- Lavian&CO – Lady Cab Driver
Shoes :- Plastik – Veyliane Heels (Matched – Feathered)
Tights :- Sweet Tea – Truly Sheer Hose
Necklace :- PIXEL BOX – Necklace City


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Los Angeles: Bruce Willis says his wife Emma Heming does not mind his onscreen kisses with beautiful actresses like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mary-Louise Parker.
Willis, 58, is starring with Zeta-Jones and Parker in action comedy "Red 2" and the actor believes he is lucky to get a chance to be romantic with women who he is not married to, reported Us magazine.
"I get to kiss two women in this film, which I seldom get to do in some of my other work. I get to kiss girls!" Willis said.
Willis has been married to Heming since 2009 and has a one year old daughter, Mabel with her.
"I think I`m very fortunate. I get asked to do a lot of different kinds of things. Some of them include weapons, some of them include jokes, and from time to time I get to make out with women that I`m not married to. How often does that happen?" he said.
Heming is good sport about his onscreen displays of affection. "Nobody gets mad if you have to kiss someone every once in a while. You say, `Look, its right in the script. It says, `Now (Bruce) kisses Mary-Louise Parker... Now (Bruce) kisses Catherine Zeta-Jones.`"


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Saturday, 4 December 2010
As I already mentioned before - I'm sorry for the lack of posts, but I'm gonna catch up with this with a lot of posts in a row! I have a wednesday, thursday and friday outfitpicture +some others.
These show my outfit from wednesday and a cake my grandma got for me - omg, Christmas soon!
Tags: food/drinks, outfits
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My sleep last night was troubled by a violent storm outside,ReplyDelete
and when i work i still felt dizzy from the lingering effect of wine;
Anxiously i asked the maid who rolled up the bamboo curtains,
to my surprise came her reply, "the flowers are all right."
But that's impossible, and don't you know all would remain a scene,
of petals fallen and leaves of their company sorrowfully deprived!
Thanks!...you are wonderful!
- Anonymous4 December 2010 at 09:11
wahhhh this cake looks so delicious:)ReplyDelete
and youre gorgues!!!:)
i can understand that you have noo time to post during a schoolweek!
looking forward to your posts!!:)
thank you!!:)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! It really means the world to me and don't forget to leave your link so I can come and say hi! Feel free to comment in English, German, French or Luxembourgish :)


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Associate Professor Phyllis McDonald was recently appointed to the U.S. Department of Transportaion's Transit Rail Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS) for a two-year term. The committee advises the Federal Transit Administration on transit safety issues, and its reccomendations help the FTA develop new policies and practices as well as regulations for enhancing rail safety.
McDonald has been a professor with PSL since 2000 and has previously served as the Seanior Research Analyst with the National Institute of Justice.
Incoming police chief Robert White is known for imposing tough discipline, developing community partnerships and turning around troubled police departments, said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.
That's why Monday, Hancock said, he made the toughest decision of his 99 days in office when he selected White to be Denver's next police chief — choosing an outsider over a popular division chief.
White, 59, has been chief of the Louisville, Ky., Metro Police Department since 2003. He will be Denver's first African-American police chief and only the second chief from outside the department in 50 years.
"We have got to begin to restore the trust, and I felt that Chief White was the best person to do that," Hancock said. White has exactly the professionalism and personality he was looking for, repeating a statement made by Louisville's mayor that "White is a police officer's officer."Read the full story in the Denver Post
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 Dave Thomas received the Champion of Change award at the White House for his work in combating violence agaisnt women.
According to Thomas " I was both humbled and honored to receive a Champions of Change award along with 13 exceptional and deserving honorees. As I sat there and listened to the gripping stories of my fellow Champions it was clear to me that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got it right when he said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
"We have come a long way, but there are still many victories to be won. Working together we can make justice a reality and make righteousness more than just a dream."
Read the full story at www.whitehouse.gov
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the appointment of Greg Marshall as Chief Security Officer (CSO). In this capacity, Mr. Marshall is responsible for security related issues affecting the Department-personnel security, physical security, administrative security, special security, identity management, special access programs, and security training and awareness.
Mr. Marshall began his Federal career as a police officer with the United States Capitol Police in 1984. In 1988, Mr. Marshall transferred to the Howard County Maryland Police Department, retiring in 2007 as a senior commander. In 2007, he returned to federal service when he joined DHS as the Deputy Chief of Physical Security. He was later promoted to Deputy Chief Security Officer.
A 27-year law enforcement veteran, Mr. Marshall holds as Master of Science in Management degree from Johns Hopkins University.
The Maryland State Motor Vehicle Administration awarded the Johns Hopkins University, a $50,000 grant to conduct research on traffic violations. An error analysis of traffic violations leading to five points on a Maryland State license will be conducted in order to determine the types of topics to be covered in the MVA Driver Improvement Instructional Program. Phyllis McDonald, Associate Professor, PSL, will direct the gathering and analysis of data and development of the new instructional program.
PSL student James Davis, an officer with the United States Capitol Police Department and a First Sgt. with the United States Army Reserves proudly raised the JHU flag over the Bagdad Embassy during his recent deployment.
The flag was given to him by a Johns Hopkins Alumni and current member of the armed forces serving in Iraq. According to 1Sgt.Davis, the flag been across the globe and has a very long and proud history. Sgt. Davis also flew a US flag to honor SOE, Associate Dean Sheldon Greenberg, for his work in law enforcement and support of the men and women in uniform serving around the world.
Director of the Division of Public Safety Leadership Doug Ward was quoted in a story this week in the Baltimore Sun, discussing the ethics of police using the cell phone GPS device of a suspect to track them.
"For investigators, the cellphone has become one of the greatest tools available," he said.
"But certainly we want to do this the right way and protect peoples rights. This technology is going to cause more and more of these arguments, and the courts are going to have to settle how it all turns out. Like anything else, there can be abuses. Justice demands that we weigh that."
The story in question centers around a recent refusal by U.S. District Judge Susan K. Gauvey to issue a warrant to track a suspect through his cell phone - saying that the government was trying to use the technology in a new way "not to collect evidence of a crime but solely to locate a charged defendant."
Various courts have muddled ruling on such cases, so it will be interesting to see what direction such methods take in the future, as more and more people have cellular phones.
Read the full story at BaltimoreSun.com
A string of recent misconduct by Baltimore police officers has caused some questions about the leadership of Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld, and Division of Public Safety Leadership Director Sheldon Greenberg was quoted in the Baltimore Sun's story on the subject.
Bealefeld's department has suffered a string of recent controversy, with several incidents - the fatal shooting of a plainclothes officer by fellow officers outside of a nightclub in January, over 50 officers implicated in a towing kickback scheme and a veteran officer being indicted for sellling drugs while on duty - leading some to question his authority, though downward trends in crime have him in the good graces of the political leadership by and large.
"The reality is, chiefs of police nationwide work for a political leader, and their tenure is based on how they serve that political leader," Greenberg said. "What politicians want first and foremost is good stats, and they're willing to forgo a lot of other things if their chiefs give them good statistics."
Greenberg said police chiefs should be accountable for what happens on their watch. "The question is, is it an isolated situation? These could be very isolated situations that happen to be coming to the fore in a tight time period, or they may arise when you start looking into things and find other things," he said.
In one city, Greenberg said, a police chief with just a few weeks on the job was run out of town after an officer shot and killed a teenage boy. In other cities, chiefs can weather scandal after scandal, crisis after crisis, for years. Problems may be deeply entrenched, and fixes can take years to be realized.
"There's a difference between mistakes and wrongdoing," he said.
Read the full story at Baltimoresun.com
Brian Martin, an aviator in the Army Reserve, missed his graduation last year from the School of Education's Public Safety Leadership Program because of his third deployment to the Middle East. But this year was the charm. After earning his master's degree in management, Martin walked across the stage in front of his fellow Johns Hopkins graduates and some members of last year's graduating class who were on hand to congratulate him. The father of three from Dorchester County, Md., has been an Army pilot for 24 years – six of them on active duty and 18 as a reservist. Now a pilot with the Maryland Natural Resources Police, he has served two tours of duty in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star and two Air Medals. Martin's academic life is just as decorated. He was awarded the Hodson Star Scholarship for veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. The scholarship benefits undergraduate and graduate students at Johns Hopkins as well as Hood College, St. John's College and Washington College.
See Brian's story about his PSL experience:
Division of Public Safety Leadership faculty members Christina Harnett and Joan DeSimone both had chapters included in the recently published "Treating Young Veterans: Promoting Resilience Through Practice and Advocacy"
The text, put out by Springer Publishing, is edited by Diann Kelly, Sydney Barksdale and David Gitelson.
According to the book's website,
Many veterans unsuccessfully attempt to self-manage their mental and physical health needs. This volume examines the multiple challenges awaiting the new generation of young veterans returning to civilian life, and provides strategies for mental health professionals to assist them in the process of readjustment. It incorporates multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art research to present practice and advocacy opportunities that facilitate a healthy and socially engaged reintegration into society for both traditional veterans (enlisted and career military personnel) and nontraditional veterans (reservists, national guardsmen, and women) aged 18 to 40 years.
The volume is divided into three sections: Assessment and Practice Approaches to Promote Resilience; Outreach and Practice With Special Communities, and Advocacy Practice to Promote Young Veterans' Well-Being. Each section includes an introduction highlighting the chapters, and an epilogue delineating important steps in practice, outreach, and advocacy.
For more information or to order a copy, visit Springer's website.
Professor of Applied Ethics and Humanities professor Chris Dreisbach penned this article for Think, a journal published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy at Cambridge.
Osama bin Laden means well. This is evident from his declarations, juridical decrees, lectures, epistles, and written reminders, which Bruce Lawrence has made available in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden (2005; hereafter referred to by the page numbers in parentheses) a single volume. Duty, Osama claims, compels Muslims' support for jihad against the 'Crusader–Jewish Alliance' (7, 23). But many attack his goals and behavior as immoral. Initiatives he has supported or directed represent his strategy for fulfilling his duty and demonstrate its apparent immorality at the same time: notably, attacks on U.S. embassies, the 9/11 attacks, and more recently an alleged plot to detonate hydrogen peroxide bombs in public transportation venues. Moreover, his willingness to kill innocents generally is self-evidently wrong, as is his blanket hatred of Jews, Americans, and Christians (56, 87); although on one occasion he has declared that 'many in the West are polite and good people' (142).
Division of Public Safety Leadership faculty member Dr. Kathleen Kiernan was interviewed this month in the well-respected ASIS International Dynamics magazine.
Dr. Kiernan was discussed her work in the law enforcement world and was asked several questions about her career, which has spanned both the public and private sectors. Two examples are below. To read the interview in it's entirety, go to the PDF of the magazine here. Her interview begins on page 12.
Q: What strengths have been most beneficial to your success?
A: I think [one strength is a] deep knowledge and understanding of threats we face—the motivation and intent of our adversaries—
whether or not those adversaries are business rivals, international terrorists, or criminals. In addition to this knowledge is the development of personal character, leadership skills, and communication skills that are fundamental to credibility and influence. It really is all about leadership.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received?
A: Fail forward. Do not be afraid of taking a risk in order to succeed. The best lessons I learned were from making mistakes the
first time that I tried a new skill. It can be a challenge to feel comfortable taking a risk—the environment was not always forgiving for women in what was traditionally a male-dominated occupation.
Often, you must forgive yourself before your work environment does. You learn to roll with the punches, develop a thick skin, and always be open to learning, which sometimes comes from the most unexpected places. For me, that means not only from colleagues and peers, but also from dealing with human behavior at its extremes, as is often seen in the field of law enforcement.
Challenges are part of every occupation and the key is really how you deal with them. I always worked at turning a "no" into a "yes," and learned as well that competence trumps gender, age, ethnicity, and skill level. I learned to work through or work around professional obstacles where they existed and in the process had the opportunity to become a "first" in many areas, including participation in specialized arson and explosive investigative teams. But most importantly, I was not the last woman to do so. My former agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, has women involved on every technical and policy level.
On April 28, 2011 PSL Faculty Member, Dave Thomas briefed congress on Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). With VAWA set to expire this year, Thomas as well as other advocates and survivors addressed the need for VAWA reauthorization and federal funding for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking programs. Thomas' presentation focused on how VAWA has positively transformed law enforcement response to domestic and sexual violence.
Richard Lisko (BS 2010, MS 2011) wrote an article for this month's issue of Police Chief Magazine titled "Agency Policies Imperative to Disclose Brady v. Maryland Material to Prosecutors.
Lisko is a Lieutenant and Assistant Precinct Commander for Baltimore County's police department.
To read the full article, click here.
On March 23, 2011, Christina Harnett, a PSL faculty member and a licensed clinical psychologist, was awarded the State of Maryland Meritorious Service Medal, the second highest military medal issued in Maryland. Harnett received this honor for her "exceptional service to the warriors of the Maryland National Guard as they resume their civilian lives following deployment." Harnett has been providing the National Guard with professional behavioral health services for over four years as a member of the Maryland Defense Force and faculty member of the Maryland National Guard Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. The program helps "citizen-soldiers" returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to transition back into a civilian society. Harnett heads a team that developed the program's resilience curriculum and provides ongoing reintegration training and support, as well as pre-deployment training for soldiers and their families.
Commenting on Harnett's award, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gafney, who heads the Maryland Guard's Deployment Cycle Support program, said, "her hard work, dedication and volunteerism has meant that the reintegration program remains in the forefront of those in the nation." In 2009, Harnett was awarded the U.S. Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, one of the few medals that the Army bestows on civilians.
Christopher Dreisbach, an assistant professor at the Division of Public Safety Leadership, was quoted in a recent Baltimore Sun story examining the rebuilding of the relationship between the city prosecutor's office and the police department under new state's attorney Gregg Bernstein.
Bernstein, who took office largely on a platform of better relations with the police department (and the subsequent support of the department itself), is considering eliminating a division within his office that is devoted to police misconduct, something that his predecessor, Patricia Jessamy, wasn't shy about criticising.
"The Police Department isn't the enemy" of the prosecutor's office, said Christopher Dreisbach, an assistant professor within the Division of Public Safety Leadership at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Education. "There's a kind of loss of confidence in the whole law enforcement structure of the city if the two main players are feuding with each other."
Click here to read the full story
Darrell Stephens, executive director of the major Cities Chiefs Association at the Division of Public Safety Leadership, has been named to the expert panel chosen by Baltimore City mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to investigate a shooting in January outside of a nightclub that ended with the death of a veteran police officer and a 22-year-old man.
Officials say the independent review board will issue a comprehensive report on the circumstances that led to the agency's first fatal police-on-police shooting in more than 80 years, killing Officer William H. Torbit Jr. and civilian Sean Gamble, and make recommendations to improve policies.
Stephens is a former chief of police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Newport News, Va.; and served as executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.
For the full story, visit BaltimoreSun.com
Teresa Chambers, a Division of Public Safety Leadership alumna and current faculty member, was named the head of the U.S. Park Police eight years ago, but was relieved of her job a year later after comments discussing budget shortfalls in her department were published in the Washington Post.
Believing her termination to be unjustified, Chambers and her husband battled for seven years to reverse the decision and was successful, as a court determined that her actions were legal under federal whistle-blower laws.
"I was losing faith in a system that I believed in, in a country that I love," she said. "I bleed red, white, and blue and to be sitting here today, now, in the one police chief's position that can both serve the country and serve the profession is such an honor and I've got my pride back in everything I believed in growing up and still do."
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Doug Ward, Director of the Division of Public Safety Leadership was a guest on Marc Steiner Show January 19, 2011 to discuss police-community relations in the wake of the Select Lounge shootings. He was joined by guests Dr. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham - Former President of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP and Greg Thompkins, Baltimore City resident, musician and music teacher. To listen to the podcast click here
A recent story about the increased levels in job-related deaths of police officers in 2010 quoted PSL director Doug Ward, who spoke about the fact that many of the deaths were related to traffic incidents rather than other aspects of police work.
Doug Ward, director of the division of public safety leadership at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, called the 2010 increase "troubling" but found no obvious explanation.
"Until you look at each one of these cases, it's hard to know the why," he said.
Ward, a 27-year veteran of the Maryland State Police, said it should be no surprise that traffic fatalities exceeded the deaths by firearms. Gun incidents are relatively rare, he said, and some officers never encounter a shooting incident. Meanwhile, virtually every officer is exposed to potential traffic injuries.
"They're just out there more, and there's more of them out there, so just statistically it's bound to happen," he said.
Division of Public Safety Leadership director Doug Ward was quoted in a recent article from the Baltimore Sun about the recent arrest in Catonsville of a man who plotted to blow up a military recruitment center.
The article discusses the police tactic of targeting people they believe to have 'jihadic' tendencies, then working with them to plan their violent attack, only to arrest them prior to carrying it out. Critics call the tactic 'entrapment', but Ward - a 27-year member of Maryland's State Police prior to working at the University, disagrees.
"If your intent is to do harm, does it really matter how you want to do it?" said Doug Ward, the director of the division of public safety leadership at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
Police could make arrests based on threats, but Ward, a retired 27-year veteran of the Maryland State Police, said it's much better to catch someone with his finger on the trigger — even on the trigger of a bomb that authorities know won't go off.
"They are making a better case while still preventing the act," he said. "If somebody says he intends to blow up a building, was that true or just somebody mouthing off? The more you have, the easier it is for a jury to determine true intent. … Is it just words or is it words and deeds?"
i2 Board Member Recognized with Women of Influence Award
McLEAN, Va., -- Nov. 16, 2010 -- The Executive Women's Forum (EWF) honored i2 Board Member Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, a former official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), with a Women of Influence Award. EWF is a community of the most influential female executives within the Information Security, Privacy and Risk Management industries globally.
The awards, which were co-presented by Alta Associates and CSO Magazine in Scottsdale, Ariz., last month, recognized women in four categories: the public sector, academia, a private solutions provider from the security industry and a corporate practitioner, as well as a "One to Watch" award to a future leader in the security field. The winners were nominated by peers in the security community. Dr. Kiernan was presented with the public sector award.
"Kathleen's selfless commitment to public service is beyond measure," said Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates and Founder of the EWF.
"From logging miles to raise awareness of breast cancer research to teaching the next generation of leaders and serving vital roles in national and homeland security, she epitomizes the values of EWF.
Judges selected the winners based upon a six-point set of criteria:
"I am humbled to receive the Women of Influence Award for the public sector. It's not too often that you can be recognized for something you are so passionate about," said Dr. Kiernan. "It's inspiring to see the EWF's great work in building a strong network of influential women who are dedicated to the information security field and giving back to the communities in which they live and work. That's an obligation that I take seriously in my day-to-day professional and personal life.
Dr. Kiernan is the CEO of Kiernan Group Holdings, an international consulting firm which supports federal and civil clients. She previously served as the assistant director for the Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information for the ATF. She also is a senior fellow for the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. She also chairs InfraGard, a 41,000 member organization that drives public-private partnership dialogue and strategies to protect national security.
"On behalf of i2, I congratulate Dr. Kiernan on winning the Women of Influence Award," said i2 CEO Robert Griffin. "It's gratifying to have an active Board member of her caliber who is so committed to advancing the missions of our customers. She continues to be an influential leadership mentor to me and has made great contributions in helping grow i2 as a business.
Dr. Kiernan joined the i2 Board in November 2009.
PSL Faculty member, Darrel Stephens was inducted into the Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame. The Hall recognizes innovative law enforcement practitioners who have been central to the implementation of a high quality research program in their affiliated agency, highlighting individual excellence in both using and conducting policing research.
July 11, 2010
LEWISTON, NY – The Tuscarora Nation, a small band of the Six Nations Iroquois, gave honors to John Wigle at its 165th Nation Picnic and Field Day this past Saturday. The tribe held the honoring ceremony immediately after the opening of the oldest annual event in Niagara County history, which includes a parade along Walmore Road to the picnic grove next to the Tuscarora School. The Tuscarora chiefs and clan mothers marched with an eagle feather staff and two brilliant purple and white flags to the sound of a traditional powwow drum song. The procession of tribal officials, the newly crowned Tuscarora Princess, followed by veterans, children dressed in regalia, school sports teams, and fire trucks ended at a small stage in a grove of trees where the flags and staff were posted in the manner of a color guard to open the event.
Elder Robinson said a prayer in the native tongue of the Tuscarora. The emcee, Neil Patterson, Sr. dismissed John Wigle from the powwow drum, one of the roles John carries out at the picnic each year, to be honored on the stage. Mr. Patterson recounted with pride the life works of Mr. Wigle and his dedication and loyalty to the small tribe of the Iroquois. The White Bear Clan Mother, Francene Patterson, bestowed the native name of Thr?tik?hraye:r? (Tra'-dee-keh-raw-yea-ree') a name of high regard among the Tuscarora. The literal translation from the Tuscarora language is "he is right minded." The Clan Mother spoke of the meaning of the name, and how it can be personally costly and difficult to follow the right path, or the "good mind" of Iroquois lore. She recounted a few occasions the tribe vigilantly watched as he handled several ordeals with grace and dignity. She handed him a finely beaded Iroquois picture frame with an engraving to commemorate the occasion of his honoring.
The powwow drum sounded again with an honoring song to hearken the crowd gathered to shake Mr. Wigle's hand and to thank him for his deeds. The chiefs, clan mothers, the Tuscarora Princess, elders and tribal members stood in line to shake his hand and exchanged nods of recognition, words of appreciation, smiles and laughter with him.
John Wigle is a descendant of the Turtle Clan of the Tuscarora Nation, and a direct descendant of Chief William Chew or Sacharissa who signed the 1838 Buffalo Creek Treaty with the United States and who is the namesake of the Sacarissa Lodge, a Western New York legacy. John is the Public Advocate of the American Indian Society of Washington, DC, and an adjunct senior lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education in Baltimore, Maryland. He resides in the Washington, DC area with his wife and children, who along with his mother made the pilgrimage to the small reservation community to observe the event.
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President Donald Trump previewed a major announcement on tax reform next week, as he signed a series of executive orders and spoke to reporters at the Treasury Department.
"The process began long ago, but it really formally begins on Wednesday," he said, referring to tax reform.
The executive orders will allow the Secretary of the Treasury, Stephen Mnuchin, to start looking for ways to simplify the tax code and change the cumbersome regulatory burden on businesses.
"People can't do their returns. They have no idea what they're doing. They're too complicated," Trump said.
"I look forward to taking a hard look at the regulatory burden of our tax code, which consumes billions of productive hours and compliance costs."
Trump said that his administration would continue to press for tax reform, promising that it would help "struggling Americans achieve their financial dreams."
"Together, we will restore prosperity to this nation, a nation that we so dearly love, and to bring people who call this home into a great, great way of living and a great way of life," he said.


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I've got no exposure to Kotlin, but I nodded along to and agreed with every entry in the list of "Scala [mis]features I won't miss" at the bottom of this article.
I left the Scala role 2 years ago for reasons unrelated to the language. (I moved across the country and they wouldn't agree to let me work remotely.) I now mostly wrangle infrastructure and coding isn't my main concern. That said the language I'm most excited by is Clojure, although I haven't used it in anger. I don't enjoy the process as much, but I've had more practical benefit from writing Emacs Lisp (ox-jira.el & ob-applescript.el) than Clojure.


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The fiscal administration under President Rodrigo Duterte is boasting of its makeover of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program with the adoption of a "new" approach to fast-track the implementation of two road projects in Luzon. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said that under the hybrid PPP formula, the government selects, finances and builds big-ticket projects […]
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SRINAGAR, India — Government forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir removed dozens of black and Pakistani flags hoisted by residents observing a "black day" on Wednesday to protest the killing of a top rebel leader. Utv Pakistan Report
Indian forces feared fresh trouble in the tense region after Pakistan called for observing a "black day" to express solidarity with "Kashmiris who are facing atrocities at the hands of Indian forces."
The largest street protests in recent years erupted after Indian troops on July 8 killed Burhan Wani, the popular 22-year-old leader of Kashmir's largest rebel group. Police and paramilitary soldiers in riot gear enforced a strict curfew for the 12th straight day Wednesday as life remained paralyzed and streets deserted in the disputed region.
India's External Affairs Ministry responded to Pakistan's call for a "black day" by saying Islamabad should stop "interfering in India's internal affairs and destabilizing the situation." Pakistan says it provides political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris and anti-India rebels who demand Kashmir's independence or a merger with Pakistan.
Responding to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's appeal, Pakistanis held rallies around the country, including in its portion of Kashmir, to condemn alleged human rights violations in the portion of the region India controls.
In a statement, Sharif said "Kashmir cannot be accepted as an internal matter of India" as the United Nations has already declared it a disputed area. Sharif said India had promised to the world to arrange a plebiscite in Indian-controlled Kashmir, but such a commitment was yet to be honored.
During the recent protests, clashes between government forces and Kashmiris have left 47 people, mostly teens and young men, and a policeman dead. Nearly 2,000 civilians and about 1,600 government troops have been injured.
A man in his 50s, who was injured in firing by government forces during protests over the weekend, died in the main hospital of Srinagar on Wednesday, police said.
Hundreds of volunteers and people attending to the injured in the hospital gathered outside on the main road and offered prayers before his body was taken to his village for burial. They raised anti-India, pro-Pakistan and pro-freedom slogans.
Virtually no information was coming from most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir, especially in the south where most of the killings have occurred, as cellular and internet services remained suspended. Newspapers were not printing and landline phone access was limited, except in Srinagar.
However, newspaper editors decided to publish Thursday editions after five days of disruption as the government apologized and regretted a ban imposed on Friday. The editors met with the state's top elected official, Mehbooba Mufti, and other officials during the day who offered guarantees of smooth media operations, said Masood Hussain, a senior journalist and editor of the English weekly Kashmir Life.
State government spokesman and Education Minister Nayeem Akhtar had said last Friday the restrictions were aimed at "saving lives and strengthening peace efforts."
Despite round-the-clock curfew and information blackout, the protests, marked by clashes between rock-throwing Kashmiris and troops firing live ammunition, pellet guns and tear gas, have persisted. With shops closed, people were struggling to cope with shortages of food, medicines and other necessities.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, which both claim it entirely and have fought two wars over the Himalayan region since British colonialists left the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The region is predominantly Muslim and many residents resent the presence of hundreds of thousands of Indian troops.
Since 1989, more than 68,000 people have been killed in Kashmir's uprising against Indian rule and the subsequent Indian military crackdown.
Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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MONTREAL, QC — This week's episode (#215) of the Habs360 podcast is hosted by Chris G (@chrisg1980) and Rick (@AllHabs) LIVE on Saturday, September 23rd at 2pm ET. Habs360 is the most informative and interactive podcast. You can reach us via telephone during the LIVE broadcast and talk Montreal Canadiens with us. You will get more than the 30 seconds you typically get on sports radio.
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"For the LOVE of Music", #15, May 16/2017
LM 17-20 Joani Bye with her Song Shine Venture
On show #15, I interview consummate vocalist and SongShine instructor Joani Bye, from North Vancouver.
"For the LOVE of Music", #14, April 4/2017
LM 17-14 Jan Garrett & JD Martin, on air with Nathen Aswell
On show #14, I interview multi-award-winning singer-songwriters Jan Garrett & JD Martin, who live and create their music in the mountains of Colorado near Aspen.
"For the LOVE of Music", #13, March 28/2017
LM 17-13 Transformational vocalist Meri Nikula
On show #13, I interview vocalist, composer and transformational healer Meri Nikula, from Finland.
"For the LOVE of Music", #12, March 21/2017
LM 17-12 Preparing for Spontaneity with Harold Payne
On show #12, I interview multi-Platinum and Posi Award-winning songwriter Harold Payne, from Los Angeles.
"For the LOVE of Music", #11, March 14/2017
LM 17-11 Sacred Songs with Susanne Sundancer
On show #11, I interview Nordic ritual artist and singer-songwriter Susanne Sundancer, from Denmark.
"For the LOVE of Music", #10, March 7/2017
LM 17-10 Karen Olson's Viola creates a Symphony for the Soul
On show #10, I interview New York violist and holistic healer Karen Olson, originally from Vancouver, BC.
"For the LOVE of Music", #9, Feb. 28/2017
On show #9, I interview Canadian troubadour Michael Averill from Kelowna, BC.
"For the LOVE of Music", #8, Feb. 21/2017
LM 17-08 Under the Piano with Craig Addy
On show #8, I interview pianist and composer Craig Addy from Vancouver, BC.
"For the LOVE of Music", #7, Feb. 14/2017
On show #, I interview BC's Ish DaFish, a family-friendly Singer, Songwriter, Storyteller, Comedian & Balloon Sculpting Artist.
"For the LOVE of Music", #6, Feb. 7/2017
LM 17-06 Starchild & The Mystiques
On show #6, I interview BC's Fanny Starchild and Vegari Cendar, "The Mystiques".
"For the LOVE of Music", #5, Jan. 31/2017
LM 17-05 Paul Bissonnette, Shamanic Gong Master
On show #5, I interview BC's Paul Bissonnette, a Shamanic Gong Master who draws on his Shamanic teachings, intuitive knowledge and deep trust in the spirit world to guide his life, and who uses vibrational energy to rebalance and enhance people's lives.
"For the LOVE of Music", #4, Jan. 24/2017
LM 17-04 A dynamic duo bringing "Good Musical Medicine" to the world
On show #4, I interview BC's Andrea Menard and Alberta's Robert Walsh, one of those dynamic songwriting duos whose creativity only gets stronger the more music they write.
"For the LOVE of Music", #3, Jan. 17/2017
On show #3, I interview Nicole Edwards, the Yukon's playful jazz-blues-folk-rock diva, about her music and the deep appreciation for the joy and healing that music continues to give to her life.
"For the LOVE of Music", #2, Jan. 10/2017
On show #2, I interview BC's Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright, "The Wilds", about their music and their passion for Mother Earth.
"For the LOVE of Music", #1, Jan. 3/2017
On this first podcast of my new weekly show (Tuesdays from 1-2 PM Pacific), Sara Troy of Self-Discovery Radio interviews ME about my plans for the show.
Interview with J V Crum III, host of the "Conscious Millionaire" Podcast
May 13/2016
Interview with Sarah Lundquist-Galloway, host of "Source Music" on Unity FM
April 22/2016
Interview with J V Crum III, host of the "Conscious Millionaire" Podcast
March 31/2016
Interview with Christy Snow, host of Unity Online Radio's "Music Speaks Louder Than Words" March 17/2013Listen Now
Interview with Angie Dutton, Tracy Brown, and Rashard Garrett, hosts of "The Inner View" Radio Show June 4/2012Listen Now
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Vice-Chair (chosen by Commission in June, 1-year term): Juanita D. Miller, Ed.D., Prince George's County, 2000
Appointed by Montgomery County Executive with County Council consent: Robert G. Berger, 2001; Kevin P. Maloney, 2003.
Appointed by Prince George's County Executive with County Council consent: Duane W. Oates, 1999; Marita B. Brown, 2001.
John R. Griffin, General Manager
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Laurel, MD 20707
(301) 206-8000
(301) 206-4001 (customer service)
(301) 206-4002 (emergency service, 24-hours)
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fax: (301) 206-8114
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web: www.wssc.dst.md.us
Created in 1918, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission governs the Washington Suburban Sanitary District (Chapter 122, Acts of 1918). The Commission provides water and treats sewerage in Prince George's and Montgomery counties, Maryland. It is responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of water supply and sewerage systems in the two counties. The Commission also regulates and inspects plumbing and gas-fitting installations, and sets customer rates for its suburban Maryland service area.
Two major water sources supply the Commission system: the Patuxent River through the Patuxent Filtration Plant, and the Potomac River through the Potomac River Filtration Plant. The Commission also stores about 12 billion gallons of raw water at Rocky Gorge Reservoir in Prince George's and Montgomery counties, and at Triadelphia Lake in Montgomery County. Little Seneca Lake in Montgomery County and the Jennings Randolph Reservoir in West Virginia provide storage for an additional 17 billion gallons of water.
Much of the sewage from the Commission service area is carried by trunk sewers into the District of Columbia and treated at the regional Blue Plains Pollution Control Plant in Washington, DC. Other sewage disposal plants operated by the Commission are in northern Montgomery County at Seneca Creek; and in Prince George's County at Piscataway Bay (Accokeek), Upper Marlboro (Western Branch), and near Laurel (Parkway Waste Water Treatment Plant). The Commission also runs several smaller waste water plants and, in eastern Montgomery County, a 116-acre composting facility that processes the Commission's proportionate share of Blue Plains sludge.
The Commission has six members: three from Montgomery County; three from Prince George's County. Each county's members are named to four-year terms by the County Executive with County Council consent. The Commission's annual budget is subject to joint approval by the governing bodies of the two counties (Code 1957, Art. 29).
Appointed by Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission:
Stan Fetter, Chair
Jeffrey A. Boggs; Tamia Boyer-Robinson; Barbara Crain; Mary Elizabeth Deslattes; Stuart Eisenberg; Dr. Lawrence S. Galowin; Kathryn Hohmann; Dr. Howard Kaplan; Ray Lane; Chuck Lapinski; Maura C. McMullen; Marylee Morrison; Michael G. Pfetsch; Andrew R. Ross; Dr. Cherie L. Schultz; Antoinette G. Sebastian; Barbara Sollner-Webb; Mark Spradley; Tracy Underwood; Kraig Walsleben; Bill Williams.
Organized in July 1993, the Environmental Advisory Committee advises the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission on local community and environmental issues associated with proposed projects. The Committee consists of twenty-four members (twelve from Montgomery County, twelve from Prince George's County) appointed by the Commission.
July 18, 2000
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For many of us, 2016 felt like 366 days of Mercury in retrograde.
For many of us, 2016 felt like 366 days of Mercury in retrograde.
In short, it was a trying year. But somehow we've made it to the end with our sanity. Barely. It's definitely hanging on by a thread and we're not the only folks tired of 2016's antics.
Me at the beginning of 2016 & Me at the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/nyu4exTKxa— Nyasha Junior (@NyashaJunior) December 12, 2016
Me: full of hope, optimistic for the future— broke but woke (@NotAgainBen) December 12, 2016
2016: pic.twitter.com/uw2pwM5LNo
me at the beginning of 2016 vs the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/95R2AKMuXL— Heben Nigatu (@heavenrants) December 10, 2016
Me at the beginning of 2016 VS. me at the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/hJwVBvwh6M— Sonny Stoppkotte (@SonnyStoppkotte) December 11, 2016
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me at the start of 2016 // me at the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/S99BcvedtI— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 9, 2016
Me at the beginning of 2016 vs me trying to make it in these last few weeks. pic.twitter.com/i6fepmyqei— MistyKnightsTwistOut (@Steph_I_Will) December 10, 2016
Me at the beginning of 2016 vs. Me at the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/xRttxZpbbr— Payne 😁 (@totallynotpayne) December 11, 2016
me at the beginning of 2016 vs. me now pic.twitter.com/0wdpU3cs3e— dead boyfriend (@unsmokabIe) October 13, 2016
me at the beginning of 2016 vs me at the end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/wktUEqSEk3— yung black celiac (@ANTWANDUNCAN) December 2, 2016
2016 in a nutshell. pic.twitter.com/DjtZtwUAJA— Ryan Carey-Mahoney (@thegoodcarmah) December 2, 2016
2016 in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/yJQJF1diYV— SassWithAnAss (@SassWithAnAsss) December 2, 2016
Me to 2016, but also 2016 to me: pic.twitter.com/5g2zFQraWN— Barrie Mounger (@barrrito) December 12, 2016
Me to 2016:— Hacksaw Smithers Jr. (@Childishgymbino) November 29, 2016
"Get God on the phone!" pic.twitter.com/84HfRZTI64
Me to 2016 pic.twitter.com/z6T6uh3iaz— The Notorious N.I.P (@NoChillNip) December 1, 2016
Me to 2016 or 2016 to me? Who's to say pic.twitter.com/7QmdVi2prd— Emily (@notorious__mig) November 30, 2016
Me to 2016 pic.twitter.com/VIKqM76XXu— Denise Alcantara (@DnsAlcantara) November 29, 2016
Me at the beginning of 2016: this is gonna be a great year— Phở-King™ (@SenseiSmokes) June 21, 2016
Me now: pic.twitter.com/nKafA2kApS
me at the beginning of 2016 vs me at the end of 2016 vs me for the next 4 years vs me for the rest of my life pic.twitter.com/WXJG4y4aVh— jason (@nonlinearnotes) December 12, 2016
2016 is really the worst year of my life pic.twitter.com/N1TFlqBoca— noemi (@fringedhome) December 1, 2016
how 2016 went pic.twitter.com/K50LjRfTgZ— ♛ (@highlytrue) December 12, 2016
beginning of 2016 vs end of 2016 pic.twitter.com/VL5iw7PC4G— brohsen (@brohsen) December 12, 2016
If someone mentions 2016 to me: pic.twitter.com/L2xEHjDyuO— m2014 (@MariaPerezTW) December 2, 2016
Here are 22 tweets that perfectly sum up the dumpster fire that was 2016.
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Just a glance over some colors in my mind and on my desk. Today`s theme: Pastels!
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