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Except as noted, the following programs, scholarships, and organizations are open to all qualified undergraduates. Honors available through the colleges and schools are described in chapters 2 through 13 of the
Undergraduate Catalog.
Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma are national honor societies that recognize scholastic attainment during the freshman year. Members are chosen each fall and spring. Membership is offered to students who earn a grade point average of at least 3.50 during the first semester of their freshman year while completing at least twelve semester hours of coursework. Students who do not qualify during the first semester may become eligible by earning a grade point average of at least 3.50 for the first two semesters of work combined.
Phi Beta Kappa was founded by students at the College of William and Mary in 1776; the Alpha of Texas chapter was organized at the University in 1904. Eligibility is limited to upper-division students of the Colleges of Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, and Natural Sciences who achieve distinguished scholastic records while taking the Bachelor of Arts; the Bachelor of Arts in Art with a major in art history; the Bachelor of Arts in Music; the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance; or the Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Geological Sciences, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Psychology, or Zoology. The student must have completed at least sixty semester hours of coursework at the University.
Elections to Phi Beta Kappa are held in the fall, spring, and summer each year. Alumni members are occasionally selected from among graduates of at least five years' standing who have won appropriate distinction since graduation; honorary members are selected for special merit.
Phi Kappa Phi is a national honor society recognizing academic achievement in all fields. Members are chosen twice a year. Upper-division and graduate students are eligible for membership if they have completed at least sixty semester hours of coursework at the University and have the required grade point average. The University chapter typically invites to membership fewer than 6 percent of undergraduates and fewer than 10 percent of graduate students.
Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa recognize and encourage scholarship, leadership, and service. Members of Mortar Board are chosen each spring; members of Omicron Delta Kappa are chosen in the fall and in the spring.
British Marshall scholarships allow young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in a system of higher education of their choice in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship offers two years or more of postgraduate study. Up to forty new awards are offered every year in the United States. Students should apply in their senior year. Applications are due in the Liberal Arts Honors Program office in early September.
Rhodes scholarships are for outstanding United States citizens who are between eighteen and twenty-four on October 1 of the year of application. Students should apply in their senior year. Each scholarship offers two years or more of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. Thirty-two scholarships are assigned annually to the United States. Applications are due in the Liberal Arts Honors Program office in early September.
The Harry S. Truman Foundation awards seventy-five to eighty $30,000 merit-based scholarships annually to college students who wish to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or elsewhere in public service. Applicants must be in the top quarter of their class, with a grade point average of at least 3.80, and must be United States citizens or nationals. Each scholarship covers tuition, fees, books, and room and board, to a maximum of $3,000 for the student's senior year. In addition, Truman Scholars receive $13,500 yearly if enrolled in a two-year graduate program or $9,000 yearly if enrolled in a three-year graduate program. They also receive leadership training, graduate school counseling, preferential admission and merit-based aid at some premier graduate institutions, and internship opportunities with federal agencies. Students who will be seniors the following academic year should apply to the Liberal Arts Honors Program office in mid-October.
The Junior Fellows Program provides recognition for outstanding students who have completed four semesters, or about sixty semester hours of coursework. Chosen annually from the best students across the campus, junior fellows are given the opportunity to do independent study and research with distinguished professors of their choice and to have that research supported by small grants, if necessary. The program is administered by the College of Liberal Arts, but undergraduates in all colleges and schools are eligible to take part. Students who wish to be considered should apply in February. Application forms are available in the Liberal Arts Honors Program office.
On Honors Day each spring, the University designates outstanding students as
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Each semester, undergraduates who complete a full course load and earn outstanding grades are recognized by inclusion on the University Honors list. Each time a student is included on the list, his or her official record also shows the award of University Honors for that semester. The list is compiled at the end of the fall and spring semesters but not at the end of the summer session. To be included, a student must earn at least forty-five grade points and a grade point average of at least 3.50 on courses completed in residence and must have no incomplete grades (symbol X).
Students are notified on the semester grade report of their inclusion on the list.
To be eligible to graduate with University honors, an undergraduate must have completed at least sixty semester hours at the University of Texas at Austin. Graduation with University honors is based on the average of all grades earned in courses taken in residence at the University, whether the courses were passed, failed, or repeated. Courses taken pass/fail are counted in the sixty-hour minimum, but only letter grades (including Fs in pass/fail courses) are used to determine the grade point average.
The faculty of each college or school determines the percentage of the graduating class of that division to receive honors, high honors, and highest honors and the minimum grade point average for each category, subject to the following requirements:
The faculty may adopt college- or school-wide standards or may designate grade point average and percentage requirements for each program within the college or school, but the percentage of the college or school class receiving honors, high honors, and highest honors may not exceed those above.
Percentage requirements are not applied to August and December graduating classes. The grade point averages established for May graduates are applied to the following August and December classes to determine honors, high honors, and highest honors.


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The following is the latest in a series of opinion columns by WUSA 9 Sports Anchor Dave Owens.
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- This week during the AT&T National, Tiger Woods was asked about comments made by CBS Sports golf analyst Nick Faldo who suggested Woods was struggling mentally.
Tiger responded, "I don't know, I've won four times this season."
The reporter then followed up by asking Woods directly whether he was struggling mentally. Tiger's response, "no."
It was an answer that I expected but I couldn't help but think was Tiger himself deflecting an inevitable fact that he and his legion of fans don't want to admit?
Tiger hasn't won a major championship since he limped to the finish in that memorable 2008 U.S. Open. Woods had won on one leg and quite frankly casual fans like me sat in amazement and thought there's nothing this guy can't do. Through the years I'm sure the same things have been uttered about Jordan, Bonds, Gretzky, Tyson, Ali, Phelps, Navratilova, Federer, and Montana just to name a few.
That list includes some of the greatest sportspersons ever. But there is one thing none of them could ever accomplish and that's beat Father Time. Former NBA star and current analyst Charles Barkley has a signature line: "Father Time is undefeated." He's correct.
One of the toughest things for fans to recognize is when a dominant athlete's glory days have passed. Even for reporters and analysts it's sometimes hard to detect when greatness is no longer great. After all, we get so used to seeing these seemingly superhuman athletes do unimaginable things that subconsciously we always think of them as elite.
I remember when Michael Jordan played for the Wizards. He wasn't Air Jordan, he was pudgy Jordan. He was no longer the sleek two-guard that dashed like a greyhound. He was the small forward who seemed more minivan than anything else. When he would erupt for a big scoring night inevitably you would hear some analyst talk about Jordan looking like his old self. In truth, those days were few and far between.
Back to Tiger. By no metric can anyone say he's playing like his former self. He's changed his swing, he's battled injuries, and he's been absent from the winner's circle at the biggest events. He's also not as clutch. I'm no golf expert but doesn't it seem as if he misses more midrange putts than he used to? If there's one thing about Tiger that used to stand out it was his penchant to make THE putt. That doesn't happen as much anymore.
Others have noticed too, like the aforementioned Faldo, as well as some current players on the PGA Tour. After his first round at this week's AT&T National, Billy Horschel was asked what the event was like sans Woods. "He's just another guy," said Horschel. In fairness to Horschel he wasn't dissing Woods; in fact he was simply trying to articulate to reporters that he couldn't be worried about someone who wasn't in the field.
"He's just another player out there," said Horschel. "For me, thinking about someone, how great he is, is just a distraction for me. But it is a disappointment that he's not playing out there because obviously it is his event. The crowds love him to death, and he does spice up the event a little bit."
No diss intended. But important to note because there's a legion of young golfers like Horschel who, at one point probably idolized Woods. Now they're eager to take on the challenge of beating him. They also recognize Woods' shroud of invincibility is gone. Just like when Mike Tyson got cold-cocked by Buster Douglas. The boogeyman had been defeated.
Yes, Tiger has won four times this season. So what! Winning non-majors was never the way he judged himself and it was never the way we judged him. Lauding Woods for winning a non-major is like celebrating the Lakers for winning a Pacific Division Title. So what!
This isn't surprising though. We do this to our super-duper stars. We want them to be great again and again and again. Even as the talent starts to fade, when we see a smidgen of greatness, we get excited. We yearn for them to return to the days when they did things we just couldn't imagine. That's why we love them. Truth is, however, they never return. Once it goes, it's gone.
Tiger will win a major again because the laws of averages say so. If he plays 10 more years, he will probably surpass Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 majors. But if you're looking for dominant Tiger, stop! He's gone and isn't coming back.

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CF women's basketball routed by Northwest Florida St.
Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 12:43 a.m.
At Niceville, the College of Central Florida women's basketball ran into yet another tough foe on Saturday night.
The Patriots suffered an 82-22 loss to host Northwest Florida State (8-0), the nation's fifth-ranked team, in the Rick Flores Classic.
CF (2-7), which has suffered four losses to teams ranked among the top 13 teams in the nations with a combined record of 25-1, returns to action on Tuesday at home against Brevard at 5:30 p.m.
The Patriots, who have lost four games in a row, lost 62-61 to the Titans in the first meeting between the two schools on Nov. 17.
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Monday News, August 13
Fire Officials Have Busy Weekend
(Le Mars) -- Plymouth county fire officials were busy over the weekend. On Saturday morning at about 10:55 a.m. the Le Mars Fire Department responded to a smoke detector alarm at 1017 2nd Street Southeast. Later, at about 1:30 p.m. the Le Mars Fire Department responded to a fire call at the county landfill. The Remsen Fire Department and the Akron Fire Department responded to two separate accidents that happened on Sunday. Remsen assisted at an accident that happened shortly after 10:00 a.m. at 160th Street and County Road L-12, and the Akron Fire Department responded to an accident that occurred at 6:42 p.m. Sunday evening at on Highway 12, just north of 314th Street. It is believed a male subject suffered a broken leg during that accident.
Conservation Board Inspect Grasslands
(Le Mars) -- Last week during their monthly meeting, the Plymouth County Conservation Board took the time to inspect four of their grassland areas, located within the county. Conservation Board Executive Director, Dennis Sohl says the purpose for the tour was to have the board be more familiar with the property either owned or managed by the Conservation Board. In many instances, the grasslands contain native prairie grass, and has never been plowed during the history of the land.
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The O'Brien grassland, found in the southeast portion of Plymouth County, and Sohl says it is unique and that is the reason for colleges and universities wanting to study the grassland.
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Plymouth County Conservation owns or manages more than 2500 acres. About 200 acres are virgin prairie grasslands.
Le Mars School Board To Discuss District Goals
(Le Mars) -- The Le Mars Community Board of Education is scheduled to meet this evening. The school board will discuss the district's goals as presented by the District Learning and Instructional Impact Team. The school board will also act upon a resignation request by Paula Hodgson, as special education teacher at Kluckhohn, and they are expected to offer contracts to Carrie Campbell as a Middle School Academy Teacher, Missy McGee as a Flag Corps Sponsor, and Malori Price, as a special education teacher for Kluckhohn. Superintendent, Dr. Todd Wendt will discuss with the school board the proposed hiring procedures manual for board consideration. Dr. Wendt will also present recommendations regarding the Educational Philosophy section of the Board Policy Manual for board review and consideration.
Possible Abduction Avoided
GRIMES, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say two central Iowa boys ran from a man who they say told them to get into his truck so he could help them find their mother.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office says the man approached the boys around 1:20 p.m. Sunday in Grimes. The boys are 3 and 11.
The office says the boys refused and ran into the town library. The man drove away.
No arrest has been reported.
One Month Has Passed On Missing Cousins
EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) - Two Iowa girls have been missing for a month, but the FBI says leads make investigators believe the girls are still alive.
Ten-year-old Lyric Cook and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, who has since turned 9, were reported missing July 13 from the Waterloo suburb of Evansdale. The bikes were found at a nearby lake about
four hours after their grandmother had last seen them.
FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault (broh) would not discuss the leads nor say whether investigators believe the girls were kidnapped for ransom, abducted by a relative or abducted by a nonrelative.
The likelihood of finding abducted children alive drops as time goes on, but Breault and others say it's important for relatives and investigators to not give up hope.
Toddler Found In Street
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - A toddler found wandering a Waterloo street at night has been returned to his mother.
Police tell the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that the boy, believed to be between 2 and 4 years old, was found on a street around 4 a.m. Saturday.
Police Sergeant Brooke Carter says the boy did not tell officers his name or age before the Department of Human Services picked him up. But he did say his mother was sleeping at home.
Carter says the mother realized the child was gone Saturday morning, called police and picked the boy up around 10:30 a.m.
No charges have been filed, but police are still investigating.
Schools About To Start -- Drivers Reminded of Kadyn's Law
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - With a new school year starting, Iowa drivers are being reminded of a new school bus safety law.
"Kadyn's Law" is named for Kadyn Halverson, a 7-year-old girl who was hit by a pickup and killed last year while walking to her bus. Aaron Gunderson, of Northwood, was sentenced in January to 15
years for her death.
Cedar Rapids mother Mandy Norris tells The Gazette of Cedar Rapids that she and her two children live on a busy corner where the school bus stops, so she's thankful for the new law.
The law increases penalties for failure to slow for a bus with flashing lights or stop when the stop arm is extended. Injuring or killing a child under those conditions carries more severe
Romney and Obama Campaign In Iowa
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Mitt Romney and his new running mate, Paul Ryan, are pitching themselves as "America's Comeback Team," Republican turnaround artists willing to take on tough decisions.
President Barack Obama and his allies say adding the conservative Wisconsin congressman to the GOP ticket creates a sharp choice for voters on the future of the nation's tax system and safety-net programs, such as Medicare and Social Security.
Romney's selection of Ryan as his vice presidential running mate this weekend jolted the presidential contest and set the contours for the fall campaign.
Romney touts himself as a proponent of a friendlier business climate seeking to revitalize the economy and rein in federal spending.
Obama casts himself as a defender of middle-class families and
federal spending on health care, retirement pensions and education.
State Political Races Important To Iowans
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Most television ads and media coverage has been about the presidential race, but some believe lower profile legislative elections could make the most significant
difference to Iowans.
Republicans already control both the House and the governor's office, and with a pickup of two seats they could win a majority in the Iowa Senate. Republicans say their focus would be on improving
the state's economy and creating jobs, but Democrats and a political analyst say complete GOP control of state government could lead to passage of laws dealing with other issues, including
education and same-sex marriage.
Drake University politics professor Dennis Goldford says Republicans are focused on legislative races. He calls control of the Iowa Senate "at least as important if not more important to
them than the presidential race."
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Man, 32, arrested, accused of swinging machete at woman
Published: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 1:51 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 1:51 p.m.
MARION OAKS - A man accused of swinging a machete at a woman was arrested Tuesday night and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Deputy Shelby Roberts went to the 17200 block of Southwest 17th Circle and talked with Giulie Rivera, who said a woman had hit him in the head with a cast iron frying pan.
Rivera, 32, claimed not to recall any other details.
The deputy noted in her report that she did not see any markings on Rivera's head.
The woman told the deputy she and Rivera had arguing in the kitchen and he went into a bedroom and came back with a machete. She said she was holding a frying pan as he was walking toward her swinging the knife, but she denied hitting him with the pan.
A witness told the deputy the woman did not hit Rivera with the frying pan and said he stepped between them to prevent any further altercation.
Rivera was arrested. En route to the Marion County Jail, he asked if the deputy would still take him to jail if he apologized to the woman.
- Austin L. Miller
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I had planned to observe 2012 DA14 and Jupiter's Great Red Spot on Friday night, but despite a clear weather forecast the entire night turned out cloudy! So last night I ignored the weather forecast and just set my scope up under the beautifully clear sky and went inside to put the kids to bed. I came back out at about 8:45 and guess what? 100% cloud cover! Well after fifteen minutes the clouds went away again so I started to observe not knowing how long I would have, in the event it stayed clear all night and the seeing was very good indeed, the best I have had for many months in fact.
I have not really been keeping up with events on Jupiter this year, just getting outside and looking whenever I could, so I was quite surprised to see a string of tiny dark spots where the NNTB should be, I checked on Alpo Japan and it turns out that this is actually an outbreak which could trigger a darkening of the little belt. I was really pleased to see these and if it wasn't for the good seeing then it would have not been possible.
I also observed a large off-white oval just below this string of dark spots, in the southern edge of the north polar region.
I also (by chance again) caught white spot AB in the act of merging with white spot Z in the northern edge of the NEB, apparently they won't actually merge but will just squeeze past each other, possibly leaving some offspring in their wake.
Lastly the GRS wake provided fascinating viewing with a really churned up appearance on the left hand end of the SEB.


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Subject Guide for
English & American Literature
Contact: Skip Hamilton | email@example.com | 303-492-2987
Humanities Bibliographer for English and American Literature
- Reference
- Journals
& Articles
- Electronic
& Digital
- Primary
- Audio
& Video
CU's University Libraries English and American Literature collections comprise one of our larger disciplinary collections. The collection exist in the following formats:
- Reference Works
- Books
- Journals and Articles
- Electronic & Digital Formats
- Primary Source documents
- Citing
- Audio and Video formats
- Microforms
This guide lists resources found in the Libraries Collections, not on the free internet! Those who use these can feel comfortable that they will be fundamentally acceptable to others who use, and rely on, academic methods. We feel they can be trusted.
The internet has become so large, so all encompassing, that users may question the need for such a guide. Yet because any one person has the capability to edit general internet items, the validity of its resources is always in question. James Harner in his superb MLA Literary Research Guide has stated:
The phenomenal growth of the Internet and especially the World Wide Web has led to a proliferation of electronic resources for literary research. The overwhelming amount of material available—including far too many dubious reference tools—and its frequently ephemeral nature ,…. (Has led to) World Wide Web sites (that) constantly appear, disappear, change URLs, become inactive, or vary in quality,…
Even Harner's recommended metapages are now suffering these unfortunate lapses.
Almost every literary question revolves around the author. Unless it is a definition, it is wise to know, "Who is the author and what/when was she/he writing?"
The more heavily used literary reference works are now found in multi-title full text databases. Four of the more useful electronic resources are:
OED Online
The most comprehensive English Language dictionary available. It covers words from across the English-speaking world. Provides current and historical definitions.
Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography
Introductory critical biographies of historical and modern literary figures.
Oxford Reference Online
A collection of about 300 reference works, many published by Oxford University Press. Particularly useful for mythology, literary/artistic forms and types, eras, philosophical schools, etc.
John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
A reference works which presents, in encyclopedic style, surveys of the fields most important figures, practitioners, works, schools, and movements.
Further Electronic Reference Works along with other literary indexes and resources at the following links:
English and American Literature: Most Useful
English and American Literature: Also Useful
The Libraries Collection of Reference Works also consists of books like dictionaries and encyclopedias. (map) The more highly used reference books are in the Libraries Reference Collection, call numbers PN through PS.
Books relating to literature may be found by an Author, Title, or Keyword/Subject search in either of the Chinook catalogs.
To find books by an author, do an AUTHOR search.
To find books by title, do a Title search.
To find books about an author or an author's work, do a Keyword search in Chinook by typing in the author's name.
Generally, all works by an author and about the author are in the same call number area. For relevant sub-topics discussed by the critic, look in the 'Indexes' of the critical works / biographies in that call number area.
For works outside of Norlin, go to WorldCat, or Prospector -- for the state of Colorado, to see what other libraries hold. Request these materials through Prospector's Request it link or Inter-Library Loan.
Finding Literary Forms
- Novels
Find these by doing an author search or a title search. Leave off any beginning articles -- a, an, the, or foreign equivalents.
- Short Stories, Poetry, Plays
Find these by doing an author search. They may be in an author's collected works. For an item in an anthologized collection, one may find these by doing an 'Advanced Keyword' search in Chinook. Use terms like "Short Stories" and Anthology*; Play* and Anthology*; or Poetry and Collection*
- Popular Reading Collection
The library subscribes to a current popular works vendor (MONA) for selected contemporary popular items. These are housed in the Circulation area on the rotating shelves.
- Graphic Novels
Located in the PN 6700 call number range. Do a Keyword search using graphic novels and title.
MLA International Bibliography
The primary, most comprehensive literary index/database that each student /scholar should use first! Within it are some full text articles.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
This is the second most important literary index. Within it are some full text articles. Also, it has collections of electronic literary sources.
The University Libraries has prepared a listing of indexes and databases. The page provides a search by title method, a browse by database method and a listing of databases by discipline. For the specific Literary indexes and databases click on Literature, English and American.
The first group, Literature, English and American - Most Useful is a selective group of 10 to 15 databases that researchers find of most use.
The second group, Literature, English and American - Also Useful, provides an additional 50+ databases with a direct connection to literature. The following are recommended:
Lexis Nexis Academic
Full text of newspaper articles, books reviews, etc.
Academic Search Premier
This index contains a large number of popular magazine sources which can provide articles like book reviews. It does have full text.
If the full text article is not in the database
Most databases do not contain the full text articles for all of their citations. For a large number of these, we have established a link below each citation. That link, through Chinook, may connect you to whether or not we have the item in CU Boulder University Libraries.
If the above does not work, one should do a Chinook Plus Title search and type in the Title of the journal or serial, * not the title of the article!! * The results should list whether or not the Libraries carry the journal and the formats in which that journal is found in the Libraries. If the journal is in an electronic format, it is highly likely we will have full text for recent years.
If the above options do not work, then the document delivery / ILL option will generally deliver your material by email, sometimes within one day.
Norlin has a wide range of resources in differing electronic or digital formats: books, journals, full text articles, digital image resources, plays, poetry, and primary documents.
To locate an individual electronic book do a keyword search, put in a subject or a title and then, type in the term electronic books. To read these works in the Library or on-campus, please refer to this link: How do I...? Read Electronic Books. If you are off-campus, these works can be accessed only through entering the Libraries' website using a VPN Client and the Identikey issued only to CU Boulder students, faculty, or staff.
The Libraries has also developed a separate organized entrance for electronic databases and the items within them. To access this information, go to the Libraries home page and click on Articles. Then, under "Browse databases by subject", click on the + next to "Literature, English and American". Under either of the "Most Useful" or the "Also Useful" categories, one may find many full text collections. Four examples follow:
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Includes 250,000 poems in full text, and 450,000 poetry citations for poems in anthologies. It is possible to search by: Author, Subject, Title, First Line, Last Line, Words in Poem, or a combination of these.
Literature Online
This database provides access to the following full text collections.
Early English Books Online: EEBO
The EEBO collection contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America during 1475 through 1700. The Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership: EEBO-TCP contains searchable full text of over 12,000 EEBO titles from the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Early American imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Early American imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
These two collections are digital facsimile images of all items printed in America from 1639 to 1819. The Evans Early American Imprint Collection -- Text Creation Partnership is a separate collection and will eventually have 6,000 accurately keyed full text editions from the Evans Early American Imprints Collection.
Further electronic full text resources along with other literary indexes and databases can be accessed within following links:
English and American Literature: Most Useful
English and American Literature: Also Useful
Our History Bibliographer, Dr. Thea Lindquist, has prepared a point by point explanation of Primary Sources that is relevant not only for history but also for Literature:
Certain specific sections that will be of higher value are:
- What are primary sources
- Tips for searching for Primary Resources in Chinook
- Finding Primary Sources in Library Data Bases: remember that History is only one of the disciplinary lists you should investigate.
The University Libraries have prepared the following information on the more frequently used citation styles on this campus.
Basic Citation Guide
The preferred Citation and Footnoting style for English and American Literature is the Modern Language Association Style usually abbreviated as the MLA Style. A professor can always indicate a preference for another Style Guide. The Campus' Program for Writing and Rhetoric also recommends the following website for additional Instructions and examples.
Or, for personal consultation you may contact:
CU Writing Center
Their offices are located at the following address in the Libraries
The Writing Center
Norlin Library
Norlin Commons, Room E111
Boulder, CO 80309
Citation Creation Computer Based Program
There are several programs that help scholars create citations. The University Libraries provides access to all students, faculty, and staff to such a program called RefWorks. An explanation of how to use the program and what it does may be found at the following link.
On the Chinook Classic Advanced Keyword Search page there is an Optional Limits section identified in the left column. Under Material Types one can select a material type: i.e. Sound Recordings, Video Recordings. Putting in a subject or title search in the boxes at the top of the page and using one of the material type selections one can identify what the Libraries has available in these formats.
In the Chinook Plus Advanced Search page, there is a format box. This box has a click down menu where one can choose Audio formats or Videorecording. Then one can combine this format selection with a Keyword search or Title search to locate your desired material.
The following is a web instruction page the Libraries has created to indicate what it has in relation to the location of and equipment for Videos. Video Collection
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Beautiful views but not as easy as it looks, a long way up and a long way down but worth the trip
Our friendly seal who was not really sure we should leave the shore, he kept a close eye
Little Harbour (Catalina Island), our next stop was a neat little anchorage, however extremely rolly. The spot was small so boats anchored at the bow and at the stern which of course did not allow us to swing with the wind. It was a good opportunity to practice that type of anchorage. Shore was close and we were able to row the dinghy. On shore was a great campground that people could come by car or via the shuttle bus. The camp sites were great with running water, big firepits, porta potties and overhead shelters. You could tell it was a popular spot but by no means full. Two of the campers even brought their own tent showers and attached a propane tank to heat the water, (of which we looked at longingly) no hardships here. Lots of trails so we set off on a six mile hike with a packed lunch and cameras in tow. We did manage to see one buffalo, a bird called a hutton's vireo (endemic to the island-so they say), red tailed hawk and some island squirrels. The scenery was spectacular and the hike was good exercise and more difficult than imagined!!! Upon returning to the dinghy we noticed a lone seal lying on the beach not far away. We had seen this seal earlier trying to land on the beach but people kept trying to get close to him/her. When we started to move the dinghy towards the water the seal slipped in and approached the dinghy from behind. Seems like he did not want us to leave, at least not while he was on watch. We carefully continued on our quest to return to the ship. Once in the water he came quite close and we really did not know whether he was being friendly or was hoping to sink his teeth into our little boat. As we started rowing he disappeared , much to Reg's dismay but did not re-surface. Once we got back to Three Sheets we saw him once again patrolling the beach. Another uncomfortable night and then off to Catalina Harbour.
Just a quick look at some of the homes on the Island..
Our little dinghy in the foreground (with the yellow and black life jackets) - amidst the bigger ones - note no one else seems to worry about life jackets!!!


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AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State soccer team travels to Des Moines, Iowa Sunday at 1 p.m. to take on the Drake Bulldogs at the Cownie Soccer Complex.
Last time out
The Cyclones ended in a 0-0 draw with the Kansas Jayhawks on Friday at the Cyclone Sports Complex. Iowa State goalkeeper Maddie Jobe made several last- second saves during the contest to keep the Cyclones alive. The Cyclones were able to move the ball on the Jayhawks, but were unable to capitalize.
Scouting the Bulldogs
Drake (2-7-2) is led by senior forward Paige Dusek, who has scored five goals this season. The senior leads an offensive attack that has scored 14 goals this year. Drake's goalkeeper Andrea Swanson has recorded 46 saves this season and has given up 21 goals.
Key matchup
The key matchup in this game will be to see if the Iowa State offense can return to their scoring ways after ending last game in a draw with Kansas. Iowa State will look towards senior Jennifer Dominguez and freshman Koree Willer who have scored eight combined goals this season to lead their offensive attack.
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Aoibhinn and Company with Olive White
This week, Aoibhinn meets Dubliner Olive White who was crowned Miss Ireland in 1961. She recalls the excitement of her days as a girl in Crumlin in Dublin, her teenage modelling career, her job in RTÉ working as a presenter on Jackpot and finally her whirlwind romance with Kits Browning whom she met while working as an acting extra in Ardmore Studios in Bray, County Wicklow.
Olive paints a picture of Dublin in the early 1960s and how her cheeky charm lead one of her contemporaries to later dub her as Ireland's Kate Moss of the era.
Olive married Kits while still a teenager and moved to live with him first near London and later in Cornwall. She recalls her late mother in law, the writer Daphne du Maurier and explains that her favourite of her books is the little known novel The Progress of Julius.
Olive describes her relationship with her parents and sisters and how age has brought an increasing appreciation of her family and the values of the community in which she was reared.
Olive's music selection - The Little Things Mean A Lot sung by Kitty Kallen; Stardust by Nat King Cole , The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem singing The Holy Ground; Red Hurley singing How Great Thou Art and Peter Skelleran singing How Loved You Are.


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The Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi will come this century
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Nagasaki before and after the atomic bomb.
In the Qur'an, Allah states that many peoples have been destroyed.
Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb explosion.
The twentieth century's wars totally ruined many great cities (e.g., Berlin, Hamburg, Warsaw, Leningrad, Bucharest, Beirut, and London). It took years to rebuild them.
1. Like many other cities of Italy, Anzio was also laid waste after the World War II.
2. The Swedish Embassy in Berlin which was ruined by a bombing.
1.Katrina left the perished city, and the corruption started. 2. Hurricane disaster in USA
3. Hurricanes, cyclones and floods that occurred during the last 20 years in USA caused great disasters.
The Last Day will not come until earthquakes multiply, strife appears, and murders increase. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 109)
Our Prophet (saas) stated in the above hadith that "a rise in the number of earthquakes" will be a sign that the End Times is nigh. Indeed, this century went down in history as one in which many thousands of people lost their lives in earthquakes. The devastating earthquake in Kobe (Japan), and those that followed one after the other in Turkey, Taiwan, Greece, and Mexico, are important signs.
Thousands of people lost their lives during the earthquakes occurred
in 1989 in San Fransisco and thousands of others were left homeless.
Damage is worth billions of dollars.
1. A 7.6 earthquake struck Taiwan 2. 7.4 earthquake shook Mexico
3. In 1977 thousands of buildings in Romania were reduced to pieces.
4. San Fransisco earthquake occurred at 05:04 am, ruining thousands of buildings in only 15 seconds.
5. 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Alaska caused huge cracks on earth
There will be earthquakes in my community. Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand people will die. Allah will make this a counsel for the taqwa, a mercy on believers and a suffering for unbelievers. [Ibn 'Asakir, Gelecegin Tarihi 1 (History of the Future 1), Orhan Baytan, Mevsim Publishings, p. 81]
1. 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Peru became effective on an area of 1000 km.
2. The earthquake that happened in China in 1976 was the greatest of the 20th century. The death toll was 240,000 and the number of wounded was 164,000.
3. In 1995, an earthquake reduced Kobe to rubble even though it lasted only 12 seconds. The Kobe earthquake caused a damage of 147 billion dollars.
The days when you can find no homes to shelter you or animals to carry you have come close. Earthquakes will demolish your houses… (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha`ah li Ashrat as-Sa`ah, p. 146)
The Day of Judgment will not take place until knowledge vanishes, earthquakes multiply, time is shortened, strife appears, and murders flourish. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p.108)
1. The 10-magnitude earthquake in Sicily reduced some cities into rubble.
2. The financial worth of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that hit California on January 17, 1994 exceeded 40 billion dollars.
3. The severe earthquake that occurred in Mexico in 1985 left 1 million homeless, 9000 dead and 30,000 wounded behind. (Right) Harap olan Benito Juarez Hospital
1. Everywhere became flat, 2. The world is rocked - The world is shaking, 3. Not one day passes without an earthquake,
4. And now Taiwan: Earthquake 7.6, 5. Turkey, Thailand, Mexico and now America shook The three o'clock syndrome,
6. One disaster after another, 7. First a 8.3 earthquake, then a tsunami struck.
When the generations that follow my community insult those who went before (with various pretexts and excuses), expect red winds, earthquakes and changes of appearance. (Tirmidhi Hadiths, Muslim, Kitab al-Fitan, s. 39)
1. The number of lost people in China: 100 thousand,
2. The great earthquake in China in 2008 led to tens of thousands losing their lives and many being crippled.
3. Earthquakes became increasingly frequent and intense in the 1990s and 2000s. The great earthquake in Kobe was followed by others in Turkey, Athens, Taiwan and Mexico.
4. PAIN becomes more severe in Italy, 5. Chile collapsed with 8.8, 6. Disaster of 60 seconds
7. The successive great earthquakes that occurred in Haiti and Chile in 2010
"(1) Before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as), (2) there will be a great event (3) when pitch-black stones (4) in Medina (5) will vanish in blood. In that event it will be as easy to kill a woman (6) as to wave a whip. And this phenomenon will spread for 2 km, and the oath of allegiance will be taken to Hazrat Mahdi (as). (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al- Muntadhar, p. 41)
(1) Before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as)... The fact that the hadith begins like this also shows that this is one of the signs of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). According to the hadiths and great Islamic scholars, the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) should take place in early Hijri 1400 (1979-80 AD). The term in the hadith "before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as)" suggests shortly before Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear there will be this great event.
(2) ... there will be a great event… The hadith may be referring to 1 May, when many people were killed in Taksim Square in Istanbul and much blood was spilled during a period of anarchy.
(3) ... when pitch-black stones … will vanish in blood... This part of the hadith describes the ground being covered in blood. It refers to a bloody incident taking place on black stones, in other words on tarmac.
- In the Taksim Square incident of May 1, 1977, 34 people died and 200 were injured. Blood was shed over black stones (tarmac) and spread into the road.
Tarmac road: Made up of small stones mixed in with asphalt.
When this mixture is laid out on a road it looks like a single piece of black stone.
(4) ... in Medina ... The word Medina in Arabic is also used to mean a large city. The hadith below is an example of this.
1. Milli Gazete, 02.05.1977: DISK's meeting in Taksim is smeared with blood,
2. Cumhuriyet, 02.05.1977: Bloody May the 1st
It is narrated from Ibn Amr that Messenger of Allah (saas) said:
O Ummah! There are six things that the Day of Resurrection will not happen before... The sixth is the capture of Medina. He was asked: Which city? He replied: Constantinople. (Istanbul) (This is the spiritual conquest of Istanbul to be performed by Hazrat Mahdi (as)). (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 204; Ramuz al-Ahadith 1/296)
(5) ... will vanish in blood ... The tarmac will be totally covered in blood in some places, and the tarmac itself will be invisible.
(6) ... as easy … as to wave a whip ... The metaphor here notes that killing will be a very easy matter. In the same way that a whip can be waved around in all directions with a flick of the wrist, so a gun can be waved around and used to kill someone just by pulling the trigger.
In his work The Letters of Rabbani, the great Sunni scholar Imam Rabbani gives two important conditions regarding the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as).
The first of these conditions is that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear after one thousand years from our Prophet (saas).
This is revealed on page 1/569 of his Letters of Rabbani:
However, what is anticipated is this; the renewal of this concealed state AFTER ONE THOUSAND YEARS HAVE PASSED. His being given superiority, finding water and increase... The original of such virtues (perfections) will appear and cover its abasement… AND LET HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) who values devotion to might COME. May Allah be pleased with him. (Imam Rabbani, The Letters of Rabbani, 1/569)
We are now in the year Hijri 1430. This date shows that 1000 years have passed since our Prophet (saas) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear during Hijri 1400s, the century we are living now, as stated in the hadiths. It also proves that the first of Imam Rabbani's conditions necessary for the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) has come about.
The second great measure that Imam Rabbani provides regarding the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is the condition of a "double-toothed, light-shedding star" passing close by the Earth.
Gaste, 25.02.2009 'Lulin' approaches to the Earth
According to his Companions, the Messenger of Allah (saas) said:
"When Abbasi Malik arrives at Khorasan, one of the signs of the coming of the promised Mahdi, A DOUBLE-TOOTHED (1) LIGHT SHEDDING (2) HORN (3) WILL APPEAR IN THE EAST."
That comet has been born. But is it that one, or another similar one?
-That this star is called a comet, is probably based on the following:
-The course of the constant IS FROM MAGRIB (WEST) TO MASRIQ (EAST) (4)...
The situation of this star follows this course. In other words, its head faces east and its tail faces west. The long white part is in its rear. Therefore:
-It is appropriate for it to be described as having a tail.
SubhanAllah knows the truth. (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, Letter 381, p. 1184)
(1) ... double-toothed...:
The fact that the tail of the comet Lulin is forked completely matches the term double-toothed in the hadith.
(2) ... light-shedding...:
The term light-shedding in the hadith refers to the brightness of the comet Lulin, which exceeded that of six stars as it approached the Earth.
(3) ... a horn...:
The main distinguishing feature between Lulin and other comets is that as well as the comet having a tail in the rear of its body, it also has a tail in the front. Examination of photographs of Lulin and its two tails immediately put one in mind of a horn.
1. ntvmsnbc.com, 11.02.2009: The comet Lulin entering the Solar System,
2. Dokuzsütun, 03.04.2009: The Green comet was very close to the world,
3. Güneş, 23.02.2009: Comet of the Last Day approaching fast
(4) The course of the constant is from Magrib (west) to Mashriq (east)...:
The hadith goes on to say that "The course of the constant is from Magrib (west) to Mashriq (east)..." This refers to the movement of heavenly bodies, which information is in full agreement with the astronomical findings of the 20th century. Indeed, all heavenly bodies travel from MAGRIB (WEST) to MASHRIQ (EAST).
(5) Its daily passage, on the other hand, is from mashriq (east) to magrib (west). ...:
Here the expression "Its daily passage, on the other hand, ..." indicates that the comet Lulin, as opposed to all other heavenly bodies, travel from east to west.
The reference to a "double-toothed, light shedding" horn, cited in the hadith of our Prophet (saas) as a portent of the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) whose coming is anticipated in the End Times, and described in detail by Imam Rabbani, indicated the comet Lulin, which passed closest to the Earth on February 24, 2009, that is the year Hijri 1430.
Another highly significant feature of this comet is that scientists say that it will next pass by the Earth AFTER at least another 1000 YEARS.
This timing given by scientists shows that it is impossible, according to the dates given on the basis of the hadith of our Prophet (saas) by Sunni scholars regarding the life span of the Earth and Day of Judgment, for the comet to pass by the Earth again. Because the hadith narrated from our Prophet (saas) reveal that the life span of the Earth is 7000 years.
Anas Ibn Malik narrates that the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: THE LIFE SPAN OF THE WORLD IS SEVEN DAYS IN THE DAYS OF THE HEREAFTER. Almighty Allah has said: ONE DAY IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD IS LIKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR YEARS.
ALLAH WILL ASCRIBE THE EQUIVALENT OF GOOD DEEDS OF THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF THE AGE OF THIS WORLD to the one who meets the need of any of his brothers in the faith on the path of Allah as if he spends his days in fasting and his nights in worship. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-zaman, p. 88)
In one hadith narrated from our Prophet (saas) by many scholars, such as Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, the time passing up until our Prophet (saas) is out at 5600 years,
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, in his Kitab al-`Ilal, says: Five thousand, six hundred years have passed from this world. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-zaman, p. 89)
The great Sunni scholar Suyuti says this about the life span of the Ummah:
THE LIFE OF MY COMMUNITY WILL NOT EXCEED 1500 YEARS. (As-Suyuti, Al-Kashf an Mujawazat Hadhihi al-Umma al-Alf, Al-Hawi Lil-Fatawi, Suyuti. 2:248, Tafsir Ruh-ul Bayan. Bursawi 4/262, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Kitab al-`Ilal, p. 89)
Analysis of all this information handed down from our Prophet (saas) confirms that the life span of the Earth will not extend past the 1500s. It is therefore impossible, according to authentic hadiths and the common views of Sunni scholars, for the comet Lulin to pass by the Earth in another 1000 years' time. (Allah knows the truth.)
This is a clear indication that the information that the "double-toothed, light shedding star" in Imam Rabbani's Letters refers to the comet Lulin that passed by the Earth in Hijri 1430, and that shows clearly the second condition for the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) has taken place.
... Asma bint Umays says: THE PORTENT OF THAT DAY [THE COMING OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] IS A HAND EXTENDING FROM THE SKY AND PEOPLE TURNING TO LOOK AT IT. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 69)
... AT THAT TIME [OF THE APPEARANCE OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] A HAND WILL BE SEEN REVEALING ITSELF FROM THE SKY... (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 51)
Conflict and disputes will persist until A HAND APPEARS FROM THE SKY and a voice cries "Hazrat Mahdi (as) is your amir." THE SIGN OF THAT DAY: A HAND WILL EXTEND FROM THE SKY and people will look at and see it. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 53)
NASA described the image as the 'Hand of God'
These hadith transmitted from our Prophet (saas) speak of a "hand" being seen in the sky, and say that this is a portent of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It appears that disputes will continue until that time and that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will constantly be a matter of discussion, i.e. through means of communication such as radio, television and the Internet.
A picture of space taken by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows a mass of neutron stars shaped like a hand appearing to close round another star mass. The reference to a hand in the hadith may be suggestive of this image in the indicated meaning, described by NASA as the "hand of God," giving rise to a celestial phenomenon. (Allah knows the truth.)
The shape of a hand formed by the stellar mass is in complete agreement with the description of its extension as given in the hadith. The photograph taken by NASA shows a hand stretching out somewhere. In addition, the way that people were able to see and observe this celestial phenomenon by means of telescopes thanks to the advanced space and astronomical technology in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is also in complete agreement with the expressions employed in the hadith.
As stated in another hadith, the portents of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) "… may be expected to take place one after the other like beads on a necklace whose string has snapped" (Abu Huraira (ra), Tirmidhi) and have been taking place one after the other over the last 30 years, and are still going on today. The latest, which happened when the two-tailed comet Lulin came closest to the Earth on 24 February, 2009, also appears to match a hadith narrated by Imam Rabbani: "a double-toothed light shedding horn will appear in the East" This, followed now by a celestial phenomenon in the shape of a hand referred to in the hadith in terms of "a hand extending from the sky," is all evidence that Hazrat Mahdi (as) has already appeared and begun his work, and that he will soon be recognized by people. (Allah knows the truth.)
A photograph taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. It is seen as if a pulsar in the shape of a hand, referred by NASA as "God's Hand," grasps another pulsar.
1. Mysterious hand in the sky 2. The mysterious hand that shocked scientists! NASA discovered a celestial body in the shape of a hand
Flooding due to intense rain is one of the signs of the End Times before the Day of Reckoning. The recent reports of floods in various parts of the world confirm that we are living in the End Times.
Our Prophet (saas) revealed 1400 years ago in the hadiths that increasing rain would lead to major disasters:
Every day we watch on television and read reports in the newspapers of more disasters than have ever happened before in history. It is a statistical fact that natural disasters have increased in number as well as in size in recent years. The natural disasters in our day have affected millions of people in many coutries of the world and caused incalculably huge physical damage. Looking at the losses caused by floods in recent years we can clearly see that one of the major signs of the End Times is taking place.
In 2008 more than 1000 people died in flooding caused by rain in India between June and September. The city of Wing Chuen was the epicenter of a powerful earthquake in China in May 2008, and was subjected to heavy rains. Serious flooding and landslides have occurred in various regions. Some 1.88 million people have been affected by these disasters, and 8 have died. Seven people died in a flood disaster caused by fierce rains in China last month. Twenty-two people died as the result of flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in northern parts of Vietnam at the beginning of this month. Various European countries have also been affected by flooding. Strong rains and flooding affected northern England lately. Many people died as a result of flooding caused by heavy rain in the Czech Republic in the final week of last month. Torrential rain affected the southern part of the country in particular. One million people were left homeless by flooding in Mozambique in 2000. Some 1000 people died in disasters caused by seasonal monsson rains in India, Nepal and Bangladesh in 2002. In China in 2003, 2000 people died in torrential summer rains, and 300,000 were made homeless. More than 120,000 people died as a result of floods in Bagladesh in 1991, and millions were left homeless. Floods caused the deaths of 216 people in Asia in 2007, and made 20 million homeless. Two hundred fourteen people died and 80 were made homeless in flooding caused by torrential rains in North Korea in 2007. And in Mexico in 2007, 500,000 people were made homeless when flooding demolished their houses.
Tercüman, 16.06.2008: This time China is under flood
Yeniçağ, 23.06.2008: Philipines go down water, 155 dead
The Hour will not come until there has been rain which destroy all dwellings. (Ash-Sharani, Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 253)
The Hour does not come until all mud-brick buildings, except for the stone ones, collapse. (Ibn Ahmad Hanbal, Musnad vol. 13, p. 291, no. 7554)
There will be treacherous years in which RAINS ARE PLENTIFUL, but fertility is low. In that time, the liar will be believed and THE TRUTHFUL PERSON DISBELIEVED, AND THE TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WILL BE REGARDED AS UNRELIABLE AND THE UNRELIABLE PERSON WILL BE TRUSTED... (Ibn Majah: 4036)
The famine would not break out because of drought, but there would be famine DESPITE HEAVY RAINFALL as NOTHING WOULD GROW FROM THE EARTH. (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, 6937)
… THEN ALLAH WOULD SEND OR HE WOULD CAUSE TO SEND RAIN WHICH WOULD BE LIKE DEW and there would grow out of it the bodies of the people. (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, 7023)
At Hazrat Mahdi's (as) coming, A DOUBLE-TAILED COMET WILL APPEAR AND WILL BE SO BRIGHT THAT IT WILL SHINE LIKE THE FULL MOON. After the appearance of this COMET THERE WILL BE SUCH RAIN THAT GREAT DAMAGE WILL BE CAUSED. But people will welcome that rain. Because NO RAIN WILL HAVE FALLEN FOR THE PREVIOUS 3 YEARS. (Murtadha Lakha, R &K Tyrell Publishers, London, 1993)
1. Günaydın, 28.05.2004: Death toll is more than 1000, 2. Yeni Mesaj, 05.08.2002: More than 600 dead, millions of homeless,
3. Tercüman, 16.04.2009: Canada under flood 4. Şok, 07.08.2006: Ethiopia under flood: 72 dead,
5. Vatan, 05.12.2003: France under flood, 6. Türkiye, 2007: World under flood,
7. 20.05.2003: The greatest flood disaster of the last 6 decades: 200 dead, 200 lost, 8. Kibris Gazetesi, 07.07.2009: Flood disaster in China: 75 dead,
9. Yeni Şafak, 09.07.2009: Giresun is again hit by flood, 10. Türkiye, 22.07.2009: 3 thousand houses under water!
11. Türkiye, 17.07.2009: The flood took hostage
1. The Day of Judgment is very close UN's shocking climate report,
1. The highest temperatures of the last 400 years, 2. The scary melting in Greenland,
3. Winter without water, 4. Drought Everywhere, 5. The Earth is getting warm, disasters are close,
6. Turkey drying, 7. Dams are in such a condition, 8. Dams drying up, 9. This is a dam
1. Occupancy rate in dams reached 95.5 percent, 2. Dry lakes of last year revived with rain showers,
3. 6-year-old dam gates are broken, 250 million cubic meters of water flows to the Mediterranean,
4. Dams break the record of the decade, 5. According to the Minister we have water until 2020,
6. Turkey is full with water, 7. Blessings showered on our country
As revealed in the hadiths, the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) equates to the year Hijri 1400, or 1979 AD.
"People will gather around Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the year (Hijri) 1400." (Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 108)
1. Bugün, 10.09.2009: Mega disaster, 2. Yeni Şafak, 10.09.2009: 31 dead,
3. Vatan, 09.09.200: Like Noah's Flood, 4. Bugün, 09.09.2009: Like a tsunami


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After the bloodbath
Iraq | War is hell, but rebuilding Iraq's political infrastructure is no picnic. Organizers for provincial and national elections must combat mass migration, continuing violence, and cross-party intrigue
"After the bloodbath" Continued...
IN MOSUL, KIRKUK, ERBIL, and HAMDANIYAH, Iraq-When Eveline Aoraha goes to work, she wraps a handgun in a soft print scarf and pushes it into the bottom of a black leather purse. She always zips the bag. Within 10 miles of Mosul, she slips the gun from her bag, hands it to her driver, and wraps the scarf over her head.
Aoraha is one of three Assyrian Christians on a governing council of 41 in Nineveh province. Mosul is its capital. In the last four years, terrorist insurgents have killed 12 council members. Aoraha's colleagues, whom she calls "martyrs" to democracy, were Arab Muslims, Assyrian Christians, and Kurds; the oldest was 80, the youngest was a 34-year-old veterinarian and a mother.
All Mosul's leaders feel the terrorists' wrath. Duraid Kashmoula, a Muslim, has had his 17-year-old son and two brothers killed in the four years he has been governor of the province. He himself has narrowly escaped bombs at least three times, and just last month attended the funeral for his administrative assistant. The purpose of the terrorists, Aoraha said, "is to stop life here, and to stop development."
In so many ways the insurgents have succeeded. Iraq's third-largest city was one of its most picturesque: Parks and restaurants line one shady bank of the Tigris while ancient ruins front the other. The Nineveh bridge crosses the river into the city center where covered stalls sell melons and vegetables along the main traffic circle. Now the parks, the restaurants, and the hotels are all shuttered. The streets leading into the city center are lined with concrete barriers or simple dirt barricades topped with razor wire-anything to stop a bomb-laden car.
Checkpoints bottleneck traffic for hours, as nearly every vehicle is stopped and searched. Officials say overall violence in Mosul is down from one year ago. But during the week that I visited, insurgents bombed the house of a Sunni member of parliament from Mosul, wounding bystanders (the lawmaker himself was in Baghdad at the time); exploded a bomb near a soccer ground, killing five children; injured one resident using a roadside bomb; and detonated a vehicle near a police building, killing two and wounding about 40, including 15 policemen. Before the week was out, gunmen also killed an Assyrian Christian named Bashar al-Hazin, residents said, as he was walking between his church and home.
Improvements mean traffic is moving and people are walking the streets again, but Mosul feels like the neglected stepchild of the U.S. surge that has worked elsewhere. "Because of the success of the surge in Anbar, Diyala, and Baghdad, the insurgents come up to Mosul," said Khasro Goran, deputy governor of the province, and a Kurd. "Their intent now is to deform relationships for the next elections."
Aoraha contends, "The center of the Islamic [jihadist] state is in Mosul now. It is worse than Baghdad or Diyala." Two years ago Aoraha and her family moved 45 miles north of Mosul to a town where they feel safe, and she commutes to work three or four days a week, usually with five armed bodyguards. Her car speeds through town and into fortified government office compounds. Sometimes meetings are held outside the city at the nearby U.S. base-all meaning little interaction with residents. But many of her constituents also have fled. Officials say about 250,000 have left the city of about 1.7 million. Buses carry students and some workers from rural areas where they've taken refuge to universities in Mosul or to offices and return them to their villages of exile each day. Many say they've left Mosul for good.
No matter who the next U.S. president is, he will need new benchmarks for progress in Iraq because the venture that has cost about $500 billion will become his to own. Beyond accounting for combat forces, he will have to gauge political development and assess U.S. reconstruction teams and many nonmilitary programs. Local leaders are mindful that on the eve of U.S. elections and over 18 months into a proven counterinsurgency strategy, it's time for lasting political improvement. "To defeat terror, political powers must unite groups between military and politics," said Kashmoula.
To that end, Iraqis are scheduled to return to the polls for two pivotal elections-provincial balloting before the end of this year, then national elections in 2009. It has taken the surge by U.S. and Iraqi forces to make those elections possible. Now it will take full-fledged elections to make safety-and further minimizing of the U.S. role-possible.
"I wish elections would take place tomorrow," said Kashmoula, fingering prayer beads in an office that went completely dark with a power outage during our interview. On the day we met, the Baghdad parliament passed a long-debated law governing provincial elections. Under it voters are scheduled to go to the polls in Nineveh and Iraq's 16 other provinces-but not in Kirkuk-by the end of this year or early next year.
In Kirkuk, where Sunni Arabs and Turkmen oppose giving control of the historically Kurdish city to the Kurdish regional government, a fact-finding commission from the central government in Baghdad will begin this month to look more into holding a referendum, along with a citywide census, before provincial elections in the coming year; some say that is optimistic. Under the constitution a referendum should be held in connection with provincial elections to determine if Kirkuk remains under direct Baghdad supervision or becomes part of the Kurdish area.
New construction is up in Kirkuk, judging by the buildings rising concrete block by concrete block on its northern outskirts. Oilfields shoot brilliant flares skyward again along the city's western fringe. And violence is down 80 percent from two years ago, according to provincial governor Abdul Rahman Mustafa. "Kirkuk is different from other provincial conflicts and has become a national problem" because it has held up elections, he said. "But there is a lot of faking and exaggerating the facts, describing Kirkuk as a tinderbox of ethnic, regional, and sectarian violence, when it is no such thing."
Mustafa is ethnically a Kurd but politically independent. He laughs when asked how a homegrown politician in a divided city like Kirkuk can survive as an independent. "I am endangering my life by staying independent, but my independence has provided me power to maintain my position." As a lawyer in the city under Saddam's Arabization program, Mustafa could not issue contracts or engage in rent agreements on behalf of Kurds, only Arabs. He remembers how the city was nearly emptied of Kurds and of half its Christian population.
Mustafa has broad support in the city, but he recognizes that voters-like their counterparts in the United States-grow weary of politicians who toy with their city's future. While voter turnout in 2005 topped 60 percent here, registration for upcoming elections is lagging at about 29 percent of eligible voters. Kirkuk's status needs to be decided, he said, so that bigger issues can be confronted-like the fact that there is no airport, only minimal hospital care, and poor sewage.
"What is sad about Kirkuk is that everything here feels temporary, as if people are ready to leave at a moment's notice, especially Kurdish people," said Tanya Gilly, a member of parliament representing Kirkuk who divides her time between Baghdad and Kirkuk, where she lives in a neighborhood that receives running water two or three days per week. "Everyone feels they are in limbo and it will not change."
Throughout September a UN monitoring team met with Mosul and Kirkuk officials to work through the complexities of holding elections while a mass migration of Iraqis continues. Millions of Iraqis in the south and central areas have fled north and outside the country to escape violence. Those who have registered as internally displaced persons, or IDPs, will have the right to vote wherever they are.
Others who were forced to move under Saddam Hussein's regime are now eligible to return to their original homes, and to receive government compensation of 20 million Iraqi dinars ($16,000) for housing. That means Kurds once forced out of Kirkuk may return; and Arabs from Basra, forced by Saddam to relocate to Kirkuk, may go back to Basra.
For Iraq's minorities, including its historic Christian churches and the parties that represent them, the provincial elections present a turning point. Outside Mosul in the plains of Nineveh province, Assyrian parties staged demonstrations in the week following the vote in parliament. Their complaint: As part of the new provincial law, parliamentarians scrapped Article 50, a constitutional clause designed to guarantee proportional representation for Christians and other minorities. Without it they say Christians will have no voice in Iraqi governance.
In Hamdaniyah, a town about 25 miles east of Mosul also known as Qaraqosh, the men turned out on the streets early for a Sunday morning, halting traffic as thousands marched to protest the election law. Iraqi police and army units in trucks with mounted gunners followed the protesters closely as they formed a thick snake through the streets of downtown, then gathered outside government offices in blazing midday sun for speeches. "We are demonstrating our demands for full autonomy for our people-this was provided for by our constitution in Article 50 and endorsed by the UN," said Hamdaniyah mayor Nissan Karumi. Similar demonstrations are planned throughout the region and as far north as Dohuk, a largely Kurdish city that has also become home to an estimated 10,000 displaced Iraqis, most from Mosul.
Article 50 called for seats on provincial governing councils to be apportioned according to demographic makeup. Because no census has been conducted since the war and terrorist activities uprooted millions, there's no way to accurately show how many seats should go to which group. Many believe a census should be taken not only in Kirkuk but nationwide before elections are held.
In Nineveh a census likely would show that more Christians live here than ever before, as Assyrians and Chaldeans who lived in Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra are taking refuge in the province's historically Christian villages. Some Assyrians say they are underrepresented on the Nineveh provincial council already: Currently only three of 41 members are from what are considered Christian parties.
And that is a reason Assyrian and Chaldean leaders also are pressing for a Christian autonomous region modeled on the Kurdish regional government to the north-with its own parliament, constitution, budget, even flag. They feel the only way to solve many of the injustices they face is to create a region in which they are guaranteed a majority in government.
An autonomous region has advocates in Washington among Christian human-rights groups and some lawmakers. But it seems doomed to fall on deaf ears in Baghdad except that it has received endorsement from key Kurdish leaders and is pushed by Kurdish regional government finance minister Sarkis Aghagon. Aghagon himself is Assyrian but has been a member of the Kurdish government since 1992, serving as its deputy prime minister from 2004 through 2006. In a Sept. 29 interview in his Erbil government offices, Aghagon said the autonomous region he envisions would stretch from the Syrian border to the north at Fishkabor (currently part of the Kurdish regional government) to Hamdaniyah. "We are trying to secure our people in an area where they currently live," he said.
Aghagon, who has used undisclosed funds to rebuild hundreds of historically Christian villages across northern Iraq and down to Nineveh Plain for returnees, sees the new zone as an administrative region controlled by Assyrian-Chaldean political parties. (Asked how much money is used for reconstruction and where it comes from, he said, "We don't have such measures. . . . We only provide support for emergency cases in those areas.") Other minorities and Arabs "will coexist with us. . . . We are not separating ourselves from those people. They will have members in the government."
Iraq has many Christians who live outside this area and do not personally share the region's ancient roots. Some pastors say they fear that a regional divide will make them more vulnerable where they are. Said one pastor who did not give permission to be named because of threats to his church, "Many in the Assyrian and Chaldean leadership talk as though they are spokesmen for all Christians. They are not." Another in similar circumstances said, "Personally I want Christians everywhere, on equal footing with all Iraqis, not with special treatment in a special area." He also said, "Too many of our brothers and sisters want first power and authority, not Bible study and discipline."
Goran, the Kurdish deputy governor in Nineveh, insists that what in the end is needed is a vote: "The Kurdish regional government requests a referendum so that people in the middle have to decide. The people of Assyrian places should get to decide their future, not somebody else."
One reason the Christian region has recently gained wider interest may be that it provides a needed pawn in the chess game of redrawing Iraq's map. For Kurds it could be traded away to gain greater control in the Kirkuk region. Or kept as a buffer zone to what is now a hostile Arab/Kurd border.
Politics is messy, and progress toward elections could set the stage for bitter rivalries that erupt in more violence-or actually help to strengthen the democratic process. It's clear that ethnic minorities, including Christians, will play a greater role than ever in Iraq's political future. And that going to the polls in Iraq has consequences everywhere.


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ATHENS - AUGUST 21: Wei Yang of China plays a return as partner Jiewen Zhang looks on during their match against Ling Gao and Sui Huang of China in the women's doubles badminton gold medal match on August 21, 2004 during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece. Yang and Zhang won 7-15,15-4,15-8. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Wei Yang;Jiewen Zhang
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Once again I find myself looking at Zimbra for a client, and this one seems pretty keen. They're particularly interested in the security features on mobile devices, as they've run into trouble with lost devices before. Is there anyone from Zimbra who can comment on the following questions?
So I understand that the policies set on the server can allow you to 'remote wipe' a device given a certain number of incorrect passwords.
- The passcode entered on the mobile brower - is this different from the password required to enter the normal webmail?
- When a remote wipe occurs, what actually gets wiped? This is after all just a mobile web browser ... so it just clears out the browser cache or what?
- If that's the case, then does that mean the Zimbra mails, files, contacts etc are sitting around in the mobile device cache unencrypted? If so then it would be relatively easy to view them before a remote wipe occured, if you have physical access to the phone.
Just trying to sort this information out in my head, so I can correctly inform the client. Any answers are appreciated. I have found other threads with similar questions, but the last one was two years old and no really persuasive answers were forthcoming even then.


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Saratoga Central Catholic Students Reach out to Community
Raising money to help the Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center became personal for Saratoga Central Catholic School senior Ella Gurney.
|Saratoga Central Catholic senior Ella Gurney produced a musical to benefit the Children's Hospital at Albany Med.
So she turned to the stage, organizing her classmates for a summer production of the musical "The Tangled Story of Rapunzel." Nine students, ages 11-18, worked on all aspects of the musical from production, set design, choreography and publicity -- with a singular goal: to raise money for the Children's Hospital.
Last summer it all came together when the Saratoga Central Catholic Players staged the show in Saratoga Springs and raised a total of $1,001.
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Here are some SD muleys, nothing to incredible but I couldn't pass them up! As you can tell there is still some room for improvement on the photo skills!
Here are some SD muleys, nothing to incredible but I couldn't pass them up! As you can tell there is still some room for improvement on the photo skills!
Unfortunately the first two weren't public land muleys... Here is one my brother got a piece of public ground... sorry the pics are kinda blury it was getting dark and we had a long haul to get out of there before midnight...
I would say a person's best shot a big boy on public land is with a bow, by the time the rifle season comes around there usually has been enough pressure to push them onto private refuges...
How did you upload your images?
I upload them on my photobucket account. Then I just copy and paste the IMG code. There are several free image hosting websites.
Im building points for the blackhills any tips for a diy hunter coming from NY.
Put in for the the whitetail tag. Black hills deer are the smallest deer we hunt, it is more of a fun hunt than trophy hunt. It isn't unusual to see several bucks in a day, but a 130 deer is a nice one. If I wanted a big mule deer I would either try the West River deer season or Wyoming, Colorado, or Montana. They have the Mule Deer tags at about 10% of total tags given out, so If they get the cougers under control hopefully our Mule deer will improve.
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Here are some representative Whitetails from the Hills. There are bigger ones out there, but they are the exception rather than the rule. If I was looking for a fun hunt in reasonable terrain, it is a great place. Kind of like an easy to draw antelope hunt in Wyoming. If you want to find a wall hanger on public land I think there are better oppotunities out there...When you draw shoot me a PM
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Thanks for the info on what deer to put in for. A fun hunt is all im looking for as I see the hunt as the fun part and taging a buck a bonus. So when I apply I should put in for nr whitetail, are there different units in the hills? Plan on packing in and hunting out of a small tent if that make a differance as to where i should go.
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