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Announcing the winner of iMore's iPhone 5 second chance giveaway!
Here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for. We're announcing the winner of the FREE iPhone 5 from iMore.
Find out who won... after the break!
Congratulations miabs1! We'll be in touch via email to get your information for the prize! To everyone else, thanks for entering! There is always a giveaway happening on iMore and more chances to win great free stuff! Come back often and enter everything!
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Announcing the winner of iMore's iPhone 5 second chance giveaway!
they should give away 6 iphones since it's the 6th :p
and congratz to the winner
how about the dream iphone design contest... it closed a while ago but winners were never anounced...
Lots of entries to go through, should be posted soon. :)
kk.. sounds good... cant wait for results...
ps. i think that there should be seperate winners from the writing side and from the rendering side as people who rendered will probably be considered more creative that the writers...
pss. i rendered.. but i think people who wrote deserve a chance too...
Congrats to miabs1 on winning a new iPhone 5. 3rd chance?
Must be nice :-)
congrats miabs =)
I'm right with you....
Congrats to miabs1! Enjoy your win in good humor and health.
Congrats miabs1, enjoy it all!
Congrats...hope you enjoy your iP5 as much as I do!!
Congratulations miabs1.
Hey imore, did you stopped the giveaway of iphone5?
I'm very sad.because I used to think about winning iphone 5 from imore. I have no luck to get iphone5.
Wow. I was never lucky in my entire LIFE and I wasn't been lucky now for the millionth time and will probably never be. I want to say congrats but I can't.
congrats miabs1, enjoy it!
hey imore i cant stop talking about the iPhone 5!!! i just bought one yesterday and then when i was at a bar sadly someone stole it from me when i was on the phone I'm still contacting the police but since i don't have insurance i can't afford to buy a new one plz i more giving me this would be the best thing ever please with all your heart consider me
great job miabs1 hope i win something sometime
i need an iphone... :)
its something which attract the people.its not just a phone .its something beyond that
its not just a phone but something beyond the phones
haven't used it.................would like to up grade it from android to ios.......... :-)
I know its too late but its not a problem for me to try it. I am a grade 10 student in the Philippines and being a highschool student is very hard. You need to pass that,submit this, answer that and answer this. Its hard for me not to have a cellphone because in highschool's everyday life we used to use cellphones. But unfornately I don't have one, my parents can't afford to buy me one and because I'm "desperate" to have a cellphone I'm always searching for a giveaway phones but I didn't won any of them. Every time there was a new phone I'm always checking the features and the price but I can't buy. When I found out that there is a new model of iPhoneand its iPhone 6 I always pray for it. If I won this iPhone 6/iPhone 6 plus this would be my best birthday gift ever on July. I hope I win this iPhone 6. PLEASE PICK ME. More power and Blessing to your website :))


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HAMBURG, N.Y. – Award-winning author and journalist, Farai Chideya, brings more than 20 years of experience in the world of media, technology, and social justice to Hilbert College as the keynote speaker during an Annual Commemoration Lecture in the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to be held Jan. 31. Chideya will speak on "What Happens To Equality When We're All Minorities: Re-Imagining King's Dream For A Post-Majority America" at 4:30 p.m. in the William E. Swan Auditorium.
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Besides being an in-demand diversity speaker, Chideya is the author of three nonfiction books: Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters; The Color of Our Future; and Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans. Her first novel Kiss the Sky was the Essence Magazine book club selection for May 2009.
Chideya hosted NPR's News and Notes, a national radio show devoted to "illuminating the African-American experience" from 2006-2009, and served as a correspondent for ABC News, an anchor for the prime-time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen channel and contributed commentaries on CNN, Fox, MSNBC and BET.
Founder of PopandPolitics.com, an online journal and multimedia journalism training lab for 18-29 year olds pursuing careers in the field of journalism, Chideya's website is now one of the longest continuously operating blogs in the world. Chideya and the website have had the highly coveted honor of being an official reporting agency for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and received awards including a MOBE IT Innovator award, named one of Alternet's New Media Heroes, and ranked in PolicticsOnline.com's survey of "25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics."
A book signing and reception will immediately follow the keynote address in the West Herr Atrium.
The Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Lecture, which is free and open to the public, is being co-sponsored by the Hilbert Offices of Multicultural Affairs, Career Development Center, Department of Liberal Studies Social Sciences Division, Digital Media and Communication Department, and the McGrath Library.
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Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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U.S. Army Col. Tara Osborn was named Tuesday to head the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings that killed 13 and wounded more than two dozen on the Texas Army post.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday ousted the previous judge, Col. Gregory Gross, saying he appeared biased against Hasan. The court also tossed out Gross' order to have Hasan's beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial, though it didn't rule on whether the order violated his religious rights as he claimed.
While in custody this spring, Hasan started growing a beard that he says is an expression of his Islamic faith. Gross had sided with prosecutors who say the beard violates Army grooming standards and could confuse witnesses.
The ruling Monday by the military's highest court said the command, not a judge, is responsible for enforcing grooming standards, which means another judge isn't likely to order Hasan to shave, some military law experts said.
"This ruling will have a chilling effect on the future judge because he or she ... will not pursue this beard issue any longer, and the appeals court still hasn't answered the key question of whether Hasan has to comply with military regulations and shave like every other military officer," said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. The retired military attorney is not involved in Hasan's case. "But on the flip side, the jury is going to see him in a full beard and may think he is motivated by radical Islamic beliefs. That's what prosecutors and the judge (Gross) were trying to prevent."
The case had been on hold since Hasan appealed Gross' order a few days before the trial was to start in August. Gross previously delayed Hasan's trial from March to June and then to August.
Army spokesman Maj. S. Justin Platt said he didn't know when Osborn would arrive at Fort Hood. It's unclear when hearings in the case will resume.
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I use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced on three HDD to change it from 64KB to 32KB and I did not lose any data. This is why I always recommend Acronis. I am sorry for your loss , which one did you use?
I used Minitool and Easeus and it kinda backfired on me, but you know what they. Sometimes, you must hit the very bottom, before you can rise to the top...An that's what has happened. I may have lost all my Wii and Gamecube games, but I still have most my disks. The rest I can borrow from my friend again.
An in the aftermath I have obtained a full version Acronis and it works perfectly. I have also (thanks to you guys wonderful advice) finally got my dios mios to work and its never played better. Plus to top it all off a new wbfs manger that runs several times faster than my old one. I can now put games on in 1/20 of the time it used to take. So no worries, if anything I am more than grateful to you guys. Truly I thank you for all the help you've given me.
Thanks to this my games may have died, but they will rise like the phoenix. Even stronger than ever. You just wait.
I am sorry for what Easus has done. It seemed so useful to me. I could erase my entire disk because I had all my games backed up as .iso on a separate drive.
The only problem I ever had with Easus was it wasn't telling me the correct cluster size of my drive. Aside from that it's been good, I just recommend (if you can afford it) always having a extra HDD for backing everything up in "cold storage". For me I do just that and update it every few months.Originally Posted by cwjakesteel
Actually, I disagree. Easus always told me the right thing. The thing with easus is that you have to do it in stages. First you set the partition format and click OK, then you set the cluster size and click OK. Then Click Apply. Before all that you should press refresh but I also think that there's a problem where if you don't have admin rights or something that has to do with access and a drive that is currently in use or something. I don't remember. I haven't used it since DIOS MIOS 2.0.
But I do agree having a cold storage is good.
Maybe I did it wrong, but back when I was having the "load from SD" issue with DM, I loaded my HDD up in EASUS and looked at the properties and it said it was 32kb cluster size (primary and active as well) but upon reformatting it and making sure I set it to 32kb cluster size it began functioning as it should. Perhaps there was some mild corruption going on...Originally Posted by cwjakesteel
I guess I am joining the black screen crowd.
I've been reading the forums for a while now and I've run out of ideas. I've done the entire Mauifrog guide, Fat32 guide, this guide, and remodded the Wii from scratch, and still I get hung on a black screen before the DIOS splash on all GC titles. I tried Wiiflow 4.0.3, USB Loader GX R1200/1201/1202, DM 2.0/2.4, two different FAT32/32KB USB2 drives, and a Sandisk Cruzer 8GB. Deleted and reinstalled priiloader, reinstalled D2x.. Always locks up on a black screen.
Here's my sysCheck in case anyone sees anything obvious:
SpoilersysCheck v2.1.0b13 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priilaoder installed
Homebrew Channel 1.0.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x11
Boot2 v4
Found 89 titles.
Found 54 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stub.
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[75] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 2012/10/24.
The USB drives I tried:
Seagate 1.5TB "Backup Plus Portable Drive" SRD0SP0 (Currently at Costco)
Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1.5TB ST315005FDA2E1 (Discontinued)
No problems with Wii or Nand/Emunand Channels.
Hi there everybody, I have installed Dios Mios 2.4 onto my softmodded wii but I can not seem to get the Gamecube games to load off my external hard drive. My wii is 4.3U and my external is a Western Digital 2.0 so it should be compatible. I have searched for solutions but can not seem to get them to work. I have tried using USB loader GX and Wiiflow. Also to clear things up the loaders show the games, and it gets past the splash screen but then it turns black. Any help would be appreciated.
Well lets start with the easy stuff. Are you loading from HBC or a forwarder channel?Originally Posted by CALLOFDUTYFANBOYS
Verify that your HDD is using 32KB cluster size or less and your games folder is in USB1 in GX and wiiflow.
Use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced : right click your disk/change cluster size/current cluster size:
I use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced on three HDD to change it from 64KB to 32KB and I did not lose any data. (I ONLY RECOMMEND ACRONIS BECAUSE NO DATA LOSS) If you use any other HDD program you will have to backup everything before you change the cluster size.


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clogin is an expect(1) script to automate the process of logging into a Cisco router, Catalyst switch, Extreme switch, Juniper ERX/E-series, Procket Networks, or Redback router. There are complementary scripts for Alteon, Avocent (Cyclades), Bay Networks (nortel), ADC-kentrox EZ- T3 mux, Foundry, HP Procurve switches and Cisco AGMs, Hitachi routers, Juniper Networks, MRV optical switch, Mikrotik routers, Netscreen firewalls, Netscaler, Riverstone, Netopia, Cisco WLCs and Xirrus arrays, named alogin, avologin, blogin, elogin, flogin, fnlogin, hlogin, htlogin, jlogin, mrvlogin, mtlogin, nlogin, nslogin, rivlogin, tlogin, wlogin, and xilogin, respectively. Lastly, plogin is a poly- login script using the router.db(5) files of rancid groups and the rancid.types.base(5) and rancid.types.conf(5) files to determine which login script to execute for the device type of the given device. clogin reads the .cloginrc file for its configuration, then connects and logs into each of the routers specified on the command line in the order listed. Command-line options exist to override some of the directives found in the .cloginrc configuration file. The command-line options are as follows: -S Save the configuration on exit, if the device prompts at logout time. This only has affect when used with -s. -V Prints package name and version strings. -c Command to be run on each router list on the command-line. Multiple commands maybe listed by separating them with semi- colons (;). The argument should be quoted to avoid shell expansion. -d Enable expect debugging. -E Specifies a variable to pass through to scripts (-s). For example, the command-line option -Efoo=bar will produce a global variable by the name Efoo with the initial value "bar". -e Specify a password to be supplied when gaining enable privileges on the router(s). Also see the password directive of the .cloginrc file. -f Specifies an alternate configuration file. The default is $HOME/.cloginrc. -p Specifies a password associated with the user specified by the option overrides any user directive found in .cloginrc. The default is the current Unix username. -v Specifies a vty password, that which is prompted for upon connection to the router. This overrides the vty password of the .cloginrc file's password directive. -w Specifies the username used if prompted when gaining enable privileges. The command-line option overrides any user or enauser directives found in .cloginrc. The default is the current Unix username. -x Similar to the -c option; -x specifies a file with commands to run on each of the routers. The commands must not expect additional input, such as 'copy rcp startup-config' does. For example: show version show logging -y Specifies the encryption algorithm for use with the ssh(1) -c option. The default encryption type is often not supported. See the ssh(1) man page for details. The default is 3des.
If the login script fails for any of the devices on the command-line, the exit value of the script will be non-zero and the value will be the number of failures.
clogin recognizes the following environment variables. CISCO_USER Overrides the user directive found in the .cloginrc file, but may be overridden by the -u option. CLOGIN clogin will not change the banner on your xterm window if this includes the character 'x'. CLOGINRC Specifies an alternative location for the .cloginrc file, like the -f option. HOME Normally set by login(1) to the user's home directory, HOME is used by clogin to locate the .cloginrc configuration file.
$HOME/.cloginrc Configuration file.
cloginrc(5), expect(1) the login scripts or for every target device.
Do not use greater than (>) or pound sign (#) in device banners or hostnames or prompts. These are the normal terminating characters of device prompts and the login scripts need to locate the initial prompt. Afterward, the full prompt is collected and makes a more precise match so that the scripts know when the device is ready for the next command. All these login scripts for separate devices should be rolled into one. This goal is exceedingly difficult. The HP Procurve switch, Motorola BSR, and Cisco AGM CLIs rely heavily upon terminal escape codes for cursor/screen manipulation and assumes a vt100 terminal type. They do not provide a way to set a different terminal type or adjust this behavior. The resulting escape codes make automating interaction with these devices very difficult or impossible. Thus bin/hpuifilter, which must be found in the user's PATH, is used by hlogin to filter these escape sequences. While this works for rancid's collection, there are side effects for interactive logins via hlogin; most of which are formatting annoyances that may be remedied by typing CTRL-R to reprint the current line. WARNING: repeated ssh login failures to HP Procurves cause the switch's management interface to lock-up (this includes snmp, ping) and sometimes it will crash. This is with the latest firmware; 5.33 at the time of this writing. 25 September 2014 clogin(1)


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Chicago (49-24-1-6) finished the season in first place in the West Division - marking the club's second division title in three years – and will open the 2010 Calder Cup playoffs at home against the Milwaukee Admirals on Wed., April 14 at 7 p.m.
Defenseman Paul Postma led the charge for the Wolves with three points (G, 2A), while forwards Spencer Machacek (G, A), Johnny Pohl (G, A), Anthony Stewart 2A) and Joey Crabb (2A) also had multiple-point nights. Grand Rapids right wing Jeremy Williams posted three goals in the game's final 13 minutes to notch a hat trick.
Wolves goaltender Peter Mannino (26-5-1) kicked out 35 of 39 shots to collect his career-high 26th win of the season.
"We controlled the game for two periods but we've been struggling to play a full 60 minutes," said Wolves Head Coach Don Lever. "We played a team that had nothing to lose and was loose."
Postma got the Wolves off to a 1-0 lead with a power play goal at 13:07 of the first period. The blueliner came streaking in from the right of the goal and slapped home a feed from Crabb.
Center Kevin Doell converted on a breakaway to make the Wolves lead 2-0, 16:08 into the first period. Machacek chipped the puck up the ice to Doell, who took off alone into the Griffins zone before pulling up, deking and flicking a shot past Griffins goaltender Thomas McCollum.
Right wing Tim Stapleton roofed a shot over a fallen McCollum with 24 seconds remaining in the first period to give Chicago a 3-0 lead heading into the intermission.
Machacek made Chicago's lead 4-0 with a shorthanded goal, 1:11 into the second period. The right wing intercepted the puck, raced up the ice ahead of the defense and flung a shot from the near circle that saucered past McCollum.
Right wing Francis Pare snagged a power-play goal to get Grand Rapids (33-39-3-4) on the board at 15:01 of the second period when he deflected a long blast from defenseman Doug Janik, lifting it up over Mannino's shoulder as he dropped down to stop the shot from the blue line.
The Wolves responded with a fifth goal 25 seconds later when right wing Anthony Stewart carried the puck down the right side of the Griffins zone and flipped it back to center Johnny Pohl in the slot, where the right wing wasted no time cranking it past McCollum.
McCollum (10-16-2) turned aside 21 shots for Grand Rapids.
The Griffins made the score 5-2 with a power-play goal at 8:46 of the third period. Williams took a pass from Cory Emmerton at the left corner of the goal mouth and popped it past Mannino.
Grand Rapids inched closer, 5-3, when center Justin Abdelkader picked up a loose puck and found Williams alone in the slot, where he was able to wrist a shot over Mannino's shoulder to pick up his second goal of the game.
Pohl tallied his second of the game with 2:36 left to play after carrying the puck into the zone himself, deking and lifting a shot up under the crossbar.
Williams beat Mannino, glove side, with 19 seconds left in the game to complete a hat trick.
The Wolves will host the first two contests of the best-of-seven-games West Division Semifinal against Milwaukee at the Allstate Arena on Wed., April 14, at 7 p.m., and Fri., April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Grand Rapids 0 1 3 -- 4
Chicago 3 2 1 -- 6
First Period---1, Chicago, Postma 15 (Crabb, Anderson), 13:07 pp; 2, Chicago, Doell 16 (Machacek), 16:08; 3, Chicago, Stapleton 30 (Crabb, Postma), 19:36 pp. Penalties---Ritola, Grand Rapids (hooking), 0:32; Krog, Chicago (tripping), 5:21; Janik, Grand Rapids (interference), 11:32; Owens, Grand Rapids (roughing), 16:41; Chiarot, Chicago (roughing), 16:41; Armstrong, Grand Rapids (hooking), 18:24; Tollefsen, Grand Rapids (roughing), 20:00; Doell, Chicago (roughing, high-sticking), 20:00.
Second Period---4, Chicago, Machacek 20 (unassisted), 1:11 sh; 5, Grand Rapids, Pare 16 (Janik, Tatar), 15:01 pp; 6, Chicago, Pohl 19 (A. Stewart, Postma), 15:27. Penalties---May, Grand Rapids (roughing), 3:31; Armstrong, Grand Rapids (roughing), 4:59; Abdelkader, Grand Rapids (roughing, misconduct), 7:37; Sipotz, Chicago (roughing, misconduct), 7:37; Lashoff, Grand Rapids (slashing), 10:24; Chiarot, Chicago (tripping), 14:11.
Third Period---7, Grand Rapids, Williams 28 (Emmerton, Kindl), 7:46 pp; 8, Grand Rapids Williams 29 (Abdelkader), 10:21; 9, Chicago, Pohl 20 (A. Stewart), 17:24; 10, Grand Rapids, Williams 30 (Abdelkader), 19:41 sh. Penalties---Kaip, Chicago (hooking), 6:20; G. Stewart, Chicago (slashing), 17:39; Emmerton, Grand Rapids (hooking), 18:13.
Shots on goal---Grand Rapids: 14-14-11--39. Chicago: 12-12-3--27. Power plays---Grand Rapids: 2-6. Chicago: 2-6. Goalies---Grand Rapids, McCollum (21-27). Chicago, Mannino (35-39). A---14,019. Referee---Chris Ciamaga. Linesmen---Al Stensland and Aaron Mills.


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Union membership in U.S. falls to 97-year lowSTEVEN GREENHOUSE
The New York Times | January 27,2013New York Times file photo
Union firefighters march into the state Capitol during a protest against a budget bill in Madison, Wis., in February 2011. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the percentage of American workers in labor unions fell to 11.3 percent last year, the lowest ratio in 97 years.The long decline in the number of U.S. workers belonging to labor unions accelerated sharply last year, sending the unionization rate to its lowest level in close to a century.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the total number of union members fell by 400,000 last year, to 14.3 million, even though the nations overall employment rose by 2.4 million nationwide.
The percentage of workers in unions fell to 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011, the bureau found in its annual report on union membership. That brought unionization to its lowest level since 1916, when it was 11.2 percent, according to a study by Rutgers economists Leo Troy and Neil Sheflin.
There were several reasons for the steep one-year decline, according to labor experts. Among the factors were new laws that rolled back the power of unions in Wisconsin, Indiana and other states, the continued expansion by manufacturers like Boeing and Volkswagen in nonunion states and the growth of sectors like retail and restaurants, where unions have little presence.
These numbers are very discouraging for labor unions, said Gary N. Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Its a time for unions to stop being clever about excuses for why membership is declining, and its time to figure out how to devise appeals to the workers out there.
Labor unions have boasted of their successes in helping re-elect President Barack Obama and in helping Democrats pick up seats in Congress.
But the figures announced by the bureau point to grave problems for organized labors future. The portion of private sector workers in unions fell to just 6.6 percent last year, from 6.9 percent in 2011, causing some labor experts to question whether private sector unions were sinking toward irrelevance. Private sector union membership peaked at around 35 percent in the 1950s.
The report showed particular drops in union membership in two groups where unions have long been strong: local government employees and manufacturing workers.
Union membership showed sharp drops in Wisconsin, which passed a law in 2011 curbing the collective bargaining rights of many public employees, and in Indiana, which enacted a right-to-work law last February that might have prompted many workers to drop their union membership.
Such laws bar requiring employees at unionized workplaces from being made to pay union dues or fees. The bureaus report showed that union membership fell by 13 percent last year in Wisconsin and by 18 percent in Indiana both unusually large drops for a single year.
Barry T. Hirsch, a labor economist at Georgia State University, said an analysis he conducted found that the number of government employees in Wisconsin belonging to a union slid by 48,000 last year, to 139,000 from 187,000, as many public sector workers evidently decided to quit their unions after the Republican-led Legislature stripped them of most of their bargaining rights.
Speaking about the nation as a whole, Hirsch said, I am really surprised that the drop in unionization was as large as it is in a single year, and it was particularly big in the public sector. It does seem you are seeing reductions in some of the states that you might expect.
For instance, in Indiana, where the right-to-work law took effect last March, unionization dropped to 9.1 percent from 11.3 percent in 2011. Michigan enacted a similar law last month.
The bureau said public sector union membership long a labor stronghold fell to 35.9 percent in 2012, from 37 percent the previous year. The number of government workers in unions fell by 234,000, as many teachers, police officers and others lost their jobs. There were 7.3 million public employees in unions, compared with 7 million private sector workers.
William Spriggs, the AFL-CIOs chief economist, took a more upbeat approach to the report, noting that the bureau had found increased union membership in California, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas.
Its not a simple story that we dont have our act together, Spriggs said. I would be more concerned if union membership was down among Latinos and Asian-Americans, because thats a growing demographic, but its up.
He acknowledged that unions were doing poorly in manufacturing, retail and elsewhere in the private sector, which has been adding jobs even as union membership has continued a slide that has lasted for decades.
Our labor laws do not favor unions organizing, Spriggs said. It would be one thing to say were bellyaching, but the Republican Party is really being vindictive against unions, and employers campaign very hard against workers unionizing.
But Chaison said now would seem a good time for unions to attract workers.
Workers should be looking to unions because of job insecurity and stagnant wages, but theyre not.
In recent months, there has been an uptick in labor militancy as evidenced by recent protests at Wal-Marts across the nation and the one-day strike by fast-food workers in New York City in November. Both of those actions against nonunion employers protested what workers said were low wages and meager benefits.
Union officials acknowledge that it is often hard to persuade a majority of employees at a big-box store or other workplaces to vote to unionize.
Glenn Spencer, vice president of the Workforce Freedom Initiative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesdays report has some alarm bells ringing at union headquarters across Washington.
With workers no longer spending their entire career at one employer and often switching jobs, he said, workers no longer felt as attracted to unions.
Unions have fundamentally had a hard time conveying to workers what their value proposition is, how theyre really going to make workers lives better, Spencer said. And if you look at union contracts and their rigid work rules, there is no incentive for employers to embrace unions either.
According to the report, North Carolina has the lowest unionization rate, 2.9 percent, followed by Arkansas, at 3.2 percent. New York had the highest rate, 23.2 percent, with Alaska second, at 22.4 percent.
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I invested some time and belief in UR in spring and some of summer, but at the end of July I went away from it because it seemed to me that the bible, if taken at face value, does not teach UR at all. I mean, if UR were true, should it not be a bit more obvious?
As it is, UR requires really delicate tweaking and interpreting of scripture, and that just doesn't seem very truthful and evident of truth for me.
I've also had God speak to me a few times, and the Holy Spirit was there for me too. In fact, anytime I managed to simply trust the Holy Spirit, I ended up feeling calmth, strength and peace.
I've discussed this with a friend who believes in ET, and he says that believing in UR is like using a sedating medicine to sedate your gum while the tooth of faith which you need to get through life, is in fact decaying and requires a filling. I've realized this to be true. Sure, UR is a beautiful theory, but it ain't the truth, so all it does is to remove pain which one day will return again when you have to face the truth.
But I do believe it's misleading. It's a bit childish ... we close our eyes and say "nothing bad will happen, nothing bad will happen"
We should rather sincerely work at the means by which either God is so pleased that nothing bad will happen,
or which will take us through bad times because we really come to sincerely love Him, like Job, Daniel, Abraham etc.
But I do believe it's misleading. It's a bit childish ... we close our eyes and say "nothing bad will happen, nothing bad will happen"
Well, if all these denominations place so much value on that which separates them from other denominations, in fact that much value to sort of secede from them, when all of these say UR is not obvious,
1) UR is the hidden meaning of the bible available only to those with a particular blessing of understanding ----> gnosticism!
2) UR is not the truth because God would have made that obvious in the bible, if it were!
3) Nobody knows the truth about our eventual fate as it's all remaining a mystery.(That's my stance, when it comes down to whether I am truly certain of how it all will work out)
4) UR is the obvious truth, because reason readily agrees with it ----> gives emphasis to reason rather than to scripture / allows discarding of that scripture as faulty which does not agree with UR because UR is our only true hope
I say UR requires a tweaking because of what it does to the meaning of verses like in the for ever and ever / age during debate. For example, Christ says the condemned will receive the same fate as the devil and his angels. This contradicts UR unless you also believe that the devil will only receive punishment for a time.
Personally I don't believe in ET as if it's about an eternal torture chamber. Instead I think it is about existence in a bleak and terrible black world void of God's good influence.
I do fear about my loved ones going there but ultimately that is their decision and it's largely independent of what I can do. Salvation is decided between a man and his God, not between man and man
In fact UR seems like an idea that came up between man and man, because it is so reasonable, because it balances opinions. But as such, it leaves out God - it makes God the Saviour of everyone without anyone having to do something. Sort of like an automatic salvation.
When it comes to love I suppose the love God is after really is different from what UR people make love up to be. It must be a very obedient love. It must, at least at times and potentially, be sacrificial. It must be very sincere, humble and reverential. It's normal that we don't easily have such love, but I think God wants all of us to get there eventually.
Don't think I mean you harm. I'm not coming here to preach hellfire. I just have sincere objections to UR. I really would prefer if it were true, but if it's not the truth I must adapt. Love for the truth is important in our faith.


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But everything is new and must be either reaffirmed,or I must make a new assment.
...Trying to be good was making me an emotional basketcase and I always thought God was very disappointed in me, which made me hate myself and do self destructive things. Yes, discovering the real love of God who will reconcile all creation, which is subject to futility for a period of time and for His purpose, is a grand relief.
Eaglesway, I know what you mean by smiling like a mad man. Sometimes I see a group of people and the thought comes to me, it's all gonna be ok--not one will be lost, and I break out in a wide smile. This is the real good news. I want to tell everyone, but most I share it with imediately shut it down. That's ok--I'm still smiling! One of the best parts is I no longer feel I am competing with someone for the few spots in heaven. That frees me to love them (although I still need training wheels for this one)
Just imagine how much love God has for us that it just barley fitsin to the time restraints of eternity.God may just decide to make eternity longer .
Have you ever thought (ignoring the little detail of the time between our death and our resurrection) that we are already living in Eternity?!


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"Three of the sharpest and most open-minded jazz singers in (or out of) town"
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Watch TILLERY perform live at Blue Whale in LA, CA. The three perform "Tillery" written by Becca Stevens with poetry by Jane Tyson Clement and Becca Stevens.
The three will head into the studio in January, 2014!
We had a fantastic and very busy week in California this September, beginning in San Francisco and finishing up in Los Angeles. Here are some highlights.
A very special thanks to the Ostroff's; The JazzSchool; BetaLevel; Joon, Alex and everyone at the Blue Whale – and of course, all who participated and came to our performances.
Our next scheduled workshop isn't until October of 2014 at the Falcon in Marlboro, NY – but you can still SIGN-UP NOW. It's going to be a beautiful day filled with songwriting, singing, performing, a special lunch created by the Falcon Arts chef and a Tillery concert – all to take place in the lower Hudson Valley (just 60 miles from NYC). You can even travel by train and be picked up and returned to the station! It's a great value.
We look forward to seeing you!
Rebecca, Gretchen and Becca
Tillery is pleased to announce several study opportunities, a mix of masterclasses and workshops being offered on the West Coast. They are open to all musicians and creatives no matter your instrument. Please have a look below and write to Rebecca Martin at email@example.com with any questions.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Sunday, September 22th, 2013 (Workshop)
TILLERY is pleased to visit the Jazzschool in San Francisco this fall! The Jazzschool is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to the study and performance of jazz — America's indigenous art form —and related styles of music from around the world. Founded in 1997, the Jazzschool is located in the historic Kress Building at Shattuck and Addison, in the heart of the Downtown Berkeley Arts District. The Jazzschool is part of a vibrant East Bay arts community that includes the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, East Bay Media Center and renowned Cal Performances at the University of California. Hailed as one of the nation's most comprehensive centers for jazz studies, the Jazzschool offers instrumentalists and vocalists of all ages and skill levels a broad spectrum of performance ensembles, lectures, workshops and private instruction. Courses are designed for the professional musician, the serious student and the jazz aficionado seeking personal enrichment. A multi-faceted institution, the Jazzschool comprises several key components.
The Jazzschool hosts a full day Workshop with Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens of TILLERY
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LOS ANGELES, CA: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 (Masterclass)
We are really excited to partner up with Gretchen's sister Heather Parlato and the space that she helps to program called 'Betalevel'. This hip 'rough and tumble' venue is described as 'part studio, part club, part stage, and part screen; Betalevel is located in a basement in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and plays host to various media events such as screenings, performances, classes, lectures, debates, dances, readings, and tournaments. Its members are artists, programmers, writers, musicians, designers, agit-propers, filmmakers, and reverse-engineers.'
It's best to locate the space by clicking on the link to 'directions' below – as the door is somewhat hidden behind Hill Street. Don't worry. We'll give you a number to call after you register just in case ("Don't worry, Jake. It's Chinatown." I've always wanted to use that somewhere) – so join us for an evening masterclass session!
"The Methods, Process and Practice in Singing and Songwriting" A masterclass with Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens of TILLERY – "The Methods, process and practice in Singing and Songwriting" will take participants on a journey through the musical paths and varied songwriting methods of Tillery's Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens. This revealing workshop will enlighten and inspire through a range of topics that include early musical experiences, writers block, breakthroughs, connecting your creative work to your daily life and finding your true voice. During the session, participants will be led through several unique songwriting processes with hands on writing and composing exercises done individually and in collective groups. Guaranteed to get the creative juices flowing!
"The Methods, Process and Practice in Singing and Songwriting" Workshop with Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens of TILLERY
963 N. Hill Street (right behind)
in Chinatown
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
6:00pm – 9:00pm
$90 per participant
The workshop is open to all participants 16 or older. All levels welcome.
Be on the look out for an email from us shortly after you register.
Sponsored by Larrecca Music, Inc.
For more information about TILLERY or for bookings CONTACT
TILLERY, a group that features a collaboration between Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, will bring their music overseas performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Club in the Netherlands in July 2014. A special workshop that will feature Rebecca Martin and Becca Stevens has also been scheduled.
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Friday, July 12th (9:00pm)
Tillery at the North Sea Jazz Club
Saturday, July 13th (11:00am)
Rebecca and Becca host Workshop at "We Move Mountains" in Amsterdam
Saturday, July 13th (12:30am)
Tillery at the North Sea Jazz Festival
Tillery is hitting the road together in 2013. Catch them if you can!
More shows being added!
Friday, May 17th, 2013
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival
Washington, DC
Saturday, June 1st, 2013
Shapeshifter Lab
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, July 12th, 2013
North Sea Jazz Festival
Saturday, July 13th, 2013
North Sea Jazz Festival
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
The Jazz School – Concert
Berkeley, CA
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
The Jazz School – Workshop
10:00am – 3:00pm Berkley, CA
Sunday, December 1st, 2013
Falcon Arts Workshop Series and Performance
10:00am – 5:00pm
Marlboro, NY
TO SIGN UP VISIT www.tillerygals.com
More details shortly!
December 5th and 6th
Tillery Recording
We had a fantastic weekend in Boston with a crew of talented, enthusiastic students.
A special thank you to all who attended, and to Bob Divoli who hosted our group in his space.
TILLERY is looking into organizing another series in a new city come May, 2013. More details to follow.
Happy Holidays!
Rebecca, Gretchen and Becca
Follow this LINK to sign-up for the Tillery Master Class Series in Boston, MA.
TILLERY, a group that features a collaboration between Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, has organized an entire weekend of master classes in the financial district of Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd, 2012.
Participants will have the opportunity to choose from a selection of four master classes that include topics such as songwriting, band leading, performance, and sharing songs or song ideas in an intimate setting with the three renowned and accomplished musicians.
Students will become inspired and meet new friends in a supportive and nurturing atmosphere. Each master class is three hours in length and start at $150.00.
Sign-up for two or more to enjoy discounted classes. Students who apply for all four will receive a ticket to a private Tillery concert on Sunday, December 2nd at 8:00pm (limit one ticket per student).
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TILLERY Masterclass Series
TILLERY is Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens
Financial district, Boston, Massachuetts
* The location, hotel accommodations and directions will be sent to each paying student. All accommodations are not included *
Saturday, December 1st and Sunday December 2nd, 2012
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** Students who sign-up for all four master classes will also receive one ticket to a private "Tillery" performance on Sunday, December 2nd! **
(1) Saturday, December 1st, 2012: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Methods and process of songwriting.
"Methods and Process of Songwriting" will take participants on a journey through the musical paths and varied songwriting methods of Tillery's Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens. This revealing lecture with Q&A will enlighten and inspire through a range of topics that include early musical experiences, writers block, breakthroughs, connecting your creative work to your daily life and finding your true voice.
(2) Saturday, December 1st 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Methods in Practice.
"Methods in Practice" guides participants through several unique songwriting processes with hands on writing and composing exercises done individually and in collective groups. Guaranteed to get the creative juices flowing!
(3) Sunday, December 2nd 11:00am – 2:00pm
Who are you really? Presenting yourself and connecting to your audience on and off stage.
"Who are you really? Presenting yourself and connecting to your audience on and off stage" is designed to help participants become more aware of how they are presenting themselves. The group will discuss a range of topics that include performance, band leading, speaking on stage, social media, public image, healthy living and the impact an artist can make in their local communities.
(4) Sunday, December 2nd 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Sharing songs with discussion and feedback
A comfortable and nurturing setting to present finished or unfinished music, songs or poems. Participants may simply share or request valuable feedback while soaking in the creative energy of others. Build confidence and be inspired while connecting with new friends or potential musical partnerships.
Tillery Master Class POLICY
Your payment in full is refundable in the event of your cancellation from the program up until November 15th, 2012. Cancellation before this date will result in a full refund minus a $10 processing fee and must be made in writing via e-mail sent to firstname.lastname@example.com by an adult 18 or over. Sorry, we cannot issue any refund for cancellation requests received after November 15th.
Follow this LINK to sign-up for the Tillery Master Class Series in Boston, MA.
TILLERY, a collaboration between Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato, and Becca Stevens, to perform in Maine. The vocal super group will bring their outstanding music and infectious chemistry to Rangeley, Maine on September 1st, 2012.
New York, NY – TILLERY, a collaborative project created by Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, with a special guest will grace the stage of the Lakeside Theater, Main Street in Rangeley for a concert on Saturday, September 1st 2012. Doors are at 4:00pm and showtime is 4:30pm. The ticket price is $15 and can be purchased at the door. Presented by CAT Productions.
TILLERY, a collaboration between Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato, and Becca Stevens, will make a rare concert appearance later this month in conjunction with a songwriting workshop they are offering in New York City.
The trio presents "Stories and Songs – a Masterclass Performance" on Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, May 27th at The Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street. The group will perform two sets, at 9:00 pm and 10:30 pm. Tickets are $20.00, and can be purchased at www.jazzgallery.org.
"Stories and Songs – a Masterclass Performance" will showcase the three singers' original compositions and arrangements of covers while allowing for an intimate discussion on their collaboration and music.
Separately, Tillery is hosting a Songwriting Workshop on Saturday and Sunday during the morning and afternoon hours, also at the Jazz Gallery.
Tickets for both events can be found by visiting the Jazz Gallery's schedule page at www.jazzgallery.org
Visit www.tillerygals.org for more information on the group and their performances.
About TILLERY: Tillery is a collaborative project created by Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens. Individually, they are three of New York's most acclaimed and respected vocalists/songwriters. Together as Tillery, they're a potent collective force that's more than the sum of its already formidable parts. The threesome's seamless creative chemistry and organic personal rapport makes for a powerful collaboration that's been wowing live audiences since the trio first joined forces in 2010. United equally by an abiding friendship and a mutual admiration for one another's talents, Tillery finds these three unmistakable individuals converging into a distinctive and deeply compelling whole.
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There are lots of statements that have been conditionally proved on the assumption that the Riemann Hypothesis is true.
What other conjectures have a large number of proven consequences ?
There are lots of statements that have been conditionally proved on the assumption that the Riemann Hypothesis is true.
What other conjectures have a large number of proven consequences ?
What is usually referred to as Lusztig's Conjecture in the modular representation theory of semisimple algebraic groups has been enormously influential, as seen in Jantzen's treatise Representations of Algebraic Groups. It is actually a series of closely related conjectures, from 1979 on, inspired by the (soon proved) Kazhdan-Lusztig Conjecture (1979) on the formal characters of the usually infinite dimensional simple highest weight modules for a complex semisimple Lie algebra: such a character can be written as a $\mathbb{Z}$-linear combination of the known formal characters of Verma modules whose coefficients are values at 1 of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of the Weyl group $W$. The original characteristic $p$ conjecture has a similar flavor, but with the affine Weyl group (whose translations are multiplied by $p$) replacing $W$ and with the essential proviso that $p$ be not too small. It is expected that the Coxeter number of $W$ will be a suitable lower bound, but so far the partial proofs by Andersen-Jantzen-Soergel, Fiebig, and Bezrukavnikov-Mirkovic do not achieve a reasonable bound.
If proved, the conjecture would combine with older results of Curtis and Steinberg to yield all modular irreducible characters of finite groups of Lie type in the defining characteristic (but still with the lower bound on $p$), as well as the formal characters and dimensions of all restricted representations of the Lie algebra of the given semisimple group. Andersen and others have formulated further consequences, in terms of the structure of Weyl modules, the extensions and cohomology of simple or Weyl modules, etc. (Adapted to general linear groups, there are also implications for modular characters of symmetric groups.) The later conjectures of Lusztig, proved for large enough $p$ in a preprint by Bezrukavnikov and Mirkovic, go further with the non-restricted Lie algebra representations as well in a unified geometric setting which promises further applications.
ADDED: I should point out that many special cases of the more general results which would follow from Lusztig's Conjecture have in fact been verified, but usually by computational or somewhat ad hoc methods. Plus the existing proofs of the conjecture itself for "large enough" primes, which don't seem improvable without new methods.
Set theory is of course completely saturated with this feature, since the independence phenomenon means that a huge proportion of the most interesting natural set-theoretic questions turn out to be independent of the basic ZFC axioms. Thus, most of the interesting work in set theory is about the relations beteween these various independent statements. They typically have the form of implications assuming the truth of a hypothesis not known to be true (and often, known in some sense not to be provably true), and therefore are instances of what you requested. The status of these various hypotheses as conjectures, however, to use the word you use, has given rise to vigorous philosophical debate in the foundations of mathematics and set theory, as to whether or not they have definite truth values and how we could come to know them.
Examples of such hypothesis that are used in this way would include all of the main set-theoretic hypotheses known to be independent. This list would run to several hundred natural statements, but let me list just a few:
This last example is extremely important and a unifying instance of what you requested, for the large cardinal hierarchy is a tower of increasingly strong hypotheses, which we believe to be consistent, but haven't proved, and indeed, provably cannot prove, to be consistent, unless set theory itself is inconsistent. From any level of the large cardinal hierarchy, if consistent, we provably cannot prove the consistency of the higher levels.
So in this sense, the large cardinal hierarchy provides enormous iterated towers of your phenomenon.
This might seem at first to be a flaw. Why would we be interested in these large cardinals, if we cannot prove they exist, cannot prove that their existence is consistent, and indeed, can prove that we cannot prove they are consistent, assuming our basic axioms are consistent? The reason is that because of Goedel's incompeteness theorem, we know and expect to find such statements, that are not settled, even when we assume Con(ZFC) and more. Thus, we know there is hierarchy of consistency strength towering above us. The remarkable thing is that this tower turns out to be describable in terms of the very natural infinite combinatorics of large cardinals. These were notions, such as inaccessible, Ramsey and measurable cardinals, that arose from natural questions about infinite combinatorics, independently of any considerations of consistency strength.
Some of the most interesting uses of large cardinals have been equiconsistencies between large cardinals and other natural mathematical statements. For example, the impossibility of removing AC from the Vitali construction of a non-measurable set is exactly equiconsistent with the existence of an inaccessible cardinal. And the complete determinacy of infinite integer games (with not AC) is equiconsistent with the existence of infinitely many Woodin cardinals.
The standard conjectures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conjectures_on_algebraic_cycles) were pretty much designed to be used in this way (and then proved); but proofs are lacking, and some of the results now have non-conditional proofs. There are many related results in the theory of motives.
In number theory, Vandiver's conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandiver%27s_conjecture) has begun to stand out, because of its connection with K-theory (which is another area in which there are large scale conjectures used in this way).
Wiki also says:
The ABC conjecture and Vojta's conjectures come to mind.
Clicking on Toolbox-What Link's Here in the wikipedia article Conditional proof brings up Schinzel's hypothesis H which the article says is used to prove conditional results in diophantine geometry.


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text: Raheem Khawaja* was a troubled boy who came to KidsPeace in the fall of 2009. Raheem's family had emigrated from Pakistan shortly after his birth; he had no conscious memories of living in Pakistan and was grounded in American culture… skateboarding, cartoons and McDonald's. Raheem had done very well at his local elementary school, which was located within walking distance from his new home. His father walked him to school in the morning, and his mother was waiting at home for him when he returned afterwards. Raheem did well academically and had many friends. It seemed like middle school would be a smooth transition. However, problems started almost immediately in the fall of his sixth grade year. Raheem was suspended twice for fighting on the bus. His grades dropped, and he became moody and unhappy. His parents grew concerned. What was wrong with their son? When they asked him, he had no answers. His pediatrician assured them that the onset of puberty often produced such changes in behavior… this reassured them, for a time. Then, following another bus incident, Raheem was suspended for bringing a knife to school. The guidance counselor insisted that the parents take their son to the emergency room to obtain a psychiatric evaluation. It was then that Raheem was admitted to the KidsPeace Hospital for treatment.Raheem was pleasant and cooperative during his stay. He followed the rules and did not exhibit any behavior problems. The Treatment Team had a difficult time understanding why this cheerful boy was having such a difficult time at school. The therapist gathered a comprehensive history of Raheem's experiences, and everything she was told appeared to support the story of a developmentally normal, healthy boy. Then she asked Raheem's parents about their own lives. Suddenly, the picture began to change. Mr. Khawaja's face grew troubled; his wife looked down at her hands entwined in her lap. In halting English, Mr. Khawaja began to talk about living in Pakistan during war. "We lost our home," he explained, "As many did. Raheem was born in the basement of a building that had been bombed. There was nowhere safe to go, and my wife couldn't travel in her condition. The neighbors helped us." The clinician asked gently, "Did you lose many people who you cared about?" Mrs. Khawaja began to cry. Her husband merely responded, "It was very bad. Ever since we were young. We came here and were very happy to be in the United States."As the days went on, the clinician worked closely with the Khawaja family, and significant issues emerged. Living in a war zone where they feared for their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, every day had emotionally traumatized Raheem's parents. Their experiences of terror, loss and catastrophe had shaped the way they responded to the world. They thought that all of these problems would disappear when they came to America, and what they found was that the fear and panic that they'd learned to live with came to America with them. Raheem's parents lived every day in fear and he, living with them, did as well.The events that this family experienced create a tragically familiar story to many of the professionals who work in mental health treatment. A traumatic event is defined as a single experience, or an enduring series of events, that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to cope¹. Traumatic events include some of the experiences that we least like to think about: Violent crime, natural disasters, accidents, wars, community violence, child physical and sexual abuse, bullying and domestic violence. While there are many different situations that can be considered traumatic, these events have one thing in common: They are events that cause overwhelming feelings of fear, helplessness and/or horror.² Think of the victims of concentration camps; the earthquake survivors in Japan; Viet Nam veterans.We are only beginning to understand the role that traumatic events play in the development of mental health problems, substance abuse and disruptive and dangerous behaviors. Severe and chronic trauma may lead to physical changes inside the brain and to the brain's chemistry, which damage the person's ability to adequately cope with stress. This is particularly problematic for children. Children who have witnessed or have been victims of interpersonal and community violence, have been neglected or have suffered terrible losses often present with a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems ³.Children, like Raheem, can also suffer from secondary or "vicarious" trauma. This form of traumatization impacts people who are in a close relationship with traumatized individuals. Raheem's parents' experience of terror and loss had resulted in changes in their entire approach to life. Mrs. Khawaja in particular was afraid to leave the house. Moreover, she was terrified to let her child out of her sight and would panic when she put him on the bus in the morning. Mr. Khawaja was working two jobs and feared that he could at any time lose his jobs, and his family would again be homeless. Raheem told the clinician that he wished he didn't have to go to school; he believed that he was safer at home, with his parents, and that they needed his help.What is significant about Raheem's situation is that the clinician asked this family about their history of trauma. In many cases, such information is overlooked as frustrated parents, overworked professionals and harried teachers focus on more immediate approaches to behavior. Often, the child is punished by suspensions or expulsions; various medications are tried without a thorough understanding of the problem; or the behavior is minimized or ignored until it becomes a significant threat to the safety of the community.At KidsPeace, we recognize the role of trauma in the lives of the children and families who come to us for help, and we treat the entire family. The Sanctuary® Model, which is being implemented as the model of care at KidsPeace, provides the tools and the theory to help us to create a culture of safety, empowerment and positive change. This model teaches that, in order to recover from trauma, people need to live in a community of supportive people who are committed to their growth and healing. While KidsPeace strives to provide that for our children, we recognize that the best place for a troubled child to heal is in a safe, supportive family; and the best place for a troubled family to heal is within a safe, supportive community. KidsPeace is committed to using the Sanctuary Model, its theories and its tools to help our community become one where children and families, like the Khawajas, find peace.For more information on the Sanctuary Model, visit the site http://www.sanctuaryweb.com or contact the author at 800-25PEACE.¹Van Der Kolk, B.; McFarlane, A.; Weisaeth, L., Eds. (1996). Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society. New York: Guilford Press.²Bloom, S. L. (1997) Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies. (1997). New York: Routledge.³Farragher, B. and Yanosy, S. (2005). Creating A Trauma-Sensitive Culture In Residential Treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 97-113.Leslie Tenbroeck, LCSW, Sanctuary® Coordinator and Clinical Instructor at KidsPeace, has over 20 years experience working in the mental health field with a broad range of direct-care experience with children and families. Ms. Tenbroeck has extensive experience in crisis management; she has taught courses in Handle with Care and Professional Crisis Management and is currently a certified instructor for Life Space Crisis Intervention. She has taught courses in conjunction with the American Health institute, the Penn State Cooperative Extension and Norwich University. She is affiliated with the Sanctuary Institute and is an advocate for trauma-informed care. For the past nine years, she has been teaching and assisting in developing curriculum for direct care staff in multiple areas of instruction related to children's developmental and behavioral health, including the treatment of self-injurious behavior, therapeutic relationships, group therapy and trauma treatment. She is currently the designated coordinator for the implementation of the Sanctuary Model at KidsPeace. Ms. Tenbroeck lives in Allentown, PA, with her husband and two sons.