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CADIZ - The Harrison Hills City Board of Education on Thursday showed appreciation for several teachers retiring.
Virginia Bieber ended her 45-year teaching career at Harrison North Elementary, and Holly Brindley retired after 35 years of teaching art. Pam Gibson taught high school English and language for 35 years, and Chuck Lewis taught 35 years of science. Cathy Miser retired after 33 years teaching at the elementary level, and Dorothy Turner taught elementary school pupils for 20 years.
George Ash, superintendent, noted the combined experience amounts to 238 years experience.
"I think that's pretty special," he said, adding that they all went beyond the call of their teaching duties through extracurricular and after-hours work.
He said that during the past five years, the school district has been rated as effective for three of those years and for two years the district was rated as excellent. "I think it's indicative of the work these teachers did. They certainly need to be rewarded and need to be looked at with the highest esteem in our community because you're saving lives every day."
He read a brief note of appreciation from a student, describing the impact the district teachers have had.
In other matters, Ash noted the district is making gains in open enrollment. The district is receiving 69 students and losing 338 with a net turnaround of 67.17 students.
"We're gaining ground. We're going in the right direction," he said, noting that $5,700 per each of the 67 students amounts to $382,869. "We've got a lot of work to do."
He also relayed a letter of appreciation for the soccer team and coach Brent Ripley, thanking the board for its support during a successful first season.
In other business, the board:
Approved substitutes Lizbeth Salyers as bus driver, aide, cafeteria worker and custodian; Trisha Erickson, secretary, aide, custodian and cafeteria worker; Claudia Downs, bus driver and aide; Lindsay Watson, teacher/tutor; Millroy Watson, custodian and bus driver; Pam Fisher, custodian; and Shirley Ault, bus driver.
Accepted the retirement of Cathy Salsberry, effective Jan. 1, and Hervert Hyde as custodian effective Saturday.
Approved Neil Lynskey as a bus driver at 5.5 hours per day effective Nov. 12.
Approved additional duties of a.m. and p.m. site managers of the 21st Century Tutoring Program to Brent Ripley and Duran Morgan.
Approved Mark Kowalski as director of operation in training for the 2012-13 year.
Assigned additional duties of Close-Up adviser to Morgan for the 2012-13 school year.
Approved Don Bethel as varsity softball coach for the 2012-13 school year.
Confirmed the assignment of Carol Atkins to MH aide at Harrison East Elementary effective Saturday.
Recalled John Rustin from the OAPSE RIF list as head custodian at the junior/senior high school effective Saturday.
Rejected bids for a door replacement project and waived spring fuel costs for the band boosters totaling $629.59.
Approved a County and Institution of Higher Education Article of Agreement with Ohio University Eastern for the 2012-13 school year.
Approved roof restoration at the Harrison East Elementary bell tower, the Harrison Central library and power washing at the main building.
Approved adult support groups under the district's liability insurance including the wrestling club, cheerleader parents and FFA alumni.
Accepted applications for three interdistrict students and intradistrict students and approved requests to place two foreign exchange students.
Approved Morgan to take five to seven Close-Up students to Washington, D.C., from Jan. 17-23 for the presidential inauguration.
Approved use of facilities request from Amanda's Dance Academy for dance practice at the junior/senior high school Oct. 1 through June 30 and a holiday recital from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Dec. 8.
A special board meeting has been set for 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss matters of personnel. No action will be taken.
A special organizational meeting is planned at 7 p.m. on Jan. 10, with a budget hearing at 6:45 p.m.


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The Kentucky Society of Washington, D.C. celebrated the 57th Presidential Inauguration with The Bluegrass Ball, Jan. 19 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The non-partisan Bluegrass Ball – which has been named an "Editor's Pick" by the Washington Post in 2013, 2009 and 2005 – was attended by more than 1,000 guests, including actress Ashley Judd, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, Four Roses brand ambassador Al Young, and master distillers Chris Morris of Woodford Reserve, Craig Beam of Heaven Hill and Rob Samuels of Maker's Mark.
The Kentucky-inspired menu was created by Chef Edward Lee, of Louisville's 610 Magnolia. (If you'll recall, Lee gained national fame after appearing on popular television shows, "Iron Chef America" and "Top Chef.")
More than 1,000 people attended the black-tie event, which was emceed by Phyllis George, former Miss America and First Lady of Kentucky, and her daughter Pamela Brown, an Emmy-nominated anchor/reporter for D.C.'s ABC affiliate.
Guests – who varied in their political affiliations – received gift bags of Kentucky Proud souvenirs and products.
Founded in 1912, the Kentucky Society of Washington is one of the oldest state societies in the nation's capital and puts on three major events: PreDerby Party on the Potomac, the Henry Clay Dinner and the Bluegrass Inaugural Ball.
The Kentucky Society of Washington, D.C. was founded in 1912. The organization promotes goodwill, fellowship, and amicable relations among Kentuckians in the National Capital Region. The Society was formed to preserve and perpetuate the history and traditions of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. These ideals are promoted through numerous social, educational and charitable functions each year.
The Society sponsors such events as the Bluegrass Ball in celebration of the quadrennial Presidential Inauguration, the Cherry Blossom Ball and a Pre-Kentucky Derby Party. They also host lecture series and receptions that promote Kentucky culture and heritage. Some of the events sponsored by the Society are focused on raising money to support various Kentucky charities.
The Society recognizes the important contributions of nationally prominent Kentuckians through the biennial presentation of the Henry Clay Distinguished Kentuckian Award. Proceeds from the Clay Award Dinner fund scholarships for outstanding Kentucky college students as summer interns in Washington in one of the three branches of the federal government.
The Kentucky Society of Washington continues to strive for the progress and betterment of Kentuckians everywhere.
For more information, go to www.kentuckysociety.org.
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Open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. OSS is developed by a 'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how global the OSS community actually is, i.e. analyze the geographic origin of OSS developers. But as members of the OSS community differ in their activity levels, information about the allocation of activities are of importance. Our paper contributes to this as we analyze not only the geographic origin of (active) developers but also the geographic allocation of OSS activities. The paper is based on data from the SourceForge Research Data Archive, referring to 2006. We exploit information about the developers' IP address, email address and indicated time-zone. This enables us to properly assign 1.3 million OSS developers from SourceForge to their countries, that are 94% of all registered ones in 2006. In addition we have information about the number of posted messages which is a good proxy for activity of each developer. Thus we can provide a detailed picture of the world-wide allocation of open source activities. Such country data about the supply-side of OSS is a valuable stock for both, cross-country studies on OSS, as well as country-specific research and policy advice.
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There is an intimate reciprocity to the senses; as we touch the bark of a tree, we feel the tree touching us; as we lend our ears to the local sounds and ally our nose to the seasonal scents, the terrain gradually tunes us in turn. The senses, that is, are the primary way that the earth has of informing our thoughts and of guiding our actions. Huge centralized programs, global initiatives, and other 'top down" solutions will never suffice to restore and protect the health of the animate earth. For it is only at the scale of our direct, sensorial interactions with the land around us that we can appropriately notice and respond to the immediate needs of the living world.Yet at the scale of our sensing bodies the earth is astonishingly, irreducibly diverse. It discloses itself to our senses not as a uniform planet inviting global principles, but as this forested realm embraced by water, or a windswept prairie, or a desert silence. We can know the needs of any particular region only by participating in its specificity – by becoming familiar with its cycles and styles, awake and attentive to its other inhabitants.
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Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Vintage), Pages: 268
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Very mysterious.
Wonderfully composed!
finally your patience pay's off and you get the right appreciation !
Very beautiful. It reminds me of Prog Rock Album covers from the seventies. Lots of meanings left to interpret from non-related images.
WREK, coming this fall to TNT.
I must say that this now makes me think twice when looking at the sidewalks of life.
Eerie, creepy but very creative interesting shot!
The pic is so well composed…love it !
Nice picture. Waiting for the right moment !
Very special, good moment good light, and a good Photografer with patience !
My name is J.Bond !(many years ago....)
Most photographers extol the virtue of photography as a tool for taking the time and attention to actually 'see' what is there in their environment. This urban environment presents a challenge to find anything of intrinsic interest about it. The sidewalk is grungy and neglected. The wall is soiled and seeping. The shadow of the street sign epitomizes urban blandness. Even the graffiti is boring.
However, the shadow of the pedestrian redeems the scene from being, well, pedestrian. Banal. Further, the way the shadow falls along the different surface planes of the sidewalk and wall, has introduced some ambiguous distortion. The shadow figure seems to be simultaneously walking in opposite directions, and while the shadow of the head (with the great, 1950's detective's hat) is evidently male, the lower part could well be the shadow of a woman in a short dress.
My first impression was that this is a boring photo of a boring scene, but having taken the time to look at it for awhile, it now looks very interesting.
Fantastic composition and concept......... Congrats..... :) Sri
This was a patiently 'wait for it' shot that turned out well, the way he wanted it to. Shadow pictures are always very interesting, and I like them. The lighting in this one is soft with the colors standing out, and the shadows taking first place from all of it. j.e.s.
so mysterious. i love it
Nice shot... and the man's hat really makes the difference.
I know what you mean when you say you just knew this is the one ,sometimes one just knows....I agree and so do the editors... Congrats...
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The 6 Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Time
Some heroes fight for truth, justice and the American way. Some heroes fight for revenge. These guys here? These guys fight to get laid with underage girls and to make the universe a creepier place.
Here are the six comic book characters sure to create an immediate urge to shower.
#6. Comet the Super-Horse, from the Superman comics
Creepy Because: Bestiality.
Comet is Supergirl's pet horse. At first this sounds really cute, because girls love horses. Although, there is this book we once read in the Cracked offices called The Naked Ape that teaches us that girls like horses because riding them is the closest activity to non-threatening sex they can have. Not so cute anymore? Yeah, wait until you read how creepy it becomes with a stalker Super-Horse involved.
You see, according to the comic, Comet was once a centaur called Biron back in ancient Greece. He was turned into a full horse by a witch, though as a small consolation, he gained superpowers and kept his humongous horse penis.
Also, Comet periodically turns into a full human, at which point he does what any horse would do: Try to get laid with Supergirl before she can figure out he is really her horse.
You see, the horse is in love with the girl who, while he's in horse mode, dry humps his back as a means of transport. Comet never makes his feelings known and thus allows this arrangement to continue, much like those "nice guys" who orbit around a girl every day doing her favors, while complaining endlessly in their LiveJournals because the girl doesn't pay back their niceness with a blowjob.
That's right, Comet! The court's orders are meaningless!
And to make the whole thing even more unsettling, he is a super-horse, which zoologists tell us adds at least six inches in length and one in girth.
#5. Ultimate Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch from The Ultimates
Creepy Because: Twincest.
The Ultimates is a modernized, alternate universe version of The Avengers where they finally figure out they are not really avenging anybody or anything in particular and that the name Defenders was already taken. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are the twin son and daughter of Magneto. Just by taking a second look at that picture up there, unless you are a relative of that banjo playing kid from Deliverance, you can start guessing what their problem is.
Yes, both kids have decided to keep it in the family, and when we mean "it" we mean Quicksilver's penis, and when we mean "the family" we mean "his sister's vagina." In the beginning of the series, the incest was subtly implied and kept as a joke of something that happened off panel and could easily be denied, until the third series came around and we got this.
Here we have The Wasp explaining the situation to Captain America. We know Captain America grew up in the '30s so we give him some leeway when he can't figure out how to work the TiVo, but we are quite sure incest existed back then, too. Why Wasp is explaining it like it's the most normal thing to do in the 21st century, however, makes us cast a suspicious glance at the dude who wrote it.
Can it get worse? You bet it can! Two issues later it's revealed that Quicksilver likes to sex up his own sister because she reminds him of his mother. At this rate, by issue 10 we'll learn he liked his mom because she reminded him of Comet the Super-Horse.
There has to come a time in your life--possibly in the middle of porking your twin sister while Wolverine watches from the bushes--where you just have to take a step back and wonder at what point you turned into goddamn Caligula.
#4. Starfox from The Avengers
Creepy Because: He's a mind-raping douchebag.
See that man in the picture up there who looks like he's going for a lifetime achievement award for outstanding achievements in douchebaggery? That guy is Starfox.
Starfox's real name is Eros, which easily wins hands down the "creepiest name you can give your child" competition. Unless your son is the Greek god of sexual attraction, or he is in an incredibly sexy baby, he probably can't live up to that name. So he had some measure of creepiness right out of the gate. It only got worse.
This is totally in context
Eros' superpower, besides achieving a preternatural douchebag look that is envied by Lacoste-shirt-wearing, collar-popping frat boys all over the world, is the ability to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. Yes, his name is Eros, and he gives you pleasure. That's the kind of things you only read on a male prostitute's business card.
Even with that advantage over normal humans, we here at Cracked are having a hard time figuring out how you can use that to fight crime. Cracked's research team has been investigating around the clock, offering to stimulate the pleasure centers of every suspicious character they encounter. So far they have come up with more venereal diseases than answers.
And just because somebody is bound to mention this in the comments, yes Starfox was accused of being a date rapist, but at the end he was found not guilty. Hell, why does he need to rape when he can insert himself into your pleasure centers by remote control? Rape is on a level far below Starfox's mastery of cosmic creepiness.


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When an individual farts in another individuals face. Usually accompanied by another, holding the victim down.Usually done while one is sleeping.
Last night you got Air Biscuited like 5000 times!
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n.1 A fart or guff that is so potent as to have a tangible quality. A butt berp that has a physical presence, and as such have space made for it.
Air biscuits may be 'launched' (2), 'dropped', 'pushed out', 'chucked' etc.
Air biscuits may be 'launched' (2), 'dropped', 'pushed out', 'chucked' etc.
1. 'Fucking hell, I could pluck that right out the air and dip it my tea'
2. 'I hate to tell you this, but I've just launched an air biscuit'
2. 'I hate to tell you this, but I've just launched an air biscuit'
by G-Dog April 06, 2005
A fart not loud enough to hear but thick enough to chew.
Much worse than the dreaded SBD, an Air Biscuit will follow you, get in your clothes or even linger in the seat cushions. The taste you get from walking into one is like eating smelly cheese while breathing propane. They are not gender or genetic specific. A dog can wreak havoc as well as any human.
by Creepnjeep September 07, 2009
A polite warning that flatulent expellations have been released in the general vicinity. (See: Oops I crapped my pants)
"Look out for that air biscuit" or " Don't bite that air bisicuit" or simply the emphatic "air biscuit" upon expellation. A notably rank or stale air biscuit is often referred to as a Whisker biscuit as in "that's no air biscuit, that's a whisker biscuit" or "whiskey" biscuit.
by CyberDruid January 31, 2006
A fart. A smelly nasty smell caused by gastrointestinal ejection of gas.
Did you drop that airbiscuit or did you shit your pants?
by pkjones_homie April 17, 2003
When you drop a deuce in the air. When you do a fart so strong that other people feel as though they are eating poop.
Oh man I'm eating chris' airbiscuit
by grimboj February 16, 2011
An air-biscuit is when you fart, catch it in your hand, then release into someone's face.
Lee loves to spraff for air-biscuits.
by sangajin January 09, 2007
to expell gas while deficating.
My stomach kinda hurt so i went to the bathroom and baked an air biscuit.
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I just brewed a clone of Belhaven Scottish Ale using the extract recipe from the book, Clone Brews. The recipe calls for both light LME and light DME. Why would it use both? It does specify brands of each to use. Might the recipe be taking into account the particular flavor of each extract from the different brands, or is there something more obvious I'm missing?
Theory the First
Since the recipe lists specific brands of extract the author could be looking for some esoteric flavor differences in the two.
Theory the Second — The Texas Two-Step Method
The liquid extract is intended to be added near the end of the boil, around the 10 or 15 minute mark. (See Brew Your Own magazine, October 2003.)
Extract brewers normally do not do a full-wort boil (all 5.5 gallons). High concentrations of extract decrease the hop utilization rate. The higher gravity wort you boil, the less hop extraction you'll get. Boiling all the extract at once in a small volume will probably throw off the hopping rate.
It has also been shown that beer tastes better when hops are boiled with some extract. Just boiling hops straight up extracts undesirable flavors.
So, you boil some extract for the full 60 and add the rest near the end just to sanitize.
Why the dry first & liquid second? Probably because LME will dissolve quicker.
To check the first theory: mix up two equal gravity worts of each extract. Taste for differences.
LME is usually cheaper, but harder to measure and store if you don't use the full package. Sometimes recipes add on DME if you aren't using even 1 pound increments. Light LME and light DME are interchangeable, as long as you take into account the higher extract per pound of DME (since it has less water it has more fermentables per pound). Also, don't switch out something like wheat LME for light DME. They aren't the same.
DME has a higher chance of instigating a boil-over, doesn't it? It might just be a mechanical choice to save you having to continually shut the heat off, particularly if there are multiple hop additions.
Of course, LME has you shutting the heat off to prevent scorching.
Another totally different, and more plausible answer, in the case of Northern Brewer's Kolsch recipe is that it's difficult to divide liquid extract to get the exact right gravity. For that recipe, 1 lb of DME early gives enough for hop extraction, and 6 lbs late gives the rest of the OG. With their raw materials, which are generally 3.15 lb and 6 lb LME jugs, and 1 lb DME bags, it's possible they want to fill in a little more gravity with the DME, without going so far as adding another full or half jug of LME. The recipe you've posted, though, does not fit with this explanation. 2.75 lbs of DME is not all that far from 3 lbs of LME, which is a pretty standard size, so still not explanation for the specific case you mention.
I doubt this is the reason, but you may want to consider the water profile of the final beer.
If you use all LME then you get the chance when using distilled water to get a beer that has the exact profile from where the extract was made. Because the minerals in their water are still in the LME. When using DME, much of that mineral profile was lost in "ringing" out the last of the water to make the powder.
So you can use distilled water for the LME portion and your "house" water with the DME addition and get something in between the two locales.
Like I said, no one at the brew shop really gave it that much thought, but I just point out the opportunity that it presents to you the brew now at home.
I realize this is five years old, but I came across it while searching for the same question, so I'll throw in my two cents in case it helps.
First thing, most LMEs are hopped and most DMEs are unhopped, so you might use both to dial in the bittering.
Second thing, it seems it's easier to find lighter DMEs than LMEs, so you might use LME for the bulk of your malt and then a light DME to round out your OG without making your final product too dark. I came across this making a recipe for a light American pilsner in Brewsmith, actually, which is what led me here.
I think using both LME and DME is all or mostly about marketing. These kits like to showcase the liquid and dry malts, different hops and specialty grains to draw you into buying more of their sponsored products. I've bought kits that required DME to be put in late.
My supplier used to sell Brewers Best kits, but discontinued them in favor of kits they put together themselves. They make different styles using different specialty grains to steep with the DME/LME that they also stock on the shelves. It's just there to lure you in toward all-grain brewing. It's their bread and butter.
I know because it happened to me. Not that it's a bad thing, I'm full on with it and having loads of fun brewing all-grain now. These kits really helped me to learn the products.


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If we construct axiomatic system of physical laws that are independent one another as in axioms in mathematics, what should they be? Can there be such a finite system of physical laws that can explain every physical phenomenon? Or is it impossible to have such finite axiomatic system in physical laws?
Yes it is possible. As J. Bell eloquently wrote, Quantum Mechanics, together with a finite cut-off QED, explains all of chemistry and nearly everything in Physics. It was axiomatised by Weyl and Dirac by 1930.
There are only six axioms, which is certainly a finite number. Five would be better still..since most physicists no longer believe in the literal truth of the sixth axiom.
There are notorious problems with this axiomatisation, but they can certainly be fixed, although physicsists are not in agreement on how to fix them. The problem was analysed most logically by Wigner and, later, by J.S. Bell, in his "Against Measurement", I have posted a copyright-free copy at http://www.chicuadro.es/BellAgainstMeasurement.pdf. That is, the first three axioms apply to all physical systems, the second three axioms apply only to measurments, but surely measurements are carried out by measurement apparatuses which are physical....unfortunately the answers given by the first three axioms applied to the interaction of a microscopic system with a measurement apparatus are different from the results given by applying the second three axioms to the same physical setup. Not contradictory, but so different that there has been no agreement on how to compare them.
Most physicists now feel that the measurement axioms are only approximations, and ought to be derivable from the first three axioms as approximations. H.S. Green, under (I think) Schroedinger's influence at Dublin, published an extremely important paper analysing the physics of the measurement process as a phase transition, and there has been more recent work as well. See my own http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0507017, for example.
The only remaining difficulty is to either define the concept of ''probability'' as it occurs in these axioms, or to formulate a few more axioms to connect it with the other axioms. For the quantum case this was done in the paper referred to, and something similar can be done in the Classical Case.
This is an experimentalist's answer:
I do believe that an axiomatic model , note "model", of nature can be found, but as an experimentalist I am wary of claims that "we have now wrapped up physics and only details have to be mopped up" which was the claim before quantum mechanics rocked the science in the beginning of the twentieth century.
One should be open to the possibility that as we delve further and further into experiments with new technologies, and understand more and more of the cosmos, the axioms might have to be changed. Otherwise physics will become fossilized.
Not a complete one.
Kurt Gödel proved this was not possible by proving his "Incompleteness theorem". It turns out that in any axiomatic system (whether or not these axioms were to do with physical laws) we must select either consistency, or completeness, but not both.
Basically the "Incompleteness theorem" says that any 'computable axiomatic system' will have the following properties (such as one containing physical laws):
As a corollary of 1, any axiomatic system that is consistent cannot be complete (the system you describe would hopefully be consistent). So if you want your physical laws to be internally consistent you have to accept that there will be true (observable) physical laws that cannot be proven.
With respect to infinite systems, there are two types, countable and uncountable. The Incompleteness theorem has also been proven true for countable infinite sets. In the case of infinite axiomatic systems dealing with physical laws, they would be countable since each axiomatic law could map into the set of natural numbers. Even here Gödel's conclusions hold; either this system would be consistent but incomplete, or complete but inconsistent.
Apparently, we cannot get around the fact there are unprovable truths. Gödel provided a simple example.
Let S be the statement "This statement is unprovable."
If S is true, we cannot prove it since it is unprovable. However, if we can prove S true, the statement is self contradicting, so inconsistent.
Notice from the answer above J. Bell eloquent quote, "Quantum Mechanics, together with a finite cut-off QED, explains all of chemistry and NEARLY EVERYTHING in Physics." Unfortunately for Bell, Gödel has shown that as long as Quantum Mechanics seeks to be internally consistent, it will only ever be "NEARLY EVERYTHING" and not actually "EVERYTHING". If Quantum mechanics does actually achieve the ability to explain everything, Gödel shows us we have good cause to look for its self-contradictions (inconsistencies)


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Narrow pipe hash function designs have recently come under fire, particularly in reference to some SHA-3 candidates. Is this criticism valid? Can it be explained more simply than this paper does?
You're asking whether an ongoing research-level discussion has merits or not. This is difficult to know since experts are actively working on this stuff and you never know what can happen: criticism can fizzle out (as did Courtois's algebraic attacks on AES, after causing a major scare 10 years ago) or pay off (as did Xiaoyun Wang's MD5 attacks).
You want my opinion? I'll give it: existential proofs for hash function security (which is what the cited paper in your question offers) do not hold much sway. Unless you can exhibit an actual attack, I don't think the alarm bells should be ringing. Here's an appropriate example:
Consider some SHA-3 hash function $H$. (For the uninitiated, a cryptographic hash function is a map from a string of any length to one of some specified fixed length; it's a public function; there is no key.) Since $H$ has an infinite domain and a finite range, so by the pigeon-hole principle, there exists a collsion. Therefore $H$ is not collision-resistant and thus it's insecure.
Bogus right? Existential proofs don't mean much in a computational setting. Of course there are collisions, but the hope is that we cannot find them.
That said, there are other papers giving unconvincing attacks against narrow-pipe constructions, so even in the absence of concrete practical attacks, sentiment will grow against the approach even if there will never be any reason to reject it. As sad as it is, cryptography is still partly religious when it comes to designing primitives (meaning we rely a lot on intuition and instinct rather than on proofs, because proofs of security don't exist for hash functions and blockciphers and integer factorization, etc).
Edited to Add: I prefer to remain anonymous here. My PhD is in cryptography, I have 5-6 papers related to cryptographic hashing, and I'm a professor at a "pretty good" place in the U.S. You can read the above opinion with this in mind, or you can discard it as "suspect" and "unsubstantiated." I'll leave that to you.
This is a purely theoretical attack that is quite minor and not of any great value in carrying out an actual attack on the security properties of any given hash function.
The explanation involves a bit of math, that while obvious, if explained pedantically using formal mathematics is quite obscure. But, since such pedantry is what is desired on this site, I will give the obscure and strictly correct formal math answer, and then explain it so someone who isn't actually particularly familiar with formal mathematical notation might hope to make sense of it. The original paper, of course, uses formal mathematical reasoning and never really bothers to explain it, which is why it is inaccessible and why I asked this question in the first place.
Personally, I feel that papers that rely on this kind of thing and don't bother to explain it in a way that makes sense to people who don't want to wade through a maze of specialized symbolic notation should be rejected for publication. Then maybe the people who write them would learn to communicate.
So, here's the semi-useless math-out section:
There is a function such that:
$$f(x) \to y$$ $${ X \equiv \{ a \mid a \in \mathbb Z, 0 \leq a < 2^n \} }, { x \in X }$$ $${ Y \equiv \{ a \mid a \in \mathbb Z, 0 \leq a < 2^m \} }, { y \in Y }$$
In an ideal hash function that functions as a random oracle, $f(x)$ maps each individual member of set $X$ onto a completely random member of set $Y$. We'll define $O$ as the range of $f$ like so:
$$O \equiv \{ {y \in Y} \mid {y = f(x)}, x \in X \}$$ $$O \subseteq Y$$
if $n < m$ it is clearly the case that $O \neq Y$. Also, if $n = m$ it will also be true that, in the most probable case, $O \neq Y$ (even though $O \subset Y$). Though as $n$ grows larger than $m$ it becomes increasingly probable that $O = Y$.
It turns out that, on average, $\frac{n(O)}{n(Y)} = {1 - \frac{1}{e}}$ when $n = m$, as is the case in narrow pipe hash functions. ${1 - \frac{1}{e} } \approx 0.632$, so this means that only a little more than half the members of $Y$ will ever be mapped to from $X$.
$$\frac{2^n}{2} = 2^{n-1}$$ $$\frac{2^n}{\frac{1}{1 - \frac{1}{e}}} = {2^{n-\log_2 {1 - \frac{1}{e}}}} \approx {2^{n-0.66}}$$
This means that $\log_2 n(O)$ is approximately 0.66 less than $\log_2 n(Y)$ if $n = m$. If $n$ is much larger than $m$, as is the case in wide-pipe designs, then it's most likely that $O = Y$ so $n(O) = n(Y)$.
Less formally, a narrow pipe design maps an $n$ bit value to another $n$ bit value. If this mapping is a completely random mapping, that means some values will not appear in the output since there will be some output values for which there are multiple input values that map to it.
It turns out that the number of output values is (in the average case) $2^n \cdot (1 - \frac{1}{e})$. Since ${1 - \frac{1}{e}} \approx 0.632$ that means nearly half of the possible output values won't actually happen. This sounds kind of scary until you think about it. If you lose a full half of the output range, that means you've only effectively lost one bit, and since you're losing less than half of the output range you've effectively lost less than one bit. This is very minor.
So, it's a valid attack, yes. But this does not mean it is at all something to worry about.


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I've just started to learn Japanese, and I've been looking at the jōyō kanji. Most of the words have on reading and kun reading. I was wondering, which one is most popular and when should I use one over the other?
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There will be times where you'll want to use both ON and KUN readings for numerals in different situations.
For example, when you are counting objects, you might be using KUN readings, like this:
If you were looking at months of the year (January, February, March, etc.) you would most likely be using ON readings, like this:
And do keep in mind that there are a few "weird" numerals (4, 7, and 9) that have their own sets of rules. Sometimes the 4 will be read as し and other times 4 will be read as よん. Sometimes 7 will be read as しち and other times 7 will be read as なな. Sometimes 9 will be read as きゅう other times 9 will be read as く and even other times, 9 will be read even differently (for example, ここのつ for "9 things"; and this can happen for even other numerals! For example: 1, 8, 10, etc.)
As you continue to study, it is helpful to learn both the ON and KUN readings of numerals (even though it is more content to learn) because you will use both, in everyday Japanese.
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2001 to Timecop: 8 Movie Futures Already Proven Wrong
Escape from New York (1981)
Set In 1997
The Premise
In exchange for a full pardon, prisoner "Snake" Plissken, who happens to be a total asshole, is given 24 hours to rescue the president, whose plane had been hijacked by terrorists and crashed into Manhattan in a tasteless allusion to Sept 11, 2001. Also, it's World War III and everything has gone to shit.
The Predictions
400 percent Increase In Crime: In the distant future of the late '90s, prisons have become so overcrowded that eventually the government has to convert Manhattan into a giant penitentiary, like a modern-day Australia. In reality, crime rates have fallen precipitously since the film was released, particularly in the increasingly gentrified Manhattan. But if you take everything this movie predicts and make it the exact opposite, it's frightening how prophetic Escape from New York turned out to be.
400 percent Increase In Mustaches: Almost everyone has a breathtaking mustache in this movie. It is a facial-hair utopia.
As we know today, however, the mustache industry reached a tragic nadir in the late '90s, and today are worn only by ironic Gen-Xers, the NBA's Adam Morrison and feminists.
Complete Lack of Technological Improvements: The president is in possession of a futuristic "cassette tape" that contains critical information about nuclear fusion. Like everyone else in this movie, the president is just one of those guys who is really into the retro scene. Other characters even have those novelty shoebox-sized cell phones. Also, all the computers have an operating system based on a 3D-vector map of a city that looks as though it's being rendered by an Atari 2600. It really takes us back to 1997.
Overall Accuracy
Pretty pathetic. But, some secondhand credit must be given for the movie's sequel, Escape from L.A., which describes an outspoken "Christian militant" being elected president in 2000. It's a shame they couldn't have been right about something more agreeable, like World War III.
Things to Come (1936)
Set In 1940-2036
The Premise
Global war breaks out in 1940, splintering the Western world into tiny isolated factions. Decades later, an aircraft arrives with news of a new utopian society based in Basra, Iraq, presciently anticipating the peace currently enjoyed in that part of the world.
The Predictions
Large Scale War in 1940: This movie often gets credited for predicting World War II, missing the actual date by just 16 months. But, the extent and nature of the war were both completely wrong. Plus, who couldn't see World War II coming after a war called World War I?
Spread of Wandering Sickness: The enemy spreads a virus known as the Wandering Sickness, which causes its victims to stumble around with outstretched arms, and which in the movie is cured in 1970. Today, of course, we know that there's no such thing as a "wandering sickness." What these people were dealing with were zombies, which remain a very serious everyday threat in 2007.
Complete Collapse of Western Civilization: The way World War II actually ended seems like a foregone conclusion today, but in 1936 the breakdown of civilization was a real possibility. Europeans had no idea America would show up to single-handily rescue them from destruction. That's why Europeans are so grateful to America, and why when Americans travel to Europe today they're treated like heroes.
Overall Accuracy
When life gets us down, sometimes we visit the utopian society in Basra, Iraq, to recharge our batteries. It's nice to know that somewhere in this crazy world, humanity is getting things right.
Strange Days (1995)
Set In 1999
Former police detective Lenny Nero has begun pawning erotic virtual reality recordings of other people's experiences as L.A. descends into civil war. Such is the remote dystopian future of 4 years after the movie was released.
Ability To Record Experiences: Using special "SQUID" headgear, people's sensory data can be recorded to a disc and re-experienced by anybody, literally putting them in the shoes of others.
The only thing we have that's even remotely similar to this is the ability to read whiny LiveJournal entries, but this only puts us in the shoes of angsty social outcasts.
Increase In Race Riots: Racial tension was coming to a boil in this movie's version of 1999, leading to large-scale rioting. In the real 1999, racism continued to percolate beneath the surface, killing our humanity slowly from within.
Omnipresent of Widescreen HDTVs: Hi-def TVs are ubiquitous in this movie. The assumption was that as soon as everybody left the theater in 1995, they would immediately purchase a $2,500 television. This seems especially ridiculous to those of us who still own TVs with fake wood paneling on the sides.
Overall Accuracy
Strange Days is the peak of overly ambitious predictions for the future. If you were to guess when the movie took place based on the movie's sophisticated technology, you'd probably say something like 2025. That it was actually set in 1999 was totally ridiculous. This was probably supposed to be novel: setting a futuristic movie just a few years in the future! But, they probably should have found an original angle that didn't make their movie laughably irrelevant by the time the movie left theaters. You'd think that such astute futurists would have foreseen the eventual importance of DVD sales to the success of a movie.
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
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Most of the film is set in 2015, but director Robert Zemeckis has detailed a comprehensive timeline of events leading up to that date. Basically, we really enjoy Back to the Future II and wanted to crowbar it into this list.
Marty McFly and Doc must travel to the future to prevent a catastrophe in the McFly family, leading to a convoluted and illogical adventure through time.
Improved Relations with Vietnam: In the movie, there's an advertisement for surfing in Vietnam, alluding to steadily improved relations with that country during the '90s and 2000s, which has proven extremely accurate. Of course no one really surfs anymore now that everyone has hoverboards.
Increasing Consolidation of News Media: The local Hill Valley Telegraph sells its print operations to USA Today sometime after 2000.
This correctly forecasts the ongoing financial troubles facing America's small-town independent newspapers, such as The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Also note the now-cruel, "Washington Prepares for Queen Diana's Visit" headline (though not one-tenth as creepy as if the newspaper had accurately predicted her death).
Introduction of Vitamin-Enriched Cola: Modern vitamin-enriched soft drinks like Coke Plus recall the vitamin-enriched "Pepsi Perfect" Marty Jr. buys from a café.
Overall Accuracy:
The only way the movie could be more accurate at this point is if Marty's future self suffered from Parkinson's. Which, with the Princess Di thing, would have this one of the most morbid re-watching experiences of all time.
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The wonderful thing about virtual machines is that they are "virtually" identical to real machines. Assuming the host is a powerful enough computer, there should be no problems. However if you run it alongside other virtual machines you may run into the obvious problems such as bandwidth starvation (if multiple machines share one network adapter) or CPU starvation (as they all share one machine's CPU(s)).
There should be no problems that are unique to the fact that it's a virtual machine, though!
In theory there'll be no limitations at all when it comes to the software, it'll all run just as it should. Unfortunately if you're running a game server inside a virtual machine you've got to consider that you'll be running 2 operating systems which means 2 large sets of processes, a dedicated machine inside one of those large sets of processes which is generating it's own set of processes.
However this is only a problem if the server is run from a private machine. If you are paying for a VPS service this will not be as big of a problem.


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9 Feb 2012 1:57 AM #1
global variables
I'm using Designer 2 to create my sencha 2 app. But now i'm in the need of using a global variable(s).
Normally i would just create another .js file called globals.js in which i put some global variables, like a url to a wsdl and include that into my index.hmtl.
But i was wondering if Designer 2 offers some kind of abillity to add global variables which can be used throughout my application.
9 Feb 2012 9:41 AM #2
I would recommend against using truly global variables but I would recommend using application specific variables.
One way you could achieve this would be to go into your Application's launch method and create a global property which can be accessed throughout all of your source.
For example:
MyApp.globals = { key: 123, key2: 'abc' };
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15 Feb 2012 5:32 AM #3
I do have another problem though. I also need a few 'global' functions. I used to just add functions to my controller which i could just call like:
But in the Designer tool i can only add functions based on events, like; keyUp, onItemTap etc. I can't even approach my controller anymore through "MyApp.controller.Main.backButton()" (that's how it is Ext.defined).
But sometimes i just want to call a custom function. Any idea how i'm able to do that in the Designer tool? Couldn't find the answer for this in the examples.
15 Feb 2012 9:16 AM #4
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I just added a basic function, but now i have a new problem. How do i call it?
I created a controller, gave it an "userAlias" and the same "userClassName". Then i added a Basic Function to the controller with a function name.
Now i also have a list of DIVs which i load inside a panel. These DIVs have an "onclick" event which i want to use to call my function.
I tried to call the function like this:
And even with the component query:
But both didn't work.. How should this be done from an "onclick" event??
21 Feb 2012 9:15 AM #6
If you are within the same class, the syntax is this.showTest()Aaron Conran
21 Feb 2012 2:11 PM #7
I have a Panel on which i have some html DIV elements. I gave those DIV elements an onclick event like this:

Test<.div>
From that onclick event i want to call my "Basic Function" (which is inside a controller ofcourse). But i have no idea how to do that, and i really need this...
Any idea how to do that??
21 Feb 2012 5:44 PM #8
Bind an event listener to the div you'd like via JavaScript..
Ext.get('myDiv').on('click', function() { basic.showTest(); });Aaron Conran
22 Feb 2012 4:41 AM #9
Sorry i can't get your example to work. I also don't think that it fits my problem.
In short this is what's happening. I have a DataView which is connected to JSON Store. This JSON store gets dynamic data which the DataView processes. I do that by using the "itemTpl" property.
In there i have this:
PHP Code:
<tpl for=".">

{Username}

On your example i have no idea where to define the 'event listener'. How to make it work when the amount of DIVs are dynamic. How to pass the needed params from the event listener to the Controller.
And in 'basic.showTest()', i have no idea where 'basic' comes from. I tried to replace that with the name of my controller, but that's "undefined".
Anyway, i'd rather call my Controller function directly. I really hope that this is possible..
22 Feb 2012 9:02 AM #10
The pseudo code which you have posted above will have severe memory leaks.
You do not want to attach event handlers via DOM level 0 event handling "onclick" attributes. Instead you want to subscribe to the DataView's click event which uses dom event delegation. It will determine which record you clicked on and you can read the guid and additional parameters out of it.Aaron Conran


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This grouping of two test rovers and a flight spare provides a graphic comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's Mars Yard testing area. Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover, Sojourner, which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover Project test rover that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a Mars Science Laboratory test rover the size of that project's Mars rover, Curiosity, which is on course for landing on Mars in August 2012
FROM NASA (CNN) -- Mars may have a lot of orangey dust flying around, but now that a rover has retrieved a sample by drilling a rock there, scientists believe the Red Planet may have another color beneath the surface.
The two-ton Mars rover Curiosity, which has been exploring Gale Crater since its miraculous landing on August 6, has become the first robot to drill into a rock to collect a sample on Mars, scientists reported Wednesday. Chemical analyses are still to come, but for now the big news is that the material from the drill appears to be gray.
"We're sort of seeing a new coloration for Mars here, and it's an exciting one to us," said Joel Hurowitz, sampling system scientist for Curiosity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Confirmation came in Wednesday that the sample from the drill made it into Curiosity's scoop, said Scott McCloskey, rover planner and drill systems engineer for Curiosity. Images straight from Mars show the rover's drill was able to acquire about a tablespoon of powder as it was boring down into the rock. The depth of the drill hole is 6.4 centimeters (2.5 inches).
"You can probably bet that when things turn orange, it's because there's a rusting process of some kind going on that oxidizes the iron in the rock," Hurowitz said.
The gray color may mean the rock the rover drilled did not go through this process, Hurowitz said. That may be good news for looking for evidence of past life, because chemistry involving oxidation destroys organic compounds, said John Grotzinger, principal investigator for the rover mission. But, although organics are associated with life, there are also nonlife organics, and organics aren't always preserved over time.
"Right now we're on the pathway to hopefully characterizing this place as a habitable environment," Grotzinger said.
The rocks are sort of a "time capsule" because they are potentially ancient objects that contain a record of the environment in which they were formed, said Hurowitz. Getting underneath these materials, which may have been affected by the planet's surface environment, is "a really fantastic capability that the Curiosity drill gives us."
"We were well centered in a large plate of bedrock where we knew we could place the drill into a stable location on an interesting rock," Hurowitz said.
The drill did not specifically target the veins or nodular features apparent in this kind of bedrock but it's "hard to imagine" that they would have been missed entirely, he said.
Scientists need to see results from a chemical analysis of the sample to understand it better, but one theory is that this rock could have once been underwater, Hurowitz said. The successful usage of the drill marks the final check-out of Curiosity's elaborate suite of instruments.
Back on Earth, however, scientists have encountered a potential problem in one of two terrestrial copies of the CHIMRA instrument, which NASA's Daniel Limonadi describes as a "martini mixer on the spacecraft."
CHIMRA has a sieve that filters out material that is bigger than 150 micrometers, because the CheMin instrument needs tiny particles for its X-ray diffraction work. One of the Earth-based units, the "edge welds are popping and slowly unziping the sieve from the primary structure in CHIMRA over time," Limonadi said.
The same problem has not been observed on its Martian counterpart, or in the second copy of CHIMRA.
Scientists have several theories about why this is happening, but there's no established root cause, Limonadi said. However, it's important to note that this copy of CHIMRA has been used more than Curiosity's CHIMRA unit will be used during its two-year prime mission.
Rover planners are taking precautions just in case the CHIMRA sieve on Mars is vulnerable. For example, they've reduced the sieving time of material in this instrument to expose it to less wear and tear, Limonadi said.
Sieving is the next step for the gray powder recovered from the drill. It will then be fed to the CheMin and SAM instruments to gain more insights about the geological history and potential habitability of Mars, Hurowitz said.
Previous analyses by Curiosity instruments determined that white veins seen in this kind of rock are made of calcium sulfate. The rover will soon use its chemistry experiments to see the full composition of the gray stuff found by the drill.
"Stay tuned, results are coming shortly," Hurowitz said.


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What have I been doing with my life? Clearly nothing that involves updating my blog. According to the New York Times, we have the Facebook to blame for this. All the kids are off blogs and onto the Facebook. It's the drug of choice. It's normally difficult to keep up, but I'm feeling practically adolescent with my lack of authoring.
The family is in a new home. Now if we can just get the bathroom sinks delivered from the factory, I can stop having to explain that the beard I've grown is a matter of function. No bathroom sink means no shaving. I can't bring myself to shave in the shower. Too big of a project and I have too many other projects on my plate. Like deciding whether or not I like Helvetica for the address label on the new mailbox. Or obsessively employing geometry in my (to this point successful) hanging of perfectly level and spaced artwork.
The neighborhood is great. I can count among my neighbors some new friends, and they seem to enjoy making good margaritas. They seem to enjoy making babies, too, which means the kids have other kids their age to play with. It's a long way from the days of driving forty-five minutes across Los Angeles to eat a hot dog and have a beer. And as the summer days and Texas heat rapidly approach, it's nice to know we're just a hop, skip and a jump (did I just write something that hokey?) away from the cool waters of Barton Spring Pool.
I hear the girl talking to her dolls. My coffee is getting cold, so it's time to chug it down, hug the wife and get on with another great day in Austin.


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13 Apr 2012 5:09 AM #1
JavaScript execution exceeded ( iPhone 3G )
Sencha Version: 2.0
Device : iPhone 3G
Browser: safari
I converted my app into production mode and the size of my app.js file is 720 KB, this means that my app is a big one so when I open my app on safari in iPhone 3G I get this error "JavaScript execution exceeded timeout", On refreshing several times the application shows up but most of the time I get this error, I am not sure why this is happening, the application works fine on iPad and iPhone 4.
Any help is appreciated.
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13 Apr 2012 9:04 AM #4
There still shouldn't be so much execution time that would trigger that problem. I wonder if it's the caching on that device from localstorage. Can you try turning that off in your app.json file?
13 Apr 2012 9:10 AM #5
How can I turn off local storage cache in app.json ?
13 Apr 2012 9:20 AM #6
Here is my app.json file
13 Apr 2012 9:30 AM #7
Let me verify and get back with you.
13 Apr 2012 12:46 PM #8
Instead of doing a production build, do a package build (sencha app build package). This should avoid the microloader completely.
14 Apr 2012 1:46 AM #9
Thanks Jamie, By doing this my application is now working on iPhone 3G, but it is slow as compared to the production mood any idea how can I use production mood ?
Again thanks for your guidance.
16 Apr 2012 9:01 AM #10
The only real difference there is the caching in localstorage. Apple did a lot in iOS5 to speed up the javascript engine, it's a shame that they didn't give it to the older 3G. Perhaps breaking your application into 2 files would help.


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Saudi Arabia today declined UN Security Council membership following its election yesterday. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia extend its "sincere thanks and deep gratitude to all countries that have given their confidence to elect the Kingdom as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the next two years."
Since the UN Security Council has not been true to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and all international efforts that have been exerted in recent years in which Saudi Arabia participated very effectively, "did not result in reaching reforms required to be made to enable the Security Council to regain its desired role in the serve of the issues of peace and security in the world,...the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, based on its historical responsibilities towards its people, Arab and Islamic nations as well as towards the peoples aspiring for peace and stability all over the world, announces its apology for not accepting membership of the Security Council until the Council is reformed and enabled, effectively and practically, to carry out its duties and responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security."
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The Long-Term Economic To-Do List
The items marked "urgent" on the president's economic to-do list are overwhelming. The temptation must be to start at the top and work down: Avert the fiscal cliff, fill pending cabinet vacancies, reach out to China's new leaders, cajole Europe into avoiding economic suicide.
But after savoring his re-election, President Barack Obama would be wise to consider a few things that will matter to American prosperity over the next decade. With the global financial system melting down in 2009, he didn't have that luxury at the start of his first term. Now he does. Here are four items on the long-term to-do list.
The true fiscal fix
Steering away from the fiscal cliff is important. Not only would the abrupt across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases of the fiscal cliff push an already-weak economy into recession, going over the cliff would convince the public and financial markets that Washington truly is dysfunctional.
The budget deficit, for all the hue and cry, isn't today's economic problem. The U.S. government is borrowing more than $3 billion every weekday and paying the lowest interest rates in history. Today's problem is unemployment.
The deficit is tomorrow's problem: Spending on promised benefits will far exceed anticipated tax revenue even after the economy recovers. And this, Democrats and Republicans agree, is unsustainable. Doing something now that reduces the 2016 deficit is more important than reducing the 2013 deficit.
How the deficit is reduced matters, too. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has counseled avoiding too much austerity too fast, nurturing the fragile recovery and enacting laws now to reduce borrowing in the future.
Another thing: All government spending isn't created equal. Democrats sometimes talk as if all non-defense spending is great, Republicans as if it is all bad. Neither is correct, of course. Government spending ought to be focused on investments in human and physical capital that will pay off—which means spending less than projected on retirement and health benefits.
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The U.S. has an acute employment problem. Roughly 3.6 million Americans have been without work for a year or more and are still looking. Almost one in five men between ages 25 and 54 doesn't have a job. Fiscal and monetary policy should be calibrated to get more of them working before they become permanently unemployable.
But the U.S. had a wage problem even before the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The typical employed man between 25 and 65, the one in the statistical middle, earned $40,081 in 2011, about 16% less than in 1999, adjusted for inflation. Women did better: The median woman with a job earned $30,061, up 4% from 1999.
Faster economic growth is a necessary but probably not sufficient condition to get wages rising again. As MIT economists David Autor and Frank Levy have documented, middle-wage jobs that can be easily automated or moved abroad are disappearing—and with them middle-class paychecks.
During the presidential campaign, one candidate made an impassioned speech at Cleveland State University. "Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America," he said. "But right now, Americans' engines of upward mobility aren't working the way they should ... You know there's something wrong in our country when 40% of the children born to parents in the lowest fifth ... never know anything better."
That sounds like a liberal critique of American capitalism. But the speaker was Rep. Paul Ryan, the conservative Republican vice-presidential candidate, who was relying on a fact from some recent Brookings Institution number-crunching.
The next four years would be more productive if they began with an acknowledgment that the gap between winners and losers in the U.S. economy has been widening. Behind that change are reasons including market forces, the advance of technology, globalization and changing social mores. The distance between the penthouse and the ground floor is growing yet the escalators of mobility—such as education—haven't improved commensurately.
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Neither Mitt Romney nor Mr. Obama talked about climate change during the campaign. The presidential-debate moderators didn't raise the subject.
But that doesn't mean it can be ignored for four more years. "Our climate is changing," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in his somewhat-grudging endorsement of Mr. Obama just days after a superstorm barreled into the Atlantic Coast. "And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be—given this week's devastation—should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action."
This will be hard for a political system that finds it difficult to look beyond the short term and the next election.
These issues have something thing in common. Even after Tuesday's voting, there is no consensus on how best to address them —on how to reduce the deficit without strangling the recovery, how to create more middle-class jobs and promote upward mobility, and how to respond to climate change.
Republicans and Democrats have different prescriptions, and the election didn't change that. Which leaves just two options: compromise or gridlock.
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