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5 Ways to Lose Weight by Cutting Calories
Published on Fri, January 25, 2013
If you are like most Americans, your New Year's resolution is to lose weight and eat healthy. And it should: according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States is the most obese and over-weight nation in the world.
The CDC estimates that more than one-third of U.S. adults and almost 17% of youth were obese in 2009 – 2010, and that number continues to increase.
Jessica Bachman, Ph.D., assistant professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at Marywood University, says that if you are trying to lose weight—especially in the post-holiday period—stick to eating fewer calories and avoid fad diets for long-term results.
"Overall, if your goal is to lose weight, the only thing that matters is the amount of calories you are consuming and the amount of calories you are expending," Dr. Bachmann explains. "All of the fad diets out there are just different ways to lower calories."
According to Dr. Bachman, most people gain roughly two pounds during the holidays. Of course, that's on average, so there might be some people who gain no weight and others who gain more.
If you are someone who falls into the latter category and you want to lose weight after the holidays, Dr. Bachman has five simple suggestions:
1. Eat healthy snacks.
If healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables are washed, prepared and stored in the refrigerator, they will be as convenient to eat as junk food.
2. Ask restaurants to provide a lunch portion.
In many cases, restaurant portions exceed more than one serving. Although you may be charged the full price, eating smaller portions—thus consuming fewer calories—is a sure way to lose weight.
3. Get "starters" off of the table.
While eating out, many restaurants provide bread and crackers at the table. Skip these starchy calories and save your appetite for the meal.
4. Ask for a to-go box as soon as you order your food.
If the "more-than-one-serving" is sitting on your plate, chances are that you will eat it. This strategy also saves money because you can keep the leftovers for tomorrow's lunch.
5. Start your meal with a salad.
Research has shown that if you eat a salad before your meal, you consume fewer calories overall. If you eat high-volume foods—foods rich in water and nutrients such as vegetables—you consume less high-fat, high-calorie junk foods.
Health and weight loss, however, are not affected by caloric intake alone. Caloric expenditure—in other words, exercise—is also important. Dr. Buchman says individuals can engage in a myriad of indoor activities such as yoga, resistance training and Crossfit during these cold, winter months to get their bodies moving and burn calories.
"Avoid any diet or exercise plan that promises a quick fix," she says. "When it comes to diet and exercise, that doesn't work. At this time of year, fad diet books are selling like crazy, and everyone is trying something new."
Television programs such as Dr. Oz and The Biggest Loser can also have a negative impact. According to Dr. Bachman, these programs may not recommend interventions to nutrition or weight loss that are evidence-based.
"People don't stick to dieting very long, maybe a few weeks here or there," she explains. "Everyone seems to want a quick fix, and, unfortunately, when it comes to weight loss and dieting, that doesn't work. Changing your habits and the environment you have at home can really make the difference."


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Cape Town - In a remarkable day's cricket, South Africa piled on the pressure to take a 207-run first innings lead against New Zealand on day one of the first Test in Cape Town on Wednesday.
At stumps, South Africa were 252 for three after the visitors capitulated to 45 all out before lunch.
It was a day of milestones as Jacques Kallis became only the fourth cricketer in the world to score over 13 000 Test runs and Dale Steyn took his 300th Test wicket.
Their magnificent achievements were matched by a superb bowling performance from Vernon Philander (6-3-7-5) who took his eighth five-wicket haul in only his 13th Test.
In reply, South Africa lost the early wicket of Graeme Smith, who fell just before lunch, lbw to Doug Bracewell for one.
Alviro Petersen and Hashim Amla went on to share a second-wicket stand of 107 runs before Amla was out plumb lbw to James Franklin.
His 66 runs came off 74 balls and included nine boundaries.
Playing in his 159th Test, Kallis joined Petersen at the crease and it took him 36 balls to score the required 20 runs for his landmark.
He smashed a Doug Bracewell delivery past gully for four to bring the capacity crowd to their feet and reward Kallis with a standing ovation.
He went on to score his 59th half-century, hitting five fours and two sixes, before being caught behind by BJ Watling, off Trent Boult for 60.
Almost overshadowed was Petersen's fifth Test century which came off 170 balls and included 12 boundaries.
At the close of play he was unbeaten on 103 and AB de Villiers was not out on 19.
Superb bowling by Philander, Morne Morkel and Steyn ensured the Black Caps lasted exactly 100 minutes at the crease.
It was the third lowest total by a team in a first innings after winning the toss and electing to bat and the 12th lowest of all time.
Martin Guptill (1) was the first to go after a faint edge off Philander went into the gloves of AB de Villiers behind the stumps.
Philander's second wicket was that of captain Brendon McCullum, who played on for seven and, three balls later Dean Brownlie nicked the ball to Smith at first slip without scoring.
With the visitors in trouble at 14 for three, Kane Williamson and Daniel Flynn shared what turned out to be the biggest partnership of the innings – 13 runs – for the fourth wicket before Philander struck again. He had Williamson leg before for 13, despite a desperate call for a review. He was the only New Zealander to reach double figures before the team buckled in 19.2 overs.
South African born BJ Watling was Philander's fifth scalp, caught behind for a duck.
Putting up the longest resistance, Flynn lasted for 72 minutes until Steyn put paid to his Ä and the team's Ä knock with a caught-and-bowled for a mere eight runs.
The Phalaborwa Express had already reached his landmark 300 with a perfect ball to remove Bracewell's (2) middle stump.
Only Shaun Pollock (421), Makhaya Ntini (390) and Allan Donald (330) have taken more wickets for the Proteas.
Playing in his 61st Test, Steyn finished with figures of 2/18 while Morne Morkel picked up the three remaining wickets for 14. - Sapa

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Years ago, the magnificent dragon queen Tintaglia forged a bargain with the inhabitants of the treacherous Rain Wilds. In exchange for her protection against enemy invaders, the humans promised to protect an unhatched brood of dragons. But when the dragons emerged as weak and misshapen hatchlings unable to fend for themselves, dragonkind seemed doomed to extinction. When even Tintaglia deserted the crippled young dragons, the Rain Wilders abandoned the burden of caring for the destructive and ravenous creatures. They were banished to a dangerous and grueling journey in search of their ancient dragon homeland, the lost city of Kelsingra, accompanied by a band of young and inexperienced human keepers, also deemed damaged and disposable.
Against all odds they have found the fabled city, yet myriad challenges remain. Sintara, Mercor, Heeby, Relpda, and the rest of the dragons struggle to find their wings - and their independence. Their human escorts, too, must contend with unsettling upheaval: Thymara, Tats, Rapskal, Sedric, and the others are transforming into Elderlings - true dragon companions. As old rules give way to new alliances, secret fears, and adult desires, the keepers must redefine their lives as they attempt to reawaken Kelsingra to its former glory. But gaps in the dragons' memories leave them all struggling to recover the magic that once animated the great city.
As the young Elderlings risk "memory walking" in the city's hidden history, an outside threat is growing. The Duke of Chalced has dispatched his forces to the Rain Wilds with a compelling mission: slaughter the dragons in an attempt to stave off his own demise. The tide of history is about to turn on a life-and-death battle that will ultimately decide the dragons' fate. If they win, the regal serpents will rule the world once more. And if they lose, they will vanish from the world forever.
©2013 Robin Hobb (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
These are Dragons worth reading about. These Dragons have complex personalities, yet their character stays within the bounds set in previous literature on dragons. They are arrogant, lack empathy, believe humans are either meant to serve them or be food, and you will love them. You could not substitute any other animal in their place, they are distinctly Dragons.
She got MADDER, BECAUSE SHE DID NOT KNOW WHY SHE WAS MAD.
Robin Hobb has uncanny insight into the human psyche. She knows all the complex and simple thoughts that go through our heads. She understands how we feel as we interact with others, how words or actions can affect us, based on our personalities. I love it when she touches on those things we often think about, but never vocalize. She offers advice through her characters with out being preachy and you may not even realize she is doing it. She is not overly dramatic, nor does she skip over what makes us real. Most of all she is entertaining, never boring.
This being the fourth and finally book of the series, you should start with at least book one of this series. I suggest that you start with The Liveship Traders Trilogy. It is the series just before this series and both series share some characters. This series is a stand alone series, but will make even better sense if you read Ship of Magic and it's two sequels first.
I love Anne Flosnik for Robin Hobb's Fantasies. Her voice has a very unique quality, that puts you into Hobb's world of Dragons, right from page one. She does not do a whole lot of voices, but Hobb's writing is so good, you will never get your characters mixed up and she does it without the he says, she says scenario. She is sort of the female version of John Lee.
"I loved this series!!!"
YES!! Ann Flosnik is a wonderful narrator!!! She is a pro at doing males, females, dragons, different accents and her voice is so beautiful!
The characters! I love the way Robin Hobb creates her villians! I also like that each character has inner conflicts that seem real and natural within fantastical settings. I love her descriptive abilities and her attention to detail.
Her beautiful voice! Her inflections, her mastery of story telling! She's one of the best up there with Josephine Bailey and Simon Prebble.
NO FILM!!! My head does better imaginings than any movie would do this story justice.
I am so happy to have audible.com. I have had around 3 (maybe 4 ) platinum memberships. Audible has the very best narrators and the easiest and fastest site to downloading books. I would forgo restaurants, new clothes and the like just to have my audible.com platinum membership.
"great ending for good series"
and for a change not a bad ending like Robin Hobb
loved the characters development , loved that every one of them gets a share in the story
I really like the fact that for a change the people are the lesser participants
"Meets Expectations - still want more"
I really like this series. My only problem with Robin Hobb's characters is that sometimes the time it takes for them to mature and stop being so childish seems a little too prolonged for me, but I guess that may be no different than reality. I like seeing them mature and grow, but...
However I really like the world that Robin Hobb has created and discovering it is definitely what keeps me coming back to this series and I am excited to find out what happens next.
"An excellent wrap up to a great story"
The Rain Wilds Chronicle finishes with this book bringing the entire life cycle of dragons into context. At times, as was true in Hobb's other tales, the coincidental encounters of characters is very predictable, and the end of the story wraps up a little suddenly. Even so, the conclusion is very satisfying without loose ends to leave the reader waiting for the next book. Anne Flosnik does a terrific performance!
"This is the Robin Hobb whose writing I've loved"
I have been following this series with hope. This installment reminds me of why I love Hobb's books. Excellent writing- great resolutions, significant progress in the story.
If you have enjoyed other series by Hobb, you will like this installment. In my opinion, it accomplished a lot more than earlier installments.
"Several redeeming qualities, but also many flaws"
The series more than any other I've read has this reoccurring theme that women secretely enjoy rape and that women enjoy being chased. It tries to balance anti rape sentiment but its just way too much for a series.
"Loved it! Sad it's over."
This final book was very fast moving. There was lots of adventure and loose ends tied up. I love this narrator she does a wonderful job.
"loved the series except the last chapter."
the last chapter of this book felt like it was rushed, I'd have preferred to have the characters finish their stories earlier in the book than to have them all ended quickly. thimara's final phrase was confusing, nothing had led to that sentiment earlier. loved the series, the characters were rich and the environment and situations believable.
"Decent ending"
Only if they would be willing to start at book one of the series...otherwise they wouldn't have the full context of the story and be fumbling around the story.
Yes, I have started a few other books in different series of hers so I would finish them out--mostly to say that I'd reached the conclusion in each of them.
Since the narrator did all of the books, with the finish of this one, I had resigned myself to her style of speaking. She did a decent job of differing the voices of the female & males characters although the speech patterns still grated even after four books.
I guess having a different narrator would have been the best thing to do.
In each of the books, I felt that there was a bit too much fluff going on...as if the reader needed the proverbial hand-holding (but in word form)---that the reader couldn't imagine it on their own. Many times, I felt myself drifting when that happened...in the this book, I did fast-forward it through one part that I felt was unnecessarily shoved at me....I got the meaning within the first few sentences but the scene was dragged out enough that I just couldn't take it anymore.
Actually, I am glad that it's the end of the series....it didn't pan out as I thought it might....although the battle scene ending was as I hoped.
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Cowboys Gameday: Five things to watch for vs. Ravens
Updated 8:53 pm, Saturday, October 13, 2012
Here's what Express-News staff writer Tom Orsborn says you should keep an eye on during today's game:
While a loss wouldn't cripple the Cowboys, a win could be the spark that lights a fire under a team stuck in a frustrating win-one, lose-one pattern.
But the odds are stacked against any visitor emerging victorious at M&T Bank Stadium. Since Harbaugh replaced Brian Billick, Baltimore has won 21 of its last 22 at home, including 13 straight (3-0 this season) for the league's longest active home winning streak.
"They have a very good team, so it starts with that," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said when asked about the Ravens' home-field advantage. "They also have a crowd that really, really loves football. They're into it, and they're behind their team, and their team gives them a good reason to be behind them."
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Another reason to like the Ravens in this one: Since 2008, they're 8-0 against NFC teams in Baltimore. All time, the Ravens are 24-5-1 against NFC opponents.
It doesn't help Dallas that Baltimore likely will be determined to put on a better show for its fans after squeaking out a 9-6 win over the Chiefs last week in Kansas City. And Dallas could be rusty coming off a bye week following a 34-18 loss to Chicago.
But what Boldin lacks in size, he more than makes up for with strength, meaning he could be a tough matchup for 6-foot, 210-pound Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr.
"He's pretty strong," Carr said of Boldin, who is Joe Flacco's favorite target in the Ravens' no-huddle offense with 23 catches for 331 yards and a touchdown.
"You see it on film with just his demeanor. He's a nasty receiver, doesn't mind mixing it up with the DB, beginning of the route, top of the route. Once he gets the ball, he's a physical run-after-the-catch receiver.
"Whoever is on him will just have to buckle down and be prepared to fight a real dogfight with a real dog, D-A-W-G. I respect the guy, and it's going to be a battle. You have to buckle down for the whole 60 minutes. You can never go to sleep on a guy like him."
The same is true of speedster Torrey Smith. Baltimore has produced an NFL-best 30 plays of 20 or more yards this season, including an NFL-best 26 passes of 20-plus yards. Smith has seven catches of 20-plus yards, while Boldin has six.
In his only game against Romo, Reed had two picks, helping the Ravens shut down Texas Stadium in December 2008 with a 33-24 win. An eight-time Pro Bowl player with 59 career interceptions and a whopping 1,506 return yards, Reed's ball-hawking ways are a big reason the Ravens have enjoyed a positive turnover differential in nine of the past 13 seasons.
"He just has a feel for the game, maybe like no other safety I've ever seen," Garrett said of Reed, who has two picks this season and needs four more to move past Dave Brown and Dick LeBeau for eighth on the NFL's career chart.
One of the things that makes Reed so difficult to throw against is his penchant for freelancing and his ability to disguise his motives.
"He doesn't ever tip his hand," Romo said. "So you almost have to know that, when you see him, what he's giving you isn't what's real."
Set to greet him back to active duty are 6-4, 340-pound defensive tackle Haloti Ngata and 6-5, 345-pound nose tackle Ma'ake Kemoeatu. That's a lot of beef for the undersized 6-3, 313-pound Costa, who is 3 inches shorter and 12 pounds lighter than Cook.
"Ryan Cook did a great job," Cowboys offensive line coach Bill Callahan said. "Unfortunately, he's on the shelf."
Whether Costa starts after today could be determined by how well he plays against Ngata and Kemoeatu. Considering the size advantage the duo enjoys, the chances of Costa standing his ground aren't good.
"It's not (that) we're going to turn him loose. He's going to turn loose," Jones said. "He doesn't know but one speed, and that is getting after it. We've missed him, and he'll help us."
According to their win-one, lose-one pattern, the Cowboys are due for a victory today. But with the Ravens looking to re-establish their ferocious defensive identity, don't be surprised if another pattern continues.
Since posting a 129.5 passer rating in the season-opening win over the Giants, Romo has committed at least two turnovers while registering a passer rating of 75.1 or below in each of the last three games.
It's hard to imagine him breaking out of that slump at M&T Bank Stadium, where during their 13-game home winning streak the Ravens have averaged 3.3 sacks and one interception while allowing only 290.5 yards per game (79.4 rushing and 211.1 passing).


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DURHAM, N.C. — What we learned while watching the Duke Blue Devils complete a spirited comeback against Ohio State in a 73-68 victory over the Buckeyes on Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The win for Duke and the ACC means this year's ACC-Big Ten Challenge finished tied at six victories each.
Revenge is sweet
When these two teams met last season, the Buckeyes scored the game's first 11 points and things never really got better for Duke. Despite their lofty No. 2 ranking entering that game, the Blue Devils were still trying to figure out their roles—that's something they struggled with the entire season, actually—and the third-ranked Buckeyes exploited their every weakness in a 22-point victory in Columbus.
It was, depending on your rooting perspective, a thing of beauty or a complete disaster. There was no middle ground.
— College basketball scoreboard: Wednesday results | Thursday games
This time, in Durham, there was plenty of middle ground—exciting, competitive middle ground between two teams that could very well meet up again in the latter stages of next spring's NCAA Tournament. Mason Plumlee turned in another great game for Duke with 21 points and 17 rebounds. The Buckeyes got great production off their bench. There were positives for both teams, which we didn't see at last year's game.
Cook shines again
Duke point guard Quinn Cook has been one of many bright spots this season.
After a freshman year where he played little and rarely made an impact, Cook showed up at practice this season a different player, mentally and physically.
"I wasn't in shape like I was supposed to be last year, and I didn't play," Cook told Sporting News this summer. "I took this offseason very seriously, getting in shape and with basketball, just working on my game."
He won the MVP trophy at last week's Battle 4 Atlantis tournament largely because of his performance against the high-pressure defense of VCU. He committed just three turnovers in 39 minutes, much better than the other elite point guards who faced the VCU pressure fared: Memphis' Joe Jackson (seven turnovers in 20 minutes) or Missouri's Phil Pressey (five in 40).
— Top 25 results: Miami (Fla.) upends No. 13 Michigan State | All Wednesday scores
Cook struggled at times against Ohio State, though. Nothing is ever easy when Aaron Craft—the best defensive player in the country—is hounding you, but it wasn't just Craft. Shannon Scott did an excellent job, too, especially in disrupting passing lanes.
And there were moments when Cook showed he still must work on his decision-making. As the clock wound down to seven minutes left in the first half, Plumlee found himself with Ohio State guard Lenzelle Smith on him after a switch. As he pleaded for the basketball on the low block, Cook saw the mismatch.
But he couldn't figure out a way to get Plumlee the ball. He didn't throw it over the top because he saw Craft lurking behind Plumlee, waiting to jump a lob pass. He couldn't find an angle to feed Plumlee from the front, either. But instead of looking elsewhere, Cook locked in on Plumlee, and eventually tried to drive baseline and dish to the big man.
That didn't work, either, and Cook turned the ball over when he stepped on the baseline.
There were moments of brilliance, of course. Such as early in the second half, when he picked Craft's pocket out near midcourt and fed Plumlee for a massive breakaway dunk.
It's all part of the development for a player who could be very good but isn't quite there yet. He finished with 12 points, seven assists and six rebounds Wednesday night, and his layup with 1:31 left gave Duke a huge five-point cushion. And his free throws in the game's final 30 seconds made sure that cushion held up.
A hiccup for Thomas
The theory heading into the season was that, with the departures of Ohio State stars Jared Sullinger and William Buford, there would be more shots available for Deshaun Thomas.
So far, that's definitely been true—he averaged 15.8 shots per game through Ohio State's first four games, up from 12.0—and has been making the most of those extra opportunities. According to kenpom.com, Thomas' offensive rating is 138.2, way up from his already good 122.1 rating last season.
In fact, his numbers are up across the board—better offensive and defensive rebounding percentages, better free-throw rate and percentage, better effective field-goal percentage. He's even averaging more than one assist per game for the first time in his career.
And, his scoring had jumped from 15.9 to 24.0.
The question was, though, how would he play against a higher quality opponent? The Buckeyes' game against an always-rugged Marquette defense was scuttled by moisture on the deck of the USS Yorktown, and the other four opponents—Albany, Rhode Island, Washington and Missouri-Kansas City—weren't exactly defensive juggernauts.
Playing at Cameron Indoor is a different story.
While on the court in the first half, Thomas continued his productive ways. He sat out 10 minutes before halftime because of foul trouble but still led the Buckeyes with eight points on 3-of-5 shooting. He added another eight midway through the second half but didn't score again, hitting only 6-of-14 shots on the night.
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Corn futures were modestly lower Friday morning. The potential for benign midsummer weather is still weighing upon corn prices, since the benign conditions could contribute to a record harvest. However, traders seemed to be reducing short positions before the weekend, since changing forecasts might send prices higher early next week. September corn futures edged 0.25 cent higher to $5.40/bushel around midsession Friday, while December lost 2.0 cents to $4.9875.
The tight old crop situation continues supporting the soybean market. Soybeans are also feeling downward pressure from favorable summer weather, especially with corn leading the way lower. However, the current old-crop shortage is supporting nearby futures, which in turned seemed to spill over into the deferred contracts. August soybean futures leapt 20.24 cents to $14.905/bushel late Friday morning, while August soyoil bounced 0.02 cents to 45.54 cents/pound, and August soymeal climbed $13.4 to $483.8/ton.
Renewed export hopes apparently boosted wheat futures Friday morning. Earlier in the day the USDA announced that a private seller had sold 120,000 tonnes of soft red winter wheat to China, thereby reminding traders that the Asian giant may need a great deal more grain during the coming weeks and months. Some contracts are suffering from the prospect of favorable summer weather, thereby implying a big spring wheat crop later this year. September CBOT wheat rose 4.5 cents to $6.65/bushel just before lunchtime Friday, while September KCBT wheat gained 3.25 cents to $7.055 and September MGE futures added 3.0 cent to $7.5325.
Cattle futures gave back a portion of the Thursday advance Friday morning. Bulls proved able to sustain a portion of the big Thursday rally, which probably persuaded cattlemen to again take steady money for their animals this morning. That is, fed cattle in the Southern Plains reportedly changed hands around $119/cwt (cents/pound) late Friday morning. That steady result likely disappointed CME bulls. Meanwhile, weak corn prices probably encouraged feeder buying. August cattle dipped 0.12 cents to 121.97 cents/pound in late-morning action Friday, while December skidded 0.17 cents to 128.70. August feeder futures rallied 0.52 cents to 152.60 cents/pound, while November inched up 0.35 cents to 158.25.
CME hog prices declined in concert with cattle Friday morning. Bullish hog traders have very likely been hoping resurgent cattle and beef prices would support the hog and pork complex during the coming weeks and months. Thus, the cash cattle weakness, along with slippage in Corn Belt swine values, may help explain the weakness experienced by hog futures this morning. August hog futures slid 0.15 cents to 96.47 cents/pound around midsession Friday, while December sank 0.52 cents higher to 82.02.


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At the time I was appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels early in his administration, I would dare say that the importance of degree completion, on-time completion, affordability and productivity were not on the radar of most policy leaders and certainly not on the radar of most Hoosiers. There were no performance metrics tied to state funding of education. There were no degree maps or clear pathways to careers for students. There wasn't a strong focus on the importance of the community college system; open animosity existed between several of the community college campuses and the regional campuses.
All of this changed with the commission's development of Reaching Higher, the state's first strategic plan; followed by Reaching Higher, Achieving More. These strategies received national acclaim:
"The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has taken a comprehensive and strategic view of the higher education needs of the state, and put together an outstanding plan of action. I applaud the Commission's leadership role in driving Indiana toward a better future."
— Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO, Lumina Foundation
"Reaching Higher, Achieving More combines common sense with courage and is set to go beyond good intentions to good results. Hoosiers rightly aren't satisfied with undergraduate degrees that take six years. They have brought the conversation back to 'on-time' meaning four years for a baccalaureate degree. They are calling for lower cost per degree, lower student debt loads, and elimination of unnecessary programs. There will be many that will try to derail these reforms, but Hoosiers are known for holding their ground. If they do, Reaching Higher, Achieving More will be a model for the nation."
— Anne Neal, president, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
"Indiana was already a national leader in efforts to improve college completion. Adopting this strategic plan places Indiana even further ahead in this important work. Indiana should be proud of its commitment to moving this important agenda."
— Stan Jones, president, Complete College America
"Reaching Higher, Achieving More squarely hits the target in calling for a higher education system that is more student-centered and aligned with Indiana's future workforce needs. Reaching Higher, Achieving More will move Indiana quickly forward to having the educated citizenry it needs have a successful sustainable economy."
— Larry A. Isaak, president, Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
So what has been accomplished so far?
We now have a Core Transfer library, TransferIN.net.
We now have a statewide general education core.
We worked with your office and with the legislators this session to enact a number of strategies from Reaching Higher, Achieving More:
1. Single Articulation Pathways
2. Common electronic high school transcript and college application
3. The codifying of IWIS, Indiana's Workforce Intelligence System
4. Aligning the Frank O'Bannon and 21st Century Scholarships with the completion, efficiency and quality goals in Reaching Higher, Achieving More.
We have changed the conversation from inputs to outcomes, with return on investment reports.
We are rewarding performance, with state funding tied to outcomes.
We have rightly put the focus on a student-centered system of higher education.
We have invented a grass-roots network of College Success Coalitions as Learn More Indiana helps Hoosiers Plan, Prepare and Pay for college completion and career success.
We have taken the mystery out of the true cost of college with a nationally appreciated Cost Calculator.
We have championed our community college system.
We have put on the radar and set an audacious goal to close the achievement gap between Caucasian and minority students.
When you're living it and doing it, it is easy to think these things are just plain Hoosier sense. But we have often been reminded over the last several years just how remarkable the work in Indiana is.
Last year at this time, our commissioner was one of four national leaders called to testify before the United State House Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee on what states and colleges are doing to curb college costs and to ensure results. We were specifically invited to inform the nation about our performance-based funding and credit-transfer policies.
The 2012 United States Chamber's report Leaders & Laggards recognized only four states for exceptional education policy, with Indiana in that elite grouping. The March 12, 2012, Inside Higher Ed article "Doubling Down on Degrees" had this to say about Indiana's educational leadership:
"Four years after first introducing performance-based funding for public colleges in the state, Indiana's Higher Education Commission is upping the ante.
"Indiana's public colleges and universities will now be asked to double the number of degrees they award, cut costs, improve on-time graduation rates, use assessments to track learning, and create a common general education curriculum as part of a new strategic plan that keeps an emphasis on performance-based funding."
And an excerpt from "Higher Education Needs Smarter Spending for Student Success," Feb. 18, 2012, by Nate Johnson and Martha Snyder:
"Indiana and Tennessee are leaders among states that align performance-based policies for students and institutions. They provide incentives to colleges where high numbers of students graduate, and give students the incentives and support they need to do their part, too. In Indiana, the state government measures graduation rates, the number of graduates, and the ratio of graduates to enrolled students. The Commission for Higher Education recently approved a new set of policies to tie funding to the number of students that reach set benchmarks on the way to graduation.
"Indiana also changed state student aid policies by reforming the state's 21st Century Scholars Program …"
Certainly none of this would have been possible without the best professional team in the country — and also one of the smallest teams, once again showing Hoosier frugality and productivity. Commissioner Teresa Lubbers is smart, politically savvy with higher education's key constituents, passionate about reaching higher and very effective as the face of our higher education system locally, statewide and nationally. Our state is lucky to have her leading this issue.
I wish the new commission members a world of success. It is my hope that this historical perspective will enable them to respect the achievements to date, learn quickly, and maintain and multiply the momentum that is so important to the educational and economic success of the state we love.


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TAMPA, Fla.—That wasn't merely an interception return Norv Turner saw flashing before him Sunday. It was his head coaching career.
Going ... going ... good as gone.
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Tampa Bay's Leonard Johnson returned the ball 83 yards up San Diego's sideline, right in front Turner. What should have been a tying field goal for the Chargers turned into a 31-21 lead for the Bucs.
"It just stayed in my hand too longer than I wanted it to," Philip Rivers said of the pass, "and took a nosedive right to him."
He couldn't explain why he threw a sinker, which is how it usually goes with the Chargers. They don't know why they keep losing. They just do.
"It sounds like a broken record," Ronnie Brown said.
That eventually dooms the maestro, and Sunday's loss might well have been the death knell for Turner.
The Chargers came in 4-4. A win might have sparked one of those inexplicable job-saving runs Turner has specialized in. Now there's no way San Diego makes the playoffs.
No playoffs means no Norv. If the Chargers can fire Marty Schottenheimer after going 14-2, they surely will axe Turner after missing the playoffs three straight seasons.
Turner's latest defeat was easy enough to autopsy. The Bucs scored on a blocked punt and an interception return. Otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln really enjoyed the play.
"We've got a group of guys who mentally and physically are awfully tough," Turner said. "We accomplished a number of things we set out to accomplish."
That's Norv, always accentuating the positive. When they weren't donating points to Tampa Bay, the Chargers did indeed look promising. But Turner knows the truth. When a reporter asked if simply trying hard enough was acceptable, the coach got uncharacteristically testy.
"What do you think? What do you think the answer to that question is?" he said. "Answer it for me."
That's what a cat sounds like when he's on Life No. 9. Though at least it was one question with an easy answer. There aren't any obvious ones for why the Chargers keep tripping over themselves.
"I don't think it is the guys or that we don't have the talent," Brown said, "as much as it is the execution part of it."
That part certainly was missing when San Diego blew a 10-point lead to New Orleans. Then came the Monday Night Meltdown, when Denver turned a 24-0 halftime deficit into a 35-24 Peyton Manning extravaganza.
After a bye week to recover and prepare, the Chargers lost 7-6 to Cleveland. A win over Kansas City quelled the Turner Death Watch, but now it's back on.
When the end inevitably arrives, Turner's name will be mentioned for other openings. He's a likeable guy and can X and O with anybody. But something is missing. It always has been.
Turner was a bust with the Redskins, then the Raiders. His earlier Chargers teams were loaded with talent, but they underperformed when it mattered.
The sum of parts like Rivers and LaDainian Tomlinson were always greater than the whole.
That's Turner's fault. If numbers don't lie, the truth is Turner simply isn't a very good coach.
His career record is 111-118. All those losses can't be laid on bonehead throws or bad luck.
That's certainly not why the Chargers haven't beaten anybody except those mighty Chiefs since Week 2. It was easy to pinpoint Rivers' interception as the reason for Sunday's loss, but it was really more a symptom of a greater problem.
When Turner's in charge, things inevitably nosedive. We may not know why. They just do.
"Every interception has a story," River said.
This one sure looks like the start of the final chapter for Turner.


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Carpenter returns from DL with clear head
ATLANTA -- When Braves reliever David Carpenter came off the disabled list on Wednesday, he was not worried about the right biceps strain that had sidelined him the previous two weeks. The time off was more than enough for him to recover physically, but more importantly, he admitted, it was nice to have a chance to mentally recover from the sudden struggles that began during that latter part of May.
"I'm back to normal and feeling good," Carpenter said. "It was good to just step away and get everything right."
Carpenter entered this season attempting to build off the success he had when he produced a 1.78 ERA in a career-high 56 appearances last year. The 28-year-old right-hander seemed to be heading in the right direction when he produced a 1.69 ERA through his first 18 appearances. But he posted a 7.71 ERA and allowed opponents to hit .436 in the 16 appearances that followed leading up to his DL stint.
"I just got a little tired," Carpenter said. "I always want the ball whenever they call down. I never want to say I need a day or I need this. You want to be a guy that is relied upon."
When Carpenter proved steady through this season's first 18 appearances, he allowed a .364 BAbip (batting average on balls in play) and struck out one of every 3.28 batters he faced, similar to the 3.11 strikeout/plate appearance ratio he produced last year. In his 16 most recent appearances, he surrendered a .564 BAbip and struck out just one of every 4.5 batters he faced.
Carpenter was pleased to see his fastball consistently register 95-98 mph as he struck out four of the seven batters he faced during the two scoreless rehab appearances he made for Triple-A Gwinnett.
But velocity was never really an issue for Carpenter until his fastball dropped to 91 mph during a June 16 appearance that prompted his DL stint. According to FanGraphs.com, his average fastball velocity (95.3) has actually been a tick higher than it was last year (95.1).
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Brooke Hogan hosted a charity boxing event over the weekend that will be featured on an episode of her new reality show Brooke Knows Best. I always like to see others succeed*, so here's a few tips that Brooke should know best about:
1. Don't ever, EVER stare directly into the camera again. I'm now deaf from the ear-shattering scream of my penis.
2. You're not Kim Kardashian. If I wanted to see a dude's butt, I'd watch football – with a room full of male strippers. I don't half-ass anything. Ha! Get it? Ba doom sha! But, seriously, no one needs to see that thing.
3. Be cognizant of what words you're standing under. Particularly the letters "T, R, A, N, S."
4. Lead with the boobs. Your mother had them installed as some sort of cruel affront to God and nature so you might as well flaunt those round, blasphemous fun-bags like it's your job. (Hint: It is.)
Best of luck to you! I guarantee to never watch your show,
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DUDLEY Canal Trust has strongly denied a twice-jailed pervert was allowed to operate boat trips for school children.
Wolverhampton Crown Court was told twisted Edward Hunt, who was barred from any contact with youngsters, was a volunteer with the Trust for three years and his duties included operating trips.
However trust chiefs say only paid boat skippers take the trips and at no time was 68-year-old Hunt, who crewed a narrow boat called Sagitta, alone with children.
Dudley Canal Trust director Alan Hazeldine said: "Mr. Hunt was never employed as a skipper on our trips boats which take paying passengers through the Dudley Tunnel or on trips on the open canal.
"His only involvement with Dudley Canal Trust was moving the historic boat and carrying out demonstrations. When the historic boat is demonstrated at a show location it is stationary, moored to the bank and in full view of the general public.
"Demonstrations only take place when a minimum of two volunteers are present and, again, all children must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult."
Hunt, from Mickley Avenue, Park Village, Wolverhampton, joined the Dudley Trust in 2010 and the court was told he was even a committee member for two years, despite never having had a criminal records check.
He was jailed for nine months in 1994 for an offence involving children and, in 1999, he was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for a further offence involving the Child Abduction Act. He has also since been cautioned by police for possessing an indecent image of a child.
Prosecutor Geoffrey Dann told the court: "He was not left alone with the children who had a teacher with them but that action was in breach of the sex offenders prevention order he was subject to. This prevented him from having any contact with a person under 18 without the prior approval of the chief constable."
Hunt was arrested in September last year when a new sex offender manager took over his case discovered he was volunteering at the Trust.
Hunt admitted breaching the terms of his of his sex offenders prevention order, he was given a three year community order with a condition he attends a sex offenders programme to address his attitude towards children and to obey a six month electronically monitored curfew.
Judge John Warner told him: "You could be jailed for up to ten years but I draw back from sending you away. This is not to be merciful to you.
"I regard it as the best way of achieving protection for the public by ensuring you are under the supervision of probation officers for sufficient time to complete the sex offender management programme."
Hunt's barrister, David Bratt, stressed his client's previous offender manager had been advised where he was working and he could have made checks about his duties with the Canal Trust.
Alan Hazeldine added: "As a result of this unfortunate incident, the Dudley Canal Trust is reviewing all its operating and volunteer manning procedures in order to eliminate the possibility of this ever happening again."


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DENVER -- Tyler Chatwood was recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs to start Wednesday against the Braves. He took the roster spot of reliever Rob Scahill, who was optioned to Triple-A after making a good impression in his one outing with the Rockies.
Scahill relieved Jeff Francis on Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader and pitched three scoreless innings against the Braves, allowing one hit with two strikeouts. He threw 28 pitches, 20 for strikes.
"Robbie did a great job," manager Walt Weiss said. "Saw a lot of progression in Spring Training with Robbie. About halfway through, some things that he was working on just clicked. He's carried that into the season, and he's throwing the ball real well down in Colorado Springs. He's one of those guys down there that's going to be in our mix and be a part of our club this year, for sure."
Weiss said Scahill's mental approach has improved, and he is better able to slow things down and, hence, not have his mechanics go awry.
"Sometimes he would start to get fast," Weiss said. "That would leak into his delivery. More than anything else, it's being aware of that. He's been able to slow things down."
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"Get in line and settle down!" If the chorus of No Doubt's debut single in nearly 10 years has a certain grade school ring to it, perhaps it's because the band's front woman, Gwen Stefani, now 42, spends her days wrangling two wild boys (sons Kingston, 6, and Zuma, 4). For the singer famous for her unbridled energy onstage, "settled down" is the new yet fitting description. At our photo shoot in the Malibu hills, she shied away from anything too see-through. Fur was also off-limits. "My entire band is vegan," she explained. "They would kill me!" An army-inspired mix of cargo pants and jackets set her at ease, while a tousled topknot felt quintessentially Gwen — fun with a glam twist. Onward, sister solder. —Katie L. Connor
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Testicular cancer is not common. It is often first discovered by the man himself, or his sex partner, as a lump or an enlarged and swollen testicle. In the early stages of testicular cancer, the lump, which may be about the size of a pea, usually is not painful. Testicular cancer has a high cure rate.
Experts have different recommendations for screening for testicular cancer. For example, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advises against routine testicular exam or testicular self-exams in teens and men who have no symptoms.footnote 1 The USPSTF says that the evidence shows that these exams have only a small benefit (if any) and may cause harm from false-positive results that lead to having diagnostic tests or procedures you don't need.
Testicular self-examination (TSE) may detect testicular cancer at an early stage. Many doctors do not believe that monthly TSE is needed for men who are at average risk for testicular cancer. Monthly TSE may be recommended for men who are at high risk for testicular cancer. This includes men with a history of an undescended testicle or a family or personal history of testicular cancer.
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Though an action-packed 2012 is nearing its end, 2013 is all set to make a fast start with the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala. The big event takes place on 7 January 2013 at Zurich's Kongresshaus and will see a host of accolades bestowed on the biggest stars on planet football.
The world's leading players and coaches are not the only people who make the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala what it is, because YOU too have a part to play. And you do not need to pull on a shirt, shorts and boots to make your mark on the stellar list of award winners.
While the destination of the players' and coaches' awards are in the hands of the experts, it is you and you alone who decides the winner of one of the most coveted trophies of all, the FIFA Puskás Award, which is presented to the scorer of the best goal of the year on the sole basis of votes cast by the users of FIFA.com.
Colombia's Radamel Falcao, Brazil's Neymar and Slovakia's Miroslav Stoch are the three contenders in the running for the coveted award that YOU decide the destination of.
Thanks to the votes you have already awarded, the ten-goal shortlist has been whittled down to three finalists, leaving you with one last task of deciding between the Atletico Madrid man's overhead kick, the Santos player's solo effort, and the Fenerbahce midfielder's first-time volley.
You have until 7 January 2013, the day of the gala, to vote for your favourite from the three. You only have one vote, though, so make sure you choose wisely.
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In contrast, you have a little more room for manoeuvre in putting together your dream team of 2012 and predicting which 11 players you think will make the FIFA/FIFPro World XI.
This year FIFA.com is once again giving you the opportunity to play the FIFA/FIFPro World XI Predictor game, which began on 19 November and gives you a 55-man shortlist to choose from in making up your team of 2012.
Select a goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three forwards and try to predict the World XI as voted for by over 50,000 professional footballers from all over the world, each one voting for the best player in each position.
You have until 4 January 2013 to play the coach and select your ideal team. You can change your selection as often as you like up until 4 January. If your line-up matches the actual FIFA/FIFPro World XI, you will enter our Grand Prize draw for an exclusive FIFA/FIFPro adidas jersey signed by players from the final world XI of 2012.
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Jeff Bauman, a double-amputee and survivor of the Boston Marathon bombings, pumped up the crowd at the Bruins' Stanley Cup playoff game on Saturday night.
Bauman, who also helped authorities identitify Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, waved a flag as a Bruins banner made its way across the crowd.
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Let this sort of be a part two to another post I started last year: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?904383-Let-s-talk-security
There was a portion of the thread where people believed that brute forcing rather than using a rainbow table just wasn't logical. With my recent experience in multi threaded application writing / research, and my beginning research into cluster computing, I can see this being untrue, and more recently this popped up in my news feeds: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2331984/Think-strong-password-Hackers-crack-16-character-passwords-hour.html
So there was some talk about running MD5 more than once on the string (only helps if source code has not been revealed to hacker). Ensuring that you have a unique salt per row (this I can tell you will help but wont slow anyone down who knows what they are doing)... But it seems to me that the only way to stay ahead of cluster computing is security by obscurity, and masking the way the you prepare your hash.
Let the discussion begin... again... What are your thoughts and suggestions?
Predicting the future of technological innovation is at best a guess but in the interim we can expect folk to be forced into using longer passwords. Who knows maybe we'll come full circle and once a month the bank will send a courier over with something like a cheque book of one-time-pad of passwords.
Of course what's really worrying (and the article fails to mention) is that the brute forcing setup that was used by Ars Technica is niether new or unique to them. I could mention the name of the freely available software used but it would probably be deleted by admin Stories have been popping up for over five years now about home brew cluster servers using everthing from Play Staions to high end graphics cards being used by amateurs interested in cryptography. Some have even demonstrated how 'cloud' services from the likes of Amazon & Google can be configured to crack passwords even faster than described in that article.
Simply locking the account for a period after each wrong password attempt will defeat any brute force attack. If a password will only be accepted if at least 5 or 10 seconds has passed since the last login attempt then it doesn't matter how many processors you throw at it as testing passwords faster than the lock period will simply keep the account locked and result in the actual password being rejected along with all the invalid guesses - unless they get lucky and get the password right on the very first try.
Rainbow tables only work if you have access to the hash of the password and also the code that generated the hash.
I'm afraid my advice isn't going to be much different than what I gave in the other thread.
1) Unique salt. This neutralizes rainbow tables, and it ensures the attacker has to brute-force each password individually.
2) Key strengthening (aka, iterations). This uses computing power to counter computing power.
The password list from the article that was so easily hacked did neither of these things.
I very much disagree! Security by obscurity is never the answer. I don't understand why people keep falling for this trap. The problem with security through obscurity is that the things we come up with are mostly quite trivial (rot13 and/or base64 anyone?) and very easy to reverse engineer with a bit of brute forcing. Take CSS for example (the DVD encryption, not Cascading Style Sheets), which is proprietary, and got hacked without much effort. Here in the Netherlands we got a new system to pay for public transport, proprietary encryption, and it was hacked within a few weeks (everyone with a card reader of ~30$ could "check in" and "check out" at home, effectively travelling for free).
The common misconception is that if the encryption/decryption algorithms are known, it's easy to decrypt something, but this is absolutely not true. If anything, it is a good thing that the algorithms are out in the open so anyone can verify that they work and aren't flawed. Plus, if you know how decryption works, you can calculate how long it takes to brute force, and give up before you even try because it's just impossible.
The trick to stay ahead of cluster computing is, and will always be, strong keys.
Im referring to obscuring the way that you hash. I'm not at all suggesting abondoning the usual salt techniques. What I am saying, is that if I have a nice cluster set up, and I have accessed your users table, along with the way the you hash your passwords, I AM GOING TO BRUTE FORCE IT. All of them.
Sure, felgall, brute forcing over a network can be stopped. Everyone knows that.
Jeff, I've gone down this road with you before I'm afraid. Iterations of a key will not help out if I know how you created your hash (how many iterations and when and how you implemented your salt).
As a hacker who has downloaded a nice hunk of usernames and hashed passwords, I will set them up in an indexed table (index on the hashed value), ensure that they are stored in memory, and then begin a concurrent brute force, each hash will check to see if it exists in the table, and on match, spit out the password used and the username that went with it to a results table.
I'm sorry guys but my point with this thread is there is no countering computing power with computing power with how quickly concurrent computing is coming along. Hand me a table of users, unqiuely salted or not, and how the hash was built and I'll show you an example on EC2.
My point here folks is that we should start looking at ways to hide the way in which we hashed our passwords.
Of course it helps. (It's standard practice for a reason.) It increases the time it takes to perform a brute-force search. So, for example, if you iterate the hash 5000 times, then a brute-force search will take 5000x longer to complete. This one factor alone would turn a 1-hour brute-force search into a 7-month search. That's a huge difference.
Does what I said make sense? Or do you still want a table of users?
Your going to hash your passwords 5k times on the fly every time someone wants to log in?
Yup. The Ars Technica article you referenced mentioned that 5000 is the number of iterations Mac OS X uses. And computers are fast enough that 5000 hash iterations won't hinder normal response times.
Its not the user's computer that you have to think about. Its your server that is handling multiple users all at the same time. While 5000 iterations is fine for a personal computer only handling one user. Once you are on a server handling hundreds of users ever hour, it takes a huge toll.
For the record, I use about 256 iterations using salting and peppering. Or two salts, one unique to the user the other is a site key. But I use very large salts as well. First pass, I put the password though 128 iterations with the generated user's key, a second pass of 128 iterations after the first with the site key. So an attacker would need two points of data, the DB records and the source code. But they will also need my implementation as I have made subtle changes the the behavior (which do not effect security) of the hashing and iteration methods.
Example of how I get my salts:
$example_sitekey = mcrypt_create_iv( 4096, MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM ); // Static in Production
$example_userkey = mcrypt_create_iv( 4096, MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM ); // Generated during registration
Holy hell. You weren't kidding. A normal recommended salt size is 64 bits. Or if we want to be ultra secure, we could pick a salt the same size as the hash. That might be, for example, 128- or 256 bits. Anything beyond the size of the hash is redundant.
Your salts are 32,768 bits........
Yup large and overly redundant, makes no different just as long as its not small. The more data a digest can chew on the better.
The more data a digest can chew on the better.
I know you didn't take my word for it last time, but I'm still hoping you'll run your ideas by the crypto community. If I'm full of crap, then they'll praise you for your strong security. But if I'm right, and you're tinkering with crypto algorithms based on some misconceptions of how they work, then it's important to find out sooner than later.
Its not a misconception. Algorithms based on a block ciphers work on blocks, the more blocks of data you have the more rounds it goes though to compress that data into the digest with less padding required.
The Merkle–Damgård hash function first applies an MD-compliant padding function to create an output whose size is a multiple of a fixed number (e.g. 512 or 1024) — this is because compression functions cannot handle inputs of arbitrary size. The hash function then breaks the result into blocks of fixed size, and processes them one at a time with the compression function, each time combining a block of the input with the output of the previous round....
And the hashing function I use, Whirlpool is a Merkle–Damgård construction based on AES.
Do I need such large salts? No. Does it hurt anything? No.If I wanted I could throw my salts into a hashing function and make them smaller if it will make you feel better.
Algorithms will pad the data to a multiple of the block size, but less padding will not increase the security of the hash. Nor will adding redundant blocks of data. But don't argue the point with me. Talk to the crypto community.
I re-read this sentence, and even to me, this came out sounding like, "I'm right. Don't argue." That's not how I meant it, so let me apologize in advance. What I meant was, neither of us are cryptographers, and we should instead talk with people who have a greater depth of knowledge on this subject, especially if we're going to tinker with the standardized algorithms that are known to be secure.
Except there isn't any tinker of the standardized algorithms going on here. Feeding in a large salt does not tinker with it. But we already agreed that it DOES NOT MATTER.
However, padding can have an impact on security. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
The presence of padding is not what makes a length extension attack possible. I don't see how the wiki article would even give you that impression. It's mentioned only as one more thing an attacker would have to reconstruct. And in any case, the HMAC algorithm already protects against length extension attacks. Trying to control the amount of padding gets you zero added security.
And I'm not even asking you to take my word for it. Please, please talk to the crypto community. If what you're doing is good and correct, then peer review can only give you added confidence.
That's what this discussion has been assuming.


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