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Colin Rea
Cubs To Add Colin Rea To 40-Man, Outright Allen Webster
By Jeff Todd | November 4, 2019 at 3:11pm CDT
The Cubs have added righty Colin Rea to their 40-man roster, as first reported by MLB.com's Jordan Bastian (via Twitter). That move will allow the organization to retain his rights, rather than losing him to minor-league free agency.
Righty Allen Webster was outrighted, the club added in its announcement. As was already a given, the team picked up its $16.5MM option over first baseman Anthony Rizzo.
Rea inked a minor-league deal with the Cubs and spent the entire 2019 season at Triple-A. In 148 innings there, he pitched to a 3.95 ERA with 7.3 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9. The Cubs will be able to control Rea for the league-minimum salary in 2020; while he has enough overall MLB service time for Super Two status, he didn't spend any time on the active roster last year and is therefore ineligible.
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Roster Notes: Padres, Paddack, Rangers, Cubs, Scahill
By TC Zencka | March 9, 2019 at 11:16am CDT
The Padres #5 ranked prospect per MLB.com (#34 overall) is angling to get the nod on Opening Day, per MLB.com's AJ Cassavell. Chris Paddack threw four scoreless innings, which included a stretch in which he struck out five consecutive Oakland A's batters in his most recent spring start. Last season, Paddack made seven starts in Double-A after cruising through High-A, where he notched an eye-popping 14.3 K/9 versus 0.7 BB/9 in 52 1/3 innings. Double-A didn't slow him much, going 3-2 with a 1.91 ERA in 7 starts, 8.8 K/9 to 1.0 BB/9. Still, from Double-A to an Opening Day start would be quite the jump for the 23-year-old, just a year removed from missing all of 2017 to Tommy John surgery. The competition is fairly wide open, however, as the Padres, by design, brought very little in the way of established talent to camp. Since the offseason departures of veterans Clayton Richard (traded to Blue Jays) and Tyson Ross (signed with Tigers), Robbie Erlin boasts the most experience in the group, and he's not even a lock to make the rotation. Fellow southpaws Joey Lucchesi and Eric Lauer each have a shot to get the Opening Day nod, as well. Let's check in on the Rangers' and Cubs' camps as teams begin to whittle their spring rosters…
The Rangers culled their number of players in camp to 60. Pitchers Taylor Guerrieri, Michael Tonkin, Miguel Del Pozo and Brady Feigl were all assigned to minor league camp, per the Rangers' executive VP of communications John Blake (via Twitter). Guerrieri, 26, joined the Rangers after making his major league debut last season with the Blue Jays. A former first round pick of the Rays, he was a starter in the minor leagues until missing most of the 2017 season due to injury. Toronto claimed him off waivers before last season, where started 7 games in Triple-A before appearing 9 times out of the Blue Jays pen, pitching to a 5.02 FIP in a small-sample 9 2/3 big league innings. Tonkin, 29, appeared in parts of five seasons for the Twins from 2013 to 2017 with a 4.57 FIP across 141 games. Del Pozo, 26, reached as far as Double-A in the Marlins system before joining the Rangers as a non-roster invitee. While Feigl, 28, is back in the Rangers system where he has pitched for the past two seasons.
The Cubs made a number of roster moves today, with promising righties Adbert Alzolay and Jen-Ho Tseng being optioned to Triple-A, while Justin Steele and Oscar De La Cruz were sent to Double-A, per the Athletic's Patrick Mooney (Twitter links). Also on the move, Duncan Robinson, Ian Clarkin, Colin Rea, Ian Rice, Charcer Burks and Jacob Hannemann are being moved to minor league camp (Twitter link). Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune (via Twitter) adds Craig Brooks, Alberto Baldonado and Evan Marzilli to the list of players headed to minor league camp. The Cubs spring roster has now been cut to 54.
Rob Scahill, meanwhile, was released outright by the Cubs, per Mooney (via Twitter). Scahill has pitched at the big league level for parts of seven seasons running, topping out at 31 appearances in 2016 spread between Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. In total, the 32-year-old boasts a career 3.95 ERA (4.67 FIP) in 124 games for Rockies, Pirates, Brewers and White Sox.
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Cubs To Sign Colin Rea
By Jeff Todd | January 23, 2019 at 2:53pm CDT
The Cubs have agreed to a minors deal with righty Colin Rea, Matt Eddy of Baseball America reports on Twitter. Details otherwise remain unclear.
Now 28 years of age, Rea at one point seemed likely to be a steady rotation piece at the game's highest level. In fact, the Marlins acquired him on just that premise in the middle of the 2016 season.
Things took a stunning turn when Rea exited his first start in Miami with an elbow injury, teeing up a controversy with the Padres that resulted in Rea being shipped back to San Diego. Rea ended up undergoing Tommy John surgery not long thereafter, costing him all of the 2017 season.
Though he returned to the hill last year, Rea managed only a 5.73 ERA in 75 1/3 innings in the upper minors. The San Diego club dropped him at the outset of the offseason. He'll look to get back on track in Chicago and perhaps provide an interesting depth option for the Cubs.
Also joining the Chicago organization is outfielder Zach Borenstein, Eddy adds. The 28-year-old has yet to crack the bigs, but has posted some solid numbers at times at Triple-A. In five total seasons there, he carries a .260/.337/.476 slash, popping 65 home runs but also going down on strikes 493 times in 1,657 plate appearances.
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Padres Outright Allen Cordoba, Release Colin Rea
By Steve Adams | November 26, 2018 at 12:53pm CDT
The Padres announced that infielder Allen Cordoba has been sent outright to Triple-A El Paso after clearing waivers. Right-hander Colin Rea, who also cleared waivers, has been released by the organization. San Diego also formally announced the previously reported releases of Cory Spangenberg and Christian Villanueva, the latter of whom is headed to Japan's Yomiuri Giants on a one-year deal.
Cordoba, 22, was a Rule 5 pick by the Padres back in 2016 and stuck on the 2017 roster all season despite the fact that he'd never played a game above the Rookie-level Applachian League. Unsurprisingly, his struggles in the big leagues were immense; Cordoba hit just .208/.282/.297 through 227 trips to the plate. He's yet to recover from the sizable jump up the development ladder, it seems, as he managed just a .206/.233/.310 slash in an admittedly small sample of 145 PAs at the Class-A Advanced level in 2018. He'll remain with the Padres despite being removed from the 40-man roster, which in many ways is a good outcome for San Diego. While the Friars surely hoped for better production in the minors once he was eligible to be optioned, they can now continue to develop the Panamanian shortstop without a dedicated 40-man spot.
As for Rea, the right-hander hasn't pitched in the Majors since 2016. San Diego sent him to the Marlins in a controversial trade involving Andrew Cashner and Luis Castillo. Rea made one appearance in Miami before it was learned that he'd require Tommy John surgery, and the Marlins and trades worked out an agreement to send Rea back to San Diego in exchange for Luis Castillo (who later went on to be traded to Cincinnati for Dan Straily).
Rea, now 28, didn't pitch at all in 2017 as he rehabbed from surgery. He returned to the mound in 2018 but didn't find any success in Double-A or Triple-A, limping to a combined 5.73 ERA with 8.4 K/9, 4.3 BB/9, 1.67 HR/9 and a roughly 41 percent ground-ball rate in 75 1/3 innings. Prior to his elbow surgery, Rea totaled 134 1/3 big league innings between San Diego and his lone Marlins appearance, working to a 4.69 ERA with a 106-to-55 K/BB ratio. His career 4.35 FIP is a bit more favorable, but both xFIP (4.55) and SIERA (4.67) are right in line with his career earned run average.
Rea has two-plus years of MLB service time, so if a new organization can get him back on track, he'd come with another four seasons of MLB control. Presumably, he'll draw interest on minor league deals from pitching-needy organizations this winter.
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Padres Designate Colin Rea, Cory Spangenberg, Allen Cordoba
By Jeff Todd | November 20, 2018 at 6:28pm CDT
The Padres have designated righty Colin Rea for assignment along with infielders Cory Spangenberg and Allen Cordoba, the club announced. San Diego also designated Christian Villanueva, whose contract rights will be sold to a Japanese club.
Meanwhile, the Friars completed a busy day of 40-man roster maneuvering by adding a host of players. Catcher Austin Allen, infielder Ty France, outfielder Edward Olivares, and righties Pedro Avila, Anderson Espinoza, Chris Paddack, and Gerardo Reyes will all be protected from the Rule 5 draft.
It's a rather notable group of players to be pared from the roster for the Padres. Rea was once considered a future rotation piece but will perhaps be best known in San Diego for being forcibly re-acquired after health issues arose following his trade to the Marlins.
Spangenberg, meanwhile, was taken tenth overall in the 2011 draft. He just hasn't turned the corner in the majors. In 2018, Spangenberg slashed .235/.298/.362 with seven home runs in 329 plate appearances. He projected to earn $2.3MM in arbitration; instead, he'll likely be a popular target for teams looking for versatility and/or hoping he still has some upside in the tank at 27 years of age.
Finally, Cordoba was one of the more hyped Rule 5 picks in recent memory. Many felt the Pads had made quite the crafty move in snatching him from the Cardinals. The San Diego organization carried him for all of 2017 to secure his rights, even as the unpolished youngster struggled. After an injury-plagued 2018 season in which he hit even worse at the High-A level than he had in the majors, Cordoba was punted from the roster.
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West Notes: Kershaw, Hamels, D-backs, Padres
By Connor Byrne | March 3, 2018 at 6:25pm CDT
There continues to be hope that the top pitcher in the game, left-hander Clayton Kershaw, will remain with the Dodgers beyond the upcoming season. Kershaw, who could opt out of the final two years and $65MM on his contract next winter, said last week that he and Dodgers management are "on the same page." Then, on Saturday, Dodgers owner Mark Walter told Jon Heyman of FanRag that "[Kershaw] should be a Dodger for life." While it doesn't seem as if a new deal is imminent – both Walter and Kershaw suggested to Heyman that the hurler wants to wait until the end of the year to sort out his future – the three-time Cy Young winner gushed over his long tenure with the franchise. "I love it here. It's great," said Kershaw, who's entering his age-30 season. "I've had an amazing run here. And I don't take that for granted. Not many guys can say they get to go to the playoffs (almost) every year, or even that they have a chance to go to the playoffs every year."
More from the majors' West divisions…
The Rangers could elect to use a six-man rotation this year, but their best starter, Cole Hamels, isn't on board (via Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News). The 34-year-old southpaw opined Saturday that a six-man starting staff isn't "appropriate for where I am at this stage." Hamels also took a shot at the idea in general, saying: "It's not part of baseball. I know that's the new, analytical side, trying to re-invent the wheel. … that's just not what MLB is to me. That's not how I learned from my mentors. That's not the way I'm geared to pitch." Unfortunately for Hamels, manager Jeff Banister favors the six-man alignment and seems more likely than ever to try it this season, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News tweets. Regardless of how Texas' rotation plans shake out, it'll probably need a bounce-back year from Hamels to have any chance at a playoff spot. The longtime front-end starter endured arguably the worst season of his career in 2017, when he logged a 4.20 ERA/4.62 FIP with 6.39 K/9 and 3.22 BB/9 across 148 innings.
The Diamondbacks are still determining their starting middle infield for 2018, Steve Gilbert of MLB.com writes. Either Ketel Marte or Chris Owings could start at second base or shortstop, while Nick Ahmed is also in contention – but only at short. "I'd say on that front, we value Nick as a shortstop," manager Torey Lovullo said. "I haven't had a conversation with him beyond playing shortstop at this point." With the exception of an 11-inning stint at the keystone in 2014, his first taste of major league action, Ahmed has spent his entire career at short. He has dazzled defensively, evidenced by his 37 DRS and 19.6 UZR, but has only managed a .226/.273/.345 batting line in 1,020 plate appearances.
The Padres have temporarily halted right-hander Colin Rea's throwing program after he experienced soreness in his pitching shoulder Friday, AJ Cassavell of MLB.com reports. Rea, who's working back from 2016 Tommy John surgery, is now unlikely to be ready for the start of the year, Cassavell suggests. Consequently, it appears he's out of the running for a spot in the Padres' season-opening rotation, though Cassavell notes that they still have seven other candidates for their starting five.
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NL West Notes: Samardzija, Padres, Rockies
By Jeff Todd | March 3, 2018 at 1:28am CDT
Giants righty Jeff Samardzija held an interesting chat with MLB.com's Jon Morosi. In large part, it's a lengthy discussion of Samardzija's multi-sport background and decision to pursue baseball professionally — which, he says, was driven more by interest than any considerations of the health implications of playing in the NFL. The San Francisco hurler likens the game of baseball to a "big painting you put together" and hints he could still have some masterpieces in his brush. He also suggests he's not yet thinking about the end: "Where's the end of the wick? Who knows? Let's find out. That's the fun of it all."
More from the NL West:
As the Padres consider roster options, the club is looking to squeeze some added utility out of certain players. Infielder Christian Villanueva, in particular, will be tried out as a backup option at short, per MLB.com's AJ Cassavell (via Twitter). The 26-year-old, who's out of options, has played all of 14 innings at short as a professional. But after he posted a .296/.369/.528 slash at Triple-A last year, the Pads seem to be looking for ways to hang onto Villanueva.
In other Padres news, the organization is seeing promising signs from injured hurlers Robbie Erlin and Colin Rea, per Cassavell. The Tommy John recoverees are certainly interesting players to watch this spring, as both have shown their talent at times in the past. Erlin, it's worth noting, is well ahead of Rea in the rehab process, though both are well over a year removed from their procedures. Both are part of a long list of pitching possibilities in Padres camp, as reflected in the current organizational depth chart over at Roster Resource.
It seems one area of focus this spring for the Rockies is finding a way to swipe a few more bags. As Nick Groke of the Denver Post reports, the club is particularly interested to see whether the fleet-footed Raimel Tapia can learn to translate his speed into stolen bases. Just as interesting as the efforts on the bases, it seems there's at least some hope that Tapia could hold down a spot at the top of the lineup. That seems a bit of a questionable fit, as the young outfielder doesn't walk much and is therefore quite reliant upon maintaining a lofty batting average on balls in play to get on base. While lineup construction is hardly the most consequential issue facing the Rox, it seems worth noting that second baseman DJ LeMahieu has led the club in OBP in each of the past two seasons and would seem to be a sensible fit in the leadoff spot.
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NL West Notes: Martinez, Cain, Urias, Padres
By Steve Adams | September 8, 2017 at 9:10am CDT
J.D. Martinez has been an incredible source of power for the D-backs, slugging 18 homers in just 173 plate appearances with his new team. There's mutual interest between the two sides in extending their relationship beyond the 2017 season, writes Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, though there are clear challenges that stand in the way of that possibility. With Zack Greinke, Yasmany Tomas and Paul Goldschmidt already under contract in 2018 plus an enormous arbitration class (A.J. Pollock, Robbie Ray, Jake Lamb, David Peralta, Shelby Miller, Chris Owings, Patrick Corbin, Taijuan Walker, Randall Delgado, Andrew Chafin), Arizona is already likely to approach or replicate 2017's Opening Day payroll of $103MM. Martinez suggested that he'd prefer to sign with a winning team rather than a rebuilding club that offered more money, while GM Mike Hazen (without mentioning any possible payroll constraints) said he wouldn't rule anything out. That said, with a five-year deal looking firmly plausible for Martinez this winter, it seems to me that a reunion between the two sides is a considerable long shot, as other contenders will surely be making lucrative offers as well.
Elsewhere in the division…
Right-hander Matt Cain isn't sure what the future holds for him, writes John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle. The former Giants ace and longtime rotation stalwart tells Shea that "being able to be a career guy (with one team) is something that's dear to my heart." Cain adds that he values the loyalty that the organization has shown to him over the course of his career and that he'd relish the chance to become just the fourth player to ever have spent at least 10 years in the Majors — all with the Giants. Cain, though, does not firmly rule out the possibility of continuing his career, even if it's with another club. Giants fans will want to check out the full column, as it's filled with anecdotes related to Cain's legacy in San Francisco and features quotes from teammates Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey as well as pitching coach Dave Righetti, skipper Bruce Bochy and of course, Cain himself.
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias underwent shoulder surgery to repair his left anterior capsule earlier this season, and FanRag's Jon Heyman writes in his weekly NL Notes roundup that the procedure actually went better than expected. Per Heyman, Dr. Neal ElAttrache anticipates a full recovery for the highly touted 21-year-old, although Urias still appears to be facing a significant layoff. Dodgers president of baseball ops Andrew Friedman said at the time of the surgery (in late June) that a rehab period of 12 months was expected for Urias.
The progress of Colin Rea and Robbie Erlin, both rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, gives the Padres another pair of arms to add to next spring's rotation battle, writes MLB.com's A.J. Cassavell. Both pitchers joined the team in September (though not the active roster, to be clear) as they continue their rehab process. Erlin is facing live hitters and is throwing every fifth day, alternating between bullpen sessions and live batting practice. Rea, meanwhile, is up to five bullpen sessions and will keep throwing into mid-October before a six-week break. They'll join any offseason additions as well as injured rotation hopefuls such as Matt Strahm, Christian Friedrich and Jarred Cosart in vying for starting jobs with the Friars next March.
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Padres Sign Jered Weaver
By charliewilmoth | February 19, 2017 at 11:11am CDT
SUNDAY: The Padres have announced Weaver's signing. To make room for Weaver, the club has placed righty Colin Rea on the 60-day disabled list. Rea underwent Tommy John surgery in November and won't pitch this year.
SATURDAY: The Padres have agreed to terms with veteran righty Jered Weaver to a one-year deal, Fan Rag's Jon Heyman tweets. USA Today's Bob Nightengale was the first to tweet a deal was close. Weaver will receive $3MM, as Heyman tweets and SB Nation's Chris Cotillo confirms. Weaver can also receive a $250K assignment bonus. Weaver is a client of the Boras Corporation.
[Related: Updated San Diego Padres Depth Chart]
The Padres were repeatedly connected to Weaver this winter as the team aimed to remake its rotation. After parting ways with Andrew Cashner and James Shields in trades last season and then non-tendering Tyson Ross, the Padres' starting pitching corps looked extremely thin. The team has since added veterans Jhoulys Chacin, Clayton Richard and Trevor Cahill to eat innings, and it appears Weaver will be another arm to add to that mix.
Weaver has pitched his entire career to this point a short drive up Interstate 5 in Anaheim, and his new deal with the Padres allows the Southern California native to stay in familiar environs. The 34-year-old has generally been a reliable workhorse throughout his career, but he's undergone a long decline in the past several seasons that culminated in a very disappointing 2016 in which he posted a 5.06 ERA, 5.2 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9 while averaging just 83 MPH with his fastball. ERA estimators suggested he was even worse than that 5.06 ERA suggested, with a 5.64 xFIP and 5.44 SIERA. His ground ball rate also continued to drop to just 28.8%, and he led the AL in home runs allowed, with 37. A big-league deal for him is a small coup for Boras at this point.
Even as Weaver's velocity and strikeout rate have diminished in recent years, however, he still managed to pitch 178 innings last season, and his ability to take the ball has value. He could be an asset for a Padres staff that could struggle to get through games in 2017.
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Colin Rea Undergoes Tommy John Surgery
Padres righty Colin Rea underwent Tommy John surgery yesterday, according to Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune (via Twitter). Rea had been attempting to avoid the surgery with a platelet-rich plasma treatment and rehab, but the decision was made to go ahead after he felt discomfort after a throwing session.
There had increasingly been hope that Rea would be able to return for the start of 2017, but the best case now is for him to make it back for the 2018 campaign. Of course, that would have been the expectation had he gone under the knife earlier, though perhaps now there's a bit less wiggle room in his forthcoming rehab. Initial reports were that he was destined for a replacement of his ulnar collateral ligament in the middle of the season, but that was re-considered — influenced, perhaps, by the progress shown by Angels righty Garrett Richards in a non-surgical approach.
The 26-year-old's situation was rather more complicated than that, of course. As has been discussed at length, Rea was sent by the Padres to the Marlins at the trade deadline in a multi-player pact. But he exited his first outing in Miami with elbow issues, teeing off a scandal of sorts that led to him being shipped back to the Padres. In related proceedings arising out of San Diego's medical practices, club GM A.J. Preller ultimately served a thirty-game suspension for reporting issues that the organization has pledged to remedy.
Without Rea, the Padres' rotation needs are more evident than ever. San Diego already seemed a likely landing spot for an arm or two. Without expectations of contention, expectations are that the club may look into some riskier, higher-upside assets on this winter's player acquisition market.
Rea is set to reach arbitration eligibility before the 2019 season, so he'll have a chance to post a platform year before hitting the arb cycle. Certainly, his earning opportunity will be limited by the inability to rack up innings in the second half of 2016 and all of 2017. The Padres will hope that he can return to health and improve upon the 4.69 ERA he posted over his first 134 1/3 major league frames.
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U.S. Army Developing Snake Robotics
By robottf | July 26, 2010
Development of snake-like technology underway at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is moving the military toward sending more autonomous systems instead of Soldiers on search-and-rescue missions, a top priority in the most dangerous mission areas.
Army researchers call it the Robotic Tentacle Manipulator, a developmental project that expands on snake robotics research introduced at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, an ARL-funded effort through its robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance initiative.
This new work has resulted in the arrangement of the bases of several snakes in a circular array that functions like a team using multiple parts of their bodies to manipulate an object, scan a room or handle improvised explosive devices.
This snake-robot is scalable; it can be built however large or small as a subsystem to a larger platform like iRobot's rugged system Warrior, which travels over rough terrain and climbs stairs. The number of tentacles or snakes determines the breadth or scope of its search capabilities. The number of links on each of those tentacles supports each snake's length or reach into an area, as well as its ability to crawl, swim, climb or shimmy through narrow spaces all while transmitting images to the Soldier who is operating the system.
The subsystem comes equipped with sophisticated electronic sensors, among them laser detection and ranging, or LADAR, to render 3-D representations of object shapes and physical properties like faces, mass and center of mass.
"The technology is leading to more than just the very tip of the snake being used in the object manipulation effect," said Derek Scherer, a researcher who works within ARL's Vehicle Technology Directorate. "Consider that snakes push off rocks or roots to propel their bodies. We are using this same concept in development."
Scherer said that with increased manipulator dexterity, Soldiers can offload more tasks to the robotic platform. "When the platform is tasked with inspecting a potential IED threat, the extreme adaptability of the tentacle manipulator will allow the platform to rummage with precision," he said.
Its 'touch sensitivity' allows the snake-robot to balance objects and feel where forces are being applied as it rotates devices.
"It allows it to lift and reposition objects, including IEDs, for examination, and do so in a controlled fashion that is unlikely to detonate any ordnance." Scherer noted. "These same capabilities would improve inspections during cargo and checkpoint missions."
Researchers predict the technology may one day solve the "opening a door" problem, which has been a consistent obstacle in robotics, Scherer said. High levels of articulation in the manipulator could prove to be effective for grasping and rotating different types of door handles using knobs, handles, levers and bars.
"Solving the door problem would greatly improve indoor robot missions," Scherer added.
The developmental hardware includes a large-screen laptop, which presents a simple user interface. Each 24-centimeter tentacle is directed by a master controller system, which communicates with the motors that are embedded in each of the links found on the tentacles. The motors essentially direct individual tentacle movement and the master controller directs the entire amalgamation of snakes, or tentacles.
"This is a distributed intelligence framework that permits advanced manipulation algorithms to run on a complex but affordable hardware platform," Scherer said.
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Kids normally aren't shy when it comes to writing their wishlists to Santa or telling you what they want for Christmas this year. But with so many toys on the market, it can be difficult to know what to put your money toward!
We've narrowed things down to the hottest toys in stores today. As in recent years, it's all about tech, from interactive pets, to drone racers, to extensive play sets.
Better get a jump on your Christmas shopping now as these toys are flying off the shelves!
A cross between a Furby and Tamagotchi, Hatchimals are the newest toy craze, allowing kids to interact with and take care of their pet. One of three breeds may be inside the egg, but the Hatchimal will only come out as a result of constant touch and interaction.
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Part 1: A bitter surrender, a brutal walk in the sun
By An interview by David Venditta
Of The Morning Call |
Joseph T. Poster said when he got home in 1945 after more than three years as a POW: 'Boy, there's no place like the USA!' He's shown here in his South Whitehall Township home in 2002. (Chuck Zovko/Morning Call file photo)
The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and invaded the Philippines. For Army Air Corps Cpl. Joseph T. Poster and others captured on the Philippine peninsula of Bataan, the worst was yet to come.
It was April 9, 1942. Poster (pronounced PAH-ster), who then called Pottstown his home, stood among the sick, starving and exhausted prisoners of war -- 62,000 Filipinos and 10,000 Americans.
On Bataan, the 21-year-old would be part of a trek during which all prisoners suffered abuse and some were bayoneted, beheaded or buried alive.
Sixty years later, the South Whitehall Township resident remembers the Bataan Death March, one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II, and his 31/2 years of captivity.
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First of two parts
A few hundred of us were gathered in our bivouac area just northeast of Mariveles, which was on the southern tip of Bataan. About 50 Japanese soldiers arrived on the morning of April 11. They popped us with the butts of their rifles and told us to get in line and start moving.
The march north had begun the day before at Mariveles. Our group was tired and weak from hunger when we joined it. The Japanese said, "Just take what you have to, but don't take too much because you're going to walk."
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I had a canteen full of water, a mess kit, a good pair of shoes and a pith helmet that protected my head from the sun. In a backpack, I had the Catholic prayer book the Army gave me, some clothes and a pair of boots. The helmet didn't stay on my head for long. A Japanese soldier going by on a truck leaned over the railing and grabbed it.
We walked and walked and walked. It was hot, 115 degrees in the shade. Dust flew up from the dirt road as trucks and tanks passed. When the Japanese made us stop, they forced us to sit in the sun. They wouldn't march us at night, because the nights were cool, and I think they were also afraid of people escaping in the darkness.
The Japanese intended to get us out of Bataan as fast as possible so they could build up for an assault on the American force on Corregidor, an island off the peninsula. On Corregidor, our people couldn't fire at the Japanese on Bataan because of us prisoners. The quicker we got out, the quicker both sides would be able to shoot at each other.
But there were so many prisoners on the road, and we were walking so slow, we didn't do eight miles a day, if that.
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Some of the guys got sick and fell out because they couldn't walk anymore, and the Japanese wouldn't stop the march for them. I saw one guy who was laid up against a bank. We called to him, "Get in line! Come on, get in line!" Three or four minutes later, we heard a scream. We asked the guys in back of us, "What happened to Steve?" And they said, "They bayoneted him."
I saw people getting beaten with rifle butts.
I saw a tank run over a guy lying on the side of the road. It smashed him like a pancake.
I saw dead men in the wallows along the road where the water buffaloes lay. They'd gotten so thirsty they couldn't stand it anymore, and just lost their senses. They saw the water and drank it, and they fell in and didn't get up. I wasn't going to drink that awful water no matter how dry I was.
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The Japanese searched us and took our watches and rings. We were told, whatever you do, don't get caught with any Japanese money because the Japanese would think you took it from their dead soldiers. One guy who got caught was decapitated.
I don't know why they hated us so much.
Six months before the death march, the President Taft, an ocean liner turned troopship, brought me to the Philippines.
We had landed in Guam and went on to Manila. I had a friend from Walla Walla, Wash., named McCubbins. I called him Mac. We're going down the gangplank and all those Filipinos are yelling, "Hi Joe, hi Joe," because that's what they called Americans, and I said to Mac, "I'm not even off the ship and they know me already." He almost knocked me off the gangplank.
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They took us by bus to Clark Field and put us in tents. The next day we found out our outfits. I was put with B Company, 803rd Engineer Battalion, and we went to Del Carmen and started to build a fighter base there.
It was hot all the time. Some guys found a stream coming down through the mountain. We took a power shovel and carved out a swimming hole. There was a rock you could dive off of.
A sugar plantation was next to the airfield we were building. The owner invited us to shoot pool and roll duckpins and play cards. We'd sing by a piano and get drunk. When we were rolling the pins, there were so many guys named Joe that some of us were given different names to tell us apart. Mine was Terry. Even now, some of the guys still call me that.
We had to be very careful about snakes. When we were working on the airfield, we caught a 7-foot python. That son-of-a-gun got his tail around my wrist, and before they could get him off, my hand was blue. The guys wanted to keep him for a pet. I said, "Get the hell out!"
We knew the Japanese were coming. Even before Pearl Harbor, we were on alert, carrying .45s around. The night before the attack, we were at the plantation, and the medic playing the piano was half- lit, and he got smart and started yelling, "We better get out of here! The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor!" He was loud and wouldn't stop. I told him, "Shut up for Christ's sake! You're going to get a lot of people upset."
When we woke up the next morning, the news about Pearl Harbor was the first thing we heard. I thought: That medic, he must be psychic or something.
Pearl Harbor was Dec. 8 where we were because of the International Date Line. I was on a road in a command car and looked up and saw a swarm of Japanese planes heading for nearby Clark Field. I counted 52 of them. That was the first time I ever heard the sound of bombs let loose from planes and going off. What a racket!
The next day, we needed fuel for our fighter planes, and they asked for volunteers to go down to the gas dump in Manila. I volunteered, and so did a Cherokee we called "the Chief" and a couple other people. We pulled our trucks into the gas dump and were there about a half-hour when I saw the Chief cocking his head.
"What, you got a stiff neck?" I asked.
"No," he said, "I hear airplanes."
"You're crazy. Nobody else hears them. How can you?"
"I hear them," the Chief said.
Two minutes later, the Japanese planes came. We got the gas drums loaded and got out just in time. Hangar 4, where we'd been parked, was leveled.
After that, whenever the Chief cocked his head, I took off.
We were still working on the airfield at Del Carmen when the Japanese invaded the Philippine island of Leyte. No sooner had we finished the field, that they were bombing and strafing it.
If the Japanese planes came in while we were on the runway, we could run into the sugar field and hide. I did that one time. Here come the fighters and they're strafing, and I'm caught in the middle of the runway and the only place to go was that sugarcane field. When I looked around, I saw bombs stored in there. Oh my God, I said to myself, what am I doing here?
We stayed at Del Carmen until just about Christmas, when we got the word to pull back.
Food rations kept going down. Come Jan. 1, it was half rations. We lived on what we could get. We were out killing carabao, horses, monkeys, lizards, snakes. I would never eat monkeys, though. Guys cooked a couple of them whole in a boiling pot, and when they pulled them out, the monkeys looked like little babies, and I said, "I'm hungry, but I'm not that hungry." Come February, we were down to quarter rations.
Everybody on the peninsula became an infantryman. It didn't matter whether you were Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. Everybody had to fight.
When the pullback took me all the way down to Mariveles, Mac and John Barrett were with me.
Some guys would shake and cry when the Japanese planes came, and when the bombs fell, they'd scream and holler. I did, too, but not as loud as others. I kept everything in.
Not John Barrett. All he had to do was hear those Japanese planes, the drone of the engines, and it would drive him crazy. Mac and I were with him when the Japanese caught us by surprise and were strafing, and it really upset him, and he ran. We yelled "John, John!" but he ran right into a truck that was coming down the road, and that killed him.
One day we were coming up off of Mariveles Field to go to our bivouac area. On top of the incline was Hospital 1. That's where the malaria patients were going, about a thousand a day. I heard these planes and said, "They're going to bomb the hospital." And boy, they did. We saw the planes dropping the bombs. There was nothing we could do.
Whenever I could get to Mass, I went. There was a Father Cummings who used to always preach, and the first words out of his mouth were, "There are no atheists in foxholes."
We had foxholes dug out all around a tree, and I got in one when the Japanese were bombing, and with me was a guy I knew was an atheist. The bombs started to get pretty damn close. That atheist started to cry, and tears were streaming down his face, and he kept saying aloud, "God, please, oh please don't let those bombs fall on me and kill me."
After it was over, I said, "I thought you said you were an atheist."
"I am," he said.
"Why are you asking God to save you now? You don't believe in him."
He shut up like a clam. He didn't have an answer to that.
I got weaker all the time from hunger, and rumors were going around that we were going to surrender. "I'd hate to do that," I said. "I don't mind if I have to fight, but I hate like hell to surrender."
But Gen. Edward King, the commander on Bataan, called Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of all American and Filipino forces in the Philippines, and said, "Skinny, this is it. I just can't let these guys go anymore. They can't fight. They're starving."
The night before the surrender, I had just come off a raid to destroy our ammunition dumps. We had to gather up stuff and blow it up so the Japanese wouldn't get it. There was a truckload of us out there, and we were stopped because our vehicles were clogging the roads.
About 2 o'clock in the morning, I was sleeping on the fender, and the truck started shaking and knocked me off. I said to Pasquale, who was in the driver's seat, "Will you stop that fooling around!" He said, "I'm not fooling around!" And he wasn't.
It was an earthquake. But that rumble was all there was to it.
Our surrender made me cry like a baby. I was so mad because I expected help and we didn't get it. A lot of other people felt the same way. It still bothers me.
What irritated me most was that my own country sold us out, from Pearl Harbor until our surrender. There was no equipment, no food, no nothing, only old beat-up rusty rifles and cannons. We were down to less than a thousand calories a day, with one day of food left. Our people had fought to hold those Japanese off a lot longer than we thought we were going to fight. We'd lasted four months.
President Roosevelt said, in effect: We're not going to give you anything because we don't have anything and we can't get it to you. Do the best you can. If you live, fine and dandy. If you don't, fine and dandy too.
We're the battling bastards of Bataan,
No mama, no papa, and no Uncle Sam,
And nobody gives a damn.
During the death march, we got no water, nothing. If you went to get water, they shot you. I'd take a sip every once in a while from my canteen.
But something else helped me.
When I was at the Army's engineer school in Virginia, we had to go on 20-mile hikes with a full pack, and it was hot. I kept gulping water.
"That's not good," the sergeant said. "Just take a sip."
"But I'm so damn thirsty," I said.
"You see that pebble there? Pick it up, wipe it off and put it in your mouth."
That worked. The pebble moistened my mouth.
On the death march, I happened to look down and see a pebble, and I remembered what that sergeant told me. I put the pebble in my mouth and left it there. When I went to take a swig of water, I took the pebble out or put it under my tongue.
It stayed with me all the way to Manchuria.
We had rest stops that lasted 10-15 minutes. At night, the Japanese had areas picked out for us. They were wired in, and there were guards, and that was where we slept. I must have been in a vegetable field one night, because I was digging around, and I uncovered a turnip.
Other than some rice slop at the town of San Fernando and a piece of sugarcane somebody gave me, that turnip was all I had to eat during the entire march -- eight days.
All this time, some guys were in pretty bad shape. I told myself: Whatever you do, don't give up. Don't let those suckers get you down. You're going to make it out of this thing. If worst comes to worst, you can try to escape up in the mountains.
I prayed and thought about my mother. She would have no word about me for almost three years, though my family did get a cablegram from the State Department saying I was missing in action.
Halfway to San Fernando, I gave my shoes to a guy who didn't have any, and put on my boots.
Mac was walking with me. He got sick and started to get delirious. He leaned on me, and I held him up for about five miles, till we got to the town. "We're going to try to do this," I told him. "If you pass out, I'm still going to try to carry you."
He called me an SOB, and somebody said, "That's your buddy, and you're taking that?" I said, "Yeah, he's sick." Thank God it was almost at the end of the march.
At San Fernando, that's where my canteen went dry. They herded us into a holding pen where they used to keep cattle and gave us some rice slop. Everybody stayed there until they got us assembled for a train, then they packed us like sardines into steel boxcars. The door on our car wasn't closed, and I was lucky and got a real good spot, sitting with my feet hanging out the door.
The train stopped at a water tower, and a guard saw my canteen and snatched it from me. He filled it with water and gave it back. He must have thought I was an officer because of my boots.
It was so crowded on the boxcar that some guys who were dead were still standing, propped up by other guys.
When the Japanese unloaded the car at Capas, the dead just dropped.
From Capas, we walked to Camp O'Donnell, where a Japanese colonel came out and said, "You know that you're my enemies, and I'm going to make sure all of you die." He meant it, too.
About 1,500 died there.
Dysentery was a big killer. Malnutrition, scurvy, beriberi. I still have that in my legs.
The guards searched me and tried to take my prayer book. I told them, "I'm a Catholic. I'd like to have it." They said it would have to be stamped if I was going to keep it, and so they did that. They stamped it.
The second day I was there, the Japanese came around and said anybody that belonged to the 803rd Engineers, step out. So we stepped out, about 300 of us.
"We're going to put you on trucks, and we're going to take you to Baguio, up in the mountains," they said.
After we got to Baguio, they took us on a forced march north to Bontoc, where we slept in a hospital that wasn't being used anymore. We stayed there for about a week and a half while we were on the mountain detail.
The Igorots, the indigenous people of Luzon island, used to go past the old hospital to get their crops. The women were topless; they only wore G-strings. Oh my God, they were built! The guys used to sit out and watch them. One said to me, "I haven't seen anything like that for a while, Joe."
We were used as cargo bearers, and more or less as protection for the Japanese against the American and Filipino guerrillas. Each of us carried 70 to 100 pounds of supplies up and down the mountain, and they used us to build some of the bridges that were blown out.
My boots wore out. I'd cut the tops off of them because it was so hot. Now I threw them away and got hold of an old tire and cut it out to make slippers. They hurt my feet.
At Bontoc we'd pick tobacco on our own, put it in a mess kit and roast it over a fire to dry it. Then we'd roll it in a piece of newspaper or whatever paper we could find and have smokes. It was strong stuff.
The Japanese searched me and went to take my prayer book. I said, "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no!" And I showed them the stamp inside, and then it was all right. They let me keep it.
One time we came walking around a curve on a dirt road, farther than we'd gone before, and saw Moros, who were headhunters. They were all painted up and had shields and spears. Scared the hell out of me. I thought, Oh my God, are they going to murder us? But they weren't looking for us. They were looking for another tribe that had killed one of their own.
While I was on this mountain detail, three guys escaped from one of the three prison camps nearby at Cabanatuan, and the Japanese caught them and brought them back. They had them out in the sun for a while, all tied up and hanging there. A couple days later, they had them dig three graves, and had them stand there and shot them right in the graves.
We got ambushed by American guerrillas, and they killed some of our people. They didn't know we were Americans. We had left Baguio to start down the mountain, and the Japanese let us stop because there was a Belgian priest and nuns, and they fed us a little. The nuns gave me a rosary. The priest gave us some cigars.
When we were ready to leave, the nuns told us to be very careful, that they'd try to get word out to the guerrillas that we were with the Japanese as hostages and carrying their cargo, and that the guerrillas shouldn't attack. But the guerrillas didn't get the word, and they attacked us and killed three guys.
Another time, some Japanese guard hit me in the back of the head with a rifle butt when I cursed at him. It knocked me to my knees and made me dizzy. I lost my upper vision from that. About 40 years later, a doctor found it was a blood clot in my brain that was blocking my eyesight.
Mac got appendicitis, and the Japanese did an operation on him with a couple of candles and a razor blade. After that, a guard kicked him in the stomach. He was really bad, and I thought he was going to die. I left him up there at Bontoc, and couldn't reach him after that.
In August, after we'd spent about four months on the mountain detail, they said, "You're going to pack up and go to Cabanatuan." We had started out with 300 guys. About half died on that mountain.
I thought I knew how much a human body could take, but I'd be tested even more in the months ahead.
Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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Butler vs. No. 25 UConn: Beyond the Box Score - 23 hours ago
Adding time … Adding money … Adding value?
MATTHEW VANTRYON | MANAGING EDITOR
Growing up, senior Elizabeth Burnell said she wanted to be a nurse.
When it came time to choose a college, she fell in love with Butler. She loved the campus, the community and the size. However, the school does not offer a nursing program.
She came to campus as an undecided major before switching to chemistry her sophomore year. But after realizing chemistry wasn't for her, she switched her major to risk management and insurance. By then, it was already her junior year.
Burnell's classmates will graduate this spring. However, she will take an extra semester in the fall to complete the College of Business academic requirements.
She is not alone.
Forty-three percent of Butler students from the class of 2009 on a four-year track did not graduate in that time frame. Just under half of the nation's students at private universities who plan to graduate in four years actually do this, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Many people, Burnell included, change their majors.
Nearly 80 percent of college students change majors at least once, according to a 2013 report from the NCES.
Jennifer Griggs, director of the Learning Resource Center at Butler, said the key is to make decisions relatively early in the process.
She said there are a number of tools to help students with the decision of choosing a major, including the exploratory studies program.
"One of the things we emphasize to prospective students, and any incoming student who may not know what major they want to go into, is to start college with an open mind and to embrace the process of our exploratory program so we can help them get connected to that right major the first time," she said.
Graphic courtesy of Kelly Murphy
Burnell was enrolled in the exploratory program for a year before deciding on a chemistry major. She said she took numerous assessments to determine which major was the best fit for her, and said business was also at the top of her list.
She admitted that rebellion and naivety played roles in her decision to choose chemistry. While she didn't receive guidance from her exploratory advisor to pursue business in lieu of chemistry, she doesn't know if it would have made a difference.
"I wish I wasn't as naïve as I was, and maybe having someone tell me they see me in a different area of study would have been nice, but I also think I would have rebelled against what they thought and just did what I did," Burnell said.
Griggs said that even if a student comes in having declared a major, any number of things can get them off track.
"I think most people's plan is a four-year plan, and our degree program allows for that, assuming a student stays on track with their intended major, completes the credit hours, completes the pre-requisites, the sequencing and maintains the benchmark grades," she said. "Any one of those things could lead someone off track."
Burnell's decision to change her major to risk management and insurance didn't come without some serious consideration. Ultimately, it came down to what would make her happy and would serve her most in her career after graduation.
"It was kind of a mental crisis," she said. "I had put so much into chemistry, but I knew if I continued with it I wouldn't be happy. I had to evaluate what I do with the career."
She said she felt out of step with her peers who had been in the College of Business for several years.
"Transitioning from (liberal arts and science) to business, you don't know everything students who started in the college of business knows — the passport requirements, the internship opportunities, you don't know that right away and you aren't informed right away," she said. "You slip through the cracks a little bit."
However, she credited her academic advisor with helping her handle the change as best as possible.
She said he went above and beyond to help her, including getting some of her chemistry classes to count as electives towards her business degree.
"My advisor is fantastic," she said. "He is a great advocate for the program. He helped me out a lot figuring out how I could make this work."
Eventually, she realized that she would need to take an extra semester of classes to graduate on time. This decision comes with a significant financial adaptation.
Without considering potential financial aid, four years of tuition at Butler University costs $139,000. An additional semester of classes adds nearly $18,000, or 13 percent, to the cost of an education.
However, Burnell said she is not concerned.
"I tried not to think about it," she said. "Yes, finances play a huge role and Butler is a very expensive university, but I have the support of my family to help me out and I think in the end it will be OK. I will be a business major and make the money I need to pay off loans."
While Griggs said finances are certainly something to consider when contemplating spending extra time in college, she said the end result of an education that brings fulfillment might be worth it.
"If someone's shifting into a major and pursuing a career that is a better fit, that they're more passionate about, that makes them happy, that little bit of extra time in college may be worth it," she said.
She said the university does everything it can to help students graduate on time. A large part of the responsibility falls on the student.
"With the constant monitoring of yourself as a student and those semester conversations with your adviser, hopefully a lot of that discernment is happening sooner rather than later," she said. "I think a lot of that responsibility is on the student to make sure they're enrolling in the appropriate classes, that they are making grades to move forward."
Julian Wyllie


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"A community forms more quickly, and possibly indelibly, when it has a roof over its head, walls and a kitchen"
Since the 1880s, when they first started taking classes at Queen's University, women have worked with determination to gain higher education. They overcame initial resistance to their right to be students working for a degree. In the early 1900s women students banded together to live communally in various houses in Kingston. By 1926, early Alumnae built the first university residence, Ban Righ Hall.
They also built the tradition of Queen's women working to "secure for those coming after them, access to all the resources of the University and the same benefits of communal life and study they themselves had known."
The original and base funding for the work of the Ban Righ Foundation came from nearly 50 years of careful management of the women's residences by the Ban Righ (Residence) Board and by the women students.
The Ban Righ Centre was founded in 1974 by women graduates of Queen's University with monies earned and invested by alumnae who built and administered the women's residences until the early 1970s.
Some Notes on How Ban Righ Hall at Queen's came to be and the Role of the Alumnae Therein
Founding Vision and History
The story of the founding vision and history of the Ban Righ Foundation, by Joanne Page
The founding members of the Ban Righ Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William and Carol Sirman


A miserable 24 hours in Castlebar, nearly 30mm rain and very blustery.
Mostly clear and sunny in Dublin.
Dreadful evening again here now heavy rain.
Lashing rain in cork city since about 3pm. Heavy too.
It would appear maybe a low chance of sporadic lightning later in the early hours along the S and moving into the Irish sea, but very marginal.
The week looks like becoming progressively more unsettled with wind and rain and currently Sunday showing up with the parameters that support very wintry weather and snowfall possible especially in the Northern half of the country. Uncertainty what with the Jet moving so fast but the charts showing various windy to very windy spells from Fri.
Sun coming if the charts verify looking rough and I could imagine possibly disruptive to travel in places especially Northern counties. Close scrutiny in the coming days no doubt.
a rotten evening outside, thankfully the day stayed dry for most of daylight hours.
Scary it might be more unsettled than right now! Biblical stuff in Cork the last hour.
could be a period of heavy snow in parts of Donegal and Northern Ireland later in the night and towards tomorrow morning. A very wet night for most of us.


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The School Games started in 2006 as a single annual multi-sport competition - what is today known as the School Games National Finals. In 2010, the School Games was expanded to include more localised competitions, from major county level events to smaller competitions within the same school.
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/* crypto/dsa/dsa.h */
/* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * This package is an SSL implementation written
 * by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
 * The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL.
 *
 * This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as
 * the following conditions are aheared to.  The following conditions
 * apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA,
 * lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code.  The SSL documentation
 * included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms
 * except that the holder is Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
 *
 * Copyright remains Eric Young's, and as such any Copyright notices in
 * the code are not to be removed.
 * If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution
 * as the author of the parts of the library used.
 * This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or
 * in documentation (online or textual) provided with the package.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
 *    must display the following acknowledgement:
 *    "This product includes cryptographic software written by
 *     Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)"
 *    The word 'cryptographic' can be left out if the rouines from the library
 *    being used are not cryptographic related :-).
 * 4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from
 *    the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledgement:
 *    "This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com)"
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG ``AS IS'' AND
 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
 * ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
 * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
 * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
 * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
 * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
 * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 * SUCH DAMAGE.
 *
 * The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or
 * derivative of this code cannot be changed.  i.e. this code cannot simply be
 * copied and put under another distribution licence
 * [including the GNU Public Licence.]
 */

/*
 * The DSS routines are based on patches supplied by
 * Steven Schoch <schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov>.  He basically did the
 * work and I have just tweaked them a little to fit into my
 * stylistic vision for SSLeay :-) */

#ifndef HEADER_DSA_H
# define HEADER_DSA_H

# include <openssl/e_os2.h>

# ifdef OPENSSL_NO_DSA
#  error DSA is disabled.
# endif

# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_BIO
#  include <openssl/bio.h>
# endif
# include <openssl/crypto.h>
# include <openssl/ossl_typ.h>

# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED
#  include <openssl/bn.h>
#  ifndef OPENSSL_NO_DH
#   include <openssl/dh.h>
#  endif
# endif

# ifndef OPENSSL_DSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS
#  define OPENSSL_DSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS   10000
# endif

# define DSA_FLAG_CACHE_MONT_P   0x01
/*
 * new with 0.9.7h; the built-in DSA implementation now uses constant time
 * modular exponentiation for secret exponents by default. This flag causes
 * the faster variable sliding window method to be used for all exponents.
 */
# define DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME       0x02

/*
 * If this flag is set the DSA method is FIPS compliant and can be used in
 * FIPS mode. This is set in the validated module method. If an application
 * sets this flag in its own methods it is its reposibility to ensure the
 * result is compliant.
 */

# define DSA_FLAG_FIPS_METHOD                    0x0400

/*
 * If this flag is set the operations normally disabled in FIPS mode are
 * permitted it is then the applications responsibility to ensure that the
 * usage is compliant.
 */

# define DSA_FLAG_NON_FIPS_ALLOW                 0x0400

#ifdef  __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* Already defined in ossl_typ.h */
/* typedef struct dsa_st DSA; */
/* typedef struct dsa_method DSA_METHOD; */

typedef struct DSA_SIG_st {
    BIGNUM *r;
    BIGNUM *s;
} DSA_SIG;

struct dsa_method {
    const char *name;
    DSA_SIG *(*dsa_do_sign) (const unsigned char *dgst, int dlen, DSA *dsa);
    int (*dsa_sign_setup) (DSA *dsa, BN_CTX *ctx_in, BIGNUM **kinvp,
                           BIGNUM **rp);
    int (*dsa_do_verify) (const unsigned char *dgst, int dgst_len,
                          DSA_SIG *sig, DSA *dsa);
    int (*dsa_mod_exp) (DSA *dsa, BIGNUM *rr, BIGNUM *a1, BIGNUM *p1,
                        BIGNUM *a2, BIGNUM *p2, BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx,
                        BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont);
    /* Can be null */
    int (*bn_mod_exp) (DSA *dsa, BIGNUM *r, BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
                       const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx, BN_MONT_CTX *m_ctx);
    int (*init) (DSA *dsa);
    int (*finish) (DSA *dsa);
    int flags;
    char *app_data;
    /* If this is non-NULL, it is used to generate DSA parameters */
    int (*dsa_paramgen) (DSA *dsa, int bits,
                         const unsigned char *seed, int seed_len,
                         int *counter_ret, unsigned long *h_ret,
                         BN_GENCB *cb);
    /* If this is non-NULL, it is used to generate DSA keys */
    int (*dsa_keygen) (DSA *dsa);
};

struct dsa_st {
    /*
     * This first variable is used to pick up errors where a DSA is passed
     * instead of of a EVP_PKEY
     */
    int pad;
    long version;
    int write_params;
    BIGNUM *p;
    BIGNUM *q;                  /* == 20 */
    BIGNUM *g;
    BIGNUM *pub_key;            /* y public key */
    BIGNUM *priv_key;           /* x private key */
    BIGNUM *kinv;               /* Signing pre-calc */
    BIGNUM *r;                  /* Signing pre-calc */
    int flags;
    /* Normally used to cache montgomery values */
    BN_MONT_CTX *method_mont_p;
    int references;
    CRYPTO_EX_DATA ex_data;
    const DSA_METHOD *meth;
    /* functional reference if 'meth' is ENGINE-provided */
    ENGINE *engine;
};

# define d2i_DSAparams_fp(fp,x) (DSA *)ASN1_d2i_fp((char *(*)())DSA_new, \
                (char *(*)())d2i_DSAparams,(fp),(unsigned char **)(x))
# define i2d_DSAparams_fp(fp,x) ASN1_i2d_fp(i2d_DSAparams,(fp), \
                (unsigned char *)(x))
# define d2i_DSAparams_bio(bp,x) ASN1_d2i_bio_of(DSA,DSA_new,d2i_DSAparams,bp,x)
# define i2d_DSAparams_bio(bp,x) ASN1_i2d_bio_of_const(DSA,i2d_DSAparams,bp,x)

DSA *DSAparams_dup(DSA *x);
DSA_SIG *DSA_SIG_new(void);
void DSA_SIG_free(DSA_SIG *a);
int i2d_DSA_SIG(const DSA_SIG *a, unsigned char **pp);
DSA_SIG *d2i_DSA_SIG(DSA_SIG **v, const unsigned char **pp, long length);

DSA_SIG *DSA_do_sign(const unsigned char *dgst, int dlen, DSA *dsa);
int DSA_do_verify(const unsigned char *dgst, int dgst_len,
                  DSA_SIG *sig, DSA *dsa);

const DSA_METHOD *DSA_OpenSSL(void);

void DSA_set_default_method(const DSA_METHOD *);
const DSA_METHOD *DSA_get_default_method(void);
int DSA_set_method(DSA *dsa, const DSA_METHOD *);

DSA *DSA_new(void);
DSA *DSA_new_method(ENGINE *engine);
void DSA_free(DSA *r);
/* "up" the DSA object's reference count */
int DSA_up_ref(DSA *r);
int DSA_size(const DSA *);
        /* next 4 return -1 on error */
int DSA_sign_setup(DSA *dsa, BN_CTX *ctx_in, BIGNUM **kinvp, BIGNUM **rp);
int DSA_sign(int type, const unsigned char *dgst, int dlen,
             unsigned char *sig, unsigned int *siglen, DSA *dsa);
int DSA_verify(int type, const unsigned char *dgst, int dgst_len,
               const unsigned char *sigbuf, int siglen, DSA *dsa);
int DSA_get_ex_new_index(long argl, void *argp, CRYPTO_EX_new *new_func,
                         CRYPTO_EX_dup *dup_func, CRYPTO_EX_free *free_func);
int DSA_set_ex_data(DSA *d, int idx, void *arg);
void *DSA_get_ex_data(DSA *d, int idx);

DSA *d2i_DSAPublicKey(DSA **a, const unsigned char **pp, long length);
DSA *d2i_DSAPrivateKey(DSA **a, const unsigned char **pp, long length);
DSA *d2i_DSAparams(DSA **a, const unsigned char **pp, long length);

/* Deprecated version */
# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED
DSA *DSA_generate_parameters(int bits,
                             unsigned char *seed, int seed_len,
                             int *counter_ret, unsigned long *h_ret, void
                              (*callback) (int, int, void *), void *cb_arg);
# endif                         /* !defined(OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED) */

/* New version */
int DSA_generate_parameters_ex(DSA *dsa, int bits,
                               const unsigned char *seed, int seed_len,
                               int *counter_ret, unsigned long *h_ret,
                               BN_GENCB *cb);

int DSA_generate_key(DSA *a);
int i2d_DSAPublicKey(const DSA *a, unsigned char **pp);
int i2d_DSAPrivateKey(const DSA *a, unsigned char **pp);
int i2d_DSAparams(const DSA *a, unsigned char **pp);

# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_BIO
int DSAparams_print(BIO *bp, const DSA *x);
int DSA_print(BIO *bp, const DSA *x, int off);
# endif
# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_FP_API
int DSAparams_print_fp(FILE *fp, const DSA *x);
int DSA_print_fp(FILE *bp, const DSA *x, int off);
# endif

# define DSS_prime_checks 50
/*
 * Primality test according to FIPS PUB 186[-1], Appendix 2.1: 50 rounds of
 * Rabin-Miller
 */
# define DSA_is_prime(n, callback, cb_arg) \
        BN_is_prime(n, DSS_prime_checks, callback, NULL, cb_arg)

# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_DH
/*
 * Convert DSA structure (key or just parameters) into DH structure (be
 * careful to avoid small subgroup attacks when using this!)
 */
DH *DSA_dup_DH(const DSA *r);
# endif

# define EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_dsa_paramgen_bits(ctx, nbits) \
        EVP_PKEY_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_PKEY_DSA, EVP_PKEY_OP_PARAMGEN, \
                                EVP_PKEY_CTRL_DSA_PARAMGEN_BITS, nbits, NULL)

# define EVP_PKEY_CTRL_DSA_PARAMGEN_BITS         (EVP_PKEY_ALG_CTRL + 1)
# define EVP_PKEY_CTRL_DSA_PARAMGEN_Q_BITS       (EVP_PKEY_ALG_CTRL + 2)
# define EVP_PKEY_CTRL_DSA_PARAMGEN_MD           (EVP_PKEY_ALG_CTRL + 3)

/* BEGIN ERROR CODES */
/*
 * The following lines are auto generated by the script mkerr.pl. Any changes
 * made after this point may be overwritten when the script is next run.
 */
void ERR_load_DSA_strings(void);

/* Error codes for the DSA functions. */

/* Function codes. */
# define DSA_F_D2I_DSA_SIG                                110
# define DSA_F_DO_DSA_PRINT                               104
# define DSA_F_DSAPARAMS_PRINT                            100
# define DSA_F_DSAPARAMS_PRINT_FP                         101
# define DSA_F_DSA_DO_SIGN                                112
# define DSA_F_DSA_DO_VERIFY                              113
# define DSA_F_DSA_GENERATE_KEY                           124
# define DSA_F_DSA_GENERATE_PARAMETERS_EX                 123
# define DSA_F_DSA_NEW_METHOD                             103
# define DSA_F_DSA_PARAM_DECODE                           119
# define DSA_F_DSA_PRINT_FP                               105
# define DSA_F_DSA_PRIV_DECODE                            115
# define DSA_F_DSA_PRIV_ENCODE                            116
# define DSA_F_DSA_PUB_DECODE                             117
# define DSA_F_DSA_PUB_ENCODE                             118
# define DSA_F_DSA_SIGN                                   106
# define DSA_F_DSA_SIGN_SETUP                             107
# define DSA_F_DSA_SIG_NEW                                109
# define DSA_F_DSA_SIG_PRINT                              125
# define DSA_F_DSA_VERIFY                                 108
# define DSA_F_I2D_DSA_SIG                                111
# define DSA_F_OLD_DSA_PRIV_DECODE                        122
# define DSA_F_PKEY_DSA_CTRL                              120
# define DSA_F_PKEY_DSA_KEYGEN                            121
# define DSA_F_SIG_CB                                     114

/* Reason codes. */
# define DSA_R_BAD_Q_VALUE                                102
# define DSA_R_BN_DECODE_ERROR                            108
# define DSA_R_BN_ERROR                                   109
# define DSA_R_DATA_TOO_LARGE_FOR_KEY_SIZE                100
# define DSA_R_DECODE_ERROR                               104
# define DSA_R_INVALID_DIGEST_TYPE                        106
# define DSA_R_MISSING_PARAMETERS                         101
# define DSA_R_MODULUS_TOO_LARGE                          103
# define DSA_R_NEED_NEW_SETUP_VALUES                      110
# define DSA_R_NON_FIPS_DSA_METHOD                        111
# define DSA_R_NO_PARAMETERS_SET                          107
# define DSA_R_PARAMETER_ENCODING_ERROR                   105

#ifdef  __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif


I know what you're thinking. It's supposed to be the other way around, right?
Either way, or both ways, I really like this idea. You may have noticed, though, that the whole 'universe making it happen' thing sometimes takes form in unexpected ways.
Like, oh, I don't know, challenging you to learn something new in order to move forward. And leading you to the right teacher at the right time.
Or bringing up issues and emotions that you thought were already settled. And cracking open your heart to a greater understanding of those issues and emotions.
Or putting obstacles in your path when you were expecting an easy wind at your back. And putting the tools into your hands to move those obstacles.
Or pushing you to your breaking point. And reminding you that your breaking point is still a long way off.
Or plunging you into the dark part of the forest because that's how the road winds on its way to the light. And shining that light just when you thought the darkness was too much for you.
Good one, Universe! Very funny!
Here's one thing that always turns out to be true though: the stairs are better than the elevator. Make a decision, make your move, get stronger and get ready for the miracle that's been inside you all along anyway.
Why? Because just as a drop of water is a part of the ocean, it is simultaneously the entire ocean. Always has been, always will be. A seed is part of the crop and it is simultaneously all the food and all the flowers in the world. Always has been, always will be.
God speed, fellow travelers. We've been home all along.


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I had a very early appointment this morning that took much longer than I had planned. As I prepared to exit the building my mind was taken up with all of the annoyances of the day and how this appointment had put me very far behind.
Then I stepped outside and breathed in the amazing day. The air was clear, the sun was shining, and the temperature was perfect. I just stopped where I was, closed my eyes, and breathed it all in. I realized that I needed to let the morning go. It was past and I was looking forward to what the rest of the wonderful day was going to bring me.
It made me realize how often we get stuck in the past. How we let the past cloud our days. How we need to let it go and look to the future.
So that is the main thing on my agenda today. Yes, there is a long list needing my attention, but I am going to tackle it with a fresh outlook while I inhale and exhale.
P.S. Be sure to check out more Monday Inspiration.
Truly breathing - deep inhales and exhales - are so important. Usually we do such shallow breathing that we don't even realize it. Sometimes we even hold our breath. Not good! My yoga teachers always remind us of our breath.
Inhaling here, fresh country air, laced with the scent of spring, and birdsong...good reminder Laura. I really needed my time in the garden today...and your beautiful words.
I have scrabble letters in my home that spell "BREATHE"! Thanks for the reminder to just "breathe".
Thanks for the advice Laura.
I have to confess that I'm one of those who sometimes hold their breath. I'm working on it though.
I love this post! I have trouble relaxing after something doesn't go my way. It messes up my whole day. This is a great reminder to not let that happen and leave the past in the past! I think that will be my new mantra. Glad that you were able to do that with the rest of your day too.