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How is everyone doing? I recently had a friend tell me that she finds it so hard knowing I am going through so much pain and everything involved with my avm. Told her I was sorry to hear her say that, but told her, "you know what would make me feel better"? "It's knowing that you value your health every day and don't take advantage of waking up and feeling good"! Please stop and smell the roses and thank God for your good health if you have it!
This morning I had what I call a case of "the weepies" and just felt overwhelmed over all my avm stuff! One of my co-workers noticed that I wasn't myself and looked sad and asked if there was anything she could do to help. I couldn't even talk about it without my voice giving me away that I was about to cry. Between trying to manage my pain, the recent bleeds, the puffiness under my left eye, thinking I had an infection, knowing I had a wound care appt. (and fear of bleeding during that) and having an appt. w/Dr. Zane to get my ear debried (which would involve more pain)... I was feeling the stress! I tried to get a grip and remind myself that @ least I wasn't having those awful nosebleeds that I used to have where I couldn't "put pressure" on anything to stop the bleed. Oh! I did get a little bit of good news from Rhonda Sharp (PA for Dr. Yakes)! I had told her that I had called Dr. Tschickhart for some extra meds for break thru pain ... and she of course said it was important to get my pain under control. She mentioned that Dr. Yakes had a patient that was on even heavier meds that I was to control her pain, and that finally Dr. Yakes was able to get that patient to a better place where she was finally only needing Tylenol for her pain! So Rhonda said this was a very encouraging success story! That definitely made me feel better!
So I went to wound care today. My mom picked me up @ work to take me and I was very appreciative of her being there with me for support! My favorite RN, Noel was the one cleaning my wound and redressing it. Dr. Larkin was thinking the puffy eye was a result of a topical infection caused by exposed cartilage in my ear. She prescribed Cipro plus for me to continue the Bactrim that Eric had prescribed a few days earlier. My appt. @ wound care went very well, no bleeds or any drama!
This afternoon I had my appt. w/Dr. Zane and mom went w/me to that appt. as well! Dr. Larkin had already told me she thought there wasn't much for Dr. Zane to get debried in my ear and she was right! It wasn't as painful as I thought the visit would be! Plus, Dr. Zane didn't think the puffy eye was not due to an infection - it was more that my avm is blocking fluids to drain "normally" therefore causing the puffy eye! Well, that was kind of good news! So, I'm feeling much better and I look forward to having a better day @ work! I'm very fortunate that my supervisor, Mr. Rios has been very supportive of what I'm going through and doesn't give me a hard time about having to leave work for my appts.!
Well, I had been in bed asleep already, saw that we had left the computer on and I was drawn to it to blog a bit! So, it's off to bed again for me, otherwise I'll be wanting to snooze @ work! Thanks for letting me boo-hoo to you a bit! It's onward and upward now! Y'all take care now, you hear?
Much love to all!
P.S. I need to take some new photos to include with my blog entries!
Finally feeling better!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Greetings to all our family and friends!
How is everyone? We're ok! Been enjoying my in-laws visiting from OH - yesterday Mark and I (along w/Hanz of course) went to pick up Doris & George Schuman in Rockport, where they have been staying w/Marks oldest brother Jim. Brought them back to CC, where we would be having dinner @ my moms house! We spent a wonderful evening visiting over a delicious dinner, followed by ice cream floats for dessert and a game of Mexican Train! After all that, we took Mom and Dad Schuman back to Rockport and headed home shortly afterward since we had lots to do to prepare for work the next day! My dressing was really needing to be changed and when I took it off, I had a bleed! Cannot believe that we're going through this again! Actually, I have to back up a little bit by saying that I've had a puffy left eye again. I had e-mailed Dr. Yakes P.A., (Rhonda Sharp) along w/both of the patient coordinators, appealing to them to possibly get us some of the thick surgicel we like from the wound care therapist @ Swedish! I had mentioned the puffy eye @ that time, but later in the afternoon I decided I shouldn't have to be dealing w/that darned puffy eye and called up to CO and left a message for whichever P.A. was on call. I get a call back from Eric, another of Dr. Yakes P.A.'s. He says the puffy eye is probably due to infection (AGAIN!) and called in an antibiotic for me! I asked if this was common to keep getting these infections, and he said w/what all I'm going through that yes, this was bound to be happening! Geez - that's not what I want to hear!
Just wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing! Today actually, I went to see Dr. Breckenridge for my knee - he said I could wait on that a while. That way maybe I can get my wound on my face more time to heal! I go to wound care on Wednesday - gotta get more supplies. I'm sure Dr. Larkin does not want to hear that I've been having bleeds again - she says I age her w/those!
Then I have an appt. w/Dr. Zane on Thursday to get my ear debried again - OUCH!!!! I had asked if it was possible to be put under to have this done, and was basically told, nope! Dang! That means I have to be a big girl and deal with it! Not really what I want to do, but I think that entitles me to a Blizzard or Mark making me a banana split, don't you think? I just can't wait for this whole avm thing to be over with some day! I want my life back!
Oh! I've almost forgotten to mention that my brother-in-law Jim and his wife Shelley have very generously offered to help w/our hotel expenses for our trips to Colorado! Isn't that awesome? Wow - were it not for our family that has helped us so much financially - there is no way we could afford these trips on our own! I have to say that occasionally a friend slips us a little something to help as well! We are so very blessed to not only have the financial help, but the spiritual help as well! Your prayers are helping us deal with everything that has been placed before us! I have people @ work that pull me aside and tell me how well I seem to cope w/what I'm going through - but as you know, I do have my moments when I have "the weepies" and get overwhelmed!
My mom took me to my doctors appt. this morning w/Dr. Breckenridge and my sister Celia will accompany me to see Dr. Zane on Thursday! This is where my family has really helped us - offering their emotional support! Ok! I've gone on long enough! I want to go see what Hanz is doing and go take a shower and watch something good on TV!
Thank you all so much for checking in! We appreciate all of you being with us on this incredible journey! I really hope all of you are with us when it finally comes to and end for me!
Love and prayers to all!
Mark & Cyndi
P.S. Don't forget to check in w/Shalon when you get a chance!!!
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Guess What?
Friday, March 20, 2009
Hi Everyone!
Guess What? Yup! Here I was just thinking how I had gone several weeks w/out a bleed and I had one this morning! Ugh! I had removed the dressing and there was an area that was red, so I dabbed it w/a Q-tip. Next thing you know, more red and then a stream of arterial blood shoots out! Yikes! I put some tissue on there and called for Mark! He got some surgicel cut up and got it on there to stop the bleeding. He redressed the wound and I got ready for work! Didn't put any make-up on, as my face was hurting. I've had a hard time controlling the pain, and it wasn't until about 11:00 am that I was finally feeling better!
Mark had taken a couple days off work to spend w/his parents, so he dropped me off @ work to keep my car. This afternoon, Mark picked me up and had Hanz with him! Mark had bathed him earlier and trimmed his hair, so he was looking especially cute! That cheered me up right away - Hanz is such a doll!
Well, my plans for the weekend are to take it easy, stay pain free and enjoy my little angel Hanz!
Y'all take care and thanks for all your love and support!
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Hanz meets Grandma/Grandpa Schuman!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Greetings Everyone!
Keeping warm? It must be cold wherever you are reading this! We are ready for the sun again in South Texas! Thought I would write a few words and post a couple photos on my progress after this last trip to CO!
Marks folks are visiting from Ohio, and this is the first time they get to meet Hanz! Right now the folks are staying out in Rockport w/Jim and Shelley, so we went out there last night for a nice get together!
I'm very happy to report having NO BLEEDS! Hopefully, Dr. Yakes has been able to close off any arteries that are bleeders! Right now my only issue is pain! Gotta make sure and take those pain pills!
Thursday was my first day back to wound care after the embolization. While there, Eric, (the tech that usually takes my vitals) had asked if I was interested in taking in a chihuahua! I told him no right away, due of course to Prince Hanz and 4 cats we already have! I did tell Eric that one of the officers I work with has chihuahuas and I would definitely inquire for him!
So the next day I was @ work administering some assessments to a room full of defendants, when I hear a phone ring. It wasn't the two different ringtones I normally have, so I didn't think it was mine! It was though, because I noticed it said "unknown" on the screen. I flipped it open as I looked @ the defendants and said, "hello"! I hear a male voice go, "Hey Cynthia, this is Eric, I"m just checking on you"! So I go, "Oh! Are you still wanting a home for your dog"? Silence. I go, "hello? Eric, are you still looking for a home for your chihuahua"? He goes, "what"? All of a sudden, I realize I'm talking to Dr. Yakes P.A. in Colorado - THAT Eric! Ha, ha, ha! What are the odds that I would be getting a call from 2 Erics in my medical world! I was very happy to tell Eric in CO that I was doing great!
Well - not much else to report! I'm going to try and keep my pain under control and enjoy the weekend, my husband and our little Hanz!
As always, thank you for your prayers, love and support!
Mark & Cyndi
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Denver 31?
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Hello to all who are w/me on my AVM Journey! Let's see, where to begin ... of course - the separation anxiety I suffered the minute we pulled away from leaving Hanz w/friends the night before we left for CO! I knew he would be well taken care of, but I cried almost all the way home! They say that Brussels suffer from separation anxiety, but I think they were talking about "the parents"!
We had a very early morning flight and left our house about 4:30am to head to the airport! Mom and Vicente drove us, as my car was in the shop! By the time we arrived in Houston, I was ready to take some pain medication and found I had not brought any with me! I thought I may have left the little black bag they were in on the flight from Corpus to Houston, but that wasn't the case! Mom came to our house and finally found the little bag on one of the dining room chairs! Apparently, that black bag fell out of the pink/green polka dotted tote bag that my wound care supplies were in that I had set on the dining room table & would be carrying! Mom said she would overnight them to me to the hotel! Meanwhile we finally arrive in Denver about 10:30 am or so and the weather is beautiful! The sun was out and it was cool, but didn't require a jacket! After getting the car rental, Mark wanted to head out to Teds Montana Grill for a bison burger! We had befriended one of the waitresses that works there - Michelle, (see photo)! She said she would buy our lunch (of course we didn't let her do that!) and we waited to be seated in her section. I barely touched my lunch - I think due to still being upset @ leaving Hanz and also needing pain pills! Went directly to Swedish after lunch, and got Rhonda Sharp, Dr. Yakes P.A. to write me a prescription for a few tablets of 2 different painkillers needed! Got that refilled @ the hospital pharmacy and headed to the hotel to check in! Soon as I took my meds I crashed. We called Dr. Reed to cancel my appt. w/him that afternoon! There was no way I could see him while I was fidgiting and having w/drawls! He usually puts a thin wand camera thing on my tongue while I sing a pitch or two for him so he can check my airways.
Anyway, ended up going out to grab some dinner @ Whole Foods and bringing it back to the room! Just watched TV and called a few people to let them know we arrived safely.
Had to be @ Swedish to register in the morning @ 7am, so we made that on time! Got put in to the area where I get my IV and all that good stuff - saw our favorite nurse Sue, Mary (Boston) was there and Jill! I hear Jill is good @ IV's, so I requested her to do that for me. She did not get it on the first try - didn't even numb the area or put a hot towel around my arm, so ... OUCH! She did get it on her second try, on the back of my right hand. At one point, the anesthesiologist came to talk to me - she was concerned that I can only open my mouth so far and needed to make sure they could get that oxygen tube in! (see photo of me w/anesthesiologist - I'm showing her my photo album of Hanz I had with me!) Meanwhile, Dr. Yakes came by my area to say hello! Got a big, ole bear hug from him! Told him to go easy on me if possible, but ultimately told him he knew best! We had heard a rumor that Julie, Dr. Yakes nurse had accepted a job offer elsewhere, so she did confirm the rumor! Geez! Julie was the first one that gave me hope that Dr. Yakes could help me! Julie LaBadie has been w/Dr. Yakes for 8 years and w/Swedish 16 years! (see photo) Got to see Shalon too! She modeled the hospital gown she made herself! Awesome, huh? She's so sweet and pretty, it was nice seeing her and her husband Josh!
So next thing I know, I'm waking up in Recovery and .... no Rick! Oh no! I constantly had to try and get the nurses attention - could she please change the pad on the bed, could she give me something for pain, could she bring me some ice chips and why hadn't anyone reached Mark yet? I wouldn't have had to tell Rick a thing - he would have automatically changed the pad, brought me something for pain relief immediately and would have spoon fed me those ice chips instead of handing me the cup and walking away like the nurse I had did! Rick has me very spoiled - but hey ... we're not feeling our best @ that time, so we need some pampering! By the way - I don't know WHAT the heck happened while I was "asleep" during the embolization. Like I said, Jill started to try and IV on my left arm, didn't work, so she got it on my right hand. Then lab came by and got me on the inside of my left arm for some blood, so I was aware of all that - but when I woke up, I had two needle sticks on the back of my left hand that left a large bruise! Hmmmm .... interesting. Oh well. I'm just glad I'm feeling pretty decent!
Ok, lets continue the story ... then, we hear there isn't a room available and I would have to spend the night in ACU! Ooooh, by that time Mark had found his way to where I was and was not accepting that for an answer! We were told Swedish is a trauma unit and the rooms go first come first serve! I understand that, but since they know I've shown up @ 7am and they know I stay overnight - what is the harm in reserving a room for a few hours to make sure I get it! Finally there was a chance of a room - but it was semi-private. We thought about just going back to the hotel, but w/the heavy pain meds I was getting, they wanted me to have the oxygen as I slept that night! I think there might have been 2 Nursing supervisors that came by to talk to us about why there was no room available - and I took the opportunity to tell them all the nurses could use some lessons from Rick!! Anyway - got to my semi-private room @ 7:30pm and I normally like taking a shower in the evening, to get the blood out of my hair and into one of my own nightgowns! Dr. Yakes told Mark he used 14 ccs of alcohol on me - that is a good amount - when he uses 22 or more, it's too much! Dr. Yakes also told Mark I had bled during the embolization and took a half hour for it to stop. I was told I lost 3 tbsp. worth of blood. Well, my roomate was an older lady that may have broken her hip and all night she farted (according to Mark), but I didn't know, because I had that pure oxygen going in my nostrils! Poor Mark, told him to go ahead and get back to the room, so I did not take a shower, so couldn't use my own pillow or nightgown. Darn! These are the things that make the entire process a little more bearable for me! I could not get comfortable and sat up in bed @ 3am to read a bit. My poor roomate would call out during the night, ..."help ... help?" I would press the nurse help button because the lady could never find her own. Made for a long night though.
Finally, daylight came and soon as I got showered after breakfast - we headed back to the hotel to repack! Filled a couple more prescriptions, then had lunch @ Applebees before heading to return the car rental and on to the airport! Mom and Vicente picked us up @ the airport @ 10:10pm and we were so happy to just be home!
The next morning, we got in Marks van and headed to the Ford dealership to pick up my car! Once we did that and left the van @ home, we headed to Rockport to pick up our little angel Hanz! He had been very well taken care of, but his mom and dad needed him home! Thanks so much for all you've done for us Linda, Buddy, Jim and Shelley!! I think they all enjoyed having Hanz over - he is such a special puppy, they may have gotten a little attached too! As we were leaving, Buddy says, "Bye, take good care of our dog"! I know he was kidding - we were just thrilled to find such a wonderful place to leave Hanz and know that he was loved and cared for!
I checked my e-mail and Michelle (Ted's Montana Grill) had offered us a place to stay if we ever needed - her home was open to us! Isn't that generous of her? We probably would not impose on her - but what a wonderful gesture on her part! Thank you Michelle! She's always asking if we need a ride to the airport!
Well, I best get a few things done 'round here! Still need to iron something to wear for work tomorrow!
Thank you for all your love, friendship and support! Keep in touch!
Mark & Cyndi Schuman
P.S. That last "glamorous" photo of me is after the embolization and before I was put in a room! Now, my eye is no longer swollen like it was, and I'm feeling pretty good considering all we've been through! I put that photo in to let you in on a fact - all these embolizations are NOT fun! I'm getting pretty darned tired of it all, but we can't just stop having these treatments. Your prayers do help tremendously! Thanks again!
Ok! I just had to add that extra photo of Shalon - she is striking such a cute pose in the hospital gown she made! Please do check in on her web site and blog - she does an awesome job keeping everyone informed and feeling welcome! You can get to her sites from mine! Thanks Shalon!
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Hanz meets Hockey!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Hey all!
How are you? Well, if you have read my last couple entries, you know that I've been worried about leaving our little Hanz behind as Mark and I go to CO! Last night we went out to Rockport, to Mark's brother Jim's house. Jim and Shelley live out in the country and their friends Linda and Buddy live very close by. Linda said she would be happy to take care of Hanz while we were away and she has been such a Godsend! I think I mentioned that Linda and Buddy have a yorkie named Hockey and also a chocolate lab named Coco! Hanz and Hockey got along right away and ran circles all over the yard! So cute! We didn't introduce Hanz to the dogs Jim and Shelley have, as Shelley thought one of them may be a bit aggressive.
Have to show you photos of our trip to Rockport last night! Hanz charmed everyone w/his personality! Here is a photo of Hanz and Hockey. Then a photo of Hanz w/his Uncle Jim! Jim was calling Hanz wigglebutt! Another w/his Aunt Shelley and of course a photo of Hanz w/Aunt Linda (she has short hair). Linda was whispering all sorts of sweet sentiments to Hanz and he was just loving every minute of it! Shelley thought Hanz was just adorable - it was the first time she had spent time with him.
I am so happy that Hanz will be surrounded by family that will be giving him lots of love and might even spoil him a little! Hanz was hugged and cuddled, just like he gets treated @ home! We hear that Aunt Linda will be giving Hanz a manny/peddy! I'll miss my little angel so much, but now I know that he will be very well taken care of, so that leaves me stress free! Thank you Linda, Buddy, Jim and Shelley! I'll blog when we get back!
Much Love,
Mark & Cyndi
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DR-DOS (DR DOS, without hyphen up to and including v6.0) is an operating system of the DOS family, written for IBM PC-compatible personal computers. It was originally developed by Gary Kildall's Digital Research and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86. As ownership changed, various later versions were produced as Novell DOS, Caldera OpenDOS, etc.
Digital Research's original CP/M for the 8-bit Intel 8080 and Z-80 based systems spawned numerous spin-off versions, most notably CP/M-86 for the Intel 8086/8088 family of processors. Although CP/M had dominated the market, and was shipped with the vast majority of non-proprietary-architecture personal computers, the IBM PC in 1981 brought the beginning of what was eventually to be a massive change.
IBM originally approached Digital Research, seeking an x86 version of CP/M. However, there were disagreements over the contract, and IBM withdrew. Instead, a deal was struck with Microsoft, who purchased another operating system, 86-DOS, from Seattle Computer Products. This became Microsoft MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS. 86-DOS' command structure and application programming interface imitated that of CP/M. Digital Research threatened legal action, claiming PC DOS/MS-DOS to be too similar to CP/M. IBM settled by agreeing to sell their x86 version of CP/M, CP/M-86, alongside PC DOS. However, PC DOS sold for $40, while CP/M-86 had a $240 price tag. The proportion of PC buyers prepared to spend six times as much to buy CP/M-86 was very small, and the availability of compatible application software, at first decisively in Digital Research's favor, was only temporary.[1]
Digital Research fought a long losing battle to promote CP/M-86 and its multi-tasking multi-user successor Concurrent CP/M-86, and eventually decided that they could not beat the Microsoft-IBM lead in application software availability, so they modified Concurrent CP/M-86 to allow it to run the same applications as MS-DOS and PC DOS.
This was shown publicly in December 1983[2] and shipped in March 1984 as Concurrent DOS 3.1 (aka CDOS with BDOS 3.1) to hardware vendors.[3] While Concurrent DOS continued to evolve in various flavours over the years to eventually become Multiuser DOS, it was not specifically tailored for the desktop market and too expensive for single-user applications. Therefore, over time two attempts were made to sideline the product.
Initially, Digital Research developed DOS Plus 1.2 to 2.1, a stripped-down and modified single-user derivative of Concurrent DOS 4.1 and 5.0, which ran applications for both platforms, and allowed switching between several tasks[4] as did the original CP/M-86. It did not perform well, and Digital Research made another attempt, this time a native DOS system. This new disk operating system was launched in 1988 as DR DOS.
Although DRI was based in Pacific Grove and later in Monterey, California, USA, the work on DOS Plus started in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, where Digital Research Europe had its OEM Support Group () located since 1983. Since 1986, most of the operating system work on Concurrent DOS 386 and XM, Multiuser DOS, DR DOS and PalmDOS was done in Digital Research's European Development Centre (EDC) ( and ) in Hungerford, Berkshire, UK.
As requested by several OEMs Digital Research started to plan develop a new DOS operating system addressing the shortcomings left by MS-DOS in 1987.[5] The first DR DOS version was released on 28 May 1988.[5] Version numbers were chosen to reflect features relative to MS-DOS; the first version promoted to the public was DR DOS 3.31,[5] which offered features comparable to Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 with large disk support (FAT16B aka "BIGDOS"). DR DOS 3.31 reported itself as "IBM PC DOS 3.31", while the internal BDOS (Basic Disk Operating System) kernel version was reported as 6.0, single-user nature, reflecting its origin as derivative of Concurrent DOS 6.0 with the multitasking and multiuser capabilities as well as CP/M API support stripped out and the XIOS replaced by an IBM-compatible DOS-BIOS. The system files were named DRBIOS.SYS (for the DOS-BIOS) and DRBDOS.SYS (for the BDOS kernel), the disk OEM label used was "DIGITAL␠".
DR DOS offered some extended command line tools with command line help, verbose error messages, sophisticated command line history and editing (HISTORY directive) as well as support for file and directory passwords built right into the kernel. It was also cheaper to license than MS-DOS, and was ROMable right from the start. The ROMed version of DR DOS was also named ROS (ROM Operating System).[6] DRI was approached by a number of PC manufacturers who were interested in a third-party DOS, which prompted several updates to the system.
At this time, MS-DOS was only available to OEMs bundled with hardware. Consequently, DR DOS achieved some immediate success when it became possible for consumers to buy it through normal retail channels since 3.4x.
Known versions are DR DOS 3.31 (BDOS 6.0, 1988-06, OEM only), 3.32 (BDOS 6.0, 1988-08-17, OEM only), 3.33 (BDOS 6.0, 1988-09-01, OEM only), 3.34 (OEM only), 3.35 (BDOS 6.0, 1988-10-21, OEM only), 3.40, 3.41 (BDOS 6.3, 1989-06, OEM and retail). Like MS-DOS, most of them were produced in several flavors for different hardware. While most OEMs kept the DR DOS name designation, one OEM version is known to be called EZ-DOS 3.41.
DR DOS version 5.0 (code-named "Leopard") was released in May 1990,[5] still reporting itself as "PC DOS 3.31" for compatibility purposes, but internally indicating a single-user BDOS 6.4 kernel. (Version 4 was skipped to avoid being associated with the relatively unpopular MS-DOS 4.0.) This introduced ViewMAX, a GEM based GUI file management shell, the patented BatteryMAX power management system, bundled disk-caching software, and also offers vastly improved memory management. For compatibility purposes, the DR DOS 5.0 system files were now named IBMBIO.COM (for the DOS-BIOS) and IBMDOS.COM (for the BDOS kernel), and the OEM label in boot sectors was changed to "IBM␠␠3.3".
First, the DR DOS kernel and structures such as disk buffers can be located in the High Memory Area (HMA), the first 64 KB of extended memory which are accessible in real mode due to an incomplete compatibility of the 80286 with earlier processors. This freed up the equivalent amount of critical "base" or conventional memory, the first 640 KB of the PC's RAM – the area in which all MS-DOS applications run.
Additionally, on Intel 80386 machines, DR DOS's EMS memory manager allowed the OS to load DOS device drivers into upper memory blocks, further freeing base memory. For more information on this, see the article on the Upper Memory Area (UMA).
DR DOS 5.0 was the first DOS to integrate such functionality into the base OS (loading device drivers into upper memory blocks was possible using third-party software like QEMM). This allowed it, on a 386 system, to provide significantly more free conventional memory than any other DOS. Once drivers for a mouse, multimedia hardware and a network stack were loaded, an MS-DOS machine typically might only have 300 to 400 KB of free conventional memory – too little to run much late-1980s software. DR DOS 5.0, with a little manual tweaking, could load all this and still keep all of its conventional memory free – allowing for some necessary DOS data structures, as much as 620 KB out of the 640 KB.
Because DR DOS left so much conventional memory available, some old programs utilizing certain address wrapping techniques failed to run properly as they were now loaded unexpectedly (or, under MS-DOS, "impossibly") low in memory – inside the first 64 KB segment (known as "low memory"). Therefore, DR DOS 5.0's new MEMMAX -L command worked around this by pre-allocating a chunk of memory at the start of the memory map in order for programs to load above this barrier (but with less usable conventional memory then). By default, MEMMAX was configured for +L, so that applications could take advantage of the extra memory.
Faced with substantial competition in the DOS arena, Microsoft responded with an announcement of a yet-to-be released MS-DOS 5.0 in May 1990.[5] This would be released in June 1991[5] and include similar advanced features to those of DR DOS. It included matches of the DR's enhancements in memory management.
Almost immediately in September 1991, Digital Research responded with DR DOS 6.0,[5] code-named "Buxton". DR DOS 6.0, while already at BDOS level 6.7 internally, would still report itself as "IBM PC DOS 3.31" to normal DOS applications for compatibility purposes. This bundled in SuperStor on-the-fly disk compression, to maximize available hard disk space, and file deletion tracking and undelete functionality by Roger Gross.
DR DOS 6.0 also includes a task-switcher named TASKMAX, support for the industry-standard task-switching API[7] to run multiple applications at the same time. In contrast to Digital Research's Multiuser DOS (successor of Concurrent DOS in the multi-user products line), which would run DOS applications in pre-emptively multitasked virtual DOS machines, the DR DOS 6.0 task switcher would freeze background applications until brought back into the foreground. While it runs on x86-machines, it is able to swap to XMS memory on 286+ machines. TASKMAX did support some Copy & Paste facility between applications. Via the task-switcher API, graphical user interfaces such as ViewMAX or PC/GEOS could register as the task manager menu and thereby replace the TASKMAX text mode menu, so that users could switch between tasks from within a GUI.
Microsoft responded with MS-DOS 6.0, which again matched some features of DR DOS 6.0.
Since December 1991 a pre-release version of Windows 3.1 was designed to return a non-fatal error message if it detected a non-Microsoft DOS.[5] This check came to be known as the AARD code.[8] With the detection code disabled, Windows ran perfectly under DR DOS and its successor Novell DOS. The code was present but disabled in the released version of Windows 3.1.[9]
It was a simple matter for Digital Research to patch DR DOS 6.0 to circumvent the AARD 'authenticity check' in Windows 3.1 beta by rearranging the order to two internal tables in memory (with no changes in functionality), and the patched version was on the streets within six weeks of the release of Windows 3.1.
In 1992 Digital Research, still under its old name but already bought by Novell in July 1991, also embarked on a spin-off product code-named "Merlin" and later released as NetWare PalmDOS 1, which, as its name implies, was a very resource light DR DOS 6.0 derivative aimed at the emerging Palmtop/PDA market.
PalmDOS was the first operating system in the family to sport the new BDOS 7.0 kernel with native DOS compatible internal data structures instead of emulations thereof. Replacing the DOS emulation on top of a CP/M kernel by a true DOS compatible kernel helped a lot in improving compatibility with some applications using some of DOS' internal data structures and also was the key in reducing the resident size of the kernel code even further - a particular requirement for the PDA market. On the other hand, introducing a genuine DOSMGR API to be implemented for any DOS version since 5.0.
As well as a ROM-executing kernel, PalmDOS had palmtop-type support for features such as PCMCIA PC Cards (with DPMS support), Power Management (BatteryMAX and the $IDLE$ device driver with its patented dynamic idle detection by Roger Gross and John Constant), MINIMAX task switcher support for PIM (Personal Information Modules) applications stored and executed from ROM via XIP (Execute-In-Place), etc.
The PCMCIA stack for PalmDOS was partially written by Ian Cullimore.
Novell DOS was Novell Corporation's name for DR-DOS during the period when Novell sold DR-DOS, after the acquisition of Digital Research in 1991.[10][11] Regarding features and performance, it was typically at least one release ahead of MS-DOS.[12] In 1993, PC DOS 6.1, MS-DOS 6.2 and PC DOS 6.3 were trumped by Novell's DOS 7.0.[13]
Novell CEO Robert Frankenberg's strategy included "major trimming", selling off products like transactional database Btrieve and killing others such as Novell DOS WordPerfect's multimedia Main Street children's titles.[14] Novell licensed technology from Stac Electronics for use in Novell DOS and its Network operating system, NetWare.[15] Novell sold the product line off to Caldera on July 23, 1996, after it approached Novell looking for a DOS operating system to bundle with its OpenLinux distribution,[5] Novell DOS was described in TechRepublic by John Sheesley as a failure.[16]
Novell had bought Digital Research with a view to using DR's product line as a lever in their comprehensive strategy to break the Microsoft monopoly. (This was part of a massive and ultimately disastrous spending spree for Novell: they bought WordPerfect Corporation at about the same time, some of Borland's products, and invested heavily in Unix as well.) The planned DR DOS 7.0, internally named "Panther", intended to trump Microsoft's troubled MS-DOS 6.0, was repeatedly delayed, while Novell was working on a Unix-like multi-user security extension (compatible with its Multiuser DOS) and two new graphical user interfaces (ViewMAX/3, a derivative of GEM, and "Star Trek", a true port of Apple's Mac OS 7.1 to run under the new DR DOS multitasker named "Vladivar").
When DR DOS eventually arrived in December 1993 (with localized versions released in March 1994), renamed Novell DOS 7 (aka "NWDOS"), and without these three components, it was a disappointment to some. It was larger and introduced many new bugs, and the main functional addition was Novell's second attempt at a peer-to-peer networking system, Personal NetWare (PNW). This worked and was better than its predecessor, NetWare Lite (NWL), but it was incompatible with Microsoft's networking system, now growing popular with support in Windows for Workgroups, OS/2 and Windows NT. A considerable amount of manual configuration was needed to get both to co-exist on the same PC, and Personal NetWare never achieved much success.
Since Novell DOS 7 implemented the DOSMGR API and internal data structures had been updated, its BDOS 7.2 kernel could report with a DOS version of 6.0 and OEM ID "IBM" without risking compatibility problems with Windows. Most tools would report this as "PC DOS 6.1", because IBM PC DOS 6.1 also reported as DOS 6.0 to applications.
Novell DOS 7 introduced much advanced memory management including new support for DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) and DPMS (DOS Protected Mode Services) as well as more flexible loadhigh options. It also introduced support for "true" pre-emptive multitasking of multiple DOS applications in virtual DOS machines (VDM), similar to Multiuser DOS, but now on the basis of a natively DOS compatible environment, similar to Windows 386 Enhanced Mode without GUI. By default, the bundled TASKMGR would behave similar to the former DR DOS 6.0 TASKMAX. However, if EMM386 was loaded with the option /MULTI, EMM386 would load a natively 32-bit 386 Protected Mode operating system core providing API support for pre-emptive multitasking, multi-threading, hardware virtualization and domain management of virtual DOS machines. This API could be used by DR DOS-aware applications. If TASKMGR was run later on, it would use these APIs to instance the current 16-bit DOS system environment, create virtual DOS machines and run applications in them instead of using its own Real Mode task-switcher support. The multitasker was compatible with Windows, so that tasks started before launching Windows could be seen as tasks under Windows as well.
Novell DOS 7 and Personal NetWare 1.0 also shipped with NetWars, a network-enabled 3D arcade game.
Novell DOS 7 and Personal NetWare required several bug-fix releases and were not completely stable when the next development occurred. With beta versions of Microsoft's "Chicago" (what would later become Windows 95) in sight, Novell wound down further development on Novell DOS 7 in September 1994[5] and stopped maintenance in January 1996 after more than 15 updates.
When Caldera approached Novell looking for a DOS operating system to bundle with their OpenLinux distribution, Novell sold the product line off to Caldera on July 23, 1996,[5] by which time it was of little commercial value to them.
Between the Caldera-owned DR-DOS and competition from IBM's PC DOS 6.3, Microsoft moved to make it impossible to use or buy the subsequent Windows version, Windows 95, with any DOS product other than their own. Claimed by them to be a purely technical change, this was later to be the subject of a major lawsuit brought in Salt Lake City by Caldera with the help of the Canopy Group.[5][17] Microsoft lawyers tried repeatedly to have the case dismissed but without success. Immediately after the completion of the pre-trial deposition stage (where the parties list the evidence they intend to present), there was an out-of-court settlement on January 7, 2000 for an undisclosed sum.[18] This was revealed in November 2009 to be 280 million US dollars.[19]
In August 1996, the US-based Caldera, Inc. was approached by Roger Gross, one of the original DR-DOS engineers, with a proposal to restart DR-DOS development and to make Windows 95 run on DR-DOS which would help the court case. Following a meeting in September 1996 in Lindon, Utah, between Gross, Ransom Love, Bryan Sparks and Ray Noorda, Gross was hired and tasked to set up a new subsidiary in the UK. On September 10, 1996, Caldera announced the coming release of OpenDOS (COD) and their intent to also release the source code to the system, and Caldera UK Ltd. () was incorporated on September 20, 1996.[20] Gross hired some of the original developers of the operating system from the Novell EDC as well as some new talents to continue work on the operating system in a converted barn () at the periphery of Andover, Hampshire, UK, nearby the former Digital Research and Novell EDC. Besides other improvements and enhancements all over the system, a string of new key features were added subsequently over the course of the next two years, including a TCP/IP stack (derived from NetWare Mobile / LAN Workplace for DOS), a graphical 32-bit DOS Protected Mode HTML 3.2 web-browser DR-WebSpyder (originally based on source code from the Arachne web browser by Michal Polák) with LAN and modem dialup, a POSIX Pthreads extension to the multi-tasker by Andy Wightman, long filename (LONGNAME) support by Edward Hill as well as LBA and FAT32 support (DRFAT32) by Matthias Paul. Gross also hired Andrew Schulman (who had been, with Geoff Chappell, instrumental in identifying the AARD code in 1992) to work as a consultant and, in Andover, join Paul in his work on "WinGlue", a secret project to create a version of DR-DOS compatible with Windows 95, 98 and 98 SE and replace its MS-DOS 7.xx component.[21] This was demonstrated at CeBIT in March 1998,[21] and later, in a small team, developed into "WinBolt", both versions of DR-DOS, which remained unreleased as of 2014, but played an important role in the court case.[17][22]
Caldera UK officially released Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 in February 1997, but this version was just Novell DOS 7 update 10 (as of December 1994) with a new name, missing a year's worth of patches which had been developed for the Novell DOS updates 11 (January 1995) to 15.2 (January 1996). This was due to parts of the Novell DOS sources having been lost at Novell meanwhile. Consequently, this version still reported an internal BDOS version of 7.2, identical to Novell DOS 7. The new suite also lacked the SETFIFO command, which had been added with one of the Novell DOS updates, as well as Fifth Generation's Search&Destroy virus scanner and Fast-Backup utility, which previously came bundled with Novell DOS. Instead it brought an advanced version of NetWars.
Parts of OpenDOS 7.01 were released as open source in form of the M.R.S. kit (for Machine Readable Sources) in May 1997, but with licence terms mostly incompatible with existing open source licences. The source was then closed again as Gross felt this would undermine the commercial aspirations of the system.
After beta releases in September and November 1997, the next official release came in December 1997, with the name changed to Caldera DR-OpenDOS 7.02, soon followed by a further release in March 1998, when the DR-DOS name returned as Caldera DR-DOS 7.02, now for the first time written with a hyphen. Version 7.02 (now reporting itself as BDOS 7.3) incorporated improved BIOS and BDOS issues, developed by Paul,[23] adding many new boot and configuration options, integrating many compatibility enhancements, bug-fixes and optimizations for size and speed, and re-implementing all fixes of the missing Novell DOS updates.[23] The BIOS improved the coexistence of DR-DOS with Windows 9x and its support for third-party disk compression drivers such as Microsoft's DriveSpace. It introduced a diagnostics mode (activated by Scroll Lock), integrated debugger support (with DEBUG=ON and a debugger loaded before or from within CONFIG.SYS) and more flexible CONFIG.SYS tracing capabilities via the F5/F6/F7/F8 hotkeys and the TRACE and TIMEOUT commands, thereby also improving the integration of alternative command line shells such as 4DOS. Together with LOADER, SYS /DR:ext and the CHAIN directive, it brought enhanced multi-configuration support for DR/D/CONFIG.ext files and came with enhancements to the BASIC-like CONFIG.SYS language for more powerful boot menus, convenient user interaction and programmatical acting upon conditions (CPU386), return codes and error levels (ERROR, ONERROR). It also allowed to change the SCROLLOCK, CAPSLOCK, INSERT and VERIFY settings as well as the SWITCHAR, YESCHAR, NOCHAR and RESUMECHAR characters. Various behavioural details could be controlled with new parameters /Q, /L, /Y and /S for SWITCHES. Further, it provided optional support for a LPT4: device and allowed to configure the built-in COMx: and LPTx: devices as well as to change the PRN: and AUX: defaults. The handling of environment variables in CONFIG.SYS was improved and new load-high facilities included such as the HIFILES/FILESHIGH and HIFCBS/FCBSHIGH options to relocate file handles and FCB structures into UMBs, which typically gave between 1 and 4 KB (and up to 15 KB) more free conventional memory compared to previous versions, or the HISHELL/SHELLHIGH SIZE directive to control the pre-allocation of HMA memory for COMMAND.COM, which helped to avoid memory fragmentation and thereby typically gave between 5 to 8 KB more continuous HMA memory for HMA-capable third-party drivers to work with in conjunction with third-party command line shells, which could not load into the HMA as COMMAND.COM with its /MH option. At a reduced memory footprint version 7.02 also brought an enhanced NLS 4.xx sub-system by Paul to allow multiple, distributed and possibly user-configured COUNTRY.SYS files to be used by the system at the same time in a hierarchical model. This also gave dynamic parser support for MS-DOS/PC DOS COUNTRY.SYS file formats in addition to DR-DOS' own COUNTRY.SYS formats, and it introduced support for the ISO 8601 international date format (including automatic detection) and the then-new Euro currency. DR-DOS 7.02 was fully Year 2000 compliant and provided special support to work with buggy system BIOSes. It also came with an updated FDISK, which could partition and format FAT32 volumes (but not yet work with LBA). The sources of the Novell patches for the external tools and drivers had meanwhile been found in Germany and could thus be retro-fitted into the system as well, so that DR-DOS 7.02 finally not only caught up with Novell DOS 7, but was a true step forward. The release was followed by various updates in June, August and September 1998.
The updated internal BDOS version number introduced a new problem: some legacy third-party applications with special support for Novell DOS, which were no longer being updated, stopped working. SETVER already allowed Novell DOS to disguise itself as DOS versions by file name and globally and, specifying a magic sub-version of 255, it would even disable its own internal BDOS version check in order to cope with programs specifically probing for "DR-DOS". The modified kernel and SETVER driver by Paul would, in an hierarchical model, also support load paths in order to distinguish between multiple executables of the same file name, and it introduced an extended mode, in which SETVER could not only fake DOS versions, but also BDOS kernel versions. Sub-versions of 128 to 255 would be reported as DOS sub-versions 0 to 127 to applications, but with the BDOS version check disabled, while sub-versions 100 to 127 could be used to fake different BDOS versions, whereas the DOS revision number (typically set to 0 in a static, pre-boot patchable data structure) would be taken as the reported sub-version instead, so that SETVER /G /X 6.114 would allow versions of DR-DOS since 7.02 to still report themselves as a "DOS 6.0" and with a faked BDOS version 7.2 (114 decimal = 72 hexadecimal), thereby masquerading as Novell DOS 7 / OpenDOS 7.01.
While otherwise beneficial, the new HIFILES triggered a compatibility problem in the DOS-UP feature of the third-party memory manager QEMM 8, which was hard-wired to expect a chunk of five handle structures in conventional memory under DR-DOS (as with previous versions up to 7.01), whereas version 7.02 by design left eight handles in low memory when loading high files in order to maintain full compatibility with older versions of Windows 3.xx. Compatibility with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 had not been affected by this. A maintenance fix was devised to patch a single byte in IBMBIO.COM in order to switch the behaviour and optionally re-invoke the old chunking. This freed some 150 bytes of conventional memory and enabled full compatibility with DOS-UP, but at the same time broke compatibility with older versions of Windows 3.xx when using the HIFILES feature, and vice-versa. The patch named IBMBIO85.SCR continued to work with newer versions of DR-DOS.
In August 1998[24] the US-based Caldera, Inc. created two new subsidiaries, Caldera Systems, Inc. for the Linux business, and Caldera Thin Clients, Inc. for the embedded and thin-client market.[25]
Another version, DR-DOS 7.03 (still with BDOS 7.3 and reporting itself to applications as "PC DOS 6.0" for compatibility purposes), was pre-released at Christmas 1998 and then officially released on January 6, 1999 by Caldera UK. It came with significantly improved memory managers (in particular enhanced DPMI support in conjunction with the multitasker) and other enhancements, such as added DEVLOAD and DRMOUSE utilities, but a changed OEM label in the boot sector of volumes formatted under DR-DOS could also cause problems under other operating systems (which can be circumvented by NOVOLTRK).[26] [27] DR-DOS 7.03 would become the last version of DR-DOS also tailored for desktop use.
Caldera, Inc. wanted to relocate the DR-DOS business into the US and closed the successful UK operation in February 1999 after Gross resigned and set up iCentrix to develop the MarioNet split web browser. Development was then moved into the US (which never worked out due to a total lack of expertise in this field at Caldera US), and the DR-DOS line fell to its branch company, Caldera Thin Clients, which was renamed Lineo, Inc. on July 20, 1999.[28] DR-WebSpyder was renamed EmBrowser and was said to be ported to Linux.[28] Lineo re-released DR-DOS 7.03 in June and September 1999, still branded as "Caldera DR-DOS"[29] and without any changes, but otherwise focussed on Linux for embedded systems, based on a stripped-down version of OpenLinux named Embedix.[28]
Among the latest and independently-developed versions of DR-DOS were OEM DR-DOS 7.04 (as of August 19, 1999) and 7.05 (as of November 30, 1999), still branded as "Caldera DR-DOS".[30][31] These were variants of the system consisting only of the kernel and command shell. With a specialized native implementation of FAT32 and large hard disk support they could be found bundled with Ontrack's Easy Recovery 5 in 2000, replacing the dynamically-loadable DRFAT32 redirector driver, which still came with Easy Recovery 4. They were also used for Seagate Technology's SeaTools[32] and the CD imaging software Nero Burning ROM. While still reporting a BDOS 7.3 internally, these were the first versions to report themselves as "PC DOS 7.10" to applications in order to indicate integrated FAT32 support. Designed to be mostly backwards-compatible, the DR-DOS 7.04/7.05 IBMBIO.COM could be combined with the DR-DOS 7.03 IBMDOS.COM in order to give the desktop-approved DR-DOS 7.03 kernel LBA capabilities and work with drives larger than 8 GB. For specific OEM requirements, DR-DOS 7.06 by Wightman combined the kernel files into a single binary executable, so that, similar to IO.SYS of Windows 98, it could be booted by MS-DOS 7.10 boot sectors (but no longer by DR-DOS boot sectors). DR-DOS 7.07 (with BDOS 7.4/7.7) by Paul introduced new bootstrap loaders and updated disk tools in order to combine support for CHS and LBA disk access, the FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, and the differing bootstrapping conventions of DR-DOS, PC DOS, MS-DOS, Windows, REAL/32 and LOADER into a single MBR and boot sector, so that the code would continue to load any version of DR-DOS down to 3.31 (and since DR-DOS 7.04 also with FAT32 support), but could also be used to launch the PC DOS or MS-DOS system files, including those of Windows 9x and PC DOS 7.10. At the same time the kernel could not only be booted by the new sectors, but also by any previously DR-DOS formatted disks, as well as off disks with existing PC DOS or MS-DOS boot sectors and a variety of other boot-loaders, thereby easing the coexistence and setup of multi-boot scenarios in conjunction with other operating systems.
In 2002, Lineo was bought out, and some of Lineo's former managers purchased the name and formed a new company, DRDOS, Inc. dba DeviceLogics L.L.C. They have continued to sell DR-DOS for use in embedded systems. DR-DOS 8.0 was released on March 30, 2004 featuring FAT32 and large disk support, the ability to boot from ROM or Flash, multitasking and a DPMI memory manager. This version was based on the kernel from version 7.03.[33] The company later released DR-DOS 8.1 (with better FAT32 support) in autumn 2005. This version was instead based on OpenDOS 7.01.xx. Both 8.0 and 8.1 were withdrawn.
Aside from selling copies of the operating system, the DRDOS, Inc. website lists a buyout option for DR-DOS; the asking price is $25,000.[34]
The OpenDOS 7.01 source code was a base for The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project, set up in July 2002 in an attempt to bring the functionality of DR-DOS up to parity with modern PC non-Windows operating systems. The project's added native support for large disks (LBA) and the FAT32 file system, and several other enhancements, including improved memory management and support for the new FAT32+ file system extension which allows files of up to 256 GB in size on normal FAT partitions. DR-DOS 7.01.08 was released on July 21, 2011.[35]
In October 2005, it was discovered that DR-DOS 8.1 included several utilities from FreeDOS and other sources and that the kernel was an outdated version of the Enhanced DR-DOS kernel. DR DOS Inc. failed to comply with the GNU General Public License (GPL) by not crediting the FreeDOS utilities to their authors and including the source code.[33] After complaints from FreeDOS developers (including the suggestion to provide the source code, and hence comply with the GPL), DR DOS Inc. instead withdrew version 8.1, and also the unaffected 8.0, from their website.
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End Game Nears On South Africa's Strike-Hit Platinum Belt
The end game to South Africa's big platinum strike is drawing near after the producers said they would take their latest wage offer directly to employees after marathon wage talks to end the 13-week strike collapsed on Thursday.
South Africa's longest and most damaging mining strike in living memory is not about to come to an abrupt end as both sides strive to win rank and file hearts and minds in a high stakes war of attrition on the platinum belt.
Leaders of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have signaled their displeasure with the offer from the world's top three producers, Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin.
AMCU treasurer and negotiator Jimmy Gama was quoted in the City Press newspaper on Sunday as saying the union was consulting with its members about the latest offer through mass meetings that would last until Wednesday.
'We can't predict if our members will reject it,' he told City Press.
AMCU's leaders have said they were 'arrogantly rebuffed by the platinum cartel', so it seems unlikely their members will publicly accept the offer at mass meetings which are typically dominated by the union's shop stewards and most militant core.
'The guys do not want to go back to work, not for this money,' Venter Mulutsi, an AMCU members with Implats who attended a rally on Friday, told Reuters by telephone.
But the producers are forcing the hand of AMCU and its president Joseph Mathunjwa by betting that most of the strikers have lost their resolve to strike as they face the third consecutive month without pay.
The strike is a headache for President Jacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress with elections looming on May 7.
The companies have been sending cellphone text messages to the 70,000 striking AMCU members urging them to accept the deal and they also plan to spread the message via radio and newspaper spots.
Mulutsi confirmed he had received the text messages.
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This campaign will also target the 'labor sending areas', such as rural villages in the Eastern Cape province far from the shafts, where much of the mine labor force hails from and where many of the strikers have returned to sit the stoppage out.
The gap between the two sides has narrowed.
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Robert Cushard, 38, address unknown, had his case continued Tuesday, to Feb. 15 at Litchfield Superior Court after being arrested for first-degree robbery, first degree-assault and fourth-degree larceny charges. Cushard is accused of robbing Treehouse Art and Antiques store and hitting the owner with a steel wrench on the back of the head. Cushard is also facing additional charges for violation of probation and fifth-degree larceny for unrelated crimes and is currently incarcerated on a $266,100 bond.
Cushard's trial process will begin with jury selections on the February court date.
According to police records, Litchfield County Dispatch received a call Aug. 2, 2011, reporting a robbery and assault at the antique store. The first 911 call was made by the victim but was disconnected before any information could be obtained. A short time later, a second 911 call came in from a witness who entered the store to buy something. According to the affidavit, the witness told police he saw broken picture frames on the floor and the victim sitting at his desk with a blood-soaked shirt on his head. The witness asked the victim twice if he was OK and on the second try, said he has just been robbed.
According to police documents, State Troopers provided medical aid to the victim, and reported that his head was bleeding "profusely." Police also stated he was disoriented and vomiting. When the victim became oriented again, he told police that "Rob" said "give me the money or I will stab you."
According to the affidavit, the victim told police, he reached into his pocket and gave Cushard money and was immediately struck on the head. Altogether, Cushard allegedly got away with $600 in cash, the victim's credit card and his driver's license. After the incident, the victim was transported by New Hartford Ambulance to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, where he received treatment. According to police documents, detectives from the Western District Major Crime Squad observed the extent of the victim's injuries, i.e. he had a large laceration to the back of his skull. The victim was then airlifted to Hartford Hospital for additional treatment. While in the hospital, the victim identified Cushard through photos the police showed him.
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John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood play together less these days than they used to, but that's by design. "It's worked out this way organically," said bassist Wood. "We have been doing this for quite a long time so it's kind of like riding a bike in some ways."
John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood play together less these days than they used to, but that's by design. Twenty-one-year-old units, especially tight-knit, intensely simpatico jazz trios, need to separate and return to preserve freshness and ensure they aren't just recycling past glories.
Maybe that's the reason that in its third decade of existence, Medeski Martin & Wood is still an improvisational powerhouse, as vigorous and unpredictable as ever despite all its road miles and a full body of recorded music that has traversed so much sonic terrain already.
"It's worked out this way organically," said bassist Wood in a recent interview. "We have been doing this for quite a long time so it's kind of like riding a bike in some ways. I'm amazed at how we can not see each other for weeks at a time then get on the road, and it feels like we just picked up where we left off. It took us a long time to get to that point, but I think part of it is just growing up and getting down to the music when the time comes."
In that regard, MMW are much like the jazz legends they revere, Wood said.
"I think of the Keith Jarrett trio. He and Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, I can't imagine they see each other much, and yet they can go out on the road and get right to the music," he said. "That's an inspiration, watching people able to do that. And when you have that, it makes it work out to do other things."
MMW's October tour will be all-acoustic, with Medeski primarily on piano and Wood on the stand-up bass. MMW tried the acoustic format for an entire tour in 2007, and it's been a sought-after setting for fans of the trio ever since.
"Sonically, when we do an electric show, people want it to be a dance party, and it tends to be louder and funkier," Wood said. "Once you set the precedent, however, that it's going to be the acoustic piano trio, people realize this is going to be more of a concert to sit and listen to. We really like that. It's great and a lot of fun to play funky music and rock out for people, but performing in a concert style, that gives you a chance to play some really subtle musical ideas."
Along with the tour, MMW is promoting "Free Magic," a five-track release collecting live highlights from that 2007 acoustic stretch. It's an absorbing listen; more recent MMW originals like "Doppler" and "Blues for Another Day" mix with older material, like a 16-minute exploration of 1993's "Where's Sly," and a closing progression from Charles Mingus' "Nostalgia In Times Square" into a MMW staple, Sun Ra's "Angel Race."
"Sometimes it's hard to listen to music you've just recorded and to tour on that a lot, because you don't have perspective," Wood said. "It took years before we were finally able to sit around and listen to all that music, multi-track these different shows and sift through them."
MMW's three principals are all busy, but unlike Medeski and drummer/percussionist Martin, who've lent their talents to a number of projects, collaborations and sit-ins, it's Wood who's nurtured another, fully-realized band over the past decade. That would be the Wood Brothers, which launched in 2004 as an acoustic duo with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver, but is now a full band covering a broad swath of Americana, from blues and roots to folk-jazz and country.
New from the Wood Brothers are two live releases, May's Sky High and last month's Nail & Tooth. Both represent their first recordings with Nashville drummer and former Gabe Dixon Band member Jano Ricks, who joined the band officially in 2010.
"He's also a very proficient keyboard player and singer so he's a triple threat," Wood said. "The full band allows us to do three-part harmonies, rock out, or get real spare and do stuff more reminiscent of how the Wood Brothers started out, which was acoustic, unplugged type stuff. It's been really fun to develop the show, and we're writing new music to take to the studio."


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Police: Man tried to choke K-9 during arrest
A Spartanburg man accused of holding three people against their will is also accused of trying to choke a K-9 officer during his arrest, according to an incident report.
Spartanburg police said Rodney Clowney held two women and a man against their will at an apartment on John B. White Boulevard Friday morning.
Police said he threatened the three with a blade after accusing them of stealing a gun.
One of the victims said Clowney tried to choke her, the report said.
The victim said eventually Clowney suddenly stopped and allowed them to go.
One of the victims was able to get away and call 911.
When officers arrived to serve a warrant they said Clowney refused to open the door.
Officers said they had to use force to get into the apartment and found Clowney sitting on the couch.
The report said because Clowney had his hands under a blanket and refused to show them, officers said they had to remove Clowney from the couch.
When Clowney pushed one officer away and began to swing at other officers, K9 Riska was sent in, the report said.
According to the report, the suspect threw a blanket on the dog, grabbed her and then tried to choke her.
At that time one of the officer deployed his stun gun, but it hit the blanket Clowney was using to cover himself, the report said.
Clowney let go of the dog, swung at an officer and then came aggressively toward the officer, according to the report.
The officer told Clowney to get on the ground but according to the report, Clowney refused.
The incident report said after a continued altercation with the officer, Clowney was taken into custody.
Clowney is charged with assault and battery, kidnapping, possession of a firearm by a felon, resisting arrest with assault and marijuana possession, according to the Spartanburg County Detention Center website.


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Robert J. O�Keefe took great pride in rarely missing a City Council meeting during his 45 years as Worcester city clerk.
In fact, you could probably count on one hand the number of meetings he missed and still have fingers left over. But the flu got the better of him one Tuesday night in February 1992 and kept him home.
When a reporter asked him a few days later if he happened to watch the council meeting on television, Mr. O�Keefe responded: �Are you kidding me? It�s tough enough to sit through those meetings when you�re healthy, never mind when you�re sick.�
The quote eventually appeared in print as a throwaway line in a column but, needless to say, it got under the skin of some members of the City Council, which was his boss.
When a city councilor asked Mr. O�Keefe at the next meeting if he did in fact say that, Mr. O�Keefe didn�t flinch or back-pedal. Instead, he matter-of-factly said: �The quote was 100 percent accurate and I�d say that same thing if I was asked again.�
It was vintage Bob O�Keefe.
That anecdote summed him up in a nutshell: One of the more powerful, outspoken, controversial and colorful figures ever seen at City Hall.
Praised by some, vilified by others, there were not too many Worcester residents who didn�t have an opinion about Mr. O�Keefe. Through it all, however, his integrity never came into question, he never compromised his principles and the city clerk�s office came to be highly respected.
As former Mayor Jordan Levy so aptly put it following Mr. O�Keefe�s passing at age 88 on Wednesday, he was one of a kind, the likes of which will never be seen again at City Hall.
When Mr. O�Keefe was at City Hall, there was never a shortage of stories, that�s for sure. Here are just a few:
In 1987, the Election Commission fired Mr. O�Keefe as its executive secretary, citing insubordination, lack of communication and failure to carry out commission policies.
Six days later, then City Manager William J. Mulford reinstated Mr. O�Keefe as the city�s elections chief after the Law Department determined the Election Commission could not fire him because he was an appointee of the city manager.
Two hours after his reinstatement, Mr. O�Keefe resigned as executive secretary.
Later that year, Mr. O�Keefe became embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with Mr. Mulford and the council over the use of personnel from the city clerk�s office for the Election Commission office.
The council ended up suing him over the matter and tried to give him the boot with an 8-1 vote of no confidence; it also requested his resignation.
Protected by Civil Service, Mr. O�Keefe was able to tell his bosses to take a hike, in so many words.
�I was here long before all of you got on the City Council, and I will still be here long after many of you have left,� he told the council when it asked him to resign.
His words not only proved prophetic, but the courts dismissed the suit against him in 1988 and the council ended up paying him $65,000 he had accumulated in legal fees.
When asked before his retirement in 1998 to assess the 23 city councils he worked for during his tenure, Mr. O�Keefe said: �I�d say most city councilors fell into the class that they occupied space. They were not leaders. They were non-factors. Good people. A lot of very honorable people, but not too many profiles in courage.�
When asked in 1979 to schedule voter registration at Great Brook Valley during food distributions, Mr. O�Keefe said: �Voter registration during the distribution of free cheese and butter is not proper or dignified.�
Mr. O�Keefe was known for run-ins he had with some of his colleagues in city government.
One of the more well-publicized ones was when former Police Chief James F. Trainor was said to have threatened to punch him in the nose when the two were out on a License Board view.
�I don�t recall what it was,� he once said. �I said nothing to him, and he just exploded. He was a very hot-headed individual with a vicious tongue. I never again saw him face-to-face. He ducked me.�
On the eve of when the City Council was set to interview the two finalists to succeed Francis J. McGrath as city manager, Mr. O�Keefe approached several councilors to see if he might be considered at the eleventh hour as a candidate for the job.
He did so after publicly calling the two finalists, Mr. Mulford and Paul Bringewatt, �Mr. Inexperience and Mr. Indecisive.�
His request sent some councilors into panic, with one privately saying: �If we don�t give him a chance for an interview, we�ll never get another dog license out of his office.� They were able to breathe a sigh of relief in the end, however, when Mr. O�Keefe decided not to press the issue.
Mr. O�Keefe had a long-running feud with Mr. McGrath that spanned three decades.
Every time he went into his office, he saw a reminder of Mr. McGrath atop a bookcase � it was a skunk knickknack someone had given him after the manager called him a �miserable skunk� in print.
�I didn�t dislike Francis, I just think he made a mess out of the city,� Mr. O�Keefe said. �He didn�t have the ability to make decisions; he would look to see where five votes were before recommending anything. I think McGrath also considered me somewhat of a threat, especially after the City Council named me acting city manager in his absence. He never took another vacation after that.�
Bob O�Keefe was indeed one of a kind, and we will never see another person like him at City Hall.


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text: I was three feet from the floor Gasping for air Trying to release my father's hands from my throat I looked into his eyes and wondered If my feet would ever touch the floor again Have you ever been hit so hard that it sends your body flying across the room? We all fall to the floor at some point It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge Isn't It? I've always lived im my own world And I dance to escape my troubles I've learned that there's light even in the darkest places I can't blame my father for anything You can't rely on other people to make you happy But I Know deep donw inside He loved me There was a time I suffered so much i want to get it out of me I would cut my arms Not to kill myself I don't want die I know I am lucky to be on this earth I did It so the physical Pain Would calm the pain that was eating me inside Nothing was erased I leave with my past tucked away Deep Inside of me It comes out as an explosion and... It invades me I believe we are messengers on Earth I believe in angels I am blessed by God to tell myself I suffered that much to become who I am today Now, you have to realize Not only do I have a family But now I have a whole hood And That's power But I ain't no Grimey-Ass Nigga I was never out to kill anybody Especially when I made that decision to Gang-Bang I just wanted to fit in But one day I was forced to something that made me open my eyes And I realised that this shit ain't no game One of the homies got popped And I was pressured into doing my first drive-by It was kinda fucked up the way they tried to set me up Me and my bro, we was headed back to the eight block Some homies rolled up and they asked us to go somewhere We pulled up to the corner Then he placed a chunky-ass gun in my ride He said "You know what to do with it" It's time to get poppin' for the hood But I wasn't out to kill anybody.


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Remember yesterday when a Heart of Midlothian fan wearing a Yankees hat decided to take a running swing at Celtic manager Neil Lennon?
Well, today somebody sent a parcel containing a bullet to Lennon at the team's stadium. Tomorrow, two big fans will appear in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to answer charges as they pertain to this:
Police launched a major investigation after two bombs were sent to Lennon and one each to lawyer Paul McBride QC and former MSP Trish Godman. A fifth suspect package, addressed to the offices of Cairde Na H'Eireann (Friends of Ireland) in Glasgow, was also intercepted by officers last month. All of the parcel bomb packages were found during March and last month.
Here's how Professor Tom Devine of Edinburgh University broke down the sociological motivations for such behavior:
"The basic root of this problem is part of the religious and immigration history of Scotland. In the 19th and early 20th century there was significant numbers of Catholic and Protestant immigration from the north of Ireland. There was a sense of animosity at that group arriving at the time, and almost a sense of Scottish society being overwhelmed.
"Animosity in working-class neighbourhoods between Catholics and Protestants is weaker than it was in the old days but something of the folk memory still fuels low-level bigotry.
"[Neil Lennon] has got all the ingredients – he is Roman Catholic, he is from Northern Ireland, he is a former Celtic player and now a Celtic manager. He is also seen by Rangers fans as abrasive and unlike past Celtic managers he is very outspoken against anyone who attacks his club. None of this can possibly excuse what he and his family have had to suffer."
So there's no way this ends well, right?
Police arrest two men over parcel bombs sent to Celtic boss Lennon and club fans [Daily Mail] (H/T Tomuban)
After attack, a bullet in the post for Celtic boss [The Independent]
Here's Video Of A Scottish Soccer Fan Attacking A Scottish Soccer Manager Earlier Today [Deadspin]


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Comic book writer and novelist Greg Rucka (Stumptown, Queen and Country) answers a frequently asked question in an incisive essay for io9 titled "Why I Write 'Strong Female Characters'".
The entire piece is well worth a read, but here's the key passage:
Writers don't write Men or Women or Dogs or Salmon. Writers write characters, and at our best, if we do it well and with care and with thought, we invest in those characters a spark of life, a realism and nuance that makes them believable and relatable.
Rucka also questions why journalists don't tend to ask female writers how they write "strong female characters," and why more male writers don't do the research about their female characters, the way they would with any other character whose experience differs from their own.


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