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By johnksutherland All Rights Reserved ©
The beginning of a nightmare. Out of the frying pan.
Miss Harriet Ward had suffered another argument with her ill-tempered and controlling father. She had responded to him when she should have been more restrained and held her peace. It would have been better had she agreed with him as a dutiful daughter should have done, or have left the room without saying anything.
In her slow-simmering anger with her parent over his usual, arrogant intransigence, she deserted the house for her almost daily walk on the fells to get away from him and to let her own turbulent thoughts settle down. Their disagreement this time, had been over something as simple as her choice of reading material; something trivial, but then even trivial things were enough to annoy him when his daughter chose to ignore him or go against his wishes. She should have learned that lesson enough times not to have repeated it, but she had a mind of her own, so she had responded when she should not have. The heated exchange that followed had upset both of their days, though hers, much more than his.
Out upon the fell-tops she could not remain angry and her mood calmed the further she went, but those continuing arguments had taken their toll upon her. She was resigned to the situation never improving for her. Her life as she had known it when her mother had been alive, was over. How could something have changed in such a drastic way and without warning? She had never known her father to be so controlling, or obstructive to her simple requests.
She would have taken a horse out except he had forbidden that too, as though afraid she would not return. But where would she go? However, the thought had been implanted. One day she would take a horse and not return, or keep on walking.
With the day threatening to become as almost every day did, even before it had begun, she dressed for the outdoors after first looking at the weather, and then going to consult the barometer; giving it a gentle tap to settle it. The needle dropped, but the sky outside was clear and the sun was shining. Satisfied that nothing too severe was about to happen with the weather, she set out on one of her long walks, intending to get as far away from Shereton Park as she could get.
"You should not let another of those arguments with your father upset you like that, my dear." Cook had been able to hear him, even in the kitchen. She did not approve of the old man in any way, but worked for him only because he had to pay her well to have her work for him, as well as for the sake of his daughter. No one else would have put up with his curmudgeonly ways. Her heart had gone out to Harriet when she had first seen her, poor lost soul.
"I know I shouldn't, Charlotte, but he will never change, and nor will I. I do not intend to be cooped up in here all day with him. It is bad enough that he dragged me out of London with him, but then to be trapped in this place with so few escapes…. What can I do but walk, garden, read, or occupy myself in seeing to my own comfort?"
"So he still has no plans to return to London." It had not been a question.
"Not him. I don't understand him bringing us out here, but he must know how much I would prefer to be back in London. I miss the modistes, the book shops, the coffee houses where one could at least meet people one might know."
"You should not go too far, my dear. My husband tells me that a storm is on the way. A great one for seeing omens everywhere, he is. He said the bees were too defensive of things this morning and he got stung when he tilted the hive. They can tell what the weather will do. And there was all of that thunder and wind last night. We had some broken eggs in the henhouse this morning so something upset them from their nests. Omens for them as can read them. I can't, and I don't believe them anyway."
Harriet had heard nothing, but maybe there had been something shake the old house while she had been asleep. That portrait of her mother, opposite her bed, had been tilted when she first woke up, and it had needed to be straightened. Had her mother been trying to tell her something? She ignored it.
"Should I expect you back for lunch?"
"No. Thank you, Charlotte. I'll be out until later."
"Then take something with you, Miss. You only pecked at your breakfast."
"I ate a good dinner last night. It won't do me any harm to be hungry for once."
Cook watched her leave. She had her own angry thoughts about that heartless, selfish man.
Harriet's mind, as she walked away, went over the latest disagreement with her father, but she was soon distracted. There were twigs and occasional branches down, so there had been a wind. There was a raven somewhere close by, objecting to her presence. Another sinister omen? But of what?
One day, perhaps even today, she would not return. Then what would he say. With no one to nag at, her father would soon tire of his own company and do what he often threatened to do, return to London. He would not miss her other than as someone to nag at. London would have suited her almost as well as being here. It did not matter where she was, she would have been a prisoner wherever she had been; a prisoner of circumstance and financial constraints.
She would have liked nothing better than to return to London, and he knew it. However, being a spiteful individual, he was punishing her as well as himself, by avoiding what she wanted. In truth, she had long ago decided that she quite liked it here, better than London. Being exiled, as she was, suited her mood better than she would have admitted three months earlier, when they had arrived, but it had also been colder, then. The weather had improved since then.
Her father was petty tyrant, who—like a child—would throw a temper tantrum to get his own way. He also pleaded illness and infirmity, as an invalid often did to gain sympathy. It did not work with Harriet. She had learned about her father over many years, when they had been in London. She had been even more of a prisoner there, than here. Her much older sister, Fanny, and other remote members of their family, approved of the present arrangement, as it kept her father away from visiting, and such a distance meant that they might never see him for as long as a year or more. It did his temper no good.
He fulminated about ungrateful children who cared nothing for him, and that he would know where to leave his money at the end of it all, and it would not be with either Harriet or Fanny. Not that he had a lot of money. He didn't, and he made sure they knew it. However, the small income from what he had invested, kept the London house safe, and allowed him to rusticate at Shereton Park, a small property in the north of England, left to his late wife,. He managed to see to his own comforts by getting papers sent up from London, though there were few letters from anyone. He had little fondness for books, but there was a good library that the former tenant had accumulated over the years. He spent little of his time there, which made it a fitting refuge for Harriet when the weather was against her going out.
Harriet had learned to rebel, but only in private, and in her own way. She sought refuge in books, escaping her father, knowing that he never visited his own library, so she was safe there for hours at a stretch in one of the corners by a window, though she could hear him grumble as he scoured the house for her. The servants knew better than to tell him where she was. They liked Miss Harriet, and felt sorry for her.
"You will turn your ankle, or break a leg out there, clambering up those slopes, and then what will happen to you. You will also wear your shoes out long before their time."
She had resisted pointing out that she had no choice but to walk, as he had forbidden her to take a horse, making some excuse that he may need to go into the village before she returned. He had also harped on about how expensive it was to get a Smith to re-shoe a horse. It was not that he could not afford it, but that he resented spending the money.
"You are gone before the rest of the house is out of bed and rarely return before it is getting dark. I do not often see you for dinner, even when you are in the house, so we would never miss you until it is too late. What do you do with yourself? We would never find you in such a dangerous and wild expanse of nothing, with open holes, mines and boulders. Stay close to home in the garden if you must go out. There is a tolerable rose garden, and I know that there are fruit bushes along the wall and even some apple trees espaliered up the house front. I thought you were fond of tending to such things." She once had been, as her mother had, but that was in a happier life.
Her father could fret and fume all he liked. It could not touch her if she was not there to be preached at. She would ignore him for a day or two and then would appear for breakfast, though he was not an early riser. They bumped into each other, only once or twice a week and even then it was not often a civilized or considerate exchange that she could expect to have with him. He wanted her close to him at all times and to know where she was. He would always be disappointed.
His criticism of her that morning had been enough to drive her out and onto the fells. There were many good tracks that had once led to the mines, and the sheep had added their own over the centuries. She would not get lost, and she took care of her shoes. Her allowance might extend to getting another pair when she managed to get into the town, located a two hour drive away. A sudden boom, took her quite off guard. Thunder? She looked about. There was not a cloud in the sky. It can't have been thunder. A neighbor's cannon, perhaps, or someone blasting out a tree stump or a rock.
She preferred being out when the weather was as calm as it was, despite all those suggestions that the weather would soon change. She scorned to wear a bonnet. The wind in her face and hair would help blow her mood away. Also, she had already had a word with the lad who came in to look after the horses, and he was happy to tend to the garden in her place, and keep it weeded. He had also added to the vegetable garden at her behest, later than normal to-be-sure, but if the season was not too severe, and the cold weather did not set in too soon, they could eat well out of it, and even save seed for the next year.
On this occasion, she went much further than she had intended, agitated as always, over her father's constant criticisms, and his nip-farthing ways. However, he did employ a good cook—thinking more of himself than anyone else—and there were girls brought in from the village to tidy around and see to the laundry. He liked his food, and his comforts, and his portliness showed it.
You should not have gone off in such a mood, my dear.
Her mother's calming voice came into her mind.
She responded, talking animatedly to herself, where only the sheep would hear her.
Yes, I know, Mother, but I could not stay home to be bombarded by such rudeness and inconsideration. It is more peaceful out here where I can speak with you and gain from your wise counsel.
Harriet often had various conversations with her absent mother when she was alone, seeking her advice on difficult issues.
You keep reminding me that I should not be so impetuous in my responses to him, or so ready to fly off the handle, but I am sure you cannot so easily forget that he even tried your patience when you were with us.
On this occasion her mother did not respond as she sometimes did. During a difficult episode involving her father, Harriet would engage in several active discussions with her mother. Anyone witnessing such a personal exchange, would regard her as quite deranged, though she was far from that. It was a needed safety valve.
How could life have changed so much for her in such a short time? There had been a time when things had been so much more pleasant and peaceful. Harriet had strolled the streets of London with her mother without a care in the world, going from one shop to another; purchasing a book, or a bonnet, or had visited one friend after another.
Her mother had controlled everything to do with the household and its management when she had been alive, including her husband, but that time had gone, six years earlier. Their finances had suffered a similar set back. They were not church-mouse poor—there was always enough for what he wanted—but he made it seem as though they were one step removed from the sponging house. He denied his daughter the generous allowance she once had. The promise of her inheritance when she reached twenty-one seemed to have faded from sight altogether with the passing of her mother. Her father would not speak of it but grew angry when she raised the subject and tried to learn what had happened to it. He had become a miser and a recluse.
How she had avoided marriage was a mystery to those few who knew her well, but did not know her parent, not realizing the selfish role that he played in the outcome. Her not marrying had not been for lack of suitors.
However, her mother had turned them all away, and did not allow any of them to get close to her. Harriet knew that her mother had other plans for her in that direction and had already found a husband for her, but would not tell her more than that.
When the time is right, you shall meet him.
Harriet could not understand why her mother would not say any more of him, other than that he came from an excellent family, and that when the time came for them to meet each other, Harriet would approve of her mother's choice. She trusted her mother and would rely upon her judgment. Except her mother had died without saying more.
Why did you have to die so soon, Mama, without telling me more of this paragon you had picked out for me to marry? That was inconsiderate of you. I would like to meet him about now, and hope that he would rescue me from Father.
She shook her head.
No, too late for that out here. Yes, I suppose I should not allow him to goad me so well, and drive me out of the house as he does. However, one day I shall not return, but shall keep on walking. Even today, if the weather holds off. I should warn you of that, so that you will not take me too much to task, as you so often do when I threaten to kick over the traces. No other life could be worse than this one.
Can you be so sure of that, my love?
Harriet rambled on again after turning her footsteps in a new direction.
But there again, you are right to warn me. It could be much worse couldn't it? Yes, I should be careful what I wish for. It would help if I really were as beautiful as others say I am, but clearly I am not, and cannot be, else how did I escape the happy social entanglements that face so many young women in London?
She thought for a few moments.
Yes, yes, you are right, Mama. You are always right. I was too young. I keep forgetting. I suppose I should calm my rebellious feelings and settle down to write poetry and tend to the garden, as Father would prefer.
No, she would never do that.
Despite what Harriet believed of herself, in her more vulnerable and darker moods, she knew better than to give in to melancholy. Even with a pitifully small allowance, she dressed well, and fashionably. A little industry with needle and thread, and remnants of other dresses and material—of which there was an abundance—achieved remarkable results in her limited wardrobe. She should escape, and become a seamstress to society. Other young ladies, fallen upon hard times and not having been rescued by marriage, had done as much to achieve independence. Her mind wandered in directions as strange as those her feet followed, and with as little guidance.
She was about middle height, with a good and generous figure (she thought it was over-generous, at least as far as her breasts were concerned) and had a head of black hair that she constantly wore in a braid down her back, as a way of keeping it from blowing everywhere when she was out, or coiled upon her head.
Their modest estate, which was never self-sufficient, backed onto the fells and was well protected from the prevailing strong winds down the valley that laid the trees over at an angle, and had them growing with a permanent lean to them.
It was always deserted in that wild and remote area. She had grown to feel safe, as neighboring estates did not appear to harbor any hardy souls who also liked to be out in uncertain weather, or when it was as windy as it was.
There were many locations on the fells where she could take shelter from the wind, or relax, where she could sit and think about life; her life, and what it had become. When her mother had exhausted all that she had wished to say, Harriet could speak to the sheep and knew that—unlike in some of her more difficult conversations with her mother; though there were few of them that were difficult—there would be no argument. On those still days, it was pleasant to sit and eat her lunch (if she had brought one) while she listened to the birds nearby and tried to identify them by their song if she could not easily see them. She disturbed the occasional pheasant or partridge. She often intended to ask her sister, Fanny, in London, to send her a book on birds, so that she could learn more than she knew, but as soon as she returned home, to the atmosphere that awaited her there, that thought was driven from her mind. She would remember it when she next wrote to Fanny, but knew that she could not count on her for anything.
Spoil-heaps of loose shale, tipped over the valley edge, abounded from the older lead mines that had been worked out, and there were still a few ramshackle shelters that existed there, and in the old slate quarry that she passed by on some of her walks. She had extended her range as she became more familiar with what she could see. Her first walks had been no more than local explorations, following the stream, which soon became a small river after any heavy rains, which she had so far been fortunate to have avoided. Now, she could be out most of the day, and could go as far as several miles. She rarely saw anyone else walking, and even then, only at a distance. She was grateful for that. Only once did she see anyone on horseback, and they were far off, and heading away from her, so she did not have to think of walking off the track and staying out of sight, to avoid them. There were a few deer that she blundered across, but they soon took off, bounding through the heather, scattering sheep.
Many times she had arrived back home after dark, and had partaken of a fast supper from the deserted kitchen, after Cook had returned to her own home. Then she had sorted out her clothing for the next day, relegating to the wash anything that had suffered in her walk. She was careful to see that her walking shoes were placed by the fire to dry out and were stuffed with rags. She would be sure to see to them in the morning. Without her shoes standing up to the rigors of her walking, she would soon become a prisoner.
Out on the fells, she had no fear of being alone. She was fit, and felt that she could hold her own against man or beast if the need was there. Wolves had long been hunted to extinction, and the fox would soon follow them the way they were hunted. However, the fox-hunts were confined to the valley bottoms and the farmed areas, rather than where she walked. She could sometimes hear them in the far distance as they sounded their horns, and the dogs bayed in excitement on spotting their quarry.
Harriet was now twenty-two years old. She had never been presented in society. Her father saw no need of losing another daughter after Fanny had married and left home. The way he saw it, Harriet was required at home to look after him, and should be happy to do so, and grateful for it even though she had a mere pittance of an allowance. She had not minded at first. She did not approve of most of society, and it would not approve of her. She had been told, by her father and Fanny, that she was bookish, and she was. Men did not like bookish women. It did not matter. If it came to that, Harriet would not have liked a man who could think a woman to be bookish, only because she liked books. She was not afraid to engage in heated discussion in her own family, if the need was there, but was shy and quiet among strangers, loath to put herself forward.
She regarded herself as already on-the-shelf, but did not care to think about that, or what could have been possible for her, had her mother lived. Her future had been thrown off track when her mother, Josephine, had died when Harriet had been but sixteen. Her mother had shaped the household up to that time, deciding how everything would go forward, and dictating how things would be. Her husband had known better than to object, but in any case had been entirely satisfied at the way his own life had improved with that marriage. She had been a kind and considerate woman who had many plans for her daughters, especially for the younger, Harriet, but had not disclosed what those plans might be other than for a hint here, and a hint there. She had also managed their father well, despite his awkwardness. He had no head for business, and his wife saw that he did not influence what she decided would happen around them.
Fanny—her older sister by four years—had married and left home some years earlier. The little she had heard from Fanny after that, had not been of a happy existence, but one of misery, the way Fanny told it. But that was Fanny. She never could see good in anything, and had merely swapped her father's tyranny for that of a selfish husband, if Fanny could be believed. Harriet had come to believe that Fanny was quite capable of saying certain things which were almost the exact opposite of the way they were.
Yes, Mother. I remember you warning me of my sister and her jealousy toward me, and shall be careful what I say to her.
Harriet's mind was soon brought back to where she was and what she was doing, when she began to realize that, despite turning back, she had wandered further than she had intended in a new direction, and along a path that was not so familiar to her. No. She had intended it. She had been gripped by this strange feeling that she should keep on walking and never look back; never go back. It had been a short-lived feeling when she felt the first pangs of hunger, and had been cognizant of her mother's continued warnings.
She could see the valley she had left, behind her and the familiar peak, still in front of her and now to the right, so she knew where she was, even if she had never been so far out before.
No, Mama, I am not lost. I may not know exactly where I am, but I am not lost.
Nothing much deterred her for getting out, not even the threat of inclement weather, high winds, or any of the number of impediments that her father would try to throw in her way to dissuade her. He always wanted to know where she was and what she was doing, and constantly threatened to return them all to London, if she could not settle herself down. Why he had chosen to leave London in the first place, Harriet could not fathom, and he would never have told her anyway.
It was early summer, and she refused to be housebound, no matter the weather. She strolled out every day that she could, and explored the surrounding area, moving further afield as the ground became more familiar to her.
She was returning late, again. No one would be worried for her. They knew better than to worry after the first few days of her walking.
With the wind increasing, and the much heavier clouds rolling in, bringing a much darker afternoon with them, almost like evening, it began to rain hard. She still had the better part of three miles to walk. She should have listened better to Charlotte. She had gone further afield than she had intended with her mind as occupied as it was, contemplating her future, and the emptiness of it.
Her life's course had already been decided for her. It was a bleak prospect; like the fells, empty, and entirely without promise, and would remain that way as long as she was under her father's roof. But there was no escaping that now.
The wind strengthened, making walking difficult against it and driving the rain almost horizontally. It felt as though the temperature had also dropped. There could even be wet snow mixed in with the rain, which ran down her face and down her neck, discomforting her even more. She could feel her dress getting heavier with the amount of rain that it had soaked up already. Where it clung to her legs it robbed her of warmth, but she could keep walking. She had no choice.
I know it was my own fault, Mama, for choosing to go so far, but that is what I intended to do, remember? One day, I shall not return.
Such a severe storm was unusual for this time of year, and she was high on the hills and still far from home. She should not have walked so far. She had not anticipated such a fierce storm appearing out of nowhere. She had dressed too lightly with the temperature being as warm as it had been when she had set out. It had been a sensible decision when she had left, but that had been hours earlier.
Her father would be sure to preach at her for getting caught in it, if he learned anything about it, and suggest she not go out again. She would say nothing and stay out of his way when she got home.
She soon became soaked through to the skin on her back as well as her front, and her hair sent dribbles of rain down her forehead with her leaning into the wind, with other cold trickles, creeping down her back. She knew where she was, and knew that it would take her at least an hour to get home, with the track beginning to run with water. It was becoming slippery where the water ran over the rocks, and with heavy mud in other places. What had been a small river beside the track she was on, would become a raging brown torrent in another hour or two.
The path she was on soon turned into a stream course along which she splashed. There was nowhere to shelter; no trees to huddle beneath, which would not have been wise anyway with her as wet as she was, and no walls to take shelter behind, out of the driving wind, so she continued walking. She would soon be home and getting dry.
Yes, I hear you, Mama. The belvedere is closer, and it will offer some shelter from the wind and rain until this blows over. So the belvedere it will be.
She could try to wait it out in the belvedere that sat upon the lookout between their own estate and that of the neighbor, Sir Percival Blunt. That was the closest place to shelter, until the worst of it blew over. Sir Percival had seen it built for his first wife, some forty years earlier, and it was now neglected. He was never there—so she had been told—but had gone to London. There was rumor that he had the place up for sale. He could even have died for all she knew. Her mother didn't seem to know, so there was no point in asking her.
When she got there, she was not only even more wet, but was feeling miserable and cold. Was this what the rest of her life was to be like? And winter lay not so far ahead. She may not be able to get out at all for days or weeks at a time then. That prospect was not comforting.
The rain had a chilling effect on her. She knew she should keep walking, but it seemed that the rain was coming down even harder than before, and she had been right, there was a snowflake or two mixed in with it. She stood still. Her dress was no longer clinging to her legs, but water from it dripped steadily onto the floor. She was still a half-hour walk from the house, and she decided that she should try to dry out before she continued, but she had nothing to dry herself with. There was already a puddle formed around her feet. She could have a hot bath and change, once she got home.
She waited, and waited. It did not let up. She tried to wring the bottom of her dress out, and got rid of a lot of water, but there was no going anywhere until the rain stopped. She sat herself on the hard stone slab, which formed a seat, in the middle area of the building, out of the wind and rain, to wait. She tolerated her wet and cold dress touching her legs again, and brought her feet up onto the seat in front of her (she was alone, so would not make a spectacle of herself for anyone to see). She adjusted her dress to touch her as little as possible, while making herself into a compact bundle to stay warm. She began to feel more miserable as the temperature dropped. Today, was like her life. It had begun well, but had soon deteriorated.
She felt like crying. She had never felt so depressed before. They should never have left London. She should have insisted on staying with Fanny, as Fanny had desired, but only as long as her father stayed in his own home, but her father had put an end to that possibility. He had stated, without any expectation of being contradicted, that he needed Harriet with him. Harriet's future was clearly to be that of a drudge, either taking on the burden of her sister's impossible children, or looking after her equally impossible father. She had no choice in the matter. Either she went with him, or he would have cut off her small allowance, and made life even more impossible for her. He had never threatened that, but it had been left sitting there as a possibility.
Harriet, huddled herself in as small a bundle as she could, constantly adjusting her position to find the least discomforting seat, feeling the rain running from her hair, down her neck, and she could even see small wraiths of water vapor rising from her wet dress, where it was held close against the top of her legs. She brought her feet closer to her on the seat, and leaned back into the hard marble. She would need to conserve her warmth, but the wind constantly blew in around everything, whipping leaves across the floor.
That was when she noticed that there was a fire laid ready, in the central stone fireplace three feet in front of her, with a screwed up newspaper laid there; kindling on top of that, and then smaller pieces of wood. There were larger logs stacked off to one side. Someone must have been here, and not so long ago. That fire had not been laid when she had last come through, two days earlier. There were other changes too. She could not recall having seen them before.
How would I know who laid it, Mama? It can do me no good anyway as I do not know where the fire-steel might be, or the char-cloth, either.
She knew that there must be a tinder box of some kind, or some lucifers on a shelf somewhere to get it started, but ruled against moving to do anything about it. She would not be here for long enough. The moment it let up…. She also became aware that the pigeons were gone. Their incessant cooing was no longer to be heard. They had been cleaned out from their nests up near the windows above her, and some attempt had been made to sweep the floor clean. It might even have been mopped.
Harriet let her head drop onto her knees and she cried.
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Mr. BLUMENAUER. I appreciate your leadership and your focusing on the issues that face us.
Having spent hours in the Budget Committee so far this Congress, I must admit that I was shocked and surprised with the profoundly negative approach that is being taken by my good friend, Paul Ryan, the chair of the Budget Committee and my Republican friends.
First of all, there is in essence a refusal to zero in on the three areas of greatest increase in the budget. We see repeated charts that talk about Medicare going through the roof over the next 50 years. And it is true. We need to get Medicare spending under control because the past path is not sustainable. But ironically what is ignored is that the approach that is being offered by the Republicans in their budget actually ignores the major provisions that have been placed in statute now that would actually reduce the rate of Medicare spending in the future.
We have taken every significant, independently verified promising initiative to bend that cost curve, and they have been stripped away. We watched Republicans attack Democrats because there were provisions to be able to make a difference with Medicare spending, claiming it would somehow slash Medicare for senior citizens by a half-trillion dollars. Well, Congressman Garamendi, you and I come from areas of the country that actually have been able to reduce health care costs, they are below the national average, and in both areas we actually have higher performance; better health care, less cost. If the rest of America practiced medicine the way it is practiced in our two communities, there would not be a Medicare crisis.
What we have done with the reform act was embed those notions to be able to provide incentives to reward value over volume, not just pay for procedures. To be able to have accountable care organizations, bundling of services, to actually have some financial disincentives for unnecessary hospital readmissions. All of these, the experts tell us, could save over $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years. And, in fact, if we had the courage to actually improve and accelerate and enhance, there are greater savings because the doctors, the nurses, the hospitals in our two communities have proven that it is possible. But our Republican friends have simply decided to turn their back on that. They are going to take the Medicare savings and spend it for tax cuts for people who need it the least.
I can't help but turn back to you because you have an interesting chart there on the floor that may say it all.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. Your point is well taken in terms of what they would do terminating Medicare as we know it for everybody under 55 years of age. We are talking about over 230 million Americans. And as a result of this, it is clear, you can look at the Congressional Budget Office, other independent experts, it is not going to reduce the cost of health care. In fact, it is going to increase the cost of health care in America. But what it does is it is going to put an ever-increasing burden on elderly Americans. It is going to have a gap because ultimately they are not going to enable people to have Medicare until they are 67. They are going to have a small voucher that is given to the insurance company. Bear in mind the reason that LBJ and the Democratic Congress in 1965 enacted Medicare was because America's elderly could not get good insurance coverage that was comprehensive and affordable. Senior citizens, like it or not, are older. They are frailer. They are less healthy than younger Americans, and they are not working as much. They don't have the income. They need help. Now, our Republican friends would lead us to believe that all of a sudden there will be a private insurance market, which by the way sounds suspiciously like the exchanges that they said were bad in the health reform act, and they would force people into them, but they would have decreasing premium support.
I think it is also appropriate to just reflect for a moment about what happens to the 78 million geezer baby boomers who are 55 or older who will be under Medicare. That's going to continue for years. It's going to be increasingly inefficient. It appears as though there are some extra costs that are embedded for existing and soon-to-be future Medicare recipients that are going to continue to distort, drive up costs, and, of course, nationally we're all going to pay more for the privilege.
I would suggest this tombstone is something that people should consider carefully, because it's going to mean, I sincerely believe, not just the death of Medicare but it is going to provide profound shifts and dislocations within our health care system, hurt the providers, and provide less effective health care for our elderly citizens.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. If we could just follow up on this for a moment, because you are talking about something that ought to concern each and every citizen. Medicaid. In your State Medi-Cal. We've had the Oregon health plan. There are other States that have variations on that. It provides health care, as you say, for our most vulnerable populations: the elderly, disabled, extremely poor people.
Mr. GARAMENDI. And the young.
Mr. BLUMENAUER. It is very cost effective. There are complaints that the benefits under Medicaid are actually very low, and it's hard for physicians and hospitals, medical providers, to deal with this. But by moving to a block grant that, as you say, it is designed to go down over time. And unlike the current system, which is sort of countercyclical, where the Federal Government has given more money in times of distress, which it's done to your State and my State in the last 2 years. If we hadn't got the extra payments from the Federal Government to help with Medicaid, I can't imagine what shape people would have been in in Sacramento and Salem, Oregon. The legislature would have just melted down. What this proposal is, is to continue this ratcheting down, no benefits when times are tough, and put States in a situation where too often they are either unable, or in the case of some States, unwilling to react. It's going to have a cascading effect.
You mentioned the problem that's very likely to emerge with people being literally tossed out of nursing homes. This is something that Americans need to step back and look at what is being designed as part of this very pessimistic road map that is going to have very serious negative consequences.
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One day ahead of schedule, Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, a USD 200 tablet powered by Android. Unlike the iPad, which is a full-featured machine, the Fire is light on firepower, and exists mostly to sell Amazon e-books and Amazon Prime movies. Still, reviewers, for the most part, have been kind – one critic called the device "perhaps the best, tightest integration of digital content acquisition into a mobile device that we've yet seen."
And in a statement, Dave Limp, an Amazon executive in charge of the Kindle line, announced that the Fire is already a hit. "Based on customer response," Limp wrote in a press release, "we're building millions more than we'd planned." But several questions remain, chief among them whether the Fire, which straddles the line between tablet and e-reader, can rack up sales in the long run.
Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester, offered a qualified yes. "Amazon has all the pieces in place to ensure a successful launch for the Fire," she told CNN, adding that Amazon will likely sell between 3 and 5 million Fire units before the end of the year. For context, consider the following facts: Apple has sold 28 million iPad tablets since the device first hit shelves, in 2010. (In the last quarter alone, Apple unloaded 9.3 million iPads.)
The Barnes and Noble Nook, on the other hand – possibly a more analogous example – launched in the fall of 2009, and racked up sales of 1.43 units in the first quarter of 2010. Rotman Epps has Amazon doubling or even tripling that figure in its first few months on the market. To Rotman Epps, the appeal of the Fire is the appeal of Amazon itself – an easily-accessible platform, used by a large cross-section of consumers.
"Amazon as a company appeals to a wider, more diverse customer base," she said. "Our studies show a lot of iPad owners live within driving distance of Apple stores – meaning they're concentrated on the coast. This could be a red state/blue state thing." Quick translation: Apple is for the coastal elites, the (millions of) high-tech bauble collectors, and Amazon is for everyone.
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"In contrast to other real-time add-ons to Linux, the MontaVista real-time solution does not introduce a second kernel underneath Linux, nor does it attempt to substitute so-called "Linux-compatible" real-time operating system (RTOS) components for Linux itself. Rather, the MontaVista real-time scheduler is integrated into the standard Linux kernel, fully realizing the already-present "real-time" scheduling policies, but with enforced hard prioritization. The benefit to embedded Linux applications is twofold. First, applications with real-time requirements behave more predictably and reliably. Second, developers can still leverage the standard Linux APIs and memory-protected programming models, resulting in shorter development cycles, better code reuse and high reliability."
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Vitor "The Phenom" Belfort has been on a tear in the UFC lately. He is 9-2 in his last 11 fights, with notable wins over two top middleweight fighters in Luke Rockhold and Michael Bisping. His only two losses were to Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones and then Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. With a win over Dan Henderson this fall in Brazil, Belfort might be next in line for another title shot after Silva has his rematch with Chris Weidman. Belfort always delivers exciting fights for fans. He likes to stand up and fight, and has delivered brutal head kicks in his last two matches. The catch is, however, that he has beaten them both in his native Brazil, where drug testing may not be as trustworthy as in the United States.
Why am I bringing up drug use? It is because Belfort is now 36 years old; He has fought for the UFC since 1997. He is beating guys much younger than him, and he looks ridiculously ripped. He had also failed a drug test back in 2006. I am not denying that he trains for these fights, but his physique looks unnatural for a guy that old.
Just before his fight against Bisping, Belfort was asked if he ever used testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), or ever considered it. Belfort gave a vague answer. The UFC was first to confirm he was given therapeutic-use exemption (TUE) in both the Bisping and Rockhold fights; Belfort had an opportunity to disclose it, yet he failed to do so. Even after the Rockhold fight, he was not open to talk about it. Only after tremendous media pressure did he finally admit he uses TRT.
What is TRT? Good question. TRT is used to treat low testosterone levels, which is caused by primary and secondary hypogonadism. Primary hypogonadism refers to any issue which causes the testicles (gonads) to reproduce less than normal amounts of testosterone for the person to function normally. Secondary hypogonadism refers to low testosterone production in which testicles are not the primary factor. Some causes of the primary version include trauma (hits to the nuts), steroid abuse, aging and genetic disorders. Some causes of the secondary kind include trauma (hits to back of the head), rapid weight loss, certain medications, surgery and infections.
Three causes that may make mixed martial artists more susceptible to hypogonadism are rapid weight cuts, medication and head trauma. MMA fighters regularly do extreme dieting and weight cutting, often without medical supervision. They are also often injured and in pain, so the common painkiller of choice is opiate-based. Finally, accidental blows to the head, head injury from a takedown, knockdown or during training sessions can all lead to damage to the pituitary gland.
Belfort explains his failure to open up about it was an embarrassment. He shares a story about how as a child he was treated medically for attention deficit disorder (ADD), and his family taught him not to reveal that he was different from other children; TRT use is the same thing for his low testosterone output. He admits he tests himself. He did seven blood tests in the weeks prior to his Rockhold bout, and that in both fights with Bisping and Rockhold his testosterone levels were deemed acceptable by the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission.
It is one thing to say it in Brazil compared to in the U.S., where drug testing is more stringent. When Chael Sonnen first fought against Silva and nearly unseated the champion, post-blood tests revealed his testosterone levels were higher than normal. I am glad Belfort finally admitted to using TRT; it would have reduced some of his legitimacy to another title shot if he was the first to reveal it rather than the UFC. I still believe if he does get a title shot, it has to be in the U.S.
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The most important spelling words for an allergic kid
We showed up at a birthday party to see bowls of peanuts among the snacks. It freaked Big Guy out, but I've been trying to teach him to avoid rather than freak out. "They're only on one table," I said. "Just stay away from that table."
It's not quite that simple for him, because he's contact allergic to peanut and would have broken out if a friend had touched a peanut and then touched him. Luckily, chips and mountains of yummy fruit lured the kids away from the peanuts.
Next, the pizza man came. To make it even worse it was the pizza man from the one place in town that will accommodate us cheerfully, except I hadn't thought to ask if there would be pizza at a 3 p.m. party. Big Guy was forced to look on as his friends munched. I think the hostess was more upset than he was. Bad, bad Mommy.
At least I had remembered to bring his egg-free cupcakes. I had not, however, remembered to bring enough for him to share with friends for whom the appeal of sprinkles trumps the attraction of birthday cake. Bad, bad Mommy.
Next came the goody bags, and a lifetime of allergic living has taught Big Guy that he doesn't get to dive in until an adult has examined the candy. Based on the pinata candy earlier, I figured most of it would be safe. Dye-laden but allergy safe, and I've started letting dye slide at parties.
As I drove, he sorted through the haul. He paused when he came to a chocolate bar. "Eat some of the others, then I'll read the label when we get home," I said.
"How do you spell 'egg' and 'peanut'?" he asked. "I'll look for it."
He couldn't find the ingredients in the tiny print so he had to wait anyway. It gave me an idea, though.
When we got home, I wrote "egg" and "peanut" on the guys' Dry-Erase board. I could have added "garlic" and "spices," but I figured that learning those first two would help him with the sweet items most kids are usually most concerned about at parties.
He kept glancing at the words the rest of the evening, and this morning declared that he now knew how to spell "egg." I'm sure he'd cheated a glance at the board before making his proclamation, but it's a start.
It still will be a few years before he's able to make it through the long list of gibberish that is ingredient labels to find all his allergens. But if he can learn to look for "egg" and "peanut" at the end, he'll have taken a huge step toward being able to help himself.
Meanwhile, we're going to a rock show today. I'm hoping there aren't any peanut fossils.
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Cycle 490km through beautiful Zambia to a spectacular finish line at Victoria Falls.
Landlocked in Southern Africa, Zambia is defined by its rivers, lakes and of course, its waterfalls - most famous of which is the 2km wide and 1,003km deep Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world, and aptly known by locals as 'The Smoke that Thunders'.
Enormous lakes, rich wetlands and breath-taking African sunsets all contribute to the country's scenic splendour. In addition to its natural wonders, Zambia offers a taste of its diverse tribal and cultural heritage through its craftwork, music, dance & traditional ceremonies.
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ProMax Releases SATAMAXe Storage SystemsMost cost-efficient and fastest storage systems in the market today (September 23, 2004)
ProMax Systems, Inc., a leading digital video solutions provider to the broadcast television, digital content creation and Internet media markets, recently unveiled it's new cost-effective external serial ATA (SATA) storage solutions for Macintosh and Windows computers, the SATAMAXe-XL and SATAMAXe-HD.
The SATAMAXe-XL is one of the most cost-efficient (as low as $3.39 per GB) and fastest storage systems in the market today. Designed with content creators in mind, these systems are capable of handling up to 5 streams of real-time, 8-bit Standard Definition playback* and also free up the FireWire port to allow solutions such as the AJA Io, LA, and LD full access to the necessary bandwidth.
Combining the latest hard drive and host bus chip technology, the new SATAMAXe-XL system includes 3 or 5 removable drives that can be striped as RAID-XL to serve DV, DVCAM and Standard Definition uncompressed video. The benefit of the XL RAID is the parity protection it provides data�if a drive fails, the data remains intact.
The SATAMAXe-HD is ProMaxs most economical High Definition storage solution yet. It brings RAID Level 0 performance with 3 hours of 10 bit uncompressed High Definition video for under $3,300. This 1.8 TB of usable storage allows its user to fill drives to just under maximum capacity and still obtain performance to continue output.
Both the SATAMAXe-XL and SATAMAXe-HD are available now.
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3 Drive Model (RAID XL) - 500 GB = $1695
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250GB SATA drive modules = $299
400GB SATA drive modules = $599
Suggested Retail Pricing for SATAMAXe-HD:
8 Drive Model (RAID 0) - 2.0TB = $3295
8 Drive Model (RAID 0) - 3.2TB = $5595
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ProMax Systems, Inc. has focused on video editing sales since 1994 and is a leader in the digital video industry.
The company is known for its custom-configured, turn-key digital video editing systems in Standard Definition, High Definition and Compositing configurations and video-centric storage area networks (V-SANS). The company also sells hardware, software and peripherals individually and has created equipment under its own label (including ProMedia Converter, External SATA Storage, FireWire Drives and CD/DVD Duplicators and TurboMAX). The companys camera support solutions, SteadyTracker UltraLite & Extreme and CobraCrane, have earned high praise throughout the digital video production community.
ProMax is an authorized reseller of digital video editing software and hardware, representing various manufacturers including ADTX, AJA, Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Bluefish444, Boris, Canon, Canopus, Huge, Intel, JVC, Kona, Matrox, Maya, Medea, Panasonic, Pinnacle, SmartSound, Sony and others.
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~ Thucyidides
Is this what we see happening in North Africa and the Middle East right now?
A parenting coach and a children's book author discuss raising their kids to have courage for the challenges on the path ahead
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"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." —Leonardo da Vinci
"Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on."— La Rochefoucauld
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their mind to be good or evil." — Hannah Arendt
Courage is an antidote to the fear bred in our society. Without courage, even tasks that require minimal effort can become difficult and seem insurmountable.The difference between the diminished individual, wistfully yearning toward full humanness but never quite daring to make it, versus the unleashed individual, growing well toward his or her destiny, is simply the difference between fear and courage.~Abraham Maslow
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."— Marie Curie
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."— John Kenneth Galbraith
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read."— Japanese proverb
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
— Andre Gide
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." —Winston Churchill"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you worried about falling off the bike you'd never get on." Lance Armstrong
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.~Mary Anne Radmacher


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As a former Lettermen, all of you share in the success of Jesuit Athletics. Is it our purpose, as members of the Lettermen's Club, to promote the welfare of all jesuit athletic programs. The Lettermen's Club places special emphasis on the recognition of former outstanding athletes at Blue & Gold, the Annual Sports Hall of Fame Banquet, and rewards current athletes with block 'J' letters.
We would like to thank all members for their support and contributions. All members are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Lettermen's Club by volunteering to serve on the board, by nominating an outstanding athlete for the Hall of Fame, and by attending the Jesuit Sports Hall of Fame celebration in May. The Hall of Fame nomination Form can be found here, along with a complete list of Hall of Fame inductees, and special awards.
We look forward to serving Jesuit athletics and Alumni. Thank you for your continued support.
- Jesuit Alumni Lettermen's Club
As men who benefitted from participation in Jesuit athletics, members of the Jesuit Alumni Lettermen's Club work to support Jesuit athletes today and for generations to come. Through the Sports Hall of Fame, we honor the athletic achievements and accomplishments of Jesuit alumni. The Blue & Gold banquet provides an opportunity to celebrate both Sports Hall of Fame inductees and current student athletes. Through ongoing sponsorship and service, the Club supports the future of Jesuit athletics.
The Alumni Lettermen's Club was founded in 1999. The founders were Mike Bulger '60, Ray Bulger '67 and John Boykin'53.
The Lettermen's Club focus is on tradition, camaraderie and support of the athletic programs of Jesuit.
The by-laws of the Letterman's Club were, in part, patterned after the Monogram Club of Notre Dame and the Mustang Club of SMU.
The Lettermen's Club took the responsibility of managing and promoting the Sports Hall of Fame. Committees were established for the induction process and the annual banquet. The yearly banquet has become a tradition and a first class event.
In addition, scholarship funds have been raised and contributed to scholarships named after coaches and athletes. These funds support students at Jesuit with demonstrated financial need.
Proceeds from the Blue & Gold banquet are also presented annually to the Athletic Department at Jesuit.
In addition to the selection of inductees into the Sports Hall of Fame, the Club selects a Gold Ranger honoree each year. The Gold Ranger must be a letterman who is or has been a member of the Lettermen's Club and who has brought honor to Jesuit. The Lettermen's Club also makes annual awards to the Athlete of the Year and the Coach of the year. Periodically a Distinguished Service Award is given to a person or group who has made a significant contribution to the Lettermen's Club or the Athletic Program at Jesuit.
The Lettermen's Club Executive board meets three times per year and on an as-needed basis for support of sponsored events. The annual celebration of the Jesuit Sports Hall of Fame is held in May.
Sean McMullen '96 - ChairBill Murphy '63Jimmy Archie '93Matthew O'Shea '01Dan Nolan '87Rob Wills '99Spencer Claire '07 - Alumni Intramurals
Past President - Ted Tobolka '78Director of Alumni Relations - Sean McMullen '96
Jimmy Archie '93 - ChairBob Wunderlick '84Rob Finnegan '81David Adamson '82Mike Sheaner '75Tim Trevino '88Matt O'Shea '01Bill Murphy '63Mike Cleary '95
Upon receiving the block letter 'J' for lettering in a sport sanctioned by Jesuit College Preparatory School, you officially gain membership into the Jesuit Alumni Lettermen's Club.
While there is no formal registration process for becoming a member of the Lettermen's Club, all of our Alumni are encouraged to register with the Alumni office if you have not done so already.
All members are encouraged to volunteer and participate in the number of events sponsored by the Lettermen's Club. For more information on how to become involved, contact the President of the Lettermen's Club, Ted Tobolka, or the Director of Alumni Relations, Sean McMullen '96.
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|David W. Dykstal, Edward A. Fishel, Michael A. Temple, Devon D. Snyder, George D. Timms, Jr., Samuel R. Shi
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|International Business Machines Corporation
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|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (50), Classifications (12), Legal Events (4)
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This invention relates to describing, retrieving, modifying, handling and presenting information for plurality of programs to a display device, and specifically to a screen management system which frees the individual application programmers from the routine programming associated with screens and help messages related thereto.
In the development of a new computing system, many programming tasks, particularly those associated with application programs, must proceed in parallel. At the time of announcement of a new computing system, it is essential that sufficient application programs be available to satisfy customer needs. Potential customers would be unwilling to purchase a new system that, in effect, they are unable to use because of the lack of application programs. It is therefore necessary to develop a variety of application programs at the same time the computing system is under development. Traditionally, application programs for a new system are written by the same programming groups who wrote the previous programs of the same type. This means that each of the application programs for a given system are written by different groups. In the past, this has led to each of the application programs having a different "look" in that the screens have different formats, use different colors for particular classes of information, place the command lines and messages in different locations and generally present a different appearance to the operator. Furthermore, the traditional approach of duplicating display functions in each application program has led to inefficiencies and complexities outside of the display itself. For example, data used by more than one program may be stored by each of the using programs. This occupies additional storage space and requires that each location be updated when a change is made.
The lack of screen uniformity among application software programs developed for a new computing system presents problems in testing the programs. Since each application program has its own code for presenting the information to the display device, this code must be tested for each program, even though its purpose and function is largely redundant. Further, the help messages generated in response to an operator request for assistance with respect to specific fields, etc., must be individually written and tested for each application program.
The difficulties with development and testing are but a part of the problem. The problem is well known even to those who use personal computers for nothing more than hobby or home use. Such systems typically use a variety of application programs from different software sources. When a switch is made from one program to another, the screen format also changes. But the problem may also exist with programs supplied by the same vendor because of the difficulties in simultaneously developing the application programs.
The lack of uniformity in screens is more than just an inconvenience. The situation leads to lower operator productivity, higher error rates, discontented computer operators, and ultimately, to a dissatisfied computer customer.
The prior art has been more concerned with the problems relating to accommodation of different display devices on the same system than the lack of uniformity of screens between application programs. The prior art has also addressed the problems which arise when new displays are added to an old system.
Exemplary of the prior art is U.S. Pat. No. 4,586,158 which describes a mapping service which effects the interface between the application program and the physical presentation of the information on the display screen. Simply stated, the program logic of the mapping service transforms the data represented in the format of the application program into another format based on a specified set of rules. There is no suggestion as to how displayed data common to more than one application program could be shared. This system operates to change the stored data in accordance with a set of predetermined rules, and there is no suggestion as to how the data can be specified so as to be uniformly usable by all the display devices and screens without the need for reformatting.
A primary object of this invention is to provide a common interface between data shared by a plurality of application programs and a system display.
Another object of the invention is to provide a display-application program interface in which the elements which make up a display, i.e., objects, are specified in generic fashion to allow their use by a plurality of displays and application programs.
It is another object of this invention to provide a display-application program interface which accommodates the use of operator help messages common to more than one application program and display.
Still another object of this invention is to provide a display-application program interface in which the specification of the objects in a given panel provides the basis for the selection of appropriate operator help messages.
These and other objects, features and advantages are realized by an application program-display interface which utilizes tags to reference all objects, which, for example, may be a panel, i.e., a panel title, a single screen of data, instruction lines, data entry areas, menu areas or command lines. Each tag includes a tag name and one or more attributes.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of the operation of the invention.
FIG. 2 is an example of a sample list screen developed with this invention.
FIGS. 3a-3d are block diagram representations of the programming aspects of this invention.
A screen oriented, high level language is used to define and manage a display screen as shown in FIG. 1. In a data processing system which utilizes a number of application programs, the system programmer will define the screens for a given application program using the high level language as depicted in block This program is then compiled by the compiler 2 which creates the panel group objects 3. The application program 4 interacts with the panel group objects by means of the panel application execution support 5, which accesses the variable pool 6 and interfaces with the device support 7. The display device 8 is operated under the control of device support 7.
"Objects", which are the items placed on the display screen, are designated by means of tags. Each tag may have attributes which further define the nature of the object. Objects which need to be referenced either in the source or at run time by an application program, possess a name attribute. Many objects will also have associated text which immediately follows the tag.
The syntax of a tag follows the format: ##STR1##
Text associated with the object.
The fundamental object in the language is the "panel" described by the "panel" tag. Each panel consists of its text, which is a title, followed by the tagged descriptions of the objects, which make up the particular panel. Such objects include instruction lines, data entry areas, menu areas and command lines. These object may, in turn, be made up of other objects, all described with the same syntax.
Panel definitions are grouped together in the source file to form a "panel group". All panels in a group are capable of sharing definitions of other named objects defined in the panel group. All objects which can be shared among several panels, such as function key lists, are used by specifying their names on the appropriate attributes of the panel tag as shown in the following illustration. ##STR2##
In addition to panels, other objects are declared in the panel group. These facilitate the definition of panels by providing an encapsulation of some sort of shared characteristic.
"Classes" are used to define a set of common attributes for the data to be displayed on a panel or used for control purposes. They provide a very simple means of data abstraction that can be applied to this data. Characteristics include:
The base type of the values, i.e., packed, binary, etc.
Shift characteristics for input fields for variables of this class.
Number of character positions a value of this class should occupy on a display.
Translation to/from internal value from/to display value.
Checking of values entered on the display to meet certain criteria, i.e., range or specific value checks.
"Variables" define the actual data used by an application in this panel group. Variables are given a name and reference a class. All variables declared in this panel group are collected into a data structure called a "variable pool", manipulated by the application program.
"Conditions" are objects which influence the inclusion of other objects when that panel is displayed. A condition is specified in a "minilanguage" attribute of the condition tag. That condition is then evaluated during application program execution to control the inclusion of panel elements.
"List Objects" provide an object which consists of rows of like columns of data. An application execution interface allows the contents of a particular row to be exchanged with a set of variables from the variable pool. A "List Area" is an object found in the panel which provides the viewing characteristics of this underlying data object. "Truth Tables" are objects which control the mutual exclusion of conditional items in a panel object. Application program developers use truth tables to provide information to the compile time formatter concerning which of the panel elements are never coexistent on the same panel.
"Key Lists" can be shared among panel objects to define actions which take place on that panel when keys, in particular, function keys, are pressed.
"Panels" at the object that maps to the actual display surface. Panels use, either directly or indirectly, all of the above objects.
The following is an outline for the source describing a set of interactive panels:
______________________________________Panel Group (:PNLGRP)______________________________________prolog sectionclass definitions (:CLASS)variable definitions (:VAR)list definitions (:LISTDEF)condition definitions (:COND)truth table definitions (:TT)key mapping list definitions (:KEYL)body sectionpanel definitions (:PANEL)area definitions (:MENU,:INFO,:DATA.:LIST)command/option line (:CMDLINE,:OPTLINE)definitionhelp module definitions (:HELP)ISIL tagged test______________________________________
FIG. 2 shows a sample list panel. The first step in implementing this panel is to define the screen using the tag language. The following tag source produces the desired screen.
The first step in implementing the panel of FIG. 2 is to define the screen using the following tag source producing the desired screen.
The following describes skeleton help text necessary to support the panel of FIG. 2. It would be stored in a panel group names ElHLPGRP. The help could also be stored in the same panel group object, manufactured supplied help should normally be stored in separate panel group objects so it can be loaded onto the system or not at the user's option.
With reference to the programming data flow charge of FIGS. 3a-3d, which show the sequence of functional operations effected by the program instructions, operation of the program begins block 500 when the application program opens the panel group. The application program has to be told which set of panels is going to be used, in other words, a name is given to the panel group to be handled. The application then goes into the main loop via block 501, where it sets the value of the variables in the variable pool. The variables are a set of values that are identified by their names and they can hold values which are data that the application can use. The values are set by referring to data in the application program and copying this data into the variable pool.
The display panel service of block 503 is that which actually performs the display of the panel. The following decision block 505 is actually in the display manager itself. The function of this block is to validate the request and make certain that the panel requested is the panel group.
In block 503 the application retrieves values that the user has altered on the display and does this by accessing the variable pool again and pulling these values out. This process is repeated by the decision made in block 504, which returns the program to block 501, until all variables have been retrieved.
When the application is complete, the decision in block 504 passes the program to block 506, where the application closes the panel group.
The display leg of the program begins with block 510, in which the conditions being used on the panel are checked. This step gathers up the conditions which are to be evaluated for the panel under consideration. Each panel has a distinct set of conditions. The panel language has a separate language inside of it for defining conditions that can be used to exclude or include elements onto a panel for display. Examples include function key definitions, which may be excluded from the screen, and thereby hold the function key in the inoperative state. The help text relating to the excluded function key is also blocked from display. Thus, when an object has been excluded, there is no remnant of that object.
In block 511, the conditions are evaluated, referencing the values that are in the variable field as well as system objects. An example of the latter category would be an item on the main menu of the system. It might be desirable to exclude certain menu items if the user does not belong to a class which, for example, is allowed to write into a particular field.
In block 512 the actual elements to be displayed are examined, and, in block 513, the decision is made as to whether the object is to be displayed. Each object may be conditioned or not. If it is not conditioned, it is displayed. If it is conditioned, the value of the condition is checked and, if it is true, the object is included for display.
Objects are assigned their appropriate positions on the display in block 514. The tentative position is assigned at compile time. The final position is subject to verification in this block.
Appropriate attributes are assigned to each object in the operation of block 515. Highlights, color and things of that nature are mapped to the display in accordance with the type of object, such as an instruction line.
The decision in 516 relates to determination of whether a variable value is involved for the particular object under consideration. Some objects, such as menu items, do not have a variable value and therefore do not require anything to be retrieved. Other objects, for example, data items, have displayed values which are given through the variable pool, necessitating an access to the pool, as shown in block 517, to retrieve the object for display. Any required conversion is also performed in this block. For example, a value may be stored in binary form and must be converted to decimal for display.
After this process has been completed for all objects on the display, as determined by block 518, a data stream is constructed from the developed list of objects and positions as shown in block 519. If all objects have not been considered, the program loops back from block 518 to the input of block 512, considering all objects in turn.
Therefore, at point A there has been established a new data structure which is essentially a list of all objects to be displayed with their attributes. The data stream is sent out to the display device in block 520. The data stream is interpreted and presented to the user by the display device. At block 521, the user views the screen, fills in the appropriate information and presses a function key to send the entered data, in the form of a data stream, back to the system, at block 522.
The data stream, as before, consists of locations and values. The operation at block 523 requires an examination of the function key pressed in block 521. If the function key related to a variable which is to be updated, the test at block 523 leads to block 524, which correlates the screen location with a particular object. Having identified the object involved, the object is examined in block 525 to see which of the variables in the variable pool is involved. The variable class is then checked to block 526 to see if there is any validity checking involved for the particular variable under consideration. If checking is involved, block 527 is entered and the appropriate checks are performed.
Block 528 operates in the result of the check. If the check failed, the process passes to block 529 where the entered value is tagged as an error. The data tagged as an error is then reshown on the display, block 530, and the work station user is given the opportunity, in block 531, to reenter the data correctly. Since the user may have made another error, the program returns to block 522 and the checking process is repeated to ensure that the new data is correct.
When the entered data passes the validity check, the operation of block 532 causes the variable value to be updated and the program loops back to the test in block 523 to see if all the variables have been updated. Eventually, the variable updating process is completed and the test in block 523 indicates that there are no remaining variables to be considered. The program then proceeds to block 540, where the function keys are examined to determine what dialog action is to take place. This is accomplished by mapping the function keys to the appropriate dialog action.
If the dialog action implies a return to the application, the test in block 541 passes to block 542 which effects the return to the application as shown. If other dialog action is indicated, the test performed in block 543 is performed to see if the dialog action is help. If the help action is requested, the block 544 begins the determination of what help was requested by determining the cursor position and correlating it to a specific object. Next, the display object identified in block 544 is tested to see what sort of object it is. The test in block 545 determines whether or not the object being evaluated was a command line.
If this test indicates that the object under consideration is a command line, the test in block 546 determines whether or not a command has been entered. If there is an entered command, block 547 serves to invoke run time support and display the help message for the specific command. If no command has been entered, the test of block 548 determines whether the command line had a menu option. If so, the block 549 selects the menu item as the object for the purposes of determining which help message should be displayed.
If the selected object is not a command line, as determined in block 545, or is not a command line with a menu option, as determined by block 548, the action in block 550 serves to display help for the selected object.
At block 560, a help list is constructed corresponding to all the objects on the panel, excluding those objects which were conditioned out. The first and last items on the list for which help is to be displayed first are so marked. In the usual case, this will be a single item corresponding to the selected object.
In block 561, the help application is invoked to display the help panels which are needed to get the help panel for the particular user panel. If, at this point, the user presses a function key requesting extended help, block 562 transfers operation to block 563 which presents extended help to the user. This will generally be all the help messages relating to all the objects identified. The user than takes appropriate action, for example, indicates that the use of the help message has been completed, as depicted in block 564, and the program returns to point A.
Returning now to block 543, if the test indicates that the dialog action is not help, block 570 tests to see if the dialog action was something which can be handled directly by the display manager, such as rollup, rolldown, or change view. If it is, runtime support performs the function and the program returns to point B as shown in block 571.
If the test in block 570 indicates that it is not a dialog action which can be handled directly by the display manager, block 580 looks to see if it is a command request. If it is, the request is submitted to the system in block 581 and the program returns to point A. If it is not, block 582 is entered and either a return to the application occurs or the panel is reshown, depending on how the user coded the panel to handle a null situation.
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