30 September.--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave us a cup of tea, and I can honestly say that, for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home. When we had finished, Mrs. Harker said,
"Dr. Seward, may I ask a favour? I want to see your patient, Mr. Renfield. Do let me see him. What you have said of him in your diary interests me so much!"
She looked so appealing and so pretty that I could not refuse her, and there was no possible reason why I should, so I took her with me. When I went into the room, I told the man that a lady would like to see him, to which he simply answered, "Why?"
"She is going through the house, and wants to see every one in it," I answered.
"Oh, very well," he said, "let her come in, by all means, but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place."
His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. When he had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully, "Let the lady come in," and sat down on the edge of his bed with his head down, but with his eyelids raised so that he could see her as she entered. For a moment I thought that he might have some homicidal intent. I remembered how quiet he had been just before he attacked me in my own study, and I took care to stand where I could seize him at once if he attempted to make a spring at her.
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect. She walked over to him, smiling pleasantly, and held out her hand.
"Good evening, Mr. Renfield," said she. "You see, I know you, for Dr. Seward has told me of you." He made no immediate reply, but eyed her all over intently with a set frown on his face. This look gave way to one of wonder, which merged in doubt, then to my intense astonishment he said, "You're not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You can't be, you know, for she's dead."
Mrs. Harker smiled sweetly as she replied, "Oh no! I have a husband of my own, to whom I was married before I ever saw Dr. Seward, or he me. I am Mrs. Harker."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"My husband and I are staying on a visit with Dr. Seward."
"Then don't stay."
"But why not?"
I thought that this style of conversation might not be pleasant to Mrs. Harker, any more than it was to me, so I joined in, "How did you know I wanted to marry anyone?"
His reply was simply contemptuous, given in a pause in which he turned his eyes from Mrs. Harker to me, instantly turning them back again, "What an asinine question!"
"I don't see that at all, Mr. Renfield," said Mrs. Harker, at once championing me.
He replied to her with as much courtesy and respect as he had shown contempt to me, "You will, of course, understand, Mrs. Harker, that when a man is so loved and honoured as our host is, everything regarding him is of interest in our little community. Dr. Seward is loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and effects. Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche."
I positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own pet lunatic, the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with, talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman. I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker's presence which had touched some chord in his memory. If this new phase was spontaneous, or in any way due to her unconscious influence, she must have some rare gift or power.
We continued to talk for some time, and seeing that he was seemingly quite reasonable, she ventured, looking at me questioningly as she began, to lead him to his favourite topic. I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest sanity. He even took himself as an example when he mentioned certain things.
"Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief. Indeed, it was no wonder that my friends were alarmed, and insisted on my being put under control. I used to fancy that life was a positive and perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong life. At times I held the belief so strongly that I actually tried to take human life. The doctor here will bear me out that on one occasion I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood, relying of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, 'For the blood is the life.' Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt. Isn't that true, doctor?"
I nodded assent, for I was so amazed that I hardly knew what to either think or say, it was hard to imagine that I had seen him eat up his spiders and flies not five minutes before. Looking at my watch, I saw that I should go to the station to meet Van Helsing, so I told Mrs. Harker that it was time to leave.
She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr. Renfield, "Goodbye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself."
To which, to my astonishment, he replied, "Goodbye, my dear.  May He bless and keep you!"
When I went to the station to meet Van Helsing I left the boys behind me. Poor Art seemed more cheerful than he has been since Lucy first took ill, and Quincey is more like his own bright self than he has been for many a long day.
Van Helsing stepped from the carriage with the eager nimbleness of a boy. He saw me at once, and rushed up to me, saying, "Ah, friend John, how goes all? Well? So! I have been busy, for I come here to stay if need be. All affairs are settled with me, and I have much to tell. Madam Mina is with you? Yes. And her so fine husband?  Good!"
As I drove to the house I told him of what had passed, and of how my own diary had come to be of some use through Mrs. Harker's suggestion, at which the Professor interrupted me.
"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination. Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of help to us, after tonight she must not have to do with this so terrible affair. It is not good that she run a risk so great. We men are determined, nay, are we not pledged, to destroy this monster? But it is no part for a woman. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors and hereafter she may suffer, both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. And, besides, she is young woman and not so long married, there may be other things to think of some time, if not now. You tell me she has wrote all, then she must consult with us, but tomorrow she say goodbye to this work, and we go alone."
I agreed heartily with him, and then I told him what we had found in his absence, that the house which Dracula had bought was the very next one to my own. He was amazed, and a great concern seemed to come on him.
"Oh that we had known it before!" he said, "for then we might have reached him in time to save poor Lucy. However, 'the milk that is spilt cries not out afterwards,' as you say. We shall not think of that, but go on our way to the end." Then he fell into a silence that lasted till we entered my own gateway. Before we went to prepare for dinner he said to Mrs. Harker, "I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have put up in exact order all things that have been, up to this moment."
"Not up to this moment, Professor," she said impulsively, "but up to this morning."
"But why not up to now? We have seen hitherto how good light all the little things have made. We have told our secrets, and yet no one who has told is the worse for it."
Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from her pockets, she said, "Dr. Van Helsing, will you read this, and tell me if it must go in. It is my record of today. I too have seen the need of putting down at present everything, however trivial, but there is little in this except what is personal. Must it go in?"
The Professor read it over gravely, and handed it back, saying, "It need not go in if you do not wish it, but I pray that it may. It can but make your husband love you the more, and all us, your friends, more honour you, as well as more esteem and love." She took it back with another blush and a bright smile.
And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have are complete and in order. The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner, and before our meeting, which is fixed for nine o'clock. The rest of us have already read everything, so when we meet in the study we shall all be informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with this terrible and mysterious enemy.
MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
30 September.--When we met in Dr. Seward's study two hours after dinner, which had been at six o'clock, we unconsciously formed a sort of board or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table, to which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room. He made me sit next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary. Jonathan sat next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris, Lord Godalming being next the Professor, and Dr. Seward in the centre.
The Professor said, "I may, I suppose, take it that we are all acquainted with the facts that are in these papers." We all expressed assent, and he went on, "Then it were, I think, good that I tell you something of the kind of enemy with which we have to deal. I shall then make known to you something of the history of this man, which has been ascertained for me. So we then can discuss how we shall act, and can take our measure according.
"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. I admit that at the first I was sceptic. Were it not that through long years I have trained myself to keep an open mind, I could not have believed until such time as that fact thunder on my ear. 'See! See! I prove, I prove.' Alas! Had I known at first what now I know, nay, had I even guess at him, one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her. But that is gone, and we must so work, that other poor souls perish not, whilst we can save. The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger, and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil. This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown. How then are we to begin our strike to destroy him? How shall we find his where, and having found it, how can we destroy? My friends, this is much, it is a terrible task that we undertake, and there may be consequence to make the brave shudder. For if we fail in this our fight he must surely win, and then where end we? Life is nothings, I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him, that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. To us forever are the gates of heaven shut, for who shall open them to us again? We go on for all time abhorred by all, a blot on the face of God's sunshine, an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. But we are face to face with duty, and in such case must we shrink? For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?"
Whilst he was speaking, Jonathan had taken my hand. I feared, oh so much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I saw his hand stretch out, but it was life to me to feel its touch, so strong, so self reliant, so resolute. A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes, and I in his, there was no need for speaking between us.
"I answer for Mina and myself," he said.
"Count me in, Professor," said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual.
"I am with you," said Lord Godalming, "for Lucy's sake, if for no other reason."
Dr. Seward simply nodded.
The Professor stood up and, after laying his golden crucifix on the table, held out his hand on either side. I took his right hand, and Lord Godalming his left, Jonathan held my right with his left and stretched across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our solemn compact was made. I felt my heart icy cold, but it did not even occur to me to draw back. We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing went on with a sort of cheerfulness which showed that the serious work had begun. It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way, as any other transaction of life.
"Well, you know what we have to contend against, but we too, are not without strength. We have on our side power of combination, a power denied to the vampire kind, we have sources of science, we are free to act and think, and the hours of the day and the night are ours equally. In fact, so far as our powers extend, they are unfettered, and we are free to use them. We have self devotion in a cause and an end to achieve which is not a selfish one. These things are much.
"Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are restrict, and how the individual cannot. In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular.
"All we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions. These do not at the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and death, nay of more than either life or death. Yet must we be satisfied, in the first place because we have to be, no other means is at our control, and secondly, because, after all these things, tradition and superstition, are everything. Does not the belief in vampires rest for others, though not, alas! for us, on them? A year ago which of us would have received such a possibility, in the midst of our scientific, sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We even scouted a belief that we saw justified under our very eyes. Take it, then, that the vampire, and the belief in his limitations and his cure, rest for the moment on the same base. For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been. In old Greece, in old Rome, he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chermosese, and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples for him at this day. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.
"So far, then, we have all we may act upon, and let me tell you that very much of the beliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own so unhappy experience. The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time, he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living. Even more, we have seen amongst us that he can even grow younger, that his vital faculties grow strenuous, and seem as though they refresh themselves when his special pabulum is plenty.
"But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others. Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him eat, never! He throws no shadow, he make in the mirror no reflect, as again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand, witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolves, and when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog, he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy.
"He can come in mist which he create, that noble ship's captain proved him of this, but, from what we know, the distance he can make this mist is limited, and it can only be round himself.
"He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust, as again Jonathan saw those sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small, we ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door. He can, when once he find his way, come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with fire, solder you call it. He can see in the dark, no small power this, in a world which is one half shut from the light. Ah, but hear me through.
"He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.
"Only at certain times can he have limited freedom. If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset. These things we are told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference. Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time come. It is said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide. Then there are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic that we know of, and as for things sacred, as this symbol, my crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and silent with respect. There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest in our seeking we may need them.
"The branch of wild rose on his coffin keep him that he move not from it, a sacred bullet fired into the coffin kill him so that he be true dead, and as for the stake through him, we know already of its peace, or the cut off head that giveth rest. We have seen it with our eyes.
"Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know. But he is clever. I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to make his record, and from all the means that are, he tell me of what he has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkeyland. If it be so, then was he no common man, for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land beyond the forest.' That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as 'stregoica' witch, 'ordog' and 'pokol' Satan and hell, and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too well. There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell. For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good, in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest."
Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the window, and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room. There was a little pause, and then the Professor went on.
"And now we must settle what we do. We have here much data, and we must proceed to lay out our campaign. We know from the inquiry of Jonathan that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all of which were delivered at Carfax, we also know that at least some of these boxes have been removed. It seems to me, that our first step should be to ascertain whether all the rest remain in the house beyond that wall where we look today, or whether any more have been removed. If the latter, we must trace…"
Here we were interrupted in a very startling way. Outside the house came the sound of a pistol shot, the glass of the window was shattered with a bullet, which ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the far wall of the room. I am afraid I am at heart a coward, for I shrieked out. The men all jumped to their feet, Lord Godalming flew over to the window and threw up the sash. As he did so we heard Mr. Morris' voice without, "Sorry! I fear I have alarmed you. I shall come in and tell you about it."
A minute later he came in and said, "It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. Harker, most sincerely, I fear I must have frightened you terribly. But the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat and sat on the window sill. I have got such a horror of the damned brutes from recent events that I cannot stand them, and I went out to have a shot, as I have been doing of late of evenings, whenever I have seen one.
"Did you hit it?" asked Dr. Van Helsing.
"I don't know, I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood." Without saying any more he took his seat, and the Professor began to resume his statement.
"We must trace each of these boxes, and when we are ready, we must either capture or kill this monster in his lair, or we must, so to speak, sterilize the earth, so that no more he can seek safety in it. Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak.
"And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well.  When we part tonight, you no more must question. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear, but you must be our star and our hope, and we shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger, such as we are."
All the men, even Jonathan, seemed relieved, but it did not seem to me good that they should brave danger and, perhaps lessen their safety, strength being the best safety, through care of me, but their minds were made up, and though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow, I could say nothing, save to accept their chivalrous care of me.
Mr. Morris resumed the discussion, "As there is no time to lose, I vote we have a look at his house right now. Time is everything with him, and swift action on our part may save another victim."
I own that my heart began to fail me when the time for action came so close, but I did not say anything, for I had a greater fear that if I appeared as a drag or a hindrance to their work, they might even leave me out of their counsels altogether. They have now gone off to Carfax, with means to get into the house.
Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep, as if a woman can sleep when those she loves are in danger! I shall lie down, and pretend to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns.
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
1 October, 4 A.M.--Just as we were about to leave the house, an urgent message was brought to me from Renfield to know if I would see him at once, as he had something of the utmost importance to say to me. I told the messenger to say that I would attend to his wishes in the morning, I was busy just at the moment.
The attendant added, "He seems very importunate, sir. I have never seen him so eager. I don't know but what, if you don't see him soon, he will have one of his violent fits." I knew the man would not have said this without some cause, so I said, "All right, I'll go now," and I asked the others to wait a few minutes for me, as I had to go and see my patient.
"Take me with you, friend John," said the Professor. "His case in your diary interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on our case. I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is disturbed."
"May I come also?" asked Lord Godalming.
"Me too?" said Quincey Morris. "May I come?" said Harker. I nodded, and we all went down the passage together.
We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far more rational in his speech and manner than I had ever seen him. There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic, and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane. We all five went into the room, but none of the others at first said anything. His request was that I would at once release him from the asylum and send him home. This he backed up with arguments regarding his complete recovery, and adduced his own existing sanity.
"I appeal to your friends," he said, "they will, perhaps, not mind sitting in judgement on my case. By the way, you have not introduced me."
I was so much astonished, that the oddness of introducing a madman in an asylum did not strike me at the moment, and besides, there was a certain dignity in the man's manner, so much of the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction, "Lord Godalming, Professor Van Helsing, Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas, Mr. Jonathan Harker, Mr. Renfield."
He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn, "Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no more. He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby night. Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable. What shall any man say of his pleasure at meeting Van Helsing? Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of conventional prefix. When an individual has revolutionized therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class. You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts, are fitted to hold your respective places in the moving world, I take to witness that I am as sane as at least the majority of men who are in full possession of their liberties. And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist as well as scientist, will deem it a moral duty to deal with me as one to be considered as under exceptional circumstances." He made this last appeal with a courtly air of conviction which was not without its own charm.
I think we were all staggered. For my own part, I was under the conviction, despite my knowledge of the man's character and history, that his reason had been restored, and I felt under a strong impulse to tell him that I was satisfied as to his sanity, and would see about the necessary formalities for his release in the morning. I thought it better to wait, however, before making so grave a statement, for of old I knew the sudden changes to which this particular patient was liable. So I contented myself with making a general statement that he appeared to be improving very rapidly, that I would have a longer chat with him in the morning, and would then see what I could do in the direction of meeting his wishes.
This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly, "But I fear, Dr. Seward, that you hardly apprehend my wish. I desire to go at once, here, now, this very hour, this very moment, if I may. Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. I am sure it is only necessary to put before so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so momentous a wish, to ensure its fulfilment."
He looked at me keenly, and seeing the negative in my face, turned to the others, and scrutinized them closely. Not meeting any sufficient response, he went on, "Is it possible that I have erred in my supposition?"
"You have," I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally.
There was a considerable pause, and then he said slowly, "Then I suppose I must only shift my ground of request. Let me ask for this concession, boon, privilege, what you will. I am content to implore in such a case, not on personal grounds, but for the sake of others. I am not at liberty to give you the whole of my reasons, but you may, I assure you, take it from me that they are good ones, sound and unselfish, and spring from the highest sense of duty.
"Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends."
Again he looked at us all keenly. I had a growing conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet another phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all lunatics, give himself away in the end. Van Helsing was gazing at him with a look of utmost intensity, his bushy eyebrows almost meeting with the fixed concentration of his look. He said to Renfield in a tone which did not surprise me at the time, but only when I thought of it afterwards, for it was as of one addressing an equal, "Can you not tell frankly your real reason for wishing to be free tonight? I will undertake that if you will satisfy even me, a stranger, without prejudice, and with the habit of keeping an open mind, Dr. Seward will give you, at his own risk and on his own responsibility, the privilege you seek."
He shook his head sadly, and with a look of poignant regret on his face. The Professor went on, "Come, sir, bethink yourself. You claim the privilege of reason in the highest degree, since you seek to impress us with your complete reasonableness. You do this, whose sanity we have reason to doubt, since you are not yet released from medical treatment for this very defect. If you will not help us in our effort to choose the wisest course, how can we perform the duty which you yourself put upon us? Be wise, and help us, and if we can we shall aid you to achieve your wish."
He still shook his head as he said, "Dr. Van Helsing, I have nothing to say. Your argument is complete, and if I were free to speak I should not hesitate a moment, but I am not my own master in the matter. I can only ask you to trust me. If I am refused, the responsibility does not rest with me."
I thought it was now time to end the scene, which was becoming too comically grave, so I went towards the door, simply saying, "Come, my friends, we have work to do. Goodnight."
As, however, I got near the door, a new change came over the patient. He moved towards me so quickly that for the moment I feared that he was about to make another homicidal attack. My fears, however, were groundless, for he held up his two hands imploringly, and made his petition in a moving manner. As he saw that the very excess of his emotion was militating against him, by restoring us more to our old relations, he became still more demonstrative. I glanced at Van Helsing, and saw my conviction reflected in his eyes, so I became a little more fixed in my manner, if not more stern, and motioned to him that his efforts were unavailing. I had previously seen something of the same constantly growing excitement in him when he had to make some request of which at the time he had thought much, such for instance, as when he wanted a cat, and I was prepared to see the collapse into the same sullen acquiescence on this occasion.
My expectation was not realized, for when he found that his appeal would not be successful, he got into quite a frantic condition. He threw himself on his knees, and held up his hands, wringing them in plaintive supplication, and poured forth a torrent of entreaty, with the tears rolling down his cheeks, and his whole face and form expressive of the deepest emotion.
 Send me away how you will and where you will, send keepers with me with whips and chains, let them take me in a strait waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to gaol, but let me go out of this. You don't know what you do by keeping me here. I am speaking from the depths of my heart, of my very soul. You don't know whom you wrong, or how, and I may not tell. Woe is me! I may not tell.  Can't you hear me, man?  Will you never learn?  Oh, hear me! Hear me! Let me go, let me go, let me go!"
I thought that the longer this went on the wilder he would get, and so would bring on a fit, so I took him by the hand and raised him up.
"Come," I said sternly, "no more of this, we have had quite enough already. Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly."
He suddenly stopped and looked at me intently for several moments. Then, without a word, he rose and moving over, sat down on the side of the bed. The collapse had come, as on former occasions, just as I had expected.
When I was leaving the room, last of our party, he said to me in a quiet, well-bred voice, "You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince you tonight."


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JavaScript Comments
JavaScript comments are hints that a programmer can add to make their code easier to read and understand. They are completely ignored by JavaScript engines.
//
- Single Line Comments/* */
-Multi-line Comments
Single Line Comments
In JavaScript, any line that starts with//
is a comment. For example,
Here,
// printing name on the console
is a comment.
You can also use single like comment like this:
Multi-line Comments
In Javascript, any text between/*
and */
is also a comment. For example,
Since the rest of the source code will be used to implement the rules of the game, the comment above is a good example where you might use a multi-line comment.
Using Comments for Debugging
Comments can also be used to disable code to prevent it from being executed. For example,If you get an error while running the program, instead of removing the error-prone code, you can use comments to disable it from being executed; this can be a valuable debugging tool.
You can also use single like comment like this:
Pro Tip: Remember the shortcut for using comments; it can be really helpful. For most code editors, it'sCtrl + /
for Windows andCmd + /
for Mac.
Make Code Easier to Understand
- As a JavaScript developer, you will not only write code but also may have to modify code written by other developers.
- If you write comments on your code, it will be easier for you to understand the code in the future. Also, it will be easier for your fellow developers to understand the code.
- As a general rule of thumb, use comments to explain why you did something rather than how you did something, and you are good.
Note: Comments shouldn't be the substitute for a way to explain poorly written code in English. You should always write well-structured and self-explanatory code. And, then use comments.
JavaScript Variables
In programming, a variable is a container (storage area) to hold data.
JavaScript Declare Variables
In JavaScript, we use the following keywords to declare variables:var
and let
. For example,
Here,
x
and y
are variables
JavaScript var Vs let
Bothvar
and let
are used to declare variables. However, there are some differences between them.
| var | let |
|---|---|
var is used in the older versions of JavaScript |
let is the new way of declaring variables starting ES6 (ES2015). |
var is function scoped (will be discussed in the later tutorials). |
let is block scoped (will be discussed in the later tutorials). |
For example, var x; |
For example, let y; |
Note: It is recommended to uselet
instead ofvar
. However, there are a few browsers that do not supportlet
. Visit JavaScript let browser support to learn more
JavaScript Initialize Variables
We use the assignment operator=
to assign a value to a variable.
x
.undefined
value.
x
is the variable name and since it does not contain any value, it will be undefined.undefined
and other data types in the next tutorial in detail.Change the Value of Variables
It's possible to change the value stored in the variable. For example,Rules for Naming JavaScript Variables
The rules for naming variables are:- 1. Variable names must start with either a letter, an underscore
_
, or the dollar sign$
. For example,
Notes:
- Notes: Though you can name variables in any way you want, it's a good practice to give a descriptive variable name. If you are using a variable to store the number of apples, it better to use
apples
ornumberOfApples
rather thanx
orn
.- In JavaScript, the variable names are generally written in camelCase if it has multiple words. For example,
firstName
,annualSalary
, etc.
JavaScript Constants
- The
const
keyword was also introduced in the ES6(ES2015) version to create constants. For example,
Notes: If you are sure that the value of a variable won't change throughout the program, it's recommended to use const. However, there are a few browsers that do not support const. Visit JavaScript const browser support to learn more
JavaScript Data Types
As suggested by the name data types, it refers to types of data that you can use in your program. For example,
Here,
5
is an integer data."Hello"
is a string data.JavaScript Data Types
There are eight basic data types in JavaScript. They are:| Data Types | Description | Example |
String |
represents textual data | 'hello' , "hello world" etc |
Number |
an integer or a floating-point number | 3 , 3.45 , 3e-2 etc |
BigInt |
an integer with arbitrary precision |<PHONE_NUMBER>24740999n , 1n , etc |
Boolean |
Any of two values: true or false | true and false |
undefined |
a data type whose variable is not initialized | let a; |
null |
special keyword denoting a null value |
let a = null; |
Symbol |
data type whose instances are unique and immutable | let value = Symbol('hello'); |
Object |
key-value pairs of collection of data | let student = { }; |
Object
are primitive data types, whereas Object
is non-primitive.
Note: The Object
data type (non-primitive type) can store collections of data, whereas primitive data type can only store a single data.
JavaScript String
String
is used to store text. In JavaScript, strings are surrounded by quotes:
'Hello'
"Hello"
`Hello`
${variable or expression}
as shown above.JavaScript Number
Number
represents integer and floating numbers (decimals and exponentials). For example,
+Infinity
, +Infinity
, and NaN
(not a number). For example,JavaScript BigInt
In JavaScript,Number
type can only represent numbers less than (253- 1) and more than -(253- 1). However, if you need to use a larger number
than that, you can use the BigInt
data t ype.
A
BigInt
number is created by appending n to the end of an integer. For example,
900719925124740999n
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot mix BigInt and other types
Notes:
- Note:
BigInt
was introduced in the newer version of JavaScript and is not supported by many browsers including Safari. Visit JavaScript BigInt support to learn more.
JavaScript Boolean
This data type represents the logical entity.Boolean
represents one of two values: true
or false
. It is easier to think of it as a yes/no switch. For example,
JavaScript undefined
Theundefined
data type represents value is not assigned . If a variable is declared but the value is not assigned, then the value of that variable will be undefined
. For example,
undefined
. For example,Note: It is recommended not to explicitly assignundefined
to a variable. Usually,null
is used to assign 'unknown' or 'empty' value to a variable.
JavaScript null
In JavaScript,null
is a special value that represents empty or unknown value. For example,
number
variable is empty.Note: null
is not the same as NULL or Null.
JavaScript Symbol
This data type was introduced in a newer version of JavaScript (from ES2015).A value having the data type
Symbol
can be referred to as a symbol value. Symbol
is an immutable primitive value that is unique. For example,
value1
and value2
both contain 'hello'
, they are different as they are of the Symbol
type.JavaScript objects
Anobject
is a complex data type that allows us to store collections of data. For example,
JavaScript Type
JavaScript is a dynamically typed (loosely typed) language. JavaScript automatically determines the variables' data type for you.It also means that a variable can be of one data type and later it can be changed to another data type. For example,
JavaScript typeof
To find the type of a variable, you can use thetypeof
operator. For example,
Notice that typeof returned"object"
for thenull
type. This is a known issue in JavaScript since its first release.
JavaScript Operators
JavaScript Operators
In JavaScript, an operator is a special symbol used to perform operations on operands (values and variables). For example,+
is an operator that performs addition, and 2
and 3
are operands.JavaScript Operator Types
Here is a list of different operators you will learn in this tutorial.JavaScript Assignment Operators
Assignment operators are used to assign values to variables. For example,=
operator is used to assign value 5
to variable x.| Operator | Name | Example |
= |
Assignment operator | a=7; // 7 |
+= |
Addition assignment | a += 5; // a = a + 5 |
-= |
Subtraction Assignment | a -= 2; // a = a - 2 |
*= |
Multiplication Assignment | a *= 3; // a = a * 3 |
/= |
Division Assignment | a /= 2; // a = a / 5 |
%= |
Remainder Assignment | a %= 2; // a = a % 2 |
**= |
Exponentiation Assignment | a **= 2; // a = a^2 |
Note: The commonly used assignment operator is=
. You will understand other assignment operators such as+=
,-=
,*=
etc. once we learn arithmetic operators.
JavaScript Arithmetic Operators
Arithmetic operators are used to perform arithmetic calculations. For example,+
operator is used to add two operands.| Operator | Name | Example |
+ |
Addition | x + y |
- |
Subtraction | x - y |
* |
Multiplication | x * y |
/ |
Division | x / y |
% |
Remainder | x % y |
++ |
Increment (increments by 1) | ++x or x++ |
++ |
Decrement (decrements by 1) | --x or x-- |
++ |
Exponentiation (Power) | x ** y |
Example 1: Arithmetic operators in JavaScript
x + y == 8
x - y == 2
x * y == 15
x / y == 1.6666666666666667
x % y == 2
++x == 6
x++ == 7
--x == 6
x-- ==6
x = 5
NoteThe **
operator was introduced in EcmaScript 2016. And, some browsers may not support the exponentiation operator. To learn more, visit
JavaScript exponentiation browser support.
JavaScript Comparison Operators
Comparison operators compare two values and return a boolean value, eithertrue
or false
. For example,
>
is used to compare whether a
is greater than b
. | Operator | Description | Example |
== |
Equal to: returns true if the operands are equal |
x == y |
!= |
Not equal to: returns true if the operands are not equal |
x != y |
=== |
Strict equal to: true if the operands are equal and of the same type |
x === y |
!== |
Strict not equal to: true if the operands are equal but of different type or not equal at all |
x !== y |
> |
Greater than: true if left operand is greater than the right operand |
x > y |
>= |
Greater than or equal to: true if left operand is greater than or equal to the right operand |
x >= y |
< |
Less than: true if the left operand is less than the right operand |
x <> y |
<= |
Less than or equal to: true if the left operand is less than or equal to the right operand |
x <= y |
Example 2: Comparison operators in JavaScript
true
true
true
true
true
false
false
true
JavaScript Logical Operators
Logical operators perform logical operations and return a boolean value, eitherundefined
or false
. For example,
&&
is a logical operator AND. Since both x < 6
and
y < 5
are true
, the result is true
.| Operator | Description | Example |
&& |
Logical AND: true if both the operands are true, else returns false | x && y |
|| |
Logical OR: true if either of the operands is true; returns false if both are false | x || y |
! |
Logical NOT: true if the operand is false and vice-versa. | !x |
Example 3: Logical Operators in JavaScript
true
false
true
false
JavaScript Bitwise Operators
Bitwise operators perform operations on binary representations of numbers.| Operator | Description |
& |
Bitwise AND |
| |
Bitwise OR |
^ |
Bitwise XOR |
~ |
Bitwise NOT |
<< |
Left shift |
>> |
Sign-propagating right shift |
>>> |
Zero-fill right shift |
- Bitwise operators are rarely used in everyday programming.
JavaScript String Operators
In JavaScript, you can also use the+
operator to concatenate (join) two or more strings.
Example 4: String operators in JavaScript
helloworld
JavaScript tutorial
Note: When+
is used with strings, it performs concatenation. However, when+
is used with numbers, it performs addition.
Other JavaScript Operators
For the sake of completeness, here's a list of other operators available in JavaScript. You will learn about these operators in the later tutorials| Operator | Description | Example |
, |
evaluates multiple operands and returns the value of the last operand. | let a = (1, 3 , 4); // 4 |
?: |
returns value based on the condition | (5 > 3) ? 'success' : 'error'; // "success" |
delete |
deletes an object's property, or an element of an array | delete x |
typeof |
returns a string indicating the data type | typeof 3; // "number" |
void |
discards the expression's return value | void (x) |
in |
returns true if the specified property is in the object |
prop in object |
instanceof |
returns true if the specified object is of of the specified object type |
object instanceof object_type |


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Your gender is {{player.gender}}.
Your participant ID is {{player.participantID}}.
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Have you ever supervised someone?
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Suggestions
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Weekly musing #8 - Keep calm and fork
BTCfork
A rebase on very recent BU dev
branch has been completed.
I learned the painful lesson that it is much easier just to merge in the changes from upstream as opposed to actually rebasing (in Git's sense) all the MVF work, which would necessitate a forced push on MVF-BU's master
(default) branch. That would be disruptive to those who have checkouts of MVF-BU (not many, I suppose, but it would be bad practice).
Thinking about requirements for a UASF counter-fork to UASF will see me adding a few requirements to the MVFs.
One of them is probably time-based forking - in order to fork exactly on an unknown block height which corresponds to the median time activation criterion of BIP148 or similar proposals. This would make MVFs capable of forking on either block height OR a chosen time, whichever comes first.
One could set the block height to a very high value if one did not want to use it, to let the time-based forking take precedence.
I've held off on implementing time-based forking up to now since it comes with a few more complications. The client cannot tell for certain when the final pre-fork block has been received, and this makes things like changing to the new consensus rules and performing wallet backups harder. But it seems that flag day forks like UASF require a forking trigger in MVF to be able to fork at exactly the same time, so as to create the least difference between the fork blockchain and the legacy chain.
A rebase of MVF-Core is still outstanding. The objective will be to rebase on Core 0.14 minus SegWit/RBF, but with Adjustable Blocksize Cap.
Bitcoin Unlimited
Apart from reviews and minor fixes to some extended tests, I've uploaded my eligible BUIPs for the coming voting round.
I am keen to see the new voting system in action, although it is becoming clear that it will need a bit of handholding by its creator for the first session. This is of course normal. So far, I like what I've seen! There are some areas that may need small improvement in future, e.g. in management of unpublished proposals, and dealing with users who have lost their keys and need to revoke them. The latter part may be a bit tricky! I would recommend BU users to always keep a separate PGP key for BU signing purposes, so that they could use that to revoke the Bitcoin key in a pinch.
References
[1] Image of Vevey fork in Lake Geneva derived from public domain (CC0) work:
https://pixabay.com/en/vevey-lake-fork-switzerland-museum-2104986/


Tracking changes
Changes are first-class values in ProseMirror. You can hold on to them, and do things with them. Such as rebasing them across other changes, inverting them, or inspecting them to see what they did.

Note that, due to the implicit conflict resolution when moving changes across each other, outcomes of complicated reverts aren't always optimal.
Demo
The full source code for this demo is here.
Hover over commits to highlight the text they introduced.
Next demo: collaborative editing.


Olympiacos threaten to withdraw from Greek league
by BeSoccerOlympiacos are top of the table, but they are threatening to withdraw from it because of the situation of the Greek Federation and because they consider there to be manipulations in VAR.
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The table-toppers also think that there is alleged arbitrary corruption and manipulations in VAR. If no movement has been made, Olympiacos will threaten to withdraw from the league.


Size ( s$ )
Returns the size of a string in bytes.
NOTE: This is different from Len(). Len() counts all unicode characters as 1 character and Size() will consider how many bytes each character is.
Example:
Size (
"hello world"
)


+++ title = "Exploring downtown Lima" slug = "exploring-downtown-lima" date = 2007-04-03T12:00:00+10:00 tags = ["chilled", "wandering"] locations = ["peru/lima"] draft = false summary = """
Getting to downtown Lima from Miraflores is very easy, as there are combis (minibuses) going up and down Av. Arequipa all day. Av. Arequipa is the long, wide, straight boulevard that connects these two important areas. This afternoon, I hopped on a combi into the downtown area, and checked out what there is to see around there.
""" +++Getting to downtown Lima from Miraflores is very easy, as there are combis (minibuses) going up and down Av. Arequipa all day. Av. Arequipa is the long, wide, straight boulevard that connects these two important areas. This afternoon, I hopped on a combi into the downtown area, and checked out what there is to see around there.
Unlike in other cities, the centre of Lima is not the most exciting place to be. The tourist hangout is Miraflores, and the party scene is at Barranco. They have a beautiful central square, called the Plaza de Armas, that boasts a grand statue, and a nice collection of gardened areas and pathways. There are also numerous churches, museums, and art galleries.
Apart from that, Central Lima consists mainly of shopping areas. Plenty of places to eat, to buy clothes, to buy electronics, and to book travel plans. Not really any huge attractions. But fairly nice to just walk around.


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Here's a quick list of my accolades and press-related recognition.
arts & humanities
AARP Freelance Journalist Fellowship - NLGJA Convention
PTA Reflections Award of Excellence in Literature
Poem titled ‘nightmare’ was presented at the 27th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, as part of the Youth Anthology.
Poetry featured in Adirondack Center for Writing’s PoemVillage 2019 on display; on display in London for ‘The Advocacy Project’
NASA Langley Art Contest National Winner (Honorable Mention)
Poem mentioned in America Magazine’s ‘2019 Foley Poetry Contest’ post
Scholastics Arts and Writing Competition; silver key
FIA Tampa Bay (HS-level) essay competition winner (2014, 2015)
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Clipping¶
Often times we want to clip out LiDAR points using a shapefile. This can be done using pyfor’s Cloud.clip method. pyfor integrates with geopandas and shapely, convenient geospatial packages for Python, to provide a way to clip point clouds.
import pyfor
import geopandas
# Load point cloud
pc = pyfor.cloud.Cloud("../data/test.las")
pc.plot3d()
As input to the clipping function we need any shapely.geometry.Polygon our heart desires, as long as its coordinates correspond to the same physical space as the Cloud object. Here I extract a Polygon from a shapefile using geopandas:
# Load point cloud
polys = geopandas.read_file("../data/clip.shp")
poly = poly_frame["geometry"].iloc[0]
Finally, pass the Polygon to the clipping function. This function returns a new Cloud object.
# Load point cloud
clipped = pc.clip(poly)
clipped.plot3d()


SLIVER (1993) A "Turkey of the Week" film review by Justin Felix Copyright 1998 Justin Felix
Rating: *** (out of five)
Screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. Based on a novel by Ira Levin. Directed by Philip Noyce. Starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Martin Landau. Unrated version (contains nudity, violence, and profanity) 108 mins.
Synopsis: Carly, a divorced, unhappy, 35-year-old book editor who must work with intensely annoying, sex-starved Judy, moves into a dream apartment where she meets an elderly, lonely professor and a has-been novelist who likes to scare jogging women in Central Park. Carly then begins an affair with a young technogeek while a bunch of people are murdered in the apartment building and someone watches it all with video cameras.
Comments: Three stars may be giving SLIVER a little more credit than it deserves. It's a big-budget turkey slammed by many critics when it was first released, I won't deny. Despite its many faults, however, SLIVER does warrant a second look.
How do I come to that conclusion? Though it is sometimes compared to REAR WINDOW (and I do see the resemblance), SLIVER's plot still strikes me as unique. In fact, the interesting plot makes one want the movie to be better than it really is. I have never read a novel by Ira Levin (who wrote the book from which this film is based), but Levin's work has provided the basis for a number of classic science fiction and horror movies over the years, most notably ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE STEPFORD WIVES and its inevitable sequels. SLIVER deals with a dark subject, voyeurism, and the chilling possibilities open to a voyeur with developing technologies. Allow me to suggest, for a moment, something which I rarely see suggested about SLIVER. Yes, it is obviously an erotic thriller (Sharon Stone strips naked frequently and makes out with William Baldwin while a murderer runs around cancelling out his victims), but it is also a science fiction film. Good science fiction often takes a part (a sliver, if you'll accept a bad pun) of modern day society and exaggerates it. In SLIVER, the apartment's owner secretly installs video cameras in every room of the building for the express purpose of spying on his tenants. Sitting in an enclosed room, he watches over these people as if he were God. Two walls of television sets, a giant TV in the center, a computer console, and a remote control make up the majority of his equipment, which apparently set him back 6 million dollars. He can zoom in and out on everyone, and record anything which goes on. This massive invasion of privacy is frightening when thought about (imagine every moment in every day of your life being secretly filmed), and it is here where a major motif of science fiction resides: the dangers of emerging technologies put to unethical use.
The novelty of the storyline, however, does not excuse Joe Eszterhas's weak screenplay. SLIVER is riddled with poor dialogue. Granted, poor dialogue can sometimes be unintentionally funny, but in SLIVER's case, Eszterhas tries to be clever and funny intentionally. The lines, therefore, only end up receiving groans from the audience. Carly and another tenant discuss moving in an early scene, for example, and the tenant says moving is "worse than anal intercourse." They share a chuckle. The audience doesn't. Or, how about this for awful?  Ugh!
Another criticism of SLIVER is that it moves too slowly during the first half. To be honest, I'm not sure if the screenwriter or the director is at fault, or if the reason lies in the fact that I'm reviewing the unrated version over the R-rated theatrical version (from my estimate, though, only about a minute was added to the unrated version). Carly's introductions to the main characters feel contrived, and her "steamy" scenes both with Zeke Hawkins (Baldwin) and without are drawn out much longer than they need to be.
For an erotic thriller, SLIVER possesses a very talented and experienced cast of actors. Sharon Stone ... well, she's Sharon Stone, and she delivers what you'd expect to see after her career-making performance in BASIC INSTINCT. William Baldwin looks like a geeky freak, which is good considering the sleazy character he plays, and he turns in a goofy but enjoyable performance. Veteran actors Tom Berenger and Martin Landau seem to make the best out of their characters (they really aren't offered much thanks to the script).
I cannot conclude this review without mentioning the music. I don't normally have much to say about a film's score or songs, but SLIVER effectively uses a number of dance standards during several key sequences. Most notably, Enigma's "Carly's Loneliness" and UB40's "Can't Help Falling in Love" appear a number of times and serve as fitting themes for Carly and Zeke respectively.
SLIVER certainly has its faults: a slow first half, bad dialogue, and, at times, annoying characters (Judy, for instance). However, a strong concept, a mostly solid cast, and some well-chosen music almost saves it from being a turkey and at least makes the film watchable. The R-rated version may flow a little quicker than the unrated version reviewed here (I saw the R-rated version in the theater when it first came out, so it's been way too long for me to confidently compare the two). SLIVER also has one of the more memorable endings to a thriller that I've ever seen, which is a definate plus because I usually find the conclusions to thrillers cliched and disappointing. Some people I know who have seen this turkey hate it, but I really don't think it's all *that* bad. I'd give it a passing recommendation, but keep in mind that it's certainly not family viewing.
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Grey's Anatomy - Season 15
In the season premiere, the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial vie for a new position. Meredith is seemingly distracted and struggles to stay focused, and Maggie finds herself the keeper of a big secret while Amelia and Owen try to figure out their relationship. Meanwhile, Jo and Alex's honeymoon doesn't go exactly as planned.


Airbus plane sent back to engineers in France after 'wet sock' complaint
A new Airbus plane will be sent back to engineers in France following complaints of a "smell of wet sock" from cabin crew in the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia.
NOUMEA, New Caledonia: A new Airbus plane will be sent back to engineers in France following complaints of a "smell of wet sock" from cabin crew in the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia.
The Airbus A330neo came into service on Oct 4 as part of a fleet renewal at Air Caledonie International (ACI), the french territory's international airline.
However "a smell of 'wet sock' has repeatedly inconvenienced crew members during take-off and landing", ACI's general manager Didier Tappero told AFP.
An investigation was carried out and identified oil fumes.
According to an Airbus report sent to the company, the analysis indicated that the air quality in the cabin was in accordance with international guidelines and below the toxicity threshold, ACI said.
However, blood samples were taken from the flight crew who inhaled the bad smell.
The Airbus A330neo, one of two in ACI's fleet, has been grounded for two weeks and will shortly be sent to Airbus' workshops in Toulouse.
"We are working on a solution to solve odour problems in the cabin of a small number of Airbus A330neo in service," Airbus spokesman Sean Lee told AFP.
Similar problems have been encountered by airlines in Portugal and Senegal.


public class ResizableDoubleArray extends java.lang.Object implements DoubleArray, java.io.Serializable
A variable length DoubleArray
implementation that automatically
handles expanding and contracting its internal storage array as elements
are added and removed.
The internal storage array starts with capacity determined by the
initialCapacity
property, which can be set by the constructor.
The default initial capacity is 16. Adding elements using
addElement(double)
appends elements to the end of the array. When
there are no open entries at the end of the internal storage array, the
array is expanded. The size of the expanded array depends on the
expansionMode
and expansionFactor
properties.
The expansionMode
determines whether the size of the array is
multiplied by the expansionFactor
(MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE) or if
the expansion is additive (ADDITIVE_MODE -- expansionFactor
storage locations added). The default expansionMode
is
MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE and the default expansionFactor
is 2.0.
The addElementRolling(double)
method adds a new element to the end
of the internal storage array and adjusts the "usable window" of the
internal array forward by one position (effectively making what was the
second element the first, and so on). Repeated activations of this method
(or activation of discardFrontElements(int)
) will effectively orphan
the storage locations at the beginning of the internal storage array. To
reclaim this storage, each time one of these methods is activated, the size
of the internal storage array is compared to the number of addressable
elements (the numElements
property) and if the difference
is too large, the internal array is contracted to size
numElements + 1.
The determination of when the internal
storage array is "too large" depends on the expansionMode
and
contractionFactor
properties. If the expansionMode
is MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
, contraction is triggered when the
ratio between storage array length and numElements
exceeds
contractionFactor.
If the expansionMode
is ADDITIVE_MODE,
the number of excess storage locations
is compared to contractionFactor.
To avoid cycles of expansions and contractions, the
expansionFactor
must not exceed the
contractionFactor.
Constructors and mutators for both of these
properties enforce this requirement, throwing IllegalArgumentException if it
is violated.
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
static int |
ADDITIVE_MODE
additive expansion mode
|
protected float |
contractionCriteria
The contraction criteria determines when the internal array will be
contracted to fit the number of elements contained in the element
array + 1.
|
protected float |
expansionFactor
The expansion factor of the array.
|
protected int |
expansionMode
Determines whether array expansion by
expansionFactor
is additive or multiplicative. |
protected int |
initialCapacity
The initial capacity of the array.
|
protected double[] |
internalArray
The internal storage array.
|
static int |
MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
multiplicative expansion mode
|
protected int |
numElements
The number of addressable elements in the array.
|
protected int |
startIndex
The position of the first addressable element in the internal storage
array.
|
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
ResizableDoubleArray()
Create a ResizableArray with default properties.
|
ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified initial capacity.
|
ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity,
float expansionFactor)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified initial capacity
and expansion factor.
|
ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity,
float expansionFactor,
float contractionCriteria)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified initialCapacity,
expansionFactor, and contractionCriteria.
|
ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity,
float expansionFactor,
float contractionCriteria,
int expansionMode)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified properties.
|
ResizableDoubleArray(ResizableDoubleArray original)
Copy constructor.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
addElement(double value)
Adds an element to the end of this expandable array.
|
double |
addElementRolling(double value)
Adds an element to the end of the array and removes the first
element in the array.
|
protected void |
checkContractExpand(float contraction,
float expansion)
Checks the expansion factor and the contraction criteria and throws an
IllegalArgumentException if the contractionCriteria is less than the
expansionCriteria
|
void |
clear()
Clear the array, reset the size to the initialCapacity and the number
of elements to zero.
|
void |
contract()
Contracts the storage array to the (size of the element set) + 1 - to
avoid a zero length array.
|
ResizableDoubleArray |
copy()
Returns a copy of the ResizableDoubleArray.
|
static void |
copy(ResizableDoubleArray source,
ResizableDoubleArray dest)
Copies source to dest, copying the underlying data, so dest is
a new, independent copy of source.
|
void |
discardFrontElements(int i)
Discards the
i |
void |
discardMostRecentElements(int i)
Discards the
i |
boolean |
equals(java.lang.Object object)
Returns true iff object is a ResizableDoubleArray with the same properties
as this and an identical internal storage array.
|
protected void |
expand()
Expands the internal storage array using the expansion factor.
|
float |
getContractionCriteria()
The contraction criteria defines when the internal array will contract
to store only the number of elements in the element array.
|
double |
getElement(int index)
Returns the element at the specified index
|
double[] |
getElements()
Returns a double array containing the elements of this
ResizableArray . |
float |
getExpansionFactor()
The expansion factor controls the size of a new array when an array
needs to be expanded.
|
int |
getExpansionMode()
The
expansionMode determines whether the internal storage
array grows additively (ADDITIVE_MODE) or multiplicatively
(MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE) when it is expanded. |
double[] |
getInternalValues()
Returns the internal storage array.
|
int |
getNumElements()
Returns the number of elements currently in the array.
|
double[] |
getValues()
Deprecated.
replaced by
getInternalValues() as of 2.0 |
int |
hashCode()
Returns a hash code consistent with equals.
|
void |
setContractionCriteria(float contractionCriteria)
Sets the contraction criteria for this ExpandContractDoubleArray.
|
void |
setElement(int index,
double value)
Sets the element at the specified index.
|
void |
setExpansionFactor(float expansionFactor)
Sets the expansionFactor.
|
void |
setExpansionMode(int expansionMode)
Sets the
expansionMode . |
protected void |
setInitialCapacity(int initialCapacity)
Sets the initial capacity.
|
void |
setNumElements(int i)
This function allows you to control the number of elements contained
in this array, and can be used to "throw out" the last n values in an
array.
|
int |
start()
Returns the starting index of the internal array.
|
double |
substituteMostRecentElement(double value)
Substitutes
value for the most recently added value. |
public static final int ADDITIVE_MODE
public static final int MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
protected float contractionCriteria
protected float expansionFactor
internalArray.length * expansionFactor
if expansionMode
is set to MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE, or
internalArray.length + expansionFactor
if
expansionMode
is set to ADDITIVE_MODE.protected int expansionMode
expansionFactor
is additive or multiplicative.protected int initialCapacity
protected double[] internalArray
protected int numElements
protected int startIndex
internalArray[startIndex],...,internalArray[startIndex + numElements -1]
public ResizableDoubleArray()
initialCapacity = 16
expansionMode = MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
expansionFactor = 2.5
contractionFactor = 2.0
public ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity)
expansionMode = MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
expansionFactor = 2.5
contractionFactor = 2.0
initialCapacity
- The initial size of the internal storage arrayjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if initialCapacity is not > 0public ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity, float expansionFactor)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified initial capacity and expansion factor. The remaining properties take default values:
expansionMode = MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
contractionFactor = 0.5 + expansionFactor
Throws IllegalArgumentException if the following conditions are not met:
initialCapacity > 0
expansionFactor > 1
initialCapacity
- The initial size of the internal storage arrayexpansionFactor
- the array will be expanded based on this
parameterjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if parameters are not validpublic ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity, float expansionFactor, float contractionCriteria)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified initialCapacity,
expansionFactor, and contractionCriteria. The expansionMode
will default to MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE.
Throws IllegalArgumentException if the following conditions are not met:
initialCapacity > 0
expansionFactor > 1
contractionFactor >= expansionFactor
initialCapacity
- The initial size of the internal storage arrayexpansionFactor
- the array will be expanded based on this
parametercontractionCriteria
- The contraction Criteria.java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if parameters are not validpublic ResizableDoubleArray(int initialCapacity, float expansionFactor, float contractionCriteria, int expansionMode)
Create a ResizableArray with the specified properties.
Throws IllegalArgumentException if the following conditions are not met:
initialCapacity > 0
expansionFactor > 1
contractionFactor >= expansionFactor
expansionMode in {MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE, ADDITIVE_MODE}
initialCapacity
- the initial size of the internal storage arrayexpansionFactor
- the array will be expanded based on this
parametercontractionCriteria
- the contraction CriteriaexpansionMode
- the expansion modejava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if parameters are not validpublic ResizableDoubleArray(ResizableDoubleArray original)
original
- array to copypublic void addElement(double value)
addElement
in interface DoubleArray
value
- to be added to end of arraypublic double addElementRolling(double value)
Adds an element to the end of the array and removes the first element in the array. Returns the discarded first element. The effect is similar to a push operation in a FIFO queue.
Example: If the array contains the elements 1, 2, 3, 4 (in that order) and addElementRolling(5) is invoked, the result is an array containing the entries 2, 3, 4, 5 and the value returned is 1.
addElementRolling
in interface DoubleArray
value
- the value to be added to the arraypublic double substituteMostRecentElement(double value)
value
for the most recently added value.
Returns the value that has been replaced. If the array is empty (i.e.
if numElements
is zero), a MathRuntimeException is thrown.value
- new value to substitute for the most recently added valueprotected void checkContractExpand(float contraction, float expansion)
expansion
- factor to be checkedcontraction
- criteria to be checkedjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if the contractionCriteria is less than
the expansionCriteria.public void clear()
clear
in interface DoubleArray
public void contract()
public void discardFrontElements(int i)
i initial elements of the array. For example,
if the array contains the elements 1,2,3,4, invoking
discardFrontElements(2)
will cause the first two elements
to be discarded, leaving 3,4 in the array. Throws illegalArgumentException
if i exceeds numElements.
i
- the number of elements to discard from the front of the arrayjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if i is greater than numElements.public void discardMostRecentElements(int i)
i last elements of the array. For example,
if the array contains the elements 1,2,3,4, invoking
discardMostRecentElements(2)
will cause the last two elements
to be discarded, leaving 1,2 in the array. Throws illegalArgumentException
if i exceeds numElements.
i
- the number of elements to discard from the end of the arrayjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if i is greater than numElements.protected void expand()
if expansionMode
is set to MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE,
the new array size will be internalArray.length * expansionFactor.
If expansionMode
is set to ADDITIVE_MODE, the length
after expansion will be internalArray.length + expansionFactor
public float getContractionCriteria()
expansionMode
is MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE
,
contraction is triggered when the ratio between storage array length
and numElements
exceeds contractionFactor
.
If the expansionMode
is ADDITIVE_MODE
, the
number of excess storage locations is compared to
contractionFactor.
public double getElement(int index)
getElement
in interface DoubleArray
index
- index to fetch a value fromjava.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
- if index
is less than
zero or is greater than getNumElements() - 1
.public double[] getElements()
ResizableArray
. This method returns a copy, not a
reference to the underlying array, so that changes made to the returned
array have no effect on this ResizableArray.
getElements
in interface DoubleArray
public float getExpansionFactor()
expansionMode
determines whether the size of the array is multiplied by the
expansionFactor
(MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE) or if
the expansion is additive (ADDITIVE_MODE -- expansionFactor
storage locations added). The default expansionMode
is
MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE and the default expansionFactor
is 2.0.public int getExpansionMode()
expansionMode
determines whether the internal storage
array grows additively (ADDITIVE_MODE) or multiplicatively
(MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE) when it is expanded.public int getNumElements()
getNumElements
in interface DoubleArray
@Deprecated public double[] getValues()
getInternalValues()
as of 2.0startIndex
is
required (available via the start()
method). This method should
only be used in cases where copying the internal array is not practical.
The getElements()
method should be used in all other cases.public double[] getInternalValues()
startIndex
is
required (available via the start()
method). This method should
only be used in cases where copying the internal array is not practical.
The getElements()
method should be used in all other cases.public void setContractionCriteria(float contractionCriteria)
contractionCriteria
- contraction criteriapublic void setElement(int index, double value)
getNumElements() - 1
, the numElements
property
is increased to index +1
and additional storage is allocated
(if necessary) for the new element and all (uninitialized) elements
between the new element and the previous end of the array).setElement
in interface DoubleArray
index
- index to store a value invalue
- value to store at the specified indexjava.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
- if index
is less than
zero.public void setExpansionFactor(float expansionFactor)
expansionFactor > 1
contractionFactor >= expansionFactor
expansionFactor
- the new expansion factor value.java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if expansionFactor is <= 1 or greater
than contractionFactorpublic void setExpansionMode(int expansionMode)
expansionMode
. The specified value must be one of
ADDITIVE_MODE, MULTIPLICATIVE_MODE.expansionMode
- The expansionMode to set.java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if the specified mode value is not validprotected void setInitialCapacity(int initialCapacity)
initialCapacity
- of the arrayjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if initialCapacity
is not
positive.public void setNumElements(int i)
i
- a new number of elementsjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if i
is negative.public int start()
internalArray[startIndex],...,internalArray[startIndex + numElements -1]
public static void copy(ResizableDoubleArray source, ResizableDoubleArray dest)
Copies source to dest, copying the underlying data, so dest is a new, independent copy of source. Does not contract before the copy.
Obtains synchronization locks on both source and dest (in that order) before performing the copy.
Neither source nor dest may be null; otherwise a NullPointerException is thrown
source
- ResizableDoubleArray to copydest
- ResizableArray to replace with a copy of the source arraypublic ResizableDoubleArray copy()
public boolean equals(java.lang.Object object)
equals
in class java.lang.Object
object
- object to be compared for equality with thispublic int hashCode()
hashCode
in class java.lang.Object


RELATIVE
Setting your elements position as Relative means you are setting the element
relative to where it would normally be placed on the page if you do nothing to its position.
This means your element won't move until you define one or multiple of its attributes.
Attributes being top, bottom, left or right.
For example if you set “top:10px” this would move the element 10px down from where it is normally
meant to sit.
ABSOLUTE
Setting your elements position as Absolute means you are setting the element
positioned according to its parent element.
So unlike when you se relative it positions itself based off where it is meant to be it will
position itself based off where it is inside its parents element.
The parent element it is positioned inside should be positioned relatively, however if no parent
element exists it will position itself relative to the page itself.
Setting an element as absolute means it is removed from the flow of the page, which means it will not
be affected by other elements beside its parent and also will not affect other elements.
FIXED
Setting your elements position as Fixed means you are setting the element fixed to
the browser window.
When you set an elements position as fixed it means the element will not move when the page is
scrolled.
This attribute is typically used for something like a navigation bar that you always want to be
visible on the page as the user scrolls down.
The main thing you would need to be careful of when using a fixed position is that it doesn’t overlap
any of your other information on the page to where it is unseeable.


Blood Pressure:
Normal BP is less than 120(systolic) and less then 80(diastolic)
Elevated BP is 120-129(systolic) and les than 80(diastolic)
High BP - Hypertension Stage 1 is 130-139(systolic) or 80-89(diastolic)
High BP - Hypertension Stage 2 is 140 or higher(systolic) or 90 or higher(diastolic)
Hypertensive Crisis is higher then 180(systolic) and/or higher then 120(diastolic)
Body Mass Index:
Input body weight in pounds and hieght in feet
Age:
Input any age, the higher it is the higher the risk
Disease:
Input these diseases ONLY: Cancer, Diabetes, and Alzeimers - Can also be in lower case


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Loads an image from file, used when drawing primitives. Supported image files: jpg, png, tga, bmp, psd, gif, hdr, pic. A window must exist before creating a texture, otherwise an exception will be thrown.
var texture = new Texture2D('image.png'); // Gets the width/height of the texture. var w = texture.width; var h = texture.height;
With the function getData
you can get the color data for that texture. The result is an array with all the colors. If you want to get a color at a specific pixel you must take into consideration the channels
property. channels
can have a value of 1, 2, 3 or 4. E.g. the value of channels
will be 3 when the image only has RGB channels (without alpha).
// var texture = new Texture2D(...); var colors = texture.getData(); function getPixelRGBA(x, y) { var i = y * texture.width * texture.channels + x * texture.channels; return { r: colors[i], g: colors[i + 1], b: colors[i + 2], a: colors[i + 3], }; } // Get pixel at x = 100, y = 25 var pixelColor = getPixelRGBA(100, 25);


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Message Actions provide a very simple mechanism of communicating to the application. An example of a message might be to show a popup message on a specific frame of animation, or poll a background process' status.
To take advantage of Message Actions you must create one or messages in the OtterUI Editor, add a Message Action to a frame of animation, and then finally process them in the application.
Create Messages in the OtterUI Editor
- From the Scene menu click Messages...
- Click Add. A new message will be created and added to the list of messages
- Double-click on the message text (in the "Message" column) and change the message text to something meaningful to your application.
Please Note: The message text will be reformatted to capitalize the message as well as to convert whitespace to underscores.
- (Optional) Enter a description for the message by double-clicking in the Description column. Enter a meaningful description of the message. This description will not be exported, but rather as a way to describe the purpose of the message and how it should be used by other users.
- Repeat steps 2 through 4 as needed
- Hit OK
Create a Message Action
- Right click on the main channel of an animation and select Actions...
- In the Actions Editor select Send Message from the Add Actions dropdown
- Select the newly created message and in the properties window select Message and expand the dropdown box in its value field.
- Select the appropriate message
Process the Message
Messages are propagated to the application by way of events. Attach an event handler to your View's mOnMessage event and process the arguments accordingly. The Message Action will only be executed if the animation with the Message Action is played. The Message Action will also be executed repeatedly if it is on a frame within a loop section.
See Event Handling for further information.
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KINO(1) KINO(1) NAME kino - non-linear editing of Digital Video data SYNOPSIS kino [ ( file | playlist ) ... ] DESCRIPTION kino allows you to import movies from DV camcorders, to edit, and play them. file may be a DV encoded file that will be loaded at startup. Alternatively, you can specify a SMIL playlist of DV files that was pre‐ viously created with kino. DV is a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital cam‐ corders. Differently coded movies, like DivX or mjpeg, need to be con‐ verted to DV before they can be fed into kino. A video file either holds the raw DV-coded data, or wraps it in a certain container format. Kino currently supports AVI, and QuickTime containers, and distinguishes between the different formats by file extension. Therefore, file names need to end in .dv or .dif for raw files, .avi for AVI, and .mov for QuickTime files, respectively. Anything else is treated as a SMIL playlist. KEYSTROKES Unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast naviga‐ tion and editing inside the movie. It acts on frames that are single images from a movie, scenes that are defined as groupings of one or more frames with recording times differing by no more than one second, and movies that are groups of one or more scenes. The following keystrokes can be used for moving and editing. Some of them are also available as buttons in a graphical menu bar. (Also note the deliberate similarities between kino commands and the text editor vi.) The following is a brief list of the commands. A more complete list is available in the online help. MOVING AROUND space Toggle between play and pause. l, right-arrow Move one frame forward. h, left-arrow Move one frame backward. gg Move to the start of the movie. G Move to the end of the movie. 0, ^ Move to the start of the current scene. $ Move to the end of the current scene. j, return, +, down-arrow Move to the start of the next scene. k, -, up-arrow Move to the start of the previous scene. ctrl-f Move forward five scenes. ctrl-b Move backwards five scenes. w Move forward one second. b Move backwards one second. DELETE OPERATIONS x, dl, d space, del cut the current frame. dd cut the current scene. d$ cut from current frame to end of scene. d^, d0 cut from start of scene to before current frame. dG cut to end of movie. dgg cut from beginning of movie. CLONE OPERATIONS yl, y space copy the current frame. yy, Y copy the current scene. y$ copy from current frame to end of scene. y^, y0 copy from start of scene to current frame. INSERT OPERATIONS p paste after current frame. P paste before current frame. GENERAL COMMANDS :r inserts a SMIL playlist or DV AVI before frame. (Pops up a file dialog.) :w saves the movie as a SMIL playlist. (Pops up a file dialog.) :q quits the program. SEE ALSO the kino online help, kino2raw(1), dvgrab(1) AUTHORS kino was written by Arne Schirmacher<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Dan Dennedy<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and Charles Yates<EMAIL_ADDRESS>This manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras<EMAIL_ADDRESS>for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). January 2004 KINO(1)


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