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hello my readers I know how patient you have been to wait for he next installment of Virus surge but it isn't complete yet, I expect it to take some more time but I decided t give you a little teaser. Enjoy.
Chapter 2: Consume & Transcend
July 1, 7:45 am
"So what is the progress on our favourite test subject?"
"Well so far she is showing signs of increasing strength, her body is also beginning to adapt to all of our recent tests. Sir, I believe that Lilith is almost in the final stages of her completion."
"Good, that's very good. Now all we need to do in order to make her into the perfect bio weapon is to get rid of her damned caretaker."
"General, if the research and development staff was to remove or harm Jake Merkin. Then Lilith would become so enraged that she would willingly destroy the facility. After that she would hunt down the ones responsible for his disappearance."
"Are you certain of that Doctor? If you aren't then we will dispose of Merkin in the next three days as scheduled."
"Sir, I'm positive that she will kill and destroy everything in her path in order to get him back. According to these reports if he was to be removed in the next three days, her power would be far more devastating then it is now. The facility is going to place Lilith in isolation with one of Gaia's newest clone children."
"I see, well that does pose a problem for our goal to be completed. Very well keep him there so a few more months. We shall see how much Project Lilith has progressed in her completion after that time."
"Yes sir, I will report the updates of the test to you next month."
"That will be all doctor, you are dismissed."
Three days later.
Lilith sat on the cold tile floor of a newly rebuilt testing room; her arms were crossed as she sighed. "Oh come on, can we get this test started already?" she asked not expecting to get an answer.
Instead the door to the far right of the room opened, a large metal container was pushed in. two men in bio-hazard suits then emerged from behind the container, and then unlocked the metal door on the front. They then quickly left the room and closed the door behind them, which clicked as the lock activated.
Lilith slowly got to her feet as she watched the container. She wondered what was inside, but at the same time she was afraid to find out.
She found out what was inside the container, and it made her have mixed emotions. One was anger and the other was concern. The being that stepped out into the light was a clone of Gaia; obvious changes had been made to her appearance. One was that this clone had crimson red hair and was more a model in figure.
Clenching her fists Lilith backed away from the clone until her back touched the cool tile wall. "You bastards! How dare you put one of her offspring in the same room with me!" she cried out in anger.
The clone smiled and walked toward Lilith, seeing as she appeared to be a perfect breeding thrall. "Come here little girl, we can have so much fun together." The clone cooed softly as for tentacles sprouted from its back.
"No way in hell bitch! Stay the fuck away from me!" Lilith yelled as she moved along the wall to keep away from this sex crazed whore.
"Oh come now, is that any way for you to treat your loving sibling? Come give your little sister Eva a hug." The clone said softly as her tentacles snaked out to take hold of Lilith.
"Fuck you bitch! I know what happens when you touch me. There is no way in hell I'm going to give you a 'hug' you got that!" Lilith said as she ran to the other side of the wall. She knew that it was pointless to run away but that didn't mean she couldn't try for a little while.
"Now you're just being a little brat. Fine if you want to play hard to get then so be it, but you will be in my arms and enjoying the pleasure that I give you." Eva said as she turned to keep her eyes fixed on Lilith. With a small innocent smile several more tentacles sprouted from her back and made their way to block Lilith's path.
Lilith was eventually caught and mercilessly dragged over to Eva. "Lilith be a good girl and calm down, I just want to get to know my older sister." With that said Eva wrapped her arms around Lilith and lightly kissed her neck. "Mmm… you smell so nice, and you taste so good too." She whispered softly.
"No get off of me! Let me go you crazy whore!" Lilith screamed as she tried to break free from the tentacles, but it was to no avail. Her limbs were held tight and escape was near impossible.
"Lilith please calm yourself, I promise that nothing I do will hurt you. In fact you might just enjoy all of my attention. Your young and lovely body needs to be satisfied sexually, and I doubt that the man who stole your purity would be able to fully satisfy you." Eve stated before she ripped Lilith's shirt apart.
"Don't you dare speak ill of him! I will kill you if you even think about laying any limb on his head." Lilith hissed as she once again struggled against the tentacles restraining her arms.
"Hush, hush now my dear. I have no intention of going near that man of yours, no I prefer women." Eva then lightly licked Lilith's neck. "They offer so much more fun ways of foreplay and teasing them is so much more entertaining."
"Let me go damn it! I don't want to be teased nor do I want any type of foreplay used on me!" Although she yelled out in protest her words fell upon deaf ears. Fore Eva's mind was set on one thing, pleasure.
"Such harmful words you speak, yet you have yet to notice what I've been doing to you for the last few moments." Eva said with a wicked smile before licking Lilith's neck.
Without even the slightest hint of notice several tentacles had wrapped around Lilith's body and had already begun to stimulate her. Now alert of what was being done to her Lilith started to moan softly, against her efforts to silence herself by biting down on her lower lip her moans were still audible.
It wasn't long before three tentacles had entered her mouth pussy and ass, each thrusting deep and hard into her body, giving her pleasure in massive doses. Her moans muffed, but still rather loud. Eva's hands once again teased Lilith's nipples and clit, all in an effort to make Lilith her new sex pet, someone to breed and make stronger more seductive offspring, who will spawn with every human creating a new race to conquer the planet.
Eva's thoughts were being sent to Lilith through symbiotic telepathy. It was those thoughts which made Lilith regain her strength and start to fight against the tentacles holding her.
"What's the matter love? Don't like the plans I have for this planet? Too bad, one way or another it will happen. Then once we are the dominate race I shall release our mother whom will bring about a new era and send our race back into the vast empire of space." These words were spoken through telepathy as to keep any unwanted ears from hearing them.
Thrashing about Lilith used every ounce of her strength to free herself and beat the living hell out of Eva, alas her efforts were ended by more tentacles sprouting from Eva's back and forcing Lilith's body into a stiff spread eagle position. All hope seemed to leave Lilith's mind, her fragile altered body no match for a pure born alien life form.
"That's a good girl, give up let me breed you. Let me make you one of my thralls to do with as I please." Eva said aloud with an amused laugh.
Then four tiles on the floor opened up as a cage rose from the lower levels. Inside where three young humans two female and one male, each were in perfect health and nicely shaped. The male was of Cuban descent, one of the females was a light black woman and the other was easily a mix of Mexican and Caucasian.
Eva turned to look at these three humans and smiled, more thralls to add to her plans of breeding. Two of her tentacles suddenly whipped the top of the cage off then lifted the two women out, a third and fourth took hold of the male. However the second he was lifted out of the cage Eva impaled his body onto the broken bars, killing him instantly. Then she threw his body at the windows of the observation room. "You dare give me a diseased wretch to couple with?! Do that again and I shall make sure your doctors are ripped apart upon my next examination!" she yelled in annoyance.
Without much care for the new thrall's pleading Eva thrust two tentacles into each of them, one into their mouths mostly to silence their whining, then one into their tight cunts. Both began moaning like whores in no time at all, it was all too easy making horny young women into thralls. Once pleasure was given they would be obedient little sluts to use and tease.
After a short passing of time Eva established mental links to the new women, now she could know exactly what each thought and felt. Searching through the black woman's mind Eva found that she enjoyed being fucked in every orifice, this brought a smile to Eva's lips for a moment before thrusting a third tentacle into the Black woman's tight ass. She then searched through the Latino's mind, what she found didn't please her at all. This Latino was a whore from New Mexico, a used and abused piece of ass. Personally Eva preferred her thralls to be pure not whores since birth. But she was clean, no STDs or any viral strands in her blood. She would be kept as is and used more often then the Black woman.
Just as Eva was about to impregnate all three women, Lilith's body started to spasm. But it was not from pleasure, something was wrong. With some worry about what was happening to her half-sister Eva removed every tentacle from Lilith's body, setting her down on the tiled floor. Her body shook in a frenzy of spasms. "What have you done to her? What did you put in her body!?" Eva shouted at the tinted windows, was this some sort of countermeasure to protect Lilith from conceiving a child? If it was Eva would make sure to kill everyone who was responsible.
Slowly the spasms stopped along with Lilith's heart.
Furious Eva's tentacles that once held Lilith grabbed the remnants of the cage and threw it at the tinted windows. Much to strength of the glass two windows shattered, a scream of hatred followed at Eva's tentacles wrapped around the Latino and pulled her limbs out in a spread eagle position, and then in a blink of an eye the woman was ripped apart. Blood Splashed over the Black woman and onto Lilith's lifeless body. The white tiled floor now covered by blood puddles. What remained of the woman was thrown through the shattered windows. "I will kill every one of you for killing her!"
Not wanting to kill the last thrall Eva released the black woman much too disappointed sighs of frustration.
In the observation room the staff were terrified that Eva might find her way inside and kill them all, from that fear most tried to flee from the room but due to the broken windows and the severed body the contamination procedures locked the doors. After many attempts to open the ten inch steel door the staff's fears were realized when Eva crawled through the window and began to tear the staff apart one by one. It wasn't long until there was only one member of the staff remaining. "Wait…. Please wait… I- I didn't want this to happen either; I'm not part of what happened to Lilith. I just record the data and send it to the higher authorities…" the young brunette said while shaking with fear and holding a clipboard tight to her chest.
"Oh? Is that all you are allowed to do here? That's such a shame for such a beautiful and smart woman." Eva said with a coy smirk as her tentacles wrapped around the woman's arms, legs and waist. "Well if that's the truth then I'll make you into one of my personal slaves. You will enjoy vast amounts of pleasure and give birth to many of my children." Her voiced became seductive as her pheromones began to swim through the woman's blood.
"I will be your… Slave…? Pleasure… oh yes please…" she moaned softly as her body began to heat up.
Moments later Eva was back in the testing room with her new thrall, she had already began pleasuring the brunette before continuing with the black woman. While the tentacles pleasured the thralls Eva knelt beside Lilith's blood covered body and held her tight to her own body. "They have been punished for killing you my dear sister. Rest now and be free of your hate. I will make this world pay by turning their women into my slaves, and using their men as my personal toys. Of course I'll treat your Jake Merkin with the utmost care; he'll enjoy many pleasures while I turn him into a male version of myself."
After Eva's words echoed through the room Lilith's body began to mutate, her solid form slowly becoming soft and changing into a near liquid state. In mere seconds she became a puddle of pulsing black slime.
Thinking this was the final stage of Lilith's degeneration Eva stood and turned to her thralls, she would begin her plans of impregnating them and enjoy destroying the facility. But when she lifted her foot the remains of Lilith clung to her and kept her in place, while the rest of the pulsing flesh began to crawl up Eva's body and engulf her.
Lilith's remains acted as some sort of deteriorating mass which had begun to devour Eva's skin, muscle, blood and bone. Melting away every last bit of her while covering her body and moving across the tentacles to the women, which would also share the same fate. Screams of agony filled the room; the pain these women felt could not be described in words.
When there was nothing left of Eva and the two women the pulsing remains began to form into a crystallise shell. Its exterior was harder then any metal known to man and yet it had an elastic trait.
Five days later after many of the remaining staff had collected data on the crystallise they found that something was living within and would eventually hatch. Whatever the creature may turn out to be it would be immune to all diseases and have great potential to become either a resource to cure every known illness or be the perfect bio-weapon for the government. But the military liaisons wanted more data to be able to fully utilize the hatched creature's abilities. So more computers scanning devices and sample collection machines were brought into the room to fully examine the crystallise and collect better research data.
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I hope my readers have enjoyed this teaser, I'm sorry to say that the full version is still a work in progress since there are a few things that need to be fully played out before I can post it. also the chapter name will be slightly different after the intro to help tell what might occur in the story.
Finally I beg for your patients as this will be a longer chapter then my previous ones. Thank you and enjoy this site.
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2011-06-21 00:05:23
i luved this and it was only a teaser :P
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The Phillies are Ruben Amaro's team. Other than Chase Utley, Amaro is responsible for every player on the Phillies right now. So what has Amaro given us with his team? In this second article evaluating what exactly Amaro is good at, I'll look at the Phillies' hitting. And I'll conclude this inquiry still searching for something Amaro is good at (which will be a recurring theme in this series, I'm afraid).
Amaro took over a very strong hitting team. The 2008 Phillies ranked highly in almost every hitting category. They were 2nd in the NL in runs scored, 3rd in OPS, 2nd in slugging percentage, 1st in home runs, and 3rd in wOBA. The only important category the Phillies were mediocre in was on-base percentage. The 2008 team was 7th in the NL in OBP.
Four years later, Amaro has decimated the team's hitting. In every relevant category, the team's hitting has gotten worse to the point of consistent mediocrity. In 2012, the Phillies were 8th in the NL in runs, 8th in OPS, 7th in slugging, 8th in home runs, and 8th in wOBA. They even slipped in on-base percentage, finishing the season 9th in the NL.
To be fair, it wasn't a clear steady drop under Amaro. The first year was another successful offensive year. But in that year, the only big difference was that Amaro did not re-sign Pat Burrell and instead replaced him with Raul Ibanez. Otherwise, the Phillies offense in 2009 was the same as in 2008 (including even the offensive-weak-link Pedro Feliz).
But after 2009, the trajectory is clear. The Phillies offense regressed toward mediocrity. Here's a chart of the team's NL rank in hitting categories. (Note, wOBA is used instead of fWAR because fWAR takes into account baserunning and fielding, two aspects of the team I'll address separately in future posts. wOBA includes only hitting.)
OBP | SLG | R | HR | OPS | wOBA | |
2008 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
2009 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
2010 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
2011 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
2012 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
The evidence is clear - with the team fully Amaro's responsibility, its hitting results have plummeted. The franchise that was among the crown jewels of the NL in terms of hitting, has become just another baseball team.
If we look at how this happened, it's not as easy to blame Amaro as saying he brought in worse hitters. Of the starting 8 hitters this year, 4 will be the same as the starting 8 in 2008 -- Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, and Carlos Ruiz. But, in one very important way, they are not the same as in 2008; they are five years older. With age brings decreased production and increased risk of injury. Amaro has failed to account for that with these four, as all of them have suffered at times over the past 4 year because of age, injury, or both.
In the other four positions, Amaro has turned strengths into weaknesses in all but one. The productive outfield of Burrell, Shane Victorino, and Jayson Werth has turned into Ben Revere and two players among Domonic Brown, Darin Ruf, Delmon Young, Laynce Nix, and John Mayberry Jr. For the 2008 or 2009 Phillies, Revere, the only guaranteed starter in 2013, is nothing but a late-inning defensive or base-running replacement. No doubt Revere is young, so hopefully he improves, but his complete lack of power (career ISO of .044!) and hardly-mediocre batting eye (career BB% of 5.4%!) do not bode well at all.
That leaves third base. Third base has bedeviled the Phillies ever since Scott Rolen left in a fit of half-righteous and half-manufactured anger. But what has passed for hitting by third basemen under Amaro should make us all long for the David Bell years. OK, maybe that's a stretch, but Pedro Feliz (2008 and 2009) gave way to Placido Polanco (2010 and 2011) who gave way to the ghost of Placido Polanco along with Kevin Frandsen, Ty Wigginton, Mike Fontenot, Michael Martinez, Pete Orr, and Hector Luna (all started at 3B in 2013). As much as third base was not a strength of the 2008 or 2009 Phillies (is that the nicest thing ever said about Pedro Feliz?), by the end of 2012, it was worse, much worse.
Michael Young, acquired this off-season by Amaro, has to be an improvement . . . doesn't he? If the Phillies get the 2009 to 2011 Michael Young, who averaged a .313/.361/.476 triple-slash line and a 118 OPS+, then absolutely yes. But, the 2012 Michael Young was a different creature. That Michael Young hit .277/.312/.370 with a 78 OPS+. That's only slightly better than the composite .272/.315/.357 line posted by the Phillies' 2012 third-basemen (that glorious list in the previous paragraph).
This is not a good overall track record for Amaro and hitting. He has planned poorly for aging players and is relying on late career injury comebacks. He has utterly destroyed the team's previously dominant outfield. And he is hoping that his new third baseman can re-discover performance he is a season removed from while re-learning a position in the field.
And the proof is in the numbers. The Phillies hitting has declined year after year, and Amaro is responsible.
So as not to unfairly besmirch Amaro, I'll be fair in concluding this piece and note that there is one number Amaro has improved. Here's a chart of the team rank in strikeout percentage and walk percentage:
2008 | 9 | 5 |
2009 | 6 | 8 |
2010 | 2 | 4 |
2011 | 2 | 6 |
2012 | 2 | 15 |
In other words, Amaro has done a great job of compiling a team that strikes out a lot less -- for the third year in a row, the Phillies were second best in the NL last year. But, the emphasis Amaro has repeatedly put on not striking out, while paying off in strikeout results, has come at the expense of walking, getting on base, hitting for power, and producing runs.
That, so far, has been Amaro's hitting legacy in a nutshell. The Phillies don't strike out much anymore, but they also don't produce much either. For all but the most strike-out-phobic, that's not a bargain that makes sense at all.


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The numbers are out for Adequate Yearly Progress for the Class of 2013 in Bremen High School District 228, and like other high school districts in the state, D228 didn't measure up.
But the results didn't surprise district administrators, who say this way of evaluating students is stacked against schools.
"The system that we're working in is absurd," said Supt. Bill Kendall. "You're doing the best you can in an absurd system, but you're set up for failure, really. I hate to say that."
The data shows that district-wide, only 40.7 percent of students in reading and 41 percent of students in math met state standards for the year; the standards were set at 85 percent of students meeting state-set scores.
District students are expected to meet 100 percent of state-set scores by 2014, according to AYP planning.
"Nobody met 85 percent, nobody is going to meet 90 percent, and nobody is going to meet 100," said Assistant Supt. of Teaching and Learning Corinne Williams. "The intent is good, to make sure that we're pushing all kids. But when you're using a test [the ACT], it's a college entrance test designed to sort and separate. … They're getting the same results year after year."
"It's very frustrating, because you constantly get pressure from the state," Williams added. "'You're not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress. Now you're in corrective action. Now you're in restructuring. Every time you turn around, there's a different mandate, based on how we're doing on tests."
Kendall and Williams both said students' progress is in line with the district's own goals, with student test scores improving yearly and students continuing to graduate on time, many moving on to post-secondary education and jobs.
"We're preparing our kids for post-secondary, whatever that may be," Williams said.
The administrators pointed to the district's graduation rates, which have hovered around 90 percent from 2007 to 2010—with 2011 rates dropping to 81 percent because of a reclassification in how special education students are classified at graduation time—as proof that the district is providing students with a strong education.
"We're doing things," Williams said. "We're helping our kids achieve."
The following is a breakdown of D228 subgroups, as a district and at Oak Forest and Tinley Park high schools. Subgroups are groups of 45 students or more who fall into a specific demographic, based on race, income, special needs, English proficiency and other variables.
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Subgroups District Score % AYP Score % Met AYP All 40.7 85 No White 56.4 85 No Black 28.4 85 No Hispanic 32.7 85 No Students with Disabilities 24.4 85 No Economically Disadvantaged 31.5 85 NoMath
Subgroups District Score % AYP Score % Met AYP All 41 85 No White 59.4 85 No Black 25.1 85 No Hispanic 32.9 85 No Students with Disabilities 23.8 85 No Economically Disadvantaged 29.1 85 No
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Subgroup Score % AYP % Met AYP All 50.3 85 No White 53.7 85 No Hispanic 45 85 No Economically Disadvantaged 45.3 85 Yes*Math
Subgroup Score % AYP % Met AYP All 52.7 85 No White 58.7 85 No Hispanic 42.6 85 No Economically Disadvantaged 43.1 85 Yes*Tinley Park High School
Subgroup Score % AYP % Met AYP All 50.7 85 No White 64.8 85 Yes* Black 28.9 85 No Hispanic N/A 85 N/A Economically Disadvantaged 34.685 No Students With Disabilities 33.9 85 Yes
Subroup Score % AYP % Met AYP All 51.9 85 No White 67.9 85 Yes Black 25.6 85 No Hispanic N/A N/A N/A Economically Disadvantaged 38.3 85 NoStudents With Disabilities 33.9 85 Yes
SOURCE: Bremen High School District 228
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The annual show has reclaimed some of its glamour and energy as the auto industry continues to rebound from its dreadful slump in 2008-2009.
Among the new models this year — theFordFusion and the HondaAccord in the family-car market and GM Cadillac ATS sports sedan and BMW 3 Series in the luxury market.
Toyota's Lexus will show off its LF-LC, an advanced hybrid sports coupe, and Chrysler Group will unveil a new version of the Dodge Dart, the famous nameplate last offered in 1976.
CNBC's Phil LeBeau is at the show, where he's checking out the vehicles and talking to industry executives. Here are some highlights of what German automakers brought to Detroit.
BMWon Monday trotted out a new version of its 3 series, the best-selling luxury sedan in the world, with 94,000 sold last year. The least expensive model sells for around $34,000.
BMW faces new competition from Mercedes-Benz and GM's ATS, which was unveiled Sunday and hits showrooms this spring.
Ludwig Willisch, BMW North America CEO, describes the vehicle's new design and partly new engine.
he German automaker is also drawing attention because of widespread speculation that it will soon announce details on a plan to increase production at its Spartanburg, S.C., plant, where it already builds almost 300,000 vehicles a year.
The South Carolina plant, which was first expanded in 2008-2009, might get an additional assembly line for a new model, which could mean 1,500-2000 new jobs.
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By Natalie Knoth
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As any gardener knows, watering plants isn't as simple as unwinding the hose and dragging it across the yard.
Particularly with the fluctuating weather conditions this summer — hot and humid one day, cool and rainy the next — determining how much and when to water can leave even the most seasoned gardener confused.
We asked for advice from three gardening experts in the area: Chris Jensen, horticulturist at Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark; Greg Meyer, Ohio State University Extension educator; and John Scott, Knollwood Garden Center general manager. All three cautioned that their advice is general and must be adjusted depending on the type of plant, its location and the weather.
"When I teach gardening, I tell them the really good gardeners don't have a green thumb; they have the uncanny ability to know when their plants need water," Meyer said. "Water is the most important thing for plants. They can't live without it."
Basic watering tips
Chris Jensen: "Watering at the base rather than using overhead sprinklers is better. You get more water down to the root."
Greg Meyer: "It's better to water slowly and deeply than sprinkling a little bit quickly every day. The plant doesn't have the ability to soak it all up, so it runs off."
John Scott: "The key thing is testing your soil. I tell people watering is like cooking. You can always add more garlic to the soup, but you can't take it out. Watering is the same way. You can always water again."
When to water
Jensen: "For flower beds and lawns, you want to water less frequently but longer. Generally speaking, once a week for a couple hours is better than sprinkling. The water sinks into the soil, and the roots follow the water. If you use sprinklers for a short time every day, the roots stay just below the surface and will dry out very quickly if you do not water daily."
Meyer: "Much depends on location: where they're planted and what they're planted in. For instance, if you have a lot in containers, anything that's above the ground will dry out very quickly. Vegetable gardens and flower beds may be fine with just a couple times a week."
Scott: "You always want to water in the morning so the plant can dry in the sun, because you don't want leaves to have so much moisture and the roots to be oversaturated at night. But it can also be done at 5 or 6 in the evening so the foliage is dry at night."
What to do while on vacation
Jensen: "You've got to be really specific — this much, for this long, using this hose. Also, use timers for sprinklers."
Meyer: "Watering ahead of time only does so much good. You can't flood the whole area and say, 'Well, that should be good enough.'"
Scott: "There's no formula that says, 'Yes, if you water every day, you'll be in good shape.' It really depends on ... so many variables."
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- 1British An edible Mediterranean plant, the bitter leaves of which may be used in salads.
- Cichorium endivia, family Compositae. The varieties of endive are placed in two groups: curly endive, with curled leaves, and Batavian endive, with smooth leaves
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- All you need to accompany this dish is a bitter, leafy salad like rocket and endives in an olive oil and lemon dressing.
- The company also produces bulb onions, parsnips, leeks, endives, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflowers, cabbage, swede and about five per cent of Britain's asparagus crop.
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Change uses of _"foo" to (intl:gettext "foo"). This is because slime may get confused with source locations if the reader macros are installed.
Remove _N"" reader macro from docstrings when possible.
Merge intl-branch 2010-03-18 to HEAD. To build, you need to use boot-2010-02-1 as the bootstrap file. You should probably also use the new -P option for build.sh to generate and update the po files while building.
Restart internalization work. This new branch starts with code from the intl-branch on date 2010-02-12 18:00:00+0500. This version works and LANG=en@piglatin bin/lisp works (once the piglatin translation is added).
o Make COMPILER-WARNING do the string lookup instead of at each call site. o Change all calls to COMPILER-WARNING to use _N" instead of _".
o Make COMPILER-NOTE do the string lookup instead of at each call site. o Change all calls to COMPILER-NOTE to use _N" instead of _".
Mark translatable strings; regenerate cmucl.pot and ko/cmucl.po accordingly.
Add (intl:textdomain "cmucl") to the files to set the textdomain.
boot-2009-07.lisp: o Bootstrap file needed to compile this change (because the current shrink-vector derive-type optimizer didn't handle union types). compiler/fndb.lisp: o Make the compiler warn if the result of lisp::shrink-vector is not used. This is a problem because the compiler doesn't know that shrink-vector destructively modifies the length of a vector. As a partial solution, warn the user if the result of shrink-vector is not. code/hash-new.lisp: code/seq.lisp: o Make sure the result of shrink-vector is used, to get rid of a new compiler warning. code/unidata.lisp: o Modify %unicode-full-case so that it doesn't use shrink-vector anymore. compiler/seqtran.lisp: o Fix shrink-vector derive-type optimizer to handle union types. tools/build-unidata.lisp: o Fix typo that someone got in. o Make sure the result of shrink-vector is used, to get rid of a new compiler warning.
Merge Unicode work to trunk. From label unicode-utf16-extfmt-2009-06-11.
Add derive-type optimizer for lisp::shrink-vector so the compiler knows the result type of lisp::shrink-vector. (Without this, the return type is always VECTOR, instead of the same type as the input vector.)
Merge from unicode-utf16 branch, label unicode-utf16-char-support-2009-03-25 to get character support.
Compare strings using code-point order, since we don't have any kind of collation support.
Merge code from main branch of 2005-12-17 to ppc gencgc branch. Still doesn't work of course.
Merge snapshot-2005-05 to this branch.
The deftransforms for STRING<*, STRING<=*, STRING>*, and STRING>=* were wrong. Replace them with, essentially, the version in STRING<>=*-BODY in string.lisp. (Should merge these into one macro!) This fixes the cmucl-type-prop 32-34 tests.
o Remove the :derive-type option from the defknowns for concatenate and make-sequence o Add derive-type optimizers for concatenate and make-sequence that only derives the type when the output sequence specifier is a subtype of sequence. (Only done for constant specifiers.) These changes fix the bug where the compiler deletes all code, including the return for (defun foo () (concatenate 'fixnum '(1 2 3))). This is caused by confusion in the compiler where derive-node-type conflicts with the declared return type and causes all trailing blocks to be deleted.
Add a derive-type optimizer for MAP.
Dynamic-extent support for x86. Use boot16.lisp for bootstrapping. * src/bootfiles/18e/boot16.lisp: New file. * src/docs/cmu-user/extensions.tex (Dynamic-Extent Declarations): New section. * src/compiler/x86/macros.lisp (dynamic-extent-allocation): Rename from stack-allocation, save an instruction. (allocation): Don't call trust-dynamic-extent-declaration-p. * src/compiler/x86/alloc.lisp (%dynamic-extent-start) (%dynamic-extent-end): New vops. (list-or-list*): Add constant arg dynamic-extent. (fixed-alloc): Likewise. * src/compiler/generic/vm-ir2tran.lisp (do-fixed-alloc): Call fixed-alloc with dynamic-extent arg. * src/compiler/hppa/alloc.lisp (%dynamic-extent-start) (%dynamic-extent-end): Add dummy vops. * src/compiler/mips/alloc.lisp: * src/compiler/ppc/alloc.lisp: * src/compiler/alpha/alloc.lisp: * src/compiler/rt/alloc.lisp: Likewise. * src/compiler/seqtran.lisp (mapper-transform): Add dynamic-extent declarations. * src/compiler/node.lisp (continuation): Add slot dynamic-extent. (cleanup): Add :dynamic-extent to type of slot kind. * src/compiler/knownfun.lisp (dynamic-extent-closure-safe): New attribute. * src/compiler/ir2tran.lisp (ir2-stack-allocate): New function. (ir2-convert-closure): Handle dynamic-extent case differently. (%dynamic-extent, %dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end) <ir2-convert>: New optimizers. (list, list*): Handle dynamic-extent. * src/compiler/ir1tran.lisp (*trust-dynamic-extent-declarations*) (*dynamic-extent-trace*): New variables. (trust-dynamic-extent-declaration-p): New function. (process-dynamic-extent-declaration) (dynamic-extent-allocation-p, dynamic-extent-closure-args) (gen-%dynamic-extent, with-dynamic-extent): New functions/macros. (ir1-convert-combination): Handle dynamic-extent closure args. (ir1-convert-combination-args): Add arg dynamic-extent-args. Set continuation-dynamic-extent for these args. (process-dynamic-extent-declaration): Rewritten. (ir1-convert-dynamic-extent-bindings): New function. (ir1-convert-special-bindings): Call it. (ir1-convert-lambda-body): Handle dynamic-extent rest lists. (let): Handle dynamic-extent vars. (let*): Call ir1-convert-dynamic-extent-bindings. * src/compiler/globaldb.lisp (*trust-dynamic-extent-declarations*) (trust-dynamic-extent-declaration-p): Remove. * src/compiler/fndb.lisp: Add dynamic-extent-closure-safe attribute to assorted functions. * src/compiler/envanal.lisp (environment-analyze): Call find-dynamic-extent-safe-closures. (emit-cleanups): Handle :dynamic-extent cleanups. (*suppress-dynamic-extent-closure-safe*): New variable. (mark-dynamic-extent-safe-closures) (find-dynamic-extent-safe-closures): New functions. * src/compiler/byte-comp.lisp (compute-produces-and-consumes): Treat :dynamic-extent like :tagbody cleanups. * src/code/exports.lisp ("C"): Export ir2-stack-allocate, %dynamic-extent, %dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end. * src/code/byte-interp.lisp (%dynamic-extent): (%dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end): New functions. (toplevel): Enable block compilation.
* src/compiler/seqtran.lisp (mapper-transform): Add dynamic-extent declarations for better testing. * src/compiler/ir2tran.lisp (%dynamic-extent): (%dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end): Optimizers rewritten/added. * src/compiler/ir1tran.lisp (process-dynamic-extent-declaration): Add check for not byte-compiling. (dynamic-extent-allocation): Removed. (dynamic-extent-allocation-p): Added. (dynamic-extent-closure-args): Return indices only. (gen-%dynamic-extent): Rewritten. (with-dynamic-extent): Remove last arg. (ir1-convert-dynamic-extent-bindings): Use dynamic-extent-allocation-p. (let): Likewise. * src/compiler/fndb.lisp (%dynamic-extent) (%dynamic-extent-start): Change/add defknowns. * src/compiler/eval-comp.lisp (%dynamic-extent) (%dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end): Change/add. * src/compiler/envanal.lisp (compute-closure-lengths): Remove function. (emit-cleanups): Handle %dynamic-extent differently. * src/compiler/byte-comp.lisp (%dynamic-extent-start): Add. (%dynamic-extent, %dynamic-extent-end): Change according to new arg list. * src/code/exports.lisp ("C"): Export allocation-size, %dynamic-extent, %dynamic-extent-start, %dynamic-extent-end. * src/compiler/x86/macros.lisp (dynamic-extent-allocation): Simplify again. * src/compiler/x86/alloc.lisp (%dynamic-extent-start) (%dynamic-extent-end): New vops. (pop-stack): Remove vop. * src/compiler/ir1tran.lisp (process-dynamic-extent-declaration): Don't if (byte-compiling). (dynamic-extent-closure-args): Use global-var-p.
Borrow SBCL's new deftransform for map-into to speed up map-into.
Fix ELT.1B, ELT.14 from ansi-test/compiled. * src/compiler/seqtran.lisp (%setelt, elt) <deftransform, list>: Use only in unsafe code, because elt is supposed to signal an error if the index is out of bounds.
The deftransform for find should return the item we found, not the item we were looking for (because of :test-not).
This set of revisions brings the RELENG_18 branch up to HEAD in preparation for an 18c release.
Implement a specializing CONS class as per issue CONS-TYPE-SPECIFIER:ADD. The new cons-type which maintains the specialised CAR and CDR types: o Typep recurses, checking the respective car and cdr specialisations; two cons-types are type= if both their car and cdr types are type=. o Subtypep recurses, applying subtypep to the respective car and cdr types. If both sub-tests return true then the cons test returns true with a win only when both sub-tests win. If either sub-test returns false then the cons tests returns false with a win if either of sub-tests win. o Type-intersection is applied to the respective car and cdr types, and wins if both win. o The type-union of two cons-types handles cases for which either the respective car or cdr types are type=, in which case type-union is applied to the other type. This avoid returning an overly general result. o Ctype-of a cons object simply returns (cons * *); and does not attempt to recurse. o The compiler recursively checks the specialised type of the cons-type, which allows it to also use this type information to derive the result type car and cdr. Inline code is currently only generated when natively compiling.
Fix the mapper-transform to only evaluate the function argument once. Noted by Andy Freeman or Charlene Wacenske.
Fix headed boilerplate.
Fix compiler warnings.
Transform member, delete and assoc to memq, assq and delq when possible. Inline expand vector & list POSITION, vector FILL and list DELETE-IF.
Un-:both'ed the transformation to string<>=*, since increasing the number of args probably isn't a win in byte code.
Update transforms to inhibit ones which pessimize byte code.
Changed loop destructuring to destructuring-bind.
Convert SIMPLE-STRING SEARCH to %SP-STRING-SEARCH.
Changed MEMBER transform to always return the correct tail of the list, instead of trying to "optimize" the case where the destination is an IF. This was gratuitous, and confused type inference.
Quoted arg/result types in :EVAL-NAME DEFTRANSFORMs.
Changed to use :EVAL-NAME and closures instead of macros for the string transforms (reducing code bloat.) Removed some commented-out stuff.
New file header with RCS stuff.
Changed the ELT and %SETELT transforms to only change to AREF when we know we have a non-complex vector. This ensures that ELT bound checking will respect the fill pointer.
Moved MIPS branch onto trunk; no merge necessary.
Merged trunk changes into MIPS branch.
Fixed the MEMBER transform to be correct, and to generate somewhat more straightfoward code (from the compiler's point of view.) Previously we returned T or NIL, rather than the correct tail of the list.
Changed %primitive find-character to %sp-find-character.
Changed a string-char to character.
Moved simple-string sequence transforms into vm-type.lisp because they are vm specific.
Changed calls to %primitive byte-blt to call bit-bash-copy.
Fixed some typos. In POSITION, changed use of STRING-CHAR-P to TYPEP.
The the macrolet for defining string/=*, string=* transforms, comma in the name instead of always defining a transform for string/=*.
Fixed yet more crap in CONCATENATE/SIMPLE-STRING.
Fixed yet more crud in CONCATENATE/SIMPLE-STRING.
Cleaned up some crud in the CONCATENATE/SIMPLE-STRING transform.
Added SIMPLE-STRING transforms for SUBSEQ, COPY-SEQ, REPLACE, CONCATENTATE, FIND and POSITION.
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The New Zealand Law Review, published quarterly by the Legal Research Foundation since 1966, is the premier law journal published in New Zealand. It is available in hard copy, and is also published electronically by both Lexis Nexis and Hein Online. It includes refereed articles by leading New Zealand and international scholars, together with annual and biennial reviews of the major areas of the law, written by specialist contributing editors. The Editors of the Law Review are Treasa Dunworth and Hanna Wilberg of the University of Auckland Faculty of Law.
The New Zealand Law Review recently celebrated 20 years of publication. The Governor-General of New Zealand attended and spoke at the function held to celebrate this milestone. Please click the link to read about the event - news-_the_university_of_auckland