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Press Release
Brussels, 3rd July 2012
Commission questions France and Luxembourg about reduced VAT rate on digital books
The European Commission has launched an infringement procedure against France and Luxembourg because the VAT rates they are applying to digital books are potentially incompatible with EU law.
EU legislation allows Member States to apply reduced VAT rates to a limited list of goods and services set out in Annex III to the VAT Directive. Downloading of digital books is regarded as a service supplied electronically, which is not included in this list and cannot therefore be taxed at the reduced rate.
In its Communication of December 2011 on the future of VAT, the Commission launched a debate on the possibility of moving towards convergence of the VAT rates applicable, on the one hand, to traditional books and, on the other, to digital books. The Commission will put forward proposals by the end of 2013. It is not possible, however, to ensure convergence towards the reduced rate currently applicable to traditional books without amending the VAT Directive.
France and Luxembourg nevertheless decided to apply reduced rates to digital books as of 1 January 2012, thereby infringing EU law. The rates are 7% for France and 3% for Luxembourg.
This situation is creating serious distortions of competition that are damaging to economic operators in the other 25 Member States since digital books can easily be purchased in a State other than the one where the consumer resides and, under the current rules, the VAT rate applies is that of the provider's, not the customer's, Member State. Local actors in the electronic book market have complained that some of the dominant players in this market have reorganised their distribution channels to benefit from these reduced rates, which has apparently had a serious effect on the sale of books (both digital and traditional) in the other Member States in the first quarter of 2012.
The Commission considers that these reductions might not be in line with European law and has decided to send letters of formal notice to both Member States. This first stage allows the two countries to explain their positions. France and Luxembourg have one month to submit their comments. If the information provided is not regarded as sufficient, the Commission could formally state that there has been an infringement and send a reasoned opinion to the two countries asking them to change their laws, which is the second stage of the infringement procedure.
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Governments meeting at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) have approved a step change for biodiversity: a new Strategic Plan for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on the planet's biodiversity and take urgent action to save and restore nature; an agreed new protocol on access and benefit sharing; and have pledged some serious new resources to bring the agreements to life.
The plan consists of 20 targets designed to tackle the extinction crisis and restore the earth's natural capital. There is also a deal, following hours of intensive all night negotiations on an agreement for a new international regime to give access to genetic resources, while at the same time making sure that benefits derived from them are properly shared (ABS), and a strategy for effective financing to fund efforts to save the natural world.
"We've seen history in the making here in Nagoya with a landmark agreement now in place that defines the future for life on earth," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. "Here in Japan the international community have moved closer to the realisation that it's time we stopped considering nature as expendable, and any related expenditure a write-off - it's time we valued and conserved nature."
The stakes have been high at the Nagoya conference. The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, released two days ago, showed that nature's very backbone is at risk – with a third of species assessed seriously threatened and many among them facing the risk of extinction. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study, known as TEEB, warns us that many of the benefits of nature that we have been taking for granted and enjoyed for free up until now are at risk of running out. The Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 showed that we are on the verge of catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
"What we've decided at this meeting will change the future of life on Earth - and many solutions are available to us," says Jane Smart, Director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. "We know that targeted conservation action works. Results from the latest Red List show us that the status of biodiversity would have declined by an additional 20 percent at least, if conservation action had not been taken."
"Participants may be leaving Nagoya this Friday but they still need to be working to save life on this planet from Monday morning." We need to harness the energy of this meeting, where we've seen huge and significant commitments in terms of reinvigorated political will as well as real money from the likes of Japan and in terms of pledges to increase protected areas from the likes of Guinea Bissau. We need to bring the plan to life for life."
"We've also seen increased participation and real engagement from the business community, local authorities and national politicians. There is a momentum here which we cannot afford to lose - in fact we have to build on it if we stand any chance of success in halting the extinction crisis. We congratulate the Government of Japan for their leadership at this Summit."
"The scale of the threats facing nature is now clear. Government have agreed precisely in the forming of 20 clear targets on what needs to be done, enshrining them in an agreed decision to adopt a Strategic Plan at COP10. We now have the opportunity to bring this to life."
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
• Nicki Chadwick, IUCN Media Relations Officer, m +41 79 528 3486, e [email protected]
• Brian Thomson, Media Relations Manager, m +41 79 721 8326, e [email protected]
IUCN's involvement with the Convention on Biological Diversity

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text: this leather paint and dye is produced by Angelus, it comes in a huge range of colours as well as sizes. There is 1oz, 4oz and 1pint sizes of leather paint available as well as 3oz leather dye and 3oz and 1pint suede dyes. There is a range of brightly coloured neon paints as well as metallic paints.


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What is the biggest overall challenge to the success of the various Stack Exchange sites?
I'm trying to think of problems holding back, or threatening the success of, the Stack Exchange sites (including official, unofficial and up-and-coming sites). In other words, the whole SE platform.
One challenge per answer please.


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Perfect mortise-and-tenon joints require straight, square mortises with flat walls. If you've got the skills, you can chop them out by hand. You also can drill overlapping holes on a drill press or hog out the recess with a router and then square the walls with a chisel. And if your drill press is big enough, you might be able to outfit it with a mortising attachment.
But if you cut mortises regularly and you want efficiency, repeatability and precision, a dedicated mortising machine is just the ticket.
Mortisers are able to cut square holes because they use a hollow chisel with an auger bit inside. The auger bit extends beyond the chisel to remove most of the material, and the chisel follows to square up the walls. After a quick and easy setup, you'll be ready to chop out mortises by the dozen. And dedicated mortisers are built with the power and heft necessary to get the job done – without wearing you out.
Rockler offers great benchtop mortising machines for the home shop, as well as a beefier floor-standing model. And you'll find the necessary accessories, too – from different sizes of hollow chisels and bits to honing tools to keep the chisels sharp.


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Audi S3
The third-generation model of Audi's all-wheel-drive S3 is the first in a series of new performance cars from the Volkswagen Group to benefit from an advanced turbocharged 2.0-liter direct-injection gasoline engine developed from scratch as part of Audi's EA888 engine family.
With 296 hp at 5,500 rpm and 280 lb-ft of torque between 1,800 and 5,500 rpm, the new four-cylinder engine provides the S3 with unprecedented levels of performance. There is an additional 35 hp and 22 lb-ft of torque compared with the EA113 engine used by the second-generation S3 on sale since 2006.


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IT'S time for our must-read Sunday blog on this new-look Angler's Mail website. Every Sunday we welcome coarse fishing all-rounder Colin Mitchell.
For many years Colin was a senior Angler's Mail magazine staff man and he has enjoyed a long, interesting journalism career. He understands match fishing, pleasure fishing, carp fishing – the lot.
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COME on, admit it…I bet you've tried some weird and wonderful baits during your fishing expeditions.
It's either been for a bit of experimentation or sheer desperation to get a bite.
Stick with me on this one and by the time you get to the end of this blog I'll reveal something that some anglers have been trying to keep secret…
But first, and still on the bait trail, my pal was out on a local pond last week and just had to ring me on his return and not just to tell me how this new-found water was stuffed with fish. He could hardly stop laughing at what he had seen two youngsters bait up with – a six-inch long sandeel topped off with a slice of ham! I kid you not. It's true! Not quite sure what they were aiming to catch but they failed. They went home with a blankety blank.
Just a couple of weeks ago I found that chopping and changing my baits on one of my favourite waters brought me bites on a regular basis. Corn, meat, maggots and various pellets were all used in rotation and then, all of a sudden, I stopped getting bites. There was only one thing for it – a piece of my liver pate sandwich moulded into a paste soon had those carp and tench coming once more!
A fairly conventional bait really in the form of bread and a meaty treat but over the years I'll experimented quite a bit, usually by going through the shelves of various supermarkets for possible baits. My theory has always been that if I fancy noshing something the fish will fancy it too. Canned fish, any form of tinned meat, something savoury or sweet…they all work.
One weekend my lad and I had been catching every put in on a commercial and it had got to that stage where you try different sized hooks, floats, rigs and methods just to keep up interest. We both had slices of pizza in our boxes that were left over from the previous night's home delivery and were meant to be our lunch. You know what comes next…
Barbecue chicken, all those nice bits from a meat feast, bits of corn and even chunks of pizza bread all caught for us. And yes I have caught on chips but have yet to try an Indian takeaway on the fish, although I can see a nice piece of chicken tikka or beef curry working quite well! That's if we have any left…
Ok, you have got this far so as promised I'm going to let you in on the 'secret' baits that have been catching well for a number or anglers over the course of the past nine months or so.
First up…tinned vegetables! You know what they look like, those diced carrots, bits of corn, various beans and who knows what else! Great for loose feed and not too difficult to get on the hook. Natural baits too, so no danger to the fish.
But the biggie – especially for roach – has been tinned peas!
Yes, those round green things a lot of kids loathe have proved to be a big favourite with the redfins and with the colder weather kicking in they are worth a try.
Persevere though as they might not work instantly, although I do know anglers who were catching well on the green guys in early spring. I fancy they will also work for bream, carp and tench.
And if you see bubbles over your loose feed it could be that the fish have eaten too many…
COLIN MITCHELL'S NEXT BLOG WILL APPEAR ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21. Click HERE to catch up on his previous blogs.
Here's the list of all our new blogs and when they go live:
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TUESDAY: Steve Collett, Mail contributor and ultimate all-rounder.
WEDNESDAY: Angler's Mail HQ – yes, us!
THURSDAY: Specialists from Pike Anglers Club, Korum, Pallatrax and Marukyu, on rotation.
FRIDAY: Carl & Alex, Angler's Mail juniors and video diary makers.
SATURDAY: The Angling Trust – guys at the governing body.
SUNDAY: Colin Mitchell, veteran coarse angler and top journalist
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Public education
Public education or schools are those provided and regulated by governments.
Creation vs. evolution
- Main Article: Anticreation in public schools
There is perhaps no other place where anticreation sentiment is more apparent than in the U.S. public school system. A country with a solid Christian heritage has reached a status where teachers have become fearful of exposing their faith in the workplace. Secular humanism is the prevailing teaching point of view in public schools, and some have gone far enough to say that it is the official religion of the United States public school system.[1][2]
This movement is in no small part due to the activities of groups opposed to Christian values such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which quickly move to sue any school district where it is reported that a teacher is challenging Darwinism or introducing intelligent design concepts in the classroom. Numerous examples have also been documented where educators were discriminated against in academia simply because of their faith in God, even when their beliefs never made it into the classroom.[3]
Progress has also been furthered by the National Academy of Sciences, which is predominated by atheism and advices U.S. policy makers regarding science education. To this end, the NAS strongly discourages the teaching of creationism and urges teachers to define science in terms of philosophical naturalism (See: Science, Evolution, and Creationism). Government policy is now also in place to discourage those who believe in God from receiving teaching certificates.[4]
Evolution monopoly
Today, government-funded schools in Western societies teach that life originated in an indescribable biological ooze untold millions of years ago, that all life on the planet is related via macroevolution, and specifically that men and apes share a common ancestor. In America, these ideas directly contradict the religious and historical beliefs of 48% of the population who believe that God created humans in their present form.[5] Yet the general theory of evolution is taught as fact in schools funded by taxes taken from people who disagree with these views.
Since the 1950s, evolutionists have had a virtual monopoly in public education. This is in part due to legislation and Supreme Court rulings. While there are no laws prohibiting the teaching of creationism in schools, Webster v. New Lenox School District ruled that a school district can ban a teacher from teaching creationism. Furthermore, as noted in Edwards v. Aguillard and John E. Peloza v. Capistrano Unified School District (1994), "the Supreme Court has held unequivocally that while the belief in a divine creator of the universe is a religious belief, the scientific theory that higher forms of life evolved from lower forms is not." Nevertheless, the majority of cases to date in the United States have revolved around efforts by creationists to prohibit the teaching of evolution (in the Scopes Trial and others), and to require that creation science must at least be taught alongside evolution in government schools. These efforts were halted by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the first amendment Establishment Clause in Edwards vs. Aguillard. But none of these cases prohibited teachers from teaching creationism or intelligent design in schools.[3]
Another contributing factor resulting in a monopoly by evolutionists in public schools is the high number of scientists who are atheists, and in particular those who advise US policy makers. Close to 60% of US scientists have professed disbelief in God according to survey spanning the last 100 years. A 1998 survey of the members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that "disbelief is greater than ever; almost total". Biologists in the NAS were found to possess the lowest rate of belief of all the science disciplines, with only 5.5% believing in God.[6] These number are perhaps most disturbing when it is considered that the NAS is a national government agency, which advises US policy makers about how science should be taught in public schools.[7] A booklet published by the NAS in 1999 and updated in 2008 (Science, Evolution, and Creationism) states unequivocally that creationism has no place in any science curriculum at any level.[8] As a result of such advise and empowerment by these greater scientists, elementary, high school, and university biology teachers and administrators teach an atheistic brand of science exclusively.
Historically, American creationists have sought to pass laws either banning evolution, requiring equal time for creation science, placing stickers in books disclaiming evolution, and requiring teachers to read one-minute statements mentioning the existence of intelligent design. None of these actions have been successful at breaking the aforementioned monopoly. As a result, a number of creationist organizations have questioned this tactic. Answers in Genesis, for instance, has said: "AiG is not a lobby group, and we oppose legislation for compulsion of creation teaching ... why would we want an atheist forced to teach creation and give a distorted view? But we would like legal protection for teachers who present scientific arguments against the sacred cow of evolution such as staged pictures of peppered moths and forged embryo diagrams ..."[9]
Doubtless if there were high school biology teachers in government schools willing and able to teach ID adequately and sympathetically, such legal protections would be appropriate. At the moment, however, in the absence of such teachers, some advocates of creationism continue to attempt to require government school biology teachers who do not understand or accept creationism to teach it against their will.
Academic Freedom Petition
Across America, the freedom of scientists, teachers, and students to question Darwin is coming under increasing attack by self-appointed defenders of the theory of evolution who are waging a malicious campaign to demonize and blacklist anyone who disagrees with them.
You can help by signing the Academic Freedom Petition and stand up for free speech and free scientific inquiry.
|"We, the undersigned American citizens, urge the adoption of policies by our nation's academic institutions to ensure teacher and student academic freedom to discuss the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian evolution. Teachers should be protected from being fired, harassed, intimidated, or discriminated against for objectively presenting the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian theory. Students should be protected from being harassed, intimidated, or discriminated against for expressing their views about the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian theory in an appropriate manner."
If you agree with this statement please sign the petition and join other Americans in supporting academic freedom. Petitions will be delivered to appropriate state and federal education officials and departments.[10]
Education News
- American Churches Have a Better Reputation Than Higher Ed or the Media Institutional trust continues to decline in surveys, but religious organizations still rank high. Christianity Today, July 11, 2017.
- Sorry, Old Testament: Most Theologians Don't Use You Should systematic theologies equally rely on Bible verses from the Old and New Testament? Experts weigh in. Christianity Today, June 13, 2017.
- Student sues school district after her forced 'confession' Not long after a student from Loomis Basin Charter School (LBCS) invited her two friends to a Creation seminar held off campus, school officials became livid, summonsing her to the principal's office four times in the same day in order to force her into writing a "confession" of what she had done. OneNewsNow December 10, 2014.
- Camp Teaches Kids How to Defend Evolution Against Creation 'Bullying' The First Unitarian Universalist "Church" of Springfield Missouri sponsored the evolution camp for about 30 children. Christian News Network, July 28, 2014.
- Lawsuit: CSUN Scientist Fired After Soft Tissue Found On Dinosaur Fossil Attorneys for a California State University, Northridge scientist who was terminated from his job after discovering soft tissue on a triceratops fossil have filed a lawsuit against the university. CBS News Los Angeles, July 24, 2014.
- 'We Will Not Tolerate Your Religion!' School Fires Scientist for Questioning Evolution A legal defense organization filed a lawsuit this week against California State University, alleging that the school fired a biologist for discovering scientific evidence that contradicted evolutionary theory. Christian News, July 24, 2014.
- In South Carolina, Students May Soon Critique Natural Selection Newly proposed science standard states that students should "Construct scientific arguments that seem to support and scientific arguments that seem to discredit Darwinian natural selection". Evolution News & Views, May 8, 2014.
- College Clashes over Adam and Eve Statement Bryan College takes a stand for Biblical history, and receives a backlash from some of its faculty, who apparently trust more in man's word. ICR News, May 23, 2014.
- Bryan College losing nearly 25% of faculty after 'Adam and Eve' controversy Conflict erupted when trustees clarified the school's statement of belief to state that Adam and Eve were historical people who were not created from previously existing life forms. Times News, May 4th, 2014.
- Legislators Demand Answers about Intelligent Design Ban at Ball State University Evolution News & Views, March 11, 2014.
- The attack on biblical creation in UK schools continues Creation Ministries International, March 9, 2014.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ New Ben Stein Flick, Expelled, Blows the Whistle on the Darwinist Inquisition Evolution News and Views. August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Future Teachers Conditional Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board. 2008.
- ↑ God's Numbers Newsweek. March 31, 2007.
- ↑ Leading scientists still reject God Larson, Edward. Nature 394(6691):313.
- ↑ About the NAS by the National Academy of Sciences
- ↑ Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences Second Edition. 1999. by National Academy of Sciences
- ↑ Jason Lisle vs. Eugenie Scott on CNN!by Answers in Genesis. Get Answers. December 2004
- ↑ Academic Freedom Petition
External links
- Science Teachers See The Case For Creation! by Frank Sherwin, M.A., February, 2001.
- The attitude of various populations toward teaching creation and evolution in schools by Jerry Bergman Journal of Creation 13(2):118–123. November 1999
- Love Your God With All Your Mind Video and PowerPoint file by Chris Ashcraft addressing the secularization of schools.
- How to Teach the Controversy Legally short video by the Discovery Institute summarizes the legal framework for teaching about evolution.
- The Theory of Intelligent Design: A Briefing Packet for Educators by Discovery Institute. November, 2007.
- Addenda for Public School Biology Texts by TextAddOns.com
- Into the Schools Online video program by AlphaNOVA
- National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
- Should Evolution be Immune from Critical Analysis in the Science Classroom? by David Buckna and Denis Laidlaw. ICR Impact 282.
- Founding Institutions of Academia
- Why students walk away from Christ… and what can be done about it! By Chuck Edwards. Truth & Consequences. May 2005.
- Texans for Better Science Education
- Twenty Questions: What Have the Courts Said about the Teaching of Evolution and Creationism in Public Schools? BioScience Vol 53(8). 2003
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Planet of the Iterative Quicksort
I like sorting. I'm not sure if I could tell you why, but it has always been an interesting problem for me to think about, investigate, and implement. It must be more than the fact that sorting is estimated to consume anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of all computing cycles (depending on who you ask and in what decade you ask them). Maybe the reason is because it's easy to tell if you've gotten the right answer, especially in parallel. Plus, there are so many different ways to approach the same problem.
One of the best-known algorithms for sorting is Quicksort. It is a quintessential example of recursion. In serial, the first step takes the array of things to be sorted, chooses one of them as the "pivot" element, and partitions the array such that you now have two sub-arrays one with items less than (or equal to) the pivot value, and one with items greater than (or equal to) the pivot. If duplicate keys are allowed, you can arbitrarily decide which sub-array gets the keys equal to the pivot. A recursive call to the Quicksort routine on each sub-array completes the algorithm. The recursion ends when the number of items in a sub-array becomes too small to sort. Alternately, a threshold can be set, and a simpler sort routine (e.g., insertion sort) can be called when the size of a sub-array dips below that level, which foregoes the overhead of recursive function calls.
In parallel, since each of the recursive calls is independent, you can spawn a pair of tasks with each task responsible for the execution of one recursive call. To take advantage of data locality and a warm cache, another option is to spawn a single task on one of the recursive calls and simply loop back to the beginning of the routine to partition the other sub-array in the same task (thread).
This is all review for you, right? Sure. And if this is all you want to know about parallelizing Quicksort, jump out of here and see if Gaston Hillar has something new this week. (Feel free to pass "Go" and collect $200 on your way, too.)
For those of you who are still here, let's take a look at an iterative version of Quicksort. Recursive algorithms can be imitated by an iterative variation and (typically) a stack to simulate the pattern of recursive function calls. So, what would an iterative (serial) version of Quicksort look like? The following code is one example:
void QuickSort(void *pArg) { int p, r, q; qSortIndex *d, *d1, *d2; while (Q.notEmpty()) { d = Q.dequeue(); //pull out next index pair, unless queue is empty p = d->lo; r = d->hi; delete d; if (p < r) { // if there is one or more things to sort... q = Partition(p, r); // encapsulate the indices for the lower portion of the partition and enqueue d1 = new qSortIndex; d1->lo = p; d1->hi = q-1; Q.enqueue(d1); // encapsulate the indices for the upper portion of the partition and enqueue d2 = new qSortIndex; d2->lo = q+1; d2->hi = r; Q.enqueue(d2); } } // end while }
For this code, I'm assuming a structure that holds objects of type
qSortIndex, which is a pair of integers denoting the lower and upper index values of a sub-array to be sorted. Before the first call to
QuickSort(), an initial pair of indices (delimiting the entire array to be sorted) is put into the data structure,
Q. The code loops while
Q is not empty. For each iteration of the
while-loop, an index pair of a sub-array to be sorted is taken out of
Q. If there is more than one item to be sorted, the sub-array is partitioned around some pivot element. The index pairs for the sub-array of items less than the pivot are put into
Q, and the index pairs for the sub-array of items greater than the pivot are put into
Q. The loop cycles to the top and moves on to another index pair from a non-empty
It doesn't too much matter if
Q is a queue or stack. The sort will still work correctly, but the order in which the sub-arrays are handled changes. (For clarity and brevity, I'll refer to the data structure as a queue.) If you feel ambitious, you can modify the aforementioned algorithm to stuff just one index pair back onto
Q and continue by partitioning the other sub-array. Once the "kept" array is too small to sort, the next item on
Q is taken out and the algorithm continues processing with that retrieved sub-array.
At this point, I could insert a mathematical proof that this algorithm does sort an array of items. However, I'm sure you can see that each call to
Partition() places one item in its final sorted position, and thus, the sizes of the sub-arrays constructed are smaller than the original. And since one thing by itself is in sorted order (Breshears's Fundamental Law of Sorting), there will be a point where no new index pairs are added to
Q and the algorithm will eventually terminate when
Q is empty. So, let's just move on to something more interesting.
What about parallelizing this iterative algorithm? First and most obvious, you need to use a thread-safe queue. You can't lose an index pair, nor do you want to sort the same sub-array more than once for best performance. If one thread is putting something in while another thread is taking something out, or if two separate threads are both taking something out, it is imperative that it be done in such a way that the queue or an entry in the queue is not corrupted. Also, it must be the case that if a thread finds the queue not empty, then there is an element in the queue that the thread can retrieve and process. We don't want some other thread purloining the lone item in the queue that both threads believe belongs to them.
I could go on citing other bad situations for another paragraph or two, but I think you get the idea. There are many issues and potential situations that must be considered and covered correctly in a thread-safe data structure. Luckily, we won't spend any time on those details. Let's just click our heels together three times and say, "There are thread-safe data structures."
Now, armed with our favorite queue-like thread-safe data structure, to parallelize the iterative code above, we just prime the queue with the initial array bounds, launch some threads, and then point them at the
QuickSort() function, right? Well, not quite. There's one more piece to figure out and that piece is… *urrk* *choke* *cough* *arrrgh*
(Don't worry, I'm fine. I've just always wanted to write an interrupted reveal ending.)
Next time: the missing piece!


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BOSTON – The Natural Resource Damages Trustee Council for the Bouchard Barge 120 oil spill has released a final restoration plan and environmental assessment for state and federally threatened piping plovers impacted by the 2003 spill in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
According to the plan, the injuries resulting from the 98,000-gallon oil spill that affected roughly 100 miles of shoreline killed five piping plover chicks and 12 adults.
"The Bouchard B-120 oil spill devastated natural resources within Buzzards Bay and injured numerous species of birds, including the delicate piping plover," Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rick Sullivan, who serves as Massachusetts' trustee for natural resources, said in prepared remarks.
"Since Massachusetts supports the largest breeding population of piping plovers along the Atlantic coast, this plan will protect that threatened species and help to restore the population to a more healthy level," added Sullivan.
The most recent count for the bird sets the piping plover population at roughly 12,000 to 13,000, with about 41 percent of that total along the U.S. Atlantic coast, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
To help restore the piping plover population, the trustees plan to use $715,000 from the $6 million settlement to implement an enhanced management program at selected breeding sites in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The program, which will take place on various private and public properties in the two states, includes targeted predator management, increased enforcement of beach ordinances on plover-nesting beaches, and public outreach and education efforts.
Sites will be chosen based on landowner interest and permission, benefits to piping plovers, proximity to the spill location and other criteria, according to a release.
"Settlement funds from the oil spill will provide landowners an important and much-needed opportunity to improve their beach conditions for threatened piping plovers," Tom Chapman, the New England Field Office supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a statement. "We look forward to working with them and other partners to both reduce threats to nesting birds and to help regain losses for the birds killed by the oil spill."
According to the release, the piping plover restoration plan is the first of three anticipated plans to help restore Buzzards Bay and nearby areas affected by the Bouchard B-120 oil spill.
The development and implementation of the restoration plans are funded by a $6 million natural resource damages settlement between the Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. and the trustees.
Landowners and beach managers interested in receiving funds to implement restoration projects are encouraged to apply online at www.grants.gov or to contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service directly for more information.
The trustees expect to award restoration funds within the next few months.


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Your stomach never stops growling in spite of heretofore-unheard-of (read: confessed) indulgences sanctioned due to state of grievous emergency. (May include but not limited to Chinese takeout, energy drinks, garlic crackers, stale Cadbury mini-eggs.)
Most novels you will think about or pick up are better than your novel in its current state. (Heart-rendingly, soul-crushingly better.) Nevertheless, any momentary self-doubt cannot be given free rein to disrupt your terrified output of what you fervently hope is some reasonable approximation of brilliance.


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Demi jet military-inspired design with special chrome treatment of the logo on the cap, external visor in adjustable optical class, integrated solar visor, removable and washable interior and grips.
Shell material: ABS.
Varnishing with special paints for increased weather resistance.
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Inner padding removable and washable (except neck roll). Cheek pads in different thicknesses.
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Spherical visor with anti-scratch treatment and absorption of radiation up to 400 microns (UV absorber) lined in leather and with supports in aircraft carbon.
Dark sun visor manually operated.
Chinstrap with micrometer buckle.
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In two months the WTBA World Championships, one of the most important tournaments in the world, will be hosted in Las Vegas. Countries will be bringing their best 6 male and female players to compete in 6 different events (singles, doubles, trios, team, all events and masters). The level of competition is extremely high and chances to win are slim as there can only be one winner and few chances to bring back a medal for our countries. When I think about the worlds I only feel joy and excitement to see my teammates again, compete together for Colombia, see old friends from all over the world and make some new ones that share the same love for bowling as I do.
At this event two years ago in Hong Kong, one of the most beautiful places in the world, we were leading with one game to go in the team event before the semifinal cut to the top four teams. Even though we had the lead it wasn't by much and with all the other teams striking around us, we ended up needing a big game to hold onto the last spot. In that last game I felt the pressure and adrenaline in my body but I couldn't imagine being anywhere else in the world. I felt connected with my teammates and I felt their eyes and support while I was on the approach. The joy that I had every time I was able to do well for the team and the feeling that I got every time I looked at my teammates faces when I turned around from my shots was incredible. Winning a medal or a title with a team that works hard for the same goal is an amazing accomplishment but sharing those moments of excitement, pressure, nervousness and happiness with them as we support each other unconditionally is priceless.
I am very thankful to my sport for giving me the opportunity to meet great friends, travel the world and compete with my team while representing my country. I bowl because I love it but also because I look forward to creating as many of these fun memories with my team and bowling family as I can.


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Good morning, TexMessagers! What should Republicans do to cater to Latinos?
Raphael Cruz, father of the famous (or some may argue notorious) Texas lawmaker says the Hispanics and Republicans share similar values and shouldn't be afraid to stand with conservatives.
"Basically, if we look at the Hispanic values, Hispanic values are conservative values," he said in a video with The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank. The interview was posted on the foundation's website Sunday morning.
The father of Sen. Ted Cruz ticked off the importance of religion, strong patriotism, pro-life stances, and the role of traditional family as important to Hispanics and shared similarities between the two groups.
The Republican party is making an effort to reach out to the rising Latino population in America, a message that has faced setbacks and mixed sentiments from members within its own party. Most recently an Alaskan senator endured tremendous heat for his anti-Latino comments, which were quickly condemned by many Republicans.
The Democratic party has reaped large successes so far in the fight for Latino support, made most apparent in the 2012 election. Latinos turned out and 70 percent voted to reelect President Obama, only 20 percent of Latinos voted for Republican candidates Mitt Romney. When asked what the Republican party can do to better attract Latinos, Raphael Cruz said conservatives can better message the similarities between the GOP and Latinos.
"The conservative cause is the best way to achieve the American dream," he said.
Sen. Cruz has often drawn upon his Cuban roots and his father's own journey to becoming an American. Raphael Cruz fled Cuba in 1957 to seek a better life in America.
"He had been imprisoned, he'd been tortured in Cuba. And he came to Texas with nothing, with $100 in his underwear, didn't speak a word of English, washed dishes, making 50 cents an hour," Sen. Ted Cruz said during his CPAC keynote speech last month. "As I was standing on the Senate floor, I couldn't help but think if someone had come up to that 18-year-old kid … and suggested to him that 55 years hence, his son would be sworn into office as a United States senator representing that great state of Texas… that would have been unimaginable."
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Small, Wireless Monitor Provides Long-Term Remote Monitoring to Help Physicians Diagnose and Monitor Irregular Heartbeats
MINNEAPOLIS - February 19, 2014 -Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance, CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark, and the global launch of its Reveal LINQ Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) System, the smallest implantable cardiac monitoring device available for patients.
The Reveal LINQ ICM is approximately one-third the size of a AAA battery (~1 cc), making it more than 80 percent smaller than other ICMs. While significantly smaller, the device is part of a powerful system that allows physicians to continuously and wirelessly monitor a patient's heart for up to three years, with 20 percent more data memory than its larger predecessor, Reveal® XT.
In addition to its continuous and wireless monitoring capabilities, the system provides remote monitoring through the Carelink® Network. Through the Carelink Network, physicians can request notifications to alert them if their patients have had cardiac events. The Reveal LINQ ICM is indicated for patients who experience symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, syncope (fainting) and chest pain that may suggest a cardiac arrhythmia, and for patients at increased risk for cardiac arrhythmias.
"The Reveal LINQ ICM monitor can help patients find answers to problems that may be heart-related without interrupting their lifestyle," said Rod Passman, M.D., professor and associate director of cardiac electrophysiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "The simplified procedure and insertion tools make the device faster and easier for physicians to implant, which may expand access to more patients needing long-term monitoring."
Placed just beneath the skin through a small incision of less than 1 cm in the upper left side of the chest, the Reveal LINQ ICM is often nearly invisible to the naked eye once inserted. The device is placed using a minimally invasive insertion procedure, which simplifies the experience for both physicians and their patients. The Reveal LINQ ICM is MR-Conditional, allowing patients to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) if needed.
"This miniaturized monitoring system is the result of many years of product development work from engineers focused on shrinking the size of medical devices while maintaining their power and improving benefits for patients," said Pat Mackin, president of the Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management business and senior vice president at Medtronic. "This is game-changing technology for patients who need cardiac monitoring, and we look forward to providing them with the most technologically advanced and minimally invasive approach possible."
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Bulldogs 5 Games Back In Rolfe Standings with 8 Division Games Remaining
HANOVER, N.H. — Eight games remain in Ivy League play over the final two weekends of the regular season, and for the Yale University baseball team, the stretch run begins with a visit to Red Rolfe Division leader Dartmouth for a pair of doubleheaders that start at 12 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Due to the forecast of rain and potential thunder this weekend in Hanover, N.H., Yale's scheduled four-game series at Dartmouth has been moved to Friday and Saturday, with both doubleheaders scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. The four-game series was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday and Sunday.
Dartmouth is 13-15 overall, 7-5 in Ivy League play, which leads the Rolfe Division by three games over Harvard and Brown (both 4-8 in Ivy play) and five games on top of Yale (9-26-1, 2-10).
With eight games left in league play, all against division opponents, both divisions in the Ivy League are still up for grabs. Despite being five games back, Yale can jump right back into the Rolfe Division race with a strong showing in Hanover this weekend. In fact, a strong finish by the Bulldogs can turn a 2-10 Ivy League season into a dream finish.
There is a lot of baseball left to play, and the good news is the Bulldogs have played their best baseball of the season over the last couple of weeks. They are 3-2 over their last five games, including a four-game split with Harvard last weekend that ended Yale's 12-game losing streak.
Sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson has been Yale's best player throughout the season. He enters the weekend with an incredible 34-game streak of reaching base at least once in every game. He failed to reach base in the first two games of the season, but he has reached base at least once in every game since. Counting the final seven games of the 2011 season, Hanson has reached base in 41 of his last 43 games, and 72 of the 78 games in which he has played over the course of his entire Yale career.
In Ivy League play, however, Yale has been able to turn to a few others to carry the load. Freshman David Toups holds the Bulldogs' highest batting average in League play, collecting 13 hits in 35 Ivy at-bats for a .371 average. Senior captain Ryan Brenner holds a .324 average in Ivy play, which includes 12 hits in 37 at-bats, a double and six walks. Hanson has hit .318 in League play.
The Yale bats have also started to show some power in recent weeks. In Ivy play, sophomore Kevin Fortunato holds a .405 slugging percentage with a pair of doubles and one of his two home runs this season. Sophomore Jacob Hunter has a pair of doubles in Ivy play and he hit his first career home run against Sacred Heart earlier this week.
The Bulldogs' pitchers have come through in recent games as well, but none has come through more this season than Pat Ludwig. The senior hurler leads the Ivy League in earned run average (2.50 ERA), strikeouts (50), strikeouts looking (21), and he is third in opposing batting average (.238).
Unfortunately, Ludwig's stellar effort this season has not led to wins for him or for the Bulldogs. He is 0-4 this season, and Yale is 0-7 in games in which he has started. That is mostly due to the lack of run support in those games. Yale has scored a total of 19 runs in his seven starts, including three one-run games in a pair of 2-1 losses and a 4-1 loss.
With the bats coming around in recent games, that could change for Ludwig this weekend.
But against Dartmouth, Yale will need all of the pieces to come together this weekend. The Big Green enters the weekend riding a four-game winning streak. Dartmouth has won nine of its last 11 games after starting the season at 4-13.
Dartmouth enters the weekend hitting .300 as a team, but just a .288 average in Ivy play. The key to Dartmouth's success this season has been its pitching. The Big Green holds with an overall ERA of 4.96, but in Ivy play, that ERA has dropped to 3.75.
Jeff Keller is the team's leading hitter with a .405 average, a .595 slugging percentage and a .470 on-base percentage. In Ivy League play, Joe Sclafani has led the offense with a .429 average, a whopping .810 slugging percentage and a .547 on-base percentage.
However, if everything comes together, Yale has an opportunity to climb back into the race for the Rolfe Division while hurting Dartmouth's chances to claim the division crown. If the weather holds up, it should be an exciting weekend for the Bulldogs and for the Ivy League.
Following the weekend series at Dartmouth, Yale will play three of its last five games of the regular season at home, with a nine-inning game against Holy Cross on Tuesday and a Senior Day doubleheader against Brown on Saturday, April 28, sandwiched around a doubleheader at Brown on Friday, April 27.
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Two-time Olympic silver medalist, former world record holder and National Track & Field Hall of Famer Jack Davis died peacefully Saturday at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Calif. He was 81 years old.
Davis became one of the top hurdlers in the world during the 1950s in winning silver medals at both the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympic Games and garnered the top ranking in the world six different times in the 110-meter hurdles. On three different occasions in 1956 he established a world record – twice in the 120-yard hurdles and once in the 110m hurdles. For his standout career Davis was selected to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 2004 as a veteran athlete. He recorded undefeated seasons in the 110m hurdles/120-yard hurdles in both 1953 and 1954.
Also displaying versatility as an athlete Davis won a total of six USA Outdoor and Olympic Trials titles in both the 120-yard and 220-yard hurdles.
Both Olympic silver medals for Davis were part of a historic run on the international scene where American men swept every Olympic medal in the 110m hurdles from 1948 through 1960.
A graduate of Glendale Hoover (Calif.) High School and the University of Southern California, Davis was a three-time NCAA 120-yard hurdles champion and the 1953 NCAA 220-yard hurdles champion. Davis was also a 2001 inductee of the USC Hall of Fame and one of the founding members of the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
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From the infamous Frozen Dead Guy Days in March, to the Ned Fest music festival hosted each year, the uncommon character of Nederland will draw you into its rich history, making you feel like an old friend stopping by to say hello. No visit could be complete without a ride on one of the 56 hand-carved beauties of the 1910 restored Carousel of Happiness.
About 19 percent of residents are involved in telecommuting and the town boasts a high ratio of scientists and professional artists among its population, with 49 percent of them holding college degrees. Located 17 miles west of Boulder, on first glance Nederland may appear to be just another quiet mountain town, but a closer look reveals there is more to this picturesque place.


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Thursday, May 2
Good morning, TexMessagers! When was the best time for Texas politicians to raise money?
What are Texas lawmakers doing when they're not in session in Washington?
If you look at our interactive infographic on the timing of campaign contributions, it appears that they are spending a significant amount of time raising campaign cash along with meeting constituents.
A Texas on the Potomac analysis of campaign finance data found that Texas congressmen enjoyed a large fundraising spike at the end of March, coinciding with with a recess period on Capitol Hill — and the end of the reporting period for the Federal Elections Commission.
Republican representatives also enjoyed a second surge in the middle of February, which also coincided with a recess period known as a "district work period" in DC parlance.
The February spike was aided by a fundraising trip with the banking industry attended by Republicans Jeb Hensarling and Pete Sessions–both from Dallas–according to a report from ProPublica. Hensarling, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee that oversees the banking industry, raised approximately $148,000 during this period. Sessions did not report raising money during this period.
The bottom line: Lawmakers often use their so-called "district work periods" to work on filling their campaign coffers.
What was the best time for your own congressman's fundraising? Mouse over the various colors on the interactive graphic below to see. You can click a specific color to highlight it throughout the graph, giving an easier view of how they did during the period. Use the tabs to look between Republicans and Democrats.
Above is a timeline of Congress during the first three months of 2013. The green areas represent periods when Congress was on recess.
Previous coverage of Texas fundraising: From Texas — Top Contributors — Biggest Fundraiser
Headlines from TxPotomac's top articles
★ A peek inside lobbyists' donations to the George W. Bush Presidential Library
★A peek inside lobbyists' donations to the George W. Bush Presidential Library
★ McCaul promises House hearing on Boston bombing
★ (UPDATE) Report: Ted Cruz considering a 2016 presidential campaign
★ Home-state favorites: Sheila Jackson Lee and Louie Gohmert most reliant on Texas donations
Reader Comment of the Day
In response to our post, (UPDATE) Report: Ted Cruz considering a 2016 presidential campaign, Bluesplayer, wrote in the comments forum,
"This is GREAT news! As a lifelong Democrat there is nothing I would love to see more than watching Cruz go down in flames on a national scale. Run Ted Run!"
★ President Obama visits with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City
★ The Animal Agriculture Alliance has a summit on protecting farms at 8 am.
★ The National Health Insurance Exchange summit begins at 8 am.
★ The Harry Stimson Center holds a discussion on US and Chinese cooperation in space at 1230 pm.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ May 7 Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on pending ambassadorial nominations to Chad and Libya.
★ May 8 Rep. Kevin Brady holds a hearing on the role of immigration in the economy.
★ May 14 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on natural gas issues.
★ May 16 Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on pending nominations to the National Labor Relations Board.
This Week in Texas History:
On this date in 1837, Chief of Engineers for US army, Henry Martyn Robert was born in Robertville, S.C. More>>>


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Emanuele Zanini appointed coach of Turkey's men team
Zanini was also an assistant coach and the physical trainer of Italy's national team for two years with the group winning gold at the 1999 FIVB World League and the European Championship in addition to a bronze medal at the FIVB World Cup held that same year in Japan. One year later the "Azzurri" continued their streak of success by winning the World League once more and claiming bronze at the Sydney Olympics.
Zanini was named coach of Slovakia's national team in 2008 and spent four seasons with them, winning twice the CEV Volleyball European League (in 2008 and 2011). Two years ago, under his guidance, Slovakia finished fifth at the EuroVolley, their best result ever.
Zanini has also been active with many clubs in his native Italy, as well as in Austria and in Slovakia. His first assignment with Turkey in the EuroVolley 2013 in September and will then move to France to mentor BEAUVAIS Oise in that country's first division. Zanini, who is fluent in English and French, joins his countryman Massimo Barbolini who has been coaching the Turkey women's national team, currently competing in the FIVB World Grand Prix, since the start of the year.


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Archive for June, 2011
Help me give $50,000 to someone who found my $40
Posted: June 3rd, 2011 under live better.
Update: The project below was a success! Terri went on to win the grant. She had a huge support network and also worked hard in public relations. My friends, readers, and I were just a small part of the hundreds or thousands of Terri's supporters in her victory. We will never know how big of a difference each of our daily votes made! Thank you to everyone who participated!
Dear Readers,
Do you believe in karma? Do you believe that good things come back to you? Help me make a statement about that.
I need as much help as possible on a little project of mine, and I would really love to ask for a favor from all my hundreds of readers, including you.
First of all, helping is free and will take 5 seconds a day. I promise.
(Vote at http://bit.ly/nckarma. You can vote every day until 6/17!!)
If you'd like to help but don't have time to read my personal story, scroll down to the very bottom with "How to vote." Otherwise, sit back and enjoy this ride that people have called "amazing," "sweet", and "touching":
In April, when I visited Philadelphia, I lost some money for the first time in my life (actually the first time I lost anything!).
I've always considered myself to be one of the luckiest people I know. So as luck would have it, this was also the first time I ever packed two blank checks on a trip. I put an extra $40 and two checks in a beautiful and lucky Chinese red envelope and put that in my bookbag.
When my friends and I were buying Philly subway tokens, I was getting something out of my bookbag and must have dropped the red envelope. Throughout the day, I wasn't aware I lost it, since it was meant for extra and emergency cash.
A few hours later, I received a Facebook message from a Terri Shockley, someone I didn't know. She had picked up the envelope just because it looked pretty, found money inside, and found my name on the blank checks inside. Then she did her best to search for me online to return the envelope. (I thiiink I'm easily searchable, but I still thank her for all the time and effort she took in tracking down and pinpointing a Nathan Chow.)
I was back in Boston by the time we were able to talk on the phone about how to get the envelope back to me. Apparently, while she was searching for my name online and on Facebook, she also saw the video of my TED Talk on character education! She said that I must be someone who deserved good things to happen to me. We had a conversation about kindness, karma, and character education before I gave her my address to mail the envelope back to me.
Ever since being Facebook friends with Terri, I found out that she's the Executive Director of Philadelphia's Community Education Center, "a non-profit, community-based arts and education center whose mission is to strengthen the sense of shared community and culture among peoples of differing backgrounds and cultures through the arts."
Awesome! Sounds like something I would participate in.
I also found out that the Community Education Center is currently in a challenge to win a $50,000 grant for renovations and new supplies.
There are ten similar organizations around the country in this challenge. The top five with the most votes will get the grant.
Terri Shockley, thank you for your kindness on a small level and for your passion for leading such an amazing non-profit arts center at a large level!
You're the one who deserves good things in return!
I am inviting all my readers from across the world and all 1700 of my Facebook friends and their friends to vote for your center to get the $50,000 you deserve!
Thank you for such a warm and lasting memory of the City of Brotherly Love!! =)
=== In short: ===
– A stranger found my $40 and took the effort to track me down to return it.
– This stranger, Terri Shockley, leads a community arts center for dance, music, theatre, and much more. Her Community Education Center is in a competition to win $50,000 for renovations.
– In the competition, only the top five centers will win. Terri's has been swaying back and forth between 4th, 5th, and 6th place!!
––> We need YOUR help to vote for the Community Education Center, for me to thank her for her small good deed, and most of all, to make a strong statement about how good things flow in the world!
=== How to vote: ===
– Take 5 seconds to go to http://bit.ly/nckarma. Enter your email. Press Submit. Then press Yes. That's it!
– I purposely shortened the long link (originally kraft.promotions.com/maxwnational/front.do?housename=cec) to the bit.ly address above for you to memorize and visit whenever you're bored!
– You can vote EVERY DAY until 6/17 (coincidentally Boston's area code!).
– It is legal to vote with more than one email address! Vote five times a day until June 17th! Remember, the center just needs to be in the top five by 6/17!
– You won't receive anything in your email.
– Invite lots of your friends too! Getting 50 new supporters is like voting 50 times a day!
– Join all the supporters through Facebook at this event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208853572470627
Thank you for your help and for believing in karma. I've always believed that there's a secret society of positive and all-loving people who love to give and serve––and that, magically, all the best things in the world usually happen to them.
By voting every day, helping here, and inviting all your friends, may all the best things come back to you too!! =)
Love Always,
♥ Nathan Chow


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Ted Cruz's transformation from unknown longshot to 2012 Republican Senate nominee shocked Austin's Pundit Elite, who, when the race got underway in January, almost universally predicted a victory by the wealthy and well-known frontrunner, David Dewhurst.
The first-time office-seeker's convincing win over the long-time power broker joins a list of big-as-Texas political comebacks of the past half century.
Here are ten of my favorite ones:
1. John Tower over "Dollar Bill" Blakley, 1961
The obscure professor from Wichita Falls, a diminutive man with a penchant for all things British, won the Senate seat vacated by Texas legend Lyndon Baines Johnson when LBJ became JFK's VP. Tower, a conservative Republican, got some special election votes from liberal Democrats, who wanted to send a message to conservative Democrat Blakley. Everyone (except for Tower) was shocked by the results.
2. Bill Clements over John Hill, 1978
No Republican had served as governor of Texas since Reconstruction and Attorney General John Hill, the Democratic nominee, was so sure of victory that, legend has it, he was measuring the curtains in the governor's mansion. Bill Clements, a conservative Republican oilman from Dallas, spoke frankly, spent freely and worked feverishly. His narrow win made history — and shocked many a pundit.
3. Don Yarbrough over Charles Barrow, 1976
A 32-year-old lawyer for Campus Crusade for Christ with a familiar name shocked Charles Barrow, a respected Supreme Court incumbent, in the 1976 Democratic primary. The reason: Many voters thought that Don Yarbrough was Don Yaborough (a liberal who had run for governor) or kin to Ralph Yarborough (the former U.S. senator and liberal lion). Yarbrough, who said God told him to run, ended up federal prisoner #36007-079 after being convicted of bribery.
4. Rick Perry over Jim Hightower, 1990
Perry, then a Democratic state representative, had endorsed Al Gore for president in 1988. And when he changed parties a year later, few pundits thought he had a chance to unseat Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a folksy populist who had won a landslide four years earlier. But with the help of Karl Rove and Jesse Jackson, Perry won in a squeaker. "Jesse Jackson?" you ask. Yes. Hightower had endorsed the African American civil rights leader for president in 1988 (when Perry was supporting Gore) — and Team Perry blanketed the Texas airwaves with commercials showing a beaming Hightower clasping arms with Jackson.
5. Rick Perry over Kay Bailey Hutchison, 2010
Flash forward twenty years. Perry has won five consecutive statewide contests and has served as governor longer than any Texan in history. But the state's popular senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, announces her candidacy for governor and roars to a 20 percentage point lead in early polls. Things went downhill for KBH from there, and Perry ended up winning by an identical 20 point margin.
6. Victor Morales over John Bryant, 1996
Texas Democrats were excited to have a three-way primary featuring congressmen John Bryant and Jim Chapman and attorney John Odam. None of the party's leaders could foresee that the three-way split would allow an unknown teacher from Mesquite, Victor Morales, to slip into a runoff against Bryant. In a turnout characterized by extremely low turnout, the mystery man of the race, Morales, won with 51 percent. He was handily beaten by Republican incumbent Phil Gramm in the general election.
7. Ted Cruz over David Dewhurst, 2012
Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general who had never run for office before, started his Republican Senate campaign in the low single digits in early polls. But he built a campaign machine piece by piece, won key endorsements from conservative groups, chased two well-known contenders (Michael Williams and Roger Williams) from the race and emerged as THE conservative alternative to establishment conservative David Dewhurst. The rest is history.
8. David Porter over Victor Carrillo, 2010
An unknown accountant from a small town (Giddings) unseated the chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, Victor Carrillo, a Rick Perry ally and the highest-ranking Latino in state government outside of the court system. Carrillo outspent rival David Porter by more than 10-to-1 and was so sure he would win that he ended the campaign with money in the bank. Porter won in a landslide, 61 percent to 39 percent. Many pundits speculated that many Republicans voted for Porter because he had an "English" name while his opponent had a "Spanish" name.
9. George W. Bush over Ann Richards, 1994
In 1994, the pundits predicted that Jeb Bush would win the Florida governorship (on his way to the White House), while brother George would lose the Texas race to incumbent Democrat Ann Richards. The smart money turned out to be pretty dumb. Jeb lost a tough race against incumbent Democrat Lawton Chiles, while George did everything right and scored an uphill upset over a governor whose job approval ratings approached 60 percent. In the end, Bush won in a walk.
10. Lloyd Doggett over Kent Hance and Bob Krueger, 1984
John Tower's surprise retirement created a wild scramble among Democrats, who thought they had a prime opportunity to regain LBJ's old Senate seat. The early favorites were conservative congressman Kent Hance and moderate former congressman Bob Krueger, a narrow loser to Tower six years earlier. Most of the pundits discounted liberal state Sen. Lloyd Doggett, who did not have statewide name recognition. But Doggett, aided by young Louisiana consultant James Carville, and Hance, helped by young Democratic mastermind Tom O'Donnell, squeezed Krueger from the left and the right. After dispatching Krueger in the primary, Doggett won the left-right match-up in the runoff. But he was routed by recent Republican convert Phil Gramm in the Reagan landslide that November.


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13th March 2018
The US radio station NPR recently reported on how today's leading brands are more interested in values and passion than they are in gender - that effectively the days of male-focused marketing and communications are dead. Instead we have a new dawn where people's interests and behaviours are what is relevant not whether they are male or female. In particular the traditional marketing sweet-spot of men aged 18-34 no longer have the influence or the purchasing power they had in previous generations. Traditional demographics are becoming steadily less important – it is about what we are interested in that matters, not what sex we are.
Here in the Middle East, gender differences can be a sensitive issue for brands, and are few and far between. Nike's 2017 campaign "What will they say about you?" was a risky initiative, and highlighting Arab women take part in sport had a mixed reaction in the Arab world. It caused conversation, controversy and anger, but the great majority of people reacted positively. But for most brands here in the Middle East focusing just on men or just on women is likely to alienate as many people as it will engage. Rather we need to think about those common issues that bind everyone together – from family and education to healthy living, social and economic advancement and inclusivity regardless of gender, race or religion. It is these issues and the daily challenges that people face to achieve success that influence our decisions or how we spend our hard-earned cash. Men are influenced just as much by women as they are by other men, arguably more so. Speaking personally – look at the gender split on my Facebook and Instagram feeds, which are dominated by my female friends and family, as well as colleagues, leaders and influencers!
There are still numerous and terrible gender-related issues across the world, as so starkly demonstrated in recent months from Hollywood to Haiti – but here in the Gulf more emancipated approaches are gaining pace both at home and the work place, and in the way brands and leaders think and behave. In this region so much is happening that the West does not fully appreciate or chooses to ignore, and the lifting of the driving ban for women in Saudi Arabia in June will be a key step forward in this regard for the Middle East. In addition, the UAE has for a long time been a beacon for diversity in the workplace and in government - with nine women in its 31-person cabinet, including the youngest minister in the world, Shamma Al Mazrui, appointed in 2016 at the age of 22 as the Minister of Youth.
Here at Grayling in Dubai, I can't think of the last time we worked on a gender specific campaign – and if a client asked us to do so, we would think very carefully about its social legitimacy before agreeing to do so. Does your marketing or communications campaign engage with both men and women, are your values consistent with the communities that you are part of, and are you making a genuinely positive difference to them and the world as a whole? If not, then you have a problem, which you need to fix – diligently and quickly.
Jonathan Shillington
15th November 2016
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July 28, 2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Florida State's Ngoni Makusha, an internationally elite track performer who ran and jumped his way into company with Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens this spring, and Maryland's Katie O'Donnell, one of the most accomplished field hockey players in NCAA history, are the ACC's Athletes of the Year for 2010-11.
Makusha, one of only four people to win NCAA titles in the 100 meters and the long jump, is the winner of the Anthony J. McKevlin Award as the league's top male athlete, and O'Donnell, who put up impressive statistics across the board, claimed the Mary Garber Award, symbolic of the ACC's finest female competitor. The accolades, determined by a voting of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association, are named for respected journalists who chronicled the ACC from its inception.
"The ACC's Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards are two of the most prestigious recognitions that can be earned by a student-athlete in this league," said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. "Ngoni and Katie were selected from a group of tremendously talented nominees and I applaud them on their outstanding accomplishments."
Makusha, a junior from Zimbabwe, edged Duke basketball standout Nolan Smith 17 votes to 16 to become the 58th winner of the McKevlin Award. In the past year, the 2008 Olympian built on an already impressive resume.
His victory in the 100-meter dash (9.89) at the NCAA outdoor championships, achieved in the rain, set a meet record and was the fourth-fastest performance in the world under any conditions this year. His victorious long jump of 8.40 meters, the second-longest in the world in 2011 and best jump in 18 years at the NCAA Championship meet, delivered his third NCAA championship in the event and made him the fourth person in NCAA history to win the long jump and the 100 in a single NCAA Championship. The exclusive fraternity includes Lewis and Owens, who combined for 13 Olympic gold medals.
Makusha also ran on the Seminoles' 4×100 relay team, which won the NCAA title.
"This is an amazing honor when you consider this encompasses all the sports across the ACC", stated Makusha, who was in Paris when notified. "It is special knowing that this is not just for track, but is much bigger than that. To join Charlie Ward and Walter Dix as the only Seminoles to win the McKevlin Award is amazing. I look up to Walter and to win the same award he won in 2007 really means a lot to me. Representing Florida State as the winner of the McKevlin Award also carries great meaning as this school has meant so much to me during my time as a Seminole."
Makusha is the third Seminole to win the McKevlin. He joins join track performer Walter Dix (2007) and Charlie Ward, a football and basketball standout (2003, '04). He is the seventh person in his sport with the honor; that list includes NC State's Julie Shea, who won twice before the creation of the Garber citation.
Anthony J. McKevlin Award
# Name Sport School
17 Ngoni Makusha Track FSU
16 Nolan Smith Basketball Duke
4 Tyrod Taylor Football Va Tech
3 Anthony Castonzo Football BC
2 Da'Quan Bowers Football Clemson
1 Matt McLean Swimming Virginia