Turnstone Press an incredibly dynamic and exciting business, with incredible highs and frustrating lows. Turnstone’s Bird on a Wire is part blog, part rant, and part resource. It’s our place on the web to share our thoughts and experiences while working in Canadian publishing.” Turnstone Press Turnstone Press is a Canadian literary publisher founded in 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially Turnstone published chapbooks by Manitoba poets, and today fifty percent of their content published each year is either written by Manitoba writers or contains content about Manitoba. Since its debut, Turnstone has grown to include fiction, literary criticism and literary non-fiction. In
Block sort Block sort Block sort, or block merge sort, is a sorting algorithm combining at least two merge operations with an insertion sort to arrive at in-place stable sorting. It gets its name from the observation that merging two sorted lists, and , is equivalent to breaking into evenly sized "blocks", inserting each block into under special rules, and merging pairs. One practical algorithm for O(log n) in place merging was proposed by Pok-Son Kim and Arne Kutzner in 2008. The outer loop of block sort is identical to a bottom-up merge sort, where each "level" of the sort merges pairs