Let one hundred NGOs bloom

Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend

Economics over the years has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said at a meeting, “If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselv...

Let a Single FLWOR Bloom

To globally optimize execution plans for XQuery expressions, a plan generator must generate and compare plan alternatives. In proven compiler architectures, the unit of plan generation is the query block. Fewer query blocks mean a larger search space for the plan generator and lead to a generally higher quality of the execution plans. The goal of this paper is to provide a toolkit for developer...

One hundred meters.

To walk 100 meters at 4 kilometers per hour (an average walking pace) takes about 1.5 minutes. What would prevent an oncologist investing this brief time in visiting a patient in the next building? It is not that oncologists as a group are uncaring. I can think of too many examples where the opposite is true. Was he too busy? Was he burned out? Did he feel guilty at having failed to control the...

One hundred years.

One of my earliest memories is of a tall, thin clergyman who arrived late for a meeting as I stood outside the Lodge room as an Entered Apprentice whilst the ceremony of a higher degree was in progress. He was the treasurer of the Lodge and his name was the Reverend Prebendary Charles Waton. He was the Vicar of St Benet Fink, Edmonton and was a Grand Officer. To me, he was a very important maso...

One Hundred Popular Fallacies