Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose

You can not have it all.
Jan van Maanen, my boss at the Institute for Mathematics Education, left the university of Groningen to become director of the prestiguous Freudenthal Institute.
He wins, we loose.
That is why Jan is smiling during his good bye dinner. Henk Broer, one of the leading professors in Groningen, just behind Jan, is not fully aware of the loss. Yet.