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Pedro Bertolino (Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, ) é um filósofo e poeta brasileiro, conhecido por seus estudos sobre Jean-Paul Sartre, participante do movimento do poema/processo.

Carreira
É titular da cadeira 27 da Academia Catarinense de Letras.

Algumas publicações
 Trajeto, 1976
 Viagens com Maura, 1993
 Cancioneiro da Ilha, 2013, Edit. Bermúncia, Fpolis.

Membros da Academia Catarinense de Letras
Poetas de Santa Catarina
Naturais de Santo Amaro da Imperatriz


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Félix d'André, dit Francis Ardant (1867-1946), est un officier militaire et écrivain français.

Biographie
Né le  à La Calmette, Félix d'André est diplômé de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.

Devenu officier, il signe plusieurs traités militaires. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, il prend le pseudonyme de « Francis Ardant » pour rédiger des poèmes et des pièces de théâtre, notamment L'Agonie des Incas.

Il meurt le  dans sa ville de naissance.

Ouvrages
 Sous les glycines : idylle rimée en 1 acte, Paris, Stock, 1899 .
 La Sœur d'Olaya : comédie héroïque en 2 actes, en vers, Paris, Stock, 1906 .
 La Mitrailleuse aviatrice, Paris, Chapelot, 1910 .
 Quatre batailles : Rivoli, Marengo, Austerlitz, Heilsberg, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1913 .
 Guerre de 1914-1915 (préf. Pierre Cherfils), Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1915 .
 Guerre de 1914-1916 : la signalisation à portée de fusil dans le bataillon (préf. Pierre Cherfils), Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1916 .
 Avec Pierre Alvin, Manuel d'artillerie lourde, Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle, 1919 .
 En marge de la guerre : les cent sonnets de Montreux en vols de neuvaines, Paris, Crès, 1919 .
 Au lieutenant Emmanuel Contamine de Latour, Coulommiers, Brodard, 1926 .
 Le Dies Irae des Champs catalauniques : rhapsodie, Paris, Jouve et , 1928 .
 Disparu ! : pièce en un acte, en vers, Paris, Jouve et , 1928 .
 Au fil du rêve, Paris, Jouve et , 1928 .
 Racine à Uzès : pièce en trois actes et une apothéose en vers, Paris, Jouve et , 1928 .
 Tenir ! : triptyque : visions d'histoire (préf. Raymond Poincaré), Paris, Jouve et , 1933

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie
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Liens externes

Naissance en octobre 1967
Naissance dans le Gard
Décès en novembre 1946
Décès dans le Gard

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Hrabstwo Kendall – hrabstwo w USA, w stanie Illinois. Według spisu z 2000 roku liczba ludności wynosiła 54 544. W spisie przeprowadzonym w 2006 stwierdzono populację 88 158, co stawia hrabstwo na pierwszym miejscu wśród wszystkich hrabstw w Stanach Zjednoczonych pod względem wzrostu ludności po 2000 roku. Siedzibą hrabstwa jest Yorkville. Hrabstwo jest częścią aglomeracji Chicago

Geografia
Według spisu hrabstwo zajmuje powierzchnię 836 km², z czego  1830 km² stanowią lądy, a 6 km² (0,65%) stanowią wody.

Hrabstwo Kendall jest małym, lecz szybko rozwijającym się hrabstwem którego populacja skoncentrowana jest na północnych i wschodnich terenach oraz wzdłuż rzeki Fox, która przebiega przez północno-zachodnią część hrabstwa. Południowa część Kendall jest obszarem rolniczym. Na terenie hrabstwa znajdują się dwa wzniesienia utworzone w czasie ostatniego zlodowacenia przez morenę czołową lodowca. Morena przebiega w zachodniej i północno-środkowej części Kendall, a jej wysokość sięga do ok. 240 metrów a w części południowej do 150 m. Minooka, inny główny grzbiet moreny znajdujący się na krańcach hrabstwa Kendall, biegać wzdłuż całej wschodniej granica z hrabstwem Will. Dwie moreny przecinające okręg  Oswego, tworzą granice parku stanowego Silver Springs State Park.

Sąsiednie hrabstwa
 Hrabstwo Kane – północ
 Hrabstwo DuPage – północny wschód
 Hrabstwo Will – wschód
 Hrabstwo Grundy – południe
 Hrabstwo LaSalle – zachód
 Hrabstwo DeKalb – północny zachód

Historia
Hrabstwo Kendall zostało utworzone w 1841 roku z terenów hrabstwa LaSalle i hrabstwa Kane. Swoją nazwę obrało na cześć Amosa Kendalla, redaktora gazety wydawanej w mieście Frankfort w Kentucky i późniejszego doradcy prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych Andrew Jacksona. W 1835 został Ministrem Łączności.

Demografia
Według spisu z 2000 roku hrabstwo zamieszkuje 54 544 osób, które tworzą 18 798 gospodarstw domowych oraz 14 963 rodzin. Gęstość zaludnienia wynosi 66 osób/km2. Na terenie hrabstwa jest 19 519 budynków mieszkalnych o częstości występowania wynoszącej 24 budynków/km2. Hrabstwo zamieszkuje 92,88% ludności białej, 1,32% ludności czarnej, 0,19% rdzennych mieszkańców Ameryki, 0,88% Azjatów, 0,02% mieszkańców Pacyfiku, 3,38% ludności innej rasy oraz 1,34% ludności wywodzącej się z dwóch lub więcej ras, 7,49% ludności to Hiszpanie, Latynosi lub inni.

W hrabstwie znajduje się 18 798 gospodarstw domowych, w których 41,70% stanowią dzieci poniżej 18 roku życia mieszkający z rodzicami, 68,80% małżeństwa mieszkające wspólnie, 7,50% stanowią samotne matki oraz 20,40% to osoby nie posiadające rodziny. 16,40% wszystkich gospodarstw domowych składa się z jednej osoby oraz 6,10% żyje samotnie i ma powyżej 65 roku życia. Średnia wielkość gospodarstwa domowego wynosi 2,89 osoby, a rodziny wynosi 3,27 osoby.

Przedział wiekowy populacji hrabstwa kształtuje się następująco: 29,50% osób poniżej 18 roku życia, 7,50% pomiędzy 18 a 24 rokiem życia, 32,40% pomiędzy 25 a 44 rokiem życia, 22,10% pomiędzy 45 a 64 rokiem życia oraz 8,50% osób powyżej 65 roku życia. Średni wiek populacji wynosi 34 lat. Na każde 100 kobiet przypada 98,70 mężczyzn. Na każde 100 kobiet powyżej 18 roku życia przypada 95,90 mężczyzn.

Średni dochód dla gospodarstwa domowego wynosi 64 625 USD, a średni dochód dla rodziny wynosi 69 383 dolarów. Mężczyźni osiągają średni dochód w wysokości 50 268 dolarów, a kobiety 30 415 dolarów. Średni dochód na osobę w hrabstwie wynosi 25 188 dolarów. Około 2,00% rodzin oraz 3,00% ludności żyje poniżej minimum socjalnego, z tego 3,50% poniżej 18 roku życia oraz 4,50% powyżej 65 roku życia.

Okręgi
Hrabstwo w linii prostej ciągnie się 18 milą, i jest podzielone na 9 okręgów. Każdy okręg jest podzielony na 36 jedomilowych sekcji, chyba że rzeka Fox stanowi granicę okręgu co w rezultacie powoduje iż Bristol jest najmniejszym okręgiem. W hrabstwie znajdują się dwa obszary odbiegające od podziału, które na mocy traktatu Treaty of Prairie Du Chein z 1829 roku były przeznaczona pod rezerwat Indian, czyli Mo-Ah-Way Reservation okręgu Oswego i Waish-Kee-shaw Reservation w okręgu Na-Au-Say. Ostatecznie i te tereny zostały sprzedane pomiędzy Europejskich osadników.

 Big Grove
 Bristol
 Fox
 Kendall
 Lisbon
 Little Rock
 Na-Au-Say
 Oswego
 Seward

Miasta
 Boulder Hill (CDP)
 Joliet
 Plano
 Yorkville

Wioski
 Lisbon
 Millbrook
 Millington
 Minooka
 Newark
 Oswego
 Plattville

Linki zewnętrzne

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The Soul Eater is a novel by Mike Resnick published in 1981.

Plot summary
The Soul Eater is a novel in which Nicobar Lane becomes obsessed by the Dreamwish Beast which roams space.

Reception
Greg Costikyan reviewed The Soul Eater in Ares Magazine #13 and commented that "it's well-written enough action for SF. It is, if you will, mindless fun, and recommended for aficionados thereof."

Reviews
Review by Baird Searles (1982) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982
Review by Tom Easton (1982) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1982

References

1981 American novels
American science fiction novels
Signet Books books


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Among all the official traumas we are having, I can happily report that our three chimneys have been swept ready for winter! Last week, a friend mentioned casually that she was getting her chimney swept. This was something we hadn't even thought of! With memories of a chimney fire during our first winter still fresh in our minds, we dived on this poor friend. Two days later, a tradesperson arrived in a grey station wagon. Our first impression was "How can that car contain the things required by a chimney sweep?". But it did. We watched as he pulled out a box that contained the technology required to see inside the chimney, a selection of brushes, an industrial vacuum cleaner and an eight metre ladder. The chimney sweep himself was clothed in...well...black. He wore black overalls, a black skivvy, black boots, a black cap and a black beard (?). He proceeded to seal our three chimneys by covering them with plastic held on by masking tape. In the third room, the soon to be lounge room, there was a floor of rubble to avoid and no electricity. I faithfully held a torch for him in this room. Once this was done, he went back out to his car and lashed himself into a safety harness, grasped his stack of brushes and extended his ladder by the full eight metres onto the roof. He then climbed up, tied himself to the first chimney and proceeded to push brushes down it, adding extensions as he went. He grunted, coughed, snorted and spat every few minutes. At one point he yelled down to me "solo 2 metri di acciaio". Then he moved to the second chimney: "solo 2.5 metri di acciaio". The third chimney: "solo 2.5 metri di acciaio". As with everything we touch, these comments carried bad news. It seems that our chimneys do have stainless steel tubes but only for the first 2 metres or so. The remaining 4 to 5 metres is brick. When I quizzed him on the need to install stainless steel, he said it was not necessary as long as we have the chimneys swept every year. So, I guess this is not all bad news. He then climbed down and had a thorough wash in the bathroom (hair, face, neck, hands). We talked while he packed his car. I gleaned that he has been doing this work for 10 years and covers the whole of Piemonte. He explained that he is busiest in Autumn, then has virtually no work during Winter (unless he is called to a chimney fire). He suggested we book him again in Spring. When I paid him, he gave me his card and I read with interest that he also removes wasp nests...(see next posting).
Above: Sealing the chimney in the kitchen
Above: Analysing the chimney in the dining room
Above: Getting the brushes ready
Above: Climbing up


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How Euro 2004 was Essential for Wayne Rooney's Development!
Louis Baxter
April 12, 2021 April 9, 2021
You can usually look back at a player's career and pinpoint some key areas of progression, and Euro 2004 clearly appears to be extremely important for the impending career of Wayne Rooney …
The 2002 World Cup exit to Brazil was a tough pill to swallow. Watching the game with my primary school class in a June summer morning, Ronaldinho's lob over David Seaman to see Brazil come back from 1 nil down to knock us out, was my first experience of heartbreak in International football. It always feels worse when you are 1 up right? Two years later, with the World Cup long gone from my memory, and a new International tournament to get excited about, Euro 2004 approached with a young me once again convinced England would go all the way.
Sven Goran-Eriksson's squad was another level to his team two years previous. Steven Gerrard and Gary Neville were fit this time round (a considerable upgrade from Trevor Sinclair and Danny Mills … no offence!). There was the emergence of John Terry and Frank Lampard at Chelsea, David Beckham and Paul Scholes were in their primes so to speak, and well Michael Owen … wasn't injured yet. Ashley Cole had got even better going a season unbeaten with fellow Arsenal defender Sol Campbell, and an 18-year-old Wayne Rooney had looked pretty good in qualifying and for Everton too. True quality, all round!
England faced France first in their biggest game since the World Cup exit in 2002; an encounter where duels between club team mates were abundant, and in a matchup worthy of a final, spectators were not disappointed. England's midfield of Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard and Beckham managed to settle early and absorb early pressure from France, before taking control with a timely Frank Lampard header (his first ever goal in an international tournament). And but for some acrobatics from fellow teammate Fabien Barthez, David Beckham could have put the game beyond doubt with the teenage Rooney earning him a penalty he wasn't able to convert.
And just when it seemed like England's defence would hold out … in the final minute of normal time, Emile Heskey gave away a free kick just outside the box. And it was at this moment (he knew, he f****d up), we were all reminded of the true genius of their main man, Zinedine Zidane. Without a moment's hesitation, the France captain produced an exquisite strike across a speechless David James (rare, I know) to equalize late on.
A couple of minutes later in stoppage time, after a dodgy Gerrard back pass to James in goal, was intercepted by a wilful recipient in Thierry Henry who was subsequently brought down in the area. Clive Tyldesley's rather dubious question of "who will be the hero? Zinedine Zidane or David James?" wasn't one he asked with great conviction; with Zizou converting France's winner with the big-game confidence we had grown accustomed to from him.
With England losing their opening game in such rattling circumstances, beating Switzerland and Croatia (who were no mugs, btw!) would be essential to progress to the knockout stages. Lest we forget, we saw England fold under similar pressure more recently in the 2014 World Cup, losing their opening game to Italy and needing to beat Uruguay and Costa Rica to progress. But ten years earlier, up stepped the broad-shouldered Evertonian ready to really take the game to the Swiss and dispel the ignominy of their opening encounter with the French.
With England struggling against a well-drilled Swiss defence, it was the fearless youngster who rose to the occasion; heading in Michael Owen's chipped cross to become the youngest player to ever score in the Euro's. Before then capping off a wonderful individual performance with a simple second to cap off a tidy 3-0 win for the Three Lions. With such quality, power and intelligence for someone so young, this was his stage to showcase to the world his ability, and they were really starting to take notice. …
Next up, England faced a tough Croatia team (*sigh) and needed a good result to ensure progression into the Euro 2004 knockout stages with all four countries still able to qualify by the last game. England got off to a terrible start in the 6th minute with David James parrying out a free kick into the path of Nico Kovac who gave Croatia an early lead. Once again England needed a goal and once again(!), it was Wayne Rooney who stepped up with another thunderous effort! Tell you what, I reckon this kid could play a bit!
In the space of 5 minutes, the complexion of Erikson's half time team talk would have taken took a huge turn for the positive, and the ensuing freedom of England's forward play provides some real gravitas to that hypothesis. In the second half, England laid siege to Croatia's goal with the teenager being involved in absolutely everything. Wayne then went on to put the tie to bed by scoring a well finished 1-on-1 to make it 3-1 before the game finished 4-2 – so many numbers … so little time!
With Germany, Italy and Spain not qualifying, England had to beat Portugal in the Quarter finals to play the winner of either Netherlands (who had only won 1 game) and Sweden in the Semi's (two very beatable sides). Never before that point had I ever been so excited for a game, the kick off being in the evening made the wait during a Thursday at school unbearable. Luis Figo, Rui Costa and Ronaldo had been villainised throughout the day and once homework and dinner was finished, I was ready to watch the game at 7:45 in the evening. Here we go …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-cLWBiGvcg
England started with a bang against the hosts, with Michael Owen spinning and scoring a lovely instinctive goal to put England ahead after 3 minutes. Euphoria and nerves had set in, surely I wasn't going to see England go out of a quarter final after being 1-0 ahead from a first half Michael Owen goal again?? A major setback struck in the 27th minute Wayne Rooney limped off with an injury who was replaced by … Darius Vassell. Hmmm …
n the 83rd minute Portugal's pressure finally paid off with substitute Helder Postiga scoring a headed equaliser. Not long after, Sol Campbell thought he had won the game for his country powering in a last minute header past goalkeeper Ricardo. Shortly after brief euphoric celebrations, the referee blew his whistle disallowing the goal deeming there was a foul by John Terry in the build-up causing outrage back in England. With Sol Campbell denied a late winner like he was 6 years previous, the game was going to extra time.
After pleading with my parents to let me stay up and watch, I was about to see England in extra time of a major tournament for the first time (1998 was a blur), and what an emotional rollercoaster it was! Both teams looked tired in extra time and an outstanding goal-line clearance from Ashley Cole kept the teams level. With 10 minutes left, after a slow dribble forward where the England defence kept backing off, Rui Costa fired an unstoppable shot off the crossbar to put the hosts in front for the first time in the tie.
England were going out, and did not have Rooney to score that needed goal. 5 minutes later, Frank Lampard found that lifeline when finishing John Terry's header down to send the game to penalties. In a shootout that saw Beckham blaze his shot over to the disbelief of himself and everyone watching (blaming the miss on a tuft of grass), and Portugal keeper Ricardo save Darius Vassell's effort and score the deciding penalty, England were out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sglWFOIbtY
Portugal went on to lose to surprise package Greece in the final, who had also beaten France and the Czech Republic all 1-0 to provide one of the biggest shock's in the history of the football. To me, I will always look at Euro 2004 as the tournament that got away. Football is a game of fine margins we know, if Campbell's goal was not disallowed and Rooney had stayed fit, would we have beaten the Netherlands and Greece to go on and win England's first trophy since 1966? It's impossible to determine, but the optimist in me says yes!
What I do know is that not only did I experience the excitement of penalties for the first time, hardening me to the agonising heartbreak that is an England shootout, but I got to see the brilliance of 18-year-old Wayne Rooney use the competition as his springboard and transform himself from exciting talent to a world class player, breaking all sorts records and becoming one of my all-time favourite strikers.
What's your best memory from Euro 2004? Get them down in the comments below!
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Q: Union three entities in Core Data? I have the following Entities:
Student
  NSString name
  Team inTeam // reverse of Team.students

Team
  NSSet assignments
  NSOrderedSet students // reverse relationship of Student.inTeam

Assignment
  NSDate date // timeless date, only care about the day
  NSNumber assignmentCount
  Team inTeam // reverse of Team.assignmets

No all Students are part of a Team.
Not all teams have Assignments.
Teams are usually formed by 2 Students (no more than 3).
For all the Teams, I need to display the name of its members and the assignmentCount for a given date.
I can think of different ways to do this, 3 of them:

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*Get all the teams, for each team query Assignment with the given date. This is not efficient (but almost the same as if I were getting everything in a single query having assignmentCount as a fault object?)

*Keep a collection of all the Teams and keep a collection of all the Assignments with the given date. Only two queries, but need to keep the second collection in sync with the db (the assignmentCount will change, and would rather not do this)

*Reload the data every time the assignmentCount changes. Obviously not a good solution
Is there a way to get all this information in a single query?
A problem I see is that if I set my predicate to have something like ANY team.assignments.date = %@ it only returns the teams that have assignments.
Any ideas?

A: Use a fetched results controller (or at least a fetch request that pages in the results). The FRC will manage direct changes on the Team objects and efficient loading from the store when scrolling the list.
You can configure the fetch request to prefetch information from the relationships that you know you will always need. You should use the relationships to get that information, not additional fetch requests.
For assignmentCount for a given date, that is a good candidate for a new fetch. You don't actually need the assignments so use countForFetchRequest:error: and setting a predicate to limit to team == ....

A: This is very efficient:
1) Fetch the teams with the appropriate predicate.
[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:
   @"ANY assignments.date > %@ && assigments.date < %@",
   dateStartTime, dateEndTime];

2) Access the data like this:
NSOrderedSet *students = team.students;
NSUInteger assignments = team.assignments.count;

That is the reason for Core Data. It will do all the optimizations for you in the background. If you use a NSFetchedResultsController it can notify your table view of changes, all without any effort on your part.
And yes, you are right that the fetch would not include teams without assignments. This would be intended behavior if you want to filter by date.

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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
The popular MO question "Famous mathematical quotes" has turned up many examples of witty, insightful, and humorous writing by mathematicians. Yet, with a few exceptions such as Weyl's "angel of topology," the language used in these quotes gets the message across without fancy metaphors or what-have-you. That's probably the style of most mathematicians.
Occasionally, however, one is surprised by unexpectedly colorful language in a mathematics paper. If I remember correctly, a paper of Gerald Sacks once described a distinction as being
as sharp as the edge of a pastrami slicer in a New York delicatessen.
Another nice one, due to Wilfred Hodges, came up on MO here.
The reader may well feel he could have bought Corollary 10 cheaper in another bazaar.
What other examples of colorful language in mathematical papers have you enjoyed?
soft-question big-list
$\begingroup$ Latest paper, my co-author put in "but we will choose a more painful way, because there is nothing like pain for feeling alive" but the referee jumped on it. $\endgroup$ – Will Jagy Apr 23 '10 at 5:09
$\begingroup$ Maybe I should expand the question to include colorful language cut from serious mathematics papers :) $\endgroup$ – John Stillwell Apr 23 '10 at 5:18
$\begingroup$ By the way, your remark reminds me of another in a similar spirit that made it into the Princeton Companion. In his article on algebraic geometry, János Kollár says of stacks: "Their study is strongly recommended to people who would have been flagellants in earlier times." $\endgroup$ – John Stillwell Apr 23 '10 at 7:49
$\begingroup$ I was actually rather surprised recently by a referee who did not know the phrase "red herring", and had to look it up. He insisted that we change it to something more understandable. It makes me wonder how much "colourful" language is weeded out by referees, and whether the mathematical literature is poorer for it. $\endgroup$ – Harald Hanche-Olsen Apr 24 '10 at 2:31
$\begingroup$ @Harald: If you intend your mathematical papers to be read by a wide range of readers, then write them in simple language, suitable for those who are relative beginners in English. I remember reading long ago some metaphoric phrase in a mathematics research paper, then imagining students all over the world getting out their English dictionaries, looking it up, and still not understanding what it meant. (I no longer remember what the phrase was, just this reaction to it.) $\endgroup$ – Gerald Edgar Apr 24 '10 at 15:43
This isn't so much a serious mathematical paper, but Miles Reid - Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry is full of bizarre sentences:
If $I(X)$ is defined as the set of functions vanishing at all points of $X$, then for any point of $X$, all functions of $I(X)$ vanish at it. And indeed conversely, if not more so, just as I was about to say myself, Piglet.
The name of the theorem (Nullstelle = zero of a polynomial + Satz = theorem) should help to remind you of the content (but stick to the German if you don't want to be considered an ignorant peasant).
sobe86
$\begingroup$ Miles Reid is an extraordinarily entertaining speaker. I heard him once call a theorem "Ice-cream of Tuesday" in a talk. More amazing still was that this was indeed a good, descriptive name, for the theorem! $\endgroup$ – Daniel Moskovich Feb 3 '11 at 22:47
In the Book "Introduction to lattices and order", the authors (B. A. Davey and Hilary A. Priestley) talk about ordered sets with a bottom/top. In this context, they say the following:
Computer scientists commonly choose models which have bottoms, but prefer them topless.
From William Thurston's "Hyperbolic Structures on 3-Manifolds I: Deformation of Acylindrical Manifolds":
Let us stick to the case that $M$ is a compact, acylindrical manifold. Then $H(M)$ is a hard-boiled egg. The egg complete with shell is $AH(M)$; it appears to be homeomorphic to a closed unit ball. $GH(M)$ is obtained by thoroughly cracking the egg shell on a convenient hard surface. Apparently no material is physically separated from the egg, but many cracks are developed -- cracks are dense in the boundary -- and at the same time, the material of the egg just inside the shell is weakened, so that neighborhood systems of points on the boundary become thinner. Finally, $QH(M)$ has uncountably many components, which are obtained by peeling off the shell and scattering the pieces all over.
Henry Segerman
From S. Skewes's "On the difference $\pi(x)-\mathrm{Li}(x)$", Proc. LMS 5, 1955:
"I wish in conclusion to express my humble thanks to Professor Littlewood, but for whose patient profanity this paper could never have become fit for publication."
David Hansen
I must post some more examples from Frank Adams. I recommend reading the last section of his paper "Finite H-Spaces and Lie Groups", which contains a letter to the reader written in the voice of the exceptional lie group E8. Two excerpts :
"This is as if one were to award a title for drinking beer, having first fixed the rules so as to exclude all citizens of Heidelberg, Munich, Burton-on-Trent, and any other place where they actually brew or drink much of the stuff."
"In the second place, to consider the question at all reveals a certain preoccupation with ordinary cohomology. Any impartial observer must marvel at your obsession with this obscure and unhelpful invariant."
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A gem of R.H. Bing:
Dimension 4 is the most difficult dimension. It is too old to spank, the way we might deal with the little dimensions 1, 2, and 3; but it is also too young to reason with, the way we deal with the grown-up dimensions 5 and higher.
Source here: http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2011-48-03/S0273-0979-2011-01320-9/S0273-0979-2011-01320-9.pdf
Dave Futer
$\begingroup$ As an aside, I discovered by experience that searching for "Bing too old to spank" is NOT a good way to find a source for this quote. $\endgroup$ – Dave Futer Jul 5 '11 at 14:24
In this MO answer, I mentioned Arnold Miller's lecture notes, where he gives an entertaining account of the MM proof system (for Micky Mouse), having as axioms all validities and modus ponens as the only rule of inference. Although it is easy to prove the Completeness theorem from Compactness in this system, it is nevertheless a kind of joke system, since the set of validities is not a decidable set, and so we would be fundamentally unable to recognize whether something is a proof or not in this system. Miller uses this example to illustrate the point as follows:
The poor MM system went to the Wizard of OZ and said, "I want to be more like all the other proof systems." And the Wizard replied, "You've got just about everything any other proof system has and more. The completeness theorem is easy to prove in your system. You have very few logical rules and logical axioms. You lack only one thing. It is too hard for mere mortals to gaze at a proof in your system and tell whether it really is a proof. The difficulty comes from taking all logical validities as your logical axioms." The Wizard went on to give MM a subset Val of logical validities that is recursive and has the property that every logical validity can be proved using only Modus Ponens from Val.
And he then goes on to describe how one might construct Val, and give what amounts to a traditional proof of Completeness.
Joel David Hamkins
"Indeed, I wrote the outline of this book while wandering across India, so that, in my mind, Henkin's method is inexorably linked to the droves of wild elephants I met while crawling among the swamp plants of the preserves of Kerala; the elimination of imaginaries, to the gliding vultures above the high Himalayan peaks; and the theorem of the bound, to the naked bodies of the Mauryan women that the traveler saw on the bends of a jungle trail, before they had time to cover themselves. I dare hope only that this book will evoke similarly pleasant images in my reader; I wish it will be as pleasant a companion for you as it was for me."
From Bruno Poizat's "Model Theory". He also constantly belittles the readers of the English edition of the book. Highly recommended!
Steven Gubkin
$\begingroup$ I think we could fill this entire question with Bruno Poizat (aka Johnny B. Goode) quotes. I highly recommend browsing the titles in his bibliography - ams.org/mathscinet/search/… $\endgroup$ – François G. Dorais♦ Apr 23 '10 at 17:11
$\begingroup$ «Quelques modestes remarques à propos d'une conséquence inattendue d'un résultat surprenant de Monsieur Frank Olaf Wagner» is amazing. $\endgroup$ – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Apr 23 '10 at 22:21
$\begingroup$ «Deux ou trois choses que je sais de $L_{n}$» surely beats that one, though! $\endgroup$ – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Apr 26 '10 at 4:47
$\begingroup$ Poizat coined the terms belle paire and the dope. (The first is often translated beautiful pair, but big rack would be a more accurate.) $\endgroup$ – François G. Dorais♦ Apr 27 '10 at 2:52
$\begingroup$ @François: I think that "the dope" in the English translation of Cours de théorie des modèles comes from French "la DOP", from English "DOP" (Dimensional Order Property), which is a Shelahian term. I think the story here is that the French-to-English translator wasn't familiar with the English word for the concept... $\endgroup$ – John Goodrick Sep 15 '10 at 19:38
From Donagi and Smith "The Structure of the Prym Map":
Wake an algebraic geometer in the dead of night, whispering: "27". Chances are, he will respond: "lines on a cubic surface".
$\begingroup$ I hate to comment like this, but for community wiki, I feel less bad, and it won't affect the ranking at this moment...could someone vote this one up? I'd rather like it to have 27 votes, but no more. It feels fitting. $\endgroup$ – Charles Siegel Jun 2 '10 at 13:07
$\begingroup$ Now we just have to get your comment to 27 upvotes as well. $\endgroup$ – Steven Gubkin Jun 8 '10 at 13:05
$\begingroup$ +1 but not voted up! $\endgroup$ – Abhishek Parab Jun 8 '10 at 13:27
$\begingroup$ 28 votes are not a problem: just replace "lines on a cubic surface" by "bitangents to a plane quartic". I'm sure it works. $\endgroup$ – Laurent Moret-Bailly Oct 10 '10 at 9:54
$\begingroup$ Voted back down to 27, although it feels strange to downvote this. $\endgroup$ – Todd Trimble♦ Dec 16 '12 at 13:32
This is taken from the seminal paper "Quantum error correction via codes over GF(4)" by A. R. Calderbank, E. M. Rains, P. W. Shor, and N. J. A. Sloane.
Gil Kalai
John (Horton) Conway unrelentingly gets away with colorful, even whimsical language in definitions, in explanations, in paper titles, even in some book titles (The Sensual (Quadratic) Form.) Even in SPLAG, there is the following:
"...we earnestly recommend that you use
The Best Method: guess the correct answer, and then justify it." SPLAG, p. 302
On Numbers and Games is just rife with colorful stuff. (I'm surprised no one has pointed out this elephant in the room yet.) The next to last theorem of the book is
THEOREM 99: Any short all-small game G which has atomic weight zero is infinitesimal with respect to (double-up) and dominated by some superstar.
And the last words of the book are famously
"...a certain feeling of incompleteness prompts us to add a final theorem.
THEOREM 100. This is the last theorem in this book.
(The proof is obvious.)" ONAG p. 224
Robert Haraway
$\begingroup$ SPLAG?${}{}{}{}$ $\endgroup$ – Gerry Myerson Feb 3 '11 at 22:33
$\begingroup$ /Sphere Packing, Lattices, and Groups/, I believe. $\endgroup$ – Alison Miller Feb 4 '11 at 19:49
$\begingroup$ Theorem 100 reminds me of the second edition of Serre's "Cohomologie galoisienne" (1964, LNM 5) which contains a page of errata numbered E-1. The last line of that page is: "Page E-1: supprimer la dernière ligne." $\endgroup$ – Laurent Moret-Bailly Apr 6 '11 at 9:07
Not from a paper but rather from a book, the first page of the introduction to G. R. Kempf's Algebraic Varieties reads:
"Algebraic geometry is a mixture of the ideas of two Mediterranean cultures. It is the superposition of the Arab science of the lightning calculation of the solutions of equations over the Greek art of position and shape. This tapestry was originally woven on European soil and is still being refined under the influence of international fashion. Algebraic geometry studies the delicate balance between the geometrically
plausible and the algebraically possible. Whenever one side of this mathematical teeter-totter outweighs the other, one immediately loses interest and runs off in search of a more exciting amusement."
There is a paper entitled Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain and the Fifty-ninth Row of Pascal's Triangle.
Freudenthal made this quote about terminology:
A more imaginative nomenclature than one relying on overburdened terms such as "fundamental," "principal," "regular," "normal," "characteristic," "elementary," and so on is desirable. Inventors of important mathematical notions should give their inventions suggestive names. The disadvantage that good names might prevent the inventor's name from being immortalized as an adjective would be more than compensated by the advantage that this honor could not possibly be bestowed on noninventors.
(from twf:178)
graveolensa
Waldhausen once inserted a bit of music -- written out as notes on a staff -- in the final draft of one of his papers, explaining "This replaces an unnecessary axiom." The melody, by Grieg, was called "Fool's Morning Song".
Tom Goodwillie
$\begingroup$ The piece (Alborada del Gracioso) is actually by Ravel. It is now an obstruction to republishing the paper in question, since the line of music was put in to avoid a retyping of the following pages, which would be hard to justify if the paper were redone in TeX. $\endgroup$ – John Rognes Oct 3 '10 at 13:19
$\begingroup$ @John, is this really an obstruction? $\endgroup$ – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Oct 18 '10 at 18:50
I like George Kempf's succinct description in that same textbook, of the splitting of vector bundles on P^1 as a theorem "last proved by Grothendieck".
I never forgot Dieudonne's opinion in Foundations of modern analysis chapter 8, that defining a derivative as a number instead of a linear form, is "slavish subservience to the shibboleth of numerical interpretation at any cost."
In the section entitled "Woffle" of Miles Reid's Undergraduate algebraic geometry, he states delightfully that in the prerequisite algebraic chapter II, "the student who is prone to headaches could perhaps take some of the proofs for granted here, since the material is standard, and the author is a professional algebraic geometer of the highest moral fibre."
$\begingroup$ Perhaps only Dickens scholars would laugh out loud at the algebraic geometer's use of "elephants" for "elements", apparently a reference to a remark of Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield, upon entering from outdoors, where he felt he had been buffeted by "the elephants, uh... I mean elements". This presumably is also due to Miles Reid. $\endgroup$ – roy smith Jan 17 '11 at 17:08
A famous Sherlock Holmes meta-mystery is the identity of the giant rat of Sumatra. In The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Sherlock Holmes declares to Dr. Watson:
Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, . . . It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
Sherlock Holmes fans have tried to figure out what the Giant Rat of Sumatra is, and how it might be related to a ship.
The solution to this greatest of all Sherlock Holmes mysteries is to be found in a mathematics book- one whose topic is Catastrophe Theory. On Page 196 of Curves and Singularities by J.W. Bruce and P.J. Giblin, we learn that the giant rat of Sumatra is in fact the family of functions $f_a(t_1,t_2)=t_1t_2(t_1-t_2)(t_1-at_2)$. Section 11.2 (Pages 196-200) of the book explains how we have established that this is indeed the giant rat of Sumatra, and elucidates why indeed the world is not yet prepared for its story. The relationship between the giant rat and the Matilda Briggs is not discussed, although we are led to suspect the worst, given that Catastrophe Theory is the book's theme.
Daniel Moskovich
The last paragraph of E. Artin's "Theory of Braids":
Although it has been proved that every braid can be deformed into a similar normal form the writer is convinced that any attempt to carry this out on a living person would only lead to violent protests and discrimination against mathematics. He would therefore discourage such an experiment.
Autumn Kent
The AMS Memoirs 947 "Rock Blocks" by Will Turner is full of colorful lanuage. For example in the introduction one finds out that:
"Hannah Turner supported me financially (partly), and libidinously (entirely)."
"We choose not to spend time chomping on this old pie, since we have become aware of dishes with a more exotic, and alluring aroma."
and so on....
daveh
$\begingroup$ TMI, Will Turner. $\endgroup$ – Todd Trimble♦ Mar 25 '14 at 12:19
Diaconis and Efron wrote a paper "Testing for Independence in a Two-Way Table: New Interpretations of the Chi-Square Statistic" that was followed by 10 papers discussing their suggestion. The following is from Diaconis and Efron's rejoiner:
The critical paper that they refer to starts with a speldid colorful language:
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I always liked
$L$ takes on the character of a very thin inner model indeed, bare ruined choirs appended to the slender life-giving spine which is the class of ordinals.
from Kanamori and Magidor `The evolution of large cardinal axioms in set theory' (1978).
Alex Collins
Spivak, A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 1, p.94,
Now that we have a well-defined bundle map $TM \to T\;'M$ (the union of all $\beta_x^{-1} \circ \alpha_x$), it is clearly an equivalence $e_M$. The proof that $e_N \circ f_* = f \circ e_M$ is left as a masochistic exercise for the reader.
Volume 3, p. 103, indexed under "Idiot, any,"
These normalizations are usually carried out with hardly a word of motivation, as if they are so natural that any idiot would immediately think of doing them—in reality, of course, the authors already knew what results they wanted, since they were simply reformulating a classical theory.
From Volume 5, p.59,
We are going to begin by deriving certain classical PDE's which describe important (somewhat idealized) physical situations. The word "derive" had better be taken with a hefty grain of salt, however. What I have really tried to do is give plausible reasons why the physical situations should be governed by those PDE's which the physicists have agreed upon. I've never really been able to understand which parts of the standard derivations are supposed to be obvious, which are mathematically simplifying assumptions, which steps are supposed to correspond to empirically discovered physical laws, or even what all the words are supposed to mean.
Incidentally, Spivak gave an entertaining series of lectures on the subject of classical mechanics, whence
I haven't the slightest idea what any of this means! But I'm almost certain that it amounts to the similarity argument we have given. Aren't you glad that you aren't a mathematician of the 17th century!?
jasomill
$\begingroup$ Thanks for these! I've been hoping to see more Spivak for a long time. $\endgroup$ – John Stillwell Nov 5 '10 at 21:10
I always liked Edward Burger's A Tail of Two Palindromes. It begins as follows:
Upon a preliminary perusal, this parable may appear to be about pairs of palindromes, periods, and pitiful alliteration. In actuality, however, it is the story of a real quadratic irrational number $\alpha$ and its long-lost younger sibling, its algebraic conjugate $\tilde{\alpha}$ ($\alpha > \tilde{\alpha}$). How in the dickens are all these notions connected? We begin at the beginning... Although the conjugates $\alpha$ and $\tilde{\alpha}$ are not *identical* twins, unlike the two zeros of $(x - 3)^2$, they do share a common family history: they each were born of the same irreducible parent polynomial having rational coefficients, $$P_{\alpha}(x) = P_{\tilde{\alpha}}(x) = (x - \alpha)(x - \tilde{\alpha}) = x^2 - \text{Trace}(\alpha)x + \text{Norm}(\alpha),$$ where $\text{Trace}(\alpha) = \alpha + \tilde{\alpha}$ and $\text{Norm}(\alpha) = \alpha \tilde{\alpha}$. Perhaps not surprisingly, some conjugate pairs exhibit similar personalities. But how similar can they be? And how can we detect those similarities simply by looking at $\alpha$? As we will discover as our tale unfolds, the answer - foreshadowed in the title - is encoded in what can be described as the number theoretic analogue of the DNA-sequence for $\alpha$. However, before delving into $\alpha$'s genes, we first motivate our results by weaving a lattice of algebra.
Qiaochu Yuan 90%
I don't agree with this quote by Errett Bishop (a constructivist who developed real analysis along constructive lines), but I admire its brio:
Mathematics belongs to man, not to God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.
It's an odd spin on that famous Kronecker quote about the integers and God.
arsmath
R.Coleman writing about the Dwork Principle in Section III of "Dilogarithms, Regulators and $p$-adic $L$-functions":
"Rigid analysis was created to provide some coherence in an otherwise totally disconnected $p$-adic realm. Still, it is often left to Frobenius to quell the rebellious outer provinces".
MarcM
In section 3 of
J. Frank Adams -- Stable homotopy theory (3rd ed., LNM 3, 1969)
the author discusses two different attitudes towards what the "proper" definition of the stable homotopy category should be, which he personifies by the tortoise and the hare:
The hare is an idealist: his preferred position is one of elegant and all embracing generality. He wants to build a new heaven and a new earth and no half-measures. ... The tortoise, on the other hand, takes a much more restrictive view. He says that his modest aim is to make a cleaner statement of known theorems, and he'd like to put a lot of restrictions on his stable objects so as to be sure that his category has all the good properties he may need. Of course, the tortoise tends to put on more restrictions than are necessary, but the truth is that the restrictions give him confidence.
You can decide which side you're on by contemplating the Spanier-Whitehead dual of an Eilenberg-MacLane object. This is a "complex" with "cells" in all stable dimensions from $-\infty$ to $-n$. According to the hare, Eilenberg-MacLane objects are good, Spanier-Whitehead duality is good, therefore this is a good object: And if the negative dimensions worry you, he leaves you to decide whether you are a tortoise or a chicken. According to the tortoise, on the other hand, the first theorem in stable homotopy theory is the Hurewicz Isomorphism Theorem, and this object has no dimension at all where that theorem is applicable, and he doesn't mind the hare introducing this object as long as he is allowed to exclude it. Take the nasty thing away!
Beren Sanders
You might want to read http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~avm1260/lenstra.html for hilarious language during lecturing.
Nicky Hekster
In Berger's "A panoramic view of Riemannian Geometry" :
"The Cayley projective plane $\mathbb{CaP}^2$ is beautiful. In the Riemannian zoo we like to call it the panda."
confusedmath
At the end of the introduction to Spin Glasses: a challenge for mathematicians, Michel Talagrand writes:
It is customary for authors, at the end of an introduction, to warmly thank their spouse for having granted them the peaceful time needed to complete their work. I find that these thanks are far too universal and overly enthusiastic to be believable. Yet, I must say that in the present case even what would sound for the reader as exaggerated thanks would not truly reflect the extraordinary privileges I have enjoyed. Be jealous, reader, for I yet have to hear the words I dread the most: "Now is not the time to work".
Tom LaGatta
the book "Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity" by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz contains the following exercise (19, pg 380):
The following is from the New York Times of November 27, 1979. Determine, when possible, whether each statement is (a) true, (b) false, (c) misleading, (d) equivalent to a well-known conjecture, the solution of which was probably not known to Mr. Browne.
Ori Gurel-Gurevich
$\begingroup$ What is the complete exercise? $\endgroup$ – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Oct 21 '10 at 13:46
$\begingroup$ I didn't have the patience to type in the NYT article itself. Take a look at the link. $\endgroup$ – Ori Gurel-Gurevich Oct 21 '10 at 15:53
$\begingroup$ "Malcolm Wilde Browne (April 17, 1931 – August 27, 2012) was an American journalist and photographer. His best known work was the award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Browne $\endgroup$ – Gerry Myerson Feb 1 '19 at 21:56
S. S. Abhyankar's book, "Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers" is actually more for mathematicians, and algebraic geometers in particular. It has the following quip(meant for Andre Weil who wanted to eliminate elimination theory):
Eliminate, eliminate, eliminate, Eliminate the eliminators of elimination theory.
The whole lengthy polemic can be read at this google books link.
Anweshi
$\begingroup$ The google books result actually doesn't contain the whole poem. The extended version, which is certainly more colorful, can be found on pages 18 and 19 of this book: cs.nyu.edu/mishra//NOTES/AlgorithmicAlgebraMishra.pdf $\endgroup$ – Jamie Weigandt Dec 1 '10 at 0:20
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The Executive Board manages the operational business of the Raiffeisen Group. This involves in particular identifying influences and changes that have a bearing on the Raiffeisen Group's environment, developing relevant strategies and ensuring that subsequent implementation measures are taken. In accordance with the legal and regulatory framework, the Executive Board is charged with the execution of the resolutions passed by higher bodies, with the competent, secure, forward-looking and profit-oriented management of the Group, with financial and human resources organisation, and with the implementation of risk policy.
The Executive Board consists of the Chairman and seven other members. Meetings are normally held once every two weeks, led by the Chairman. The Executive Board has the power to pass resolutions if a majority of its members or their deputies are present. The Board passes most resolutions by consensus. If agreement cannot be reached, resolutions are passed by a simple majority, with the Chairman having the tie-breaking vote. Resolutions are minuted. The Extended Executive Board consists of the Executive Board plus four more members. It meets roughly every two months, and is responsible in particular for implementing strategy, acting as a risk committee, budgeting and budget control, defining application architecture, project management and making key personnel decisions. Raiffeisen Switzerland business processes are handled by seven different departments (see organisational chart). The Members of the Executive Board and of the Extended Executive Board of Raiffeisen Switzerland are elected by the Board of Directors of Raiffeisen Switzerland. The Extended Executive Board was abolished as of 1 January 2018.
Group management coordination
Group-wide meetings are held every two months in order to drive strategic coordination and consultation within the Group. They are attended by the Chairman of the Executive Board, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and Head of the Finance department of Raiffeisen Switzerland, as well as the CEOs of Notenstein La Roche Private Bank Ltd, Raiffeisen Unternehmerzentrum AG, Investnet Holding AG and ARIZON Sourcing Ltd.
Organisational chart (31 December 2017)
Members of the Executive Board
Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO)
Erlenbach ZH
Joined Executive Board
Raiffeisen Switzerland (since 2000)
–Chairman of the Executive Board (since 2015)
–Head of Market department (2005–2015)
–Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board (2002–2015)
–Head of Corporate Development, Finance and Information Technology/Member of the Executive Board (2000–2004)
Union Bank of Switzerland/UBS AG (1994–1999)
–IT department and section head
Boston Consulting Group (1993–1994)
–Banking and insurance consultant
Swiss Bank Corporation (1987–1993)
–Group Head of Financial IT System Development
University of St.Gallen (1987–1993)
–Assistant and lecturer
–Doctorate at the University of St.Gallen (1992)
–Degree at the University of St.Gallen (1988)
Significant directorships
–Member of the BoD and the Committee of the Swiss Bankers Association, Basel
–Member of the BoD and the Risk Committee of SIX Group Ltd, Zurich
–Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pfandbriefbank schweizerischer Hypothekarinstitute AG, Zurich
–Member of the BoD and the Investment and Risk Committee of Helvetia Swiss Insurance Company Ltd, St.Gallen
–Chairman of the CEO Circle, UNICO Banking Forum
–Member of the BoD of Schweizerische Management Gesellschaft, Zurich
–Chairman of the BoD of Notenstein La Roche Private Bank Ltd, St.Gallen
–Member of the BoD of ARIZON Sourcing Ltd, St.Gallen
–Member of the Management Board of the Betula Association, Romanshorn
–Member of the BoD of Ergis AG, Wald (AR)
–Lecturer at the University of Zurich
–Member of the Foundation Board of Ostschweizerische Stiftung für klinische Krebsforschung (OSKK), St.Gallen
Michael Auer
Head of Private & Affluent Clients department and
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board
Speicher AR
–Head of Private & Affluent Clients department/Member of the Executive Board (since 2015)
–Head of Bank Relationship Management/Member of the Executive Board (2008–2015)
–Head of Human Resources Management (2001–2008)
Human Leverage AG and hrGate AG (1999–2001)
Swiss Bank Corporation (1990–1999; since 1997: UBS AG)
–Head of HR in the Corporate Clients unit
–Head of the Logistics unit
–Head of the Regional Training Centre in St.Gallen
–HWV St.Gallen (1987–1990)
–Executive MBA University of St.Gallen (1999)
–Member of the Retail Banking Steering Committee
–Member of the Foundation Board of Swiss Museum Pass
–Chairman of the Executive Board, UNICO Banking Forum
–Member of the BoD of Aduno Holding AG
–Member of the BoD of TWINT Ltd
–Member of the BoD of Säntis Schwebebahn AG
–Chairman of the BoD of the Raiffeisen Pension Fund and Raiffeisen Employer Foundation
–Member of the BoD of Notenstein La Roche Private Bank Ltd
–Member of the Coordination Domestic Banks
–Chairman of the BoD of Raiffeisen Immo Ltd
Paulo Brügger
Head of Central Bank department
Zumikon ZH
–Head of Bank Central Bank department/Member of the Executive Board (since 2005)
–Head of Trading department (2003–2005)
UBS AG (1995–2003)
–Global Head Product Management Treasury Products (2001–2003)
–Regional Head Foreign Exchange Trading (1998–2001)
–Global Risk Management Group Proprietary Trading (1995–1998)
Julius Bär (1993–1995)
–Treasury Products Proprietary Trading/Currency Fund Management
Union Bank of Switzerland (1988–1993)
–Deputy Head of the Interest and Futures Trading desk
–Degree in Business Administration from the KSZ, Economy School Zurich (1995)
–Banking apprenticeship (1985)
–Member of the BoD of responsAbility Participations AG, Zurich
–Member of the Investment Committee, Raiffeisen Pension Fund
–Member of the BoD of Leonteq Securities Ltd, Zurich
Gabriele Burn
Head of Branches & Regions department
Krattigen BE
–Head of Branches & Regions/Member of the Executive Board (since 2015)
–Head of Marketing & Communication/Member of the Executive Board (2011–2015)
–Head of Branches/Member of the Executive Board (2008–2011)
Raiffeisenbank Thunersee-Süd (1997–2008)
–Chair of Executive Boards
Berner Kantonalbank (1992–1997)
–Team leader Commercial/SMEs and Key Corporate Clients, various specialist and management functions
Bank EvK, EvK-Leasing (1989–1992)
–Credit officer, sales team member and accounts officer
–Credit officer, executive assistant
–CAS Digital Leadership, University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration (HWZ) Zurich (2017)
–MAS Bank Management, IFZ Zug (2010)
–Postgraduate diploma in bank management, Executive Master of Banking, IFZ Zug (2005)
–Federal Banking Diploma (1996)
–Chairwoman of the Swiss Climate Foundation
–Board member of the Green Building Association
–Member of the Management Board of the Zurich Banking Association
–Vice-Chairwoman of the Banking Association of the City of St.Gallen
–Member of the Foundation Board of Ella & J. Paul Schnorf Foundation
–Member of the Specialist Council at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute for Financial Services Zug IFZ
–Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Association for Hotel Financing SGH
–Member of the Advisory Board of Schweizer Berghilfe
Urs P. Gauch
Head of Corporate Clients department
Pfäffikon SZ
–Head of Corporate Clients department/Member of the Executive Board
Credit Suisse Group, Managing Director (1985–2015)
–Head of the SME Business Switzerland (2013–2015)
–Head of International Corporate & Institutional Clients (2011–2012)
–Head of Special Business & Corporate Products (2008–2010)
–Head of Corporate Clients Switzerland – Key Accounts (2004–2007)
–Head of Corporate Centre – Corporate & Retail Banking (2002–2003)
–Head of Management Support Corporate Clients (2000–2001)
–Head of Credit Recovery Mittelland/Ticino Region (1998–1999)
–Head of the Credit Recovery Department (1993–1997)
–Head of Controlling/Key Account Manager Corp. Clients, New York (1988–1993)
–Project Manager Controlling, SVB, Berne (1985–1988)
–IMD Program for Senior Executives, Lausanne (2013)
–AMP Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School, Boston (2003)
–Swiss Banking School, Zurich (1997)
–Degree in Business Administration, HWV, Berne (1985)
–Member of the BoD of FL Metalltechnik AG, Grünen-Sumiswald
–Chairman of the BoD of Raiffeisen Unternehmerzentrum AG
–Chairman of the BoD of Business Broker AG, Zurich
–Chairman of the BoD of Business Broker Investment AG, Zurich
–Member of the BoD of Investnet AG
–Member of the BoD of Investnet Holding AG
–Member of the BoD of KMU Capital AG
–Member of the BoD of Vorsorge Partner AG
–Member of the Management Board of Epi-Suisse
Rolf Olmesdahl
Head of IT department (CIO)
Cham ZG
–Head of the IT department/Member of the Executive Board
Zurich Insurance Group, Member of the Group Leadership Team (2011–2015)
–Global Head of Application Development & Maintenance (2014–2015)
–Chief Information Officer General Insurance (2011–2014)
UBS (1979–2009)
–Chief Information Officer Wealth Management, Retail and Commercial Banking/Member of the Group Managing Board (2005–2009)
–Banking apprenticeship, IT trainee, various global management and project manager functions (1979–2005)
–Executive MBA IMD Lausanne (1999–2000)
–Swiss Banking School/Swiss Finance Institute (1995–1997)
–Business administration degree from the KSZ (1989–1991)
–Federal Diploma in Organisation (1989)
–Federal Certificate in Office Organisation (1987)
–Banking apprenticeship (1979–1982)
–Chairman of the BoD of ARIZON Sourcing Ltd, St.Gallen
–Member of the Research Council, Institute of Information Management HSG, University of St.Gallen
Dr Christian Poerschke
Head of Services department
Swiss/German
–Head of Services department/Member of the Executive Board (since 2015)
–Head of Corporate Development & Controlling (2007–2015)
–Head of Corporate Controlling (2005–2007)
EFTEC, EMS-TOGO (2002–2005)
–Business Development & Controlling
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (2000–2002)
–Doctorate at Philipps-Universität Marburg (2007)
–Business administration degree at the University of Münster (1996–2000)
–Member of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Finance Institute
Marcel Zoller
Head of Finance department (CFO)
Goldach SG
–Head of the Finance department/Member of the Executive Board
St.Galler Kantonalbank (1981–2007)
–Head of Service Centre, Deputy CEO (2001–2007)
–Head of Private and Commercial Clients market area (1996–2000)
–Deputy project manager for KB-fit strategy project (1994–1996)
–Branch manager (1989–1994)
–Assistant branch manager (1981–1989)
–Administrator in precious metals and foreign notes trading
–Stanford Executive Program, United States (2001)
–Management training at SKU, Switzerland, courses in business management (1997)
–Executive Program, Swiss Finance Institute (1990)
–Chairman of the BoD of Jagd & Natur Medien AG
–Member of the Management Board, the Finance and Audit Committee and the Strategy Committee of the Valida Foundation, St.Gallen
–Member of the BoD of QIQ Qcentris AG
There are no management contracts with third parties at Raiffeisen.
Compensation and loans
Information about compensation and loans of the members of the Board of Directors and Executive Board can be found in the section entitled "Remuneration report".
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These names are included for informational purposes only. From what little we know about them it seems that none of them may have switched their names to Hulse, or Huls, except through spelling error by a recorder. On the other hand we know so little about them that they are listed here for comparison purposes. It may be that one of our present un-placed families descend from one of these immigrants, and we have already found one example where the Halsey and the Richard Clans have claimed the same family. While I am not suggesting that we track each of these down, it would be prudent, however, to know as much about their earlier generations so that we can keep them separate from our own of the same period.
From William V. H. Barker's "Early Families of Herkimer County New York - Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," on page 133 begins the listings of the descendants of Christofel Hilts. They had children: Johann, George, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Maria (possibly died young), Maria, Philip, Catherine, and one child born in 1764 who died three days later. His son George (using the surname Hults), was born about 1700, and married Mary Elizabeth Feller. Only one child is recorded: John Nicholas Hults, who was born in 1733, at Little Falls, Herkimer Co., New York, and was married in 1760 to Elizabeth Fox. As we have presently no record of the surname changing to Hulse the family was not traced further.
The following is quoted from his letter: "As far as I know, the name has been in a state of flux for over 200 years. Almost from the time of its arrival in America, the surname has appeared in over a dozen forms. As you know, my ancestor was, Christopher Hilts. His name has appeared in various records as: Kristoffel Hilsch (German records), Christoph Huls (in America), Christ. Hills (a soldier in America), and Christoph Huitz (1716/1717 Register.) Christopher Hilts' son, Johan George, also went by a variety of surnames: Hielts, Hitts, Hils, Hiltz, and Hilts. Another of Christopher's sons (Johann Nicolas), used the surname Hultz. My great great grandmother, Mandana M. (Hiltz) Roberts, went by Hiltz. Her father (John Hilts) preferred Hilts. So as you can see, there has never been a single, universally used surname in the family. From what I have been able to gather, most of the people in my great great grandmother's generation, used - Hilts."
Born about 1591 in Greatgaddesden, Hertfordshire, England. He was living in Naples (Mass?) in 1621; then in Lynn, Mass. about 1637, and came to Southampton, Long Island, New York, in 1640. He died in 1678/9 at Southampton. He married twice. (His first wife, whose name is unknown, was reportedly murdered by Indians.) Two sons by his first wife were Thomas (who built the house called "Hollyhocks" at Southamption about 1660), and Isaac. Thomas, Sr. married second, 25 July 1660, Anne, the widow of Edward Johnes. This family is not traced to any degree as all are presumed to still bear the name Halsey.
Born about 1780 in Devonshire, England. "Emigrated to American in 1818, landing at Philadelphia after a voyage of nearly three months. In 1819 he came to Neville, and the following year moved to Tate (both in Clermont Co., Ohio), to the farm now owned by their son William. He was a carpenter by trade, and helped finish the first brick buildings in Felicity and devoted his earnings to the purchase of land; became a large real estate owner. He divided his land among his son William, his grandson George W. Halse, and his three daughters, Mrs. Aaron Kennedy, Mrs. William S. Beck, and Mrs. J. M. Beck. He died in 1865 in his 85th year, greatly respected for his many good qualities." From the History of Clermont Co., Ohio by Everts, 1880, page 317, Tate Twp. See also "Clermont and Brown Counties" by Byron Williams, page 744, published 1913. The latter contains an extensive biography of the grandson George Washington Halse. William Halse was born in Tate Twp. 26 August 1824 and died 22 June 1904. His wife was Margaret Lucetta Bredwell. They had the following children: George Washington who married Adeline Trunkey Evans; Sarah Catherine who married William A. Aultman; Thomas Lewis; and Mary Ann.
In the 1820 census of Tate Twp., 1 male 26-45, 1 female 26-45, 3 females under 10. See also 1850 Ross Twp. Wife possibly Sarah (last name unknown, born 1793 in New Jersey.
Emigrated from Vlissingen, Zeeland, Holland. Married 19 April 1679 in Flatbush, New York to Maria Willemse Bennet of Gowanus. Issue Cornelis, Lysbeth, Abraham, Isaac, and Jan. All born between 1681 and 1704 in New York (probably in Brooklyn.) After his death (sometime before 1704) Maria married again, about 1705, to Jacobus Dooren/Van Dorn of Freehold, New Jersey. It is possible that her children went with her to New Jersey and also quite possible that they all may have dropped the prefix VER as Dr. Nelson Powell Hulst, a Wisconsin pioneer mining engineer claimed descent. Have not been able to trace this line any further.
From page 100 of Michael Tepper's "Passengers to America", passengers for Virginia, July 1635. "These underwritten names are to be transported to Virginia embarqued in the "Assurance de Lo": Richard Halsey age 13.
From page 26 of Michael Tepper's "Passengers to America", 6 May 1635 transported to New England in the "Elizabeth and Ann": Joseph Halsey age 24.
Possible immigrant ancestor was Peter Hudsey, brought to the colonies by Mr. Parker, or Packer, before 1634. Name has been found as Huddlecey, Huddsey, Huddesy, Hulsey, Huddlesly, Heelsey, Hedsey, Holsey, and (believe it or not) Ulcey. Except for some variations the name seemed to standardize at Hulsey around 1800. Not to be confused with the Halsey family of Long Island, or two other known English Halsey immigrants. Mrs. Pat Keene, 324 Washingtonia Dr., San Marcos, CA 92069, would appreciate being advised if anyone runs across any of the above variations. Please, however, use the "rule of three" before doing so. If you find the same people also using the spelling Hulse (or a variation) in two different records they are probably caused by a writing error and not a true Hulsey.
was naturalized in Philadelphia, 10 April 1772.
Born 1827 in Germany. Married an Eliza (last name unknown). John listed as a laborer in the 1850 census of Bushwick, Kings Co., New York. His age was given as 23 and hers as 31. No children reported.
(Presumed immigrant.) In a compilation by F. Edward Wright, "Maryland Eastern Shore Vital Records, 1648-1725", published by Family Line Publications, Silver Springs, Maryland in 1982, comes the following: Kent Co., Maryland Court Depositions - 2 November 1670, Abraham Holse, age 23 (1647).
RICHARD HULLS, from Buckinghamshire, England. Transported October 1739 aboard the "Duke of Cumberland." Destination not given. Stanley Ross suggested that Richard might belong to FU#105 as when Henry Hulse, the oldest known ancestor of that family, died in 1810 he signed his names Hulls and his family claims English ancestry.
Born 1823 in Ireland. Married to Mary (last name unknown, born 1823 in Ireland.) Two children, William born 1845, and Ann born 1849, both in Williamsburg, Kings Co., New York, 1850 census. Henry listed as laborer.
Born in Germany in 1816. Married Jessey (last name unknown). Came to America about 1840 as their children Jane and Henry were born in Ohio. Family was listed in Ward 3 Cincinnati, Ohio 1850 Census. Henry Sr. listed as Laborer. Family possibly left Germany prior to the German Revolution of 1846.
LAMMERT JAN HULST (The Rev.).
Born about 1825 in Holland. Died after 1915 in Ottawa Co., Michigan. Married Aebeltje Hellenga. Six children are suggested but only two sons are known. Dr. Henry Hulst, born 1859 in Holland and married in 1889 at Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Cornelia Stetekee; and a second son John of whom nothing is known.
Born about 1832 in England, was listed in the 1880 census of Winneshiek, Iowa. No family given though the 1900 census lists a Lewis Halse, born November 1870 in England, and an older woman Caroline, born 1840 in England (his mother ?) Also listed, but not named, was a child born in England, and one born in Iowa. Could Lewis, Jr. have followed his father to Iowa, bringing his mother with him?
Born about 1844 in Mecklenberg, Germany. He was listed with his wife Mary, age 31, (also born in Mecklenberg) in the 1880 census of Benton, Iowa. Four children are indicated (names not given); two born in Illinois, and two in Iowa.
Born about 1845 in Bremen, Germany, appears in the 1870 census of Humboldt Twp., Allen Co., Kansas. No further information.
Born about 1840 in Mecklenburg, Germany, appears with his family in the 1870 census of Potawatomi Twp., Coffey Co., Kansas. With him was his wife, Margaret, age 29 (1841), born Ohio; son Louis, age 3 (1867), born Kansas; and son George, age six months, (1870), also born Kansas.
Born in the area of Reichenbach, Silesia (now Dzierzoniow, Poland.) Reported to have left a wife and children in Silesia. Immigrated to the United States around 1886, and married here in 1893, in Buffalo, New York, to Bertha Kinder. His mother also immigrated, but it is not certain if his father came or not. Family legend has it that Johann had a brother who also immigrated and went West.
Born Germany 1825, reported as a tailor, age 45, in the Dubuque, Iowa census of 1870. (Ward 2, page 114.) With his was his wife Henrietta, age 31 (1839), born Saxony, and two children Heinrick, age 4 (1866), and Ernest, age 2 (1868), both born in Iowa.
From "Ship Lists New York and New Jersey 1600-1825" by Carl Boyer, 3rd comes the following entry. March 15, 1663. In De Rooseboom (The Rosetree), Captain Pieter Reyersz Van der Beets. Barent Holst, from Hamburg.
immigrated from Dusseldorf, Germany around 1880. He was born about 1847, and died 21 April 1900 in Depue, Bureau Co., Illinois. His wife was Alpha/Alfa, or Anna. They had ten children of which the first three were born in Dusseldorf, and the last seven in Depue. He had four sons who grew to manhood and three of which we have a record of marriage; Charles Fredrick, Henry Herbert, Bennard (or Ben); and Herman.


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Gov. Cox issues executive order, declares state of emergency regarding drought in Utah
by: Craig Proffer
Posted: May 13, 2021 / 02:38 PM MDT / Updated: May 13, 2021 / 02:38 PM MDT
FILE – In this July 16, 2014 file photo, what was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Extreme swings in weather are expected as part of a changing climate, something Brad Udall, a water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University, has called "weather whiplash." The drought-stricken Southwest got a reprieve this year with average and above-average snowfall following a year that sent many states into extreme drought. Nearly empty reservoirs quickly rose, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the largest man-made reservoirs in the country that hold back Colorado River water. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Gov. Spencer Cox has issued another executive order regarding the ongoing drought in Utah.
This latest executive order declares a state of emergency in Utah, and will allow communities and agricultural producers affected by the drought to have access to federal emergency resources.
Construction begins on new 'transit-rich community' in Salt Lake City
According to the Utah Department of Natural Resources, 100% of the Beehive State is currently experiencing drought, with 90% of the state experiencing "extreme drought."
Gov. Cox previously declared a state of emergency on March 17 due to the ongoing drought in Utah, and issued another executive order on May 3 requiring water conservation state facilities.
The May 3 executive order forbade irrigation at state facilities between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., required sprinklers to be shut off during rain storms, and ensured landscape water systems were operating efficiently.
For more information on Utah's ongoing drought as well as water conservation tips, click here.


Last year in Japan, Nintendo released two new models of the New 3DS. Next month in Europe, Nintendo will release two new models of the New 3DS. And on February 13 in North America, Nintendo will release... one model of the New 3DS.
Yep, instead of getting to choose between two different versions of Nintendo's unfortunately-titled 3DS successor, North American fans are stuck with one: the New 3DS XL. That's the larger version. The smaller one—which is designed with swappable faceplates so people can tailor how it looks—isn't coming here.
Nintendo has already given a semi-explanation as to why we aren't getting the smaller one—basically, they don't think it'll sell as well here—but all across the web, people AREN'T STANDING FOR IT. They're making their voices heard. They're starting petitions. Facebook groups. Big Reddit threads where they're organizing to call and e-mail Nintendo support lines until something gives. The goal: get Nintendo to give in and start selling the smaller New 3DS.
It's a fair request, given that just about every other country is getting both models, and there are a lot of compelling reasons why people might want the smaller one. Some folks want those sweet customizable faceplates; others just think the New 3DS XL is too big.
Of course, Nintendo's asinine naming policy makes this whole thing kind of hilarious. "Bring the New 3DS to America!" "Wait, I thought the New 3DS was already coming to America?" "No, that's the New 3DS XL, duh."
Knowing Nintendo, they'll probably release the smaller one in like a year, just when everyone has given up on ever seeing it on this side of the world anyway. But if you're a bit more optimistic, and you want to see the New 3DS make its way over here, head on over to the Reddit megathread and get your phone call on.


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Home Community Social worker speaks about recovery experience
Social worker speaks about recovery experience
A St Helens Council social worker has described how it felt to be hit by coronavirus and their recovery to be back on the front line helping those who need support.
Michael Seed supports people with mental health issues or are disabled as part of his role although recently he has been redeployed to support the Whiston Integrated Discharge Team through St Helens Cares, which helps to move people back home or into care when their hospital treatment has finished.
But when he found himself feeling unwell he presumed it was just because he was tired from the demands of his role and being a dad to four children.
Michael said: "I started to feel very hot. I went home that evening and started to feel like I had a sore throat and developed a cough. That night I fell asleep at 6pm and woke up the following afternoon. I'm not much of a good sleeper due to having a large family and I'm usually the first person up in the house.
"I was constantly falling asleep and again had a long sleep that night after falling asleep early. I then started to lose my taste and smell."
St Helens Council has ensured a system for front line workers to be able to get tested quickly and Michael had a test arranged at Haydock Park Racecourse.
"It was a strange feeling and I saw one of my colleagues behind me in her car," he added. "The Army were there doing the tests and I personally thought they were doing a wonderful job and very caring when dealing with my test.
"Getting swabbed up the nose was an unpleasant experience. I used to work at the Fracture Clinic at Whiston years ago and always did the swab test on other people who were going to have surgery to test for MRSA. I now understand why people hated the experience.
"I received my test result at 7pm the following day by text. It was a strange feeling but I expected the result to be positive. The main worry was passing this virus to my children.
"I was lucky as the virus itself wasn't as bad as some people have had, it was something like a bad flu so I was able to cope with the symptoms."
As he started to recover Michael was able to work from home to self isolate before he returned to his role at Whiston Hospital.
Having recovered from Covid-19 Michael has some guidance for everyone: "It is very important to follow the guidelines and keep two metres apart from other people when you need to get essential items. It also very important to religiously wash your hands and use the hand gels. I am part of a food parcel scheme in my local area for people who are self-isolating so I would say if you have to self-isolate seek the support of friends and family or use St Helens Together rather than risk others."


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Up to 4,000 Queens customers remain in dark
About 12,000 to 16,000 people entered their second week without electricity in Queens on Monday, a large improvement over the 100,000 affected during the height of the power outage.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a briefing that between 3,000 to 4,000 customers remained without electricity on Monday morning.
A customer can represent anything from a single-family home to an entire apartment building, roughly translated to four individuals per customer. Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Bruno said Con Edison is "doing a good job," and he encouraged residents to support workers and say "hello"to them.
On Sunday, some political leaders placed the utility at fault for the outage, and called on Con Edison to make restitution to residents and argued that utility officials should face consequences.
"When the lights went out, that was just the tip of the iceberg," City Councilman Eric Gioia, D-Queens, told The Associated Press. "Since then, Con Ed has misled the public about the severity of the situation, failed to grasp that we are in a crisis and shown no plan to put the power back on and ensure the health and safety of people in Queens."
Mr. Gioia argued that Con Ed Chief Executive Kevin Burke should resign over his handling of the Queens blackout, which at its peak affected an estimated 100,000 people.
Asked to respond to the criticism later Sunday, Mr. Burke said, "I am now focused exclusively on restoration." Mr. Burke said the causes of the blackout would be investigated later.
"How can anyone believe anything Con Ed says?" demanded State Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat. "I think what they did was criminal, and I hope to see some people who work at Con Ed in handcuffs before this is over."
Mr. Bloomberg said the focus for now should be on getting the power back rather than Con Ed diverting resources to figure out what happened. That should be left for later, he said, adding that Con Ed has promised a report within two weeks.
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The new ISO 19011:2018 guidelines for auditing management system has been released by International Organisation for Standardisation, thus further improving the way audit is conducted. It replaced the old ISO 19011:201I version.
The new auditing guidelines further explains the principles of auditing and managing an audit programme for a more effective audit. It contains detailed instruction on how to perform management system audits, with guidance on the evaluation of competence of auditors involved in the audit process.
This auditing guideline is applicable to all types of organizations that need to plan and conduct internal or external audits of management systems or manage an audit programme. Other types of audit can also use ISO 19011 as a guide provided that specific competence needed for the audit is given due consideration.
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A fine set of 19th C. Persian Qajar period armor. This set features the usual helmet, shield, and bazuband, but also has the original and beautiful crafted char aina, or four mirrors, in the rare fitted armor set, and actually composed of five parts, with the two front halves closing in the middle with a thing wire that goes the length and claps them in place.
The metal on all four components is etched and overlaid with silvert koftgari, with close to matching designs on the helmet, bazuband, chest armor, and shield. The chest armor is a particularly rare component part and uncommon to find in any condition and the quality of the etched design is really beautiful with playful does and Qajar era motifs throughout, in addition to caligraphic script. The set also retains much of the original red cloth backing.