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"""
Definition of views.
"""

from django.shortcuts import *
from django.http import HttpRequest
from django.template import RequestContext
from datetime import datetime
from django.db.models import F
from app.models import *

# For retreiving email
import apiclient
from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient import errors
import httplib2
import logging

import os
import hashlib
import random
import sys
import smtplib
import httplib
import requests
import oauth2client
import gspread
from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets

def home(request):
    """Renders the home page."""
    assert isinstance(request, HttpRequest)
    return render(
        request,
        'app/index.html',
        context_instance = RequestContext(request,
        {
            'title':'Home Page',
            'year':datetime.now().year,
        })
    )

def new_event(request):
	context = {}
	print request.COOKIES

	if 'code' in request.COOKIES:
		context['code'] = request.COOKIES['code']
		print context['code']

	return render(request,'app/create_event.html',context)

def redirectBack(request):
	context = {}
	context['hash'] = request.POST['hash']
	return render(request,'app/event_page.html',context)

def log_venmo(request):
	context = {}
	url = request.POST['url']
	tok = request.POST['access_token']
	amount = request.POST['amount']
	payer = request.POST['payer']

	print request.POST
	event_id = request.POST['event_id']
	try:
		event = Event.objects.get(hashString = event_id)
	except:
		return render(request, 'app/404.html')

	user_id = event.admin

	requests.post('https://api.venmo.com/v1/payments',params={'access_token':tok,'phone':'1'+user_id,'amount':amount,'note':'MoneyPLS Payment for '+event.name})
	#subprocess.call(['curl', 'https://api.venmo.com/v1/payments', '-d', "access_token="+tok,'-d',"phone=1"+user_id,"-d","amount="+amount,"-d","note=moneypls payment"])

	event.total= F('total') + float(amount)
	event.contributor_set.create(name=payer, money=float(amount))
	gc = gspread.authorize(event.cred)
	event.save()

# Open a worksheet from spreadsheet with one shot
	sh = gc.open_by_url(event.spread).sheet1
	if len(event.contributor_set.all()) > 0:
		i = 1
		sh.update_acell('A1', 'Person')
		sh.update_acell('B1', 'Money Contributed ($)')
		for c in event.contributor_set.all():
			i+=1
			sh.update_acell('A'+str(i), c.name)
			sh.update_acell('B'+str(i), c.money)

	return redirect('/confirmation')

def confirm(request):

	return render(request, 'app/confirmation.html')

def get_user_info(credentials):
  """Send a request to the UserInfo API to retrieve the user's information.

  Args:
    credentials: oauth2client.client.OAuth2Credentials instance to authorize the
                 request.
  Returns:
    User information as a dict.
  """
  user_info_service = build(
      serviceName='oauth2', version='v2',
      http=credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http()))
  user_info = None
  try:
    user_info = user_info_service.userinfo().get().execute()
  except errors.HttpError, e:
    logging.error('An error occurred: %s', e)
  if user_info and user_info.get('id'):
    return user_info

def create_event(request):
	context = {}

	code = ""

	organizer = ""
	name = ""
	admin = ""
	desc = ""
	goal = 0
	total = 0
	end_date = None
	spread = ""
	email = ""
	if 'name' in request.POST:
		name = request.POST['name']
	if 'organizer' in request.POST:
		organizer = request.POST['organizer']
	if 'admin' in request.POST:
		admin = request.POST['admin']
	if 'desc' in request.POST:
		desc = request.POST['desc']
	if 'spread' in request.POST:
		spread = request.POST['spread']
	if 'goal' in request.POST:
		goal = request.POST['goal']
		if(goal == ''):
			goal = 0
	if 'end_date' in request.POST:
		end_date = request.POST['end_date']
	hashS = hashlib.md5(admin + name + str(random.randint(0,sys.maxint))).hexdigest()
	ahashS = hashlib.md5(admin + name + str(random.randint(0,sys.maxint))).hexdigest()

	cred = None
	if 'code' in request.POST:
		code = request.POST['code']
		print "GOOGLE CODE: "+code
		SECRETS = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'client_secrets.json')
		SCOPES = [
   				'email',
    			'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar',
    			'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile',
				]
		flow = flow_from_clientsecrets(SECRETS, ' '.join(SCOPES))
		flow.redirect_uri = 'postmessage'
		cred = flow.step2_exchange(code)

		info = get_user_info(cred)
		print info
		email = request.POST['email']

	event = Event(hashString=hashS,adminHashString=ahashS,name=name,organizer=organizer,spread=spread,
					admin=admin,total=total,goal=goal, desc=desc, date=end_date,email=email, cred=cred)
	event.save()
	# Send email to admin
	try:
		server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
		server.starttls()
		server.login("moneyplscmu@gmail.com", "gucciswerve")
		msg = "Event Page: http://moneypls.herokuapp.com/event/"+hashS+"\n\nAdmin Page: http://moneypls.herokuapp.com/admin/"+ahashS
		subject = "Event Confirmation for "+name
		message = 'Subject: %s\n\n%s' % (subject, msg)
		server.sendmail("moneyplscmu@gmail.com", email, message)
		server.quit()
	except:
		return render(request,'app/wrong.html', context)

	context['confirm'] = "Success! Check "+email+" for a link to the page for the event"

	return render(request,'app/create_event.html', context)

def admin_event(request, event_id):
	context = {}
	try:
		event = Event.objects.get(adminHashString = event_id)
	except:
		return render(request, 'app/404.html')
	context['hashString'] = event_id
	context['name'] = event.name
	context['admin'] = event.admin
	context['email'] = event.email
	if event.desc != None:
		context['desc'] = event.desc
	if event.goal != None:
		context['goal'] = event.goal
	if event.date != None:
		context['date'] = event.date

	people = []
	if len(event.contributor_set.all()) > 0:
		for c in event.contributor_set.all():
			people.append({'amount':c.money,'name':c.name})
		context['people'] = people
	return render(request, 'app/admin.html', context)

def edit_event(request):
	try:
		event = Event.objects.get(hashString = event_id)
	except:
		return render(request, 'app/404.html')

	context = {}

	return render(request, )

def redirect_event(request):
	context = {}
	context['loggedin'] = True
	event_id = request.GET['state']
	context['access_token'] = request.GET['access_token']
	context['event_id'] = request.GET['state']

	print request.COOKIES
	try:
		event = Event.objects.get(hashString = event_id)
	except:
		return render(request, 'app/404.html')
	context['name'] = event.name
	context['admin'] = event.admin
	context['total'] = event.total
	if event.date != None:
		context['end_date'] = event.date
	if event.desc != None:
		context['desc'] = event.desc
	context['payments'] = len(event.contributor_set.all())
	print event
	if event.goal > 0:
		context['goal'] = event.goal
	people = []

	return render(request, "app/event.html", context)

def display_event(request, event_id):

	try:
		event = Event.objects.get(hashString = event_id)
	except:
		return render(request, 'app/404.html')

	context = {}
	context['name'] = event.name
	context['admin'] = event.admin
	context['total'] = event.total
	context['organizer'] = event.organizer
	print "THIS"
	print event.organizer
	context['hash'] = event.hashString
	if event.date != None:
		context['end_date'] = event.date
	if event.desc != None:
		context['desc'] = event.desc
	context['payments'] = len(event.contributor_set.all())
	print event
	if event.goal > 0:
		context['goal'] = event.goal
	people = []
	if len(event.contributor_set.all()) > 0:
		for c in event.contributor_set.all():
			people.append({'name':c.name,'amount':c.money})
		context['people'] = people

	return render(request, "app/event.html", context)

def contact(request):
    """Renders the contact page."""
    assert isinstance(request, HttpRequest)
    return render(
        request,
        'app/contact.html',
        context_instance = RequestContext(request,
        {
            'title':'Contact',
            'message':'Your contact page.',
            'year':datetime.now().year,
        })
    )

def about(request):
    """Renders the about page."""
    assert isinstance(request, HttpRequest)
    return render(
        request,
        'app/about.html',
        context_instance = RequestContext(request,
        {
            'title':'About',
            'message':'Your application description page.',
            'year':datetime.now().year,
        })
    )

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Frida Berrigan, How Shovel-Ready Is the Pentagon?
President Obama has recently threatened to rescind the "blank check" the Bush administration offered to big defense contractors. So now is the time when all that planning by Lockheed Martin and the other major arms manufacturers comes into play. One of that company's major weapons systems, the F-22 Raptor, is potentially on the chopping block. How convenient then that, in the midst of an economic meltdown, Lockheed just happens to have more than 1,000 parts suppliers for that jet carefully scattered across 44 states, all of which, as far as I know, have representatives in Congress. This is pretty typical.
Take the Army's Future Combat System (FCS), which Noah Shachtman of Wired.com's Danger Zone blog calls a "poster child in Washington for Pentagon bloat and overreach." According to a recent Army briefing document, "The FCS Manned Ground Vehicle program encompasses more than 839 suppliers in 38 states totaling more than $6.2B in development cost impact." The only question, of course, is: How could the prospective eight-vehicle system have missed those other 12 states? Similarly, when it comes to the Navy's much desired Virginia Class Submarine, according to MSNBC's Tom Curry, "Supplier work on the subs is spread from Northampton, Mass., (Kollmorgen Corp.) to Tacoma, Wash., (Bradken-Atlas Castings) not to mention the main sub building sites in Groton and in Newport News. Each of those congressional districts happens to be represented by a Democratic member of the House of Representatives."
The list of weapons systems is practically endless and the various services and companies responsible for them invariably try to spread the largess across as many congressional districts as possible. What this means is that any cuts are likely to be fiercely fought, both within the military and in Congress, backed by all the lobbying power of the weapons makers. That's why the latest post by Frida Berrigan, military expert for the New America Foundation and TomDispatch regular, is so important. It's a reminder that, for all the cash the military-industrial complex slathers over Congress, and all the money spread around the country, the modern weapons industry is a stimulus damper. That's not a point much trumpeted in this country. As Berrigan points out, however, if you want economic bounce, it's best not to put your money into things that go "boom" in the night, but into the peaceable professions like health care and education. Tom
Is the Next Defense Budget a Stimulus Package?
Why the Pentagon Can't Put America Back to Work
By Frida Berrigan
"Shovel-ready."
It's the magic incantation to fix our economic woes. Many states and federal agencies have already gone from scouring their budgets for things to cut to green-lighting construction projects. The Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus package is sure to muster many shovels in an effort to rouse a despondent economy and put Americans back to work.
Here's the strange thing though: That package was headline news for weeks, bitterly argued over, hailed and derided in equal measure. And yet road construction, housing projects, and green retrofits aren't the only major projects getting the shovel-ready treatment via massive infusions of cash.
At the end of February, another huge "stimulus" package was announced but generated almost no comment, controversy, or argument. The defense industry received its own special stimulus package — news of the dollars available for the Pentagon budget in 2010; and at nearly $700 billion (when all the bits and pieces are added in), it's almost as big as the Obama economic package and sure to be a lot less effective.
Despite the sort of economic maelstrom not seen in generations, the defense industry, insulated by an enduring conviction that war spending stimulates the economy, remains almost impervious to budget cuts. To understand why military spending is no longer a stimulus driver means putting aside memories of Rosie the Riveter and the sepia-hued worker on the bomber assembly line and remembering instead that the Great Depression came before "the Good War," not the other way around. In World War II, it's also important to recall, the massive military buildup was labor intensive, employed millions, and was accompanied by rationing, austerity, and very high taxes.
This time around, we began with boom years and spent our way into the breach, in significant part by launching unnecessary, profligate wars. Meanwhile, President George W. Bush cut taxes at a more than peacetime pace and borrowed like an addicted gambler on a losing streak to underwrite his wars of choice, including his Global War on Terror. If the former president's nearly trillion dollar (and counting) global war got us into this mess, by simple logic it's not likely to bail us out as well.
Riding the Slide to Billions
While the good times rolled during the long slide from surplus to deficit, from no war to global war, it wasn't just the Merrill Lynches and subprime mortgage giants that cleaned up. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman — the top three defense contractors — had a ball, too.
In 2002, the first full year of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror, for instance, those three companies — ranking first, second, and third on the Pentagon's list of top ten contractors — split $42 billion in contract awards, more than two-thirds of the $67 billion distributed among the top 10 Pentagon contractors.
In 2007, the last year for which full contracting data is available, the same Big Three split $69 billion in Pentagon contracts, which was more than the total received by the top 10 companies just five years earlier. The top 10 divvied up $121 billion in contracts in 2007, an 80% increase over 2002. Lockheed Martin, the number one Pentagon contractor, graduated from a mere $17 billion in awarded contracts in 2002 to $28 billion in 2007. That's a leap of 64%. Given such figures, it's easy enough to understand how the basic military budget — excluding money for actual war-fighting — jumped from about $300 billion to more than $500 billion during the Bush years.
Given the economic climate, it's no surprise that the three defense giants have all posted losses in the past few weeks. But before the hankies come out and the histrionics start, it should be noted that Lockheed Martin alone has an $81 billion backlog in orders, enough to keep chugging along for another two years without a single new contract.
If such war spending had been an effective stimulus for the economy, we would be roaring along on 12 cylinders today. But increasingly this kind of spending mainly stimulates corporate shareholders, stock prices, and (of course) war itself.
No matter, the staggering new defense budget ensures that, for the defense industry, some version of good times will continue to roll, even if the economic impact of these huge military investments proves negligible and the need in other areas is staggering.
The 2010 Defense Budget
President Obama is reportedly intent on digging deep into the Pentagon budget. He has given his Office of Management and Budget until April to complete an "exhaustive line-by-line" review of the detailed budget request before it is released. In speeches, he has focused on wasteful and unnecessary defense spending.
Just days ago, Obama insisted that "the days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over." To underline that assertion, he cited a 2008 Government Accountability Office study that found 95 military projects over budget by a total of $295 billion. He pledged to end such egregious practices, and the no-bid contracts that often go with them. That applause line plays well at a time when belts are tightening uncomfortably and boot straps remain elusive, but it misses a reality, no less potentially important in the Obama era than in the preceding one: for (at least) the last eight years, defense contractors haven't needed a "blank check" because they already have the combination to the safe, the PIN number to the account, and a controlling interest on the board of the bank.
Given the promised size of the next Pentagon budget, no matter what weapons programs are cut or companies and contracts disciplined, the "bank board" will remain the same because the overall amount available to it shows no signs of changing. In fact, basic funding levels (not including money still being set aside for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) are remarkably in line with the most recent Bush administration budget, right down to prospective further increases. The just released overall figure for the 2010 Pentagon budget is actually $533.7 billion; that is, $20.4 billion higher than Bush's last base budget.
President Obama does not like the term "Global War on Terror" (GWOT), dispensing with the Bush administration's moniker of choice to describe the most costly array of military operations since World War II. But Obama's Pentagon will continue to spend a GWOT-sized chunk of our national treasure, even as troops trickle home from Iraq, and the surge relocates to Afghanistan's inhospitable steppes. The preliminary figure for war-fighting in 2010 is $130 billion, which represents a modest decrease from the $144 billion that is expected to go to military operations in 2009. Add that to the base Pentagon budget and you get a subtotal of $664 billion for 2010 military expenditures.
If the estimated costs of military spending lodged in other parts of the federal budget (like funding for nuclear weapons which is considered the bailiwick of the Department of Energy), as well as miscellaneous non-Defense Department defense costs — about $23 billion last time around — are also included, then President Obama's first military budget should come in at around $670 billion.
After the preliminary budget figures were released, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters, "In our country's current economic circumstances, I believe that represents a strong commitment to our security." Almost $700 billion is a strong commitment alright. Unfortunately, as a stimulus commitment — and a largely unquestioned one at that — it is certain to prove a drag on our economic recovery, despite the claims of the defense industry and their ever-present publicists and lobbyists.
Lifting America by the (Combat) Bootstraps?
And are we hearing those claims these days! The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), representing more than 100 leading defense and aerospace corporations, has been trumpeting their contributions to the economy in a print ad campaign and on their website under the catch-phrase: "Aerospace and Defense: The Strength to Lift America."
In terms of American well-being, the AIA estimates that defense and aerospace manufacturers contribute $97 billion in exports a year, while maintaining two million jobs. As Fred Downey, an association vice president, told the Associated Press, "Our industry is ready and able to lead the way out of the economic crisis."
As the association sees it, defense and aerospace corporations are about as shovel-ready as you can get. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), however, offers quite a different view of the AIA's two-million jobs claim. Their "Career Guide to Industries," for example, looks intensively at Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing (which would also include some non-defense related corporations) and finds that the sector employed 472,000 wage and salary workers in 2006. Now, this is not the whole picture of defense-related employment, but according to the Associated Press, the BLS estimates that only 647,000 people work in industries where at least one-fifth of the products are defense-related.
Perhaps the AIA was including not just jobs making weapons, but jobs lobbying Congress to pay for them. Then Downey and crew might almost have a case. The BLS would probably not consider lobbyist jobs to be defense-related, but maybe they should because the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money in politics, reports that the industry spent $149 million on lobbying firms to get its points across to Congress and the administration last year. That has to be a lot of shovel-ready jobs right there.
Speaking of shovel-ready jobs shoveling out defense industry claims, if the lobbying sector is happy, ad firms must be ecstatic. These days, defense contractors and associations are spending striking sums on what's politely termed "public education": full-page ads in major newspapers, ads in Washington metro stations near the Pentagon, Crystal City (a Virginia community where many Pentagon satellite offices are located), Capitol Hill, and other places where the powerful congregate when their limos are in use, not to speak of aggressive pop-up ads on political news sites like the National Journal.
Lockheed Martin, for example, recently unveiled a new ad campaign pitched towards troubled economic times. It depicts proud blue-collar workers above the tagline: "95,000 employed, 300 million protected." At the bottom of the ad are the logos of the supersonic fighter plane known as the F-22 Raptor and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers whose members build it. As if to underline these messages, 200 members of Congress signed a January 20th "Dear Mr. President, Save the F-22" letter, meant to be waiting for Barack Obama as he entered the Oval Office. The letter asserted that the F-22 program "annually provides over $12 billion of economic activity to the national economy."
Even if that dubious claim were substantiated, the economic activity comes at a high cost. The United States spent more than $65 billion to design and produce the F-22 Raptor — a fighter plane originally conceived to penetrate the airspace of the long extinct Soviet Union, to counter large formations of enemy bombers in Cold War scenarios that are today inconceivable, and to achieve air superiority high over Eastern Europe whose greatest problems now involve a potential region-wide economic meltdown. In the wake of the Cold War, as military analyst Chalmers Johnson recently pointed out, the F-22 lacks a role in any imaginable war-fighting scenario the U.S. might actually find itself in.
Efforts to promote the plane as a critical tool in the Global War on Terror floundered when Defense Secretary Gates spoke plainly about the system's uselessness last year. "The reality," he said, "is we are fighting two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the F-22 has not performed a single mission in either theater."
Fortunately for Lockheed Martin, once the U.S. economy began to crater, it could emphasize a new on-the-ground use for the F-22 — as an instant make-work jobs program.
However, even there the plane's utility is questionable. William D. Hartung, director of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, points out that, if the F-22 program is cut, the "job losses will be stretched out over two and half years or more, and could happen after the end of the current recession." In addition, Lockheed has had to back away from the 95,000 jobs claims, clarifying that more than 70% of those jobs are only indirectly related to the F-22, and that just 25,000 workers are employed directly on the plane's construction. Winslow Wheeler is the head of the Center for Defense Information's Straus Military Reform Project and his scholarship is built on more than 30 years of service at the Government Accountability Office and on the Senate Budget Committee, among other places. He points out that, when it comes to high-tech weapons, today's military-industrial complex bears not the slightest resemblance to its World War II predecessor as a job generator. As he describes it, in the early 1940s "production lines cranked out thousands of aircraft each month: as fast as the government could stuff money, materials and workers into the assembly line."
In stark contrast, the F-22, he points out, is essentially an artisanal product. "Go to Lockheed Martin's plant," he writes. "You will find no detectable movement of aircraft out the door. Instead you will see virtually stationary aircraft and workers applying parts in a manner more evocative of hand-crafting. This 'production rate' generates one F-22 every 18 days or so." This is, in fact, what shovel-ready largely means in Pentagon stimulus terms these days.
War for Jobs?
Economists have also weighed in on why "war for jobs" as a way out of recession or depression has entered the world of mythology. An analysis from the University of Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute, for instance, finds that, for every one billion dollars invested in defense, 8,555 jobs are created. By contrast, the same billion invested in health care would create 12,883 jobs, and in education, 17,687 jobs or more than double the defense stimulus payoff.
It has often been said that World War II — and the production stimulus it offered — lifted the United States out of the Great Depression. Today, the opposite seems to be the case. The "war economy" helped propel the U.S. into what might turn out to be another great depression, and so, unlike in 1929, as our economy crumbles today, we are already on a global war footing.
As the Obama administration grapples with economic disaster and inherited wars, it will have the added challenge of confronting a military-industrial complex accustomed to budgets that reach almost three quarters of a trillion dollars, based on exaggerated global threats, unsubstantiated economic claims, and entrenched profligacy. When Obama's analysts pour over the budget, looking at all those overpriced weapons and plum contracts, they'll have to ask: Is each weapons system or program actually needed for American security and is it cost effective? Or are the defense contractors shoveling a load of shovel-ready bull?
Frida Berrigan is a Senior Program Associate at the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative (ASI). She is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus and a contributing editor at In These Times.
Copyright 2009 Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood. She is a TomDispatch regular and writes the Little Insurrections column for WagingNonviolence.Org. She has three children and lives in New London, Connecticut, where she is a gardener and community organizer.

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Parents' math anxiety can 'infect' kids
Mom and dad can pass on their fear of mathematics when they help a child with homework
If parents are uncomfortable with math, they should not let that show when they help a child with homework. The reason: An adult's math anxiety can prove contagious, a new study finds.
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By Ilima Loomis
Cover your mouth when you cough, wash your hands … don't say bad things about math? Psychology researchers have known for years that a fear of math can be contagious. They've shown that children can pick up negative attitudes about math from teachers. Now they've found another source of "math anxiety": parents.
Researchers studied 438 first- and second-graders and their families. Before a school year started, the researchers asked parents or other caregivers to fill out a survey. It asked them to rate how anxious they would feel in different situations involving math — like reading a cash register receipt or studying for a math test. They also assessed their children's math ability and math anxiety. This was done at both the beginning and end of a school year.
Kids whose parents were anxious about math learned less math over the school year, the new study found. What's more, these kids also were more likely to become nervous about math themselves. But they only "caught" that anxiety if their parents had frequently tried to help with their homework.
The results appeared August 7 in the journal Psychological Science.
This is an example of good intentions having a bad payoff, notes Mark Ashcraft. He's a psychology researcher at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was not involved with the study. "Inadvertently," he says, "when [those parents are] trying to help with homework, they're conveying their own bad attitudes about math to their children."
Those children also seemed to learn less math in school. Kids whose parents were anxious about math — and who had helped them with their homework — did not perform as well on the tests as did those who had not been exposed to math anxiety.
Erin Maloney, who led the new study, works at the University of Chicago in Illinois. As someone who has personally experienced math anxiety, she's sympathetic to the parents and their kids. "I was always very nervous about math, not only taking tests, but also learning new concepts. I really tried to avoid math," she says. It was only after she studied statistics in graduate school and saw how it could be applied to her passion — psychology — that she started to enjoy math.
Parents with math anxiety shouldn't avoid supporting their kids as they work on math assignments, though. Instead, she says, they should look for ways to have fun with math, like playing math-based games. And if parents feel unsure about their own abilities, they should avoid talking about it. They instead should try to put a positive spin on math.
Helping kids with schoolwork requires more than just going over facts and concepts, Maloney notes. "It's also attitude," she says. And their attitude, she says, can have a surprisingly big impact.
Ashcraft says that if parents can't figure out a math problem, they shouldn't get frustrated or embarrassed. Rather, they should help their kids plan questions to ask their teachers.
What can students do if they're already nervous about math? Maloney suggests they perform a simple writing exercise. An earlier study showed that students who wrote about their fears for 7 to 10 minutes before taking a test performed better on that test. Writing down their feelings helped the kids work through their concerns. In the process, many concluded that those concerns weren't such a big deal after all. "It really works," she says.
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anxiety A nervous disorder causing excessive uneasiness or fear about something that has not yet taken place. People with anxiety may even develop panic attacks.
contagion A disease that can be spread by direct contact with an infected individual or the germs they spread into the air, their clothes or their environment. Such diseases are referred to as contagious.
content (noun) The material comprises something (like the contents of a box) or the words, subjects covered and ideas contained in an entire document.
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psychology The study of the human mind, especially in relation to actions and behavior. Scientists and mental-health professionals who work in this field are known as psychologists.
statistics The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities and interpreting their meaning. Much of this work involves reducing errors that might be attributable to random variation. A professional who works in this field is called a statistician.
survey (in statistics) A questionnaire that samples the opinions, practices (such as dining or sleeping habits), knowledge or skills of a broad range of people. Researchers select the number and types of people questioned in hopes that the answers these individuals give will be representative of others who are their age, belong to the same ethnic group or live in the same region.
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A. Pearce Stevens. "Stress for success." Science News for Students. March 20, 2015.
L. Sanders. "Inheriting fear." Science News for Students. December 7, 2013.
Original Journal Source: E.A. Maloney et al. Intergenerational effects of parents' math anxiety on children's math achievement and anxiety. Psychological Science. Published online August 7, 2015. doi:10.1177/0956797615592630.
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A Champaign County judge set bond Wednesday for 17-year-old Ely Serna. He is charged as a juvenile with attempted murder, felonious assault and other offenses for the Jan. 20 attack at a high school in West Liberty, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) northwest of Columbus.
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(JTA) — A New Jersey widow has pledged to donate at least $22 million to the zoo in Cologne, Germany, in memory of her Jewish husband, a Holocaust survivor.
Elizabeth Reichert, 93, was born in Cologne and met her husband, Arnulf, also a Cologne native, during World War II while he was hiding from the Nazis and she was working with the German underground resistance.
The couple married a year after the war ended and then lived for five years in Israel before leaving for New Jersey, where they ran a pet shop. The two never had children, the English-language website of the German newspaper Deutche Welle reported Friday.
Prior to Arnulf Reichert's death in 1998, the couple decided to leave their fortune to the zoo.
"It meant a lot to my husband," Reichert told ABC News. "That was his wish — that whatever we have when we pass away should be donated to the zoo of Cologne. Cologne is our hometown."
"We have no children. Our children are the zoo."
In 1954, the couple gave the zoo a soft-shelled turtle they brought from the Jordan River on a nine-day journey by boat.
In recent months, Reichert reportedly set up a foundation to which she donated $22 million that will invest the money and pay out a regular income to the zoo in perpetuity.
The zoo's chief financial officer reportedly thought he was being scammed when Reichert's lawyer first contacted him. Now the zoo is planning to enlarge and improve the animal enclosures and also make the surroundings more pleasant for its guests.
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25-day walk for Irish blasphemy referendum
Author Atheist Ireland Published 06/05/2010
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Starting today, Thursday May 6th, Atheist Ireland member Paul Gill will walk the length of Ireland, from Mizen Head in Cork to Malin Head in Donegal, to highlight the need to vote Yes in the coming Irish blasphemy referendum.
On January 1st, the day Ireland's new blasphemy law became operational, Atheist Ireland published 25 blasphemous statements on our website. We continued lobbying at home and at European Parliament level. We also supported two blasphemy-themed art exhibitions in Dublin.
In March Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said he will propose a referendum later this year, along with other referendums, to remove the reference to blasphemy from the Constitution. Paul's walk will encourage people to campaign for, and vote yes in, this referendum.
Appropriately, Paul's walk started on May 6th, which is International Day of Reason. And to mark the start of Paul's walk, we now publish 25 quotes on the Irish blasphemy referendum and the right to freedom of expression.
The first five quotes are specifically relevant to the coming referendum, which will ask the Irish people to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution:
"We are of the view that there is no place for the offence of blasphemous libel in a society which respects freedom of speech. The strongest arguments in its favour are (i) that it causes injury to feelings, which is a rather tenuous basis on which to restrict speech, and (ii) that freedom to insult religion would threaten the stability of society by impairing the harmony between the groups, a matter which is open to question in the absence of a prosecution. Indeed, we consider the absence of prosecution to indicate that the publication of blasphemous matter is no longer a social problem."
Irish Law Reform Commission Report on the Crime of Libel, 1991. Commissioners: The Hon Mr Justice Ronan Keane, Judge of the High Court, President; John F Buckley, Esq, BA, LLB, Solicitor; William R Duncan, Esq, MA, FTCD, Barrister-at-Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of Dublin; Ms Maureen Gaffney, BA, MA, Senior Psychologist, Eastern Health Board; Research Associate, University of Dublin; Simon P O'Leary, Esq, BA, Barrister-at-Law
"The retention of the constitutional offence of blasphemy is not appropriate. The contents of the offence are totally unclear and are potentially at variance with guarantees of free speech and freedom of conscience in a pluralistic society. Moreover, there has been no prosecution for blasphemy in the history of the State. In so far as the protection of religious beliefs and sensibilities is necessary, this is best achieved by carefully defined legislation along the lines of the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 which applies equally to all religious groups, but which at the same time took care to respect fundamental values of free speech and freedom of conscience."
Irish Constitution Review Group, 1996. Members: Chairperson Dr TK Whitaker, David Byrne SC, Dr Alpha Connelly, Mary Finlay SC, Dermot Gleeson SC, James Hamilton BL, Mahon Hayes, Gerard Hogan FTCD, BL, Professor Áine Hyland, Dr Finola Kennedy, Professor Michael Laver FTCD, Dr Kathleen Lynch, Diarmaid McGuinness BL, Dr Dermot Nally, Dr Blathna Ruane BL
"The right to freedom of expression implies that it should be allowed to scrutinise, openly debate, and criticise, even harshly and unreasonably, belief systems, opinions, and institutions, as long as this does not amount to advocating hatred against an individual or groups… An insult to a principle or a dogma, or to a representative of a religion, does not necessarily amount to an insult to an individual who believes in that religion…. A democracy must not fear debate, even on the most shocking or anti-democratic ideas. It is through open discussion that these ideas should be countered and the supremacy of democratic values be demonstrated. Mutual understanding and respect can only be achieved through open debate. Persuasion, as opposed to ban or repression, is the most democratic means of preserving fundamental values… Certain religious groups have undoubtedly shown increasing sensitivities in this regard, and have reacted violently to criticism of their religion… Democratic societies must not become hostage to these sensitivities and freedom of expression must not indiscriminately retreat when facing violent reactions… The threshold of sensitivity of these groups and of anyone who would feel offended by the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression should be lowered… The Commission finds: (a) That incitement to hatred, including religious hatred, should be the object of criminal sanctions; (b) That it is neither necessary nor desirable to create an offence of religious insult simpliciter, without the element of incitement to hatred as an essential component. (c) That the offence of blasphemy should be abolished (which is already the case in most European States) and should certainly not be reintroduced."
Venice Commission Report on Freedom of Expression and Religion, 2008. The Venice Commission advises the Council of Europe on constitutional matters. This report was co-written by the Commission's Irish member, Finola Flanagan, Director General and Senior Legal Advisor in the Office of the Irish Attorney General.
"In a modern Constitution, blasphemy is not a phenomenon against which there should be an express constitutional prohibition."
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, 2008. Members: chairperson Sean Ardagh TD, vice-chairperson Jim O'Keeffe, plus TDs Thomas Byrne, Michael D'Arcy, Tom Hayes, Brendan Howlin, Michael Kennedy, Denis Naughten, Ned O'Keeffe, Mary O'Rourke and Michael Woods; and Senators Dan Boyle, Denis O'Donovan, Eugene Regan and Alex White.
"We believe that the concept of defamation of religion is not consistent with the promotion and protection of human rights. It can be used to justify arbitrary limitations on, or the denial of, freedom of expression. Indeed, Ireland considers that freedom of expression is a key and inherent element in the manifestation of freedom of thought and conscience and as such is complementary to freedom of religion or belief."
Micheal Martin, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, 2009. The Minister was replying to a parliamentary question about Ireland's opposition at the UN to an Egyptian motion on combatting defamation of religion. The Islamic States have been trying to have this passed for a decade now. Since Ireland passed the new blasphemy law last year, the Islamic States have adopted the wording of our law as best practice for international blasphemy laws.
The next twenty quotes are about the right to freedom of expression:
Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"No-one has the right not to be offended."
"I am not an ordinary playwright in general practice. I am a specialist in immoral and heretical plays. My reputation has been gained by my persistent struggle to force the public to reconsider its morals."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless."
Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays in Religion
"If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily."
"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
"Did you ever hear anyone say: That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"
Joseph Henry Jackson
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
Article 10, European Convention on Human Rights
"A truly great library contains something within it to offend everyone."
Jo Godwin
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
"The basic right to freedom of opinion is the most immediate expression of the human personality in society and, as such, is one of the noblest of human rights. It is absolutely basic to a liberal-democratic order because it alone makes possible the constant intellectual exchange and the contest among opinions that form the lifeblood of such an order; it is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom"
German Constitutional Court, Luth case
"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house."
"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
Alfred Griswold, New York Times
"We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that."
Santiago Durango
"Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of success."
Paul Kurtz, A Secular Humanist Declaration
"Being offended is part of being in the real world."
"I did that joke in Alabama, in Fife, and these three rednecks met me after the show. 'Hey, buddy! C'mere! Mister funny-man, c'mere! Hey, buddy, we're Christians, and we don't like what you said.' I said: 'So forgive me.' Later, when I was hanging from the tree…"
Bill Hicks, Relentless
"But what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be disliked intensely? To criticise people for their race is manifestly irrational, but to criticise their religion is surely a right. The freedom to criticise or ridicule ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is a fundamental freedom."
Stephen King, Irish Examiner
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People will start calling Ireland Saudi Hibernia if anyone ever gets prosecuted under this law!
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How do I get a hold of this guy!? I've tried Facebook, Twitter and looked for his email all over the show! I'm thinking of doing the same walk but I can't find his walking Route and I have some questions. Anyoe know anything??
nozzferrahhtoo June 21, 2011
Chris… join the forum as a user on atheist.ie and send a private message to the user AZeroGodist. That user played the part of "manager" for Paul while Paul did the walk and I am sure he can put you in further contact with Paul should you wish it. Being that he was the semi official "manager" of the walk I am sure he could also himself answer many of your questions.
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As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.
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Ranavalona I Okrutna (ur. ok. 1788, zm. 15 sierpnia 1861 w Antananarywie) – władczyni królestwa Imerina.

Małżonka Radamy I. Objęła rządy po jego śmierci, brutalnie rozprawiając się z rywalami do tronu. Podczas przewrotu oparła swoje rządy o arystokrację Merina i armię. W czasie swych rządów znacznie ograniczyła wpływy europejskie. Wygnała misjonarzy i prześladowała chrześcijan. W 1838 r. podczas negocjacji z Anglikami zażądała, aby prowadzili handel wyłącznie w wyznaczonych przez nią portach pod pełną kontrolą madagaskarskich urzędników. Nałożone restrykcje spowodowały wycofanie się Anglików i Francuzów, którzy w akcie zemsty zbombardowali miasto portowe Tamatave. Port został ponownie otwarty dla handlu w 1853 r. Dzięki pomocy Francuza Jeana Laborde'a uruchomiła na wyspie produkcję broni palnej, cementu i tkanin.

W 1857 r. wykryła tajne porozumienie pomiędzy swoim synem Radamą II a Francuzami, przewidujące objęcie Imeriny protektoratem Francji. Wskutek wykrytego spisku wygnała z wyspy Europejczyków i okrutnie rozprawiła się z około tysiącem własnych poddanych podejrzanych o udział w nim.

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«Новости дня» — ежедневная общественно-политическая и литературная газета, выходившая в Москве в 1883—1906 годах (издатель Абрам Липскеров).

Издание, входившее в кластер так называемой «малой прессы» и имевшее поначалу невысокие тиражи, со временем расширило читательскую аудиторию за счёт рекламных объявлений. Для газеты писали фельетонист Влас Дорошевич, драматург Илья Гурлянд, писатель Василий Немирович-Данченко, публицист Александр Амфитеатров, журналист Семён Кугульский; Чехов опубликовал на страницах «Новостей дня» свою раннюю повесть «Драма на охоте».

Редакция

По свидетельству Владимира Гиляровского, на первых порах штат редакции состоял из редактора А. И. Соколовой (матери Власа Дорошевича) и нескольких сотрудников, которым издатель почти не платил наличными: вместо гонорара он предлагал корреспондентам приобретать товар в магазине готового платья Аронтрихера, с которым у Липскерова имелся договор на публикацию объявлений. Вывески у газеты не было; небольшая контора размещалась в цокольном этаже того же дома, где проживал издатель (угол Тверской и Газетного переулка).

Растущие долги перед типографиями и поставщиками бумаги привели к тому, что газетой заинтересовались судебные приставы. Липскерову удалось рассчитаться с кредиторами с помощью знакомого «немца-типографщика», одолжившего 7000 рублей.

После ухода Соколовой в «Московский листок» кресло редактора «Новостей дня» занял А. П. Лансберг, пригласивший в газету новых авторов, материалы которых позволили расширить читательскую аудиторию. Среди них выделялись Илья Гурлянд (Арсений Гуров), публиковавший острые статьи на актуальные темы, и Влас Дорошевич, запомнившийся своими фельетонами. Появившийся в редакции молодой репортёр Семён Кугульский предложил внедрить новый для российской прессы способ обогащения — «"пюблисити", то есть рекламу в тексте за большую плату»; свежий маркетинговый ход оказался эффективным: финансовое положение издания значительно улучшилось.

На рубеже XIX—XX веков Липскеров владел уже несколькими газетами; контора и редакция «Новостей дня» переехали в доходный дом Московского купеческого общества, а их владелец приобрёл для себя особняк в районе Красных Ворот. На раутах, устраиваемых издателем, присутствовали Фёдор Шаляпин, Мария Ермолова, Анастасия Вяльцева; попасть на вечера к Липскерову стремились и начинающие актёры.

Тематическая направленность

При подготовке прошения об издании Липскеров составил список тем, которые планировал разрабатывать в «Новостях дня». По его замыслу, лидирующее место в содержании газеты должны были занимать судебные истории, фельетоны, телеграммы; про раздел «Статьи» издатель забыл, и этот жанр журналистики так и остался вне сферы его интересов.

В процессе деятельности обнаружилось, что четверть газетных площадей в «Новостях дня» отведена публикациям повестей и романов «с продолжением». Следующая по значимости тема, развиваемая редакцией, была связана с судебными очерками и хроникой городских происшествий. Для того чтобы опередить конкурентов и первыми предложить читателям новость о пожаре, краже или убийстве, издание организовало службу репортёров, которые практически не появлялись в конторе: они весь день перемещались по Москве в поисках «скандально-сенсационных» новостей.

Достаточно обширным был раздел справочной информации: в «Новостях дня» печатались расписания поездов, театральная афиша, результаты скачек на ипподроме, информация о предстоящих судебных тяжбах. Далее шли телеграммы из разных регионов России, а также из-за рубежа; Липскеров мечтал о создании собственных корреспондентских пунктов в других городах, однако основать такую сеть не сумел.

Аналитические материалы в «Новостях дня» занимали незначительную часть площадей — не более 7 %. К числу регулярных газетных рубрик относились «Провинция», «Спорт», «В царстве Фемиды», «Театр и музыка», «Кунсткамера». Незадолго до закрытия издания (1906) появился новый раздел «В партиях», в котором с явной симпатией освещалась деятельность конституционных демократов.

Особое внимание уделялось интонации: о любом событии следовало рассказывать игриво и беззаботно.

В 1890-х годах газетой, которую конкуренты поначалу расценивали как «бульварное чтиво» для малообразованных слоёв населения, стали интересоваться представители интеллигенции, театралы и «цивилизованное купечество».

Чехов и «Новости дня»
Первый рассказ, который Чехов передал в «Новости дня», назывался «Экзамен»; он появился на страницах газеты в конце 1883 года. Затем в течение двух лет издание небольшими фрагментами публиковало повесть Чехова «Драма на охоте» за подписью «Антоша Чехонте» (в первых трёх номерах) и «А. Чехонте» (в последующих). Согласно предварительной договорённости, автор должен был еженедельно получать за своё произведение гонорар — три рубля, однако Липскеров постоянно задерживал выплаты, ссылаясь на отсутствие денег. Вместо них он предлагал Чехову взять театральные билеты или сшить новые брюки в магазине Аронтрихера.

Назвав в письме брату Михаилу газету Липскерова «пакостями дня», Чехов имел в виду ту информацию о себе, которая периодически появлялась на её страницах. По данным члена Чеховской комиссии РАН Маргариты Горячевой, в период с 1883 по 1904 год фамилия писателя упоминалась в «Новостях дня» 570 раз, в том числе «в рубриках шутливого, юмористического плана». Особого внимания Чехов удостоился после возвращения с острова Сахалин:

Кроме того, чеховская тема нашла своё отражение в стихотворной рубрике «Страничка из письма», которая появилась в 1894 году (её автор — поэт Леонид Мунштейн — скрывался под псевдонимом Lolo). Писателю были посвящены десятки стихотворных рецензий, в которых упоминалось о рассказах «Крыжовник», «Невеста», «Человек в футляре», а также постановках «Чайки» и «Вишнёвого сада» на сцене Художественного театра. В ответ на претензии друзей Чехова, недовольных легковесным стилем неизвестного автора, Lolo отвечал, что «Никто не пел о нём с такой / Больной любовью и тоской».

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Van Gogh and Germany: Frankfurt mounts best show on the artist in recent years
Städel Museum tells the story of Germany's love affair with the painter, which ended in tragedy with Hitler's rise to power
25th October 2019 10:38 GMT
Vincent Van Gogh's Self-portrait (1887), bought by the Cologne collector Leonard Tietze in 1912 © The Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1954.326
The exhibition on Vincent van Gogh and Germany, which opened on Wednesday in Frankfurt, is one of the finest shows on the artist in recent years (other than those at the Amsterdam museum dedicated to the painter). The Städel Museum's Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story focuses on Germany's early infatuation with the Dutch artist.
Although Van Gogh was almost unknown outside avant-garde circles on his death in 1890, by 1914 he was—astonishingly—"by far the most popular modern artist in Germany", according to the exhibition's co-curator Felix Krämer. (In Britain, he remained barely known until the 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition at London's Grafton Galleries, when he was widely ridiculed.)
The Städel exhibition is centred around 50 Van Goghs, which were either acquired by German collections or exhibited in Germany before the First World War. These are accompanied by 70 works by later German artists, painted up until the 1920s under the influence of the Dutch master—graphically illustrating his impact on early 20th century art in Germany.
The presentation is elegant, with a strong story line—although the exhibition title does come as rather a surprise. The main title is Making Van Gogh, using the English word, which is curious for an exhibition focussing on Germany. "Making" here refers not so much to the artistic process, but more to the creation of the Van Gogh legend and the deep appreciation of his work by German collectors and painters.
Just over half the show comprises paintings by early 20th century German artists—mostly of the Die Brücke group and the Expressionists—who were inspired by the Dutchman. This strong display includes works by Max Beckmann, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky and Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Vincent van Gogh's Farmhouse in Nuenen (1885), bought by the Städel Museum, Frankfurt in 1908 © Städel Museum-U. Edelmann
The show's subtitle is "Geschichte einer deutschen Liebe" (A German Love Story). Considering the impact of Nazism on German collectors, most of whom were Jewish, along with the confiscation of "degenerate" Van Gogh paintings from German museums, the "love affair" could hardly have had a more apocalyptic ending.
The figures speak for themselves. By 1914 there were 150 Van Gogh paintings and drawings in Germany, two thirds of which were owned by Jewish collectors. Germany's interwar financial problems and, much more seriously, the intense persecution of the Jewish community between 1933-45 meant that all the privately owned Van Goghs left the country: in 1945 there was not a single work left in a German private collection. Even today, there are no German collectors who own any paintings from the artist's French period, when he produced his finest pictures.
The Städel is a most appropriate venue for Making Van Gogh, since it was the first German public museum to acquire his works. In 1908 it bought the painting Farmhouse in Nuenen and the drawing Peasant Woman planting Potatoes (both 1885), paving the way for museums in Berlin, Munich and other cities.
Following extensive research (and intensive loan negotiations), the Städel exhibition is able to provide a strong display emphasising the scope of Germany's pre-1914 Van Gogh holdings. These are mainly presented in the first section of the show, giving an excellent overview of the development of Van Gogh's work.
Vincent van Gogh's The Poplars at Saint-Rémy (1889), bought by the Barmen collector Max Silber in 1912 Courtesy the Cleveland Museum of Art
Highlights include three 1889 paintings: View of Arles (Neue Pinakothek, Munich), The Ravine (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) and The Poplars at Saint-Rémy (Cleveland Museum of Art).
Van Gogh was so popular in Germany that this is where the first fakes appeared on the market. Among the surprises in the Städel show is an apparent self-portrait which is similar to the one which Van Gogh painted for Paul Gauguin (the original is now at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts), but with an added background of flowers. Although this second "self-portrait" was painted as a homage by an admiring artist, Judith Gérard, it was subsequently reworked, with the added flowers, probably by Emile Schuffenecker and then marketed (without Gérard's knowledge) as an authentic second version of the self-portrait. The Städel is now displaying it as a "fake".
Judith Gérard and others, copy after Van Gogh's Self-portrait for Gauguin (1897 and later) © Emil Bührle Collection, Zurich. Photograph by Martin Bailey
The tragedy is that Germany's love story was brought to an abrupt end by Hitler's hatred of the Jews (and his dislike of modern art). The Städel catalogue cites the only known comment made by Hitler about Van Gogh. I had found this quote for them in an unlikely English source, the memoirs of his former friend Ernst Hanfstaengl. In 1925, early in his political career, the Führer saw a reproduction of the Sunflowers and complained to Hanfstaengl that "the colours are too loud".
Alexander Eiling, the exhibition's other co-curator, comments on their show's subtitle, saying that "with all love affairs, it starts with enthusiasm, but sometimes it cools". Despite the utter disaster of the 1930s, Germany played a key role in developing a love for the artist whom we admire today—a story so well told on the walls of the Städel.
Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, until 16 February 2020
Martin Bailey is a leading Van Gogh specialist and investigative reporter for The Art Newspaper. Bailey has curated Van Gogh exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery and Compton Verney/National Gallery of Scotland. He was a co-curator of Tate Britain's The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain (27 March-11 August). He has written a number of bestselling books, including The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece (Frances Lincoln 2013, available in the UK and US), Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence (Frances Lincoln 2016, available in the UK and US) and Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum (White Lion Publishing 2018, available in the UK and US). His latest book is Living with Vincent van Gogh: The Homes & Landscapes that Shaped the Artist (White Lion Publishing 2019, available in the UK and US).
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Sometimes our best memories are created at places we never expected to visit.
In the back room of a nondescript government building in Kanab, Utah, a middle-aged Chinese man in street clothes taps the bottom of his empty coffee cup, anxious for his number to be called. A group of 20-somethings straight out of an REI catalog forms a good luck scrum, jumping up and down as if they've already won, hydration tubes bouncing. A pair of Germans in motorcycle leathers scowls; this is their seventh try.
My husband and I tried a year and a half ago, and again yesterday. Hoping that the third time's the charm, we're ready with cameras, sunscreen, and plenty of water. We're lucky that the weather is springtime mild; summer temperatures edge over 100 degrees.
At the front of the room, a ranger in the sand-colored uniform of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management presides over a bingo cage of numbered wooden balls. Behind him are information sheets that are handed out to winners, with versions in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese.
In a few minutes, he'll call out the numbers of the 10 people who'll be today's winners. Months back, another 10 spots were awarded in an online lottery. Odds for us walk-ins are better than for those who try online, and today, they're better than usual. Often there are more than 100 people, and the day after Thanksgiving, 319 people showed up. Today's 80 is nothing.
The audience responds with strained smiles. There are those who've tried 10, even 14 times. Some built a trip from abroad around this daily lottery in a small U.S. town of about 4,500 people. Others will stay long after they should have gone home, sure that just one more try means they'll go home winners.
We're here for the chance to see a rock. A very big and beautiful rock, to be sure, but still: a rock. It's called the Wave, for its liquid sweep and flare. Picture huge ocean breakers, and then freeze the frame just as they're crashing into each other sideways. Trade blue for the colors of a Technicolor sunset. Switch the texture to dry, rough, and delicately ribbed. Now brace for the synesthesian disorientation of rock that thinks it's water.
Fittingly, the Wave was born in water, back when this area was a vast inland sea. The water receded, and dunes hardened to stone. Geologists describe the Wave as converging U-shaped troughs of Jurassic-era sandstone. The two major troughs measure 62-by-118 feet and 7-by-52 feet, but what impresses isn't the Wave's dimensions: It's the kinetic surge of something that, by all rights, should be static.
Getting there is a trudge through sand in the high desert sun. With the strict permitting process, winners expect the experience itself to be highly managed. It isn't. Though the round-trip hike is only about 6 miles, there's no real trail, and people get lost. In 2013, three hikers died, including a 27-year-old woman celebrating her fifth wedding anniversary; her husband survived.
Fifty years ago, the only modern-era folks to have seen the Wave were a few wandering cowboys and miners.
Experienced contestants scan the room, alert to large groups. Only one person per group can enter, but they can list up to six people on their application. If someone's number is called and they've listed the maximum number, more than half of the day's 10 spots are gone quicker than a flash flood in a slot canyon.
Competing against other nature lovers for the chance to get outdoors may seem like an oxymoron along the lines of "wildlife management." (When John Muir wrote, "The mountains are calling and I must go," he didn't have to enter a lottery to fulfill his destiny.) But these days, with millions tramping along in Muir's footsteps, we gladly throw our hats into the ring for marquee outdoor experiences. Lists of the most difficult outdoor permits to get often appear in adventure magazines. The Wave always makes the list, as do permits to climb Mount Whitney, hike the Enchantments in Washington State, and raft the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument.
Many national parks are seeing substantial increases in visitor numbers, and attractions on other kinds of public land also wrestle with how to contend with their own popularity. Because of that, lotteries attract more people every year. In 2017, 161,467 people entered the Wave lottery for a shot at 7,300 permits. Just four years earlier, only 86,898 people applied.
Once the Wave is on your radar, you see its pulled-taffy undulations everywhere: on calendars, in social media feeds, featured in blog posts, articles, and films. But 50 years ago, the only modern-era folks to have seen it were a few wandering cowboys and miners.
Long before that, Ancestral Puebloan and Paiute peoples came through, as did a 1776 expedition led by two Spaniards looking for an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to their mission in Monterey, California. Outlaws hid in its canyons, ranchers ran their cattle, and prospectors mined for gold and uranium.
Starting in the 1990s, guidebooks, articles, and films featuring the Wave caused an explosion of local and international interest. In 1997, the Bureau of Land Management introduced a website allowing visitors to obtain permits up to a year in advance. In 2007, the new lottery system made 10 spots available online four months in advance and 10 more up for grabs in person.
The town of Kanab has come to rely on the year-round influx of aspiring Wavers. A 2015 proposal to make the lottery online only—eliminating the walk-in event—was shot down, in part because the town appreciates the nearly $7 million tourists contribute to its economy each year.
Most of us are going to lose, and we're going down faster than we think. The ranger calls the number of a person who listed four others on her application. All at once, today's remaining spots are gone.
The room deflates in a collective groan. There are more than a few glares thrown in the direction of the winners.
So we lost, for the third damned time. But hey, we joke, with all those online photos and firsthand accounts, it's almost as if we've already been there, right?
Still, we're disheartened. We realize we've just played our part in the carnival of landscape lust that makes the Wave famous not just for its beauty but for how many of us are denied that beauty.
We end up heading out on unpaved Cottonwood Canyon Road, through the heart of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. At first the landscape is flat and arid. A lone cow slumps near the only bush in sight.
Then we come up over a rise, dropping down into a scene that looks like Dr. Seuss smacked into the Summer of Love. Red spires have eroded into giant melted chess pieces that stand sentinel around a tiny oasis of green. Orange cliffs, glowing as if lit from within, are tiger-striped with desert varnish. Oversized mushrooms of peach-colored sandstone look good enough to eat.
We're finally starting to get it, what everyone told us but we couldn't believe—until now. The Wave isn't the only—or even necessarily the best—option.
Candy-colored rock pulses under a bright blue sky. And aside from one snooty sandstone starlet, the high desert is ours for the exploring.
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