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Q: Type size_t could not be resolve C++ eclipse I'll develop one application in c++ using eclipse. My problem is used of size_t type variable work fine in first.cpp file but not work in second.cpp file for the same project.
Declaration of variable like
size_t myVariable;

It says "Type size_t could not be resolve"

A: You're missing an include in your second.cpp file.
Try to add i.e.:
#include <cstdlib>

in this file. Then size_t should be resolvable.
The header files within size_t is defined are the following:
<cstddef> <cstdio> <cstdlib> <cstring> <ctime> <cwchar>

See also: here
In case you don't use using namespace std; you have to write std::size_t though. If you want size_t in your global namespace, you can include  instead - but I would advise against it, because it's deprecated and pollutes the global namespace.

A: typedef unsigned int size_t;

helps. correct me if wrong.


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That topic will always be a part of me and is foundational to the message I carry with me today. However, what I learned is that helping others pursue their potential is actually just one aspect of my overall passion, which is to help people mend themselves well.
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Everyone knows that Rio is a carnival town. On a recent business trip to Rio, I discovered that it also has an exciting culinary scene. I chose a hotel facing Copacabana beach, a lively part of town with many side-streets filled with eating places. I prefer the Copacabana area because it has a more authentic feel than Ipanema, which tends toward a more "trendy" atmosphere. When you are in Rio, you have to check out the different beaches because each has its own feel and sub-culture. I was excited to be back in Rio, after more than ten years. I realised that the pulse of the carnival city has not changed but it has clearly become more prosperous, with many new buildings and fancy restaurants.
The day I arrived, I had a quick lunch in a small snack bar patronised by the locals. Rio is full of hole-in-the-wall bars known as boteco or botequim. They are like the "kopi-tiam" (local "coffeeshops") of Singapore. That's where you really feel the pulse of the city. I ordered a savoury and high-calorie meat-pie that looked a lot like a "Old Chang Kee" curry puff you find in Singapore but without the spice. I washed it down with a freshly squeezed orange juice and finished that off with a Brazilian expresso. All in all, an authentic Rio experience and a great antidote for jet lag.
Fortunately, I had a light lunch that day because that evening we headed to a churrascaria, which is a fixed price, all-you-can eat barbecue restaurant. In my humble opinion, a visit to Rio is not complete if you don't make it to a churasco restaurant. But be duly warned – it is not for the light-hearted because a lot of grilled meat will be served and even imposed on you. The good thing is that there is a vast salad-bar to balance your diet and ease your conscience. I went to the Porcão, one of the most well-known Churrascaria chains in Brazil. They have several branches, but I went to the one in Flamengo, which overlooks the world famous Sugar Loaf mountain. If you want the view, get there early, before sunset.
In a churrascaria, the trick is to start with the meat and then proceed to the salad bar, if at all. I think there is no point going to a Churrascaria for an overdose of salad! Soon after we settled at our table, a brigade of waiters came around, each armed with a skewer with a different type and cut of meat. They come at regular intervals, bringing the skewer straight off the charcoal grill. For a restaurant that serves over 20 types and cuts of meat, that means a constant stream of waiters who proceed to tempt you with their skewers.
I started with beef, with a nice big slice of rump steak. It was incredibly moist, soft and very tasty. How did they get it so soft? Then came a skewer with filet mignon, which was nicely medium rare and very tender. I am sure they have a secret marinade. The seasoning was generous and even a little on the salty side – but that's the Brazilian way.
Frankly, it was difficult to keep up with the waiters. I tried some chicken drumsticks that came neatly arranged in the skewer. My goodness, it was delightful. Very crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. I suspect all the meat is grilled with generous amounts of fat and lard that makes them moist and tasty. Then I switched to sausages, both the small ones and the large one coiled around the skewer. As I was contemplating a brief pause, a waiter arrived with a skewer filled with one of my favourite items…chicken hearts. It was just a tad dry and almost crunchy, but with a chewy texture and a nice salty taste. It reminded me of the chicken-heart yakitori I tried in Tokyo one time. Each skewer must have had at least a hundred chicken hearts. Where do they get it from!?
After a brief pause, I went for the lamb. I tried the rack of lamb which was excellent and I would highly recommend that. The exterior had a nice brown crust and and a herbal and salty taste. It reminded me of the crispy lamb ribs at One on the Bund in Clifford Pier in Singapore. Then I tried the leg of lamb, which was savoury and tender. Then came a trolley with beef ribs, with a nice brown crust. It was simply impossible to resist. And then came a skewer with roast beef covered with cheese. It was a very unusual combination but tasted better than it appeared. Just to be safe, I dipped the cheese-flavoured beef into some Tabasco filled with a local variety of small, red chillies which looked and tasted just like chilli padi (bird's eye chilli). After yet another pause, I went back for some more lamb and some sausages. Finally, I definitively flipped my token from green to red, which is placed next to each diner. This was the signal to the waiters that I wanted no more. It was time to surrender.
To ease my digestion, I made a reluctant trip to the salad bar. But it had more than salads. There were plenty of cold cuts, including some nice jambon, seafood and even sushi. I settled for some simple green salad and some grilled heart of palm, which is not easy to find in Singapore. I must confess I had to skip dessert but finished what was left of the house wine made especially for Porcao by a vineyard in Portugal. It was a decent wine that went nicely with all the meat. I slept very well that night. The next morning, I woke up early and ran five kilometres along Copacabana beach. At the end of my run, I felt much lighter. I was ready for another heavy dinner in Rio de Janeiro. And indeed, a few more heavy dinners were had. I will spare you the details, but here are some delightful restaurants to check out when in Rio.
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Japan is on the verge of installing more than 5 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity, taking it ahead of the United States, Italy and Germany in 2013. The […]
Japan is on the verge of installing more than 5 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity, taking it ahead of the United States, Italy and Germany in 2013.
The new research shows the Japanese photovoltaic (PV) market is set to grow by 120% this year. Installations are expected to exceed 1 GW in the first quarter alone, causing it to become the second largest market in 2013.
The country faced severe power shortages following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 as it depended on a large amount on nuclear power. The figures suggest it is turning to renewable energy to counteract the shortfall.
In particular Japanese home owners have been turning to solar power to benefit from the "most attractive" incentive in the world, said the firm's analyst.
Ash Sharma, senior director of solar research at IHS said: "At ¥42 (£0.29) Japan's FIT is by far the most attractive globally—overly generous perhaps, which could lead to overheating of the market."
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'Let Philosophy Be Transformed into a Sharp Weapon in the Hands of the Masses,' Tianjin, circa 1971.
If Mao Had Been a Hermit
by Perry Link
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Perry Link is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. He has published...
Reviewed in This Article
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century
edited by Yunte Huang
Norton, 606 pp.
Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong
by Jeremy Ingalls, compiled and edited by Allen Wittenborn
Lexington, 405 pp.
This article was first published in the April 7, 2016 issue of The New York Review of Books.
At the annual meeting of BookExpo America that was held in New York last May, to which most leading U.S. publishers sent representatives, state-sponsored Chinese publishers were named "guests of honor." Commercially speaking, this made sense. China's book industry, with sales now reported at $8 billion annually, is the second-largest in the world.1
But for U.S. publishers there are troubling problems, high among them Chinese censorship.2 When Chinese publishers publish translations of foreign works, it often happens that certain words and sentences, sometimes whole chapters, are left out. American authors have varied widely in their willingness to accept such cuts: some argue that to get most of one's message across is better than getting none across, and therefore they compromise. Others insist that an incomplete picture is necessarily a distorted picture, or that censorship is wrong in principle, and refuse.
Inside China, writers seldom encounter the problem of cuts to a finished product because they and their editors have learned to censor themselves in advance. This practice is safer for the writers and more convenient for everyone. Western publishers eager to enter the China market may be tempted to follow Chinese practice. Some may already be doing so.
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature is an anthology of twentieth- century Chinese writing that its publisher, Norton, describes as "eye-opening, mesmerizing, and indispensable." The title Big Red Book is a play on "Little Red Book," the well-known nickname for Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a handbook for Red Guards and others who brought terrifying mayhem to China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The covers of the two books are the same shade of red. To Chinese writers and other intellectuals, the Little Red Book was more nearly a little red knife than anything else. After Mao died in 1976, writers and editors denounced it in extreme terms and virtual unanimity—although not in print. Party leaders, knowing they needed to preserve a semblance of respect for Mao—because the legitimacy of the regime that they had inherited from him depended on it—protected the chairman and his Little Red Book from direct denunciation.
The Big Red Book includes thirteen quotations of Mao that are taken from the Little Red Book. If this is why Norton editors have called the collection "mesmerizing," I can see their point. I, too, was stunned by the idea of including quotations from Mao Zedong in an anthology of literature. The book's editor, Yunte Huang, who grew up and went to college in China and is now a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, seems aware that readers might find this and others of his choices surprising. He writes in his introduction:
The belief in literature as an expression of a free individual is as ideologically suspect as the revolutionary mot justes [sic] in Mao's Little Red Book.
The argument that literary freedom is but one ideology among others is hardly original with Huang. Stalin and Mao both relied on it for decades. Indeed one of the Mao quotes in The Big Red Book expresses the idea clearly: "All literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake…." It is important to appreciate the effect that such quotes had in daily life in Mao's China. This one meant: everybody is biased and our bias is the correct one so you adopt it or shut up—or else.
In addition to Mao, 47 other writers are included in The Big Red Book. Many are ones favored by today's government. They include, among others, Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, Ding Ling, Zhao Shuli, Wang Meng, and Mo Yan. To his credit, Huang reaches beyond these to include writers whom the government does not much like, yet tolerates: Shen Congwen, Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang, and others.
Huang stops, though, when he reaches writers the Communist authorities regard as enemies. Liu Binyan, who in the mid-1980s was arguably the most beloved writer in China, is left out. In 1985, when members of the state-run Chinese Writers Association were permitted to elect their president and vice-president freely (this has happened only once), Ba Jin and Liu Binyan, both of whom had recently published indictments of the Mao era, won the most votes. Liu's stories of the working of local corruption were particularly telling. Two years later, though, Liu was expelled from the Communist Party; four years later, after the Tiananmen Square events of 1989, he went into permanent exile from China. 31 years later he is omitted from The Big Red Book.
Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is a poet, essayist, and literary critic, also gets no mention. Nor do Zheng Yi, whose 1984 novel Old Well was made into a film that won the government-sponsored Golden Rooster Award in 1988 but whose 1993 book Red Memorial exposed the politically induced acts of cannibalism that happened in four counties in Guangxi during the peak of Mao fever in 1968; or Su Xiaokang, the writer whose video series River Elegy set records for popularity in summer 1988 only to have the regime declare it to be an important cause of the pro-democracy "trouble" that left the regime, in its view, with no alternative but to organize a massacre in June 1989; or Liao Yiwu, the poet and chronicler of the lives of the downtrodden, whose prison memoir For a Song and a Hundred Songs lays bare almost unspeakable cruelties inside the regime's prisons. Zheng, Su, and Liao (and others) live in exile.
All of this means that The Big Red Book could, if Norton wished, come out in a Chinese version for the China market with not much revision. Most of the book consists of Chinese texts that would need no translation, and the editor's introduction and headnotes use language that would be seen as friendly in Beijing. Yunte Huang writes, for example, that it was "Chiang Kai-shek who started the civil war in 1946," whereas Mao Zedong is "nearly synonymous with modern China." Late imperial China was "feudalist" (an orthodox Marxist term that has never fit very well) and Mao Dun, a modestly talented writer who, for his political contributions, stands next to Lu Xun in the Communist pantheon, is "universally regarded" as the number-two writer in modern China.
Still, some of Huang's language would have to go. Near the end of the editing process of The Big Red Book, in what appears to have been an effort to reach better balance politically, two sectional introductions, one for the Mao years of 1949–1976 and the other for the post-Mao years after 1976, were added. These introductions refer to "subservience to politics" and "damage done to Chinese literature" in ways that the government will find unacceptable. The likely solution, if the book is published in China, will be simply to omit them.
If Chinese authorities do allow The Big Red Book into China, they will almost certainly present it as a book that shows "how Westerners see us." The Chinese authorities would welcome the chance to say to their people, in effect, "Look, foreigners see us the way we have always been telling you that you should see us." (This tactic has been standard in Chinese Communist politics ever since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China; it bears the nicknamechukou zhuan neixiao: "export and then recall for internal consumption.") If The Big Red Book were to sell in China even 0.001 percent as well as the Little Red Book did four decades ago, circulation would reach a million. Only printings of the Bible exceed the estimated billion of the Little Red Book.
Morandi Bruno—Zuma Press
Copies of Mao's 'Little Red Book' in Guizhou province, 2009.
In addition to the Mao quotations, The Big Red Book includes three poems by Mao, whom Yunte Huang calls "the Great Helmsman" and "himself a highly accomplished poet." This inevitably raises the question of how good the poems actually are. Would we anthologize them today if Mao had been a hermit? In fact, with Mao as Great Helmsman, the poems got a huge boost in China from central organs of the Communist Party. In 1957, they were featured in the state-run journal Poetry and were published in a short book that within six years was printed in tens of millions of copies. In the late 1960s Mao was the only living poet who could be published in the People's Republic. The regime's claim that he was the most popular poet of the era requires a special understanding of what is meant by "popular."
Mao's poems are competent but not brilliant. Most of them sing the glory of the Red Army (and thereby of Mao himself) against a background of lyrical landscape description. Here is "Tapoti," written in 1933:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet—
Who is dancing, waving this colored ribbon against the sky?
The sun returns slanting after the rain
And hill and pass grow a deeper blue.
A furious battle once raged here,
The village walls, bullet-scarred,
Now adorn hill and pass
And make them doubly fair.3
I doubt that we would be talking about them today if Mao had been a hermit. They do, though, have considerable interest, because we know they came straight from the helmsman, a man whose actions had fateful effects on more human lives than arguably anyone else in history. The interest is enhanced by the fact that Mao conceived his poems not as art for art's sake but as tracing his course through history. Mao the poet and Mao the political animal cannot be separated.
To conflate poem and poet is normal in Chinese tradition; here Mao was no innovator. For centuries it was assumed that mastery of classical language implants in a person a moral foundation that prepares the person to act properly in the world. When a scholar or official wrote a poem on a poignant occasion (viewing an impressive landscape, seeing off a friend, or the like), the poem was assumed to reveal the inner feelings and moral cultivation of the poet.
This tradition has survived into modern times. In April 1976, when thousands of people crowded Beijing's Tiananmen Square to give vent to their "heartfelt feelings" about the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, their preferred mode of expression was poetry in classical form. (Modern free verse fell into a different category; it was art, and could show how the poet was familiar with international trends in poetry, but for baring one's soul, classical poetry was better.) Communist officials, despite their avowed opposition to "feudal" traditions, have behaved similarly. In 1978, two volumes of classical-style poems by Chen Yi, a former mayor of Shanghai and foreign minister in the central government who died in 1972, were published posthumously. For example, in 1959, on the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen wrote:
Truth reigns supreme through the red-blanketed East;
Lenin assured, long ago, that this would be so.
The assumption that art reveals one's inner life holds for calligraphy as well. The lilt of brushstrokes on paper suggests the dance of the hand that performed them and hence the character of the person whose hand it was. Communist officials have lent their calligraphy to the covers of magazines, the gates of universities, the mastheads of newspapers, and other places where they have sought to extend the reach of their moral and political sponsorship. Recipients have generally been grateful for the protection that is implied.
Mao Zedong's calligraphy pulls upward and toward the right in idiosyncratic fashion; personally I find it unpleasant, on strictly aesthetic grounds. But it is featured, even today, in major newspapers like People's Daily and Guangming Daily and on the Internet home pages of Peking University, Tsing-hua University, and other elite, as well as countless nonelite schools. In the 1980s Richard Kraus noticed that the mosquito nets on beds at Fuzhou Normal University were stamped with Mao's calligraphy.
It is important to note that ancient, not modern, language is used for such calligraphy. In 1955 Mao's government announced a national campaign to replace traditional Chinese characters with new simplified versions. Within months publishers across the country had obeyed, and in schools children began learning the new characters exclusively. Yet traditional characters continued to appear (and appear still today) in Mao's calligraphy everywhere. In 1973, shortly after Mao had commanded that the entire country "smash the four olds [customs, culture, habits, ideas]," a new edition of The Poems of Chairman Mao was published. It not only used traditional characters but arranged them on the page in vertical columns, in imitation of the string-bound volumes of pre-modern times. The poetry book itself was string-bound. When Mao wanted to reveal (or pretend to reveal) "the real me," it was this format—nothing from Marx or Lenin—that felt most natural to him.
In 1990, Xi Jinping, today China's top ruler, wrote a poem in praise of Jiao Yulu, a model hero from the Mao era, saying that "neither snow at night nor morning frost can cool a hero's zeal." In March 2014, the Communist Party's website Newsnet published a photograph of Xi's poem as a page in a string-bound book. The page imitates the look of Mao's 1973 book in every way, except that Xi uses simplified characters. A string-bound book using simplified characters? Very strange, but never mind. What mattered was Xi's assertion that his authority has ancient roots.
What can we learn from Mao's poems about the inner Mao? He began writing poems in the 1920s but apparently showed them only to friends. The first public debate about what they meant took place in November 1945, after the war with Japan had ended and while civil war between the Nationalists and Communists was looming. Liu Yazi, a renowned classical-style poet and left-wing Nationalist, seeking to bring the rival sides together, included Mao's poem "Snow" in an exhibition of calligraphy in Chongqing, the Nationalists' wartime capital. The poem, one of Mao's most famous, has two stanzas, the first of which gives an Olympian view of the north China landscape in winter. The second, which refers to five of China's greatest emperors, runs as follows:
This land so rich in beauty
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas! Chin Shih-huang and Han Wu-ti
Were lacking in literary grace
And Tang Tai-tsung and Sung Tai-tsu
Had little poetry in their souls;
And Genghis Khan,
Proud Son of Heaven for a day,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched.
All are past and gone!
For truly great men
Look to this age alone.
The last two lines elicited a flurry of debate, expressed largely in poems, in the Chongqing press.4 Was Mao referring to the Red Army as a whole or did he mean that he personally was the greatest of the great? Did he see himself as a future emperor, not a "servant of the masses" as Communist rhetoric claimed?
Liu Yazi saw in Mao a "generous noble mind" and wrote poems that put Mao on a par with great poet-emperors in Chinese history. Others agreed with Liu, but a larger number compared Mao not to emperors but to rebels—legendary figures who, in embracing millenarian ideologies, had fought ruthlessly to unseat emperors. (This view seemed more consistent with the Nationalist claim that Communists were bandits.) In the end Wang Yunsheng, chief editor of the newspaper Dagongbao, where much of the debate unfolded, commented that the question "emperor or rebel?" is moot because both these positions are self-interested. A rebel is merely a would-be emperor. Neither seeks to reflect popular will in the way modern democracy asks.
In 1945 Chinese could debate the question of whether Mao had a "generous noble mind" but four years later they could not. After Mao's 1949 victory, there were "correct" views on such questions. Many agreed with these views, but anyone who did not could not say so in public. Meanwhile, Beijing exported the newly correct version of a flawless Mao abroad, where it was attractive to people who hoped that an ideal socialism might exist somewhere in the world. Eventually a number of European-language collections of Mao's poems appeared, nearly all of them presenting the flawless Mao as a great artist, thinker, and hero of the masses.5 Murderous campaigns and a huge famine were either unknown or explained away.
Then came the work of Jeremy Ingalls (1911–2000), author of Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong. Ingalls was an American poet known in the 1940s and 1950s mainly for her 619-page epic poem The Thunder Saga of Tahl (1945). She also studied classical Chinese at the University of Chicago in the 1940s, maintained a lifelong interest in Chinese literature, and brought to her study of Mao's poetry the same meticulous interest in allusion that pervades her poetry. Her friend Allen Wittenborn, a professor of Chinese at San Diego State University, compiled Dragon in Ambush after she died.
Ingalls revives the view that Mao was a self-interested rebel and would-be emperor. She argues that his poems can be read at more than one level: for popular consumption, they show Mao concerned to advance the revolutionary cause; at a deeper level, they are notes on Mao's right to dominate China, indeed the world, and they contain sardonic comment on how clever he has been in outsmarting not only his enemies, domestic and foreign, but also any comrade who might dare to be his rival. China's ordinary people, Ingalls found, are pawns in Mao's power games, their lives expendable in whatever numbers he might find necessary. She shows how Mao cared about his poems as a record of his exploits. In 1963 he selected 37 of them for a definitive new edition, altering the wording and even the dating of some of them in order, she argues, to make them "a unitary document."
Ingalls' method is to explore Mao's allusions to the ancient Chinese texts that he presumably read in his youth. For example "Mount Liupan" (1935) ends this way:
Red banners wave freely in the west wind.
Today we hold the long cord in our hands,
When shall we bind fast the Gray Dragon?
Many commentators have noted that "Gray Dragon" here means Japan, which invaded the northeast of China in 1931. Ingalls digs deeper, though, and explains that the "long cord" in the previous line alludes to the recapture, around 110 BCE, of the coastal kingdom of Nanyue (today's Guangdong and Guangxi) and restoration to its proper place as a vassal state of the empire of Han. From that time on, Ingalls writes, "long-tasseled cord" has stood for "an emperor's means to subdue a recalcitrant nation through long-range military and diplomatic maneuvers." Hence at one level in Mao's mind, she argues, "Japan is not an invading foreign nation but a rebellious client-state."
Dragon in Ambush is immensely detailed, often repetitive, and occasionally in error. For example, Mao's 1965 poem "Reascending Jinggangshan" ends, in my translation:
Nothing is really hard in this world
If only you are willing to try.
But in Ingalls' version it is:
To rise and rule the world is no hard task,
Needs but to choose to mount and fix our grasp.
Good translations can vary (Ingalls' are generally more literal than most), but the difference here between "in the world" and "rule the world" involves a misreading of the original Chinese. Ingalls is pressing too hard to make her case that Mao is bent on ruling the world. Here and on many other occasions her judgments of Mao's character color her interpretations of his poetry. But her emphasis is a much-needed corrective to the work of the many earlier translators and compilers, Chinese and foreign, who have been far too reverential toward Mao. Ingalls surpasses her predecessors in the detail and erudition of her work, and in the end conveys a sense of the inner Mao that is more credible than theirs.
If she is right to find hidden messages in Mao's poems, we are left with the interesting question of who Mao imagined the audience for the messages to be. It would not have been the masses—those readers of the tens of millions of printed copies—because "deceiving and confusing the less informed populace [about] the actual motives and aims of his policies" was a basic Mao principle, according to Ingalls. She conjectures that he was inserting what amounts to Machiavellian counsel for use by future rulers.
But that hypothesis assumes that Mao envisioned the possibility that another human being might someday be his peer, and from what we now know of Mao, from the memoirs of people close to him, it seems doubtful that he would allow for such a possibility. Another of Ingalls' speculations seems more likely: that Mao was "celebrating" his own greatness and cleverness; the audience for his messages was himself; if he was sharing the hidden messages with anyone, it was with tian ("heaven" or "nature"), which he conceived not as his sovereign or even his peer but as the Mao-reality in another form.
Alexandra Alter, "China's Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship," The New York Times, May 28, 2015.↩
See Ian Johnson, "An American Hero in China," The New York Review, May 7, 2015.↩
The translation is from Mao Tsetung Poems (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976), p. 14. No translator or editor is named.↩
For these and other details about the debate over "Snow" in 1945, I am indebted to Zhiyi Yang, "Classical Poetry in Modern Politics: Liu Yazi's PR Campaign for Mao Zedong," Asian and African Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2013).↩
English-language editions of Mao's poems include: Mao Tse-tung, Nineteen Poems, translated by Andrew Boyd and Gladys Yang (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1958); Thirty-seven Poems by Mao Tse-tung, translated by Michael Bullock and Jerome Ch'en, in Jerome Ch'en, Mao and the Chinese Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1965); Poems of Mao Tse-tung, translated and annotated by Wong Man (Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, 1966); The Poems of Mao Zedong, translated and edited by Willis Barnstone (Harper and Row, 1972); The Poetry of Mao Tse-tung, translated and edited by Hua-ling Nieh Engle and Paul Engle (Dell, 1972); Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, edited by Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (Anchor, 1975); Mao Tsetung Poems (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976); Ten Poems and Lyrics by Mao Tse-tung, translated by Wang Hui-Ming (University of Massachusetts Press, 1975); and Ma Wen-yee, Snow Glistens on the Great Wall: A New Translation of the Complete Collection of Mao Tse-tung's Poetry with Notes and Historical Commentary (Santa Barbara Press, 1986).↩
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Despite the continuous interest in psychoanalysis as a modern system of thought and interpretation, the history of the discipline and the study of analysts other than Sigmund Freud are still developing. This two-day conference will bring together historians, gender studies scholars, and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War on psychoanalysis in the post-1945 era and of psychoanalysis itself on different postwar societies and cultures. The conference will try to examine the question regarding the special relationship that psychoanalysis had with democracy and with democratization in the postwar period. More broadly, the conference will also reopen the question of how to do the history of psychoanalysis, with what archives, and which methodologies. The event will continue the discussion from a first conference in London (organized by Daniel Pick and Matt Ffytche in 2013) focusing on psychoanalysis in the age of totalitarianism and the Second World War. The London conference had generated great interest from scholars across fields and we will continue this discussion at the Heyman Center, Columbia University, 4-5 April 2014.
Presentations will be 20-minutes arranged in panels, followed by discussion, all in a plenary format.
Please visit the conference website for all information.
For questions please email: psychoanalysisandhistory2014@gmail.com.
I suppose that the Foucauldians will be present in force. See http://clarespark.com/2013/03/28/power-and-aristocratic-radicals/. Why is Freud frowning in the hundreds of pictures that were available? Freud more controversial than Marx in the 20th century. Why?


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Q: Masonry - Column width percent + gutter Why can't I show 4 items by row if the width of each one is 25% and the gutter param is 10?  Please help me!
$('.grid').masonry({
    itemSelector: '.grid-item',
    columnWidth: '.grid-sizer',
    gutter: 10
});

http://codepen.io/davelins/pen/bdoRGa

A: Change
.grid-item {
  width: calc(25%);
}

to
.grid-item {
  width: calc(25% - 10px);
 }

A: The accepted answer above is not pixel-perfect. If you watch the pen http://codepen.io/anon/pen/aOLxwW you see a gutter to the very right, which is probably not what you want, at least not what I want. That is due to, the item-width is calculated too small with
.grid-item {
  width: calc(25% - 10px);
}

It should in fact be calc(25% - 7.5px). The formula for it would be
//pseudocode to illustrate the idea. how you would do that dynamically whould be up to the language you choose (e.g. php, js...)
$number_of_cols = 3; //for example
$column_width = 100 / $number_of_cols; //a float value, e.g. 33.33333333 in this example
$item_width_diff = $gutter * ($number_of_cols - 1) / $number_of_cols; //in this example: 10*2/3 = 6.6666666

then in your css you would have
.grid-item {
  width: calc(25% - $item_width_diff);
}

https://codepen.io/anon/pen/YjPvbL

A:     **Let us try it with 100% working example**
    [https://codepen.io/sandeepkamara/pen/bGMOPdQ][1]

    **Javascript Code**
    jQuery(window).load(function(){
        var $grid = jQuery('.grid').isotope({
            itemSelector: '.element-item',
            masonry: {
                percentPosition: true,
                columnWidth: '.element-item',
            }
        });
    });

    **Css Code**
    .grid .element-item {
        width: calc(50% - 20px);
        margin: 10px;
     }
     .grid .element-item img {
        width: 100%;
     }

     @media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
       .grid .element-item {
          width: 100%;
       }
     }

    **HTML Code**

  [1]: https://codepen.io/sandeepkamara/pen/bGMOPdQ

A: Just normalize the css before adding your own css to HTML element. And it will work. It's adding margin to div from inherited css.

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It is not news that far eastern country has been conducting cyber espionage operations against US officials for years, but if true such attacks would be devastating for critical infrastructure of any nation, more or less. By targeting critical nodes Chinese cyber attacks would disrupt network throughout the region.
Researchers suggest to developing offensive cyber capabilities in order to tackle such complexities.
They may be used as a empowerment when paired with kinetic attacks in wars and conflicts.
Report used a wave of cyber attacks in 2014 as a ground of the theory. In 2014, Chinese cyber attackers successfully penetrated US organizations and have stolen valuable data.
FireEye researches reported in April that Chinese government was involved in a long running cyber espionage operation "APT30".
China is the most involved nation in cyber espionage but other countries like USA are not that innocent too. Based on leaked documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden, NSA is conducting large scale cyber espionage operations against other countries and its own citizens.


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Q: Python print the result in separate array I would like to print the rating result for different user in separate array. It can be solved by creating many arrays, but I didn't want to do so, because I have a lot of user in my Json file, so how can I do this programmatically?
python code
with open('/content/user_data.json') as f:
  rating = []
  js = json.load(f)
  for a in js['Rating']:
    for rate in a['rating']:
      rating.append(rate['rating'])

print(rating)

output
['4', '2', '5', '1', '3', '5', '2', '5']

my expected result
['4', '2', '5']
['1', '3']
['5', '2', '5']

json file
{
"Rating" : [
    {
      "user" : "john",
      "rating":[
        {
          "placename" : "Kingstreet Café",
          "rating" : "4"
        },
        {
          "placename" : "Royce Hotel",
          "rating" : "2"
        },
        {
          "placename" : "The Cabinet",
          "rating" : "5"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "user" : "emily",
      "rating":[
        {
          "placename" : "abc",
          "rating" : "1"
        },
        {
          "placename" : "def",
          "rating" : "3"
        }
      ]
    },
     {
      "user" : "jack",
      "rating":[
        {
          "placename" : "a",
          "rating" : "5"
        },
        {
          "placename" : "b",
          "rating" : "2"
        },
        {
          "placename" : "C",
          "rating" : "5"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

A: Don't only append all ratings to one list, but create a list for every user:
with open('a.json') as f:
  ratings = [] #to store ratings of all user
  js = json.load(f)
  for a in js['Rating']:
    rating = [] #to store ratings of single user
    for rate in a['rating']:
      rating.append(rate['rating'])
    ratings.append(rating)
print(ratings)

A: A simple one-liner
all_ratings = [list(map(lambda x: x['rating'], r['rating'])) for r in js['Rating']]

Explanation
all_ratings = [
    list(                                         # Converts map to list
        map(lambda x: x['rating'], r['rating'])   # Get attribute from list of dict
    ) for r in js['Rating']                       # Iterate ratings
]

A: You can just indent the print into the outer for loop and reset the array everytime.
for user in js["Rating"]:
    temp_array = []
    for rate in user["rating"]:
        temp_array.append(rate["rating"])
    print(temp_array)


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Arizona marijuana legalization campaign has 200,000 signatures
The campaign to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Arizona has gathered more than 200,000 signatures in its effort to qualify for the November ballot, it reported Tuesday.
Arizona marijuana legalization campaign has 200,000 signatures The campaign to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Arizona has gathered more than 200,000 signatures in its effort to qualify for the November ballot, it reported Tuesday. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://azc.cc/1N7o1Rg
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 5:16 p.m. MT April 12, 2016 | Updated 5:54 p.m. MT April 12, 2016
The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, which has been pushing the effort for about a year, needs 150,642 signatures from registered voters to make the ballot. Some of the gathered signatures may be invalid because they were signed by people who cannot vote.
To account for invalid signatures, the group aims to collect about 225,000 signatures, a spokesman said, and hopes to have a healthy cushion once the signatures are verified by the Secretary of State's Office. Barrett Marson, a campaign spokesman, could not say when those signatures would be filed with that office.
MONTINI: Marijuana ballot initiative is a doobie, doobie, done deal
J.P. Holyoak, chairman of the campaign, said the signature count shows the level of public support to tax and regulate the drug.
"The policies of prohibition have been an abysmal failure," Holyoak said. "Legalization is inevitable. They're glad to sign on the bottom line to get this on the ballot."
What legalization would look like
Under the proposed Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, adults 21 and older could possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in their homes without obtaining licenses, as long as the plants are in a secure area.
It would also create a distribution system similar to Colorado's, where licensed businesses produce and sell marijuana.
RELATED: Phoenix prepares for legalization of recreational marijuana
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The initiative also would create a Department of Marijuana Licenses and Control to regulate the "cultivation, manufacturing, testing, transportation, and sale of marijuana" and would give local governments the authority to regulate and ban marijuana stores. It also would establish a 15 percent tax on retail sales, with proceeds going to fund education, including full-day kindergarten and public health.
Under the 2016 Arizona initiative language, driving while impaired by marijuana would remain illegal, as would consuming marijuana in public and selling or giving the drug to anyone under 21.
Taxation of the program would pay the state's cost of implementing and enforcing the initiative. Forty percent of the taxes on marijuana would be directed to the Department of Education for construction, maintenance and operation costs, including salaries of K-12 teachers. Another 40 percent would be set aside for full-day kindergarten programs. And 20 percent would go to the state Department of Health Services for unspecified uses.
Revenue from the taxes could not flow into the state's general fund, which would allow it to be spent for other purposes.
5 things to know about Arizona's pot initiative
Arizonans might be able to legally carry and grow marijuana if a planned 2016 ballot initiative makes it on the ballot and passes the muster of Arizona voters. Supporters will file language of the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act with the secretary of State on Friday. Here's a cheatsheet on what the initiative would do, and its supporters and expected opponents. Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Possess | Adults 21 years and older would be allowed to carry, use, purchase, obtain, process, manufacture or transport up to 1 ounce of marijuana. Under the initiative, people would be able to give marijuana away to others. Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Grow and shop | Those 21 and older could grow up to six marijuana plants at a home for personal use as long as no more than 12 plants are being grown on the premises at one time. Roughly 150 cannabis shops could open throughout the state. Similar to Colorado's program, people could buy marijuana at retail outlets and would be assessed a 15 percent tax. Photo: AP
Illegal | It would still be illegal to be drive while high and to smoke, eat or ingest marijuana in public. It also would be illegal to sell or trade it, or give the drug to anyone under 21 years of age. Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic
Money | Forty percent of the taxes on marijuana would be directed to the Department of Education for construction, maintenance and operation costs, including compensation of K-12 teachers. Another 40 percent would be set aside for full-day kindergarten programs. And 20 percent would go to the Department of Health Services for unspecified uses. Revenue from the taxes could not flow into the state's general fund, which would allow it to be spent for other purposes. Photo: Pat Shannahan/The Republic
Support and Opposition | Supporters include people involved in the state's medical marijuana industry, medical marijuana cardholders, some medical professionals and critics of the nation's drug laws. High-profile elected officials and law enforcement officers are expected to strongly oppose the legalization of marijuana. Those who have officially registered their opinions on legalization include Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Opponents say legalization will harm Arizona
One anti-legalization campaign has been hammering on the harms of the drug to children and society. Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy has pointed to news articles and statistics and a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services survey that shows Colorado leads the nation in past-month marijuana use following its legalization of the drug in 2012.
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That group is spearheaded by Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk and radio host Seth Leibsohn, who have been appearing at public meetings and debates to argue against legalization.
"The more Arizonans read the initiative, the more they will see it as one, long, bill full of legalese that benefits a handful of individuals while upending decades of serious and hard substance abuse prevention work, all to make more available an ever-increasingly dangerous drug that will harm more of our youth," Leibsohn wrote in a statement Tuesday. "The costs of going forward with this initiative will be untold expenses in treatment, rehabilitation, accidents, enforcement, criminal violations, and true education deficits. No Arizonan can seriously want that."
Legal marijuana: Pros and cons
Should Arizona legalize recreational marijuana use? Here are major arguments for and against the idea: Nick Oza/The Republic
PRO: IT'S ABOUT SAFETY. Regulating marijuana will replace the underground market with a system of licensedbusinesses that ask for ID and only sell marijuana to adults. Nick Oza/The Republic
CON: KIDS CAN GET POT EASIER. Most children who drink or smoke get alcohol or drugs from their homes or those of friends. Legalizing pot for adults will make it even easier for kids to consume it. Brennan Linsley/AP
PRO: IT WILL BOOST THE ECONOMY. Taxing marijuana sales will raisemillions ofdollars in new revenue each year, most of which will be allocated topublic education. Rob Schumacher/The Republic
CON: IT WON'T PRODUCE THAT MUCH CASH. Revenue estimates from taxing the sale of marijuana range from $35million to $48 million --half of 1 percent of Arizona's state budget. Nick Oza/The Republic
PRO: POT IS SAFER THAN ALCOHOL. The Centers for Disease Control attributes more than 30,000 U.S. deaths per year to alcohol use and zero to marijuana consumption. Michael Chow/The Republic
CON: POT USE STILL HAS A COST. If pot is analogous with alcohol, we should have studies estimating the costs of legal use, including accidents and enforcement. There are none. Brennan Linsley/AP
Follow the reporter on Twitter @yvonnewingett and reach her at yvonne.wingett@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4712.
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Here are all the scenes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe moments that almost (or may have) brought us to tears.
If you think the Marvel movies are all jokes and fun you're wrong. There have been some truly heartbreaking moments in the movies.
Avengers: Endgame opens in a few days and there will probably have more gloomy scenes. It's expected that a few core Avengers members will die. But, for now, we can look back at all the gut-punching scenes from the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) ranked from sad to unbearable.
Update: I was right.
Warning: Contains Spoilers
12. Peter Buried in Rubble
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) - Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland)
In Spider-Man: Homecoming Peter (Tom Holland) confronts Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) AKA Vulture. Toomes uses his wings to take out the building supports and Spider-Man is buried in rubble and concrete. He wakes up scared and alone. He tries to free himself and fails. Peter desperately cries for help. At that moment you realize that unlike all the other heroes in the MCU he's just a boy. A teenager in a world of really scary and terrible people. Now he's been left alone. Tom Holland brings all his acting skills to this moment and it's heart-breaking to watch.
But then, in a moment of clarity, he sees his reflection in a puddle next to his Spider-Man mask. He hears Tony Stark's voice saying "if you're nothing without this suit. You shouldn't have it." He whispers to himself "Come on Peter. Come on Spider-Man". Then, using all his considerable strength he lifts the concrete and frees himself. It's a nod to a classic moment from the 1966 Steve Ditko comic Amazing Spider-Man #33.
11. Death of Steve Rogers
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - Captain America / Steve Rogers (Chris Evans)
Captain America (Chris Evans) is fighting the Red Skull when Schmidt takes off with a plane carrying a doomsday weapon. Steve and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) had been flirting for some time and even made plans to go dancing. But it was in this last chase that the two have their first kiss. Right before he leaps onto the plane and is carried into the sky.
When Red Skull is defeated Steve realizes that the plane is still headed for the United States. He calls SSR and tells them what's happening. The plane is too damaged to land and too fast to stop. Steve realizes he has to down the plane in the Arctic. They both realize he's going to die. His last words to the tearful Peggy are "I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance." Steve crashes into the freezing waters and Peggy is alone.
We knew he wasn't really dying but it was heartbreaking to watch. Steve was revived later but he lost his chance at love with Agent Carter. He gets her back in Endgame but no one could have dreamed that was possible at the time.
10. Death of Agent Coulson
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) - Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)
Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is there from the beginning of the Marvel movies. Dry, sarcastic and official he quickly became a fan favorite and the face of the MCU. His character was even written into the comics.
In The Avengers there's a fight between Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth). Coulson tried to intervene and Loki surprises him from behind stabbing him through the chest. Phil manages to get a shot in but dies in Nick Fury's arms. He gets resurrected on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but his death is the motivation for the heroes to unite against the common enemy.
9. Peter and His Mother's Hand
Guardians of the Galaxy opens in 1988. Young Peter Quill visits his mother in the hospital. She's dying from brain cancer. As she feels herself going she reaches out and says "take my hand Peter". He's so overwhelmed by emotions that he turns and runs out of the hospital. Before he can go back he's kidnapped by the Ravagers and never sees her again. It's a moment he regrets for the rest of his life.
Later in the movie, he gets to experience a vision where he does take his mother's hand and it saves the universe. But it's not the same.
8. Death of Killmonger
Black Panther (2018) - T'Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens (Michael B. Jordan)
Black Panther introduced one of the best villains in the MCU and the best death. Eric "Killmonger" Stevens (Michael B. Jordan) was a monster who was planning to wage war against the world. After fighting Black Panther in the Wakandan mines he is mortally wounded. He says his father always told him about the sunrises of Wakanda. T'Challa drags Killmonger to an open spot in the mountain and they watch the sunrise. T'Challa tells him they might be able to heal him but Killmonger isn't interested. "Why so you can just lock me up," Killmonger asks. "Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from the ships because they knew that death was better than bondage." He pulls the spear out of his chest and dies.
His words have even greater significance that you probably didn't know. He steals several items from a museum including a mask that he says he "feels". The mask is actually an Igbo mask from Southern Nigeria. The mask is also a Mgbedike mask and they are used for ceremonial purposes. In 1803, after crossing the Middle Passage, a slave ship arrived in Georgia with a cargo of slaves. Some of those people were from the Igbo tribe. While being transferred to a new ship the Igbe people rebelled, killed their captors and took over the ship. But they had no way to return home and realized they'd probably be captured and returned to slavery. They all agreed to commit suicide together. They all jumped into the ocean and drowned.
Of course, Killmonger's situation was completely different since his incarceration wouldn't have been slavery and he'd probably be released later. But his words are moving and powerful.
7. Tony and Steve Fight
Captain America: Civil War (2016) - Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans)
Captain America: Civil War has the greatest fight scene in the MCU. But it also has one of the saddest. When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) was a teenager his parents died in a car crash. He knew that and grieved that his last moments with them were a fight. He even shrunk away from his mom's last kiss. Years later it was revealed that the Stark parents were killed for Howard's research. Steve's friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) had been brainwashed into being an assassin and was framed in the attack on a UN assembly meeting. The team broke in two trying to fight Bucky and protect him. Tony eventually fought to help Bucky. Then Baron Zemo showed them footage that revealed Bucky had personally murdered Tony's parents.
Tony is overwhelmed but turns to his best friend and asks "did you know"? Steve did know. Back in Winter Soldier Arnim Zola told him about HYDRA's plans and manipulation of the world scene. One of the images was a newspaper article showing the death of the Starks. It didn't take him long to realize that the Winter Soldier was responsible. But he hid it from Tony.
That heart-breaking moment when Tony realized Steve was protecting the man who killed his parents led to the greatest and most emotional fight in the MCU. It ends with the death of their friendship. But it looks like it's repaired by Avengers: Endgame.
6. Reunion With Peggy Carter
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans)
In the Captain America sequel, The Winter Soldier Steve is reminiscing on his past and wanders through a museum. While he had refused to see Peggy Carter, now he finally decides to visit her. She was living in a retirement home. The two are talking about her life and what he should do. He says "For as long as I can remember I just wanted to do what was right. I guess I'm not quite sure what that is anymore. And I thought I could throw myself back in and follow orders, serve. It's just not the same".
Just then she starts coughing and he gets her a glass of water. When he looks back she says "You're alive! You...you came, you came back". We slowly come to the realization that she has Alzheimer's disease and thinks she's back in 1945. The only connection Steve can make is with someone who's stuck in the past. "Well, I couldn't leave my best girl," Steve says smiling. "Not when she owes me a dance."
It's that moment of connection between the past and the present that makes this scene so painful. The realization that his past is gone and Peggy with it that makes it so sad. Peggy's later funeral is sad too but, in a way, she was already gone and this scene is the real farewell to Peggy and Steve.
That is until Endgame at least.
5. We Are Groot
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - Groot (Vin Diesel), Rocket (Bradley Cooper)
In Guardians of the Galaxy, we meet the sentient tree creature Groot. Voiced by the Vin Diesel he only says three words. Rocket Raccoon described it best when he told Star-Lord, Groot "don't know talkin' good like me and you, so his vocabulistics is limited to 'I' and 'am' and 'Groot,' exclusively in that order."
At the end of the movie, the spaceship Dark Aster is plummeting from the sky onto the planet Xandar and it looks like they're all going to be killed. Suddenly, Groot extends his branches around the rest of the Guardians protecting them. He saves his friend Rocket and his newfound friends. Rocket pleads with him not to sacrifice himself. Groot's last words are "WE are Groot." The only time he ever changed the pronoun. Another Groot grew but we lost the original forever.
4. Thor and Odin Argue
The first Thor movie sets up the royal Asgardian family perfectly. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is celebrating his coronation as king of Asgard when Frost Giants try to steal an artifact from Odin's (Anthony Hopkins) vault. The whole thing is a scheme by Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to disrupt the ceremony and make himself a hero. Thor doesn't know that. He takes a group to attack the Frost Giants. The battle goes south but Odin arrives and saves them. As Odin is chastising his son for endangering Asgard with his impetuousness and calls him a child. Thor blurts out that he's an "old man and a fool".
Odin bows his head. As his voice breaks with emotion, he banished his son to Earth. It could have been a simple scene but Anthony Hopkins really sells it. Many people said they cried on set while filming the scene. It truly is a powerful moment and makes their reunion later that much more emotional.
3. Death of Yinsen
Iron Man (2008) - Yinsen (Shaun Toub), Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)
Iron Man is the beginning of the MCU and has some of the most moving scenes but one stands alone. Tony Stark is a playboy who revels in the chaos of war. He's captured by the terrorist group the "Ten Rings" to build a weapon. He's put in an underground lab in Afghanistan to build them a weapon. He works with his fellow prisoner Dr. Ho Yinsen to repair his heart and escape. As they're building the arc reactor and the suit of Iron Man armor Yensin reveals that he misses his family and looks forward to seeing them again.
During the escape the Ten Rings mercenaries realize something is wrong and are breaking into the lab. Tony needs more time to boot the armor systems. So the doctor grabs a gun and races out of the lab to fight them. He's immediately shot but it buys Tony time to activate the armor and fight the soldiers off. As Yensin lays dying he tells him that he had never planned to escape and was expecting to die. He was looking forward to seeing his family in the afterlife. This selfless act moves Tony to become a better man and a hero.
2. Death of Peter Parker
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)
In Avengers: Infinity War Thanos gets the six Infinity Stones and snaps his fingers. It's not immediately obvious what happened. But soon it becomes clear. He's "balance to the universe" by killing off half of all sentient life in the universe. People slowly dissolve into dust. One hero after another blows away.
All the deaths in Infinity War are sad but Tim Holland makes it even more painful. While most just look confused Spider-Man's spider-sense tells him something is wrong. He tells Tony "I don't feel so good" before collapsing into Tony's arms. He begs Tony that he doesn't want to go but falls to the ground. His last words are "I'm sorry". Tony is left alone to mourn the loss of the boy that he had come to live as a son.
1. Death of Tony Stark
After Endgame opened a new movie took the crown. Thanos had recovered the Infinity Gauntlet. He already told Tony, Thor and Captain America he'd decided to use the stones in a new way. Instead of eliminating half of the universe he'd wipe out the whole thing and start over.
Just as he was getting ready to snap his finger again he was attacked by Tony. Thanos recovers and sneers "I am inevitable." But when he snaps his fingers he discovers the stones are gone. Iron Man has taken them and puts them into his suit. He snaps his fingers after saying "I am Iron Man".
Thanos and his army fade into dust and the universe is saved. Tony collapses.
The saddest part of this being his last words are these are the words that started the MCU. Now they're the words that ended them.
As Tony lies on the ground Peter tearfully says goodbye. Pepper leans over to Tony and says "Tony, look at me. We're gonna be okay. You can rest now."
At that moment, Tony realizes he's finally achieved what had motivated him throughout the movie. in fact, that's what been motivating him throughout his time as Iron Man. Protecting the ones he loves. He had refused to save trillions of people to save his wife and daughter Morgan.
He lays his head down and passes away.
It's a heart-wrenching scene and one that transcends the entire 22-movie franchise. It's the death of Tony and the death of the MCU as we know it.
What do you feel is the saddest scene in the MCU? Let us know in the comments below!
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If you have been following this blog, you may know that in the new year I like to break out the Ecocycle from Liberating Structures. I think it's such a helpful tool in recognizing where you are at in the process of change. New Years is often a time where we consider new projects. For this newsletter I would like to consider the emotions that are common at each stage of the Ecocycle. Different people are attracted to different stages (and sometimes get stuck in particular stages).
First there is the Conception (Germination) stage. This is the stage where we have a wish for something new, an idea of a possibility, or simply a change that is going to happen but has no structure or resources yet. When we look at the Ecocylce, it can be tempting for our thoughts to jump over to what this new idea or project will look like in the Maturity stage. The brain just wants to step over to maturity and skip following the path around the infinity sign. This is where many New Year Resolutions start and end. I want to exercise more, to change my diet, a new job, to clean my closet, etc. Some people love the conception stage. So many possibilities. It's exciting to think of beginning, but frustrating that it takes time and effort to move beyond conception.
The next step in the Ecocycle is the Poverty Trap. This is where we need to understand what we need in order to move the goal into action. Using the Rising Hope language, this is where we convert our wish into a hope. For us to hope for something we need both a path where we can achieve small steps towards our goal and the willpower to do it. In using the Ecocycle this past year to monitor my own change, I realized that as I think about moving something from conception (a wish) to birth (a hope), I need to understand the number of times I need to do something before I feel comfortable just showing up to do it. From other beginnings in my life, I know that it often takes more than 7 to 10 times before my habit brain stops resisting the novelty. Note this does not necessarily make it easier, I just don't experience so much resistance. This is where willpower comes in. If I really hope to achieve my goal, I need to just do it at the frequency that I commit to, until it becomes familiar and comfortable. Part of this stage is also identifying the time period and resources that I will need to do it.
The third stage is Birth. Regardless of whether we're talking the birth of a new project, a new self-care routine, or a child, the pleasure of the experience comes from seeing that our hope will have manifestation in the world. However, beginnings can be intermittent or distracted, and we may want to stop just as we're getting traction. For example, the hopes of "I will attend and finish a beginner's yoga class", "I will eat a cup of veggies at each meal for a month", or "I will turn off the electronics at 8 pm for a week" are not going to feel good compared to our established habits. However, there is a pleasure in keeping the commitment to ourselves and the outcome of it manifesting in our lives.
For changes that support our health, different people are attracted to different stages of the Ecocyle. I see a lot of people who can get through conception, the poverty trap and into the birth stage. They can see that the changes they are making to how they move, sleep or eat is helpful to how they feel, and their energy and mental clarity. However, moving to the Maturity stage, where the behavior is mostly automated, is where they get off the cycle. The reason for stopping varies from person to person, but what is generally true for everyone is feeling ok about not doing the new behavior perfectly. Moving something to maturity means tolerating being consistently inconsistent. Yes, I would love to say that I'm going to commit to doing something everyday - however, as an adult, things come up. So, the question is: what do I need to keep returning to it? For me, I need some social support. This is why lifestyle or personal changes around food, sleep and movement are so hard. We're usually doing it on our own, within our social groups. Finding a class, an online group, or a therapist who will support our change can be key. The reason support is so helpful is that part of pushing something to maturity is overcoming obstacles, stumbling and starting again. If it's just our willpower we can feel exhausted from pushing on our own. However, if we focus on what is attracting us to our goals, it is often easier to feel motivated to stick with it. In this stage, it's really important to name what parts we are grateful for and why, every time we are successful.
The next stages of the Ecocycle are the Rigidity Trap and Creative Destruction. The Rigidity Trap is when we have done something over and over and it is automated AND it's uncomfortable when we deviate from it. For example, my form of exercise for a long time was Aikido. Overtime I saw that my brain resisted going to a yoga class, going to a gym or any other form of exercise. As I aged I saw that I would benefit from cross training and I needed to add activity that would increase muscle mass. My rigidity resisted going to a fitness class on the days that I trained. After I worked my way through the conception and birth phases with the fitness class and it was approaching maturity, it was easier to swap a fitness class for an Aikido class during the week. But I had to enter into a little creative destruction, where I had to let something else in my routine go (in this case, my TV night) to start something new.
After some creative destruction, we're back to the Conception stage. As I re-read what I have written, I can see that I have focused on the hard parts of change. I don't want to scare people off because there is a great deal of individual pleasure in working through the Ecocycle and in seeing that we are capable, courageous to keep showing up for, and that we can each be self-determined. These qualities show up in our small successes, just knowing that we kept trying and kept moving forward is worth tracking. What helps me know that I am making progress is having a visual map of it. I have an Ecocycle in my office that I use to track the progress I make toward my goals by using post-it's to track the stage each goal is in.