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Q: GCD dispatch_after call causing SIGBUS signal I'm using GCD's dispatch_after method when my application is being loaded to perform some behavior. The intended behavior is to wait 3 seconds from the end of applicationDidFinishLaunchingWithOptions to perform a selector that runs in a background queue.
I haven't experienced any crashes on my test devices, but I have user crash reports of uncaught SIGBUS signals, the cause being a BUS_ADRALN exception. From my understanding of this code, a BUS_ADRALN error indicates an address alignment error.
This is how I'm creating my timer:
double delayInSeconds = 3.0;
dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC);
dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND, 0),
                     ^(void){
                         [self methodToPerformInBackground];
                     });

What could be causing this crash?
Since multithreading errors can be a strange sort of beast, I'm going to throw out some ideas that I've been tossing around in my head.

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*I'm calling this from within a call to [self performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone]. Is there something problematic about doing this within a selector called this way?

*Since I'm calling dispatch_get_global_queue and not dispatch_create_queue, I don't need to retain the queue returned by this method. Is this reasoning correct?

*In this code, self is the application delegate. Could the crash be caused trying to perform the block after the application enters the background or terminates? Would the application automatically clean up any dispatched blocks upon closing?

*Something inside the method being called is causing the crash, but GCD doesn't provide a stack trace to it.

Edit: I'd rather not include the code that's called in the block, since I'm not convinced that's the main problem anyway. Here is the stack trace. The crash on thread 0 makes it seem as though the issue was in GCD, not the code called in the block.
Edit #2: I have strange news to share after going through more crash reports. This crash is only appearing for users running iOS 4.2.X and below. Since GCD is supported for iOS 4.0 and later, my guess is there was a bug patched in 4.3.
Thread 0 Crashed:
0  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35e5fb10 _dispatch_retain + 0
1  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35e5df8c dispatch_after_f + 80
2  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35e5e070 dispatch_after + 72
3  MyApplication                              0x0000466c -[MyApplicationDelegate applicationDidFinishLaunchingPart2:] (MyApplicationDelegate.m:366)
4  CoreFoundation                      0x37538f79 -[NSObject(NSObject) performSelector:withObject:] + 25
5  Foundation                          0x35171e6d __NSThreadPerformPerform + 273
6  CoreFoundation                      0x375518d1 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
7  CoreFoundation                      0x37521ecd __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 385
8  CoreFoundation                      0x375216f9 __CFRunLoopRun + 265
9  CoreFoundation                      0x3752150b CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 227
10  CoreFoundation                      0x37521419 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
11  GraphicsServices                    0x33e76d24 GSEventRunModal + 196
12  UIKit                              0x3591d57c -[UIApplication _run] + 588
13  UIKit                              0x3591a558 UIApplicationMain + 972
14  MyApplication                              0x00003024 main (main.m:113)

Thread 1:
0  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35d8f974 kevent + 24
1  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35e5dd70 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 104
2  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35e5d790 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 128
3  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35de6978 _pthread_wqthread + 400

Thread 2:
0  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35de72fc __workq_kernreturn + 8

Thread 3:
0  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35d5b3b0 mach_msg_trap + 20
1  CoreFoundation                      0x37521f83 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 95
2  CoreFoundation                      0x37521787 __CFRunLoopRun + 407
3  CoreFoundation                      0x3752150b CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 227
4  CoreFoundation                      0x37521419 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
5  WebCore                            0x3318bd1c _ZL12RunWebThreadPv + 532
6  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35de5b4c _pthread_start + 372

Thread 4:
0  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35d5b3b0 mach_msg_trap + 20
1  CoreFoundation                      0x37521f83 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 95
2  CoreFoundation                      0x37521787 __CFRunLoopRun + 407
3  CoreFoundation                      0x3752150b CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 227
4  CoreFoundation                      0x37521419 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
5  Foundation                          0x3517ec55 +[NSURLConnection(NSURLConnectionReallyInternal) _resourceLoadLoop:] + 217
6  Foundation                          0x3515cb91 -[NSThread main] + 49
7  Foundation                          0x35155b97 __NSThread__main__ + 915
8  libSystem.B.dylib                  0x35de5b4c _pthread_start + 372

A: DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND is an iOS 5.0+ feature.  If you try to use it on iOS 4.x it will be NULL (which will crash when you try to retain it, since GCD is a C-library and it is not safe to use NULL the way it is to use nil in objective-c).  See this answer for more info.  The solution is to use low priority instead, or use preprocessor directives to switch between the two.

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Daonlathas Díreach \ Direct Democracy
Who Represents Ballyfermot? The government or the people?
By Lugh Ildánach, October 12, 2012 in Daonlathas Díreach \ Direct Democracy
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http://republican.ie/forum/index.php?/topic/89684-who-represents-ballyfermot-the-government-or-the-people/page__fromsearch__1
The following article is a piece from éirígí's Ballyfermot representative, Cllr. Louise Minihan in response to claims made by a number of Government TDs that those who took part in a 'Hands Off Our Children's Allowance Protest' in the area on the 5th October are not representative of the people of Ballyfermot.
In recent day's a number of Dublin South Central TD's have claimed that anti-austerity protesters are not representative of the people of Ballyfermot.
These same TD's, Fine Gael's Catherine Byrne and Eric Byrne and Michael Conaghan of Labour, claim to represent Ballyfermot, yet they have consistently voted against the interests of local residents by supporting 'slash and burn' cuts to our community. The three government TD's that represent Ballyfermot are strong supporters of:
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In recent years the Fine Gael/ Labour government have:
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Michael, Eric and Catherine, the so called representatives of the Ballyfermot people have supported all of the above.
Labour and Fine Gael are currently attempting to impose unjust property and water taxes across this state. The high numbers of people that continue to boycott the 'household charge' austerity tax across the local area gives some indication of just how un-representative of the people of Ballyfermot the coalition have become.
Michael Conaghan, Eric Byrne and Catherine Byrne have a combined income (not including their allowances) of €278,016 per year. That's a huge €92,672 each. These wages are paid by us, the taxpayers of this state. According to the CSO the average annual earnings for workers is 2012 is just €33,327 per year. The basic payment for somebody on the social welfare is just €188 a week. TD's receiving such huge amounts of taxpayers' money in return for voting to cut our community and public services, cannot seriously claim to represent the people of Ballyfermot.
The anti- austerity protesters who forced Eamon Gilmore and Frances Fitzgerald to retreat from Ballyfermot, however, where and are representative of the anger of a proud community that feel's betrayed by the professional political class. Those who protested in Ballyfermot last Friday (October 5) were mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers who decided to take a stand against the proposed cuts to Child Benefit and the years of cutbacks that have devastated our community.
Some of those at the protest were community and political activists who are daily faced with the human cost of the austerity measures that Michael, Catherine and Eric vote for from the comfort of Leinster House.
The Hands Off Our Children's Allowance protest showed that the anger against austerity in Ballyfermot is palpable. That protest showed that so long as government Ministers continue to launch attacks on the working class, they are not welcome in our communities. Michael Conaghan, Catherine Byrne and Eric Byrne would do well to take note of such anger and stand up for our communities against austerity and cutbacks. It's high time they decided to do the job we pay them to do - represent the people of Ballyfermot and Dublin South Central.
The upcoming budget is predicted to be one of the harshest on record. By taking to the streets our communities can take a stand and fight back. The upcoming budget will also provide Catherine, Michael and Eric the opportunity to show they have grown a backbone and are willing to stand with the people who voted them into power.
You can accuse éirígí of opportunism all you want, but the above statement is spot on, and it is important that this message gets out, from whatever quarter.
All that is missing from the statement is the alternative to be presented. Éirígí do not yet have that articulated, but with an analysis like this, I'd say it won't be long before some of their members or supporters start to find that alternative and expressing revolutionary ideas.
The problem with this is that Éirígí themselves still have a superstitious reverence for representational democracy, and are happy to be part of that circus, whenever the opportunity arises.
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I agree with the statement. But I am suspicious of eirigi. I defended them a week or 2 ago, for taking action when others didn't, but I also think they are opportunist and their actions are tokanism.
They release great statements of resistance etc but like many republican groups they don't follow though. It was Lizzie Windsors visit that really put me off eirigi. When hundreds of republicans took to the street we seen republicans from all groups join together, 32s, RNU, IRSP, even RSF but eirigi decided to do their own thing!
I was just watching a video there of the day there was a dinner in dublin castle. They spend half the time calling for people to be "dignified" and not turn it into violence etc... For a self proclaimed militant group I think this truely pathetic. If there was one day for Republicans to unite and carry out militint action, that was it!
But sure what do you expect from a party who's leadership stayed with PSF through 90% of the GFA.
There is a space to be filled in Ireland by real militant activist group(s). Unfortunately eirigi are getting all the press at the moment.
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I was at that protest when éirígí shunned other Republicans and led half of the crowd away from the confrontation with the English monarch.
However, I wouldn't want this thread to turn into a discussion of the merits of éirígí, the content of their above statement is why I posted the above, and it is really important.
People are beginning to be able to articulate a complete rejection of governments. There still needs the link to be made to representative politics in their entirity, but the dynamic and awareness is there amongst the people. They are crying out for some alternative. Nobody is yet providing it. We need to step up to the mark, and quickly, before people are led down another cul de sac.
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Im not sure if the discontent is as widespread as the article suggests. If it was then the protest would have been bigger than it was. I think thag most people have realised that voting every few years for ff or fg or even labour does nothing. But thats over ridden by the fear of real change.
I think the challenge may be to try and extinguish that fear. Look at greece and spain. Two countrys who have a large amount of people who have been pushed and pushed to the point where they decided 'fuck it, i want change'! This has been expressed in two ways. One is the voting for far left and right wing groups and the other is the mass marches, protests and strikes.
Thats the point ireland must get to. Because imo there is still that fear of real change.
Yes, you're right. The fear of the unknown is very powerful. There are two forces which counteract this. One is making people familiar with the alternative, the other is when the fear of the known becomes intolerable and worse than the fear of the unknown. We can only really control the first aspect, the unsustainable nature of the capitalist system however will provide the other force for us, but we should not rely on it by itself, it can push people in other directions too, as you've indicated.
One huge problem is the power of the mass media. It stokes the fear of the unknown while trying to lessen the fear of the known. People see it every day, its this line pushed that everything was grand before recession. That the recessions only a blip and sure it will all be grand again afyer a few years.
I duno the solution to any of it to be honest. But im up for a revolution lol.
My new slogan might be, "Capitalism Kills, Kill Capitalism and its lackeys!" though im a fan of "¡Ya Basta!"
And that's the danger at just organising these kind of events, and relying on the publicity that they generate. Unless you create structures that are capable of reaching into people's lives on a daily basis, then the media and the bourgeois system continues to exist uninterrupted.
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lol, again with the Windsor Protest...
Ignoring the fact that the crowd that turned out for éirígí's protest was far smaller than predicted (though still larger than all the others combined), and that the mix of the crowd, consisting of families and children, hardly lent itself to attacking a vastly numerically superior Garda force consisting of riot police who were licking their lips at an opportunity to swoop and arrest portions of the march.
Ignoring the tactical facts of the day, do you think a good way to build a new socialist-republican movement is by associating with people who's names are tarnished and who between 1998 and 2011 had done next to nothing for Republicanism besides extort drug dealers to feather their own nests?
Talking about lack of ideology in éirígí, to what end would it have served the socialist-republican struggle to "unify" with groups whos armed wings have now joined together in a new formation whos purpose it is to reject politics?
the army/party model is dead. All the rubbish that comes with that murky underworld has done nothing but paint Republicanism in an ever poorer light since 1998, and your suggestion is for a group who has no connection to that, to throw themselves head first into it?
And no, éirígí do not have a "superstitious reverence" for elections. Would you have said the same with regards Seamus Costello and his tactical use of elections? do you think he was a superstitious character? I'm not comparing éirígí or anyone within the party to Costello, but in terms of elections the Costello model is the one éirígí want to follow and adapt to current conditions.
I can tell you first hand that there is no such reverence in the party for representational democracy. We recognise the absolute necessity of building strong holds in working-class communities, and elections are a means to doing so. That they are merely a means is enshrined in party policy.
and laoch na nGael, what would you know? It's obvious you were sitting at your computer that day. For the record the RNU were protesting on a different side of Dublin Castle at parliament street while the main protests were up near Christchurch. Maybe you would like to ask them why that was? Also, I find it laughable that you would even include the IRSP among the groups who were protesting, as there was, no word of a lie, a grand total of 3 people from the IRSP there. Maybe you would do well to get your own house in order, maybe even get a few more activists, before you criticise the strategy and tactics of others.
Elections may help build strongholds, but they do not build revolutionary strongholds. It is alternative revolutionary structures that build revolutionary strongholds.
I don't reject electoralism as a point of absolute principle, but as a result of observation on the role of elections in the history of Irish revolutionary organisations. There may be some conditions in which it is possible to use elections, but I think its abundantly clear that those conditions are not what we have. Let PSF and the other reformists put their faith in such institutions, in building their party by lying to the people by saying that they can represent them better than the current crowd.
Fair play to éirígí for organising this protest, and as I said above, I think the above statement from Louise is excellent and really important. She could have done us all a favour and include the local bourgeois parliamentary body that she sits in herself with her analysis. What is it that stops her from doing that?
Seamus Costello was prepared to stand in the council chamber and call it what it really is, a dung hill. Some of that rhetoric would demonstrate that éirígí were really following in those footsteps. Myself, I detect in Louise's statements that she is gradually coming to that conclusion. I wouldn't share Fodla's view that there is a reverence for representational politics, but what there is is a lack of clarity and a revolutionary alternative.
We have to be very clear on this, no government, no opposition, no local authority, is going to be able to get rid of capitalism. We must say that! This statement could be read to mean only that THIS government doesn't represent the people, it doesn't specifically say that no bourgeois government can ever represent the people. It says that the people of Ballyfermot are the ones who should be running Ballyfermot, but it gives no clarity as to how that will be achieved.
It is the building of revolutionary structures that is needed. People are ready for the next step, of not just rejecting individual governments, but rejecting bourgeois rule it its entirity. But if they are not presented with a practical alternative, they will succumb to one of two options, maintaining the tried and tested (and failed) politics of reformism, or giving up. If presented with a revolutionary alternative, a structure in Ballyfermot that really represents the people of Ballyfermot, then people will flock to it. But unless that is done, then all this statement equates to is a call for people to vote for Louise in the next election, actually it doesn't even amount to that, they could be asking people vote for whoever they think might be able to form a better form of bourgeois government. Given that the largest non-government party in Ballyfermot is probably PSF, it may as well have been a call for a vote for them.
That's exactly what happened when the eirigi-led portion left their comrades. A stand in solidarity would have been nice and would likely have prevented the coralling that occured. Nobody was getting through those garda lines that day, but the real glee amongst the gardaí would have been when they saw the opposition divide in two, and half of them walk away. Funnily enough éirígí leaders were seen later in the evening back at the scene without their crowds after their earlier actions had ensured that the protest didn't get out of control. There were however no eggs being thrown that day!
Anyway, I don't want to drag this thread into that kind of debate. Maybe in time we can forgive those whose names have been tarnised by these actions
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So despite anti-GFA republicans who refused to abandon their principles, endured the full rigours of state brutality, served sentences in Portlaoise, Britain, Maghaberry etc, while the Eirigi leadership at the time were in highly paid an pampered positions in the Provos, standing over Decommissioning, accepting the GFA with gusto, discrediting real republican activists, engaging in all the threachery PSF had to offer, all the while licking Adams arse
Republicans who refused to accept this carry on were all gangsters and extortionists out for themseleves?
Pretty serious allegation to make, have you any credible proof other then Sunday World articles to back up such a serious claim?
And is this an attitude held by your Eirigis member?
Are you serious? I'm not even going to bother getting into that debate. Is that all you can say? oh well the rag tabloids said it therefore there is absolutely no truth in it? It's a completely immature position to take
The dogs on the street within republicanism know that many (not all) in these groups are up to their eye balls in all manner of dodgyness
The notion that these groups who are mixed up in the criminal underworld (not saying they're criminals) have not got dirt on their hands and are pure, the IRA etc, needs to be debunked amongst republicans before we can move on and restore our image (and our reality) as a virtuous one to the Irish people
And is this an attitude held by the your average Eirigis member?
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I would be concerned at this statement. Nobody is calling for unification of groups, well certain elements are, but they are usually the least political of all. What is needed however is practical unity. People standing side to side, on everyday political issues, regardless of political faction or background. If someone "tarnished" stands beside me to oppose an element of capitalism, they are doing a lot more in that moment than someone who may have impeccable social standing but who refuses to take part in the protest in case he is seen with such people.
But that's not dealing in reality. If an organisation associates with elements who have a bad name (rightly or wrongly) then they've already lost the battle of bringing new members on board
It is of course true that the person who is standing beside you is doing more to oppose an element of capitalism than someone who sits at home but is "respectable". But we have to be calculating about this. We want to build a mass movement, not be standing at protests in 50 years time where there are still only a dozen people. Unfortunately the media and society stigmatises people for a variety of reasons, but this is the reality and if we choose to ignore those in the name of a misguided righteousness we will get nowhere.
éirígí put no such faith in these institutions as the paper that was adopted at the 2009 Ard Fheis makes clear
"Any éirígí engagement will be on the basis of a clear understanding that the existing elected institutions must ultimately fall before a new, genuinely democratic system can emerge. The primary purpose of éirígí tactically participating in elections and elected institutions will therefore be to expose the limits of the current system and give voice to those whose interests lie in direct contradiction to the capitalist system."
http://www.eirigi.or...9/elections.pdf
They are also serious about building a state within a state. To do that, you need strongholds in working-class communities where people have come on board with socialist-republicanism. Elections are a small step in getting them to cross the psychological barrier where they support the socialist-republican alternative in opposition to the establishment parties. Elections also bring a host of practical logistical benefits. People will automatically claim that this is only to advance eirigi as a party, but in reality if the party is not strong and does not have a presence in an area then there is no hope of turning that area into a revolutionary stronghold. It's what we do with the support displayed by elections for eirigi that counts.
Nothing, she criticises that body all the time. Most recently here http://www.eirigi.or...test111012.html
Also, there is a strong argument for making a distinction between local councils and the 'national' bourgeois assembly. Some would argue that councils could play a part in propagating the revolution at a local level. I'm not saying they would, one way or another.
eirigi and Louise have come to that conclusion officially several years ago.
What do you mean by clarity and a revolutionary alternative exactly?
eirigi's goal is to build strongholds that can practice street politcs in a way that will make those areas autonomous
We have to be very clear on this, no government, no opposition, no local authority, is going to be able to get rid of capitalism. We must say that! This statement could be read to mean only that THIS government doesn't represent the people, it doesn't specifically say that no bourgeois government can ever represent the people. .
you seem to be basing what you know of eirigi on this statement alone. They constantly articulate that no bourgeois government can ever represent the people, the main campaign being this one from a few years back http://www.eirigi.or...difference.html
but if you read through many of the statements eirigi release in relation to FG/Labour and FF governments before them, they carry the message that all bourgeois governments are doomed to failure
you seem to be taking this one statement, of which eirigi issue scores a month similar, as the definitive philosophy of the party, which is clearly a folly.
All this statement wanted to achieve was to put it up to the bourgeois lies that the anger displayed at that protest was not representative of Ballyfermot, that's all! you can't say everything in every statement...
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That's exactly what happened when the eirigi-led portion left their comrades.
never happened. the 32s marched up to eirigi's protest with nothing to say and no plan and were told where to go. Approaches had been prior to the day in an effort to formulate a coherent tactical plan, but these were shunned (because of a misguided pseudo-militancy). These groups didn't even bother to advertise to the public when and where they were going to meet! And eirigi were told that this would be the case and so wisely decided not to become involved.
nobody left anybody. The 32s marched back down and began to justifiably attack the Garda, but to what end? they were easily corralled. Are we supposed to believe that the Garda who outnumbered even the 32s + eirigi's numbers wouldn't have corralled eirigi as well if they were attacked, considering that the composition of eirigi's march would have made it even easier?
Funnily enough éirígí leaders were seen later in the evening back at the scene without their crowds after their earlier actions had ensured that the protest didn't get out of control. There were however no eggs being thrown that day!
yes, because members of the 32s rang eirigi leaders for legal help as they were surrounded by a ring of garda, and Leeson and MacCionnaith went down to help them, to see if they could diffuse the situation
It appears that you have been lied to about the facts of the day
The dogs in the street within republicanism know that many (not all) in these groups are up to their eyeballs in all manner of dodgyness
What didn't happen? Nobody left anyone? Eirigi did leave, fact, you admit that. Afterwards the gardai swooped. There were only a couple of arrests, but the lack of numbers helped facilitate the coralling. I had no dealings with MacCionnath or Leeson other than seeing them there, if they were asked to come back, then fair enough. It would have been better that they hadn't left in the first place.
I wasn't lied to about the facts on the day, I was there and saw them for myself. But I really don't want this to get into a debate about that day.
In relation to the other post, you are right that it isn't fair to eirigi to judge them on one statement, all I was doing was commenting on what was present and what was absent in this statement. I thought the statement was actually one of the better ones that they have come out with.
If there are other policy positions in the background that support building a state within a state and adopting the dual power strategy that we are talking about, then I look forward to seeing them being advanced in the future. What kind of state are talking about though? Is it something that physical force Republicans are going to be excluded from because of some view that they are somehow "tarnished"?. If they are serious about such an approach it will necessitate working with people who they may offend their sensibilities, it will need to be open to the entire working class, particularly that section of the working class that already adopts a revolutionary analylsis (ie, physical force Republicanism).
I would fundamentally disagree that the local authorities have any role in building a state within a state, they enshrine the existing state itself, or perhaps a slightly tweaked current system. They acclimatise those working in local communities for an eventual Leinster House placement, and do nothing to undermine the fundamental nature of the bourgeois political order. They are mini versions of Leinster House, how does taking part in them send out the message that the larger national system is flawed? A fundamental shift is required, local authorities are not capable of doing anything fundamental, and are about to be even more emasculated.
But I would accept that this is something up for discussion, and as most of the left still put some faith in the local authorities, I wouldn't hold that against eirigi particularly,
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There's a contradiction here, a chara. To do well in bourgeois elections, you have to play by the rules of bourgeois elections. In practice, that means playing the media's game. It inevitably leads to carrying out actions - just for the sake of the cameras. More effort is put into media stunts than into building up real Proletarian institutions, and there is a tendency to avoid being seen with anyone the media doesn't like, i.e. "tainted persons."
I don't want to address these comments to Éirígí in particular. There are some great people in Éirígí, including your good self. It's a historical fact that all parties who have ever dabbled in parliamentary politics, in any part of the world, or at any time, have been sucked into the same cul-de-sac.
As for Seamus Costello, though I have the greatest respect for him, I feel he was mistaken in his willingness to become involved in electoralism. Having said that, I'm sure he felt that the military action of the INLA would be enough to counter-balance any corrupting influence from taking part in bourgeois elections. The other side of that coin, of course, was the more successful the INLA was, the less likely the sheepish, media brainwashed, herd were to vote for the IRSP.
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Q: Get the value of a macro using a string with macro name I have a set of macro definitions that the name only change on the number between "C_" and "_E". What I need is a macro that gets a integer variable and returns the integer value of the corresponding macro definition in case it exists, if it does not exist, it returns "-1" or gives a compile error. Is that possible? The code I need is something like this:
#include <stdio.h>

#define C_1_E 4
#define C_2_E 2
#define C_3_E 0
#define C_4_E 420

#define STR(x) #x
#define STR_MACRO(x) "C_" STR(x) "_E"

#define MACRO_VAL(x) ... // return the value of the macro C_x_E when x=1,2,3 or 4

void main() {
  uint8_t n;
  for(n=1;n<=4;n++) printf("val %u: %u\n",n, MACRO_VAL(STR_MACRO(n)));
}

Expected output:
val 1: 4
val 2: 2
val 3: 0
val 4: 420

According to my search, this is not possible, but I can swear I did cross this solution once, but I didn't need it back then although I thought it could be helpful.

A: If you need to have a macro specifically, not a function, then it must be that a macro that expands to a function call is not acceptable either.  That makes sense to me only if you need the conversion of macro number to macro expansion to be performed at compile time, by the preprocessor.  That doesn't appear to be a necessity for the example code, but there are cases where it would indeed be needed.
And that's too bad, because the C preprocessor then provides no way to achieve what you ask.  Variables do not exist or have values at compile time, so there is no way at compile time for the compiler to convert a variable name to the value it represents, much less to build a macro name out of it, much less to expand such a name to its replacement text.
You could, however, do it with numeric literals instead of a variable:
#define EXPAND(x) x
#define MACRO_VAL(n) EXPAND(C_ ## n ## _E)

printf("val %d: %d\n",n, 1, MACRO_VAL(1));
printf("val %d: %d\n",n, 2, MACRO_VAL(2));
printf("val %d: %d\n",n, 3, MACRO_VAL(3));
printf("val %d: %d\n",n, 4, MACRO_VAL(4));

If you try to expand that with an argument that does not produce the name of a defined macro or in-scope variable then that (almost surely) will produce a compile-time error for a reference to an undefined variable.

If run-time evaluation were acceptable after all, then you could write a function that does it (which you could wrap in a macro if you wanted):
#define MACRO_VAL(n) lookup_macro(n)

#define EXPAND(x) x
#define MACRO_CASE(i) case i: return EXPAND(C_ ## i ## _E)
int lookup_macro(int n) {
    switch (n) {
       MACRO_CASE(1);
       MACRO_CASE(2);
       MACRO_CASE(3);
       MACRO_CASE(4);
       default: return -1;
    }
}

That will return -1 for an arithmetic argument that is not covered by the defined cases.
You could also consider a lookup table, possibly wrapped in a function, but that would require somewhat more code to provide a -1 result in the event of an argument that doesn't match any macro, especially if the macro numbers are not all consecutive or if the least of them is not known in advance.

A: Token pasting approaches are inappropriate as x is a variable name.
Here is a simplistic approach that will work as long as the macro argument is an expression without side effects:
#include <stdio.h>

#define C_1_E 4
#define C_2_E 2
#define C_3_E 0
#define C_4_E 420

// return the value of the macro C_x_E when x=1,2,3 or 4
#define MACRO_VAL(x)  ((x) == 1 ? C_1_E : \
                       (x) == 2 ? C_2_E : \
                       (x) == 3 ? C_3_E : \
                       (x) == 4 ? C_4_E : -1)

int main() {
    int n;
    for (n = 1; n <= 4; n++)
        printf("val %u: %u\n", n, MACRO_VAL(n));
    return 0;
}


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A learning disability is defined by the Department of Health as a "significant reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills (impaired intelligence), with a reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning), which started before adulthood".
Sometimes, the term 'Global Developmental Delay' (GDD) is used to describe a learning disability. GDD describes a condition that occurs between birth and the age of 18 which prevents a child from reaching key milestones of development like learning to communicate, processing information, remembering things and organising their thoughts.
Learning disabilities are caused by something affecting the development of the brain. This may occur before birth (prenatally), during birth, or in early childhood.
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Georges Simenon's Maigret Novels: A Game Of Pretend With A Gallic Soul
John Domini offers a review Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret released novels for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
When the bad news arrives, it's always with a kink. For Jules Maigret, chief inspector, a case might begin with a desperate call from a stranger. Before the Paris detective can get his name, the poor man's corpse has been dumped on the street. Then again, Maigret may hear his own name bandied about, unfathomably, in connection with a murder far to the south, on a Mediterranean island.
Whatever bizarre twist sets the inspector on a killer's trail, in these classic mysteries from Georges Simenon, Maigret won't go long without stopping into a bistro. "He knew," we're told in Dead Man, "he would not be able to resist the temptation of going for a drink in the Caves du Beaujolais." Oh, and he'll take a plate andouille, as well. Down on the Cote d'Azur, he'll have the bouillabaisse.
Naturally, the fine dining never interferes with the job. Just the opposite. While the detective savors his fish pie, his calvados, he's often struck by some revelation; he cracks the case. The Maigret novels can be thought of as "police procedurals," in that they take an officer through both discovery and bureaucracy - along with some serious chills - but that procedure seems worlds apart from the system in the States. An American cop reading these novels might find himself enthralled, like so many before him, but he'll wonder whether he's working in the wrong country and century.
Simenon polished off these three Maigrets in the late 1940s. Enjoying them now, among the first of Penguin Classic's series of new translations, a reader swings from nodding at familiar predators and prey, caught in familiar snares of love or money, to feeling as though he has landed on another planet.
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TVN TECH | COVID-19 Delays, Not Derails, NEXTGEN TV Plans
Posted on April 1, 2020 in ATSC News
By Glen Dickson
Las Vegas and Portland, Ore. will light up their NextGen TV markets in June from their initially-slated late April launch, but the broadcasters and coalition driving the new industry standard forward say major launches will still move ahead this year. The launches will coincide with the arrival in retail stores of the first 3.0-capable sets. Above, six LG sets will bear the NextGen TV logo, including the 55-, 65- and 77-inch class GX Gallery Series 4K Ultra HD models.
The 2020 rollout of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation standard across the U.S. is still on track, say industry insiders, despite suffering a few short-term hiccups due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Simulcasts of all the major networks in the new standard are slated to be on-air in Las Vegas and Portland, Ore., by early June — about the same time the first 3.0-capable sets will be hitting retail shelves.
They will be bolstered by 3.0 launches in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Salt Lake City and Charleston, S.C., in the first half of 2020, with other big markets including Seattle, San Antonio, Austin and Tampa scheduled to turn on in the second half of the year.
At last year's NAB Show the country's biggest broadcasters joined forces to announce they would begin 3.0 broadcasts in the top 40 markets by the end of 2020. Since then, set makers and broadcasters have agreed on the "NextGen TV" consumer brand, a handful of low-power stations have launched 3.0 and the stations in the Phoenix Model Market have produced a detailed 3.0 launch manual.
But details on the national rollout have been scarce, and to date, only 24 applications to broadcast 3.0 have been filed with the FCC. So the industry was looking to NAB 2020 as the place to get more clarity — until the annual convention was canceled on March 11.
The 3.0 stations in Las Vegas and Portland were initially aiming to be on air by April 20, in time for the NAB Show, say executives from Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media. But with the goal of NAB removed and vendors unable to travel to stations to install equipment, those launches have been pushed back until after the May sweeps. Las Vegas is now scheduled to turn on May 26 and Portland on June 9.
"It was not realistic to maintain the original launch dates without putting people at risk," says John Hane, president of Spectrum Co., the coalition founded by Sinclair and Nexstar to help monetize 3.0.
Brand Connections
Spectrum Co.'s John Hane
But Hane says that despite the challenge of COVID-19, launches in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Salt Lake City and Charleston are still planned for the first half of 2020.
"We're holding all of our other dates, and we're not preemptively moving any dates," Hane says. "We're going to try to distort reality, if we can."
Sinclair and Nexstar were looking to launch 3.0 in 20 markets together this year, says Jerry Fritz, EVP of ONEMedia, the Sinclair subsidiary focused on the 3.0 rollout. That number may "be a little bit pushed back because of coronavirus," he says, and was independent of 3.0 launches that might be done by stations from other groups belonging to the Pearl TV coalition, which counts Cox, E.W. Scripps, Graham Media, Gray, Hearst, Meredith and Tegna as members along with Nexstar and Sinclair (Sinclair just joined in February).
For its part, Pearl TV was still "ballparking 30 or 40 markets by the end of the year" before the COVID-19 crisis struck, says Pearl TV Executive Director Anne Schelle. While the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the industry is unclear, she says the 3.0 work is still continuing.
"There are a lot of other markets like Portland teed up, with agreements done," Schelle says.
Portland Sets Precedent
Portland, the No. 22 DMA, is unique in that it is the first top-25 market to file formal applications with the FCC to launch 3.0 with programming from all six major networks right from the start (Phoenix, which also has all of the networks participating, started as a trial with experimental licenses). It also is launching 3.0 with the help of two duopolies: Nexstar's KRCW, a CW affiliate, and KOIN (CBS); and Meredith's KPDX (MyNetworkTV) and KPTV (Fox).
ONEMedia's Jerry Fritz
KRCW and KPDX will serve as the 3.0 host stations, between them carrying simulcasts of HD feeds from the major networks as well as PBS. Five other stations in the market are teaming up to host the existing 1.0 programming from KRCW and KPDX through complex "channel-stacking" agreements.
"Why Portland?" says Nexstar EVP and CTO Brett Jenkins. "We really just had the right mix of willing participants. That's a piece of what has to happen here. You have got to have enough stations in a market to go all in and say we're actually going to do this, and we're going to go ahead and apply to change the license."
Broadcasters unanimously say that the difficult part of launching 3.0 isn't the new technology involved but the business and legal agreements that have to be worked out on a market-by-market basis between networks and syndicators and the stations carrying their content, as well as between the stations themselves.
Channel Stacking
Pearl TV's Anne Schelle
While new deals are required for stations to broadcast network programming in 3.0, the far thornier issue has been figuring out where to move 1.0 programming in order to free up capacity on host stations to launch 3.0. Local stations have also had to convince the networks that such "channel stacking" won't have a negative impact on picture quality, though 3.0 insiders say the networks are being flexible.
"Everybody's in a learning mode, especially with things like football," Fritz says. "Fox, NBC and CBS want to ensure that the quality of sports programming is not diminished. So we're showing them what the picture quality is going to look like with the new encoders, whether it's doing one HD and six SDs or two HDs and four SDs."
Hane agrees: "The networks understand we're going to be stacking up HDs, and they're fine with that."
Channel stacking spreads the legacy 1.0 programming from the ATSC 3.0 host, or hosts, in a market across statistical multiplexes, or "statmuxes," at several stations, using the latest generation of MPEG-2 encoders from vendors like Harmonic and Ateme to aggressively compress HD network and SD diginet programming. With each 1.0 station having a 19.4 megabit-per-second payload, HD network fare has traditionally been broadcast at 10 to 14 Mbps with SD diginets getting 2 to 3 Mbps each. But channel-stacking goes much further, often squeezing two HD channels along with multiple SD diginets into a single 6 MHz channel.
In Portland, for example, Sinclair's KATU will be hosting KRCW's 1.0 CW feed in 1080i HD alongside its existing ABC 720p HD feed and three 480i SD diginets. KRCW's Antenna TV and ThisTV diginets will be hosted by sister station KOIN, alongside its existing CBS 1080i HD feed and two 480i diginets, while its third diginet, TBD, is slated to be carried by public broadcaster KOPB (that deal was still pending at press time).
Meanwhile, KPDX's MyNetworkTV 720pHD feed and Bounce TV 480i diginet will be hosted by sister station KPTV, alongside its existing Fox 720p HD feed and three 480i diginets. Tegna's KGW will host KPDX's other two diginets, Escape and Grit, alongside its 1080i HD NBC feed and two 480i diginets.
The channel-stack at KPTV, with two HDs and four SDs, will be the most loaded in the Portland market and will be supported by Harmonic's latest encoding platform, Electra X.
"The encoding technology has proved really beneficial and has really been the tool that's allowed us to move stuff forward to make the lighthouse [3.0 station] a viable option," says Meredith VP of Technology Tom Casey. "Even a couple years ago, we wouldn't have been putting in the encoding parameters that we do today."
Nexstar's Jenkins agrees, and recalls demonstrating channel-stacking with the new MPEG-2 encoders to a chief engineer at one of Nexstar's stations.
"This guy had been around for the first transition," Jenkins says. "When we set up the air chain and showed him what it looks like, he said, 'This actually looks better squeezed down than it used to at the higher bit rate.'"
As for the networks, Jenkins says some are more cautious than others. But he hopes the launch in Portland and other markets will provide real-world proof that channel stacking works.
"These early markets are going to be a way to demonstrate that we're not going to hurt the business," he says.
Early Broadcasts
Nexstar's Brett Jenkins
As for the early 3.0 broadcasts, they will initially just be simulcasts of existing 720p and 1080i HD network programming. In Portland, KRCW will broadcast its own CW feed as well as CBS from KOIN, ABC from KATU and PBS from KOPB, while KPDX will broadcast MyNetworkTV as well as Fox from KPTV, NBC from KGW and PBS Encore from KOPB (the hosting of KOPB content is still awaiting final signoff). With a proposed modulation/coding scheme that will deliver 25 Mbps from each host 3.0 station, each commercial HD feed will initially be allocated around 7 Mbps while the PBS feeds will get around 3.6 Mbps, all using HEVC encoding.
Later in the year the 3.0 hosts could eventually offer 1080p 60 HD with high dynamic range (HDR), pending available content from the networks, and maybe even 4K UHD; Casey says that KPDX has already bought a 4K-capable encoder. But several broadcasters say the postponement of major league sports this spring, along with the 2020 Summer Olympics, will likely slow down the flow of 4K content.
"It's a question of availability," says Pearl's Schelle. "We were hoping to do some stunting in different markets with 4K content."
Work Moves Forward
Meredith's Tom Casey
Despite the COVID-19 crisis, the ATSC organization will continue to work to support the launch of 3.0 in the U.S. while also advocating for the technology on a global basis, says ATSC President Madeleine Noland. While the ATSC Next Gen Broadcast conference scheduled for late May in Washington, D.C., has been postponed until August, the ATSC annual meeting will be still be held virtually on May 20.
And the work among various ATSC committees is moving forward, including Planning Team 7 on ATSC 3.0 Service Evolution Roadmap (PT-7), which is identifying what 3.0 services broadcasters will offer in 2021 and communicating that to receiver manufacturers.
"We in the standards development industry are very accustomed to working remotely," Noland says. "Certainly there haven't been zero disruptions, but we were lucky we didn't have anything planned this spring or summer that required a physical presence as a standards development organization."
ATSC's Madeleine Noland
A major win for 3.0's global aspirations came in January, Fritz says, when it was adopted as a recommended broadcast standard by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Sinclair, and the larger coalition of Spectrum Co., are also continuing to pursue other business opportunities for broadcasters' 3.0 spectrum including providing data broadcasting for industries like transportation, Internet of Things (IoT) and energy.
Another promising application for 3.0 could be providing additional data capacity alongside wireless carriers and telcos for high-demand streaming content. Both Fritz and Schelle pointed to the impact COVID-19 was having on internet traffic, particularly in Europe. Leading streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon and YouTube have all "throttled" their bitrates and switched to delivering SD video from HD and UHD after receiving political pressure to do so.
"The reason for that is it's a one-to-one connection, a one-way stream, which is an extraordinarily inefficient way to deliver that video," Fritz says. "One of the things ATSC 3.0 allows is to offload that data. So the broadcaster now sits at the 5G table along with everybody else. For those companies, wouldn't it just be better to rent bits from broadcasters and offload that data?"
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FIGHT Magazine - Mixed Martial Arts Life
The Dragon Awakens
By Last updated Apr 16, 2015
One day, undefeated defensive genius Lyoto Machida decided to start knocking men out. He succeeded. His reward: a shot at the UFC light heavyweight belt.
On July 25, 1945, prior to his fi ght with the highly-rated Jackie Graves, featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep said something crazy to a group of assembled sportswriters: that he would win a round—the third, to be specifi c—without throwing a single punch. And then he went out and did it. It's a story that has become part of boxing lore and, unlike Ruth's "called shot" homer in the 1932 World Series, it happens to be completely and unambiguously true. For devotees of the Sweet Science, this was about as impressive as it could get. In the words of Bruce Lee, "It was the art of fi ghting, without fi ghting." His efforts were not unrewarded: the little Italian with the astounding 230-11-1 record went on to become a charter member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and is currently ranked as the sixth best boxer in history by Ring magazine.
But Willie Pep never put asses in seats. That responsibility fell to punishing bruisers like fellow Hall-of-Famer Jake LaMotta, who gave most fans what they wanted: brute violence, executed with heart, balls, and more than a little bit of skill. It was understandable. Who would you rather pay money to see: the "Raging Bull" or the "Will 'O the Wisp"?
Lyoto Carvalho Machida may be known as the "Dragon," but for much of his career, the undefeated Brazilian has found himself in the same honorable but problematic niche once occupied by Pep. He was revered by most hardcore fi ght nuts, fi ght journalists, and fellow pros, but more or less ignored by casual fans. Despite his astonishing speed, effortlessly graceful footwork and a wholly unique, pinpoint-accurate karate-based stand-up game, and the fact that he had never lost a round in his entire career, Machida didn't sell tickets or increase payper- view revenue. And he didn't seem to care. Even when it was painfully obvious that his woefully overmatched foe didn't have a prayer, Machida was unwilling to abandon his counter-striking style and go for the knockout. Out of his fi rst fi ve fi ghts in the UFC, four went the distance.
To make matters worse, the mixed-raced kid from the dark corners of the Amazon wasn't exactly Muhammad Ali when it came to generating hype. Raised by his Japanese sensei father Yoshizo under the strict moral, spiritual, and intellectual precepts of traditional karate, Machida didn't talk smack or play to the crowd. And he didn't speak English. During press conferences and post-fi ght interviews, he often appeared shy and uncomfortable, perhaps embarrassed by the crude gladiator trappings and frat-house atmosphere the UFC brass had so carefully fostered on its way to marketing dominance.
In other words: Lyoto Machida may have mastered his art and was perhaps a potential all-time great, but to the vast majority of UFC fans, he was just pretty damn boring. And boring does not headline a fi ght card in the marketing machine that is the UFC, let alone score a fi ghter a shot at a title.
And then, without warning, the Dragon emerged from his lair and started to breathe some fi re. It happened on January 31, 2009 at UFC 94 in an undercard fi ght against Thiago Silva. After going after the undefeated, yet thoroughly outclassed fellow Brazilian with uncharacteristic aggressiveness, the man whom many viewers had long considered to be a pitty-pat striker and sub-par wrestler, tossed Silva to the mat like a rag doll, and then, in one superbly graceful and fl uid motion, he leapt forward, dove to the ground and planted one devastating and perfectly accurate right hand to the chin of his grounded opponent, separating him from consciousness. The time: 4:59 of the fi rst round. It was Machida's fi rst knockout win in fi ve years, a perfect and poetic statement to all those who had dared to question his heart or his power. The defensive genius who had frustrated fans and UFC brass by exhibiting only fl ashes of a devastating striking and submission arsenal (Machida has black belts in sumo wrestling, karate, and Jiu-Jitsu) had fi nally abandoned his safety-fi rst style and unleashed the heavy artillery. In other words, Popeye had just decided to eat his spinach.
What happened a few minutes later was even more surprising. As UFC color commentator Joe Rogan looked on in mystifi ed bemusement, Machida embraced his inner B.J. Penn. He grabbed the microphone, and then screamed in crude but understandable English, "I am very happy to be here! Thiago is a tough guy, but today I was better than him. I love my fans. In America, when I fi ght here, I feel I'm home." Rogan then asked him if he felt he deserved a title shot, and Machida pulled a move worthy of a true showman veteran self-promoter: he got the crowd involved. "People! [Do] I deserve the title shot," he bellowed. The arena erupted in cheers. "Whatever, whatever, I'm here," he said, sending a clear message to the rest of the 205-pound division, Dana White, and whoever else was watching. Not only did Lyoto Machida have dynamite in his fi sts, he also had more than a little star power.
The Silva KO wasn't an aberration, a lucky accident. Quite the opposite. In fact, Machida's performance that night was the result of a full-scale adjustment—both stylistic and philosophical—that he and his inner circle (which includes Yoshizo and his brother, Chinzo) had been working on for months. It was meticulously designed, refi ned, and then fi nally perfected during countless hours in the family's dojo in the remote Northeastern city of Belem, a city in Northeastern Brazil that serves as the gateway to the mysterious and dangerous Amazon River. If there's one thing you need to know about Lyoto Machida, it's that nothing he has ever done has been uncalculated, accidental or reckless. His approach to training has been all consuming and unwavering, going far beyond the arts of distance, footwork, and perfectly executed strikes and submissions. Along with his phenomenal physical abilities, Machida is a faithful and obsessive adherent of the ancient Japanese warrior codes of the samurai and the karate-ka. It's for these reasons that he is quite possibly the purest martial artist that the sport has ever seen.
And while a true warrior must adhere strictly to the concepts of honor, loyalty, and compassion, he must also test himself. And in this particular case, at this particular time, the test Machida has set for himself consists of one thing only: winning and defending the UFC light heavyweight championship. If this means playing to a crowd of fans who may or may not truly appreciate what he brings into the Octagon, then so be it. And now, thanks to one stunning performance and an unexpected shakeup in the UFC fi ght calendar, Machida's prayers have been answered.
On March 7, in Columbus, Ohio, Rampage Jackson faced off the granitechinned Keith Jardine in a bout intended to give some clarity to the competitive light heavyweight pecking order. If Rampage won, he'd get a shot at reclaiming his title from current champ Rashad Evans at UFC 100 in July. But if the unorthodox Jardine, Evans's close friend and training partner, pulled off the upset, Evans would face off against Machida. Rampage eked out the win over three hotly contested rounds. Yet again, Machida's future was up in the air.
But karma doesn't always have to be a bitch, especially when you've conducted yourself as righteously as Machida has. On the same night, following an injury to interim heavyweight champ Frank Mir, Evans' bout got pushed up to May 23. Jackson, who had injured his jaw during the Jardine fi ght, wouldn't be ready in time. Machida, on the other hand, was ready to go. Less than four months aft
er delivering the shot heard round the MMA world to Silva's chin, Machida gets his chance to assume supremacy over the UFC's stacked 205-pound division.
I fi rst met Machida in March 2008, when he was enjoying his fi rst wave of UFC momentum. The victim: Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, a Cameroonian judo expert and Team Quest stud who had obliterated a couple of world-class opponents in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships. For months preceding the fi ght at UFC 79, Sokoudjou had been hyped as the future of the light heavyweight division. Machida proved otherwise. After toying with the African for the fi rst round, Machida took the fi ght to the ground in the second stanza and quickly locked in a beautifully executed triangle choke from the mount. It was his fi rst stoppage victory in his fi ghts for the UFC. As a result, company honcho Dana White, who had regularly hyped Machida's skill set in the slickly-produced pre-fi ght promos that aired constantly on basic cable, rewarded the Brazilian with his fi rst high-profi le fi ght: a chance to send Tito Ortiz out of the Octagon forever with another loss on his record.
White had managed Ortiz before either one of them had become a household name, but since an ugly falling out in 2003, the former friends and fellow egomaniacs went after each other relentlessly in the press. White took obvious joy in making the publicity-hungry former champ look badly, and in the months leading up to the fi ght, it was widely assumed that if Machida did something spectacular and embarrassed the faded Ortiz, his efforts would be rewarded with a chance to fi ght for the light heavyweight belt.
There was only one problem: Machida was not the right fi ghter, stylistically or philosophically, to be enlisted in such an undignifi ed battle of egos. Inside and outside the gym, Machida seemed to regard the world from higher, nobler ground. Since childhood, he had been taught to show only the utmost respect to all his opponents, even if one of them happened to be an egomaniacal thorn in the side of the man who controlled his professional career. He also didn't make his opponents look bad by hurting them, but by making them miss. This point was made emphatically clear to me after watching Lyoto spar for an hour against a series of world-class opponents in Vlad Matyushenko's tiny gym in El Segundo. Despite the cramped quarters, he never once got hit cleanly by a sparring partner. He could win a fi ght in a booth without suffering even a scratch, but the other guy might also be left standing.
Machida was also entering a new phase in his personal life: His wife, Fabyola, from whom he'd been inseparable since high school, was six months pregnant. Their son, Tayo, the Japanese word for "sun," was born last September. He was also a genuinely nice guy, serious and soft-spoken, confi dent but devoid of ego. In other words, if White were looking for someone to humiliate Ortiz on his way out the door, he would have fared much better betting his money on a macho, fan-friendly KO machine like Rampage Jackson or Wanderlei Silva.
And that's exactly the way it played out. While Machida dominated the "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" over three rounds at UFC 84, he didn't exactly demoralize him. In fact, Ortiz even managed to nearly lock in an arm bar in the bout's closing seconds. The result: Ortiz left the UFC with his head held justifi ably high, and Machida backtracked to where he had been before Sokoudjou: respected by insiders but not within striking distance of a title shot. This was not what Dana White wanted. A disappointed Machida wouldn't fi ght again for another nine months.
I haven't seen Machida in person for the better part of a year, but as I drive down to his Hermosa Beach hotel on a sunny afternoon in late February, I'm especially conscious that I'm about to be reintroduced to a man transformed. Since we last spoke, Machida had become a father, turned 30, learned some passable English and had embraced, to some degree, his inner Hulk Hogan, at least when it came to his adrenaline-fueled Octagon antics. But most importantly, he had decided to change gears and ensure that his opponents went to sleep before the fi nal bell. All of this makes me slightly ill at ease. There was much to admire about the engaging and unpretentious young fi ghter I remember, who grinned like an eight-year-old as he drove around a strip-mall parking lot in a friend's vintage convertible. And I'm hoping he didn't compromise any of those honorable or unpretentious qualities, even by a little bit, when he decided to play by the unspoken rules of the UFC in his quest for the belt.
Whatever cynical doubts I may have been foolishly entertaining are quickly put aside as soon as I walk into the hotel lobby. Machida is sitting rather shyly in a chair, surrounded by three 20-ish hipsters, including Derek Lee, who helps Machida's managers, Ed Soares and Jorge Guimaraes, take care of their Brazilian talent whenever they swing by Southern California. Upon seeing me, Lyoto stands, cracks a sheepish grin, and then gives me a bear hug. "You hear I have a son?" he asks me happily. He is so un-jaded by his success that it's refreshing to behold. I fi nd it impossible to refrain from admiring Machida. He's been fi ghting the good fi ght, and he's been winning.
I give Machida a hard time about his post-fi ght antics. Did Soares push him to do a little self-promotion? "It wasn't planned. My body just did it. Ed and George will tell me certain things, but they don't change my attitude, because it doesn't need to be changed," he says with characteristic matter-of-factness. "I had a great fi ght and it made me more confi dent. It made me more comfortable to go out there and ask people if I deserve a title shot. Ed didn't tell me to say anything; it was just how I felt. I feel really at home in the UFC and in the United States. I feel like I know everybody and that this is where I belong."
Machida is a guy whose idea of letting loose is spending an afternoon with his father and brothers discussing strategy at a barbecue, so a conversation about technique can last for hours. After demonstrating why his closed karate stance can nullify an opponent's jab while still keeping him within striking range, Machida begins to explain the new wrinkle in his game. "Before, I was a counter-striker only. After I attacked, I would back off," he says. "I'm still a counter-striker, but now I keep going forward. I stay aggressive. I wanted to show people more of my technique. I wanted to show them that I could knock a guy out." Why? Because unlike what you might assume after having watched Machida dance away from trouble for most of his career, the key distinction between Shotokan and other forms of karate is not defensive technique— which is more or less consistent throughout every karate sub-discipline—but the art of the power strike. "One punch has to take the guy down," he explains. "But you have to strike at the right time and at the right distance."
And that's when it truly begins to make sense. Machida hasn't merely made a politically expedient decision to curry favor with the UFC brass and its fans. He's fi ghting for his family's honor; he's taking it personally. "I'm trying to bring out the essence of karate as a martial art, not the sport of karate, not what you see in karate competition," he tells me. "In pure karate, there's knees and elbows and different types of strikes, and I'm trying to bring back that type of style." In other words, Machida has decided to send a message to the uninitiated: If you think Shotokan fi ghters can't knock a man out, you better watch yourself, because Lyoto Machida is about to violently demonstrate the error of your ways.
And while he may have been untouchable during his UFC run thus far, he has only begun to realize his full potential. There were also other factors. In his early fi ghts, Machida fought as a heavyweight, and he now admits that cutting down to 205 pounds has since affected his performance. But with the help of Eduardo Lisboa, the strength and conditioning coach who joined Team Machida prior to the Silva fi ght, he's been able to take his explosiveness and power down with him. It also took Machida, a technical perfectionist if there ever was one, quite a bit of time to feel at home inside the Octagon, as opposed to the traditional square boxing rings he had always fought in before joining the UFC. But those days are over. It's time to prove the doubters wrong. Consider this for a moment: A guy who has never found himself in danger during a fi ght is getting better, and he's got a message that he needs to broadcast to the world with his fi sts and feet. That's a very scary thought for potential opponents, especially given the fact that no one Machida has fought has ever exposed anything resembling a chink in his proverbial armor.
I wouldn't call him a great pound-forpound fi ghter yet, but I would say he's well on his way to becoming one," says trainer extraordinaire Greg Jackson, the man faced with the unenviable task of devising a workable strategy for Evans to use against Machida. "Like all great stylistic fi ghters, what looks to be wrong is actually right. Look at Muhammad Ali. He would bounce around with his head up and his hands down, which are no-nos in boxing. Machida will stand tall with his back real straight and direct and with his chin held high, but you just can't get to him. To me, the sign of a real stylistic genius is if you can do things that are counterintuitive, but still make them work for you. I have the utmost respect for him."
But don't mistake Jackson's praise for the elusive Brazilian as a sign of intimidation. In fact, if there's anyone capable of discovering holes in Machida's heretofore- impenetrable defense and taking him out of his comfort zone, it's probably the intense, shaven-headed fi ght wizard from Albuquerque. But while pound-for-pound Canadian phenom Georges St-Pierre may be Jackson's most complete fi ghter and the team stud, Evans is his masterpiece. At the end of 2005, the former NCAA wrestling champ was a one-dimensional afterthought who had barely squeaked by his competition on The Ultimate Fighter 2 thanks to a combination of grappling skills, natural ability and toughness. Then he hooked up with Jackson, and in less than three years developed into a truly complete, technically sound mixed martial artist. The cocky dude, whose sloppy street-fi ghting style and playground antics inside the TUF Octagon elicited both mockery and derision from his fellow contestants, now boasts some of the best stand up skills in the entire division. He also has the one intangible all fi ghters will need to counter Machida's otherworldly skill set: legitimate one-strike knockout power. And while Machida may have knocked out former middleweight champ Rich Franklin before either man had a UFC contract, and outworked the comically-smaller B.J. Penn during the Hawaiian's ill-fated move up in weight, Evans has arguably fought the better competition and he seems to get better every time out. In his two most recent bouts, he brutally knocked out two of the division's most feared fi ghters—Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffi n—en route to winning the UFC's light heavyweight title. Evans is a live dog who revels in defying expectations, and he's got the MMA version of Yoda in his corner.
But unlike Griffi n and Liddell, there won't be any squaring up and exchanging bombs between Machida and Evans. The champ and his ace trainer have their work cut out for them, and they know it. "It's hard to prepare for [Machida] because there's nobody else that will fi ght like him—that's the power of an unorthodox fi ghter," says Jackson. "It's going to be a real challenge, not only for Rashad, but for our coaching staff as well, to fi gure out a way around this amazing, amazing guy. Still, without giving anything away, I believe that nobody's infallible, and I think there's ways of getting around any style. I've got some ideas."
While Jackson is understandably tightlipped about what those ideas might be, Pat Miletich, perhaps the most respected trainer in the history of MMA, isn't quite as vague about how he'd prepare one of his Bettendorf, Iowa-based bruisers for the elusive Brazilian. "Whoever's got a guy fi ghting him better sit down and really analyze the hell out of the way he moves, and fi gure out the right game plan," says Miletich. "Obviously, he's very talented and he would adjust most of the time, but you have to throw a lot of fakes to get him settled back, on his back leg, and then come in with a real three-to-fi ve punch combo off your fakes. And a lot of guys in MMA are just not capable of doing that. I think Rashad gives Machida the most problems. He's a really good athlete and has an interesting style that would give anybody trouble. He's got good wrestling, got good boxing, a lot of movement, and I think he's probably the best guy for that type of match." But as the counter-punching boxing wizard Bernard Hopkins once said before an upcoming bout with the volume-punching Joe Calzaghe: "If he throws 1,000 punches, he's opening himself up to get hit 1,000 times." And there's no one in MMA better at capitalizing on an opening than Machida. If Evans is going to come forward with multi-punch combinations, his boxing technique needs to be fl awless, and he'd better move his head.
Despite his obvious superiority in both overall skill and martial-arts experience, Machida won't be taking Evans lightly. He has been training six days a week, every week, for as long as he can remember. Overconfi dence or a lackluster training camp isn't a possibility, especially given what's at stake. "I always feel that whoever I'm fi ghting is the best, that way I don't underestimate them," Machida tells me before heading upstairs to get some rest before his fl ight home to Belem. "My brother and my dad always taught me that when the tiger is hunting, if he chases after deer or if he chases after a rabbit, he chases with the same speed and the same aggressiveness, and he catches it the same way. It's not because he's chasing a bunny that he's going to take it easy."
During my fi rst encounter with Machida, he told me several times that he wanted to become the greatest fi ghter the world has ever seen. Since then, Machida has abandoned such an abstract desire and replaced it with a very tangible goal, though he is far from compromising his ambitions. "I just want to get to the top and not look back," he says. "The top is to be champion, but I don't want to be a champion, I want to be the champion," he says. "For me to do that, I have to carry myself and conduct my life like a champion. I want to be remembered as a role model for younger kids that look up to me, not just a guy who was a great fi ghter, but as a guy who went after what he wanted and got there. I don't want to be arrogant. I just want to be a centered guy." And if all goes according to plan, which is the only way its been going since the moment he fi rst put on a Gi, Lyoto Machida will get a chance to begin realizing those grand and honorable aspirations. And now that those aspirations include showing the world what it means to be a true Shotokan master, coasting to another decision win is no longer acceptable. "A perfect win would be to throw just one punch and knock the guy out, because that just means that I d
id the right thing at the right time," he says. "That's what I train for." In other words, when Machida walks into MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in May, he won't simply be gunning for the bling-encrusted UFC leather wrapped around Rashad Evans's waist; he'll be singularly focused on putting Evans to sleep well before the end of the fi fth round. 2009 may very well go down in history as the Year of the Dragon in mixed martial arts.
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