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I answer viewer Valerie's question "How does one determine when they (and their business model) are ready and able to leave the "day job" and take the entrepreneurship full-time?"
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Hey what's up everybody? So, today we have a viewer question from Valerie on "how do you know when you are ready to go full-time on your business, stay tuned.
Ok, so first I just want to thank you Valerie for taking the time to ask a question and wanting my opinion on the question.
So Valerie's question was "how does one determine when they and their business model are ready and enable to leave the day job and take entrepreneurship full-time?"
Now, that's a fantastic question because that's a question that I recently had to struggle with myself, in deciding to go full-time as well and it's not an easy question because it really depends on a lot of factors I am gonna go in to some of those factors and what it depends on to decide if you are ready to go full-time in this entrepreneur adventure.
So, one of the big things that it depends on is the amount of risk that you are willing to take and only you can answer that as to how much risk you are willing to take in your own life. And how much that you have to lose. So for Valerie for instance I know that you do have a family and you have a job currently as well, so you have more to lose than someone who maybe is starting out in life and is younger entrepreneur in high school or in college. So, if you left your full-time job and went entrepreneur full-time and it didn't work out you could potentially risk losing maybe your house or not being able to put food on the table or whatever the case may be. So there's a lot more for you to lose. So you have to think about that. And understand how much you are willing to risk. Are you willing to risk that happening and if so what is your backup plans? You want to have a backup plan in place so that if the worst case scenario comes to fluish in which is unlikely but possible, you have a back up plan to fall back on. So think about that as to what is your backup plan could be. So for me, for example I know that if my business fail I can get another job in the computer industry, very easily, very quickly, making good money. So if all else fails and I have to go back to the business world I can definitely do that. In addition, before I went full-time, I put about $9000 in doing emergency fund. Emergency fund is something that I would highly recommend for everyone out there regardless of, if you want to become an entrepreneur anytime soon or not. And what an emergency fund is 3 to 6 months of expenses, so that if you lost your job today or your business failed today, and no money came in for 3 to 6 months, you will have enough money in the bank to cover the bare minimum expenses. Like the car, the house and putting food on the table, paying for the electric bill, things like that, they are absolutely critical that you can't live without. Now, that's not include the cable bill, it does not include going out to restaurants to eat your fast food, it does not include buying music or anything like that, it is just bare essentials that you would need to live on. So that's something that you can do to temper the risk that is involved in becoming an entrepreneur.
Now, when I decided to go full-time, I had a lot of doubts in myself. It's kinda of the role of the entrepreneur. You have a lot of ups and downs, ups and downs. One minute you are feeling awesome like you are a king of the world and then the next minute you're wondering like what am I doing, and you have to push through that. You really do have to push through that. It happens to all of us you have to try to get rid of the self doubt as much as possible because you can do this, we all can do this. You just have to push through and make it happen. And understand that those struggles are going to happen, push through to complete the goal that you have set for yourself. And build the business that you're trying to build.
You really need to find out what is causing the doubts. Is it that you don't think the business is ready, you don't have enough money in the bank to feel comfortable, are you afraid of failing, afraid of what your parents will think. Are you afraid of what your friends will think? Those are things that you have to push through, you have to get over. We all have those but you can't let those hold you back because if you're always worried about those things, you'll never move forward. So, you need to do whatever you have to do to push through those doubts that you have. We all have them, it's natural, you just have to find a way to push through them. You can do it, I've done it, millions of others have done it, millions of other people will do it, and you can do it as well. I have no doubt in it.
Now for me for example, my doubt for a long time, for that 3 months that I have put in to my job, as I was going to be leaving, I was actually looking for part time work to try to be a supplement to the business. I was a little afraid of going fulltime in the business and having not work, it's a something that we all gonna have and I did not find a part time job or I did not take a part time job. Which I'm really happy for because I would not have time available that I would need to sink in to the business. Even during this full time I feel like a lot of times I don't have enough time to complete everything that I want to complete. So I am glad that I did not put that crunch in there but that is something that you can think about if you need that. I would recommend when you are ready to go, full-time with it, you're gonna find, there's a lot more things that you're not doing right now because you don't have time to do them that you will be doing once you go fulltime in the business. A little bit about preparing your business to go fulltime, you gonna want to basically work 2 full-time jobs. One fulltime job is your fulltime job and the other full-time job is your business. Putting in as many hours as possible after work, before work to feel comfortable in where your business is at for you to go full-time on it and start bringing in money from your business. So you can prove to yourself that, "hey, I was able to pay myself 250 bucks this month, 500, a thousand, 2 thousand, whatever the case may be. So you can start taking a little bit of money onto your business. You don't want to take a lot of money from your business upfront because if you take too much you don't have enough to sync back in, so you want to temper that but you do want to start paying yourself something right away. I strongly believe that. When I started my first job TCText computers, we were super excited when we started paying ourselves $5 a day so that we can pay for lunch out of the business and not have to pay for that out of our own pockets. And that felt really good. Starting of, just that small amount. So even something that small can start helping you feel confident in your business and that you're moving forward and you can slowly start incrementing that up as you go forward in the business and building. Another thing that you can do to kinda get an idea on where you business is headed, hopefully you are doing good financial book for your business. If you are not, keeping accounting for your business, I highly recommend you do that so you know where you at, how much profit and how much lost are you making in your business every month. You really can't run a business without knowing the numbers of your business. So, if you keeping good records and you can see your profit and loss for the past month, you can get an idea on how much time and effort you are putting in to your business now vs how much time and effort you gonna be able to put in to it when you go fulltime and multiply it by how much more you are able to put in to it. That's not going to be an accurate number most likely if u go fulltime you gonna find new avenues of growth for your business so the multiples is going to be higher when you go full-time. But it will give you an idea of the amount of profit that you going to see when you go full-time at least a rough estimate, something that you can go of to see if is something that you are able to live of, is that enough money that you are able to live of.
Another thing that helped me have a little bit of a crunch I guess that you can call it, I actually have a credit card that is completely paid off and they continue to send me those checks that you get in the mail that, I could take out the $10,000 that is available on that credit card for a 3% fee and not have to pay interest on that for a year. Now, I set that check aside, I haven't had to use it, hopefully I never have to use it.
So really Valerie as I said in the beginning it really depends on your level of risk and how much you have to lose and how much you are willing to risk. But with that said, I highly recommend that you take the job. One way or another, find what you whatever you need to put there to make you feel better. Building up your emergency fund, having that credit card sitting there ready to use, building up your business to a certain profit level before you are willing to make that jump. But I guarantee you, when you do make that jump you will feel much better about everything in your business will start to take off incrementally.
In the past when you're just been doing it part time, it is really difficult to really build a real business and focus on the business. Because when gonna build that business you can really push the business and start seeing a lot of new avenues for profit and ways to build that business that you never would have noticed doing it part time because you are distracted by everything else and you really don't have the time needed to make it happen.
I really hope that this has helped you Valerie that you are able to make that jump. Keep me posted on how that goes. And when you are ready to make the jump. I wanna help you along in any way that I can and any motivation that I can give you, I would gladly give it.
Same with everybody else out there, all the viewers who are watching this, let me know on the comments down below where you at in your business journey. And if you have any questions click the link down below there as well. Ask Todd any question that you would like. And if you want to record them, send me a video or on the link below you can record audio, I will play that as well on the beginning of the video.
So, thank you all for watching this video. I really hope it helped you out there. Keep on going down on this Entrepreneur Adventure. This Todd Welch signing off. Thank you and have a great day!


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After spending a beautiful albeit cloudy day in Florence, the sun decided to finally pop its head out! With this in mind, I decided it make perfect sense to head over to one of the most colourful places in Italy – Cinque Terre!
We parked the car off and hopped about the train to what was fast becoming one of my favourite of the 5 towns – Manarola.
As it turns out, we weren't the only ones who decided to make the most of the sunshine as holidaymakers sprawled out on the rocks, taking time for the occasional dip into the Ligurian sea.
Manarola is an absolute beauty of place – especially so with the sun shining on it and the contrasting blue skies in the background.
*The only thing better than this view is seeing it gelato-in-hand! 😉
After mooching around Manarola, we decided to head over to perhaps the quietest of Cinque Terre's 5 Towns – Corniglia!
Corniglia is arguably the only one of the lot which doesn't have it's own vantage view point i.e. that perfect place to get a beautiful photos of the entire place – Vernazza has the spot on the nearby mountain, Manarola has the balcony down by the sea front, Riomaggiore has the rocks on the seafront and even Monterosso has a promenade however Corniglia has a charm that's absolutely unmissable when you stroll through its cute little streets.
*Also, don't be fooled, Corniglia still gets as busy so the others so don't expect to come here to 'escape the crowds' – everyone knows how beautiful Corniglia is and wants in on the action. 😉
By this point, the faint rumbling in my tummy from hunger pangs had turned into a full on growl – complete with occasional roaring and so we decided to stop for lunch in Corniglia.
Lunch over, and my mind still firmly on food – I went off in search of ice cream albeit via a long-winded route as my excuse to see even more of Corniglia. 😉
Eventually, it was time to say ciao to Corniglia and all of Cinque Terre as we headed hopped back onto the train, picked up the car and made our way slowly back to Tuscany!
Back in the farmhouse, I managed to lose all track of time and before you knew it, it was almost 10pm! I had in mind a restaurant that we'd visited on the first day (it was soooo good and such a brilliant find) however, we arrived to find that it was closed on this night!
Luckily, this proved the perfect reason to go explore the nearby town of Montaione and eventually, we found what appeared to be one of the only restaurants opened and dived into a mountain of pasta, pizzas and calzones! *licks lips*
The next morning, it was time to finally head back to London and with that, we packed up said farewell to our amazing Tuscan farmhouse, this fun yet laidback week in Italy and made our to Bergamo – which by the way is very under-rated and is an amazing place to visit in and of itself!
Oh, Italy – you have been fun! 🙂


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by Walter Chaw Alligator swamps and high school, I get the comparison, but like the first film, Wild Things 2 is coy, smug, and not so much meta as a self-satisfied, misogynistic tease. Those looking for titillation will have to settle for a lot of slo-mo beach volleyball, multiple views of Susan Ward walking around slowly in such a way as to hide her alarming thighs, and a brief three-way featuring a body double for repulsive/hot (see also: Brittany Murphy) Leila Arcieri, who drops Arcieri down about two cup sizes while upping her pastiness by at least three Danes. Seriously here, how hard would it have been to find a couple of exhibitionistic starlets for a direct-to-video smut pic like Wild Things 2? The really disturbing thing about that is that Arcieri and Ward were apparently hired for their acting ability.


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:: March 2006 Letter ::
Permit me to ask you a personal question: Do you tip your air taxi driver? My colleague Mark argues that a well-placed C-note ensures great service, particularly if golf clubs are involved. My colleague Steve says it's covered in the fare and isn't necessary at all.
Forgive me for writing as if air taxis were commonplace. But many folks seem to have reached exactly that conclusion. The 2006 FAA forecast calls for 5,000 Very Light Jets (VLJs) to enter service by 2017. Then there's the 2005 Collier Trophy, awarded to air taxi wannabe manufacturer Eclipse Aviation. Most of all, there's Flight International's March 1 cover story, "Vision of Eclipse Aviation's Vern Silences The Skeptics." Here's some skeptical non-silence.
The Collier Trophy award is a mystery. I won't deny that the Eclipse is an impressive creation, with some great engineering behind it. But doesn't the Collier usually go to programs like the V-22, C-17, and B-2? Why did it go to a small GA plane? The Eclipse 500 is neat, but is it in the same league? More importantly, the NAA says their coveted Collier goes to a program "the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." (http://www.naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62) Huh? At what point during 2005 were air taxis "demonstrated by actual use?" (Kudos to www.avweb.com for pointing this out.)
The FAA's motives are clearer: they worship growth. The RJ craze kinda petered out, so the FAA needs a new altar to worship this elusive deity. The FAA says VLJs "are believed by many to have the potential to…support a true on-demand air taxi business service," resulting in a 10.2% annual increase in business jet flight hours. Fellow analyst John Walsh once gave a brilliant presentation explaining the FAA forecast as "something that is used to justify not only the agency's budget, but its promotions and salaries, too." How else to explain a VLJ flying hour forecast driven by air taxi utilization figures thoughtfully provided by wannabe air taxi service DayJet? And that phrase "believed by many" speaks to the kind of tough, rigorous analysis that we private sector forecasters can only envy.
The FAA's forecast also helps justify NASA's ongoing plans to fund a
(Sidebar: On behalf of my imaginary rich friends the NASA/FAA VLJ plans are a welcome change. For years I have watched my government squander cash on the neediest, with billions wasted on education and health care. What about the neglected wealthy, the folks who really need a helping hand? Why not give them a chance to pull themselves up by their VLJ bootstraps? Let's invest public money into something that favors not just the very rich but the neglected moderately upper income types too.)
Flight International, though, gets a pass for three reasons: (1) I like Flight. (2) I like the author, Murdo Morrison. (3) Given points One and Two, I'm thinking this article might be a Trojan Horse. Two-thirds of the way through the article you can find this little nugget: "Eclipse will break even at 500 deliveries a year and will be 'comfortable' at 750, he says. That boils down to as few as two aircraft a day, although Raburn's target is four." Reality check. That's total output at all the US bizjet manufacturers combined. It's a statement that should set off warning sirens in the head of anyone affiliated with this program.
Take a moment to consider the air taxi customer, that oddest of ducks. He has more travel cash than an airline passenger, but not enough to be in a real business jet. Nor does he have enough to buy into a jet card program or to use existing air charter operators. He doesn't want or need to fly more than two hours/1,000 miles at a time. And you need enough of him in enough markets to avoid a high percentage of deadhead flights, but not too many of him in these markets to justify decent airline service.
These plans won't work with just any old plane. Never mind that you could prove the concept using thousands of depreciated, low-cost, service-tested jets and props out there. You apparently need a new VLJ to make air taxi magic happen. And of course you need enough enthusiastic investors to turn these unfunded air taxi plans into reality. VLJs might let a few new charter operators make some cash, but we're talking a few score aircraft, not thousands.
Without significant Air Taxi demand, Eclipse is left with owner-operators. That's potentially decent business, limited by the number of jet-qualified pilots. It's probably good for 200-300 sales per year. Much of this will go to Cessna and Embraer. And there are other new players coming on line, basically waiting to be bitch-slapped by market reality. Without air taxis, the best case scenario for Eclipse is much lower production rates than anticipated, with higher prices and serious write-offs all around as a result. The worst case scenario: A dot.com, with wings.
This is why Teal Group has no Eclipse report, nor do we have an Eclipse line in our business jet forecast. Given the parameters and drivers of our forecast or those of any other widely accepted market forecast (including the FAA's), there is no way we could give Eclipse enough planes to avoid bankruptcy.
At the other end of the size spectrum, March updates include the Commercial Jet Transport overview, the A318/319/320/321. 737/MMA, E-2, Harrier, Hawker 400, S-76, K-8, all the Gulfstreams, and a very special A300 epitaph update. Enjoy your month.
Yours, Nostalgic For An Age Yet To Come,
Richard Aboulafia
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Every year the House of Life Healing Centre offers a special healing retreat program. We like to dedicate all our programs like the healing retreat, the sand healing, the song retreat and the relaxation program to Goddess Hathor. The energy of the Goddess Hathor, which we know also belong to the energy of the Goddess Isis, represent the beauty, the love, the healing, the dance and the music inside ourselves. Her presence alone already heales us from depressions and heavyness inside our physical bodies and souls. Therefore, we would like to call our Song Retreat The Hathor Song Retreat.
You are in need of a short period of real rest. In the meantime you also want to give attention to a theme in your self. Something you wanted to look at already for a long time. The Hathor Song Retreat can be of great help to you. During the retreat we will work with you on your theme through the Songs we're singing, our Voice we're using and the Sound healing we will experience.
Also various techniques like meditations, foot baths, massages, treatments on special energy places in the Temple of Sety and the Horus and Isis/Hathor meditation chapels in the House of Life will support you. Moreover the House of Life breathes an atmosphere of relaxation and special rest.
The Hathor Song retreat will be under the supervision of Aset. In the past ten years of stay in Egypt she was able to work extensively with The Healing Voice in the temples of Egypt as a particularly beautiful and subtle instrument, especially in the beautiful and special Temple of Sety I in Abydos and the Temple of Hathor in Dendera. Temples that has an important place in her heart.
July 21th - July 28 th 2020
The Hathor Song Retreat can take place if there are minimum two and maximum eight participants.
Single room: € 1075,- (euro) or $ 1210, - (us)
Double room:€ 900, - (euro) or $ 1015, - (us)
The Hathor Song Retreat is offered full board, inclusive all the hotel accommodation, treatments and transport.
It does not include airfare, visa, the tickets for visiting the temples and travel cancellation insurance.
Important note:
The House of Life is built to be a healing centre. We are following the policy that everybody should get the chance to follow the House of Life healing programs. If you are not in the financial position to pay the fee of the Hathor Song Retreat, please contact us.


text: international Official Daily News Source for International Visitors at IFA DAY 6 eDition Wednesday 7 th September 2011 Hall 23/102 Hall 3.2 / 134 Hall 3.1 / 103 Hall 25/162 it's a trade Powerhouse! A massive increase in share of international trade visitors underlines show's vital role for the industry Jens Heithecker IFA Director Initial estimates of attendance at IFA 2011 indicate a landslide increase in the share of international trade visitors at the show – a share hike of over 40% compared to 2010 – the jubilee year, according to organisers in interviews yesterday. IFA thus has, as predicted, become the true "industry pillar". First-time visitors are often surprised by the huge size of IFA, with the unbeatable offering of new products and innovations. According to Dr Rainer Hecker, chairman of the advisory board of the GfU, many retailers have been holding very little stock in somewhat uncertain times, many waiting for IFA as an opportunity to place serious i See You Digital still cameras and camcorders are taking on a new importance at IFA as they increasingly become considered as CE products, rather than a specialist niche market. Equipped with GPS or Wi- Fi, devices are packed full of processing power. But today, while it's true that cameras are hi-tech, an interesting development IFA has, as predicted, become a true "industry pillar". orders for the holiday season. An extremely positive spin is being put on the market with the promise of a new dynamic being created by the major sporting events of 2012, which, along with everimproving TV design and image, will doubtless result in buoyant sales. Read page 3 is the onset of much higher-grade optics in even consumer models. Read more from page 30 Hall 21./101 Hall 6.2/211 ContentS 03 > NEWS 15 > ExcluSivE iNtErviEW 20 > MarkEt & tEchNology trENdS 26 > MadE iN JapaN 30 > i SEE you 33 > hEalth & WEll BEiNg 34 > accESSoriES 36 > thE diary of MiSS ifa 37 > My BEautifull lauNdry 41 > SuStaiNaBlE dEvElopMENt iNitiativES 43 > tradE NEWS 44 > WhErE to go iN BErliN trade news David Miller Director of Harrods Home, Furniture, Toys, Sound & Vision "The scale of IFA gets bigger every year" (…) "The Loewe, Sony and Panasonic stands are impressive this year" See page 43 eXCLUSiVe inteRVieWS Susumu Kotani President, Pioneer Corporation "Not only have we radically reduced our production costs, but we have fundamentally changed our management policy". See page 28 Zhang tieyan Branding & Marketing Department Director, Haier Group Company "We have to think globally and create a global image, so branding is essential." See page 7


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Read what students have to say
Read what one student had to say about her experience at CityLab!
|January 7, 2003
CityLab Program,
Now that I have finished college and am employed full time in the "real world" in a career position, and have had a chance to reflect on what has helped me over the last several years, I wanted to thank the CityLab Program for the large impact it has had on my early career steps.
I grew up in Massachusetts and went to school in Cambridge and Boston. In the summer of 1995, I was one of 15 high school students to attend the first session of CityLab, which that year was a lab intensive seminar centered around the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia. The two-week project, sponsored by and held at Boston University Medical Center, served as an introduction to Molecular Biology and afforded us an opportunity to work directly with accomplished scientists and to become familiar with advanced equipment and methods not otherwise available to us in our high schools.
My experience at CityLab that summer provided my first taste of modern biotech and medical science and sparked my interest in this field and its commercial applications. It also contributed to my getting further experiences in this field. For three summers after that, I spent my time in internships at several of the biggest biotech companies in the Boston area including Genzyme Corporation and Genetics Institute (now Wyeth), and some venture-backed startups, including Mosaic Technologies and Asterand, and assisting at Oxford Biosciences, a venture capital firm specializing in medical science companies.
Since graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 2001, I have been working as a Financial Analyst at Silicon Valley Bank, a commercial bank that lends to promising high technology companies. In my job, I work with client companies and apply financial criteria in support of the Life Science Lending Team, which specializes in exactly the kinds of scientific and medical companies my CitiLab and subsequent experiences prepared me for. I look forward to continuing to focus my career in the business and financial end of biotechnology.
CityLab provided me with both the awareness of the exciting biomedical field and the confidence and credibility to get me started on the actions necessary to get into it.
Merideth U.
Silicon Valley Bank
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Quick trivia question: what's the most common disaster in the U.S. that impacts the most people year after year? The answer: Flooding. This week, we're focused on flood safety as part of National Flood Awareness Week. I went back through the video archives and pulled out two stories that demonstrate our key themes for this week. If you've got five minutes, these two videos are worth your time.
The first one is from Hurricane Irene in 2011. It profiles a town in Vermont that dealt with significant flooding and shows many of the ways flooding can disrupt our lives.
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The take a way: have a plan so you know what to do in case of a flood. Think through questions like:
- What roads in my community tend to flood first? Will this impact my travel around town?
- How will I stay in touch with family/friends if flooding knocks out cell phone service?
- Where would I go if local officials tell me to evacuate the area due to flooding?
- What's the risk of flooding for my area?
If you haven't thought about these questions before, don't worry. Ready.gov is a great resource for making your plan today.
The second video is especially relevant for homeowners and builders. Here's how two homeowners in Sea Bright, New Jersey minimized the impact of flooding from Hurricane Sandy by taking deliberate steps in and around their homes. It all starts with knowing your neighborhood's risk for flooding, then taking the appropriate steps.
You may not need to put in flood vents or raise critical parts of your home over a certain elevation level, but steps like these may be right for those who live in flood prone areas. The quote that makes the video for me is: "Will we ever see another storm like that? I don't think so, but who knows?" The homeowners recognize that while some disasters are unlikely, that shouldn't stop them from being prepared, just in case.
All week long we'll be sharing flood safety information on Twitter, Facebook, and on Ready.gov. I hope you'll join us this week in learning more about what flooding can do and how you can take steps to get prepared.


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Antalya is an area and province in southern Turkey, with an ever-expanding city centre and a number of stunning coastal holiday resorts that sit in the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Visitors often ask how we create the ice formations that we call ice castles. We start by "growing" more than 5,000 icicles each day that we harvest and sculpt together. Newly placed icicles are then drenched in freezing water. The blend of icicle placement, changing temperatures, water volume, and wind result in an astonishing variety of ice formations. And so all of the beauty you see at the ice castle is a unique blend of an artistic eye and mother nature's work.
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I cannot imagine a happier working lifetime than I have spent researching cognitive ageing but I do get uneasy when people ask me to explain, "Just what have you found out?" (with the clear sub-text "after all these years"). The pawky "scientific" language in which my colleagues and I describe hypothetical mechanisms that might plausibly support bits of our mental lives does not map on to our marvellous everyday languages, created and enriched by writers poets and philosophers, that elegantly convey and interpret our conscious experience of all the glitter and wonder of the world.
This gap becomes especially clear when non-psychologists (NPs) and Psychologists (Ps) try to talk to each other about memory – an enthralling capability because the images, words, sounds and smells it displays are the cast, dialogue, stage, scenery and backdrop of the bright theatres of our consciousness (or, admittedly, for some of us, the gloomy flea-pits of our minds). For four centuries Marvell's "The mind, that ocean where each kind does straight its own resemblance find" 1 has been the most vivid and concise statement that memory is both marvellously capacious and startlingly efficient because we need only a few hundredths of a second to recognise, name, eat, reject or use any of the millions of different objects in our perceived worlds.
Shared experiences of their memories should make it easy for Ps and NPs to have useful conversations. So we can, up to a point, so long as we recognise that we use very different kinds of metaphors to describe what memory does and how it works. Moreover, when NPs use metaphors they know just what they are doing, and do not mistake playful illustrations for reality. Ps , always pathetically needy for professional dignity, call their metaphors "models" or, when they really do not understand what they are talking about, "frameworks" and they actually do believe that these are precise descriptions of function.
Sometimes Ps and NPs can share the same metaphors. We all agree that we have both short-term and long term memory, and that these are different. A majority of decent, diffident NPs think of Short Term Memories as lasting for hours or, at most, days and weeks 2. More sophisticated NPs, often mischievous philosophers, explain to me that Short-term Memory (STM) is a different system than Long Term Memory and that it lasts only seconds. The capacity of this envisionment of STM is estimated by the number of words or digits that we can repeat back in the same order that we experienced them. Both diffident and sophisticated NPs are happy with similar metaphors to explain why STM can only briefly hold a little information: It is like a small warm cup into which we drop frozen images of words or numbers. These immediately start to melt, so the number we can recover is sharply limited by rapid rate of mind-melt. NPs and Ps agree that, by some unexplained trick, we can pick particular things out of our cups before they vanish and lodge them in the permafrost of long-term memory where records of words, deeds and images may possibly last as long as our brains survive.
When I was an undergraduate this was the kind of metaphor used by mathematically-minded Ps like Wayne Wickelgren who worked to estimate the rates of rot of things briefly held in STM. He also pointed out that things that are similar, like words that sound nearly alike, (e.g. cat, rat, mat) will earliest become confused with each other as rotting blurs them. (This was very long ago and WW is remembered for many other different and excellent things he accomplished before he, sadly, died of Lou Gehrig's disease).
The problem is that after thinking a little more about our short-term memories both Ps and NPs realise that this is a threadbare description and misses the point of what memory is for. Before Wickelgren's work my kindest and most articulate mentor Alan Welford pointed out that
"……..data are somehow held in a form of short-term storage while other data are being gathered. Obviously unless data can be so held the amount of information that can simultaneously be applied to any problem is very small indeed …..in old people the amount that can be stored tends to diminish, and that which is stored is more liable than it is in young people to interference and disruption from other activity going on at the same time. Such a decline in short-term retention would be capable of accounting for a very wide range of observed age changes in learning and problem-solving" 3.
This is a language that Ps and NPs can share. Memory is not a passive receptacle of slowly degrading information but a busy, active system for understanding and keeping up with a fast changing world. Most crucially, it is not there only to display recorded fragments of the past but to actively predict what is going to happen next. Since, on this account, Working Memory is needed to solve intelligence test problems it also has to be taken seriously as a functional description of what intelligence is. A provocative finding is that age has little or no effect on how accurately we remember lists of words or numbers in the order we were given them (in our North English samples word and digit "spans" changed little or not at all between age 50 and age 90). In contrast, age sharply reduced the accuracy with which people could juggle the same number of items in our minds, as by repeating them backwards.
Fifteen years after Alan Welford's summary, Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch 4 captured these ideas in a neat phrase, "Working Memory". I remember, with embarrassment, that when they first used the term at a London meeting of the UK Experimental Psychology Society it seemed so all-embracing that it was mocked as "whatever bit of memory you happen to be working on at present". This has proved to have been fatuously irreverent because Working Memory is now a caption for so much research in cognitive psychology that it is almost a "Grand Theory of Everything" in our small science. As Welford noticed, we can only cope with a rapidly changing world by continually rearranging data that we have just registered to interpret what has just happened; relate this to what has just happened and to what we have already known for ages and to work out what we expect to happen next; make plans to deal with this prediction; choose how and where to find more information to do this and suppress irrelevancies; switch attention between different activities as becomes necessary and, while all this is going on, still keep a firm grip on what it is that we need to look out for and to do ("Goal Maintenance"). These frantically active processes cannot be imagined as movements of fading shadows on the screens of our minds. They imply active control.
What metaphors can we find for the controller, and how far can Ps and NPs share these? In everyday language we might call it a "Self", or "Ego" or even "Soul" or "Spirit". Descartes would have housed it in the pineal gland. Alan Welford was a clergyman, so may well have considered these alternatives, but he was also an Anglican and kept this, and all other hints to his beliefs to himself. In 1974 Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch 4 found a term in better tune with their period: the "Central Executive". This conveys harassed middle-management tasked with getting things done. When young this creature of the 1960's and 70's is ostentatiously competent and brash 5.
What happens as it ages? It may help to consider what we know about the brain-basis of working memory
Studies of patients with localised brain injuries suggested that damage to the frontal and pre-frontal brain cortex causes problems with just the tasks that Alan Baddeley set his executive. Suggestions that age depletes brain tissue earlier and faster in these than in other parts of the brain encouraged experiments to test whether elderly people also perform unusually poorly on tests used to diagnose frontal damage in neurological patients. Early results were unconvincing, probably because individuals experience different patterns of brain changes as they age. These vary so much between persons that we may not find consistent averages if we can only collect behavioural data on groups of 50 or fewer people. As brain scans have become better and more easily available they have confirmed that, in general, frontal, pre-frontal and medial temporal cortex do seem responsible for activities that fit many of the job-descriptions suggested for the central executive 6.
So far so good. We have a lively metaphor that both Ps and NPs can share; a job-description for the Central Executive and an address for his office. At this point NPs might nod politely and wander off to wherever their personal executives decide to take them. Can we Ps usefully prolong the conversation? A recent collection of essays on "Working Memory and Ageing"7 seems promising.
I am a keen fan of this sort of stuff because it is just what I have tried to do for the last 50 years. One of these nice essays suggests that decrepitudes of the ageing executive are best accounted for by general changes in all aspects of brain efficiency, such as "global slowing". Performance on all sub-tasks begins to fail as the entire system runs out of juice. Others think that the best way forward is to try to measure and compare different amounts of declines in each of the various executive abilities we can identify: For example they test whether "updating" is affected more than "goal-maintenance" or "switching" between different activities? Whether records of visual information on the executive's "scratch pad" fade faster than records of the sounds of words? This sometimes seem a questionable way to go about things because it seems to forget that "updating", "switching", "re-arranging information" etc. are only common language metaphors for the effects that working memory achieves (the things that it seems to do) and that it is rash to suppose that each of these partial task-descriptions must be supported by a corresponding different, and probably independent process. This line of argument also seems to miss a difficult methodological problem that, before we can decide whether age affects some tasks such as "switching" more than others such as "rearranging information" or "updating" we must find a way to equate them for difficulty on some absolute scale rather than begging a question by simply ranking how hard most people find them. I can't think of satisfying ways to do this.
Rebecca Charlton and Bob Morris8 suggest a way forward by evicting the executive from any single office. They discuss interesting clues that its activities are distributed over much of the brain and so depend on richness and speed of connectivity between nerve cells that are impaired as many of them age and die leaving as markers their tiny sad tombstones "white matter lesions". As connectivity suffers so must performance on all sub-tasks.
It is unnecessary to talk about a collection of quasi-independent devices: one "updates", another "switches" a third "holds goals" another holds "images" and another "noises". Steve Jobs was far too smart to design i-pads this way. He recognised that we can run apps for each task on a common processer and associated circuitry. If i-pads gradually aged, rather than suddenly and totally blanking with the blue screen of death, we might well find that long declines affect some apps earlier and more than others. Comparing computers in terms of bench-mark characteristics, such as processor-speed and RAM capacity also reveals which programs are most likely to be affected by changes in these system performance characteristics and why particular programs can run on some systems but not on others. As far as I know, most Ps still don't think about working memory in this way.
Until we find better descriptions have P's anything interesting to tell NPs than Alan Welford and Alan Baddeley said long ago? Their descriptions are certainly clever, and NPs can surely recognise this, just as they can recognise the skill of Sudoku experts, but without feeling that this in the least enriches our mental lives or tells us anything that we really care to know.
Non-scientists are not less smart than scientists. They are just smart about different things. They keenly appreciate science when it tells them something that illuminates our human experience. We need marvels to dazzle and nourish our minds, to enrich appreciation of the Entire Grand Shebang and to understand our place in it. We are excited and awed even by our vague understandings of difficult topics such as the shadowy existence of Schrodinger's cat; different passage of time for long-distance cosmonauts and stay-at homes; Black Holes; Big Bangs; Quantum Entanglement and the speculative Multiverse. We eagerly buy, and quite often read, expensive books about them. Even vague comprehensions of these wonders are satisfying, and provoke nourishing thoughts and ideas.
Cognitive Psychologists (CPs) have tried our best for more than a hundred and fifty years, but I find it hard to convince NPs that our most recent work has more to tell them about their inner lives than manuals of how to do Sudoku or play Go. Are our metaphors, which we call models, intellectually un-nutritious because the more detailed they have become, the more dull and artificial they seem to anybody who has not worked to devise them? Or are we just incompetent at translating them for others? When people ask me what I have been doing for the last 50 years must I continue to hedge and say that I do not think that they would really much like to hear about it but, whatever it has been, I really have enjoyed it very much indeed.
1.Andrew Marvell. c 1664. The Garden.
- See use of Short-Term Memory in "Alzheimer's Reading Room" http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2013/02/first-sign-of-alzheimers-short-term.html
- Welford, A.T. (1958) Age and Human Skill. Oxford, Oxford University Press.(p285).
- Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G. (1974). Working memory. In G.H. Bower (ed) the Psychology of Learning and motivation, (Vol 8, pp 47-89). New York
- crf John Betjeman, (about 1960) "I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina".
- Stoltzfus, E. R., Hasher, L., & Zacks, R. T. (1996). Working memory and aging: Current status of the inhibitory view.Working memory and human cognition, 66-88.
- Logie, R.H. & Morris, R.G. (2014). Working Memory and Aging. London and New York, Psychology Press.
- Charlton, R. and Morris, R.G. (2014). Associations between working memory and white matter integrity in normal ageing. In . Logie, R.H. & Morris, R.G. Working Memory and Aging. London and New York, Psychology Press.


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text: US occupation soldiers in Iraq have been accused of hard-handed policies against the locals Lt. Cmdr. Nick Balice of US Central Command in Tampa, Florida said on Saturday an investigation was underway into alleged mistreatment of some prisoners by some soldiers. The abuse investigation centred on events that occurred in mid-May at Camp Bucca, where 7,000 prisoners of war were detained during the war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. That camp, near the southeastern port of Umm Qasr, is the largest US-run POW detention centre in Iraq. "Four soldiers have been charged based on allegations of mistreatment," said Balice, who declined to identify the soldiers or to detail the allegations. A military trial was expected for the four, Balice said. Complaints of abuse The four were the first US soldiers to face charges of abusing prisoners during the US-led war against Iraq. Some Iraqi prisoners who were released have complained of maltreatment at the hands of their US guards. And the London-based human rights group Amnesty International said in June it has gathered evidence which shows the US violated international law by subjecting Iraqi prisoners to "cruel, inhuman or degrading" conditions. Three Iraqi prisoners of war have died in camps run by American and British troops. The occupation authorities have said they are investigating the circumstances behind their deaths. SOURCE: Agencies


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Research by Swansea University academic Dr Dan Eastwood, published in the current issue of the prestigious Science journal, sheds new light on how the evolution of fungus impacted on the formation of coal deposits, the advent of the ice age and the coming of the dinosaurs.
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In his paper, The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes, Dr Eastwood of the College of Science joined with researchers from around the world to carry out a comparative study of 31 fungal genomes focusing on when the ability to decompose wood by higher fungi first evolved. Dr Eastwood knew that wood is extremely tough as it is a complex composite of three main polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The close binding of these polymers and the complex nature of lignin means that wood is resistant to decay.
This research investigated when fungi evolved the ability to breakdown lignin by focussing on the enzymes primarily responsible for lignin decay, called peroxidises. The ability to breakdown wood gave these fungi an advantage to spread and diversify all over the world giving us the mushroom-forming species we see in woodlands and supermarkets.
Dr Eastwood said: "When plants ruled the earth and wood first evolved in vast coastal swamps during the Carboniferous period (360 – 300 million years ago (MYA)) there was no effective biological mechanism of wood decay. This led to massive depositions of coal and a reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere as carbon was locked up in the plant material. This in turn was thought to be the main reason for the cooling and ice age associated with the Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods.
"Our research suggests that the evolution of wood decay in fungi was a factor in the loss of coal deposits, the rise in atmospheric CO2 during the Permian, and the gradual warmer and drier conditions which led to the age of the dinosaur. Today fungi continue to play a major role in the carbon cycle on land – converting plant matter back into CO2."
For more information about this paper please visit www.sciencemag.org
- Thursday 28 June 2012 19.00 BST
- Wednesday 27 June 2012 14.29 BST
- Swansea University


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Get a better understanding of the energy efficiency performance of public bodies in Ireland.
Dublin City University achieved primary energy savings of over 2.8 GWh in 2017 compared to 2016, in addition to gaining ISO 50001 energy management certification and launching a plan to develop a Carbon Neutral Exemplar Campus. New high efficiency boilers were installed in All Hallows Campus delivering 59% more savings than predicted. An upgrade of the existing internal and external lighting in the multi-storey carpark to LEDs, together with occupancy and daylight sensors, have also exceeded predicted savings by 19%.
Key findings
10,248 GWhcombined energy consumption of the 331 public bodies and 2,279 schools that reported
667,000tonnes of CO2 savings
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Public sector energy efficiency performance report 2018
Public bodies are required to report annual energy efficiency data to us every year. We manage the reporting process on behalf of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE). This is the fifth year we have published an annual report on the energy efficiency performance of public bodies in Ireland. It is set in the context of Ireland's EU and national commitments and wider climate change goals, whereby a target of 33% energy efficiency improvement is to be achieved by all Irish public bodies by 2020.
Approximately 94% of all public bodies are now using the online national energy monitoring and reporting (M&R) system, in addition to 62% of all schools. The monitoring and reporting system provides an important record of how the public sector performed in 2017. This report comprises an analysis of the data submitted by these organisations on annual energy consumption, energy savings achieved and energy efficiency performance in 2017 against 2020 targets.
Efficiency gains have been achieved through implementation of thousands of diverse projects, ranging from structured energy management, building and facility upgrades, retrofits, changes in transportation, better energy procurement and through behavioural change in organisations.Download the report Download the Irish version of the report
The 2,279 standalone schools that made complete submissions to SEAI are listed in the Annex to the report.
Public Body energy performance data
It is now possible for anyone to access energy data for public bodies and schools through our website. The data includes:
- energy consumption broken down by fuel type;
- progress towards their 33% target;
- comments reported by public bodies on their progress;
- details of the energy-saving projects reported to SEAI.
The data is available on-screen in graphical and tabular formats and may also be downloaded in pdf and spreadsheet format.
Simply click on the link below, enter a public body or school name in the search box and find information on its energy performance for 2018.Access Public Bodies Energy Data
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Check out the bespoke website pages we have for each of the below sectors. Each page details the energy consumption, fuel mix, energy end use, energy saving projects, energy savings and the gap to 2020 against the 33% target.
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If we want Ireland to become a leader in responding to climate change, it is important that we lead by example and that all of the public sector steps up to the challenge. Going forward, we must require every public body to display its DEC (equivalent to BER) rating. We need to set a new target that is more ambitious than the current 33% by 2020. We need to create a stronger mandate in all our public bodies to step up their focus on climate action.
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Discover and review details of public sector energy saving projects. Find information on projects that have been completed and ones that are in the planning stages. These projects have been reported to us through our public sector energy monitoring & reporting (M&R) system.View energy saving projects
For nearly fifteen years, SEAI has provided tools, training and advice to deliver measurable cost reductions and carbon savings in public sector organisations. This includes identifying opportunities, supporting delivery of capital projects, capacity building and best practice sharing. We continue to provide tailored supports, in partnership with ambitious public sector organisations who demonstrate a commitment to strategic energy management. As we now turn towards 2030, we must accelerate activity in the public sector, and seek cost effective ways of achieving even greater results.


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Charlie's Angels Star Cheryl Ladd Designs Home at Cordillera Ranch
Actress Cheryl Ladd—who rose to prominence for her role as Kris Munroe in the hit television show Charlie's Angels—has partnered with builder Garner Homes to unveil the very first Cheryl Ladd Signature Home in Texas. Located at Cordillera Ranch (an 8,700-acre master-planned residential community half an hour from San Antonio), the 4,451-square-foot Spanish Revival home incorporates European- and California-style elements such as stone, tile, and arched doorways. Currently under construction, the open-concept abode will feature a great room, island kitchen, living room, game room, and four spacious bedrooms.
Ladd chose oak hardwood and tile flooring, timber beams, and large windows to create a modern-looking residence with a hint of glamor. Outside, the lush landscaped yard includes a summer kitchen and swimming pool so residents can barbecue or take refreshing dips on warm summer days. A porte cochere leads to a large garage with room for three vehicles.
Homeowners can purchase a membership to seven onsite clubs: golf, tennis and swim, spa and athletic, social, rod and gun, and equestrian and river. Located near Guadalupe River State Park in the pastoral Texas Hill County region, Cordillera Ranch allows homeowners to escape the city in favor of laid-back country living. The Cheryl Ladd Signature Home is currently on the market for around $1.7 million. (cherylladdsignaturehomes.com)
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HOPE Not HatePosted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: Nationalism | Tags: BNP, HOPE Not Hate, London Mayor Leave a comment
In the run up to London's Mayoral election, HOPE Not Hate have published and distributed a free paper to spread their message of anti-racism, specifically in opposition to the British National Party. It is an unconvincing response, however, and is riddled with its own prejudices and rampant nationalism. Moreover, it typifies a number of current responses to fascist racism, which fail to consider the root causes of these problems.
"Vote for OUR Britain Not Theirs"
Rather than seeking to counter the BNP's nationalism, HOPE Not Hate seek merely to replace it with their own – they find nothing objectionable about the notion of articulating and defending a national identity, they just want it to be done on their terms. HOPE Not Hate are, rather than opponents to the BNP's nationalism, merely rivals to it. Much of this nationalism currently focuses, perhaps inevitably, on sport (as we have observed before), and the paper is saturated with contrived slogans and cliches of nationalist rhetoric; "We Are All Team GB", "come together behind the Union Jack", etc. The emphasis on defending British national identity extends into society though, with the quasi-nostalgic fetishisation of "Great British Street Parties" (an increasingly common expression), and the somewhat unsettling vision that "we believe we can change Britain neighbour by neighbour". Of course, HOPE Not Hate claim only to oppose racism, but we argue that turning to nationalism is an inherently flawed response. The approach of HOPE Not Hate is encapsulated in the claim that:
"For racists, the Olympics must seem like a nightmare, all those athletes of different ethnic backgrounds united behind our flag. Because it's not their flag – it's ours."
In this approach, racial diversity is instrumentalised as a sign of the superiority of one nationalist agenda over the other: the increasingly hostile claims to ownership of the flag betray the same attitudes of division and 'in groups' & 'out groups' which are inherent in racist, nationalist and fascist thought. The ideological opposition to an external 'Other' (ethnic, religious, etc) that forms a linchpin of fascist thinking is reproduced here in national terms.
Focusing on the BNP
One article opens with:
"IMAGINE A BRITAIN run by the British National Party (BNP). It's hard and it's frightening and it's probably unlikely."
Here is, perhaps, one of the most important issues with current centre left responses to fascism. The BNP are not going to win this London Mayoral election, and are not about to start running the country. This paper, and HOPE Not Hate as a group, are (because of being almost entirely focused on the BNP) not addressing urgent concerns. Fascism, nationalism and racism are not phenomena which exist among small sections of society who helpfully identify themselves by joining certain groups. Rather, they are political forces whose influences can be detected in every official and unofficial political channel and power structure. This is one of the impulses behind our own project; to recognise that to be anti-fascist is not simply to counter the BNP (or similar groups) but rather to critically consider and repudiate fascism as an ideology, no matter who espouses it. HOPE Not Hate wishes to oppose racism and violence at the Mayoral elections and beyond, and yet fails to address the inherent racisms and violences of our current political processes. In responding to the BNP's divisive politics it presents an impression of unity which is otherwise starkly non-partisan. Perhaps a more useful document, for those who believe that racism can be combated at the ballot box, would have addressed the racial politics of the candidates who actually stand a chance of winning, and accepted that rather than being the unacceptable ideology of an unpopular fringe party, racism is the endemic condition of our society, and must be tackled as such. A country run by the BNP is frightening and probably unlikely; a country which is still firmly in the grip of white hegemony is a frightening reality, and while local electoral politics are not going to change that, it would be appropriate to address the issue.
"HOPE NOT HATE speaks out against all extremism."
HOPE Not Hate dogmatically occupies the centre ground (and, perhaps, seeks to attract a more conservative audience) with frequent declarations that all forms of extremism are wrong, seeking to counterpose 'far-right extremists' and 'Islamist extremists' as though there exists an equivalence between the two. This is, obviously, a view which allows for no nuance, no understanding of the nature of violence and bears no relevance to racial antagonisms as they are experienced in people's daily lives, as it continues to relegate the causes for concern to the peripheries, rather than the core, of our social existence.
HOPE Not Hate assures us that "We will campaign against all extremism and we believe in this we are in tune with the vast majority of society". Claims to represent the will of the majority in objecting to minority political opinion do not have a particularly noble history, and while we want to avoid any glib comparisons, the overlap between this rhetoric and notions of the 'silent majority' and the language of the BNP itself is unavoidable.
It is worth considering the word 'extremist'. In a political moment marked by protest and civil unrest, the branding of 'domestic extremist' is being applied ever more liberally by the state and the media. By echoing this, and by reinforcing the notion that all 'extremist' politics are inherently wrong, and equivalent to the EDL or Islamist terrorists, HOPE Not Hate are allowing the continued dismissal of dissenting voices. This is an inherently conservative document; it instructs us that "you do not fight one form of extremism with another", but its calls for moderacy can do nothing but preserve the status quo, and while the BNP won't be elected, we are also under no threat of having our existing power structures challenged. Without wishing to be unfair to HOPE Not Hate, any response to racism which is based on a majority's superiority to a minority is entirely inappropriate, any response which resorts to competing forms of nationalism is dangerous, and any response which locates racism in the extremes rather than addressing it in our own politics is futile.
Street TheatrePosted: April 7, 2012 Filed under: Protest | Tags: Aesthetics, Cable Street, Counter-Fascism, Performance Leave a comment
If we are to critically evaluate the state of fascism in the UK today, we must look at the role played by 'anti-fascist' groups. Functionaries of united opposition against fascism serve their capacity in a purely performative sense. In this way, as far as groups such as UAF represent the antithesis to the EDL, BNP and no doubt the newly formed British Freedom Party, they are more rightly termed 'counter-fascist' than 'anti-fascist' as this is the role that they in fact perform. The primary activities of the UAF, and those with a more militant critique, are composed of reactive responses to fascist demonstrations (though some acknowledge the inherently reactive nature of their tactic). The fascists move first, and the allied opposition move to counter. In a very real sense, like a match day scrap between rival firms, they meet their enemies in the streets to perform a duel, a battle that has been played out many a time before, and each time, just as the last, is merely a battle re-enactment that both sides know well.
No re-enactment would be complete without the appropriate regalia. The aesthetic of modern day fascists, just as that of their historical predecessors, is a caricature; whilst the trope of the past may have been jackboots, fascist costume of today (at least in terms of the EDL et al) is very different, but equally recognisable. Yet, this is a highly naïve form of recognition where class prejudices betray themselves: the 'Chav' is demonized far beyond what Owen Jones may imagine. Tracksuit bottoms, a football shirt, the St George's flag and, above all, the white working class stereotype become the new black shirt. Not only is this popular perception of the modern fascist naïve in its plain prejudice, but also in its failure to recognise a true popular fascism of our time. Nevertheless the aesthetic is there and conceptualised as stated.
The various counter-fascisms have their uniforms too. Some recall the radical history of scuffles between anarchists and fascists and employ the Black Bloc look, while others wear items such as keffiyehs, appropriating the cultural symbols of prominent targets of fascism out of a sense of solidarity. Other costumes are less antagonistic, attempting to present a 'respectable' face of anti-fascism – one which reduces it to bland, non-confrontational sloganeering, concerned more with absolving oneself than genuinely tackling fascism.
Beyond the literal costumes of counter-fascists, there is a wider issue of presentation. Counter-fascism is presented as a broad coalition of everyone who is not part of a recognised fascist group; a coalition ranging from the ultra-left to David Cameron (whom UAF can count amongst their founding signatories). This presentation is useful to certain actors within counter-fascism, as it allows the belief that fascism is an aberration, the practice of a small group that can be neatly contained within a police cordon, and not something that permeates into respectable society.
Presented with the costume, stage and protagonists, we of course cannot help but chose sides in this narrative, and of course the only true option is to appoint the counter-fascists as our hero – one we see the flaws in, but nevertheless, the hero. This leaves the fascists with only the role of villain to play. And what a sinister sort they are too. But, it still remains that in this performance, just as in any other, we see the humanity in our villain. Even as it tries to destroy everything that is popularly held to be human, we recognise something that is worthy of understanding – never worthy of a modicum of compassion, but understanding nonetheless. We try to understand why such evil came to be because we must, if only for our own sake, but perhaps also in the hope that a morsel of understanding may rub off onto our villain.
Yet, we have the sense that this performance is now simply a script being animated from memory, never diverging from an extremely formulaic narrative. As each encounter comes and goes we know that only a third protagonist, the state, represented in the performance by the police, continues to gain anything from the rehearsals and re-rehearsals. Whilst encounters between fascists and counter-fascists simply serve to negate one another, for the state each new meeting is a purely creative force that provides the necessary conditions for a continuing extension of its power. When the much anticipated meeting between the EDL and UAF in Tower Hamlets provided Theresa May the pretext to ban protest marches in five London boroughs for an entire month, we saw that the state's ability to intervene does not represent a victory for either side, nor in fact the communities that counter-fascists suggest they are protecting. Similarly, street mobilisation gives the police their own pretext to extend their power on the ground: the Tower Hamlets protests provided the Met with the opportunity to employ a prefigurative Total Policing, and more historically the Battle of Cable Street lead to the introduction of the Public Order Act 1936.
With this understanding our task becomes abundantly clear: to break out from a iterative process that simply reflects a cyclical exchange of performances and no real victory for combating fascism; to stage a coup de théâtre where a true anti-fascism that recognises that fascism does not manifest itself in the entirely predictable form currently being rehearsed can be developed. We shall not see another Cable Street, a situation where fascism can be defeated on the street, and so there is little point in returning to this physicality that is stuck in its time – beyond the immediate protection of communities.


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