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Scottish experimental rockers Mogwai have been breaking rules and blowing minds for over fifteen years, swinging from temperate to tempestuous and back again with an elegance of which others can only dream. It's little surprise that their talents have been put to use in cinemas and art galleries, not to mention that their vast sonic landscapes have gained them a reputation as a majestic live spectacle.
Following the release of their recent seventh album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, and a hectic summer of touring, we caught up with the band's co-founder Stuart Braithwaite to chat about their live show, working with Clint Mansell, record collections and what's next for the band.
"I Like Music because... it sounds nice!" Stuart Braithwaite
ILM: You guys have been so busy this year since the release of the new album, playing an insane amount of dates, and travelling around… How are you all coping?
Stuart: I think we're pretty good actually! Last night was a lot of fun; it was probably one of the best festival gigs of this summer [Ypsigrock Festival, Sicily]. Last weekend we played… um, it was pretty mental… we played in Australia on the Friday and Japan on the Sunday, and no-one really managed to get any sleep on the Saturday, so it wasn't the most fun trying to play when everyone was tired. I think they were similar time zones though, so it was a bit better. It's been good being busy, but it's definitely been quite tiring as well.
ILM: I can imagine! So you had more time to recharge before last night?
Stuart: Yeah, in fact, I slept for fourteen hours! I don't think I've ever managed to do that! It's like when you've been pushing your luck a bit, and you're body just says "no, I need to be stationary for a long time."
ILM: What have been some of the stand-out dates from this year?
Stuart: Um, I'm trying to think… My mind goes blank when I get asked a question like that! Well, last night was really good. Right at the start we did a gig in Tokyo, where we played the whole album from start to end, which was really good. It kind of forced us to learn all the songs, which meant that we could play more than usual.
ILM: You were at the Roundhouse recently, how was that?
Stuart: Yeah that was good actually. That was interesting because it was part of the iTunes thing, and I guess there were quite a lot of people there that had never seen us before. So it felt halfway between a gig and a festival. It was definitely good. The best festival we did was Dour in Belgium. Laughably, we were on inbetween Ice Cube and Pulp! It went really well though; that was a good one.
ILM: You guys have been playing together since the mid-nineties. With all that experience of playing live, what's your approach to a Mogwai live show now?
Stuart: The basics are the most important thing, like just making sure everything's working! It's quite nice if it's dark. Playing in the afternoon doesn't always work that well with us, because we don't tend to move around or anything. If it's dark at least you can have flashing lights to kind of detract from that fact! In terms of the set list we really just do what we enjoy playing. I'm sure you could ask people that have seen us a lot of times and they'd probably have a load of complaints; they'd rather we didn't play certain songs, or played some more obscure songs more often. We just tend to play quite a lot of new songs. We hope you're not sick of them yet! Just the ones we've been having fun playing, or that have been sounding really good.
ILM: How do you approach writing new material?
Stuart: All of us apart from Martin (who writes all the drums to be fair) write songs in our own houses. Depending on what member it is some of us will give the demos almost completely finished, while others – including me because I'm a lazy git – like to give them really rough. Then we all just get together and play them until they sound like a song. It's probably the same as every other band to be honest, I'd imagine.
ILM: Has it evolved over the years?
Stuart: Things have changed because of technology. I mean, years ago you would have to do it on a 4-track, which would be pretty basic. Now we've all got computers things can get quite a lot more detailed. You can actually do the arrangements as well. The essential part of all coming together and writing songs hasn't changed, but the intricacies have. We're not like Aerosmith, we don't get other people to do it for us now that we're famous! We're not even famous!
ILM: The Earth Division EP is due out the 12th of September. Could tell us a bit about that?
Stuart: We recorded that at the same time as the album. I think we always felt it fitted together, rather than along with the other songs. So we just put them together. They're more string orientated and more subdued. They're quite…sparse. It's a nice little record I think, I'm really happy with it.
ILM: You wrote the track Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain) for Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolais' art installation. How did that work; how did you hook up, was there a brief?
Stuart: We'd already done something with Douglas for the Zidane film [Zidane; A 21st Century Portrait], and he just left us alone to do it, which was one of the reasons we were so keen to do it again. He's got a lot of respect for what we do, and us also for him. The music was written by Barry, so I couldn't really go into how he approached it. But, I guess Barry just thought about what would be a good piece of music to listen to whilst you were walking around the setting where he knew the installation would be. Initially we hadn't seen the installation because it hadn't been built yet, but we'd been to where it was going to be. We were told it was going to play on a loop the whole time and we knew it had to be quite long in case someone wanted to hang about there for a while and not get too bored!
ILM: Did you get to go there and experience it at all?
Stuart: No, by the time they finished it we had started the tour. Although we are playing some gigs in Germany in November, maybe we'll play near it. But we'd started playing by the time they'd actually finished.
ILM: You also worked with Clint Mansell on the soundtrack to The Fountain. What was that like?
Stuart: I mean, we didn't write any of the soundtrack, we just played on it. We were just sent the music to learn. I'm sure the music was written with us in mind, but it wasn't our music. Clint came up to Glasgow and we spent a week in the studio, around about Christmas. We ate a lot of curry…it was good fun!
ILM: On a slightly different note, you played Late Night with Jimmy Fallon recently. What was it like playing on such a huge American TV show?
Stuart: That was good fun actually. I really like the comedy show 30 Rock. It's set in that building. It's set at a fictional Saturday Night Live type show. It was really surreal because it felt like we were walking around the set of a comedy show that I like. Yeah, it was nice… It was really different for us; we've never done anything like that. We did one song on a French TV Show, but it was a long, long time ago, and obviously Europe and America are miles apart in every sense. But yeah it was good; everyone was really nice to us. It's kind of funny because I'm sure we are a lot louder than most bands, so I think the people in the audience didn't quite know what to expect.
ILM: On the clip the people stood behind you were rocking out...
Stuart: Yeah, if you look carefully they kind of start like that and then they start to look a bit bemused!
ILM: Things have changed a massive amount since the release of your first album, what with the digital revolution. How, if at all, have those changes affected you and the way you've released your music?
Stuart: It's hard to say because all of these things have been quite gradual. It's incredible if you think about how different the music industry is now than when it started. I don't know, I don't think it's affected us adversely. People don't sell as many records, but I think that's probably counteracted by the fact that it's more expensive to go and see gigs now. I don't think there's any harm in that. It's good to be able to get to talk directly to people that like your band. In the past falling out of favour with the music press could really isolate a band. I don't know if we have fallen out of favour with the music press, but if we did it wouldn't be an issue; people would still be able to know when we have a record coming out, that kind of thing. It's almost all positive change. The only worrying thing – and its not even generally to do with us because I think we're doing okay – is that a lot of young people don't think that they should pay for music. That's going to cause a lot of problems. People can't make music unless they can afford to do it, and if no-one's paying for music then there's a big hole in the system. That's an issue, but that's probably a bigger conversation.
ILM: What have you been listening to recently?
Stuart: I listen to quite a lot of hip hop to be honest. Old and new, I suppose. I listen to quite a lot of Public Enemy. I like a lot of stuff on the Triangle label, like Clams Casino. And old blues records as well, that's another thing I listen to quite a lot of.
ILM: Do you have a big record collection at home?
Stuart: Yeah, I've got a ridiculous record collection!
ILM: Vinyl or CDs…?
Stuart: Well, I've got a lot of CDs, but it's vinyl that I've actually bothered with collecting. I accumulate CDs rather than collect them.
ILM: What was the last record you bought?
Stuart: The last record I bought wasn't for me. When I was in Tokyo I bought a Godzilla soundtrack album for my girlfriend, just because it had a really amazing cover!
ILM: Do you tend to go to record shops wherever you end up staying/visiting? Where are some of the best that you've been to?
Stuart: The best record shop that I've been to was in Pittsburgh. I don't think it was in the town of Pittsburgh, I think we were playing in a little weird suburb. But it had so many records in it… it had an entire room just full of girl group 45s. It was just amazing, it was so good. I spent a fortune there!
ILM: Speaking of collections, what's your collection of guitars and pedals like?
Stuart: Errr, I don't actually know how many I have! Quite a lot. My favourite guitars are Fender Coronados, which kind of look like a Gibson 335. They only made them for a few years. I've got a couple of those. A lot of my guitars I don't take on tour because I'm worried that someone will lose them! But yeah, they're my favourite guitars. John is more of a guitar connoisseur than me. He's got some really good guitars. And Dominic actually, he's got a lot of basses. He's got more basses than most people.
ILM: How many has he got?
Stuart: How many basses is a lot? I don't know exactly, but I suspect Dominic has ten basses.
ILM: Right, that's ten more than I've got, so…
Stuart: Yeah, it's probably quite a few more than most bass players have got! They're all really good though. He doesn't have lots for the sake of it, but that's quite a few.
ILM: Do you still have your first guitar?
Stuart: I don't have the very first one I ever owned, but the one I play all the time is the first good guitar that I ever got, when I was fifteen or something. A blue Telecaster, which is the one I play most of the time. I think I gave away that first one, just to a relative that wanted to learn the guitar or something.
ILM: Have you seen any live shows or bands recently that have captured your attention?
Stuart: I've seen a lot of good bands during the festival season. We played with Mount Kimbie last night, they were really good. Low were amazing at OFF Festival in Poland. At Fuji Rocks I saw Envy, whose records we put out, but I don't get to see too often cos they're in Japan. They were great.
ILM: How about the most memorable live shows that you've seen?
Stuart: Ever!?
ILM: Not necessarily just one!
Stuart: Well, the best live show I ever saw was by The Cramps. It was at a festival in Madrid. It was amazing. The Cramps were always really good, but there was something about this one that was just absolutely brilliant.
ILM: Having got to the stage that you have, what would be your advice to aspiring musicians about making music and being involved with the music industry?
Stuart: I think probably the best advice is just to do what you want to do, and obviously do it as well as you can. Most of the bands and musicians that I know that have made mistakes have been told to do those things by someone else. Usually if you stick to what you think is a good idea then things will pan out okay.
ILM: What can we expect from Mogwai over the next months?
Stuart: We've got a plan to do another soundtrack early next year. Then I think our tour will start to wind down a little bit. Maybe we'll do a little bit more next spring, maybe a little bit next summer. Then I think we'll probably need a big break! Then we'll have a think about what we're doing next. We definitely don't have any plans for a new album or anything. It takes us quite a long time to write, and we don't really write when we're on tour, so I think we'll need to take a break first and just have a think about what we're going to do.
ILM: Can you tell us any more about the soundtrack, or is that under lock and key at the moment?
Stuart: I don't want to say too much about it because the people making the film would probably rather make the announcement. But yeah, it's something we're looking forward to…!


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How about aiding the whole system with active clamp circuit like LTC4366? By ...
Surge protection—Stop fried electronics
Mike Fahrion, B&B Electronics
This ground connection is crucial for proper operation, providing a shunt path for excess energy as well as a ground reference at the same potential as the host. In most cases, this means the ground connection should be made from the surge suppressor directly to the chassis of the host device. The impedance of the ground connection is critical. The voltage presented to the data port is equal to the clamping voltage of the surge suppression device plus the voltage drop in the suppressor's ground path to the node being protected. Any voltage drop in the ground connection will effectively increase the clamping voltage seen at the data port. Transient currents can be very large, with magnitudes measured in thousands of amps. At these current levels, the DC voltage drop (I X R) can be very large.
For example, 6 feet of 18AWG wire has approximately .039 Ω resistance. Although this initially appears to be a good ground connection, calculating I X R with a 3000 amp transient yields a voltage of 117 volts across the ground wire – enough to destroy any data port. To make matters worse, at the frequencies illustrated in Figures 1-3, the inductance of the ground wire causes an additional voltage drop that can be much higher than the I X R voltage drop. To minimize this voltage drop the ground connection should be made with heavy gauge wire and kept as short as possible. If the cable must be longer than one meter, braided cable intended for grounding purposes must be used.
Selecting a Surge Suppression Device
Two basic types of surge suppression products are available as illustrated in Figure 4. In either case, the system designer should consider the clamping voltage of the unit as well as its physical attributes, such as connector type and method of making the grounding connection.
Single Stage Devices
The most common device uses a single TVS or MOV for each protected line. This type of unit is usually small and inexpensive. If a proper ground connection is made, they should offer protection against most transients. A disadvantage of this device is that if a large transient damages one or more of the components there often is no indication that the unit has failed, leaving the node unprotected against future transients.
Three Stage Devices
More advanced units use three components on each protected line to handle much larger surge currents and to provide internal self protection, reducing the risk of undetected failures. The first stage is a gas discharge tube; this stage can shunt very large currents, but is slow reacting and requires a relatively large voltage before conduction begins. The second stage is series impedance; this stage limits the current flowing into the final stage of the circuit. Finally, a TVS device clamps at a voltage acceptable for the data port and maintains the clamp until the gas discharge tube begins conduction.
Protecting a system against transients with surge suppression requires attention to the selection as well as the installation of the suppression device. Any surge suppressor can be rendered ineffective if proper grounding techniques are not carefully followed. Confronting these issues early in the system design can reduce potentially time and money consuming problems before they occur.
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Mike Fahrion, director of product management at B&B Electronics is an expert in data communications with 20 years of design and application experience. He oversees development of the company's rugged M2M connectivity solutions for wireless and wired networks based on serial, Ethernet, wireless and USB communication technology. Fahrion has particular experience in reliable connectivity solutions for devices deployed at the "edge" of networks in remote, harsh or uncontrolled environments. He is a speaker and widely published author. He holds a BSEE from Iowa State University.
The article mentions 8/20 surge pulses as 8ms/20ms. That's wrong. The time scale is in microseconds. A pulse of 8kV with 20ms decay is a *very* large energy. TVSes are capable of absorbing power up to 400~5000W, depending on the model, but a 20ms pulse would require a much larger device.
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Great catch Jonny - the mu symbol in the text got lost in the web translation. We'll get that corrected.
Sorry, I didn't catch the change in the translation. It is fixed now. Thanks for letting us know.
David Ashton
While you're fixing stuff Carolyn, on page 2 2nd para is: "6 feet of 18AWG wire has approximately .039 W resistance." W should of course be the ohms symbol - which is Capital W in Symbol Font.
Surge? "An uninterrupted voltage increase that lasts more than a few seconds is usually called a "voltage surge" rather than a spike."
Nice article about Transient protection, what about the surges. Try 150% for 1/2S (with a profile). Now thats a surge.
Personnally, I like my circuits fried with a touch of tobasco sauce.
Seriously, you need to put protection on all of your inputs or pay the consequences. Regardless of surge or spike, over voltage destroys semiconductors in femtoseconds.
Anyone remember the old UV erasable proms? I could destroy one from five feet away just from the static charge I would build up walking over the tile floor.
Zaap! It's done.
Only thing missing is an inductor in place of or in series with the resistor. Allows for much more energy withstand. fulcrums energy from (referenced in voltage)shunt protection downstream to GDT via inductor voltage rise due to di/dt. Care must be taken to not saturate core, air gap recommended.
I have found that allowing the entire voltage supply (including 0 Volts) to float enables the circuit to float around any surge/spike.
In this case, there are a number of capacitors connecting various voltages, inputs and outputs to the real ground.
A device I use lots of is the good old Pi Filter (or capacitor input filter) on every power supply rail, input and output, along with extra series inductors - everywhere.
To date, I have protected uProcessors, and low voltage electronics (5 Volt, 12 Volt) successfully against voltage discharges around the 8 MV mark (we have electronics inside an Ion Accelerator).
Warning - do not use MOVs as when they fail, they fail short which will require replacement. Use protective devices that are self recovering so the protective components do not become part of the problem.
David Ashton
Point taken about MOVs, but they are capable of absorbing a LOT of energy, even if they fail shorted. I used to live in Zimbabwe, which has bad lightning during the summer. A company I dealt with there used big MOVs in their mains surge arrestors and they worked a treat. Better to replace a $ 35 mains surge protector than a TV/Video installation.
Same company did some tests and found that a knot in the 3-core mains supply cable provided a lot of protection as well - added inductance. I used to knot all my cables after that and never had a problem with my mains inputs.
Good. Is there any difference between putting 2 unidirectional TVS and a single bidirectional TVS? I usually use 2 uniderectional but frankly have no idea if a single bidirectional has poorer. Agree also to add air core inductor in series with the resistor,
GREAT-Terry, A Bidirectional TVS is matched to provide performance in both directions - equally. A pair of Unidirectional TVS will provide protection but will not necessarily be matched to balance the intrusion levels either side of your supply or common rails.
David Ashton, fair comment on the MOV front - our particular application is inside a pressure vessel and it takes a bit over a day to pump out the gas (SF6), purge and put in walkways to access the electronics. MOVs do work but are not appropriate in our situation.
How about aiding the whole system with active clamp circuit like LTC4366? By using this kind of clamping device, the TVS can be smaller I think.
There is a bit more to it than just shunting off surges/spikes.
The article has addressed the Ohmic requirements, but what about capacitive and inductive effects.
Depending on cable lengths, there will be some considerable capacitive coupling between conductors for the duration of the surge/spike.
Also multiple conductors (presumably in the same cable/conduit/duct) will suffer from inductive coupling similar to a transformer - after all we are dealing with a changing Voltage/Current waveform i.e. ac - but only for restricted cycles (hopefully only one).
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Due to high demand the website is having problems..
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Dr. Rich Swier sees the bayfront sculpture of a kissing sailor and nurse as timeless.
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Brenda Terris, executive director of Sarasota Season of Sculpture, joined Swier in asking commissioners for their support. She said that a week before the donor came forward, she had received approval from the Sarasota Public Art Committee to move the sculpture to Ken Thompson Park because the bayfront lease was expiring.
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Terris said it is the most popular piece of art Season of Sculpture has ever brought to Sarasota.
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Aamir Siddiqi: Hitmen Guilty Of Teen's Murder
Two hitmen who managed to kill the wrong person have been found guilty of murder.
Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were convicted of the murder of talented student Aamir Siddiqi.
Aamir, 17, was savagely stabbed to death by the pair after opening the door of his family home in Roath, Cardiff.
Prosecutors said drug users Hope and Richards had been paid £1,000 each to kill a local businessman who was involved in a property dispute.
They planned to carry out the "hit" at lunchtime on Sunday, April 11, 2010 and went to the house they believed belonged to the businessman.
Their intended target lived on Shirley Road in an affluent part of the city, instead they went to Ninian Road - the adjacent street.
As he was expecting his Koran teacher to call Aamir opened the door of his parents' home. Within seconds the masked men started attacking him with a knife.
They said nothing during the attack and the court heard how they made strange "howling noises".
Aamir's parents rushed to the front door and desperately tried to pull the men off their son.
Both parents were injured in the attack but they could not save their son, who had suffered fatal injuries.
Shortly after the killing both defendants went shopping with their blood money.
Richards bought a new pair of trainers and a laptop computer.
Outside the court, Aamir's sister Miriam read a statement from her family.
"We are pleased today that justice has finally been done and we can finally start to deal with the reality of losing Aamir," she said.
South Wales Police scoured an enormous amount of CCTV in their murder investigation.
If officers had viewed every frame they collected it would have taken eight years to watch.
A man who is still wanted in connection with the investigation is still waiting to be extradited from India.
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what do you think?
Neil C
Jaw dropping :O( Poor young man and family, very very sad. We should have one outcome with this, but we will give them food and shelter.
Whoever gave a thumbs down...U should be ashamed of yourself u obv have no heart...
Louisa Gieldon
But maybe they gave a thumbs down because they don't believe in capital punishment and Neil's post seems to be calling for that. I don't support it but i still think this was a very sad and despicable incident.
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Louisa Gieldon
It's Christos, Dr M - he haunts these here parts, being bumped off and returning under different names every now and then!
Vladtheinhaler .
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Hitmen will soon have to provide references! What a pair of prize numpties!
Modern Britain!
come on u dogooding idiots ..stop all this human rights c^^^p HANG THEM ALL I WILL TAKE THE JOB AND ENJOY IT
Well said!
Louisa Gieldon
Human rights are not "c,rap" David. You may not agree with all of them but if you would honestly rather live in a country where people's human rights are not recognised, then take your pick-there are plenty to choose from!
Vladtheinhaler .
Louisa, it's people like you who have let this country degenerate into the lawless society we have today. If the proper sentences for murder were given , instead of a life in prison, being fed and pampered, maybe these two clowns would have had second thoughts before killing an innocent young man. What about his human rights. Your idea of human rights, as set down by all you do gooders , is to slap em on the wrist, and give them a few years of dodgy food. !!!
Louisa Gieldon
Vlad - i believe in punishment, but i also believe in rehabilitation and personal atonement. You believe in Capital punishment and i do not. I am always up to debate this and welcome a good discussion. But please don't stereotype me and be so rude as to presume that I have no moral compass and encourage criminal activity. You don't know me and if you did you would now how much i loathe cruelty, ignorance and inconsideration. Just because i don't use cheap tabloid language should not be a reason for you to be so rude to me and my opinions. I believe in human rights, for you me and everyone else but that does not mean i approve of criminal activity and wickedness.
Louisa Gieldon
And i would say to you Vlad, as i did to David - there are many countries where human rights are not recognised. I do not think you would wish to live in those countries. If human rights are not respected, then sooner or later we will all suffer.
Louisa Gieldon
And David. if you would enjoy the job of public executioner, then it'd definitely not for you. If you really want to kill people there are employment opportunities all over the world
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marc H
A life for a life. These yobs know they will be out in ten years,having spent them in comfort and relying on their 'human rights' which they calously denied their victim. Im ashamed to be British.
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Louisa Gieldon
Mushtacq if capital punishment is such a deterrent then why do people still murder each other in countries who still use execution as a punishment? It doesn't deter, it's used as revenge and taking more lives never brought any victim back.
Louisa Gieldon
This was a terribly sad crime and the brutality of killing someone you don't even know, for a fee, is so disgusting. To think of that boy just opening his own front door before he was murdered! He is the same age as my youngest and i can only imagine what his family must be feeling. Saw them on tv earlier and they all seemed like a nice family, so sorry for their terrible loss.
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Louisa Gieldon
And i understand the plight of the Afghani people, who have seen their children killed, their country torn apart and the smiles taken from the faces of their women by nearly thirty five years of tyranny. The names of the oppressors change but the country had been reduced to a stone age condition by evil and power hungry men. So don't preach to me my friend! I can still comment on an individual tragedy.
I just watched his sister talking on the news, while leaving court. His family seems so quiet and dignified even now. I admire them greatly - I don't think I could be so civil.
Louisa Gieldon
They were nice, weren't they. Poor people and they said such beautiful things about their boy!
marc H
Tragic but this is Britain, there is no sharia law.
Alex Thompson
That is a good thing
What a cynical comment
stevie may
A thousand pounds for a contract? Bit cheap. . The usual underworld price for a 'full stop' is ten G. No wonder the murderers were incompetants.
Alex Thompson
How would you know how much a hitman usually charges
Lorgar Aurelian
Stevie is quite right. 10k minimum is what a professional hit would cost. It ain't rocket to know that a 2k contract is stupidly cheap. But then that's junkies for you. Nothing said about the person who took out the contract either.
Alex Thompson
Like I said how would you know how much a hit costs or even if 10k is the minimum price, I haven't seen many adverts and price guides on the internet lately.
stevie may
You dont need to be a contract killer to know the market price for a fullstop. I'm not an astronaut but I know how much the International Space Station cost.
Alex Thompson
Steve the cost of the space station is widely available to look up, hit men don't advertise on the internet and you have no real idea what they charge.
Louisa Gieldon
While having no "ondider" knowledge as to how much a "hit" usually costs, I did think it was rather cheap and that made me think they were not "professionals" in their field, if you know what i mean. The fee and the ineptitude points to a couple of petty criminals.
Louisa Gieldon
Sorry! "ondider" should read as "insider"!
stevie may
Yes I do Alex. . . Its 10G. Any other questions in life that outreach your knowledge? Oh! That many. . .?
Alex Thompson
Stevie you have no real idea or clue how much the minimum charge is so stop digging yourself further into a hole.
stevie may
Still 10 G minimum for a full stop Alex. . No need to get narky because other people know things that you dont. . .
Alex Thompson
Not narky Stevie because you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Its easy to make claims on a news forum but it doesn't make them true or accurate. Its obvious they were amateur by the price but that does not mean a pro charges 10G minimum.
stevie may
Made a point that others have agreed with. . Youve been banging on and on but offer no alternate to the thing you dont know about. So just because you dont know something, nobody else can? Look on the internet for previous convictions of contract killers and see how much they were paid. Going rate 10G. Happy now? Like trying to educate a child talking to you. Live your own life and stop leeching off others. .
Alex Thompson
Are you getting upset because you are clearly wrong Stevie so now you resort to petty insults, that just shows a lack of intellect. Funnily enough when I have read reports of this kind of crime in the past the price is usually alot higher, 10G is not really enough money to risk life in jail or execution in some countries. Also I didn't say I don't know anything I merely said you are wrong and just making wild statements on here in some attempt to impress people. Maybe you should stop acting like a child
shaun spencer
Id like to know who took out the contract.and why they also havent been caught.
Nitin patil
England following America
chris buckingham
This is horrific in many ways. The price of a life being £2000 and the fact that they went shopping straight after. There doesn't seem to have been any assurance on the research or the fact that the job had even been done properly. Very scary based on the facts presented. All I can say is re open the Tower. These druggie wasters are oxygen thieves who do not deserve to do just 10 years a piece in independent lodging with a playstation and tv. Hang these creatures. If they treat life so cheaply moving from drug fix to drug fix then they should be removed from the social bill.
Louisa Gieldon
Chris, where does the article mention "druggies" or drug use?
Diane Rogers
News said they were both high as kites,if my suggestion what to do with druggies was done this lad may still be alive
Well said chris.......not only are they a waste of oxygen, they also contaminate the human gene pool.
Louisa Gieldon
What news said that? Just asking so don't read any more into it than that D.
Diane Rogers
Sky news BBC news and think papers
Louisa Gieldon
I read some other articles and saw that they were long term drug users with a violent past. It is wrong to suggest that all drug users/addicts would behave in this way. Take the drugs out the equation amd you still have a couple of brutal and unfeeling men. I know many drug users who would b offended and horrified ay the suggeation that they were capable of such a crime
Nigel L
Keep up orange many of todays " News" items are days old
Gary W Beard
no noose is bad news
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Tarptent Sublite (Tyvek) 2010. Good condition, seam-sealed with Tarptent glue
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2013 William L. Davis, S.J., Lecture:
"Father Peter De Smet or Father Joseph Cataldo: Who is the Founder of Jesuit Education in the Pacific Northwest"
Presented by Dr. Robert Carriker
April 10, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Jepson Center, Wolff Auditorium
Historians have made their choice: Father Peter De Smet is celebrated in books, articles and museum exhibits as the pioneer missionary who brought the Jesuit presence to the inland Northwest. Father Joseph Cataldo has his admirers, too. Cataldo established Gonzaga College and, in addition, he stabilized Indian education at six Jesuit mission stations, initiated another four Indian missions, and re-opened two Rocky Mountain Missions that had previously been closed. De Smet has a deservedly excellent image and reputation among historians, but Cataldo may be the real "Jesuit educator" for the Pacific Northwest.
Robert Carriker is the Alphonse and Geraldine Arnold Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University where he has taught for forty-five years. He is a biographer and has edited and published two documentary collections on Pacific Northwest Jesuit missions and missionaries for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol #
.[1][2] It is a form of metadata tag. Short messages on microblogging social networking services such as Twitter, Tout, identi.ca, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr or Google+ may be tagged by including one or more with multiple words concatenated, e.g.:
- #Wikipedia is an #encyclopedia
Hashtags provide a means of grouping such messages, since one can search for the hashtag and get the set of messages that contain it.
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Origin [edit]
Hashtags first appeared and were used within IRC networks to label groups and topics. They are also used to mark individual messages as relevant to a particular group, and to mark individual messages as belonging to a particular topic or "channel". Generally, channels or topics that are available across an entire IRC network are prepended with a hash symbol # (as opposed to those local to a server, which use an ampersand '&'). Hashtags' popularity grew concurrently with the rise and popularity of Twitter. It inspired Chris Messina to propose a similar system to be used on Twitter to tag topics of interest on the microblogging network.[3] He posted the alleged first post on Twitter to include what would become the "hashtag":
" | how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? | " |
—Chris Messina, ("factoryjoe"), August 23, 2007[4] |
The first high-profile application of the hashtag was by San Diego, California resident Nate Ritter,[5] who included #sandiegofire in his frequent posts on the October 2007 California wildfires hitting San Diego County. Internationally, the hashtag became a practice of writing style for Twitter posts during the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, as both English and Persian-language hashtags became useful for Twitter users inside and outside of Iran.
The first use of the term "hash tag" for Messina's "#barcamp" notation was in a blog post by Stowe Boyd, Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings, on 26 August 2007, according to lexicographer Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society's New Words Committee.
Beginning July 1, 2009, Twitter began to hyperlink all hashtags to search results containing all recent posts mentioning either the hashtag or the standard spelling of such words, provided that such words are written in the same order of characters. This was accentuated in 2010 with the introduction of "Trending Topics" on the Twitter front page, as highly trafficked hashtags are featured as Trending Topics.
Function [edit]
Hashtags are mostly used as unmoderated ad-hoc discussion forums; any combination of characters led by a hash sign is a hashtag, and any hashtag, if promoted by enough individuals, can "trend" and attract more individual users to discussion using the hashtag. On Twitter, when a hashtag becomes extremely popular, it will appear in the "Trending Topics" area of a user's homepage. The trending topics can be organized by geographic area or by all of Twitter. Hashtags are neither registered nor controlled by any one user or group of users, and neither can they be "retired" from public usage, meaning that hashtags can be used in theoretical perpetuity depending upon the longevity of the word or set of characters in a written language. They also do not contain any set definitions, meaning that a single hashtag can be used for any number of purposes as espoused by those who make use of them.
Because of their loose nature, hashtags often become more recognized as associated with particular topics of discussion based upon a more specific spelling of the hashtag (e.g., "#cake" as opposed to "#thecakeisalie") that will be differentiated from a more general spelling. However, this can also make it difficult for topics to become "trending topics" because people often use different spelling or words to refer to the same topic. In order for topics to trend, there has to be a consensus, whether silent or stated, that the hashtag refers to that specific topic.
Hashtags also function as beacons in order for users to find and "follow" (subscribe) or "list" (organize into public contact lists) other users of similar interest.
Hashtags can be used on the social network Instagram, by posting pictures and hashtagging it with its subject. As an example, a photo of you and a friend posted to the social network can be hashtagged #bffl or #friends.
Hashtags are also used informally to express context around a given message, with no intent to actually categorize the message for later searching, sharing, or other reasons. This can help express humor, excitement, sadness or other contextual cues, for example, "Just found out my mom is my health teacher. #awkward" or "It's Monday!! #excited #sarcasm"
Use outside of social networking websites [edit]
The feature has been added to other, non-short-message-oriented services, such as the user comment systems on YouTube and Gawker Media; in the case of the latter, hashtags for blog comments and directly submitted comments are used to maintain a more constant rate of user activity even when paid employees are not logged into the website.[6][7] Real-time search aggregators such as the former Google Real-Time Search and Tagboard also support hashtags in syndicated posts, meaning that hashtags inserted into Twitter posts can be hyperlinked to incoming posts falling under that same hashtag; this has further enabled a view of the "river" of Twitter posts which can result from search terms or hashtags. Tagboard is a service which provides a unique, visual aggregate landing page for hashtags used on social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram.[citation needed]
Websites that support hashtags [edit]
- Diaspora software and social network
- All Gawker Media websites
- FriendFeed (since 2009)
- Google+
- Orkut[8]
- Sina Weibo
- Tout
- Tumblr
- Twitter (since 2009)
- YouTube (2009–2011)
- Kickstarter (2012–present, to be used in projects)
- Fetchnotes (2012–present)
- Waywire
- Facebook (upcoming)
- Sandglaz (2011-present)
Application [edit]
Memes [edit]
One phenomenon specific to the Twitter system are micro-memes, which are emergent topics for which a hashtag is created, used widely for a few days, then disappears.[9] These hashtags also show up in a number of trending topics websites, including Twitter's own front page.
Definitions for some hashtags are available at hashtag.org. Other sites, such as hashable.com, have adopted the hashtag to use for other reasons.
Promotion [edit]
The hashtag phenomenon has also been harvested for advertisement, promotion and contingency coordination. Most larger organizations will only focus on one or a small number of hashtags. However some individuals and organizations use a large number of hashtags to emphasise the broad range of concepts in which they are interested. The decision on whether to specialise in particular hashtags or promote a range depends on the marketing strategy of those involved.
Mass broadcast media [edit]
Since 2010, television series on various television channels promote themselves through "branded" hashtag bugs.[10] This is used as a means of promoting a backchannel of online side-discussion before, during and after an episode broadcast. Hashtag bugs appear on either corner of the screen, or they may appear at the end of an advertisement[11] (for example, a motion picture trailer).
While personalities associated with broadcasts, such as hosts and correspondents, also promote their corporate or personal Twitter usernames in order to receive mentions and replies to posts, usage of related or "branded" hashtags alongside Twitter usernames (e.g., #edshow as well as @edshow) is increasingly encouraged as a microblogging style in order to "trend" the hashtag (and, hence, the discussion topic) in Twitter and other search engines. Broadcasters also make use of such a style in order to index select posts for live broadcast. Chloe Sladden, Twitter's director of media partnerships, identified two types of television-formatted usage of hashtags: hashtags which identify a series being broadcast (i.e. #SunnyFX) and instantaneous, "temporary" hashtags issued by television personalities to gauge topical responses from viewers during broadcasts.[12]
Event promotion [edit]
Organized real-world events have also made use of hashtags and ad-hoc lists for discussion and promotion among participants. Hashtags are used as beacons by event participants in order to find each other on both Twitter and, in many cases, in real life during events.
Companies and advocacy organizations have taken advantage of hashtag-based discussions for promotion of their products, services or campaigns.
Political protests and campaigns in the early 2010s, such as #OccupyWallStreet and #LibyaFeb17, have been organized around hashtags or have made extensive usage of hashtags for the promotion of discussion.
Consumer complaints [edit]
Hashtags are often used by consumers on social media platforms in order to complain about the customer service experience with large companies. The term "bashtag" has been created to describe situations in which a corporate social media hashtag is used to criticise the company or to tell others about poor customer service. For example, in January 2012, McDonald's created the #McDStories hashtag so customers could share positive experiences about the restaurant chain. The marketing effort was cancelled after just two hours when McDonald's received numerous complaint tweets rather than the positive stories they were expecting.[13]
In popular culture [edit]
During the April 2011 Canadian party leader debate, then-leader of the New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, referred to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's crime policies as "a hashtag fail" (presumably "#Fail").[14][15]
References [edit]
- ^ Hashtags (sic) at the Twitter Fan Wiki. Retrieved on June 2, 2009.
- ^ Tags at the identi.ca documentation. Retrieved on June 24, 2009.
- ^ Parker, Ashley (June 10, 2011). "Twitter's Secret Handshake". The New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
- ^ Chris Messina ("factoryjoe") (August 23, 2007). "Twitter post".
- ^ Nate Ritter (October 23, 2007). "Helping People Everywhere Through the San Diego Fires".
- ^ Gabriel Snyder (Oct 15, 2009). "Anarchy in the Machine: Welcome to Gawker's Open Forums". Gawker.
- ^ Zachary M. Seward (Oct. 15, 2009 / 8 a.m.). "Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting "chaos"". Nieman Journalism Lab.
- ^ Marco Wisniewski (Monday, February 06, 2012, 6:11 PM). "Hashtags in Orkut communities". Orkut.
- ^ Jeff Huang, Katherine M. Thornton, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis (2010). "Conversational Tagging in Twitter". Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT '10).
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