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The payout for 1000 views-$10
Minimum payout-$1
Referral commission-22%
Payment methods-PayPal, Payza, Bitcoin, Skrill, Western Union and Moneygram etc.
It is a new URL shortener website.Its CPM rate is good.You can sign up for free and shorten your URL and that shortener URL can be paste on your websites, blogs or social media networking sites.bit-url.com pays $8.10 for 1000 views. You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $3.bit-url.com offers 20% commission for your referral link.Payment methods are PayPal, Payza, Payeer, and Flexy etc.
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Short.am provides a big opportunity for earning money by shortening links. It is a rapidly growing URL Shortening Service. You simply need to sign up and start shrinking links. You can share the shortened links across the web, on your webpage, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Short.am provides detailed statistics and easy-to-use API. It even provides add-ons and plugins so that you can monetize your WordPress site. The minimum payout is $5 before you will be paid. It pays users via PayPal or Payoneer. It has the best market payout rates, offering unparalleled revenue. Short.am also run a referral program wherein you can earn 20% extra commission for life.
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Linkrex.net is one of the new URL shortener sites.You can trust it.It is paying and is a legit site.It offers high CPM rate.You can earn money by sing up to linkrex and shorten your URL link and paste it anywhere.You can paste it in your website or blog.You can paste it into social media networking sites like facebook, twitter or google plus etc. You will be paid whenever anyone will click on that shorten a link.You can earn more than $15 for 1000 views.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.Another way of earning from this site is to refer other people.You can earn 25% as a referral commission.
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Title: Utopia 9 - A Volatile Vacation Developer: Whalegun Publisher: QubicGames Genre: Action, Shoot-'Em-Up, Top-Down Price: $9.99 Also Available On: Steam Mana Spark publisher QubicGames is back, this time with a twin-stick-shooter offering that showcases its versatility and knack for injecting humor in frenetic gaming. The premise is simple enough: Intent on taking a break from humdrum work, you get hooked by a red-eye television advertisement and arrange a stay at a tourist resort on another planet that promises you a heavenly time. Once there, though, you're instead treated to a continual dose of hell that compels you to file a formal complaint with the travel agency you booked your trip with.
And this is where Utopia 9 - A Volatile Vacation offers up its quirky version of fun in roguelike fashion. Even as you begin with just your trusty suitcase as your melee weapon, you get to build your arsenal over time. Level progression is straightforward, with combat occurring largely in open space. Optional entry into structures can yield useful items, but opens you up to greater risk. Because controls can be forgiving, death should be expected. Fortunately, the game tries to balance the challenges with its nemesis system, which allows you to regain the weapons hoard you accumulated by killing the exact same enemy that previously did you in. Still, the gameplay leans toward the difficult, and not always for the right reasons. The top-down look helps, and the soundtrack keeps the tone light.
THE GOOD
Environment and character designs jibe with uniqueness of premise and presentation
Extremely challenging but fair
Procedurally generated maps add to unpredictability
THE BAD
Little to no story to drive gameplay forward
Controls are unforgiving at best
Death is unavoidable, and doesn't always help with experience
I had big plans for filling this blog with a wide variety of posts this year. Obviously, that has yet to happen so far. Real life reared its' ugly head and I got sidetracked. First, we moved and the unlimited high-speed internet that we've had for the last 3 years and were assured would be available in our new location WAS NOT available after all. We have Internet and it's plenty fast but it's restricted. Second, I'm on the executive board of the local UAW 5010 and things have gotten pretty time-consuming in the last 6 months; it's required a lot of extra work but things are looking up in our plant now. Third, my wife had a cancer scare that I'm glad to say she made it out in the clear. I picked up a bunch of the slack around here with the kids, chores, and other duties while she was going through tests and getting everything in control. She'll be going to a hematologist and will be on some supplements for a while but she doesn't have cancer.
I will ease back into posting sometime soon but it will probably just be once or twice a week from this point on. If Jamie Hardy would like to contribute more posts in the future then I would definitely be up for that. I asked him for some guest posts and then all of this real life stuff accumulated and I took an unscheduled break on the blog. I appreciate him keeping some new content going here and hope he wants to contribute in the future. Thanks, Jamie!
A few posts to watch for in the future include:
1. More resources and ideas for SteamCraft.
2. Familiar rules for Swords & Wizardry.
3. Incorporating Arneson's old D&D house rules into a retroclone.
Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition PC/Steam Save Game
Tales of Vesperia is a role-playing video game developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the tenth main entry in the Tales series. The story focuses on Yuri Lowell, a former Imperial soldier who forms a guild called Brave Vesperia to aid Estelle, a Child of the Full Moon he encounters on a mission.
Tales of Vesperia Save Game Info:
Unlock All Skits Complete All Secret Missions Raise All Characters to Max Level Fill Out the Collector's Book Completely Fill Out the Monster Book Completely
Tales of Vesperia Save Game Installation:
1. Back up your original save data, in case something wrong happen you can revert to your old data
2. Extract "Tales of Vesperia Save Game.rar" using WinRar
3. Copy the files to: "<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\738540\remote\"
We are excited to kick off the new year with a stable release of Android Studio 3.3 focused on refinement and quality. You can download it today from developer.android.com/studio. Based on the feedback from many of you, we have taken a step back from large features to focus on our quality fundamentals. The goal is to ensure Android Studio continues to help you stay productive in making great apps for Android. Since the last stable release, Android Studio 3.3 addresses over 200 user- reported bugs. This release also includes official support for Navigation Editor, improved incremental Java compilation when using annotation processors, C++ code lint inspections, an updated new project wizard, and usability fixes for each of the performance profilers. In addition, saving snapshots on exit for the Android emulator is 8x faster.
Android Studio 3.3 kicks off the broader quality focus area for the year, which we call Project Marble. Announced at the Android Developer Summit in November 2018, Project Marble is the Android Studio team's focus on making the fundamental features and flows of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) rock-solid, along with refining and polishing the user-facing features that matter to you in your day-to-day app development workflows. In Project Marble, we are specifically looking at reducing the number of crashes, hangs, memory leaks, and user-impacting bugs. We are also investing in our measurement infrastructure to prevent these issues from occurring. Stay tuned for more updates and details as we progress on this initiative.
This release of Android Studio is a solid milestone for the product. If you want the latest in feature refinement and quality, then download Android Studio 3.3 today on the stable release channel. Watch and read below for some of the notable changes and enhancements that you will find in Android Studio 3.3.
Develop
Navigation Editor - The navigation editor is a visual editor which allows you to construct XML resources that support using the new Jetpack Navigation Component. With the Navigation Editor and the Navigation Component, you can build predictable interactions between the screens and content areas of your app. This editor was previewed in an earlier Android Studio release, but based on your feedback we held this feature to improve the quality of the feature. Thank you to the developers who gave us feedback. Learn more.
Navigation Editor
IntelliJ Platform Update - Android Studio 3.3 includes Intellij 2018.2.2. This is a significant platform release from Jetbrains, with new previews for the code editor, updated icons, MacBook Touch Bar support, plus enhanced version control integrations. Learn more.
Kotlin Update - This release of Android Studio bundles Kotlin 1.3.11, with support for Kotlin coroutines and contracts plus IDE support for the recommend Kotlin coding style. Learn more.
Clang-Tidy Support for C++ - Android Studio now has support for Clang-Tidy for C++ static code analysis. Similar to the current lint support for Java and Kotlin in Android Studio, Clang-Tidy helps those who have C++ in their Android app identify common coding errors and bugs. Enable the inspection by going to Settings → Editor → Inspections (Preference → Editor → Inspections for MacOS) . Learn more.
Clang-Tidy Code Inspection Settings
New Project Wizard update - To support the range of device types, programming languages, and new frameworks, we have updated the New Project Wizard for Android Studio. You can access the same project templates in a more streamlined user experience.
New Project Wizard
Delete Unused IDE Directories - To help you upgrade to the newest version of Android Studio, we have added a new feature to help clean up unused settings & cache directories. Past versions of Android Studio left these old directories that were hard to find and remove on your hard drive. When you first run Android Studio 3.3 and higher, the new dialog suggests directories that you can safely remove from past installations of Android Studio.
Delete Unused Directories Dialogue
IDE User Feedback - To help us to create a better product, we have started to include in-product sentiment buttons for quick feedback. For those who opt-in to sharing usage data, feel free to click on the icon that suits your sentiment while using Android Studio. To opt-in to give in-product feedback go to Settings → Appearance & Behavior → System Settings → Data Sharing ( Preferences → Appearance & Behavior → System Settings → Data Sharing for MacOS).
IDE User Feedback
Build
Improved incremental Java compilation when using annotation processor - This update decreases build time by improving support for incremental Java compilation when using annotation processors. The optimization requires Android Gradle plugin 3.3.0 or higher. Learn more.
Lazy task configuration -The plugin uses Gradle's new task creation API to avoid initializing and configuring tasks that are not required to complete the current build (or tasks not on the execution task graph). For example, if you have multiple build variants, such as "release" and "debug" build variants, and you're building the "debug" version of your app, the plugin avoids initializing and configuring tasks for the "release" version of your app. Learn more.
Single-variant project sync - Along with build speed, project sync speed can be a development bottleneck to for those who have large app projects with multiple build variants. In this version of the IDE, you can you can limit syncing to only the active build variant. In order for this optimization to work, your project needs to use Android Gradle plugin 3.3.0 or higher. You can enable this option under the Experimental preferences in Android Studio 3.3.
Single-Variant Project Sync
Android App Bundles now support Instant Apps - You can now build and deploy Google Play Instant experiences from a single Android Studio project, and include them in a single Android App Bundle. Launched last year, the Android App Bundle is the new standard Android app publishing format that you can build with Android Studio. This update streamlines and unifies the build artifacts that you upload to Google Play. Learn more.
Test
Multiple Emulator AVD instances - Android Emulator 28.0 now supports the ability to launch multiple instances of the same Android Virtual Device (AVD). Each instance of the AVD uses a minimal set of system resources. For those developers with continuous integration (CI) testing environments, this can be a convenient way to run tests in parallel off one AVD configuration. On the command line run the following commands:
Android 9 Pie Emulator System Images & Wi-Fi P2P - Alongside Android Studio 3.3, you can also download Android 9 system images for your emulator for your app testing. The Google Play emulator system images not only passe the official Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS), they also include support for Peer-to-Peer Wi-Fi direct connections between two emulators. To start using this feature, launch the emulator (v28.0.22 or higher) via the command line and ensure the two emulators share the same Wi-Fi server and client port command line arguments.
Emulator Snapshot Save Speed - We have heard from you that you enjoy using snapshots and quickboot, but felt the time taken to close the emulator and Quickboot save a snapshot was slow. To solve this, we optimized the way snapshots are saved and managed, using a mapped file to save guest RAM. From aggregate metrics, we found that this optimization led to driving down the average quickboot save time from the last stable version to now from 27 seconds down to 3 seconds — a 8x improvement. Learn more about this enhancement and other recent improvements to the emulator here.
Optimize
Profiler performance improvements - Based on your feedback, we have dramatically improved Android Studio performance while using the profilers in this release. We've seen improvements on average of 2x in frame rates in our local tests. Please continue to provide feedback, especially if you continue to see performance issues.
Memory Profiler allocation tracking options -In previous releases, we have heard from you that, in some cases, your app performs significantly worse while profiling with the default settings. To address this, we have changed the default Memory Profiler capture mode on Android 8.0 Oreo (API level 26) and higher devices to sample for allocations periodically. You can adjust this setting in the Allocation Tracking dropdown menu. By default, we also now temporarily turn off allocation tracking during CPU recordings to minimize the impact on recording results. Learn more.
Memory Profiler: Allocation Tracking Options
Network Profiler formatted text -The Network profiler in Android Studio 3.3 now formats common text types found in network payloads by default, including HTML, XML and JSON. You can toggle between formatted and raw text by navigating to either the Response or Request tab, and click on the View Parsed / View Source link. Learn more.
Network Profiler: Formatted Text
CPU Profiler frame rendering data -The CPU Profiler now shows you the render time for each frame on the main UI thread and Render Thread when you record with Trace System Calls. If you are trying to investigate and understand the bottlenecks or the source of UI jank in your app, this data can come in handy to see where you can improve your app performance. Learn more.
CPU Profiler: Frame Rendering Data
To recap, Android Studio 3.3 includes these new enhancements & features:
Develop
Navigation Editor
IntelliJ 2018.2.2 Platform Update
Kotlin 1.3.11 Update
Clang-Tidy Support for C++
New Project Wizard update
Delete Unused IDE Directories
IDE User Feedback
Build
Improved incremental Java compilation when using annotation processors
Download the latest version of Android Studio 3.3 from the download page. If you are using a previous release of Android Studio, you can simply update to the latest version of Android Studio as well. If you want to maintain a stable version of Android Studio, you can run the stable release version and canary release versions of Android Studio at the same time. Learn more.
To use the mentioned Android Emulator features make sure you are running at least Android Emulator v28.0.22 downloaded via the Android Studio SDK Manager.
We appreciate any feedback on things you like, and issues or features you would like to see. If you find a bug or issue, feel free to file an issue. Follow us -- the Android Studio development team ‐ on Twitter and on Medium.
At one point, I was thinking of writing down steps that will guarantee increase in your Twitch viewer numbers, but the problem is these steps may lead to burnout. Once you burnout and take time off from streaming, your viewer numbers will decrease, so following the "fastest" techniques of gaining viewership may in fact backfire.
Sadly, it seems to be true that if you take 1 to 2 weeks off to refresh in a sudden and unannounced manner, your numbers may drop when you return. The other unfortunate news in focusing on viewership numbers is if a crisis happens and you have to take time off, your numbers will drop. The conclusion is not to worry about the numbers, but if you really want to grow without burning out, this post is for you! In other words, we need to find ways to avoid the inevitable burn-out of streaming so that you necessarily do not need to take too much time off from streaming, as consistency in following a schedule is the best way to gain and increase viewership.
These steps may lead to very slow viewer number increase, but it's better than crashing and burning like what happened to me. Indeed, coming back after a few weeks of re-evaluating things, my viewership numbers dropped by a whopping 50%. Note how it says -9 from last stream, total of 9 (exhibit A)! Enjoy The Game The first step is to play a game that you truly enjoy and find fun to stream. I decided to stream Borderlands 2 as a challenge to myself as I never succeeded in FPS games, and my community loves this game (a lot of Dark Souls fans also love Borderlands 2). Also the game has perfect Twitch game statistics (see below for details). However, Borderlands 2 was a struggle to play, leading to many deaths and cringe-worthy gaming, and I wasn't enjoying streaming the game. My streams call to mind the unjust stereotype of women being bad at games. Although I recognize it as a masterpiece, it was not fun to stream for me, because of the demanding nature, and definitely a game that's more fun to play off-stream, which I intend to do. Therefore, if you're a new streamer, it's so hard to focus and concentrate, not to mention on a game you're not familiar with. In other words, chose 5 games that you're really good at and that you love playing to start out with, and that your community would enjoy watching. If you're a seasoned streamer, ignore this step and play whatever game you want as long as it falls in the "correct" Twitch game statistics if you want to continue to gain viewer numbers. Twitch Game Statistics Next, go to Twitch and type in the title of your games in question. If it's Fortnite Battle Royale that you're thinking, you'll see that all the large streamers will be on the first 20 pages, and then we relatively small streamers will be buried in the 5 trillionth page. No one is going to scroll through all those pages, rather, they'll click on the top page of streamers. You want a game where you will be near the top of the list. Now, if the game you want to stream is Duck Tales Remastered, you'll see that there's a total of 0 viewers, so no one's looking for this game, except if a well known streamer like Shroud is somehow playing the game then there might be 30,000 viewers plus. But they're just watching the game coincidentally because it's Shroud, and not the game for itself. That again is a bad choice. However, if the game you love and know very well like the back of your hand is Borderlands 2, that's a superb choice because it has a good number of viewers who actively look for the game. If you go to Twitch, you'll see that the top 2 channels will have about 50 to 75 viewers, then the next few channels will be around 20 to 30, and then your channel will be in the first page. Therefore, viewers looking for the game might chose your channel. If they like your stream, you'll most likely get a follower and possibly loyal viewer. That'll surely increase your views, albeit very slowly. Facecam If the viewers looking for Borderlands 2 are looking at channels and see you on Facecam, they'll more likely click on your channel then a channel without, all things being equal (obviously a streamer like Lirik who doesn't use Facecam will get almost all the viewers, but Lirik is the exception). Schedule I thought an afternoon schedule would be just as good for me and my viewers, b/c it's a good time for the UK/EU audience who'll watch after work. However, I'm more of a morning person, and prefer to get all my "chores" done so I can have the rest of the day off. It may seems like a red flag when I call streaming a "chore" but the reality is, even though it's fun (as long as I don't worry about viewership numbers), streaming is workbeing so demanding. It takes so much effort to play the game well, and read and talk to chat, being entertaining. Indeed, engaging your audience will keep and increase viewership numbers. You can't expect to play a game without discussion, unless you're one of the few absolutely incredible challenge runners, and even then, they talk to chat. After moving to morning schedule, it worked better for me because I don't have to fret and worry until 1 PM EST (that was my past schedule) about streaming. I can get it over and done with and move on. When you start out, feel free to experiment which schedule works the best foryou which may take a couple of weeks or so, and then try to pin down the exact hour you want to stream and stick with that schedule if possible. Indeed, anytime you change hours, your viewers will drop, so it's okay to experiment with your schedule when you start out with streaming. Certainly, once you really like your schedule and you feel comfortable with it, keep that schedule until something comes up such as new job and the like. In your channel panel description, I would recommend adding the stream elements or streamlab schedule countdown. Mention in a "Schedule" channel panel that you'll stream one hour for the day(s) you're interested, in case there are days when you don't feel like streaming the "ideal" 4 hours or more. The mistake I made was starting out 4 days/week at 4 hrs/day. However, even though you note you're streaming 1 hour, you can always stream longer than 1 hour. Once you feel that streaming 1 hour is "easy" then you can advertise that you'll stream 1.5 or 2 hours and so forth. The rationale is that you can always stream longer, but you can never stream shorter than what your viewers expect per your schedule. The reason why you want a set hour is so your viewers will know when to tune in when you're streaming, much like television shows. Even TV has recording and your videos can be re-watched (on Twitch dashboard, channels, turn on store past broadcasts), but the issue is you need live viewers for them to count in the demanding Twitch world. Time Off? Once you notice that you have a few viewers (or more) who chat in your channel and are at your streams faithfully, I think you can take time off, maybe 1 week at most, and your viewers might not drop that much when you return, because your faithful viewers will return to see you. "But it's only 1 week," you ask, but in the world of Twitch, taking a week off is like an eternity. Make sure you announce in advance that you'll be taking off and you'll be fine when you return. Taking time off is crucial in preventing burn-out and then quitting streaming entirely, so if you feel burned out the 2nd or 3rd month of streaming, make sure you announce a 1 week vacation to your chat constantly so they're aware. Again, the fact that maximum of 1 week off may be considered even "too much" if you want to keep your viewers, demonstrates the ultra-competitive nature of Twitch streaming. Conclusion:
Find a game that is easy for you to play and that you absolutely love so your enthusiasm shines through in your streaming.
Make sure this game will have your channel in the top of streamers streaming the game, with adequate number of viewers watching the game (type the game title in Twitch search bar).
Facecam
Set schedule that works for YOU.
Time off when you notice you have a handful of faithful viewers, but if you start burning out before then, take time off, maximum maybe 1 week.
I'm hoping that these relatively painless steps will improve your viewership numbers but without the burn-out. I can write about how to network to gain viewers, but I find it unhealthy so if I ever do, it'll be a huge caveat for that post. However, the best advice I can give is to not worry about your viewership numbers, but rather enjoy the process of streaming, improving content, and being with your community, which is what I'm focusing on now and loving it! Are you a streamer, and what other painless tips will help improve viewership numbers? Do you want to read about networking to increase your numbers in a future post? The How of Happiness Review
For my tips to work you first need a foundation which is put into place when building your fighter. Size is overrated. I beat maxed out fighters with tiny guys just to prove a point. Actually a maxed out fighter will get tired faster anyways. I keep my fighters between 6′-3″ and 6′-5″ with a weight between 225-235 pounds. I also keep my reach between 77-82 inches which gives you all around power with straights and uppercuts. After this comes the important part. You want to stay away from
This set of Lizardmen counters replaces the set that I did over a decade ago while I was active on the Warmaster Yahoo email list. Unlike the old set, which was slightly undersized, this set will print to the full 20mm x 40mm counters.
"The Lizardmen are the oldest race of the world. Staunch opponents of the powers of Chaos, they follow the Great Plan of the Old Ones. Since the days of their creation, the Lizardmen have been at the forefront of the battle for the world's survival. Their armies are anchored by savage warriors spawned for the sole purpose of war and augmented with titanic reptilian beasts whose tread shakes the earth. Their enigmatic leaders are powerful wizards and wield magics beyond the ken of mere mortals. While much has been lost over the long ages of warfare against the many foes of order, the Lizardmen still fight on - unleashing their cold-blooded savagery upon any who would stand in the way of their sacred mission. As carved upon the pyramid blocks, this is the tale of the Lizardmen and their defence of the world. " -- Warhammer Wiki
Printing the Counters I hope some of you find these counter sets useful.You can print these at office printing places, like Staples, using heavy card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Currently, I'm printing the counter sets at Staples using regular paper, spray gluing the back of each sheet with Super77, attaching each sheet to an old comic book backing board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters.
Click on the counter set image above to download the complete army counter set in PDF format.
Kake is a build system which automatically figures out what to build and how to build it purely based on the source code. No separate "makefile" is needed.
Kake works by exploration. For example, when it encounters a file ending in ".cpp", it tries to compile the file. If there are missing includes, Kake continues to explore until it finds headers matching them. When Kake builds an object file and discovers that it contains a "main" symbol, it tries to link it as an executable, searching for other object files to satisfy all symbol references therein.
You might ask, "But wouldn't that be really slow for a big codebase?". Not necessarily. Results of previous exploration can be cached. These caches may be submitted to version control along with the code. Only the parts of the code which you modify must be explored again. Meanwhile, you don't need to waste any time messing around with makefiles. So, overall, time ought to be saved.
Current status
Currently, Kake is barely self-hosting: it knows how to compile C++ files, and it knows how to look for a "main" function and link a binary from it. There is a hack in the code right now to make it ignore any symbols that aren't in the "kake2" namespace since Kake does not yet know anything about libraries (not even the C/C++ runtime libraries).
That said, when Kake first built itself, it noticed that one of the source files was completely unused, and so did not bother to include it. Kake is already smarter than me.
Kake currently requires FreeBSD, because I used kqueue for events and libmd to calculate SHA-256 hashes. I thought libmd was standard but apparently not. That's easy enough to fix when I get a chance, after which Kake should run on OSX (which has kqueue), but will need some work to run on Linux or Windows (no kqueue).
There is no documentation, but you probably don't want to actually try using the existing code anyway. I'll post more when it is more usable.
Future plans
First and foremost, I need to finish the C++ support, including support for libraries. I also need to make Kake not rebuild everything every time it is run -- it should remember what it did last time. Kake should also automatically run any tests that it finds and report the results nicely.
Eventually I'd like Kake to run continuously in the background, watching as you make changes to your code, and automatically rebuilding stuff as needed. When you actually run the "kake" command, it will usually be able to give you an immediate report of all known problems, since it has already done the work. If you just saved a change to a widely-used header, you might have to wait.
Then I'd like to integrate Kake into Eclipse, so that C++ development can feel more like Java (which Eclipse builds continuously).
I'd like to support other languages (especially Java) in addition to C++. I hope to write a plugin system which makes it easy to extend Kake with rules for building other languages.
Kake should eventually support generating makefiles based on its exploration, so that you may ship those makefiles with your release packages for people who don't already have Kake.
Kake will, of course, support code generators, including complex cases where the code generator is itself built from sources in the same tree. Protocol Buffers are an excellent test case.
To scale to large codebases, I'd like to develop a system where many Kake users can share some central database which keeps track of build entities in submitted code, so that Kake need not actually explore the whole code base just to resolve dependencies for the part you are working on.
David Bowie never really copied anybody - Mick Rock
Imagine being sat on the floor by the TV watching Top Of The Pops in 1972 and seeing a man from another planet pointing at you.
People my age can do only that - imagine what it was like to see this man on a TV screens in a decade that was, by many accounts pretty glum and moody. This performance was a turning point for so many teenagers in a time when "Rock had got pretty drab looking, with countless denim clad blues-bore and boogie bands, dressed down singer songwriters and country rock outfits and virtuoso players too wrapped up in their endless soloing to bother with stagecraft" (Reynolds, 2012). He spoke to a generation of youngsters who were bored and uninspired with their lives and, just like Little Richard had done for the young Mr Jones years before - brought colour into their living rooms. For me however, being born in the 90s, Bowie was simply someone who was always there for me - I didn't dye my hair orange or wear high platformed shoes to school because of him, I just loved his music. Every album was unique from what came before, every one stuck in my heart and they will always.
In a Kate Bush documentary that was on BBC4; one of the contributors talks about how difficult he finds it to pinpoint who it was she was influenced by because of how unique she was - only two artists are mentioned: and David Bowie was one of them. Kate Bush was there, on the last night of the Ziggy Stardust Tour in the crowd right at the front with hundreds of other fans - she recently said of him: "he had everything, he was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically". It was this influence that spawned a practically immeasurable amount of bands and movements: the New Romantics were attracted to his early androgynous style while the punks, who were meant to be the antithesis of this movement copied his commitment to being an outsider who cared nothing for what was expected.
His music has been in some peoples lives for over 40 years, others for just a few months - but he has always just been there. There are artists that you like, and then there are artists that you don't go a day without listening to or reading about. He wasn't just limited to his most popular decade of course, but Bowie and Roxy Music are the reason I wish I was alive in the 70s. To me they both encapsulate everything that was good about that time in history - but David wasn't just about that era, he was important in every single decade he was with us. Word on a Wing - my favourite song and my favourite vocal performance of his, the song that made me realise how important he really was. Loving The Alien - a song that my media teacher once played to us in class, which gave me the confidence to walk up to him and ask what other music he liked, leading him to one day even lend me a Brian Eno album. Untitled No. 1 - it's beautiful, but I wasn't sure why, I barely understood the lyrics, but that didn't matter. Everyone Says Hi, I always used to think this was about his son, you can hear that he sings this track with a smile on his face, but I wonder why - in reality it's one of his most despondent tracks, especially now.You Feel So Lonely You Could Die- one of many TheNext Day tracks that that would get me through those evenings of essay writing in the library at University.
However you discover him it wouldn't be generalisation to say that everyone must love at least one of his albums, with such a diverse body of work to listen to that it's impossible for even his detractors not to have a song they admire. Ignoring that he collaborated with legends (Brian Eno, Nile Rogers, John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, David Gilmour, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman, Mick Jagger and more recently Arcade Fire just to name a few) and helped them to make some of their best known work too. Remember Bowie was the man who stopped Mott The Hoople from breaking up and who produced Lou Reed and Iggy Pop's most famous solo album/s. The Lou Reed album in question (1972's Transformer) being one of my favourites of all time.
The outro to Satellite of Love on a loop forever Add to basket
But obviously Bowie wasn't confined to music, but also films - and in my opinion Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Oshima, 1983)is his best performance. Staring him (Jack Celliers), Tom Conti (John Lawrence) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Captain Yonoi), it's about the culture, personality and language clashes that occur between the Japanese and British in a WW2 prisoner of war camp. Conti plays the largely cool-headed English translator, attempting to maintain a sense of order and equanimity between the two sides who are in constant conflict with one another. It's a haunting, unusual watch. The music (composed by Sakamoto) is now world famous, yet seems an odd choice for a picture set in the 1940s, but like everything else here it works, and it sticks in you mind without letting go. When Celliers is talking through the wall of a cell to Lawrence, revealing a secret from his past that he's ashamed of, we finally see this character vulnerable. Up to this point Celliers has been the disruptive, rebellious and confident new arrival to the camp - obsessed over by Captain Yanoi because of his emotional and physical strength. But here he's stripped down and defenceless, and I honestly can't think of another moment in his filmography that has left my quite so moved. There's no flamboyance by him in this picture, there is a chance for him to flex his Lynsay Kemp miming muscles at one point, sure - but you realise that it's a way of Celliers bottling up his inner turmoil, creating a facade so he can stand up to his captors and be a role model to the others in the camp. Cellars is revered, just like the man playing him. Despite being first billed he doesn't have the most screen time of all the actors, yet it's the scenes with him in that you remember the most long after the credits have rolled.
My family got me into alot of the music I like today, which I'm very grateful for. In fact just last Saturday I was standing in the chip shop with my Mum and she was telling me about how she liked "that video he did with Mick Jagger". Either way, this mutual interest was useful in many ways, for example buying my dad The Next Day LP as a gift and then immediately steal the CD that came with it. My sister on the other hand would always get NME magazine and one day all her issues were in a box on the landing, I took it upon myself to look through every one and 'borrow' a poster of him to put on my wardrobe door - where it stayed for years and will continue to.
It was obvious that Blackstar was going to be very different to The Next Day. For those of us who didn't have Sky in order to see the full video and song reveal, that night in November largely consisted of clicking the 'refresh' button while sat on Youtube waiting for it to appear - the excitement generated from seeing new work by this peerless artist who had virtually vanished from public view for nearly a decade wasn't all that surprising, and this is testament to the appeal of him. If like me you weren't old enough during Heathen and Reality to see or appreciate him promote and tour the material, he was a mysterious figure and any type of news seemed like something to cherish. This is why people we're so happy when Where Are We Now snuck up on iTunes, the sense of mystery and the lack of promotion on that day in 2013 made him seem even more out of reach and fascinating.
On Friday 8th this year like many people I sat down at my desk at work and listened to this new album, he was already dominating pre-orders on Amazon and iTunes had it as their number one album. I heard to it and immediately knew that it was the type of album that could be listed to, re-listened to and appreciated more as it slowly revealed itself. Every review that I read (when I should have been working) agreed that it was cryptic and ambiguous, one with lyrics that the fans would try to decipher over and over again as they absorbed the wonderful record. What ever you thought of the lyrics, you could appreciate the session musicians that were playing since alot had been written in the months leading up to the release about how Bowie had found this jazz band playing in a bar in NY. For fans of the Young Americans and Black Tie, White Noise albums you could definitely appreciate the saxophone which was given lots of reign throughout the record, there were many great solo's which again demonstrated Bowie's eye for fantastic collaborators. Dollar Days was my immediate favourite, which given hindsight is one of the most prophetic songs on the album along with Lazarus and I Can't Give Everything Away. Of course now so much has already been written about what this all meant - Tony Visconti said that the album was intended as a farewell to fans, written by a man that made even his death art, who gave the world one last gift. James Ward put it best in his beautiful, beautiful blog post, describing it as a 'magic trick' that transformed over the space of a weekend.
Blackstar felt like the start of something. Not the end of it.
Waking up the next Monday to a text from my friend giving me the news, it was the most distressing celebrity death that I'd ever experienced. To be holding back tears from 9-5 in work for someone who I didn't even know was something that countless other's were doing that day too. We weren't prepared. No one was prepared for this desperately, unbearably sad news so soon after his birthday & after he gave us Blackstar. It mattered to so many people, of all ages that this man was no longer with us - it was a horrible day, a horrible week and it still hurts for so many reasons. When I was driving to work that morning, I looked at other people in their cars while waiting in the traffic, and I wondered whether they were feeling how I was... and I still do, I walk around and wonder how many people are also hurting. The 'grief police' were out in full force, unable to get their heads round the fact that its possible to be moved by the passing of someone who didn't even know they existed, foolishly proclaiming that social media had somehow invented an insufferable new method for people to express sadness - as if none of this existed before the advent of Twitter. Maybe music doesn't mean much to these people, I don't know. Like most pop culture, music shapes who you are, your tastes are influenced by idols who you look up to and your memories, no matter how dull they seem at the time are linked with the moments when their work entered your life. You start to think about all of these memories... silly, small memories that seem meaningless at the time - but now you know you'll always remember. I think it's painful too because of a sense of guilt, maybe some of us took him for granted - I know I did, and I'd listen to these glorious songs he gave us most days without thinking a week like this would ever happen. It's hard to describe how this feels, but Pushing Ahead of the Dame sent out a post that morning simply saying "be nice to each other today".
It was like a lottery win, wasn't it? That voice, that brain, that face, that style, that energy, that drive, that technique, that talent.
The only comfort that came from that day was the reaction, even if we had our own individual, personal reasons for taking the news so hard, millions of people just got it - they understood how much he meant and everyone seemed to be dealing with the news together. It all felt so personal, yet so many people were putting into words what I couldn't do myself, who were describing exactly how you felt too. But also celebrating the man - just look what happened in Brixton, look at all of those fans who gathered, sang, chatted and hugged each other - singing songs by the Dame who brought them all together. I listened to BBC Radio 6 that morning, sat in work completely numb, but after a while I just had to turn it off - I couldn't bear it. But DJs, professional DJs who had been in their job for years could barely take it either, you could hear it in their voices.
He wasn't quite of this world to begin with. How could this have happened so soon after that gift he gave us.
In an age where some 'celebrities' are famous for simply existing, where they get the number one trending top spot on Facebook and Twitter for posting a picture of themselves with a new pair of high heels; Bowie became one of the biggest, most idolised music stars on the planet because he worked hard, persevered, dared to be different and never became complacent with his work. When reading Paul Trynka's biography Starman last year, I thought to myself how this man had the determination to keep trying at making a career in music despite how many setbacks there were early on. Many of us would have simply given up but Bowie carried on - and millions upon millions of fans of all ages are thankful that he kept trying.
"It was a magic trick. That last album. He performed a magic trick. He gave us this album, and then just a few days later, he silently transformed it into something entirely different. What was confusing and obscure and frustrating and invincible suddenly becomes direct and honest and open and vulnerable" -James Ward
Not only are people devastated, they're also scared. Scared because there has not been, and will never be anyone like him. No one today can perform a song on TV and match the feeling that those teenagers had whilst watching him sing Starman. There's no other singer who can fill the void, that's why people are worried, that's why it's painful.
He was an incredible, astonishing artist. His fans didn't know the man and it's his family, friends and collaborators who are the ones truly hurting. But we are allowed to mourn the fact that we'll never hear any new music from him, that we now live in a world bereft of the most remarkable musical mind ever. It feels like there are no words enough to describe these events, and this inadequate and soppy blog certainly isn't justice to him, but if nothing else it is just meant as a thank you. Too young to have appreciated him when he was still touring - but old enough to have been there when The Next Day and Blackstar came out, so I should consider myself incredibly lucky to have been there for that. I am lucky - we all are.
"He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life - a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift. I knew for a year this was the way it would be. I wasn't, however, prepared for it. He was an extraordinary man, full of love and life. He will always be with us. For now, it is appropriate to cry." Tony Visconti
RIP David Robert Jones | 1947 - 2016 | Thank You x
