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Open Source Software and the Curse of Plenty
Overcome big budgets to successfully deploy open source business intelligence projects.
This article originally appeared on the BeyeNETWORK.
Maybe you saw this blog entry in July: "The curse of plenty: what El Mariachi tells us about writing software" by Neil Davidson. "El Mariachi" was Robert Rodriguez' 1992 directorial debut, a feature length film reportedly produced for the minuscule sum of $7,000. By the 1990s, average feature film budgets were hitting $50 million; big-budget movies now routinely cost hundreds of millions today. How did Rodriguez do it? And what does that have to do with business intelligence and open source software?
Movies and Software
Davidson noted that Bill Buxton pointed out the similarity of producing software and producing movies. It is an apt metaphor: both commercial movies and commercial software products are usually big, complicated and expensive enterprises; both are usually undertaken by highly skilled executives and backed by deep-pocketed investors; and both are driven by two sometimes conflicting goals: to produce the best, most incredibly great product possible – while generating the best return on investment possible.
An 8-figure budget buys a lot for a movie: A-list stars, endless and spectacular special effects, exotic locations and non-stop wall-to-wall advertising and promotions. But to make a profit, you've got to fill a lot of seats in a lot of theaters. If you spend $250 million to make a movie, you can gross a quarter of a billion dollars – and still not make a penny. But if you've only spent $7,000 on that movie, practically every nickel in revenue becomes profit.
How did Rodriguez do it? In his words, "You refuse to spend. Think of a creative way to get around your problem." For examples of these creative ways around problems, you can read the trivia section at the El Mariachi entry in Internet Movie Database site.
Here are the lessons I learned from reading about the making of El Mariachi:
"Good enough" is good enough. Rodriguez used plastic water pistols that looked enough like real guns on screen. This is a venerable cinematic tradition; for example, the "light saber" used in the first Star Wars movie was actually part of a photographer's flash unit; the "ice cream" you see in most old movies was actually mashed potatoes, since real ice cream would have melted almost instantly under the hot lights used then.
Turn your critics into your friends. Rodriguez gave two local newscasters parts in the movie to get them to stop talking trash about his filming in their town.
Improvise. This means, do more with less, and do more with what you've got or can get for little or nothing. Rodriguez wore many hats: writer, director, producer, special effects, camera operator. For moving shots, Rodriguez shot while seated in an old wheelchair; for high-speed scenes, he shot from the back of a pickup truck. He used a simple cassette player to do the sound.
Waste not, want not. To save on gas, Rodriguez shot most of his exterior scenes within the same two-block stretch of street. When actors flubbed their lines in the middle of a scene, rather than re-shoot the whole thing, Rodriguez would change the camera angle and pick up from right before the mistake. He managed to do most scenes in one take, saving time as well as film (his biggest cost).
Rodriguez said that he originally intended to shoot the movie to "practice" making a movie, and his intention was to release it direct to video. And the finished product shown in movie theaters was actually spruced up with about a million dollars' worth of post-production – still a pittance in Hollywood terms.
But how does this help you build better software solutions? And just what does it have to do with open source software?
Software and Budgets
Building a commercial software product may be like putting together a major motion picture, but getting any software project done will have similarities to TV/film productions. The number one attribute of any successful project is having a project vision. The driving force behind any project has to be a vision of what the finished product will look like. You can't just decide to make a movie or write a piece of software. For a movie, you need a script; for a software project, you've got to have a set of requirements.
With that vision, you can take the next steps: come up with a plan for achieving that vision, get financing, assemble a team and all the tools you'll need to reach your goal, and then go to work. For most software projects, as for movies (or any other big complicated projects), the size of the budget determines who you can recruit to do the work, the resources you'll have at your disposal (such as software and hardware), and how much time you expect the project to take.
And that's the sticking point: if you have a multimillion dollar budget, you'll find yourself under pressure to spend all that cash: on lots of staff, lots of hardware and lots of software, whether you need it or not. The budget begins to drive the project, and how often is there any real incentive for saving, rather than spending, any of that budget?
On the other hand, how often do corporate IT projects get the funding needed to "do everything right"? When you're a superstar IT executive, maybe you can get Hollywood-scaled budgets for your projects, but what if you're an up-and-coming young project manager and you want to make a big splash? In either case, you want to maximize the impact you can deliver within whatever budget you have. As we learn from the "El Mariachi" story, it's easy to solve problems by spraying them with the "money hose," but that's not the only way to solve problems.
So here are the lessons applied to software:
"Good enough" is good enough. Do you really need professionally designed animations, graphics, splash screens, logos? Pop-up help prompts and tutorials? Maybe you do, but if your budget is limited, you should probably skimp on those extras and concentrate on the functional aspects of the project. Remember, if you deliver a compelling application that lacks those "extras," you can always add them in "post-production," but once you deliver an application, you can't get refunds on the beautifully rendered modules that turn out to be unneeded or wrong.
Turn your critics into your friends. Let's face it, this is harder to do with software than with movies. You can't give your critics walk-on roles in a software project – or can you? What do you have that you can give away, and what might your critics want that you can give them? Can you create an advisory committee for the project? Can you bring your critics on-board in some other way, perhaps by asking them to work on the project or by helping them out with resources for some other task or project they're working on?
Waste not, want not. This is a tricky one for software development, because what may seem wasteful may actually produce worthwhile returns in productivity – and what seems prudent may actually not be. It all depends on your project, your team, and your organization. Can your development team get by with cast-off computers or do they really need the latest hardware (with dual-monitors)? Giving your people the tools they need is important. However, it may not make sense to spend your budget on software licenses that you may not need until the project is complete, just to get a volume discount.
Improvise. The overarching philosophy when working with limited resources should be to make do with what you have – and, more importantly, to make positives out of negatives. A small team means you can't do everything at once –but it does mean you can focus on what's important and do it first. A small team can also respond more quickly to changes in focus.
Over the decades since the dawn of the data processing era, we've see again and again how huge projects with huge budgets are delivered late (if ever), with huge budget overruns. Open source software and a new attitude toward producing software solutions might just be the answer.
Budget Taming with Open Source Software
So how does open source software fit into the picture? When we talk about business intelligence (BI) software these days, we're still not talking about shrink-wrapped off-the-shelf products: you can't just buy a box of BI in the morning, install it at lunch and start getting results in the afternoon. You've got to assemble a BI stack, from operating systems up through end-user applications, all of which require significant investment of time and effort to customize and create useful applications; many approaches call for investment in new hardware as well.
So, one more time, let's go through the lessons of El Mariachi, as they apply to developing with open source software for business intelligence applications:
Good enough is good enough. Let's face it: open source software is, in many cases, just as "good" as proprietary commercial software. A significant portion of Oracle's product line is open source, and commercial open source vendors such as JasperSoft, Red Hat and MySQL now offer enterprise quality software, with plenty of documentation and other no-cost resources for developers. The result is that you should be able to find open source (and no-cost) software that is, at the very least, "good enough." Even proprietary vendors, from Microsoft on down, are feeling the pinch and offering no charge trialware that could be good enough for the early stages of development.
Turn critics into friends. Unlike in the movies, where you can get goodwill with walk-on parts, you've got to be able to make a business case for your development choices. For software, this means building the business case that using open source software is going to result in a finished project that is at least equivalent to (if not better than) the same project done using proprietary software – and that the overall expenditure, both up front and ongoing, will be lower. With open source software, you may even be able to make the case that open source software will reduce costs and improve profitability at all stages – a good way to make friends at the top.
Waste not, want not. Open source software reduces waste in many ways: it may enable you to extend the productive lifetime of existing hardware, or just avoid having to pay licensing fees for software that you're "trying out."
Improvise. One of the often-overlooked benefits of open source software is that the source is open: that means you can do whatever you want with it, including modifying it. Have you discovered an almost-perfect open source solution? There's no reason in the world you can't modify the source code to get the software to doexactly what you want it to do. Try that with commercial software.
Open source software is no more a universal panacea than commercial and proprietary software, but open source software does provide an excellent resource for anyone who wants to bring in more projects on time and under budget.

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How did you get into Who's Who?
An envelope landed in my mailbox at Radio 1. Obviously I knew what Who's Who was but I always assumed it was for the kind of people who shoot small animals for fun, so when I got the form I rang my mum, I rang my wife. I'm not one of those guys who say, "Oh, this is some kind of colonial legacy."
Some might say it's a very establishment thing to be in.
It is, but do you want to stand outside the house banging on the door complaining about how shit your life is, or do you want to try to get into that house and start telling people to their face there are things they need to sort out? I am not for a minute suggesting that I am going to be some kind of revolution in the establishment - I'm not - and there are people who will say this is just some tokenistic thing and that they're pushing me forward because I'm brown-skinned, I'm a Radio 1 DJ, and I mention that one of my interests is looking at MySpace. I'm not naive to that fact. I am not a brother who will close the door behind me - I will leave it ajar. The fact of the matter is I'm good at what I do, I fucking deserve to be there because I've worked hard and I've grafted.
You sound quite proud to be there.
Why shouldn't I be? I'm proud, and I'm proud for my parents. I'm not going to insult the name of my late father by saying I'm not proud to be in Who's Who. That doesn't make me any less proud to be Sri Lankan. It's not going to suddenly mean that I need to find out what croquet is or go on a pheasant shoot. I am proud to be a British Asian, I am proud to be a British Sri Lankan, I am proud of what this country has given me. I love Sri Lanka but I know I could not have got this in Sri Lanka. This country isn't perfect, but my parents came here to give me a better life and if he had been alive today, my late father's head would have exploded with pride. My mum's a nurse, she worked in the National Health Service for years. Why shouldn't her son be proud?
Do you get called upon to talk about British Asian issues?
I've always tried to avoid being a "professional Asian". I wouldn't want to put myself up as a spokesperson for British Asian youth - it would be hugely immodest and arrogant and stupid. I can't change government policy, but what I can do is play a record made by a 21-year-old producer in Leicester, whose parents probably don't approve of him doing music. Then [Radio 1 DJ] Colin Murray starts playing that record because I've played it and then that record gets signed by a non-Asian label and then that record gets put out and that producer gets some money in his pocket. That's what I am about.
What do you think about Morrissey's row with the NME over his comments on immigration?
Quite frankly, I couldn't give a toss what Morrissey says about race. No one really cares what he says about immigration because he has no influence on the political debate. Let him say what he wants to say because he has every right to say it. We live in a democracy.
You can't stifle the debate about immigration. A lot of people have a worry, an irrational one, that we are being "flooded" because a lot of the things we read about immigration are lies. Whether you like it or not, British society benefits from immigration - it does, I'm not just saying that because I happen to be a second- generation Asian.
My parents were asked to come here. The National Health Service would cease to exist, cease to function, without immigrants. They are not asking for doctors and nurses from Africa and Asia because they don't want to give the jobs to white people, they're doing it because they have to. Polish people are coming here to do plumbing jobs because you couldn't get a plumber. That's just the law of economics.
· Weekend Breakfast With Nihal is on Radio 1 from 7-10am, Sat-Sun. Nihal is on Asian Network from 9-12noon Mon-Thu.


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Cameron University's Department of Communication will host the 31st Annual High School Speech Demonstration Day from 8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 18 at the McMahon Auditorium and the Museum of the Great Plains. Last year's state speech, drama and debate winners from Oklahoma high schools have been invited to perform their winning contest pieces. The event provides an opportunity for competitive speech and debate students to observe and learn from last year's winning entries. Admission for middle and high school students is $10 per person; sponsors are admitted at no charge. Advance registration is required. To obtain a registration form, contact the Cameron University Department of Communication at 581-2359.
Individual events – Prose, Standard Oratory, Humorous Interpretation, Original Oratory, Dramatic Duet Acting, Dramatic Interpretation, Extemporaneous Interpretation, Poetry, Monologue and Humorous Duet Acting – will be performed at the McMahon Auditorium.. Emcee Paula McConnell of Marlow will describe and discuss each contest event during a fast-paced, entertaining program.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Cross-Examination Team Debate workshops and short demonstrations will take place in the Museum Auditorium. Fred Collins of Ardmore will lead the workshops and serve as emcee.
Last year, the event attracted more than 800 students and teachers from middle and high schools across Oklahoma.
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Ford has issued a hybrid throw down to Toyota.
A lot of effort went into besting the maker of the world's top selling hybrids. Specifically, the U.S. car maker is going after Toyota's family hybrid, the 2012 Prius V. Ford's 2013 C-Max, will be replacing the popular hybrid Escape in the company's line up.
Having driven the Prius V , I was interested in seeing the difference between the two cars. The C-Max is cheaper ($25,995, starting price) than the Prius V and it has more fuel economy (with an EPA rating of 47 city/hwy). Also, Ford's C-Max Hybrid is faster than the Prius V and even though it doesn't take off like my all electric Leaf, it has more kick than the Prius.
The Battle Of The Hybrids
I had a chance to test drive the 2013 C-Max recently and, honestly, I like it better than the Prius. Maybe driving the higher trim level SEL had something to do with it ($5,000 more than base).
The C-Max has more head room and more passenger space. This is partly due to the fact that Toyota has, in my opinion, gone overboard on its aerodynamic roof shape. Still, Toyota has improved in one area of its roof line and that is its rear window design. The Prius V is much easier to see out of than previous models and Ford's C-Max has a decent size rear window, as well.
Did i mention the lift gate on the C-Max? If your hands are full, you can just kick under the back of the car, the hatch back opens and lets you load your things. On a weekend trip up to Calistoga I was able to throw my road bike in (with the front wheel off). While Toyota wins on cargo space behind the front seats, I found the C-Max wagon had plenty of room for me and the overall inside volume is bigger than the Prius V.
There is plenty of high tech in the new C-Max. There are two bright LCD displays next to the mileage indicator, one of them measures how green you are driving by displaying "efficiency leaves." I found these glossy leaves much nicer to look at than the Nissan Leaf's clunky Christmas trees. The dashboard is also much more attractive than the Prius V. The C-Max has Ford's infotainment system, MyFord Touch, which can be accessed from buttons on the steering wheel, on the dashboard or by voice command. I must admit I don't know how difficult it is to pair the phone as I had the Ford rep sync mine for the trip. The steering wheel felt a little too busy to me and it takes a while to get the hang of the MyFord Touch system.
Compared to the Prius V, the C-Max is cheaper, faster and more fuel efficient (I averaged about 41mpg on my drive). It also has more technology and more room. You can't argue with that. But there is a lot to be said about the power of the Prius name recognition. The battle will soon heat up when Ford releases the C-Max Energi Hybrid plug-in. That model has Toyota's new Prius Hybrid Plug-in in its cross hairs and is expected to be out by years end.


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Reasons I Don't Believe in God #6: Where Did He Go?
The God of the Old Testament made his presence directly and unambiguously known in many people's lives. He spoke directly to various Biblical figures, sent angels to speak on His behalf to various others. He was a very hands-on God. And while He changed His interaction significantly in the New Testament (sending Himself in the form of His son to directly interact with people), he was still very hands-on. But for the last two thousand years His approach has been decidedly hands-off. Now admittedly it depends somewhat on which faith or at least sect you subscribe to. There are Christian sects who believe in the visitations of other prophets, visitations of angels, and miracles, but even among these groups I think it's fair to say that fellow parishioners would look askance at any one arriving Sunday morning claiming a previous night's visitation by an angel bearing a great revelation. Something changed in God's interaction with us, or perhaps in our interaction with God. In either case I find the change hard to reconcile, and belief discouraged as a result.
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How can I generate a report displaying my billing by product?
Solved! Go to Solution.
There is a great billing report that I want to show you called "Gross Billing by Product Over Time".
You can take a look by going to your reporting section, then go to:
Standard reports > Billing > Drivers folder.
Then edit the GROSS BILLING BY PRODUCT OVER TIME report.
This is a great way to view your gross billing for each product that you offer. You may find it helpful to drag in the objects called "PRODUCT RATE PLAN: NAME" and "PRODUCT RATE PLAN CHARGE: NAME".
Then you can edit the "INVOICE: INVOICE DATE" filter to see only a specific period of time.
Here is what the report will look like.
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As usual, you can go to RUN REPORT, and click SCHEDULE. Select summary or detailed report, and choose your formatting options. Add any individuals or teams who need to receive this report by email and set the report to recur daily, weekly, monthly - it's up to you.


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Health insurance would be a matter of life and death suggests the study referenced below:
Benjamin D. Sommers, Sharon K. Long, Katherine Baicker; Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care ReformA Quasi-experimental StudyChanges in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2014 May;160(9):585-593.
The results are widely reported in the media and blogosphere.
Drs. Sommers and Baicker work in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge Building, Room 406, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 and Dr. Long works at the Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037.
Since the design is purely observational, results must not serve to inference nor be generalized nevertheless they go in the same direction as common sense, and logic: health insurance therefore care accessibility therefore life prolongation. But until now that chain of events had still to be observed at a large-scale (state-scale) and this is the merit of this study.


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"After Twenty Years," Ensign, Sept. 1985, 49
After Twenty Years
Love Finally Won a Convert
They were married in Las Vegas under the glitter of neon lights, not for time and all eternity, but "till death do us part."
"Come as you are," the signs read. "No waiting. Witnesses furnished. Only $7.00." So Bill and Val were married.
It wasn't as if they were in their teens. Bill Flemmer had a degree in engineering from New York University, where he had been an athlete in pole vaulting and basketball. Valene Geddes was twenty-two and had just completed her third year of college. Even so, they returned to the "little church" a few hours later to see if they could have the marriage annulled. Valene knew that what she had done would be terribly disappointing to her parents.
They were told that it was too late, and that their only alternative would be to set up residence in Nevada for six weeks.
That, of course, wasn't the answer. At least they loved each other. They would try to make the most of their hasty decision.
To say that Val's parents were shocked would be an understatement. They were stunned. Everyone was stunned. "Not Val!" they said. Val was the last girl anyone would expect to marry outside the temple. It was simply incredible! Bill not only wasn't a Latter-day Saint, he didn't even believe in God. But perhaps he would join the Church—at least he had no Word of Wisdom hangups. After a close call with pneumonia, he had pragmatically shaken off tobacco and liquor as "millstones about his neck."
But Bill was not interested in the Church. Bill and Val had met in Utah. Shortly after Bill and Val's first date, Bill and his best friend had been involved in a grinding auto accident one dark, rainy night. His friend was killed. When Bill regained consciousness six weeks later, he discovered that his right leg had been amputated at the hip.
"I might have become discouraged," he says, "if a man in a wheelchair hadn't visited me one day. He was paralyzed from the waist down. From then on I blocked out of my mind the fact that I had lost one leg and concentrated on the fact that I still had one good one." Later, with a pair of hand braces, Bill learned to get around with some of the agility of the athlete he had been before the accident.
Val visited Bill often at the hospital, and their friendship blossomed into love. "Bill," she confided on one visit, "I wanted to call in the elders to administer to you, but your sisters wouldn't allow it. But I'm confident the Lord spared your life for a purpose."
"I hate to disagree," Bill retorted, "but I don't think the Lord had anything to do with it. I pulled through on my own, without the help of the elders or the Lord if there is a Lord."
After their marriage, Valene's hopes that Bill might join the Church steadily dissipated. Bill started his own trucking business and ran it until a driver wrecked one of his semitrailers, setting him back financially. Then he turned to salesmanship, and as top man in a nationwide competition within his company, he was rewarded with a brand new Cadillac. Eventually, Bill and Valene moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bill worked hard, and he didn't try to keep Valene from going to Church. "The fact that Bill had no religion may have proved a virtue in disguise," she says. "At least he didn't object to the children being baptized, or even to my taking them to church."
But some Sundays, there was deep dissension in their home. "Sunday for years was the worst day of the week for me," Valene remembers. "Should I stay home with Bill and watch TV on a blustery winter day? Should I join him at golf on the Sabbath? Should I send the girls to church and drive with Bill through the beautiful countryside in the springtime and summer? Sunday was Bill's day at home, and throughout our marriage we have always done things together and not gone our separate ways. Yet I was determined to be in church with the girls."
"After a few years," says Bill, "I started going to church most of the time. I didn't worry, knowing that my mind was closed to religion anyhow. I even took the missionary discussions, not once, but many times. I don't suppose anyone has been a greater disappointment to more missionaries than I have. Eventually they had to write me off as hopeless."
Valene's brothers and sisters were all active in the Church. They often tried to talk to Bill about the Church, but he would respond with, "I don't buy that." Finally, after nearly twenty years, all of them gave up—all except Bill's father-in-law, Dad Geddes. Whenever Val and Bill came to visit, he would talk to Bill about the Church. But Bill's ready answer was always: "No, Dad. I don't need it!"
Then misfortune fell. While visiting her grandfather's farm in Idaho, Bill and Val's daughter Linda got her hair caught in the universal joint of a post-hole digger. The machine nearly scalped her before it miraculously stopped. It was this accident that ultimately led to Bill's conversion.
When Bill and Val came from Cincinnati to be with their daughter, Bill was amazed at the concern the members of the Church showed for him and his family. "I couldn't believe they cared so much," he said. He saw the priesthood at work and watched Linda recover completely. But he still wouldn't admit that the Lord had anything to do with it.
During the next two years he continued to be impressed with the brotherly love he felt from members of the Church. "Church members treated me as if I was something special," he says. "The missionaries continued to put their arms around me but seldom spoke of religion. My in-laws accepted me as an equal, treating me with kindness and love and affection. I began asking myself, 'What is the source of this strange brotherhood? Is it the gospel?'"
The couple's five daughters were growing to maturity, and Valene was becoming concerned. Cindy was attending Brigham Young University, and Linda would be attending BYU next year. She knew that Bill needed to make his own decision about joining the Church. But how could she let him know how important the Church and its teachings were to her? Finally she said, "Bill, I read in the Ensign of a woman who had to wait outside the temple while her daughter was being married. Our daughters are determined to be married in the temple, and I know they will be. I am not going to say anything more to you about joining the Church. The decision is yours. I just want you to know that I want to do everything in the world to join them in the temple."
Bill said nothing. But his experience of looking in at the Church from the outside was drawing to a fruitful close. He had seen the gospel in action in the examples of his wife, his daughters, his wife's family, and his neighbors. And the next year when they made their annual visit from Ohio to Idaho, Dad Geddes said, "Bill, you know Leslie Ann is being baptized tomorrow. This is your last child; you are running out of daughters. Don't you think it's about time you were baptized?"
This time, instead of replying, "No, Dad, I don't need it," Bill said simply, "Well, I don't think so … but what would I need to do?"
Permission from the Flemmers' bishop was obtained, and the next day a large, happy crowd of friends and neighbors watched as Dad Geddes led not only Leslie Ann, but also her father, Bill, into the waters of baptism.
"I couldn't point to any particular thing, other than the profound love of my family and relatives and friends, that brought me into the Church, except that I knew the Church was true," he says. "My most meaningful exposure to the Church was in 1954 when I married my lovely, understanding wife, who was, over the years, the stalwart example I needed to fully expose me to the gospel. Then there was her wonderful family, who also set a fine example. Seeing five beautiful daughters brought up in the Church had its effect as well. Then there was my understanding and patient father-in-law, assuring me each year on our vacations in Idaho that the gospel was true and they would like me to be baptized and be with them for time and eternity. Many close friends, too numerous to mention, were influential. You put all this together, and a conversion comes, even for a soul so rebellious and proud as mine."
On 23 August 1975, Val and Bill and their five daughters were sealed in the Logan Temple for time and all eternity. The next day, as the Flemmer family provided the program for sacrament meeting in the Banida Ward in Idaho, Valene spoke of temple marriage. "I've been blessed, but I've paid a heavy price in mental anguish and suffering," she said. "Marry in the temple to begin with, if you want the greatest assurance of happiness in this life and eternal happiness in the world to come."
Bill, too, bore his testimony of temple marriage, and of the examples of his family that had led him to the gospel—after twenty years. "It was while we knelt at the altar, surrounded by our loving daughters, that I began to grasp the transcendent beauty of the gospel," he said. "What a priceless blessing—to be married to the right person in the right place by the right authority, knowing that if we proved faithful to our temple covenants, we would be together as a celestial family for time and all eternity! The Holy Spirit bore testimony to my soul that this could be a reality."


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Not the typical dilemma, but I have a HD gift card burning a hole in my pocket and those were the only 2 things in the store that I remotely wanted. These items are also at the upper limit of what I am allowing myself to spend beyond the value of my gift card.
The Multi-Max scares me because the reviews that I have read tend to be rather polarized into the "its junk" and "greatest tool for the money" camps. I dont know if I should just save up for the Fein
The Kreg K4 kit will get used in my shop but it seems limited w/o the portable base. HD does not sell the master system.
Maybe I'll just get a couple of Jorgensen parallel clamps.
-- Eric - Baltimore MD
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#1 posted 01-12-2011 05:10 AM
I'm not sure what you mean by a portable base. I've been using Kreg for years and I have never heard of one.
If you get the K4, you will want to attach it to a board about 6" by 15". I clamp the board to my workbench whenever I need to use it and it works great.
-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.
#2 posted 01-12-2011 05:30 AM
link to Kreg K4 portable base
It looks like this "portable base" allows you to use the Jig w/o the bench clamp (of course you would need a face clamp). The the K4 master system comes with this thing.
-- Eric - Baltimore MD
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#3 posted 01-12-2011 05:46 AM
The Multi-Max is a nice tool but I don't see any place for it in woodworking. I keep one on my work truck and pull it out maybe every other week as it works great for a few things, mostly trimming in tight spots where a sawzall will just rip up too much stuff. I would say its our least used power tool and we would get by without it easily. It does save us time when we need it though.
The kreg is a great tool and I actually just got done drilling about 50 pocket holes about an hour ago. Not having the portable base really isn't a big deal. Its a nice addition, but the "bench" base is also portable and easy to use in a similar fashion to the portable base. I just got the master system and the portable base is convienient, but I built cabinets just as well without it. The face clamp that comes with the master system however is crucial. I use a kreg jig mostly to build face frames and I'd never do it without the face clamp. If you end up buying the clamp and to portable base you've already paid the difference between the basic and master kit. The little flip stop is the only other added piece in the master system though, and I doubt I'll ever use it. I just don't feel that pocket holes need to be placed that accurately that I need a stop, I'll just eyeball it.
I'd skip the multimax if all you do is woodworking. It's nice for remodeling work, but still only for a few specific tasks. The kreg jig is absolutely fantastic, but the master system really is worth the extra money.
#4 posted 01-12-2011 06:01 AM
Okay – Now I know what you mean by "portable base".
I have a portable base and very seldom use it. However, the face clamp is important.
I agree with everything jmichaeldesign says about Kreg. I know nothing about the Multi-Max.
-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.
#5 posted 01-12-2011 07:24 AM
Since you were looking to spend a HD gift card, the other tool they have at HD that I weighed against the Dremel multimax was the Ridgid JobMax. It is a similar tool, but variable speed and powered by a 12volt lithium battery. It comes with the occilating head which can saw flush, cut drywall, and remove grout between tiles. It also comes with a triangular sanding pad that can replace the blade and does a dandy job of sanding in tight corners. I use this tool for sanding more than cutting. The thing that sets this tool apart from the others is they sell other heads for the powered handle. I got the right angle drill attachment and that works great. They also make a 1/4" impact driver head which I wish I had known about before I went and bought a Millwaukee set. Would have saved me about $50. Another head is a powered ratchet driver and they have a nail driver head also. Anyway, the basic multi tool for cutting and sanding is $100 and the extra heads are $50 each.
I have a Kreg kit and I like it as well, but the Ridgid Jobmax is more useful to me. But, I haven't started building my big cabinet project yet either. My opinion may change once I do. I guess it depends on what you are planning to use the tools for.
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#6 posted 01-12-2011 08:21 AM
I would get a Dremel with the gift card and keep that kreg jig on the top of your list. I bought a K3 master system and I really like all the added features and engineering that was put into these jigs. For once I could afford the top of the line.
-- Aaron - central California "If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?"
#7 posted 01-12-2011 08:40 AM
I never drill pocket holes so I cant comment on that but I have the Dremel multi tool and I have found it to come in handy. I agree with a previous poster that its best served for home improvement work but either way its nice to have. I use the detail sander the most, works great for smaller projects and tight corners and hard to reach areas.
If you do a lot of home improvement type work I would def get the Dremel.
-- Dan - "Collector of Hand Planes"
#8 posted 01-12-2011 04:15 PM
I have the Kreg K3 and the Dremel and use both quite often.
I really like the Dremel for cutting openings in cabinets (islands and backs) for electrical boxes. My only beef with it is that it gets really hot after a few minutes.
-- Adversity doesn't build character...................it reveals it.
#9 posted 01-12-2011 04:40 PM
Go for the Kreg, you won't regret it.
-- Life is good.
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#10 posted 01-12-2011 05:20 PM
If you do more cabinet work, the Kreg is a good addition. Not having the base will not limit what you can do, it only makes it a little easier to do multiple pieces faster. I used a very simple older Kreg jig for years before getting the K3.
The Dremel is handy for light remodel type work. Personaly, I would save for the Fein. Well actually, I did. I don't regret that at all. Most people complain about the Fein being overpriced before buying, not after.
#11 posted 01-12-2011 09:51 PM
The Kreg jig is a thing of beauty, And I guess the dremel multi max would come in real handy for cutting the ends off of the plugs you use to fill the pocket holes after your done, your right quite a dilemma, I think I would go for the Kreg jig, it's so easy to use, and helpfull if you do alot cabinetry or face frames
#12 posted 01-13-2011 01:14 AM
I really like my Kreg jig. I have used it for more than cabinets or frames. I have the portable base but have not used it very often. I do most everyting in the shop. I don't have a Multimax but I did borrow the Harbor Freight version from a friend for a specific job. It worked and it has been sitting in the shop for quite a while. Neither one of us needed to use it. For around $30 on sale I will probably pick one of these up for the few times I may need one.
The Kreg gets way more use.
-- Ron, Kutztown, PA "The reward is in the journey."
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Scottsdale silver makes the nicest bars I've seen. check out the link! https://store.scottsdalesilver.com/ i got mine from the scottsdale ebay store..defiantly my favorite bars are these Scottsdale bars. Favorite silver coin is a tie between Austrian Philharmonic and American Silver Eagle.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is buying silver because it is pretty. Silver is silver, get the ugly stuff. I doesn't matter if it was touched by human hands, it is silver...not a collectible coin. if your touching the silver on silver coins like the silver maple, there's also some numismatic value along with the silver value. Higher grade coins or bars sell for more. If your looking at a MS 64 bar or coin thats gonna add value along with the price of the silver content. I would pay more for something in nice condition if i had the money.


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Fat produced NuItalo track from the Netherlands.
Essential & Obscure Underground Italo Disco, Synth Disco, Cosmic Disco, Space Disco and Electro Disco, mainly from 1977 to 1984, plus some of the best contemporary Nu Disco.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Mikron's - Vision (1986)
Sounds basically like "Polynesia" by "Mikron". Nearly the same name and the same sound - pretty clear that the writer of these songs is only one person: Fabio Masion. The other writer is Fabrizio Rizzolo also known as "Brian Ice" for example.
The Toys - Boogie in the night (1984)
That's funky Italo shit!!! The vocals are kind of strange but I like the instrumental version - as usual on the B-side.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Valerie Dore - Get closer (1984)
... to serve the cheese- and romance-factor of Italo and its video-clips:
Gesaffelstein - Death fagh (2008)
Back to the recent years with this one that was released on the EP "Vengeance Factory". Space flow included. Another track from this release I've already posted here in the blog.
Moments - The station (instr.) (1984)
This is the instrumental version on the B-side which is part of the "Musica da Batticuore"-mix number 7. Hypnotical bassline.
Smiles - N. 1,4 Magnetic dance (1983)
Besides "Pendulum" this one was the second release of "Smiles" in 1983 - nothing more came around later. But both are great tunes.
Sheik Sphere - Deep freeze (1984)
Who the hell invents such obscure group-names. The track itself is obscure as well. The producer of this one - Bruno Bergonzi - was playing the drums for P. Lion's "Happy children" and was also one of the two members of "Dhuo".
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
P.L. - I don't know what it is (1982)
... me either! I admit: this is kind of strange with a very big cosmic and space touch - but I like it.
The picture you can see in video is not the correct one - it shows the B-side of this release.
The picture you can see in video is not the correct one - it shows the B-side of this release.
Planet 84 - The gold rush (1987)
The only release of "Planet 84" produced by well-known Alex Cundari - one of the greatest at it's time.
Steel Mind - Boss man (1982)
With this one "Steel Mind" surprises us with a strange piece of music - but listen yourself.
P. Lion - Kings of the night (1984)
This one is taken from P. Lion's album "Springtime". Not as famous as "Happy children" which we know all but also a fine song.
Kid Frost - Terminator (instr.) (1985)
Also an electro track. This is one of the numberous excellent tracks has been played back in the 80s in my hometown disco at midnight when the lasershow starts up.
Arpanet - I-mode (2002)
This is more an electro cut than Italo. I wanna post it though because I love so much this bassline - and it's a rather short track ;-)
Monday, December 27, 2010
Junior Boys - So this is goodbye (2006)
A recent track in a melancholical mood with a nice slow-bubbling bassline.
Telex - Pakmoväst (1979)
Telex was founded in 1978 by Belgian guys Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers as an electronic disco-pop band. Marc Moulin already died in 2008; a pity. Their most successful 7" probably was "Moskow Discow". This here is the B-side of that 7inch.
The Metal Mother - I think ... (2007)
This is a little excursion in slo-mo deep-cosmic sound which absolutely contains some nice elements from Italo.
The Creatures - Expansion (1982)
Another masterpiece from the legendary album "L'Altro Mondo Studios". Makes me shivering every time I hear it loud feeling like being in a 80s-club and listening the opener of another great Italo-night or gazing at the midnight lasershow-action.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
East Wall - Eyes of glass (1985)
Producer was Ray Masola who also released "Malcom & The Bad Girls - Shoot me". The bassline remembers me on some tracks by "Sensitive" like "Give me" or "Driving". Great!!
Evelyn Smith - Lost in love (1982)
Nice funky guitar imbedded in such a wonderful Italo-mood.
Claudio Mingardi - Star (1984)
This is a medley between "Robyx - Star" and "David Bowie - Starman" in Italo-style. Robyx' real name is Roberto Zanetti and brought us such pearls like "Don't cry tonight" and "Only you" as his alias Savage.
The B-side features the so called "instrumental" version which contains a very nice vocoder. Check it out!
The B-side features the so called "instrumental" version which contains a very nice vocoder. Check it out!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Flexi Cowboys - Sexy movie (1984)
"Tell me, tell me baby ... What you gonna do tonight ...". This song is so sexy and beautiful. Like it a lot.
The picture cover would also fit to the second release of the Flexi Cowboys: "Domination".
The picture cover would also fit to the second release of the Flexi Cowboys: "Domination".
Frisbee - You are made for me (1985)
This song has been produced by Luigi Macchiaizzano who also has written for example "Travel Sex - Sexiness". Nice gem.
Data - Living inside me (1983)
Not only recent productions are coming from Scandinavia - but also this one from '83; it comes from a Norway.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Thai Break - Flowers in the rain (Original) (1985)
This piece of Italo is one of the best in my modest opinion.
... and then came Serge Santiago in 2008 and made it much better than ever - a masterpiece of edits. Play this as loud as you can:
... and then came Serge Santiago in 2008 and made it much better than ever - a masterpiece of edits. Play this as loud as you can:
Savage - "Don't cry tonight" (1983) and "Only you" (1984)
More romance you probably can't find than only in this two hits:
Den Harrow - Charleston/Broken radio (1986)
One of his most successful chart hits.
... and the B-side begins with a warning from outer space - so be careful ...
... and the B-side begins with a warning from outer space - so be careful ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Baltimora - Tarzan boy (1984)
One of the greatest Italo-chart-hits in the 80s.
Gino Felino - Spend the night (2010)
What - 2010??? Yes it's really a track from this year with samples from Steel Mind and Peter Richard. Very well done in my opinion.
Koto - Visitors (1985)
More infos about Koto you can get in my post "Chinese revenge". This one here is probably one of Koto's most successful tracks ever.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Pleasure Discipline - For hours now (Remix) (1984)
This beautiful track has been produced back in '84 but it has been only released within a mixed compilation from the same year and never as a 7inch or 12inch. Finally in 2009 the original producers came out with a five-track compilation and the full version of this.
Simply great!!!
Simply great!!!
The Sweeps - Facing the night (2010)
"Synth Planet" is the forth compilation of the "Radio Cosmos" label and contains also some very nice synth-pop and Italo-based tracks like this one here:
Antilles - Longing for the spring (2009)
This one is also from the compilation "Synthetic Momento" and fits somehow to the wheather at the moment - I'm longing for the spring too!!!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Vision Talk - Dina tankar (2009)
This is also a very poppy piece of music by this Swedish band from the last year. The release is taken from the great double album "Synthetic Momento" on the Radio Cosmos label.
The Creatures - May be one day (1984)
Beginning with about 90 bpm and then turning into a uplifting dance hit. There are really pieces by "The Creatures" which are more essential for their sound but it's a nice song though. Very poppy!!
Swan - Don't talk about it (1986)
Production by Alex Cundari - one of the busiest Italo producer ever.
"... and I say: Oh oh oh oh ..."
"... and I say: Oh oh oh oh ..."
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Scotch - Disco band (1983)
Did you caught a cold??? Oh no it's "Disco band"!!
... and the remix with even more cough ...
... and the remix with even more cough ...
Raf(f) - Self control (1984)
Also a well known song. The original artist's name of Raffaele Riefoli is "Raf". Only in Germany he has been called "Raff" because of the 70s terror group "RAF".
This is the video-clip from 1984.
This is the video-clip from 1984.
Ryan Paris - Dolce vita (1983)
Absolutely classic - who doesn't know this one?
Really live sung!!
Really live sung!!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Grant Miller - Colder than ice / Red for love (1985)
Hey girls, isn't he a cutie??? How he is moving so smooth to the rhythm!!
... and that's the B-side to get you on the dancefloor!!
... and that's the B-side to get you on the dancefloor!!
Roger Meno - I find my way (1985)
Vivien Vee - Higher (1983)
This video shows the most sychronised hyperactivated male dance performance ever.
BTW: it's a nice song though ... ;-)
BTW: it's a nice song though ... ;-)
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Deborah Kinley - Surprise (1984)
Seeeexxxxyyyy!!! If you have a look at the cover - and you WILL HAVE a look at the cover - you know why "sex sells" ... ;-))) Nice track though.
Den Harrow - Future brain (1985)
One of Den's most successful songs ever I think. Great tune at all. Here are both versions of the 12inch so you can listen to your own favourite one.
Anthony's Games - Silent smiles (1985)
Great tune to dance to produced by Raff Todesco and Marius Percali. Todesco was also in productions from Time (for example Shaker shake or Selling song).
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Diana Est - Tenax (1982)
Real name of Diana Est is Cristina Barbieri and she was born in Italy. This remix by Tony Carrasco is the pure Italo-feeling. I prefer the instrumental dub version on the B-side of the original 12inch. I think you should know both - the vocal and the instrumental. Here we go ...
Joe Garrasco & M.M. - Action (1986)
Sooooooo fantastic - and ultrarare as well.
Felli - Diamond in the night (1983)
Another bomb from the fabulous year 1983!!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Fantasy Life - Over and over (1985)
Also a masterpiece released on "Thick Record". On Discogs you can get a copy for cheap 300 Euros ... ;-)
Lovables - It's beautiful (1984)
Cheese alarm - but so tuuuuuune!!! Released on "Thick Record" - a sublabel of "Il Discotto Productions" - one of the best in Italo.
Miro Miroe - Nights of Arabia (1982)
Powerful HiNRG-song from England. Always sought after and hot.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Betty Miranda - Dance (1985)
This is the second song by Betty Miranda written by R.(Romano) Bais who also arranged "Sunlight" by "M like Moon".
Betty Miranda - Take me to the top (1984)
These life performances at the Italian "Discoring" TV-show does always take me to the top ... hahahaha!!
Albert One - Heart on fire (1985)
After introducing Alberto Carpani as the head of Jock Hattle (Band) this is my first post under his alias Albert One.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Flexi Cowboys - Domination (1985)
After having released this song the members of the "Flexi Cowboys" decided to leave his record company and switched their name into "Premio Nobel" whose most known song probably was "Baby doll".
The Creatures - Inspiration (1983)
Also from "L'Altro Mondo Studios". Simply a great album!!!
The Creatures - Starting from here (1983)
First track of the legendary album "L'altro Mondo Studios".
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Baby's Gang - Challenger (1984)
Funny video clip of a funny song!!! Totally 80s-style - hahaha ...
Styloo - Miss you (1984)
Second release after the bomb "Pretty face" from 1983. Doesn't reach the quality of the first song but although a nice one.
Charley - I can't love (1984)
The first and only 12inch ever released by this artist. Nice Italo-English vocals ;-)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tobias Bernstrup - Midnight blue (2008)
Brian Auger - Night train to nowhere (1985)
Always highly recommended record. Here some surprising informations about Brian Auger you wouldn't really have expected - Discogs says:
Born 18th July 1939 in London, UK.
Jazz pianist, bandleader, session man, Hammond B3 innovator and key figure in the rise of jazz/rock fusion.
Born 18th July 1939 in London, UK.
Jazz pianist, bandleader, session man, Hammond B3 innovator and key figure in the rise of jazz/rock fusion.
Den Harrow - Mad desire (1984)
Live performance by Den Harrow at the Italian TV-show "Discoring".
And here for your pleasure the 12inch version of this great gem:
And here for your pleasure the 12inch version of this great gem:
Righeira - Vamos a la playa (1983)
Not posted yet - but not forgotten. The probably most famous and successful Italo song ever ... With official video-clip.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Silver Pozzoli - Around my dream (1985)
First and probably most successful single from Silvio "Silver" Pozzoli. Here the 7inch version and the original 80s video-clip. Nice to watch after all the years. Pure old school Italo style. Great!!
Miko Mission - Two for love (1984)
Third release of Miko after the great "How old are you" and "The world is you".
Kano - China star (1983)
One of the tracks from the amazing album "Another life". Classic tune!!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Mr. Pauli - Pick up the phone (2008)
For a change after all that classic Italo tracks here comes a production from 2008 by Ingmar Pauli. Very nice one in my opinion. Enjoy!
Cless - Extraterrestreally (1983)
As we were just at piano tones: here is another mostly unknown but wonderful title with some passages of piano and also of saxophone. I personally prefer the instrumental version on the B-side.
Shah - Serenade (1985)
A very smooth and romantic song with great piano and beautiful female voice.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Mirage - Just one more chance (1985)
Hey, you see it's my Mirage-day today. This one is my personal favourite of THIS Mirage: the powerful B-side of "No more no war".
Mirage - No more no war (1985)
This is the same Mirage as the post before. It has a peaceful message: No more no war!!
Mirage - Get down (1984)
This "Mirage"-project has nothing to do with the post of "Change your life". It's another Mirage but also a good piece of music.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Paul Sharada - Dancing all the night (1984)
Let's dance all the night to the saxophone ...
K. Barré - Right by the moon (1984)
Very catchy and uplifting!
Rofo - Rofo' theme (1987)
A late release of "Rofo" in its typical HiNRG-style. For my ears it's like an opener for a club-night of the 80s and the DJ is talking over the music and welcomes the guests.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Mozzart - Money (1987)
Power HiNRG-track which obviously has its basic idea from "Trans-X - Living on video".
Dollar, Yen, Deutschmark ...
Dollar, Yen, Deutschmark ...
Mike Cannon - Voices in the dark (1983)
Classic tune with some very funky guitar solo at 3:03. Enjoy!
Clio - Faces (1985)
Such a nice jewel of music. Wonderful.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Company B. - Fascinated (1986)
This song was a floor-filler back in '86 and was rocking the clubs all over. Here you can watch a live performance from 1987. Enjoy that crazy blue-artifical-leather outfits and the amazing white wigs.
Timerider - Cocoon (1985)
The track is nice but nothing special. The only thing that's special is the man behind this production: Manfred Alois Segieth - or better known as "Fancy". There are always new surprises in this business ... :-)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Primadonna - Flashing on the floor (1984)
Typical sound with warm synths, a catchy melody and kind of strange female voice.
Peter Jacques Band - Drives me crazy (1985)
Oh my god - that drives me crazy!!!
Camaro's Gang - Fuerza major (1985)
This group has its roots in the amazing Superradio. The two founders of Superradio were Franco Scopinich & Venise and they were working together with lots of Italo-heros - for example Alessandro Novaga or Tony Carrasco. To play their own music in the radio they also founded their own record label: Superradio Records.
Fuerza major is a lovely piece of music they created.
Fuerza major is a lovely piece of music they created.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
John Carpenter/The Splash Band - Halloween (1984)
Happy HALLOWEEN!!!
Valerie Dore - It's so easy (1985)
I just recognized that there isn't any post of Valerie Dore here yet. So I have to change this immediately because that's essential for Italo indeed.
Fred Ventura - Night and day (1987)
Typical Crivellente-Farina production from these years. Like it but this is really the time when Italo-sounds become more and more exchangeable and were losing its individual character. The best years really were earlier.
Hivoh - To be together (1985)
Only 112 bpm but uplifting though. BTW: nice saxophone - and funky guitar at about 3:30. Awesome!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Mike Rogers - Just a story (1984)
Oooohhh, this song is such a good one. It brings together all elements a cheesy Italo song has to have.
Scotch - Delirio mind (1984)
One of my favourites of Scotch.
La-la-laa-lalalalalalaa-la-la-la-la-la-laa-lalalaa ...
La-la-laa-lalalalalalaa-la-la-la-la-la-laa-lalalaa ...
Lucia - Marinero (Remix) (1985)
Also a nice one even with a part of rappin'. Awesome!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Vicio Latino - Horario disco (1984)
Spanish Italo!! B-side of "¿Sabes que hora es?". Excellent!
George Aaron - She's a devil (1984)
Ace track with a massive synth-work that rocks like hell :-))
Lime - The party's over (1984)
This is the B-side of the 12inch "I don't wanna lose you" which I like a lot. "The party's over" has such a melancholical vibe and if you're listening to the lyrics you can really imagine how the both are feeling - they were falling in love and nobody has the heart to talk to the other one.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Joe Yellow - Lover to lover (1983)
First release of Joe Yellow who also has many aliases - for example Sylvi Foster or Bob Salton. Under these names he also came out with some great stuff.
Raggio di Luna - Comanchero (1984)
Live performance from 1985 of this essential slow-mo Italo hit first released in 1984. That was really a hit and nothing from the underground.
DJ's Factory - A view to a kill (1985)
Italo cover version of the 007-theme originally made by Duran Duran. The clip is kind of ridiculous because both actors are doing anything else but singing and playing instruments :-)
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Rofo - Flashlight on a disconight (1983)
First release of this HiNRG based project called "Rofo" from the Netherlands. Wonderful!!
Stefano Pulga - Love taker (1983)
The man who produced many things from Kano also made his own career with great music.
The first cut is the 12inch version; the second cut shows a live performance in the Italian TV.
I personally prefer the instrumental version on the B-side of the 12inch.
The first cut is the 12inch version; the second cut shows a live performance in the Italian TV.
I personally prefer the instrumental version on the B-side of the 12inch.
Fred Ventura - Imagine (1987)
It's still Italo but you can recognize that it's a late 80s production with the first influences of House music. Nice piece of music though.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Phaeax - Talk about (1983)
WOW - let's dance through the night with this HiNRG burner.
Jupiter Black ft. Fred Ventura - Hold me (2007)
The German guys from Jupiter Black created a warm NuItalo bomb together with the legend Fred Ventura. Absolutely worth to listen to. A real journey back into the 80s.
Gazebo - Lunatic (1983)
For all lovers of piano and more classic instruments in Italo-songs. This is the official video. It's soooooo nice!!!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Jock Hattle - Crazy family (1983)
HiNRG track produced by Alberto Carpani alias Albert One - see also the related post some days ago.
Rofo - I want you (1984)
Cheesy and soooo good though ...
Mya & The Mirror - Hesitation (1984)
Written and produced by Maurizio Dami. Maurizio who?? You also know this guy as Alexander Robotnick. As usual with some unusual elements - but although good old Italo.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Ka-Zan - Give me your heart (1986)
Another surprise: The real name of "Ka-Zan" is Luca Zanarini - and he was involved in two great productions of Amin Peck: "Running straight" and "Modem - Your fun (an alias of Amin Peck)". Luca was part of the mixing-team besides some others.
Jock Hattle Band - To be or not to be (1986)
I knew that this sound is known to me. But why? Very simple: behind Jock Hattle (Band) stands Alberto Carpani alias Albert One. And who doesn't know hits from Albert One?
Naif Orchestra - Check-out five (1984)
This song has some surprising elements for you (saxophones for example) - nevertheless: great sound.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Nexus - Stand up (1983)
This gem is still influenced by the 70s disco-era. The man behind "Nexus" is Maurice Cavalieri. I guess this name doesn't say anything to the most people but if I tell you that he also is responsible for killer tracks like "Charlie - Spacer woman" or that he stands behind the "International Music System" you see that he is so much more than an unknown quantity.
Here I give you both versions of his "Stand up" - the vocal and the instrumental.
Here I give you both versions of his "Stand up" - the vocal and the instrumental.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Ken Laszlo - Tonight (1985)
After his first successful release "Hey hey guy" in 1984 Ken Laszlo came out with this one. It's pretty nice but can't reach the "phone-call-gem".
Max Coveri - One more time (1986)
One of the best 86-releases - that's rare enough and the reason why I mention it.
Fake - Right (Remix) (1984)
This is a great sounding song with a hypnotic bassline and nice vocals.
Monday, October 11, 2010
My Mine - Cupid girl (1985)
This is a most forgotten and underrated song by My Mine whose most successful release probably was "Hypnotic tango". Here you can watch one of these typical 80s video clips.
Max Him - Lady fantasy (1985)
After "No escape" this was the next song by "Him". This is one of two 12inch versions - besides a remix from the same year. The instrumental on the B-side has been played by the DJ in our hometown disco when he was celebrating the lasershow - suited somehow.
Max Him - No escape (1984)
This was the second release of Max Him but the first one that has been really noticed. Nice synths and a catchy melody - and you even can listen to the vocals without bleeding out of your ears :-)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Hypnosis - Pulstar (1983)
Turn the laser on - it's showtime ...
Robert Marlow - No heart (1983)
Not many people payed attention to this man and his releases have been forgotten soon. But this one is probably his best - it's the B-side of "I just want to dance".
Time - Selling song (1984)
Most people know their classic "Shaker shake". But this is also a nice one for sure. With the well known bassline similar to Shaker shake.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
J.D. Jaber - Don't stop lovin' (1983)
Smooth Italo-song with the special cheese-factor. I like the piano at about 4 minutes - that's great!!
Joe Maran - Give me a break (1983)
Rolling bassline and vocals that need getting used to... But listen to it more than once and you start liking them.
BTW: 1983 is the real release year.
BTW: 1983 is the real release year.
Ben Richardson - Skydiver (1979)
Absolutely classic!!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Margueritas - Margherita (Hot edit) (2003)
This is the only version I found on youtube. It has been released on the "Unclassics #2" in 2003. But this one isn't really worse than the original from 1980.
Tom Hooker - Looking for love (1986)
Production and voice is very similar to Den Harrow. What the hell is the reason for that? :-))))
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Fred Ventura - I'm not ready (2009)
To verify my thesis from the last post about Fred Ventura here is the probably best song of the year 2009. It's produced by the Italian duo Ajello and is a total reminiscence to the best HiNRG-producer ever - Robert Phillip Orlando.
Fred Ventura - The years (go by) (1985)
This is one of the best vocal Italo songs ever. Fred Ventura has a great voice and makes it the perfect way. BTW: he is still in the business today and delivers some great work yet.
The Creatures - Digital rebel (1983)
This is the B-side of the 12inch "Believe in yourself" you also can find here in the blog.
Vicio Latino - ¿Qué me pasa, qué me pasa? (1983)
Italo produced by a Spanish guy from Madrid named Pedro Vidal. The female voice is a bit hysterical but the synths are great.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
My Mine - Zorro (1984)
One year after the great "Hypnotic tango" My Mine came out with this gem. Not as successful as their first release but also a good one in my opinion.
Amin Peck - Running straight (1984)
Another fantastic work by Amin Peck. He understands to join a strange voice with stunning synth-sounds and the result is always a great one. "Running straight" is another proof of this statement.
Samoa Park - Monkey latino (1983)
This is the first release of Samoa Park. It's a medley between the two songs "Monkey chop" and "Paris latino". Well done!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Ranko - Happy world (1984)
Great cheesy stuff.
Webo - Shaking lovers (1985)
Stunning and catchy synth-work. This is a masterpiece with this typical Italo-English language.
Gaznevada - Ticket to Los Angeles (1984)
Cool live performance with this mostly unknown and underrated song.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Cruisin' Gang - America (1985)
It's a kind of medley with "Machinery" by Propaganda.
It's really from '85 and not from '86 like the video shows.
It's really from '85 and not from '86 like the video shows.
Yvonne Kay - Rise up (for your love) (1985)
Stunning bassline and great HiNRG-Italo song at all.
Madeleine Uzho - Satisfied (1983)
Very nice song with a great singer. Slow mo music to dream and relax.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Miko Mission - The world is you (1984)
That's also Italo pure.
Droids - The force (SSUK edit) (2008)
The original from 1977 is essential and you also can find it here in the blog. This one here is a 2008-edit version from Serge Santiago and launches the floor into the orbit.
Sorry but the video isn't available at the time.
Sorry but the video isn't available at the time.
Legowelt - Visions fade (2000)
Great tune from Danny Wolfers - the man behind Legowelt and lots of other projects and aliases.
His productions are all a bit dark and the bassline in this gem remembers me on Bobby "O".
The video shows some clips from the movie "Future chock" from 1972.
His productions are all a bit dark and the bassline in this gem remembers me on Bobby "O".
The video shows some clips from the movie "Future chock" from 1972.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Dance Disorder - Zusammen (2010)
This track is mindblowing - especially when the synth-bassline comes in at about 1:48. One of best tracks in 2010 in my opinion. But listen yourself.
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane "Italo 84" Remix) (2009)
Hey this is from 1984!! Not really because Sebastien Tellier was 9 years old back in '84. It's really from 2009 and Aeroplane made it sound like a good old Italo-track with their amazing remix.
Image - Hot stuff (Spasmo version - instrumental) (1984)
I've already posted the vocal version here in the blog because the so much better B-side wasn't available at that time. But now I found it finally.
Doctor's Cat - Feel the drive (1983)
Some time ago I've posted here the Trans Europe Mix of this amazing song. Now I think it's time for the original.
Sensitive - Give me (1985)
In good Sensitive-tradition - if you can talk about a tradition with their three tracks - that synth-line sounds sooooo good.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Riccardo Cioni - Fog (1984)
After all these post from nowadays and the recent years we are going back now into the 80s with this - I guess - mostly unknown masterpiece (at least to me) of electro-influenced Italo. It is the second track on the B-side of the 12inch "Darkness inside".
I really can imagine that this sound would be blow you away by listening in a club and seeing the green laser quivering across the room. Play this record loud!!!
I really can imagine that this sound would be blow you away by listening in a club and seeing the green laser quivering across the room. Play this record loud!!!
In Flagranti - Personal angst (2008)
Another balearic and cosmic-style oriented track with some acid elements. Also appearing on an EP named "Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 1 (Part 1)".
Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. Bulgari - When I dream of New York (2009)
Epic and cosmic beach-style like. Nice stuff which has been released on the "Epic Disco Vol. 1" from "Rollerboys recordings".
The title of this EP is its programm too.
The title of this EP is its programm too.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Phoreski - Slow me down (2009)
Another relaxing new track released on the Spanish label "Rare Wiri Records" which has been founded by Raico Peña aka Rayko - a pal from Ilya Santana. It contains a good bassline as well as lots of other great synth- and guitar-elements.
Ilya Santana - You are the one (2009)
Cosmic-balearic-italo-withfunkyguitar-style. Very unique work from this Gran-Canarian boy who is living in the capitol of this Canarian island - Las Palmas. And that's not the only unique track he composed. Check him out - it's worth.
Keen K - When the moon falls down (2010)
Pretty new stuff from the German guy Kai Lüdeling. He is an electro/italo producer based in Berlin and started making music in the late 80s. Another alias of him is "Divider" who was responsible for the massive Divider-remix of "We like Moroder" originally released by Jupiter Black.
This track here is very smooth and melodious but also has a part with a very driving bassline after a break at 3:16. Great work at all ... The track appeared on the "Synth Planet"-album of the "Radio Cosmos"-label from France.
This track here is very smooth and melodious but also has a part with a very driving bassline after a break at 3:16. Great work at all ... The track appeared on the "Synth Planet"-album of the "Radio Cosmos"-label from France.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Ichisan - Atanamamo (2009)
That's the second track from Igor Škafar on the "Space patrol EP".
Ichisan - Robots from above (2009)
This guy from Slovenia knows the way ... Released on the "Space patrol EP" on "Solardisco".
Nelue - No strings attached (feat. Kayele) (2009)
That's something different. Nice new stuff with great voice and cosmic-balearic-touch.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Casionova - The visionary (2008)
This is another killer track from this "Cyber Dance Records" release "Messages from the void". Support the artists and save vinyl!! It's really worth.
Ali Renault - Zombie raffle (Mr. Pauli's revenge) (2008)
A slomo NuItalo-killer from Ali Renault remixed by Ingmar Pauli aka Mr. Pauli. It has been released on an EP called "Messages from the void" on "Cyber Dance".
GREAT WORK at all!!
GREAT WORK at all!!
Rofo - You've got to move it on (1984)
Classic HiNRG-Italo-gem produced by Fonny de Wulf from the Netherlands. De Wulf was also responsible for the first Laser Dance track. He also made music in later years in the house and techno genre.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Azul y negro - The night (1982)
I found this live gig of "Azul y negro" with their famous hit "La noche" or "The night". Really nice to see them acting with all their synthesizers and hear them singing through the vocoder.
And here is the vinyl and studio recorded version we all know - but a bit pitched down.
And here is the vinyl and studio recorded version we all know - but a bit pitched down.
Kano - Cosmic voyager (1980)
This is a track from Kano's first album "Kano". You can hear the very early influence of Italo (produced by Stefano Pulga - as usual for Kano) as well as the influence of end 70s Disco music. Nice combination in my opinion.
Smith 'n' Hack - Falling stars (2007)
This is definitely music from outer space. If you close your eyes you can watch the falling stars "deep in the unknown" at "the point of no return".
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Divine - Shoot your shot (1982)
And because it's just Bobby "O" time here is Divine in a real video and a live performance - whatever you call performance.
The New York Models - Love on video (instr.) (1985)
This is another female singer project masterminded by Bobby "O".
There also is the vocal version available with the picture of the original "MEMO records" label. I didn't post this one because the speed of the record is pitched up on a level that doesn't sound very well.
There also is the vocal version available with the picture of the original "MEMO records" label. I didn't post this one because the speed of the record is pitched up on a level that doesn't sound very well.
The Flirts - Danger (1983)
The Flirts were not always the same singers but they had only ONE mastermind: Bobby Orlando. And the sound couldn't hide this.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Alden Tyrell - Rendez vous at Rimini (2006)
Hey friends, I gonna take you on a timetrip. Let's travel to the Italian Adria coast and visit the old 80s clubs of Rimini.
Track is featured on this great double album "Times like these (1999-2006)".
Track is featured on this great double album "Times like these (1999-2006)".
Michael Prince - Dance your love away (1985)
If your heart is broken listen to this song and "Dance your love away"!!!!
Gil de la Paz - I wanna live (1987)
This is some of these forgotten B-sides. It's called House but for me there is also a lot of Italo in it - and pure energy to rock the house.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Hasbeens - You and me (2009)
Very nice new Italo-track with great vocoder voice. If you watch this official video completely you can see master Alden Tyrell passing by as the driver of the old Mercedes Benz.
Chris Luis - The heart of the city (1984)
Classic Italo gem. Love this a lot.
Laser Cowboys - The final conflict (1984)
Once upon a time in the West ... Supported by scenes from the movie "Westworld". Well done clip.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Bolero - I wish (1984)
Ace classic track!!! Let's dream together.
Hipnosis - Argonauts (1984)
This one also brings me back in my hometown club in the mid 80s. It's the B-side of "Astrodance".
Peter Brown - They only come out at night (1984)
This is a nice piece of music. Peter Brown is an US-boy and believe it or not: his most successful production was "Material girl" by Madonna.
Friday, August 13, 2010
The Robot Scientists at Comet/Magnet Berlin Fri 20th Aug
For those of you dear readers who live in Berlin or close-by, next week, Friday, The Robot Scientists will present a 2-hour DJ set with higher energy synth disco monsters at the Magnet / Comet Club. Don't miss this - might be a unique chance to dance to their spaced out beats!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
P. Lion - Happy children (1983)
Not to forget this one. The sound quality is pretty poor but I thought to post an original video from this time - it's rare enough to watch them but everytime kind of funny.
Miko Mission - How old are you (1984)
Essantial Italo track - but you don't have to listen to the vocals; they are pretty stupid. But what we love is the music and the sound.
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Fellow BLCer Steve Troop just submitted the "Snakes on a Plane" spoof video from to the MTV Movie Awards. Over the next week, Web users vote on their favorite spoofs and the finalists will be shown on MTV during the MTV Movie Awards.
Quoth the Trooper: …Please vote for our little spoof. If Melonpool makes the finals, I'll resurrect the webcomic for a couple weeks in June.
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GENEVA, Oct. 30 — The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Thursday set up a vision for the development of 5G mobile, in a bid to provide lightning speed, omnipresent, ultra-reliable mobile communications in the short future.
The "IMT-2020" vision, endorsed by a resolution in ITU's Radiocommunication Assembly, established overall "vision" for 5G systems, along with the goals, process and timeline for its development, is now in place.
The detailed technical performance requirements for the radio systems to support 5G will be developed, in close collaboration with industry and national and regional standards organizations, following the stringent timelines defined by ITU.
"The new ITU-R Resolution sets the stage for the future development of 5G mobile technologies," said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao.
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ITU said that recognizing that a connected society in the years beyond 2020 will need to accommodate a similar user experience for end-users regardless of whether they are on the move or stationary, the new 5G standards aim at maintaining high quality service at high mobility, enabling the successful deployment of applications on a moving platform, such as in cars or high-speed trains. (PNA/Xinhua)


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Despite the 'support' of the G-20 and the self-deceiving belief that Japan is 'not' manipulating its currency; 60 US Senators appear confused. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Trans-Pacific-Partnership Trade Rep Michael Froman, the Senators demand they "address one of the 21st century's most serious trade problems: foreign currency manipulation." In order to ensure any agreements meet the "high standards" that America's workers deserve, Lew and Froman are directed to include "strong and enforceable disciplines," for any currency manipulations. Cue Abe protestations at US policy...
As Richard Koo noted in the past:
Japan has been the only country to observe the agreement reached at the November 2008 G20 emergency meeting in an attempt to prevent a currency war. In contrast, western nations have freely pursued weaker currencies: the UK and the US via massive quantitative easing and Switzerland via direct intervention on the forex market.
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North of 45th Committee
The North of 45th Committee aims to improve the quality of life for students and permanent residents living in the U District's North of 45th neighborhoods.
Sponsored by the Division of Student Life and the Office of Regional Affairs, the North of 45th committee meets once a quarter with representatives from University Park neighborhood association, students, University of Washington Police Department and Seattle Police Department.
One of the programs sponsored by this committee is the Husky Neighborhood Interns program. To contact the Interns please email below.
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We work to address the following issues:
- Crime & student safety
- Substandard, overcrowded housing
- Noise, parties, & vandalism
- Poor relationships & community interactions
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