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Meet the man who makes Tranio work: Mikhail Bulanov, executive director
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Mikhail Bulanov, executive director at Tranio, has been here since the beginning. It may have started with the email system and the balance sheet, but now it's his job to make sure the company and the office run smoothly every day, month and year. In this interview, he explains how the company was forged, who the ideal employee is, and how to reconcile family and job perfectly.
Mikhail Bulanov is one of Tranio's main decision-makers, a "nerve centre" so to say
— Mikhail, how did you end up at Tranio?
— That's a long story… Actually I've known George since I was a student. During my first year at university, I began working at Optimism, an advertising agency, together with George Kachmazov, Tranio's managing partner. Back then I was a simple optimiser and there were about five of us working at the company. By the time I was senior, there were almost a hundred employees and we were leaders on the market — that's when I got promoted to technical director and head of contextual advertising department. But George and I had this feeling that we would rather work on our own project rather than advertising others, and it was about then that George's parents decided to buy a flat abroad. That's how the idea took shape: create a project that would connect foreign real estate agents with Russian clients who have no clue about overseas property markets. Little by little, I moved away from Optimism and began working on Tranio.
— So when did you get Tranio off the ground?
— In 2010, Vladimir Zakharov, our senior information architect, and I spent a marathon month in Sochi, devising how our new company would look and work. I was on the business plan, product description, while Vladimir was designing the website interface and user interaction logic. The result of 30 days of total social isolation was an elaborate vision for the company. Armed with our project, we hired a design team and started to create our product. The first step: launching a website that aggregated foreign property news, that "taught" search engines our existence and "showed" that our website was operating. While we added content, we were also defining the core of our product, finding real estate agents for our property catalogue to introduce to our clients who were interested in buying real estate. Initially sellers could advertise for free, enabling us to have the largest overseas property catalogue on the Russian web. That's when we shifted our focus from quantity to the quality of listings and started eliminating the incomplete, the unintelligible and what was just plain spam.
— But now Tranio has a different strategy...
— Yes, over time we realised that this business model could not generate enough profit over a reasonable time so we changed our approach and opened a Sales Department to advise potential buyers and help them find the right property.
Meet the woman behind the Sales Department, Marina Filichkina.
— There are rumours suggesting you also found the name "Tranio"
— Those aren't rumours, it's all true. When we were building the project's brand, in one of our discussions (we tried to take all the decisions together), we were reminded of my nickname at uni: "Tranio" — a story that includes me waiting for a girl at the library and reading a play by Plautus — Tranio was a character in the play, both a servant and an advisor of protagonist. The nickname stuck with me for a while and later, fit our project's philosophy perfectly...
Tranio today…
— How has your role changed at Tranio?
— Before, I was in charge of technical design and financial planning, but our team was small and everybody was in charge of everything. There wasn't really such a thing as the segregation of duties. Apart from the technical and financial things, I was also doing advertising, for example.
— Tranio is now much bigger, are you still in charge of everything?
— No, it's impossible now. There are almost fifty of us already and even more if we count our freelancers. I'm still responsible for the website design, financial planning and accounting but I also spend a lot of time on the automation of our Sales Department. That's where our competitive advantage lies: we have a management system that standardises and automates most of the simple tasks, so the team can immediately access information on what clients want, so these actions like client histories, contact details, desired properties could be done in a click. It's saved us time and effort so our team can work with maximum efficiency and spend more time with the clients instead of copying, pasting and wasting time on things our system can handle. I also do advertising, update Tranio website and brand and automate our other departments too.
— How many people depend on you?
— There are five in our design office in Novokuznetsk (a city in Siberia), I also have an assistant in Moscow who helps me with the accounting records, though we outsource most accountancy work. But these are just estimates because all internal processes go through George (mostly) and myself.
All Mikhail needs to work is a laptop, a mobile and an Internet connection
— Is it efficient to have just one person directing so much of the activity?
— Good question. I've been a part of all this work since the beginning so I have a good idea of everything that has ever happened, is happening now or will happen in the company. That makes it quicker and more effective for me to resolve some issues than to describe how and what to do to somebody else. But on the other hand, it's not very efficient, because it makes some people indispensable, which is something we are trying to change now by handing over more responsibility to our team. Organising, automating, describing the processes to create a smooth system without a nerve centre is our current goal. Among other things we make guidelines and procedures so people know what to do and what will get results.
— And how do you manage?
— Fine, otherwise, we wouldn't sleep a wink.
— Have there been any tough moments in the five years you work at Tranio?
— I wouldn't say that. We have always had a clear vision of where we are going to and what we need to do to get there. The answer is to work hard in several directions. If you work hard and fair, you'll achieve the results that motivate you to go on. Even the crises weren't an obstacle for us: we have always been developing and moving forward. The most important is to do whatever we can, do it well, and just this already guarantees results.
— What is the most unpleasant for you in your job? And the most interesting?
— The most unpleasant thing is probably untangling someone else's mess or a problem that you can't make head or tail of it. And the most interesting is organising processes: when you look on what is going on, elaborate the whole sequence of actions, figure out how to optimise it and put your process into action. Then, the most pleasant thing is watching it succeed. I also like analysing the company's performance in the following way: where are the hotspots and how does the money we invest in our team turn into profit? It lets us, among other things, find out who does best and works competently, and who cuts corners or works with no heart in it.
— What are the most important qualities for Tranio employees to have in your opinion?
— First, the ability and desire to progress. They matter because the world, technology and the market are constantly changing and we need to adapt. The second is the ability to understand, admit and not make the same mistakes twice. A mistake in itself is not a crime, if the conclusions have been made and it doesn't happen again. The third, attentiveness, is linked to this: inattentive people make mistakes, repeat them and that trait is difficult to fix. And one more: employees should care. They should care about how and why they do something but also how their work will impact the work of others. These traits always pay off and our team have these qualities.
Home, family and hobby
— Mikhail, you work at the company that sells overseas property. Where is your dream home?
— Our family has a flat in Bulgaria where we go to at times, but for me personally I don't need a second home abroad now. I'm energetic and don't want to restrict myself to one location. Where I am doesn't matter much — all I need is a laptop, a mobile and an Internet connection and I'm happy. I would rather rent a property somewhere I want to go.
— Where is that?
— I have two favourite destinations: Asia, particularly Thailand, and Barcelona. I like the climate and schedule in Asia: in the morning I have breakfast, a swim, work with a fresh mind and then Moscow wakes up. And Barcelona is just a very bright and beautiful city. I went there on my honeymoon.
— Oh, you mean you didn't marry Tranio?
— No, no. Not exactly but my wife is lead real estate sales manager for Germany at Tranio, Sofia Latypova. We met at work and have been together for a year already. We celebrated our wedding six months ago.
Family and work go hand-in-hand for Mikhail: his wife is a sales manager at Tranio
— Do you have any job-related conflicts?
— No. On the contrary: in my opinion, it's very convenient: there is no need to make arrangements about where and when to meet after work, no time to miss your beloved. We can have lunch together during the break and go to the theatre in the evening, for example.
— What do you do in your free time?
— My mother taught me the love of theatre since childhood, that's why I try to never miss interesting premieres and performances. I also have to admit I do love food, so we go out to eat a lot. And I do sports of course: boxing, wakeboarding and now I'm learning to snowboard.
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With a careful eye for composition, colors, and geometry, Lartigue's background in painting translates clearly into his photography. In a similar fashion to the impressionists and post-impressionists before him, the colors in his images are generally monotone save for some stark pops of primary colors, and appear dreamy with autochrome's high grain effect. The autochrome process was introduced in 1907 and, like most photographic technology during this time, brought many limitations: it was relatively expensive, messy to use, and difficult to preserve. He began experimenting with this technique as early as 1911, until he realized in 1927 that, with its lengthy exposure times, to shoot with color was not spontaneous enough to record his fast moving subjects in his instinctive manner of photographing. He would not shoot again with color until 1949 when the first commercial color transparency film, Kodak Ektachrome, was on the market.
His images would remain unknown and nestled in family albums until he was 69 years old when an encounter with curator John Szarkowski gave Lartigue the opportunity for a solo exhibition in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art. Szarkowski states in the 1963 exhibition catalogue, "To show clearly the life of our own time and place demands acute perception, for our eyes grow accustomed to the everyday miracles. But it would seem that the pictures in an old album need only to have been focused and clearly printed, in order to reveal the sense and spirit of their past time." Szarkowski was enamored by the Lartigue's active eye which uniquely captured the high energy and spirit of modernity.
Lartigue's color photographs represent an astounding 40 percent of the 117,577 images held by the Foundation Jacques Henri Lartigue. [via Aperture] Autochromes, however, are difficult to exhibit due to their fragility and his ektachromes required intense restoration before exhibition or being printed into books, such as Lartigue: Life in Color by Martine d'Astier, the director of the Foundation Jacques Henri Lartigue, and Martine Ravanche. Many of his images will not be exhibited due to the difficulties of preserving such old photographic processes, however his color photography has been regularly exhibited over the years, in museums and galleries such as la Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and Foam in Amsterdam in 2016.
Lartigue's Life in Color is currently being exhibited at Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne through September 23, 2018, and a variant collection inspired by Lartigue's color works at Polka Galerie, Memory of Colors, in Paris from September 15 through October 27, 2018.
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Q: How to retrive profile and user schema with mongoose in one command? How to have user and profile together?
This is how User schema defined:
const UserSchema = new Schema({
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  name: { type: String, required: true },
  password: { type: String },
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and Profile schema:
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  setting3: { type: String, enum: ['YES', 'NO', 'UNKNOWN'], default: 'UNKNOWN' },
});

How can I retrieve in one command/line the profile when I ask for user?
User.findOne({ email: 'blabla@gmail.com' })

I have try populate but it is not works:
User.findOne({ email: 'blabla@gmail.com' }).populate('profile')

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*Please notice: I don't want to have profile in user in the same schema.

A: You would need to link the Profile inside the UserSchema:
const UserSchema = new Schema({
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Retrotechtacular: Remembering Radio Shack P-Box Kits
If you are under a certain age, you probably associate Radio Shack with cellphones. While Radio Shack never gave us access to the variety and economy of parts we have today, they did have one thing that I wish we could get again: P-Box kits. The obvious questions are: What's a P-Box and why do I want one? But the kit wasn't to make a P-Box. P-Box was the kind of box the kit came in. It was like a piece of perfboard, but made of plastic, built into a plastic box. So you bought the kit — which might be a radio or a metal detector — opened the box and then built the kit using the box as the chassis.
The perfboard was pretty coarse, too, because the components were all big discrete components. There was at least one that had an IC, but that came premounted on a PC board that you treated like a big component. One of my favorites was a three-transistor regenerative shortwave receiver. In those days, you could pick up a lot of stations on shortwave and it was one of the best ways at the time to learn more about the world.
On the left, you can see a picture of the radio from the 1975 catalog. You might think $7.95 is crazy cheap, but that was at least a tank full of gas or four movie tickets in those days, and most of us didn't have a lot of money as kids, so you probably saved your allowance for a few weeks, did chores, or delivered papers to make $8.
The Dirty Few Dozen
The kits changed over the years. In 1975 there were twenty of them, but over the years there were about thirty different kits. In fact, the shortwave radio was a few bucks more than most of them, although there were a few that were even more, but — in 1975, at least — none of them were over $9.
The kits all had a few common features. You were told to use your soldering iron to make holes for the things like pots. Made a mess of your iron and also released oh-so-wholesome fumes. There were little aluminum terminals used for off-box connections. You can see them in some of the pictures above. They had springs that you would push down, insert a wire, and then the spring would clamp the wire.
If you want to see all the kits, there is a site with scans of many old Radio Shack catalogs. This page and the next one are where I pulled the data for 1975. But there are other years, too. There were also other kits that didn't use P-Box, including a bunch of PCBs for a buck or two for projects like power supplies and stereo preamps. That didn't include other parts though, but — of course — you could buy them all at Radio Shack.
And Today?
It is true you can get lots of beginner-level kits today. But many of them have tiny components, ICs, or rely on some complicated "magic chip" (a preprogrammed IC). These projects were simple and useful and inexpensive.
They were also available. Heathkit, for example, had great kits with amazing manuals. Sure, they cost more, but they generally looked like something you bought ready-made if you built it right. On the other hand, the cheapest shortwave receiver in a 1976 Heathkit catalog was nearly $70. Sure, it looked like a real radio and probably performed better, too. But $70? Might as well have been a million for the kids buying P-Box kits.
Even if you had the money unless you lived near a Heathkit store — there were a few — you had to order something and that was a lot harder and took longer without the Internet. You probably sent a check, waited for it to clear, and then waited for the parcel to arrive. Maybe you were smarter and got a money order or placed the order COD (cash on delivery), but it was still going to take time.
Radio Shack, on the other hand, was right around the corner. Well… about 30 miles around the corner for me, because I grew up in the sticks. But it was very likely you lived within an hour's drive of a Radio Shack. You could take your birthday money, go to the store, and have near-instant gratification. That counts for something when you are a kid.
If you wanted to build your own version of any of these kits, the Sparktron website has scans of most of the manuals. The handily have a schematic and a bill of materials for each kit in the manuals, of course. Usually, the parts list was with the layout that showed you where to put the parts. You might have to cross reference some Radio Shack part numbers, too. Here's the schematic for the FM radio, for example.
None of the kits were very complicated as they were meant for a kid to build in one or two sittings. Some of the parts might be a little hard to find, these days, but we've seen people manage.
The real question is what to build it on? You could use a piece of real perfboard, of course, but that seems like cheating. It would be near sacrilege to produce a PC board for them. It seems like it would be worth at least trying to make the perfboard red, as [Netzener] does (he's rebuilt at least three P-Box kits in the modern day).
I'm afraid I don't have any of the half dozen P-Box kits I built back in the day. But [robssk885] has one and he shows it off in the video below. If you want to see more, there is a gallery of contributed photos on the Sparktron site (towards the bottom).
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Miroslav says:
That FM radio schematic … I don't see any way to control the regeneration level. Fixed? Always oscillating?
Al Williams says:
From the manual:
In this circuit, transistor Q1 operates as a superregenerative detector. With no signal present, pulses of current flowing from the collector circuit of Q1 establish an average value of collector current. When a signal is received, the pulse frequency changes, causing the collector current to vary at the audio rate. The resulting audio signal is coupled through audio transformer T1 to the base of transistor Q2 where it is amplified. Capacitors C8 and C9 in the audio amplifier stage help to filter some of the high-frequency hiss which would otherwise be objectionable for extended listening.
The superregenerative receiver uses a second lower-frequency oscillation (within the same stage or by using a second oscillator stage) to provide single-device circuit gains of around one million. This second oscillation periodically interrupts or "quenches" the main RF oscillation.[38] Ultrasonic quench rates between 30 and 100 kHz are typical. After each quenching, RF oscillation grows exponentially, starting from the tiny energy picked up by the antenna plus circuit noise. The amplitude reached at the end of the quench cycle (linear mode) or the time taken to reach limiting amplitude (log mode) depends on the strength of the received signal from which exponential growth started. A low-pass filter in the audio amplifier filters the quench and RF frequencies from the output, leaving the AM modulation. This provides a crude but very effective automatic gain control (AGC).
Superregenerative detectors work well for wide-band signals such as FM, where they perform "slope detection".
Thanks Al. It is a superregenerator, then.
Oh the smell of melted plastic!
Brian Decker says:
I know it was bound to happen, but it's a shame that the "new maker movement" that began 20 years ago has shifted from making things from discreet parts to buying a few pre-built modules from Sparkfun or Adafruit and plugging them together.
Thinkerer says:
I'm going to argue that that's not quite a fair complaint in that discrete parts still exist and people still make things from them, but the plug-togethers are a good, simple starting point to get many people interested enough in the results to pursue the rest into the more frustrating and arcane avenues of experimentation. This was the putative aim of the RS box kits after all.
Also the discrete parts themselves have changed – if we could have gotten our hot little fists on things like an ATTiny/Arduino/Pi we would have in a New York minute. As it was, op-amps, 555 timers etc. were available and used for these kinds of projects and probably got the same complaints ("why aren't they using individual semiconductors?").
Ken N says:
Agreed. I grew up in that "P-Box" era when we were mainly using discrete components plus maybe a few analog or digital ICs. I still like doing stuff with discretes (including tubes), things like regen radios, preamps, etc… but I also have a small stockpile of Arduinos, ESP8266s, and other assorted modules and I really enjoy creating stuff with those too.
Jon H says:
Also today's plug-together components are often at a much higher level of functionality than would be practical or even possible with discretes, significantly raising the level of projects that can be built for a given investment of effort and money.
Zerg says:
These kits were aimed at kids not adults with a decade of experience. These kits were meant to teach. Far different than the offerings from Sparkfun.
JanuszM says:
It's much better today with all these ready modules. Children are getting so much more understanding than their children will in 20 years ;-)
Sorry but I'm with Thinkerer – functionality is the key here.
I work with university students in an Electronics Engineering program and can tell you that this is 100% incorrect. Students think you need an Arduino to blink an LED, and that engineering consists of copying a Fritzing schematic and downloading code from GitHub. Very few who identify as electronics enthusiasts can identify basic components and only a handful can calculate voltages, resistances or capacitance. The modules are not an aid to understanding they are a hindrance.
You could say the same thing about using simple integrated circuits instead of discrete parts. Instead of making a timer out of discrete parts, people just lazily throw in a 555 IC.
Colin Smith says:
You could say the same thing about kits back in that area using prebuilt capacitors/inductors/batteries/bases/transistors etc. Everything is made of smaller parts, and gatekeeping "you didn't build this out at the molecular level" kind of thing is not helpful.
Steven-X says:
I had an old boy scout manual that showed how to make your own capacitors (foil, wax paper and tape).
stefan_z says:
I would have killed for a shoebox with $30,– worth of Aliexpress modules when I was a teen.
The stuff you can do with an ESP32 or even an Arduino UNO – while mainly focussing on coding and not debugging giant analog circuits that cost you your last penny as a kid.
Berfer Mool says:
"The real question is what to build it on?"
I'm a little confused about the originals. Did those boxes use regular perfboard material as their tops? If so then of course you would use perfboard! If you can't find perfboard with those big, widely spaced holes then I guess you might find a board with no holes and drill them. I'd use a CNC for that in order to get the positioning perfect and to not go insane drilling so many. I would imagine that even a 3d printer with a dremel attachment could do that job.
In the photos it almost looks like a molded piece of plastic. Is that what it is? If so then I see a future OpenSCAD project. 3d printed plastic of course would melt under a soldering iron but you might get away with it if you are fast. and careful. It helps if all the solder joints are on the under-side where a little bit of melt marks might not be seen.
Luke Miller says:
I'm going to try the 3d printing. Here's my customizable OpenSCAD model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3284213
Feel free to extend it if you have ideas.
Padrote says:
I'm not one to discourage people from 3D printing things at will (I do it regularly) but surely there is a more efficient way to come up with a plastic box with some holes in it.
Yes, I was considering 3d printing one. The nice thing is you can add the holes for the pots instead of burning them with your soldering iron. Or scale the overall design to just the size you need.
The originals were polystyrene – yep, that stinky, carcinogen-smoke stuff. You'll never forget the smell.
GreenBit says:
Yes, it melted like butter, but gave off particularly acrid smoke when heated. Sounds like polystyrene. Very easy to end up with holes that were too big or not round. I recall dreading that part.
Tom Brusehaver says:
Seems like the period could be 3d printed.
I built many as a kid, I think the all worked too.
Good idea! I just published a customizable OpenSCAD design over on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3284213
Jim B says:
When I was 10-12 I built half a dozen of them, and the only one I recall working the first time was the night light. Why not? I had no education in electronics, no test equipment, and no mentors. If I put a polarized cap in backwards, or a diode, or swapped two resistors then it wouldn't work. So I'd double check and triple check my work and eventually I'd figured out my problems most of the time, but there were a couple, like the "light beam communicator", I never got working. Still, it was magical.
Michael Black says:
The same thing happened to me, at age 10, except I bought parts for the projects. The first few didn't work, and in retrospect, I knew so little that I would take the magazine literally, so if the coil I bought at the store was different, I'd not know if the pinout was different, same with the transistors. My soldering was awful, but I didn't know that till later. And I had no troubleshooting skill.
Ironically, things started working when I used parts taken off scrap boards. I knew more by then, so I had a certainty about some things.
Yoda McFly says:
One thing I absolutely miss about the loss of Radio Shack, even in this day of Internet ordering, is if I find myself short of some small, cheap component, I could run down to the store and have a good chance of getting some same-day, with no extra shipping charges.
Yeah… that's why it's useful to build a small inventory of common stuff, and also to grab discarded electronics when you can and steal parts from that. Though it's near impossible now to salvage useful stuff from modern surface-mount PCBs…
I don't think Radioshack was good at all for building an inventory of anything, even a small one. My experiences with the Rat Shack do begin around 1990 though. The "older oldtimers" make it sound like it may have been a whole lot better in the 70s. A soldering iron might have damaged my mother's womb so… I guess that was out for me.
Anyway… if your project is stuck waiting on a part and it was a common one then yes, RadioShack was great for that! Why would you ever stock up there though?!?! They sold specific parts in blister packs of 1 or 2. ! or 2!!! Those blister packs cost as much as a baggie of somewhere from 10 to 100 off the internet.
They did have a little value in their variety packs. Their resistor variety packs may have been ok, not great but ok. Their electrolytic variety packs were expensive. I bought a transistor variety pack and most of them had no markings! Likewise for an inductor variety pack. Their ceramic disc variety pack had those ambiguous markings where the last digit may be a power of 10 or it may be the ones place. Do you know what transistor, inductor and capacitor testers cost in the early 90s? Do you know how much that is in "kid who occasionally gets an allowance dollars"?
If you want to build an inventory then my recomendation would be a hamfest. It's cheap like the internet but you get to be there in person, see touch, feel, taste (ok, don't do that) the merchandise in person. Best of all, if you don't mind doing some manual sorting (ok a lot of manual sorting) there is a very good chance that somone will give you a large box full of components for free. That's right, FREE!
Or, if you just want to make it easy on yourself. Pick the values plus quantities you want and it's all labeled and sorted already for you then just use the internet. I know there is a lot of concern about counterfeit parts but when it comes to the super common stuff, passive components and semiconductors that have had good generic available since before most of us were born… even FleaBay is pretty safe and if you can wait (and wait and wait) for it it's pocket change. You might want to aim a little higher for your more advanced semiconductors like micorocntrolers, serial to usb converters, etc… Not that high though. Dx.com perhaps?
Believe me, I lament the fact that real world, physical locations that I can go to shop for parts are so rare and far away now. I do value stores and I do get that they have to charge more due to overhead. RadioShack though.. at least in MY lifetime… their prices were bat shit insane! It is no wonder that they didn't make it. So long!
I bought some OP-amps one time, but paid a premium to get them when nothing else was open. Radio Shack's prime was probably the late sixties, bought by Tandy they were expanding and right when transistors were taking over. They'd basically print a catalog ever few months in Elementary Electronics, all kinds of neat stuff. But that was before they had stores on every corner.
By the time they came to Canada, I'd found the local parts stores, so Radio Shack was always "too expensive" though maybe some of that was being in Canada. They were a great source of some interesting parts, especially when on sale, and maybe the next year when they were clearance items. But yes, they lacked completeness, even if the prices had been better. They had cheap books, often rebadged from other publishers, so I'd buy those. I got lots of tools at Radio Shack, something easy to ask for at birthdays and Christmas, or again when on sale.
Ironically later when I had money, I bought equipment there. I could read about it in the catalog, and buy on sale, so I did buy my first printer there, and some computers, and some stereo stuff, and my first DMM, I voujd go in kniwuping exactly what I was buying. And it was a great place to get "cutting edge" electronics for some time, it was nearby, and before bug box stores sellingbtfe same stuff. Radio Shack was niche, but more available than the hobby electronic places hidden away in a basement. So it thrived as new things came along, digital watches, computers, the mainstreaming of CB, metal detectors, pzm microphones, sampling keyboards and so on. That allowed them to profit on every corner, and keep the parts in stock.
Ostracus says:
Well problem with dragging the internet into things is the internet "back then" was different than the internet of now.
bzit what fly? says:
let me share my prespective….1978…WHAT Internet…..let me…tell you about sneaking into the science building at Cal State Stanisluas and playing Othello on a DEC teletype like terminal whose output was on 17″ wide green and white striped "computer paper"…that terminal was connected to a DEC PDP8 (irrc) that ran RSTS/E and talked to a host at SLAC that was interconnected to about 40 other hosts around the US and Europe…..that Othello program?, it was written in Dartmouth Basic and was hosted on a computer at Princeton….in those days I bicycled past the only Radio Shack between Modesto and Fresno and as a tech besotted 14 year old that store was a treasure of parts and ideas…..my only other parts source was scrapping old or broken equipment but that was also a valueable resource to the local repair shop…so i had to get lucky and hope that what ever i found was light enough to carry home…..gas was 60 cents a gallon and a color TV cost at least 2 weeks wages
jwebola says:
WHAT Internet…? 1970's had no internet. There was sneakernet, which meant walking down to Radio Shack or the mail box to order parts from Jameco or that new place called Digikey, with the 100 page catalog.
Reading a lot of the earlier post one thing stands out. Some of you seem to think that microcontrollers with free development tools have always been around. Certainly NOT SO. Until Microchip started to give away its IDE microcontroller development kits were the sole realm of electrical engineers, and at the grace of their company. Development kits were expensive ($500+, I've seen kits over $3500 ), were product-specific to a family of 1-4 micros and required an entirely new toolkit ( hardware AND software ) if you switched to another micro. You all just now getting in on electronics are spoiled by the Adafruits and Sparkfuns of the era, where the difficult work has been done for you when all you have to do is plug parts into a breadboard, hook up a couple LED's and download code. You got there on the shoulders of engineers who pioneered these tools, as they got where they were on the shoulders of the transistor generation, etc, etc, etc.
I was a kid in the 70's and radioshack was pretty good. They had plenty to keep a kid who was interested in electronics and had paper route money busy enough. They were decent up to the early 80's. If left the states for twin overseas tours (83-89) and when I got back they seem to have started to change for the worse, though there were still bright signs (10 meter ham radios, etc) But the seemed too interesting in trying to be a Jr version of Circuit City as opposed to being a hobbyist mecca. Didn't work out too well for them.
They were really an electronics hobby store until about 1985, about the time they discontinued the TRS80 lines and started making the Tandy PC clones. They lost their sh*t over the PC movement. That was when all the radio and electronics stuff first got shoved aside, when a passer-by could be forgiven for thinking they sold nought but PC clones and perhaps R/C toys. This was kind of a prelude to the morphing into a cell phone store in the early 90s that everyone remembers
Rhys79 says:
I work in IT and feel the same way about the loss of the local computer shops. It's really frustrating when you need a relatively common (or at least used to be) cable or whatnot while on-site at a customer's location, and you have to tell them you'll be back in two days to finish because you need to order a $5 item because there just isn't anywhere you left you can go pick one up from.
Arrow sells a lot of things with free next-day shipping. You can even order one $.25 capacitor and get it FedExed for free. I don't know how sustainable that is, but that's what they're doing.
p51d007 says:
There was a RS in a strip mall with a Walmart when I was a kid in the 70's. My mom would drop me at the RS, and she'd go shopping and pick me up later. It was nice back then. The RS employees "knew their stuff". You could ask and receive some pretty good info.
Right before RS closed for good, I went in to get a replacement capacitor for a switching regulator that was leaking.
Kid asked me "can I help you". I said I needed a 1000mf electrolytic cap @ 250 volts.
Deer in the headlights look… He pointed me to the components and I found it myself.
Sadly, the later days became "Radio Shack: You've got questions, we've got blank stares"
profumple says:
Was watching Peter Rabbit animation and there's a scene with deer paralyzed staring at headlights in the day and they weren't on. Yup. Now give deer one of those old stupid red vests …
Funny scene.
Perry Harrington says:
I don't think I EVER saw something as exotic as a 250volt 1000uf cap at RS.
Ren says:
Maybe he daisy-chained 10 25volt 10,000 uf caps?
B^)
For a long time, it was a place where people interested in electronics, be they students or hobbyists, could find part time work. Other than the employee discount, it likely wasn't that different from other part time work, but it aligned with your interests. I knew two or three people at school who had jobs there, maybe others. Since it was their interest, they paid attention, so could be helpful. Later, it seemed like the employees were detached from what was in the store, they would have been the same way at the shoe or clothing store, but they landed at Radio Shack.
Kevin Kessler says:
When I was a kid in the late 70s, early 80s, I was building a project from a magazine and I had an RS part number of a resistor I needed. I went to the local store and found a resistor of the same value, but not the same part number. I ask the lady behind the desk if this resistor was the same as the part number I had, and she said I had to make sure if they were regulated the same. I just thought "Wow, there is a whole aspect of resistors I know nothing about". I wasn't until later I realized she was talking about the power rating.
At least where I grew up, RS employees in the olden days didn't "know their stuff" any better than they did in the final days.
I think I'd have that look if someone asked for a 1 farad 250V electrolytic
Yimin Rong says:
I had one of the big kits, like 100-in-1. Once I got through the fun projects, liked experimenting with the radio receivers and transmitters, fundamental electronics, even some simple logic gates and a memory cell. It ate through batteries like an SOB, remember substituting the bulb with the LED to cut down power usage. Good times.
I have several xxx-in-1 kits that I purchased (used) over the years.
But my daughter showed no interest in them… (sigh!)
Richard Lewis says:
Wow, this brings back memories. Yesterday I was cleaning up some of my old stuff and ran across all of my RS P-box kits. They are pretty beaten up after being bashed around in boxes for 40+ years. But their affect on me when I was 10-11 was immeasurable. The first one I built was the AM radio and it was missing the germanium diode that was used as the detector. I naively thought I could just stick in an IN914 silicon diode and it would work the same. It didn't and the sales guy at Radio Shack pointed this out to me and explained why. He didn't have any germanium diodes in stock but he had a junk transistor radio that we salvaged a diode from to get the thing working. I might try to clean them up and get them working again. Probably have to replace all of the electrolytic caps. All of the transistors look like self biased germanium as well. Would be a fun project.
Waves of Nostalgia! I bought the P-Boxes with bags of pins back then. My Arduino Uno R3 now resides inside it as a "breakout box". The plastic box prevents shorts to the Arduino board, and has D-Type connectors mounted in the P-Box to interface to the Amateur Radio HB Rig.
Dave Hayes says:
I have a 7 year old whiz kid nephew who needs this. What is the best equivalent today for hardware and maybe some SW as well?
asheets says:
I got my oldest son (who was 8 at the time) a vintage RS 200-in-1 kit. Haven't found anything similar to that for what I want the kid to learn. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-Science-Fair-Exploring-Electronics-Lab-200-in-one-Project-28-265/192693186582?epid=2254421225&hash=item2cdd68b016:g:xcIAAOSwl3xbx8aS:rk:3:pf:0)
As he grew older, I gave him my copies of the RS Transistor Projects books. These are getting a bit hard to find, though (https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1975-TRANSISTOR-PROJECTS-RADIO-SHACK-VOLUME-1-96-PAGES/372510453232?hash=item56bb5a6df0:g:CsgAAOSw68hbfvXE:rk:4:pf:0), but again well worth almost any price.
He is 16 now, and regularly uses an Arduino Projects kit that was recommended to me by a HaD regular a couple of years ago.
The 200-in-1 kit is still available new… https://www.amazon.com/Maxitronix-200-in-One-Electronic-Project-Lab/dp/B0002AHR04
My very first electronic project came out of one of these books!
I found one on Amazon recently and got it.
microgadgethacker says:
I used to work at a 'shack. When mine closed (long ago) I scooped up box of random electronics parts for $20. There were two p-kits: goofy lights (cool circuit relying on neon bulbs as active elements), and a 100Khz crystal oscillator (HUGE crystal) that I beat against a SW station and continue to use as a frequency reference. I thought those p-box projects were very well done AND very inexpensive. Yes, the perf board is plastic and very easy to melt even by accident soldering the component leads.
I had one of those (crystal radio, maybe) around 1968. I remember the box as being gray, but most of all I remember the smell of that plastic!
I still have a bunch of SAD1024s that I bought on clearance after they discontinued the Reverb kit. Never finished building that all the way, young me ran out of money to buy the transformer, case, and knobs to finish it. I still have my Strobe Light built from their kit.
Loved those P-Boxes. I had fun with constantly rewiring the Goofy Light.
I loved rewiring the Goofy Light also — but I can't tell you how many times I got "bit" by the power supply when I tried altering it while running :)
Matt Brunton says:
I had the SW receiver kit shown here. The tuning coil was designed to be wound over an AA battery – quite a clever idea, given that was something everyone would have had. I still own the kit and shudder when I look at the awful solder joints. I used to enjoy using it to listen to 'illegal' CB in the early 80s in the UK as it would tune up to 27Mhz. And of course back in those days, the Russian Woodpecker all over the bands.
Backwoods Engineer says:
I had the AM radio kit shown here when I was 10 years old. My cousin partially built it, and he gave it to me, and I finished it.
I am an electronics / RF engineer today, and that kit was part of my education.
Jon Thompson says:
Someone else was nostalgic a few years ago and created a file for 3d printing a P-Box:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1498726
echodelta says:
My first was a Lionel (trains) radio with a real transistor! My older brother's train transformer with it's 6 to 12 volt "throttle" was my first power supply. Poly Packs was the first connection to cheap parts for me, snail mail. We had a local parts store that's still around in it's same location and Grahams from Indy, it's local store was called Lafayette radio supply. Of course it often got confused with the mail order outfit of a similar name, of which it had no connection.
Jii says:
According to inflation calculators, $8 1975 money is around $38 today.
What is the Russian Woodpecker that was all over the shortwave bands?
Hirudinea says:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Woody_Woodpecker.png/220px-Woody_Woodpecker.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar
Pygar2 says:
I miss those pogo-stick connectors… the P-boxes were great! Remember all the "101 Transistor Projects" type mags, or the one with White's Radio Log?
rfi says:
I had a lot of the pbox kits growing up. I did one of the goofy light kits and took the idea a bit further and built one of the random ones from scratch but used lots of NE2's and built it on a 2×4 foot piece of masonite with 2×6″ lumber surrounding it and a piece of that frazzled clear plastic they used to put in front of built in fluorescent lights on the front. It was really cool up on my wall back in the day. Makes you wonder if we all just a lot more easily amused back then?
Decades later I got a girlfriends-sisters-kid one of the 200 in 1 kits for christmas. I got him very interested when I was there as we would take the things they had as projects and expand on them. I dunno if it ever got much use after that. I hope that it did. I would have killed for one of them at his age.
TERRA Operative says:
In Australia, we had the Dick Smith stores and their 'Funway into Electronics' kits.
There were three 'tiers' each with a book of all the projects in the respective tier, and you would go to the store and buy the prepacked bag of parts for the respective project you wanted to buy.
First tier was simple circuits with springs screwed to a plastic breadboard similar to the article.
Second tier was slightly more complex circuits like in the article but on proper PCB
Third tier was more complex logic and TTL etc level stuff on PCB.
I also used to mess around with the electronics, robotics and programming books published by the UK based Usborne Publishing, who recently scanned some of their books for free download. Oh the nostalgia! My favourite was the Computer Controlled Robot one. I should build it again one day with my son when he is a bit older.
https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-coding-books/
TimRB says:
I recently picked up all three books as well as a complete Funway 1 kit with another copy of the book all sealed up. I don't know weather to keep it as a collectible or to do a YouTube series for each project.
Dick Smith tried to break into the US. I recall his ad's in radio electronics from years past.
I remember my uncle who never bought gifts for anyone bought me the Goofy Lights kit. I was missing a Cap…. Went to Radio Shack and they did not have the exact component. The guy sold us 2 Caps and showed me how to wire it so it should work and why. That one light flashed a little brighter and faster than the rest. He was close. That was then.
Michael W. Perry, WA4MP says:
Radio Shack may be history, but there are still outfits selling simple and cheap kits. If you're a radio ham or interested in becoming one, check out QRP Labs:
https://qrp-labs.com
drwho8 (@drwho8) says:
That takes me back. I did a few. Same problem as related before. I also got my boost into electronics, twiddling my way through analog stuff. I still do some of that, sorting out why certain MOSFETs behave the way they do, including the specs on the datasheets. Now I build digital stuff, in fact some of parts were bought from RS as they were being spun down. In fact the batteries I use, good old 18650s all came from those stores. Darned fools, selling those batteries and oblivious to the holders that would be needed.
Anyone else build the one-tube receiver only to be stymied by finding a 22.5V battery? My Dad tried to tell me it would probably work on 24V (which, beinga ham, he just happened to have on hand), or that we could series up any combination that added to22.5, but I was 8 so it just had to be what was called for.
targetdrone says:
As an 8-year-old kid, I remember begging my dad for the RS 50-in-1 kit for Christmas. The kit was $17 in an era when he could fill his Beetle's gas tank for under $3, pricing it way beyond my reach (and darn near out of his!) He asked me a lot of questions to make sure I was going to play with it, and yes, it ended up under the tree that year.
I built circuit after circuit with that kit, playing with it well into high school, and eventually using the parts in other projects. I can't imagine that a $17 investment in education could have been better spent.
acmefixer says:
I built the RS Micronta dual + & – power supply with their parts and PC board. It had one diabolically evil flaw: when you turned it on, the output went to maximum for a fraction of a second, so it would burn out anything sensitive that it was connected to. A 6 volt lamp would flash like a strobe light when it powered on. Pissed me of! I finally cut some traces and added some resistors and capacitors to fix the problem. It was a very badly designed circuit!
I have an almost complete collection of the P-Box kits on line for everyone to enjoy.
http://www.sparktron.com/pbox.html
rjs39 says:
I have an intact goofy lights kit. It was re-wired back and forth between the chaser lights and random lights so many times 45 years ago. I can still remember the electronic tones and groaning sounds the circuit made while operating.


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Q: fixed positioned button on small screens everyone. I'm trying to make a button with a fixed position. The problem is on small screens it's completely dissapears.
my css code

.sound_button{
  background:  #FFD700 url("Images/background1.jpg") center ;

}
.sound_container{
  position: absolute;
  left: 1180px;
  top: 520px;

}

My html code

    <button class="w3-button w3-circle w3-xxlarge sound_button"></button>

Any help is appreciated
Thanks

A: The problem is your button is being positioned off the screen on smaller screens. A small screen might have a screen size of 1136 x 640 pixels (and smaller for other devices). So your current top and left properties would position it out of view for many small screens.
One solution is to use a media query to position the button at different positions on different sized screens. The snippet below will position the button at 100px (top and left) on small screens. And any screens above 900px in width will move the button to 1180px and 520px top and left.

.sound_button {
  background: #FFD700 url("Images/background1.jpg") center;
}

.sound_container {
  position: absolute;
  left: 100px;
  top: 100px;
}

@media (min-width: 900px) {
  .sound_container {
    left: 1180px;
    top: 520px;
  }
}

    <button class="w3-button w3-circle w3-xxlarge sound_button ">Button</button>

If you want it to move proportional to the screen size, use percentages for left and top. The snippet below will position the button 50% from the left, 50% from the top.

.sound_button {
  background: #FFD700 url("Images/background1.jpg") center;
}

.sound_container {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
}

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Hurley is just about to celebrate his first birthday and it would be great if he could find his furever family.
He was surrendered to RSPCA NSW when he was a puppy because his owner was frustrated with his behaviour, but as it turned out Hurley is deaf. While under the care of the RSPCA Hurley has learnt sign language and is now a well-mannered young man, still with that puppy love of life.
Hurley's new owners would be prepared to learn sign language so they can continue to reinforce his training and teach him new behaviours (all with the support of RSPCA's specialist behavioural vets). He loves people, needs regular exercise and would prefer to be the only pet in the household.
You can meet Hurley at the Reigning Cats and Dogs Festival on Saturday 5 October at Bicentennial Park, Glebe, or at RSPCA NSW's Sydney Shelter, 201 Rookwood Road, Yagoona.
• Visit www.adoptapet.com.au to see all animals available for adoption at the RSPCA.
I love bouncing around too! He could be the white-chocolate to my dark?
There I was thinking my tail was cool but now, Hurley, I only have eyes for you!
Well-mannered young pups aren't hard to find in this park. But those freckles are really something else!


Submitted by Michael Niedermayer on Jan. 17, 2019, 10:28 p.m.
Michael Niedermayer Jan. 17, 2019, 10:28 p.m.
> >>>>>>>NAK, implement special memset function instead.
> >>>>>No, don't do that.
> >>>>>be avoided in codebase.
> >>>>also be optimized further if needed.
> >>share code with av_memcpy_backptr to avoid duplication.
Marton Balint Jan. 18, 2019, 11:28 p.m.
>>>>>>>>> NAK, implement special memset function instead.
>>>>>>> No, don't do that.
>>>>>>> be avoided in codebase.
>>>>>> also be optimized further if needed.
>>>> share code with av_memcpy_backptr to avoid duplication.
Michael Niedermayer Jan. 20, 2019, 8:14 p.m.
> >>>>>>>>>NAK, implement special memset function instead.
> >>>>>>>No, don't do that.
> >>>>>>>be avoided in codebase.
> >>>>>>also be optimized further if needed.
> >>>>share code with av_memcpy_backptr to avoid duplication.
> Thanks, both patches LGTM.


Jennifer McCall, formerly a group enrollment representative for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, was recently promoted to group consultant. She works from the company's district office in Salina, which is part of its Hutchinson regional marketing area.
In her new position, McCall will be responsible for developing prospects, enrolling new groups and retention of existing groups in Chase, Cloud, Clay, Dickinson, Marion, Ottawa, Republic, Saline and Washington counties.
McCall was recently honored by BCBSKS for her sales performance in 2017. She qualified for the company's Distinguished Sales Achievement Award by meeting or exceeding all of her annual goals as a group enrollment representative.
Nicole Brumfield has been hired as a home health registered nurse by the Saline County Health Department. She previously worked for Via Christi/Ascension.
Brumfield will provide intermittent skilled nursing to patients in their place of residence in accordance with agency policy and procedure and state and federal regulations.
Kansas Wesleyan University has hired Linda Henningsen as assistant professor ofnursing. She has a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Marymount College, a Master of Science in adult education from Kansas State University and an Master of Science in nursing from South University. She was previously the regional nursing administrator at Brown Mackie College for the Salina, Kansas City and Oklahoma City campuses, and prior to that was education coordinator at Salina Regional Health Center.
At KWU, Henningsen teaches nursing classes and is assisting with the development of the R.N. to B.S. curriculum.
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Fourteen customer experience representatives (CXRs) and eight supervisors were recently honored for their World Class service to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas members.
Honored CXRs who work from the company's service center in Salina were Mary Austin, Jamie Bigler, Liz McMichael and Jen Sharpton.
To qualify as a World Class representative, employees are required to meet certain performance and quality metrics which were monitored during a 12-month period.
Eight supervisors also qualified for World Class by achieving certain metrics at the team level. Drew Shirack, of Salina, was among the eight.


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How are Bollywood celebs ushering 2010
Bollywood lets its hair down as 2009 comes to an end and raises its hopes for 2010
TEAM BT Times News Network (BOMBAY TIMES; December 31, 2009)
AMITABH BACHCHAN: In the New Year, the entire family is hoping to do the kind of work that would please the audience and carry the company forward. Our New Year wishes? May 2010 bring peace and well-being. May it fill us with pride as a nation. May our glory spread further. May we progress in all walks of life. And may the year keep me alive to witness the country, the film industry and my family prosper and progress. I look forward to the coming year passing peacefully.
KATRINA KAIF: I couldn't hope for a better New Year's day. I'm in London with my sisters and brother having the time of my life. We have lots of fun when we all are together. After I started working I have hardly seen my siblings. So meeting them is always special and a festival to mark our meeting, is the cherry on the cake. My mother forced me to leave my cell phone behind in Mumbai, so I'm almost cut off from Bollywood. What hopes for 2010? Lots of hard work and hopefully hits.
SHAH RUKH KHAN: I will be at home (Mannat) with Gauri, Aryan, Suhana and a couple of close friends like Karan Johar. Being with close family is the one thing I truly cherish.
AKSHAY KUMAR: Tina, Aarav and I are in Goa. I normally take a vacation from December 29 to January 2 because it includes a double celebration. Tina's birthday on December 29, and then the New Year's eve party. Honestly what can be better than spending time with your loved ones? This is a commitment I have made to my family.
DEEPIKA PADUKONE: I will be home in Bangalore with my parents and my sister. Then I go to Goa to wrap up the last fortnight on Ashutosh Gowarikar's film. Every year I hope that the following year is as exciting as the previous year and I'm very happy with the way my professional life is going. Hope 2010 is the same.
RANBIR KAPOOR: I start shooting for Siddharth Anand's film in the US from January 2. Since I didn't wish to be in an aircraft on New Year's eve, I left India on December 27. My entire family is in Dubai as tomorrow is my paternal grandmother's birthday and the family is treating her to a one-week holiday there. I wish I could join them!
KAREENA KAPOOR: Saif and I are in England. We are catching up with Saif 's Oxford batchmates and their spouses. I'm dying to wear my fur coat and sniff the English chill… looking and feeling every inch a diva. We work hard all the year around to make this happen, so let me enjoy myself.
BIPASHA BASU: I'm performing tonight. Then there will be a small get-together with friends. I always like to keep my New Year's plans uncluttered. Home is the best place to be on any special occasion. And New Year will be a nonfilmy evening at home. Beyond that my only resolution for 2010 is, love yourself.
VIDYA BALAN: I bring in 2010 with my birthday tomorrow… no one can forget it! What hopes do I have for 2010? Oh plenty! After watching Mr Bachchan at work in Paa, I realised being focussed on your work to the point of shutting out everything else is not something I need feel guilty about. Now I'm all set to be seen as this full-blown, seductive, sexually-charged woman in Ishqiya. It brings an entirely new perspective to my personality for the audience. That's what I'm hoping for in 2010… to find new aspects to my personality through the roles I play.
AJAY DEVGN: Kajol, Nysa, my parents, cousins, sister and her family and I will all be at our Karjat farm house. We're planning an extended holiday. I start work only from January 2, so does Kajol. So in the meantime it is going to be a huge, long party.
AMRITA RAO: I wonder what 2010 has in store for me… Resolutions sound nice to the ears but adhering to them is a matter of destiny!
AMISHA PATEL: I have a show in Dubai. I will be working and then I will take a holiday. I always like working on New Year's day because I feel you will then be working throughout!
RITESH DESHMUKH: Friends and I are contemplating how to ring in the New Year. It's not compulsory to indulge in anything fancy, even a quiet time with good friends does the trick!
ARSHAD WARSI: I am looking forward to three releases in 2010. Will start Raju's film next year so it's going to be an eventful year. I haven't a plan for New Year as yet. I'll be with family and friends.
ANUSHKA SHARMA: I don't do much for the New Year. Actually I do nothing. I just wish my family and go to bed.
SHABANA AZMI: As usual I'll be with my family and a few close friends for the New Year.
IRRFAN KHAN: On every festive occasion I try to visit my mother in Jaipur. But for the New Year I made plans to be home. Beyond the New Year I've made no plans. I've noticed every time I've chalked out a plan for myself, life has humbled me. I leave all my plans to God.
MUGHDA GODSE: I am dancing at a live performance in Delhi tonight and will spend New Year with family and close friends. I've a horror film tentatively titled Help coming up for release. My co-star Bobby Deol is such a sweetheart. I hope to find a guy like him this year. Where are all the gentlemen?"
HEMA MALINI: I won't be doing anything much for New Year. I'll be with my family and rehearsing for my dance show which is on January 2.
POOJA BEDI: I'm having a small get-together on the terrace of my beachfront penthouse with flowers, candles and an incredible view of the entire city, with my father, my children and a few loved ones.
SUSHMITA SEN: I normally travel overseas. However, Alisah, my younger daughter, can't travel abroad yet because she doesn't have a passport. Hence it will have to be a beach resort in India.
ASIN: For me it will be a quiet New Year with family. I wanted to make it for Christmas itself, however I will ring in the New Year at my family home in Kerala.
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Special screening of Avatar for SRK and his children
Shah Rukh Khan arranges a weekend screening of James Cameron's Avatar for his children
By Kunal M Shah (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 16, 2009)
Last evening Shah Rukh Khan was the special guest at the screening of James Cameron's, Avatar at a suburban multiplex.
Shah Rukh was so enamoured after watching half the film, that he came out of hall and went up to the studio officials and requested them to organise a special screening for his two children and family members. The officials of the studio immediately assured him that they will do the needful.
A source said, "SRK has always been quite fond of science fiction and superhero films. Even as a child, he would always watch similar kind of films.This is why he immediately agreed to attend the special screening of Avatar.
He was also keen to attend the screening of Avatar at the suburban multiplex as the first theatrical promo of his new film My Name is Khan was scheduled to release during the screening. Everybody knows about SRK's love for superhero films so much so that he is right now in the process of making Ra.One, which will be directed by Anubhav Sinha. SRK loved Avatar, which is why he also wants his kids to watch it."
Earlier this month, SRK's children couldn't wait to watch Paa and Amitabh Bachchan had sent some extra passes for them on SRK's request. "Aryan and Suhana love films and they would love to watch Avatar. The kids could not watch it last evening with SRK as they were busy with their school and studies," added the source.
Vijay Singh, Indian CEO of the company which produced Avatar, confirmed the news and said, "Shah Rukh was very excited about Avatar and the scale on which it was made. He requested another screening on Saturday so that he could watch the film again with his family. We will definitely and will decide on the venue and time today."
(pic: manav manglani)
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SRK: 'Seatless' at the 'Paa' show…for Juhi!
GENTLEMAN: Shah Rukh Khan and (inset) Juhi Chawla
The premiere of Paa was a complete Bachchan parivaar event. Kudos to the Bs for playing the perfect host to our Bollywood beauties. Of course, the evening made news for many reasons, the best of all was the Khan family (SRK) fashionably turning up with kids, Aryan and Suhana in tow. In fact, Shah Rukh Khan left us mighty impressed with his genuine courtesy, not that we had any doubts about his gentlemanly ways. During the premiere, after the lights were dimmed, Juhi Chawla couldn't find her seat, SRK graciously escorted her to his seat next to Gauri, and told her, "I will find a place for myself, don't worry." That's not all. Juhi was on her way to get some munchies; he asked her to remain seated while he went out and got some popcorn and soda for the lovely ladies. Only after that he comfortably seated himself with buddy Karan Johar and his bachchas. That's the SRK we all love. And this is what we think truly makes him the King Khan. Hai na?
BOMBAY TIMES (December 12, 2009)
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The glittering premiere of Paa!
Posted by: fenilseta on: December 4, 2009
In: Bollywood News | Videos, stills and wallpapers
The premiere of the Bachchans' home production Paa was a glittering affair with the who's who of Bollywood attending the event last night
The preparations for the grand premiere of Paa last night had started much earlier with Amitabh Bachchan visiting the venue at Wadala Imax at 1 pm yesterday to check out all the arrangements. Though the main event was scheduled to begin at 8.30 pm, a casually dressed Amitabh arrived at the venue much earlier at 6 pm and the first thing he did was to double check the arrangements.
He changed into natty formals shortly before the guests started arriving.
The Bachchans had divided their responsibilities to ensure that their guests are well-looked after. While Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai were standing at the entrance, Jaya Bachchan was looking after all the guests near the screens on the first floor.
Spec-ulation
Why were Ritesh Deshmukh with Abhishek Bachchan wearing identical frames?
The first wives club
Abhishek Bachchan with reel wife, Vidya Balan and his better half, Aishwarya Rai
You me aur hum
Ajay and Kajol
Devgan
Twinkle Twinkle big star
The colour co-ordinated couple Akshay Kumar and Twinkle
Anil Ambani, his wife Tina and their son were among the first guests to arrive. Some of the power couples who attended the premiere were Shah Rukh Khan and wife Gauri, Ajay Devgan and wife Kajol, Hrithik and wife Sussanne, and Akshay Kumar and wife Twinkle. SRK sent Gauri and the kids upstairs while he stayed back to chat with the Bachchans for a while. SRK was seen hugging Akshay Kumar. Arshad Warsi and wife Maria were there too.
Ritesh Deshmukh, Dino Morea and Rakeysh Mehra and his wife followed shortly and the director seemed happy to catch up with his Rang De Basanti team Atul Kulkarni and Kunal Kapoor. Sharman Joshi made a late entry.
Ranbir Kapoor and Ritesh were engrossed in a conversation outside screen 3. Aishwarya came upstairs and was seen talking to Ashutosh Gowariker, his wife Sunita and Srishti Behl. Aamir Khan came with his 3 Idiots director Rajkumar Hirani and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Aamir left half-an-hour after the screening began.
Abhishek was seen chatting with Govinda, who came in quite late.
Filmmakers David Dhawan, Satish Kaushik and Madhur Bhandarkar were there. Filmmakers Abbas Mustan came all the way from Lonavla.
The screening was held in all the four screens at Imax but it was screen 3, which had the maximum number of stars. The screening of the film started around 10 pm.
Kangna Ranaut hung around outside for a while, posing for pictures even though the film had started. She soon went inside the theatre.
Dil de Dia
Even Auro, who doesn't like girls, can't resist the pretty Dia Mirza Pretty woman
The single life seems to be agreeing with the glowing Kangna Ranaut
Daddy's girl
Aishwarya with her father Krishnaraj Rai Two-gether
Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan
Suhana seems to be taking after her mother Gauri Khan already. Shah Rukh Khan, Balki, Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Gauri and Suhana
3 Idiots meets Paa
Rajkumar Hirani, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Vidhu Vinod Chopra
(pics: nilesh wairkar)
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SRK asks for 5; Big B gives him 6!
SRK personally requested Amitabh Bachchan for five extra passes for the premiere of Paa as his children want to watch the film. Amitabh gladly sent him six
Paa has yet to release but the character of Auro, played by Amitabh Bachchan in the film, has already struck a chord with children. The much-talked about film's premiere today evening at a suburban multiplex is expected to be attended by the who's who of the film industry.
Everybody will be there to watch Amitabh Bachchan perform as 13-year-old Auro and Shah Rukh Khan will be attending the event along with his son Aryan and daughter Suhana. SRK personally called up Bachchan to ask for extra passes as his children are also quite keen to watch the film.
Shah Rukh Khan with his kids Suhana and Aryan
A source said, "Aryan and Suhana loved the promos of Paa and can't wait to watch it. SRK already had some passes for the premiere. He called up Amitabh Bachchan to speak to him at length about the film and ask him more about his character. During the course of the conversation, Bachchan asked SRK about how many extra passes he wants and SRK said that he wants five more passes as his kids are also looking forward to watching the film. Bachchan sent him six passes and also personally requested SRK to attend the film's premiere. Obviously, SRK's kids were thrilled."
Amitabh Bachchan confirmed the news and said, "Yes, he (SRK) called me up and I asked him how many seats he wants. He said five but I have sent him six passes. Aamir asked for six passes, which I have sent him."
Tags: Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, aryan, auro, Bollywood, children, december 3, Fenil, kunal m shah, Mumbai Mirror, Paa, premiere, request, Shah Rukh Khan, six passes, SRK, suburban multiplex, suhana
A private b'day bash for the Badshah!
Posted by: fenilseta on: November 2, 2009
MAKE A WISH: Shah Rukh Khan. For more pictures of the actor, visit http://photogallery.indiatimes.com
SRK, who's turned 44, will cut at least two dozen cakes today
TIMES NEWS NETWORK (BOMBAY TIMES; November 2, 2009)
Bollywood's Badshah Shah Rukh Khan, who's turned 44 today, came in from Delhi to ring in his birthday with best friend Karan Johar, gorgeous wife Gauri Khan and their two kids, Aryan and Suhana. Shah Rukh was in London till October 30, he then flew to New Delhi via Mumbai for a professional engagement and then landed back in Mumbai only hours before the clock struck 12 on his birthday.
Gauri and Karan are expected to host a surprise party for the actor with regulars like Juhi and Jai Mehta, Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan, Sanjay and Maheep Kapoor, Chunky and Bhavna Panday, Kajal Anand, Arjun and Mehr Rampal, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan attending it.
The actor will also greet fans who gather outside Mannat each year on his birthday and is expected to have an hour-long media interaction, too. "He usually ends up cutting at least two dozen cakes because he finds it hard to turn away any of his well-wishers," said a source.
-Meena Iyer
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'I feel old when called Dr.Khan'-SRK
ANOTHER FEATHER IN HIS CAP: Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri after being given an honorary doctorate in Arts and Culture from the University of Bedfordshire at a ceremony held at a hotel in London on July 10
… says SRK of his new honour in UK
MEENA IYER Times News Network (BOMBAY TIMES; July 14, 2009)
Ironical, it is. Shah Rukh Khan is now a doctor; but he is also very pained. He has been awarded a doctorate from the Bedfordshire University in UK for his contribution to arts and culture. "The honour brought me a lot of joy,'' says SRK, who is currently on vacation with Gauri and his children Aryan and Suhana. He laughs when he is addressed as 'Dr' and says, "Somehow it makes me feel slightly older when someone calls me Dr Shah Rukh Khan.''
Describing his time on the podium where he received the honour, he says, "Wearing that square cap with tassels tilted to the left, brought images of the heroes of the 70s; it was an oft-repeated thing in films those days. I didn't know whether etiquette required me to take Aryan and Suhana along for the convocation ceremony. So I left the children behind.'' Happily, Gauri was by his side when he received the honour. "I sincerely hope my parents could have watched this… and I hope that it was a proud moment for them wherever they are,'' the Bollywood Badshah says emotionally.
It is five months since he underwent shoulder surgery, but SRK is still in pain. "I completed a long spell for Karan Johar's My Name is Khan in San Francisco,'' he says. "We got lucky because we had long days and could pack in ample work. However, my shoulder still hurts.'' He recounts how he shot for a song sequence for Dulha Mil Gaya in which he has a guest appearance and strained his operated shoulder. The actor has been in touch with his surgeon in Mumbai and has been reassured that the recurring pain is part of the rehab, so he continues to go about his daily chores with enthusiasm.
"My shoulder makes strange clicking sounds,'' he says. "However, I've been asked to open doors, lift small objects and keep giving it small doses of regular exercise,'' he adds. The actor who lost a lot of muscle mass because he has been unable to do any active bodybuilding, says his main regret is that Anubhav Sinha's Ra 1, Farah Khan's Happy New Year and Farhan Akhtar's Don-2 will be postponed by three-four months.
"However, there is heavy duty action involved in these films and I can't attempt that till such time as my shoulder is completely healed," says SRK enthused by the very thought of being able to participate in the 'filmi action' that he so revels in.
And, since he is just not the type to sit around doing nothing, right now Bollywood's biggest icon is indulging in a game of cricket with his children at Hyde Park in central London. "I also promised the children that I will wear the black cape and square hat and do a repeat of the convocation ceremony for them because they missed the occasion,'' he says.
meena.iyer@timesgroup.com
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Insight Forge has a deep experience-base using Google Places and Google Maps, which is by far the most prevalent of the local listing services. First we set up and optimize your listing so that it can climb to the top of Google's rankings as efficiently as possible – this means utilizing target keywords within titles and descriptions, adding relevant photographs and videos, as well as setting your company's geographic service area.
We also have experience utilizing the Google Places enhanced listing service, Adwords Express (formerly known as Google Boost). Adwords Express allows us to even further highlight your Places listing by highlighting videos, reviews and more.
We also have wide experience in setting up bulk Places listings for franchises and corporations that have multiple locations across the country. This can be a tricky process because the listings need to be standardized, but also unique to reflect the geographic area. For help with franchise local listings feel free to contact us in regards to our franchise pay per click packages.