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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Comic 174: That's What She Said
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- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Solution for you: stop reading xkcd if you don't like it...ReplyDelete
holy crap I hadn't thought of that! it's...it's so simple! thank you! why had that never occurred to me?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
I've used sentences like that.ReplyDelete
- Kurt SimononApril 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Okay, you hate it because it "pains me to see lousy humor" because it's un-ignorable "like genocide."ReplyDelete
Aren't there far worse and far more popular things than xkcd? its is confined to the internet. You have to pick up the computer and get onto the web page. Shit music is everywhere. You read about it, you hear about it, you stumble on it. It pops up between good songs, it infests radio stations. There are shittier and more popular websites too. I just don't get why rant against xkcd.
and some people do talk like that. They're damn hard to understand, but they do.
Have you never spent any time around people who say, "That's what she said," at the slightest provocation? You may not think it's funny, but it's definitely a thing.ReplyDelete
And yes, actually, people in real life use pronouns like this. Actually, in speech, it's usually pretty easy to decode. It's enough of a thing that it was parodied as far back as, at least, _Ferris Beuller's Day Off_.
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Kurt, someone already exists on the internet who complains about music. In fact, he complains about pretty much everything imaginable. His name is Maddox. This blog is intended to be a critical analysis of the humor (or lack thereof) of xkcd, not just lousy humor wherever it may be.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2010 at 8:03 AM
you're right. its not realistic or true to everyday life... thus it CANNOT be funny (?)ReplyDelete
also your criticism of the comic is ironic as you actually use that many pronouns.


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Despite their home in California, it was probably a very cold Christmas for Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy. The two officially announced their split on December 23 (two days earlier than I predicted), and even though no one seems to be especially surprised by the separation, still, it's kinda sad. I mean, I guess it's sad. Maybe? Who knows. It seems like these two were going to kill each other on Bethenny Ever After, so maybe calling it quits is the right thing to do.
Even though some of the rumors of their breakup are not so kind, Bethenny, true to form, is handling the whole thing with cool professionalism and distance ... which might have been part of the problem to begin with.
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Bethenny was adamantly against formally separating from Jason because she viewed it as giving up on the marriage, and she just isn't ready to do that. It was her therapist that recommended the trial separation to give the couple some breathing room, and experience life without each other on a daily basis.
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That said, I'm sure Bethenny doesn't want anyone thinking the split wasn't 100 percent her idea, not only because she hates not being the boss and would loathe giving all that power to an outside party, but because it's cruel to Jason. And for some reason, I don't think she wants to be mean or ugly to her husband, despite their differences.
Other than that rumor, all's been calm on the separation front. Bethenny's thanked her fans on Twitter for their amazing support, saying it feels like their words could get her through anything; and she and Jason sound dedicated to making sure their 2-year-old daughter Bryn stays their number one priority.
I assume their separation will progress into a divorce, so we'll have to wait and see how that turns out -- think Jason will argue for more money than Bethenny wants to give? Think Bethenny will file for sole custody? Think some skeletons in the closet will be paraded out in public? Think Bethenny will ever show her real feelings?
Reality show divorces can be nasty, just ask Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars Adrienne Maloof and Paul Nassif ... hopefully Bethenny and Jason don't follow their lead.
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If You Think Your Car is Yours, Think Again. You're Just Taking Care of it for the Next Owner!
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Year: 1956
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Though he initially had another big-block Chevrolet in mind, Poirier went with a Chevrolet Performance HO 502. "You know, that's an interesting story," he recalls. "I was going through the local paper when I found this ad for a 502. It was up in a little town called Riverside."
Riverside isn't exactly next door to Poirier. In fact it's 100 miles away. A goose chase down 50-plus miles of dirt roads charted by landmarks rather than road signs landed him in a place that wasn't next door to anything. "I got all this cash in my pocket," he says. "I tell the wife, 'You know what? We're dead! They're gonna rob us, they're gonna scrap out our pickup, and they're gonna kill us.'" Of course the seller wasn't an axe murderer—in fact he thoughtfully left the engine in the crate the engine came in.
The engine backs to a TH400 built by Arizona Transmissions in Tucson. "It's got just about everything you can do to a 400," Poirier observes. He built the 2-3/4-inch-diameter exhaust that flanks it. He also built the 1-3/4-inch headers that feed those pipes. "There were so many things done to the car that nothing fit," he says. "I tried five or six different types."
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But was it really? Poirier encountered a piece of the car's history at a small car show in remote Libby, Montana. "This old guy walks up, looks at the car, and says, 'I chopped that car,'" he says. Still slightly flabbergasted at what developed, "I told him, 'Well I'm from Wenatchee and he says, 'well I lived in Wenatchee.'" As it turned out he sold the car to someone else who sold it to Jesse Anderson. "That car got passed around, chopped, for 20 years unfinished," he says.
A car deemed finished might be reward enough for most of us but Poirier sees it differently, specifically as an opportunity to make the car someone else's. "I build a car a year," he says, "sometimes even two." He put the car on the market.
"A friend of mine called me about a hell of a car for sale," John says. He liked what he saw. "I asked him how much he wanted. He told me so I just told him, 'I'll take it.' I think I just surprised the hell out of him.
"The first thing I did was change the wheels," he continues. "Those Budniks completely changed the car. Then I took the car to Ellensburg to Judge's Custom Auto Upholstery." He retained the Mazda MX6 buckets and the console Poirier fabricated and trimmed them and the rest of the cockpit in a combination of red and camel-colored leather. "The trunk didn't have anything in it so I had him do that too," he says.
John also personalized the engine compartment. "[Poirier] had a bit of an aircraft thing going, a real subdued brushed look," he says. He had the aluminum core support that Poirier built painted. "We took everything else apart and polished it," he says. "I took the bumpers down to Jay at Tripleplate and had him fill everything and re-chrome them."
Then the damnedest thing happened. "I went to this tiny car show out in the middle of nowhere, way up in Montana," John says. "I'll be damned if some old geezer strolls up and tells me, 'I chopped that car.'" He was just as incredulous. "I told him he was full of it," he says. As the old timer explained, he sold the car when he moved to Wenatchee but built it when he lived in Elk, Washington. "Well Elk is about 10 miles from where I live right now," John says, explaining how the story is too specific to be coincidental.
John made this chopped '56 his own but is it his? Or is it Poirier's? Or the guy who chopped it? And what about the next person who signs the title? Whoever that may be, we probably won't refer to it theirs, either. Like everyone else who buys an old car, they're just taking care of it for the next owner.


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I like Clay. He's an asset to a team. But lt's keep our eye on that guaranted money, as it's what matters most, and see what that would buy most teams in free agency.
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It has been obvious for some years that antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan is a disgrace, but it took this performance to discredit her with some observers. "I am a 9/11 truther," she says. "I do believe it was an inside job. … I'm sure Dick Cheney had something to do with it":
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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Palestinian militant, Alaa Abu Z'beida, out of the family house during his funeral in Al Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Alaa Abu Z'beida and two other Palestinian militant were killed late Monday in a clash with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis said their forces fired at militants near the border of central Gaza as they were about to launch rockets at Israel. A small, al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility on Tuesday.
A society in which "al Qaeda-inspired" would-be terrorists are mourned as heroes–that is, rather obviously, the impediment to peace in Gaza and the West Bank. Meanwhile, world leaders wring their hands over the prospect that Jews might build houses. Some things, as I said, never seem to change.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic beat top seeds Bruno Soares and Lisa Raymond 5-7 6-2 8-6 to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title on Sunday.
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In JavaScript, an object is a standalone entity, with properties and type. Compare it with a cup for example. A cup is an object, with properties. A cup has a colour, a design, weight, a material it is made of, etc. The same way, JavaScript objects can have properties, which define their characteristics.
Objects and properties
A JavaScript object has properties associated with it. A property of an object can be explained as variables that are attached to the object. Object properties are basically the same with ordinary JavaScript variables, except for the attachment to objects. The properties of an object define the characteristics of the object. You access the properties of an object with a simple dot-notation:
Like all JavaScript variables, both the object name (which could be a normal variable) and property name are case sensitive. You define a property by assigning it a value. For example, let's create an object named
myCar and give it properties named
model, and
year as follows:
var myCar = new Object();
myCar.make = "Ford";
myCar.model = "Mustang";
myCar.year = 1969;
Properties of JavaScript objects can also be accessed or set using a bracket notation. Objects are sometimes called associative arrays, since each property is associated with a string value that can be used to access it. So, for example, you could access the properties of the
myCar object as follows:
myCar["make"] = "Ford";
myCar["model"] = "Mustang";
myCar["year"] = 1969;
Object properties names can be valid JavaScript string, or anything that can be converted to string, including the empty string. However, any property name that is not a valid JavaScript identifier (for example, a property name that has space or dash, or starts with a number) can only be accessed using the square bracket notation. This notation is also very useful when property names are to be dynamically determined (when the property name is not determined until runtime). Examples are as follows:
var myObj = new Object(),
str = "myString",
rand = Math.random(),
obj = new Object();
myObj.type = "Dot syntax";
myObj["date created"] = "String with space";
myObj[str] = "String value";
myObj[rand] = "Random Number";
myObj[obj] = "Object";
myObj[""] = "Even an empty string";
You can also access properties by using a string value that is stored in a variable:
var propertyName = "make";
myCar[propertyName] = "Ford";
propertyName = "model";
myCar[propertyName] = "Mustang";
You can use the bracket notation with for…in to iterate over all the enumerable properties of an object. To illustrate how this works, the following function displays the properties of the object when you pass the object and the object's name as arguments to the function:
function showProps(obj, objName) {
var result = "";
for (var i in obj) {
if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
result += objName + "." + i + " = " + obj[i] + "\n";
return result;
So, the function call
showProps(myCar, "myCar") would return the following:
myCar.make = Ford
myCar.model = Mustang
myCar.year = 1969
Object everything
In JavaScript, almost everything is an object. All primitive types except
null and
undefined are treated as objects. They can be assigned properties (assigned properties of some types are not persistent), and they have all characteristics of objects.
Enumerating all properties of an object
Starting with ECMAScript 5, there are three native ways to list/traverse object properties:
- for…in loops: this method traverses all enumerable properties of an object and its prototype chain
- Object.keys(o): this method returns an array with all the own (not in the prototype chain) enumerable properties names ("keys") of an object
- Object.getOwnPropertyNames(o): this method returns an array containing all own properties names (enumerable or not) of an object
In ECMAScript 5, there is no native way to list all properties of an object. However, this can be achieved with the following function:
function listAllProperties(o){
var objectToInspect;
var result = [];
for(objectToInspect = o; objectToInspect !== null; objectToInspect = Object.getPrototypeOf(objectToInspect)){
result = result.concat(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(objectToInspect));
return result;
This can be useful to reveal "hidden" properties (properties in the prototype chain which are not accessible through the object, because another property has the same name earlier in the prototype chain). Listing accessible properties only can easily be done by removing duplicates in the array.
Creating new objects
JavaScript has a number of predefined objects. In addition, you can create your own objects. In JavaScript 1.2 and later, you can create an object using an object initializer. Alternatively, you can first create a constructor function and then instantiate an object using that function and the
new operator.
Using object initializers
In addition to creating objects using a constructor function, you can create objects using an object initializer. Using object initializers is sometimes referred to as creating objects with literal notation. "Object initializer" is consistent with the terminology used by C++.
The syntax for an object using an object initializer is:
var obj = { property_1: value_1, // property_# may be an identifier...
2: value_2, // or a number...
// ...,
"property n": value_n }; // or a string
obj is the name of the new object, each
property_i is an identifier (either a name, a number, or a string literal), and each
value_i is an expression whose value is assigned to the
property_i. The
obj and assignment is optional; if you do not need to refer to this object elsewhere, you do not need to assign it to a variable. (Note that you may need to wrap the object literal in parentheses if the object appears where a statement is expected, so as not to have the literal be confused with a block statement.)
If an object is created with an object initializer in a top-level script, JavaScript interprets the object each time it evaluates an expression containing the object literal. In addition, an initializer used in a function is created each time the function is called.
The following statement creates an object and assigns it to the variable
x if and only if the expression
cond is true.
if (cond) var x = {hi: "there"};
The following example creates
myHonda with three properties. Note that the
engine property is also an object with its own properties.
var myHonda = {color: "red", wheels: 4, engine: {cylinders: 4, size: 2.2}};
You can also use object initializers to create arrays. See array literals.
In JavaScript 1.1 and earlier, you cannot use object initializers. You can create objects only using their constructor functions or using a function supplied by some other object for that purpose. See Using a constructor function.
Using a constructor function
Alternatively, you can create an object with these two steps:
- Define the object type by writing a constructor function. There is a strong convention, with good reason, to use a capital initial letter.
- Create an instance of the object with
To define an object type, create a function for the object type that specifies its name, properties, and methods. For example, suppose you want to create an object type for cars. You want this type of object to be called
car, and you want it to have properties for make, model, and year. To do this, you would write the following function:
function Car(make, model, year) {
this.make = make;
this.model = model;
this.year = year;
Notice the use of
this to assign values to the object's properties based on the values passed to the function.
Now you can create an object called
mycar as follows:
var mycar = new Car("Eagle", "Talon TSi", 1993);
This statement creates
mycar and assigns it the specified values for its properties. Then the value of
mycar.make is the string "Eagle",
mycar.year is the integer 1993, and so on.
You can create any number of
car objects by calls to
new. For example,
var kenscar = new Car("Nissan", "300ZX", 1992);
var vpgscar = new Car("Mazda", "Miata", 1990);
An object can have a property that is itself another object. For example, suppose you define an object called
person as follows:
function Person(name, age, sex) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
this.sex = sex;
and then instantiate two new
person objects as follows:
var rand = new Person("Rand McKinnon", 33, "M");
var ken = new Person("Ken Jones", 39, "M");
Then, you can rewrite the definition of
car to include an
owner property that takes a
person object, as follows:
function Car(make, model, year, owner) {
this.make = make;
this.model = model;
this.year = year;
this.owner = owner;
To instantiate the new objects, you then use the following:
var car1 = new Car("Eagle", "Talon TSi", 1993, rand);
var car2 = new Car("Nissan", "300ZX", 1992, ken);
Notice that instead of passing a literal string or integer value when creating the new objects, the above statements pass the objects
rand and
ken as the arguments for the owners. Then if you want to find out the name of the owner of car2, you can access the following property:
Note that you can always add a property to a previously defined object. For example, the statement
car1.color = "black";
adds a property
color to car1, and assigns it a value of "black." However, this does not affect any other objects. To add the new property to all objects of the same type, you have to add the property to the definition of the
car object type.
Using the Object.create method
Objects can also be created using the
Object.create method. This method can be very useful, because it allows you to choose the prototype object for the object you want to create, without having to define a constructor function. For more detailed information on the method and how to use it, see Object.create method
All objects in JavaScript inherit from at least one other object. The object being inherited from is known as the prototype, and the inherited properties can be found in the
prototype object of the constructor.
Indexing object properties
In JavaScript 1.0, you can refer to a property of an object either by its property name or by its ordinal index. In JavaScript 1.1 and later, however, if you initially define a property by its name, you must always refer to it by its name, and if you initially define a property by an index, you must always refer to it by its index.
This restriction applies when you create an object and its properties with a constructor function (as we did previously with the
Car object type) and when you define individual properties explicitly (for example,
myCar.color = "red"). If you initially define an object property with an index, such as
myCar[5] = "25 mpg", you can subsequently refer to the property only as
The exception to this rule is objects reflected from HTML, such as the
forms array. You can always refer to objects in these arrays by either their ordinal number (based on where they appear in the document) or their name (if defined). For example, if the second
<FORM> tag in a document has a
NAME attribute of "myForm", you can refer to the form as
document.forms[1] or
document.forms["myForm"] or
Defining properties for an object type
You can add a property to a previously defined object type by using the
prototype property. This defines a property that is shared by all objects of the specified type, rather than by just one instance of the object. The following code adds a
color property to all objects of type
car, and then assigns a value to the
color property of the object
Car.prototype.color = null;
car1.color = "black";
See the
prototype property of the
Function object for more information.
Defining methods
A method is a function associated with an object, or, simply put, a method is a property of an object that is a function. Methods are defined the way normal functions are defined, except that they have to be assigned as the property of an object. Examples are:
objectName.methodname = function_name;
var myObj = {
myMethod: function(params) {
// ...do something
objectName is an existing object,
methodname is the name you are assigning to the method, and
function_name is the name of the function.
You can then call the method in the context of the object as follows:
You can define methods for an object type by including a method definition in the object constructor function. For example, you could define a function that would format and display the properties of the previously-defined
car objects; for example,
function displayCar() {
var result = "A Beautiful " + this.year + " " + this.make
+ " " + this.model;
pretty_print is a function to display a horizontal rule and a string. Notice the use of
this to refer to the object to which the method belongs.
You can make this function a method of
car by adding the statement
this.displayCar = displayCar;
to the object definition. So, the full definition of
car would now look like
function Car(make, model, year, owner) {
this.make = make;
this.model = model;
this.year = year;
this.owner = owner;
this.displayCar = displayCar;
Then you can call the
displayCar method for each of the objects as follows:
This produces the output shown in the following figure.
Figure 7.1: Displaying method output.
this for object references
JavaScript has a special keyword,
this, that you can use within a method to refer to the current object. For example, suppose you have a function called
validate that validates an object's
value property, given the object and the high and low values:
function validate(obj, lowval, hival) {
if ((obj.value < lowval) || (obj.value > hival))
alert("Invalid Value!");
Then, you could call
validate in each form element's
onchange event handler, using
this to pass it the element, as in the following example:
<input type="text" name="age" size="3"
onChange="validate(this, 18, 99)">
In general,
this refers to the calling object in a method.
When combined with the
form property,
this can refer to the current object's parent form. In the following example, the form
myForm contains a
Text object and a button. When the user clicks the button, the value of the
Text object is set to the form's name. The button's
onclick event handler uses
this.form to refer to the parent form,
<form name="myForm">

Form name:<input type="text" name="text1" value="Beluga">

<input name="button1" type="button" value="Show Form Name"
onclick="this.form.text1.value = this.form.name">
Defining getters and setters
A getter is a method that gets the value of a specific property. A setter is a method that sets the value of a specific property. You can define getters and setters on any predefined core object or user-defined object that supports the addition of new properties. The syntax for defining getters and setters uses the object literal syntax.
Note: Starting in JavaScript 1.8.1, setters are no longer called when setting properties in object and array initializers.
The following JS shell session illustrates how getters and setters could work for a user-defined object
o. The JS shell is an application that allows developers to test JavaScript code in batch mode or interactively.
js> var o = {a: 7, get b() {return this.a + 1;}, set c(x) {this.a = x / 2}};
[object Object]
js> o.a;
js> o.b;
js> o.c = 50;
js> o.a;
o object's properties are:
o.a— a number
o.b— a getter that returns
o.aplus 1
o.c— a setter that sets the value of
o.ato half of the value
o.cis being set to
Please note that function names of getters and setters defined in an object literal using "[gs]et property()" (as opposed to
__define[GS]etter__ below) are not the names of the getters themselves, even though the
[gs]et propertyName(){ } syntax may mislead you to think otherwise. To name a function in a getter or setter using the "[gs]et property()" syntax, define an explicitly named function programmatically using
Object.defineProperty (or the
Object.prototype.__defineGetter__ legacy fallback).
This JavaScript shell session illustrates how getters and setters can extend the
Date prototype to add a
year property to all instances of the predefined
Date class. It uses the
Date class's existing
getFullYear and
setFullYear methods to support the
year property's getter and setter.
These statements define a getter and setter for the year property:
js> var d = Date.prototype;
js> d.__defineGetter__("year", function() { return this.getFullYear(); });
js> d.__defineSetter__("year", function(y) { this.setFullYear(y); });
These statements use the getter and setter in a
Date object:
js> var now = new Date;
js> print(now.year);
js> now.year = 2001;
js> print(now);
Wed Apr 18 11:13:25 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) 2001
Obsolete syntaxes
In the past, JavaScript supported several other syntaxes for defining getters and setters. None of these syntaxes were supported by other engines, and support has been removed in recent versions of JavaScript. See this dissection of the removed syntaxes for further details on what was removed and how to adapt to those removals.
In principle, getters and setters can be either
- defined using object initializers, or
- added later to any object at any time using a getter or setter adding method.
When defining getters and setters using object initializers all you need to do is to prefix a getter method with
get and a setter method with
set. Of course, the getter method must not expect a parameter, while the setter method expects exactly one parameter (the new value to set). For instance:
var o = {
a: 7,
'''get''' b() { return this.a + 1; },
'''set''' c(x) { this.a = x / 2; }
Getters and setters can also be added to an object at any time after creation using two special methods called
__defineGetter__ and
__defineSetter__. Both methods expect the name of the getter or setter as their first parameter, in the form of a string. The second parameter is the function to call as the getter or setter. For instance (following the previous example):
o.__defineGetter__("b", function() { return this.a + 1; });
o.__defineSetter__("c", function(x) { this.a = x / 2; });
Which of the two forms to choose depends on your programming style and task at hand. If you already go for the object initializer when defining a prototype you will probably most of the time choose the first form. This form is more compact and natural. However, if you need to add getters and setters later — because you did not write the prototype or particular object — then the second form is the only possible form. The second form probably best represents the dynamic nature of JavaScript — but it can make the code hard to read and understand.
Note: Prior to Firefox 3.0, getter and setter are not supported for DOM Elements. Older versions of Firefox silently fail. If exceptions are needed for those, changing the prototype of HTMLElement
(HTMLElement.prototype.__define[SG]etter__) and throwing an exception is a workaround.
With Firefox 3.0, defining getter or setter on an already-defined property will throw an exception. The property must be deleted beforehand, which is not the case for older versions of Firefox.
See also
Deleting properties
You can remove a property by using the
delete operator. The following code shows how to remove a property.
//Creates a new object, myobj, with two properties, a and b.
var myobj = new Object;
myobj.a = 5;
myobj.b = 12;
//Removes the a property, leaving myobj with only the b property.
delete myobj.a;
You can also use
delete to delete a global variable if the
var keyword was not used to declare the variable:
g = 17;
delete g;
delete for more information.


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Open house pick of the week: Waikiki
If you're house hunting in Waikiki this weekend, you don't have to limit yourself to only a few open houses and you can save yourself the frustration of looking for parking with Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties' fourth annual "Waikiki is Open" event on Sunday, July 15.
From 2 to 5 p.m., they'll open the doors to more than 50 listings during the one-day event. Complimentary transportation will be provided so you can easily get from one place to the next. Two trolleys displaying the "Waikiki is Open" banner will make continuous loops around Waikiki. Plus two Pedicab services will run between the Sunset on the Beach area and the fountain on Kalakaua Avenue near the Elks Club.
Here's just a sampling of what will be open:
Looking for luxury? Check out this oceanfront double unit at the Tahitienne on Kalakaua Avenue ($2,288,000 fee simple). Gaze out at the ocean while you enjoy your favorite tunes on the sound system that's installed throughout the unit. Bonus – all the designer furniture is included in the price.
If you don't happen to have a few million dollars set aside for a home, you may consider this two-bedroom condo at Coral Terrace Apartments on Aloha Drive ($345,500 fee simple). With only 36 units in the boutique building, you can enjoy a more personal atmosphere while still being in the middle of Waikiki.
Maybe you're looking for an investment property or just a tiny piece of paradise to call your own. This studio at the Pacific International Hotel on Ala Wai Boulevard ($109,000 fee simple) has a super low maintenance fee ($222 a month) that includes central A/C and electricity.
If you visit three open houses or more during the event, you'll score a coupon from Jimmy Buffett's at the Beachcomber for a burger and margarita or beer for $12.
Can you say, "Vegas, baby"? There'll also be an entry form you can fill out for a chance to win a trip for two to Sin City courtesy of Vacations Hawaii.
On the event day, a complete list of participating listings, a map and the entry form will be available at www.cbpacific.com, in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and MidWeek, at Jimmy Buffett's at the Beachcomber, on the "Waikiki is Open" trolleys, pedicabs, and at the open houses. You can park for free with validation at Jimmy Buffett's at the Beachcomber. For a map of other major parking areas in Waikiki, click here.
For more information, visit www.cbpacific.com or call 808-597-5550.


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If you're faced with copying pictures from a stack of CompactFlash cards to a Mac or PC, and time is of the essence, this section of the CF/SD Performance Database is for you. SD/SDHC/SDXC card readers are covered on a separate page.
The Readers
Almost all of the readers below support the UDMA protocol found in the fastest CompactFlash cards to emerge since mid-2006. For the quickest-possible transfer of photos from speedier memory cards to your computer, a well-engineered UDMA-capable reader is a must.
Addonics SATA CF Adapter ADSACF
This internal CompactFlash-only reader is meant to be installed in a drive bay or PCI slot of a Windows computer and then connected to a spare SATA port.
CompuApps OmniFlash USB 2.0 UDMA 40 UnoCF
This reader was the first USB 2.0 model to emerge with support for the UDMA protocol for faster transfers with newer high-speed CompactFlash cards and can still hold its own against UDMA USB 2.0 readers that have emerged since then.
The USB connector on this small CompactFlash-only USB 2.0 reader can be plugged directly into a computer's USB port, or it can be connected via the included extension cable.
Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash Adapter
This CompactFlash-only ExpressCard adapter is compatible with computers equipped with ExpressCard 54 slots and has been available to date in two versions, both of which look the same and ship in similar or identical packaging, but offer different performance. ExpressCards can be designed to communicate internally with the host via USB 2.0 or PCIe. The first version of this adapter appears to use USB 2.0, and delivers read speeds commensurate with a modern USB 2.0 card reader. The second version is PCIe and is noticeably faster, but suffers from some compatibility problems. Both have been tested and the results are below.
As Apple's ExpressCard-capable MacBook Pro laptops have a narrower ExpressCard 34 slot, this adapter from Delkin is effectively for PCs only (and then, only ones with an ExpressCard 54 slot). Unlike CompactFlash card adapters fitted for 34mm-wide ExpressCard 34 slots, which require the adapter portion that holds the CompactFlash card to sit entirely outside the slot, a 54mm-wide ExpressCard 54 slot allows for a design that takes the CompactFlash card inside the slot along with the adapter.
More importantly, this type of adapter can - and both versions of the Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash model do - use a traditional recessed pin-style channel for the CompactFlash card, which we've found to be more durable and less prone to pin breakage than the current crop of ExpressCard 34 CompactFlash adapters, including ones from Delkin and Synchrotech.
For road warriors, there's one more benefit: the Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash adapter, when empty, doesn't stick out of the card slot by more than one or two millimetres, at least with our IBM/Lenovo T60 laptop. This means the adapter can ride in there all the time, so that when you have your laptop with you, you have your reader with you too. Additionally, it's possible to insert and remove just the CompactFlash card from this adapter without first removing the adapter from the computer, further extending its convenience.
Generally speaking, we've found CardBus and ExpressCard adapters to be a pain: between card incompatibilities, driver problems and broken connector pins, they are a good advertisement for sticking with external USB and FireWire readers. The first version of the Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash adapter has so far hummed along with none of the drama of certain other adapters, and that has been a pleasant change.
The second version, which is generally quicker than the first version, isn't quite as trouble free. More than a few CompactFlash cards, even fast ones, slow to a turtle's pace of less than 1MB/second in the PCIe variant of the Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash adapter. Plus, our normally rock-solid T60 test machine crashed twice during benchmarking. In short, the second version may be speedier, but the first version (which is probably no longer shipping) is more compatible and seemingly more reliable too.
The slowdowns and crashes we experienced with the second version of the Delkin ExpressCard 54 CompactFlash adapter mirror almost exactly the problems we saw when testing the Synchrotech CFExpressPro+, an ExpressCard 34 adapter. This likely means that both share the same controller.
Delkin ImageRouter
This four-slot, CompactFlash-only USB 2.0 reader is intended for high volume workflows. It incorporates inside its hard-plastic shell a powered USB hub which, in addition to serving its own four reader slots, enables additional ImageRouter or other USB readers to be linked to it courtesy of a single USB port, for additional simultaneous card download capacity. The ImageRouter connects to the computer via a detachable cable and comes with a 100-240VAC adapter (which is required for the reader to work).
The Delkin ImageRouter is available on its own or in a kit with the company's BackupandBurn transfer and disc burning application.
Griffin Simplifi
The Griffin Simplifi combines a USB 2.0 card reader that accepts CompactFlash, SD/SDHC and various other memory card formats, a powered two-port USB 2.0 hub and iPod charging/syncing dock into one trim, well-designed desktop accessory.
It connects to the computer via a detachable cable.
Hoodman RAW UDMA USB 2.0
This CompactFlash and SD/SDHC USB 2.0 reader connects to the computer via a non-detachable cable and is nearly the same in appearance as Hoodman's RAW UDMA FireWire 800 reader.
(It's difficult to see in the picture at left that there is a separate SD/SDHC card slot beneath the larger CompactFlash slot.)
Kingston 19-in-1 Media Reader
This USB 2.0 reader, which accepts CompactFlash, SD/SDHC and various other memory card formats, connects to the computer via a short, non-detachable cable that's an ideal length for use next to a laptop. An extension cable is included for when the reader needs to sit further from the computer. The card slots can be slid flush with the reader's front when in use (as shown in the picture), then slid back inside the reader's shell for storage and travel.
Lexar Professional UDMA Dual-Slot
This CompactFlash and SD/SDHC USB 2.0 reader features a pop-up design that, when popped down, keeps its twin card slots protected. It connects to the computer via a detachable cable.
Though the Lexar's black popup section - which is the actual reader portion - and its semi-translucent frame aren't intended to be separated, it's possible to do so to save space in an overstuffed laptop bag. The hinge mechanism that holds the two together can be separated without much effort and without damaging the unit. We did this, then completed the transformation by first putting some gaffer tape to cover openings on the black section's base, followed by small grippy feet (left over from a portable hard drive kit) onto the base's four corners.
Lexar Professional ExpressCard
ExpressCards can communicate with the host computer via slower USB 2.0
or faster PCIe; this CompactFlash-only ExpressCard 34 adapter uses the
latter method and, with certain cards, gives the fastest card-to-computer
SanDisk Extreme FireWire
SanDisk's flagship CompactFlash-only reader utilizes a speedy OXFW912 FireWire 800/400 controller from Oxford Semiconductor and includes both FireWire 800-to-FireWire 800 and FireWire 800-to-FireWire 400 cables.
The read speeds for the Delkin Reader-39, Hoodman RAW UDMA FireWire 800, Lexar Professional UDMA FireWire 800 and Synchrotech CFFire800 Pro are effectively identical to this SanDisk reader, because all four utilize the same controller from Oxford. That said, the SanDisk Extreme FireWire reader has the nicest industrial design of the bunch. The Delkin, Hoodman and Synchrotech feature a non-removable cable, which reduces their travel ruggedness, while the Lexar's insert/eject mechanism is poor (though it's the only one to provide twin FireWire ports for daisy-chaining).
SanDisk Extreme III USB (original version)
This CompactFlash and SD/SDHC USB 2.0 reader is one of the most dependable and goof-proof readers we've ever used. Its lack of support for the UDMA protocol, however, means the quickest CompactFlash cards revert to operating in the slower PIO transfer mode which, as the results show, puts the brakes on throughput for this memory card type. This now-discontinued reader may not be a CompactFlash speed demon, but it remains a favourite here because it just works.
The SanDisk Extreme III USB (original version) connects to the computer via a detachable cable.
SanDisk Extreme III USB (mid-2008 version)
Starting in July 2008, SanDisk began shipping a new version of this reader that supports the UDMA protocol for quicker transfers from newer CompactFlash cards that also support UDMA. At the same time, it became a CompactFlash-only reader; SanDisk removed the SD/SDHC slot in the redesign.
The SanDisk Extreme III USB (mid-2008 version) connects to the computer via a detachable cable.
SanDisk ImageMate All-in-One USB 2.0
Slated to ship in November 2008, this four-slot reader accepts CompactFlash (CF I only, which means thicker CF II cards such as the Hitachi Microdrive won't fit), SD/SDHC and numerous other memory card formats.
The ImageMate All-in-One USB 2.0 includes a removable, magnetically attached three-legged stand. It connects to the computer via a detachable cable. The unit we've tested is not final production, but is expected to be representative of the performance and compatibility of the reader that will ship to stores.
Synchrotech CFExpressPro+
ExpressCards can communicate with the host computer via slower USB 2.0 or faster PCIe; this CompactFlash-only ExpressCard 34 adapter uses the latter method, and it makes for throughput that rivals the fastest external readers with some cards. As the results show, certain card brands and models perform well in the CFExpressPro+ - a number deliver read speeds of over 40MB/second - but a sizeable minority work at less than 1MB/second, which is really the same as saying that these cards are incompatible with this adapter.
The shallow card slot of the CFExpressPro+ makes it possible to slide a card in slightly off angle, just off angle enough for the card to bend several of the adapter slot's pins. By comparison, the deeper slot of a typical external card reader means the card has straightened out by the time it reaches the pins at the rear of the slot.
We bent several of the CFExpressPro+'s pins during testing, despite taking care to insert each card straight on, which meant the adapter had to be replaced before we could complete the testing. The same thing occurred in day-to-day use of a Delkin ExpressCard 34 several months ago, and it features the same shallow slot design, so be aware of this apparent limitation in this type of CompactFlash adapter. And finally, we have also encountered the occasional OS X kernel panic when using the CFExpressPro+, with a Mac that is otherwise stable and contains a fresh operating system install.
The Systems
The test systems are:
The CompactFlash read speed results below were generated with QuickBench 4, a cross-platform benchmarking utility we like because it produces numbers that equate closely to real world performance when using the operating system to copy digital SLR JPEG and RAW files from a memory card to the computer. QuickBench was set to
Large Test (2-10MB),
Allow Cache Effects was turned off and 3 test cycles were run. All cards were secure erased and then formatted in a Canon EOS-1D Mark IV or Canon EOS 5D Mark II before testing.
Use the NEXT FOUR READERS and PREVIOUS FOUR READERS links to navigate through all the reader data. The fields marked in
blue represent the fastest read speed for that card. In the case of an incompatibility between card and reader, the field is marked


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Combating trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
Combating trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
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Combating trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
In its fight against human trafficking, the European Union has proposed introducing effective measures to address the whole trafficking chain of recruiters, transporters, exploiters and clients.
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on combating trafficking in human beings and combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.
The Commission is aware that trafficking in human beings is now a worldwide phenomenon involving tens of thousands of victims, especially women and children. The causes of trafficking are usually poverty, unemployment, lack of education and the vulnerability of certain groups such as women and children. In order to find a satisfactory solution, the Commission has suggested a comprehensive approach in order to deal with the different aspects of such a complex problem.
Since 1996 the European Union has introduced a series of programmes to combat trafficking in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children. These included the STOP programme and the DAPHNE programme to combat violence against women and children. Both programmes involve the public authorities and non-governmental organisations. As the STOP programme ended in 2000, the Commission has submitted a proposal for its renewal for 2001 and 2002 which the Council is considering. In 1997 the Council adopted a joint action in order to encourage judicial cooperation. The European Councils held in Tampere and in Santa Maria de Feira called on member countries to take effective action in this field.
In spite of the amendments made by Member States to their laws, judicial cooperation is hampered by the lack of common definitions of crime, incrimination and sanctions.
In order to remedy the situation, the Commission presented two proposals for framework decisions in December 2000. The first (Framework Decision on combating trafficking in human beings) deals with two different aspects of the trade: trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation. The second (Framework Decision on combating sexual exploitation of children and child pornography) concerns the new and frightening problem of child pornography on the Internet.
In drawing up the two proposals for Framework Decisions, the Commission took account of the work at international level reflected in the United Nations Protocol on trafficking in human beings and by the draft European Council convention on cybercrime.
The Commission calls on the Council to adopt the two proposals without delay in order to demonstrate clearly its will to take on the fight against these unacceptable violations of fundamental human rights.
Entry into force - Date of expiry
Deadline for transposition in the Member States
Official Journal
COM(2000) 854-1 final
OJ C 357 of 14.12.2001
Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA of 22 December 2003 on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.
Council Decision of 29 May 2000 to combat child pornography on the Internet.
For further information:
The Freedom, Security and Justice site of JFS Directorate-General of the European Commission:
The European Parliament's "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice" site:
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We have uploaded an existing ad. You can visit Yahoo's pre-built mortgage ads category for more ideas (most of them are awful).
Homeowners age 62 and older. Savvy internet users with median property values of $205,000 in wealthier states like CA, FL, NY, etc.
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Author Notes: So far, one of the best parts about living in Boston is my proximity to Toscanini's burnt caramel ice cream. I'm not even that into ice cream but this flavor, with its slight bitter edge to cut the richness, is crack-like. I attempted to capture it in a pudding, and after incinerating a lot of sugar, I think I finally got it. —Midge
Food52 Review: Puddings thickened with cornstarch make great comfort food, but Midge's luxurious caramel custard, which uses egg yolks as its only setting agent, elevates pudding to dinner party fare. As with any egg-enriched custard, the key is careful tempering, and do take the caramel as far as your nerves will allow -- you'll be rewarded with a rich pudding that has just the right balance of bitter and sweet. Our favorite technique of all? Midge has you start the water bath with cool water, rather than hot; this cooks the pudding slowly but very gently, giving it the most incredibly silken, glossy structure. -A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4
cups heavy cream
vanilla bean
cup sugar
large egg yolks, room temperature
Fine sea salt
- Heat the oven to 300°F.
- Pour the cream into a small saucepan. Split vanilla bean and scrape the seeds into the cream; toss the scraped pod in there too. Turn the heat to low to gently warm the cream.
- Reserve 2 tablespoons of the sugar; pour remaining sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons water into heavy-bottomed saucepan and set over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Then crank the heat to high and let the liquid bubble away—don't stir; just swirl the pan occasionally—until it turns dark amber. This takes about 4 minutes, but watch closely because it happens fast.
- Moving quickly, fish the vanilla pod out of the cream and save for another use. Slowly stir the warm cream into the caramel over medium heat. Once it comes to a boil (it will fast), turn off the heat and let the mixture cool for about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar and a pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Whisk a little of the cream/caramel mixture into the egg yolks. Gradually add the rest, until it's all incorporated.
- Strain the mixture into a pitcher or large measuring cup and pour into four ramekins. Place the ramekins in a shallow pan half filled with cold water. If you like your caramel a bit salty like me, sprinkle a few extra grains of sea salt on top of each one. Cook at 300 degrees for about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes. Chill for at least 3 hours, but it's best if you can chill it overnight. Serve with whipped heavy cream.
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Through this site I hope to make contact with any family members and hope new relations can be discovered.


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Professional speaker, writer, and coach.
Private and group coaching,
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A resource for the woman who wants to have it all (love, success, health, home, family)
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International News
Impoverished Georgia Fosters Fatal Form of TB
August 14, 2003
Former Soviet Georgia is the epicenter of a public health disaster that threatens Europe with a deadly form of multi-drug resistant TB.Adapted from:
In the chaos that followed Georgia's independence and the conflicts that wracked the country between 1991 and 1994, the TB incidence rate has tripled, from 29 new cases for every 100,000 population in 1988 to 89 in 100,000 in 2001. In 1995, Georgia adopted the World Health Organization's standard strategy of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) to combat the disease.
Recognizing TB as a disease of poverty, DOTS requires the treatment to be free, and to that end the German government has been donating TB drugs to Georgia since 1995. But in the impoverished Black Sea, state where a doctor's monthly salary -- if it is paid -- is $50, cash, rather than a cure, is on many doctors' minds. Some patients said they were paying far more than the actual $50 a standard course of DOTS costs.
As a result, the uncontrolled distribution of anti-TB drugs has created the perfect breeding ground for MDRTB, dubbed "ebola with wings" by a Harvard medical school study. "Doctors will charge TB patients that come to them without referring them to the specialized TB facilities, and treat them for 'pneumonia' or 'bronchitis' with one or two TB drugs, when they should be using four or five," said Annabel Baddeley, of the British aid agency Merlin, which is working to adapt DOTS to Georgia's rural areas. The patients will eventually wind up at a TB facility with advanced TB, having developed drug resistance to the expensive package they have paid for, said Baddeley.
Treatment for MDRTB, DOTS-Plus, is about 100 times more expensive than DOTS. And WHO will not sanction the use of second-line drugs until the primary strategy is up and running. "A country that has such a low level of success in treating with DOTS cannot bring in DOTS-Plus," said Professor George Khechinashvili, director of Georgia's national TB program.
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08.09.03; Chris Bird
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Courses on video: all good.
First consequence: I hear myself on tape. What a shock! What a strong accent I have! I never knew it! Can I fix it?
Second consequence: two students already told me that they had watched the first lecture on video; this is shopping period and it's a convenient way for them to test several courses being taught at the same time.
Third consequence: some of my TAs are going to watch parts of lectures, for the more challenging parts of the course or when they need a refresher (for example: log*n analysis of union find at the end of lecture this past Tuesday).
So far so good.
Another developing trend: some students had difficulty with a homework exercise using recurrences (which I did not cover in class). Instead of pointing them to a textbook, or to lectures notes on the web, the TAs pointed them to a video of a lecture on the subject at MIT, from a number of years ago: so, these videos are becoming resources for learning, competing with textbooks.
All good developments!
6 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Are the video courses open to the public? Can the fans of this blog watch them?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, they're open to the public, but they have not yet been indexed, so if you want to watch a particular segment on a specific topic, it's not so easy right now. (They will be indexed as soon as things get sorted out.)Delete
There's a pointer to the lectures from http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs157/lectures.xml
At the technion there were video tapes of many courses when I was studying there in the mid 90s. For large first-year courses, more often than not the recorded lecturer was better than the one who happened to be teaching the course that semester. The classes were huge so there wasn't an advantage over videos in terms of interaction (there was none anyway). Another advantage of the VCRs was that you could play them at double speed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Thanks for making this available to the public...am sure I will learn a lot from it!ReplyDelete
Keep the accent! It brightened our mornings in CS17.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2013 at 11:49 PM
These seem to have been taken down... any idea if they'll be available the public again?ReplyDelete


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Wombles clean up London after riots and looting
The riots and looting in London and other cities around the UK are shocking. An out of control mob mentality without conscience profiteering from a terrible situation. However, good always triumphs over thuggery. And the famous Brit Blitz spirit has surfaced yet again, resulting in flash mobs of so-called Wombles connecting via Twitter and Facebook to clean up Clapham, Battersea and other boroughs in the capital. Paul and Gina discuss how these groups of volunteers are sending a powerful message to the thugs: no matter what you do we will clean up and help our neighbours.
Something always positive comes out of negative events, and it's been interesting to see how social networking has played a major part in bringing these Womble clean-up mobs together for the benefit of their own communities – and communities in other parts of London.


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Ten to screen AACTA Awards, Hugh Sheridan to host
THE industry-voted AACTA Awards, which celebrate film and television, have moved to a new broadcaster, with Ten set to screen a shortened version of this month's event.
In a strong nod to the television side of the equation, Packed to the Rafters star Hugh Sheridan is set to host the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (formerly the Australian Film Institute, or AFI) awards, at the Star casino and entertainment complex in Sydney on January 30.
Last year's event – the first AACTA awards – was held at the Sydney Opera House and had no host, though AACTA president Geoffrey Rush topped and tailed proceedings.
This year Rush, with whom Sheridan appeared on the Melbourne stage in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which ended its run on the weekend, will be among the presenters.
Ten takes over the broadcast from Nine, which had screened the awards since 2005. Last year's broadcast attracted an average of just 314,000 viewers in the five mainland capital cities across the broadcast from 9.30pm to midnight.
The Sapphires leads the field in the film section of this year's AACTAs, with 12 nominations, while Puberty Blues and Redfern Now lead the TV drama field.
Karl is a senior entertainment writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.


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We all love parties, whether it be a fancy wedding party or some casual get-together in Bishopscourt . If you are throwing a party in a restaurant, then you need not worry about the catering. However, if you plan to arrange a party at your house, you can well imagine how difficult it could be to cook food for 20 to 30 guests. In such a case, it is advisable that one hire a good catering service to do the job.
Marketing professionals and specialist use many tactics to attract and retain their customers. These activities comprise of different concepts, the most important one being the marketing mix. There are two concepts for marketing mix: 4P and 7P. It is essential to balance the 4Ps or the 7Ps of the marketing mix. The concept of 4Ps has been long used for the product industry while the latter has emerged as a successful proposition for the services industry.
The 7Ps of the marketing mix can be discussed as:
Product - It must provide value to a customer but does not have to be tangible at the same time. Basically, it involves introducing new products or improvising the existing products.
Price - Pricing must be competitive and must entail profit. The pricing strategy can comprise discounts, offers and the like.
Place - It refers to the place where the customers can buy the product and how the product reaches out to that place. This is done through different channels, like Internet, wholesalers and retailers.
Promotion - It includes the various ways of communicating to the customers of what the company has to offer. It is about communicating about the benefits of using a particular product or service rather than just talking about its features.
People - People refer to the customers, employees, management and everybody else involved in it. It is essential for everyone to realize that the reputation of the brand that you are involved with is in the people's hands.
Process - It refers to the methods and process of providing a service and is hence essential to have a thorough knowledge on whether the services are helpful to the customers, if they are provided in time, if the customers are informed in hand about the services and many such things.
Physical (evidence) - It refers to the experience of using a product or service. When a service goes out to the customer, it is essential that you help him see what he is buying or not. For example- brochures, pamphlets etc serve this purpose.