Mk Ultra was the name given to a terrible illegal program. Human subjects were experimented on by the CIA. It used people not aware of the full facts for test subjects. This included American citizens and Canadian citizens. This experiment used LSD on mental patients‚ some prisoners‚ prostitutes‚ and drug addicts. Not only that their own CIA employees were victims of LSD being admistered to them. LSD is a potent chemical that can change the mood of a person. It has lysergic acid which can be obtained
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We all know the CIA to get a little weird sometimes‚ but these CIA operations are just plain crazy! They can’t always let us know what is really going on in their classified heads‚ and maybe this is why. These CIA operations sound so “out there” that you really won’t believe them; but they really happened! Number Five: The Bay of Pigs. During the fight to remove Fidel Castro from power‚ the CIA sanctioned the Bay of Pigs Invasion. As many as 1‚300 exiled Cubans were specially trained and prepared
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Stock Pick: Michael Kors (MK) is a global luxury lifestyle brand of consumer products‚ which range from American luxury sportswear to accessories‚ footwear and apparel. The company operates in three business segments – retail‚ wholesale and licensing. MK is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Although MK was established 30 years ago as a luxury brand‚ its initial public offering was only on December 2011. (MK Annual Report 2013) 2. KEY HIGHLIGHTS Rapid Revenue Growth: MK had 67.54% growth by
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Graphene replaced with copper Graphene nanoribbons have a current-carrying capacity two orders of magnitude higher than copper Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material for interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nm‚ graphene has a current-carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper while providing improved thermal conductivity. The current-carrying and heat-transfer measurements
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LSD party favors: MKULTRA It was Wednesday August 3‚ 1977; the CIA went to court for being accused of forming a mind control research project called MKULTRA. The United States government started the MKULTRA project to teach CIA agents how to avoid the use of mind control in other countries. “Convinced that German scientists could help America’s postwar efforts‚ President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize “Project Paperclip‚” a program to bring selected German scientists to
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Inequality and health in Malawi 2011 – an analytical study identifying trends over 19 years George Chapotera1 and Cameron Bowie2 1: Department of Planning‚ MOH 2: Department of Community Health‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Malawi‚ Blantyre‚ Malawi. October 2011 Prepared for the Technical Working Group on health equity Ministry of Health and SWAp partners Abstract Background Malawi is the eleventh poorest country in the world according to UNDP (HDR2010). Health affects
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. OVERVIEW 2. MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES 3. SNs – GLOBAL VIEW AND REQUIREMENTS 4. INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF SN NODES PROCESSOR STORAGE POWER SUPPLY SENSORS AND/OR ACTUAT ORS RADIO 5. SENSOR NETWORK NODE BERKELEY MOTE NODE UCLA MEDUSA MK-2 NODE BWRC PICONODE LIGHT COMPASS NODE 6. WIRELESS SNs AS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 7. SUMMARY 8. REFERENCE 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This material is based upon work supported in part by the Nati nal Science Foundation o
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The Safety of Our Military Vehicles in Combat The Safety of Our Military Vehicles in Combat What does the word safety mean? Does it mean protecting yourself from harm? Safety should convey a feeling that you are secure in your current position‚ whether that is physical‚ emotional or psychological? Safety means different things to daifferent people. Safety is “the state of being safe; freedom from the risk of injury‚ danger‚ or loss” (Merriam-Webster dictionary online‚
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Michael Kors International Vision S.W.O.T analysis Strengths The first strength of MK brand is that it is resilient and adaptable. The manager of MK knows how to rescue and optimize the brand when the quality was not very high‚ especially at the beginning time when the MK just established. And the management of MK has been able to increase its price constantly thus making the quality went up as well in order to making more profits. Besides‚ Michael Kors‚ a world-renowned designer‚ individually lead
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purchases among a growing customer base. MK distributes in operations into three business segments: Retail‚ Wholesale‚ and Licensing as well as the company competes the high end brands like LV‚ Coach and Burberry. In my assignment‚ I will start defining the target customers for MK by looking at four major variables: 1- Geographic. 2- Demographic. 3- Psychographics. 4- Behaviouristics. First of all is a geographic variable. A target markets or customers for MK usually live in developed countries
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