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Heart transplant - was watching a program about how people completely change once they have a heart transplant. Most of those changes are what the heart donor use to be like.

 

Music - For music to send a chill down your spin it has to be really good and pleasing since dopamine release is associated with the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction this makes sense

 

Twins - Straightforward

 

Marie Curie -She's the sister of pierre curie and there some of the pioneers in radioactivity. She taught in France and one of her students discovered a radioactive element which was named after the country francium. Most of these people that did research on radioactive substances died an early and it makes sense that her notebook/lab book is still radioactive if it was in that type of environment.

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Heart transplant - was watching a program about how people completely change once they have a heart transplant. Most of those changes are what the heart donor use to be like.

 

Music - For music to send a chill down your spin it has to be really good and pleasing since dopamine release is associated with the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction this makes sense

 

Twins - Straightforward

 

Marie Curie -She's the sister of pierre curie and there some of the pioneers in radioactivity. She taught in France and one of her students discovered a radioactive element which was named after the country francium. Most of these people that did research on radioactive substances died an early and it makes sense that her notebook/lab book is still radioactive if it was in that type of environment.

thats interesting 

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Heart transplant - was watching a program about how people completely change once they have a heart transplant. Most of those changes are what the heart donor use to be like.

 

Music - For music to send a chill down your spin it has to be really good and pleasing since dopamine release is associated with the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction this makes sense

 

Twins - Straightforward

 

Marie Curie -She's the sister of pierre curie and there some of the pioneers in radioactivity. She taught in France and one of her students discovered a radioactive element which was named after the country francium. Most of these people that did research on radioactive substances died an early and it makes sense that her notebook/lab book is still radioactive if it was in that type of environment.

thats interesting 

 

http://www.thegreatplanet.com/mindshock-transplanting-memories-channel-4-documentary/

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So if a luxury clothes designer/manufacturer cannot dictate the price its boutiques or department stores sell its items, how can the brand maintain its prestige? Louis Vuitton is an excellent example of a luxury company controlling brand perception. I found a research paper of a Japanese graduate student, Shin’ya Nagasawa, titled “Louis Vuitton and its Luxury Brand Strategy.” Nagasawa reports that, in a very intentional way, LV employs the four P’s of brand marketing (price, product, place, and promotion).

PRICE. LV has not had a sale in 154 years. Louis Vuitton prohibits bargain sales. A core of Louis Vuitton’s pricing strategy is to sell the products to all of its customers at the same price no matter the location.

PRODUCT. To foster users forming attachments to a product, each of Louis Vuitton’s products has a name, not a serial number. “Soho”, “Broadway”, “Ural”, “Baikal”. (ModCloth and Nine West also do this). Also, Nagasawa found that Louis Vuitton has a special order service for self-indulgers who hire Louis Vuitton to custom-make products.

PROMOTION. Louis Vuitton does not have television ads; it instead values more the “fullness of information” exchanged between a customer and a Louis Vuitton salesperson; LV trains salespeople to tell the stories behind the products and inform customers regarding the rich details of latest pieces, how to care for the bags, and updates on key fashion designers. Yearly, Louis Vuitton supplements stores with catalogs that consumers can buy. The catalogues contain an immense amount of information about the products; the catalogues always sell out. At the same time, to promote its products, Louis Vuitton has brand “muses” (celebrities that take a liking to the brand or persons who epitomize the brand).

PLACE. Louis Vuitton retains immensely tight control from production to distribution to sales. For example, once a product is taken out of production, it retires and does not go to a discount outlet or online discounter. LV wants their retired goods to be “sorely missed” and in an implied way employs the “you better buy it now or it will be gone” tactic

Seeing as the bags aren't going on sale and they're probably not given away to their workers there's probably some truth in the LV picture. Maybe they aren't being burned but they're definitely getting destroyed some how.

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Heart transplant - was watching a program about how people completely change once they have a heart transplant. Most of those changes are what the heart donor use to be like.

 

Music - For music to send a chill down your spin it has to be really good and pleasing since dopamine release is associated with the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction this makes sense

 

Twins - Straightforward

 

Marie Curie -She's the sister of pierre curie and there some of the pioneers in radioactivity. She taught in France and one of her students discovered a radioactive element which was named after the country francium. Most of these people that did research on radioactive substances died an early and it makes sense that her notebook/lab book is still radioactive if it was in that type of environment.

thats interesting 

 

http://www.thegreatplanet.com/mindshock-transplanting-memories-channel-4-documentary/

watching this, sounds mad the experiences people go through post-transplant 

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So if a luxury clothes designer/manufacturer cannot dictate the price its boutiques or department stores sell its items, how can the brand maintain its prestige? Louis Vuitton is an excellent example of a luxury company controlling brand perception. I found a research paper of a Japanese graduate student, Shin’ya Nagasawa, titled “Louis Vuitton and its Luxury Brand Strategy.” Nagasawa reports that, in a very intentional way, LV employs the four P’s of brand marketing (price, product, place, and promotion).

PRICE. LV has not had a sale in 154 years. Louis Vuitton prohibits bargain sales. A core of Louis Vuitton’s pricing strategy is to sell the products to all of its customers at the same price no matter the location.

PRODUCT. To foster users forming attachments to a product, each of Louis Vuitton’s products has a name, not a serial number. “Soho”, “Broadway”, “Ural”, “Baikal”. (ModCloth and Nine West also do this). Also, Nagasawa found that Louis Vuitton has a special order service for self-indulgers who hire Louis Vuitton to custom-make products.

PROMOTION. Louis Vuitton does not have television ads; it instead values more the “fullness of information” exchanged between a customer and a Louis Vuitton salesperson; LV trains salespeople to tell the stories behind the products and inform customers regarding the rich details of latest pieces, how to care for the bags, and updates on key fashion designers. Yearly, Louis Vuitton supplements stores with catalogs that consumers can buy. The catalogues contain an immense amount of information about the products; the catalogues always sell out. At the same time, to promote its products, Louis Vuitton has brand “muses” (celebrities that take a liking to the brand or persons who epitomize the brand).

PLACE. Louis Vuitton retains immensely tight control from production to distribution to sales. For example, once a product is taken out of production, it retires and does not go to a discount outlet or online discounter. LV wants their retired goods to be “sorely missed” and in an implied way employs the “you better buy it now or it will be gone” tactic

Seeing as the bags aren't going on sale and they're probably not given away to their workers there's probably some truth in the LV picture. Maybe they aren't being burned but they're definitely getting destroyed some how.

Security guard at LV told me they have a staff sale couple times a year and get 60% off everything.

But yh never a public sale

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