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Your Math and Physics Questions Answered. Radiohead: Karma Police sounds like The Beatles: Sexy Sadie. The 30 Most Expensive Paintings of All Time. This is the collection of the highest known prices ever paid for painting.

The 30 Most Expensive Paintings of All Time

The earliest sale on the list (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from 1987, and more than trebled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in top picture prices. The sale was also significant in that for the first time a “modern” painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master painting which had always previously held it. Since at that time sales of the most valuable painting have usually been made at the auctions, though that had by no means been the case before, and the list below still shows some “private sales”, including the three most expensive. The current record price was paid for a work from 1948 by Jackson Pollock, and there are only three old master painting in the collection below. This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value in millions of 2009 United States dollars. 30. 29. 28. 27. Creative Advertising Archive & Community.

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Welcome to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. How to Plot the Cyclomatic Complexity of Your Project - Streamhead. The Cyclomatic Complexity Number of your program is a very rough measurement of how many paths can be taken through your source code.

How to Plot the Cyclomatic Complexity of Your Project - Streamhead

It can be calculated fully automatically. While it is far from perfect, it will give you an idea of how complex your program is. Six Thinking Hats. Six Thinking Hats is a book by Edward de Bono which describes a tool for group discussion and individual thinking involving six colored hats.

Six Thinking Hats

"Six Thinking Hats" and the associated idea parallel thinking provide a means for groups to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way, and in doing so to think together more effectively.[2] Underlying principles[edit] The premise of the method is that the human brain thinks in a number of distinct ways which can be deliberately challenged, and hence planned for use in a structured way allowing one to develop tactics for thinking about particular issues. de Bono identifies six distinct directions in which the brain can be challenged.

In each of these directions the brain will identify and bring into conscious thought certain aspects of issues being considered (e.g. gut instinct, pessimistic judgement, neutral facts). How to Create a Personal Information Encryption Scheme to Easily Hide Your Data in Plain Sight. I think the article is saying you could use LastPass to generate your LastPass password and the article's encryption scheme to keep the password in plain sight. Then you would not have to remember it. For example if your LastPass encryption key password was something like /%/K\G,_sO¦R¥ÅÀbݾöà~¼ÐÂ4×òO? Ù;ñN:è1? Curta-Simulator. - StumbleUpon. Concept ships. Marc and Angel Hack Life - Practical Tips for Productive Living.

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SCHOPENHAUERS 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT - StumbleUpon

The Benjamin Franklin Effect & You Are Not So Smart - StumbleUpon. The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.

The Benjamin Franklin Effect & You Are Not So Smart - StumbleUpon

The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm. Benjamin Franklin knew how to deal with haters. The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen - StumbleUpon. Authoritarian followers Mind Control Subliminals By Dick Sutphen Summary of Contents The Birth of Conversion The Three Brain Phases How Revivalist Preachers Work Voice Roll Technique Six Conversion Techniques 1. keeping agreements 2.physical and mental fatigue 3. increase the tension 4.

The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen - StumbleUpon

Uncertainty. 5. Jargon 6. No humor Stockholm SyndromeDecognition Process Step One is ALERTNESS REDUCTION Step Two is PROGRAMED CONFUSION Step Three is THOUGHT STOPPINGTrue Believers & Mass Movements Persuasion Techniques YES SET TRUISMS SUGGESTION Imbedded Commands INTERSPERSAL TECHNIQUE Visualisation SHOCK AND CONFUSIONSubliminal Programming Mass Misuse Vibrato Extra Low Frequencies The Neurophone Summary of Contents. 15 styles of Distorted Thinking.

15 styles of Distorted Thinking Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.

15 styles of Distorted Thinking

Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white, good or bad. You have to be perfect or you're a failure. There is no middle ground. Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. Match the arrestee with their alleged crime. Western Philosophy. Departure From Botanic Labs [Halcyon. Book-A-Minute SF/F - StumbleUpon. All mythologies. - StumbleUpon.

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