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Narcissistic Personality Inventory. These are your results on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Your score is 14, out of 40. Higher scores indicate greater levels of narcissism. Below is a graph of how other people have scored on this test. Your score was higher than 58.7 of the sample. The people who have found this online test are probably not that representative of the general population though, so the averages from a few other groups are tabled below. Be careful that you do not take these scores as absolute norms for the specific groups though, measuring a norm is very tricky and may not even exist. In addition to the primary score, investigation into the structure of the NPI has found that there are seven different "facets". Navigation Recruiting for an important study! Many people are lonely and do not have enough friends. To return to the main page where other personality tests can be taken, click here.

References Raskin, R.; Terry, H. (1988). Granny Flat Building Arsenal 7.7m x 4.5m - Timber Kit Buildings Victoria. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on The Black Swan. How to clean your house the right way. Does your house, in its current state, look utterly apocalyptic? Then sit down and take note. Cleaning doesn’t have to be a tearful ordeal. We’ve tips to jumpstart your routine so you can spruce up your space in no time. Dishwashing Don’t let your dishes sit in a stinking pile of decaying leftovers. If you’ve got a dishwasher, even better. Laundry Don’t just separate lights and darks.

Vacuuming When vacuuming, take your time. Dusting Just because you have a vacuum cleaner, doesn’t mean you can do away with the dust cloth. Floors Start by sweeping away germs and dust that the mop won’t pick up. Bathroom Upkeep The bathroom can be a hotspot for mould to mildew. Domain Home Price Guide Find out what your property's worth Find out now! Collaborate with clients | Code, tasks, design files, wikis, and more. Forget Money Archives - RobGreenfield.TV. Ferdinand de Saussure. Swiss linguist (1857–1913) Ferdinand de Saussure (;[3] French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.

His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century.[4][5] He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics[6][7][8][9] and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.[10] Biography[edit] Saussure was born in Geneva in 1857.

His father, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, was a mineralogist, entomologist, and taxonomist. After a year of studying Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit and taking a variety of courses at the University of Geneva, he commenced graduate work at the University of Leipzig in 1876. Ferdinand de Saussure is one of the world’s most quoted linguists, which is remarkable as he himself hardly published anything during his lifetime. Organic analogy. Horace Dediu - Genius Hub. Attending — Free events, done better. Your vagina is not a car: Clementine Ford at TEDxSouthBankWomen. Home | Karen Tepper Karen Tepper. Other brain imaging techniques — NDCN. Computed tomography (CT) scanning builds up a picture of the brain based on the differential absorption of X-rays. During a CT scan the subject lies on a table that slides in and out of a hollow, cylindrical apparatus. An x-ray source rides on a ring around the inside of the tube, with its beam aimed at the subjects head. After passing through the head, the beam is sampled by one of the many detectors that line the machine’s circumference.

Images made using x-rays depend on the absorption of the beam by the tissue it passes through. Bone and hard tissue absorb x-rays well, air and water absorb very little and soft tissue is somewhere in between. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) uses trace amounts of short-lived radioactive material to map functional processes in the brain.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp. 21 Awesomely Well-Designed Products We're Dying to Own. Old Hat Classic helmets look great, but old gear won't safeguard your brain—the protective materials deteriorate with age. The new Bullitt, an homage to 1970s designs, lets you rock an old-school look while wearing an actual safety device. Because looking good after the crash is important too. Bell Bullitt Helmet | $400 Station Agent The speaker grille and analog knobs are cutely retro, but this radio's rubberized exterior signals a decidedly modern sense of style.

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The best sales advice I ever got was from a surfer dude. | Kevin Catlin. The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast. Welcome to Open Library (Open Library) There Are 7 Types of English Surnames — Which One Is Yours? Posted by wexon on August 22, 2014 in Surname Meanings [Photo credit: Shutterstock] Many of us have surnames passed down to us from ancestors in England. Last names weren’t widely used until after the Norman conquest in 1066, but as the country’s population grew, people found it necessary to be more specific when they were talking about somebody else.

Thus arose descriptions like Thomas the Baker, Norman son of Richard, Henry the Whitehead, Elizabeth of the Field, and Joan of York that, ultimately, led to many of our current surnames. There are perhaps 45,000 different English surnames, but most had their origins as one of these seven types. Occupational Occupational names identified people based on their job or position in society. This kind of name also gave a clue about whom a servant worked for. Describing a personal characteristic Some names, often adjectives, were based on nicknames that described a person. From an English place name From the name of an estate Signifying patronage. Brian Cox: scientists giving false sense of debate on climate change | Environment.

Scientists are doing the public a disservice in their attempts to communicate certainty in climate change science, often giving a “false sense of debate” by being overly precise, says broadcaster and physicist Professor Brian Cox. Climate scientists are 95% certain that humans are the main cause of the current global warming the world is experiencing.

But Cox said this level of accuracy had been manipulated by “nonsensical”, politically-motivated climate sceptics. “I think we do a disservice to the public. If you look down the [camera] lens and see your head of department or your PhD supervisor, whoever it might be, then you’ll start being scientifically precise and you’ll mislead the public. He said scientists could say with total confidence that climate science was uncontroversial and the current predictions for warming were the best advice available. “The scientific view at the time is the best, there’s nothing you can do that’s better than that. Doctors Speak Out On BioGeniste and HydraVella. Is defense of Renee Zellweger a shift in how we talk about women? - LA Times. You may have heard of Renee Zellweger.

She's won an Oscar and starred in some of the biggest cult classics of the '90s and 2000s. And for the last two weeks, she's been in the news because she doesn't look the same as she did when she was 26. In Hollywood, getting older (and having the gall to show it) is an occupational hazard — at least for women. The images captured here, whether on-set or on the street by a paparazzo, ricochet around the world, which is just one reason why Los Angeles is a global capital for plastic surgery. But judging from some of the reactions to Zellweger's new look, we might be seeing a more respectful shift in how the public talks about women and the choices they make about their own appearances.

Southern California is home to some of the most beautiful people in the world, and two weeks ago, the most beautiful of the beautiful descended upon the Four Seasons Los Angeles in Beverly Hills for the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards. "Is that you, Renee Zellweger? " Do you have High Cholesterol? - ClinLife. At Clariness GmbH, (hereinafter to be referred to as ClinLife), we understand that protecting the privacy of visitors to our Web sites is very important and that information about your health is particularly sensitive. That's why we have taken the necessary steps to meet worldwide data privacy requirements. Please review this Privacy Statement to learn more about how we collect, use, share and protect information online. You can visit our Web sites without providing any personal information.

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Illustration: Rocco Fazzari This because of the equalities of opportunities afforded by the Whitlam program. Advertisement Raised next to the wood heap of the nation's democracy, bequeathed no allegiance to any political party, I speak to this old man's legacy with no partisan brief. The Queensland Government refused the sale. The 6 Secrets of Self-Control. Catch-22: Themes, Motifs & Symbols. Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Absolute Power of Bureaucracy One of the most terrifying aspects of Catch-22 is the fact that the lives and deaths of the men in Yossarian’s squadron are governed not by their own decisions concerning dangerous risks but by the decisions of an impersonal, frightening bureaucracy.

The men must risk their lives even when they know that their missions are useless, as when they are forced to keep flying combat missions late in the novel even after they learn that the Allies have essentially won the war. The bureaucrats are absolutely deaf to any attempts that the men make to reason with them logically; they defy logic at every turn. Several scenes of interrogation add to the bureaucracy’s frustrating refusal to listen to reason. Loss of Religious Faith Even the chaplain begins to doubt his faith in God by the end of Catch-22. The Impotence of Language The Inevitability of Death Motifs Catch-22 Symbols.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Spoken Radio. How to do things faster. [VIDEO] Future Shock. Term[edit] Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people. He believed the accelerated rate of technological and social change left people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock, he popularized the term "information overload. " In the introduction to an essay entitled "Future Shlock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote: "Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English.

Development of society and production[edit] Alvin Toffler distinguished three stages in development of society and production: Agrarian, Industrial and Post-industrial. Fear of the future[edit] Ray_Statins and all-cause mortality in high-risk primary prevention_Arch Int Med 2010.pdf. ᅠ. Dreams. Pixel paradise. Waterfall. Recycled Art: 66 Masterpieces Made From Junks. Ever shocked by the beauty of toilet paper rolls, or saw the chicken formed by the egg shells, or witnessed coolest lion made by tires? Heck, all of them are even made by common things you discarded every day, and they are known as recycled art. (Image Source: Kyle Bean) Recycled art is not something that’s beautiful but just a waste of time and space.

It’s like alchemy which turns base metal into gold, except that it turns trashes into gold. Take recycled Optimus Prime with 2.5 meters tall as example, it was sold with 7800 U.S. dollars, sounds like a good price for a combination of metals which were originally treated as trashes. Are they really that beautiful and worth the purchase? Atelier Hapax Workshop Hapax excels in creating gorgeous and unique products by using discarded materials provided by their clients. Jeu Dechecs. BRC Designs Binary Low Table. Korobeiniki Chair. Protrusion Low Table. Andrew Chase Dinosaur. Elephant. Cheetah. Derek Gores Collage 07. Collage 09. Collage 17. Fall. Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally. Five Labs.

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Available in two frame colours; white or silver, the Smart Pivot Shower Screen is offered in a range of standard configurations and sizes, but can also be manufactured to custom sizes. Your Photostream. Credibility. There is some evidence to suggest that Web users are becoming more skeptical of the information they find online. Many Web sites contain incorrect or misleading information (Fogg, et al., 1999) [1] and some are pure hoaxes. As a result, designers face increasing pressure to enhance the credibility of their Web sites. According to Dictionary.com, credibility is defined as believability or trustworthy. Tseng & Fogg (1999) found that in their research believability is a good synonym for credibility [2]. The academic literature on credibility dates back to the 1950s and has to do with the fields of psychology and communication.

Scholars tend to agree that credibility is a perceived quality and has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise. Factors Impacting Credibility Preconscious judgments take place based on just aesthetics and this occurs before any reading or other cognitive processes take place. Factors impacting credibility: Relationship of Fonts and Credibility Summary References. Download Torrents. Fast and Free Torrent Downloads - KickassTorrents. New & Updated Krisnoel.com Masterpost (Writing Tips) - Kris Noel.

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