It's called the Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA) and it gives you a level for each of five main traits: extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness.
The president followed it with a visit to the Vatican on June 26th, to receive the pope's blessing for her recent abolition of the death penalty.But just as she is abolishing judicial executions, Mrs Arroyo risks giving tacit support to extra-judicial killings by the security forces sent to root out the NPA.
Within days of the ruling, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said it would appeal against it.
It seems to have gone some way towards achieving this purpose: nowadays, a typical NPA guerrilla asked to discuss Marxist ideology will give a blank stare.
A commission headed by a judge, Sisi Khampepe, was hearing submissions to decide on the future of the Scorpions, the crime-fighting unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
Correction to this articleTHE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) looks set to drop all charges of corruption, racketeering, tax evasion, money-laundering and fraud against Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
These charges were eventually dismissed on a legal technicality in September 2008; prosecutors from the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) vowed to appeal the ruling, angering many in the ANC.
Only those nurses who fulfilled the qualifications defined by their state's Nurse Practice Act (NPA) could use the professional title.
Since 30 September, 2009, when the head of Japan's National Police Agency (NPA), the courageous Ando Takaharu, declared war on organised crime, life for these criminal groups has been hard.
Robert Pickton, a 52-year-old pig-farmer, is charged with killing 15 of them; police, anthropologists and bone experts continue to sift the soil of his farm in suburban Port Coquitlam for more human remains.For the past 16 years Vancouver has been controlled by a right-wing party, the Non-Partisan Association NPAA), which kept taxes down but did little to tackle the running sores of the Eastside.
Often, by tacitly sanctioning brutality by the security forces, they make things worse.So it is not encouraging that, in recent days, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines has given her security forces a two-year deadline and an extra 1 billion pesos ($19m) to wipe out the communist New People's Army NPAArmy NPA
