NUMB

I am inspired by this post, hope you like it.

"Good morning,
I woke up this morning, & the first word that popped in my head was NUMB. I am very use to that word, I use to feel NUMB, all the time. Have you ever looked in the mirror and saw someone you didn't know? & you didn't feel anything anymore, everything in your body goes numb.
(like your foot falling asleep) Its that tingling feeling. That numb feeling became apart of me, it never went away, it was there when I woke up, it was there when I fell asleep. It took almost a year to get that numb feeling to go away, and some days it comes back to visit. Have you ever felt it? I block out memories of my childhood, and think about the good ones, but every time there was a good memory, it was followed by a bad one right behind it. I was the walking dead, just all to my self, nothing to say to anyone, that's totally the opposite of who I am, I am very happy, energetic, and so loving to everyone. I ended up just isolating, not having friends, and just being alone. I was alone one of my biggest fears, of being alone. I mean yeah I had my mother who never left the couch watching T.V. & drinking but that wasnt someone I wanted to be around. I couldnt get away from her everywhere I would turn I would see her. I mean she is still with me everywhere I go now, I think about her when I am at school, or out shopping, or simply watching tv, and I get that numb feeling again it comes back, like o remember how you felt when your mom did this, or this. I hate it. Its one of those things, you try to let go, let go of your past but it still comes back. I wish I can block it all out, and start over. I would love that but no, it doesnt happen like that.

I shared alittle about my numbing feeling, its horrible, and if you start to get this too, please talk to someone you can trust, no one came to me and I felt so alone i wanted someone to reach out and get me away from the pain. But no one cam until a year later. Almost too late. So please get help, this is most likely depression, You shouldn't be alone. No one ever deserves to be alone. People who want help are not alone, people who refuse help are not alone they have there addiction to go back too. Everyone has someone, or something. Just remember you deserve the someone not the something."

Thanks to you stephanie

Original post : http://sbahr94-lwaa.blogspot.com/2009/12/numb.html

People Searches: Helping with Your People Search

I just saw a blog entry online, a kind of "missing persons" ad that puzzled me. A family in West Virginia is offering a $5000 reward for help provided in connection with their people search. Apparently, they are looking for a local mother and daughter who disappeared in 1999. The family patriarch and spokesperson expressed high hopes the reward will help unearth new information in connection with the missing relatives.

Here's the gist of the story: on Dec. 1, 1999, a mother in her late sixties and her forty-something daughter left their local home and set out on a shopping spree, never to be seen again. Their car was located five days later in a neighboring county.

The desire to learn more about, and possibly reunite with, family members was sparked by genealogy research. The family had lost all contact with these relatives after the mother of the current head of the family passed away in 1989; the missing women were his mother's sister and niece.

So now they're willing to pay $5000 to find these relatives, yet it's been 20 years since they'd had any contact with them, out of which they've been missing for 10. It's from one extreme to the other. It doesn't make much sense: why the sudden interest in the people who surely must have met with foul play and have long been dead? And if, by chance, the women are still living elsewhere, their relatives should really scale down their people search strategies and start with the much cheaper and a whole lot more effective. I'm talking about online people searches.

Where have these people been? Don't they know that today, for a price of a latte, they can find people online by name and last known location, or even by an old phone number?

If the missing people ever existed, there are public records containing information about their last address, phone number and many other details that have been collected for years. One can look around for all kinds of hints about their lives via people searches, even criminal records, if any. And if the missing people are dead, searching for vital records online can lead to the discovery of death certificates. Case closed.

Original Post : http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/people-searches-helping-with-your-people-search-905780.html

Chick Flicks….Guy Movies….The Works

For my birthday this year, I got the movie I’ve been looking for since I finished reading the book (in pdf). Cheers to that! I got Time Traveler’s Wife, a movie about a guy who time travels unexpectedly bringing him to meet his wife’s 6-year-old self. Actually it’s a love story and I’m a fan—sort of.

It’s a tear jerker, a hair raiser, a complete heart jumper; it’s hard to take the eyes off from the screen once a good movie starts playing. Find people who are movie fans and you’d be surprise.

In the age of Ipods, IMaxs, DVD players and YouTubes, movie marathons are a complete buzzer. They get people’s attention and have them hooked. And ever since films began rolling, it seems that genres are distinguished according to what men thinks are cool and what women take as fun.

Guy movies are films that define man’s masculinity in every way. The action packed flicks: the muscles, the ammos, the ladies, the cars. These are but a few that can be considered “For the boys only so BACK OFF” or “KEEP OUT”. Some of these movies are that of James Bond series, Mission Impossible, and Rocky.

Girls have their own reason to enjoy movies as well. Everything that touches the emotions are keeps for the chicks—that’s why these movies are called chick flicks. From dramas to romance, girl meets guy; guy meets girl, sparks fly. They may be tear jerker at times but are totally fun to watch.

The action is for boys; the dramas and romance for the girls. But like today’s modern trend where ladies wear pants and do stuff that were once “only boys can”, and boys taking careers where girls are most known to dominate; surely movies have their own twist that allows the ideas of films from the other gender’s preference to be accepted by the other as well.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, DOA, and Double Jeopardy are action films which have women for heroes thus these are considered chick flicks. These are films that show off the other side of womanhood—strong and smart. Types of movies such as these are a showcase of woman’s evolution.

Men have also their say with dramas. The Butterfly Effect, 8 Miles, and Benjamin Button are but some of those who have touched emotions showing the sensitive side of the male species. They cry too, matter of fact, and at times are more in touch with life than women.

We may find people enjoying the things that were not likely to fit their preferences. They may surprise us at times but gender movies of man and of woman has changed through time. Even women enjoy action as some men enjoy chick flicks like “Confessions of a shopaholic”. As of the moment, I don’t even care whether the film I got is for the ladies or the gents. What’s important is to sit back and relax while enjoying the movie as the DVD turns.

Posted by: Emma G. Fox is a freelance writer, with experiences working as a marketing executive in a leading authority on the web when it comes to conducting and searching background check and especially the people search, with the largest database consisting of over 26 billion government records is provided.

Original Post : http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/chick-flicksguy-moviesthe-works-1705065.html

Hiring Celebrities is Not a Done Deal

Say one day, Kobe Bryant, Tim Allen and Michael Jackson are all applying in your nursery school. As the principal, who would you hire? Maybe you will reject downright Michael Jackson's application due to pedophile records and cases still in court, but who do you think is the better candidate between Kobe Bryant and Tim Allen? With much consideration, you accept both the applications and told them to wait for further notice.

You get to take a look at Tim Allen's resume first. Being the voice of Buzz Lightyear of Disney's animated film Toy Story, he could be the perfect candidate as children will obviously love him the instant they learn this. To add up to what to be more convincing, he is also dedicated and hardworking father in the sitcom Home Improvement that had won plethora of awards and upscale ratings. Tim Allen also played roles that children had laughed and loved like the series of The Santa Clause films. You wrote excellent over his application but remembered that there is Kobe Bryant's resume still waiting. As an American All-star shooting guard, Kobe Bryant is equally convincing to be the right person you can hire to be included in your school's administration and faculty. Being a NBA superstar alone is enough to make children go giddy with him. He could be the perfect role model and idol your children could ever have, face to face.

Both are impressing, but who's to call? You resort for background check and investigation to clear up your confusion. After all, it is under the federal law that anyone who seeks a job involving working with children must submit their selves to a background check. To your dismay, you have learned that both have criminal records that are not qualified to work with children. The result? Allen to be guilty of drunk driving, cocaine and illegal drug abuse opposite Bryant that was accused of rape and actually admitting it by stating a public mea culpa although the case was dropped.

To think that hiring celebrities could be one top prize decision, but with background check, you should have known better. Let them both wait for the call in vain, or else, you could face negligent hiring practice lawsuit in the future.

Posted By Hilda Carlsen
http://ezinearticles.com/?Hiring-Celebrities-is-Not-a-Done-Deal&id=1999574

Strengths Finder

So Evil Pixie attended this event last month where participants focused on their strengths instead of their weaknesses. The gist is most people (and employers) spend far too much time on weaknesses which typically result in nothing; however, by recognizing an individual’s strengths can turn productivity around.

The movement involves buying this book, which costs roughly $23. In the book, it breaks out individual strengths into specific categories. The reader most go online and take a 20-minute assessment to determine what their top 5 strengths are and how to plan based on those strengths.

Evil Pixie’s top 5 strengths, in order are Strategic, Deliberative, Relator, Competition, and Command. Now some of these “strengths” can easily be considered weaknesses, but what I found really interesting is to read how the author managed to turn what is considered a weakness into a strength. Here are my strengths in brief summary. Below the summary is a more expanded explanation behind each strength. You decide:

Strategic: People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Deliberative: People who are especially talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate the obstacles.

Relator: People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Competition: People who are especially talented in the Competition theme measure their progress against the performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests.

Command: People who are especially talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of a situation and make decisions.

Here is where they turn a weakness into a strength:

Strategic: Driven by your talents, you may have little difficulty finding the right words at the right time to express what you are thinking or feeling. Maybe you can present your concepts in a reasonable, orderly, or methodical way. Perhaps you generate a few options for others to consider. As a result, certain individuals might say you know how to get your ideas across to people. It’s very likely that you occasionally demonstrate an ease with language. Sometimes you effortlessly verbalize your thoughts. You might delight in the opportunity to share your insights. Maybe you derive exceptional pleasure from actively participating in conversations as long as group members propose ideas, seek solutions, or debate issues. Chances are good that you may generate numerous ways to enhance, upgrade, revise, correct, or revamp certain processes, action plans, or itineraries. Sometimes your suggestions influence how a project will unfold in the coming months, years, or decades. You might find fault with your own or another person’s talents, skills, or knowledge. To some extent, fixing people or things ranks in the top half of your list of favorite activities. Because of your strengths, you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an opportunity. Instinctively, you occasionally marvel at your ability to vividly express your thoughts and feelings.

Deliberative: Chances are good that you might have limited patience for idle or purposeless activity. When you have certain tasks to perform, you mean business — that is, you are determined. Offering few apologies, perhaps you can state your needs, set your boundaries, make demands, and present your theories. Periodically you use sophisticated, complicated, technical, or academic terminology to emphasize key points. Because of your strengths, you may have a reputation for thinking through things before you speak. Perhaps this is one reason why some people feel better about themselves when you say, “I truly value your opinion” or “I know you can do this job.” Instinctively, you may be described by people as earnest or businesslike. Individuals might appreciate your methodical and unhurried way of processing facts or numerical data. Driven by your talents, you may be described as an industrious and no-nonsense person. When you have a goal, you try to reach it. When you have a problem to solve, you first try to break it into parts. When you have a major decision to make, you try to study the facts from a variety of angles. It’s very likely that you may be a no-nonsense thinker. You might take your time to weigh the pros and cons of an issue, idea, or opportunity. Sometimes you delay rendering a decision or making a change. You might need to review more evidence, data, or information than others do. To some degree, you are puzzled by those who rush into action without gathering facts and evaluating them. Because you carefully process your thoughts, perhaps you save time, minimize errors, or conserve resources.

Relator: Driven by your talents, you might notice that people regularly ask you the question “What do you think? This might be because they value your views about particular people, situations, rules, news events, or decisions. Instinctively, you might do your best training after you become well-acquainted with someone. Perhaps you want to discover each individual’s unique talents, work style, goals, motivations, or interests. Maybe these insights tell you what suggestions to make or what tips to offer during coaching sessions. By nature, you might be a better trainer when you can coach individuals who have a strong desire for victory. Perhaps you invest a lot of energy and time helping teammates excel or work well with the group. To some extent, you are eager to be on teams that outperform every opponent. It’s very likely that you sometimes consider ways you might enhance your ability to reduce difficult-to-understand ideas, processes, or plans to their most basic elements. Perhaps you seek opportunities to make things simpler and easier to comprehend. Because of your strengths, you may be regarded by some individuals as a fine trainer, tutor, or instructor. Occasionally you describe yourself in these terms.

Competition: Instinctively, you may draw all the inspiration you need from yourself when you challenge others for first-place honors. Perhaps you are less influenced by a caring, concerned, or friendly authority figure than some individuals are. You might prefer to keep your eye on the prize. Chances are good that you might have an intense desire to deliver the best performance in specific areas. Sometimes you use every bit of the knowledge, skill, talent, and/or energy you possess to snag the top prize. Perhaps little, if anything, distracts you from your goal. By nature, you may accomplish more when you take time to think about what you need to perfect, upgrade, or do better. Perhaps this is your way of being declared the best when your results are compared to those of others. Maybe your hours of hard work increase your chances of producing the right outcomes. It’s very likely that you sometimes discover that contending for a real or even imaginary first-place victory makes your job or your scholarly pursuits a bit more exhilarating. Driven by your talents, you periodically rely on your sophisticated vocabulary to outthink certain people. Whether speaking or writing, you might interject technical or subject-specific terms to confront resistance or force specific issues into the open. This authoritarian stance may put a few people on notice that you are clever. Sometimes their confidence begins to crumble. Perhaps your ease with language and artful tactics signal that you are the one in charge.

Command: Driven by your talents, you are sometimes willing to take chances. You might insist on calculating beforehand whether the odds of success are in your favor. When they are, you may forge ahead. It’s very likely that you probably have exhibited the traits of boldness, assertiveness, and/or self-reliance since childhood. Chances are good that you may approach certain win-lose situations in a practical and realistic manner. When you are intent on being victorious, perhaps you extinguish any sentimental feelings you might have toward your rivals. Because of your strengths, you occasionally appear to be a pragmatist — that is, someone who spends time on factual matters or practical affairs. You might demand that certain individuals working with you become fluent in the language of their chosen profession, area of study, or field of interest. Once in a while, you may express displeasure when you must stop to explain a subject-specific or technical term that the person should already know. By nature, you notice that people heed your demands. What you say and how you say it can even frighten and threaten people. You probably have used this effect to influence individuals to do what you want.

Interesting, eh? Consider the above as a snapshot of the business side of Evil Pixie.

Original Post : http://evilpixieblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/strengths-finder.html

Reverse Cell Phone Search - Cell Phone Number Reverse Lookup

Today, thanks to the internet, we no longer have to hire expensive private experts and endure the long wait for results if we want to have a mobile number traced. By simply logging onto the internet and looking up a good 'Online Reverse Cell Phone Lookup' database we can trace the number ourselves in just a couple of minutes.

Why do people want to carry out reverse cell phone searches?

The reasons may vary but the commonest reasons are crank callers and unfaithful relationships.

What's the BEST Way to look up the owner of a mobile number?

If you're thinking of the White Pages, know now that they only carry landline numbers because there are certain privacy laws enforced to protect personal information of cell phone users. You could always hire a private investigator, but that is a costly and time-consuming option.

• So, there really is no better option than an online cellular phone look up
• Since they're web-based, there's no need to step out of your home.
• You get the results in minutes!
• You get bonus information too - not just the name and addresses of the user but his/her average income, info on family, associates etc. You can do a lot with information like that!

How do you know you've chosen the best database?

The internet provides a lot of choices, but not all can give you excellent results. You need to know which of them offer the best service. Here are some tips to avoid disappointment with your chosen service provider.

1. Choose a database that has at least 90% coverage of US mobile subscribers. That means the database should have more than 200 to 210 million numbers.
2. The best databases are updated frequently to ensure that listings are accurate and do not contain outdated information.

Original post : http://community.wgntv.com/_Reverse-Cell-Phone-Search-Cell-Phone-Number-Reverse-Lookup/blog/1147478/101892.html

How To Find People Online

Finding people online is how most people locate old friends, lovers and acquaintances these days. With a few selected online people finders, just about anyone in the world can be located, if you spend a little time. Even better, you can usually find the person for free. Here are some free online researches to use while learning how to find people online.

AOL White Pages

The Aol White Pages is an online people search engine similar to the white pages in your local telephone directory, but with a worldwide scope of listings. English language searchers will probably do best searching for friends who live in English-language countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, but you can search on AOL for anyone in the world.

Searching on the AOL Internet White Pages is as simple as registering, which takes a minute or two. Searches are free, so you don’t have to worry about that. Below are the best ways to search for people using AOL.

• People Search – Actually looking them up by name.
• Area & Zip Code – Search for someone using their area and zip code, to narrow the search or see if they still live in the same area.
• Reverse Lookup – To see who is searching for you on the AOL White Pages.

Facebook People Search

It goes without saying that Facebook has become on the great people finders on the Internet. If you’re looking for an old friend or acquaintance, there are few better places to network online. One tip if you can’t immediately find the person you’re searching for is to locate a common acquaintance, then look at that person’s Facebook Friend List. If that doesn’t help, ask the person if they know any information. If that doesn’t help, find any other common friends and try the same with them. In that way, Facebook lets you find an ever-widening circle of old friends.

To a lesser degree, you can find friends and other people online at other social networking sites, like Skype, MySpace and Twitter. Facebook seems to be the website of choice for people wanting to find old friends, though, so try Facebook as your first choice.

123 People Search

You can search for people anywhere in the world using the “123 People” search engine, with by using the “firstname lastname” function, the “city of zip” search or their “by country” search.

Another interesting feature of 123 People is their “People in the News” section, where you can see who is being searched for the most on the Internet. These can be big names in today’s news, celebrities, sports figures or just random people for no seeming reason. Let me give an example.

At this particular moment, here is the list of people in the news on 123 People

• Rory Markas
• Casey Kotchman
• Michael Yon
• Mike Holmgren
• Bruce Arians
• Emmy Ann Wooding
• Kyle Brandt
• Ron Turner
• Willie Mitchell
• Rory Marcus
• Sandy Montag
• Brian Cushing
• Tila Tequila
• Vince Vaughn
• Matt Kemp
• Brit Hume
• David Brandon
• Steve Harvey
• Anthony Munoz
• Casey Johnson
• Anthony Baye
• Mika Brzezinski
• Justin Bieber
• Benjy Bronk
• Rosie Perez
• Robin Bain
• Michael McDonald
• Katharine Mcphee
• Orlando Jordan
• Val Venis
• Bobby Cremins
• Jeff Hardy

Mike Holmgren, Bruce Arians and Ron Turner are all NFL coaches who are moving into organizations or being fired today, so I can see those. Steve Harvey, Katherine McPhee and Vince Vaughan are entertainers, so you might expect to see them anytime on such a search. Looks like Tila Tequila is up to her old tricks, while you can pretty much say the same about Brit Hume.

I was surprised to see Val Venis on the list, since his heyday as a wrestler seemed to be 10 years ago. When I went to see if Val Venis had died or something, it seems the Val Venis and Orlando Johnson had just joined the TNA wrestling association. Once again, Bobby Cremins, Anthony Munoz and Brian Cushing are sports figures, so you know something must have happened in their sports lives today. Rory Markas was a sports broadcaster who died today, while Emmy Ann Wooding died several years ago, but was having a tribute show on NBC tonight.

All in all, an interesting feature, which reminds me of a similar online list you’ll find on Twitter (most Tweated or somesuch). With 123 search, you can find friends anywhere in the world, but also keep up with what’s new in the online pop culture.

Zabasearch

Zabasearch has free people searches engine and claims to have three times the number of people than white pages directories. It’s hard to verify that claims, but you can find a person’s address and telephone numbers for free on Zaba Search. No registration is required.

You can also perform a social security number search on Zabasearch, as well as run a background check. Thankfully, you can also have Zabasearch tell you who has been searching for you on their site.

With the above four options, and people finding websites like them, you pretty much know how to find people online. Now, go out and find somebody.

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