Often mentioned, but rarely explained. Anxiety. What is it? How does it feel?
We are anxious because we live in a world of snobs. People who take a tiny part of us, professional identities, and use to them to come to some conclusions about how valuable we are as human.
People who are putting pressure on every single one of us to achieve a goal set by society in order to be successful. Anxiety is the fear and the overwhelming emotion of panic of not being able to achieve that.
Anxiety is the notion of panic and fear you get in the middle of the day. It’s the sudden acid in your stomach causing you to question every single interaction and conversation you engage yourself into.
It feels like every single cell in your body moves so quickly and fast that your veins become blurry. Despite the constant metronome of your heartbeat inside your ears, it’s like listening to a spastic drumline.
You don’t even realize that you are cracking your knuckles, grinding your teeth, twisting that gold ring around your middle finger, or rubbing your pinky against your palm.
It’s avoiding eye contact, not because you are not interested in what the other person has to say, but because you are so focused on the sound of your own voice and hoping that through the other person’s ears they cannot tell that you are two octaves too high and on the verge of breaking, because your palms are too sweaty and you somehow forgot to speak with anything behind your words other than your insecurities.
It’s more than just sweating, shaking and shortness of breath. It’s a knot in your stomach, it’s a feeling of no control over your life, it’s like watching your world crashing down completely and sitting there like everything is fine.
It’s holding in your tears so much they burn your eyes.
Anxiety feels like fire.
Anxiety feels like drowning your demons, and then finding out they are Olympic swimmers.
It’s like a jump scare that lasts forever and won’t go away.
It’s coming to the conclusion that nothing adds up like it did in high school mathematics. You can’t carry the one and find the square root of the problem, because of most of the times, there is absolutely no problem.
There is no life or death situation. There is just feelings, an abundance of them. And you are feeling them all at once.
It’s the act of overthinking your overthinking.
It’s sitting in a crowded classroom, mentally rehearsing the word “Here!” waiting for the professor to say your name. It’s the fear of saying it so quietly, then having to repeat yourself, drastically increasing the chances of messing up and being embarrassed in front of your classmates.
It’s taking a test and finishing first, but being unable to stand up and walk in front of the whole class, causing you to nervously rub your sweaty palms together, and waiting for someone else to finish as well.
Anxiety sometimes can be truly downright crippling.
It’s the perfect example of an iceberg – most people don’t see it, but the truth behind it is hidden deep underneath the surface.
It’s constantly hiding that side of you, scared to show someone else the true you. Scared of being judged, of being underappreciated. Scared of not being good enough.
From the outside, it’s very easy to think that somebody has it all figured out. Because someone’s hair is curled, and their cheeks are intentionally flushed.
Because someone’s clothes are ironed and their bed made up – they must not have a single care in the whole world. As if it were expected for the demons to be worn like a scarlet letter upon someone’s chest.
And people often assume that if you can’t see it – then it’s not really there. As if pain doesn’t exist unless you’re bleeding or dead.
But sometimes, the most painful demons are the ones that cannot be seen. So, people learn how to smile, how to grin and bear it. They don’t talk about it because that would make them the odd one out.
That would make them the replaceable one. The one that is the least important. That would make them the annoying one. The anxious one.
Anxiety makes you realize that some days are better than others and that some days are the worst – but they are just days.
When you were little you probably thought a successful and long-lasting love is the one where there are no fights and no lies. You lived in the fairy tales of your books thinking this would become true once you find your perfect partner.
But, let’s be honest and break the spell. Lasting relationships have a lot of fights and they sometimes do lie to each other. But they still survive. How?Researches and studies have confirmed it.
The two keys for a relationship to see a couple of birthdays and a lot of future are being kind and generous to each other.
Statistics says that only three in ten marriages survive and are healthy and happy.
This fact is pointed out by the psychologist Ty Tashiro in his book “The Science of Happily Ever After”.
Although three out of ten, they are maintaining a good strategy. They all care about the other partner’s feelings, are kind to them, and show respect and appreciation.
In the first stages of their study, social psychologists observed marriages when they were in a sort of crisis. Unmarried couples were also involved in the study and psychologists wanted to find out how a relationship can stay healthy and loving for a long time.
John Gottam was one of the psychologists involved in the study. They decided to connect the couples to electrodes and see how their bodies will react when they talk about positive and negative aspects of their relationships.
The couples were then observed in the next 6 years. According to their results, the researchers separated the couples into two groups:the masters and the disasters.
The former were the ones that had a healthy lasting relationship after six years, whereas the latter were unhappy in their relationships or marriages.
The “masters” had a tendency to be grateful to their partners and show respect and appreciation on purpose.
The “disasters”, on the other hand, were only focused on their partner’s errors ad mistakes. All they did was criticizing instead of showing appreciation. Contempt tore apart these relationships.
The most important factor in having a stable and lasting relationship or marriage was shown to be kindness. When partners show kindness, their partners feel understood and loved, and they also act kindly to them.
Kindness is not easy, but it isn’t always something that you are born with. It is a kind of muscle and trait that you can master.
Kindness does not mean that you will not express anger or never be mad. It will be a special way to do it, and that is the kind way – give an explanation to your partner.
One way to be kind is to be generous as well. That does not include buying expensive gifts when you want to apologize, but it includes generosity to your partner’s actions.
Whenever you feel angry about something, try being understanding and generous and you will see the other side. Being generous also includes affirming your partner’s joy, sharing their good moments, and be there for them in good times as well.
Although life can sometimes surprise couples in a negative way, they find their way through by being generous and kind to each other, every single day.
Parents always try their best to secure a successful future for their children. It is every parent’s dream to see their child succeed in life and they always try to direct their children in the right way.
However, parents who try to do their best can also make mistakes which, on the long run, may change the course or a child’s development in the opposite direction.
Throughout his research, leadership expert and best-selling author Dr. Tim Elmore has come across several mistakes that parents often make when raising their children.
These mistakes can lower a child’s self-confidence and limit their chances of becoming successful in their lives and their careers.
This is why we have summed up the 7 most intoxicating behaviorsthat can negatively impact the child’s development and their chances of success:
Not letting your children experience risk
People nowadays have started looking at the ‘safety-first’ rule a bit too literally. In fact, parents can go so far as to practically insulate their child from any kind of risk. Being careful is one thing, but being too careful is harmful for your child.
People who were not allowed as children to play outside and return home with a scraped knee or a few bruises tend to develop irrational phobias. In fact, a child should go through some risks in life to learn how to handle the situations.
Otherwise, they will have trouble with almost everything which requires some risk taking. Taking risks means increasing your maturity and awareness of the possible outcomes in the future. Children who were isolated from this kind of experience tend to grow into highly arrogant and people with low self-esteem.
Coming to the rescue too quickly
Letting your child face problems or the consequences of their actions is a key factor to their development. However, the opposite action of this is over-indulging your child with “assistance” in just about anything.
Failure or falling short is something your child needs to face, as you won’t be around their whole lives to fix or alleviate their hardships. That’s why you should let them gradually experience the challenges they need to face.
Stepping in at every moment will make your child incompetent in their adult life. Your child may feel ‘happier’ if you fix their problems, but they will fail miserably later in life if they don’t learn the skill needed.
Raving over every move they make
Adjusting your reaction to the reality that is imposed is the best possible answer to every situation. You can’t call your child a winner if they didn’t actually win. Not everybody is a winner, but everybody can become a winner.
Having your child think that ‘only you are aware’ of how good they are, while the rest aren’t noticing it, means nurturing a very bad sense of vanity and the illusion that they are doing everything right.
Instead of comforting your child with rewarding words, help them figure it out and become better at whatever they are doing. Otherwise, raving too easily and disregarding poor behavior can eventually lead to children learning to cheat, exaggerate and lie to avoid the reality.
Letting guilt get in the way of leading well
Every child will try to manipulate you out of saying ‘no’ or ‘not now’. They will cry and fee disappointed and this is natural. It’s not natural to say yes to everything they desire, so as not to make them feel bad.
You need to be realistic towards what you deem rewardable and fair. You need to teach your child to fight for what they really value and need without the help of tears or conditioning. Nobody will ask them if they feel good with the respective reaction when they develop their career.
Be sure to teach them that their success depends on their actions and good deeds. Let them understand that their actions aren’t connected to material rewards and that the good grade is a reward by itself, not the trip to the mall because of it.
Intrinsic motivation and materially unconditioned actions are the key to building a mature person.
Not sharing past mistakes
Being a teen means being ready to take on new challenges and trying things on your own. We have all been through this. Parents usually say “do this, don’t do that”, but the biggest mistake is hiding your past mistakes from that period of your life.
As an adult, you need to let your child experience life in the way they choose, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t help them navigate through their choice healthily.
In fact, sharing relevant mistakes you did at their age and in similar situations can help them learn to make good choices.
When your teen faces consequences of a mistake they did, share how you felt in a similar experience you had. Explain to them what drove your actions and what lessons you learned from all that. Influence them in the positive way – the best way.
Mistaking intelligence, giftedness and influence for maturity
A child’s intelligence and giftedness has little to do with maturity. It is just an indicator on how aware they are going to be about becoming mature and use that awareness to their advantage. However, many parents use intelligence as a measurement of a child’s maturity.
Many people possess high talent and/or intelligence, but can be caught in an unnecessary scandal because they didn’t act maturely enough. The fact is that even if your child possesses giftedness in one aspect, that doesn’t have to mean that it pervades all other areas.
Treat your child as an independent person to the point which is appropriate for their age. A good rule of thumb is to pay attention to how your child’s peers are handling responsibilities and how much freedom they are given.
Not practicing what you preach
The responsibility of every parent is to teach their children to lead their lives as persons who are dependable and accountable for their words and actions.
However, many of the things parents teach to their children are not the biggest reality about themselves.
Preaching good personality is not enough. In fact, words have little influence compared to actions. If you tell your child that they shouldn’t lie, you should avoid telling any kind of lies too.
The thing is that your child will notice your actions more than your words and they will learn from them.
You should be diligent, honest and selfless and you need to show that to your child at all times.
In the end, admitting your mistakes and correcting them in front of your child will teach them more than forbidding them from doing the same.Leave everything betterthan you found it, and your child will note that and try to do the same.
Are parents aware of everything their kids are doing on line? What type of sites they are visiting or what kind of games they are playing? While we may think that every game on line is just a game, we can’t even begin to think of the danger that the game can contain.
Iain Morrison, ex rugby league player for Hull, England was a witness of a horrifying situation. He was mortified when he read the messages sent on his son’s iPad.
He shared the information on his Facebook page, warning everyone to pay close attention on what their children are doing on the Internet and who they are chatting with.
His sons, aged 8 and 11, were playing games on Roblox, which is supposed to be a safe gaming site for kids and teenagers. The concept of Roblox games is to invite kids into a virtual world where they create their own world, adventures, get involved in role plays, play different games, explore, craft items and much more.
While this may sound as totally safe and interesting game, it can be very dangerous too. Aside from the games, there is a chat available on the site which is used by predators to send inappropriate messages to children.
The site has more than 30 million monthly users, most of them children between the age of 8 and 12.
After reading an article about the dangers our children can come across to when playing games on line, Iain decided to ask their sons what kind of games they were playing on Roblox and what were they about.
When he found out that his sons were also chatting while playing he decided to take a look at it. He said that the games were aiming at children between the age of eight and twelve, and at first sight they seemed just fine and totally harmless.
But then he entered in the waterslide room with a pool and after only 15 minutes he was disgusted. He decided to speak up after seeing a disturbing message from a predator on his eight-year old son’s iPad game.
The 33 year old dad goes into details explaining how he was asked about the age, whether he was a boy or a girl, asked to go with them into the house and then into the bedroom where he was asked to lay on top of them. Then they started with the sexual movements and said that he looked sexy and cute.
Iain was appalled while reading the inappropriate comments popping up all the time thinking that his kids were completely unaware of what was happening to them.
He deleted the application immediately and shared his experience on his Facebook profile, intending to warn other parents to be more alert on which cites their children are spending most of their time.
Although with the best intentions, his post was received with different reactions from parents, some of whom weren’t as convinced as he expected them to be, while others were encouraged to share their similar experience.
This provoked Roblox’s spokesman to speak up and explain that they have published detailed advice for parents showing them what to do in order to keep their children safe.
It is allowed to players to block other users who are bullying, spamming or harassing them, no matter the age.
The site also provides several safeguards like chat filters, where the system detects and flags inappropriate language.
If the user is under the age of 13 their personal identifiable information won’t be revealed.
The spokesman also added that their team is constantly working on improving those filters in order to detect and block any new and creative ways of sending inappropriate messages.
There is also an extra friend filtering option and all accounts whose users are kids younger than 13 can only chat with their friends.
The spokesman also reassured parents that all these was backed up by a moderator network which uses an in-house team to review every audio, image or video which is uploaded on the site or in any of the games.
The spokesman encouraged users or their parents who notice any unsuitable behavior while playing the games to click on the “abuse report” function so those who were reported could be handled by the Roblox team.
Roblox spokesman pointed out that the most important thing and top priority of their team is the safety of the users, so they are constantly trying to improve the safety measures and reinforce users’ trust.
Therefore, he added, if parents had any questions, ideas or suggestions they should feel free to contact them on their email address at [email protected].
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Parenting is everything but easy and this BBC correspondent Robert E. Kelly is the real example that parenting is a real struggle.
Try being a parent and being taking seriously at the same time. The worst case scenario happens, especially if your little one joins in and gives a special turns of the event.
So, here’s what happened. Kelly all suit up and ready to seriously discuss about South Korea, stands in front of the camera ready to do his job at his best. He starts to elaborate on BBC World News via webcam, when his little one decided to join in and participate in the call.
Because all of that wasn’t hilarious enough, his sibling joined in too, together with a stroller rolled.Then noticing them on the camera, Kelly tried to remain cool in the situation by apologizing and trying to salvage the situation, however people watching this interview went hysterical and this interview became viral within seconds.
Last one to try to save the moment was a woman who tried to hopelessly get the two kids out of the room and save the man’s reputation.
If the above description didn’t sound hilarious enough, watch and see it for yourself, because sometimes words can’t depict the moment.
Kelly acted like a pro, trying to stay calm and focused and he gets credit for that. As for the kids, they somehow managed to take his focus for a moment and be in the spotlight, stealing his moment entirely.
Scientists at Duke University confirm that silence is indeed golden. This accidental discovery can drastically change the way scientists have looked at silence. It turns out that silence is one of the most productive stimuli for our brains.
Our brains are dependent on external and internal stimuli in order to build, reorganize and summarize new information.
This same fact led scientists at Duke University to explore the ways the brain builds patterns and creates new cells under the effect of auditory stimuli. To their surprise, silence turned out to be the most powerful one on a long-term scale.
In an experiment done on mice, scientists at Duke University tried to study the effects of auditory stimuli on mice.
Their primary intention was to see how different sounds and noises contributed to the changes in brain structure.
The experiment exposed four groups of mice to four different auditory stimuli: white noise, baby mice calls, Mozart piano music andsilence.
All auditory stimuli contributed to a certain change in the brains of the mice, but none with a lasting impact.
However, the scientists never anticipated that silence would contribute to the brain to such a miraculous extent! In fact, they didn’t even intend to study the effects of silence in the first place.
The neurobiologists used silence as a control that wouldn’t produce any effects. To their surprise, with only 2 hours of exposure to silence a day, the mice in the control group developednew brain cells in their hippocampus.
The hippocampus is a region in the brain related to the formation of memory, emotion and learning.
Although, scientifically speaking, the growth of new cells in the brain doesn’t always contribute to the health, in this case the cells became functioning neurons under the effects of silence!
New cells in the brain may not be anything worth talking about a lot, but when these cells successfully reassign their role to neurons, the effects could be miraculous.
The growth and development of nervous tissue is called neurogenesis and it is what exactly happened to the mice under the effects of silence.
This new lead could possibly be the solution to many conditions that are related to decreasing rates of neurogenesis in the hippocampus.Conditions such as dementia and depression could be stopped and even reversed if silence were to be used as a therapeutic tool.
In practice, meditation is one of the oldest mental exercises that focuses primarily on silencing the environment and the brain. If you explore the meditative techniques, you will notice that they all recommend a starting point in silence.
However, meditation doesn’t stop there. This technique teaches you how to produce the effect of silence and how to silence the environment around you by ‘switching off’ your conscious thought and perception processes at any given time and place.
So, if you keep forgetting things, or if you feel depressed or stressed out, next time you want to get away from all that, try going somewhere quiet and peaceful.
Every auditory stimulus has its own benefits, but the lack of auditory stimuli may prove to be one of the most beneficial ‘stimuli’. No wonder people have been saying ‘silence is golden’.
It is more than apparent that Tesla’s successes augment unceasingly. It has been a little while back since we have been talking about the Tesla’s all electric highway capable vehicles also known as Tesla’s EVs and the Tesla’s energy storage known as Tesla’s Powerwall.
As it has been anticipated, Tesla’s merger with the Solar City, which is by the way one of the biggest solar energy contractors in the United States of America, has ended up with something really phenomenal.
This merger which has been approved by the company’s shareholders has resulted in converting the entire island’s diesel usage to 100% solar energy city.Tesla has installed a 1.4 megawatt solar power farm and 6-megawatt hours of energy storage on the island of Ta’u, basically providing almost 100 percent of the island’s energy needs.
It’s a big change for the faraway island Ta’u, which is one of the five islands in American Samoa. Ta’u is a distant island which is located nearly 4,000 miles away from the mainland of the USA or more precisely away from the West Coast and about 2,600 miles away from Hawaii. This island counts nearly 600 residents.
They used to rely on diesel generators for all of their electric needs, which required the import of roughly 100,000 gallons of diesel per year and thus facing countless issues while transporting it and wasting it earlier than expected.At present, Solar City is powering almost the entire island of Ta’u with solar power. The island has an array of about 5,328 solar panels and 60 Tesla Powerpacks, which amount to 6 megawatt hour store and enable enough energy to power the island for up to three days in case the sun was not to shine for that long for some reason or the solar panels are somehow interrupted.Whereas, the micro grids used are developed in such a way that are supposed to allow the Ta’u islanders enjoy the electricity twenty- four hours a day, seven days per week. All praise is due to the incorporated endeavor as well as the technology of both Tesla and Solar City.
This project has been described as one of the most developed micro grids ever utilized and it has been funded by the American Samoa Development Authority, The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior too.
According to the Solar City the distant island Ta’u presents an instant capture of the current potentials at present time, not simply a greeting card from the time ahead.
They say that it is renewable power that is an economical as well as effective solution for raising the number of places and energy necessities, especially islands where inhabitants normally rely on fossil fuels which can effortlessly convey to micro grids powered by solar and storage nowadays.
It is more than obvious that after the merger has been accomplished, Tesla’s company has added another success and it is putting it steadier on its pedestal, thus enabling Tesla a position as a completely sustainable energy trident made of Powerwall, Solar City and EVs.
Has this ever happened to you? Your phone is ringing shortly, you look at the screen and there’s a number on your caller ID that is unfamiliar to you. Should you answer that call or not?
Depending on what you decide at that moment will either keep you safe or let you be a victim of an expensive phone scam.
The public is being informed by the police about this dangerous phone scam, because those who will become prey to the scam will have to pay a lot of money, starting from hundreds even to thousands of dollars.
This phone scam is known as the One-Ring Phone Scam.
Criminals have been trying to trick people into phone scams since forever, but the One-Ring Phone Scam is the newest version of the old trick.
What is The One-Ring Phone Scam?
While previous scams involved criminals acting like IRS agents who would gather all your financial information, One-Ring works in another way. Its goal is to deceive people into making costly international calls not being aware of what they are doing.
The trick which the scammers are performing is to automatically connect the caller to a costly phone line and be charged per minute. Furthermore, they could also trick callers into sharing their important financial information.
While reading this, you may think there’s no chance this could happen to me. Here’s where you’re wrong, it can happen to anyone and it can happen in a minute.
Therefore the police are warning everyone not to phone back any unidentified numbers. A warning about this scam has been recently published on the Facebook page of the Caroline County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia.
In their warning, the police explained that the scammers are calling their prey using foreign phone numbers deliberately which were chosen to resemble ordinary home phone numbers.
On their Facebook page, the police also provide a link that takes us to the fact sheet prepared by the Federal Communications Commission. In this fact sheet the Federal Communications Commission says that some wireless consumers are called by phone numbers with three-digit area codes which look like they are domestic, but in fact, they are connected with international pay-per-call numbers.
An interesting fact about these calls is that they often disconnect after only one ring, so the customer won’t have enough time to answer the call and is tempted to call the number back. But when they do, they are charged an enormous amount of money per minute.
Therefore the FFC warns people, that if they receive a call whose number they don’t recognize, they shouldn’t return that call.
Most of the calls are international numbers in Grenada, Eastern Europe, or the Caribbean. They are carefully chosen because they resemble U.S phone numbers.
You should be aware of The List Of Area Codes Not To Answer:
268 area code – Antigua and Barbuda 284 area code – British Virgin Islands 473 area code – Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique 664 area code – Montserrat 649 area code – Turks and Caicos Islands 767 area code – Commonwealth of Dominica 809, 829, 849 area codes – Dominican Republic 876 area code – Jamaica
The most popular one is area code 268.
If you’ve faced a problem like this, contact the FFC to file a complaint. Notify your phone company too. But the best thing you can do, in order to be safe in the future, is not return any calls from area codes that are unfamiliar to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Can You Tell If The Number Calling Is A Scam Number?
There are different types of phone scams. However, what they all have in common is that they make similar threats or promises. What phone scammers aim to do is commit identity theft by tricking you into providing your personal information and making you pay them a large sum of money.
In what follows, we’ve presented 3 types of scam numbers.
Here they are:
1. Unsolicited Calls– Unsolicited calls from people working for charity organizations as fundraisers, particularly after disasters caused by extreme weather and during the holidays.
– Unsolicited calls from people pretending to be representatives of a public utility, big tech company, or government agency. The thing is that these institutions and firms won’t call you if you haven’t called them first or they haven’t tried to communicate with you by other means.
2. Automated Calls From Firms That Don’t Have An Authorization To Contact You
3. Calls Offering Attractive Services And Products
These services and products include low-cost vacation packages, debt reduction, cash prizes, loans, free product trials, and cheap medical devices.
Things To Keep In Mind
You Don’t Need To Make A Snap Decision
Unlike legitimate businesses, phone scammers won’t give you enough time to consider their offer or provide you with written information about the product or service they’re offering before asking you to commit. When you receive such calls, never make a snap decision. Instead, take your time.
No One Has The Right To Ask You To Confirm Your Sensitive Information
You should not share sensitive information, such as your account number or Social Security number, with a person that calls you out of the blue, even if they say that they work for the Internal Revenue Service or Social Security Administration.
You Won’t Get Any Prize
The phone scammer might say that you won a cash prize or any other prize. However, if they also tell you that you need to pay in order to receive the prize, this is a sure sign that it isn’t a prize.
You Don’t Need To Pay With A Gift Card Or Send Cash
What phone scammers usually do is ask you to put money on a prepaid card or gift card or wire money. Unfortunately, by paying this way, the chances are you’ll never get your money back.
No One Will Arrest You
In addition to pretending to work for a public utility, charity organization, government agency, or big tech company, phone scammers may also pretend to work for a federal or law enforcement agency. They may try to convince you that you’ll have to pay a fine or get arrested unless you pay some debt or taxes. This is not something that legitimate federal and law enforcement agencies will do.
A Company Can’t Call You Unless They Have Your Written Permission To Do That
In addition to this, if your phone number is included in the National Do Not Call Registry, companies’ services you haven’t used before don’t have the right to call you to offer you their products and services. So, if such a company calls you, it’s quite likely that it is a scam.
What Should I Do If I Answered A Spam Call?
Spam calls are becoming more and more difficult to identify before answering the call.
You’ve probably already received a spam call, failed to recognize that it’s a scam phone number, and answered the call. The good thing is that if you haven’t shared any sensitive information, such as your account number, date of birth, credit card number, or Social Security number, you have nothing to worry about.
The wisest thing to do when receiving a spam call or robocall is to hang up immediately. Then, if there’s an option on your phone to block phone numbers, block that spam call and any other you may receive in the future. You can also install apps that detect spam calls and automatically block them.
Take your time to ask telemarketers questions. Legitimate companies and charities will give you time to think about whether you’re interested in using their services, buying their products, or donating, and they’ll answer all of your questions. Phone scammers won’t do this.
Don’t answer illegal robocalls.
Be extremely cautious when you see an unknown caller ID.
Use mobile apps that block phone numbers or devices that can recognize spam calls.
Don’t call back a spam number. If you do return their call, not only will you show the phone spammers that your phone number is active, but you can also get heavily charged by phoning a hotline in foreign countries or a premium rate phone number.
Don’t say “yes” if you hear questions such as “Can you hear me?” By saying yes, you confirm that your phone number is active, but your answer may be recorded and used for fraudulent activities.
Do not reveal or confirm any personal or financial information to unknown callers.
Don’t pay by wire transfer or with a gift card.
How Can I Get Revenge On A Spam Call?
There is a software called Robo Revenge that enables you to file a lawsuit against robocallers by making them reveal the source of the unwanted calls.
This application provides you with a temporary credit card number you give the robocaller when they try to offer you a service or sell you a product. The credit card is automatically rejected when the scammer attempts to withdraw the money.
The robocaller has to give a name, phone number, and address to the credit card processing firm in order to collect the money. Although the credit card is inactive, the information is sent out to the DoNotPay app. The app shares the information with you, and that’s how you know who to file a lawsuit against.
The app also provides a letter that requires the robocall company to appear in court or pay the penalty. You need to print out the letter, send it to the robocaller, and wait.
Can I Block An Area Code?
There is a Call Control app that you can use on your phone to block area codes if you are constantly getting a lot of annoying calls from a certain location.
You can also use a call screening device that you can hook up to your phone to block calls that you don’t want from a certain area code. To do this, you’ll need to:
Choose what area code you want to block calls from.
Get a phone call gateway system.
Attach the device to your phone. The device requires people to call you to get a code to reach you. Once they call you, they’ll be required to enter that code. If they don’t do this correctly, they won’t be able to reach you. Not only will this device block specific area codes, but it’ll also block calls from unknown callers.
How Do You Know If Your Number Is Being Used?
Phone spoofing is when a person uses false outgoing caller ID information in order to display a phone number that is not theirs. This means that the spoofed number doesn’t belong to the person calling you.
The clearest sign that your phone number is being used is if you begin receiving text messages or multiple calls from people you haven’t contacted. For example, you may receive calls from someone asking you to stop calling them or texts from people asking you who you are. If you know you have never contacted these people, this is a sure sign that your number is being used for making spoofed calls.
If you’re constantly receiving texts and calls, you can use apps that can block numbers that are not registered in your phonebook. You can also file a complaint concerning these calls and texts with the Federal Communications Commission.
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What if someone told you that your work place will be exactly like your Saturday night out? Drink all the beer you can drink, travel all the places you wanted to see and post it on the social media while you’re having fun.
Sounds like a dream job to me. But now, dreams do really come true. A chain based in Florida, the World of Beer is composed out of 70 beer taverns and they are here to make your dreams come true or offer a job to three interns who will be paid $12,000 to travel around the world, visit beer festivals, consume beer, post it on social media and have lots of fun.
The announcement came as a shocker, especially for those who wouldn’t even imagine that something that you do out of fun can actually bring you a great amount of money.
The official description for the internship requires someone who will travel throughout the whole summer in different countries in the world, consume a great amount of beer in different brewery and on the top of this, get paid $12, 000 for it.
Luckily, anyone can fit into this job description, however only the lucky three interns will have the chance and the opportunity to participate and earn some extra money, not to mention that all the expenses will be covered.
The lucky three will prove everyone wrong about finding a job that you can really enjoy working by posting their stories on the social media and visiting places which once were impossible to find and all of this, free of charge, now available through this internship offered by World of Beer.
So, even though this is not what you call a permanent job, but more of an internship, those three lucky “Drink it” interns will receive a payment worth of $12,000 and the requirements include drinking and tasting different types of beer, traveling to different countries around the world in order to visit the breweries, consuming beer and at the end, finish your day by posting your blast of a day on the social media.
So at the end of those four months you’ll receive the $12,000 and all the expenses and all the booze for free.
From the company announced that all three interns will have one purpose only- or to present firsthand the experience by capturing precious moments from their adventurous travels, presenting updated and fresh stories to the public or being the first people, behind the scenes in their beer travelling.
The “Drink It” interns will retell a story or narrate their own personal, real experience and therefore gain a lot of experience in this field, which will later on reflect on their career and offer them a lot of possibilities.
How to Apply?
Since the information leaked on World of Beer’s website, people have been wondering how and where they should submit their application and what is needed for the application. The deadline is marked as 26th of March and all the applicants should submit their application on their official website.(HERE)
Moreover, there is a part from the application which you should do and that’s a one-minute video in which you explain about your passion for beer or an experience that you’ve had with some special brand of beer or beer in particular.
Of course that the company will choose only the applicant who stand out from the crowd and are decent representatives of all the beer-lovers.
How to create the perfect video?
The director of Brand Marketing at World of Beer, Hannah Davis, shared some advice on how to create the best video which will present you in the best possible way.
She noted that applicants have to stand out and be noticeable and therefore remembered by them. Of course, they don’t require experts of any type, however the video must show that they have the passion to tell a story and of course, they have the passion for beer.
How will the process of selection go?
Only the ones who will stand out and will catch the judges’ eyes will be contacted and called in for an interview. The interview is going to be with the judges from the World of Beer and held in 9 cities across the States.
The interview will be held on the 8th of April 2017 and all customers who will get to vote for their favorites will be treated with some free beer. The only requirements that the judges will bear in mind is you age or in other words you must be over 21 to participate in this internship.
The lucky three “Drink It” interns will be officially announced and selected in late April.
So, if you liked everything so far and I don’t see why you wouldn’t like such opportunity, get ready to start your adventure and share a lot of crazy and drunk stories and earn some extra money on the way.
Snakes are pretty scary and extremely dangerous carnivorous reptiles. Aside from scary the majority of them are lethal, so you should never take them for granted. But what if they are a threat for your livestock? What would you do then?
The locals in Nigeria killed a giant snake because they were suspecting that the snake was eating their calf. The local media in Nigeria said that the locals based their suspicion on the swollen stomach of the snake and the first thing that came to their minds was that the snake was feasting on their livestock.
However it turned out the people were wrong because when they cut the snake open they found dozens of eggs inside its stomach.
As the images show the snake was overweight because it was pregnant and not full with the local’s livestock.
As soon as the snake was cut open, dozens of eggs were taken out of it by the locals who consider snake eggs as a rare delicacy.
The video shows the inside of the snake’s stomach and you can see dozens of eggs inside it. It’s unbelievable.
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