The #NeverTrump movement is looking weaker every day as Donald Trump has become the presumptive nominee in the Republican race, following the exits of Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

In addition to the politicians and pundits — like Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter — who have come out to endorse Trump, many celebrities are throwing their support behind the divisive businessman.

Here are 22 celebrities and entertainment figures who are showing their support for him, from Kid Rock to Mike Tyson:

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Jon Voight

In a statement to Breitbart, the actor said that he is supporting Donald Trump because "he's an answer to our problems." He also called Trump "funny, playful, and colorful, but most of all, he is honest."

He added:

There are many Republicans fighting to keep him from winning the Republican nomination. You know why? Because he has no bull to sell, and everyone will discover the bull most politicians spew out is for their own causes and benefits. I pray all Americans who have seen and felt the meltdown of America with the Obama years, to please fight for Donald Trump.

Robert Davi

The actor has written multiple posts for Breitbart praising Trump. In one, he said, "We should thank God that Trump is in this race. The media and the establishment are terrified."

Aaron Carter

The former child star voiced his support for Trump after responding to a tweet from the presidential hopeful. He wrote: "Does America want to have a president who FOLLOWS or someone who leads? I vote for @realdonaldtrump."

In an interview with GQ, he later clarified that he doesn't "support every little thing," but that "Trump goes his own way. He's a leader, not a follower, and he's proven that by humbling the other campaigns."

On Mother’s Day, we send cards, flowers and spa certificates to our moms as a way of thanking them for their love and support over the years. But these gifts, designed for mothers universally, often fail to acknowledge how our moms' personal beliefs and actions have shaped our own.

For entrepreneurs, timeless motherly advice resonates. Whether it comes to making a decision about turning a passion into a company, navigating the challenges of starting a business or interacting with people from all walks of life, these lessons ring true throughout every life and career stage.

We asked founders and executives to share the mom-inspired nuggets of wisdom that have made them better entrepreneurs. Here, we selected our favorite 20 so you can read their stories.

1. Ryan Hoover

Company: Product Hunt
Lesson: Learn by building.
Hoover’s mom was an entrepreneur herself, and she was always making something with her hands, from scrapbooks to jewelry. She encouraged her son to be curious and find side projects to spend his time on. It was her passion for creating things that led Hoover to build his own company.

2. Katia Beauchamp

Company: Birchbox
Lesson: Be independent.
Beauchamp’s mother always helped her to recognize her own capabilities. One of her earliest memories of her mother’s push for her to be more independent was when she allowed her to start signing her own report cards in sixth grade. She taught her to start with “I” and remember that her own interpretations of others’ actions were more important than the actions themselves.

3. Robert Herjavec

Company: Herjavec Group, judge on Shark Tank
Lesson: Treat everyone with respect.
Whenever Herjavec is tempted to be mean to one of the contestants onShark Tank, he always remembers a bad day at school when his peers made fun of him. That night at home, his mother told him, “Robbie, nobody in this world is better than you and you are no better than anyone else.”

Technology companies, especially the big names that populate Silicon Valley, are known for their modern offices, over-the-top perks, and higher-than-average salaries. So it came as no surprise that several tech giants claimed spots on our recent list of the 50 best companies to work for in America.

To compile the list, Business Insider teamed up with PayScale, a compensation software and data firm, to find dream-job companies where a premium is placed on employee satisfaction. 

PayScale ranked companies on the 2015 Fortune 500 list against its salary and survey database, homing in on six criteria: high job satisfaction, low job stress, ability to telecommute, high job meaning, experienced median pay (for employees with at least five years of experience), and whether a company pays above or below market price for their employees. Read a detailed breakdown of the methodology here.

When we homed in on just technology companies, Google remained firm at No. 1, followed by cyber-security company Symantec and Facebook in second and third. Keep reading to check out the full list of the 14 best tech companies to work for in America. 

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14. EMC

Headquarters: Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Experienced median pay: $117,000

High job satisfaction: 76% of employees

EMC's company culture hinges on the principles of camaraderie and teamwork. When new employees enter the information-technology company, they are assigned an "alum chum" to help them navigate and get settled. Teams also participate in bonding activities such as softball or soccer games and lunch-and-learn sessions. Many EMC employees can take advantage of the ability to work remotely as well, a perk 50% of the company enjoys.

13. Apple

Headquarters: Cupertino, California

Experienced median pay:$127,000

High job satisfaction: 70% of employees

Though a competitive and demanding place to work — only 6% of employees rated their jobs as low stress, according to PayScale — Apple treats its employees incredibly well, with perks like discounts on Apple products, robust health benefits (even for part-time Apple-store workers), and on-site "beer bashes." CEO Tim Cook addressed the company's commitment to employee diversity in a letter on Apple's website, stating that in 2015 35% of new hires were women and 43% were minorities.

12. Texas Instruments

Headquarters:Dallas, Texas

Experienced median pay: $101,000

High job satisfaction: 73% of employees

The electronics company — the third-largest semiconductor maker in the world — has offices across the globe in countries such as Germany, Israel, China, and Japan. According to PayScale, the highest average salaries at Texas Instruments belong to analog- and mixed-signal design engineers, who make about $97,000 a year. The company's 30,000 employees are expected to maintain the core values of "integrity, innovation, and commitment."

Rumors about the iPhone 7 started emerging even before the iPhone 6s was released last September.

Since then, new rumors have been flowing thick and fast — like a lava flow, constantly moving forward and plowing through everything in its path.

Some of these rumors are more credible than others. But one of the latest major leaks is a schematic apparently showing the iPhone 7 design, and it falls in line with a bunch of the iPhone 7 rumors we've seen.

Want to know the latest? Here's everything we're hearing about the iPhone 7.

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It'll probably be called the iPhone 7.

Based on Apple's historical nomenclature for its iPhone generations, it's likely the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 7. Every two years, Apple has used consecutive numbers to name its new iPhone generations ever since the iPhone 3G. The next generation was called the iPhone 4, then 5, and most recently, 6, with "S" editions every in-between year. So this year should be the year of the iPhone 7.

There will be two different models with different screen sizes.

We'll likely see the standard iPhone 7 with the same 4.7-inch screen as the iPhone 6s and an iPhone 7 Plus with a 5.5-inch screen like the iPhone 6s Plus.

It's unlikely that Apple would take away one of its two iPhones with different screen sizes.

It'll look a lot like the iPhone 6/6s

So far, just about every rumor indicates that the iPhone 7 won't look that much different from the iPhone 6 and 6s, including rumors from 9to5Mac and case leaks from notorious gadget leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer.

Most recently, leaked schematics of the alleged iPhone 7 make it look almost identical to the iPhone 6/6s generation.

When editorial photographer Angie Smith noticed that a large refugee community had settled in Boise, Idaho, she was intrigued.

"How [did] they [end] up in Idaho of all places?" she said to Business Insider. A natural storyteller, Smith was confident that there was a unique narrative to be told about these individuals, one that would be impactful both visually and socially.

After becoming fast friends with her first subject, Rita, a 28-year-old from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Smith was introduced to more Congolese families who were willing to pose for her camera and tell her their stories.

From there, her project expanded, and she was able to gain access to other refugee communities in neighboring areas. Soon after, she was given a grant by the city of Boise for a large-scale, outdoor exhibition of the work, and she's currently raising the rest of the needed funds for the exhibition via her Kickstarter.

Although she's already reached her Kickstarter goal, Smith has bigger plans. "Additional funding will go towards the expansion of this project," she said. "I want to be shooting short films on individual refugees' stories and start traveling to other resettlement cities throughout the US."

Ahead, eight images and the stories she's gathered for her upcoming exhibition, "Stronger Shines the Light Inside".

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Patrick and Derek Seale Bakwa

Before coming to the US at the age of six, brothers Patrick and Derek Seale Bakwa grieved the death of their parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As children, they were left to fend for themselves in Kinshasa. When they were granted refugee status, they moved to Boise, but they were neglected and abused by their foster family and were homeless for two years in high school.

In 2012, they were adopted by a couple that ministers the New Heart Baptist Church in Boise. Here, they stand in front of their adoptive parents' home. They now go by their adopted family's last name, Seale.

Rita Thara

Rita Thara is also a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in Boise for three years. Her mother, Veronique, is the cousin of Mobutu Sese Seko, the former military dictator of Zaire. When civil war broke out in 1997, they were forced to flee Kinshasa, and Rita's father was shot and killed by militia.

Rita and Veronique lived as refugees in the Central African Republic for over a decade, amidst civil war and ongoing hardship, while they applied for refugee status through the UN. After years of interviews and waiting, they came to Boise, where Rita started a clothing business called Thara Fashion.

Sar Ba Bi

Sar Ba Bi is a refugee from Burma who moved to Idaho five years ago. She met her husband, a refugee from Somalia, when she was a junior in high school. They fell in love despite the fact that they were both just learning English, the only language they could communicate in.

They're now married and together have started a business called Umoja Na Uhuru World Farm, selling their own produce at the Boise Saturday Market. Sar Ba Bi comes from a long line of cooks, and her mother owned a restaurant in the refugee camp they lived in.

Despite breathless coverage of Venezuela's vanishing supply of condoms, toilet paper, and beer, perhaps the country's most debilitating shortage has been that of food, which appears to be a motivating factor for growing antigovernment sentiment.

"I want the recall because I don't have food," one woman told the Venezuelan commentary site Contrapunto, referring to a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro that has so far reportedly drawn more than a million signatures in support.

"We want out of this agony — there is too much need in the streets," another woman told Contrapunto. "We have much pressure because there is no food and every day we have to ask ourselves what we are going to eat."

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Soaring prices and rampant shortages of most goods have left many Venezuelans struggling to put regular food on their tables and maintain a balanced diet.

Government supporters have long pointed proudly to the improvement in eating under socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who used oil income to subsidize food for the poor during his 14 years in office (1999 to 2013) and won UN plaudits for it.

But Reuters notes that Maduro, Chavez's successor, has faced a collapse in the price of oil, which provides almost all of Venezuela's foreign income. He has also blamed an opposition-led "economic war," which critics deride as an excuse.

Living in a severe recession and a dysfunctional state-run economy, poorer families say they sometimes skip meals and rely more on starch foods, Reuters reports.

"We are eating worse than before,"Liliana Tovar, a Caracas resident, told Reuters in late April. "If we eat breakfast, we don't eat lunch, if we eat lunch, we don't eat dinner, and if we eat dinner, we don't eat breakfast."

At times, high demand and limited supplies have left Venezuela's shelves heavily stocked with items no one buys, like soft drinks, while high-demand items like milk are nowhere to be found.

According to a recent study, 87% of Venezuelans say their income is now insufficient to purchase their food needs. Shoppers routinely spend hours in lines to buy staples such as corn flour and laundry soap, turning lines into sites of shoving matches and now more frequent attempts to plunder shops.

That study of nearly 1,500 families also found a rising percentages of carbohydrates in diets, and it said 12% of those interviewed did not eat three meals a day.

To try to shore up wages, Maduro on Sunday announced a 30% minimum-wage increase, which comes after a 25% hike on March 1 and is the 33rd wage boost since 1999. Beginning this month, workers and pensioners will earn 15,051 bolivars a month — only about $13, based on the black-market conversion rate, according to El País.

That amount may become even more paltry. Venezuela's inflation rate in 2015 was 180.9%, according to the central bank, and the International Monetary Fund expects inflation in the country to reach 720% this year.

A minimum wage is now only about 20% of the cost of feeding a family of five, according to a monitoring group cited by Reuters. Lines snake around state-run supermarkets, where regulations keep prices low, from before dawn.

"You have to get into these never ending lines — all day, five in the morning until three in the afternoon — to see if you get a couple of little bags of flour or some butter,"said taxi driver Jhonny Mendez, 58.

"It makes a person want to cry."

The opposition in Venezuela's national assembly last week ordered the firing of the country's food minister because of the country's worsening food situation, though the Maduro government may ignore or circumvent the order.

Reuters recently documented the in-home food stocks of residents in Petare, a poor barrio east of Caracas where once stalwart government support has weakened over the past few years:

Any good parent wants their kids to stay out of trouble, do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults. 

And while there isn't a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.

Unsurprisingly, much of it comes down to the parents.

Here's what parents of successful kids have in common:

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1. They make their kids do chores.

"If kids aren't doing the dishes, it means someone else is doing that for them," Julie Lythcott-Haims, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of "How to Raise an Adult" said during aTED Talks Live event. 

"And so they're absolved of not only the work, but of learning that work has to be done and that each one of us must contribute for the betterment of the whole," she said. 

Lythcott-Haims believes kids raised on chores go on to become employees who collaborate well with their coworkers, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, and are able to take on tasks independently.  

She bases this on the Harvard Grant Study, the longest longitudinal study ever conducted.

"By making them do chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life,"she tells Tech Insider.

2. They teach their kids social skills.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 and found a significant correlation between their social skills as kindergartners and their success as adults two decades later.

The 20-year study showed that socially competent children who could cooperate with their peers without prompting, be helpful to others, understand their feelings, and resolve problems on their own, were far more likely to earn a college degree and have a full-time job by age 25 than those with limited social skills.

Those with limited social skills also had a higher chance of getting arrested, binge drinking, and applying for public housing.

"This study shows that helping children develop social and emotional skills is one of the most important things we can do to prepare them for a healthy future," said Kristin Schubert, program director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research, in a release.

"From an early age, these skills can determine whether a child goes to college or prison, and whether they end up employed or addicted."

3. They have high expectations.

Using data from a national survey of 6,600 children born in 2001, University of California at Los Angeles professor Neal Halfon and his colleagues discovered that the expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment. 

"Parents who saw college in their child's future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets,"he said in a statement.

The finding came out in standardized tests: 57% of the kids who did the worst were expected to attend college by their parents, while 96% of the kids who did the best were expected to go to college.

This falls in line with another psych finding: The Pygmalion effect, which states "that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy." 

In the case of kids, they live up to their parents' expectations.

If you're looking for a straight-forward answer to the question of how having a kid will impact your success, you'll be sorry to hear that it doesn't exist.

Sure, your decision to become a parent could make your life utterly miserable and send your career careening into the abyss — then again, it could be the most fulfilling decision you've ever made and set you up to take on the world.

Simply put, it's complicated — and in many ways, too subjective — and I doubt we'll ever have a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all answer.

But hopefully these studies will begin to unpack the question a little and help us better understand the many factors at play.

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Parents, especially mothers, face bias in the workplace.

"Motherhood triggers assumptions that women are less competent and less committed to their careers," reads a recent report out of LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company. "As a result, they are held to higher standards and presented with fewer opportunities."

The report points to a study out of Cornell that found employers tended to discriminate against mothers.

As part of the study, researchers sent employers fake, almost identical résumés with one major difference: some résumés indicated that the job applicant was part of a parent-teacher association.

While male job candidates whose résumés mentioned the parent-teacher association were called back more often than men whose résumés didn't, women who alluded to parenthood in this way were half as likely to get called back than women who didn't.

The study participants also rated mothers as the least desirable job candidates and deemed them less competent and committed than women without children or men. At the same time, applicants who were fathers were rated significantly more committed to their job than non-fathers and were allowed to be late to work significantly more times than non-fathers.

Having a child can help you earn more money — if you're a father.

"For most men the fact of fatherhood results in a wage bonus; for most women motherhood results in a wage penalty," research group Third Way's president Jonathan Cowan and resident scholar Dr. Elaine C. Kamarck write about "The Fatherhood Bonus and The Motherhood Penalty: Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay." 

In the academic paper, author Michelle J. Budig, a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, writes that, "While the gender pay gap has been decreasing, the pay gap related to parenthood is increasing."

In her 15 years of research on the topic, Budig found that, on average, men earn 6% more when they have and live with a child, while women earn 4% less for every child they have.

Sadly, "the women who least can afford it, pay the largest proportionate penalty for motherhood," as high-income men see the biggest pay raise for having children while low-income women see the biggest dip.

"A lot of these effects really are very much due to a cultural bias against mothers,"Correll tells The New York Times.

The New York Times notes that in her previous work, Budig found that dad’s taking more parental leave mitigates the motherhood penalty, as evidenced by countries like Sweden that incentivize fathers to take paid leave and have a smaller pay gap.

Parents tend to be more productive.

Contrary to the popular belief that parents, who often have more responsibilities than childless workers, are more likely to be distracted at work, research suggests that parents may in fact be more productive than their childless counterparts.

After analyzing the amount of research published by more than 10,000 academic economists, researchers commissioned by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found that, over the course of a 30-year career, mothers are generally more productive than childless women, with mothers of at least two children being the most productive, while fathers of at least two children are more productive than fathers of one child and childless men.

This uptick in productivity takes several years to take effect, however, as both moms and dads initially see lower levels of productivity after having children.

Our bodies have 3 billion genetic building blocks, or base pairs, that make us who we are.

And of those 3 billion base pairs, only a tiny amount are unique to us, making us about 99.9% genetically similar to the next human.

In recent TED talk by physicist and entrepreneur Riccardo Sabatini, he demonstrated that a printed version of your entire genetic code would occupy some 262,000 pages, or 175 large books! Of those pages, just about 500 would be unique to us.  

This is because large chunks of our genome perform similar functions across the animal kingdom.

Take a look at how genetically similar we are to everything around us:

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For humans, we're 99.9% similar to the person sitting next to us. The rest of those genes tell us everything from our eye color to if we're predisposed to certain diseases.

A 2005 study found that chimpanzees — our closest living evolutionary relatives — are 96% genetically similar to humans.

Cats are more like us than you'd think. A 2007 study found that about 90% of the genes in the Abyssinian domestic cat are similar to humans.

There's a lot more to Facebook's messaging app than meets the eye.

Since Messenger was split off as its own separate app, Facebook has been steadily adding features that expand its capabilities. Messenger can make free video calls like FaceTime, share your location with friends, send money to people, and much, much more.

Companies are more recently starting to use Messenger for customer support, which could eventually turn the app into a one-stop-shop for all of your daily communication needs.

Here are all of the features in Facebook Messenger you might not know about.

Contrary to what you might think, you don't actually need a Facebook account to use Messenger.

Anyone can sign up for a Messenger account separate of Facebook proper by downloading the Messenger app or visiting Messenger.com. All you'll need is your phone number.

If you're on Android, multiple people can login into Messenger at once.

In Messenger's settings on Android, an "Accounts" option lets you add multiple accounts in one app — which is ideal if you want to share your phone with someone else. Each person's account stays private (only unread notifications are shown) until the owner signs in with his or her password.

Messenger.com is a great way to use the app on the web without logging into Facebook.

Did you know that Messenger has a web app for desktop computer use? Just log in to Messenger.com. It's a lot cleaner than Facebook's website and there's no ads!

Window air conditioners haven't received much attention during the "smart" revolution, where everything from coffee makers and refrigerators are controlled with apps over the internet.

There was the Quirky Aros smart air conditioner made in collaboration with General Electric, but it received mixed reviews.

But one startup seems to have come up with an overhaul that's way overdue for window air conditioners.

Check out the Noria:

First of all, Noria looks a lot better than most window air conditioners, which are usually ugly and bulky.

One of the best things about it is it doesn't take up half your window view, like most window air conditioners.

It's also much easier to install into windows than conventional air conditioners. First, you install the frame the Noria slides into.

Scientists at GE's Global Research created a new technology that lets researchers see cancer cells in stunning detail.

The system, called the MultiOmyx, enables experts who study and treat cancer to analyze dozens of proteins in a single tissue section, allowing for a more complete picture of the tumor's biology.

This technology lets experts get more information from single samples, giving pathologists the tools to learn more about cancers more quickly.

Here's how the technology is changing the way researchers see and analyze cancer cells.

Here's an example of a standard stained tissue section. This is known as an H&E sample and is used by pathologists to make basic cancer diagnoses. This particular sample is of lung cancer.

No disease markers have been added to this sample yet, but pathologists can still identify characteristics of cancer in the tissue by looking at the shape and arrangement of cells. 

If you look closely, the nucleus of each cell is stained dark purple, the malignant cell mass is stained light pink, and the red blood cells in the blood vessels are stained bright pink. 

Using GE's technology, you can now see the cancerous cells more clearly. The malignant cancer cells are red and the nuclei are blue.

But researchers need to study noncancerous cells in the sample more closely because these immune cells could be key to fighting the cancer. Here you can see they added blue and pink stains to identify the healthy cells in the sample.

The healthy cells include T-cells, which are in light blue, and macrophages, which are pink. 

A recent study that followed a group of winners from the reality TV series "The Biggest Loser" came to some bleak conclusions:

Six years after the show ended, 13 out of 14 contestants in the study had regained a significant amount of weight. Four of them are heavier today than they were before the show began.

The results highlight a disheartening reality: Losing weight is hard work, but keeping it off is harder — especially if you're significantly overweight.

Still, the study's somber findings also draw attention to some key principles that anyone looking to losing weight and stay fit can follow:

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1. Aim to lose only a few pounds each week.

Shedding pounds too rapidly can be a red flag for a diet that might encourage unsafe behaviors, and losing weight too slowly might be so discouraging you give up.

Instead, aim to lose about 1-3 pounds each week, University of Texas professor of exercise science and the executive director of the Fitness Institute of Texas Philip Stanforth recently told Business Insider.

"During the losing phase, you need a calorie deficit," said Stanforth. At the maximum, you want to burn 1,000 calories more each day than you eat. "That typically means you're losing a few pounds a week. And that tends to be a lot more sustainable than losing a whole bunch at once."

That jives well with the guidelines from the Mayo Clinic and the UK's National Health Service, both of which suggest losing one to two pounds each week.

2. Be mindful of portion size.

The standard size of many foods, whether they're fast-food, sit-down meals, or even groceries, has grown by as much as 138% since the 1970s, according to data from the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Nutrition, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

So instead of cutting out a specific food group— whether its carbs or fat — you might be better off simply being more mindful about how much of everything you eat.

Of course, there are always some foods to keep an eye out for, like those with high concentrations of a few specific ingredients. A 20-ounce bottle of soda, for example, has roughly 65 grams (just about 16 teaspoons) of sugar. So go for a smaller size instead, or opt for the refreshing classic: All natural tap.

3. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

If there's any "secret" to eating healthy, chances are it's incredibly basic. Michael Pollan said it well a few years ago: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Vegetables and fruits are high in key vitamins; most have a good amount of fiber to help with digestion and keep you feeling full.

Dr. Mark Hyman, director of the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Functional Medicine, says "about 70 to 80% of your diet should be plant foods," like vegetables, whole grains, beans, and fruits.

"It should basically include whole, fresh food that's unprocessed and high in fiber and phytonutrients," says Hyman, the latter of which are plant-derived compounds associated with positive health effects.

You can start small, for example, by adding a serving of steamed veggies to every dinner. This list should help you get started.

We all do dumb stuff with our money, especially when we're young. Most of the time, we make mistakes that won't cripple us in the long run. But there are a handful of bad financial moves that almost always come out negative.

Nobody's perfect, but if you avoid these mistakes, you'll probably be in good shape, money-wise.

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1. Failing to invest when you're young

If you've read Wise Bread long enough, you should know about the power of compounding investment returns. This is the notion that the earlier you invest, the better off you'll be financially because your investments will have time to grow.

A $500 per month investment from age 45 to 60 will grow to about $161,000, assuming a 7% annual return. But if you start at age 30, it would represent $606,000. And if you started at age 20? $1.28 million.

2. Buying a house you can't afford

There are many reasons why the economy and stock market took a dive in 2007 and 2008, but one of the main culprits was the subprime mortgage crisis, which stemmed from a flurry of people who purchased expensive homes with unfavorable loan terms.

People bought homes with little or no money down, with mortgage payments that began high and only got higher. This led to a massive number of foreclosures, as homeowners were left unable to make payments.

Banks these days try to avoid lending to anyone who would have to pay more than 28% of their net income each month toward the mortgage. Lenders are also reluctant to provide home loans to those who would have an overall debt-to-income ratio of 43% or more. If you find that you may be exceeding these limits, it's likely that you are stretching yourself too thin and are putting yourself at risk of foreclosure, and possibly bankruptcy.

3. Racking up credit card debt

Debt stinks, and credit card debt may be the worst kind. That's because credit card interest rates tend to be so high that's hard to make a dent in what you owe. An interest rate on a credit card is at least 11% even for low-interest cards, according to Bankrate.com. That means that for every $100 you owe, you're paying an additional $11 annually.

These extra payments then make it harder for you to save for other important things, and to make matters worse, high debt hurts your credit score, and a bad credit score affects your ability to get things like a home loan. So in summary, credit card debt can lead to an endless spiral of despair.

Take heart, however. It's possible to avoid credit card debt by living within your means and paying off all credit card balances in full each month. If you do end up with credit card debt, focus on paying off credit cards with the highest interest rates first, then work your way down.

Amazon Prime is the online retailer's paid membership program that gives people free two-day shipping, free access to a bunch of books, movies and music, as well as unlimited cloud photo storage space.

Prime is an important part of Amazon's business because it helps to create more loyal customers who tend to spend more on its site.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to call Prime "an all-you-can-eat, physical-digital hybrid that members love."

These 22 charts will give you a better idea of what Prime is and how the business is doing:

Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

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Amazon Prime originally launched as an annual membership program. Until last month, it only offered a $99/year option. Now it comes in three different tiers: an annual, monthly, and a video-only service.

Prime's growth has ramped up over the past two years, as it added more benefits and content, while expanding to more markets. Amazon doesn't disclose the exact number of Prime members, but the estimate is roughly 80 million worldwide.

Prime's biggest market is the US. Evercore estimates there are at least 64 million Prime members in the US alone ...

Hello and welcome to Tech Insider's first-ever technology power rankings!

In this weekly feature, you can learn about all the hottest things trending in the world of technology.

Our rankings reflect the constantly changing attitudes towards tech products and services, which are always improving, getting worse, or getting replaced by rivals. 

Here's our inaugural power rankings in tech, for the week of May 1 through May 8.

10. This "smart" air conditioner

The Noria air conditioner debuted on Kickstarter last week and it's taken the world by storm . Most people need some kind of cooling system in their home, and the Noria is small, light, attractive, easy to install, and easy to use. There's a reason this project blew past its goal in just a few days thanks to crowdfunding. Check it out.

9. Apple

Despite its dominance in the tech industry, it feels like there's a lull around Apple right now. iPhone sales recently declined for the first time. The iPad and Apple Watch are doing fine sales-wise, but they're not generating much excitement. That's probably why Apple CEO Tim Cook went on CNBC's "Mad Money" this week to talk about future products. He promised Jim Cramer, and by extension the world, that "we have great innovation in the pipeline" and "we are going to give you things that you can't live without, that you just don't even know you need today." Apple will show off some new products and services at WWDC next month, hopefully we'll get a glimpse of what Apple's been working on behind the scenes.

8. Amazon

The biggest online retailer has been on a roll lately. Capitalizing on its success with Echo, Amazon released two new Echo products last month, and more recently it introduced a high-end e-reader called the Kindle Oasis. So what if it's crazy expensive? It's really cool! On the software side of things, Amazon last week began offering its massive video catalogue as standalone service you can access for $9 a month a la Netflix. This is good news for Amazon's original shows like "Transparent," but it's also good for Amazon's Prime service, since the new video service should encourage people to instead access Amazon's $99 a year service that includes Amazon Video, plus a ton of other perks.

All of these new products — the new Echos, the new Kindle, and the standalone video service — are designed to encourage people to buy into Amazon Prime, and this smart strategy appears to be working extremely well. Amazon had a stellar earnings report last week, and the company's various businesses, especially related to consumer tech, are looking very strong.

Spoilers for the most recent episodes of "Game of Thrones" ahead.

OK, so obviously, Jon Snow is alive.

While that feeds the international desire for an answer to the character's fate, there's more to life, and most certainly to fate, than opening one's eyes and breathing. One must have purpose.

"Jon’s never been afraid of death, and that’s made him a strong and honorable person," Kit Harington told Entertainment Weekly of his character's future.

"He realizes something about his life now: He has to live it, because that’s all there is. He’s been over the line and there’s nothing there. And that changes him. It literally puts the fear of God into him. He’s seen oblivion and that’s got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is."

Now that Jon Snow is back from the dead, automatically there's a checklist of things that he has to do. After all, "Thrones" fans haven't spent the last 10 months debating, looking for clues, examining the blood splatter, tracking Harington's travel, and making sure his curly locks hadn't been shorn just because they would miss the actor, right?

We didn't think so. It's his story going forward that matters.

Here's a look at what may lie ahead for the resurrected Jon Snow:

SEE ALSO: 'Game of Thrones' star reveals she had a 'slightly sexual' codename for Jon Snow

DON'T MISS: 'Game of Thrones' star teases the meaning behind the big Hodor reveal this week

Jon Snow could be altered somehow.

A popular hashtag floating around Twitter for the past year has been #ZombieJonSnow. It's a fitting description for the man we may meet on the next few "Thrones" episodes.

There has been a longstanding rule in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books universe that whenever a character returns from death, a piece of their humanity is lost.

“My characters who come back from death are worse for wear," Martin said in a 2011 Sound of Young America radio interview. "In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something."

Jon Snow will say goodbye to The Night's Watch, or not.

Now that he's back, it might seem as if Jon Snow must reclaim his position of Lord Commander of The Night's Watch. After all, he did make an oath. But by virtue of having died, Jon Snow may get out of the oath due to a loophole.

"Night gathers and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death,"the pledge states.  

The oath also says he can't marry, have children, or take a throne. The Week points out that the upcoming third episode is titled "Oathbreaker." On to bigger and better things?

Maybe not. Melisandre believes Jon Snow could be the second coming of great hero Azor Ahai, or "the prince that was promised." If so, one of his tasks is to protect people from the White Walkers. So at the very least, his and the Night's Watch's duties align.

He'll need to prove he has Targaryen blood.

In order for Jon Snow to truly be the chosen one, he needs to be born from the line of House Targaryen.

That brings us back to a popular fan theory that Jon's real parents are Lyanna Stark (Ned's sister) and Rhaegar Targaryen. That would make him the nephew of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke).

Every professional field has a distinct set of competencies required for success.

But there are certain skills that are absolute must-haves, no matter what type of career you pursue.

Unfortunately, no one tells you what those skills are until they realize you don't have them — like when you fumble through your first presentation at work because you never learned the art of public speaking.

To help you out, we rounded up 14 skills that every professional should develop, if they haven't already. Some of them are easier than others, but all of them will help you stand out and advance in your career.

SEE ALSO: 10 life skills every young professional should have

1. Networking

Handing out business cards at an industry event and telling people how much you'd love to "connect" over coffee? Ugh. Gross.

Unfortunately, networking is crucial to your success in pretty much any field, at any stage of your career. One way to make it less off-putting is to think of yourself as someone with something to give— as opposed to someone who just wants to feed off others' expertise and experience.

Start by asking people how you can help them, as opposed to how they can help you.

And if you're afraid you'll get stuck talking about the weather forecast with every new acquaintance, learn to get better at small talk by sharing anecdotes and showing interest in your conversation partner.

2. Communicating via email

These days we're all bombarded with email, meaning if you want someone to open (and read) your message, you've got to craft it carefully.

If you're emailing a really busy person, you'll want to write a short subject line and send your message sometime between Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning.

If you're emailing a potential employer, be sure to address your message to the appropriate person and tailor it to the specific job you're applying for.

In many cases, your email will be the first impression someone has of you — so make it a stellar one.

3. Writing a resume

Many of us have been writing and sending out resumes since high school — but that doesn't necessarily mean we're doing everything right. And when a hiring manager is only spending a few seconds scanning each resume they receive, every detail counts.

Amanda Augustine, career-advice expert for TopResume, told Business Insider it's important to include some of the keywords from the job posting in your resume — without making it look like you copied and pasted.

Meanwhile, experts say you definitely shouldn't include information about your hobbies or time off from work.

Learn more about the ideal resumes for people at different career levels here.

Sometimes, accidents end up creating the most beautiful masterpieces — just ask Aja Kusick.

After posting one of her paintings online — an image of the Eiffel Tower in the thick, impasto style of a Van Gogh — an education blog soon posted it on their site and mistakenly attributed it to him.

Kusick decided to have a little fun with the whole misunderstanding and took the idea to the extreme. Take a look:

Kusick remembers how insane the whole situation was, mostly because it would have been impossible for Van Gogh to paint the Eiffel Tower. "Van Gogh wasn’t even alive to see the Eiffel Tower," Kusick explained in an interview with Tech Insider.

Though the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and Van Gogh passed away in 1890, he spent his last years in the south of France, so it's highly unlikely he ever saw the Eiffel Tower, let alone painted it.

"What else did Van Gogh not see?" Kusick wondered. He certainly never saw the Death Star.

The transit of tiny planet Mercury across the sun happens only 13 times each century— and the internet is taking full advantage of documenting the spectacle.

During the transit, Mercury passes between the sun and Earth's line of sight, making the planet appear like a small black dot moving across the massive star.

The astronomical event goes from 7:12 a.m. EDT through 2:42 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 9, and it's visible from almost anywhere in the world.

Here are some of our favorite photos, videos, and GIFs we've seen on social media so far.

Warning: Do not look at the sun without adequate protective eye wear or solar filters, especially if you're using binoculars or a telescope!

Instagram suer astrofotografen shared a photo showing just how tiny Mercury is compared to the sun.

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Miss that? Here's a closer shot — the tiny black dot is Mercury.

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And here's an even closer view, as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

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