There is no one perfect time to get pregnant. Many people, though, have often been told that having a baby after you are 35 increases many risks. This might have led you to believe that there are not many mothers who have babies after this point. The truth of the matter is that many women…
Month: January 2019
4 Simple Reasons People Sell Their Gold & Silver Jewelry! By Memphis Gold
You’ve seen the sign holders on the side of the road. The commercials in between the weather forecast and morning traffic report. Or maybe the recent news story about how gold prices are rising with the recent election. So, what gives? Why are people selling their gold and silver jewelry? Isn’t there a stigma around it? Don’t…
Work-Life Balance: 14 Techniques for Improving It by Trent Hamm
The current issue of BusinessWeek features a big collection of articles on personal challenges in the workplace. I eagerly read their article about work-life balance as this is something I struggle with, but I was disappointed to find that the article mostly consisted of stories about people who were already well off who simply just chose a different career. While that is…
Top 10 Most Valuable U.S. Coins Found in Pocket Change Coins Worth Money in Your Pocket By Susan Headley
You may have some coins worth big money sitting in your pocket right now. There are many reasonably valuable U.S. error coins and die varieties in circulation today. People overlook these coins because they have small distinguishing characteristics that are not easily recognizable, such as a modest doubling of the coin image, or minute differences in the…
When is a Good Time to Sell Gold? (By Ron Samuelson)
Do you have gold you’re thinking about selling? Maybe you’ve inherited a collection of gold coins? Perhaps you’ve invested in gold bullion over the years? Or you might just have a few pieces of gold jewelry or a gold watch? Before you start thinking about where to sell your gold, you need to decide whether…
What Causes Stock Prices to Change?
Stock prices change everyday by market forces. By this we mean that share prices change because of supply and demand. If more people want to buy a stock (demand) than sell it (supply), then the price moves up. Conversely, if more people wanted to sell a stock than buy it, there would be greater supply…
How To Answer “What Makes You Unique?” – Sample Answers Included By Jeff Gillis
Have you ever gotten a question like this in an interview? It’s becoming a fairly popular question to ask, and while it might seem like this question has very little to do (if anything) with the job you’re interviewing for, there’s a very good reason why the interviewer is asking it. That also means there’s…
Solicitation H/T Wikipedia
Solicitation is the act of offering or attempting to purchase goods or services. Legal status may be specific to the time or place where occurs. The crime of “solicitation to commit a crime” occurs when a person encourages, “solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause” another person to attempt or commit a crime, with the purpose of…
Mathematical optimization H/T Wikipedia
“Mathematical programming” redirects here. For the peer-reviewed journal, see Mathematical Programming.”Optimization” and “Optimum” redirect here. For other uses, see Optimization (disambiguation) and Optimum (disambiguation). Graph of a paraboloid given by z = f(x, y) = −(x² + y²) + 4. The global maximum at (x, y, z) = (0, 0, 4) is indicated by a blue dot. Nelder-Mead minimum search of Simionescu’s function. Simplex vertices are ordered by…
Self-efficacy H/T Wikipedia
Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their innate ability to achieve goals. Albert Bandura defines it as a personal judgement of “how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations”.[1] Expectations of self-efficacy determine whether an individual will be able to exhibit coping behavior and how long effort will be sustained in the face…