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This article is primarily about money-saving tips and ideas: about the practical side of how to save money. It adds some practical ideas about how to actually get yourself to save in day-to-day life.

Tips and ideas on acting and auditions from someone who has worked in a film studio and as an occasional film extra.

A look at the dicoveries made by NASA's Kepler space telescope, including the discoveries of planets Kepler 22b and 47c, and circumstellar and circumbinary planets. Future follow-up space missions are also discussed.

Why not holiday in Torbay, the English Riviera, in England's South West? Torbay consists of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham.

City specialization is one way to get ahead when playing Sid Meier's Civilization IV computer game. This article shows how to make one of your cities into a Great People Farm, or Great Person Factory.

A look at how to optimize city development in Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Cities in the game can be specialized and in this article I look at the first step, which is to optimize the city's growth.

A summary of the differences between soccer, rugby, American football, Canadian football, Aussie Rules football and Gaelic football. Some ancient ancestors of the modern game are mentioned too.

The best science-fiction authors and their most well-known stories. Includes Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clark, Neal Stephenson, Ian M Banks and others.

Becoming more frugal with our money management is suddenly highly relevant to a lot of people as the world spins into economic chaos at the time of writing, in 2012. While I'm not advocating that we all become total penny-pinching tightwads like Dickens' Scrooge, the truth is that a lot of us would be a lot better off in the long run if we learned a few simple lessons from our parsimonious, thrifty and generally more prudent peers and became a bit more canny and careful with our money.

Most of the time, as long as inflation is not so high that saving money looks like wasting money because you can't possibly keep up, I think most people would agree that saving something towards your future financial freedom would be a really good idea. I think we would all like to retire in some degree of luxury, or at worst, security, and yet for most of us saving is something that just never seems to happen.

Should I rent my home, or buy it (with a mortgage)? This is a common question, and there is no clear answer as to which is definitely going to be better financially: it all depends on a lot of unknowable factors, especially house prices and rent levels in the future - not to mention your income and ability to earn in the future.

If you get a lot of migraines, you, like most sufferers, will probably have looked around in vain for a cure: there just isn't one for most people. However, I have found a technique that prevents about 80% of my migraines, and reduces the intensity of most of the rest, and I will share it with you here.

Even if you don't have much in the way of savings or investment set aside for a rainy day, it can be helpful to have in mind a system for organizing your money for when you do. Obviously, though, the very first thing to sort out is to get some savings happening in the first place! This article concentrates on what to do with savings once you have some. The scheme that is generally recommended by savings and investment experts is the Three Buckets savings and investment money system.

There are probably almost as many causes of procrastination - putting things off - as there are people. How can we stop procrastinating and get things done? Is it just laziness, or is it deeper than that?

You want to get a job, any job, but how to get a job quickly? Perhaps you've been laid off, or maybe you've been unemployed for a long time already. Maybe the money pressure is on, so your motivation is high. What can you do to get a job, any job, right away?

What lies behind self-esteem and what you need to know to begin improving it. A summary of some of the key points from Nathaniel Branden's book, The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem.

You know them: greedy know-it-all but know-nothing little psychopaths who think that the best way to motivate their staff is to criticize everything they do, and never to show any appreciation...

There are lots of men out there who have a lot of trouble finding a girlfriend, and no doubt they puzzle about the other men that they see who do have girlfriends: all sorts of misogynistic thugs and brutes seem to have no trouble; fat, ugly, slobs often seem to have girlfriends; stupid people; you name it. So what's up with that?

How to perform Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation (abbreviated TM) is promoted as a method of meditation that is supposed to be able to bring a number of benefits such as relaxation or stress reduction, and possibly enlightenment. It is more controversial than other meditation methods mainly because the TM movement as a whole has its detractors.

The Eastern traditions of enlightenment are now very popular worldwide, but I have found very little description anywhere as to what exactly it is, and what the benefits may be. There are articles about how to achieve it through meditation and other methods, but I feel that without a clear definition of what we are trying to achieve, and why we should bother, the goal will remain elusive. I aim to address this lack in this article.