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Self control the key to success

What one thing can determine whether or not you’re successful in life?

Self control predicts success even better than IQ.

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Simplify Commerce

Super easy credit card payment processing provided by MasterCard.  They have lots of SDKs, including one for PHP. You can get into a sandbox in five minutes.

Simplify Commerce – Developer-Friendly Payments

It’s that simple.

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Eat your veggies!

So, let me get this straight–you just treat your kids like ordinary human beings who require logical justification for the rules of behavior that would otherwise just seem arbitrary? And they decide for themselves to accept the logic, which leads to healthy eating? Revolutionary!

Getting Kids to Eat Their Veggies: A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem – Association for Psychological Science

Every parent has a different strategy for trying to get his or her kid to eat more vegetables, from growing vegetables together as a family to banning treats until the dinner plate is clean. New research suggests that teaching young children an overarching, conceptual framework for nutrition may do the trick.

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Martinez needs someone to run the Campbell Theater

I don’t know about how economically feasible it is, but it would be quite convenient to have shows running there all the time.

Martinez unable to find promoter for shuttered Campbell Theatre – ContraCostaTimes.com

But Martinez received only two promoters’ proposals by the Aug. 19 deadline, neither of which met the city’s criteria, according to Schroder. Many of the groups that earlier had expressed interest in the Campbell said the city’s requirements were too stringent, he said.

Now, the city is offering more flexible terms, including the possibility of setting payments based on the promoter’s profit.

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xkcd: Prometheus

Philosophy FTW!

xkcd: Prometheus

Prometheus has stolen fire from the gods! Well, sort of. I mean, when you use a fire to make another fire, the first fire doesn’t go away. So really, it’s more like sharing.