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WordPress: How to insert data programmatically. Inserting posts Do you remember back in 2008, when I created WP Vote? This site was the first (as far as I know) social voting site created 100% within WordPress. Users were able to submit a story, which was automatically published on the blog. Inserting a post programmatically in WordPress is extremely easy. You have to use the wp_insert_post() function, which takes an array as a parameter. Global $user_ID; $new_post = array( 'post_title' => 'My New Post', 'post_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Cool, isn’t it? Post_title: the name of the post.post_content: the content of the postpost_status: the post status (published, draft, etc)post_date: use date() or specify a custom datepost_author: Author id of the post authorpost_type: Can be post, page, or a custom post typepost_category An array of categories ids Source: Inserting comments Inserting comments is not harder than inserting posts.
Pearl Jam Sao Paulo Brazil Poster | Chuck Sperry. Pearl Jam asked me to make a poster for the first night of the South American leg of their tour. Pearl Jam and X November 3, 2011, Morumbi, Sao Paulo Brazil 28 x 22 4 colors on archival cream paper Signed and Numbered / Artist Edition of 100 SOLD OUT – Thank You! 4 colors on blue linen paper Signed and Numbered / Artist Edition of 20. The Best iPad Apps for IT Administrators. Continuing our series on iPad applications for businesses, this week we take a look at apps for IT professionals. This is one category of worker most often tasked with doing remote work, often during emergencies. The tablet form factor is attractive to many grizzled system admins on the go, and there are plenty of apps designed just for them.
We take a look at SSH, remote desktop and VNC, remote support and server administration apps. SSH is the most basic yet powerful ways to remotely administer your servers. iSSH (above) and Prompt (below) are two of the most popular SSH clients for the iPad. TinyTerm has a strong following as well. iSSH also supports VNC connections, so it could serve as quite a powerhouse app for admins that rely heavily on SSH and VNC. Remote Desktop and VNC Citrix has been aggressive about porting its Citrix Receiver virtual desktop application to multiple devices, and the iPad is no exception. Remote Support But what about remote support for end-users?
Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Paid Search Advertising (PPC) & Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Communication Tip -- Affirming Success. Affirmations work! I have seen their effectiveness from my own experience as well as from the successes of athletes, performers, and many others who used this technique. An affirmation is a positive statement that we make about ourselves. We repeat that statement daily. (What works best is to repeat that statement several times in the morning and again at night for at least 21 days.) As we repeat the affirmation, we begin to believe it about ourselves, and we find ourselves acting in ways that are consistent with that belief. People have used affirmations to lose weight, find jobs, and improve their golf swing. I feel perfectly at home in front of an audience. Here are some tips to help you write your own affirmations: Put your affirmations in the present tense. If you consider affirmations too New Age-y, mere mind tricks to pump up salespeople, or downright simple-minded and silly, keep in mind that we use affirmations all the time without us being conscious of them.
Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners: Master the Slippery Rules of Modern Ethics and Etiquette (9780805088779): Robin Abrahams. Money Girl : 5 Best Web Tools for Money Management. In honor of the newest member of the Quick and Dirty Tips team, Tech Talker, I wanted to share some of my favorite personal finance web tools. Technology can make managing your money less time consuming and a lot more fun. Just the thought of living without these tools turns my stomach into knots! Here are my 5 favorites, plus the scoop on a few more top-rated applications that can help you and your family become masters at managing your money: Tool #1: Online Bill Pay When someone asks me the number one way to make paying bills easy, my immediate response is online bill pay. Each week I log on to my bank’s bill pay center to send payments to companies or individuals. If the company I need to pay is set up to receive funds electronically, my money gets wired to them.
Tool #2: Quicken Financial Software When you need a robust solution for your finances that’s saved on your computer, desktop software is the way to go. My second favorite money management tool is desktop software from Intuit. Are You A Pirate? I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs. Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump. We make risk/reward decisions every day, all day. Do I go skiing, and enjoy the rush of flying downhill even though there’s a small chance I’ll blow out a knee?
Every time we do something, or don’t do something, there’s a risk/reward algorithm being calculated in our brain. Entrepreneurs, though, are all screwed up. The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. In my youth I was a corporate lawyer, making a very nice salary for representing technology startups in Silicon Valley. But I left the law after just three years to join a startup. But I did it anyway. I don’t care if you’re a billionaire. WhatTheFont! About The Baseline Scenario. The Baseline Scenario is dedicated to explaining some of the key issues in the global economy and developing concrete policy proposals.
Since it was launched in September 2008, this blog has been cited by virtually every major newspaper, Internet site, and blog covering economic and financial issues. It has been cited as one of the best economics blogs multiple times, including twice by The Wall Street Journal. The authors of the blog have also published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Democracy, and online in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Huffington Post.
The blog itself was the subject of an interview with Simon Johnson in The Wall Street Journal and an article in Economic Principals. Authors James Kwak is is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Maple and the iPad - MaplePrimes. The iPad is a very exciting device and it has been gaining broad adoption from our academic and professional customers alike. It was a logical step for us to bring Maple technology to this platform. The Maple Player for iPad is now available in the Apple App Store.
It comes bundled with ready-made interactive Maple documents, covering topics like integration, differentiation, computing limits, and performing Laplace transforms. Taking a 3-D plot for a spin with the touch of a finger or watching a formula update live as you move a slider is certainly a fun way to explore mathematics. . , and more! The technology making all this possible is a version of the Maple mathematical engine running natively on the iPad, along with a user interfacethat makes documents look very much like they do in Maple, but also takes advantage of many of the unique characteristics of the iPad. Grab an iPad and come along for the ride! Math on iPad #1. Apple’s iPad hasn’t been available for very long but there is already a wealth of mathematical apps available for it and I expect the current crop to only be the tip of the iceberg.
So, this is the beginning of a new series of articles on Walking Randomly where I’ll explore the options for doing mathematics on this new platform. Update: Part 2 is now available SpaceTime Mathematics The Rolls Royce of mobile mathematical applications and one that I have been using since my days as a Windows Mobile user. The iPad version was one of the first apps I bought when I received my device and it is just beautiful! Symbolic algebra and calculus, 2 and 3D interactive plotting, scripting, fractals linear algebra…the list of functions just goes on and on.
I would have loved to have access to this app when I was in high school or early university. If you only buy one mathematical application for iPad then this should be it. PocketCAS Pro fxIntegrator Well, it’s not bad. There are some niggles, however. Public Photography Laws - Photographing Police and Public Places. Today, most people walk around with a camera of some sort in their possession.
Point-and-shoots, DSLRs and tiny video cams--not to mention cellphones--have become ubiquitous. And yet it seems that in many public locations, security officials are touchier than ever about letting people actually use those cameras. Our guardians of public safety often have the idea that shooting pictures in public places might be a precursor to some sort of terrorism. It's an understandable concern, but misguided.
Here's how bad it has gotten: Not long ago, an Amtrak representative did an interview with local TV station Fox 5 in Washington, D.C.' Legally, it's pretty much always okay to take photos in a public place as long as you're not physically interfering with traffic or police operations. Tennessee law student Morgan Manning has compiled a list of incidents in which individuals were wrongly stopped. Not surprisingly, police tend to be particularly sensitive about being photographed themselves. PQDT Open. I, Lamont: My online math class: Convenience gets an 'A,' but at what cost? So I'm going to business school.
It's an intense, full-time, on-campus program at MIT Sloan. However, before school started, a handful of us who don't have science, finance, or engineering backgrounds were asked to take an online precalculus course at another institution. It's an understandable requirement. Our B-school curriculum has a very strong quantitative component.
Microeconomics, accounting, and data analysis are math-heavy subjects, and even the instructor for the core marketing class has illustrated theory with mathematical equations. To give you an idea of the types of questions I'm dealing with, here's an example from the practice microeconomics exam: You have a patent on a drug that has been approved for sale in the U.S. That was actually one of the easier questions using a standard economics equation with price, marginal cost, and elasticity variables. So why not stick with the concepts covered in the GMAT, which is intended for people heading to business school? I, Lamont: MBA math review. I've been doing a lot of MBA math prep over the past four months. I started with a Barron's GMAT guide, then switched over to the Kaplan GMAT Math Workbook , which was better for algebra and geometry review.
But when it comes time to complete actual coursework, more advanced mathematical and statistics concepts will be required. For MBA math review in those areas, I've turned to an unlikely source: YouTube. Specifically, the wonderful collection of short videos found on the Khan's Academy website. Here's a sample from the calculus section, the introduction to limits that I watched last night: The author and narrator of this and hundreds of other videos on math, science, and business-related topics is Salman Khan. These topics won't be news to students with Wall Street backgrounds.
It's an admirable goal, and I thank Sal for sharing his knowledge with the world in this manner. My online math class: Convenience gets an 'A,' but at what cost? The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind | New York Journal of Books. An old adage warns against judging a book by its cover, but a title should avoid being a miscue to the prospective reader. In this case, unfortunately, the title could do just that. Besides coming off as slightly condescending, the choice of title for this book simply does not do justice to the contents. Rather than offering the implied simple-minded, overly optimistic, portrait of how much brainier you can appear to your friends when you finally grow up and reach serious-minded middle-age status, this book takes the reader on a solid scientific tour of current research into how the human brain actually ages—something heretofore largely ignored and poorly understood.
In fact, we are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how the brain works and how it develops during our lifetime. The long-standing view that the brain deteriorates with age, like our skin and muscles, has been convincingly overturned in recent years and on many levels. Paranoid schizophrenia - Family and schizophrenia; dealing with common symptoms. Dr. Peter Weiden of St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital wrote an article with Dr. Leston Havens that appeared in the May'95 issue of Hospital and Community Psychiatry.
Following is a much abbreviated version of that article edited by D.J. Jaffe to be of use to family members. Individuals with schizophrenia often develop five symptoms that are difficult for the individual, parents, brothers, sisters, professionals and others to deal with. The symptoms are paranoia, denial of illness, stigma, demoralization, and terror of being psychotic. The following, edited from an article by Dr. 6 steps to handling paranoia 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A consumer in the midst of a paranoid state often cannot tolerate psychoeducation, as he or she is unable to acknowledge to others the existence of a psychotic illness. How to help with denial of illness Avoid Overzealous Attack on Denial Provide Alternative Explanations. If denial has to be addressed, it should be addressed indirectly.
Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Daily News Blog: Stress of Immigration and Discrimination a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia? Stress of Immigration and Discrimination a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia? New research suggests a connection between the stress of immigration and an increased risk for schizophrenia. That is, researchers have found that the immigrant experience increases the likelihood of developing schizophrenia. Now a new research study performed in the Netherlands finds that immigrants living in mixed ethnic neighborhoods are more likely to develop schizophrenia. The study appears in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. In it, researchers looked at first and second-generation "migrants in several neighborhoods of The Hague," and found that those participants living in mixed neighborhoods of The Hague had a greater likelihood of developing schizophrenia (as opposed to participants who lived in homogeneous neighborhoods of The Hague).
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