The are many options out there however what I found quick, easy and cost effective was buying some sandwich size snap-lock bags. I placed each cord inside and labeled it. The cords are now all separated and untangled and I know what they are all for! I think I must have thrown out at least five cords for cameras and cellphones we no longer had. A de-cluttering job that can be done while watching TV. And believe me the time spent doing it is much shorter than the time you spend in the future trying to find and untangle those cords.

Take Control of Your Gmail Email – Using Filters in Gmail To Organize Redirect and Control Your Email Better

I love Gmail for many reasons. Of the many reasons, I love the fact that Gmail allows you to organize, redirect, and take control of your email better than any other cloud based email service or webmail.

Here are some instructions on how to set this up, organize your email better, and setup how email flows into folders etc.:

Using filters

Gmail’s filters allow you to manage the flow of incoming messages. Using filters, you can automatically label, archive, delete, star, or forward your mail, even keep it out of Spam.

To create a filter

Click the down arrow in your search box. A window that allows you to specify your search criteria will appear.
Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, click the search button.
Click Create filter with this search at the bottom of the search window. If you need to verify the search results, you can click the x to collapse the filter options. Clicking the down arrow again will bring the window back with the same search criteria you entered.
Choose the action(s) you want the filter to take.

To keep organized, many people like to have incoming messages automatically labeled and removed from their inbox until they can look at them later at a more convenient time. If you want to do this, make sure to select Skip the Inbox (Archive it) and Apply the label: when you create your filter.

Click the Create filter button.

Please note: When you create a filter to forward messages, only new messages will be affected. Any existing messages that the filter applies to will not be forwarded.

To use a particular message to create a filter

Select the message in your message list.
Click the More button, then Filter messages like these.
Enter your filter criteria in the appropriate field(s).

To edit or delete existing filters

Click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
Click the Filters tab.
Find the filter you’d like to change and click edit or delete to remove the filter.
If you’re editing the filter, enter the updated criteria for the filter in the appropriate fields, and click Edit filter actions.
Update any actions and click the Update filter button.

You can create an unlimited number of filters, but only 20 filters can forward to other addresses. You can maximize your filtered forwarding by combining filters that send to the same address.

To export or import filters

If you’re a filter pro and have a great filter system that you want to use in another account or share with a friend, you can export and import filters.

Click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
Click the Filters tab.

To export a filter, check the box next to the filter, and click the Export button at the bottom of the page. This will give you a .xml file, which you can edit in a text editor if you’d like.

To import a filter, click the Import filters link at the bottom of the page. Choose the file with the filter you’d like to import and click the Open file button.

Click the Create filters to finish importing the filter.

I hope that helped you!

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First and foremost, make sure you change the working directory to the directory that has all the data sets.

Basic commands for using data sets to create

> data=read.table(“file.txt”, header=TRUE)

> data

//To assign a particular column values in the dataset to a variable

> variable1=data[,4]

// To create a scatter plot with the data

> plot(variable1)

//  To create a scatter plot with the data sorted

> plot(sort(variable1),xlab=”V1″,ylab=”V2″)

// To create a box plot

> plot(variable1, xlab=”V1″,ylab=”V2″)

// To display summary of the data

> summary(variable1)

O/p ==> It gives a tabular form of data with values of the minimum, 1st quartile , median , mean 3rd quartile , maximum

// How to assign data to a variable and sort it

> data1=c(1,2,3,4,5)

> sort(data1)

> summary(data1)

> plot(sort(data1),type=”b”, xlab=”X axis label”, ylab=”Y axis label”, ylim=c(50,100))

Why should I panic though? Surely at this late stage all exeunt are sorted and the appropriate bear pursuant are arranged? Of course I’m prepared, Jeremy Irons would sing a song about it then be concerned about fathers marrying their sons, with only one exception. It’s the same problem I have with every play, I am still struggling with learning my lines.

It’s not that I don’t try to learn them, it’s that I seem to have problem with remembering stuff that isn’t in front of my face. I look at the words in the script and of course I remember what I’m meant to say and where my cue lines are. Take that piece of paper from me in mid sentence and “poof” it’s gone.

I find that when learning my lines I have to memorise the whole play rather than just my part, and act it out in part silent monologue. I say my lines out loud and, even when my fellow actors are reciting their’s, go through the other parts in my mind.

I’ve tried reading a script constantly to make it sink in, having it on a loop playing in my ear holes, going through it nightly with others. No matter what I do when learning my lines I still get to the opening night confident that nothing I am about to say was written by the playwright.

I can remember fairly lengthy pieces of dialogue, these seem to be fine as you can wing it a bit in the middle and as long as the general gist is there you can get away with it. All you need to do is make sure that the final sentence is correct to be able to give your fellow thespians their correct cue. That’s just performance courtesy.

Where I struggle is with small interuptions, should I be saying “What!” or “You” at this point in time? Do I tell the other person to “sit down” or “stay quiet”, I’m sure it’s “sit down” but why aren’t they standing up? Did I forget to tell them to “stay quiet” so they didn’t get out of the chair to protest.

This may be down to the difficulty I have saying other people’s words. I’m okay with remembering my own writings but when I have to speak in a voice that is unfamiliar from my own I struggle. Maybe this is why the “method” actors get so deep into their characters, then it becomes more natural to recite the prose. As a full-time data analyst I’m not sure though that my boss will be too happy with me being a burglar or a cross-dressing pylon repair man.

Thankfully by the time it get’s to opening night the worry that I have not learnt anything becomes resignation that it is all going to go wrong, so I just relax and enjoy the moment. I step onto the stage in a trance and next thing I know I am taking a bow and the audience applause. As soon as I am confronted by the lights my conscious brain switches off and instinct takes over, and I realise I got everything right.

It seems my sub-conscious is much better at learning my lines than me.

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The function twoSum should return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to the target, where index1 must be less than index2. Please note that your returned answers (both index1 and index2) are not zero-based.

You may assume that each input would have exactly one solution.

Input: numbers={2, 7, 11, 15}, target=9
Output: index1=1, index2=2

class Solution {
public:
 int findValue(const vector<int>& vec, int target)
 {
 for(int i=0; i<vec.size(); ++i)
 {
 if (vec[i] == target)
 return i;
 }
 return -1;
 }

vector<int> twoSum(vector<int> &numbers, int target) {
 // Start typing your C/C++ solution below
 // DO NOT write int main() function
 vector<int> numbersCopy = numbers;
 sort(numbers.begin(), numbers.end());

vector<int> result;
 int idx1, idx2;
 idx1 = 0;
 idx2 = numbers.size() - 1;
 for(; idx1 != idx2; )
 {
 int sum = numbers[idx1] + numbers[idx2];
 if (sum == target) {
 idx1 = findValue(numbersCopy, numbers[idx1]) + 1;
 idx2 = findValue(numbersCopy, numbers[idx2]) + 1;
 if (idx1 > idx2)
 swap(idx1, idx2);
 else if (idx1 == idx2)
 idx2 += 1;
 result.push_back(idx1);
 result.push_back(idx2);
 return result;
 }
 if (sum < target) {
 idx1 += 1;
 continue;
 }

idx2 -= 1;

}

return result;
 }
};

Comecei a perceber o quanto a gente esquece das roupas que tem. Uma camisa floral da Promode, que comprei há uns três anos em Paris, estava tão esquecida que senti que estava usando uma roupa nova hoje!

O look completo dessa terça feira contou com sandália amarelinha cheia de spikes, short coral e acessórios da Mania de Mulher e Bia Vieira (que amo demais e sempre indico!)
 

Fiquei surpresa com o que é possível fazer… e hoje me dei conta de que muitas vezes reclamei que “não tinha roupa” sem nem olhar com carinho para as coisas que estavam no meu guarda roupas. Acho que o projeto nonshop está começando a realmente me despertar!

E na segunda, estava eu pouco inspirada ainda. Cansada de viagem longa, cheia de questões particulares e do trabalho pendentes e me sapecando a cuca… mas foi! Deu pra fazer algo bacaninha.

Camiseta super antiga que só vou parar de usar o dia que fizer buraco, e mesmo assim vai virar pijama antes, jeans escuro flare e sandália com carinha vintage. Pra terminar de compor, acessórios, que tenho aos montes e que posso mesmo ficar anos sem comprar!

Entendam o projeto nonshop | moda sem consumismo!

The buildings in New York are places to work and to make money, they are monuments to capitalism. Everything about American buildings screams “I made this” and it shows by the mishmash of building styles that can be seen down any street.

Coming from England I am used to a certain uniformity to my buildings. Town centres will have a collection of shops that are all built in a similar style, and housing areas have been built to all look fairly homogenous. There is variety but not on the scale I can see on one block in America. Every plot where Mrs G lived seems to have a different looking building, if somewhat in the colonial style, with no coherent plan to how a street should look.

I asked Mrs G why this was the case and she explained that it was the case in the past that families would by the plot of land and then get to building their house, and this makes sense. In Europe ownership of land was always in the hands of the powerful (whether the crown, government or rich) so it would be them who built new houses. For them it would make economic sense to build multiple buildings all in the same style to keep down costs.

In the land of opportunity where ordinary people were able to build their own home they would choose something that suited them, and if you wanted more windows or a steeper gabled roof then you could choose to do so.

This variety is also on display in the city. Unlike London or Paris with their long boulevards full of old buildings, Manhattan has never really been constrained by central planning. It was businessmen who commissioned the skyscrapers and why would you want something that looked like you closest rival? The men behind the Empire State and Chrysler buildings did not just compete to build the tallest building in the world, they competed to outshine each other.

I’m a bit biased here, the Chrysler building is among my favourite buildings in the world. Slowly I am starting to favour the Rockefeller Centre, the complex of buildings that incorporates Radio City, the GE building at 30 Rock, the skating rink and all the outlying buildings. Together they form a tribute to the modern age, whether it is in providing a home for entertainment or business, the buildings are a testament to a vision of what humanity can be. The statues honouring Atlas holding the world and Prometheus giving fire to mankind are an attempt to give capitalism spirituality.

As with Europe, religion is everywhere and all the various denominations of world faiths are found with their various styles of architectural worship. Flamboyant catholic churches and more simple protestant churches (whether Methodist, Lutheran or all the other various creeds) are every few blocks with their street signs indicating whether this is a Korean, Greek or Russian area.

Yet among this cornucopia of buildings there seems to be a worrying change, the need to become more conformed. Near the Rockefeller centre are a row of multi-national buildings that rely on the tried an trusted formula of glass and steel rectangular boxes. These are constructions by committee and show no ambition, they have been placed by developers to maximise square footage with no care to how they contribute to the cityscape.

Perhaps this is just the next step of capitalist architecture? That just as cities and towns become collections of Starbucks and McDonalds at street level, so the buildings above them will become the same. With only a few buildings daring to be different with silly names like the Gherkin in London.

New York is a strange city in that it is much more interesting above street level, the tops of the older buildings are plastered with old and faded adverts and encrusted with art-deco finishes. Yet it is not a city designed to allow you to stop and look up, if you do you will quickly be drowned in a sea of tutting as those going around their business get annoyed that you should stop and observe.

This may the great sadness of these buildings, they were built by people who wanted them to be different, to be seen, yet today nobody stops to look.

Key Points:

• It’s all got to come out
• Create clear piles to sort into
• Be realistic
• Enjoy the journey

Thoughts:

• I liked Martha’s piles to get started but found that for “Store”, instead of piling, I just took it to its new storage place.
• I also didn’t use the “Keep” pile for the whole process. After I got going, I just sorted straight from my bed (The Pile) and put away.
• Using polka dot paper was a great inspiration and fun to color code
• Repair also included “clean” for things like hand bags and sweaters
• Give away ended up being two piles, one for Goodwill and for the nicer items, either consignment or for an appreciative friend

Steps:

• Unload your whole closet. Consider pulling in clothes from drawers and maybe closets in other rooms, as I did
• Pile it in one place for emphasis (pronounced em – FA – sis not EM – fa – sis)
• Vacuum, wipe down all surfaces, clean baseboards etc. I was surprise by the dust bunnies
• Put it all back in, critically appraising each item as to its fate: store, repair, keep, toss, give away
• Keep a nice steady pace and if you get hung up, just put something to the side and come back too
• Clean out your purses too: always plenty of garbage, enough hair ties for the year and $3.57 in change
• Try on things if you aren’t sure they fit. Be honest – did you really ever fit into that?
• Change out your hangers to get rid of those dry cleaner hangers that accumulate
• Be on the look out for treasures: I found my Mrs. Knight puffy pain t-shirt from a NKOTB concert a few years ago (squeal!!) and a pig ear, apparently “hid” in my pj drawer

  

  

  

  

  Finito! All put back together and sorted by color and type: Dresses, pants, tops and skirts.
  

  

Closet success stories to share?

Jeg har lavet to collager på polyvore(for første gang) til jer.

Jeg syntes det er så fedt når man har et outfit på som er f.eks helt sort også med sølv smykker eller helt hvidt med guld smykker.
Så derfor har jeg sammensat en collage med sort tøj, accessories, smykker osv. og det samme bare med hvid.
Alle tingene er fra H&M.

Håber i kan lide collagerne.

For us in Britain dealing with Americanisms is very easy as we have a constant stream of programmes and movies that are in Lingua America, so we can readily link sidewalks, fall and the always humourous fanny pack, with their English English cousins. It’s not the words that form the major difference however, it’s how those words are used that forms the major part of our language confusions.

Baring the usual spelling differences, such as the fact that I am using a computer in New York so the spell check is going crazy by wanting to remove plenty of U’s and add in some extra Z’s (that’s zeds not zees), the main thing that separates our languages is the way we use it. It reflects the culture differences between our two nations.

Take the phrase “we’ll see”, for an Mrs G (an American) this means that whatever ha been asked for is going to be looked at and thought about. Yet when it’s a Brit saying this it is a polite way of saying “no”, a way to brush someone off without offending. That’s because in English English we have developed numerous ways to express our passive aggressiveness without being too forceful.

The American way is much more direct, when walking through Times Square yesterday I was full of “oh excuse mes” that sounded like I was doing something wrong in trying to get from point A to B and was sorry to inconvenience somebody else to move out of my path. Mrs G’s “excuse mes” came out like a last warning, slightly sarcastic asking why are you being such a dumbass standing in my way.

Granted these examples are from but two people from different cities and backgrounds, but I see regularly the difference between the American up and at ‘em versus the British slightly apologetic attitude. When first thinking about moving to New York one of my main worries was starting employment in the American job market, and how would the slightly bumbling, Hugh Grant-esque act of self-deprecation work over here?

In the UK we struggle with enthusiasm, and if that is matched with success that is a big no-no. So even when we want to do something really badly we will never jump forward at the start and volunteer preferring to wait to be asked at which point we will take on the task as though it will cause us great hardship. Even when the plan backfires and someone else is given the task we wanted to do we will still take it in good grace, and in all likelihood proclaim that they would do it better than us in the first place.

Perhaps this is the chasm in our shared language, despite all the words we share and slightly misspell an American says what they means whereas the British would rather not.

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