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poor short term memory and disorganization?

I have a friend and while she has many strengths (she's kind to others, generous, creative and funny) - she has a weak short term memory and organizational skills. When she snacks, she leaves the package open on the table and doesn't throw it away. She tends to buy the same things at the grocery store because she doesn't keep track of what's in her kitchen before shops (so she has five loaves of bread, for instance). While she makes a good living, her husband is in charge of all the bills and gives her a set amount to use for groceries and other things for herself (which works for them). She also is poor at writing things down (for instance, if she had to keep track of her eating because she wanted to lose weight) and planning. She also loses things a lot.

I DON'T need a diagnosis... what I want to know is if other people have had similar difficulties and how they overcame them or helped themselves? What tools or strategies or tips did you use? Thank you in advance!

15 Ways to Improve Our Memory:

1. Convince yourself that you have a good memory that will improve. Too many people get stuck here and convince themselves that their memory is bad, that they are just not good with names, that numbers just slip out of their minds for some reason. Erase those thoughts and vow to improve your memory. Commit yourself to the task and bask in your achievements -- it's hard to keep motivated if you beat yourself down every time you make a little bit of progress.

2. *Keep your brain active. The brain is a muscle, and regularly “exercising" the brain actually does keep it growing and spurs the development of new nerve connections that can help improve memory. By developing new mental skills—especially complex ones such as learning a new language or learning to play a new musical instrument—and challenging your brain with puzzles and games you can keep your brain active and improve its physiological functioning.

3. *Exercise daily. Regular aerobic exercise improves circulation and efficiency throughout the body, including in the brain, and can help ward off the memory loss that comes with aging. Exercise also makes you more alert and relaxed, and can thereby improve your memory uptake, allowing you to take better mental “pictures."

4. *Reduce stress. Chronic stress, although it does not physically damage the brain, can make remembering much more difficult. Even temporary stresses can make it more difficult to effectively focus on concepts and observe things.
Watch as little Television as possible. Try to relax, try practicing yoga or other stretching exercises, and see a doctor if you have severe chronic stress/anxiety.

5. *Eat well and eat right. There are a lot of herbal supplements on the market that claim to improve memory, but none have yet been shown to be effective in clinical tests (although small studies have shown some promising results for ginkgo biloba and phosphatidylserine). A healthy diet, however, contributes to a healthy brain, and foods containing antioxidants—broccoli, blueberries, spinach, and berries, for example—and Omega-3 fatty acids appear to promote healthy brain functioning. Feed your brain with such supplements as Thiamine, Vitamin E, Niacin and Vitamin B-6. Grazing, eating 5 or 6 small meals throughout the day instead of 3 large meals, also seems to improve mental functioning (including memory) by limiting dips in blood sugar, which may negatively affect the brain.

6. *Meditate Daily. Research has proven that people who regularly practice "mindfulness" meditation are able to focus - concentrate much better and statistics show that daily practicing Mindfulness Meditation improves our memory. Mindfulness Meditation is the type practiced most in many countries and is easy to learn. Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital show that regular
mindfulness meditation thickens the cerebral cortex in the brain by increasing the blood flow to that region. Researchers have proven that this enhances attention span, focus, and improves memory. An excellent How To Manuel on Mindfulness Meditation is called "Mindfulness in Plain English" by Henepola Gunaratana.

7. *Organize your life. Keep items that you frequently need, such as keys and eyeglasses, in the same place every time. Use an electronic organizer or daily planner to keep track of appointments, due dates for bills, and other tasks. Keep phone numbers and addresses in an address book or enter them into your computer or cell phone. Improved organization can help free up your powers of concentration so that you can remember less routine things. Even if being organized doesn’t improve your memory, you’ll receive a lot of the same benefits (i.e. you won’t have to search for your keys anymore).

8. *Sleep well. The amount of sleep we get affects the brain's ability to recall recently learned information. Getting a good night's sleep – a minimum of seven hours a night – may improve your short-term memory and long-term relational memory, according to recent studies conducted at the Harvard Medical School.

9. Take better pictures. Often we forget things not because our memory is bad, but rather because our observational skills need work. One common situation where this occurs (and which almost everyone can relate to) is meeting new people. Often we don’t really learn people’s names at first because we aren’t really concentrating on remembering them. You’ll find that if you make a conscious effort to remember such things, you’ll do much better. One way to train yourself to be more observant is to look at an unfamiliar photograph for a few seconds and then turn the photograph over and describe or write down as many details as you can about the photograph. Try closing your eyes and picturing the photo in your mind. Use a new photograph each time you try this exercise, and with regular practice you will find you’re able to remember more details with even shorter glimpses of the photos.

10. Give yourself time to form a memory. Memories are very fragile in the short-term, and distractions can make you quickly forget something as simple as a phone number. The key to avoid losing memories before you can even form them is to be able to focus on the thing to be remembered for a while without thinking about other things, so when you’re trying to remember something, avoid distractions and complicated tasks for a few minutes.

11. Create vivid, memorable images. You remember information more easily if you can visualize it. If you want to associate a child with a book, try not to visualize the child reading the book – that's too simple and forgettable. Instead, come up with something more jarring, something that sticks, like the book chasing the child, or the child eating the book. It's your mind – make the images as shocking and emotional as possible to keep the associations strong.

12. *Repeat things you need to learn. The more times you hear, see, or think about something, the more surely you’ll remember it, right? It’s a no-brainer. When you want to remember something, be it your new coworker’s name or your best friend's birthday, repeat it, either out loud or silently. Try writing it down; think about it.

13. Group things you need to remember. Random lists of things (a shopping list, for example) can be especially difficult to remember. To make it easier, try categorizing the individual things from the list. If you can remember that, among other things, you wanted to buy four different kinds of vegetables, you’ll find it easier to remember all four.

14. Build your memorization arsenal. Learn pegs, memory palaces, and the Dominic System. These techniques form the foundation for mnemonic techniques, and will visibly improve your memory.

15. Venture out and learn from your mistakes. Go ahead and take a stab at memorizing the first one hundred digits of pi, or, if you've done that already, the first one thousand. Memorize the monarchs of England through your memory palaces, or your grocery list through visualization. Through diligent effort you will eventually master the art of memorization.

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Jpg Collage Sheets

Photomontage assignment, is this a photomontage or collage?

Long story short, I was moved from one lesson to another in my school. The teacher had already given the assignment to people so I was behind. I miss read the sheet with the task, it says " this is not a collage exercise" now m worried after I put so much effort into it that mine isn't right.

Take a look, your help is much appreciated.

link:

http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh304/blacktabby64/?action=view&current=Photoshotworkschool-Copy.jpg

definition Collage
1.
a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.
b. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.
2. The art of creating such compositions.
3. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.

Definition Photo Montage

1. The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
2. The composite picture produced by this technique.

The person you should be asking is your tutor.

Chris

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Girl Scrapbook Page

A scrapbook layout idea for 17 photos? Yep, count 'em! I think it's pretty effective. Working with grids lets you get loads of photographs on one layout, and this is a little more unusual.

It's just as well I counted for I thought there were 18 photos, lol! Well, two grids of nine is nine plus nine which equals 18, doesn't it? But in fact the middle photo of the underneath grid is hidden, hence 17 photos. That's the bit I forgot, lol!

Read on for all the yummy details behind the photographs.

Can you work with chocolate and not lick your fingers? No, neither could we! Maybe this should be called 'Finger Licking Good' for there sure were plenty of well-licked fingers by the end of the evening, lol!

But then it was Belgian chocolate which is sooo yummy! And they were not for gifts but to be shared with my DH, so licking fingers was fine. Actually we did wash our hands frequently... but only after we'd licked them clean first, of course, lol!

My friend invited me to join her group on a visit to The Cocoa Bean Factory which is in Twynholm, in south west Scotland. Can you tell we had a great time? Chocolate is not just for kids - silly grin!

I only managed to capture nine ladies licking the chocolate off their fingers or scooping it out of the little cups with a tiny spoon. Everyone did it, including me... but then I was behind the camera and not in front of it, hee hee. I certainly had the cleanest hands because I kept running to wash them before I could take another photograph - after they'd been licked, of course! It was a messy job, but oh so tasty, lol! And of course, I missed many photo opportunities while my fingers were covered in chocolate or being washed. Well, they were hand-made truffles, you're bound to get covered in chocolate.

We made 14 lovely little truffles filled with such delights as raspberry fondant, mint, ganache, ginger, tiramisu, gin fizz, violet, and I've forgotten all the others. There was a stack of icing bags full of the various flavors in the middle of the table. We then smothered them in chocolate, and drizzled more chocolate over them. Mmm!

One girl made a cute little dinosaur (about 4 inches high; the bottom left photo in the layout) and a huge chocolate bar with white, milk and dark chocolate swirls. There was a third thing, but I forget what it was. I took so many photos that if I keep going back to look for something I'll never get this finished!

I was surprised how rich the chocolate was, so, despite all my joking here, most of my extra chocolate came home with me, in the little cups we used, for my husband to enjoy. The truffles lasted all of two days. Well chocolate and coffee go soooo well together. And it was the weekend. Did I say the chocolate was sooooo good?

We finished the evening with coffee, cake and chatter in the cafe. Oh, and of course, the shop was open to buy as much chocolate made by the professionals as you want. There were even some calorie-free samples!

We had a great time and thoroughly recommend it. Ladies, thank you for allowing me to join you.

Well, I was meant to be writing a scrapbooking article and not just about chocolate, so I'd better start again!.

Genie Balfour runs the website at ScrapbookingGems.com and publishes creative new page layouts and articles on paper and digital scrapbooking topics. Here's where you can see the photo mentioned in the article: http://www.scrapbookinggems.com/scrapbook-layout-idea-for-17-photos/

What's a good name for a scrapbook/magazine and shoe brand?

So i'm doing a few personal projects and i am creating a scrapbook that is filled with eco-friendly renovations that could be made to a house (for example tankless water heater, renewable materials, low-VOC paint, etc.). I am going to have a cover page introducing the scrapbook, and i was trying to think of a cool title for it, but obviously with no luck, Anyways any ideas would be helpful, but please involve eco-friendly refferences. Also any cool ideas for a shoe brand would be greatly appreciated as well. The girl who is designing them has the initials VH, so any ideas for that too would be great!
thanks a lot,

Clean Lines and Clean Living

Live Clean on Less Green (I know this one doesn't apply as much, but if you were gearing it to low-cost green living renovations it would be great!)

Shoe brand: City Kicks

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