6 INEXPENSIVE WAYS TO TRANSITION YOUR HOME DECOR TO FALL YNERGY TIMES SEPT | 2018 AUTHOR: KIRSTEN KRASON CONTRIBUTOR: MARKETING Original article from https://today.com Decorating for fall means rich colors, warm throws and a welcoming feeling of coziness that is hard to match in other seasons. What it does not have to mean is dropping serious cash on changing out your home décor. Interior designer, Kirsten Krason, has six easy ways to get your home ready for fall without overspending.
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6 I N E X P E N S I V E W A Y S T O T R A N S I T I O N Y O U R
HOME DECOR TO FALL
YNERGY TIMES SEPT | 2018
AUTHOR: KIRSTEN KRASON
CONTRIBUTOR: MARKETING
Original article from https://today.com
Decorating for fall means rich colors, warm throws and a welcoming feeling of coziness that is hard to match in other seasons. What it does not have to mean is dropping serious cash on changing out your home décor. Interior designer, Kirsten Krason, has six easy ways to get your home ready for fall without overspending.
FALL DECORATIONS FOR YOUR HOME
Bring the outdoors inside by filling jars with branches from your yard or your local craft store. I have big ginger jars in my house that I like to fill with autumn stems. You can find great ones at World Market, Pottery Barn or any craft store.
This falling leaf garland is super easy to make and would add glitz and glam to any space! All it takes is some glue, glitter, artificial leaves and some ribbon (you can find the instructions here). This garland would be especially beautiful on a mantel to add a touch of fall to your home.
One of the simplest ways to add a touch of fall is to use lots of texture and vibrant warm colors. Here is an easy tutorial to make your own mini pumpkin patch. The moss brings in such a beautiful fresh texture and the mini pumpkins are so whimsical and fun!
The best way to say “Hello fall!” is to have a festive welcome mat by your front door. I like to change out my mat with each season. It’s a cheap and easy way to create that seasonal feel with each season.
Banners are a great way to decorate for fall without changing up too much of your existing decor. You can hang them on a mantle, a wall, a window or a shelf. Check out this a great free printable to add one to your home today.
We often hear of changing out your living room pillows for fall, but go ahead and change out your outdoor ones as well! On my own porch, I found some great outdoor pillows from Pottery Barn. They were too big and they also had a stiff polyfoam insert inside. I cut them up and sewed them smaller with a zipper so I could use a nice down insert instead.
FILL JARS WITH FALL STEMS
FALLING LEAF GARLAND
MINI PUMPKIN PATCH
CHANGE OUT YOUR WELCOME MAT
HANG UP A BANNER
SWAP PILLOWS
Recipe of the Month:Skillet Apple Pork Chops
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 (6-oz.) bone-in pork chops
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper, divided
1/2 cup unsalted chicken stock
(such as Swanson)
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 medium apples, thinly sliced
1 small red onion, thinly vertically sliced
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Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons oil to pan; swirl to coat. Sprinkle pork chops evenly with 3/8 teaspoon salt and 3/8 teaspoon pepper. Add pork chops to pan; cook 5 minutes on each side or until pork chops are done. Remove from pan.
Combine stock and mustard, stirring with a whisk. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to pan; swirl. Add remaining 3/8 teaspoon salt, remaining 3/8 teaspoon pepper, sage, rosemary, apple, and onion to pan; cook 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in stock mixture. Return pork chops to pan; cook 3 minutes or until liquid is reduced by half.
Original recipe from http://myrecipes.com
CONTRIBUTOR: JONATHAN “JJ” JEROTZ
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Drink ofthe Month:Monsoon Julep
70cl bourbon (ie, 1 bottle)
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A fruity twist on the Kentucky Derby classic, this is great for budding mixologists looking to whip up a refreshing summer drink!
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AUTHOR: DHRUV MITTAL
CONTRIBUTOR: MARKETING
INGREDIENTS
Full recipe on http://theguardian.com
100g granulated sugar
½ bunch mint, leaves picked
2 peaches, preferably ripe ones, quartered and stoned
1 cinnamon stick
* To serve, pour out 60ml per serving over ice into a glass and stir for 30 seconds until the glass is chilled to the touch.
When your human friends aren’t feeling well, you can ask them what’s wrong. But for dog owners, it can be difficult to gauge what’s on the minds of our furry friends—one can only glean so much from wagging tails. If dogs could talk, what would they say about us and the way they see the world? Just how do dogs think?
Neuroscientist Gregory Berns, featured in the most recent episode of The Macroscope, is trying to answer those questions in his lab at Emory University. Rather than glimpse into puppy eyes, he taps into their brain activity. In the Dog Project, Berns and his team train volunteer pet dogs to get their brains scanned in an fMRI machine to better understand what they are actually thinking—and what their cognition tells us about ourselves.
DO DOGS LOVE US OR ARE THEY JUST SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO KEEP GETTING FED?
Gregory Berns: In terms of [a dog choosing] love or food, we’ve done that type of experiment where we present a cue to them that signals “Hey, you’re going to get a piece of food in a few seconds,” and we register the brain’s response to that cue
signaling that and then we do the same thing with a different cue that says, “Hey, your owner is going to pop into view and praise you and say good girl.” And all we do is we look at specific circuits in the dog’s brain associated with reward and see which which of those cues is most effective at activating it. And I think most people will be happy to know that at least in the dogs that we’ve studied we found that both were equally activating to the dog’s reward system, meaning that they do like food obviously but they also liked their owner or their human just for the social contact itself
HOW DO DOGS PROCESS AND LEARN OUR LANGUAGE? INDY CAN SEEM TO UNDERSTAND A CONVERSATION NOT DIRECTED AT HIM.
Gregory Berns: The thing about language that amazes me is that we humans talk constantly, frequently without saying much, too. And it’s amazing that dogs can kind of pick out salient words out of this kind of stream of jibberish coming from us and somehow magically know what that means.
So the question—and we’re pursuing this right now—is does a word to a dog mean
the same thing as the word to a human? And this is a very complicated cognitive skill, so we know the word if I say “stick,” for example. We call up a mental image of a stick and we know that that word is a symbolic representation for the real thing. That may mean that maybe dogs don’t quite have all of that neural hardware to do that. They may be able to associate the sounds perhaps with the object but we’re not sure that they have kind of the ability to abstractly represent what we call semantics, but we’re trying to figure that out.
CAN DOGS UNDERSTAND ACTUAL WORDS AND PHRASES? OR IS IT IN THE VOCAL TONE OF IT’S OWNER? AND DO THEY HAVE EMOTIONS?
Gregory Berns: The answer is yes. They obviously have a sense of time, and the reason I say that is because all animals have some kind of sense of time and they can do it in a variety of ways. They have internal rhythms, circadian rhythms, that govern the 24 hour cycle. You can gauge time by how hungry you are, by whether your bladder is filling up, by the change in lighting outside. These are all cues that dogs pick up on.
CONTRIBUTOR: JAMES CARMODY
Full article on http://sciencefriday.com
AUTHOR: LAUREN J. YOUNG
7 Q U E S T I O N S A B O U T
HOW YOUR DOG’S BRAIN WORKS
I’VE BEEN VERY SURE THAT DOGS DON’T “PASS” THE CLASSIC MIRROR TEST; YET THEY ARE NOT THAT SIGHT PRIORITY MINDED... ANYONE DONE ANY SCENT BASED TESTING OF SELF-RECOGNITION IN DOGS?
Gregory Berns: There have been a couple of groups who have studied this. So one study, actually the original study, looked at “do dogs recognize their own urine?” And the answer appears to be yes. That’s not quite the version of the mirror tests, so another study recently replicated that by seeing if dogs recognize their urine adulterated with some other substance and the answer could be yes. But the issue of self-awareness I think is fascinating and just because dogs don’t recognize themselves in the mirror generally does not mean that they’re not self-aware. It may be they’re not visually self-aware.
ARE THEIR PERSONALITIES AN ASPECT OF THEIR THOUGHTS?
Gregory Berns: The issue of personality is something very dear to my heart and one of the growing areas in this line of research… Now it’s sometimes difficult to
measure dog personality, but there are various ways you can do it. So you can go online, you can find there’s one questionnaire that’s called the C-BARQ made by the folks at [the University of Pennsylvania]. You can answer about 50 questions about your dog and you’ll get a personality and temperament profile. So we’ve actually used that in some of the dogs that are trained for the MRI and what we have found is that there are specific personality types that show up differently in their brain responses.
The one that probably makes the most difference is how aggressive the dog is—are they aggressive to other dogs or are they aggressive to other people? What we’ve found in those dogs is there’s a particular part of their brain called the amygdala, which is associated with what we call physiologic arousal—it’s a part of the brain that really gets you revved up—and those dogs seem to have more of a hair trigger on that structure, particularly when they encounter a person they haven’t met before or sometimes perhaps even a dog they haven’t met before. So there are definitely differences.
DID YOU FIND ANY VARIATIONS IN BRAIN ACTIVITY BASED ON A DOGS BREED?
Gregory Berns: It’s a tough question because even though we’ve studied 50 dogs in Atlanta and another 50 in California, there’s over 100 breeds so we don’t have the numbers to answer that question. But what I can tell you, we did one study where we partnered with Canine Companions for Independence to study service dogs, and those dogs were all golden retrievers and Labrador retrievers and mixes. And so even within one very homogeneous breed we find tremendous variation. And this gets back to the previous question about personalities, that we find as much variation in the dog’s brain responses as we do in equivalent experiments in humans. So dogs are as different from each other as humans are different from each other. Now what that means for breeds is it’s probably even greater between the breeds.foods such as flakes and bottom feeder tablets.
Full article on http://fitmo.com
AUTHOR: LIBBY BLAY
CONTRIBUTOR: MARKETING
6 E S S E N T I A L FA L L F I T N E S S T I P S T O
KEEP YOU IN SHAPE
Fall is finally here! You may be excited about Halloween and Pumpkin Spice Lattes, but have you thought about your fitness? Fall is a great time to start a fitness plan – you’ll be setting up good habits before the winter months, so you can have a bangin’ bod all year round! Fitmo’s here to get you started with some must-have fall fitness tips to help you stay in shape.
USE FALL FITNESS AS A SPRINGBOARD
Getting into shape now is a great idea if you want to keep fit over the winter period. Your body takes around a month to adapt to a new training regime, so starting now allows you to get used to training before the winter chill. This means you’ll be more likely to stick with it through the colder (and more calorific!) months, so you can train straight through winter and into the warmer months.
BASK IN THE FALL GLOW
Fall is a beautiful time of year – crisp leaves on the ground, changing autumn colours and a lovely breeze in the air. Make the most of it! Try doing some outdoor activities for fall fitness – running, hiking or cycling are great examples. Remember, exercise doesn’t have to feel
like an intense workout – try walking to work, doing some gardening or taking the dog for a walk. Your body will thank you for not going into hibernation mode!
BALANCE YOUR HABITS
We all know TV shows make a comeback around fall – but don’t let that slip you up! Instead of becoming a couch potato, try to balance your leisure time between binge-watching Netflix and getting up and moving. Make time for exercise! This is why a personal trainer app is great – you get an exercise plan that’s tailored to your schedule, plus the accountability you need to stay motivated!
WRAP-UP
Once it gets cooler outside, it’s time to start layering! Wear clothes that wick moisture from your body and layer them with clothes that will keep you warm. Once you get the blood flowing, you’ you’ll warm up in no time! Another good idea is to drink tea to keep you warm after being outside. Try green tea to give you an antioxidant boost! Remember, on extra brisk days you can train at home – Fitmo’s coaches give you exercises that you can do anywhere, so no excuses for not training!
EMBRACE THE PUMPKIN
Pumpkin spice lattes don’t count (as amazing as they are)! Pumpkin is a great health food – it’s very low in calories, but rich in antioxidants and vitamins. It contains no cholesterol, and it’s even great for regulating your blood pressure! Try incorporating pumpkin into your cooking, or snacking on pumpkin seeds. Fall is a great time to load up on antioxidant-rich foods in general – you want to stay healthy and breeze through the dreaded flu season!
MIX IT UP
Try not to get bored or stuck in a rut with your training routine. As it gets colder, you’re more likely to spend time working out at home or at the gym. As well as mixing up the types of exercise you do, joining a class is a great way to keep things interesting. Try yoga, HIIT, pilates – whatever floats your boat!
With all of these tips for you to use, you have no excuse to slow down during fall! A personal trainer app can really help to give you the training structure to get you working out through the colder months – Why not try Fitmo’s 7 day free trial this fall?
