With the spring bloom of weddings, parties are on everyone's mind to fete the upcoming nuptials. Think beyond the box for celebrations when you can count on springs mild temperatures, fresh backdrops and steady weather patterns of the following weeks.

Of course, the bride's friends have long put their heads together to pull off a memorable shower experience that all parties remember and treasure for years to come, but a few reminders help preserve the occasion when throwing a shower:

Shower ideas

Be aware of the brides likes and dislikes so she will enjoy festivities. If the outdoors makes her uncomfortable or sneezy, a day-long event filled with lawn games probably is not the best bet. Be creative, be practical and, most of all, be willing to entertain new ideas. On the other hand, a hospitable home where the event can be held often keeps the occasion comfortable and fits the budget of people who plan and share it.

Spa party

A spa bridal shower is a great way to relax a bride during this anxious time. Consider booking a local spa. Another idea is to hire a couple professionals to come and create a semi-spa event with a DIY station that includes a massage table, space for facials and a mani-pedi seat for guests to frequent. Play relaxing music as a soothing backdrop, offer plenty of pillows on comfy chairs and provide a take-home gift of bath salts or bar of relaxing soap.

Food party

A bride who loves food and who doesn't? will appreciate healthy food so she stays trim and fit for her special day. Set up a party where guests help themselves to a variety of foods, including vegetables and fruit salads, whole-grain crackers and self-serve options for those who limit carbs and pass up meat.

Perfume bar

If a preferred venue allows, a perfume bar is a unique addition to your bridal shower. This is a great complement to a spa location.

Ask the companys management if they would permit putting together a table area full of perfumes or relaxing aromatics for sampling throughout the shower.

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KINGWOOD The Blues Brothers tribute artists, The Soul Men, made a triumphant return to Kingwood a few weeks back as they performed in front of a packed house at the Preston Community Arts Center.

The people here just really loved the show, and we had a show in Pittsburgh last night and it was close enough we could piggy back it off the trip and we called and said if you enjoyed the show in July, we can give you the same show for the same price tonight, and we had an even better turn out tonight, Elwood Blues said.

We had a great time last year, and we had an even better time this year, Jake Blues said.

From their knuckle tattoos to their signature hat and sunglasses, The Soul Men impersonated Jake and Elwood Blues to perfection. The Soul Mens performance was fast paced, high energy and included a lot of audience participation. The Soul Men performed all the classic songs featured in the original film: Soul Man, Gimme Some Lovin, Rawhide, Everybody Needs Somebody, Flip, Flop and Fly, Minnie the Moocher, Mustang Sally, Do You Love Me? and New Orleans.

Almost 39 years after the original debut of the Blues Brothers on Saturday Night Live the humor, music and spirit of the Blues Brothers still attracts new fans. The show drew participation from audience members of all ages, with the youngest being a small child all decked out in his own black suit, hat and sunglasses.

The Blues Brothers go way back to before the 80s and its just awesome to see, especially when the parents pass the music down to their kids and they really enjoy it, said Jake Soul of the Soul Men. We had a girl the other night tell us, We listen to this CD every day in the car on the way to school on the way home, and they just love it, and she was about 8 years old. And blues music is a dying art, and its just so good to see these parents passing it down to their kids. We had a few kids in the audience tonight and they were having a ball, so we inspired them to listen to a little blues music, said Jake.

Preston Community Arts Center Vice President Paul Burger was on hand as the shows sound engineer for the night.

Of course, everybody enjoys music and dancing, relaxing and enjoying each others company, so its always a good social event to have art and music together to bring people together, Burger said. We need to get together. There are a lot of people in the community who are homebound and theres nothing much to do, and weve got to bring the arts to the community and make it happen, said Burger.

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Imagine going to the doctor's office. Noticeably absent are any modern tools -- laptops, DNA tests, X-ray scanners. He likes to do things the old-fashioned way. Medicine was better 100 years ago. How long would it take before you ran screaming out the door?

Yet, that's precisely the attitude the organic food and "back to nature" movements embrace.

In most things in life, we desire cutting-edge technology: Faster computers, self-driving cars, virtual reality, high-definition TV1. From telecommunications and transportation to healthcare and entertainment, we demand the very best that money can buy.

But not food. We don't want technology anywhere near that. Neanderthal know-how is perfectly fine, thanks. What is going on?

Organic Is the Sacrificial Food of a New Religion

Whether we like it or not, humans are spiritual creatures. We seek meaning in our lives and a greater power outside of us. As mainstream religions in Western societies fade away, people are replacing them with a new religion: One whose focus is on sustainability2, postmodernism(anti-intellectualism),and technophobia. Organic is the sacrificial food of this new religion.

In a recent article, Eric Asimov, a food and wine critic for the New York Times, extols the (imagined) virtues of organic wine. He even warns his readers that a commonly added preservative, sulfur dioxide, corrupts the wine because it isn't natural3. Of course, all wines contain sulfur dioxide because the compound is a byproduct of yeast fermentation.

Read how Mr. Asimov writes about his favorite subject:

These [processed] wines are not the simple, pastoral expressions of an agricultural culture. They are assembly-line wines, farmed industrially with chemical sprays, churned out in factories with technology and machinery and additives, and tailored, just as processed foods are, to specifications derived from substantial audience research and the use of focus groups.

"Processed" wines (whatever that means) use modern technology, including machines and chemicals? Focus groups? Oh, the humanity! In the NYT's magical world4, food must be prepared in a very precise manner, otherwise it is contaminated. Never mind that these food standards are arbitrary and not based on science; failing to follow them makes our food "unnatural." In other words, machines and chemicals (and the taste preferences of the unwashed masses) are the sins that corrupt our food and our bodies.

This isn't nutrition science; it's religion. That's why mocking organic foodies makes them so upset:It is blaspheming their Holy Communion.

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(1) Even FIFA (international soccer's governing body) is finally embracing the21st Centuryby implementing goal-line technology.

(2) The concept of sustainability is perfectly fine. However, anti-scientific nonsense is often promoted in the name of sustainability. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming is not more sustainable than conventional agriculture.

(3) Organic wines cannot contain added sulfur dioxide, showing just how arbitrary and ridiculous the definition of "organic" actually is.

(4) This is why our rating of the New York Times as borderline "junk science" was incorrect. In truth, it's only a few steps removed from the "Pure Garbage" category.

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Singer-songwriter Jewel is best known for ballads such as You Were Meant for Me and Who Will Save Your Soul, but lately shes been focused on promoting mindfulness and sharing her mental health story. Late last year she launched Never Broken , a site dedicated to emotional fitness through online tools. And last week, on a new episode of Dan Harris podcast 10% Happier, the 42-year-old Alaska native explained how she used the practice to take control after ending up homeless and plagued by panic attacks at age 18.

"The word mindfulness wasn't even around back then, but I went back to this idea of how can I rewire my brain," she says on the podcast. I remembered this quote by Buddha: 'Happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends on what you think.' I had the distinct pleasure of only having what I thought left. I had no family, no house, no foodnothing to distract me, if you will.

Looking through her journals, Jewel realized shed been addicted to negative thinking and knew she needed to make a change. To do so, she created her own series of meditations to help her be more mindful every day and also to aid her in specific difficult moments. Her quick visualization to cope with panic attackswhich started plaguing her at age 16is one such example:

"I learned to do this meditation where I imagined I was on a very stormy ocean. Id imagine myself sinking through the ocean, allowing myself to relax, I would get calmer. I would notice the color of the ocean change. Id notice the taste of salt on my lips. Id notice the rays of sunlight coming in and the further I got down to the sandy floor, it got calm, it got tranquil by then, and I would look up at the stormy surface and it was in the distance."

Jewel's panic attack visualization both distracts her and calms her downtwo key ways to ease up the discomfort of a panic attack. And it's a perfect visualization to bookmark for the next time you're feeling a panic attack set in.

It makes sense that meditation would help Jewel cope with her anxiety. Meditation can actually change the way your brain works . Studies have shown meditation amps up activity in the parts of the brain dedicated to focus, calmness, and processing stressand this makes it an effective treatment for mental health issues like anxiety , depression , and PTSD . Experts have previously told SELF that to see the results of meditation, it's important to be consistent and ideally practice every day.

Jewel says meditating helped her learn to observe her thoughts rather than let them run amok. "I would notice my anxiety, and I would force myself to...track the thought to see what the lie was my brain was telling me, and I'd tell myself the truth," she said. "For me, the truth was: I am capable of learning and I will learn more today. That calmed my anxiety down and helped me rewire, and that started creating resilience and that started creating a tenacious attitude, which is a much better thing to get addicted to [than negative thinking]."

Jewel credits this practice with helping her find happiness after a tough childhood. The singer grew up in Alaska, surrounded by people who used "relationships, drugs, [and] alcohol to try to numb and medicate feelings." Her voice was her way out. At age 15, she got a vocal scholarship to a performing arts school in Michigan. But by age 18, she found herself homeless, shoplifting, and plagued by panic attacks. Determined not to become a "statistic""I was going to end up in jail or dead, in short order"Jewel used mindfulness to take control of her mental health and life.

"You have to get rid of believing every single thought that comes into your head," Jewel told Harris. "When I meditate, I just count [to 20]one is an inhale, two is an exhale. The whole point is just to observe and be curious because that's the state of mindfulness and of being present."

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Its 11:30 p.m., and Im waltzing, rather awkwardly, around my room. If you were to walk in, youd see me performing the slowest of slow dances, my iPhone clutched in my left hand, my AirPods nested in my ears, and my feet shuffling over my small, blue carpet.

What may look like a drug-fueled trip is my attempt at meditation using Sway, a movement-based mindfulness app for the iPhone. Since I picked it up over a weekend, Ive been setting aside moments of my day to perform my tiny routine and attempt to center my mind.

I think it might be working.

Although you might not move the same way I do, Sway will require you to you guessed it sway back and forth. Its what the developers call interactive meditation, an experience that requires you to slowly wave your phone from side to side.

The premise is that through movement and the ambient sounds and music being pumped into your headphones from Sway, youll be able to focus on the relaxed activity and calm your mind. With six different levels, Sway attempts to push you toward significant mindfulness habits by requiring you to accomplish a daily goal before unlocking the next level. If you miss a day, Sway will bump you back a level, so you have to complete it again.

Between its use of sound and goals, Sway goes beyond reminders, acting as a sort of meditation companion. Each level provides similar experiences that are pleasantly familiar, yet distinct enough that they also feel new and memorable.

As I use Sway, Im continuing to find new reasons to open it daily: colorful animations, pleasant audio, and more. But what ultimately keeps me coming back to it is the basic experience it offers me, one that Ive never had before.

Finding myself dancing around my room is bizarre to me not because of what Im doing, but because Im doing it at all. Ive never been able to consistently meditate, and my previous attempts never quite left me in a state of mind that I desired.

With Sway, my experience has been different. Through getting me on my feet and moving in a methodical way, the app has helped me relax and focus. Ive gotten lost in the audio, the sounds of rain, the beach, or birds chirping. Ive found myself craving time to open Sway, hoping to unlock further levels and maintain my streaks. Sway is very different from so many other tools I use everyday because it offers immediate, short-term benefits, rather than incremental progress like checking off tasks on a long-term project.

Of course, your mileage may vary, but I've found that Sway has all the right elements that make it a stellar productivity app: fantastic audio, an intuitive interface design, and motivational features, all of which keep me coming back for more. Although I havent built any long-term habits with Sway, it's had the same sort of initial staying power that has kept other apps on my Home screen for years.

For those looking for a fresh and effective meditation tool, I cannot recommend Sway enough. At $2.99, it feels perfectly priced for its value, especially for users who log many hours of mindfulness.

You can pick up Sway in the App Store for $2.99 here (iPhone only).

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Jake is a contributor at MacStories, a public relations major at Ball State University, and an iOS app fanatic. His life is full of listening to podcasts and playing Nintendo games, as well as watching sporting events and spending too much money on Apple products.

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After a busy winter season, relaxation might be at the top of your to-do list.

On Sunday, April 9, Denver-based yoga teacher Jeremy Wolf will lead "Yoga Nidra: A Sleep-Based Meditation" at the Vail Vitality Center to help with that goal.

During this powerful practice, Wolf will lead a guided meditation in savasana (corpse pose), which induces a complete state of physical, mental and emotional relaxation. Yoga Nidra benefits include a strengthened immune system, an increased capacity for self healing and the release of self-limiting beliefs.

To begin the workshop, Wolf will talk about how the practice is designed, the philosophy behind it and then will skillfully guide attendees through a one-hour meditation in the corpse pose. There will be time for questions following the meditation.

The workshop is designed for practitioners of all levels.

"If one is new to meditation, this is a wonderful entry point because you can lie down and allow your physical body to relax," said Vail Vitality Center instructor Morgan Flahive-Foro, who has taken part in this workshop before. "If you are an advanced meditation practitioner, Nidra can help you access the deeper layers of repetitive thought that might keep you stuck like a mouse in a wheel. It boosts creativity, helps one manifest intentions and restores the nervous system."

Flahive-Foro considers Wolf, one of her three primary yoga teachers, to be a "thoughtful, clear and eloquent teacher."

"After studying with him I leave with a strong sense of understanding over the subject matter," Flahive-Foro said. "He's also funny and open-hearted. When it comes to Yoga Nidra, Jeremy has a true and innate gift."

Wolf has been meditating since 1993. He began studying yoga in 1998 and received his classical yoga teaching certification in India. Wolf is certified in the Amrit Method of Yoga Nidra and completed Rod Stryker's ParaYoga 500-hour teacher training. Along with being a reiki master, Wolf co-organizes and teaches multiple Front Range yoga teacher trainings.

The cost for the Yoga Nidra Workshop is $35 in advance or $40 day of (if there are spots still available). Call 970-476-7960 to register.

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KENNETT SQUARE >> When most people hear the words mindfulness meditation, many instinctually think of millennials in their 20s or 30s, sipping coffee and breathing deeply with their eyes closed. But mindfulness meditation isnt just for millennials; its a practice that is changing the lives of seniors for the better.

Participation in a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and research study organized by the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Jefferson and sponsored by Friends Foundation for Aging has transformed the lives of a group of residents at Kendal-Crosslands Communities, a Life Plan Community, also known as a Continuing Care Retirement Community, in Kennett Square.

Its been life-changing, says Terri Rusten, a Kendal-Crosslands resident who participated in the study. I feel more peaceful, not as anxious. I have full nights of sleep now, which I didnt have before.

The study is designed to look for the effects of participating in a MBSR program and its relation to health and quality of life in older adults; things like cognitive function, anxiety, depression, and sleep patterns, says program director, Diane Reibel, Ph.D., Director of the Mindfulness Institute at Jefferson.

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As residents went through the 8-week program, organizers collected biomarkers of stress in the participants with saliva samples and even looked at brain function with MRI brain scans. The results of this quantitative data are still being analyzed.

There has been some evidence in other populations that there is a change in brain structure and function after just 8 weeks of MBSR, in areas associated with cognitive function and emotion regulation, but there has been little research done in older adults, said Reibel

Participants in the study are already seeing the impact of mindfulness in their daily lives. In qualitative interviews, participants are reporting many benefits, including improvement in vitality, interpersonal relationships, sleep and anxiety.

I find that I think more before I speak, Im more conscious of being kind and compassionate, and Im more aware of the things that people say and do, says Barbara Pusey, another program participant.

Resident Patricia Dewey says, Ive had migraine headaches for years and meditation has helped to reduce the pain. The whole experience has been very beneficial for reducing all the stress that you find with aging. I really would recommend mindfulness to anyone. Its great for stress reduction, pain management, and just feeling good about yourself.

Participants from the program continue to meet every other week to practice mindfulness meditation together, knowing that the benefits are innumerable. Residents have been motivated to practice mindfulness on their own in small groups, which shows that they really are seeing the benefits, and want to continue the practice, says Reibel.

We are so happy to have the opportunity to bring in Jeffersons Mindfulness Institute. This program is something that connects to our Quaker value of simplicity, and has truly brought something really beneficial to our community, says Kathleen McAleer, Director of Social Services for the Kendal campus. Ive practiced meditation for more than 20 years and recognize the benefits it has provided to me in my life, and the great benefits for the older adults I serve.

The study is in the middle of its second round of participants, with 26 participating in the first group, and 24 participating in the second group. This program was made possible through a grant from Friends Foundation for Aging.

The Kendal-Crosslands Communities are a Quaker-directed continuing care retirement community (CCRC) with two charming campuses. Located in the beautiful and historic Brandywine Valley of Chester County, Kendal-Crosslands Communities are a welcoming place infused with the traditional Quaker values of integrity, care and respect. Learn more at http://kcc.kendal.org/.

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Miss Savannah State University candidate Antonia Green held an event on Wednesday that was a little out of the ordinary for a queen candidate.

Green paired up with the weekly water aerobics instructor in Wiley-Wilcox. Her goal was to give a different option for students who want to work out besides the traditional way.

Mission Fitness is Greens platform running for Miss Savannah State and she wants to spread awareness to all students about staying fit physically, mentally, and educationally.

Green said, The idea with teaming up to do this water aerobics class was to help the physical stand point of a student but some of the exercising we were doing actual helped with the mental area as well and I wasnt expecting that.

Green wants to encourage all students to work on themselves physically but also mentally as well while being a college student.

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When it comes to blasting away fat, aerobic exercise is the way to go. Now, that may seem contrary to popular opinion. These days we hear all about weight and/or resistance training and the numerous boot-camp style workouts. And while truly almost any exercise is good for the body and soul, when it comes specifically to fat loss, cardiovascular exercise is the most effective. That doesnt mean we dont need BOTH!

Remember, LEAN MUSCLE helps burn fat as well. We build lean muscle through resistance work and strength those exercises that trigger muscles to work against an external challenge with the expectancy of building lean muscle and increasing strength. This type of exercise will help build efficient metabolism and it is important for the health of our bones (osteoporosis prevention).

In 2012, a study performed by Duke University was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. This wasnt a huge study by any stretch by the end of the study, results were compiled from just 119 study participants. Still the results provide interesting information when it comes to the question of which is better aerobics or resistance training? The study participants were assigned to one of three groups: aerobic training, aerobics plus resistance training or just resistance training. Those in the aerobic training and aerobic plus resistance training groups lost more weight compared to those who just participated in resistance training. The resistance training group actually gained weight (due to an increase in lean body mass i.e. muscle mass). The aerobic exercisers averaged around 2 hours per week engaging in aerobic (cardiovascular) exercise.

How do you know which type of exercise is best for you? Always talk to your primary care provider if you are unsure where to start. Ask to have your percent body fat measured. If it is above 30% then fat loss is a great place to start get that heart pumping with aerobic exercise! Weight bearing exercise is also important because it will help prevent osteoporosis (weak bones). Interval (quick bursts of higher-intensity activity followed by lower intensity activity) walking will cover both fitness goals (fat loss and bone health). Think hills, sprints, fast walking (for one minute) followed by a leisurely pace (for one to two minutes). Aim for at least 20 to 30 minutes each session or break it into twice daily 15 minute sessions. Take at least 5 minutes to cool down and stretch your muscles after each workout. And for a special treat, consider an Epsom salt bath with a few drops of lavender essential oil following your workout.

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People whose ideologies are close but not identical often seem to hate each other the most. Consider the quarrels among various brands of progressives captured in the phrase the left eats its own. Freud called this phenomenon the narcissism of small differences. Recent research has referred to it as horizontal hostility, which grows as a reaction to distinctiveness threat. The distinctness under threat is differentiation from mainstream groups, a differentiation that minority groups usually value as part of their identities.

Psychologists have studied this dynamic among strict vegans and less-strict vegetarians, finding that vegans often were more hostile toward vegetarians than they were toward meat eaters. The researchers assumed this was about identity protection when vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians (who avoid meat and dairy but arent absolutists) are lumped together, the vegan identity gets diluted by association.

Its not hard to figure out why identity dilution would bother principled vegans. For starters, it leads to confusion and inconvenience. Vegans may be offered chicken, fish, eggs and dairy by family and friends because flexitarians (and sometimes even vegetarians) eat these things.

Another concern seems to be that flexitarians and vegetarians might be getting as much moral recognition as vegans, even though vegans actions are more in line with the ethical code dont harm animals that all of these groups claim to follow. Of course, the average meat eater does even less to help animals than the average vegetarian, but meat eaters dont claim any virtue points for their meal choices, nor do they threaten the vegan identity. In fact, they help strengthen that identity, and so they escape any wrath motivated by these concerns.

Horizontal hostility also can arise when people are exposed to the same information but arrive at different conclusions. If this information inspires life changes for some, it can seem to those people that anyone unexposed to the information is relatively blameless in contrast to those who are exposed but do not change. I know a meat eater who dated a vegan activist. Early in their relationship, the meat eater asked the vegan why he was willing to go out with her. He responded that she was OK because she didnt know the horrible truths about animal farming; it would be different if she kept on eating meat after her eyes were opened.

Horizontal hostility makes sense psychologically, but for those fighting for animals and against factory farming, its a strategic disaster. It leads to infighting among people with overlapping goals, and therefore its counterproductive. Just about everyone who reduces consumption of meat, eggs and dairy for ethical reasons wants to see the end of factory farming. Yet we waste time by focusing on things like virtue points and identity shoring, and disputing each others visions of the ideal post-factory-farming landscape.

In Obligate Carnivore: Cats, Dogs and What It Really Means to be Vegan, Jed Gillen wrote about how his pet store was boycotted by fellow vegans because he sold a flea remedy that contained flea extract. To Gillen, the boycott was perverse because anyone not shopping in his store was probably supporting mainstream pet stores, which undoubtedly committed bigger transgressions. But its possible that Gillens protesters thought they were acting strategically. They knew that if they were to boycott, say, Petsmart over flea treatment, the company would not notice. Gillen, on the other hand, whose store was, in his words, at worst, 99.44% vegan, might actually listen to concerns about insect exploitation.

By extension, vegans may think that vegetarians and flexitarians will be more receptive to the vegan pitch, leading them to spend time debating their fellow travelers instead of focusing on the public at large.

However, as a flexitarian myself, I think theyre wrong. Ive considered the arguments for veganism and thats why Ive decided that reducing animal products from my diet is a good way to start making a difference. I advocate for pragmatic reducetarianism regular, considered cutback in the consumption of animals and animal products. I may commit to veganism at some point, but it wont be the result of someone telling me to go vegan.

Im not suggesting that hard-liners should stop caring about ideological purity and consistency. Those of us fighting against factory farming cannot be an inclusive movement if we say only pragmatists allowed. Some animal activists simply wont be able to abide just making incremental progress for animals. For them, anything less than veganism is in conflict with the goal of abolishing the consumption of meat and the use of animal products. But whether youre practical or ideological, you can accomplish more by reaching out to meat eaters who have never thought to question animal farming than to people who have considered the issues and chosen an approach that is not identical to your own.

Vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians may never fully agree on principles and tactics. At the same time, we will always have overlapping concerns, and those should be our central focus. Reducetarian is an umbrella identity for all who consciously curtail their animal-product consumption. Adopting this broad identity allows us to concentrate not on our differences but on our shared commitment to ending the factory-farming industry.

Brian Kateman is president of the Reducetarian Foundation and editor of The Reducetarian Solution: How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and the Planet, which will be published in April.

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