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Five Unhealthy Habits You Should Break Now

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of running for a long period of time, try really short bouts of sprinting. Sprint for one block and then resuming walking until you feel composed enough to sprint again. If you manage to do six to eight sprints, you’ve added a highintensity interval workout to your walk. HIIT, as it’s called, can help increase your metabolism for the rest of the day and help you burn abdominal and subcutaneous fat.

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‘What’s in a name?’: Utah Shakespeare Festival’s offerings go far beyond its namesake’s Homeplays Improvement & Lifestyle

By Whitney Butters, Deseret News It begins with a vision.

Up to 18 months of planning, designing, searching, casting, rehearsing and dreaming turns the vision into reality.

A staff of 35 people jumps to approximately 300 administrators, actors, directors and more. An almost tangible energy is in the air as they busily prepare for the last week in June when the opening performances begin.

And it is William Shakespeare who inspires all the bustle.

“Even though it was written (more than 400) years ago, there’s still something about those characters, about those situations, that still speak to us today,” said R. Scott Phillips, executive director for the festival.

For 53 years, the Utah Shakespeare Festival has brought Shakespeare’s works to residents and visitors of Cedar City, Utah, with the hope that his plays will continue to teach life lessons. With his plays as a base, the organization also seeks to create a varied experience by providing additional plays and learning opportunities.

A foundation Fred C. Adams, founder of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, wasn’t bringing anything foreign to Utah; he was building

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on a foundation that already existed. “Right from the beginning, when it was the state of Deseret, Brigham Young was promoting quality theater,” Adams said.

Brigham Young once said, “The people must have amusement as well as religion,” according to the book “The Place Which God Prepared”

by Scott C. Esplin and Kenneth L. Alford.

Adams further noted that even in the midst of construction on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Salt Lake Temple, the Salt Lake Theatre opened in 1862 to meet that need for amusement, and a legacy of love for theater in Utah was born.

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this passion that the early settlers had in the arts, in classical music, in classical literature and especially in the writings of William Shakespeare,” Adams said.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival has continued to grow and to earn recognition on a national level.

“I don’t think people realize how far-reaching this Shakespeare festival is in terms of how many top-notch people in this industry are excited and clamoring to work down here in southern Utah at this organization,” he said.

In fact, the Utah Shakespeare Festival was awarded a Tony Award in 2000 for Outstanding Regional Theatre, but many residents throughout the state and surrounding region have yet to visit it.

“It’s like living in Arizona and never going to the Grand Canyon a little bit,” said Brian Vaughn, who works as an artistic director with Ivers. “Right in our backyard is this worldrenowned organization that is doing some of the finest work in theater in the nation.”

Finding relevance Shakespeare’s works may be considered classics, but that doesn’t mean they are always popular.

Adams explained that one of the challenges

the Utah Shakespeare Festival faces is overcoming some people’s aversion to the Bard of Avon’s work because of a lack of understanding. One of the organization’s primary missions is to help as many people as possible understand the meaning behind Shakespeare’s writings.

“There’s something that happens when you have a positive Shakespeare theater experience,” said Michael Bahr, education director for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. “It was never meant to be read in a book; it was meant to see live and onstage.”

The organization runs several education programs to create these positive experiences.

A group of actors tours schools in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Idaho every January through April to perform abbreviated versions of a Shakespeare play. The play selected for 2014 was “The Taming of the Shrew,” and it

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was performed approximately 50 times.

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every school district in Utah is “able to have a fully mounted, fully realized Shakespeare production for their students.”

The work starts with selecting which plays will be performed; Ivers and Vaughn do this a year in advance.

The festival also offers teacher training and an annual high school competition that provides students with the opportunity to perform and learn about Shakespeare plays through workshops and seminars.

“We just announced our 2015 season, so even though we’re about to open 2014, we’re already working on 2015,” Phillips said.

The hope is that students will see the plays’ applications in their own lives.

“I find them eternally illuminating about the human condition,” Vaughn said. “At any point in anyone’s life, they will continue to resonate in new ways.”

Different lessons can be learned from different works, Adams said.

Through stories such as “Macbeth,” one can learn that “the end does not justify the means;” “Richard III” teaches the potential of power to corrupt; and “Romeo and Juliet” demonstrates how “hate, envy and covetousness can destroy young people’s lives,” Adams said. “(Even) though (Shakespeare’s) language seems for the first 4-5 minutes a bit strange, your ear attunes to it and you start to see yourself in it,” he said.

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Utah Shakespeare Festival begin long before the actors take to the stage for the first performance.

The programming is built first around which Shakespeare plays will be part of the season.

“The formula, which frankly we kind of inherited and works, is we usually start looking at a history, a tragedy and a comedy,” Ivers said.

In addition to the Shakespeare plays from which the festival derives its name, the organization also hosts musicals and plays by other playwrights each season.

“We don’t just do Shakespeare,” Adams said. “We really are a library here of variety, of variation.

The foundation is Shakespeare. We always do three, sometimes four, of Shakespeare’s plays, but we always have other plays as well.”

Ivers and Vaughn also begin assembling the cast of approximately 60 actors several months in advance. They travel to places such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

“They have to look for actors who are versatile, who can sing,

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who can speak Shakespearean verse, who can dance, who can do comedy, who can&do tragedies, Home Improvement Lifestyle because out of that 60 actors … (there are) hundreds of characters in the six different shows that they have to fill, and it’s like this big matrix Tetris game that they have to play and figure out,” said Nikki Allen Koontz, media and public relations manager for the festival.

More than plays Although the Utah Shakespeare Festival is well-known for its annual productions, it also offers many other elements and activities geared toward cultivating understanding for the Shakespearean culture.

“Somebody can spend all day at the Shakespeare Festival and not be bored,” Koontz said. “There is something going on every hour because we know that they’re traveling such a long distance.”

Half-hour orientations are offered before each show to give audience members an overview of what will occur onstage.

“This was started way back in 1961-62. Fred (Adams) wanted people to feel comfortable,” Bahr said. “He doesn’t tell them the whole plot; he just gets you just enough information so he can get you going.”

Literary seminars held each morning are designed to cultivate

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discussion and understanding as dramaturgs, or theater scholars, lead discussions and answer questions about the plays.

The Greenshow, which is held each evening, features singing, dancing, juggling, puppet shows, food and more.

“It started at the beginning of the festival as a way to help immerse people into kind of this Elizabethan atmosphere, to kind of tune their ear to the language,” Koontz said.

All of these activities, as well as prop, costume and actor seminars, are free for festivalgoers.

“Part of that ticket cost is all of these free experience-based educational opportunities because part of our mission is very education-focused,” Koontz said.

“We want people to feel really comfortable in the spaces, like their home.”

Other offerings, such as backstage tours and Repertory Magic, where audiences can watch the stage crew and technicians change everything over from the matinee show to the evening show, are ticketed events and cost $8 each.

“It’s worth the time and the energy to be transported by these plays,” Vaughn said.

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continues to plan for the future with current and upcoming projects.

Thanks to donations large and small, the nonprofit organization has raised the funds to begin the construction project. The $35 Ivers and Vaughn beganHome the Complete-theImprovement & Lifestyle million facility will include two new theaters, Canon Project in 2012 with the goal to produce administrative offices, a costume shop and all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays by 2023. rehearsal hall, and will be equipped with the latest technology to take the festival’s It will be the first time the festival will have productions to a whole new level. performed all of the plays. In its 53 years, it has not yet performed all three parts of “Henry VI” separately and in their entirety and has also not performed “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”

Each of those four plays, as well as others of Shakespeare’s plays that have been performed less frequently at the festival, will be performed as part of the project.

“It’s going to be dusty and muddy and noisy (during construction), but it will be beautiful when it’s all completed and well worth the wait,” Phillips said.

“A lot of it is not only doing those plays we haven’t done, but it’s also revisiting those plays that have had very little stage time,” Vaughn said.

Festival organizers also plan to eventually expand the festival’s season and create more of a year-round program to provide more people with the opportunity to experience the festival.

Within the Complete-the-Canon project, the festival also began its initiative to perform all of Shakespeare’s history plays in chronological order. As some of the characters appear in multiple plays, some of the actors have been contracted to return to play their character in future seasons.

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The building is set to open in 2016 in time for the quadricentennial of Shakespeare’s death.

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The Pleasures of a

Summer Vegetable Garden If you are still debating about whether to start a vegetable garden, then consider the pleasures to be had if you do. When you think about growing vegetables you might not envision pleasure. Instead you probably think about backbreaking labor, and another time consuming chore to do every day. Of course you picture fresh vegetables on your plate, though you might believe it’s not worth the effort to grow them yourself. Why not take the easy way out and simply buy them at the store, saving yourself time and effort?

While that conclusion seems reasonable, it’s based on the mistaken idea that there is only one payoff to growing vegetables - the obvious one of eating them. While the harvest is certainly the goal, it’s not the only good thing that comes of raising vegetables. The following are some of the many unexpected pleasures and benefits that you will enjoy while caring for your own vegetable garden.

Self-Sufficiency

You will gain an empowering sense of competency and self-sufficiency. These days most people are unused to performing many simple physical tasks that our ancestors took for granted. The ability to grow your own food imparts satisfaction that is very basic, even instinctive. By tending a few plants which give food, you begin to feel that you could, if need be, feed yourself. This is a key life competency, because you never know.

Savings

In the long run, you will save money. True, gardening often requires a few purchases, particularly when you first start out. You may need to buy tools, supplies for fencing, bags of fertilizer, and seeds or seedlings. Most of these supplies are one time expenses. Others,

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likes seeds and seedlings, pay for themselves many times over. For example, a pack of lettuce seeds costs about two dollars and yields twenty or more heads of lettuce.

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Have what you love best, the way you love to have it. Do you love baby beets? Beets are incredibly easy to grow. Enjoy crisp green scallions? They take hardly any room. Do you love ripe, rich tomatoes? Think how delicious they are warm from the garden.

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Who knew gardening could provide excitement?

You tend a bed for days, filled with anticipation.

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Zucchini! Potatoes! There is another huge thrill to be had when vegetables form on the vine, or are discovered deep under the soil.

Calm

Gardening is wonderfully soothing. Watering and taking stock of your garden can be a very meditative time. Whether early in the morning before work, or at the end of a hot day when shade creeps across the lawn, time in the garden is often the most relaxed moment of your day.

You feel connected to earth, plants, and weather, and you develop a renewed appreciation of simple, good things.

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You’ll have no need for a gym membership.

Gardening is good old fashioned physical labor.

For millennia, humans kept fit by working hard to sustain themselves. Daily they gathered, carried, hoed, and dug. While gardening you will use and develop muscles you haven’t thought about for years. You will enhance your physical well being, and you may even lose weight. So put down the dumbbells and go pull weeds, hoe a bed, tie up tomatoes, or pick a quart of berries.

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Six Quick and Easy Updates for Your Kitchen Does your kitchen need a fresh new look? A few straightforward improvements can bring it up to date. Here are some ways to refresh your kitchen without spending a lot of time, effort or money.

Paint the Cabinets

If your kitchen cabinets are fine structurally but look dark and drab, painting them a lighter color, such as sage green or duck-egg blue, can change the entire appearance of your kitchen. This is because lighter colors reflect more light, giving your kitchen a brighter, more airy look. Painting kitchen cabinets is a fairly easy DIY job that can transform your entire kitchen.

Change the Cabinet and/or Drawer Pulls

Replacing the pulls on each of your kitchen cabinets and/or drawers can give your kitchen a fresh, up-to-date appearance. For a streamlined, uniform look, change all of the pulls.

Alternatively, just replace either the cabinet or drawer pulls, adding a different kind of pull that complements your existing pulls. This will give your kitchen extra interest and style.

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A smart new window blind can update your kitchen instantly.

Choose a blind in a color or pattern that fits in with the rest of the décor in your kitchen. If you have a neutral kitchen, a brightly colored or patterned blind could create a focal point. For practical purposes, choose a blind that is easy to clean, such as one made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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Perhaps the easiest way to update your kitchen is by buying new equipment, utensils, accessories and small appliances. Decide on a new color scheme that fits in with your kitchen’s overall appearance and shop around for accessories in the color or colors you have chosen.

You could, for example, give your kitchen a vintage vibe with soft pink and aqua green accessories or go for a bolder look with shades of bright red or sunshine yellow.

Updating your kitchen in one or more of these ways will transform the room into a space where you enjoy spending time.

If your kitchen looks dull and dated, a small investment of your time, effort, and money will be worthwhile.

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6 Summer Safety Tips With some precautionary steps and healthy senior personal care, everyone can enjoy the blue skies and warm weather. Below is a list of 6 things seniors can do to improve their safety during the hot summer months.

1. Drink plenty of fluids: Aim to drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day. By the time you are thirsty, your body is already dehydrated.

2. Pick the right outfit with accessories: When possible, wear loose, lightweight, and light-colored long sleeves to help protect your skin from sun, while also allowing your skin to breathe. Use wide brimmed hats to keep the sun off of your face and neck, as well as full coverage (wrap around) sunglasses for the best eye protection.

3. Be an early bird or night owl: The sun is strongest between 10 am and 4 pm. If you must be outside during a summer heat wave, limit your outdoor activity to the morning and the evening, when the temperature is lower and the sun is less intense.

4. Watch for heat stroke: It is extremely important to watch for signs of heat stroke especially for seniors. Some signs to look for include confusion, disorientation, dry skin, excessive tiredness, headache, lethargy, nausea, and a rapid pulse. If you or someone you know experiences these symptoms, seek medical attention immediately.

5. Review your medications: Many seniors use medications daily. Some medications can cause side effects, like increased sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) rays. Review all medications and check with a doctor or pharmacist for any questions.

6. Wear sunscreen: Sunscreen is a major component to preventing sunburns. Look for a sunscreen that blocks both UVA and UVB rays, and also have a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or more. It only takes about 15 minutes for the sun to damage unprotected skin.

Did You Know These Interesting Facts About Senior Accomplishments?

• On the day of his death, at the age of 78, Galileo was said to be planning a new kind of clock that would tell time—in minutes and seconds, not just hours—using a pendulum swing instead of movement of water or sand.

• Isaac Newton, better known for his scientific achievements, became a scourge of counterfeiters as the Warden of the Royal Mint, a position he held until his death in his mid 80s.

• Benjamin Franklin only retired from public service when he was 82.

• Susan B. Anthony was past 80 when she formed the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

• Alexander Graham Bell was 75 when he received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat.

• Robert Frost was 88 when his last volume of poems, In the Clearing, was published.

• General Douglas MacArthur was 70 when given command of the United Nations’ army in the Korean War. • Winston Churchill was 79 when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Charles DeGaulle was 75 when he was reelected president of France.

•Pablo Picasso produced 347 engravings in his 87th year.

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