Join Peggy and her friends of all ages as they expand their yoga repertoire and increase balance, flexibility, and energy! More Yoga for the Rest of Us is presented in three easy-to-do segments: Part One gives your body a wonderful stretch-benefiting legs, hips, and the back; Part Two is a series of standing poses that increases all-important leg strength and balance; Part Three is a new and different guided relaxation exercise that conveys an integral part of yoga’s benefits: reducing stress and quieting the mind. This yoga program can be done with, or without, the aid of a chair — giving flexibility to the exercises as well as to the student. There’s something here for everyone.
Grade levels: Adult
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Simply Ming Season 2 Collection
If you’re getting tired of the same ingredients, chef Ming Tsai dishes up easy solutions that will have fantastic East-West food on your table fast! By using one of Ming’s master recipes, anyone can create a variety of dishes, keeping dining at home interesting and fun–whether you are a beginner or an experienced chef. Each episode of Simply Ming features: – Master recipes: Utilizing no more than eight versatile ingredients, Ming whips up rubs, pastes, and vinaigrettes to serve as the foundation for delicious dinners throughout the week. – Guest chefs: From world-renowned chefs such as Jacques Pepin to his parents, Ming invites guests to test out the versatility of his master recipes by creating a new dish. – Food and wine pairings: Selecting the perfect bottle of champagne, wine, or beer to accompany a meal is a challenge faced by most. Ming provides guidance on making the best choices. – Side trips: Ming goes on the road to uncover the secrets behind selecting the best ingredients, from the sweetest caramel to the freshest shrimp and local lobster. Ming Tsai is the award-winning chef-owner of Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and the author of three cookbooks, including Simply Ming. He has received the coveted James Beard Award for Best Chef/Northeast, and is the star of Simply Ming, airing on public television. Special DVD Features Include: bonus video–Ming’s five best tips for the home cook; recipe cards featuring recipes from Ming Tsai; pantry list for the well-stocked East-West kitchen; Ming Tsai’s top ten cooking tools; scene selections; and closed captions. (7:48 hrs on 3 DVDs)
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Simply Ming Season 2 Disc 1
Guest chefs: From world-renowned chefs such as Jacques Pepin to Martin Yan, Ming invites guests to test out the versatility of his master recipes by creating a new dish. – Food and wine pairings: Selecting the perfect bottle of champagne, wine, or beer to accompany a meal is a challenge faced by most. Ming provides guidance on making the best choices. – Side trips: Ming goes on the road to uncover the secrets behind selecting the best ingredients, from the sweetest caramel to the freshest shrimp and local lobster. Master Recipes: Curry Tea Rub, Shrimp Mousse, Citrus Herbal Tea Rub, Spicy Black Bean Aioli, Jasmine Caramel Sauce, and Red Roasting Braising Liquid.
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RELAX! You Only Live Once Audiocassette 2-pack
In her fourth fun-filled special, Loretta shows you how funny life can be! Critically acclaimed–and completely hilarious–humor therapist and stress expert Loretta LaRoche tells you how to relax and enjoy everyday life by listening to another authority: the one inside you. She’ll help you lose your worries by finding your sense of humor–even in the most unlikely situations. And as a special bonus in this audio cassette, Loretta shares her relaxation tips, coaching you through light breathing exercises and meditation to get you on your way to “The Relaxation Response.” (78 min. on 2 audiocassettes)
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The Scarlet Letter
Directed by Rick Hauser, this is an epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne–condemned for a sin of passion–must wear forever the scarlet letter “A” on her chest. Her lover, however, lives undetected in the community, tormented and weakened by the burden of an unexposed sin. And Hester’s husband, thought to be lost at sea, resurfaces and coldly plots his revenge. Special DVD features include: special video segments that take viewers behind-the-scenes on the filming of The Scarlet Letter; select cast filmographies; a Hawthorne biography; discussion questions for educators; scene selection; English audiotrack; and closed captions. (4 hrs. on 2 discs)
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NOVA: Ultimate Mars Challenge Blu-ray
Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA’s last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: This August, a rover named Curiosity will touch down inside Mars’ Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will advance the quest for signs that Mars might have once been suitable for life. But Curiosity’s mission is risky. After parachuting through the Martian atmosphere at twice the speed of sound, Curiosity will be gently lowered to the planet’s surface by a “sky crane.” This first-of-its-kind system has been tested on Earth, but will it work on Mars? With inside access to the massive team of scientists and engineers responsible for Curiosity’s on-the-ground experiments, NOVA will be there for the exhilarating moments after Curiosity’s landing-and for the spectacular discoveries to come. But no rover does it alone: Curiosity will be joining a team that includes the Mars Odyssey, Express, and Reconnaissance orbiters, along with the tireless Opportunity rover. As we reveal the dynamic new picture of Mars that these explorers are painting, we will discover the deep raised by forty years of roving Mars: How do we define life? How does life begin and what does it need to survive? Are we alone in the universe?
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NOVA scienceNOW: How smart can we get?
How Smart Can We Get? How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in the genes? Or is it hard work? Episodes include: Einstein’s Brain; Mystery of the Savant Brain; What is Intelligence?; and Profile: Sian Beilock.
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NOVA: Hurricane Sandy: Inside the Megastorm
Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this perfect storm make search and rescue so dangerous? “Inside the Megastorm” takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts and the future of storm protection. Through first person accounts from those who survived, and from experts and scientists, “Inside the Megastorm” gives scientific context to a new breed of storms.
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NOVA: Doomsday Volcanoes
n April 2010, the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano turned much of the northern hemisphere into an ash-strewn no-fly zone, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers. But Eyjafjallajökull was just the start. Now, an Icelandic volcano ten times bigger, Katla, has begun to swell and grumble. Two more giants, Hekla and Laki, could erupt without warning. Iceland is a ticking time bomb: When it blows, the consequences will be global. As CGI takes us inside these geological monsters, meet atmospheric scientists who are working to understand just how devastating an eruption could be – not just for air travel but for the global food supply and for Earth’s climate. Could we be plunged into years of cold and famine? What can we do to prepare for the disaster to come?
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NOVA: Decoding Neanderthals
Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans – people physically identical to us today – left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war? That question has tantalized generations of scholars and seized the popular imagination. Then, in 2010, a team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announced stunning news. Not only had they reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome – an extraordinary technical feat that would have seemed impossible only a decade ago – but their analysis showed that “we” modern humans had interbred with Neanderthals, leaving a small but consistent signature of Neanderthal genes behind in everyone outside Africa today. In “Decoding Neanderthals,” NOVA explores the implications of this exciting discovery. In the traditional view, Neanderthals differed from “us” in behavior and capabilities as well as anatomy. But were they really mentally inferior, as inexpressive and clumsy as the cartoon caveman they inspired? NOVA explores a range of intriguing new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language, all pointing to the fact that we may have seriously underestimated our mysterious, long-vanished human cousins.