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Dr. Yoga: A Complete Guide to the Medical Benefits of Yoga (Yoga for Health)
From the Integral Yoga Cardiac specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center and president of the United Yoga Council-a complete program for discovering the specific head-to-toe, health-issue-by-health-issue benefits of yoga. Anyone who has experienced the deep mind-body satisfaction that regular yoga practice instills will tell you: Yoga is good for your health. Yet, as Nirmala Heriza reveals in this guide to the health benefits of yoga, the rewards are far more deeply grounded in medical science than has previously been understood. Drawing from her work with doctors and cardiac patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as well as from her extensive experience as a yoga therapist working with people of all ages recovering from a wide array of illnesses, Heriza provides a total program for preventing and treating disease through the practice of yoga. With detailed photos and instructions for all of the major yoga poses, Dr. Yoga is an essential health resource for anyone with specific health issues or just the desire to nurture and maintain a balanced, healthy body. Dr. Yoga includes: * two doctor-approved, 30-minute "Yoga for Health" practice sets, one for prevention and one for rehabilitation; * a physician and therapist referral directory; and * from the dietitian for Cedars-Sinai Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, a cookbook of healthful recipes to support your yoga regime..
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Spiraling Through The School Of Life: A Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Discovery
“I like to joke that when Shirley MacLaine was out on a limb, I was already out on a branch,” says Oscar- nominated actress, teacher, healer, and motivational speaker Diane Ladd. She brings her unique wisdom about life, health, love, family, and emotional well-being to this fascinating book .Reading this book is like having a cup of coffee in her comfy Austin, Texas, kitchen. In an earthy, charming, down-home way filled, with touching, moving, and downright hilarious observations and stories, this book explains how you can keep your life from spiraling out of control. “I want to help save lives with this book,” Diane says. “I feel that the ultimate gift is helping another person find the miracles that surround them.” .
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The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You
Barring a miracle, shortly after the turn of the century Congress will declare the federal income tax dead. Declining ethics, widening economic gaps, and decades of lawmakers who have continually rewritten the tax code have systematically undermined the once-acclaimed system that has gone from the fairest of all to widely ignored. Now, Barlett and Steele tell the truth about taxes, revealing why the system went sour, who the culprits are, and how the crisis affects all taxpayers..
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Get Married Without a Hitch (52 Brilliant Ideas): Planning the Perfect Wedding While Keeping Your Budget, Emotions,and Relatives From Spiraling Out of Control (52 BRILLIANT IDEAS)
52 fresh ways to make it down the aisle in style (with your sanity intact). Get Married without a Hitch provides inspiring and workable ideas for overcoming the challenges every bride-to-be faces as she plans for her big day, from finding the right location to avoiding (or at least minimizing) undue stress. Ideas to reduce hassle include: - Idea #26: The supporting cast - Idea #31: Let them eat cake - Idea #41: Let's do it in a tent - Idea #51: When things go wrong - Idea #52: All night long.
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Nitrogen spiraling in subsurface-flow constructed wetlands: Implications for treatment response [An article from: Ecological Engineering]
This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Engineering, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Nitrogen processing in treatment wetlands was investigated by use of the stable isotope ^1^5N introduced as ammonium. Two small field-scale, gravel-bed wetlands with horizontal subsurface-flow (SSF) received primary meat processing water. Four SSF cascade mesocosms, each comprising five tanks in series, received primary meat processing water, primary dairy water, secondary dairy water or aerated secondary dairy water. The mesocosms and one of the field-scale wetland contained well-established bulrushes (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani), and the other field-scale wetland remained unvegetated. The systems were operated at steady inflows, with a nominal detention times of 4-5 days. The incoming ammonium nitrogen ranged from 18.5 to 177gm^-^3, and removals ranged from 15 to 90% for the various feed waters. Each system was dosed with a single pulse of ^1^5N ammonium mixed into the feed wastewater, and the fate and transport of the isotopic nitrogen were determined. The ^1^5N pulses took 120 days to clear the heavily loaded field-scale wetlands. During this period small reductions in ^1^5N were attributable to nitrification/denitrification, and a larger reduction due to plant uptake. Mesocosm tests ran for 24 days, during which only 1-16% of the tracer exited with water, increasing with N loading. Very little tracer gas emission was found (~1%). The majority of the tracer was found in plants (6-48%) and sediments (28-37%). These results indicated a rapid absorption of ammonium into a large sediment storage pool, of which only a small proportion was denitrified during the period of the experiment. Plant uptake claimed a fraction of the ammonium, determined mainly by the plants requirement for growth rather than the magnitude of the nitrogen supply. A rapid return of ammonium to the water was also found, so that movement of ^1^5N through the wetland mesocosms was comprised of a spiral of uptake and release along the flow path. A two compartment model was found to reasonably represent the isotope progress through the wetlands. First order exchanges and removals were employed in dynamic mass balances on water and solids. It is concluded that interpretation of nitrogen dynamics in wetlands must include the nitrogen spiral through the wetland, as well as plant uptake. This greatly increases the N residence time in treatment wetlands relative to the hydraulic detention time, resulting in long delays of treatment system response to changes in N loading and attenuation of short-term fluctuations in loading. .
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Baseball In Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future
Recent polls have placed football ahead of baseball1in popularity. Does this reflect football's rise or baseball's decline? Why has the national pastime--a title perhaps becoming inaccurate--fallen behind other major sports? Is the trend reversible? This book identifies the most substantial and persistent issues that have impaired Major League Baseball's development. Chapters cover inflationary player, team and game costs; changes in baseball's fan base; congestion in urban areas that host big league ballclubs; the negligent and irrational actions (some of it criminal) of players, owners, league officials, and the players' union; and the maldistribution of power among the major league franchises. Six major reforms needed to boost the popularity of baseball are identified..
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Spiraling Schemes and Chromatics
In junior high school home economics class we would take one-fourth yard of a fabric, twist, and sew it to form a bias scarf as in the Bishop method. It is the technique which was the inspiration for Spiraling Slice and dice the fabric: sew or serge it back together; then twist and sew again. This book is a guide for quick piecing and for using color to create wonderful wearables with an artistic approach..
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