yoga for bad back lower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxcSfsZdsA


Sleep is the best meditation. –Dalai Lama

jpr: I does yoga for my lower back.

The pipes

(13th century Spain)

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument called aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility with paintings and literary references  from the 1300’s, (referenced in Canterbury Tales) bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa. The term "bagpipe" is the common term, Scots and the Irish more commonly refer to them as pipes.

The evidence for Roman and pre-Roman era bagpipes is not clear but several clues suggest a much earlier history for the ‘pipes.’  A sculpture of bagpipes has been found on a slab in the Middle East dated to 1000 BC.  Suetonius described the Roman Emperor Nero as a player of the tibia utricularis  (Latin for reed pipes) in the second century BC.   A 1st century Roman historian wrote of a contemporary sovereign who could play a pipe with his mouth as well as with his "armpit".  Evidence of the world wide use of bagpipes, contemporary and historical is found in the fact that Pakistan is the world leader in bagpipe production.  

The contemporary bagpipe can be found in everything from classical to contemporary music.  (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFAli1-OLA)  My love of the pipes stems from my belief that it is the sound of the wailing mothers of the lost, even God’s wailing at the loss of the innocent.   I have buried too many colleagues to the sound of the pipes, and as I listened to them today, while the names of the sons of several of my mates were called out at 9-11 remembrances, I am reminded of my mortality and of man’s responsibility to his fellow man.  I drink myself to sleep tonight to the ‘sound of the pipes’ and to the voices of my fallen.

Unemployment - Officially 7.3%; Truthfully 23.5%

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Thousands seeking new placement.

As in previous months new jobs in the economy provide lower wages and no benefits.  Factoring in those who have quit looking for work, and those who are underemployed or employed less than full time, the Shadow UI rate continues to exceed 20%. Sidebar: given lower wages and increasing productivity, American workers have become as competitive economically as overseas workers, though business still goes abroad.  

Scottish bagpipe

Bagpipes could be heard up to 10 miles away in the Scottish  Highlands and they were perfect for sending tonal messages from one end of a battlefield to the other. Because of the importance of the bagpipes to any Highland army, they were aimed upon by the British forces during the Highland uprising in the 1700s. After England defeated Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, kilts and bagpipes were outlawed, the pipes being classified as "instruments of war". To play them would warrant an execution.

The Scottish regiments earned strong reputations as some of the bravest and fiercest in battles from Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated to the Boer Wars in South Africa to the defeats of the independent rajahs of India. But where ever they went, the Scottish regiments brought bagpipes with them. By then using modern weapons of the British army, the soldiers continued to be inspired by their highland bagpipe on the battlefield.

 A bit of everything :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5y2O_hv3I

 I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

Personal Update

I've been trying to slowly and carefully get back into jogging.  I've been working this for a year.  Every time I start to make progress i encounter a setback or a good movie on TV.  One problem is my back.  Like everyone over 40 the spine degenerates and pain ensues.  I normally have sciatica when I have problems and I can work through that with some yoga.  Lately its been a general lower back pain, not ache, but pain with every step.  I've tried to run through it but to no avail.  SOOOO I decided to get into a serious regular yoga routine and strengthen and flex all my strength and flexopods.  Once done I will begin jogging anew.  I've got my routines all mapped out, using info from experienced yogurts.

I'm not sure how well it's working.  I've done two days of yoga, a routine specific to lower back, a beginners regime.  Something's not right.  All my muscles hurt now.  My back's ok but my shoulders, triceps, biceps, thighs, buttocks, neck -  all hurt like I got the flu.  What'd I do wrong?  

Vlad Putin counsels Mr Peabody - "Try This"

and if that don't work, try shooting a bear and get a picture taken. BTW, is your wife at home?

Wimpiest-looking Evil Dictator Ever - Mr Peabody?

wait, that's not peabody! don't try that wispy mustache again either.
Hot wifey though!