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New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t Be.

Respiratory-virus season starts soon, and our autumn vaccine strategy is shaky at best.

Not so long ago, America’s next COVID fall looked almost tidy. Sure, cases might rise as the weather chills and dries, and people flock indoors. But Pfizer and Moderna were already cooking up America’s very first retooled COVID vaccines, better matched to Omicron and its offshoots, and a new inoculation campaign was brewing. Instead of needing to dose up three, four, even five times within short order, perhaps Americans could get just one COVID shot each year, matched roughly to the season’s circulating strains. Fall 2022 seemed “the first opportunity to routinize COVID vaccines,” says Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and simultaneously recharge the country’s waning enthusiasm for shots.

Now that fall is [checks notes] officially 10 weeks away, that once-sunny forecast is looking cloudier. The Biden administration could soon offer second booster shots to all adults—an amuse-bouche, apparently, for fall’s Omicron-focused vaccines, which may not debut until October at the earliest, by which time BA.5 may be long gone, and potentially too late to forestall a cold-weather surge. In April, the FDA’s leaders seemed ready to rally around a fall reboot; in a statement last month, Peter Marks, the director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, struck a more dispirited tone. The coming autumn would be just a “transitional period,” he said. Which checks out, given the nation’s current timetable. “I see this fall shaping up to be more incremental,” says Jason Schwartz, a vaccine-policy expert at Yale, “rather than that fresh start of let’s begin again.”

This, perhaps, is not where experts thought we’d be a year and a half ago, when the vaccines were fresh and in absurdly high demand. Since then, the tale of the U.S.’s COVID immunity has taken on a tragicomic twist: First we needed a vaccine; then we needed more people to take it. Now the problem is both.

Yes, fall’s vaccine recipe seems set. But much more needs to happen before the nation can be served a full immunization entrée. “It’s July, and we just heard that the FDA would like to see a bivalent vaccine,” with the spike of BA.4 and BA.5 mixed with that of the OG SARS-CoV-2, Schwartz told me. When, exactly, will the updated shots be ready? How effective will they be? How many doses will be available? We just started prepping for this new inoculation course, and are somehow already behind.

Then, once shots are nigh, what will be the plan? Who will be allowed to get one, and how many people actually will? Right now, America’s appetite for more shots is low, which could herald yet another round of lackluster uptake.

There’s little time to address these issues. Fall “is, like, tomorrow,” says Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, an infectious-disease pharmacist at Loma Linda University, in California. Autumn, the season of viral illnesses and packed hospitals, already puts infectious-disease experts on edge. “We dread fall and winter season here,” says Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric-infectious-disease specialist at Stanford University. The system has little slack for more logistical mayhem. The world’s third COVID autumn, far from a stable picture of viral control, is starting to resemble a barely better sequel to the uncoordinated messes of 2020 and 2021. The coming rollout may be one of America’s most difficult yet—because instead of dealing with this country’s vaccination problems, we’re playing our failures on loop.

In an ideal version of this fall, revamped COVID vaccines might have been doled out alongside flu shots, starting as early as August or September, to prelude a probable end-of-year surge. But that notion may have always been doomed. At an FDA advisory meeting in early April, Marks told experts that the fall vaccine’s composition should be decided no later than June. The agency didn’t announce the new ingredients until the final day of last month. And it chose to include BA.4 and BA.5, the reigning Omicron subvariant—rather than the long-gone BA.1, which Pfizer and Moderna had been working with. That decision may further delay the shots’ premiere, punting the delivery of some doses into November, December, or even later, depending on how the coming months go. If the goal is preventing a spate of seasonal sickness, that’s “cutting it quite close,” says Wilbur Chen, an infectious-disease physician and vaccine expert at the University of Maryland.

Whenever the shots do appear, they could once again be hard to keep in stock. Coronavirus funds are still (still!) stalled in congressional purgatory, and may never make it out. Although the Biden administration has agreed to purchase more than 100 million doses of Pfizer’s revamped Omicron vaccine for the months ahead, federal officials remain worried that, as Ashish Jha, the nation’s top COVID-response coordinator, has said, “we’re not going to have enough vaccines for every adult who wants one” this fall.

Meanwhile, state and local leaders are awaiting marching orders on how much vaccine they’ll be getting, and who will be eligible for boosters—intel they may not receive until after the updated shots are authorized. With a year and a half of experience under their belts, health workers know how to roll out COVID shots, says Chrissie Juliano, the executive director of the Big Cities Health Coalition. But distribution could still get tangled if “we’re back to a situation of scarcity,” she told me. The government may allocate shots based on states’ populations. Or it could opt to dole out more doses to the regions with the highest vaccination rates, wasting fewer shots, perhaps, but widening gaps in protection.

More than two years into the pandemic, with the health-care system under constant strain and staff exhausted or frequently out sick, local communities across the nation may not have enough capacity to deploy fall shots en masse. In particular, pharmacies, a vaccination mainstay, will need to handle a simultaneous surge in demand for flu and COVID shots amid “a serious nationwide staffing shortage,” Michael Hogue, the dean of Loma Linda University’s pharmacy school, told me. A lack of funding only compounds these problems, by making it harder, for instance, to get doses to people who aren’t insured. For that reason alone, “some of the contractors we’ve used in the past have not been able to keep up the same services,” including vaccination drive-throughs, Phil Huang, the director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, told me. In Douglas County, Nebraska, pop-up vaccination sites are closing because not enough nurses can staff them. How do you get people vaccinated, Lindsay Huse, the county’s health director, asked me, “when nobody wants to work for what you’re paying, or they’re just burned out?”

Even if more resources free up, greater shot availability may not translate to greater protection: Less than half of eligible vaccinated Americans, and less than a third of all Americans, have received a first booster dose, a pattern of attrition that experts don’t expect to massively improve. And just how much of an immunity boost the updated shot will offer is still unclear. When the FDA recommended including BA.4/5’s spike, it had limited data on the proposed recipe, collected in mice by Pfizer’s scientists. And Pfizer and Moderna won’t have time to generate rock-solid efficacy data in humans before the shots are authorized, then roll out in the fall. “So when we get these vaccines cranking off the assembly line, the case public-health officials may be able to make will be tempered,” Schwartz told me. That these doses will offer big improvements on their predecessors is a decent bet. But believing that will, for the public, require a small leap of faith—at a time when Americans’ trust in public health is already low.

America has had its share of COVID-vaccination victories. Hundreds of millions of people have gotten at least one dose. Distribution and administration have been streamlined. Communities have come together to bring shots to people in all sorts of venues. The local experts I spoke with felt confident that they’d rise to the challenge of this autumn, too. But if the shots themselves are not in demand, an infusion of supply-side resources alone won’t be enough.

With two years of data on COVID vaccines’ safety and efficacy, the case for dosing up has only strengthened, scientifically. But the public’s interest and trust in the shots has fallen off as recommendations have shifted, often chaotically, and the number of necessary shots has ballooned. Even Americans who lined up for their first doses are now over the idea of rolling up their sleeves again. Abdul-Mutakabbir hears often: “I got the two doses; that’s what you told me I needed to do. I’m not doing anything else.” In Camden County, New Jersey, a team led by Paschal Nwako, the region’s health officer, has “knocked on doors, given out freebies and gift cards, visited people in all areas: grocery stores, shops, restaurants, schools, churches, shows,” he told me. “We have exhausted all the playbooks.” Still, people have refused.

The shifting culture around COVID in the U.S. has undoubtedly played a role. “We don’t have the same sense of desperation that we did in December of 2020,” Maldonado, of Stanford, told me. Americans are eager to put the pandemic behind them. And boosters are a tough sell in a nation that has dispensed with nearly all other COVID-prevention measures, and where political leaders are triumphantly declaring victory. “We start talking about COVID, and people’s eyes glaze over,” says Nathan Chomilo, a pediatrician and health-equity advocate in Minnesota. “The messaging will have to be fundamentally different, even, than last year’s conversation about boosters.”

When the vaccines were fresh, the popular narratives were tantalizing: The shots could permanently stop transmission in its tracks. But that was probably never going to pan out, says Luciana Borio, the FDA’s former acting chief scientist. “Everybody that worked in the vaccine space,” she told me, knew that the safeguards against infection “were not going to last. Their voices did not get listened to.” Instead, the more appealing story took root, setting “expectations that could not be sustained.” Disappointment ensued, fracturing public faith; mis- and disinformation seeped into the cracks. And no one, including the nation’s leaders, was able to offer a compelling enough counternarrative to put the matter to rest.

An upgraded shot could be enticing to some pandemic-weary folks. “I know a lot of people, including my family members, who say, ‘If it’s the same vaccine, why would I have to get it?’” Nwako told me. “They want something different.” Chomilo suggested that it may also be wise to stop counting how many shots people have gotten: “I hope no one 15 years from now is saying, I’m on my 15th booster.” But nothing about these new vaccines promises to unify Americans around the why of COVID vaccines. At April’s advisory meeting, Marks said the FDA knew that the U.S.’s current vaccination strategy couldn’t go on forever. “We simply can’t be boosting people as frequently as we are,” he said. And yet, the nation’s leaders now seem keen on okaying another round of original-recipe shots for adults under 50—without emphasizing other tactics to lower transmission rates.

Getting COVID shots, too, can be a chore. With so many brands, doses, schedules, and eligibility requirements in the matrix, it’s “the most complex vaccine we have,” says Erik Hernandez, the system director of clinical-pharmacy services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The fall will introduce even more snarls: Boosters are switching to an Omicron blend, but, contrary to what the FDA had initially planned, primary-series shots will be sticking with the original recipe. “That has massive operational implications,” Maine CDC’s Shah said, and could “increase the risk of errors.” Nor have federal officials offered clarity on how long people getting shots now will have to wait before they’re eligible for yet another this autumn. And Loma Linda University’s Hogue thinks that it’s very unlikely that children, especially the youngest ones, will be greenlit for bespoke Omicron doses this fall—another caveat to juggle. Some experts also worry that different states will once again select different rules on who can sign up for shots first. “You almost have to have a computer algorithm” to figure out what shots you need, Chen, of the University of Maryland, told me. Recommending an updated dose for everyone at once could be less confusing, but if shots are truly scarce, broad eligibility could simply put the privileged at the front of the queue.

Less funding already means less community outreach, and less support for the people most vulnerable to COVID’s worst. The country could easily default back to many of the failures of equity it’s rehearsed before. Abdul-Mutakabbir, who’s the lead clinician and pharmacist for the COVID-19 Equitable Mobile Vaccination Clinics, serving Black and Latino communities in San Bernardino County, says she’s “very nervous” that large swaths of the country will once again “end up in this place where people of minority groups are going to be those that suffer, and people of lower socioeconomic status are going to be those that suffer.”

An infusion of dollars would allow the government to purchase more vaccines; it would furnish states with the funds to hire more workers, expand their community clinics, and reach people who might otherwise never get their shots. But the underlying issue remains: The U.S. does not have a strong, coordinated vaccination plan. Experts still can’t agree on how many shots people need, how often we’ll need to update them, even what the purpose of a COVID vaccination should be: stopping just severe disease and death? Blocking as much infection as possible? “We don’t really have a grand unified theory of what we’re doing when we vaccinate,” Shah told me, at least not one that’s been properly messaged—a deficit that will keep hamstringing the country’s immunization efforts.

Without a clear plan, this fall, contra Marks’s prediction, may actually be a definitive one for COVID vaccines—just not in the way that the nation’s leaders once hoped. A bad precedent, too, could be set, and make Americans’ trust in these shots, and the people who offer them, even tougher to recoup.

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The theraband teaches how much the limbs have to be active for the Pilates roll down.

1. Sit with legs extended. Place theraband around the back and hold the theraband with the hands. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.

2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.

3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.

4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.

Repeat two more sets.

this time last year I was running 9 miles twice a week with a couple 3-5 milers tossed in for good measure. I was training for the Detroit Half and feeling pretty flippin' sweet about myself.

I even bought myself a bunch of winter running gear so I could train through the season and be on track for the 2010 Detroit Full. My goal (a long time ago... like in my late 20's when the brain was still fresh and full of hope) was to run a full marathon by the time I hit 40.

well, then I injured myself this past winter. couldn't really move my legs very well, couldn't bear weight very well on the left side and ignoring it wasn't making it better. So the doctor man (and a woman now too) told me I had tendonosis of both my groin and hamstring on the left side. I've been sidelined since feb. three rounds of PT that is just starting to help a little.

running is great exercise. and i like to eat. so it keeps the weight in check. but i don't really care too much about weight. what running really does for me is keep me at a low stress threshold. it makes me sane and happy to be around. I've been a little () bitchy since feb.

this week has been really hard b/c i have ALOT on my plate. so much, in fact, that I decided to screw the physical health so that I could maintain my mental health. it was that dire. so lo and I pulled the jogger out of the dust-filled garage, filled the crying tires with some life (air) and beat the pavement. We went an entire mile and I thought I might die. It didn't exactly change my mental health, but it gave me something different to complain about for a couple hours :)

new goals: run again without crying and then start thinking about a 5K. lol.

Bikram - Power Yoga Mashup youtu.be/wzrO5IcICFg Tone, strengthen, stretch, sweat and breathe while getting the numerous benefits of both Bikram Yoga & Power Yoga! Bikram yogis- this practice will help you cultivate upper body strength. Power yogis- explore the benefits of the original 26 Bikram poses whole moving through your flow. This yoga workout mashup is an excellent way to integrate upper body and core strength in addition to deep hamstring, hip and backbending yoga poses. Maggie is grateful to share her love for yoga and experience teaching and practicing both of these schools of yoga with you! About Maggie: Maggie began her yoga journey over 15 years ago while living in New York City. She had a successful career as an actress, working along side actresses such as Chloe Seivgny and Mischa Barton to name a few. But there was an inner longing for something more. Maggie came down with a virus that took over her body for several weeks. The virus was diagnosed as stress induced. This led Maggie to her fist yoga class. Such clarity and peace came to her that she never turned back. Bikram Yoga Chelsea just opens 4 blocks from her 400 sq ft apartment. Maggie became a regular -she loved connecting with her body through movement and finding peace of mind. Under the guidance of studio owner John Golterman, Maggie got certified in Bikram Yoga 2005. She taught in Bikram studios throughout New York City for several years. Her acting career brought her to Los Angeles. She continued to teach Bikram Yoga while acting in various films and commercials. She became a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor at Yoga West during this period. Maggie married a musician. Knowing children were on her horizon, she completed The Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga training. Studying with Tej Khalsa and Gurmuhk, this training inspired Maggie to become a birth and post partum doula. She has guided numerous women through childbirth for over 10 years. Maggie then began teaching Prenatal Yoga, Mommy & Me Yoga, and Power Yoga at The Yoga Collective in Santa Monica & Yoga West among various other studios. During this time Maggie yearned for more knowledge on holistic living. Naturally this brought her to Ayurveda - the sister science of yoga. After completing her DASc in 2008 through Kerala Ayurveda, she studied in various ayurvedic clinics throughout Pune, India. Maggie currently conducts private consultations to help bring individuals back into balance physically, emotionally and spiritually. Yoga has remained the one constant in her life. Yoga is her lighthouse...continously bringing her back to her inner light and strength. Maggie is honored to guide you on your yoga journey. Maggie currently has 2 children and resides in Long Beach, CA. www.maggiegrove.com Bikram Yoga Workout 60 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocg3InAEZMU Bikram Yoga Full 90 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2pDKZHNaI

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Elephants very quickly learn where they're safe and where they're not, this bull is one of a small group that hang around the Zakouma HQ area during the dry season. After everything that these elephant's have been through it's remarkable that any of them are willing to trust humans at all. However they are such intelligent animals that not only do they know where there safe but they also know who their friends are and these bulls that come to the Park Director Rian Labuschagne's house have learned to take water from a garden hosepipe.

For roughly 6 months of the year between June and November Zakouma National Park is almost entirely inundated with floodwaters at this time elephants would often disperse into the surrounding area of what is now the Salamat Faunal Reserve. During this time Arab horsemen from the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan would come to hunt the elephants as they had done for perhaps several hundred years. Traditionally a group of up to 20 horsemen armed with lances would charge a herd aiming to separate out one of the elephants. A single horseman would then ride in front of this elephant to draw its attention and get it to pursue him allowing the other men to ride in and spear it from behind with their lances. They would aim for the elephant’s hamstrings in its hind legs which if severed would bring the animal down and ensure it could not get up again. Huge numbers of elephants were killed this way and in response the surviving herds in the region have learned that at the first sign of horsemen their best defence is bunch up into tight groups to ensure that no individual can be separated out.

Today this is no defence the horsemen are Janjaweed militiamen and members of the Sudanese armed forces and they come not with the lances used by their ancestors but with AK47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. This habit of bunching up into a single large herd has meant that the poachers can easily kill 50-60 elephants in a single attack by simply machine gunning the terrified animals as they try to escape. In 2005 an aerial count found 3,885 elephants in Zakouma and the surrounding area in under a decade the population was reduced to just 430 and had stopped breeding due to the constant stress. Since African Parks took over Zakouma the poaching has been almost entirely stopped and the elephants are breeding again the population now stands at around 470.

Increase your height naturally by doing these yoga asanas.

1.Tadasana(palm tree pose)

Banefits

It stretches the arms, chest, abdomen, spine and the legs in a very good manner.

Moreover it helps in increasing the height.

Instruction

Stand straight with the legs aparting your hands slighlty on the sides.

Looking straight Raise the hand above your head.

Interlock your fingers and turning it upwards. Face the palm up to the sky.

Adjust the gaze slightly to look above the horizontal level.

While Breathing in deeply stretch your arms, Bring your shoulders and chest upwards.

Raise your heels so that the weight of your body is borne by your toes.

Start Stretching your whole body from your feet to your head.

Try Remaining in this pose for a few seconds.

while exhaling Bring down your heels.

This will be your first round. You can try this up to 10 rounds.

During your whole practice your eyes should remain steadily fixed in front little above the level of your head.

2.Trikonasana(Triangle pose)

Banefits

Helps in Stretching the hips, back muscles, chest and shoulders.

Stretches the spine.

It improves your flexibility of the spine, corrects the alignment of shoulders

Instruction

Stand with your feet one leg-length apart, unbent your knees.

Turn your right foot completely outside and your left foot not more than 45 degrees to the inside, keep your heels in the line with your hips.

Spread the arms out to the sides, parallelled with the floor, Palms Should be facing down,

while your arms remain parallel to the floor Extend the trunk as far as you feel comfortable to your right.

Once you extend the trunk fully to the right, Drop your right arm so that the right hand reaches your Shin to the front of your right foot,

with your palm down if its flexed.

Extend your left arm vertically and Gently twist your spine and trunk counterclockwise using the extended arms as a lever while the spine remains parallel to the floor.

Stretch your arms away from one another and the head is often turned gazing at your left thum, Gradually intensifying the twist of the spine.

Try to be in this position for 5 to 10 breaths then change your sides.

Repeat this posture but change your legs position.

3. Hasta padasana(standing forward bend)

Banefits

Effective in increasing the height.

Makes the spine flexible and strengthens it.

Instruction

Stand in a straight posture with spines erect.

Both your legs should be touching each other.

Now start inhaling and bring both of your hand above the head. Make your hands straight.

Now while exhaling, bend yourself forward from your waist and try to touch your feet with both of your hands.

Don't bend the knees. And Make a contact of your head with your knees.

Try holding this position for a few seconds breathing normally.

Now while breathing in come back to your initial position.

Try repeating this for few times.

4. Paschimottanasana (forward bend pose)

Banefits

Helps in Stretching the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings

Helps in relieving the symptoms of menopause and menstrual discomfort

Instruction

Begin in a Staff Pose (Dandasana) with the legs straight in front of your body.

Straighten your arms out to the sides and up over to the head, reaching towards the ceiling.

Breathing in draw the spine up long.

As you breath out,Start coming forward, hinging at your hips. Imagine that your pelvis is a bowl filled with water which is tipping forward.

Each time you breath in, lengthen your spine. If you want You may come a little bit out of the forward bend to do this.

And on each exhalation process, Try to go deeper into your forward bend. Imagine that your belly resting on your thighs, rather than the nose coming to the knees.

This helps in keeping your spine long.

Keep your neck as the natural extension of your spine, neither cranking it to look up nor letting it go completely.

When you have come to your full extension with the spine long, Make your dicision whether you want to stay here or let your spine round forward.

Take a hold of your ankles or shins, whichever is easier for you to reach. You can try using a strap around the feet. Keep the feet flexed strongly throughout.

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Allardyce told to win Euro 2020

The Daily Star reports that the FA have informed Sam Allardyce that they expect his England team to be in the final of the next European Championship - to be held at Wembley. Chief executive Martin Glenn has been very clear - they expect to be there or thereabouts at every tournament from now onwards.

Paper Round's view: Good luck with that. England have to concentrate on their World Cup 2018 qualifying campaign now - which got under way with a slender single-goal win over Slovakia.

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Yaya Toure set for showdown...with agent

Yaya Toure's agent has been engaging in a war of words with Pep Guardiola - and the Star now report that his client isn't entirely happy. Toure thinks Dimitri Seluk went too far in his criticism of the new Manchester City manager - and even though he knows his days at the Etihad are numbered, he never wanted to leave on bad terms.

Paper Round's view: Well, Toure might as well start up a feud with his agent for a bit, just to mix things up. Impressive development of some rudimentary diplomacy skills from him, though, finally realising that perhaps not every thought needs to be shared via the media.

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Wenger worried for Ramsey

Arsene Wenger is concerned about Aaron Ramsey's slow recovery from a hamstring injury, reports the Mirror. The midfielder limped out of the first match of the season and has not played since.

Paper Round's view: This is interesting, because Wales manager Chris Coleman was a little bit sniffy when Ramsey first picked up that knock, suggesting he needed more of a rest after his Euro 2016 exertions. Wenger clearly didn't agree then - but now, with the Mirror emphasising that the Frenchman wants to be assured he's 100 per cent fit before picking him again, it seems that his club boss has also come round to that view.

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Vaughan had it in for me, claims Trott

Jonathan Trott has a new book out - and he thinks former England captain Michael Vaughan slated him in the media for nefarious reasons. At the time that Trott withdrew from the national side with a stress-induced illness, Vaughan was working for a sports management agency as well as in the media. Trott suggests that constituted a conflict of interests on Vaughan's part.

Paper Round's view: The way that players, coaches and media pundits overlap is bewildering these days. It's strange to hear Clare Connor commentate on the England women's matches - she's the head of England women's cricket; commentators across sports have reported on players they represent through a management agency, or ones they have coached, or ones they have played alongside. So Vaughan is certainly not the only one who wears a lot of hats simultaneously - but you can certainly see why Trott might feel aggrieved.

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07-29-1975, Mesa, AZ; Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Shea Matthew Hillenbrand is a professional baseball player who currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League. Hillenbrand played 72 games in 1996 for the Low-A Lowell Spinners in the New York - Penn League. In 1997, he was promoted to the Sarasota Red Sox of the Florida State League, and was promoted again after 57 games, finishing the season with 64 games with the Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League. Despite being drafted as a shortstop, he played at first base and third base his first two years in the minors. In 1998, still with Michigan, he was converted to play catcher and responded with his best season in the minors, with a .349 batting average and 19 home runs. This earned him a promotion in 1999 to AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League. However, a leg injury restricted him to only 69 games. The 2000 season saw Hillenbrand back at Trenton, now back to playing first base and third base as the injury prevented him from catching. An average season at age 25 did not bode well for his chances as a prospect, but he parlayed an invitation to spring training with the Red Sox in 2001 into a spot on the big-league team for opening day. Hillenbrand played 139 games for the Sox in his rookie season, mostly at third base, but a .263 batting average failed to hide his failure to hit with power and get on base adequately (he had one of the lowest walks-to-plate appearances rates in the MLB). In 2001 he had the lowest range factor among all AL third basemen (2.46). However, he retained his spot on the roster for 2002, and responded with a much better season, hitting 20 home runs with a .330 on base percentage and a .459 slugging average. His play earned him the starting third baseman spot in the All-Star Game. He tied Robin Ventura for the Major League lead in errors by a third baseman, however, with 23. Nevertheless, Hillenbrand entered 2003 being the subject of trade rumors. The Red Sox had signed free agent Bill Mueller, another third baseman who would win the batting title that year, and many believed that Hillenbrand's lack of strike zone judgment would not be compatible with the on base percentage priorities of new Sox general manager Theo Epstein. With Mueller hitting around .380 and playing a solid third base, Hillenbrand became expendable and was sent to Arizona for pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim on May 29. Hillenbrand was involved in a feud with Epstein following the incident. He finished the season with a combined .280 batting average and career-highs in RBI (97) and home runs (20), including a three-homer game with the Diamondbacks in month of July. Bill Mueller went on to win the AL Batting Title. In 2004, Hillenbrand hit a career-high .310 with 15 home runs and 80 RBI over 148 games. At the same time, he shared the Major League lead in errors for a first baseman, with 13. He was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the end of the 2004 season. In 2005, his first year with the Blue Jays, Hillenbrand hit .291 with 18 home runs and 82 RBI over 152 games, while splitting time between 1B, 3B, and DH. He also led the league in hit by pitches (HBP) in 2005 with 22. Hillenbrand was traded to the San Francisco Giants during the 2006 season. Hillenbrand signed a one year contract with the Angels on December 26, 2006. On June 27, 2007, he was designated for assignment a day after being quoted as saying, "If I'm not going to play here, give me enough respect to trade me or get rid of me.” On July 9, 2007, having been replaced by the emergence of Reggie Willits and first baseman Casey Kotchman, Hillenbrand was waived by the Angels. He signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on July 27, 2007. He spent 12 days with the Padres' Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers, before being released on August 8, 2007. He hit .147 during that span. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers two days later on August 10, 2007. He was called up to the Major Leagues three days later on August 13. He hit his only home run with the Dodgers on August 29 off Luis Ayala of the Washington Nationals. In 2008, Hillenbrand went unsigned by any major league organization, only being contacted by the San Francisco Giants during the off season. On July 2, 2008, the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League announced that they had signed Hillenbrand to be their starting third baseman. Hillenbrand played in 36 games for the Revolution hitting .340 with two home runs and 25 RBIs before his season was ended by a hamstring injury. He did not play between 2009 and 2011, but came back for the 2012 season, playing for the Bridgeport Bluefish. His MLB-Stats: 2001-2003 Boston Red Sox; 2003-2004 Arizona; 2005-2006 Toronto Blue Jays; 2006 San Francisco Giants; 2007 LA Angels, LA Dodgers; career stats: 7 seasons (2001-2007): G:943 / AB:3570 / R:463 / H:1014 / HR:108 / RBI:490 / BA:0.284. Final Game, September 20, 2007. All Star 2002 and 2004.

This came out nothing like I'd pictured in my head, and it's not even in focus. I could not for the life of me get my camera to focus with my remote last night (it kept doing that annoying zoom-zoom noise) so I bent over to clean the remote and fried my hamstring on a bare lightbulb (aka getto lighting) behind me. MF! So I gave it the bird and went to bed with a ginormous blister on the back of my leg. Joy of my life!

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1. Sit with legs extended. Place theraband around feet and hold the theraband close to the feet. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.

2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.

3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.

4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.

5. Repeat two more sets.

For roughly 6 months of the year between June and November Zakouma National Park is almost entirely inundated with floodwaters at this time elephants would often disperse into the surrounding area of what is now the Salamat Faunal Reserve. During this time Arab horsemen from the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan would come to hunt the elephants as they had done for perhaps several hundred years. Traditionally a group of up to 20 horsemen armed with lances would charge a herd aiming to separate out one of the elephants. A single horseman would then ride in front of this elephant to draw its attention and get it to pursue him allowing the other men to ride in and spear it from behind with their lances. They would aim for the elephant’s hamstrings in its hind legs which if severed would bring the animal down and ensure it could not get up again. Huge numbers of elephants were killed this way and in response the surviving herds in the region have learned that at the first sign of horsemen their best defence is bunch up into tight groups to ensure that no individual can be separated out.

Today this is no defence the horsemen are Janjaweed militiamen and members of the Sudanese armed forces and they come not with the lances used by their ancestors but with AK47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. This habit of bunching up into a single large herd has meant that the poachers can easily kill 50-60 elephants in a single attack by simply machine gunning the terrified animals as they try to escape. In 2005 an aerial count found 3,885 elephants in Zakouma and the surrounding area in under a decade the population was reduced to just 430 and had stopped breeding due to the constant stress. Since African Parks took over Zakouma the poaching has been almost entirely stopped, there hasn’t been a single poaching incident in 5 years, as soon as the elephants started to feel secure, they began to breed again, at the last count in 2021 the population had reached 636.

All of this poaching led to Zakouma’s elephants forming a single large dysfunctional herd that included adult bulls, that would ordinarily have been pushed out of the herd, perhaps because of how much the population has grown, the big herd does seem to have started to split into several large herds rather than one single one. Although they are now safe, elephants have long memories, they remain extremely nervous and are difficult to find and approach.

Your best chance of seeing them is to wait for them to come to the Salamat River to drink, having established from park HQ where they are first, so that you know where best to wait. This is not fool proof, we tried this and missed them, finally we chanced upon the big herd in the south of the park, whilst they were out in the open, they didn’t remain in the open for long and quickly ran back into the bush, even though we were a long distance away. We knew that we should not try to pursue them in the car, that we would never get close, we would just cause further panic and cause them to keep running the last thing we wanted. However, as we were driving away, we could still see them moving through the bush, so our professional guide Zarek Cockar, decided we should try and approach them on foot, we were able to get a good view as they passed by, without them being aware of us at all. Seeing so many young elephants was fantastic, given the history of this herd.

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Booty Burner Cable Squats

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I love occasionally including this exercise in my glute days. Take a look at my form, the POSITION and ANGLE is important in order to target the glutes.

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Find a weight that is challenging, but manageable. If you go too heavy on these you will feel it in your lower back, so test out a few weights before doing a full set

Have a wide stance with your feet slightly pointing out

Keep your chest and head up during the entire set. The weight will force you to fall a bit forward, so use the strength of your glutes to counteract this.

Sit in the heels on your feet

Squeeze your glutes to stand up

I like to pump out as many of these as I can until I fail, like in the video , and can’t squat anymore

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Tag someone you want to try this with and let me know how it goes!

On Mondays we train legs

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Leg days are seriously my favorite remember ladies, don’t be afraid to lift heavy. Heavy weights cause the body to change and reshape, so challenge yourself here are 4 out of 6 exercises I did (a few are kept secret for clients only )

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1⃣ Standing Hamstring Curls- 3×12-15 at 30 lbs

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Focus on not moving your lower back and only flexing your hamstrings to move the weight. 30 lbs sounds like a joke, but let me to you if you actually do this movement correctly, 30 lbs creates enough tension to stimulate the muscle.

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2⃣ Hack Squat-3×12-15 at 180 lbs

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This video is sped up A LOT for entertainment purposes, but make sure you descend slowly- I take a full 4 seconds to drop down. Go down to at least parallel and then flex your quads, hamstrings, and glutes to stand up. Do not lock out your knees.

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3⃣ Quad Extensions- 3×10-15 at 80-100 lbs

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On these I am trying to hit complete failure. I go till I literally can not flex my quads anymore

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4⃣ Standing Calf Raises- 3×12-15 at 60lbs

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By now my legs are beat so I just focused on getting a good stretch and hard flex. Make sure you keep your knees softly locked out, quads engaged, and work the full range of motion- even if that means making the weight light!

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Hamstring app (biceps femoris tendon, distal):

Positioning: standing, bent at the hips stretching the hamstrings.

Strip #1 (yellow)- take a precut 10” I strip and keep it in I strip form. Anchor the base of the tape just below the knee joint on the posterior lateral (back outside) of the leg. In the position above, pull 50% stretch and apply up the back outer tendon (biceps femoris) and up the hamstring. Apply the last inch with zero tension.

Strip #2 (pink)- Take a precut 10” I strip and make it into a Y strip. If you have the old cotton version, it is already precut to do this. If you have the new synthetic PRO version, you will have to cut it with scissors to just above the logo. Apply the base of this one just below the base of your first strip. Take a tails (either one first), and with 50% tension lay the tails up the biceps femoris on either side of the tenson as shown. Zero tension on the last inch of each tail.

They take a bit of your hamstring out, so this could be bruising from that.

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1. Sit with legs extended. Reach hands forward with neutral spine. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.

2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.

3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.

4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.

5. Repeat two more sets.

pulled hamstring

Sugarcane Bow Pose or known as Ardha Chandra Chapasana is a strong standing and balancing pose. The possibilities are endless with this posture for opening the hamstrings, hip flexors, chest... Simpler variations are Extended Side Angle Pose and Half Moon.

Diamond League athletics at the Birmingham Grand Prix, Alexander Stadium. Marvin Bracy (USA) won the 100m final in 9.93 (PB). Adam Gemili (GBR) was 2nd in a PB 9.97 (making him one of few Brits to have achieved a time under 10 seconds). 3rd was Mike Rodgers (USA) in 9.97 (sic). Richard Kilty and CJ Ujah (both GBR) finished 5th and 6th.

Gemili blamed pyrotechnics for his fall, which resulted in a hamstring injury that prevented his participation in the World Championships in Beijing.

Power Yoga Workout ~ Compassion youtu.be/3YGBfx1tgpY Breathe, flow, sweat and open in a rigorous power yoga practice that moves deep into the hips as well as the heart of compassion. Heart Alchemy Yoga and Udaya Yoga are excited to bring you a series of 8 highest quality yoga flow classes for your home practice. Courage is the second video of the series, and you can count on a new class every other Monday at 3pm EST until July 2017. This at home yoga video is a full body workout with arm balances and a series of advanced yoga postures including upper back and shoulder opening, low back and core work, hip and hamstring stretches, as well as philosophy, breath work and meditation. It can also help with weight loss. To see more of Michelle's teaching along with many other great teachers, subscribe to Udaya at the link below. www.youtube.com/channel/UCkabMSFdTznxoN0K1uixwgA About Michelle Goldstein: Michelle has maintained a daily yoga practice for 18 years. A protégée of renowned Yoga teacher, Bryan Kest of Santa Monica Power Yoga, Michelle has been teaching yoga flow and meditation for 13 years. Michelle leads workshops, immersions & retreats worldwide as well as teaching at Santa Monica Power Yoga & Equinox Fitness Clubs. Known for her creative vinyasas (sequences of yoga asana) and pranayama, Michelle Goldstein's teaching integrates influences from various forms of movement and meditation set to powerfully inspiring backdrops of music. Approaching instruction with a deep spiritual reverence for the sacredness of yoga coupled with a joyous playful sense of humor, Michelles classes offer a safe, nurturing and challenging environment for students to come and explore their mental and physical boundaries. Check out our latest Yoga workout! vid.io/xcFg Power Yoga Workout ~ Courage www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=FPR1I1qF6DA Power Yoga Workout ~ Grace www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5X2xS5dAdU&t=276s

Kidding. However, I do miss yoga!!!! I found an amazing group of people doing Acro Yoga in the park today and am going to the class of the women that I met tomorrow. Very excited to get back to my practice.

07-29-1975, Mesa, AZ; Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Shea Matthew Hillenbrand is a professional baseball player who currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League. Hillenbrand played 72 games in 1996 for the Low-A Lowell Spinners in the New York - Penn League. In 1997, he was promoted to the Sarasota Red Sox of the Florida State League, and was promoted again after 57 games, finishing the season with 64 games with the Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League. Despite being drafted as a shortstop, he played at first base and third base his first two years in the minors. In 1998, still with Michigan, he was converted to play catcher and responded with his best season in the minors, with a .349 batting average and 19 home runs. This earned him a promotion in 1999 to AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League. However, a leg injury restricted him to only 69 games. The 2000 season saw Hillenbrand back at Trenton, now back to playing first base and third base as the injury prevented him from catching. An average season at age 25 did not bode well for his chances as a prospect, but he parlayed an invitation to spring training with the Red Sox in 2001 into a spot on the big-league team for opening day. Hillenbrand played 139 games for the Sox in his rookie season, mostly at third base, but a .263 batting average failed to hide his failure to hit with power and get on base adequately (he had one of the lowest walks-to-plate appearances rates in the MLB). In 2001 he had the lowest range factor among all AL third basemen (2.46). However, he retained his spot on the roster for 2002, and responded with a much better season, hitting 20 home runs with a .330 on base percentage and a .459 slugging average. His play earned him the starting third baseman spot in the All-Star Game. He tied Robin Ventura for the Major League lead in errors by a third baseman, however, with 23. Nevertheless, Hillenbrand entered 2003 being the subject of trade rumors. The Red Sox had signed free agent Bill Mueller, another third baseman who would win the batting title that year, and many believed that Hillenbrand's lack of strike zone judgment would not be compatible with the on base percentage priorities of new Sox general manager Theo Epstein. With Mueller hitting around .380 and playing a solid third base, Hillenbrand became expendable and was sent to Arizona for pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim on May 29. Hillenbrand was involved in a feud with Epstein following the incident. He finished the season with a combined .280 batting average and career-highs in RBI (97) and home runs (20), including a three-homer game with the Diamondbacks in month of July. Bill Mueller went on to win the AL Batting Title. In 2004, Hillenbrand hit a career-high .310 with 15 home runs and 80 RBI over 148 games. At the same time, he shared the Major League lead in errors for a first baseman, with 13. He was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the end of the 2004 season. In 2005, his first year with the Blue Jays, Hillenbrand hit .291 with 18 home runs and 82 RBI over 152 games, while splitting time between 1B, 3B, and DH. He also led the league in hit by pitches (HBP) in 2005 with 22. Hillenbrand was traded to the San Francisco Giants during the 2006 season. Hillenbrand signed a one year contract with the Angels on December 26, 2006. On June 27, 2007, he was designated for assignment a day after being quoted as saying, "If I'm not going to play here, give me enough respect to trade me or get rid of me.” On July 9, 2007, having been replaced by the emergence of Reggie Willits and first baseman Casey Kotchman, Hillenbrand was waived by the Angels. He signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on July 27, 2007. He spent 12 days with the Padres' Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers, before being released on August 8, 2007. He hit .147 during that span. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers two days later on August 10, 2007. He was called up to the Major Leagues three days later on August 13. He hit his only home run with the Dodgers on August 29 off Luis Ayala of the Washington Nationals. In 2008, Hillenbrand went unsigned by any major league organization, only being contacted by the San Francisco Giants during the off season. On July 2, 2008, the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League announced that they had signed Hillenbrand to be their starting third baseman. Hillenbrand played in 36 games for the Revolution hitting .340 with two home runs and 25 RBIs before his season was ended by a hamstring injury. He did not play between 2009 and 2011, but came back for the 2012 season, playing for the Bridgeport Bluefish. His MLB-Stats: 2001-2003 Boston Red Sox; 2003-2004 Arizona; 2005-2006 Toronto Blue Jays; 2006 San Francisco Giants; 2007 LA Angels, LA Dodgers; career stats: 7 seasons (2001-2007): G:943 / AB:3570 / R:463 / H:1014 / HR:108 / RBI:490 / BA:0.284. Final Game, September 20, 2007. All Star 2002 and 2004.

Name: Master Sgt. Christopher Aguilera

Age: 37

Hometown: El Paso, Texas

Current residence: Las Vegas, Nev.

Years in service: 18

Injury/disability: In a 2010 helicopter crash in Afghanistan, he sustained a broken ankle, back, collarbone, hip, jaw, sternum, punctured lung and left upper hamstring, burns over 20 percent of his body, and traumatic brain injury.

Sport/sports: Shooting, track and field, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball

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To me, it’s the camaraderie between fellow wounded warriors and holding each other up for one common goal.

What motivated you to try out for the Air Force Warrior Games team?

It’s being able to return to my new 100 percent and my friends and family.

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The North Carolina Tar Heels, a power five program out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, dealt Old Dominion its first home defeat since November 2015. But in the loss, ODU gained a new starting quarterback.

True freshman Steven Williams, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Washington, D.C., replaced starting quarterback Jordan Hoy and backup QB Blake LaRussa in the 53-23 loss.

"When you don't have a first down in the first quarter and you have no energy on the sideline because the players feel it, you have to make the move," ODU head football coach Bobby Wilder explained. "I didn't go into this game thinking [Williams] would play."

Seeing his first action, the 17 year old Williams completed 9-of-20 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Williams added 34 rushing yards on seven attempts.

"We haven't developed an identity on offense," Wilder noted. "Stevie Williams today gave us an identity. Steven Williams is the quarterback of the Old Dominion football team moving forward."

"They just said 'let's go," Williams explained of how he learned he was about to receive his first college playing time. "My teammates were all behind me. I just had to go do my job and we'll be fine."

Old Dominion outscored North Carolina (1-2), 16-14, in the second half, after trailing the Tar Heels, 39-7, at the half.

Prior to the game, ODU learned All-Conference USA running back Ray Lawry, the program's all-time leading rusher, has a torn hamstring. Head coach Bobby Wilder reveals the injury could keep Lawry sidelined for the remainder of the season.

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The Ergon seat was terrible. With each pedal stroke, the wings pressed into my hamstrings. It has been replaced with a Selle Italia SLR Kit Carbonio 2 saddle. The temporary red tires have been swapped out for some black Hutchinsons.

The Ergon seat was terrible. With each pedal stroke, the wings pressed into my hamstrings. It has been replaced with a Selle Italia SLR Kit Carbonio 2 saddle. The temporary red tires have been swapped out for some black Hutchinsons.

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