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The fitness and health promotion program (FPRO) is the latest step in Cambrian College's continuous effort to offer the most up-to-date programming for students that reflects the real-time needs and demand of today's workforce. Supplied

Healthy living for all. Thats the philosophy behind a new program starting at Cambrian College this September.

The fitness and health promotion program (FPRO) is the latest step in Cambrian Colleges continuous effort to offer the most up-to-date programming for students that reflects the real-time needs and demands of todays workforce.

The new program is the natural evolution of what we offer here at Cambrian, Marty Dubuc, program co-ordinator, said in a release. It combines the high quality and essential aspects of our traditional physical fitness management program, including significant hands-on experiences, but with a greater emphasis on health promotion.

Fitness is no longer just about high performance and esthetics. Overall, we are moving towards a model where healthy living for everyone is key.

The FPRO program will prepare students to meet the growing demand for health coaching, fitness expertise and recreation programming that emphasizes active living and promotion of health in various settings. Graduates will enter the workforce with a strong understanding of the link between physical literacy and exercise in health and disease prevention; exercise techniques and programming; and proper nutrition. They will also learn strategies to help clients engage in an active lifestyle as they try to achieve their fitness and health goals.

The demand in our society to have qualified leaders in the fields of physical education, health promotion, nutrition, coaching and mentorship is only growing. The need for individuals to be well is incredibly relevant today more than ever, said Kayla Condron, a graduate of the physical fitness management program.

As an employer in health and fitness at the YMCA, I know we are always looking for applicants with the type of experience and knowledge base this new program offers. As a past student of Martin Dubucs, I can say he leads by example as both an educator and fitness professional. This was something I certainly appreciated as a student who was passionate about what she was studying.

For more information about FPRO and all of Cambrians programs, visit cambriancollege.ca/programs.

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When Orange County administration closed county offices amid COVID-19 concerns, most departments had to change the way they operated.

With social distancing requirements and bans on gatherings of 10 people or more, the Orange County Parks and Recreation Department had to figure out a way to keep citizens engaged, active and apart.

The office developed virtual programming it called its Social Distancing Activity Guide, and released a series of videos ranging from paper airplane folding to hopscotch, to making dandelion syrup, binsketball (tossing items in boxes, bottles and bins) and basic knot-tying, among others. One recent video offers instruction on creating decorative papier mache bowls.

OCPR staff also posted a number of handouts for at-home activities, including indoor and backyard scavenger hunts, coloring activities and support materials for video episodes.

These are activities intended for families to enjoy at home while following social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines, programs and facilities supervisor Jayson Woods said.

OCPR Director Tim Moubray said his office brainstormed ideas and hopes to continue posting videos regularly.

Thus far, the spoof storytime April Fools Day video was the most popular, while the paper airplane and dandelion syrup videos are the most popular activities.

Meanwhile, one of the departments existing activities continues to enjoy steady success.

Moubray said the OCPR disc golf course at the Lee Industrial Park remains open, provided participants observe proper social distancing procedures.

Almost every time I ride out to check the course, or when we mow, there are people playing, Moubray said. Thats pretty cool.

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The Pentagon has committed to competing with China and Russia but its not training that way. If the United States is to be truly prepared for great-power competition, its forces need to train as they expect to operate in theater. The U.S. Cold War experience offers valuable lessons, positive and negative, about how best to equip the joint force to handle near-peer adversaries. Relearning the mechanics of great-power competition will require changing exercises and experimentation, and the Pentagon should emphasize joint exercises to draw on the collective capabilities of its services.

Focusing on joint exercises conjures a back-to-the-future feeling. For decades during the Cold War, major overseas training exercises featured prominently in the U.S. militarys playbook, and with good reason. Big exercises training thousands of troops across services, domains, and sometimes nations enhance joint force readiness by improving interoperability and building command, control, and communications among services and coalition members; demonstrate the value of relationships with allies and partners; and send a range of messages to adversaries.

To update the joint force for the challenge of China and Russia, the United States should build on these Cold War lessons by ensuring that its large-scale joint exercises also test U.S. forces ability to operate in multiple domains against gray-zone threats.

Pretend Jointness

Regaining the muscle memory to compete against China and Russia after counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is no small task. The pivot from counter-insurgency to great-power competition is moving slowly for two reasons. First, there is widespread confusion as to what accurately constitutes a joint experiment or exercise. To be clear: a joint exercise entails significant personnel participation from each of the services that are integrated into a single joint force executing the will of the joint force commander. It is not a Navy corpsman going to the field with the Marine infantry unit; it is not an Air Force Joint Tactical Air Control Party supporting an Army rotation at the National Training Center; and it is not Marine Corps fixed-wing aviation deploying aboard aircraft carriers. No, these are joint operations with a little j activities that the services routinely conducted a half-century ago. Today, these little j events, overly focused on service sustainment training, do little to advance 21st-century concept experimentation and joint force integration in preparation for major conflict.

Jointness with a big J, on the other hand, is a deployable joint headquarters that is fully integrated with experts from across all the warfighting functions and services. The headquarters should be commanded by a flag officer and tasked by a combatant commander with cradle-to-grave execution of large-scale exercises that agnostically integrate kinetic and non-kinetic effects across the air, land, sea, cyber, and space domains, as well as the electronic spectrum. Although talk of jointness abounds across the Department of Defense, the force seldom walks the big J walk. To quote Winston Churchill, perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitude.

A second factor is that planners across the combatant commands are consumed with repeating the same named annual exercises even though most of them to be precise are demonstrations or service-centric sustainment training. These exercises drain scarce resources and compound legitimate challenges to expanding jointness to include tracking and coordinating service-specific concept development, sustaining a reasonable operations tempo, complying with headquarters-mandated reductions, and reducing overhead costs. Decreasing the number of annual combatant command events to accommodate a joint force commanders higher-quality experimentation plan and credible big J exercises is therefore an imperative that can no longer be ignored. Victory on tomorrows battlefield against peer adversaries requires that the United States transform how it prepares for war.

The Past as Prologue (Kinda)

Large-scale Cold War exercises ensured that combat formations remained tactically proficient, and officers gave serious thought to the likely chaos and uncertainty that major conflict between nuclear powers would create. But these exercises also played a critical political-military role, signaling a strong U.S. commitment to allies and partners whose forces routinely operated with the United States in combined maneuvers designed, in part, to help improve coalition interoperability and bolster readiness.

Such exercises did not only serve as a signal to allies and partners, though. Their value as a showcase for U.S. resolve and global power-projection capabilities was significant. Large exercises like REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany) and TEAM SPIRIT in South Korea were essential to maintaining credible conventional deterrence of both the Soviet Union and North Korea. As intended, the latter two belligerent states often perceived such exercises as war-plan rehearsals and as possible (but still ambiguous) forward posturing for potential operations.

Large, multiple-theater exercises diminished after the Cold War. The Pentagon focused on reducing operating costs, confronting terrorism, and fighting simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the rise of China and renewed focus on Russia means large-scale overseas exercises should again play a key role in sustaining readiness and demonstrating U.S. preparedness to deploy and conduct multi-domain operations.

But the complexity of todays security environment is not defined solely by conventional peer-versus-peer or even proxy conflicts. China and Russia rely on gray-zone operations below the traditional thresholds for conflict competing with the United States without provoking a conventional response. Future joint and combined exercises should go beyond the traditional air, land, and sea domains to include cyberwarfare, space, the electromagnetic spectrum all integrated into a holistic and coherent operational design that includes features of irregular warfare. Jointly considering and exercising responses to gray-zone threats will pay dividends across the force.

Soviet Exercises during the Cold War

The Soviet Union attracted U.S. attention by using large-scale exercises as operational rehearsals and as signaling tools. The Okean global naval exercise series in the 1970s demonstrated the transformation of the Soviets coastal defensive navy to a blue-water force under Adm. Sergey Gorshkov. In April 1970, multi-fleet maneuvers across many oceans under a unified command from Moscow shocked the U.S. Navy and its NATO allies, who identified them as a challenge to U.S. maritime supremacy.

In April 1975, Soviet news agency TASS reported an even larger naval exercise Okean 75, the largest to date in the Cold War involving over 220 Soviet ships of all types conducting maritime maneuvers by the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea, and Pacific fleets. Land-based aircraft joined this massive power-projection display, with Tupolov-35s flying from Central Asian bases to the Arabian Sea, while surface units in the Indian Ocean indicated Soviet anti-convoy capabilities in a new theater. Meanwhile, maritime task forces conducting antiaircraft carrier operations near Sardinia highlighted a potential Soviet threat to western merchant shipping and NATO naval activities at Tyrrhenian Sea choke points. In a particularly pointed signal, submarines and surface ships set up a barrier between Iceland, the Norwegian Sea, and the North Atlantic to rehearse extending the Soviet maritime defensive perimeter away from the Barents Sea to keep U.S. aircraft carriers out of range of military and industrial targets. Significant command and control capabilities enabled simultaneous Soviet strike missions, highlighting the maturation of Gorshkovs long-discussed battle of the first salvo concept.

The massive scale of Okean 1975 was impressive for the times and elicited a sharp reaction from the United States. Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II publicly admitted, [the exercise] clearly demonstrates the fact that the Soviet navy is capable of operating effectively in all the oceans of the world with a fleet that had twice the number of major combatants and submarines as the U.S. Navy. Okean was a wake-up call for the United States, which was preoccupied with evacuating Vietnam. Rattled Pentagon leaders commissioned a series of studies to better understand the new geopolitical landscape that was shaping the Cold War. The unambiguous message sent by the Okean exercises of the 1970s was that the Soviet Union had developed a robust navy to back its claim as a global military superpower.

Learning from the Bear

During the 1980s, Pentagon planners recognized that large exercises could play a useful role in demonstrating U.S. power-projection capabilities while offsetting the Soviet Union conventional military advantages. Accordingly, the United States implemented annual REFORGER exercises to practice rapidly deploying multiple divisions from the United States to reinforce NATO. As one 1988 observer noted, REFORGERs impressiveness stemmed not only from its size (125,000 personnel deployed across the Atlantic in 10 days) but also its critically important military and civilian mobilization and preparedness when U.S. forces reached Europe. REFORGER exercises were also complemented with annual air and sea deployments of U.S. Marines to Norway. Collectively, they broadcasted to friends and adversaries alike Americas ability to rapidly project credible combat power across the globe.

Other U.S. and NATO naval exercises in the 1980s were designed to prod Soviet decision-makers and expose Soviet wartime responses for U.S. planners. Virtually the entire U.S. attack submarine force was deployed at top speed from U.S. ports to the high North Atlantic on at least three separate occasions, sending the message to the Soviets (among others) that the United States could reach the Barents Sea before Soviet subs could sortie out of their bastions. In the Atlantic, Ocean Venture 1981 encompassed 120,000 personnel, 1,000 aircraft, and 250 ships from 15 allied nations. The apparently shocked Soviet navy dispatched unprecedented numbers of surveillance and strike aircraft, submarines, and surface ships to shadow the exercise, offering the United States and NATO valuable insights into Soviet formations and operational procedures.

Not all signals sent during Cold War exercises were received as intended. The 1983 NATO ABLE ARCHER exercise contributed to a Kremlin war scare and nearly initiated nuclear war. Nonetheless, NATO judged the exercises strategic insights as invaluable. Then-Supreme Allied Commander Gen. John R. Galvin observed, There was a failure to understand the absolute requirement for coordination and common purpose among the civilian, political, diplomatic, governmental, and military aspects of every endeavor.

On the other side of the globe, U.S. and South Korean forces conducted exercise TEAM SPIRIT each spring from 1978 to 1993 to broadcast credible defensive preparations of the peninsula to North Korea. TEAM SPIRIT peaked at 200,000 personnel in 1989, but its importance lay in its impact on North Korean perceptions. President Kim Il-sung reacted to the exercise by mobilizing his reservists and repositioning air, naval, and land forces annually at significant economic and political costs to the regime, making TEAM SPIRIT both a carrot and a stick for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiations and North Koreas inspections compliance. By revealing certain strengths through REFORGER and TEAM SPIRIT, U.S. planners enhanced deterrence and forced adversaries to divert resources into more expensive defense programs or alter key aspects of their overall strategies.

Operate and Train as You Plan to Fight

Treating peacetime exercises as real-world operations like the United States did with REFORGER and TEAM SPIRIT provides the joint force with a number of advantages. Across the force, a heightened warfighting mentality will help improve overall readiness. Such an approach will imbue training events with a heightened sense of realism, compelling forces to replicate many actions they will have to execute in conflict.

Imagine a scenario where Army and Marine High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) units deploy with little notice to remote overseas islands and establish secure communications with a joint task force headquarters theater fires cell. The cell then receives targetable information from real-world sensors, provided by space or training drones. This allows the HIMARS unit to engage a hostile moving target (being simulated by a self-piloted garbage barge) once non-kinetic effects have neutralized onboard emitters replicating the ships countermeasure system. This cradle-to-grave kill chain scenario requires sophisticated multi-domain effects to be integrated across the joint force. If, for technical or political reasons, this type of realism is impractical, augmenting live exercises with high-quality virtual capabilities can help servicemembers master essential skills. This is especially important at the joint/combined level because those senior headquarters that are not forward deployed should be required to deploy to overseas exercise locations to flex their command and control responsibilities.

Second, dynamically planned operations can be used to temporarily increase U.S. force posture and presence overseas. Deploying additional brigades, air defense units, and fleet assets to key European and Pacific theater locations will not go unnoticed by Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang. More importantly, these events can serve as pre-crisis, flexible deterrent options. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, the exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 would have been the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years. Carrying out similar future exercises will also allow the United States and its NATO allies to address long-standing interoperability, mobility, and command and control challenges.

Third, operations can be used to stress test existing practices against new concepts. In particular, the logistical concepts that underpin major war plans can be tested by requiring forward-deployed units to actually perform such real-world sustainment functions as drawing live ammunition out of storage bunkers, transporting different fuel types between theaters, and commencing operations with planned shortages of major classes of supplies. These critical sustainment events are too often ignored or simulated in traditional exercises, which allows the joint force to cheat at solitaire in other words, to take expedient shortcuts.

New exercises can also stress test familiar operations at unfamiliar scales. One such exercise might test special operations and conventional forces ability to enforce a blockade with the simultaneous boarding of multiple adversary-leased commercial vessels. Simultaneous ship seizures by special operations forces and conventional Navy-Marine units trained to conduct complex visit, board, search, and seizure missions would signal mastery of all-domain coordination. Moreover, it would afford at tightly integrated rehearsal with multiple coalition partners who could provide the leased ships safe anchorage until the mock naval blockade ends.

Fourth, new large-scale exercises will allow the joint/combined force to experiment with concepts that are widely discussed in many military journals, such as multi-domain or all-domain operations, but that are too infrequently practiced. As Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. has noted, properly designed and conducted field exercises are a great source of competitive advantage that can reduce uncertainty about emerging threats, determine the right mix of new and legacy systems, enable development and evaluation of broad capabilities and new, relevant forms of operation, and uncover practical problems in new operation and force structure development.

Fifth, large training exercises can be effective vehicles for sending signals to potential adversaries about U.S. intentions and capabilities. For example, they might reveal the capability of U.S. forces to launch surprise drone swarm attacks simultaneously against multiple naval targets. U.S. vessels could be designated a naval opposing force being pursued by blue surface and subsurface naval assets. Opposing force ships could then come under swarm drone attack from shore-based land forces (American or allied) that release waves of inexpensive, sea-skimming, short-range drones. Obviously, the risks and opportunities associated with revealing certain capabilities and sending specific messages should be calculated in advance. The United States should carefully consider any ambiguities that U.S. adversaries could misunderstand, thus resulting in spiraling tensions and unwanted escalation. Tracking and recording both adversary and ally responses to exercises should be required, and post-exercise analyses should gauge the overall impact of messaging.

Looking Ahead

The joint staff and geographic combatant commanders need to revise their annual experimentation and exercise programs to be more relevant to todays great-power competition. They cannot merely fall back on large-scale exercises like REFORGER and TEAM SPIRIT, designed for another era, in the hope that they continue to be successful models for todays deterrence and force posture. Exercises of yesteryear should be refined and repurposed as real-world operations. They should thoughtfully reveal credible kinetic and carefully selected non-kinetic warfighting capabilities to U.S. adversaries. Additionally, a sophisticated global strategic communications campaign that pushes back on adversary propaganda and disinformation in real time delegitimizing such activities in frontline states under a bright international spotlight should be central to all operations.

To truly disincentivize Russian and Chinese gray-zone operations, the United States should effectively use recurring and realistic big J operations to display credible American military force. A critical by-product of this approach is that joint force commanders will be able to integrate and shape the disparate service warfighting approaches.

Tom Greenwood, USMC (Ret.), is a research staff member in the Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was an infantryman with subsequent assignments in the Pentagon and on the National Security Council staff.

Owen Daniels is a research associate in the Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses.

The views, opinions, and findings expressed in this paper should not be construed as representing the official position of either the Institute for Defense Analyses or the Department of Defense.

Image: U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (Photo courtesy of LPhot Dan Rosenbaum, HMS Kent, Royal Navy)

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Those of us fortunate enough to have remote jobs can be grateful for a few things like the lack of a time-sucking commute and more time with our kids and family. However, this new normal can also bring feelings of burnout, if youre not careful.

The benefits of working from home can eventually turn into stressful situations. Without self-imposed boundaries, our time saved on the commute can turn into more hours poured into our work. Or, skipping over moments of self-care throughout the day can lead to feelings of anxiety and stress, leaving you primed for a major meltdown.

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Taking a break from your work to practice self-care can relieve stress and anxiety. To help you practice when you need it, use the Unplug Meditation app. This app allows you to take one of the more than 700 video sessions or breathwork classes anytime. A whole year of guided meditations and lessons is only $39. (The market price for this app is normally $59.99.) For the price of a nice yoga mat, you can destress, fall sleep, or motivate yourself for a more productive tomorrow with the Unplug app.

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If you have kiddos running around it can be tough to keep them at bay for hours on end. One resource to keep your kids occupied while positively engaging their minds is Tangiplay. Tangiplay includes codable toys and games for kids between the ages of four and 12 years. Originally $99, you can get this set of 12 robot toys for only $89.99. Itll give you some much-needed quiet time while the children work on their math and computation skills.

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LUMBERTON Around the same time that Southeastern Health officials were deciding how to manage visitors to Southeastern Regional Medical Center during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, state and national guidelines mandated that hospitals and long-term care facilities, or nursing homes, end visitation.

Once this change was implemented, Southeastern Healths Guest Services department and WoodHaven Nursing, Alzheimers and Rehabilitation leaders began looking for ways to keep their patients and residents connected with their loved ones.

Hospital care

We knew that this was going to be a challenging time for our patients because the connection with family is so important, said Alisia Oxendine, Southeastern Health Guest Services director.

Because of the ranges of ages, health conditions and mental capacity of patients in the hospital, every possible scenario had to be considered.

We care for new moms, sick children, individuals who have experienced trauma like car wrecks, patients who need critical heart surgery, patients battling cancer and everything in between, Oxendine said. We had to put plans in place to address every scenario, even including those where patients have dementia or language barriers and those who may be experiencing end-of-life situations.

Telephone communication is the most common way hospitalized patients are staying in touch with family during the COVID-19 restrictions, however, some patients may not be able to speak on the phone, while others might need to see their family to feel connected.

Guest Services and Information Technology staff worked together to secure and make available iPads, which are sanitized after every use, and reliable phone connections for SRMC patients so they can use technology, such as FaceTime, to reach their family members.

Oftentimes patients, along with their health-care team, give their family members updates about how they are doing, Oxendine said. Other times, patient need the encouragement and love that their family can provide. If patients arent comfortable with technology, our patient representatives are on hand to walk them through the steps to make the connection.

One visitor is being allowed for the birth of a child, in cases where the patient is a minor, or if the patient cannot speak for themselves to make health-care decisions.

There are extreme circumstances in the hospital where the benefits of having someone with the patient outweighs the risks during the coronavirus and in these cases we are taking extra measures, including screenings before entry, use of face masks and increased hand hygiene, to keep everyone safe, Oxendine said. Showing empathy while mitigating the concerns of patients and families during this unprecedented time is a top priority.

Family members can contact their loved ones by calling the medical center at 910-671-5000 and asking for them by name, if they have chosen to be listed in the hospital directory. Phone operators can also provide phone numbers that bypass the operator and ring directly to patient rooms. Mailing cards or letters is another way to reach patients.

Anyone who may need assistance contacting their family members may call Guest Services at 910-671-5592.

Long-term care

This is home for our residents and an important part of home is family, said WoodHaven Director Suzanne Jackson, who also oversees hospice services and care management for Southeastern Health. While keeping our patients safe and preventing an outbreak at our facility is the main priority right now, we cant overlook the mental health aspects of their care.

WoodHaven staff facilitate weekly telephone calls to ensure family remain informed and connected. While calls are the most common way to stay connected, they cant replace actually seeing each other.

We are utilizing technology like FaceTime, and some of our families are making window visits, using the window as a barrier but allowing them to see each other while talking or holding up a sign, Jackson said. Sometimes just laying eyes on someone to know they are doing well can be very reassuring for not only the family member but also the patient.

WoodHaven established a photo gallery on the Southeastern Health website where family members can view photos of residents holding signs or participating in activities where social distancing is implemented. The gallery can be viewed at http://www.srmc.org/main/covid-19-woodhaven

Community groups have also reached out to assist in helping residents feel connected, hosting parades on the grounds in view of patients from safe distances.

We know this is a challenging time for everyone but we are working to make the best out of a difficult situation to support our residents and reassure them that they have not been forgotten, Jackson said.

Letters or cards may be mailed to patients at SRMC using PO Box 1408, Lumberton, NC 28359, or residents at WoodHaven at 1150 Pine Run Drive, Lumberton, NC 28358. Be sure to include the patient or resident name and room number, if known.

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WoodHaven resident Nessie Pierce holds a sign showing a message of love to her family. The photo was used in a gallery posted on Southeastern Healths website during the time of COVID-19 visitation restrictions.

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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Perlis Branch has received a gold recognition for its Exercise Is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC) 2020 program from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). This recognition is attained a year after UiTM Perlis was awarded a silver campus recognition in 2019. ACSM is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world with more than 50,000 members and certified professionals dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise in science and sports medicine.

EIM-OC is a program designed for universities and colleges to promote physical activity towards better health and well-being. It encourages staff and students to work together towards improving the health and well-being of the university community with a mission to foster collaborative relationships and leadership on campus between exercise, health, and other disciplines that support the EIM-OC vision and goals.

The groundwork for EIM-OC began in early 2019, led by the Head of Study Centre of FSR, UiTM Perlis Branch, Dr Ahmad Fikri bin Mohd Kassim. EIM-OC comes under the auspices of the society of Exercise is Medicine Malaysia(EIMM). UiTM Perlis has four EIM-OC credentials level 1 certified lecturers namely, Mohd Faridz Ahmad, Siti Jameelah Japilus, Nurul Hidayah Amir, and Nurul Afiqah Bakar.

Throughout 2019, the Faculty of Sports Science and Recreation (FSR) UiTM Perlis Branch has organized multiple programs involving the university community including outdoor recreation, sports events, and seminars/workshops via hands-on and experiential learning. These activities to a large extent have helped the students to realize the importance of exercise, health, and its relationship to academic success.

The gold certification is a testament to UiTMs commitment to its communitys health and well -being. In addition to enhancing the visibility of UiTM Perlis, it also has value-added in FSR program accreditation. With this certificate, it is hoped that graduates will have better employability opportunities and career demands as administrators, health and fitness operators or managers in various sports health and fitness sectors.

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In these unprecedented times, the fitness industry, to continue providing fitness services to our clients and members, has had to pivot, reassess and address those needs innovatively.

Consequently, the second we, like many other fitness businesses, knew that our brick and mortar operations may be temporarily suspended, we immediately began to tap into our creative resources on how we would take care of our clients and members during this hiatus. Keeping them healthy, safe and happy has always been our primary goal, and while the picture looked a bit different, the priority was still the same.

Therefore, during this challenging time, we have produced in-house over 55 exercise videos which are available on YouTube and to our clients and members via newsletters where the videos are embedded along with all of the written descriptive content and daily inspirational thoughts.

Additionally, we began offering Zoom Group Exercise classes, as well as Zoom Personal Training Sessions, and we have also produced videos for our personal training clientele who do not have access to Zoom so that they may stay on track until we are together again. In this regard, our clients who train on the Pilates Reformer have access to Pilates Reformer video exercise programs specifically produced for them as an individual.

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We have produced a huge variety of exercise videos which include formats such as Cardio Circuit, 3 x 3 Circuit, 7-Station Total Body Circuit, Short Circuit, Functional Strength, Mat Pilates, Pilates on the Ball, Simply Strength, Total Body Glutes + Core Pilates Fusion, Total Upper Body + Core Pilates Fusion, Short Cycle, Cycle/Abs, Pure Stretch, Cardio Step, and several Yoga formats.

All of our program formats may be performed without equipment. However, equipment is utilized in some of our formats and we encourage use of safe household items such as backpacks which may be loaded or unloaded and are very practical for external load bearing exercises. Some formats, such as Simply Strength specifically utilize body weight only, and all formats may be modified to suit just about any fitness level.

We provide those modifications both during the video pre-class instruction as well as throughout the format to reinforce the concept of modifying rather than compensation. Many of our clients and members perform one to three of the videos per day since the formats are designed to be performed in a stacked fashion. For example, you may perform the 3 x 3 circuit on Monday mornings, followed by the Pilates on the Ball or the Total Glutes + Core Pilates Fusion and avoid redundancy, enjoy the variety and challenges of all three formats.

All of our formats change weekly, which we have always done weekly, to keep all workouts fresh, exciting and on the cutting edge of fitness producing excellent results. Our videos have been produced specifically for our clients and members. However, currently the general public, may access our videos on YouTube by entering Mountain Life Fitness into the search bar and then clicking on our logo for access.

There are many other fitness facilities that are following suit, so check out your favorite gym, instructor or trainer and see what they may be offering. We are all here for you, today and beyond!

As always, prior to beginning any exercise program, please consult your physician.

Jackie Wright is the owner/manager of Mountain Life Fitness in Granby. She may be reached at her website at http://www.mtnlifefitness.com and her email at jackie@mtnlifefitness.com

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CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell therapies for unmet medical needs, announced today that Cancer Research UKs Commercial Partnerships has permitted Lineage to conduct an early exercise of its option to acquire data from Cancer Research UKs ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of VAC2 in non-small cell lung cancer (NCT03371485), and develop an allogeneic dendritic cell therapy platform (VAC). Lineage will assume responsibility for further development of the VAC2 product candidate as well as future development opportunities derived from the VAC platform, while Cancer Research UK concludes the ongoing trial. This decision was based on an early review of the data collected by Cancer Research UK in the VAC2 trial under a clinical trial and option agreement. In addition, Cancer Research UK will provide input on the potential use of VAC in the infectious disease space to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19. Cancer Research UK is the worlds largest cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research.

Clinical data recently collected by Cancer Research UK in the ongoing trial of VAC2 has shown peripheral immunogenicity in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, providing validation of the underlying mechanism of using allogeneic dendritic cells to present antigens to the bodys immune system. Evidence of immunogenicity was a key clinical signal which was necessary before we would consider taking over the program, stated Brian M. Culley, Lineage CEO. This encouraging evidence builds upon earlier clinical studies of VAC which supported not only the safety of the VAC platform, but also evidence that patients developed antigen-specific T cell immune responses. We are excited to assume responsibility for advancing this promising program and move Lineage more aggressively into the field of cancer immunotherapy. Given the scientific evidence supporting our approach, the opportunity to also apply our VAC program to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development was another positive consideration and we are pleased that Cancer Research UK facilitated this decision. Presenting a viral antigen will require transferring the program from Cancer Research UKs Centre for Drug Development to our cGMP facility, scaling the manufacturing process, and eventually submitting an IND for clinical testing. We also will be evaluating opportunities for non-dilutive funding for this new initiative.

Dr. Nigel Blackburn, Cancer Research UKs Director of the Centre for Drug Development, said: We are pleased that our development efforts on the VAC2 program over the past several years have generated initial evidence of an immune response in cancer patients and have resulted in an early exercise of the option by Lineage. We are excited to transfer the next phase of development to our partners and to assist the expansion of those efforts into SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development and other areas with significant unmet need.

About VAC2

VAC2 is an allogeneic, or non-patient specific, cancer vaccine product candidate designed to stimulate patient immune responses to an antigen commonly expressed in cancerous cells but not in normal adult cells. VAC2, which is produced from a pluripotent cell technology using a directed differentiation method, is comprised of a population of nonproliferating mature dendritic cells. As the most potent type of antigen presenting cell in the body, dendritic cells instruct the bodys immune system to attack and eliminate harmful pathogens and unwanted cells. Because the tumor antigen is loaded exogenously into the dendritic cells prior to administration, VAC2 is a platform technology that can be modified to carry any antigen, including patient-specific tumor neo-antigens or viral antigens. VAC2 is currently being tested in a Phase 1 study in adult patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the advanced and adjuvant settings (NCT03371485), conducted by Cancer Research UK.

About Cancer Research UKs Centre for Drug Development

Cancer Research UK has an impressive record of developing novel treatments for cancer. The Cancer Research UK Centre for Drug Development has been pioneering the development of new cancer treatments for 25 years, taking over 140 potential new anti-cancer agents into clinical trials in patients. It currently has a portfolio of 21 new anti-cancer agents in preclinical development, Phase I or early Phase II clinical trials. Six of these new agents have made it to market including temozolomide for brain cancer, abiraterone for prostate cancer and rucaparib for ovarian cancer. Two other drugs are in late development Phase III trials.

About Cancer Research UKs Commercial Partnerships Team

Cancer Research UK is the worlds leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Cancer Research UKs specialist Commercial Partnerships Team works closely with leading international cancer scientists and their institutes to protect intellectual property arising from their research and to establish links with commercial partners. Cancer Research UKs commercial activity operates through Cancer Research Technology Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cancer Research UK. It is the legal entity which pursues drug discovery research in themed alliance partnerships and delivers varied commercial partnering arrangements.

About Cancer Research UK

For further information about Cancer Research UK's work or to find out how to support the charity, please call 0300 123 1022 or visit http://www.cancerresearchuk.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

About Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell therapies for unmet medical needs. Lineages programs are based on its robust proprietary cell-based therapy platform and associated in-house development and manufacturing capabilities. With this platform Lineage develops and manufactures specialized, terminally differentiated human cells from its pluripotent and progenitor cell starting materials. These differentiated cells are developed to either replace or support cells that are dysfunctional or absent due to degenerative disease or traumatic injury or administered as a means of helping the body mount an effective immune response to cancer. Lineages clinical programs are in markets with billion dollar opportunities and include three allogeneic (off-the-shelf) product candidates: (i) OpRegen, a retinal pigment epithelium transplant therapy in Phase 1/2a development for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the developed world; (ii) OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell therapy in Phase 1/2a development for the treatment of acute spinal cord injuries; and (iii) VAC2, a cancer immunotherapy of antigen-presenting dendritic cells in Phase 1 development for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. For more information, please visit http://www.lineagecell.com or follow the Company on Twitter @LineageCell.

Forward Looking Statements

Lineage cautions you that all statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this press release, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements, in some cases, can be identified by terms such as believe, may, will, estimate, continue, anticipate, design, intend, expect, could, plan, potential, predict, seek, should, would, contemplate, project, target, tend to, or the negative version of these words and similar expressions. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to Lineages plans to develop the VAC platform and the potential of the VAC platform to address COVID-19. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Lineages actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this press release, including risks and uncertainties inherent in Lineages business and other risks in Lineages filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). Lineages forward-looking statements are based upon its current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included under the heading Risk Factors in Lineages periodic reports with the SEC, including Lineages Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 12, 2020 and its other reports, which are available from the SECs website. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. Lineage undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.

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Jacob StotzkyCoral Gables, Florida6:23 p.m., Wednesday May 6

Ive been a sports nut since I can remember. I love to watch NFL and college football, NBA and college basketball and professional tennis matches, particularly Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Im a big Heat, Dolphins and University of Miami fan.

My brother and dad are also big fans. My mom does not enjoy watching football or basketball games, however, she is a big tennis fan.

But even more than watching sports, my family and I enjoy playing them.

I was on my high school varsity basketball and tennis teams. After sustaining a really bad ACL, MCL and cartilage tear during a high school basketball practice and having surgery, I turned to a serious weightlifting and swimming regimen. For many years, I worked out obsessively and never missed a day.

My brother played tennis and lifted weights. After running for years, my mom went back to walking fast and taking Pilate classes. My dad was a fanatical workout guy, swimming miles every day, lifting weights and riding an exercise bike several times a week.

Then the corona epidemic struck, and a stay-at-home order was issued. How could I and my family stay in shape?

My parents tried walking around the Granada Golf Course but that proved difficult because so many people were doing the same thing. My brother and I tried exercise programs

posted on the internet, but that was not good enough. So, we all came up with new and different ways to exercise.

My brother became lazy and stopped exercising but then returned to exercising by watching the internet videos.

My mom started running again. Shes now up to four miles four times a week. She does online Pilate classes three times a week.

My dad became creative. He bought an Aqua Flotation Belt, which you attach around your waist to keep you afloat. He then runs in the pool in 8-foot-deep water, his feet not touching the bottom of the pool, for about an hour to an hour and a half every day. He says its like running without the shock of hitting the ground.

I now ride a bike at full speed for almost 45 minutes a day and then swim laps in our small pool for another 45 minutes.

We have all learned to cope with unexpected change and to keep ourselves in good shape.

Exercise helps us both physically and emotionally. You ought to try it.

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Holt Hamilton Films, which created award-winning movies More Than Frybread, Turquoise Rose, Legends from the Sky, and other indigenous family classics, has jumped in the fight against Coronaviris Covid-19 by offering an episode of its first fitness series Fit with Freida with Freida episode #02, Fat Burn Sack Attack, for free on Holt Hamilton Films YouTube channel.

The series, which contains 16 half-hour episodes of heart-pumping exercise filmed entirely on The Navajo Nation sometimes in traditional hogans as well as in the scenic outdoors was available only on DVD until recently when Filmmaker Holt Hamilton decided to release an episode online.

Ive wanted to do something to help fight against Covid-19 and just havent found the way to help until now. The thought came quietly to my mind that I should simply put an episode on YouTube. I am learning the power of running and exercise and how that can calm and strengthen the mind while encouraging insights and positive thoughts into what I can and cannot change.

Elfreida Barton, an enrolled member of the Navajo Tribe, hosts the series. I couldnt have found a better person, both from a fitness perspective, a culturally sensitive perspective and one who cares deeply about her Native peoples health and well-being, to host this first season, said Hamilton. She lives, breathes and, Im confident, dreams this stuff! Early in the process, I shared my vision of the series with her and then quickly got out of her way.

The series has been available on DVD for more than six months, but according to Hamilton, hasnt really gotten much traction in Native country. He did mention one community, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which really grasped the vision of what we were trying to do and has incorporated it positively into their vibrant health and wellness programs as a supplementary tool to support their established programs.

Hamilton also has spoken to a number of other tribal communities. We still have strong hope to get this series into homes where it has great potential for positive change.

Hamilton says if theres a positive response to streaming this first episode, he may continue to roll another episode out after that. I made this series with the intent that lives would be blessed for the better. Now may be the time for us as humans to really buckle down and take a serious look at our health and what we are doing for ourselves, especially in our current situation.

To view the free episode, visit:youtube.com/watch?v=WJrbpwuJz5I&list=PL9e5atj1Zh5SE6MF-UtHM-YT7qtTPhj0X&index=2&t=621s.

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