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If you are reading this article, you have an interest in sports. Chances are you play a sport or work out, played a sport in the past or enjoy sports in general.Are you an athlete? We all know who [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] the elite athletes are: Tom Brady, Lance Armstrong, kobe Bryant, Joan Benoit Samuelson and Paul Pierce. They all have competed at the highest level against the best in the world.I want to expand the list. I want this list to include anyone and everyone who decides that today they are going to move their bodies for the health of it.We all have an image of what an athlete is and does. Is this the only image we should have? I want us to think differently when we see the out of shape or obese person riding a bike or walking on the side of the road. You are looking at an athlete.I believe everyone who is exercising is an [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] athlete, regardless of age, weight or physical condition. And they need to be recognized as one.Webster Dictionary tells us an athlete trains and competes in exercise or contests.I have found that my biggest opponent in sports is my own mind. It [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] is easier to roll over and stay in bed than [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] to [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] get up earlier to go for a run or to do a set of push ups and sit ups to get the day started.The biggest excuses not to exercise are a lack of time or energy. If you want more energy, you need to expend energy. You will feel revitalized after a swim or a walk. If you do not take the time to take care of yourself, will you have time to be sick?What I have always liked about exercise is how I feel afterward. My mind is clearer and I have more energy for the rest of the day.Studies have shown if you exercise in the morning you will be more regular with your exercise program. You never have a conference call scheduled at 5:30 in the morning. You also will lose weight faster because your ****bolism has been turned up for the day.Jack LaLanne, the father of modern fitness, states it is easier to be sick and die early but it takes a lot of work and discipline to live a long and healthy life. The choice is yours.Most everyone I ask in my practice wants to live a long and active life. Are they fooling themselves if they are not healthy and active throughout life?We plan for our financial future by putting money into our retirement accounts. What about our health accounts? Every time we put on our ski boots, bathing suit or tie our tennis shoes, we are adding to our health account.I challenge all of my patients to be athletes and I want them to start now. I challenge you to start today.The benefits are enormous. How about more energy and a better quality of life? You can not stop the aging process, but decaying is optional.Whatever you like to do now, you should be [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] able to do at age 80. If you like to golf, you should still be able to play. If you like to garden, you should be able to continue. Your recovery time may be a little longer, but who cares? You are being an athlete.Do not exercise to please someone else, it does not work. Exercise for you, because you are worth it.Dr. Robert Lynch is a former president of the Maine Chiropractic Association and head of the Lynch Chiropractic Center in South Portland. in the Game appears every other Thursday in the Press Herald.

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It’s not hard to fall hard for Philadelphia, a city steeped in a history of tolerance and cultureSteve Whysall, Vancouver SunThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, is America’s oldest art museum and school. Housed in a landmark Gothic Victorian building designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt, the museum offers one of the world’s finest collections of American painting and sculpture.

Falling in love is like eating cake, I always think. You don’t have to think about it too much. You just take a forkful and swallow. And if you like the way it tastes, you take another forkful. That’s pretty much how I fell in love with Philadelphia. [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] It was not what I was expecting. It was a love affair that came out of the blue.

I love Paris. I love London. I love Rome. All amazing cities. But now I am smitten with Philadelphia.

It is a city that has taken me by surprise and made me happier than I imagined with its innate spirit of creativity, inventiveness, progressive thinking and generosity. I love, love, love its unswerving focus on freedom and tolerance. I think it is a city that deserves more attention.

What precisely is it that I love so much? Well, let me count the ways.

First, I love the attitude of its founder, William Penn, a man way ahead of his time in terms of his ideas about democracy, city planning and personal freedoms, and I love the work and achievements of so many of the city’s progressive, innovative thinkers, such as Ben Franklin.

Penn’s wonderful spirit of acceptance and religious tolerance still permeates what we now call the "city of brotherly love."

It is significant that a giant statue of him has been placed at the top of city hall from where he watches over the city. It is a constant reminder to stand up for freedom and human rights and to always be willing to trade in a good idea for a better one.

It impresses me that the city still recognizes that it was built by immigrants from all over the world and today insists on permanently displaying the flags of 109 nations along its main boulevard Benjamin Franklin Parkway [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] as a constant reminder of the complexity of the world and the value of diversity.

I love that Philadelphia values and appreciates art and beauty, so much so that it has established three of the world’s best art institutions the Barnes Foundation, Rodin Museum and Museum of Art, all of which are jam packed with an embarrassment of priceless treasures.

It thrills me that Philadelphia loves art so much that it has passed a law requiring every new building project to devote at least one per cent of the site to public art.

Walk any way in the downtown and you will see superb examples of wall murals and exquisite sculpture, even on quiet back streets.

You’ll find the famous LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana, Three Way Piece by Henry Moore, and, of course, the Rocky Statue by A. Thomas Schomberg.

I first visited Philly to attend its superb flower show, the world’s oldest and biggest. That’s what took me there on my first visit in 2024.

But it was only when I returned there this month to see the show for a second time that I really understood what it is that I love so much about the city.

Part of this epiphany came while visiting the Barnes Foundation and Longwood Gardens, two world class institutions created by multimillionaires, Albert C. Barnes and Pierre du Pont.

Barnes used his fortune to amass one of the world’s finest art collections, more than 2,500 objects, including dozens of works by Impressionists. It has been estimated to be worth about $25 billion.

Du Pont used his fortune to buy a 435 hectare property once owned by Quakers in the Brandywine Creek Valley and turning it into the fabulous Longwood Gardens, one of the world’s most beautiful garden estates with fabulous hothouse gardens and various outdoor gardens.

You can’t help but be touched by the generosity and vision of these men; their love for art and natural beauty but also their deep desire to protect and preserve it and share with others. It is a spirit of enthusiasm and leadership that I wish Vancouver saw more from its elite citizens.

If you visit Philly, time [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] spent at the Barnes, where every room is an eccentrically organized abundance of art treasures, and at Longwood, where the dedication to creating gorgeous landscapes is paramount, is never a waste.

Albert Barnes wanted to make people see in a way that made connections through colour and form and space, so he placed paintings next to furniture with similar patterning or colour to stretch the imagination.

Du Pont loved trees and couldn’t bear to see them cut down but he went further and created beautiful gardens, drawing inspiration from what he had seen in Europe.

Every moment at either of these spectacular facilities is guaranteed to lift your spirits and fill you with a sense of appreciation and celebration.

When I came to Philly for the first time to see the flower show, which is an amazing work in itself, I was not expecting to be dazzled also by the quirkier side of the city’s personality, such as walking into the shoe department at Macy’s and finding the world’s biggest pipe organ or the Magic Garden of Isaiah Zagar, a whimsical mosaic garden built on a back street, composed [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] out of tens of thousands of pieces of found art and ceramics.

Macy’s giant pipe organ pumps out Mozart, Bach and Handel in concerts twice a day while shoppers buy new shoes. It’s just as surreal as Zagar’s Magic Garden and no one bats an eye. It is such a wonderful eccentricity, the perfect fit for a tolerant and eclectic community.

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