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NAIOMT is greatly saddened by the passing of Dr. Richard E. Erhard, PT, DC on October 3, 2009 after a long battle
with cancer. Dick Erhard was the complete physical therapist; clinician, educator, and researcher.
“To me
Dick was (and will always be) one of the 'gentle giants' of OMT. I shall always remember him as one of the greatest ambassadors
of peace and understanding between chiropractors and PTs. What a huge loss.” Erl Pettman
“Dick was
a true autonomous practitioner and the first president of IFOMT. He was also a great friend and an example
to all”. Stanley Paris
“He was a great human being and a great professional. We will miss his smiling
face forever”. Joe Farrell
“Dick was a giant in our profession. He was one of the first three US PTs
to pass the first international manual therapy examination in the Canary Islands in 1973. He was the first president of IFOMT
and one of the eight founding fellows of the AAOMPT. He, with Rick Bowling established an integrative model for evaluating
and treating low back pain and published on the evaluation of the sacro-iliac joint in the initial issue of on orthopedic
journal that would later develop into the respected journal, JOSPT. His seminal works, including the “treatment-based
classification of low back pain” spurred the rise in evidence-based practice in manual physical therapy.
Dick
felt restrained by the lack of autonomy as a PT and trained to become a chiropractor. He, however always held on
to his PT base of a biomechanical model of systematic evaluation and treatment of the spine. He was active in teaching, writing
and scientific pursuits even after he had been diagnosed with his terminal condition.
Dick and I served as the original
examiners for the newly formed AAOMPT. He had a great sense of humor, and an infectious laugh. He inspired those around him
to excel. His legacy lives on through the many people he mentored at the University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere. He was my
friend and mentor and I will miss him dearly”. Bill O’Grady
A memorial service was held at the University
of Pittsburgh on October 16 2009, attended by many past presidents of AAOMPT and friends. NAIOMT sent flowers and condolences
to his wife and family.
At the AAOMPT conference in Washington DC, October 17th, friends and AAOMPT’s founding
members paid tribute to this great physical therapist and read a tribute from Freddy Kaltenborn. We also learned that Dick’s
family was amazed by the outpouring of tributes from around the country and around the world. They knew him primarily as the
man who loved to be home with his family, and to go fishing and hunting.
Sincerely,
Ann Porter Hoke
on behalf of the NAIOMT Board of Directors.
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"Love's Easy Tears"... 7/30/2010: If John Louis reads this, I'd rather not link to the New York Times owned Santa Rosa Press Democrat right now, but I have to here to recollect that the time that I met Donald Chu, Byron Craighead (2010 Olympic Winter Games U.S. Medical Staff, Trainer/ATC, Bobsled) drove the vehicle I was in, and I had been invited by Steven Winter “I am also upfront and honest with the athletes and the coaches,” Craighead said. “To tell a lie, because that’s what someone wants to hear, that lie is only good for the present. It will catch up to you and you will lose all credibility. And then no one will have faith in you.” And then there is Craighead’s style of massage. “I don’t give frou-frou massages,” he said. “When I work the soft tissue, I want to achieve results for the athlete. I used to have a vise grip. When I would massage an athlete for the first time, I’d tape two tongue depressors together and ask the athlete to put it in his mouth. They’d ask why. I’d say, ‘Because I don’t want you to chip a tooth when I start massaging you.’ Every once in a while someone would laugh. So I’d start and they would be screaming for the tongue depressors in a few seconds.” Craighead is not shy about it, not at all: “I’m an enthusiastic, passionate guy.”... The closer I get to turning 40 on October 5, 2010, the more I keep freaking out... Meeting James made me cry... it brought up incredibly strong memories of KARIN, who once wrote out the lyrics to "Fade To Black" to me in a love letter... I will try to stay focused if I meet James again... Forgive, Forget, Breathe...
 35.7% of the California Massage Therapy Council advocates using Massage Therapy as a front for promoting prostitution. This includes: Chair of the Board-Beverly May; Chair of the Credentials Committee-Bob Benson; Chair of the Public Policy and Local Government Committee-Mark Dixon; Board Member-Keith Grant; Board Member-Dixie Wall... these are just the people I know and have argued with about this issue... (Some of this commentary was included in my "personal statement" when I recently applied to attend Law School at JFK University, though I have yet to truly decide that I want to attend Law School...) I am considering attending the upcoming 27th International Conference on Shamanism, Healing and Transformation Wisdom of Our Ancestors-Bridge to The Future so I can meet Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD who has written: ...Zuni pueblo in New Mexico practice a technique very similar to the high-velocity adjustment of the neck and spine popularized as chiropractic... ...Hopi people and their practices were the source of inspiration for a type of massage now called Hakomi.. ...Discussion exists among Native American scholars as to whether A.J. Still, the father of American osteopathic medicine, who was also the physician for the Shawnee Nation for more than 20 years, lifted much of what became osteopathic medicine or chiropractic from Shawnee healing practices. The Shawnee were originally native to northern Kentucky and southern Ohio and were neighbors to the Cherokee, with whom they share many similarities in bodywork practices... I was talking to a friend recently who told me that she personally believes that the "discovery" of chiropractic by Palmer fails to mention the influence brought by Chinese laborers Palmer met... ... ...The opening of the mall coincided with the anniversary of Astana’s founding and Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 70th birthday and hosted prominent guests including Turkish, Russian, United Arab Emirates, Armenian, Tajikistan and Ukrainian presidents...“art of mastery.”...   42 seconds of MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL Metallica to play Christchurch, New Zealand 09/22/2010 SOLD OUT IN 5 MINUTES!!! "truly incredible!": Second show in Christchurch, New Zealand at CBS Canterbury Arena on September 21! SOLD OUT IN 28 MINUTES! After playing Christchurch, Metallica heads straight to Tokyo for back-to-back shows 09/25 and 9/26. ON SALE NOW right now the main thing is to not have a heart attack on stage. People were asking why I was dancing around like a clown ... Acupuncture Today, July, 2010 What's In A Name? by William Morris, DAOM, PhD, LAc ...truth be told, I was also chosen because of a willingness to take time to write about the "hot topics" that we all face... It is first prudent for us to discuss, as a field, the name we use to identify ourselves... (MPA Media publishes: Acupuncture Today, Massage Today, and Dynamic Chiropractic.)
I would like to congratulate you on the 59th CIDESCO World Congress
& Exhibition held in Stockholm, Sweden. I understand CIDESCO Congress is a very significant and meaningful event where
global skincare professionals can enhance their friendship and share information. The 60th CIDESCO World Congress & Exhibition
2011 is scheduled to be held in the Republic of Korea, organized by Korea Central Esthetician’s Association.
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June 10, 2010 - 12:45 PM PST- Parked next to California Senator Diane Feinstein (stunt double?) while she was sitting in her
car eating frozen yogurt... Celebrity encounters...it's not surprising really, being I can drive to Diane's house from where
I am sitting now in about 20 minutes...I've come across Nancy Pelosi and George Schultz walking around San Francisco
in the past...  ...the victor of the election will be keen to massage and manipulate and boost national pride while inflicting tough decisions elsewhere on the economy... --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Spa Solage, Calistoga, Napa Valley, California
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--- Ken Zankel Past President, Golden Gate Restaurant Association Ken Zankel is passionate about San Francisco restaurants. A native New Yorker, he switched coasts more than a decade ago and has firmly entrenched himself in the restaurant community here. After working at Visa USA as the Director of Restaurant Industry Marketing, Ken opened Zinzino Ristorante in San Francisco in 1995. Ken garnered accolades for Zinzino from the James Beard Foundation, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner before selling the establishment in 2001. In 1999, he opened The Grove Café on Chestnut Street, which was joined by its sister establishment, The Grove-Fillmore, in 2002. These two restaurants represent the combining of Ken’s great loves -- music, food, and design – to create warm, inviting, rustic, hip environments. Ken has served on the GGRA Board since 1999 and relishes the opportunity to serve the city’s restaurateurs. An alumnus of Skidmore College, Ken also holds an MBA from Columbia University. --- Zankel served on the board of directors of Citigroup, Travelers Property-Casualty, and other corporations, and was a trustee of the UJA Federation, the New York Foundation, Carnegie Hall, and Skidmore College. He and his wife, Judy, made a major donation to Carnegie Hall, which led to the construction of a new Carnegie concert space named in their honor. Zankel’s connections to Skidmore were many. Two of his four sons graduated from Skidmore, Kenneth in 1982 and James in 1992, as did a nephew, Harun Zankel, Class of 2001, and a daughter-in-law, Pia Scala Zankel, Class of 1992. As a Skidmore trustee, he was known for his astute leadership of the board’s investment committee—particularly for his role in shepherding the College’s endowment—and for his incisive contributions to discussions, frequently enhanced by his sense of humor. Zankel endowed a professorship in management and the liberal arts and the related Zankel Lecture Series, which fosters discussion of business issues from a societal and ethical perspective. ---      Federer is merely toned. His forearm is sinewy rather than
resembling a side of beef, and tells of someone who strikes the ball with beautiful fluidity and an economy of effort that
minimises damage to his body...'The ones who inspire me are those who can do it again and again at the highest level - Valentino
Rossi, Michael Schumacher, Tiger, Michael Phelps. It's amazing to me that I have been able to do something similar... 'I just
sat there for a few minutes on my own in the quiet and took it all in....
Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law new from $13.70
--- I am asking you for help, this is a challenge for me and I realize I will only be able to work to improve this situation if I make myself accountable to all of you. --- --- Why did I have to go to a website in Ghana to read this??? "...staffed with illiterates, untrained persons, charlatans, yes-men, impostors and soli-minded false journalists, even in the persons of some editors who cannot write simple editorials or common news items, disgracing this noble profession..." --- 20 Mar 2010, 0108 hrs IST, NYT News Service US hotel chains expand into Asia, create new options --- March 20, 2010- ''Gay and homo are words wealthy and educated people use,'' he says. ''The people around here call us gur [raw sugar] or mitha [sweet].'' ...Young homosexual men in Mumbai often move between multiple city identities including sex worker, massage boy, student and even Bollywood film extra... ...''In India we have this great contract of silence. It's like 'you know and I know' and it's only when we start talking about it that it becomes a problem.''... ... 03/22/2010, Issuance of new licenses for massage parlours stopped by Dubai
--- --- --- 05.19.10, 37 Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses meet with US president "sometimes there are misunderstandings that have to be resolved" May 18th 2010, 11:11 PM, Obama meets with 37 Jewish pols for a 'group hug and group gripe' "it was not a feel-good meeting - everyone spoke their minds and from the heart"  (Does she talk about prostitutes who are not women?) ...(Brunel)
says many of the country's 90,000 prostitutes have been pushed out of city centers and are "now hidden in woods and on
the Internet, where it is far easier to harm someone." Hundreds of women are also believed to have quit the country for
work in legal brothels just across the border in Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands.       --- ...Publications carrying advertisements for prostitution could be fined £10,000 under the new law, which will be put forward in Labour’s election manifesto... --- Posted : Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:37 GMT Author : Kimptons Vero Beach Hotel & Spa (Hi Kay!)
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"I fell as suffering prey to the tortures of the city" - Kahlil Gibran
Corporate
Carveout (does Mumbai still matter???) --- - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton --- The world's largest picture of the Milky Way is 37 meters long; highest-resolution, most sensitive "stitching together"
  ...Margaret Hearst expressed disdain for Kevin Stone's "celebrity" atmosphere...
In 1987 Klaus Heidegger retired from competitive
skiing and joined his wife in New York to help run Kiehl's((( Oprah Winfrey wandered off in mid-sentence – to massage a blob of Kiehl's lotion into her
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- - - Wednesday, October 28, 2009The passing of Dr. Richard E. Erhard, PT, DC--- The General Assembly also passed a bill that would allow University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and Community College of Rhode Island students to apply Advanced Placement and other credits towards an accelerated three-year bachelor’s program. ------- How many known prostitutes and/or advocates for using "Massage Therapy" as a front for promoting prostitution are currently on the California Massage Therapy Council??? I count 5, at a bare minimum.
 
Harry Britt was appointed to fill Harvey Milk's seat after Milk died... Harry Britt was first appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 1979 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, succeeding Harvey Milk who was killed at City Hall along with Mayor George Moscone by former Supervisor Dan White. Britt was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1980, 1984, and 1988. Britt served as President of the Board of Supervisors from 1989-90. Britt introduced domestic partner legislation in 1982 which was passed by the Board of Supervisors, but vetoed by Mayor Feinstein. In 1989, under Britt's leadership, the board passed domestic partner legislation, which was signed by Mayor Art Agnos. However, voters repealed the domestic partnership law by initiative; a modified version was reinstated by another voter initiative, 1990's Proposition K, also written by Britt. Britt ran unsuccessfully for the 5th Congressional District of California in 1987, narrowly losing to Nancy Pelosi. He was unsuccessful in his race against Mark Leno for the California Assembly in 2002.
A brief comment... Thursday Oct 29, 2009 Updated 10:40 AM PT... I'm thinking about how Erica told me that she had never met her father, and that her fears of abandonment, of being alone, are some of her many "issues". Orlando told me that somewhat recently Erica and her father had some sort of contact, or chance at contact, but that Erica's father flaked out. I feel so sad for Erica sometimes. I first fell in love with Erica as she stood with two of the girls she used to be a nanny for (this is the job she left so she be near me). I first fell in love with Erica in "mother" mode... 
Consider the symbolic value. Consider the fact that I asked Erica to marry me while giving her this collage... Monday Oct 19, 2009 Updated 7:44 PM PT: Tonight I talked with a man named Orlando, who apparently recently ended a relationship with Erica O'Connor. We shook hands over the phone. Orlando told me that Erica has been to this website, and while on the one hand, her initial story about me began with Erica saying I was some sort of stalker guy, Erica eventually told him that our relationship was "complicated", and Orlando seems to have come to appreciate my side of the story enough that we may talk again at some point in the future. As I pointed out to him, at least she didn't try to get Nathan Dorris to run you over with his car, or try to send you to jail. Orlando told me that Erica is facing hard financial times, a circumstance which I certainly have compassion for. She no longer lives with Nathan Dorris and now lives in Corte Madera. The money she inherited from her grandmother is gone. I wonder if Erica appreciates the fact that I essentially helped her get her current job working the front desk at Massage Envy Sausalito (Clinic 137)? I wonder if Erica recalls that she took a pay cut from her previous job to work at Massage Envy San Rafael, a job which, according to Michael Woo, she took specifically so she could be near me... Orlando is an accountant in San Francisco, and got me to think specifically about the financial impact Erica has had on me so far. After Erica had me sacked from my $1000 per week job, I was essentially unemployed for nine months. There goes $36,000. Legal fees paid to Steve Duditch: $4000. Underemployed from January 2009 to January 2010, when compared to the $1000 per week I was making before Erica broke up with me: a loss of a minimum of $1000 per month... Falling in love with Erica cost me over $50,000? Will Erica and I ever even speak again? Orlando told me that Erica had never mentioned anything to him about the book "The New Erotic Photography", published by Taschen, edited by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll. I scanned, heavily censored, and uploaded a copy of page 449, from the edition of "The New Erotic Photography" that Erica gave to me. I feel deeply conflicted when I consider posting it. I wonder what George Pitts, or Taschen, would have to say about that? What would Erica have to say? Erica got mad at me when I offered to pay her for modeling for me, just as she got mad at me when I offered to pay her the first time she bought me lunch (a pizza slice). How can Erica continue to treat me this way, as an artist, a friend, a lover, a human being?
- a life wherein I found it well to accept a name - my present one - which is very common and carries no meaning. H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) ...
The last time I saw Erica O'Connor, aka "Holly Hearse", (August 21, 2009) she was working the front desk at Massage Envy in Sausalito, California (Clinic #0137). [Please note that while I helped Erica O'Connor get hired at Massage Envy San Rafael (Erica failed her first interview, and was only given a second interview due to my giving her a positive reference and encouraging the manager to give her a second chance), after we became a couple and then broke-up, she in turn lied about me to the manager, the owners, and various co-workers and friends so she could have me maligned and "indefinitely suspended" from my position as Massage Envy San Rafael's #1 most popular employee.] Massage Envy San Rafael Massage Therapist, Michael Woo, specifically told me that the reason Erica O'Connor was applying for a job at Massage Envy San Rafael was so that she could be near me, and seduce me. The only reason Erica had to be angry with me, to lie about me to the San Rafael Police Department, the Marin County Sherrif's office, the Marin County Superior Court and others is this: I insisted that Erica tell Nathan Dorris about our relationship. (Erica was living with Nathan Dorris during our entire relationship.) "If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you." Really? How is it then, that through false statements, perjury, malicious prosecution, and an absolutely frivolous lawsuit, Erica O'Connor had a "Temporary Restraining Order" filed against me without my having proper legal representation? This TRO stripped away my Second Amendment Rights, as well as my right to peacefully and freely travel for three years. At no point have I ever threatened Nathan Dorris or Erica O'Connor in any way. Nathan Dorris threatened me repeatedly, coming to my apartment and even trying to run me over with his car. He got away with it, completely. (I should point out that Erica O'Connor sued me twice. The first time Erica sued me I hired Steven Duditch as my attorney. (I almost hired David Vogelstein as my attorney, but he was unavailable to take my case at the time.) I won the first trial, but it cost me $4,000. Then Erica sued me again. For the second lawsuit, I could not afford an attorney. At the time of the second trial I hadn't worked full-time in several months and could barely afford to pay my rent. I should also point out that in both these cases, Erica sued me for free claiming, "I ask the court to waive the filing fee because [the accused] has used or threatened to use violence against me, has stalked me, or has acted or spoken in some other way that makes me reasonably fear violence." None of these things have ever happened.) An interesting side note- there is a "massage/spa" brothel next door to Steve Duditch's law office in San Rafael. Sometimes I wish I hadn't erased the voicemail Erica left me after we had gone out together clubbing at Bondage-A-Go-Go in San Francisco with a bunch of friends from work at Massage Envy in San Rafael. She knew I was pissed off that she had ignored me at the club because she wanted to keep our relationship some sort of secret from certain people. I tried to hold her hand, and she walked away... So she called me later that night, crying, asking to come over to my apartment, telling me she understood if I refused to ever see her again. She stood outside my apartment building and threw her fancy leather boots at my second-story window trying to wake me up. ... Which leaves me contemplating law school again. If I had that recording of Erica crying for me, I would play it for Ed and Lou (two of the co-owners of Massage Envy San Rafael). Would I play it for you?
This website's most recent update/editing/revision: Friday April 23, 2010 11:37 AM PT Very Good News! As of February 20, 2010 my Transunion, Experian, and Equifax credit reports for Sallie Mae all state: Status: Open/Never late. - and my credit scores have been updated high enough to where I can now realistically consider returning to graduate school...
After over a year of trying to get someone at Sallie Mae, Transunion, etc. to recalculate the obvious mistakes on my account which had destroyed my credit and nearly made me homeless, someone listened! (actually, this response is quite prompt when compared to the fact that the American Massage Therapy Association has NEVER returned my phone calls. I've been waiting since 2003...) --- The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences was founded by Stanley Paris, who was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on August 13, 1937. Stanley Paris was appointed to the New Zealand Olympic Team as a physiotherapist for the Summer Games in Rome in 1960, and Mexico City in 1968. In 2006 Stanley Paris received the highest honor awarded annually by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) in delivering the 37th Mary McMillan Lecture. So the two famous former residents of New Zealand I have met with are Stanley Paris and Tim Barnett. I recall that while it is true that my reasons for withdrawing from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences were due to my disappointment with the quality of instruction provided, I was also unhappy with a dress-code policy of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences ruling that male students were not allowed to wear earrings on campus. It's true I rarely wear earrings these days, but it is also true that both my ears are pierced. I was wearing earrings in both ears when I met Tim Barnett, in fact. Life Chiropractic College West has pictures of males wearing earrings in it's public relations materials, and allows male student interns to wear earrings in it's Health Center. All I want to do right now is go back to graduate school... business? law? chiropractic? acupuncture? naturopathic medicine (including midwifery)? psychology? art? writing? Would I consider going back to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences and completing the clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy, particularly now that they have a campus in San Diego? (Last time I wrote them, they returned my letter unopened.) I wish I could find sponsorship of some kind... Is business booming? How is business over at Ferrari and Maserati of San Francisco (which is not in San Francisco, but Mill Valley) these days? One of my coworkers, a graduate of one of the "best" massage schools in Illinois, told me she was astonished by some work I did with her shoulders, saying it was the best massage she'd ever had in her life. ... Why did Nathan Dorris try to run me over with his car? Why do we sometimes care so deeply about symbols, words, flags, jewelry, etc.? Why did Erica O'Connor keep the three teddy bears and three satin roses that I gave her the first time I asked her to marry me, in the College of Marin parking lot after her performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream, instead of returning them, as Nathan promised? Why did she keep the collage I made for her, a collage very much about our relationship? (Items returned by Nathan Dorris with this note included: Bizarro! The Art & Technique of Special Make-up Effects by Tom Savini, a pair of leopard-print fuzzy Sanita clogs, even obscure items, like a scrap of paper with my phone number on it, but for some strange reason, no collage, no satin flowers, and no tiny teddy bears...) Why did I mail a postcard to Nathan Dorris, a collage made from his own handwriting, saying, "please return everything boyfriend"? Why did Erica buy me chicken soup and organic fair-trade flowers from Whole Foods? Why did Erica lie, lie, and lie yet again about me? Why did Erica give me a copy of "The New Erotic Photography" (edited by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll, published by Taschen in 2007), and refuse to take it back when I tried to return it to her? Who is the model on page 449, photographed by George Pitts? The collage I gave Erica, which she kept, included a receipt from Earthworks in Santa Rosa: 1" 14K White Gold Tiny Butterfly Necklace $370.00 10% Discount (because my best friend's wife was the salesperson) -$37.00 $370 - $37 = $333 ...
 
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