Rick penning biography

Richard L. Penning

Registered Physiotherapist

Richard completed the Masters of Health Sciences in Physiotherapy degree at the University of Ottawa in 2016. Prior to entering this program, he completed a Bachelor of Science degree with specialization in Human Kinetics (2013), graduating with honours. In 2020, he completed the Masters of Clinical Science – Advanced Health Care Practice (Manipulative Therapy) program at Western University and has since become a registered Fellow with the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy (FCAMPT). Richard began working for Ottawa Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic at the Orleans location but is now working full time at the Westboro location. Richard treats various acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as providing post-concussion syndrome rehabilitation and vestibular rehabilitation (BPPV, cervicogenic dizziness, vestibular neuritis, Manière Disease).

Growing up in Ottawa, Richard has built strong ties with the community. He completed his High School at St. Matthew. Playing hockey since he was 5, Richard ended his hockey career with the Gloucester Rangers Junior “A” hockey team (2009-2011). Having a history of multiple injuries while playing sports as an adolescent and using physiotherapy to facilitate his recovery, Richard grew a large appreciation for the profession.

Richard provides treatment such as manual therapy (joint mobilizations, spinal and peripheral joint manipulations, soft-tissue mobilizations), dry needling, acupuncture, exercise prescription, and patient education. Richard enjoys working with clients to help them understand their condition/pathology, formulate rehabilitation goals, and realize their goals with a rehabilitation plan that is specific to the needs of each individual client.

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    • Forever Strong

    2008 American film

    Forever Strong is a 2008 American sportsdrama film directed by Ryan Little, written by David Pliler and released on September 26, 2008. The film stars Sean Faris, Gary Cole, Neal McDonough, Sean Astin, Penn Badgley and Arielle Kebbel. The film is about a troubled rugby union player who must play against the team his father coaches at the national championships. Forever Strong is based on a compilation of individual true stories.

    Plot

    Rick Penning (Sean Faris) is captain of his high school rugby team whose coach Richard Penning (Neal McDonough) is his father, and whose players indulge in drugs and alcohol. After losing the championship to their rivals the Highland Rugby Team, Rick drinks and drives, resulting in a crash that seriously injures his girlfriend, Tammy (Tyler Kain).

    He is sentenced to a boys' Juvenile Detention Center in Salt Lake City. The manager of the center, Marcus (Sean Astin) puts him on the Highland rugby team much to his chagrin, coached by Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole). He struggles to adapt to this new team's ways. A friend sends him a rugby ball with drugs hidden in the stitching. He uses the drugs until influenced by something one of his new teammates tells him, he throws the drugs away. He works hard and finds the strength to become a member of the widely admired Highland team. Each day when he arrives at team practice he criticizes the coach for sitting around chatting with different team members and not doing any real coaching. Then it is his turn to sit with the coach and find himself confessing to the drugs hidden in the rugby ball. The coach deals with it and tells him his teammates want him to be a captain. He is influenced by brotherhood and can cope with his homesickness.

    Driving home after a celebration meal, the team is helping a mother and two children with a flat tire when a passing car clips one of the boys. Rick now must deal with the death of his first true friend

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    Justin London Bio

    Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities
    Chair of Music

    Office: Weitz Center for Creativity M208

    Phone: 507 222 4397

    Email: jlondon@carleton.edu

    Justin London received his BM degree in Classical Guitar and his MM degree in Music Theory from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and he holds a PhD in Music History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Leonard Meyer. He teaches courses in music theory, the philosophy of music, music psychology, cognitive science, and American popular music. Professor London’s research interests include rhythm and meter, music perception and cognition, and musical aesthetics, often from a cross-cultural perspective. He is currently involved in several joint research projects: micro timings and ensemble coordination in Malian percussion music (with Rainer Polak, RITMO institute, University of Oslo, and Nori Jacoby, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt), the effect of bodily movement on rhythm and tempo perception (with Petri Toiviainen and Marc Thompson, the University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and how the microstructure of musical sounds affects their rhythmic properties (with Anne Danielsen, University of Oslo). Professor London served as the President of the Society for Music Theory in 2007-2009, and President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition in 2016-2018. For more information, please visit his website.

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    Gwen Anderson Bio

    Senior Lecturer in French Horn

    Office: Weitz Center for Creativity M110

    Phone: 507 222 5338

    Email: ganderso@carleton.edu

    GWEN ANDERSON(French Horn) has been a member of the Summit Hill Brass Quintet since 1976, which has released numerous CDs and performs regularly in the Twin Cities and outstate area. Anderson studied music at the University

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    • Rick Penning

    Tenor Rick Penning has performed with opera companies including Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Opera Omaha, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

    Since 1980, Minnesota Opera has been Rick’s opera “home.” Highlights of his work there includes workshops and world premiere productions of Black River, A Death in the Family, Casanova’s Homecoming,The Grapes of Wrath, Silent Night, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Shining. Significantly, a production of Carmen in 1981 brought Rick and his wife, Sandra Henderson, together for the first time. Their sons have also been a part of the Minnesota Opera family: Andrew was seen as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca and as Miles in The Turn of the Screw, and his brother, Christopher, appeared in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in the role of the First Spirit.

    Rick Penning has earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Arts from Luther College.

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