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Fedora Project Releases Fedora 7 Moonshine

It’s May 31st, 2007 and I am excited about the Fedora Project and todays release of the Fedora 7 Operating System (aka Moonshine). It must be a Linux day since I posted earlier about Ubuntu installs on Dell. Anyway, I’ll be downloading Fedora 7 tonight and upgrading at least one of the servers (currently on Fedora core 6) we use here at Planet Chiropractic.

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Ubuntu Linux on my Dell XPS M1210

PC maker Dell recently announced that they will begin shipping computers in the USA loaded with Ubuntu, an open source community developed Linux based operating system that is loaded with features for the desktop user.

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Chiropractic Jobs and Other Classifieds Now Available Via RSS

Thanks to advances in Internet technology such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), web content that in the past may have only been available in one location, can now be distributed through a potentially unlimited number of channels, offering much greater access to the source information. For example, a current news article written about whales in San Francisco, could potentially appear in minutes across thousands of web sites thanks to the technology behind RSS.

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RSS Feeds Added to Chiropractic Classifieds

Planet Chiropractic added really simple syndication (RSS) feeds to the chiropractic classifieds section of the website over the Memorial Day weekend. The RSS feed (you can activate it by clicking the image to the left – requires ability to view XML) indexes the 50 most recent advertisements posted to the classified section of the website

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Toggle Recoil Chiropractic Adjustment

I shot this video clip at a Dynamic Essentials seminar back in the late 1990s. It’s a quick 28 second clip of a chiropractor adjusting another chiropractor using a drop headpiece. Notice how relaxed the person getting adjusted is and how quick the chiropractor makes the adjustment. How long should an adjustment take anyway? Once

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Chiropractic Internet Company Stands Tall

I received my monthly “information age” e-newsletter from chiropractic internet company Now You Know (NYK) earlier today. As I browsed through the copy I found myself thinking “these guys are still right on and standing tall for chiropractic.” I figured it’s better to share some of those thoughts rather than just keeping them to myself.

Read More »

Chiropractic Adjustment in Los Angeles Office

This chiropractic video was filmed in January of 2006. It features a young woman getting adjusted on a Lloyd 402 Thompson-like drop table. In the video we go through a functional leg check, do some drop table adjusting, and some hands-on diversified style chiropractic adjustments. The video was originally posted as a plug for my

Read More »

Taking Chiropractic X-Rays Of the Cervical Spine

Do you know what I would’ve paid to have access to demonstrations on how to take chiropractic x-rays when I was in chiropractic College? As far as I can remember, things like that did just not exist. As students, we had to visit chiropractic offices, observe in chiropractic clinics, and sit in classrooms listening to

Read More »

Herniated Discs and Chiropractic Educational Video

The other day I posted a video link of a mini lecture I presented on spinal vertebrae. Using one of those popular plastic spine models, the ones that show four stages of degeneration, I answered some of the questions people ask me all the time in my chiropractic office. I filmed another video yesterday, and

Read More »

Planet Chiropractic News RSS Feed Updates

A picture is worth a thousand words but written content is still king. This past weekend, Planet Chiropractic updated the way we do RSS feeds so that now images and photos can be included in the syndication of our news releases.

Read More »

Bones Spinal Nerves and Disks

This morning I found an old digital camera had lying around at my Los Angeles chiropractic office. The camera only had a 64 Mb memory card but I noticed it could capture Apple format .mov video, which I never try to use it for. I placed the camera on a tripod in one of my

Read More »

2007 ICA Chiropractor of the Year

John K. Maltby, DC, FICA, of Blythe, California has been honored as the 2007 Chiropractor of the Year by the International Chiropractors Association (ICA). Dr. Maltby was presented the Association’s highest honor at ICA’s 81st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on April 28, 2007. This award, which was created by ICA’s Founder Dr. BJ Palmer in 1950, is presented annually to one exceptional individual who has distinguished themselves throughout their career through extraordinary service to the ICA and the chiropractic profession.

Read More »

Introduction to Chiropractic in Spanish

A chiropractor in Orange County, California contacted me yesterday wanting to know if Planet Chiropractic still had chiropractic videos in Spanish. Back in early 2000, or sometime around there, we had a video available for sale featuring Panamanian born chiropractor Dr. Luis Ocon of Salinas, California. Since the time I filmed the video (digitally on

Read More »

Google Search Results Go Universal

It seems the whole Search Engine Optimization world today was talking about the changes that just took place at Google. The search behemoth said on Wednesday that it was changing its approach to Internet searches by combining results from sources such as Google News, video, maps, and other Google properties, into organic search results.

Read More »

House Committee Says Yes to Chiropractic

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Tuesday (May 15, 2007) by voice vote approved six veterans’ health care bills that would expand free care for war veterans, establish brain injury research centers and make chiropractic care more accessible, according to news reports.

Read More »

Chiropractic Care for Veterans

I received notice today from the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) that US Representative Bob Filner’s legislative initiative to provide program wide chiropractic staffing at all US Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, H.R. 1470, has passed out of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and will now be considered by the Full House of Representatives.

Read More »

Classified Ad Scams Chiropractic Table

About two weeks ago I posted to this blog regarding the sale of the used chiropractic flexion distraction table I had in my garage. You can view the blog here… Used Chiropractic Tables I learned a few things from making the post which I’ll be sharing here. I sold the table this past Sunday to

Read More »

Parker Chiropractic College Homecoming Dallas

Parker Chiropractic College will be holding their homecoming celebration the first week of June, 2007. The on campus event will be held in connection with the June Parker chiropractic seminar, also taking place in Dallas, Texas. Information about the event is posted on the Planet Chiropractic events pages under the listing “Parker Chiropractic Seminars Dallas.”

Read More »

Extraordinary Chiropractor Speaking in Philadelphia

Make Your Life Extraordinary Coming To Philadelphia June 2nd! Dr. Guy F. Riekeman, President of Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, recognized as one of the most inspiring, informative, and entertaining speakers in America today is bringing his presentation entitled, Make Your Life Extraordinary to the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, 17th & Race Streets, Philadelphia, PA

Read More »

Chiropractic Association Maintains Principles

The International Chiropractors Association (ICA), the world oldest international professional organization representing chiropractic minded individuals, was lead to action recently when a group representing state chiropractic associations issued a statement pushing for merger of the organization with another, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA).

Read More »

Replace Old Thought Patterns With New Thought Patterns

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. Monday Morning Message for 5/14/07 Who is driving the car? When something doesn’t go the way that you hoped it would in your life, is it always someone else’s fault. Until we acknowledge that we have free choice in life we will never be able to reach our full potential. As

Read More »

New York Chiropractic Yankees

Los Angeles: The New York Yankees and chiropractic have been in the news the past few weeks thanks to major-league baseball player Johnny Damon. In most recent news, the New York Times reported earlier this week that the Yankees would be hiring a team chiropractor, apparently on the advice of Johnny Damon.

Read More »

Wait and see prescription

Earaches bring more unhappy children to emergency rooms and pediatric offices each year than just about any other health disorder. Antibiotics remain the most popular medical treatment for earache, with doctors reportedly writing 15 million prescriptions per year in the United States alone. It is estimated that at least half of the prescriptions are unnecessary and ineffective for helping this problem.

Read More »

Summer Chiropractic Seminars and Continuing Education

It’s getting to that time when chiropractors are beginning to register and make travel plans for various summer chiropractic seminars happening throughout the United States. I checked the Planet Chiropractic Event Database and there are a few chiropractic events worth mentioning here. It looks like Dr. Rob Schiffman is hosting a get the big idea

Read More »

Used Chiropractic Tables

This past weekend I moved a chiropractor table into my garage in preparation of a room remodel going on at my house. I found myself thinking what would I do with a used chiropractic table and today I decided to post it for sale on the planet chiropractic classified ad pages. It’s a flexion distraction

Read More »

Fedora Project Releases Fedora 7 Moonshine

It’s May 31st, 2007 and I am excited about the Fedora Project and todays release of the Fedora 7 Operating System (aka Moonshine). It must be a Linux day since I posted earlier about Ubuntu installs on Dell. Anyway, I’ll be downloading Fedora 7 tonight and upgrading at least one of the servers (currently on Fedora core 6) we use here at Planet Chiropractic.

Read More »

Ubuntu Linux on my Dell XPS M1210

PC maker Dell recently announced that they will begin shipping computers in the USA loaded with Ubuntu, an open source community developed Linux based operating system that is loaded with features for the desktop user.

Read More »

Chiropractic Jobs and Other Classifieds Now Available Via RSS

Thanks to advances in Internet technology such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), web content that in the past may have only been available in one location, can now be distributed through a potentially unlimited number of channels, offering much greater access to the source information. For example, a current news article written about whales in San Francisco, could potentially appear in minutes across thousands of web sites thanks to the technology behind RSS.

Read More »

RSS Feeds Added to Chiropractic Classifieds

Planet Chiropractic added really simple syndication (RSS) feeds to the chiropractic classifieds section of the website over the Memorial Day weekend. The RSS feed (you can activate it by clicking the image to the left – requires ability to view XML) indexes the 50 most recent advertisements posted to the classified section of the website

Read More »

Toggle Recoil Chiropractic Adjustment

I shot this video clip at a Dynamic Essentials seminar back in the late 1990s. It’s a quick 28 second clip of a chiropractor adjusting another chiropractor using a drop headpiece. Notice how relaxed the person getting adjusted is and how quick the chiropractor makes the adjustment. How long should an adjustment take anyway? Once

Read More »

Chiropractic Internet Company Stands Tall

I received my monthly “information age” e-newsletter from chiropractic internet company Now You Know (NYK) earlier today. As I browsed through the copy I found myself thinking “these guys are still right on and standing tall for chiropractic.” I figured it’s better to share some of those thoughts rather than just keeping them to myself.

Read More »

Chiropractic Adjustment in Los Angeles Office

This chiropractic video was filmed in January of 2006. It features a young woman getting adjusted on a Lloyd 402 Thompson-like drop table. In the video we go through a functional leg check, do some drop table adjusting, and some hands-on diversified style chiropractic adjustments. The video was originally posted as a plug for my

Read More »

Taking Chiropractic X-Rays Of the Cervical Spine

Do you know what I would’ve paid to have access to demonstrations on how to take chiropractic x-rays when I was in chiropractic College? As far as I can remember, things like that did just not exist. As students, we had to visit chiropractic offices, observe in chiropractic clinics, and sit in classrooms listening to

Read More »

Herniated Discs and Chiropractic Educational Video

The other day I posted a video link of a mini lecture I presented on spinal vertebrae. Using one of those popular plastic spine models, the ones that show four stages of degeneration, I answered some of the questions people ask me all the time in my chiropractic office. I filmed another video yesterday, and

Read More »

Planet Chiropractic News RSS Feed Updates

A picture is worth a thousand words but written content is still king. This past weekend, Planet Chiropractic updated the way we do RSS feeds so that now images and photos can be included in the syndication of our news releases.

Read More »

Bones Spinal Nerves and Disks

This morning I found an old digital camera had lying around at my Los Angeles chiropractic office. The camera only had a 64 Mb memory card but I noticed it could capture Apple format .mov video, which I never try to use it for. I placed the camera on a tripod in one of my

Read More »

2007 ICA Chiropractor of the Year

John K. Maltby, DC, FICA, of Blythe, California has been honored as the 2007 Chiropractor of the Year by the International Chiropractors Association (ICA). Dr. Maltby was presented the Association’s highest honor at ICA’s 81st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on April 28, 2007. This award, which was created by ICA’s Founder Dr. BJ Palmer in 1950, is presented annually to one exceptional individual who has distinguished themselves throughout their career through extraordinary service to the ICA and the chiropractic profession.

Read More »

Introduction to Chiropractic in Spanish

A chiropractor in Orange County, California contacted me yesterday wanting to know if Planet Chiropractic still had chiropractic videos in Spanish. Back in early 2000, or sometime around there, we had a video available for sale featuring Panamanian born chiropractor Dr. Luis Ocon of Salinas, California. Since the time I filmed the video (digitally on

Read More »

Google Search Results Go Universal

It seems the whole Search Engine Optimization world today was talking about the changes that just took place at Google. The search behemoth said on Wednesday that it was changing its approach to Internet searches by combining results from sources such as Google News, video, maps, and other Google properties, into organic search results.

Read More »

House Committee Says Yes to Chiropractic

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Tuesday (May 15, 2007) by voice vote approved six veterans’ health care bills that would expand free care for war veterans, establish brain injury research centers and make chiropractic care more accessible, according to news reports.

Read More »

Chiropractic Care for Veterans

I received notice today from the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) that US Representative Bob Filner’s legislative initiative to provide program wide chiropractic staffing at all US Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, H.R. 1470, has passed out of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and will now be considered by the Full House of Representatives.

Read More »

Classified Ad Scams Chiropractic Table

About two weeks ago I posted to this blog regarding the sale of the used chiropractic flexion distraction table I had in my garage. You can view the blog here… Used Chiropractic Tables I learned a few things from making the post which I’ll be sharing here. I sold the table this past Sunday to

Read More »

Parker Chiropractic College Homecoming Dallas

Parker Chiropractic College will be holding their homecoming celebration the first week of June, 2007. The on campus event will be held in connection with the June Parker chiropractic seminar, also taking place in Dallas, Texas. Information about the event is posted on the Planet Chiropractic events pages under the listing “Parker Chiropractic Seminars Dallas.”

Read More »

Extraordinary Chiropractor Speaking in Philadelphia

Make Your Life Extraordinary Coming To Philadelphia June 2nd! Dr. Guy F. Riekeman, President of Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, recognized as one of the most inspiring, informative, and entertaining speakers in America today is bringing his presentation entitled, Make Your Life Extraordinary to the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, 17th & Race Streets, Philadelphia, PA

Read More »

Chiropractic Association Maintains Principles

The International Chiropractors Association (ICA), the world oldest international professional organization representing chiropractic minded individuals, was lead to action recently when a group representing state chiropractic associations issued a statement pushing for merger of the organization with another, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA).

Read More »

Replace Old Thought Patterns With New Thought Patterns

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. Monday Morning Message for 5/14/07 Who is driving the car? When something doesn’t go the way that you hoped it would in your life, is it always someone else’s fault. Until we acknowledge that we have free choice in life we will never be able to reach our full potential. As

Read More »

New York Chiropractic Yankees

Los Angeles: The New York Yankees and chiropractic have been in the news the past few weeks thanks to major-league baseball player Johnny Damon. In most recent news, the New York Times reported earlier this week that the Yankees would be hiring a team chiropractor, apparently on the advice of Johnny Damon.

Read More »

Wait and see prescription

Earaches bring more unhappy children to emergency rooms and pediatric offices each year than just about any other health disorder. Antibiotics remain the most popular medical treatment for earache, with doctors reportedly writing 15 million prescriptions per year in the United States alone. It is estimated that at least half of the prescriptions are unnecessary and ineffective for helping this problem.

Read More »

Summer Chiropractic Seminars and Continuing Education

It’s getting to that time when chiropractors are beginning to register and make travel plans for various summer chiropractic seminars happening throughout the United States. I checked the Planet Chiropractic Event Database and there are a few chiropractic events worth mentioning here. It looks like Dr. Rob Schiffman is hosting a get the big idea

Read More »

Used Chiropractic Tables

This past weekend I moved a chiropractor table into my garage in preparation of a room remodel going on at my house. I found myself thinking what would I do with a used chiropractic table and today I decided to post it for sale on the planet chiropractic classified ad pages. It’s a flexion distraction

Read More »