home study course chiro
By admin | June 20, 2007
As far as I know there are no home study courses for chiropractic but there is an increasing number of videos featuring chiropractors doing what they do best appearing online.
Check out this video of a chiropractor at work…
Chiropractors are typically in school at least two years before they even begin putting their hands on people. There are thousands of chiropractic techniques and probably several dozen major techniques taught in chiropractic colleges throughout the world.
This video shows someone getting an adjustment while lting on their side. If you watch carefully you can see that the pillow or thing the person is lying on moves when the adjustment is made. In chiropractic that is called a toggle recoil…
This next video below is really popular on google video and it’s been online since early in 2006. It features the same person as the first video above but the chiropractor talks a bit about what he is doing so you can follow along and get an idea as to what is going on.
Great stuff…
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Creating content For Google Universal Search
By admin | May 21, 2007
by Los Angeles chiropractor, Michael Dorausch
Here are my step-by-step methods for creating content that I have found will likely improve your results in having it appear in the new Google search model known as universal search.
1) Create Video
Chances are you already have a digital camera that can capture video with so you will not need to go out and get a fancy professional camera rig in order to make this work for you and your web site. If you’ve got a digital camera that can capture a minute of video and preferably audio you can do just fine using this model.
In order to complete this step you are required to have a user account with either YouTube or Google Video. For the sake of this article I’m going to use Google video as an example.
Grab your camera and create your first production. This doesn’t have to be super perfect but were not doing any editing of the video so pick the topic you want to record and get yourself ready before filming.
Sitting here looking around my desk I could think of a thousand things to do one minute videos on that would be beneficial to others. For example, I’ve attached my Treo 700 phone to my laptop so that I can get wireless Internet without having to purchase a wireless card from my local cell phone company. Should only take a minute for me to show how that is done.
2) Upload Video
I’m skipping the step of editing video since we are just doing a quick example of the steps you can take to make this happen. Take your memory card from your camera or plug your camera in directly to your computer. I am assuming you know how to copy files over to your computer from your camera (that would be a great video).
Login to your Google video account and upload your video. Make sure you select the proper categories and take the time to write a good headline and properly worded description of your video content.
3) Blog Your Video
Login to your blog and write a post about the video you just uploaded. You should already have a direct link that you can incorporate into your blog. If you’re using blog software such as Wordpress and have additional video plug-ins installed such as Cool Player you can embed the video directly into your post. You can also get an embedded HTML link code from your Google video account to use within your blog post.
In your blog talk about your video and maybe create a screen shot or two, properly naming the images, and incorporating them into your blog post.
Following this method, when the search engine comes crawling, you are likely to get your video indexed, your blog post indexed, your screenshot images indexed, all which are relevant to your topic and your website.
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Enabling dual function on device 0000
By admin | April 6, 2007
This past weekend I put together a linux based web server that I plan on running out of my home. As has happened many times before when doing hardware installs, I experienced some difficulties that I was not anticipating. Thanks to the many resources available on the Internet, I located the information I needed fairly quickly and was able to continue with the install.
Here is a summary of basically what went on…
Part of my server configuration involved the use of an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard. The board I received did not ship with the latest BIOS (AB9 Pro BIOS 1.6) and as a result I would get the following error while doing the install…
:PCI: JMB36X: Enabling dual function on device 0000:06:00.0 (along with a message for regions 0, 1, 2, and 3)
To resolve this I upgraded to the latest bios, which at that time was version 1 .6. After that I entered the bios and selected AHCI for my SATA drives (1.6 Terabytes!). I continued with my install (Fedora core 6.0) and all went well.
Once I had the system up and running I noticed I was getting no Internet connection even though the AB9 Pro has two gigabit LAN cards built in to the board. I shut the system down and loaded an old Linksys card I found lying around and then did a reboot. Linux discovered the card, accessed the Internet, and notified me there were about 168 updates to be made.
After all the updates were complete I shut the system down an removed the Linksys card from its PCI slot. I re-booted the system and Fedora discovered the 2 gigabit cards just fine.
My lessons: before building systems check for all the latest updates on bios and drivers; always have a computer close by that has access to the Internet in case you need to download something or do some research on software or hardware; it’s always a good idea to have some extra parts lying around such as an old floppy drive (in case you need it to load the driver’s), keyboard, mouse, and even an additional functioning hard drive.
I’m doing another install this weekend and I plan for that one to go more smoothly. 
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Life in the 1500s history lesson
By admin | March 30, 2007
Disclaimer - Read Me First: The post below contains quite a few false attributions of the origin of some common English phrases. I received it as an email attachment sometime around April or May 1999. I found it today in an old planetc1.com email folder and was about to delete it off of my drive and thought I’d post it here first.
Life in the 1500s
Now here’s a history lesson…
Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. .Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children-last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it-hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”
Houses had thatched roofs — thick straw — piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof — hence the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying “dirt poor.” The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start
slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway — hence, a “thresh hold.”
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while — hence the rhyme, “peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man “could bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from stale bread, which was so old and hard that they could be used for quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms and meld got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy, moldy trenchers, one would get “trench mouth.”
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or “upper crust.”
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a “wake.”
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a “bone-house” and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the “graveyard shift”) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be “saved by the bell” or was considered a “dead ringer.”
And that’s the truth… (Whoever said that History was boring?)
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Weekly conference calling via MP3
By admin | March 12, 2007
This is the first of what will probably be several posts related to the topic of improving effectiveness and efficiency in getting recorded teleconference calls to subscribers on a weekly basis. I decided to post information related to a project I am working on, in hopes of getting insight and useful information from others, so that together we can come up with an efficient and effective method to deliver teleconference MP3 files online.
The Beginning
I have a friend that does a weekly phone conference with a group of paid subscribers. A few years ago the company that provided their teleconference services began offering to record the conference calls in MP3 format. This was great news for my friend since now their teleconference subscribers were not locked into listening during the one hour window that calling into the live conference call required. Subscribers could now go online and access the weekly call in MP3 format, a bonus for many since they were frequently unable to participate in the live conference.
I have been helping my friend make the recorded MP3 calls available to subscribers for several years now. We recently moved their web account over to a new server and also switched to their site to Wordpress (was Mambo CMS). We are facing some decisions as how to best move forward in a way that will provide the fastest and most efficient service for all parties involved.
The Goal
My goal is to reduce the number of steps taken in getting a weekly recorded conference call to a subscriber.
Current Steps Involved
Monday morning at 10 a.m. the one-hour conference call is recorded with a live participating audience. The data center that provides the teleconference services saves the call file to an MP3 in a month-date-client.mp3 format, resulting in a file that would be saved as follows for Monday, March 12… 0312client.mp3.
The saved file gets e-mailed to my friends web site administrators e-mail inbox.
The web site administrator has been doing the following week after week…
- Checks e-mail early Monday afternoon
- Saves the 0312client.mp3 attachment locally
- Starts an FTP client so he can upload the file
- On server-side, renames the last week’s WeeklyCall.mp3 to 0305WeeklyCall.mp3
- Uploads 0312client.mp3 file to server-side FTP directory
- Renames 0312client.mp3 to WeeklyCall.mp3
On the old server, the MP3 files lived in a directory that was password-protected with .htaccess so that nonpaid subscribers would not be downloading the files. On the client-side (www) the file name was always the same — WeeklyCall.mp3 — that way static links offered from the web site or via e-mail would result in the most recent file being accessed.
End users typically access the MP3 file via the Web, Windows media player, WinAmp audio player, or some other similar interface. In all cases, they were prompted for a username and password before being able to download the file.
To keep things simple, the .htaccess username always stayed the same. For example, “subscriber” was a username that would allow all users to download the most recent file. The password however, would change on a monthly basis, for both the live teleconference, and the online download. The dial in teleconference required a six digit password, followed by the # sign. Each time the password is changed for the dial in teleconference, all subscribed users are sent an e-mail notifying them of the new password.
Changing of passwords has created some problems for both the live calls and the recorded calls. Changing passwords is necessary since some subscribers don’t continue paying monthly and it wouldn’t be fair to regular subscribers, if others could listen to the calls (either live or recorded) for free.
As stated earlier, my goal is to reduce the steps it takes to deliver an effective and efficient weekly teleconference program via MP3. A specific problem I have noticed is that when a staff member at my friend’s office decides to change the password they have to…
- contact the call center and request a new password
- e-mail all of their subscribed clients with the new password
After the Web administrator receives the same e-mail the clients are getting, he logs into the web site via an admin panel, and changes the password protection on the directory where the files are stored. Problems experienced include:
- subscribed clients not getting their e-mail (or not reading their e-mail)
- clients getting their e-mail (particularly new clients) and attempting to use the new password before the administrator has changed it
There are also some issues specific to Wordpress…
My friend is using the mod rewrite rules in Wordpress, resulting in a permalink structure.
The mod rewrite information found in the root .htaccess file no longer allows my friend to store recorded MP3 files in the way they did before.
Here was the old www format…
http://www.clientconferencecallwebsite.com/paidsubscribers/WeeklyCall.mp3
One could enter that hyperlink into Windows media player, Winamp, Internet Explorer, a Firefox browser (or others) and be prompted with the username and password information so that they could then download the file.
With the Wordpress permalink structure (I’ll include .htaccess info below) the server would be looking for the following directory…
http://www.clientconferencecallwebsite.com/wp-content/paidsubscribers/WeeklyCall.mp3
Here is the standard .htaccess file content used for creating permalinks…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
To keep the same format on the client-side, one solution I had would be to add a line to the beginning of the .htaccess file as follows…
RedirectMatch permanent ^/paidsubscribers/WeeklyCall.mp3$ http://www.clientconferencecallwebsite.com/wp-content/paidsubscribers/WeeklyCall.mp3
That way users could continue accessing the files like they always have. I have a feeling we’ll be revamping pretty much everything though in an effort to shorten the steps involved and improve efficiency.
Some of the steps that I believe can be changed or removed include:
Teleconference call center to Web administrator
- Create a script that triggers saving the MP3 file attachment to an FTP folder when e-mail is received on the server from the call center
- Create a unique FTP account for the call center and have them directly upload the current file to the FTP server (this may not be an option as they are busy enough)
I’m already getting some ideas after writing this and I’ll begin addressing those in another post. Feel free to comment if you have suggestions and/or questions.
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video codecs and solutions desired
By admin | March 8, 2007
Hey their Internet video codec gurus,
I am seeking methods to display screencasts (tutorials made for my computer screen) inside of my Wordpress posts. I found a few plug-ins that allow video to play within posts but my problem is in the creating and converting of content.
I am using CamStudio to create a screen cast and I’m trying to use the H.264 codec but my files are saving is AVI type. I’d upload the content to Google video, like the one here on this page, but the format comes out crappy since the video gets compressed.
I am seeking a solution to either store video on my own server in a streamable mpeg format (or some other format) that is not bandwidth hungry, relatively small in file size, and will stream quickly. Any input from the world of tech media gurus is appreciated.
I’d like to be able to display videos like the one above in a larger screen format (I’ll put them on a different Wordpress site that has a wide content column) but I could use some help figuring out which codecs to use, which file type to save as (so I can stream), as well as what ever other stuff I missing or forgetting.
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KenRadio Mp3 via KickRSS
By admin | March 4, 2007
The purpose of this post is to share some insight into how RSS feeds can be mixed and mashed up to create new content. In this example I’ll be using RSS feeds from a popular tech news PodCast that has been sent through a JavaScript found on the KickRSS web site.
We start by going to the source web site, in this case, KenRadio.com. On the web site, there are two different RSS feeds. The first, and the one most people would probably click on, is available at the top of the main page (subscribe to this feed). That feed includes all the posts made to the KenRadio web site (which includes both MP3 and text content).
First, I am taking the RSS Podcast feed from KenRadio and will be running it through a JavaScript on KickRSS. In the screenshot below you’ll see that KenRadio offers several ways to listen to their audio broadcast (Windows media, RealPlayer, MP3). We are interested in the syndicated RSS feed.
I’m using the following settings in the JavaScript…
Show channel? Yes: Display information about the publisher of the feed.
Show item descriptions? 1=show full description
Target links in the new window? Yes
For RSS 2.0 feeds with Podcast enclosures, display link to media files: YES
(See the KickRSS JavaScript page to view all options for RSS feeds)
Here is the result of the JavaScript… (note: if you’re not seeing KenRadio content below something’s wrong)
We did not necessarily have to include information for the podcast enclosure since all links are going to launch an MP3 file (which would remove the “play MP3″ line).
Here’s what the feed would look like if we decided not to include the podcast enclosure (no play mp3 tab)… (note: if you’re not seeing KenRadio content below something’s wrong)
What’s cool about RSS is that you can mix multiple feeds into a mash up of “new” content and then put that content through the JavaScript generator. You can then place the resulting content on your web site or blog. In theory, Ken’s audio podcast’s could be available on web sites throughout the world.
To show the difference from the feed output above and the RSS feed on the main page of Kens web site, take a look at this…
That feed appears differently than the ones above which are strictly for MP3 podcasts.
In this last example we went to KickRSS and created a user called KenRadioMix. We then ran that user through the JavaScript RSS generator on KickRSS. We changed a few settings (limited the output to six items) and now we can display that mix here…
Unbeknownst to the source content creator at KenRadio.com (we’ll contact them) they have just increased their ability to syndicate their content across multiple channels. A user in the tech industry may want to display KenRadio content on their web site, the JavaScript generator makes this possible. KenRadio could even make a themed CSS coded snippet of JavaScript that users to their web site could copy and paste into their web sites, resulting in the MP3 broadcasts being available elsewhere. You can view an example of a styled feed here… Styled RSS Feed
In an upcoming post I will focus more on getting the feed styled and converting it into a simple section of JavaScript code that a visitor to your web site could copy and paste to another location.
Thanks to KenRadio for letting us use their RSS feeds as an example for this article.
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PickMe ClickMe is Online!
By admin | February 22, 2007
There will probably not be too many posts made to this web site. Most of the content here is coming from external RSS feeds and so those pages are going to be static. I am thinking about writing articles on how a site like this is developed. Basically, this web site is using a Wordpress theme, a Wordpress blogging software install, some open source Java script code to create the static pages, and some creative input from me.
The JavaScript is coming off of a web site called KickRSS.com and it allows you to take a single XML feed or a group of mixed RSS feeds and create a JavaScript code that you can plug into nearly any web site so that the content of those feeds is displayed on your page. There are tons of opportunities in this space. I only set up this site so I can keep track of most of my favorite RSS feeds while on the road. The way this web site is set, I can share all that feed information with others.
So as I said, there may not be too many posts on this site, but the posts I make will be related to how to use RSS in ways that can make your life easier.
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