Wartime radio is a genre of music that was enjoyed during the late 1930s through mid 1940s. After the end of World War II, this music escalated until the paranoia of the Cold War made this kind of music irrelevant after the Soviet menace (under Joseph Stalin) replaced the Nazi menace (under Adolf Hitler). To most people, wartime radio music is fun, cheerful, bold, and daring. To others, wartime music can be depressing (especially if one is of German, Italian, or Japanese descent - an example of the nations that were vanquished by the Anglo-American forces in World War II). English is the only language that wartime radio is done to and some people from France were Nazi collaborationalists, thus making this kind of music unenjoyable for those Frenchmen who did not fight with the Allied Forces all the way through World War II.
One notable example of wartime radio songs is the iconic World War II song Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Swing music is also another notable example of wartime radio music. Lawrence Welk would later play this kind of music on The Lawrence Welk Show.
One notable example of wartime radio songs is the iconic World War II song Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Swing music is also another notable example of wartime radio music. Lawrence Welk would later play this kind of music on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) - non-profit organization promoting educational and scientific exchanges between Vietnam and other countries, mainly the United States. Established in 1990 under the auspices of Mennonite Central Committee. The Center is a member of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
From 1992 to 2000 CEEVN was a part of the Vietnam Fulbright Exchange Program managed by ACLS and helped more than 200 Vietnamese professionals to complete graduate study.
The Organization administers many educational and scholarships programs related to Vietnam in cooperation with the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), Ford Foundation, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Asia Network.
Activities
* Supporting study missions abroad for Vietnamese senior delegations and other professional and scholarly exchange;
* Fellowships for study abroad s and Doctoral level degrees, postdoctoral research in anthropology and sociology;
* Fellowships for research and language training in neighbouring countries: Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, China;
* Exchange and training programmes in political science, philosophy and sociology;
* Identifying training programmes in Southeast Asia and other countries;
* Assisting Vietnamese institutions to administer training and exchange programs in foreign countries;
* Serving as Vietnam liaison for the Harvard-Yenching Institute that provides training fellowships in social science and humanities;
* Providing access to education for persons from disadvantaged groups nominated through the Diversity Enhancement Fund (DEF);
* Providing linkages, guidance and logistical assistance to groups seeking to develop exchanges with Vietnam.
From 1992 to 2000 CEEVN was a part of the Vietnam Fulbright Exchange Program managed by ACLS and helped more than 200 Vietnamese professionals to complete graduate study.
The Organization administers many educational and scholarships programs related to Vietnam in cooperation with the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), Ford Foundation, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Asia Network.
Activities
* Supporting study missions abroad for Vietnamese senior delegations and other professional and scholarly exchange;
* Fellowships for study abroad s and Doctoral level degrees, postdoctoral research in anthropology and sociology;
* Fellowships for research and language training in neighbouring countries: Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, China;
* Exchange and training programmes in political science, philosophy and sociology;
* Identifying training programmes in Southeast Asia and other countries;
* Assisting Vietnamese institutions to administer training and exchange programs in foreign countries;
* Serving as Vietnam liaison for the Harvard-Yenching Institute that provides training fellowships in social science and humanities;
* Providing access to education for persons from disadvantaged groups nominated through the Diversity Enhancement Fund (DEF);
* Providing linkages, guidance and logistical assistance to groups seeking to develop exchanges with Vietnam.
Brett Bitove (Born on June 27, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a collegiate basketball player in the United States. He plays for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in North Carolina. He is the only international member of the Deacons roster. He is the son of John Bitove Jr., founder of the Toronto Raptors. Brett played high school basketball at the Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and was selected to the Palm Beach Post All-County Team in his Junior and Senior years. He was invited to try out for the Canadian National basketball team in the summer of 2008.
High School
A 2008 graduate of the Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Played varsity basketball for four years under coach Jeff Cavallo. Two-time All-Palm Beach County honoree. Averaged 19 points, nine assists and seven rebounds as a senior. Helped the Buccaneers to a 2A state runner-up finish as a sophomore in 2005-06. Served as a team captain. Brett was invited to tryout for the Canadian Junior National Basketball Team twice and to the Canadian National Basketball team. He is high school teammates with UNC Asheville sophomore forward Quinard Jackson. Earned varsity letters in basketball and in track & field. He is a three-time district champion in the high jump where he finished 11th in the state as a sophomore. Brett played AAU basketball for the Florida Ambassadors under coach Harvey Gold.
Personal
Of Macedonian descent, he was given the name Brett Emerson Bitove. His parents are John and Randi Bitove. His father was the founder and owner for several years of the Toronto Raptors. Brett gave the name 'Raptors' to the Toronto franchise as a young boy. He was born in Toronto, Canada but attended high school in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He now attends Wake Forest University with his brother J.J. and intends to major in Business. He also has a younger sister Blair who is friends with Zoe Godown.
High School
A 2008 graduate of the Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Played varsity basketball for four years under coach Jeff Cavallo. Two-time All-Palm Beach County honoree. Averaged 19 points, nine assists and seven rebounds as a senior. Helped the Buccaneers to a 2A state runner-up finish as a sophomore in 2005-06. Served as a team captain. Brett was invited to tryout for the Canadian Junior National Basketball Team twice and to the Canadian National Basketball team. He is high school teammates with UNC Asheville sophomore forward Quinard Jackson. Earned varsity letters in basketball and in track & field. He is a three-time district champion in the high jump where he finished 11th in the state as a sophomore. Brett played AAU basketball for the Florida Ambassadors under coach Harvey Gold.
Personal
Of Macedonian descent, he was given the name Brett Emerson Bitove. His parents are John and Randi Bitove. His father was the founder and owner for several years of the Toronto Raptors. Brett gave the name 'Raptors' to the Toronto franchise as a young boy. He was born in Toronto, Canada but attended high school in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He now attends Wake Forest University with his brother J.J. and intends to major in Business. He also has a younger sister Blair who is friends with Zoe Godown.
Grand Master Xu Mingtang is a patriarch of the Zhong Yuan Qigong school, the President of Chinese Zhong Yuan Qigong Association, and a professor of the Chinese Research Institute of Human Latent Potentials. He is also a board member of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong, a professor of the Chinese and Western Medical Joint Hospital in Beijing, and a founder of the International Mingtang Foundation and Beijing Kundawell Medicine Institute. He is a healer and researcher, as well as the author of a two-book series, "Entering One's Own Universe - ZY Qigong", in Russian.
Early life
Mingtang was born in 1963 into a well-known family of doctors and martial artists in Henan Province. He followed in the footsteps of one of his ancestors - Prince Kimnara, the Guardian of Principles of the Shaolin Monastery, whose memorial temple is there up to now. His great grandfather was a very respected martial artist at that time. In his early childhood Mingtang learned Chinese medicine, shamanic practices and martial arts from his family and from different teachers. His father was a great doctor of Chinese and Western medicine, and a director of a hospital where, at the age of seven, Mingtang began to diagnose his first patients. At the age of fourteen, he began to take his patients independently. At the age of 16, he left home to study computer science at university in Xian - one of the most prestigious universities in China. During this time he continued to scan and treat patients, including his teacher's father who suffered from Parkinson's disease.
Upon his graduation in 1983, he returned to Henan Province and together with his teacher he began to train intensively at places known for their healing power: the Shaolin Monastery, the Longmen Grottoes, the White Horse Temple, and the Cloud and Frog Mountains. Mingtang's father and teacher urged him to pursue a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering at the prestigious Beijing University. His teacher wanted to him to bring the ancient wisdoms of Qigong and Chinese medicine to modern science. He attended Beijing University, where he graduated at the top of his class, and became the Chief Engineering and Project Director at the Software Laboratory of the National Academy of Science in China.
Career
In 1988, Xu Mingtang founded the Chinese Zhong Yuan Qigong Association and became its president. In 1989, he became an associate professor of the Chinese Research Institute of Human Latent Potentials.
To devote more time to healing, he left his work in China in 1991 and went to Russia, where he started to teach Zhong Yuan Qigong. In the course of several years, he had seminars in all countries of the former Soviet Union and in several countries in Eastern Europe. Each visit to individual countries was joined by a large number of patients who visited him from different parts of the world. In 1992, Mingtang founded the Kiev Traditional Medicine Clinic, which is situated in the centre of the financial and governmental area of Kiev.
In 1996, he was invited to Israel to profess and examine patients. In 1997, Xu Mingtang established a non-profit organization, the International Mingtang Foundation. Through interviews on many television channels he became famous and a very engaged doctor and teacher in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. The same year, he founded the Department of Oriental and Physical Health at Celjabinsk Physical Education Academy. It offers a five-year study programme focused on the research of Zhong Yuan Qigong and Chinese traditional medicine.
In 1998, Mingtang was invited as a professor of Chinese and Western medicine to the Chinese and Western Medical Joint Hospital and to the Beijing Chinese Medicine University. He also became a board member and Advanced Specialist Consultant of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. In western Europe, he was invited to teach and examine patients in Germany and attended the International conference about Qigong in Malaga, Spain. He also founded the Research Institute of Eastern Medicine in Ukraine.
In 1999, the American Association of Qigong invited Mingtang to teach image therapy to medical workers in the USA. The next year, the Zhong Yuan Qigong Association was established in America. He also founded a clinic in Seattle.
In 2006, Xu Mingtang led the first special retreat for his personal students in Moscow, attended by almost 500 people. In 2007, the US Congress invited Xu Mingtang and Michio Kushi, one of the founders of macrobiotic food, to discuss the topic of alternative medicine. The discussion was directed at improving the health of the population and looking for new medicine methods. Mingtang shared his results in the field of image medicine by healing family members of many congressmen. After this event, the Traditional Chinese Medicine was promoted to the level of Western medicine, which means that a qualified doctor of TCM is in the USA equivalent to a graduated doctor of Western medicine. Before this decision, traditional Chinese medicine was considered to be alternative medicine. A doctor of TCM can have three specializations - phytotherapy, acupuncture, and Qigong. At the same time, Qigong was accepted as the official method of alternative medicine.
In April 2008, the Beijing Kundawell Medicine Institute was opened. Kundawell Medicine Institute receives the first clients for research and a large group of foreign visitors and professional healers who Xu Mingtang taught personally, for two months of intensive training using image therapy. Approximately 50,000 certified image therapy healers have been trained so far.
The main aim of the Kundawell Medicine Institute is the research of chronic diseases which are, according to Western medicine, incurable. Each patient is approached individually so that the cause of the disease and the patient's condition can be examined in order to determine the specific curative method. The Institute cooperates with worldwide specialists of image therapy who are trained by Mingtang, as well as Chinese doctors and specialists of traditional Chinese medicine.
Image medicine
Throughout worldwide research and application, it has shown that image medicine provides a strong medical effect. Image medicine displays a curative effect in the process of healing various diseases, such as:
*Chronic bronchitis and asthma
*Chronic prostatitis and nephritis
*Thyroid hypertrophy
*Cervical spine disc
*Thoracic spine and lumbar disc herniation
*Sleep apnea
*Hypertension
*Sequelae of myocardial infarction
*Atherosclerosis
*Myocardial ischemia
*Arrhythmia and bradycardia
*Ovarian cyst
*Chronic gastritis and enteritis
*Crohn's disease
The effects of image medicine on these diseases is being researched.
*Hepatitis C
*Herpes virus
*Lymphatic system viruses
*Muscular dystrophy
*Diabetes
*Various diseases of the nervous system
Early life
Mingtang was born in 1963 into a well-known family of doctors and martial artists in Henan Province. He followed in the footsteps of one of his ancestors - Prince Kimnara, the Guardian of Principles of the Shaolin Monastery, whose memorial temple is there up to now. His great grandfather was a very respected martial artist at that time. In his early childhood Mingtang learned Chinese medicine, shamanic practices and martial arts from his family and from different teachers. His father was a great doctor of Chinese and Western medicine, and a director of a hospital where, at the age of seven, Mingtang began to diagnose his first patients. At the age of fourteen, he began to take his patients independently. At the age of 16, he left home to study computer science at university in Xian - one of the most prestigious universities in China. During this time he continued to scan and treat patients, including his teacher's father who suffered from Parkinson's disease.
Upon his graduation in 1983, he returned to Henan Province and together with his teacher he began to train intensively at places known for their healing power: the Shaolin Monastery, the Longmen Grottoes, the White Horse Temple, and the Cloud and Frog Mountains. Mingtang's father and teacher urged him to pursue a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering at the prestigious Beijing University. His teacher wanted to him to bring the ancient wisdoms of Qigong and Chinese medicine to modern science. He attended Beijing University, where he graduated at the top of his class, and became the Chief Engineering and Project Director at the Software Laboratory of the National Academy of Science in China.
Career
In 1988, Xu Mingtang founded the Chinese Zhong Yuan Qigong Association and became its president. In 1989, he became an associate professor of the Chinese Research Institute of Human Latent Potentials.
To devote more time to healing, he left his work in China in 1991 and went to Russia, where he started to teach Zhong Yuan Qigong. In the course of several years, he had seminars in all countries of the former Soviet Union and in several countries in Eastern Europe. Each visit to individual countries was joined by a large number of patients who visited him from different parts of the world. In 1992, Mingtang founded the Kiev Traditional Medicine Clinic, which is situated in the centre of the financial and governmental area of Kiev.
In 1996, he was invited to Israel to profess and examine patients. In 1997, Xu Mingtang established a non-profit organization, the International Mingtang Foundation. Through interviews on many television channels he became famous and a very engaged doctor and teacher in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. The same year, he founded the Department of Oriental and Physical Health at Celjabinsk Physical Education Academy. It offers a five-year study programme focused on the research of Zhong Yuan Qigong and Chinese traditional medicine.
In 1998, Mingtang was invited as a professor of Chinese and Western medicine to the Chinese and Western Medical Joint Hospital and to the Beijing Chinese Medicine University. He also became a board member and Advanced Specialist Consultant of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. In western Europe, he was invited to teach and examine patients in Germany and attended the International conference about Qigong in Malaga, Spain. He also founded the Research Institute of Eastern Medicine in Ukraine.
In 1999, the American Association of Qigong invited Mingtang to teach image therapy to medical workers in the USA. The next year, the Zhong Yuan Qigong Association was established in America. He also founded a clinic in Seattle.
In 2006, Xu Mingtang led the first special retreat for his personal students in Moscow, attended by almost 500 people. In 2007, the US Congress invited Xu Mingtang and Michio Kushi, one of the founders of macrobiotic food, to discuss the topic of alternative medicine. The discussion was directed at improving the health of the population and looking for new medicine methods. Mingtang shared his results in the field of image medicine by healing family members of many congressmen. After this event, the Traditional Chinese Medicine was promoted to the level of Western medicine, which means that a qualified doctor of TCM is in the USA equivalent to a graduated doctor of Western medicine. Before this decision, traditional Chinese medicine was considered to be alternative medicine. A doctor of TCM can have three specializations - phytotherapy, acupuncture, and Qigong. At the same time, Qigong was accepted as the official method of alternative medicine.
In April 2008, the Beijing Kundawell Medicine Institute was opened. Kundawell Medicine Institute receives the first clients for research and a large group of foreign visitors and professional healers who Xu Mingtang taught personally, for two months of intensive training using image therapy. Approximately 50,000 certified image therapy healers have been trained so far.
The main aim of the Kundawell Medicine Institute is the research of chronic diseases which are, according to Western medicine, incurable. Each patient is approached individually so that the cause of the disease and the patient's condition can be examined in order to determine the specific curative method. The Institute cooperates with worldwide specialists of image therapy who are trained by Mingtang, as well as Chinese doctors and specialists of traditional Chinese medicine.
Image medicine
Throughout worldwide research and application, it has shown that image medicine provides a strong medical effect. Image medicine displays a curative effect in the process of healing various diseases, such as:
*Chronic bronchitis and asthma
*Chronic prostatitis and nephritis
*Thyroid hypertrophy
*Cervical spine disc
*Thoracic spine and lumbar disc herniation
*Sleep apnea
*Hypertension
*Sequelae of myocardial infarction
*Atherosclerosis
*Myocardial ischemia
*Arrhythmia and bradycardia
*Ovarian cyst
*Chronic gastritis and enteritis
*Crohn's disease
The effects of image medicine on these diseases is being researched.
*Hepatitis C
*Herpes virus
*Lymphatic system viruses
*Muscular dystrophy
*Diabetes
*Various diseases of the nervous system