From: diedwardo7@gmail.com Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:00 AM To: info@alangrahamdc.com; ; garysbusiness@gmail.com; diedwardo7@gmail.com; kathy@relaxedandalert.com; laurojr4@yahoo.com; hgarth60@yahoo.com; Robert Brown; Matthew K Taijiquan; eimbody@earthlink.net Cc: MARYANN P DIEDWARDO Subject: Minutes NQA April 28,2013 meeting National Qigong (Chi Kung) Association USA NQA Research and Education Committee Minutes by Maryann DiEdwardo (Sub for CJ 8 P.M. Sunday April 28, 2013.) (Next Meeting: May, 26, 2013 8:00 pm Eastern Time, 5:00 pm Pacific Time-meetings are generally the fourth Sunday of each month) Committee Members Attending VICE CHAIR Gary Giamboi (garysbusiness@gmail.com) Eric Imbody (eimbody@earthlink.net) Alan Graham (info@alangrahamdc.com) Lauro Medina Jr. (laurojr4@yahoo.com) Maryann DiEdwardo (diedwardo7@gmail.com) Guests Robert Brown (b2bolin@olypen.com) Garth Henry <'hgarth60@yahoo.com Minutes by Maryann DiEdwardo who used joinme Webconference in addition to the Teleconference. Preparation Previous to the meeting, Maryann received CJ's request to sub, emails from CJ to verify set up teleconference phone reminder, past Minutes; Robert emailed March Agenda and offered helpful suggestions before, during and after the meeting via email. Maryann welcomed members. Maryann set up joinme to use her name as the code. At 7:55P.M. Maryann thanked Gary for entering a few minutes early to discuss the joinme Webconference and to verify that Maryann planned to demonstrate editing Wikipedia to encourage members to participate in the ongoing Wiipedia Project. Maryann talked about how to enter joinme which offers meeting presenters the capability of actual real time screen view. Wikipedia update & discussion. -- As members entered, through the use of joinme application, Maryann showed CJ's clearly exciting Wikipedia Project Page and demonstrated how to enter the page with the URL that CJ posted in March minutes. Maryann suggested that the meeting could prepare participants to edit on their own to further the networking through Wikipedia for NQA. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/P roposals/Multidisciplinary/Qigong Group Discussion about Wikipedia We discussed writing (as a team) a reply to the Wikipedia Project site in the discussion area with a response to a recent post by a gentleman named John Carter. Members all spoke about the quality of unbiased reply and we all created a few sentences together. Maryann posted the reply. Comment by Mr.Carter: "Personally, I tend to think that this might be best proposed as a subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion, possibly as a broader form of its existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Falun Gong work group. Yes, I know that the subject includes a bit more than religion, but I also know that the encyclopedic coverage of the topic in existing reference sources is probably most extensive in the content relating to the broad topic of "religion," considering that the qigong movement and qigong itself seem to be basically based in that field. John Carter (talk) 20:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)" OUR REPLY "Reply: Qigong is not synonymous with religion. Qigong is not synonymous with Falun Gong. However, Falun Gong may utilize QiGong practice. Qigong does have the potential for cross references." Quantum Biology potential connection to Qigong was mentioned as a topic. We did not add to the ideas but Maryann said she will attempt to support the project. Education: Direction and Projects - Gary and Eric --Eric talked about the successes of the teleconference lectures on the NQA webs and Maryann showed the pages via joinme to encouage members to network about real time impressive lectures on the NQA site. Meeting ended at 7:55 P.M. Thanks to all who helped Maryann DiEdwardo and members for a lively discussion as well! NQA P O Box 270065 St. Paul, MN 55127 Phone: 888-815-1893 Fax: 888-359-9526 NQA Research and Education Committee, CJ Rhoads Chair, PO Box 564, Douglassville, PA 19518 Phone: 484-332-3331 Cell: 610-468-5039 Email: CJRhoads@TaijiquanEnthusiasts.org Sent from my iPhone