jueves, 19 de marzo de 2009

Japan Eliminates Cuba in 2009 World Baseball Classic

HAVANA, Cuba, March 19 (acn) Defending champions Japan advanced to the semi-finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) with a 5-0 win over Cuba behind a combined five-hit pitching of starter Hisashi Iwakuma and reliever Toshiya Sugiuchi on Wednesday night at the Petco Park in San Diego, United States.

Japanese starter Hisashi Iwakuma held the Cubans scoreless over six innings, where he scattered five hits while Sugiuchi retired the nine batters he faced in the last three innings.

Japan scored its first two runs in the fourth inning when Cuba centerfielder Yoennis Cespedes dropped Michihiro Ogasawara’s fly with two out and two runners on base. Akinori Iwamura added a run each in the fifth and seventh innings before Ichiro Suzuki had the final score in
the ninth.

Meanwhile, Venezuela beat Team USA 10-6 at the Dolphin Stadium in Miami to claim the top spot of its group.

Now, Venezuela will face the loser of Thursday’s Japan-South Korea game in one of the semifinal matches next weekend at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles while the United States will play the winner.

(Cuba cayó ante Japón y dijo adiós al Clásico)

Venezuelan President Criticizes US Blockade of Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, March 19 (acn) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reiterated on Wednesday his criticism of the US financial, trade and economic blockade of Cuba and said that the Caribbean nation should be allowed to participate in the upcoming Summit of the Americas that will take place in Trinidad and Tobago on April 17-19, 2009.

During a session of the Council of Ministers in Caracas, Chavez said that Cuba is the only country of the hemisphere that is not invited to this kind of event. "This issue should be revised in the next meeting," he noted.

The Venezuelan leader added that Cuba is in Latin America. "It doesn't make any sense that it has joined all the regional institutions, mechanisms and forums but remains outside the Summit of the Americas," he stressed.

According to Juventud Rebelde news daily, Chavez again condemned the US economic blockade of Cuba and said that he expects the new American administration to define its position in this regard during the next Summit of the Americas.

He also announced that, on April 16th, Venezuela will host the 5th Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas ALBA), a mechanism for regional integration and cooperation founded in December 2004.

(Reitera Chávez críticas al bloqueo yanqui a Cuba)

FULLNESS: The face is the mirror of the soul, and the hair?

By:Jesus Barreto Toral

The hair for the woman is usually more valuable seduction charm, but it is sometimes returned its worst opponent. It is this way, because the hair is an essential part of the body in its appearance.

It irradiates a subtle message that determines the personality, but the power that it emanates it is much more in the specialists' opinion.

According to psychologists of the University of London, the hair is an indicator of the state of the person's spirit and it can show who are.

The use of the hair like means to express the psychological or emotional state are notorious and the query that arises is: Why is it expressed the anger or the pain attacking the physical appearance in end, as to shave the head eliminating a beautiful mane or to be tinted the hair with strident colors?.

If it is poked in the history in biblical times, the women as much as men were shaved the head in mourning sign or to manifest a deep sadness. In other times and cultures the shaved head was an indicative of reject and shame.

Certainly, this reaction won't solve the problems that suffer, but rather it is only symptom of the imbalance and the person's emotional pain. For fortune scientific ways exist of fighting with the conflicts and it is wise to look for the help of the specialists on time.

It has been said by the experts in this matter that when difficult moments are confronted in the life, the process of to intersect the hair and to liberate energy that could be blocked, is beneficial for the mental health.

In the field of the psychiatry the hair expresses an unconscious symbolic meaning, it is even considered a transitory object that represents to the maternal figure.

The hair this ligature to the physical and emotional identity and there are studies that explain that when the short , these cutting a part of you.

Opinions exist about that the prehistoric woman took the long hair so that their babies were held of him.

It has been the time with their technological, scientific advances and aesthetic development, the one that has transformed this attribute into the “crown of glory” of the woman and in symbol of their beauty and their power of attraction.

May occur that takes it short, long or medium, the important thing is that it is healthy.

Will sesion in Cuba Culinary Festival of the Caribbean

Havana, March 19. (AIN) The First Culinary International Festival of the Caribbean will take place in Santiago deCuba in coming September, it was given to know in this capital.

In the appointment, experts of 25 countries of the region will exchange experiences about the typical food as symbol of the cultural identity of the towns, informs today the revolving Juventud Rebelde.

As President of Honor of the Organizing Committee of the event was named the chef Gerard Dupont, president of the Culinary Academy of France who has imparted conferences and masterful classes in several gastronomic centers of the Island.

In declarations to the mentioned juvenile newspaper, Dupont said that the Cuban cookers work well, but more ideas are necessary for them and to increase their nutrition knowledge.

He also advised to use less the salt and the sugar in the kitchen of Cuba, because they are products that damage the health in excess.

Showed in UNESCO headquarters in Camagüey works of Ileana Sánchez

Painter of Camagüey Ileana Sánchez. Camagüey, March 19- Works of the painter of Camagüey Ileana Sánchez are exposed by fifth time in Paris, now in the headquarters of the Organization of United Nations for the Education, the Science, the Culture, the Communication and the Information, UNESCO.

Corresponding to several thematic series, the three pictures figure in an inaugurated international sample on Wednesday in the institution.

The inclusion of Sánchez's pieces is related with the official proclamation, in last February, of the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity conferred to the foundational sector of the urban historical center of Camagüey, the artist's native territory.

The referred creations are “Bicitaxi”, “Flying on the city” - both with references to the town - and “Clowns”, in which there is a singular use of the style naif.

Full with cubany, of exuberant coloring, and with similar appearance to the comic ribbons, the paintings of Ileana Sánchez testifies the premeditated interest of reflecting - with the domain of technical academic - seemingly frank images.

The author'spictures have been exhibited, also, in eight countries of America and Europe, among them, United States, Brazil, Spain and Cyprus.

Graduate of the Provincial School of Art located in the capital of Camagüey, Ileana Sánchez has murals in public spaces of Cuba and in the exterior, as those of the alley of Benicia Perdomo and the Park of the Cats, in Camagüey. (AIN).