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Cuba Successful in the Use of Natural and Traditional Medicine

HAVANA, Cuba, July 7 (acn) Experts at the 2nd National Meeting on Natural and Traditional Medicine underway in Havana say that over 90 percent of the population uses alternative medicine.

During Tuesday´s session, with the presence of Dr. Concepcion Campa, Director of the Finlay Institute, experts gave examples on the achievements in the sector.

Among some of the modalities that make up the natural and traditional medicine are acupuncture, homeopathy and flower therapy.

Natural and traditional medicine is applied in almost 500 rehabilitation centers of primary health care assistance, family doctors offices, hospitals and other institutions.

According to Sierramaestra.cu website, 10 percent of the total surgeries in the country are done using acupuncture mainly to patients allergic to anesthesia.

15 percent of the medical emergencies in the country are treated with natural products while the Ministry of Agriculture is increasing its efforts to satisfy the demand of the production of medicines.

The conference will run until Saturday at the Jose Marti Cultural Society.

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Cuban News Agency www.cubanews.ain.cu ainnews@ain.cu

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1288909/Whats-God-got-Lord-Mayor-bans-traditional-Christian-prayers-council-meetings.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

An atheist lord mayor has ended the tradition of Christian prayers before council meetings less than a month after he took up the chains of office. Labour councillor Colin Hall was condemned by the local diocese as well as Christian groups after boasting of his ‘delight’ at being able to end the tradition as mayor of his home city. Announcing the decision in a secularist group’s monthly newsletter, Mr Hall said prayers were ‘outdated, unnecessary and intrusive’ and added they would no longer be said before meetings at Leicester Town Hall.

The ban comes days after he refused to attend a service at Leicester Cathedral welcoming him to his role as the city’s new lord mayor. He later told his 123 followers on the Twitter networking site that he was mayor for ‘all the people of Leicester and not just those from the Church of England’. The East Midlands city is regarded as the most multi-faith and multi-ethnic outside London, with 36 per cent of residents from ethnic minorities, according to the 2001 census. Writing in the Leicester Secularist Society’s publication, the mayor said: ‘I am delighted to confirm that I will be exercising my discretion as lord mayor to abolish this outdated, unnecessary and intrusive practice.

Decisive action: The prayer ban has been among Cllr Hall’s first decisions since becomming Lord Mayor ‘I consider that religion, in whatever shape or form, has no role to play at all in the conduct of council business. ‘This particularly applies in Leicester, where the majority of council members, myself included, do not regularly attend any particular faith service.’ Mr Hall was yesterday unavailable to discuss his decision to scrap the prayers, which have been said before meetings since 1997. But Christian Voice director Stephen Green said he was appalled to hear of the ban. He added: ‘This is just another example of Christian traditions and values being eroded.’ Mike Judge, spokesman for the Christian Institute, said the mayor was ‘imposing his own views on the rest of the council’. He continued: ‘The reading of Christian prayers before meetings symbolises our Christian heritage and offends nobody.’ Liz Hudson-Oliff, spokesman for the Diocese of Leicester, said: ‘It is up to the mayor to decide what he does and this is his right. ‘But I think Councillor Hall has particular issues with religion and religious practices that have become more important than other things he is involved with.’ However, Allan Hayes, the mayor’s humanist chaplain and president of the Leicester Secularist society, said: ‘I think it’s a good move because saying Christian prayers picks out one particular stance of people in the city. It’s rather divisive, in my view.’

acnnews 7 Group of Traditional Chinese Folklore Music to Visit Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 14 (acn) A group of traditional and folklore music from the Chinese province of Shenzeng will visit Cuba from June 27 to July 3 prior to the celebration in Havana of the Tenth Festival for China, an event sponsored by the Cuban Ministry of Culture, the Culture Pavilion of the Expocuba Exhibition Hall in Havana, and the Chinese Embassy in Cuba. The group will perform on June 30 at the Theater of Expocuba’s Central Pavilion and, on July1, at the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater in the Cuban capital, a note from the Culture Ministry reads. The Chinese musicians feature Chinese folkloric traditions through singing and playing traditional musical instruments. The visit is also part of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations between Cuba and China and it aims at further fostering cultural exchange between the two nations.

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Folklore y tradiciones en X edición de la Fiesta por China

Cuban News Agency www.cubanews.ain.cu ainnews@ain.cu

Traditional Memorial Day, May 30, 2010

The Following italic paragraphs are some historical notes that revolve around this day, the Traditional Observance of Memorial Day

Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.

To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the “National Moment of Remembrance” resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans “To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to ‘Taps.”

The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day. What is needed is a full return to the original day of observance. Set aside one day out of the year for the nation to get together to remember, reflect and honor those who have given their all in service to their country.

But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: “Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.”

Good Morning One and All,

This morning I wanted to submit a reminder that should be noted by most everyone and that is, that this is the official observance of Memorial Day, the historical day in which was first and foremost established to pay respect and honor to our Fallen Veterans of all the Wars that this country has been involved in.

In my own personal opinion, I strongly believe that Corporate America, Congress and the Senate devised a 3 day holiday out of this special day for no other purpose than for Greed and Money, that I firmly believe in and that my friends has upset a lot of folks who in fact have a strong heart in remembering those who have given their life in protecting this country.

In that, I would also like to add that throughout Indian Country, many folks will pay tribute to their Fallen Warriors, Ancestors and Relatives, whom for the last 517 years continued to fight in honor of their people against the United States Government who to this date has refused to honor The Freedom, Justice, Civil Right’s and Religion of our people. The Indian Wars between the United States Government and the American Indian is still a genuine factor, no matter how you may feel or understand it.

How ever you may honor this day, please do with respect, honor and dignity. Thank you

Larry Kibby – l.kibby@frontier.com

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Cuba is a Power on Natural and Traditional Medicine, says Expert

HAVANA, Cuba, May 26 (acn) The development of traditional Cuban medicine was highlighted today by Dr. Elisa Aznar, president of the Federation of Caribbean Natural Medicines.

“Cuba –she said- not only provides health care free of charge for its people and many other countries, but also is responsible for developing and promoting all matters relating to human health.”

Aznar spoke at the first day of the Continental Congress VII, IV Latin American and Caribbean Congress of products and natural medicines, ProMedNatur 2010, of which she is president of the organizing committee and said that Cuba is a powerhouse in terms of products and natural medicine.

Among the main attractions of this second day was the conference given by Dr. Marlene Porto, head of the Center for Drug Research and Development (CIDEM), which is located in Havana.

The researcher said one of the most recent productions of that institution, made from aloe, is a potent anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory drug.

Porto also announced that her institution is working hard in obtaining isolated precursors from endemic Cuban Pinaceae, to which they are making chemical modifications for the treatment of anxiety, depression and epilepsy.

Over one hundred delegates from some 10 countries are participating in this event that will run through May 28 at Havana’s Conventions Palace.

Among the main topics discussed are the new ways to promote the use of acupuncture, hydrotherapy, flower therapy and the use of human energy in the solution of different conditions and ailments.

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Cuban News Agency www.cubanews.ain.cu ainnews@ain.cu

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