Month: April 2012

(Reuters) – American Prestige Brands rejected on Monday the offer of purchase unsolicited submitted by the Mexican Genomma Lab, considering that the price is inappropriate and does not respond to the interests of the company. Prestige said that his “Council is open to consider “” offers that maximize the value of its shareholders”. Genomma announced in February its intention to buy the actions of Prestige to 16.60 dollars per title, in one operation valued at 834 million dollars in cash without consider debt. “The proposal reflects only a 23 percent premium on “ the price of closing of Prestige Brands of 13.50 dollars in the “ last day of trading before the public announcement”, said Prestige in a statement. Prestige shares closed Monday at 16.65 $, with a rise of 1.96 per cent in New York, while the roles of Genomma lost a 0.45 per cent in the stock market Mexican to 24.41 dollars. “This premium is very down similar transactions”, added the American firm, which sells brands of free prescription drugs and products for the cleaning of the home. Genomma executives were not available to make comments, but the company disseminated over the internet one presentation explaining your interest in the offer before the rejection of Prestige. Prestige said that the offer is also opportunistic because is he presented just as the market was beginning to recognize the...

there are dates in our calendar we tend to remember easily and celebrate with special affection. Father’s day is one of them and also one of the most eagerly awaited of the year. However, have us you ever we thought to who came up with the idea? And what means? Father’s day or the feast of St. Joseph (father of Jesus) originated in United States 102 years ago from the hand of Sonora Smart Dodd, a daughter very proud of his father who wanted to honor him with a day in which remembered the importance of its parent. For her, her father was as a modern hero, a courageous, loving and selfless man who had carried out all kinds of sacrifices to bring forward his family. son Dodd then began a campaign to promote the idea of holding it on the first Sunday of June, the birthday of his father. At first, some took him to laugh, but his insistence managed its task. Finally , the first father’s day was held on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington. Years later, the idea spread to many cities and us achieving States that in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge made the father in a national celebration...

Madrid, 13 March (EFE).-the beer is a natural drink with low-calorie, moderate supply of minerals and vitamins and important source of fiber, that linked to the traditional Spanish cover is a perfect pairing that provides basic nutrients to the diet. Well said today the President of the Fundación Española of nutrition (FEN), Gregorio Varela, during the presentation of the Guide “the nutritional value of the aperitif: tapas and beer”, which includes 25 typical tapas of the Spanish geography. Traditional tapas of tortilla, paella or bread with tomato and ham, accompanied by beer, are some of the suggestions in this publication, which includes the different tapas, its geographic area, ingredients, preparation mode, data of nutritional interest (whether it eaten alone as accompanied by beer and non-alcoholic) and the pairings of each one of them. 200 Or 300 Kcal containing the skewers included in the Guide, together with 60-70 a cane of 200 milliliters (16 if you don’t have alcohol), constitute a caloric intake “which we must always save in your Pocket as a daily nutritional capricho”, pointed out Dr. Varela. This Professor of nutrition and Bromatology has explained that the moderate consumption of fermented beverages with low alcohol content as beer is part of the pattern of the Mediterranean diet, which is “the best puzzle” food for prevention of cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer. Made from natural ingredients,...

(www.neomundo.com.ar the role of the music may be more important than it seems at first glance.) Learn to play an instrument improves skills related to language, speech, memory, and attention. To those conclusions came a series of studies analyzed jointly by Northwestern University (United States). The findings were published in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Nina Kraus, the lead author, said that in recent years there was a large increase in the number of investigations that reviewed the relationship between music and the nervous system. The results of these studies should have “a strong impact on education”, he argued. Some of the works found that musicians are working to learn the sounds of a new language. In turn, children who play an instrument have a better vocabulary, read better and show a greater neuronal activation changes of tone in oral language. The plasticity much of the studies focused on the plasticity, which is the brain’s ability to change the connections between neurons in order to adapt to changes or new situations. This plasticity is the result of education or experience that a person has throughout his life. Kraus said that studying music seems to generate new brain connections that allow great achievements in the area of communication. At the same time, research suggests that this good habit facilitates the creation of patterns very important for learning. The author explained...

Caracas, 4 Apr (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chavez, and his former colleague Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, both affected by cancer ailments, they believe that 2012 stands out already as “a great year”, as agreed in a phone call. The conversation was revealed today by the Venezuela Foreign Ministry claimed in a statement that it occurred yesterday. Chávez received the call of Lula in Cuba, where he has been operated on three occasions in the past ten months and first received chemotherapy treatment and now another of radiotherapy, due to cancer in the pelvic area. Lula, in turn, recently saw disappearing the tumor in the larynx which was found last year. Both, he added the Venezuelan statement, discussed at length “the advances that are taking in their respective processes of restitution of health” and in the case of the treatment of the Venezuelan leader, he said that “it goes very well, as well as the political and economic situation of Venezuela”. “Partner Lula promised that as soon as his doctors determined will travel to Caracas to analyse together the regional political situation and to take stock of the intense experience developed between the two countries which President Chavez expressed his immense joy the good news on the recovery of the health of his good friend”, added the note....