Month: April 2012

los Angeles (EE.)(UU.), 20 mar ( EFE).-the American actor Ashton Kutcher became traveller number 500 in purchase a ticket to go into space on Board the ships of the company Virgin Galactic, an experience that will also live Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie, said today People. Kutcher, of 34 years, paid $200,000 for a ticket that will take you to the border between Earth and outer space, from where you can see the curvature of the planet and enjoy for a few minutes of the lack of gravity. “Have called you briefly to Ashton to congratulate him and welcome him”, said the founder of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson. “he is as excited as us with the idea of being among the first to cross the final frontier (and return) with us and experience the magic of space itself”, added Branson. Kutcher is currently one of the artists best paid in Hollywood thanks to star in the television series “Two and a Half Men” and a filmography of comedies including “No Strings Attached”, “What Happens in Vegas” and “do Dude, Where ' s my Car?”. The actor is also an entrepreneur in the field of social networks with millions of followers on Twitter, and is involved in several projects, from the Nowbox video website is Adviser to the company Popchips where hired him as Executive responsible for campaigns in social...

(www.neomundo.com.ar_/_Por_Enrique_Garabetyan) parents who felt guilty because their children “spent” hours and hours watching movies about the adventures of the young Wizard Harry Potter and his friends can sleep peacefully: a research done by psychologists of the English University of Lancaster found that a significant proportion of young people who watched films based on the books of j. K. Rowling then – exhibited in various test – enhanced the capacity of creativity and an open imagination. The work done by these professionals is the first attempt to check if there is any benefit educational when it comes to mixing the education of children with content relating to the “magic”. And this includes, in addition to the books of witches, other issues such as myths and legends about Santa Claus, the Easter, and the fairies. Creative work The study, now small, but significant results focused on analyze if there was some kind of relationship between magical thinking generated by these books and legends and the creativity shown by children in the pre-school age. And this link proved to be true. Study was conducted with 52 boys aged between 4 and 6 years of age. The youngsters were divided into two groups and showed them to both two video clips made based on scenes from the first movie of Potter (philosopher’s stone). Then they subjected to a series of exercises which were...

BARCELONA, 21 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Department of enterprise and employment of the Catalan Generalitat has lifted the suspension of the record of employment regulation ( ERE) of suspension by half of the template of the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, having considered proven that there are economic for execution causes, he has been informed Europe Pres the Department and the Secretary of the Committee of company, Jaume rock. Document of the Conselleria of company, which has had access Europa Press, resolves “leave without effects the suspension of the enforceability” of the issue of suspension of employment and salary of 15 days, which affected a 1,396 workers until end of year. The text signed by the director-general of labour relations and quality at work, Ramon Bonastre, points out that “the company continues uncredited the concurrence of the economic and productive causes that was based on the request for the file”. However, defends the dossier, “at the present time of general economic and financial crisis, it makes it priority and public interest rebalance the finances of the Generalitat and reduce the public deficit”. The ERE entered into force in November of last year and was suspended on 9 February by administrative silence, after the Committee of enterprise denounced an economic motivation is not proven. Deficit of 18 million Rock has been surprised of how precisely the week in which the...

Santo Domingo, 19 mar (EFE).-the Government of Dominican Republic launched today an initiative to try to stop the high pregnancy rate among adolescents in the country, a situation that national and international agencies calling in southern Lebanon of worrying. The National Plan for prevention of pregnancy in adolescence, whose execution is scheduled until 2016, search “reinforce, coordinate and articulate public policies to reverse the worrying statistics thrown last year of pregnancies in adolescents aged 13 to 19, said the Ministry of economy, responsible together with the Ministry of women in the project. Developed within the framework of the national development strategy, this initiative “is a comprehensive, multisectoral response of social participation, aimed at the reduction of pregnancy in adolescents in the Dominican Republic”, noted the Director of adolescent pregnancy prevention program, Indiana Barinas, in a statement sent by the Ministry of economy. The Mission of the Plan, he added, is “the creation and strengthening of mechanisms at the national and local levels, including budget allocation and accountability for the implementation of policies to reduce pregnancies among adolescents, guaranteeing equal opportunities and promoting healthy, pleasurable and responsible sexuality”. In 2011, around 12,000 adolescents aged 13 to 19, received pregnancy care services in the maternity leave our Lady of la Altagracia, Chief among the country. This represented 31 per cent of the total number of pregnant women handled in the health...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – the families of United States who have autistic children earn about $18,000 less than the parents of children with normal development. And a study attributed the gap to the mothers do not work or do fewer hours. “The needs of autistic children reach a great “ amount of system services and many are questioning “ who will take over”, said David Mandell, associate director of the Centre for the research of the autism of children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “Mothers stop working to meet all these “” services for their children”, he added. Centers for disease prevention and Control United States (CDC for its acronym in English) estimated that the disorders of autism, spectrum ranging from the syndrome Asperger to severe mental retardation and disability social, affecting one in every 110 children of United States. More children receive one of these diagnoses and the country is debating how to pay for extra services that need these guys and they would cost $ 3.2 million per patient. Mandell team reviewed the results of the surveys national homes held annually between 2002 and 2008; the surveys included 261 children autistic and more 64,000 without diseases. After considering factors such as the age of the parents, the ethnicity, education and health, the parents of autistic children they were as likely to have work as children of healthy. The...