Thursday, February 2, 2012
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London Baby, Toddler, Child and Family Events for February 2012 ...
London Bus Checker Smartphone App:
No need to wait around for a bus again; download the London Bus Checker Smartphone app for your iphone or Android for a mere ?1.99.? Real-time updates from busses en route, easily downloadable route maps with stops indicated on street maps ? read my review, or download from itunes here
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Also, head over to Earl?s Court Destinations: The Holiday and Travel Show on Sunday 5th February, noon, theatre 1 to hear London dad, safari specialist, conservationist and National Geographic presenter Hayden Turner talk about his award-winning documentary ?Hunters of the Lost World? where he followed and documented the hunting and survival skills of 7 rare tribes.? Hayden will also be on hand to discuss family safari travel ? read more
Just for Babies:
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Gate Cinema: Tuesday 7th February.? Big Scream.? Come and see Carnage this Tuesday without the crowds, hassle or need to pay a sitter.? Doors open at 10am, movie begins at 10:30, free coffee and pastries http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Gate_Picturehouse/Whats_On/Clubs_Groups/
?For Toddlers and Babies
Classical Babies: Wednesdays, 11:00am, Belisize Park, Interchange Studios.? ?10 per family for a delightful classical concert that is completely baby and toddler friendly, the perfect mid-week bit of brain candy read more about the fabulous bit of motherhood: My review.?
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Classics with my Baby: a classical concert series for mums and tots.? Classical concerts specifically designed for mums and children (0-5 years) to enjoy together. Tickets: Adults ?10, children FREE (special offers on website)
?Tuesday Febuary 7th Islington -?Christ Church,?Highbury N5 1SA 2012 10:00am: ??Eat Cake and Mingle? 10:30am: ?Concert begins. Ends by 11:30am Tickets: ?Adults ?10 at the door,?discounts available online, children FREE
?Wednesday Febuary 8th 2012 Chelsea -?Christ Church, Christchurch Street,?off Flood Street, London, SW3 4AS 10:00am: ??Eat Cake and Mingle? 10:30am: ?Concert begins. Ends by 11:30am
Tickets: ?Adults ?10 at the door,?discounts available online, children FREE
?Le Institute Francias: Baby French Tales, A La Decoouverte De Paris (ages 0-3) Saturday 4th February, 11am.? 1 hour, in easy French.? A new baby elephant has arrived in town looking for his big city adventure.? Bring your kids along to Baby French Tales and explore the fabulous South Kensington area before or after.? ?7 per adult, ?5 per child.? www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-and-teens/baby-and-kids-french-tales
?For Bigger Kids:
Somerset House: Mini Make Believe. Sunday 5th February from 11:30 ? 12:30.? Bring your 2-5 year olds along to learn about pairs.? Look, sing, dance, make and learn in this fabulously designed and run little workshop for very young children.? Free, tickets allocated on arrival.? www.somersethouse.org.uk/learning/family
?Somerset House: Family Workshop, Imaginary Menagerie.? Saturday 4th February, 2:00-3:30pm.? Construct your own weird and wonderful beasts and mythical monsters at this drop-in making workshop.? Free, no ticket required, but you may have to wait for a turn to make something http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/learning/family/free-family-workshops
?Saatchi Gallery Family Art Workshop: A Bag Full of Art.? Sunday 5th February, 10:30, noon, 3:00 and 4:00pm.? Explore the exhibition highlights through family oriented tours that incorporate interactive conversations and drawing activities.? The tour begins with the opening of a bag that contains media used by artists in Gesamkunstwerk.? Children will have the opportunity to touch, experience and interact with the materials.? Ages 4-12, younger siblings welcome, ?3.00 per child.? Book required valeria@familyartworkshops@gmail.com? www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/a_bag_full_of_art.htm
?Kids Club, Saturdays at Gate Picturehouse: Scooby Doo, PG
From 10am they have activities, then watch the foodie/kiddie feel good flick at 10:30.? ?4 to join the Kids Club, but then tickets are ?1 after, popcorn and juice for the kids ?2.? http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Gate_Picturehouse/Whats_On/Clubs_Groups/Kids_Club/
?Read more about the day out here.
Wallace Collection Little Draw: Sunday 5th February 1:30 ? 4:30.? Bring the kids along to a drop-in art workshop.? Come here after going to the expansive Marylebone Farmer?s Market (10am -2pm Sundays in the car park just behind Waitrose) and the gorgeous Paddington Green playground, located in the park just beyond the car park. http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/activitiesforadultsandfamilies/familyactivities
?For the Family Over Half Term
Half term week is rapidly approaching.? I will have an in-depth list next week of what to look out for, but you may want to book into an art workshop at The Wallace Collection, weaving at The V and A, a family concert at Cadogan Hall, events at The Imagine Festival at Southbank, Lollibop Mini Disco at Ministry of Sound, events at the Holland Park Ecology Centre.? Not ready to commit?? Don?t worry, there are loads of drop-in events coming in the complete list next week.
?For Adults:
NCT Interior Design Short Course A fabulous fundraiser for the National Childbirth Trust, an interior design course at Whole Foods Market on High Street Kensington.? Put together with the help of London Property Makeover, you can learn the basics of interior design (how to write a brief, colour theory, how to mix fabrics, create a mood board, spatial planning and lighting ? wow!!).? This is intended for mums creating a nursery for their new-borns, but I want to come, too!!? Four Wednesdays 8pm ? 9pm, from 29th February.? ?80 for the course, donation to the NCT included.? Read on ??
Source: http://www.london-baby.com/2012/02/london-baby-toddler-child-family-and-february-half-term-events/
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Tick Tally Reveals Lyme Disease Risk
Enlarge Graham J. Hickling/University of Tennessee This blacklegged tick, found in a Michigan forest, probably wouldn't mind you having her over for dinner.
Graham J. Hickling/University of TennesseeThis blacklegged tick, found in a Michigan forest, probably wouldn't mind you having her over for dinner.
Roll call for bloodsuckers. Vampires, step back.
For four years, researchers combed through hundreds of state parks and bushy areas looking for the culprit responsible for Lyme disease. The blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, transmits the disease through a bite.
About 20 percent of the 5,332 ticks collected in the Eastern half of the country were infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Lead author Maria Diuk-Wasser says her suspicion about where her team would find infected ticks ? and the subsequent risk for the disease ? was confirmed when she mapped the data.
"We suspected strongly that we wouldn't find [infected ticks] in the South," the Yale epidemiologist tells Shots. "The tick is found in the South, but it's not infected and it doesn't feed on humans, but on lizards." Researchers found the highest risk of infection for humans in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest.
Enlarge Maria Diuk-Wasser/Yale School of Public Health The highest human risk for Lyme disease lies in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest.
Maria Diuk-Wasser/Yale School of Public HealthThe highest human risk for Lyme disease lies in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest.
?Previous maps have shown where people reported cases of the disease, but not where they contracted it. The new study includes a map of infected tick infestations. The findings appear in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
An estimated 30,000 cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. were reported in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To get sick with the disease, a person has to be bitten by a tick that's carrying the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.
The ticks, usually in their immature, or nymphal, stage live in overgrown brush and leaf litter. The infection usually passes on to a human after a tick has been latched on for 36 to 48 hours. So, keep the ticks off you and make sure to check yourself after wading through shrubbery and other places the ticks hang out.
The western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) can also carry the bacterium that corresponds to Lyme disease. It lives along the Pacific Coast and feeds on birds, rodents, deer and other mammals.
The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) is a species prevalent in the South. It carries bacteria that can cause ehrlichiosis, tularemia and STARI, but not Lyme disease.
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Early in the disease, people tend to suffer a bull's-eye-shaped rash, chills, a fever and aches. If treated early with antibiotics, patients usually recover in a few weeks. But if the condition goes untreated, later symptoms can include severe headaches, Bell's palsy and heart palpitations.
Lyme disease can be a tricky condition to diagnose, Diuk-Wasser says. Some activists believe the number of cases is actually higher than the is reported by CDC. (The center calculates the number of cases based on reports from county medical professionals.)
"It's more of a reporting problem," Phillip Baker, executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, tells Shots. Diuk-Wasser agrees and says many cases are missed, misdiagnosed or aren't reported at all.
On the other hand, some tests can give false positives. There are a lot of people who think they have the disease but don't, Baker says.
Diuk-Wasser says she hopes the new map can act as a tool for doctors to understand how likely the disease is to show up in their neck of the woods.
"When a doctor sees a rash in the South, he shouldn't immediately be thinking it's Lyme disease," she says. "And in areas where the ticks are expanding to, doctors should start thinking that Lyme disease is a possibility."
She cautions that it's possible to get the disease in the South ? just highly unlikely.
Next up for Diuk-Wasser is a closer examination of areas where the species may be moving in. She's already heard from some collaborators that the population is growing in Virginia.
"Ticks have expanded following reforestation and deer expansion," she says.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Many Parents Skip Booster Seats When Carpooling (HealthDay)
MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Most parents in the United States place their children in a booster seat when they're driving their own car, but many don't enforce this rule when their child is in a car with another driver, a new study indicates.
The researchers at University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital found that more than 30 percent of parents don't require their children to use a booster seat when they carpool, and 45 percent of parents don't make their children use a booster seat when driving other children who don't have one.
The study appears online Jan. 30 ahead of print in the journal Pediatrics.
"The majority of parents reported that their children between the ages of 4 and 8 use a safety seat when riding in the family car," Dr. Michelle Macy, a clinical lecturer of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and a pediatrician at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, said in a university news release.
"However, it's alarming to know that close to 70 percent of parents carpool, and when they do, they're often failing to use life-saving booster seats," she added.
Factors such as limited vehicle space and difficulties making arrangements with other drivers can cause parents to do without booster seats when carpooling, the researchers suggested.
U.S. guidelines encourage the use of a booster seat until a child is 57 inches tall, the average height of an 11-year-old. In many states, children are required to use a booster seat until they are 8 years old.
Using an adult seat belt for a child who is too small can result in improper fit of the shoulder and lap belts and nullify the lifesaving benefits of a seat belt, the researchers said.
"Therefore, parents who do not consistently use booster seats for kids who are shorter than 57 inches tall are placing children at greater risk of injury," Macy said. "Parents need to understand the importance of using a booster seat for every child who does not fit properly in an adult seat belt on every trip."
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about child passenger safety.
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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Radiation Blamed in Doomed Space Mission
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its mission to a moon of Mars, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cd4ab02b23bf7434cfc1b7fc0d22df81
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Facebook IPO could create the world?s largest internet company (Yahoo! News)
Want to own a piece of?Facebook? Next week, you can ? the?social media behemoth is expected to file papers for its IPO as soon as February 8. It's a bottom-line boosting move that's been a long time coming.
Facebook was founded in 2004 by?Mark Zuckerberg as a way for Harvard students to connect with each other. In the 8 years since, it's grown into a privately-held company valued as high as $100 billion.
It's expected that an IPO could earn about $10 billion in money for Facebook, which would easily make it the largest IPO in tech history. The previous largest public offering occurred in 2005 when search giant?Google's IPO netted just under $2 billion.
By going public, Facebook will be able to use the value of its stock to acquire other companies. It's also expected to make existing Facebook employees instant millionaires.
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This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
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Need muscle for a tough spot? Turn to fat stem cells
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) ? Stem cells derived from fat have a surprising trick up their sleeves: Encouraged to develop on a stiff surface, they undergo a remarkable transformation toward becoming mature muscle cells. The new research appears in the journal Biomaterials. The new cells remain intact and fused together even when transferred to an extremely stiff, bone-like surface, which has University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Adam Engler and colleagues intrigued. These cells, they suggest, could hint at new therapeutic possibilities for muscular dystrophy.
In diseases like muscular dystrophy or a heart attack, ?muscle begins to die and undergoes its normal wounding processes,? said Engler, a bioengineering professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. ?This damaged tissue is fundamentally different from a mechanical perspective? than healthy tissue.
Transplanted stem cells might be able to replace and repair diseased muscle, but up to this point the transplants haven?t been very successful in muscular dystrophy patients, he noted. The cells tend to clump into hard nodules as they struggle to adapt to their new environment of thickened and damaged tissue.
Engler, postdoctoral scholar Yu Suk Choi and the rest of the team think their fat-derived stem cells might have a better chance for this kind of therapy, since the cells seem to thrive on a stiff and unyielding surface that mimics the damaged tissue found in people with MD.
In their study in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers compared the development of bone marrow stem cells and fat-derived stem cells grown on surfaces of varying stiffness, ranging from the softness of brain tissue to the hardness of bone.
Cells from the fat lineage were 40 to 50 times better than their bone marrow counterparts at displaying the proper proteins involved in becoming muscle. These proteins are also more likely to ?turn on? in the correct sequence in the fat-derived cells, Engler said.
Subtle differences in how these two types of cells interact with their environment are critical to their development, the scientists suggest. The fat-derived cells seem to sense their ?niche? on the surfaces more completely and quickly than marrow-derived cells. ?They are actively feeling their environment soon, which allows them to interpret the signals from the interaction of cell and environment that guide development,? Choi explained.
Perhaps most surprisingly, muscle cells grown from the fat stem cells fused together, forming myotubes to a degree never previously observed. Myotubes are a critical step in muscle development, and it?s a step forward that Engler and colleagues hadn?t seen before in the lab.
The fused cells stayed fused when they were transferred to a very stiff surface. ?These programmed cells are mature enough so that they don?t respond the environmental cues? in the new environment that might cause them to split apart, Engler says.
Engler and colleagues will now test how these new fused cells perform in mice with a version of muscular dystrophy. The cells survive in an environment of stiff tissue, but Engler cautions that there are other aspects of diseased tissue such as its shape and chemical composition to consider. ?From the perspective of translating this into a clinically viable therapy, we want to know what components of the environment provide the most important cues for these cells,? he said.
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- Jennifer L. Young, Adam J. Engler. Hydrogels with time-dependent material properties enhance cardiomyocyte differentiation in vitro. Biomaterials, 2011; 32 (4): 1002 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.10.020
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