d6 items of interest week of august 14

Will drivers come for the ride? Of course, GM promising to go electric doesn guarantee success. There a lot of work ahead. But Mabee believes GM can reach its goal, suggesting big manufacturers have the kind of heft needed to make technological improvements in key areas such as battery life and efficiency.

Scientists say that while people who remain obese from childhood into adulthood were most at risk of dying, modest weight gains throughout a lifespan can increase the “probability of survival”. Experts said individuals who put on weight in later life often lived longer than those who remained trim. The findings were made following a study based on two generations of Americans followed over nearly seven decades.

Aside from Nintendo, Activision and Disney both have a large stake in the category with their Skylanders and Disney Infinity toys. Warner Bros. Is a late entrant with Lego Dimensions. Keep up to date on the latest COVID 19 hotspots (cities or local areas where COVID 19 is spreading widely). If possible, avoid traveling to places especially if you are an older person or have diabetes, heart or lung disease. Why? You have a higher chance of catching COVID 19 in one of these areas..

But as I get older, will it still suit? This is exactly the point Ms. Apfel makes finding and understanding your style some hard work which a lot of people don wanna do. While I don question my style sense as much now, when it comes to the future, well, I suppose those are questions not worth pondering at the moment.

Objective: To assess an intervention to familiarise parents with children’s books for use in primary (5 11years) sex and relationship education (SRE) classes.Method: Case study of a 7 week programme in one London primary school, using ethnographic observation, semi structured interviews and focus groups with parents (n=7) and key stakeholders (n=4), and pre and post programme self completion questionnaires (n=9).Results: Parents reported increased understanding of the SRE curriculum and awareness of relevant children’s books, enhanced interactions with their children on SRE topics and some positive effects on partners and attitudes towards the school. There was increased confidence in addressing issues in the SRE curriculum for parents of 8 to 10 year olds, although reduced confidence for one mother.Conclusions: Familiarising parents with materials has the potential to enhance SRE, by improving coherence between educators’ and parents’ messages to children about sex and relationships, increased discussion of SRE topics in parent child conversations and reduced parental anxiety about topics such as sexual orientation. Future challenges of involving fathers, scalability and sustainability highlight the dilemma of how best to enable parental choice or make equalities interventions..