It’s part of a program launched by the New York Health Department back in February, aimed at reducing tooth decay to keep the city’s kids in school more. UPI reported on the program at the time of its launch.
Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City’s health commissioner, said tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease yet it is largely preventable. In New York City, more than a third of third-grade children have untreated tooth decay and 55 percent of third-graders have had a cavity.
Untreated tooth decay can cause pain, infection, difficulty eating and speaking and reduced self-esteem due to appearance.
This new campaign educates the public of the risk factors for tooth decay and gives parents and caregivers of young children tips to help prevent tooth decay, Farley said.
One of those tips, apparently, is telling moms not to suck on your baby’s pacifier. What mom does this?
No word on whether, if the ads don’t do the trick, Bloomberg and his Health Department will just make an ordinance to ban pacifiers and food sharing.
Recent Bloomberg NY Health Department campaigns that tell people what to do in their private lives include making breast feeding mandatory, and banning large sugary drinks. The latter has been overturned in court and is now being appealed.
SXSW Monday: I’m here today to check more sessions and events out. Most that I’m interested in are in the afternoon. In the morning, a man needs his coffee, and as I’m walking from my parked car — wherever that is, somewhere blocks away from the action — to the convention center, a man asks me out of the clear blue sky “Hey, would you like some free coffee?”
Um, yeah. I would. Very much. He ushers me over to this trailer, which it turns out belongs to GE.
Those two white arms are robots. The barista attaches a syringe to to what, I guess, is its hand. The syringe is full of condensed coffee. She doesn’t start you on a coffee IV, which is a pity.
They snap a photo of you, or a logo that you’re wearing or have handy.
I happened to be wearing my PJTV shirt…
So, after a few seconds, the robot gets the image and passably writes it onto the foam on top of the coffee.
Thanks to Vivian at RetailMeNot for letting me snap pics while the robot was making her coffee. Click on the next page to see the holographic tour guide.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered the Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. He appeared on the Andrea Tantaros Show today. The senator eviscerated President Obama’s SOTU, sympathized with Sen. Marco Rubio’s dry mouth problem, and also talked about the Tea Party. Stick around for the end of the interview to find out whether that spectacular hair is really his.
The Andrea Tantaros Show is produced by the Fox and Rice Experience.
This is yet another response to the Gayle Trotter testimony given on Capitol Hill this week. As is always the case when liberal men write or talk about conservative women, he’s a dismissive, condescending jerk. He also thinks he’s clever with statistics:
What gun advocates say is that we all need to put ourselves and our families in danger to prepare for the home invasion that is the equivalent of being struck by lightning. According to the FBI, in the entire country in 2011 there were just 201 justifiable homicides committed with guns by private citizens. There are over 300 million guns in America, which means that about 1 out of every 1.5 million guns was actually used for lethal self-defense. According to the National Weather Service, your chance of being hit by lightning this year is a mere 1 in 1 million.
Of course, air travel is statistically the safest way of getting around but that doesn’t change the fact that the dead people in an airline disaster are still dead and aren’t comforted much by the fact that they’re at the statistical low end of things.
He’s also referring to “lethal self-defense”, ignoring the deterrent power of being armed and having predators aware of it. Ultimately, what’s most important is the fact that everyone of those statistical anomalies who had their lives saved by a gun is quite happy that they had prepared for that “lightning strike”.
Ten Years After Columbia, by Rand Simberg. A moment by moment review of how the Columbia space shuttle fell apart high above the western United States.
Israel’s Choices and America’s Failure, by David P. Goldman. In 167, LBJ was genuinely sympathetic to Israel. In contrast, Obama has nothing to lose but his illusions.
The ‘Tom Thumb’ Presidency, by Rick Moran. A small man, with little or no imagination, pushing small ideas and trying to pass them off as transformational changes.
Standing Up for Our Future, by Allen B. West. Former Congressman Allen West joins PJ Media to lead our Next Generation programming. Visit http://NextGeneration.TV, and sign up for the weekly newsletter to stay informed on our work to preserve the American dream for future generations.
Political Change — Revisited, by Roger L Simon. How do you change someone so successful in LA, DC, or the MSM, someone who has wealth and power while feeling so inordinately good about him or herself?
On Civil Disobedience, Then and Now,by Michael Walsh. That Texas Republican who’s threatening legislation to jail any gun-grabbin’ federales in the Lone Star State actually has history on his side.
Notes from Atlantis, by Ed Driscoll. Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 video history of civilization, from the perspective of a civilization that’s now already history.
Interview: The History of Epiphone Guitars, by Ed Driscoll. Veteran Gibson historian Walter Carter discusses his latest title, The Epiphone Guitar Book: A Complete History of Epiphone Guitars.
Taken in Syria: The Quest to Find Austin Tice, by Bridget Johnson. Four months after this Marine-turned-journalist disappeared, clues point to Assad and the family tries to get help from Washington. And sources believe Austin is still alive.
Stay Hungry, Honey Boo Boo, by Michael Walsh. Americans don’t like plutocrats in the White House; they want to elect men for whom losing means losing everything.
Shut The Hell Up and Vote for Romney, by Andrew Klavan. Too many conservatives confuse good principles with good outcomes and mistake the feeling of wisdom for wisdom itself.
2 Reasons Why Obama Must Be Defeated, by Andrew C. McCarthy. What happened in Benghazi – the lead-up, the catastrophe of September 11, and the ongoing cover-up – is no longer just a debacle. It is an impeachable offense.
As part of Team Lightbringer’s “Talk about anything except what is actually happening in the world or we’re toast” campaign strategy, Obama For America spent a week hiding behind Big Bird. The tactic was so ridiculous that the man who’s spent most of the last four years reporting as if he were perched on President Obama’s lap couldn’t stomach it.
And it was DELICIOUS. Honestly, this installment would have been four hours long if we covered all of the MSM weeping and gnashing of teeth after Romney’s first round knockout.
Also: the triumphant return of the Olbermannometer! I got a little serious for “The Last Piece Of My Mind” again: the MSM’s 47% side show this week has been all about voter suppression.
Has the always biased MSM ever been more in the tank for any politician? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. “The Last Piece Of My Mind” addresses the current turmoil in the Middle East. As always, thank you for watching.
‘Operation Demoralize Is Working Just as Planned,’ by Ed Driscoll. Are you feeling nervy, irritable, depressed and/or tired of life by the pro-Obama polls this weekend? Keep it up, says the JournoList.
Yes, we mock but I was very serious about the message in “The Last Piece Of My Mind”. The difference in the tone of the coverage between the two conventions was shameful and needs to be stopped.
Secrets to Convention Success for the RNC and DNC, by Bridget Johnson. Akin, economy, war on women, Big Tent — a sampling of what both parties are thinking going into these critical next two weeks.
Isaac Gets Organized, Moves into Haiti, by Brendan Loy. I am beginning to suspect that, even if Tampa is largely bypassed, the Republican Party will end up needing to compress its convention, or at least the “made for TV” portion thereof, into Wednesday and Thursday.
The Dark Knight Comes to Life, by Bosch Fawstin. Pigman creator Bosch Fawstin presents 9 images inspired by the new film and offers his own analysis of its themes.
When Land Is History, by Victor Davis Hanson. VDH’s family farm, and the millennia of history its land has endured.
Raiders of the Lost Tubes of Solyndra, by Zombie. Where our $500 million went: The missing Solyndra glass tubes have finally turned up — in a modern art exhibit at U.C. Berkeley.
3 (Conservative) Reasons to Admire Helen Gurley Brown, by Kathy Shaidle. She was a liberal who made the world safe for Sex and the City, and was pro-abortion. Yet Helen Gurley Brown’s traditional “puritanism” makes her a surprisingly conservative role model.
In which Soledad O’Brien almost becomes a full-time resident of the Circle of DUMB. Also featuring calm, measured responses to the Paul Ryan pick from Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton. Enjoy…
Obama Enables America’s Enemies, by Robert Spencer. President Morsi of Egypt has shown his gratitude to Obama by announcing his determination to free from prison a man who plotted to murder hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Catholic Nuns: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone? By Kathy Shaidle. As American nuns publicly complain (again) about the evil patriarchal Church, a nasty question hangs in the air: Why don’t they just leave?
Istria Cafe is a small business in Chicago, one of the most over-regulated cities in America. PJTV’s Alexis Garcia interviews the Pribaz brothers, the owners of Istria Cafe, to show you how regulations are destroying businesses and jobs. Would you believe that it is almost impossible to run a business in Chicago without violating rules and regulations, and paying extraordinary fines? From utilities, to health care Alexis Garcia tells you why some businesses might not survive in the down economy.
Union Bullying in Las Vegas, by Patrick Richardson. Culinary Workers Local is going after nonprofit groups doing business with non-union Station Casinos.
Is Obama a Pathological Liar? By Roger L Simon. The amazing scoop by Breitbart.com today makes Obama one up on Bill Clinton. VIDEO UPDATE: Interview with Jack Cashill — Who Wrote Obama’s book?
New Silicon Graffiti Video: March Madness, by Ed Driscoll. A brutal month for Obama, the worst of his presidency — plus the secret of how Spitzer replaced Olbermann, revealed…
NBC continues to characterize its deceptive edit of George Zimmerman’s 911 call a “mistake.” The edited version, in which George Zimmerman says Trayvon Martin “looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black” appeared on the Today show and on NBC’s web properties. That edit put racial concerns front and center in a story that may not have been about race at all. But could the edit really be a mistake?
Is it possible for such an internal edit that substantially alters the nature of Zimmerman’s call with the 911 dispatcher to happen by chance? As an audio and video editor for going on 20 years, in my opinion it is highly implausible and close to impossible for that edit to have occurred by chance. Watch this video and you’ll see why.
The Blue Social Model is Running Out of Money, by Richard Fernandez. The recent woes of Olbermann, Sharpton, Oprah, and Obama himself are making “progressivism” seem as modern as a ’33 Duesenberg.
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