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Lockdown ‘has helped to rot kids’ teeth’: Number of children with dental decay is set to soar
Lockdown ‘has helped to rot kids’ teeth’: Number of children hospitalised with dental decay is set to soar due to reduced access to dentists during pandemic and disrupted routines.
- Dental decay is the biggest reason for youngsters being admitted for surgery
- Levels are runnin gmore than double rate for tonsillitis and is set to get worse
- Some 23.4 per cent of five-year-olds across England show signs of tooth decay
As A Mother Grows
This post was originally written in 2012. I have made updates and substantial changes that reflect my own family’s growth, as well as changes in my own experiences and outlook.
In March of 2011, the arrival of a beautiful little girl, daughter of my youngest son and his wife, made me a grandmother for the first time. A little over a year later we welcomed her younger brother, and a few years after that, another little brother.
About the time of the youngest grandson’s birth my middle son introduced us to his future wife, and our soon to be new grandson, who was five when we met him first. A few years after that we welcomed our now youngest grandson into the family.
Along the way, my oldest son met and married a young lady with three more children who became ours to love and enjoy. So, for those who’ve lost count, we now have eight grandchildren.
We adults tend to reflect on this day about our older moms, perhaps even mothers or grandmothers gone from us now, a picture specific to our grown selves, a mature and experienced mother we see in the now moment. I have been thinking of motherhood, the stages of it, for some time now, reflecting on the changes that happened to me as I had each child, as our family grew up, as they left the nest and grandchildren came along, as I watch my daughters in law and sons with their own families, the mothers who struggle so hard with the demands only a young family faces.
So, I would like to write about the stages of motherhood, and perhaps, for the sake of coherence and the story, I will make assumptions about families that may not match everyone’s experience. That does not mean I value your experience less. Families come in a lot of shapes and sizes these days, from foster families, step children, and those made up of “honorary” mom or grandmother who might have stepped into the role to help a child in need. […]
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Here’s How You Know Democrats Rigged and Stole the 2020 Election
The fix is in. It’s crystal clear to me now that not only was the election rigged but so is everything post-election. It’s simple psychology. Just look at the absurd reaction, or overreaction, by Democrats.
Would anyone dare ban the right to discuss a possibly racist police killing? Can you imagine the reaction by liberals, black activists and the American Civil Liberties Union? What if the Minneapolis police were to permanently ban any discussion of George Floyd’s death? What if every black American trying to give his or her opinion on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube were banned for life?
Who would react like that? Only guilty people. . .
Nearly 9 out of 10 young adults want a Covid inoculation, survey finds
A poll of almost 17,000 Britons found younger people’s attitudes to vaccination barely differ from those of the middle-aged, with at least 84 per cent looking forward to their jabs.
Minnesota gets creative in COVID-19 vaccine outreach
Dwindling demand forces new approaches to boost immunization numbers.
LEILA NAVIDI • Star Tribune
Health officials are adding a dose of creativity in their push to vaccinate more Minnesotans and slow COVID-19.
In Duluth, they’re offering vaccine shots in the downtown bus depot.
In St. Paul, volunteer physicians are working with a local brewery on a pop-up event that rewards those who get vaccinated with a free beer.
And in the northwest metro, an Elk River clinic is offering shots to patients as they seek help for other health care needs.
Apparently, We See Once Again Everyone Is Vulnerable Except Dominion Voting Systems | “Ransomware Attackers Up Ante as White House Vows Crack Down”
A series of major cyber-attacks in recent weeks has underscored the brazenness of the attackers and the challenges of tackling the problem of ransomware, just as the Biden administration announced plans to take on the issue.
In a matter of days, attacks were revealed against the police department in Washington, D.C. , where the hackers threatened to release information about police informants to criminal gangs; the Illinois Attorney General’s office, which had been warned about weak cybersecurity practices in a recent state audit; and San Diego-based Scripps Health, where medical procedures were canceled and emergency patients diverted to other hospitals.
Then on Saturday, Colonial Pipeline confirmed that it had joined the list of recent ransomware victims in an attack that threatened to upend gasoline and diesel supplies on the East Coast. While few details about the attack are yet known, Colonial shut down the biggest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. as part of an effort to contain the threat.
“The recent ransomware attacks illustrate, by their number severity and range of targets, why we need to treat this problem on the level of a real national security threat both here and around the world,” said Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department under President Barack Obama. “Fortunately, people in our government are paying attention.”
The string of attacks came as the Biden administration has vowed to take on ransomware, which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week called “one of our most significant priorities right now.” His agency in March announced a 60-day sprint to address ransomware, and the Department of Justice has created its own ransomware task force.
With Trump On The Sidelines & Biden In | “Jerusalem sees second night of clashes as Israeli security forces block Muslim pilgrims at mosque”
Jerusalem sees a second night of clashes as Israeli security forces block Muslim pilgrims arriving at Al-Aqsa mosque for holiest night of Ramadan – as President Erdogan brands Israel a ‘cruel terrorist’.
- Israeli forces fired a water cannon at Palestinian protesters and blocked busloads of pilgrims in Jerusalem
- Violence broke out as Muslims were heading to the Al-Asqa mosque on the holiest night of Ramadan
- Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Israel as a ‘cruel terrorist state’ amid the escalation
- Police defended their actions as security moves, but these were seen as provocations by Muslims
Astronomers observe black hole ‘spaghettification’ of a star for the first time
Scientists recently recorded the first known direct observation of the “spaghettification” of a star by a black hole, a process by which the star is pulled apart and devoured by the massive astronomical object.
The international team of astronomers, in a paper recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, describe having observed “the inner regions of a cooling accretion disc” from a star’s being drawn into the immense gravity of the black hole.
Stars being pulled apart by black holes can be “spaghettified” by them, a process by which the black hole pulls in a long trail of matter from the celestial body.
The “tidal disruption event” results in an immense output of visible radiation, which the scientists record having spotted in the paper.
Arizona Formally Bans Post-Election Signature Fix for Unsigned Mail-In Ballots
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law on Friday banning voters from adding signatures on unsigned mail-in ballots after election day.
The measure, Arizona Senate bill 1003 (S.B. 1003), was approved earlier in the state legislature in party-line votes.
The new law codified a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Oct. 6, 2020, within one month of the 2020 election. It also ended disputes over unsigned mail-in ballots between the state Republicans and Democrats.
Current Arizona law allows election officials to contact the voters to fix the signatures on the ballots if the signatures don’t match other signatures from records in the Department of Motor Vehicle, voter registration forms, or previous early ballots. The voters can fix the signatures, if they failed to pass the verification process, within up to five business days after election day.
The new law didn’t change anything about the grace period for the signed ballots.
However, it ended the state Democrats’ efforts to add a similar grace period to unsigned ballots.
Trump planned Qassem Soleimani’s assassination from 2017 and wanted to wipe out a ‘list of folks’
Trump’s team ‘began planning Qassem Soleimani’s assassination in 2017 and wanted to wipe out a ‘whole list of folks that day’, claims new report: Donald approved $15m extra security for Pompeo on leaving office.
- New details have emerged about the January 2020 strike in Iraq
- Mike Pompeo started discussions when he became CIA director in January 2017
- The plot reportedly escalated throughout 2018 and 2019 driven by the US’s withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal and the killing of a US contractor in Iraq
- Donald Trump then gave it the go-ahead because he wanted to take credit for it in his reelection campaign, officials said
- Former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller said the plan was to take out several senior Iranian military and intelligence operatives not just Soleimani
- Other targets were Quds Force’s top commander in Yemen Abdulreza Shahlai and members of the Iran-backed militia Popular Mobilization Forces
- Pompeo and other senior US officials including Brian Hook are now at risk of ‘no-bulls**t threats’ of a revenge assassination by Iran
- In his final White House days Trump set aside £15 million to protect them