Burning mouth syndrome doesn't discriminate. It affects people all over the world and is called the suicide illness because of how painful it is. I have had BMS for 14 years and don't know how much longer I and others I've spoken to can take it. It's like having a red hot poker set on your tongue all day long, year after year. We DESPERATELY NEED RESEARCH to stop the pain and find a cure.

Your spin-off, Matson Shipping carelessly pumped 1,400 tons of molasses in Honolulu harbor causing the worst marine disaster in Hawaii's history. Fish are dead. There's no way to clean it up. The entire ecosystem has been destroyed. For decades your subsidiary, HC&S, has ignored the lung disease your daily sugarcane burning has caused. Maui has the second highest asthma rate in the nation. HC&S burns 9 months out of the year and let smoke fill our homes and schools on a regular basis. You refuse to no-burn harvest which you can do (and do on some days) because you would have to hire more workers and it would decrease your profit. You operate 3 coal-fired boilers with no continuous monitoring, which spew SO2 and heavy metals on to the towns where the biggest population of our local children reside. You spread Diuron herbicide on your cane fields which runs into the ocean and is killing our reefs. You take more than your share of Maui's scarce water away from the Hawaiian taro farmers and dry up the streams of East Maui. Your operations have polluted the groundwater aquifers under your fields. You've bought out our politicians and no laws exist to control your bad environmental behavior. STOP your greedy destruction of our beautiful islands. 10/27 Update: Another molasses spill. This time Maui's Kahului Harbor. Same HC&S sugar. Same A&B infrastructure.

Sojourners is looking for people of faith who want to encourage the President to continue to pursue diplomatic alternatives in Syria. Pursuing peace is hard and long work. But our country needs to break out of the old habits of war. President Obama's renewed focus on diplomatic options is a step in the right direction. Please sign the petition below to let him know that Christians across the country stand for peace and support diplomatic solutions to the crisis in Syria.

with only 9 days of work scheduled in September, 4 of which have already been used, what do the House Republicans decide to focus on? the looming government shutdown? debt ceiling? farm bill, immigration reform, a fix to the Voting Rights Act? jobs? nope. they spent their time yesterday voting on the number one priority on their list: GOP lawmakers voted for the 41st time to gut the Affordable Care Act. this has gone beyond amusing, this has become madness, a vendetta against the President of this country that has consumed them to the point where they don't care if the country goes down in flames. they will fiddle while it does. this needs to stop.

Walking or riding a bike to work is dangerous in Atlanta. There is no more dangerous area of pedestrian crossing than the corner of Monroe Dr NE and 10th Street where Beltline traffic is high and pedestrians are entering and exiting Piedmont Park. I walk or bike this route daily and everyday a driver runs the red light nearly hitting a pedestrian crossing the street well within the time of the crosswalk light. It's only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed at this intersection. Today, 11/13/13, there were five police officers sitting at Park Tavern watching people set up stuff for Music Midtown while two cars ran the red light nearly killing six pedestrians. The officers did nothing. We, the pedestrians of Atlanta, demand for ticketing cameras be installed at the corner of 10th St and Monroe Drive NE with increase fines for running the red light to protect the pedestrians near Piedmont Park and the Beltline.

to bring back smoke breaks.

Many ad content writers for the site are not getting paid after receiving this email message from Arvind J. Dixit, "Greetings, Your payment will be sent by xxxday. Thank you for your patience and cooperation!" Payments are not being made and any further attempts at getting a resolution are ignored. Those people who have complained adamantly, their accounts have been deleted.

CHEMICAL HARASSMENT The Higher Authority and some of the Police officers in Minneapolis, MN, have found out that there are harassers spraying chemicals from their vehicles on the streets. The authorities have not gone in the buildings to stop the spraying of the chemicals. Now, is time to stop this chemical behavior because it is dangerous to all life. The research of a Neurologist, Dr. Raymond Sanders, wrote an article called, Recognizing Neurotoxicity, where he wrote about the chemicals affecting the body. Dr. Mirtha Nesheim is aware of these chemicals around her Clinic in Richfield, MN, She is sensitive to these chemicals. All doctors do not want to talk with the Police to get more information on this chemical harassment. These chemicals get into the Respiratory System to the Nervous System to cause excruciating pain, disability and deterioration of cells in the body. Then, it focuses on any Vital Organ to disable and cause death to its victims. What is worse is. that the creators of these chemicals have discovered the Pathway from the lungs to all parts of the body. The harassers can focus on any part of the body, thus giving them power to destroy all life. I urge everyone of you to sign this petition because this is toxic air and it is difficult to see and assess because these pains and disability looks normal to the eye and the toxic air can be deadly. I know because I feel the pain and so are my friends but they do not know what it is. Some of my Senior friends have died because of their failing Vital Organs plus my cats died even though the doctor said nothing is wrong with them. Please, sign this petition it is for all of us and the future generation plus the animals of this earth. All our health is very important for survival on this planet. Thank You Sincerely Polly Roopnarine, PhD

We can no longer ignore the impending danger to our planet and retirement funds by burning fossil fuel at the current rate. The atmosphere can absorb no more than 565 gigatons of CO2 before 2050. The fossil fuel industries already have the capacity in their reserves to burn 2795 gigatons.(5x the safety limit) and, at our current rate of emissions, we will reach the limit in 15 years. To ensure a livable planet for our children, 80% of the fossil fuel reserves have to stay in the ground. These reserves are already counted as assets--hence the looming carbon bubble will have to pop if we are to save the planet. CalSTRS should not make any new investments in fossil fuels and should divest from all fossil fuels within 5 years.

My nephew, Antwon Whitehead, collapsed while at basketball practice Saturday 9/7/13 and died at age 15 years old. It was determined that Antwon had an enlarged heart. Had he received a more thorough sports physical prior to his playing, it would have been detected and Antwon's life spared. "Antwon's Law" will make it a requirement that all students who want to play sports receive a thorough physical to include an EKG and chest Xray determine any abnormalities of the heart BEFORE they are allowed to play...especially if they have family history of heart disease.

For substantial periods of the past year our children have been unable to use the center’s outdoor playgrounds, and it appears one of those playgrounds has been permanently lost to us. Despite our protests and insistence that Bright Horizons remedy the situation, we have learned our children will continue to be denied access to both outdoor playgrounds for the foreseeable future. This is unacceptable. One of the main features the center touts is the daily, unencumbered access to outdoor playgrounds, which is integral to the development of our children. Indeed, many of us selected this center precisely because of its outdoor playgrounds. To date, we have not been compensated in any way for this loss, and now you’re proposing to increase tuition for our children based on “enhancements” to the center, despite the loss of this key facility. Given the above, a tuition increase is inappropriate at this time. We trust Bright Horizons will recognize the importance of keeping the tuition at its current level so that we can continue to remain involved in and promote the Bright Horizons community.

Isla Vista has a greater population density than Chicago, Philadelphia, or Miami yet has no government services other than the Isla Vista Foot Patrol and no community center. The Centers for Disease Control includes community centers as one of its "Healthy Community Design Principles" and the report "A Snapshot on Poverty in Santa Barbara County" recommended that social services be located in areas accessible to the communities most in need. If the board decides to deny Isla Vista the last available spaces for community gatherings, non-profit outreach, and social services the community will suffer. To learn more check out: https://www.facebook.com/evplaucsb Associated Students represents thousands of students and their neighbors in Isla Vista who would be adversely impacted by continued development with no regard to community health and safety. For years students have worked and lived in Isla Vista without the resources that other communities in the county enjoy. Help us reverse this trend and stop the injustice.