so they can operate a 2,000 pound vehicle and vote for the very same people who are wasting time with this idiocy??!!! what next - the hat enforcement police on sunny days? sun-screen sniffing dogs??

Buyers remorse on slots in general. Good.

One more time: Real gaming rooms with a few sucker machines paid for by the operators in venues that already have liquor and entertainment licensing and parking too.

Much smaller scale to each and more broadly available throughout the State.

The slots facility in Anne Arundel County should be located at Laurel Park, plain and simple. Any other location seems absurd in comparison. And, if Cordish Co. wins the auction for the two local race tracks, they would have absolutely no reason not to move their slots parlor to Laurel Park. The A.A. County Council should wait to see how the race tracks auction turns out and act accordingly.

Many young teens begin the dangerous practice of indoor tanning in preparation for dances and proms and embark on a serious and harmful tanning habit. At the age of 16, I was one of those girls and now 10 years later am a survivor of Melanoma skin cancer which I am certain was brought on by my weekly trip to the tanning salon. Indoor tanning salons like to spread messages of the safety of artificial tanning devices. I remember one campaign in particular that stated indoor tanning was actually good for you due to an increase in vitamin D caused by exposure to sunlight. My parents were always very skeptical of my tanning behavior and encouraged me to stop. Had I needed a permission slip, or had it been illegal for me to tan, I’d like to think that today I wouldn’t have a seven-inch scar across my back from my Melanoma surgery. I applaud Howard County for considering this legislation and hope that it helps spread awareness of the very real dangers of indoor tanning.

Across the nation younger and younger women are getting malignant melanoma, a lethal cancer, that can be difficult to treat if it is not caught early. Years of cumulative exposure to ultraviolet rays is the offender. The body surface area of children is low and injury from tanning beds to young skin can be extensive, intense and irreversible, inducing mutations that set the stage for cancers. There is a lot of recent research that shows the importance of vitamin D in the prevention of cancers, heart disease, auto immune disorders, muscle weakness and bone deterioration. Tanning salons have exploited this research to their benefit, touting tanning beds as a great way to get adequate amounts of vitamin D. To sell this line to insecure, vain or vulnerable girls 10 years old is unscrupulous business practice and should be stopped. Parents, if you want your girls to get more vitamin D, ask them to drink milk, eat yogurt, romp around outside when the sun is not too hot, with sun screen to protect their skin or simply give them a vitamin D supplement.
A doctor who knows the devastation of malignant melanoma

I am sorry to hear about Kathleen's prediciment but she is lucky she survived.

But we KNEW even 10 years ago the result of too much sun. It is NOT new information.
Just as tody people KNOW the effects of cigarettes but continue to smoke.

When you KNOW the risks of anything you do, you must accept the outcome.

Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in the US. 10 to 15 minutes of sun a day is sufficient for your daily dose of sun. AFTER your 10 to 15 minutes, put on the sun screen.

The council members are not perspicacious. Don't they realize that even if they said yes to the Arundel Mills site, the state may not be able to scrape up the mega dollars needed to install the slot machines and Cordish may get tired and give up? Residents in the Arundel Mills area should take heart. They live in a state that is not only pockets to let but is also full of wishy washy politicians. The combination does not bode well for Cordish or for slots aficionados.
Bucinum

Comm'on Andy, no one else wants slots in Anne Arundel? One word: Magna. There would have been even more interest if the Dems did not screw the whole thing up with a 67% tax.

Got melanoma? Used a tanning bed at least once? Well there's the problem.

Bull, how easily the guys in the lab coats have convinced you all in the effort to keep us out of UV sources and sell sunscreens.

As many if not more Melanomas in internal tissues as well as parts of the body on which the sun never shines.
The vulnerability to damage and subsequent cancer proliferation is the result of high pro inflammatory omega 6 intake but low compensating anti inflammatory omega 3 Vitamin D3 intakes.

20-30minus of full body prone midday sun exposure is the best way of acquiring adequate vitamin D intake. The next best alternative is high UVB output tanning beds.

Adequate levels of Vitamin D are fundamental to brain health.

Low vitamin D found in those with impaired executive cognitive function, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

We also know how Vitamin D activates receptors on neurons in regions implicated in the regulation of behavior, stimulates neurotrophin release, and protects the brain by buffering antioxidant and anti-inflammatory defenses against vascular injury and improving metabolic and cardiovascular function.

Raising 25(OH)D to above 125nmol/l 25ng/ml improves insulin sensitivity. Most UK adults that will require MORE THAN 3000iu/daily D3

As up to 10,000iu/daily is considered safe (even in the presence of ample sun) 5000iu ~ 6000iu daily would ensure levels are raised to above 60ng/ml 150nmol/l that is associated with lower incidence of inflammatory conditions and enables human breast milk to flow replete with vitamin D3 which would surely have occured in primal societies.

There is now ample evidence that low vitamin D level is a risk factor for neuropsychiatric disorders.
Vitamin D acts as a neurosteroid with direct effects on brain development, so it isn’t surprising if Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy impairs maternal and fetal outcomes.

Ted,
what a rambling load

Ted Hutchinson, some of what you say about vitamin D is true. All of what you say about tanning beds is false. You are a false merchant who speaks selective truth--equivalent of snake oil salesman.