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By Sam Beattie

Knaresborough Today

CAMPAIGNERS this week welcomed a new county-wide pressure group to stop mobile phone masts being put up near schools and houses.

The group, proposed by Harrogate Borough councillors, will be non-political and voice residents’ health concerns about mobile phone transmitters being sited in communities.

It will also work with other councils, sharing knowledge and campaigning for more local powers to reject mast applications on health grounds.

The move comes in light of growing medical concerns about the affect of radiation on people’s health, in particular children’s health, outlined by studies such as the Stewart Report.

Coun Andrew Jones (Con, High Harrogate) put forward the plans along with Coun Richard Cooper (Con, Low Harrogate).

Coun Jones said: “With recent cases we have seen masts built or beefed up near schools with scant regard given to public opinion and local planning processes either bypassed or not allowed to consider health issues because of Government rules.

“While most of us like using mobile phones we must strike a balance between this and the health concerns many have over the radiation emitted by masts.”

In 2001 the council introduced a rule banning the building of masts on council-owned buildings and last year campaigners tried to fight a mast being installed near three schools in High Harrogate.

Harrogate Council had refused planning permission for a mast on the Claro Road site but a High Court appeal eventually overturned the decision.

Paula Brooks, a member of the Campaign Against Masts put up near Schools (CAMPUS) – which objected to the Claro Road transmitter – said: “In my own view I would welcome any discussion about the benefits and detriments of putting phone masts in built-up areas.

“If they’re going to set up a group just to talk about it more and research it more then that’s wonderful. As a community we should be able to say “no”.”

Government policy is part-based on research conducted by scientists who are commissioned by mobile phone companies and the Government currently refuses to recognise health concerns as grounds for objection.

Now councillors are calling for local councils and residents to have a greater say on where companies can locate their transmitters by asking the Government to protect people’s health rather than corporations’ profits.

05 May 2006

From Karen Barratt

Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:17 AM
Subject: WHAT A STRANGE STORY?!

See link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4974542.stm

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This Israeli study was funded by the cellular company Cellcom. Hagit Messer Yaron was the chief scientist of the Science office in the government. in 2000 She received the Fellow degree of the IEEE institute. And she is a professor in the school of electrical engineering.

Regards

Iris Atzmon.

From Karen Barratt

see link below - The full article appears in today's Guardian Sport Supp. It descibes many planning issues re: Arsenal that have upset local residents but doesn't mention the 32 masts applications. If London campaigners want to contact the journalist he's david.conn@guardian.co.uk

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The Future

A piece hidden away in the Financial Supplement to yesterday's Mail on Sunday:

"Property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz has joined forces with defence technology firm QuinetiQ to develop a mobile phone mast that can be used by several network operators. Until now, phone companies have each used their own masts, but with £15 million of backing from Tchenguiz, QuinetiQ has developed an aerial that can handle multiple operators. Quintel, the joint-venture company set up be Tchenguiz and QuinetiQ, has developed the masts over the past five years and the first two have just been installed. One in Cheshire was originally a Vodafone site, which the 3 network can now run off, while one in Staffordshire now accommodates Vodafone ans 3. Quintel chief executive Gary Dawson said the networks had little choice. 'To deliver 3G effectively across the UK, mobile operators each need to build in the region of 10,000 more 3G base stations', he said. 'However, because of a commitment made to the Government to halt the proliferation of phone masts, networks must think more laterally - which means sharing.' Quintel is looking at 40,000 potential sites where its technology could replace existing masts."

Watch this space!

David Baron

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TETRA Airwave, owned in Spain, decrypted and listened to in the USA...

And mobile networks on antenna technology owned by Iranians, developed from defence technology, by a company embroiled in the Bush / Cheney / Carlyle network, hosted in church steeples, and used by the police and emergency services for what Airwave won't do?

And they might be buying a pub near you (Mitchells & Butlers) soon!

What interesting globalisation we have.

Andy

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Qinetiq is the MoD Science privatisation spin-off criticised for making loads of dosh for the Carlyle Group end of last year. They made a deal via business unit QS4, with the Church of England, to supply multi-user antennae in church towers and steeples.

But just because an old GSM mast can be shared doesn't put it in the right place for 3G, so it doesn't solve many of the problems, just reduces planning hassle for some.

Signal characteristics remain the same as before per operator, this is just a way of handling multiple protocols simultaneously. Presumably the total power of QS4 antenna setup is the sum of what would have been produced separately.

Andy

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=151 (plus comments at the end)

Whose paranoia should win?

from Andy:

April 28, 2006 School ban cellphones. Parents go wild.

New York City schools set off a firestorm this week by doing random searches for weapons and confiscating cellphones, the New York Times reports. School administrators are out to lunch, city parents say, if they think they're sending their kids to NYC public schools without cellphones.

"I have her call me when she gets out of school, and she's supposed to get on the bus right away," Lindsay Walt, an artist, said of her daughter, Eve Thomson, 11, a sixth grader at Salk. "Then I have her call me when she gets off the bus, and I have her call me when she gets in the house. The chancellor will have civil disobedience on his hands. No one in New York is going to let their child go to school without a cellphone."

Dr. Moira Kennedy, a psychiatrist with daughters at the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies and at Stuyvesant High School, said the policy indicated "a disregard for the concerns of parents," adding, "I think it shows a big lack of awareness of the essential nature of having a way to communicate with your child during the day."

The civil disobedience started when NY police set up a random scanning operation at a Brooklyn school and confiscated 129 cellphone, 10 CD players, 2 iPods, a boxcutter and a knife. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein defended the policy. "We all understand the concerns that parents are talking about, but I think they have to see it from our point of view," he said. "There is always an enforcement issue, but the enforcement issue doesn't mean the policy is wrong. And obviously through the work we're doing now, I think that will improve enforcement."

Among the clueless: teacher Lisa Miller, who said, "If it's really an emergency, they can call the school."

That doesn't sit well with parents like Jane Reiff. "We sit here and we tell our parents, 'Care about your kids, do this, do that,' and then you say, 'You've just lost that safety net that you rely on,' " said Reiff, a Queens parent whose daughter Nikki, 12, uses her cellphone to call for a ride if the friends she usually walks home with are out sick. "It's just not safe out there."

Given how important cellphones are to people's lives, what exactly is the objection to having them in school? That they're one more think requiring classroom discipline? After all phones can be banned from the classroom and kept in lockers. Penalties for cheating can be made stiff enough to prevent all but the most apathetic. Maybe administrators just want school to be like it always was.

Read the latest Talkback post ummmm....public school spoiled? While I am sure they are spoiled, as most kids today are, including mine, what does their being in a... (Read the rest)

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Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

The danger of chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409463/

Brains and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1888981/

MOBILE TELEPHONE CAN CAUSE CANCER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586356/

Someone told me about this story on a Russian website. Comments?

=========computer translation
http://www.kp.ru/daily/23694.4/52233/ ===== Is it possible to weld egg with the aid of the cell phone? Today - clean Thursday. But it means, it is time to cook eggs to Easter. The matter this is simple and is dull, but only not for the experimenters?KP?

On one popular British Internet- forum for the students appeared the uncommon prescription of the melting of eggs - without the plate and the saucepan. And even without the water. But with the aid of two cell phones. Method, directly let us say, highly technological. But how it is real? We decided to verify.

Which is necessary:

egg; support under the egg - not metallic, and plastic, ceramic or wooden; two cell phones - than "it is more ancient", those better. Old telephones emit more strongly. And it is desirable, so that they would be attended by the different operators of honeycomb connection; radio receiver.

Plan of the actions:

No magic and charlatanism. Secret - in the radio waves, which emit cell phones. According to the idea of the anonymous author of prescription they must create the effect of SHF- stove. I, therefore, to heat egg.

It built from the improvised means plain installation of three cigarette bundles. We ring from one telephone to the second (the call compulsorily necessary to answer), we leave both apparatuses in the regime "conversation" and accurately attach on the contrary each other - close to the egg. It is here necessary to try, in order to the antenna of the telephones (internal or torchashchiye - nevertheless) the middles of egg were located approximately at the level.

SHF- to bake it is ready! We include radio tape recorder. The sound published by it - let us assume music - imitates conversation on the telephones. They continuously transfer to its each other through the honeycomb station, i.e., radio waves intensively emit. But the power of our instrument in this case is strengthened.

English student, the author of know-how, it asserted, that thus it welded usual chicken egg in three minutes...

It is incomprehensible, that whether cell phones in it were the times of Margaret Tetcher and "Cold War", that whether egg in our Russia "incorrect", but nothing with our egg it occurred in three minutes. It even was not heated.

(Photo: Support under the egg - ceramic. Telephones to it are put as nearer as possible. Apparatuses are inserted into the cigarette bundles for the stability. Radio tape recorder plays, and telephones the sound of melody chase to each other. In the regime "conversation" cell phones continuously emit the radio waves, irradiating, nagrevaya our egg.)

They decided to prolong experiment. Left our improvised mikrovolnovku to work longer.

15 minutes - nothing occur. We swear chatterer- Englishman.

25 minutes - egg by feel became noticeably warmer! Which very heated our showers by hope for the successful completion of experiment.

there are no 40 minutes -, not navral English gentleman. Outside egg is terrifically hotter. But it is felt, that inside it is still somewhat damp.

65 minutes - experiment it was necessary to complete vynuzhdenno: the money ended on one telephone.

We carefully remove shell... Protein welded completely, and here yolk a little did not reach. 3x, still polchasika...

(Photo: Hour with the small - and egg is welded "into the sack"!)

ALTOGETHER

Conclusion ? 1

To cook eggs by cell phones is possible, but it is too applied. The minute of conversation costs 7 American cents. It means, 65 minutes managed into 4 dollars of 55 cents. Or - 123 rubles. If we transfer this sum into the kilowatt-hour and to spend on the payment of usual everyday electric stove, that it would be possible to weld on eggs, for example, for all passengers of the air bus oppressed under the string, flying along the route Moscow - London. On top of that and to crew it would be reached.

Conclusion ? 2

Conversations about the dangerous emission of the apparatuses of honeycomb connection are actually exaggerated. The brains even if curdle, that only from the multihour conversations. The people very rarely are located moreover, which speak immediately on two cell phones.

Conclusion ? 3

Egg nevertheless almost welded!

But therefore - to bear in the pockets of pants immediately two cell phones are not recommended.

Vladimir LAGOVSKIY
lagovskiy@kp.ru
Andrey MOISEYENKO moisey@kp.ru
Anatoliy ZHDANOV'S photos.

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How To Cook An Egg With Two Cell Phones
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/how_to_cook_an_egg_with_two_cell_phones/

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Weekend Eating: Mobile Cooking
http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm


Informant: Agnes

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Mobile Cooking
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mobile+Cooking

BBC NEWS

A mobile phone company is refusing to turn off a mast that is at the centre of a row over claims it was wrongly erected on council-owned land.

Vodafone has been told to de-activate the mast in Fisherman's Walk, Bournemouth, Dorset, by the council.

But the company has maintained the site is on a public highway and says no decision will be made until after talks have been held with the authority.

A council spokeswoman said: "We are not asking them, we are telling them."

Campaigners have also previously called for the mast to be turned off immediately.

We do not intend to switch off the mast because it would deprive local people of our service Vodafone spokeswoman

Protestor Charmaine Despres said: "I would much prefer it was off but I understand that formalities and procedures have to be followed."

The mast first caused controversy when it was revealed the council had failed to inform Vodafone of its objections within the 56-day statutory time limit.

Last week, campaigners discovered that the mast was actually sited on land owned by the council, which has a policy of not approving phone masts on its property.

Joint talks

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: "We are looking into the suggestion that they own the land.

"As far as we are concerned the land has been used as a highway for over 20 years.

"We are happy to talk to the council about it but we do not intend to switch off the mast because it would deprive local people of our service."

Talks between Bournemouth Borough Council, Vodafone and local resident representatives are due to held on Thursday.

The current council policy of not allowing masts on its land is to be reviewed on 17 May.

Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/dorset/4942676.stm

Published: 2006/04/25 11:53:56 GMT

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By Nic Fleming,
Medical Correspondent
Daily Telegraph
(Filed: 26/04/2006)

Homes should not be built near overhead power lines because of possible links with childhood leukaemia, Government-appointed experts are expected to conclude.

They are likely to recommend a change in planning guidelines so that new homes cannot be built either within 230ft of power lines or in a location that exposes inhabitants to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of a certain strength.

A report by Dr Gerald Draper, of the Oxford childhood cancer research group, published two years ago, suggested that children under 15 living near high-voltage power cables may have double the risk of getting leukaemia. The seven-year study was commissioned by the Department of Health.

However, while the research found a statistical association, it did not establish a causal link and other scientists were sceptical of the findings.

Two reports containing recommendations on the proximity of power lines to both new and existing houses, as well as advice on electrical wiring in the home, will now be presented in June.

They are being drawn up by the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (Sage), an advisory group set up by ministers in October 2004, following the publication of Dr Draper's research.

The group includes representatives of the Department of Health, the National Grid, the Health Protection Agency, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Academics from Bristol University and Nottingham Trent are also members, as well as a number of campaigners from groups committed to highlighting what they believe are the potential dangers of EMFs.

Alasdair Philips, of the consumer group Powerwatch and a member of Sage, said that a large majority of those drawing up the reports was in favour of recommending precautionary advice.

"The link between childhood leukaemia and power lines is accepted pretty much worldwide.

"There is almost certainly going to be some precautionary guidance coming out of the report in June.

"There is a lot of agreement that we need to offer more precautionary advice on the siting of new house - 90 per cent of the advisory group agree with this line.

"I think it is highly likely we will see a recommendation that we change the way we wire our houses. There is no real opposition to that."

Representatives of the National Grid and Ofgen, the industry regulator, are understood to favour a recommendation that new homes should not be built within a specific distance - likely to be 230ft - of power lines.

Others in the group, including Mr Philips, are pushing for the ban to be based on homes being exposed to a certain level of strength of EMFs.

While initial advice will be to do with restrictions on the building of new homes, Sage members will include in their supporting material an analysis of the costs of knocking down and replacing homes thought to be exposed to potential harmful field strengths.

Starting this summer two more sub groups of Sage, looking at electricity distribution and electric transport, will begin drawing up reports.

A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "There is no new evidence to suggest a link between power lines and childhood cancers.

"However, we realise there is more research to be done. We have been closely following developments in this area for many years.

"Ministers will consider the group's recommendations."

The Mirror April 11th 2006.

An engineer who helped pioneer mobile phone masts is campaigning against one being erected near his local hospital - on health grounds. Alan Banks, 58, admits the masts are an eyesore and can affect people's DNA structure even though he helped design them. Mr Banks' designs were used by Nokia when the Finnish giant first built mobiloe phone base stations. But he is among objectors demanding that plans for new Vodafone 3G masts near Newcastle's Freeman Hospital are scrapped. Mr Banks, who lives near the hospital, said:"It's not just that they are an eyesore, the whole area is already peppered with radiation. "They could use the local park, which is a wide open space away from everyone. "Even though mobile phones are relatively low power, living around them will mean you're exposed to them all the time. "The 3G masts are much more powerful due to the amount of data they have to carry, thanks to picture messages and Internet access to your phone. "The data sent is much more complex these days."

Mr Banks designed the key component used by Nokia for its first mobile phone network. His design led to the component which converts the human voice into a form that can be sent from one phone to another without breaking up. He gave the company's network the ability to"chop up" information fed by the masts into individual conversations The engineer said:"At that time no one really knew how it might affect people's health. "People still don't know for sure what the impact is. But they're know to cause problems with DNA, it alters people's cells." Freeman Hospital estates manager Robin Smith voiced his concerns. He said:"They want the mast right in the middle of the pavement and we have tried to point out to them the problems this will create. "The jury is still out on the aspects of mobile phone masts. We do now allow mobile phones in the hospital as they can't be allowed within two metres of any medical equipment. "We manage to stop the building of masts on top of our sites, but we fail every time for the ones on our boundaries. "As long as there's any doubt over the safety of these masts our response is 'no.'", A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the company was meeting safety guidelines set by the government and that new masts are built as a last resort. Jane Frapwell, an adviser on electronic radiation, said:"Our policy is first to co-locate new aerials next to an existing mast or near an exisitng structure, such as a building."