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Jun 3 2009 by Andrew Davies, Denbigh Visitor

CONTROVERSIAL plans to site a mobile phone radio base station near a residential area of Rhyl have been put on hold.

Vodafone recently announced plans to site the base station at the junction of Bryn Cwnin Road and Gwenarth Drive.

Many residents in the area had raised objections to the proposal and Vale of Clwyd MP Chris Ruane took these up with Mono Consultants, which are acting on behalf of Vodafone and with Denbighshire County Council.

Mr Ruane has now received a response from Vodafone stating that the proposal for the Bryn Cwnin site has now been placed on hold.

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- Airbus, WiFi et GSM: "Cage de Faraday protectrice et inversée, immunité avionique"

- Airbus et Téléphonie Mobile: "Principe fonctionnement système embarqué pico-antenne relais"

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Airbus.php#1

By Madison Park

CNN

(CNN) -- If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor.

Too much cell phone use can lead to overextending nerves, causing what doctors call "cell phone elbow."

Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of "cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long.

When cell phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch a nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls the smallest fingers. When talkers chat for a long time in that position, it "chokes the blood supply to the nerves. It makes the nerves short-circuit. The next thing you know, there's tingling in the ring and small finger," said Dr. Peter J. Evans, the director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/02/cell.phone.elbow/index.html


Informant: Mark G.

Rape Crisis in Congo Tied to Mining Activity

Dominique Soguel, Women's eNews: "Activists concerned by this year's escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting - directly or indirectly - from illicit mineral extractions. 'Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry,' John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told US senators at a May 13 hearing on sexual violence in eastern Congo and Sudan."

http://www.truthout.org/060109WA

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Congolese children work, fight and die for our cell phones and diamonds
http://www.flickr.com/groups/raisehopeforcongo/discuss/72157611578655963/



Mobile phone metals fuelling Congo war
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/417911/mobile_phone_metals_fuelling_congo_war.html


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Orphaned, Raped and Ignored

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. Yet no humanitarian crisis generates so little attention per million corpses, or such a pathetic international response.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24562.htm



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- Sécurité Avions et Compatibilité ÉlectroMagnétique: "WiFi Airbus A330 vol Quantas QF72"

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Airbus.php#1

June 01, 2009

Editor, the Record:

Thursday, May 21, the Record featured an article headlined, "Parents turn to cell phones as high tech rattles." While European Parliament, the World Health Organization, health officials, public utility commissions, neurosurgeons, scientists and biologists worldwide call for further research and protective regulations on wireless devices, we download lullabies that emit radiation into our babies' brains.

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Mai 31, 2009

University of Utah psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on hand-held or hands-free cellular phones are as impaired as drunk drivers when they drive intoxicated at the legal blood-alcohol limit of .08 percent. “If legislators really want to address driver distraction, then they should consider outlawing cell phone use while driving.”

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http://www.reflector.com/opinion/letter-ban-cell-phones-behind-wheel-636002.html

East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich, England, UK

FURIOUS parents protesting about a controversial mobile phone mast near an Essex primary school have been given the backing of their MP. ...

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Friday, May 29, 2009, 12:00

FEARS that telecommunication masts being built at schools across the county may pose a health hazard to pupils and local residents are unfounded say East Sussex County Council.

The authority issued a statement this week reassuring the public after Ticehurst parish councillor Rod Rigby raised questions about ESCC's next generation network.

The project will see fixed wireless access (FWA) antennae installed in 148 schools and ESCC offices over the next three months as the council seeks to meet government targets for internet access in schools.

Flimwell resident Mr Rigby has researched the effects of electro-magnetic waves from wireless devices and phone masts and believes there is evidence they can harm people.

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17:43 - 28 May 2009

TELECOMS giant Orange has gone to appeal in a bid to get the go ahead for a mast and equipment cabinet in a residential area of St Albans.

Earlier this year a St Albans planning committee turned down a bid by Orange to install an eight-metre-high column and equipment cabinet on a small area of green space on the corner of Sandpit Lane and Gurney Court Road.

Councillors refused it because of its visual impact and intrusive nature and the failure of Orange to demonstrate that there were more suitable alternative locations.

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