[1st-mile-nm] The Town Without Wi-Fi | People & Politics | Washingtonian

[michael gurstein]

FWIW I have a strong reaction to conventional fluorescent bulbs. I can't
focus, sore eyes, get nervous and agitated, slight headache.  We had those
in our kitchen then replaced them with full spectrum bulbs and the problem
went away.  I need to stay out of conventional offices/classrooms where
those are present.

 

>From conversations and reviewing the sales/availability of full spectrum
bulbs I gather my sensitivity is fairly common.

 

M

 

From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Cimelli
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 6:08 AM
To: Steve Ross
Cc: Christopher Mitchell; Tom Johnson; 1st-Mile-NM
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] The Town Without Wi-Fi | People & Politics |
Washingtonian

 

Interesting comment Steve on the microwave oven.    Several years ago we had
a clamp break inside a microwave.

 

The technician who came to fix it tested it for microwave leakage before and
after the fix.   I was standing there as he

brought out his testing device.   He first wanted to show me the background
emissions from the sun, so he unplugged 

the oven and turned on the device.   It registered a small reading.    He
said 'follow me' and walked to the window.  The

reading went up.   He explained that the sun, unshielded fusion reactor that
it was hurled energy all over the electromagnetic

spectrum in every direction.    The oven running added to that reading in
the smallest way, but nothing compared to the background

radiation that he also claimed was minor.    

 

Hard to get away from that.

 

S

 

 

On Jan 10, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:

 

Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.

 

Remember how the NYT did a front page story on the Obama stimulus program in
2009 as it was being considered in Congress? The story zoomed in on the
broadband package, 1% of the total program, as s "cyberbridge to nowhere."
The NYT stenographer (he called himself a reporter) said he had come up with
the phrase himself. Right. Just a few days earlier PR for a major cable
company had used the phrase on me. 






Steve Ross
Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell
<christopher at newrules.org> wrote:

I just saw a similar article on Ars -

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek
-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/




Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks
Institute for Local Self-Reliance


http://www.muninetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/> 

@communitynets

612-276-3456 x209 <tel:612-276-3456%20x209> 

 

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:

And yet,  almost all the double-blind challenge tests,  where you randomly
subject electrosensitive people to signals,  turn out negative. I know of a
half-dozen mildly positive studies,  only two of which could be replicated
by the researchers, but used methodologies not quite double blind.  
It is always possible that some people are sensitive to some wavelengths,
but everything from fluorescent ballasts at 3600 Hz to wifi at 2.4 or 5.2
GHz or cellular at 1.9 GHz? Yes, there are harmonics, but signal strength
gets so low so fast... 

And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have microwave
oven and cordless phones  emitting similar frequency. 

On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/

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Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism
Santa Fe, NM 
SPJ Region 9 Director
tom at jtjohnson.com               505-473-9646
===================================

 

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