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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From conversations and reviewing the sales/availability of full spectrum bulbs I gather my sensitivity is fairly common.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Cimelli<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 12, 2015 6:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> Steve Ross<br><b>Cc:</b> Christopher Mitchell; Tom Johnson; 1st-Mile-NM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [1st-mile-nm] The Town Without Wi-Fi | People & Politics | Washingtonian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting comment Steve on the microwave oven. Several years ago we had a clamp break inside a microwave.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The technician who came to fix it tested it for microwave leakage before and after the fix. I was standing there as he<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>brought out his testing device. He first wanted to show me the background emissions from the sun, so he unplugged <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>the oven and turned on the device. It registered a small reading. He said ‘follow me’ and walked to the window. The<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>reading went up. He explained that the sun, unshielded fusion reactor that it was hurled energy all over the electromagnetic<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>spectrum in every direction. The oven running added to that reading in the smallest way, but nothing compared to the background<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>radiation that he also claimed was minor. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hard to get away from that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>S<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 10, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Steve Ross <<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>Steve Ross<br>Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (<a href="http://www.bbcmag.com/" target="_blank">www.bbcmag.com</a>)<br>201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline<br>707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice<br>editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn)<br>editorsteve1 (Twitter)<br><a href="mailto:steve@bbcmag.com" target="_blank">steve@bbcmag.com</a><br><a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell <<a href="mailto:christopher@newrules.org" target="_blank">christopher@newrules.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I just saw a similar article on Ars -<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Christopher Mitchell<br>Director, Community Broadband Networks<br>Institute for Local Self-Reliance<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">http://www.muninetworks.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>@communitynets<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="tel:612-276-3456%20x209" target="_blank">612-276-3456 x209</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross <<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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. <br>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... <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have microwave oven and cordless phones emitting similar frequency. <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>===================================<br>Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism<br>Santa Fe, NM <br>SPJ Region 9 Director<br><a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a> <a href="tel:505-473-9646" target="_blank">505-473-9646</a><br>===================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>1st-mile-nm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a><br><a href="http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm" target="_blank">http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>1st-mile-nm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a><br><a href="http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm" target="_blank">http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>1st-mile-nm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a><br><a href="http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm">http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>