Saturday, January 19, 2013

WiFi in Schools - The Facts

WiFi in Schools
The Facts

A fantastic video from Australia which summarizes a lot of pertinent information about wireless radiation and children.

 Stark Warnings From Medical Doctors Regarding The Risk Of Wi-Fi In Schools


An excellent video (17 mins) about WiFi and health risks, including interview of Sir William Stewart (Scientific Advisor to British Prime Ministers), measurement of radiation levels of wireless laptops in the classroom as compared to cell towers, and live experiment showing how an Electrohypersensitive (EHS) patient's heart beats go into rapid acceleration when a Wi-Fi router was turned on - something that one cannot fake.
 

BYOD: Bring Your Own Demise
A Disaster Waiting To Happen For Schools


BYOD
Bring Your Own Device Demise

Dec 12, 2012 - The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), representing 60,000 pediatricians and pediatric surgeons, warned against "the potential dangers of RF energy exposure" on children and pregnant women

"The differences in bone density and the amount of fluid in a child’s brain compared to an adult’s brain could allow children to absorb greater quantities of RF (radiofrequency) energy deeper into their brains than adults... the current exposure limits may not reflect the latest research on RF energy".

Oct 4, 2011 - Health Canada encouraged “parents to reduce children's RF (radiofrequency radiation) exposure from cell phones since children are typically more sensitive" and "there is currently a lack of scientific information regarding the potential health impacts of cell phones on children".

School Boards across Canada are promoting "Bring Your Own Device", i.e. asking students to bring their own wireless smart phones, iPods, tablets and laptops to the classroom. This policy has no regards for the health impact on the children.




Why BYOD Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen For Schools

"having worked in educational IT (with both public and private schools), I have to say that the idea of launching BYOD at the K-12 level makes me shudder. There are several serious concerns that should be forefront in the minds of school IT staff, administrators, teachers, and parents about BYOD in schools."

Read more: http://www.cultofmac.com/176277/why-byod-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-for-schools/#cYzqtKs0JMCllqoF.99


 
BCTF Teacher News Magazine
Wi-Fi Technology In schools: 
Is It Time To Reconsider? 

"Wi-Fi in schools is an unprecedented and unethical experiment involving the continuous radiation of children with microwave level frequencies, a possible cancer risk according to the WHO, that is considered by our government to be harmful to children, and it is happening without the consent of children, parents and school staff, including pregnant women who are more vulnerable...

Do we as teachers and school boards have the right to expose children, hoping that the health risks are inconsequential?"  

 

A Letter To 
The Ministry Of Education
By Patrick Chun, 
Engineer & Parent

"About technology in education, we need to think carefully about simply buying the latest hardware such as tablets, smart boards, etc. and claiming that our schools are hi-tech.  It may be nice to be able to recite how many i-whatever we have in our schools, but simply having more toys in schools will only perpetuate the already foolish use of technologies in our society in many cases.

We may all have the tendency to going to a vendor's demo night and be dazzled by the glitz, but, if experience is any indication, the benefits of the latest-and-greatest gadgets frequently are not as great as using the fund for other more meaningful, albeit low-tech, initiatives.

Don't get me wrong, I am not techno-phobic (UBC engineering 1984).  If we are going to use technology, many times very modest equipment nowadays are already more than adequate for all of the truly meaningful educational purposes.

It is the educational software that matters, not the hardware.  

We need to wean ourselves from a "Rolls-Royce" mentality in terms of hardware purchases, and we need to focus on using the money to build a province-wide educational software repository particularly addressing the needs of our BC kids.  This is the way to gain efficiency and scalability in education.  It also addresses the flexible individual learning initiative.

On another note, we may want to be more vigilant about using unproven technologies such as wireless Internet routers within schools.  Like DDT, we don't want to find out its issue too late."  

The author: Mr. Patrick Chun, professional engineer, computer programmer, educator, and entrepreneur, graduated from the University of British Columbia, Canada in Engineering with 1st class Honours, and subsequently went on for graduate studies at McGill University, Canada, and the University of California, USA in Computer Engineering. 


Patrick had extensive high-technology development experiences on electronic communication systems, satellite observations, and multimedia designs across North America, as well as the design of users’ training and education for these complex systems. He was a volunteering engineer for the "Scientists in School" project in Canada where experienced scientists, doctors, engineers would visit high schools to give lectures about the fascinating world of science and technologies. Email: pchun@greenwood.ca  
 

Technology Purchase Suggestions
For Your Family

"Given the many changes that continue to occur in Information Technology, families have struggled in recent times to provide the best technology tools for their children to be successful at school. In some respects, the "commercialism" of technology has pushed parents to rush out and purchase the latest and greatest technological device with the intention that their child requires a specific tool to be more successful at school and eventually post secondary education and/or the work force. To this end, School District No. 27 would like parents and families to note the following with their technology purchases:

A cell phone for a child is a family decision, but students do not need a cell phone for any educational purpose at this time - this includes Smart Phones that allow them to access the internet.

Parents and Families should not be caught up with the latest and greatest "gadget;" one must always remember that Computer and Software companies may not have your child's best interests in mind when the product is being sold to the public.

Tablets are good consumers of information (receiving information), but not for producing information which is the skill set we want our students to be developing.

Technology ages very quickly, so spending significant amounts of money on a device that may not last for a significant period of time should be considered for all purchases.

Finally, what is the best dollar investment for what your child really needs?  The answer to this is a laptop, desktop, or an inexpensive Netbook with Microsoft Office so that they may create their assignments and do research in a timely and effective manner."

- By Ken Matieshen, District Principal of Information Technology, SD 27, BC



Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Is your Child having Negative Physical Reactions to WiFi Pulsed Microwave?

Does Your Child Have The Following
SYMPTOMS?

Migraines 
Muscle Spasms
Hyperactivity 
Learning Problems 
Dizziness
Nausea 
Memory Loss
Heart Hurts
Heart Palpitation
Asthma
Shortness Breath 
Concentrating 
Chronic Illness 
Blood Sugar Fluctuations 
Behavior Problems
Muscle Aches
Joint Pain 
Ringing Ears
Hearing
Vision
Allergies 
Anxiety
Depression 
Skin Rashes 
Numbness
Tingling
Insomnia
Night Sweats
Weakness
Fatigue


The above are common symptoms of Electrohypersensitivity (or Electrosensitivity). This is a recognized disability in Sweden, and is recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but at this time, little accommodation has been provided for EHS children in the public school system. If your child is suffering the above symptoms, please contact us at safeinschool [at] gmail.com . Please read more about EHS at http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/ehs-symptoms-and-support-in-health-effects,27,0


Video: Emergency Medical Doctor 
Talks About Her Experience Of Electrohypersensitivity (EHS)

Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe is a medical doctor with Emergency Medicine as her specialist area. In training for this specialty she has a broad base of medical experience including surgery, anaesthesiology and intensive care (both neonatal and adult). She has worked in hospital emergency rooms, lead trauma teams and taught on trauma medicine courses throughout the UK and abroad. She was also selected to instruct doctors on teaching within medicine. Erica offers advice and support to persons with EHS, their families and their doctors.



Tormented Oxford Graduate Killed Himself because He was ‘Allergic to Mobile Phones’

Tragic violinist Michael Nield, 36, suffered from a condition called electro-sensitivity, which caused a painful reaction to all sources of electric fields including mobile phones and phone masts.




Subjects:

BC Educational Plan Vs Non-WiFi Schools for Children of High Tech Executives

There is a limited time within which comments for BC's Educational Plan can be submitted. If you are concerned about the use of wireless microwave technology in schools, please utilize this chance to speak up. Comments don't have to be long. It only takes 2 minutes. Please do it today... and share with others who have this concern. Thank you!


Do NOT confuse LEARNING with expensive wireless gadgets that bear health risks on Children.


The Chief Technology Officer of eBay and many Executives of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard send their children to Waldorf (No WiFi) schools.

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute

The Private School in Silicon Valley where Tech Honchos send their Kids so they DON'T use Computers

Silicon Valley Tech Execs Sending Kids to Tech-free Schools


High-tech and Autism:

Autism Report June 1987 – June 2007, Department of California Health
"From June 1987 through June 2007, California experienced a twelve-fold increase in individuals with autism being served by DDS".
That's 1200% increase in 10 years.

Childhood Autism Spikes in Geek Heartlands

"Childhood autism is two to four times as common in Eindhoven, the centre of the Dutch information technology industry, as it is in two comparably sized Dutch cities with far fewer IT employees".

"Rising autism has also been seen in regions such as Silicon Valley, California. But the Dutch study claims to be the first to directly ask
whether concentrations of IT workers mean more children with autism too".

"Researchers analysed data on autism prevalence on 62,000 school children in three Dutch cities, each with populations of around quarter a million.
"This was more than double the corresponding figure of 84 in Haarlem and four times the figure of 57 in Utrecht.

Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?

Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in an Information-Technology Region? A School-Based Study of Three Regions in the Netherlands


Former President of Microsoft Canada Frank Clegg heads Advocacy Organization against Wireless Radiation
Mr. Frank M. Clegg served as the President of Microsoft Canada Co. from 1991 to 1996. He served as Vice President of Microsoft's Central U.S. and Canada Region since 1996 and again served as the President of Microsoft Canada Inc., from 2000 to January 2005. Prior to Microsoft, he worked several years with IBM Canada in senior management positions. He played a leadership role in Canada's technology sector and in the broader Canadian community for many years. Mr. Clegg has been Corporate Chairman of Navantis, Inc. since October 2005. He is heavily involved in numerous charitable foundations throughout Canada, including the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Diversinet Corp. Mr. Clegg has been an Independent Director of Indigo Books & Music Inc. since February 1, 2005. He serves as a Director of Information Technology Association of Canada. He served as Director of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., from May 24, 2007 to April 29, 2010. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of HelpCaster Technologies, Inc. Mr. Clegg  graduated from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he earned an Honors Bachelors degree in Mathematics in 1977.


Other News


A Landmark Court Case has ruled there is a Link between using a Mobile Phone and Brain Tumours, paving the Way for a Flood of Legal Actions.


Video: Former Canadian Military Electronic Warfare Expert Jerry Flynn talks about the Health Impacts of Wireless Radiation


NEW Study - the Oxford Journals: 
The Suicidal Feelings, Self-Injury, and Mobile Phone Use After Lights Out in Adolescents 
"Conclusions: Mobile phone use after lights out may be associated with poor mental health, suicidal feelings, and self-injury in both early and late adolescents."


Man 'Cooks' His Sperm with Laptop
Doctors have told a UK man, 30, that his laptop was cooking his sperm and that’s why he and his wife were struggling to have a baby – tests had shown he was producing enough sperm but that they suffered heat damage. According to the Daily Mail, Scott Reed then put his laptop on his desk instead of his lap and three months later his wife Laura was pregnant.


BC Educational Plan Vs Non-WiFi Schools for Children of High Tech Executives

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Industry Canada Wi-Fi Case Study:
Why do the radiation levels look so low?

$ndustry Canada serves the $ndustry. Its mandate is: “to help make Canadian $ndustry more product$ve and compet$t$ve in the global economy”Health concern is not its priority. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/h_00018.html

Industry Canada conducted a “WiFi case study” in May 2012. This study has been cited by pro-WiFi parties to advertise “WiFi safety” in schools. However, we have found that this study does not provide any meaningful data applicable to the kind and level of radiation which children are subject to in a classroom situation.
  • There is NO near-field measurement of the user's exposure level from a downloading/uploading laptop. Remember: Children in schools use laptops, ipads and hand-held wireless devices in DIRECT contact with their bodies. In the Industry Canada report, there was no clear description of the user's distance from the laptop. They wrote: "RF exposure levels for one laptop connected to AP2 in uploading mode at a preselected measurement location with the tri-axis antenna positioned at a height of 1.25 metres". Their diagram on page10 shows that those preselected measurement locations (named P1-P12) do not correspond to users' seating locations.
  • The only near-field measurement presented was 20cm from an AP (router) and the numbers were high.
    E.g. 8b) RF exposure levels from 5150 to 5350 MHz with the tri-axis antenna positioned at 20 cm from AP1:
    "Average measurement" was 6.679538% of SC6. At this frequency range the SC6 limit is 50 W/m2, i.e. 5000 µW/cm2. The measurement recorded was, therefore, 339.769 µW/cm2 ! The maximum measurement was 10.585600% of SC6 limit, i.e. 529.28 µW/cm2 .
    * See Biological Effects recorded in scientific studies from power density levels of 0.0000000001 μW/cm2 and up: http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/niemr/power_density_effects.pdf
  • When this case study report referred to measurements during the uploading/downloading of a certain number of laptops (page 36-37; 5b, 6b, 7b), there was only one preselected measurement location – P7, which was in the middle of the room, not close to ANY particular user (see diagram on page 10).
  • On page 14 it is written: "3b) Spatial- and time-averaged RF exposure levels from 2.4 to 5.825 GHz at the location with the highest levels found from 1b and 2b. Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 states that for situations in which the exposure intensity varies significantly with time within a period of 6 minutes, time-averaging values must be calculated from multiple measurements. Safety Code 6 also states that spatial averaging (from a nine-point matrix) over the projected surface area (flat plane) equivalent to the head and the body region of a person shall be measured if the localized values vary by more than 20%."
    Not only did Industry Canada average out the time exposure, they also averaged out the "spatial" exposure. First of all, the points on that nine-point matrix might not be the points where the microwave beams hit, and if one or two points happen to be where the beams go through, that high level of measurement will be "averaged" down by the other matrix points which have no contact to the beams. This is similar to describing the force of a car that has crashed into another object in the following ways:
  1. Reporting the speed of the car as an average speed over 6 minutes - a combined average speed of the top speed (150 km/hr when the car crashed) and the 0 km/hr speed while the car was stationary.
  2. Reporting the force that the impacted object received, by averaging the force received over a 9-point matrix, including matrix points where the object had actual contact with the crashing car (strong force) AND the points where the object had no contact with the crashing car (zero force).
    The resulting published figures will look extremely low but unfortunately, DO NOT represent the actual level of radiation that students are subject to.
    Most important of all, the data obtained from this case study refer to Health Canada's Safety Code 6 (should be renamed: Danger Code 6). Health Canada's SC-6 is based on short-term acute exposure, and is only concerned about whether the exposure causes a rise in the person's body temperature. (Imagine the health authority announcing that cigarette smoking poses no harm until it rots your teeth. It is that irrelevant.) SC6 is an outdated and obsolete guideline which ignores all the science that has demonstrated biological effects resulting from pulsed RF microwave exposure at much, much lower levels than official thresholds. Health Canada also has no data of long-term health effects resulting from chronic, cumulative exposure, such as what is now imposed on school children for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, for decade+ in public education.
    Another irrelevant study which the Chief Medical Officer and School Boards erroneously use to demonstrate the “Safety” of WiFi: http://www.safeinschool.org/2012/04/bc-chief-medical-officer-dr-perry.html


Posted By SafeinSchool.Org


Monday, October 15, 2012

PLEASE COME to Greater Victoria SD61 WiFi Committee Meeting - Wed Oct 17 at 4:30pm

Scientists plead with Victoria School District to Protect Children from Wireless Technology in Schools
Yet another qualified expert has written the Victoria School Board re Wi-Fi technology (microwave radiation) and the extreme risk it poses to children’s health. This technology has NEVER been proven safe and its ubiquitous use in schools clearly uses children as guinea pigs for this type of all day exposure.  Parents have the right to say NO to this 2b carcinogen for their children. Safer hard wired solutions are already found in most schools and do not emit microwave radiation at close proximity 6 hours daily, 5 days a week!

Please, for the protection of all our children, listen to what the Scientists all over the world are saying about the very real threat in our schools.
Join us on Wednesday, October 17th,  4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Victoria School Board Office, 556 Boleskine Road and to show the Wi-Fi Committee that we are saying NO to Wi-Fi Transmitters in our schools and YES to Safer Hard Wired Solutions ! 

Tammy Jeske and Janis Hoffmann
Parent Advocates for Safe Schools
parentsforsafeschools@gmail.com

Dr. David O. Carpenter, M.D Worries About the Biological Effects of Wireless Technology in Schools http://www.defenderpad.com/growing-concern-of-the-wifi-radiation-impact-on-children/

Toronto Sun: Physician Group adds weight to warnings of Wi-Fi in School (Oct 5, 2012):


Dr. Martin Blank (Columbia University): 2012 Letter to Victoria WiFi Committee.
http://goo.gl/fTYw6


Dr. David O. Carpenter (State University of New York): Letter to WiFi Committee of SD61.
http://goo.gl/NPO8N


Dr. Magda Havas (Trent University): Open Letter to Parents, Teachers, School Boards regarding WiFi Networks in Schools.
http://goo.gl/zG8sU


Dr. Olle Johansson (Karolinska Institutet): Letter to Board of Education, Greater Victoria School District 61.
http://goo.gl/2A2dN

WiFi and Cellphone Radiation: Fast Track to Humanity's Genetic Dead End

Generation X'd Out:
An end to the human race as we've known it?
Babies born to GENERATION X-RAY may be on the fast track to humanity's genetic DEAD END.
By Amy Worthington

Scientists warn that a pregnant woman using a cell phone, with or without a headset or bluetooth device, could cause her to place the transmitting phone near her abdomen, exposing her baby to dangerous levels of microwave radiation. Both the pelvic structure and amniotic fluids promote the deep penetration of microwaves, which can be easily absorbed by the fetus.

The term "Generation X-ray" refers to youth addicted to communicating and recreating with wireless devices - cell phones, PDAs, WiFi computers and music/gaming equipment. These wireless devices emit high-frequency microwave radiation, recently demonstrated by European researchers to efficiently inflict the same horrific damage on human cells as X-radiation.

Surveys reveal that the average American child under 18 now spends several hours a day irradiating himself with his cell phone "toy." Meantime, Swedish scientists report that children and teens who use cell phones are up to five times more likely than non-users to suffer glioma brain cancer. Gliomas are among the most difficult to treat and deadly of human cancers. Children who use cordless household phones have over four times the risk of developing brain tumors. The far-reaching health hazards to children and teens from wireless technology are well-documented in part one of this Idaho Observer series: Generation X-ray: Child Victims of Technological Abuse. While the European Parliament and governments around the world are calling for stricter limits on wireless exposure for kids, Gen X-ray continues to ride the down escalator towards disintegrating health and premature death.

Most tragically, because our young people have received no official warning from U.S health agencies, they unknowingly micro-cook their sperm, ova and fetuses with a radiation known to be just as mutagenic and teratogenic as gamma wave radiation from nuclear fallout. The science is clear. Babies born to the hard-core wireless generation will suffer a high probability of genetic corruption from their very seed.
 ...

DNA is the crux of the matter

For the sake of human survival, mankind must quickly master this critical fact: modern wireless technology is capable of causing the genetic destruction of humans as a species. Microwave radiation used for wireless communications and surveillance is extremely injurious to human DNA. It is therefore also destructive to both the human genome and the epigenetic chemical switches which control expression of the genes. Below is visual proof, as determined by the **REFLEX** studies, published in 2004 by the European Commission.



- Slide one (top left) shows a normal healthy cell under magnification. This cell is a bright energetic little orb with its DNA and other genetic materials safely inside the cell membrane. It represents the cells of healthy, non-irradiated children of generations past.
- Slide two (top right) shows a living cell exposed to 1600 chest X-rays. This cell is shrunken and has lost its energetic brightness. Trailing behind it are its genetic guts, spilling through the cell membrane as little particles that look like a comet trail against the dark background. These DNA fragments are called micronuclei, typical mutations from excessive X-rays, or from gamma waves of nuclear detonation.

- Slide three (bottom) shows a cell exposed to 24 hours of cell phone radiation. This cell's comet tail of micronuclei splat is identical to that of ionizing X-ray damage. The microwave frequency used by REFLEX scientists to micronucleate this cell was 1.8 gigahertz (1800 megahertz), comparable to 1.9 gigahertz frequency blasting from both personal wireless communications devices and the base stations which service them.

Besides the REFLEX work, there are an additional 17 published scientific papers documenting abnormal changes in DNA exposed to cell phone radiation and other frequencies in the microwave bands.3 Microwave radiation-defined as electromagnetic waves ranging from 300 million hertz to 300 billion hertz-brutalizes human cells by vibrating tissues at incredible speeds. The fragile molecules and chemical bonds of DNA cannot withstand being whipped back and forth at millions or billions of times per second. Microwaving the DNA could be described as a cellular version of **shaken baby syndrome.**
...

A history lesson is valuable here

Since the Cold War, the U.S. government has known that microwaves are genetically hazardous. Beginning in 1953 and continuing intermittently for about three decades, the Russian Soviets used microwaves to covertly attack the U.S. embassy staff in Moscow, Russia. The ongoing irradiation campaign affected about 1,800 employees and 3,000 dependents housed at the embassy during this period.35

The Russians targeted the U.S. embassy with 2.4 to 4.1 gigahertz, a range within the same realm of frequencies blasting from America's wireless cell phones, in-house cordless phones, wireless computers, WiFi systems and cell towers. The Russians mainly used a power density of around 5 to 18 microwatts per square centimeter (5-18 uW/cm2).

In the mid 1970s, a Johns Hopkins medical team under direction of Dr. Abraham Lilienfield was commissioned by the U.S. State Department to study the health effects of the Moscow irradiation on our embassy staffers. The draft report documented numerous symptoms of radiation poisoning, including immune system disorders, high white blood cell counts, chronic fatigue, blurred vision, cataracts and muscle aches. Information on cancer was deliberately withheld from the Lilienfield team, but it was later reported that cancer incidence among embassy staff was four times normal.37

Most individuals among the irradiated staff were protected by the stone structure of the embassy building and therefore they received an estimated average of only 0.19 uWatts/cm2. Nevertheless, reproductive problems among the irradiated Moscow personnel included abnormal red and white blood cells, above average chromosomal aberrations, higher than normal rates of miscarriage plus pregnancy complications.38 Embassy staff with blood abnormalities were advised not to conceive children until six months after their somatic levels had returned to normal in a non-irradiated environment.39