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23
Jun

Recommended Article – The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

June 23, 2018
When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own. Erika Christakis July/August 2018 Issue  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/ Excerpts: Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that it almost seems easier...
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23
Jun

Rwanda government outlaws the use of cell phones in schools.

June 23, 2018
Article in The New Times, Rwanda’s Leading Daily newspaper  http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/government-outlaws-use-cell-phones-schools Elisée Mpirwa Published : June 15, 2018 Pupils in class at Rusheshe Primary School in Masaka, Kicukiro District. File The Ministry of Education says that no more primary and secondary schools students will be allowed to own or use a mobile telephone at school, citing...
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23
Jun

Group of concerned Hempfield residents sues school district over cell towers

June 23, 2018
ALEX GELI | Staff Writer https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/group-of-concerned-hempfield-residents-sues-school-district-over-cell-towers/article_002f897c-765b-11e8-9b77-77cd2ab3d5ed.html A “no trespassing” sign on the Rohrerstown cell tower construction site displays warnings for potential radiofrequency radiation.  A yearlong battle over cellphone towers on school district property in East Hempfield Township has been revitalized thanks to a lawsuit filed against Hempfield School District. Hempfield Citizens for Safe Schools Inc.,...
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21
Jun

American Tower backtracks, cancels program designed to thwart nearby towers

June 21, 2018
Source https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/american-tower-backtracks-cancels-program-designed-to-thwart-nearby-towers by Mike Dano | Jun 20, 2018 12:01pm American Tower’s program sought to prevent the construction of towers close to its existing towers. (Mike Dano/FierceWireless) American Tower, one of the world’s largest tower companies, said yesterday that it will end a program launched late last month that was designed to prevent its contractors...
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21
Jun

Unlawful cell towers South Africa – legal precedent set by court and future implications.

June 21, 2018
A very important and far reaching legal precedent regarding unlawful and illegal cell tower placements was set earlier this year by the Western Cape High Court when it ruled that Telkom had to get approval from a municipality before conducting projects. This is after the City of Cape Town took the service provider to court. In...
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18
Jun

Super Dads – Combatting cell towers with Mike Maritz from Maritz Smith Inc. Attorneys

June 18, 2018
Cell towers are a big concern for residents of South Africa. Especially with there being no regulation or monitoring on their radiation emissions, transmitters being illegally erected and public participation bypassed or steamrolled. Part of my thesis (available on jameslech.co.za) was the legislative qualification of a public interest override The function of ‘substances released into...
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17
Jun

A human chain demands transparency in the deployment of 5G in Segovia

June 17, 2018
International experts at a scientific conference held in the city warn about the risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields for people and the environment. By GONZALO AYUSO HIJOSA – 16th June 2018  The participants in the human chain passed through the arches of the Aqueduct in a protest act that ended in the Plaza Mayor....
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16
Jun

American Tower Noncompete Clause Rattles Tower Service Contractors

June 16, 2018
Note updated news (20 th of June) American Tower backtracks, cancels program designed to thwart nearby towers https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/american-tower-backtracks-cancels-program-designed-to-thwart-nearby-towers American Tower Noncompete Clause Rattles Tower Service Contractors: By J. Sharpe Smith, Senior Editor June 12, 2018 The wireless infrastructure industry is abuzz over a letter contained in an email that American Tower sent to its contractors...
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15
Jun

In Memoriam: Martin Blank,Ph.D

June 15, 2018
It is with sadness that we report the passing of Martin Blank at the age of 85. A former Columbia University Professor, Blank was a long-time EMF researcher, best known for his collaboration with Columbia University’s Reba Goodman and his 2014 book, “Overpowered.” He called himself an “unlikely activist” and urged people to practice precaution....
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