Appears Professor Kjell Hansson Mild has done some interesting research.

Looks like Haringey council in London was going to set a precedent, but then Labour dashed all hope .  Maybe Carmarthenshire County Council can see sense?

Anyone know if the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) is still voicing concern with regards to Wi-Fi?

Firstly I accept the media doesn't always paint the real picture.  Having said that, Geoffrey Lean appears to be doing a pretty good job of highlighting the "possible" issues of Wi-Fi.  From my perspective the Wi-Fi debate is pretty simple; Wi-Fi is school doesn't add any value from an educational perspective over hard wired (cabled) computers.  If you read all the Wi-Fi research available, its still hard to know what the real truth is.  Given we can expect the Wi-Fi research debate to continue for year to come, I'd prefer not to gamble with my children's lives, and hence will live without Wi-Fi.  If in 5+ years, we find that Wi-Fi if proven safe, then all well and good.  If however we find that Wi-Fi is actually dangerous, at least I will know I've done the best I can for my children, and not gambled with their lives.

Since we are on the subject of Wi-Fi, its interesting to see that Germany and Salzburg in Austria are prepared to go a step further than the UK Government. 

I've heard a few people say to me that the Panorama Wi-Fi programme was full of scientific in-accuracies - its amazing how many of us are prepared to become scientists overnight :) .  You can read Powerwatch's view of Wi-Fi here.

Imagine for a minute that the whole Wi-Fi debate is actually similar to the power lines debate that has been going on for years.  Reading this article (1999), its almost a mirror of what is happening in Wi-Fi land. If the scientists can't agree, what chance does the general public have of knowing the truth? 

In the above linked article the Health Protection Agency "accepted there was a weak statistical 'association' between prolonged exposure to power fields and childhood leukaemia".   Wouldn't you expect the Health Protection Agency to make this public to help save children's lives?  Then again, if we are dealing with the same Health Protection Agency that has so far failed to act on Wi-Fi, we're all in serious trouble.  From where I sit, it looks like the Health Protection Agency is prepared to gamble with our lives, and our children's lives

Anyone know if the power lines report has been release yet? 

Having returned from a week at La Vallee, I've mixed opinions on Keycamp.  Both Keycamp and Eurocamp have various flavours of accommodation at La Vallee - I stayed in a Grand 29 3 bed. 

Before getting to La Vallee, be aware that the directions Keycamp provide expect you to arrive from the south, near the A13.

On arriving at La Vallee you need to make your way to the Keycamp office where a staff member will show you to your accommodation.  From the outset the staff are obviously students - 18-21yrs old.  Over the course of a week its clear that Keycamp La Vallee is run by Keycamp students.  I've nothing against students, I was one once :)  However, if Keycamp trained and paid them a little more, and invested a little more in the accommodation, I would have been a lot happier.  Take for example the accommodation;  surely Keycamp could have provide mattress covers so its customers didn't have to look at the disgusting mattress prior to making your own beds? You can't tell me that accidents didn't happen on the mattresses by its younger customers!  Next the cleanliest of the accommodation itself.  If Keycamp provided suitable training, then the Microwave might have been cleaned prior to our arrival.  The sofa could probably do with a clean once a year as well. 

As to the campsite itself, the playground weren't bad, the probably again however was with Keycamp's "Fun Station" - in the case of La Vallee, staffed by two students who couldn't motivate the dead, let alone a 3yr old.  Overall the Fun Station was more of a student Sun Bathing Station.

As to the onsite pools, even though they're supposedly heated to 26C, they still felt cold, and you need Speedos if you're a male - not shorts allowed - shame Keycamp didn't tell you this before you packed.

In summary, given the above I actually had a good week at La Vallee, even though the weather was appalling. This was mainly due to being with the family, away from work, nowhere near a computer, and without a cell phone and blackberry buzzing every few minutes throughout the day :)  Would I use Keycamp again?  Possibly, but I'd probably go further south in France in an attempt to get better weather :)

It was a pleasant surprise to see a mobile phone mast article on the front page of the Sunday Times (22/04/07). In the same week, we also had various news outlets reporting about the power lines Government-commissioned report. Its unfortunate however that money is more important than life - "40 stakeholders have clashed over the final details".

Newsnight (BBC) this week also covered Wi-Fi from the perspective ok sensitivity to low level microwave radiation. Dr Andrew Goldsworthy (Imperial College, London) hints at possible health issues.  Wi-Fi in school is something I have real concerns with.

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The article also mentions the web site willyoujoinus.com that calculates the barrels of oil and gas consumed during a visit to their web site.