Zoo Dilemma in Germany. Berlin Bears Becoming Bald

Berlin Bears Beginning Baldness..- on the news -
Berlin Zoo.

The Germans planning to visit may just be out of luck...the Berlin zoo also depending on tourism, may be facing hard and bald times and changes must most likely be made.

Is there an equivalent to 'Rogaine' for bears? Predicament for sure....will the bears survive a normal hibernation cycle?

Will the bears get too cold and how well will the bald bears negotiate the climate in general?
It's a fact that kids must be stunned. Children and adults alike will be surprised to see bald bears in a German zoo when expecting to see a 'fully dressed, normal looking animal.

The Berlin and all of Germany Public Relations [PR] bear 'per preference', Knut is his name, we haven't heard much about in recent years.

A question entering my mind. Can the dilemma be caused by carbon-dioxide...from the unhealthy air and exhaust emitted by vehicles in this 'capital and cultural centre'.

Berlin is not a carbon-free city. Its residents will have to wait decades before that will be a dream fulfilled.

Hopefully Berlin's bald bears will recover. I must admit bald bears do not look so fine anymore.....and maybe it is a sign of climate changes or hormonal and gene manipulation caused by an unhealthy diet or electromagnetic wireless radiation from cell- and mobile devices.

And as delivered by phone frequency transmission towers and wireless, Wi-Fi, documented by science as emitters of harmful radiation, especially for children and students in schools.

Are the bald bears victims of electromagnetic radiation from wireless communications?

On the right course and bearing.

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'Befuddled Important Association-White Rock BIA' - 'the rest of the story'

'The calm is deceiving.
Canada geese flock.
Lift-off is imminent.
Without warning.
Wings over water.
Wings over seas.
Soon in flight."
-Johan Prost



"News of the Day -BIA.
The 'rest of the story'..gory.
Starts here as a name from 2005; to this day of 2009.
Its name 'bia' is not KIA.
No brand of an auto, but perhaps appropriately a 'clamato'; a 'bloody hairy', not Mary."

"A drink to confusion, and for clarity too;
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"Truth, 'violets, martinis in per collage in the photo gives insight', report, has the keys to it all. The locksmith you are.'

"No longer a 'secret' hidden and cuddled by the 'few in the pew' soon in a puddle."
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Dear Anton, Sandy and Bob and Alicia too;
'spew truth and the wisdom as documents read';
Dear Larry with fortitude you cracked open a door, and once at the door;
you opened it more;
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from the depth of our hearts;
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did not waver or yield for the pressures on
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Your sacrifice and calm like the geese in the water;
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Shall I take it to Court and Supreme as it is;

Now retired, my cup is half-full, I need to gain power;
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but soldiering on shall I go;
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at the 'needy and selfish, I will;
in Supreme Court of BC when called if I live;
I 'will swear on the book' ;
'defend my honour and blood' and a family name."
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'Forensics'

Times of Halloween, [warm rain] and Pumpkin Carvings in White Rock, BC

'HEALTHY PUMPKINS'
@ West Beach Bar & Grill 'Pumpkin carving competition'
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This was taken when the ground was wet and the rain , the warm late summer and early autumn rain sprinkled our neighbourhoods.

Kids were dressed warmer and became still wet while admiring the pumpkin carvers attempts to truly excel in their art form; carving in this huge number of pumpkins to see who will win and take home the prizes.

The Marine Drive in White Rock wasn't traveled as it used to be. Plenty of parking spaces and 'dead' was the environment. No more bustling of tourists and local visitors to walk the promenade or have a mocca and a cake or an early afternoon aperitif by the barside.

Maybe visitors have had enough of entertainments for the while being....? Parents may not like pumpkin festivals or carving competitions after all . However, I did discover after having looked around the area of the West Beach Grill, that kids love the challenge both weather and carving could offer each one of the four young ones I noticed, this late afternoon.

It seemed to me that only the dog owners were out this swampy and dreadfully water born environment on the 25th October 2009; I call it the 'wet Sunday' in White Rock, BC, on the 'Canadian Riviera'.
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How 'Blind Are You' When Walking or Driving While Talking On The Cell Phone, Mobile Phone? Loss of Concentration & Focus On Task At Hand.

Just How Blind Are You When Talking on a Cell Phone?

October 19, 2009...7:21 pm

http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/just-how-blind-are-you-when-talking-on-a-cell-phone/

Everyday in the news we see stories decrying the use of
cell phones while driving. Research reports aplenty have been released
estimating the percentage of ones attention siphoned by mobile jabber and how
little is left to focus on the highway.

This is great and I'm glad the discussion is happening, but it might be useful to ask whether cell phone use in other (non-driving) venues has a similar effect on attention. What better way to make the point that cell phone use is dangerous when driving than showing its effect on someone doing something not nearly as focus intensive like walking, for instance.

That's exactly what the authors of a new study published in the journal Applied Cognitive
Psychology wanted to do. Researchers examined the effects of divided
attention when people are either (1) walking while talking on a cell phone, (2)
walking and listening to an MP3 player, (3) walking without any electronics, or
(4) walking in a pair.

The measure of how much attention is diverted during any of these
activities is called inattentional blindness“ not seeing what's right in
front of you, or around you, due to a distracting influence. If you've ever
watched the YouTube video of the gorilla walking through the crowd
of people passing around a ball, then you've seen an example of inattentional blindness (here is a great paper
on the effect downloadable as a PDF).

For the first experiment of the study, trained observers were
positioned at corners of a large, well-traveled square of a university campus.
Data was collected on 317 individuals, ages 18 and older, with a roughly equal
breakdown between men and women.

The breakdown between the four conditions
(with MP3, with cell phone, etc) was also roughly equal. Observers measured
several outcomes for each individual, including the time it took to cross the
square; if the individual stopped while crossing; the number of direction
changes the individual made; how much they weaved, tripped or stumbled; and if
someone was involved in a collision or near-collision with another walker.

The results: for people talking on cell phones, every measure
with the exception of two (length of time and stopping) was significantly higher
than the other conditions. Cell phones users changed direction seven times as
much as someone without a cell phone (29.8% vs 4.7%), three times as much as
someone with an MP3 player (vs 11%), and weaved around others significantly more
than the other conditions (though, interestingly, the MP3 users weaved the least
of all conditions).

People on phones also acknowledged others only 2.1% of the time
(vs 11.6% for someone not on a phone), and collided or nearly collided with
others 4.3% of the time (vs 0% for walking alone or in a pair, and 1.9% when
using an MP3 player).

The slowest people, who also stopped the most, were walking in pairs. In fact, next to the other conditions walking in pairs was the only one that came anywhere close to using a cell phone across the range of measures.

The next experiment replicated the first, but only one measure
was tracked: whether or not walkers saw a clown unicycling across the square.
And this was an obnoxiously costumed clown, complete with huge red shoes,
gigantic red nose and a bright purple and yellow outfit. Interviewers
approached people who had just walked through the square and asked them two
questions: (1) did you just see anything unusual?, and (2) did you see the
clown?

The results: When asked if they saw anything unusual, 8.3% of
cell phone users said yes, compared to between 32 and 57% of those walking
without electronic devices, with an MP3 player, or in pairs. When asked if they
saw the clown, 25% of cell phone users said yes compared to 51%, 60% and 71.4%
of the other conditions, respectively. In effect, 75% of the cell phone users
experienced inattentional blindness. (The discrepancy between the 8.3% and the
25% might be because the clown didn’t register as something “unusual� — this is,
after all, a university campus.)

So, coming back around to the original point — if using a cell
phone impairs attention as drastically as this study shows for people just
walking, could it by any stretch of the imagination be a good idea to use one
while driving?

One caveat to that concluding question should be mentioned: As
noted in the results, people walking in pairs–most likely talking to each
other–were next in line for inattentional blindness. This jibes with research
(discussed in this TIME article) indicating that talking to someone in your car
while driving is significantly distracting–perhaps not quite as much as chatting
on a cell phone, but in the neighborhood. Auditory cues, whether from a phone
or from the person next to you, divert attention. The problem with cell phones,
however, is that a user lacks the other set of eyes his co-chatter has to offer,
which could very well be the difference between being in an accident or getting
home safely.

Hyman,
I., Boss, S., Wise, B., McKenzie, K., & Caggiano, J. (2009). Did you see the
unicycling clown? Inattentional blindness while walking and talking on a cell
phone Applied Cognitive PsychologyDOI:
10.1002/acp.1638

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A new study has shown that using a cell phone while walking is so
distracting that it causes inattentional blindness.

Washington, Oct 20 - ANI:

http://www.littleabout.com/news/40406,cellphone-usage-inattentional-blindness-walking.html#
Researchers at Western Washington University
investigated the effects of divided attention during walking.
Individuals were classified based on
whether they were walking while talking on a cell phone, listening to an MP3
player, walking without any electronics or walking in a pair.
In the first study, the researchers found
that cell phone users walked more slowly, changed directions more frequently,
and were less likely to acknowledge other people than individuals in the other
conditions.

In the second study, they
found that cell phone users were less likely to notice an unusual activity along
their walking route (a unicycling clown).
The study suggests that cell phone usage may cause
inattentional blindness even during a simple activity that should require few
cognitive resources. - ANI

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Increased Fatalities From Cellphones Whether Talking While Walking or While
Driving

Main Category: IT /
Internet / E-mail
Article Date: 05 Mar 2009 - 4:00 PDT

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141224.php#

Cell phones are a danger on the
road in more ways than one. Two new studies show that talking on the phone while
traveling, whether you're driving or on foot, is increasing both pedestrian
deaths and those of drivers and passengers, and recommend crackdowns on cell use
by both pedestrians and drivers.

The new studies, lead-authored by
Rutgers University, Newark, Economics Professor Peter D. Loeb, relate the impact
of cell phones on accident fatalities to the number of cell phones in use,
showing that the current increase in deaths attributed to cell phone use follows
a period when cell phones actually helped to reduce pedestrian and traffic
fatalities. However, this reduction in fatalities disappeared once the numbers
of phones in use reached a "critical mass" of 100 million, the study found.


These studies looked at cell phone use and motor vehicle accidents from
1975 through 2002, and factored in a number of variables, including vehicle
speed, alcohol consumption, seat belt use, and miles driven. The studies found
the cell phone-fatality correlation to be true even when weighing in factors
such as speed, alcohol consumption, and seat belt use.

Loeb and his
co-author determined that, at the current time, cell phone use has a
"significant adverse effect on pedestrian safety" and that "cell phones and
their usage above a critical threshold adds to motor vehicle fatalities." In the
late 1980s and part of the 1990s, before the numbers of phones exploded, cell
phone use actually had a "life-saving effect" in pedestrian and traffic
accidents, Loeb notes. "Cell-phone users' were able to quickly call for medical
assistance when involved in an accident. This quick medical response actually
reduced the number of traffic deaths for a time," Loeb hypothesizes.


However, this was not the case when cells were first used in the
mid-1980s, when they caused a "life-taking effect" among pedestrians, drivers
and passengers in vehicles. In those early days, when there were fewer than a
million phones, fatalities increased, says Loeb, because drivers and pedestrians
probably were still adjusting to the novelty of using them, and there weren't
enough cell phones in use to make a difference in summoning help following an
accident, he explains.

The "life-saving effect" occurred as the volume
of phones grew into the early 1990s, and increasing numbers of cells were used
to call 911 following accidents, leading to a drop in fatalities, explains Loeb.
But this life-saving effect was canceled out once the numbers of phones reached
a "critical mass" of about 100 million and the "life-taking effect" - increased
accidents and fatalities -- outweighed the benefits of quick access to 911
services, according to Loeb.

"The cell phone effect on pedestrian
fatalities" (Transportation Research Part E, Elsevier, Vol. 45, Issue 1, January
2009, with William A. Clarke, Bentley University, Waltham, MA,) looked at
pedestrian fatalities related to cell phone use; the still-to-be-released "The
impact of cell phones and BAC Laws on Motor Vehicle Fatality Rates" (Applied
Economics, Loeb, Clarke and Richard Anderson, New Jersey City University),
examines all cell-related traffic fatalities. Loeb and his co-authors used
econometric models to analyze data from a number of government and private
studies, including those by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
the Department of Transportation, MADD, and the U.S. Census Bureau, among
others.

He and his co-authors recommend that governments consider more
aggressive policies to reduce cell phone use by both drivers and pedestrians, to
reduce the number of fatalities.

Source: Carla Capizzi
Rutgers University

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Human Kinetics / Excerpts
Walking while talking on a cell phone can be dangerous By Richard A. Schmidt, PhD, and Craig A. Wrisberg, PhD. http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/walking-while-talking-on-a-cell-phone-can-be-dangerous Recent research suggests that walking and talking on a cell phone can be dangerous (Hatfield & Murphy, 2007). In that study, the behaviors of more than 500 pedestrians were observed as they crossed a street. Pedestrians who were talking on a cell phone moved more slowly and were less likely to wait for cars to stop or even look at traffic before setting out compared with those who were not using a cell phone. These findings suggest that talking on a cell phone is a form of cognitive distraction that can put pedestrians at risk. These phenomena have also been demonstrated recently in studies about cell phones and driving (see Strayer, Drews, & Johnston, 2003). It is not simply the buttonpressing that is distracting; the conversation itself is distracting—especially when you consider that button-pressing is brief and conversation may be lengthy. This casts doubts about the effectiveness of the recent bans on handheld cell phones (but not hands-free phones) while driving in various U.S. states; because it is not only the action of the hands that is distracting, these bans might not have very much effect on driver safety. This is an excerpt from Motor Learning and Performance, Fourth Edition. An Excerpt published her by courtesy of : http://www.whiterockreporter.com

Biological Effects; from 2311 Studies. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity::

Biological effects referring to 2311studies
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

EHS is an expression created by the industry (as the nocebo effect...)
and spread around the world by the WHO, more specifically by M.Repacholi, to transfer the responsibility to people instead of admitting that they are environmental victims. EHS was known from long time as MICROWAVE SICKNESS or RADIO-FREQUENCY SICKNESS.

About that, you could download the 1972 report of the Naval Medical Research Institute in USA, admitting biological effects referring to 2311 studies !

You can download it at :
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/AD750271

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD750271&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
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