The results of your lie detector tests are that the polygraph lied. Imagine that. A glitch in a widely used polygraph, may have labeled the truthful liars and the guilty innocent.
The manufacturer, Lafayette Instrument Co. Inc., downplays the problem, although it can't say how often it happens. The glitch came from the computerized measurements of sweat on a suspect. Makes you just want to trust the judicial system and wonder how many innocent people are serving time over some glitch!
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
The Tasty Solution
Although I have never heard of it, there is something called bovine TB, that can be cause tuberculosis in humans. If you read the part about the United Kingdom, you will get a taste for this entry!
From the article:
Badgers (Meles meles) were first identified as carriers of M. bovis 30 years ago, but the report of an independent review committee in 1997 concluded badgers made an important contribution to the spread of M. bovis between herds of cattle.[13] This was the major cause of the current battle between animal conservationists (keen to save the badger) and farmers (keen to cull badgers, to reduce livestock losses). The Randomised Badger Culling Trial [14] (designed, overseen and analysed by the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB, or ISG [15]) was a large field trial of widescale (proactive) culling and localised reactive culling (in comparison with areas which received no badger culling). In their final report,[16] the ISG concluded: "First, while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful evaluation of our own and others’ data indicates that badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain. Indeed, some policies under consideration are likely to make matters worse rather than better. Second, weaknesses in cattle testing regimes mean that cattle themselves contribute significantly to the persistence and spread of disease in all areas where TB occurs, and in some parts of Britain are likely to be the main source of infection. Scientific findings indicate that the rising incidence of disease can be reversed, and geographical spread contained, by the rigid application of cattle-based control measures alone." On 26 July 2007, the Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Rooker) said "My Lords, we welcome the Independent Scientific Group’s final report, which further improves the evidence base. We are carefully considering the issues that the report raises, and will continue to work with industry, government advisers and scientific experts in reaching policy decisions on these issues."[17]
In the UK, many other mammals have been found to be infected with M. bovis, although the frequency of isolation is generally much less than cattle and badgers. In some areas of South-West England, deer, especially fallow deer due to their gregarious behaviour, have been implicated as a possible maintenance host for transmission of bovine TB,[18][19] a disease which in the UK in 2005 cost £90 million in attempts to eradicate...
You now can get an idea about the brilliant solution to get rid of bovine TB. If you can't beat them, EAT THEM! Since badgers are the major culprits, why not come up with tasty recipes. From the folks who eat blood pudding made from pig blood, the only real solution is to eat the potential carrier. Brilliant!
This is a Darwin ready to happen.
From the article:
United Kingdom [edit]
See also: Badger culling in the United Kingdom
In the 1930s, 40% of cattle in the UK were infected with M. bovis and there were 50,000 new cases of human M. bovis infection every year.[12] According to DEFRA and the Health Protection Agency, the risk to people contracting TB from cattle in Great Britain today is very low. The HPA has said that three-quarters of the 440 human cases reported to the HPA between 1994 and 2006 were aged 50 years and above and only 44 cases (10%) were known to be non-UK born.Badgers (Meles meles) were first identified as carriers of M. bovis 30 years ago, but the report of an independent review committee in 1997 concluded badgers made an important contribution to the spread of M. bovis between herds of cattle.[13] This was the major cause of the current battle between animal conservationists (keen to save the badger) and farmers (keen to cull badgers, to reduce livestock losses). The Randomised Badger Culling Trial [14] (designed, overseen and analysed by the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB, or ISG [15]) was a large field trial of widescale (proactive) culling and localised reactive culling (in comparison with areas which received no badger culling). In their final report,[16] the ISG concluded: "First, while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful evaluation of our own and others’ data indicates that badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain. Indeed, some policies under consideration are likely to make matters worse rather than better. Second, weaknesses in cattle testing regimes mean that cattle themselves contribute significantly to the persistence and spread of disease in all areas where TB occurs, and in some parts of Britain are likely to be the main source of infection. Scientific findings indicate that the rising incidence of disease can be reversed, and geographical spread contained, by the rigid application of cattle-based control measures alone." On 26 July 2007, the Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Rooker) said "My Lords, we welcome the Independent Scientific Group’s final report, which further improves the evidence base. We are carefully considering the issues that the report raises, and will continue to work with industry, government advisers and scientific experts in reaching policy decisions on these issues."[17]
In the UK, many other mammals have been found to be infected with M. bovis, although the frequency of isolation is generally much less than cattle and badgers. In some areas of South-West England, deer, especially fallow deer due to their gregarious behaviour, have been implicated as a possible maintenance host for transmission of bovine TB,[18][19] a disease which in the UK in 2005 cost £90 million in attempts to eradicate...
You now can get an idea about the brilliant solution to get rid of bovine TB. If you can't beat them, EAT THEM! Since badgers are the major culprits, why not come up with tasty recipes. From the folks who eat blood pudding made from pig blood, the only real solution is to eat the potential carrier. Brilliant!
This is a Darwin ready to happen.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
No Homeless Allowed
If you have a business near a homeless encampment chances are there is bound to be trouble. The bums, er, ah, the homeless may hang around and sleep, while using your parking lot as a toilet. Apparently, someone has found a way to keep the homeless off their property. All it takes is discarded tombstones of deceased people.
A man in Texas built a fake graveyard. It worked like a charm as the homeless refuse to loiter. All I've got to say is...BRILLIANT!
A man in Texas built a fake graveyard. It worked like a charm as the homeless refuse to loiter. All I've got to say is...BRILLIANT!
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Over-Hopping Of BEER!
I'm a craft beer drinker from the start of this century and millennium. I often will buy from my local crafters, but love exploring a variety of brews, sometimes from around the world. I am not a Lite beer drinker, and can't understand the fascination with it, as Lite beer drinkers still have beer bellies!
I prefer beers that have a malt or yeast dominance and believe that the bitter hop taste should be a lightly lingering after taste. Instead today most craft beer brewers are adding an overkill of hops to their beers. The most famous of hop beers are the IPAs(Indian Pale Ales), which were over hopped for a reason. When the British soldiers and others were colonizing India in the 18th century, the extra hops helped preserve the beer and its flavors for the long trip. At the time it took them around the Cape of Good Hope and the trip wrecked havoc on their porters.
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy hop beers from time to time, but in most the hop bitterness is overwhelming. There are some, Pale Ales and IPAs, that are evenly balanced, but most are hopped more than they need. They truly leave a bitter taste in your mouth, and makes any palate for most foods null and void.
I have no intention of quitting Pales and IPAs, because like I said, I do enjoy them. I also know the ones that fit my craving at the time without an overpowering hop bitterness. What I am noticing myself is that there are many crafted porters, stouts, imperial stouts, and yeast beers(such as the Belgian varieties) are leaning more towards hops than malts and yeasts.
I would really hate to go to the mass produced commercialized beers that only serve the purpose of getting you drunk, but good beer should be balanced in my opinion.
I prefer beers that have a malt or yeast dominance and believe that the bitter hop taste should be a lightly lingering after taste. Instead today most craft beer brewers are adding an overkill of hops to their beers. The most famous of hop beers are the IPAs(Indian Pale Ales), which were over hopped for a reason. When the British soldiers and others were colonizing India in the 18th century, the extra hops helped preserve the beer and its flavors for the long trip. At the time it took them around the Cape of Good Hope and the trip wrecked havoc on their porters.
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy hop beers from time to time, but in most the hop bitterness is overwhelming. There are some, Pale Ales and IPAs, that are evenly balanced, but most are hopped more than they need. They truly leave a bitter taste in your mouth, and makes any palate for most foods null and void.
I have no intention of quitting Pales and IPAs, because like I said, I do enjoy them. I also know the ones that fit my craving at the time without an overpowering hop bitterness. What I am noticing myself is that there are many crafted porters, stouts, imperial stouts, and yeast beers(such as the Belgian varieties) are leaning more towards hops than malts and yeasts.
I would really hate to go to the mass produced commercialized beers that only serve the purpose of getting you drunk, but good beer should be balanced in my opinion.
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