Man exposes himself in Pickrell Tavern ("Who else would he expose?", asks Frish)

Found this in my gmail drafts folder, which doesn't necessarily mean that I didn't already send it.  

As I learned in the UK, "better twice than not at all".

Beatrice Daily Sun Online Posted: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 6:00 am

Gage County Sheriff's Deputies responded to an incident in Pickrell early Sunday morning in which a male subject exposed himself to two females.

According to a press release from the sheriff's office, the subject was wearing a Zoot suit costume at the Pickrell Tavern and exposed his genitals to the females. He also made crude sexual comments and sexual advances towards them.

The investigation revealed that the subject was part of a group of Halloween revelers from Lancaster County.

The Sheriff's office is asking anyone with information on the incident to call the sheriff's office at 223-5222 or Gage County Crime Stoppers at 228-4343.

FRISH

How cell replication proceeds - implications for nano machinery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101124171542.htm

"Asbury said, "Intact, functional kinetochores had not previously been isolated from any organism." The purification of the kinetochores allowed the research team to make the first direct measurements of coupling strength between individual kinetechore particles and dynamic microtubules."

"Asbury likened the stabilizing tension on the filament to a Chinese finger trap toy -- the harder you try to pull away, the stronger your knuckles are gripped."

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FRISH

The world's demographics...When will those over 50 outnumber those under 50?

This is a letter to several groups, including CASS - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Had an opportunity to enjoy the following article:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101126094441.htm

Plenty of notable quotable facts and observations.

Low mortality and low fertility results in a steadily aging population in almost all parts of the world, outside of Africa.

Women outlive men the most in Russia.  What are the implications for Russian children to only have older role models that are exclusively female? 

I find this telling however..

"In August the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) presented a surprising report, in which the researchers urged the authorities to quickly bring the one-child policy to an end. The Chinese social scientists argued instead that people should be encouraged to have more children.

Researchers at CASS have found that it may be difficult to get Chinese people to have more children in the years to come, even if the authorities abandon their current stringent policy. In important areas of China, Chinese women will on average have fewer than 1.5 children in any case, the researchers warn. In order to maintain the current population level women need to have an average of 2.1 children each."

Warn (my emphasis)?  

Consider: A shrinking population doesn't fit into current growth plans.

And:        Those plans don't take into account the public harms that unlimited growth produces.

Having fewer humans has got to be a good thing...from the perspective of the future of the planet's ability to sustain human life, and from the perspective of those future humans!

Therefore, since the "natural" tendency according to CASS Research is for fewer children per family than replacement, why not encourage it, or at least have public/private management plans match the facts, instead of "warning" plan managers of too few people?

Their encouragement of lifting the one child rule may also be motivated by more "democratic" reasons, as the involuntary restriction on human fertility/fecundity are distressing on many of the millions affected.  It is a fascinating social experiment however, and shows how quickly human behavior can change.

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FRISH