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HARRISBURG
New club to feature female dancers
Sunday, December 14, 2008
BY JOHN LUCIEW
Of The Patriot-News
Harrisburg might get its first upscale
"gentlemen's club" featuring female dancers
along with beer, wine, liquor and a full food menu.
Owner Joshua Kesler said he is working toward what he
described as a gentlemen's
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 came not only the
chance of opening up a closed society but the hope of a kind of
scholarly glasnost -- opening up closed archives and bringing long-buried secrets into the light of day.
In 1992, Jonathan Brent, an editor at Yale
University Press, first flew to Moscow to investigate the possibility
of publishing documents from the vast collections of the defunct Soviet
state. |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. U.S. agriculture has developed a heavy reliance on chemicals to
safeguard crops from yield-robbing weeds. However, many of those
herbicides can pose substantial health risks to people, pets, and
wildlife, which is why laws prescribe how some of these chemicals are
handled in fields. A study now finds that trace quantities of such
agricultural chemicals nonetheless find their way into consumers'
homes—not on the fruits and vegetables they buy but |
Scientists report that droughts in India are associated with a
particular type of El Niño, the climate phenomenon marked by increased
sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific. http://louisjsheehan.blogstream.com
The rainy
season in India occurs in June, July, and August. Between 1871 and
2002, central India experienced 10 severe summertime droughts, says
Martin Hoerling, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo. Every one of |
Breathing smoggy air diminishes the ability to breathe deeply in
overweight people more than it does in lean folks. The new finding
mirrors an effect recently seen in rodents. http://louis1j1sheehan.us
About a decade ago,
Milan J. Hazucha of the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel
Hill and his colleagues exposed people for 90 minutes to ozone, the
primary respiratory irritant in smog. The goal had been to evaluate the
effect of age on how sensitive adult lungs were to ozone |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Lonely people often get a lousy night's sleep, according to a new
study. Lack of high-quality slumber among the lonesome may contribute
to their elevated physical illness and death rates, say psychologist
John T. Cacioppo of the University of Chicago and his coworkers. Data
for the study came from 33 male and 21 female college students who
spent a night in a sleep laboratory wearing a cap fitted with sensors
that measure eyelid movements, head rolls, |
Attention, married men suffering from major depression: Positive
comments directed at your wife may sometimes be hazardous to your
emotional health. That, at least, is the implication of a
preliminary study of couples with either a depressed husband or wife.
When depressed husbands discussed marital problems with their wives,
the men's approving and friendly comments often elicited nasty and
critical retorts, say Sheri L. Johnson of the University of Miami in
Coral Gables, Fla., and |
After living for nearly 2 millennia in Chile's lowland jungles,
South American settlers first braved the region's Atacama Desert around
13,000 years ago. Modern archaeologists would like to know why. New
evidence may explain this puzzling migration and also account for an
extended abandonment of the 2-mile-high desert several thousand years
later. It boils down to climate changes, say Martin Grosjean of
the University of Bern in Switzerland and his two Chilean colleagues.
Hunters sought |
What led to the project: Joel Kugelmass had some
interesting reading tastes as a child growing up in the 1950s. He read
Euclid's writings on geometry as a 11-year-old seventh grader. (He had
skipped grades.) He soon turned his attention to number theory,
reading everything he could about this "elegant" branch of mathematics
that is concerned with the properties of numbers. This interest was
surprising to his more literary family—his father was a reporter at the
San Jose Mercury News—but
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Louis J. Sheehan When some toad toes tap, maybe it’s the beat, not the motion, that matters. The
resulting vibrations could agitate insects and other little morsels,
setting them wriggling and scuttling in a flurry of activity that
triggers a toad’s known tendency to strike at moving prey, says
entomologist John Sloggett of Groningen, the Netherlands. http://louis8j8sheehan8esquire.wordpress.com/
Details
of how a toad’s brain processes information about when and where to
strike |
The graves of people who died 12,000 ago rarely contain a woman’s
skeleton pinned down in an unusual position by large stones,
accompanied by a menagerie of animal remains and another person’s foot.
Yet that’s what archaeologist Leore Grosman of Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and her coworkers recently discovered in a small Israeli cave
called Hilazon Tachtit. Closer analysis shows that this grave holds a shaman, one of the earliest ever excavated, the researchers report in an upcoming |
Caroline Elfland began receiving complaints soon after researchers started occupying one of a pair of brand new buildings on the University of North Carolina
campus, almost two years ago. People said the water tasted funny — as
in bad. To ferret out the source of the noxious taste, this associate
vice chancellor directed all sorts of probes into the new facilities’
construction, into water entering the buildings from mains in the
street, and of course into plumbing materials. Within |
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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Neandertals' bones preserve a story of their consuming passion for
flesh. Telltale chemicals in two fossils now portray Neandertals as
avid meat eaters who hunted often and skillfully. Neandertals
lived in Europe and the Middle East from about 130,000 to 28,000 years
ago. The new information counters a theory that they mainly scavenged
scraps of meat from abandoned carcasses, says a team led by
archaeologist Michael P. Richards of the University of Oxford |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. I realize that this is a judgment call, but I’m miffed at the example of egregious earmarks that John McCain chose to single out during the October 7 town-hall presidential debate: “$3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago” — one that he said Sen. Obama had “voted for.’ He made it sound like a silly boondoggle. http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com
And
it would have been if it were indeed for an overhead projector — those
things geeky |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Two scientific teams have presented fossil discoveries with
controversial evolutionary implications for two ancient species
traditionally regarded as direct ancestors of Homo sapiens. A 1.8-million-year-old upper jaw discovered in eastern Africa solidifies the position of Homo habilis as the oldest known member of the Homo
genus, say anthropologist Robert J. Blumenschine of Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, N.J., and his colleagues. Reported in the Feb. 21 |
Louis J. Sheehan. The
cost of the most common type of weight-loss surgery, which typically
runs between $17,000 and $26,000, is offset within two to four years by
medical cost savings, according to a new study. http://louis1j1sheehan1.blogspot.com
The findings, published in the September issue of the American
Journal of Managed Care, may increase pressure on health-insurance
companies to cover gastric bypass surgery. Some insurance plans
specifically exclude weight-loss |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Two Nobel Prize winners are among the scientists advising Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama in his bid to capture the White
House, a blog is reporting. Harold Varmus and Peter Agre helped the Illinois senator craft his answers to science-policy questions put to the presidential contenders by Science Debate 2008, a group of academic and business leaders, according to Wired. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. http://louisejesheehan.blogspot.com |
Former Philadelphia Eagles star defensive back Andre Waters was
known as a fierce tackler during his 12 seasons. By the time he retired
in 1995, he had racked up hundreds of tackles but had also sustained
numerous concussions.
After his playing days were over, he was reported to be suffering from depression.
And in 2006, at age 44, he committed suicide with a gunshot to his
head. According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University
of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Older adults often find that their memories betray them. A team of
Canadian psychologists, led by Michael Ross of the University of
Waterloo in Ontario, offers this advice to elderly individuals with
memory concerns: Don't go it alone. Talking about recent memories
with someone else, such as a spouse, works like a cognitive vacuum
cleaner, in Ross' view. It sucks up many mistakes that litter memory,
leaving behind a relatively clean core of accurately recalled |
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