today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

• Today’s Weather! 
• Today in History!
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today… “It’s absolutely unconscionable that our citizens are going overseas to protect other citizens just to come back and have our own police hurt them.” – Joshua Shepherd, a six-year Navy veteran and friend of Scott Olsen, the Marine Corps corporal and Iraqi war veteran who was hospitalized after being hit in the head with a police projectile during the protest in downtown Oakland late Tuesday night.

• Sheer elegance … take four minutes and watch this video clip from TED. Incredible close-up, slow motion photography follows hummingbirds, bees, bats and more pollinators in action. 
• “The Columbia Water Company is receiving a $15.25 million loan from the state to upgrade and expand its water treatment plant.” – Lancaster Newspapers’ MyColumbiaOnline.
• “Importance of shopping locally” editorial in today’s LancasterIntelligencer Journal/New Era shows how some Lancaster County Communities are promoting local shopping; shows cooperative initiative among these communities: Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, Mt. Joy and Elizabethtown.
  
• Marcellus brings jobs – This article seems not to support that claim: “… the stream of men from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and elsewhere has been accompanied by increases in arrests, traffic violations, protection-from-abuse orders and warrants issued for people who don’t show up in court …” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
• Columbian’s letter to the editor published
• “New poll finds deep distrust of government” – New York Times – Duh! Ya’ think?
• “U.S. medical schools officials saw a record number of applicants in 2011, with applicant ranks increasing by 1,178, or 2.8%, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.” – modernhealthcare.com
• Here’s more about York’s Tattooed Rosies – York Daily Record