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

Quote for today… “We’re now on DST for about roughly eight months or 67% of the calendar year.” – Excerpt from this article: “Daylight Saving Time: A spring forward or a step back.”

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1918 Poster espousing the benefits of the first DST shift for the U.S. Credit: U.S. Library of Congress image in the Public Domain.

• Yippee, Skippy! Here it comes. On Sunday, we’ll happily turn our clocks ahead to “daylight saving time.” – Timeanddate.com

• Today’s Intelligencer Journal carries a chart of Lancaster County’s municipalities that shows “How much local governments owe their pension funds?” Columbia’s shown as “minimally distressed” having Pension Plan Assets of $4,175,010 and an Unfunded Liability of $5,080,473. There’s this information – Status Report – Published December 2012 Status Report – Colored Version at the Pennsylvania Public Employee Retirement Commission Website.

• Top browser in the world and in the US? Google “Chrome”

• “big picture” look at electricity shopping – LancasterOnLine

• Solar energy farm a bust in York County – The York Dispatch

• In the POLICE LOG in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, police in East Donegal Township, charged a Columbia man for doing a “burnout.”

• “Comcast turning Chicago homes into public Wi-Fi hot spots” – Chicago Tribune

• Internet History on one page (and Al Gore’s name isn’t on the page!)

• “Scared by new (and Michelle Obama–approved) FDA rules on nutrition labeling, the food industry is fighting back.” – Al Jazeera America