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

Quote for today … “The key factor here, of course, is aggression, and a good cop knows when to be aggressive and when to play it cool.” – One of the 932 reader comments to this New York Times article about “reasonable fear” in policing.

• Columbia Police investigate burglaries – WGAL-TV8

Yoga in the park at the Marietta Market

• Headline says, “State mulls tattoo-shop regs like in Lancaster City, Columbia Borough.” We could find nothing in the article about Columbia except for the word. A search at the Columbia Borough Website under “ordinances” produced nothing on “tattoo.” A similar search at Lancaster’s Website produced this.

“This is the first long-term study of its kind that has investigated the association between coffee consumption and periodontal disease in humans,” says Nathan Ng. (Credit: DB Tabasco/Flickr)

• Coffee could help save your teeth – Futurity.org

• “It was a pretty cool experience, to tell you the truth.” – PA district magistate Robert Herman, in the top-of-page one article in today’s Sunday News‘ article about which magistrates will and won’t perform gay marriages.

• Notices at the Borough Website: Ironville Pike construction is set to begin August 25, 2014. Please watch for detours and/or traffic delays. – Mark your calendars – Saturday, September 13, 2014 Columbia Community Yard Sale.

• Ah, geez. This comment come up way too many times in this week’s Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County: “The person in charge did not demonstrate adequate knowledge of the PA Food Code as evidenced by several risk factors found at the time of this inspection.”  – The Sunday News

• Restaurant inspections in York County – The York Dispatch

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• “Are America’s police over-militarized and under-accountable?: Red/Blue America” – Harrisburg Patriot-News