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

Quote for today … “Who could have drew it up better than that?” – James Franklin, Penn State’s football coach from this article following yesterday’s overtime bowl win in New York – The Daily Collegian

• another “missing” airliner: PennLive.com

• Attention, preppers … you may be interested in the article in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster. Here’s the website about an “Urban survival” program – an upcoming course at a to be determined location in Lancaster on the last weekend in January.

PHOTO SOURCE: kpho.com

• Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – Chain operations lead the list with lots of violations; Manheim City Star Diner has more than enough violations to become a chain operation. – The Sunday News

• Restaurant inspections in York County: South George Street McDonalds has “the person in charge did not have adequate knowledge of food safety in this food facility as evidenced by the non-compliant inspection” and a bunch of violations as “dirty floors throughout.” What’s with these chains? – The York Dispatch [NOTE: York’s newspapers have paywalls that inhibit people from reading their posts after a minimal number of view each month … unless people pay to become subscribers. We will include links to the referenced articles, though readers may not be able to read the article.] In the most recent inspections listed in York County, the McDonald’s store on South George Street racked up a large number of food serving establishment violations.
  

• BUT … packernet.com offers “Tips for Avoiding paywalls.” – Go Packers!
  

• “Readability is a website that pulls the content from any page and shows it to you in a nice, readable format, removing all the ads, navigation, etc.  Since it uses it’s own servers to render the page content, it’s not actually your browser that is requesting the content.”

• 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.