Brucellosiis/ Norovirus/ Education/ Falling Satellite

Missoulian: Brucellosis confirmed in Park County cattle herd
USDA: Facts about Brucellous

Missoulian: State health officials: Norovirus outbreaks increasing
CDC: Norovirus

Wall Street Journal: Obama Unveils Education Plan
White House: Remarks by the President on No Child Left Behind Flexibility

Washington Post : NASA hedges satellite-crash predictions
NASA: UARS Update “As of 10:30 a.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 100 miles by 105 miles (160 km by 170 km). Re-entry is expected late Friday, Sept. 23, or early Saturday, Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time. Solar activity is no longer the major factor in the satellite’s rate of descent. The satellite’s orientation or configuration apparently has changed, and that is now slowing its descent. There is a low probability any debris that survives re-entry will land in the United States, but the possibility cannot be discounted because of this changing rate of descent. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 12 to 18 hours.”

Recession/ Fed. Reserve/ Google/ Falling Space Junk

Missoulian: Census: Recession taking toll on young adults

U.S. Census: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010 “Doubled-up households are defined as households that include at least one "additional" adult: a person 18 or older who is not enrolled in school and is not the householder, spouse or cohabiting partner of the householder. In spring 2007, prior to the recession, doubled-up households totaled 19.7 million. By spring 2011, the number of doubled-up households had increased by 2.0 million to 21.8 million and the percent rose by 1.3 percentage points from 17.0 percent to 18.3 percent.”

New York Times: Wall Street Joins Global Stock Plunge After Fed Move

Federal Reserve Press Release: “To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate, the Committee decided today to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities. The Committee intends to purchase, by the end of June 2012, $400 billion of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 6 years to 30 years and to sell an equal amount of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 3 years or less.”

Information Week: Google Battles Charges Of Search Bias

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights : “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?”

PC Magazine: Satellite Crash Landing Expected Friday, But Where?

NASA: UARS Updates “As of 7 a.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 115 mi by 120 mi (185 km by 195 km). Re-entry is expected sometime during the afternoon of Sept. 23, Eastern Daylight Time. The satellite will not be passing over North America during that time period. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 to 36 hours.”

Bison/ Interment camp/ Google anti-trust/ Black hole

Missoulian: FWP releases cost estimates for temporary home for disease-free bison

Draft Environmental Assessment on Potential Interim Locations for Brucellosis-free Bison

Missoulian: Courtroom used for WWII "loyalty" hearings to be dedicated Saturday

National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites

New York Times: Google Takes the Hot Seat in Washington

Hearings Webcast: The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition? (starts 2:00pm eastern time)

The Weather Space: Black Hole at Center of Galaxy flaring, dubbed GX 339-4

NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet: “Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets.”

Old NASA satellite falling

Los Angeles Times: Be aware, a 6.25-ton dead satellite could be falling in your vicinity any day

UARS Update:
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011, almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere.

Fires/ Montana Hospitals/ Deficit/ Crime

Missoulian: Cool, damp weather helps knock down smoldering Bitterroot wildfires

Montana InciWeb

Billings Gazette: Charity care, bad debts rise at Montana's major hospitals

4th Annual Report on Charitable Purposes of Montana’s Hospitals

New York Times: Obama Offers Plan to Cut Deficit by Over $3 Trillion

Fact Sheet: Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future - The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction

Reuters: Violent crime falls, murders up in Northeast

FBI: Crime in the United States 2010 report