Employment Situation

Missoulian: US economy adds 171K jobs; rate rises to 7.9pct.

Employment Situation Summary 

“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in professional and business services, health care, and retail trade.”

The Apollo 17 Goodwill Moonrock will be ready to view later this afternoon.

 

Unemployment rates

Helena Independent Record: Weekly US jobless aid applications fall to 363K

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary 

“Unemployment rates were lower in September than a year earlier in 345

of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 22 areas, and unchanged in 5

areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Two areas

recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 41 areas

registered rates of less than 5.0 percent. Two hundred sixty-seven

metropolitan areas reported over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll

employment, 94 reported decreases, and 11 had no change. The national

unemployment rate in September was 7.6 percent, not seasonally

adjusted, down from 8.8 percent a year earlier.”

Super Storm

Missoulian: Water, fire, destruction: NYC after thesuperstorm 

Missoulian: W.Va. blizzard warning as Appalachia storm blows 

 

StormCentral 2012

Sandy Still Packing Strong Winds, Rain and Snow
“Although Sandy has transitioned to a post-tropical cyclone, it's still expected to produce strong winds across the Mid-Atlantic and New England, as well as rainfall amounts of 4-8 inches over portions of the Mid-Atlantic, and snowfall totals of 2-3 feet in the mountains of West Virginia. For information specific to your area, please monitor products issued by your local NWS forecast office.”

FEMA Hurricane Sandy Response 

President Obama Urges Caution for Those in the Path ofHurricane Sandy 

President Obama Signs New York Disaster Declaration 

Sheep Prices / Mike Horse Mine / Copyright

Missoulian:  Montana ranchers balk at sheep prices, suspect fleecing

Sheep, Lamb & Mutton 

PRICES RECEIVED: Annual Average, Hogs, Sheep and Wool,2007-2011 

Lamb and mutton: Supply and disappearance (carcass weight, million pounds) and per capita disappearance (pounds)

Missoulian: Lincoln-area landowners file suit over cleanup plan for Mike Horse Mine

Mike Horse Impoundment

Missoulian: High court hears closely watched copyright case

“The Mike Horse Tailings Impoundment, located in the Beartrap Creek drainage, contains approximately 426,000 cubic yards of tailings. These tailings are generally segregated by size. As the water carried the tailings, the sandier fraction fell out of suspension first, so it is found closer to the dam. The smaller sediments were carried farther from the discharge point.”

Supap Kirtsaeng, dba Bluechristine99, Petitioner v. JohnWiley & Sons, Inc.

“The question presented is how these provisions apply to a copy that was made and legally acquired abroad and then imported into the United States. Can such a foreign-made product never be resold within the United States without the copyright owner's permission, as the Second Circuit held in this case? Can such a foreign-made product sometimes be resold within the United States without permission, but only after the owner approves an earlier sale in this country, as the Ninth Circuit held in Costco? Or can such a product always be resold without permission within the United States, so long as the copyright owner authorized the first sale abroad, as the Third Circuit has indicated?”