Unemployment Rate / Pearl Harbor / Black Boxes

Missoulian: US economy adds 146K jobs, rate falls to 7.7 pct.

Employment Situation Summary 

 “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 146,000 in November, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in retail trade, professional and business services, and health care.”

Missoulian:Pearl Harbor dead remembered on 71st anniversary

Image from Photo Gallery: December 7, 1941

World War II Valor in the Pacific 

“World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument preserves and interprets the stories of the Pacific War, including the events at Pearl Harbor, the internment of Japanese Americans, the battles in the Aleutians, and the occupation of Japan.”

Missoulian: Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns 

Part 563, EVENT DATA RECORDERS
“The purpose of Part 563, EVENT DATA RECORDERS (EDR) is to help ensure that ERDs record, in a readily usable manner, data valuable for effective crash investigations and for analysis of safety equipment performance (e.g., advanced restraint systems). These data will help provide a better understanding of the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur and will lead to safer vehicle designs.”

Illegal immigration/ NASA images

Missoulian: Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise

 

Current Population Survey: 2011

“The tables include detailed statistics about five-year age groups by sex, the 55-and-older population, the Hispanic population, the black population and the Asian population. The tables provide a wide range of social, economic and housing characteristics, such as marital status, educational attainment, nativity, employment status, occupation, poverty and housing tenure.”

Missoulian: EARTH PHOTO GALLERY: Photos of Earth since 1960s

Earth as Art

In 1960, the United States put its first Earth-observing environmental satellite into orbit around the planet. Over the decades, these satellites have provided invaluable information, and the vantage point of space has provided new perspectives on Earth. This book celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere.

NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views ofEarth at Night

New Moon Map

Missoulian: Below surface, moon reveals a"shattered" history  

NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate MoonGravity Map

"What this map tells us is that more than any other celestial body we know of, the moon wears its gravity field on its sleeve," said GRAIL Principal Investigator Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "When we see a notable change in the gravity field, we can sync up this change with surface topography features such as craters, rilles or mountains."

Israeli Settlements/ Stormwater Discharges

Missoulian: US slams Israel on new settlement plan

Recent Israeli Announcements on Settlements 

“The United States opposes all unilateral actions, including West Bank settlement activity and housing construction in East Jerusalem, as they complicate efforts to resume direct, bilateral negotiations, and risk prejudging the outcome of those negotiations. This includes building in the E-1 area as this area is particularly sensitive and construction there would be especially damaging to efforts to achieve a two-state solution.‪ ”

Missoulian: New EPA rule could upend high court runoff case 

               

Stormwater Discharges From Forest Roads

“The EPA believes that stormwater discharges from forest roads, including logging roads, should be evaluated under section 402(p)(6) of the Clean Water Act because the section allows for a broad range of flexible approaches that are better suited to address the complexity of forest road ownership, management, and use.”

Stormwater Discharges from Forest Roads  -documents

Czech Republic

Missoulian: Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear project

Remarks With Czech Republic Foreign Minister Karel  Schwarzenberg

“For many years, we thought primarily in a bilateral way about what we could do together with the Czech Republic. But our partnership has grown far beyond that, and today, we collaborate on global security issues, democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, and so much else. So as the minister said, we covered a lot of issues today, and let me just touch on a few of the highlights.”