Sunday, June 21, 1914. A warning.

Serbia warned Austria of intelligence reports suggesting there would be an assassination attempt on Archduke Franz Ferdinand when he visited Sarajevo.

Serbian diplomat Jovan Jovanović Pižon who delivered the warning, which was ignored.

Montana miners left the IWW and formed the Western Federation of Miners.  The union dissolved in 1967 in the US, and 1993 in Canada.

Last prior edition:

Thursday. June 18, 1914. Wolves and their prey.

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Stress may be killing law students' brain cells, law prof says

Stress may be killing law students' brain cells, law prof says



Oh my.

In The Making Of Megafarms, A Mixture Of Pride And Pain : The Salt : NPR

In The Making Of Megafarms, A Mixture Of Pride And Pain : The Salt : NPR

Friday Farming: Alfalfa Field, Las Vegas Nevada, 1910

I'll often pass on commenting on these photos, but I can't help but comment on this one.  Sometimes when I post these I wonder "what does that look like today?"  I suspect some of these places don't look much different, some quite a bit different.  I've posted photographs before, for example, of urban San Francisco, and I can recognize a lot of what I'm seeing from the couple of times I've been there.

Well, here's one where we can be sure that the photo doesn't depict a current scene.  Las Vegas before gambling interest and the mafia converted the town into a giant gambling playground.

Life On a Kansas Cattle Ranch: Top 10 most dangerous jobs in America---farming is #10!

Life On a Kansas Cattle Ranch: Top 10 most dangerous jobs in America---farming is #10!

Not news really.  Agriculture has always been a pretty dangerous job.  According to at least one statistic I've seen, male deaths in agriculture were sufficiently high such that children being raised by a single mother in the late 19th Century was as common as it is today, but for a different reason.

Another one that people sometimes are surprised by is commercial fishing.  It's quite dangerous.  And Taxi driver is also very dangerous.

WWII Profile: Leonard D. Wexler | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Leonard D. Wexler | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Jack B. Weinstein | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Jack B. Weinstein | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Tom Stagg | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Tom Stagg | United States Courts

WWII Profile: S. Arthur Spiegel | United States Courts

WWII Profile: S. Arthur Spiegel | United States Courts

WWII Profile: I. Leo Glasser | United States Courts

WWII Profile: I. Leo Glasser | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Arthur D. Spatt | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Arthur D. Spatt | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Dickinson R. Debevoise | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Dickinson R. Debevoise | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Arthur L. Alarcon | United States Courts

WWII Profile: Arthur L. Alarcon | United States Courts

Still Serving Their Country: Nearly 70 WWII Veterans Remain on Federal Bench | United States Courts

Still Serving Their Country: Nearly 70 WWII Veterans Remain on Federal Bench | United States Courts

USDA Blog » Agriculture Remains the Backbone of West Virginia

USDA Blog » Agriculture Remains the Backbone of West Virginia

Saudi America? North America faces challenges on path to energy independence - Energy & Resources | The Irish Times - Mon, Apr 28, 2014

Saudi America? North America faces challenges on path to energy independence - Energy & Resources | The Irish Times - Mon, Apr 28, 2014

Some of you may have missed this article in the Irish Times. . . .okay, everyone missed it in the Irish Times.

Interesting view from the Old Country, so to speak.

And what a remarkable change we've seen.  The US was an oil exporting country up through the Second World War, but an importing one by the 1960s. We were desperately dependent on Middle Easter oil by the early 1970s.

Now, we're a net energy exporter (which is different from just considering oil alone)  and there's a move to open up the export ban on oil.  This all brought about, really, by technology in the oil patch.  At the same time, American fuel consumption has gone flat, something was never really expected, and may actually start to decline.