Daily Activity Report Almost Blank -- No New Permits; No Completed DUCs; One Permit Renewal And That Was It -- For Those Minimally Interested In The Bakken, Perhaps Time To Move On -- June 27, 2016; Breaking News On Katie Ledecky

Active rigs:

	6/27/2016	06/27/2015	06/27/2014	06/27/2013	06/27/2012
Active Rigs	30	75	193	187	217

The daily activity report was almost blank:

• two wells released from the confidential list (posted earlier this morning)
• one Oasis permit renewal, a Kaitlin Federal permit in Mountrail County

... and that was it.

For folks to stay interested in the Bakken and the milliondollarway blog is going to take some doing.

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The Katie Ledecky Page

Katie Ledecky "cruises into 400 free final at US swim trials." Reported just four hours ago --

After waiting around a day, Katie Ledecky got in her first swim of the U.S. Olympic trials.

It was an easy one, too.

She cruised into the 400-meter freestyle final on Monday, finishing a whopping 0.52 seconds faster than anyone else despite slowing down over the final lap. The Maryland teenager won her heat in 4 minutes, 2.62 seconds, finishing two body lengths ahead of the nearest competition.

She said later:

"I just had to get those first-swim jitters out of the way," Ledecky said. "I'll just have to manage the energy a little better.

Reporting eight hours ago, SwimSwam has even more.

From USA Today, "Katie Ledecky is dominant force in swimming."

Ledecky, 19, is entered in five events here at trials after deciding to scratch Sunday’s 400-meter individual medley. She’s entered in all the freestyle events, from the 50-meter to the 800-meter, the event in which she won gold in London in 2012.

Some NBA professional basketball players -- who would probably never get near a mosquito in Rio -- have decided not to participate in the Olympics this year. It appears Katie Ledecky will be going. Good for her. Take lots of mosquito repellent.

Even a feature story in The New York Times: "In chasing a legent, Katie Ledecky discovers a buoyant ally."

To those who have watched her swim circles around the competition, Katie Ledecky appears to have no peers in the pool. Ledecky, however, knows better.

At a meet outside Phoenix in April, she spotted Debbie Meyer, the woman she will probably be chasing at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August, and trundled over to say hello. Meyer greeted her with a hug and exclaimed: “You’re great! Two, four, eight. Do it this summer!”

At the 1968 trials ahead of the Olympics in Mexico City, Meyer set world records in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles. Two months after turning 16, she swept her events at the Summer Games to become the first swimmer to win three individual Olympic gold medals. No Olympian since has matched Meyer’s 200-400-800 string of gold (the men contest the 1,500 meters instead of the 800).

Ledecky, 19, may be the one to finally match the feat.

Google "Katie Ledecky June 2016" without the quotes and find even more stories.

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The Amazon.Com Page

At the Southlake library this morning, I came across a book that really intrigued me. I immediately bought it and another book by the same author, ordering them at Amazon.com. That was this morning, about 10:30 a.m. By e-mail, I was just notified that the two books had been shipped. I will receive them tomorrow or Wednesday. No shipping charges. "Shipping charges" hidden in the annual Prime membership "fee" of about $100 annually which I accidentally subscribed to some weeks ago. But I'm already hooked.

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