If It Weren't For Harold Hamm And Continental Resources, Would We Even Be Talking About The Bakken Any More? January 16,

CLR: Of the twenty-four oil and gas wells in North Dakota coming off the confidential list this next week, no less than fourteen are operated by Continental Resources. Slawson has three; Hunt Oil, two. Others with one: Bruin, Hess, Koda Resources, Resonance Exploration, and Whiting. 

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Airport Talk

Hubs:

• UPS:
• UPS Worldport: Louisville Jefferson County, SDF, Standiford Field, renamed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
• second busiest cargo airport in the US
• FedEx:
• FedEx's SuperHub: Memphis International Airport
• busiest cargo airport in the US
• main facility: size of 80 football fields
• world ranking by size: Shanghai Pudon, Memphis, Hong Kong, Louisville;
• Amazon Air (formerly known as Amazon Prime)
• Amazon Prime is now Amazon's autonomous drone delivery service
• Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport
• new regional hub at Fort Worth Alliance Airport, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas
• Amazon hols warrants to acquire a minority stake in Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, parent company of Atlas Air
• with a total combined fleet of 55 Boeing 747 aircraft, Atlas is the world's largest operator of this fleet type.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Amazon Air regional hub:

• founded by aviatrix and US Navy nurse, Edna Gardner Whyte, 1970; born 1902 in Mankato, MN;
• lost her pilot's license in 1988 (86 years old) following an in-flight heart attack in a Cessna 150 she was piloting
• died age 89;

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Word of the Day

Ineffably, the word of the day is "effing. "

Close second: sardoodledom.

Duolingo for those learning English as a second language:

• inflammable and flammable are synonyms
• inflammable came into English in the early 1600s (coined by Shakespeare?); Latin etymology;
• flammable, coined in 1813; also of Latin heritage
• the use of flammable and nonflammable has increased in print over the last few decades, while us of inflammable has decreased
  

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Current Winter Storm: Izzy is a Doozy

Couldn't resist. 

New England: 

The interior Northeast up through New England is expected to get hit with 6 to 18 inches of snow. Coastal areas of the Northeast, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston, could see up to 3 inches of snow, though that will likely get washed away as the snow changes to rain by early Monday.

Wind chills Sunday morning will be in the single digits from Philadelphia to New York City to Boston and dip below zero in northern New England.

Texas: 

Strong, gusty winds are also a concern across a large swath of the South, with wind alerts in effect from Texas to the Carolinas, with the concern for isolated power outages and wind damage. 

Dakotas: 

A winter storm watch also is in effect from Arkansas to Pennsylvania for a much-anticipated winter storm that's already dumped more than a foot of snow across North Dakota and Iowa.