There are 15,074 documented lakes in
Wisconsin. Of
these, about 40 percent have been named.
They range in size from small one-and two-acre ponds to 137,708-acre
Lake Winnebago. They range in depth from
a few feet to 350 feet for Wazee Lake.
Lake Winnebago is the largest lake by volume and the lake with the
longest shoreline. The largest man-made
lake is Petenwell Lake, which was created by damming the Wisconsin
River. Many lakes have the same names,
with 116 named Mud Lake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_in_Wisconsin Green Lake—also known as Big
Green Lake—has a maximum depth of 237 feet (72 m), making it the
deepest natural inland lake in Wisconsin.
The lake covers 7,346 acres (30 km2), has 29.3 miles
(47.2 km) of shoreline and has an average depth of 100 feet
(30 m).
Mary
Rene Daheim (born 1937) is an American writer of romance and mystery novels. She attended the University of Washington where she was one of the first female
editors of The Daily, the
campus newspaper. After receiving her BA
in communications, Daheim worked as a journalist in Anacortes and Port Angeles, Washington. Daheim's first novel, the historical romance Love's Pirate, was published in
1983. Daheim continued writing
historical romances for several years until she tired of writing
"bodice-rippers". She switched
genres to her personal favorite, mysteries.
The "Bed & Breakfast" series featuring amateur detective
Judith McMonigle (later Flynn) was published beginning in 1991. The first book in her "Alpine"
series The Alpine Advocate was published in 1992. Emma Lord is the protagonist who
tackles mysteries in the small town of Alpine, Washington. The real Alpine no longer exists;
however in her series Daheim resurrects the town. Interest in the old town led to it being
rediscovered in 2008 by a group calling themselves "The Alpine
Advocates". Daheim was nominated
for an Agatha
Award for her first mystery
novel Just Desserts in 1991. In 2008, she was inducted into the
University of Washington Department of Communications Alumni Hall of Fame.
Daheim continues to write both series from her Seattle home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daheim See also Alpine Advocate Book Series and How
It All Began by Mary Daheim http://www.alpineadvocates.com/#!alpinebooks/c3zk The Emma Lord mystery series, begun
with #1, The Alpine Advocate (1992) will not end with #26, The Alpine Zen
(2015). See http://www.marydaheimauthor.com/
"As a Naval
navigator, I enjoyed the article
about North. You might follow up with a
discussion about the calculation to determine true north and magnetic
north. "Can Dead Men Vote Twice at
elections?" It makes the concepts
you discussed easier to understand. And
even to this day ships carry both a magnetic compass and a gyro-based compass
pointed to true north. When all else
fails the magnetic compass can be used but one has to know how to convert to
true north for accurate navigation. Of
course, there is an app for that, too. " Thank you, Muse reader!
Can Dead Men Vote Twice at Elections? This
mnemonic reminds us of the formula for
converting compass headings back to true ones: Compass plus Deviation
equals Magnetic heading.
Beyond that, add the Variation to get the True
heading. In all of these corrections,
"at elections" means Add Easterly deviations
and variations as part of the calculation (and, by implication, subtract
westerly ones).
Find information on magnetic compasses, degaussing (magnetic silencing) compensation, gyrocompasses, ekctronic compasses, and
correcting and uncorrecting the compass from the National
Geospatial‑Intelligence Agency's 18-page document at
Freekeh
(pronounced free-kah) is wheat that’s harvested while young and green. It's roasted over an open fire, then the
straw and chaff are burned and rubbed off.
The grain on the inside is too young and moist to burn, so what you're
left with is a firm, slightly chewy grain with a distinct flavor that's earthy,
nutty, and slightly smoky. http://greatist.com/eat/what-is-freekeh The cracked version of freekeh is what you’re
more likely to find here in the United States.
Cracked freekeh is tastier and easier to work with than whole
freekeh. Add it to soups or stews, or
use in the same way you would use rice or bulgur. Find recipe for Freekeh, Chickpea and Herb Salad at http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017122-freekeh-chickpea-and-herb-salad
The potcake dog is a mixed-breed dog type from the Turks and
Caicos Islands and the Bahamas. Its name comes from the congealed rice and
pea mixture that local residents traditionally fed dogs. Although appearance varies, potcake dogs
generally have smooth coats, cocked ears, and long faces. The ancestry of the potcake dog is
shared among dogs from both sets of islands, since many residents of Turks and
Caicos were originally from nearby islands and took their dogs with them. In Nassau alone, there are an estimated 5,000 to
8,000 stray potcakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potcake_dog Boonie dogs of Saipan and Guam
are probably descendants of American
WWII military dogs. After fulfilling
their service to the military, these dogs were abandoned on the islands. Beware of stray dogs and cats in Italy--they
run in packs.
Melbourne
has topped The Economist's liveability rankings for a fifth
consecutive year. But planning experts
have warned that, while the liveability rankings were "marketing
nirvana", they were meaningless for much of Melbourne, and got in the way
of improving the city.
And a social services
group said the ranking failed to recognise the growing disparity between those
rich enough to live where good jobs and services were, and those in areas
of high unemployment, poor transport and entrenched disadvantage. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-named-worlds-most-liveable-city-for-fifth-year-running-20150818-gj1he8.html
See also http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/08/daily-chart-5
and compare Monocle's
"Most Liveable Cities Index", the Economist
Intelligence Unit's
"Liveability Ranking and Overview", and "Mercer Quality of Living Survey rankings at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_liveable_cities
Just about a full decade since the girl with a dragon
tattoo was introduced to readers,
she'll be making her grand return to fiction — albeit with another author's
name on the cover. Stieg Larsson's
Millennium trilogy of crime novels is set to become something more on September
1, 2015 when the series' new addition hits store shelves as The Girl in the Spider's Web. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf released the book's
title and cover art March 31, 2015. Of
course, the series is carrying on without its original architect, replacing
Larsson with David Lagercrantz, a former crime reporter from Sweden. Larsson died of a heart attack at the age of
50 in 2004, before even the first Millennium novel—The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo, in American editions—was published in
Sweden. The whole series has been
published posthumously. The new book,
much like its characters, has been wrapped in a fair bit of intrigue. Perhaps because of the fear of leaks,
Lagercrantz wrote the novel on a computer with no Internet connection, and when
he delivered the manuscript to Swedish publishers, he was careful to do so by
hand, according to The
Guardian. The Girl in the Spider's Web will be
published simultaneously in 25 countries, with a first printing of 500,000
copies in the U.S. alone. Colin Dwyer http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/03/31/396569638/from-a-dragon-tattoo-to-the-spiders-web-stieg-larssons-hero-returns
High winds dislodge 15-foot, 250-pound inflatable ball RedBall Project, normally a stationary art installation, took
off from its Wednesday location at Roulet Jewelers on Madison Avenue in Toledo,
Ohio. See the August 19,
2015 attempted escape at https://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2015/08/20/Video-captures-RedBall-Project-s-attempted-escape.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1342
August 21, 2015 On this date in
1888. the first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward
Burroughs. On this date in
1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen by
a Louvre employee.
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