Breakfast for dinner--or 'brinner'--is nothing new.  For the restaurant goer, three of the finest words you can read on a menu are 'all day breakfast'.  The brinner concept was immortalised in the film Juno when Paulie Bleeker's mother admonishes him skipping a family meal with the line, "But Paulie, it's your favourite--breakfast for dinner!"  Alaina Vieru  Link to recipes at http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/collections/breakfast-for-dinner-brinner-recipes-ideas

The Constitutional Dictionary contains words, phrases, and concepts used in the United States Constitution, including double jeopardy, emolument, ex post facto, habeus corpus, impeachment, impost and pro tempore.  http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.  Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)

If Trees Could Sing is a Nature Conservancy program that brings together a diverse array of musical artists to talk about trees and their benefits for people.  Choose from 29 videos including:  Reba McIntire  1:37 http://www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/if-trees-could-sing-reba-mcentire-the-pin-oak   Ketch Secor & the Osage Orange  2:29  http://www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/if-trees-could-sing-ketch-secor-the-osage-orange  Deanie Richardson & the Shagbark Hickory  2:39  http://www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/if-trees-could-sing-deanie-richardson-the-shagbark-hickory and The Fisk Jubilee Singers & the Bald Cypress  1:39  http://www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/if-trees-could-sing-the-fisk-jubilee-singers-the-bald-cypress

16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways by Sara Barnes   It’s not everyday you see a book that can be read in six completely different ways, and this small book from the National Library of Sweden is definitely an anomaly.  According to Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel, this 16th century text has a special sixfold dos-à-dos (or “back to back”) binding with strategically placed clasps that makes it possible for six books to be neatly bound into one.  This particular book contains devotional texts, including Martin Luther’s Der kleine Catechismus, which was printed in German between the 1550’s and 1570’s.  See pictures at http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/16th-century-book-bound-dos-a-dos

QUOTES ABOUT ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE  Bridges are America's cathedrals.  Author unknown; reported in Respectfully Quoted:  A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).  When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent... as it is in music by the measured beat and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm.  Ernest Flagg, Small Houses:  Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)  Dancing and architecture are the two primary and essential arts.  The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person.  The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.  Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923).  I call architecture frozen music.  Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller  "Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life", page 282; by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Margaret Fuller; Translated by Margaret Fuller  Ah, to build, to build!  That is the noblest of all the arts.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part I, II, line 54.  https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Architecture

The surplus of sodium in the American diet contributes to a host of cardiovascular problems, from high blood pressure and stroke to heart attack, heart failure, and more.  Cutting back on salt is generally good for the heart and arteries.  But could this strategy have the unintended consequence of making some Americans deficient in iodine?  That’s not likely, because salt provides only a fraction of daily iodine intake for most Americans.  In the 1950s and 1960s, the use of iodine-based disinfectants in the dairy industry and iodine-based conditioners in the commercial baking industry put many Americans on track to getting too much iodine.  The situation has stabilized in recent years, with national nutrition surveys showing that most Americans get enough iodine, and only small numbers get too little or too much.  Most Americans take in more sodium than they need.  Almost all of it comes from salt.  But here’s the rub:  between 75% and 90% of sodium in the average American’s diet comes from prepared or processed food, and most food companies don’t use iodized salt.  The so-called hidden salt in processed food is a great place to start trimming sodium from your diet, and cutting back on it will have little effect on your iodine intake.  To get all your iodine from salt, you would need more than half a teaspoon of iodized salt a day.  That’s two-thirds of the daily allotment of sodium (1,500 milligrams) recommended by the American Heart Association.  It makes more sense to get your iodine from food.  That way you can cut back on salt and not worry about losing out on this important element.  Ocean-caught or ocean-farmed fish and shellfish tend to be naturally rich in iodine.  Other good sources include milk, cheese, yogurt, eggs, and vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil.  Read much more at http://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/cut-salt-it-wont-affect-your-iodine-intake

Over much of the Earth's surface, compass needles point roughly north.  However, because of the complex shape of the Earth's magnetic field there are few places where a compass needle will point exactly north.  A compass lines up with the horizontal component of the magnetic field in a direction called magnetic north.  True north, on the other hand is the direction from a given location to the north geographic pole.  The angle between magnetic north and true north is called magnetic declination.  Many people believe that a compass needle points at the North Magnetic Pole.  This is not true; if you follow your compass needle you will eventually arrive at the North Magnetic Pole, but not by the most direct route.  Both declination and variation are used to describe the angle between magnetic north and true north.  The term deviation is also used from time to time.  Here is an explanation of the differences between the three terms.  Declination  This is the term preferred by those who study the magnetic field; it is also the term most commonly used by land navigators.  Sometimes the term "magnetic declination" is used.  Variation  This term is preferred by mariners and pilots because the word "declination" also has an astronomical usage--the angle of a star or planet above the celestial equator.  However, the word "variation" is used by geomagneticians to refer to time changes in the magnetic field.  Deviation  In a vehicle such as a ship or aircraft, a compass is influenced by the magnetism of the iron used in the construction of the vehicle as well as the Earth's magnetic field.  This causes the compass needle to point in the wrong direction.  This directional error is called "deviation".  Many people incorrectly use deviation when they mean declination.  The first known determination of magnetic declination was made by the Chinese in about 720 AD.  In Europe, the concept of declination was known in the early 1400s, but the first precise measurement of declination was not made until 1510, when Georg Hartman determined the declination in Rome.  The importance of declination for navigation was obvious.  Mariners quickly devised methods for determining it and began compiling declination values from locations around the world.  In 1700 Edmund Halley came up with the idea of showing declination as contour lines on a map; he used this novel concept to produced the first declination chart of the Atlantic Ocean.  Declination charts have been produced on a regular basis ever since.  Read more and see graphics at http://www.geomag.nrcan.gc.ca/mag_fld/magdec-en.php

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1340  August 19, 2015  On this date in 1848, the New York Herald broke the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).  On this date in 1909, the first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was held.