Barry Levenson Curator "National Mustard Museum"
The National Mustard Museum (formerly the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum) is a museum near U.S. 14 in Middleton, Wisconsin. It boasts a large display of prepared mustards. It is often featured in lists of unusual museums in the United States. The museum was conceived and founded by Barry Levenson, former Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin. It centers on a mustard collection he began in 1986 while despondent over the failure of his favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, to win the 1986 World Series. The initial dozen jars have grown to a collection of more than 5,100 mustards from 60 countries, along with items of mustard memorabilia and exhibits depicting the use of mustard through history. The museum opened its doors in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin on April 6, 1992. It moved across the street to a larger site in October 2000. In November 2009, the museum moved to Middleton and changed its name to the present one. Admission is free of charge, and the museum is open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., though it is closed on Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The museum's gift shop occupies about half of its floor space and offers free tasting of mustard samples from a refrigerated case containing scores of varieties; the museum also operates a mail-order mustard business. Among the displays are sweet hot mustards, fruit mustards, hot pepper mustards, horseradish mustards, and spirit mustards. The collection includes a large variety of French and English mixes, but many other countries are also represented.
Senator Gary Hart & R. James Woolsey
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as a teacher, author and lecturer. He is currently Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado, is co-chair of the US-Russia Commission, and was recently appointed by Secretary Napolitano as Vice Chair of Homeland Security Advisory Council. He is also chair of the American Security Project and former chair of the Council for a Livable World. Senator Hart is a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee on science, technology and the law and was a member of its task force on science and security. He has been appointed Distinguished Congressional Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the board of the Eurasia Foundation. Senator Hart was co chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. The Commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947, predicted the terrorist attacks on America, and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies for the post-Cold War new century and the age of terrorism. For 15 years, Senator Hart was Senior Counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm.
R. James Woolsey is Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC. He is also a Venture Partner and Senior Advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California. Mr. Woolsey currently chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group, and he is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues. Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) serving as Director of Central Intelligence.
Washington, DC— As the Gulf disaster continues, the Senate considers drastically slimmed-down energy legislation, and the first half of 2010 goes into the books as the hottest on record, senior members of the national security community are raising an alarm. They say the United States energy posture is a real danger, and climate change is a threat to national security. These themes are repeated in key national security planning documents, including the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the Annual Threat Assessment of the US intelligence community, and the Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy. Former Director of the CIA James Woolsey has repeatedly called for the United States to end its addiction to oil. “Oil profits enhance the ability of dictators and autocrats to dominate their people,” he says. US dependence on oil constrains foreign policy options, even putting the US in a position of funding both sides of the war against terror. “We can't drill our way out of the cartel's control of the global oil market, “ Mr. Woolsey says. “We urgently need to reduce oil dependence.” As the Gulf disaster shows, there are high costs to drilling in our own backyard. And in the longer term, burning oil and other fossil fuels contributes to climate change, which accelerates resource pressures that cause conflict and mass migration. The destabilizing effects of climate change—including sea level rise, droughts, and increasing numbers of severe weather events—lead to the kinds of crises and conflicts that make it more likely that US troops will be sent into harm’s way. “Climate change affects our security, our economy, and our way of life,” says former Senator Gary Hart, Vice Chairman of the US Homeland Security Advisory Council. Cutting America’s reliance on fossil fuels, limiting emissions of carbon emissions that cause climate change, and moving toward a clean energy future, would result in a more secure, more sustainable future. The growing global market for clean energy technology is estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The United States will need to move quickly to stay competitive in the coming low carbon economy. Sen. Hart and Mr. Woolsey are among a growing bi-partisan group of leaders who have called for action on clean energy and climate change. As a statement from the Partnership for a Secure America-- signed by Mr. Woolsey, Sen. Hart and dozens of other leading security voices-- puts it: “we must transcend the political issues that divide us—by party and by region—to devise a unified American strategy that can endure and succeed.”
She's also a regular on "America's Most Wanted." Back-to-school time is exciting for the whole family, but it’s also a time for parents to be thinking about child safety. Approximately 38 percent of all attempted abductions happen when kids are going to and from school or a school-related activity. The good news is that in 84 percent of these attempted abductions, the kids get away because they know what to do. As a result, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) believes back-to-school is a smart time for families to review their child safety strategies because it is a time when children are interacting with new and different people outside their homes. NCMEC and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers are working together to increase child safety awareness by providing a FREE, easy resource for parents to use to talk to their kids about safety – they want to make sure kids stay safer by knowing what to do. Together, NCMEC and Red Robin developed a FREE cookbook available at
http://www.redrobin.com/ beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 3 that is filled with kid-invented gourmet burger recipes and back-to-school safety tips, allowing parents to talk with their kids about back-to-school safety while they’re having fun cooking together. And, from Tuesday, Aug. 3 to Sunday, Sept. 12, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers will offer the grand-prize-winning burger from its fourth annual Kids’ Cook-Off, the Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger, in all U.S. restaurants. For every Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger sold, fifty cents will be donated to NCMEC. Red Robin has donated more than $170,000 to NCMEC through this annual Cook-Off, and those funds have supported the organization’s child safety education and abduction prevention efforts.
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