The Circle Museum is a registered Columbia County Museum in Austerlitz, New York consisting of over 100 large-scale works of
sculpture. In this location for 25
years, BIjan Mahmoodi is the owner of the museum and the artist. His art reflects his fascination with
hard-to-find Industrial Era fabricated metals and bronze casting. Inside the artist's studio, also on the
property, is a collection of Bijan's oil paintings that explore the circle
motif you see in most of his sculptures. Why is it called the Circle Museum? Bijan
explains.... "Because our planet is based on the circle - the sun, the
planets, the moon and life itself is cyclical.
The circle is what inspires me."
See images at: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2008/08/27/the-circle-museum
New
York World's Fair 1939 The Beech-Nut Circus, a traveling model
circus, was used by the company to promote its products. A 1/4 inch scale animated model circus showed
the layout of a traveling circus. Billed
as the “Biggest Little Show on Earth,” the Beech Nut Company provided an
entertaining circus with more than 500 acrobats, aerialists, animals, and
clowns at the World's Fair. Six buses,
sponsored by Beech-Nut Foods of Canajoharie, New York, traveled across the
United States in the 1930s. Several were
exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The last remaining Beechnut Circus Bus is
owned by the New York State Museum. http://canajohariestories.com/beechnut_circus.htm
The Ice Cream Sundae
is said to have had its beginning in Ithaca, NY on Sunday, April 3, 1892. After religious service, the Reverend John M.
Scott stopped at the Platt and Colt Pharmacy for his usual dish of ice cream. Mr. Platt added cherry syrup and a dark
candied cherry to the dish of ice cream…inventing the Cherry Sundae! It was a smash hit. H owever, the city of Two
Rivers in Wisconsin claims that the ice cream sundae was invented there…the
“fight” continues this day. In 1891 the Imperial
Packing Company in Canajoharie, New York sold Beech-Nut smoked ham and bacon as
their main products. Then, in 1899 the
company changed its name to the Beech-Nut Packing Company and expanded their
product line to include products such as ketchup, mustard, mints, fruit drops
and Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. There
were various flavors including spearmint, peppermint, and pepsin. The town of
Canajoharie was referred to as “Flavor-Town” in magazine ads for Beech-Nut Gum. In 1897, Pearle Wait, a carpenter from Le
Roy, NY decided to experiment with gelatin and soon developed and patented a
fruit flavored dessert. Wait and his
wife, Mary, named the dessert Jell-O. In 1899 Wait sold his business, including
the formula and the name Jell-O to Frank Woodward for $450. Woodward was not successful in selling the
gelatin product and sold the business including the name for $35. In 1900 the Jell-O name was first used in
advertising by Genesee Pure Food Company. It became a family favorite dessert and by
1902 the sales were $250, 000. The Moon Lake House in
Saratoga Springs is where in 1853 a chef named George Crumm created the first Potato
Chip. Originally the potato dish,
known as French-Fried potatoes, was served as thick slices that were eaten with
a folk and knife. One day a customer
complained that the potatoes were too thick and soggy. Crumm, the chef, agitated with the customer
cut the potatoes very, very thin then fried them very crispy and showered them
with a generous amount of salt. They
were an instant success! There are many
more food stories in the exhibit, “New
York’s Good Eats – Our Fabulous Foods” at the Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown,
NY through October 31, 2012. http://www.teafoodhistory.com/blog/
According to the
"Oxford English Dictionary," bully
pulpit means "a public office or position of authority that provides
its occupant with an outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue." It was first used by Theodore Roosevelt,
explaining his view of the presidency, in this quotation -- "I suppose my
critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!" The word bully itself was an adjective in the
vernacular of the time meaning "first- rate," somewhat equivalent to
the recent use of the word "awesome." The term "bully pulpit" is still
used today to describe the president's power to influence the public. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the four
presidents chosen to be honored at the monument on Mount Rushmore in South
Dakota. The monument was the brainchild
and project of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. He lobbied to include TR, along with
Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, because TR was one of his personal heroes.
The head of Roosevelt was the last to be dedicated, in 1939.
By the skin of your teeth Narrowly;
barely. Usually used in regard to a
narrow escape from a disaster. The
phrase first appears in English in the Geneva Bible, 1560, in Job
19:20, which provides a literal translation of the original Hebrew: "I haue escaped with the skinne of my
tethe." Teeth don't have skin, of course,
so the writer may have been alluding to the teeth's surface or simply to a
notional minute measure - something that might now be referred to, with less
poetic imagery than the biblical version, as 'as small as the hairs on a gnat's
bollock'. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/83000.html
The phrase "toe the line" is equivalent to "toe the mark," both of
which mean to conform to a rule or a standard. The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories (Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2002; ed. by Glynnis Chantrell) says, "The idiom toe
the line from an athletics analogy originated in the early 19th
century". The specific sport
referred to is foot-racing, where the competitors must keep their feet behind a
"line" or on a "mark" at the start of the race--as in
"On your mark, get set, go!" So one who "toes the line" is one
who does not allow his foot to stray over the line. In other words, one who does not stray beyond
a rigidly defined boundary. http://grammartips.homestead.com/toetheline.html
In 1996, David Kessler, then the commissioner
of the Food and Drug Administration, warned Congress that tiny drug-compounding
pharmacies would spawn a "shadow industry" of unapproved drugs that
"could result in serious adverse effects, including death." Today, Dr. Kessler, who worked for Republican
and Democratic administrations, seems eerily prophetic. A painkilling steroid from the New England Compounding
Center has exposed as many as 14,000 patients to fungal meningitis, sickened
203 people and killed 15 people. The
center has shut down, and health officials warn that the number of cases is
expected to rise. How these firms
escaped closer regulation shows how little happens in Washington absent an
emergency. Top lawmakers and federal
officials tried for years to increase regulation. A countereffort by the industry and a series
of court decisions helped beat that back. Federal agencies debated about who should
crack down on the industry. Lawmakers
eventually abandoned their push after deciding the issue wasn't important
enough. From 2001 to this year, the
International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists spent about $1.1 million on
lobbying, according to disclosure reports filed with Congress. In a newsletter to members, the academy
described how it defeated a 2007 bipartisan draft bill that would have given
the FDA more authority to regulate compounding pharmacies after hundreds of its
pharmacists canvassed Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to abandon the proposed
legislation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444657804578052972230404046.html?mod=googlenews_wsj NOTE that some links do not open to a full
article, possibly because once a cite is displayed electronically the link may
become inactive. If this is the case,
search with keywords to retrieve the full article.
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The
young-adult author Mary O’Connell’s
first novel for grown-ups will feature perhaps the most famous young adult in
literary history: Holden Caulfield. Amy Einhorn Books recently acquired rights to
“In the Rye,” in which “Caulfield steps out of the pages of ‘The Catcher in the
Rye’ and into the life of a high school senior searching Manhattan for her
missing American lit teacher,” according to the announcement of the deal on the
Web
site Publishers Marketplace. In the past, J. D.
Salinger’s estate has aggressively
acted to keep other artists from drawing on his work. In 2009, a writer using the pen name John
David California was legally barred
from publishing in the United States. his own novel starring Caulfield as
an old man unloosed from the page. That
book, “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” was published overseas.
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