Pat Shingleton: "A Mustard Plaster and Hard Cider..." - WBRZ

Pat Shingleton: "A Mustard Plaster and Hard Cider..." - WBRZ

Pat Shingleton: "A Mustard Plaster and Hard Cider..." - WBRZ

Posted: 30 Oct 2019 07:00 AM PDT

My grandfather believed that weather patterns caused colds and placed a bowl of apples, onions, and garlic-laced with whiskey-on his nightstand when he experienced chest congestion. Years ago I shared this story with our Mom. She laughed when I reminded her of sending us to school with Vick's Vapor Rub piled on our chest and throat, preventing me from getting a "date." She shared another application called a "mustard plaster." This combination included: three tablespoons of flour, a teaspoon of baking soda, two tablespoons of dried mustard and a tablespoon of shortening, butter, lard or Oleo.  Mix this with hot water, place some Vaseline on your chest then load the concoction into a piece of muslin or flannelette. I tried this last week and was asked to immediately remove myself from the bedroom. Another "story..." As a fund raiser at Riverside High in Ellwood City, PA, the Varsity "R" Club collected apples from area orchards to make cider. Our recent crisp autumn weather, Friday and into the weekend, reminded me of this seasonal drink. Apple cider is made from a blend of late harvest apples. Grocers here carry an apple cider that is pasteurized but the cider I remember was unprocessed and the natural yeasts created a fermentation that led to carbonation.  A fresh gallon of cider had a distinctive zip and tangy taste and after a few days in our cellar it got zippier. My brother Kevin indulged in some "aged" apple cider that became "hard", prior to a football game. It was one of the best games he ever played.

Ahead of Cold & Flu Season Vicks® Introduces New Options for Children, Free of Additives Parents Don't Want, But Full of the Things to Feel Better - Business Wire

Posted: 16 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT

CINCINNATI--()--Elementary school children get six to eight colds each school year2 and parents want their kids to spend less time in bed and more time feeling better. The solution they've been seeking is here.

Designed by the brand that has been helping people with coughs for more than 125 years, Vicks is introducing its newest cold medication innovation specially formulated for kids. Vicks Children's Cough & Congestion provides the relief kids need, without the artificial additives parents don't want. Vicks Children's products are free of artificial dyes and flavors, high fructose corn syrup and alcohol.

"As a dad myself, I know it's inevitable that kids will get sick, and parents want to help them feel better quickly. But it can be a struggle to find a product that feels just right – a medicine that provides symptom relief without additives," said Phil McWaters, Brand Franchise Director, North America Vicks. "We created Vicks Children's so parents can feel confident about a solution that provides fast and effective symptom relief for kids without some of the extra stuff they don't need."

Vicks has also partnered with a parent 'in the know,' Katie Stauffer – mother of popular Instagram and YouTube twin sensations Mila and Emma who tell it like it is – who recently gave Vicks Children's her personal mom stamp of approval.

"When I heard Vicks was introducing new Vicks Children's, it was a no brainer. I know all too well that when just one kid comes home with a cough or sniffle, symptoms can quickly spread to all five of my children," Katie said. "Luckily, Vicks Children's relieves my kids' cold symptoms and is free of artificial ingredients I want to avoid. As a bonus, they enjoy the taste and don't fight me when I pull it out of the medicine cabinet – which makes everyone feel better."

The Vicks Children's product lineup includes a variety of tasty options specially formulated for kids, which provide up to four hours of symptom relief and are all free of artificial dyes and flavors, high fructose corn syrup and alcohol, including:

  • Multi-Symptom Cold is an Orange flavor and provides children 6 years and older with effective relief from cold and flu symptoms, including fevers, aches, sore throats, coughs and stuffy noses.
  • Non-Drowsy Cough & Congestion is a Strawberry flavor and provides children 4 years and older with relief from cold symptoms, including coughs, chest congestion and stuffy noses.
  • Nighttime Cough & Congestion is a Grape flavor and provides children 6 years and older with relief of cold symptoms, including coughs, stuffy noses, runny noses and sneezing, so your children – and you – can sleep.

Vicks Children's is now sold at retailers nationwide and online at Vicks.com/EN-US/Shop-Products/Childrens-Products. You can also learn more by following us on Instagram and Facebook, and check out Katie Stauffer's video on YouTube to see how she uses Vicks Children's when her kids get sick. Use Vicks Children's only as directed and keep out of reach of all children.

ABOUT VICKS

Vicks is one of the most recognized brands around the world. Available in more than 74 countries and on 5 continents, Vicks has helped relieve cough, cold, and flu symptoms for generations. In the U.S., the Vicks family includes, NyQuil™, the #1 Pharmacist recommended brand for Cough, Cold and Flu Combinations for Nighttime Category*; NyQuil™ SEVERE; Children's NyQuil™; DayQuil™, the #1 Pharmacist recommended brand for Cough, Cold and Flu Combinations for Daytime Category*; DayQuil™ SEVERE; DayQuil™ Cough; VapoRub™ and VapoRub™ Children's Ointment, the #1 Pharmacist recommended brand for Topical Cough Suppressing Ointment*; VapoRub™ Lavender; VapoRub™ Lemon; BabyRub™; Sinex™ 12 Hour Spray; Sinex™ Ultra Fine Mist; Sinex™ 12 Hour Ultra Fine Mist Moisturizing; Sinex™ SEVERE Congestion LiquiCaps; Sinex™ SEVERE Pressure & Pain LiquiCaps; Formula 44™ Cough; Formula 44™ Cough & Chest Congestion; Formula 44™ Cough & Head Congestion; Formula 44™ Nighttime Cough & Cold; VapoInhaler™, the #1 Pharmacist recommended brand for Non-Medicated Nasal Decongestant Inhaler Category*; DayQuil™ SEVERE with VapoCOOL™, NyQuil™ SEVERE with VapoCOOL™, Sinex™ SEVERE with VapoCOOL™ Nighttime Congestion, Formula 44™ with VapoCOOL™ SEVERE Nighttime Cough & Cold, Vicks® VapoCOOL™ Medicated Drops and Vicks® VapoDrops™. Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, Vicks is owned and distributed by Procter & Gamble.

ABOUT PROCTER & GAMBLE

P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands.

1) Procter & Gamble calculation based in part on data reported by Nielsen through its Scantrak Service for the Cold/Flu Treatments segment (branded only) for the 52-week period ending 7/13/2019, for the total U.S. market, xAOC, according to the Nielsen standard product hierarchy. Copyright © 2019, The Nielsen Company.

2) https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/health/back-to-school-plague/index.html

Dave Treen, late Louisiana governor, could teach us something today - Washington Examiner

Posted: 27 Oct 2019 03:54 AM PDT

Ten years ago today, I received a surprise call from Mandeville, Louisiana, from the state's former governor, Dave Treen. Two days later, on Oct. 29, 2009, Treen was dead. At the risk of too personal and digressive a column, please allow me to explain why I miss Gov. Treen and why it's relevant today.

Treen, 81, died of a severe lung infection which, at the time he called me, was masking itself as the pain of a wrenched back combined with some mild chest congestion. His voice was raspy; his lady friend (he was a widower) did most of the talking, mainly to say the governor liked some of my recent columns for the Washington Times. I don't think either of them had any idea he would need to be hospitalized later that day and die so soon after.

His death struck me hard. He represented to me, in a way probably more exaggerated than anyone could merit, a particular ideal of an honorable public servant. Of course, by then, I had seen Treen's flaws and foibles, but childhood ideals have a way of persisting, and he certainly did deserve most of the good I thought of him.

For those unfamiliar with him, the governor had the reputation as "Clean Treen." In a state with a long tradition of public graft, Treen was a quietly but persistently crusading reformer. He tried to uproot corruption, balance budgets, integrate high-level state government positions, and save Louisiana's coastal marshlands before most people realized how badly they were eroding.

My dad had sat on Treen's living room floor (yes, the floor) in 1962 helping Treen plan a long-shot congressional bid in 1962. My mom pushed me around in a baby carriage in 1964 campaigning door to door for Treen and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. (Treen lost again.) Mom was his campaign scheduler when he almost won another bid for Congress in 1968. Finally, in 1972, after favorable redistricting, he at last won office and remained in Congress until winning a razor-close race for governor in 1979, for which I volunteered with all the avidity a 15-year-old can muster.

All of which explains how I had grown up almost idolizing Treen, the way most kids idolized admirable athletes (as I did) like Willie Mays and Bart Starr. And when first as a political activist and then a journalist, I saw that Treen could be indecisive, stubborn, sometimes grumpy, and sometimes politically purblind — in other words, human — it didn't detract much from my admiration for him. It also helped that, although I certainly wasn't around him often, he sometimes went to significant lengths to serve as a mentor, and with great personal warmth, when he could.

There was the time when, completely unbidden, he tried to play matchmaker for me (in an avuncular way) with a lovely and somewhat demure College Republican volunteer to whom he for some reason had decided, without my knowledge, to sing my praises. And the time a decade later when he invited me to his Mandeville home just to talk politics when he heard I would be arriving from two states away to attend a wedding in his neighborhood.

The incident I most appreciated, though, was when I was a young reporter for New Orleans' Gambit Weekly. My father was then the state's Republican National Committeeman, and unbeknownst to me, he was working behind the scenes at a state GOP confab to insist that people follow an ethical course on a question the media barely knew existed. Dad couldn't tell me about it — we had an agreement that I could never use Dad as a source — but the former governor called me, again unbidden, to alert me to the imbroglio and give me a full (off the record) account.

"A young man should know when his father is doing something to be proud of," he said, or words very much like those. "Nobody will ever give him public credit for it, but your dad is standing tall this weekend."

Hence, my personal fondness for the governor. I've written elsewhere of his more public record, including the gripping moment when he announced that in order to block the significant political momentum of former KKK leader David Duke, Treen would swallow his pride and vote for his own political arch-enemy Edwin Edwards. When it really mattered, and when he could more easily have stayed on the sidelines, Treen himself repeatedly stood tall.

So … other than this week being 10 years since Dave Treen died, what relevance does any of this have today?

The answer lies in what today is lacking. Treen's essential decency and honor — veteran centrist Louisiana political analyst Clancy DuBos called Treen "an honest, gentle soul who believed in the Christian ethic of repentance and forgiveness" — was of the sort that could inspire youngsters to see political virtue, not just brute political might, as worth emulating.

Sure, I had an unusually personal view of the governor. Yet what that view showed was consonant with the public man, rather than the public man being some poll-tested construct or a popinjay preening for the cameras without regard for dignity, decorum, decency, or duty.

I miss those public virtues for which Dave Treen stood. I keep hoping that someone on today's scene, even with some flaws, will aspire once again to embody them.
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