gargle." photos on Flickr

Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out to help celebrate the Grammys with the Red Carpet Events LA annual Grammy Awards Style Lounge at the W Hotel Westwood.

Red Carpet Events LA's Grammy Awards Style Lounge were ready with the best in gift suite swag for the presenters, nominees, celebrities, producers, directors and writers attending this "invitation only” gift lounge showcasing an array of luxurious products and services from inclusive trips to custom shoes, skincare, handbags, and travel goods.

Additionally, McLaren was on hand as the main sponsor to give nominees the speed test of a lifetime with their 641-horsepower McLaren 650S which uses banned motorsports technology and over 50 years of racing know-how to deliver the fastest, most dynamic and most efficient supercar on the market. Zoom Zoom!

Other luxury brands on site were Clarisse with fashion, SweetNorthBabe with bags and accessories from Yvonne B from Germany, Stephanie Henry and Luxury Gifts Bermuda, Ancestry.com, Halfbreed Clothing, Apathy! the all natural appetite suppressant, Julie Rae celebrity hair and makeup artist, Java Skin Care, Artizan by Robin Barre, Joy and Mario Footwear, Victoria Duke, Teeny Wingkini swimwear, Geek Eyewear, Nuwati Herbals (which we love and use year round!), Tikkun Holistic Spa, Peter W Inc, Martinson Fine Art Photography, Little Yellow Zpot, Luxe Fair online magazine, 3Wolves Productions.

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ZICO

KIND BAR

JONATHAN PRODUCT

Just Truffles Chocolatiers

Ambiance Cosmetics

Stonefire Authentic Flatbreads

GREEN SISTER - natural health & beauty

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Gargle Away® by Natures Jeannie™

Essence Water Inc.

Thin Optics

Joanna August

Energems

BODY BRONZE PRODUCTS

" I and love and you"

Switch Sunglasses

De Vita Natural Skin Care

ALTER EGO ITALY, SALON EXCLUSIVE

Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine

Rejuva Minerals, Inc.

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My oncologist said on Tuesday "you are done." I will not be having the last two chemo treatments. He said the chemo has done what it needed to do. I had a quick response to the chemo treatments. By my 4th treatment the lumps were gone. by Q_uilted T_hrifted

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I completed 14 treatments total and he said that is enough. He told me not to play games in my head about not doing the last two treatments that were originally planned months ago prior to my starting the treatment. He assured me that what needed to occur with the chemo happened! He told me just before my 2nd treatment when my hands already started getting numb that he would be reducing the chemo 15% and that I may not have all 16 treatments planned. I knew this and two weeks ago he said it again. If the neuropathy progressed he may decide not to continue with the last two. So Tuesday after listening to me rationalize and minimize and justify my pain of the last two weeks he looked at me and said "you are done" in a manner and tone that clearly meant this is not up for discussion. I am ok with this. the burning in my hands has not lessoned in fact in 3 days it feels a little worse. I now have sores in my mouth and today was given a "miracle wash" by the pharmacy. I can now gargle and numb my mouth enough to eat.

Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (front) by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001163a

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (front)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.

Subject: Women; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.

Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Loos Church in Ruins. And the Horrors of Chlorine Gas. And a Poem About Poison Gas. by pepandtim

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The Postcard

A postally unused carte postale by A. Richard, 84 Faubourg du Temple, Paris.

Visé Paris No. 103

The card bears the imprimatur 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number. This means that the image was inspected and deemed by the military authorities in the French capital not to be a security risk.

'Visé Paris' indicates that the card was published during or soon after the Great War.

The Vulnerability of Historic Buildings in the Great War

It is an unfortunate fact that during the Great War, churches, cathedrals, abbeys, châteaux, ancient civic buildings etc. became useful observation posts, and consequently they were readily targeted by enemy artillery.

You can see in the photograph that the tower of the church (the best vantage point) has been particularly heavily shelled.

These high-profile structures were literally sitting targets - they couldn't be moved, made smaller or camouflaged, hence the appalling damage that many of these beautiful buildings suffered - they just had to remain there and take it.

Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.

Poison Gas

The Battle of Loos was one of the first major British offensives mounted on the Western Front. It was also the first time that the British used poison gas. On the 25th. September 1915, 140 tons of chlorine, stored in 5,100 cylinders, were released.

However, in places it was blown back into the British lines, leading to some British soldiers being poisoned by their own side's gas.

Friendly Gas - a ghastly variation on the euphemism of Friendly Fire.

'Dulce et Decorum Est'

Below is part of a poem about gas used in warfare by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) which he names 'Dulce et Decorum Est'.

In it he strongly refutes the Roman poet Horace's contention that it is glorious and honourable to die for your country:

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime ...

Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues -

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori".

When crossing a WW1 battlefield in the aftermath of a gas attack, it was not unusual to find soldiers who had shot themselves rather than undergo the agony and terror of a death from chemical suffocation.

Requiescant in Pace.

More on Poison Gas

First introduced on April the 22nd. 1915 by the Germans, the use of poison gas quickly became commonplace by all of the combatants. In the popular imagination, poison gas became one of the defining symbols of the Great War.

All of the European powers had signed the Hague Declaration in 1899, never to use poison gas in artillery shells or other projectiles. Again, the Hague Convention of 1907 forbade the use of poison weapons. But once Germany used gas on the battlefield, all bets were off, and other armies began to use it.

By 1917, one third of all artillery shells contained gas. Not surprisingly, then, about one-third of all casualties in the Allied Expeditionary Forces were from gas.

Poison gas evolved rapidly during the war. That first use in the second battle of Ypres employed tanks of gas half-buried in the earth. When the wind was blowing away from their own lines, Germans opened the valves and allowed the gas to billow towards the French lines. There were 1,000 deaths and 4,000 casualties.

It was used twice more during the same battle, against British and Canadian troops. By the autumn of 1915, all sides were using poison gas, including gas in artillery shells.

Chlorine Gas

Chlorine gas, when it contacts tissue, dissolves in water to form hydrochloric acid. Its primary target is the lung, and death usually results from inhalation injury. Chlorine can also cause severe damage to eyes and exposed mucous membranes.

Phosgene Gas

Phosgene was introduced in late 1915. It was used extensively, frequently combined with chlorine. The British called the combination “White Star”, after the symbol painted on artillery shells filled with it. Phosgene may not show major symptoms for up to 48 hours. It causes pulmonary failure and heart failure, although death is usually from lung failure.

Mustard Gas

Nitrogen mustard was Introduced in July 1917 by the Germans. Mustard gas became known as the 'King of Battle Gases'. It eventually caused more chemical casualties than all the rest put together.

Mustard gas is a vesicant, causing severe blistering of the skin, and attacking the respiratory tract and the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth. It is especially dangerous to the eyes. While most patients recovered their vision, a significant number remained permanently blind.

'Gassed last night—gassed the night before,

Gonna get gassed again if we never get gassed any more,

When we’re gassed, we’re as sick as we can be,

'Cause phosgene and mustard gas are much too much for me.

They're warning us, they're warning us,

One respirator for the four of us.

Thank your lucky stars that three of us can run,

So one of us can use it all alone.'

-- line from soldiers' song.

Lewisite

A number of other gases were developed. The most important of these was Lewisite, which was developed only late in the war. It is also a vesicant, but with more immediate action than mustard gas. It can enter the body through the skin, and do further internal damage.

Treatment of Poison Gas Victims

Treatment was limited to supportive care. About all the medical services could do for chlorine and phosgene gas victims was to put patients on bed rest, and hope that severe symptoms didn’t emerge.

Mustard gas was another story. The casualty had to be stripped, and completely washed. The eyes had to be washed out completely to avoid damage. Although it acted more slowly, mustard also attacked the lungs, especially the lower respiratory tract, causing a refractory kind of pulmonary oedema.

Casualty Statistics

The Allied Expeditionary Force had about 1500 deaths from poison gas, out of 52,000 battlefield deaths. But the total number of gas injuries was estimated at 90,000 to 100,000, or 30% of all casualties.

Overall, there were 1.3 million gas casualties during the war, and about 90,000 deaths. About half of the deaths were among the Russian army, which was notably slow in providing protective gear to its soldiers.

Poison Gas After the Great War

After the Great War, an international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – was signed, with all nations swearing never to use poison gas. And in fact, it was not used during World War II.

It has been used in lesser subsequent conflicts, notably the Iran-Iraq war. The US, which didn’t formally sign the Protocol until 1975, has maintained stocks of poison gas, but has never used them on the battlefield since World War I.

Newer poison gases, such as the organophosphate nerve agents Sarin, Soman, Tabun, and VX, are much more potent. They cause death from pulmonary oedema and respiratory failure, and are more lethal and more rapidly-acting than the gases used in the Great War.

The Use of Artillery in the Great War

Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.

If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.

During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.

Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.

According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:

- Bayonets - less than 1%

- Bullets - 30%

- Artillery and Bombs - 70%

Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.

Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:

"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."

To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.

For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.

Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.

The Somme Times

From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:

'There was a young girl of the Somme,

Who sat on a number five bomb,

She thought 'twas a dud 'un,

But it went off sudden -

Her exit she made with aplomb!'

Gettin' Trippy in "Lullville" by Old As Jive (my anagram) Joel Davis

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Fort Knox, Kentucky was a strange place to close out the Summer of Love. "Easy Rider" played at the post movie house--for 25 cents, a bargain, but when the lights came up, you were still in your fatiques, with no chopper (at least not a Harley chopper) outside waiting for you.

Still, we did our best to put a little Haight-Ashbury into "Luullllville." (You don't say "Louis-ville" or even "Louie-ville", you sort of gargle out the first syllable, lulling your way into the word--"Luulll-ville".)

Having spent a big hunk of my youth in California, I was the de facto authority on hippy life. We might be in the Land of Fast Women and Beautiful Horses, but we still wanted to experience that Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

I had one trick that I thought might get this party started--a "poor hippies' light show" technique--you turned off all the lights in a room, hung a hanger from the ceiling, tied a knotted plastic bag dangling above a red plastic water-filled bucket. Light the thing on fire, and the dripping, sizzling plastic lit up the room, particularly when the flaming drops crashed into the fire cauldron below. Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-da-Vida" was the musical backdrop.

"Oh, wow--" said the Lieutenant, "it looks just like tracers."

Apparently the pulsating red light from the window at the officer's barracks drew attention and the MPs came by late into the drum solo. They seemed disappointed we didn't have any reefer on hand. Nothing illegal going on here, Sergeant, just good fun.

"Conduct unbecoming..." muttered the Sergeant, but nothing came of it. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

In-A-Gadda-da-Vida

Gargling Oil Liniment for man & beast (back) by Boston Public Library

File name: 10_03_001158b

Binder label: Medical

Title: Gargling Oil Liniment for man & beast (back)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13 cm.

Subject: Men; Donkeys; Patent medicines; Oils & fats

Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: Phelps & Tower, dealers in stoves, ranges & furnaces. No. 15 Main Street, Holyoke, Mass.

Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

156:365 DOLO by my_god-its_full_of_stars

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These ain't no Photoshop tricks, all I did was a Portra film effect and curves adjustment on the red channel, brought them down in the shadows a little...

35mm f/1.8 w/ unknown macro diopter I found in the cheapy bin at the local camera shop...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqI_O3kIFHM

Listen Good

I don't have nobody

But what I might feel all the sounds of sanity

Hoping what I hear, loops itself continuously

Then I won't be afraid

No No

Oh woah woah

Why must it feel so wrong when I try and do right, do right

Oh woah woah

Soaring through paradise when I'm closing my eyes

I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo

Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh

Look at me

You tell me

Just what you see

Am I, someone whom, you may love, or enemy

Am I spoken for, you and yours, or someone else

I need some answers

Yeah Yeah

My world turns

Flippin the bird

To the ones who figure, me

Outkast; no not the duo

Back at Shaker Heights

When they knew

Though little brother was a strange one

Boo hoo

Cry me a river

Hater look who

Traveled out an igloo

Cold cold world wasn't fit for me at all

Look at where I stand at

Tall, Clutchin my kid cudi bizalls

Mute mutha fuckas back home

Quick pause

Gargle on my mayo

Look at me I bet I'm the one you think the fail

Floatin in my mind

No Sail

Away

Listen Good

I don't need nobody

This is what you feel all the sounds of insanity

Hopin what I hear loops itself to finish me

No I won't be afraid

Hey Hey

Oh woah woah

Why must it feel so wrong when I try and do right, do right

Oh woah woah

Soaring through paradise when I'm closing my eyes

I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo

Why must it feel so right when I know that it's wrong, it's wrong

When will I ever learn from the words from in my songs

I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo.

Merchant's Gargling Oil is the oldest and best liniment now in use throughout the United States and foreign countries. It is put up in white wrapper for human, and yellow for animal flesh. (back) by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001155b

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil is the oldest and best liniment now in use throughout the United States and foreign countries. It is put up in white wrapper for human, and yellow for animal flesh. (back)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : The Courier Lith. Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 14 cm.

Subject: Men; Horses; Horseshoes; Patent medicines; Oils & fats

Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: Then go to D. S. Marsh & Son, shirt makers, agents for the Troy Laundry, Waltham, Mass.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Company

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

1970's Ralston Freakies Cereal Box Gargle Airplane by Gregg Koenig

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Nature-Cure-for-Common-Thyroid-Disorders by Flyped Help

Thyroid is an endocrine gland which controls the metabolic activities of the body, they affect most thyroid ailments which are most common among women during puberty, pregnancy, menopause or physical tension.

? The following are thyroid ailments:-

1.Goitre

One or more nodules of thyroid get swollen up. This inflammation appears on the throat. Sometimes this swelling may not appear on the throat but can be felt on the skin.

? Symptoms

Concentration power weakens, depression, feels like weeping, petulancy, loss of mental balance and loss of weight. gradually obstruction is created in the internal organs which over a period of time leads to toxicity in the body.

2.Hyper Thyroidism

Thyroid gland produces more hormones.

? Symptoms

1.Loss of weight

2.Restlessness

3.Weakness

4.In ability to bear heat

5.Excessive sweating

6.Trembling of fingers

7.Palpitation of heart

8.Urination takes place number of times

9.Memory becomes weak

10.High blood pressure

11.Excessive appetite

12.Complications in mensturation

13.Falling of hair etc.

3.Hypothyroidism

Thyroid gland produce less hormones.

? Symptoms

1.Increase in weight

2.In ability to beer cold

3.Constipation

4.Dryness of hair

5.Aching in back

6.Joints get stiff

7.Pulse rate goes down

8.Swelling on the face etc.

4.Blood Test for Thyroid Disease

In both the hormones try- iodothyronine and tetra- iodothyronine are produced by thyroid gland, there quantity in the blood decides the condition of the hormones.

If excessive along with other symptoms, then thyroid is enlarged and the patient has hyperthyroidism.

If with other symptoms the quantity of hormones is less then thyroid gland is contracted and it is hypothyroidism

? Causes of thyroid diseases

It is due to deficiency of iodine in food. It is seen among those people who eat only cooked food and do not eat natural food. Natural food provides necessary iodine content which gets destroyed when cooked. Mental and emotional tension, hereditary, erroneous died and disturbed lifestyle.

? Treatment of thyroid diseases

1.For first 5 days only juices (coconut water, cabbage, carrot, beetroot, pineapple, orange, apple, grapes juices etc.) Should be taken.

2.Thereafter for 3 days fruits and sesame milk should be consumed.

3.Then adopt normal diet which should include green leafy vegetables, fruits, salad sprouts, etc. In ample quantity.

4.Atleast for a year half of the food should consist of fruits, salad and sprout foods.

5.Lotus seeds, makhana, water chestnut (singhara) are useful.

6.Sugar, roasted and fried product, tea, coffee, liquor, tinned products etc. Are very harmful and should not be consumed at all.

7.In a cup full of spinach juice one spoon of honey should be added and ¼ spoon of cumin seeds (jeera) powder be mixed and taken every night before sleeping.

8.In a glass of water soak two spoons of dry coriander and in the morning mash it and boil till the quantity is reduced to 1/4 and drink daily on an empty stomach.

9.Daily gargle with saline water.

? Physical Treatment

1.Mud pack, enema, hib bath, etc. Will detoxify the body.

2.On the throat apply wet sheet pack and mud pack.

3.Do not permit to get tired

4.Relax completely

5.Sleep as much as is necessary

6.Remain away from physical, emotional and mental tension.

7.To keep the endocrine glands healthy do yoga asanas.

8.Shavasana, Yog nidra, Suptpavanmuktasana, Matsyasana, Suptavajrasana and neck exercises must be done.

9.Pranayama are very important, do Ujjayi and bhramari Pranayama.

10.Jalandhar bandh should be practiced.

“Best Way to Cure These Disorders Is the Natural Treatment”

Disclaimer: Updates mentioned in the article are for general information purpose only. If making any changes in the fitness programme or diet then it is requested to consult your doctor or a dietician before implementing anything new.

Maggies sing happily after a feed. by spelio

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"Waddle Giggle Gargle"

See the Aussie Backyard Bird count, Census. aussiebirdcount.org.au/

See several Youtube clips here!

youtu.be/UYAZ3Mr4Cqc

Maggies in the Jindivik Garden

youtu.be/pQP__p1cQ_I

Many Currawongs sing..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jfHE1vtHY0

and at the back gate..

www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/36349049866/

At the front door!

www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/30965167290/

on the verandah here.. www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/31880955983/

Some morning images using the #SEL55210 zoom on the #Sonya6000 around the Western and Northern gardens

by ⇜STRANGER THAN KINDNESS

Darkness at the break of noon

Shadows even the silver spoon

The handmade blade, the child’s balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon

There is no sense in trying

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

Suicide remarks are torn

From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn

Plays wasted words, proves to warn

That he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation’s page flies out the door

You follow, find yourself at war

Watch waterfalls of pity roar

You feel to moan but unlike before

You discover that you’d just be one more

Person crying

So don’t fear if you hear

A foreign sound to your ear

It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing

As some warn victory, some downfall

Private reasons great or small

Can be seen in the eyes of those that call

To make all that should be killed to crawl

While others say don’t hate nothing at all

Except hatred

Disillusioned words like bullets bark

As human gods aim for their mark

Make everything from toy guns that spark

To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark

It’s easy to see without looking too far

That not much is really sacred

While preachers preach of evil fates

Teachers teach that knowledge waits

Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

Goodness hides behind its gates

But even the president of the United States

Sometimes must have to stand naked

An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged

It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge

And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it

Advertising signs they con

You into thinking you’re the one

That can do what’s never been done

That can win what’s never been won

Meantime life outside goes on

All around you

You lose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

Alone you stand with nobody near

When a trembling distant voice, unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks they really found you

A question in your nerves is lit

Yet you know there is no answer fit

To satisfy, insure you not to quit

To keep it in your mind and not forget

That it is not he or she or them or it

That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules

For the wise men and the fools

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority

That they do not respect in any degree

Who despise their jobs, their destinies

Speak jealously of them that are free

Cultivate their flowers to be

Nothing more than something they invest in

While some on principles baptized

To strict party platform ties

Social clubs in drag disguise

Outsiders they can freely criticize

Tell nothing except who to idolize

And then say God bless him

While one who sings with his tongue on fire

Gargles in the rat race choir

Bent out of shape from society’s pliers

Cares not to come up any higher

But rather get you down in the hole

That he’s in

But I mean no harm nor put fault

On anyone that lives in a vault

But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him

Old lady judges watch people in pairs

Limited in sex, they dare

To push fake morals, insult and stare

While money doesn’t talk, it swears

Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is phony

While them that defend what they cannot see

With a killer’s pride, security

It blows the minds most bitterly

For them that think death’s honesty

Won’t fall upon them naturally

Life sometimes must get lonely

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed

Graveyards, false gods, I scuff

At pettiness which plays so rough

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs

Kick my legs to crash it off

Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen

They’d probably put my head in a guillotine

But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (back) by Boston Public Library

File name: 10_03_001164b

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (back)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.

Subject: Horses; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.

Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

A Gargle? by ~gio~

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Fontana dei due Draghi

Palermo

BUFFY MY ASS! YOU CAN TAKE THAT POINTY SLAYER STICK AND... by Brett

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Well I think you know the rest

View On Black

RCA Victor, "William Tell Overture", Spike Jones and his City Slickers by Richard Newton

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Recorded with barking dogs, artificial bird chirps, pots, pans, bicycle horns and gargling. Doodles Weaver provides commentary and the horse's name is

"Feitlebaum"

El Pipila by Dan Cormier

April 2011

The story of this hero of Mexico's fight for independence is a truly inspiring one.

From Wikipedia:

El Pípila is the nickname of a local hero of the city of Guanajuato in Mexico. His real name was Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro (1782–1863), son of Pedro Martínez and María Rufina Amaro. The name is also given to a monument built in his honor in the same city. 'Pípila' is the Mexican Spanish word for a hen turkey. It is said his nickname stands for his freckled face (similar to that of a turkey) or his laughter resembling the bird's peculiar gargle.

Pípila was a miner. He came from the nearby town of San Miguel, now San Miguel de Allende, and worked in the Mellado mine. (The Rayas and Mellado mines were the first in Guanajuato, opened in 1558). Miners are of great importance in the state and city of Guanajuato, which was the largest exporter of silver in the world at the end of the 18th century. Silver and other minerals are still mined there today.

Pípila became famous for an act of heroism near the very beginning of the Mexican War of Independence, on September 28, 1810. The insurrection had started in the nearby town of Dolores, led by Miguel Hidalgo, a criollo priest born in Pénjamo. He soon moved to the city of Guanajuato, where the Spanish had barricaded themselves – along with plenty of silver and other riches – in a large grain warehouse known as the Alhóndiga de Granaditas. The granary was a two-storey stone fortress with few windows and high stone walls, but its wooden door proved to be an Achilles' heel. With a long, flat stone tied to his back to protect him from the musket fire of the Spanish troops, Pípila carried tar and a torch to the door of the Alhóndiga and set it on fire. The insurgents, who far outnumbered the Spanish in the warehouse, stormed inside and killed all the soldiers and the civil Spanish refugees. Some accounts say that Pípila was not alone but went accompanied by other indigenous miners ready to fight for their freedom from the Spanish, but as the story is told today in Guanajuato, Pípila stood alone to break through the door.

Merchant's Gargling Oil a liniment for man & beast. Why limp about a pain endure. When Gargling Oil is sure to cure? (front) by Boston Public Library

File name: 10_03_001161a

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil a liniment for man & beast. Why limp about a pain endure. When Gargling Oil is sure to cure? (front)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Clay & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 12 x 8 cm.

Subject: Men; Crutches; Oils & fats; Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item. Retailer: H. H. Burrington, No. 60 North Main Street, Providence, R. I.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Company

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wally Goes To Felton! (04.) by Madonovan

Listerine 1933 by Nesster

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Secret fear: deadly disease, invasion by millions of bacteria

Word still OK to use: gargle

Science used to sell: those gargling with full strength Listerine twice a day did not catch cold as frequently as those who did not gargle with it.

Better Over Use for Safety suggestion: gargle every two hours with Listerine at the first sign of sore throat

Merchant's Gargling Oil a liniment for man & beast. Why limp about a pain endure. When Gargling Oil is sure to cure? (back) by Boston Public Library

File name: 10_03_001161b

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil a liniment for man & beast. Why limp about a pain endure. When Gargling Oil is sure to cure? (back)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Clay & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 12 x 8 cm.

Subject: Men; Crutches; Oils & fats; Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item. Retailer: H. H. Burrington, No. 60 North Main Street, Providence, R. I.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Company

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

"FUN Fun fun by Madonovan

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now gargling turns by Bhautik Joshi

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As seen near Church & Duboce, San Francisco.

Mode of transporting Gargling Oil Liniment into the interior of Egypt. (front) by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001162a

Binder label: Medical

Title: Mode of transporting Gargling Oil Liniment into the interior of Egypt. (front)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Clay & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 8 x 12 cm.

Subject: Men; Camels; Oils & fats, Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

43.52 Got Milk? by Janine

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Because I have aspirations to be a mowdel, I made my own real ad. lulz.

Also I DRANK THE ENTIRE BOTTLE! Know how I got the milktasche? I took picture right after I brushed my teeth! Did that gross you out? Hope not. See? That's why I couldn't smile with my teeth showing, I haven't gargled yet. TMI! TMI!

It's too yellow? Yes brightness much, I know. This was a quickie shot though, so meh, could've been better.

So I just realized that I'm missing a week. This was 2 weeks ago. I'm missing Tennessee week shot. It's still in summady's computer. Blegh. What I get from using someone else's cam.

Victoria Duke Beauty - DSC_0804 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out to help celebrate the Grammys with the Red Carpet Events LA annual Grammy Awards Style Lounge at the W Hotel Westwood.

Red Carpet Events LA's Grammy Awards Style Lounge were ready with the best in gift suite swag for the presenters, nominees, celebrities, producers, directors and writers attending this "invitation only” gift lounge showcasing an array of luxurious products and services from inclusive trips to custom shoes, skincare, handbags, and travel goods.

Additionally, McLaren was on hand as the main sponsor to give nominees the speed test of a lifetime with their 641-horsepower McLaren 650S which uses banned motorsports technology and over 50 years of racing know-how to deliver the fastest, most dynamic and most efficient supercar on the market. Zoom Zoom!

Other luxury brands on site were Clarisse with fashion, SweetNorthBabe with bags and accessories from Yvonne B from Germany, Stephanie Henry and Luxury Gifts Bermuda, Ancestry.com, Halfbreed Clothing, Apathy! the all natural appetite suppressant, Julie Rae celebrity hair and makeup artist, Java Skin Care, Artizan by Robin Barre, Joy and Mario Footwear, Victoria Duke, Teeny Wingkini swimwear, Geek Eyewear, Nuwati Herbals (which we love and use year round!), Tikkun Holistic Spa, Peter W Inc, Martinson Fine Art Photography, Little Yellow Zpot, Luxe Fair online magazine, 3Wolves Productions.

SWAG for Guests

The guests were gifted with an amazing swag bag filled with goodies from the following sponsors:

ZICO

KIND BAR

JONATHAN PRODUCT

Just Truffles Chocolatiers

Ambiance Cosmetics

Stonefire Authentic Flatbreads

GREEN SISTER - natural health & beauty

Nouráge

Gargle Away® by Natures Jeannie™

Essence Water Inc.

Thin Optics

Joanna August

Energems

BODY BRONZE PRODUCTS

" I and love and you"

Switch Sunglasses

De Vita Natural Skin Care

ALTER EGO ITALY, SALON EXCLUSIVE

Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine

Rejuva Minerals, Inc.

bunglo by shay spaniola // hand painted in austin texas

Bagito /reusable solutions

Giving Good

Over 50 sponsors participated in giving good with Red Carpet Events LA’s charity of choice: African Millennium Foundation (AMF) seeks to target poverty, hunger and disease at its very root by providing African women and children with the necessary tools for achieving self-sufficiency.

Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:

About Red Carpet Events LA

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Face Fat by medkumo digital

10 Tips To Lose Face Fat...!!!!

Of course there are expensive cosmetic surgeries, but you must understand what you are taking up when there were other organic long term solutions for your plump face. All you want is to feel comfortable and confident in your own self, rather than going for face fat reduction procedures at first. But the question remains how?

Unwinding tips to get a slimmer face:

1.Steam, warm gargles help to shrink away face puffiness.

2.A fantastic way to tone face fat is to blow balloons.

3.This is very easy and we do it unknowingly, chewing gum.

4.Facial massages is a good way to shape up your face.

Exercise on a regular basis.

5.Also try to sort out some time for skipping, it works incredibly.

6.You can rotate your tongue inside your mouth to reduce facial fat.

7.To tone down your face you can also make a fish face to shrink that chubbiness.

8.A facial yoga exercise to stretch and strengthen facial muscles is put your tongue out.

9.Try not to sleep in the afternoon and do not sleep immediately after having your dinner.

*** Disclaimer: This is a general guidance tip! Each and every person’s condition might be different, it would be wise to consult your physician before you put any into practice.

Listerine gargle by Steve

Autumn in the Air by Doyle Shafer

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I looked up what time Yoyogi Park opens and it said "at sunrise." So I got there at 6:32am, arguably before the sun was up, and it was way too dark to photograph crows.

I got to the pond and stumbled onto this scene. Ill-equipped for landscape, I busted out my widest lens and slowly worked my composition.

Just when I thought, "...wonder why I've never taken a pic of a reflection in this pond before," the fountains gargled on @. @

Make sure you get there before 6:45am : )

JEWELS in THE AUTUMN CROWN… ROWAN berries by magda indigo

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I found these on the ground, in the ‘wild’.

Berries are so autumnal, only very few are edible now, except for the birds and other animals.

A jelly made from them is popular for dressing game.

According to Robert James in 1747, the fruit is excellent for treating the scurvy, and the exudates from the bark is good for the diseases of the spleen.

When dried and powdered the berries have been turned into a type of bread, and in an infusion make an acidulous drink.

A gargle made from the berries is good for a sore throat and inflamed tonsils.

However, it is bitter – very bitter.

Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as white-beam, rowan, service tree and mountain-ash.

This upright, tree is the most compact of the Rowan trees making it ideal for small gardens.

Fluffy, white corymbs of flowers appear in April-May that are popular with bees.

Mid/dark green pinnate foliage turns vibrant shades of orange and red in the autumn which complements the reddish orange berries that hang in heavy clusters and are a treat for the birds.

Popular folklore maintains that a heavy crop of fruit means a hard or difficult winter.

Similarly, in Finland and Sweden, the number of fruit on the trees was used as a predictor of the snow cover during winter.

However, as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production, it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

Have a great day and thanks for viewing, M, (*_*)

for more: www.indigo2photography.com

goBerries, red, Rowan, Sorbus, leaves, Autumn, "mountain ash", design, "conceptual art", studio, black-background, square, "Magda indigo" NIKOND7000

Doctor holding PCR gargle test in his hand by Ivan Radic

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20180324-0I7A7434 by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Lesser Whistling Duck & Common Moorhen

Lesser Whistling Duck

The lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica), also known as Indian whistling duck or lesser whistling teal, is a species of whistling duck that breeds in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are nocturnal feeders that during the day may be found in flocks around lakes and wet paddy fields. They can perch on trees and sometimes build their nest in the hollow of a tree. This brown and long-necked duck has broad wings that are visible in flight and produces a loud two-note wheezy call. It has a chestnut rump, differentiating it from its larger relative, the fulvous whistling duck, which has a creamy white rump.

This chestnut brown duck is confusable only with the fulvous whistling duck (D. bicolor) but has chestnut upper-tail coverts unlike the creamy white in the latter. The ring around the eye is orange to yellow. When flying straight, their head is held below the level of the body as in other Dendrocygna species. The crown appears dark and the sexes are alike in plumage. They fly slowly but with rapid wing-flapping and usually produce a repetitive wheezy seasick call as they circle overhead. They are very nocturnal and often rest during the day. The outermost primary feather has the inner vane modified. They produce very prominent whistling sound while flying.

This is a largely resident species distributed widely across lowland wetlands of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species also occur on islands in the region including the Andamans, Nicobars and Maldives. They sometimes make local movements in response to weather and changes in water availability and the more northern birds winter further south. They are found in freshwater wetlands with good vegetation cover and often rest during the day on the banks or even on the open sea in coastal areas. Downy chicks are black with a white eyebrow and white patches on the back of the head, the wing, lower back and rump. Albino individuals have been seen in the wild.

Large numbers are sometimes found in urban wetlands such as in Kolkata and Goa, particularly during winter. In the Alipore Zoological Gardens, captive individuals were introduced in the 1930s and wild birds joined this nucleus subsequently.

With a wide distribution range between 1 and 10 million km², they are considered to have a secure global population of between two and twenty million individuals. They are not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat. Hunters in Assam however have been known to raise the chicks to serve as live decoy.

Lesser whistling duck are usually gregarious. They feed mainly on plants taken from the water as well as grains from cultivated rice apart from small fish, frogs and invertebrates such as molluscs and worms. They dabble as well as dive in water. They will often waddle on the land and Common mynas have been noted to follow them on grass. Courtship involves the male facing the female and dipping and raising its bill in the water and swimming around the female. They breed during the monsoon or rainy season and may vary locally in relation to the food availability. The nest site may be a tree hole lined with twigs and grass or built in the fork of a large tree, sometimes reusing an old nest of a kite or heron or even on the ground. The clutch varies from 7 to 12 white eggs that are incubated by both the parents. Large clutches of up to 17 have been noted although these may be indications of intraspecific brood parasitism. The eggs hatch after about 22–24 days. More than one brood may be raised in a single season. Young birds may sometimes be carried on the back of the parents.

Local names like sili and silhahi in India are based on their wheezy two-note calls. They become very tame in captivity, walking about and responding to whistles. Individuals in captivity in the USA have lived for up to 9 years.

Several endoparasitic cestodes including Hymenolepis javanensis and Cittotaenia sandgroundi have been described from lesser whistling duck hosts apart from ectoparasitic bird lice and mites.

Common Moorhen

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the waterhen and as the swamp chicken) is a bird species in the family Rallidae. It is distributed across many parts of the Old World.

The common moorhen lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. The species is not found in the polar regions or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere it is likely the most common rail species, except for the Eurasian coot in some regions.

The closely related common gallinule of the New World has been recognized as a separate species by most authorities, starting with the American Ornithologists' Union and the International Ornithological Committee in 2011.

The moorhen is a distinctive species, with dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red frontal shield. The young are browner and lack the red shield. The frontal shield of the adult has a rounded top and fairly parallel sides; the tailward margin of the red unfeathered area is a smooth waving line. In the related common gallinule of the Americas, the frontal shield has a fairly straight top and is less wide towards the bill, giving a marked indentation to the back margin of the red area.

The common moorhen gives a wide range of gargling calls and will emit loud hisses when threatened. A midsized to large rail, it can range from 30 to 38 cm (12 to 15 in) in length and span 50 to 62 cm (20 to 24 in) across the wings. The body mass of this species can range from 192 to 500 g (6.8 to 17.6 oz).

This is a common breeding bird in marsh environments, well-vegetated lakes and even in city parks. Populations in areas where the waters freeze, such as eastern Europe, will migrate to more temperate climes.

This species will consume a wide variety of vegetable material and small aquatic creatures. They forage beside or in the water, sometimes walking on lilypads or upending in the water to feed. They are often secretive, but can become tame in some areas. Despite loss of habitat in parts of its range, the common moorhen remains plentiful and widespread.

The birds are territorial during breeding season. The nest is a basket built on the ground in dense vegetation. Laying starts in spring, between mid-March and mid-May in Northern hemisphere temperate regions. About 8 eggs are usually laid per female early in the season; a brood later in the year usually has only 5–8 or fewer eggs. Nests may be re-used by different females. Incubation lasts about three weeks. Both parents incubate and feed the young. These fledge after 40–50 days, become independent usually a few weeks thereafter, and may raise their first brood the next spring. When threatened, the young may cling to the parents' body, after which the adult birds fly away to safety, carrying their offspring with them.

Jefferson Lines 1844 by J. Mc.

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Operated by: Jefferson Lines, Minneapolis, MN

Built in: 2006

Manufacturer: Motor Coach Industries

Model: J4500

Notes:

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A closer view of 1844, or 'Gargle Hook', on display at the Jefferson Lines yard during the 2014 BHA convention tour

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Sweet North Babe - DSC_0749 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out to help celebrate the Grammys with the Red Carpet Events LA annual Grammy Awards Style Lounge at the W Hotel Westwood.

Red Carpet Events LA's Grammy Awards Style Lounge were ready with the best in gift suite swag for the presenters, nominees, celebrities, producers, directors and writers attending this "invitation only” gift lounge showcasing an array of luxurious products and services from inclusive trips to custom shoes, skincare, handbags, and travel goods.

Additionally, McLaren was on hand as the main sponsor to give nominees the speed test of a lifetime with their 641-horsepower McLaren 650S which uses banned motorsports technology and over 50 years of racing know-how to deliver the fastest, most dynamic and most efficient supercar on the market. Zoom Zoom!

Other luxury brands on site were Clarisse with fashion, SweetNorthBabe with bags and accessories from Yvonne B from Germany, Stephanie Henry and Luxury Gifts Bermuda, Ancestry.com, Halfbreed Clothing, Apathy! the all natural appetite suppressant, Julie Rae celebrity hair and makeup artist, Java Skin Care, Artizan by Robin Barre, Joy and Mario Footwear, Victoria Duke, Teeny Wingkini swimwear, Geek Eyewear, Nuwati Herbals (which we love and use year round!), Tikkun Holistic Spa, Peter W Inc, Martinson Fine Art Photography, Little Yellow Zpot, Luxe Fair online magazine, 3Wolves Productions.

SWAG for Guests

The guests were gifted with an amazing swag bag filled with goodies from the following sponsors:

ZICO

KIND BAR

JONATHAN PRODUCT

Just Truffles Chocolatiers

Ambiance Cosmetics

Stonefire Authentic Flatbreads

GREEN SISTER - natural health & beauty

Nouráge

Gargle Away® by Natures Jeannie™

Essence Water Inc.

Thin Optics

Joanna August

Energems

BODY BRONZE PRODUCTS

" I and love and you"

Switch Sunglasses

De Vita Natural Skin Care

ALTER EGO ITALY, SALON EXCLUSIVE

Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine

Rejuva Minerals, Inc.

bunglo by shay spaniola // hand painted in austin texas

Bagito /reusable solutions

Giving Good

Over 50 sponsors participated in giving good with Red Carpet Events LA’s charity of choice: African Millennium Foundation (AMF) seeks to target poverty, hunger and disease at its very root by providing African women and children with the necessary tools for achieving self-sufficiency.

Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:

About Red Carpet Events LA

Red Carpet Events LA produces Exclusive Luxury Celebrity and Media Gift Suites during the major Awards Shows. Red Carpet Events LA can also be contracted to produce Gift Bags for various charity and celebrity/media events. Media Contact: Roger Zamudio, www.RedCarpetEventsLA.com

For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:

$1000 reward for the proof of the existence of a better liniment for human & animal flesh than 'Merchant's Gargling Oil' or a better worm remedy than 'Merchant's Worm Tablets' (front) by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001159a

Binder label: Medical

Title: $1000 reward for the proof of the existence of a better liniment for human & animal flesh than 'Merchant's Gargling Oil' or a better worm remedy than 'Merchant's Worm Tablets' (front)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : The Courier Lith. Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 14 cm.

Subject: Horses; Patent medicines; Oils & fats

Notes: Title from item.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Disaster area by Simon Crubellier

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"Hey, Zaphod," said Ford, grabbing for his arm and, on account of the third Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, missing. He pointed a swaying finger.

"There's an old mate of mine," he said, "Hotblack Desiato! See the man at the platinum table with the platinum suit on?"

Zaphod tried to follow Ford's finger with his eyes but it made him feel dizzy. Finally he saw.

"Oh yeah," he said, then recognition came a moment later. "Hey," he said, "did that guy ever make it megabig! Wow, bigger than the biggest thing ever. Other than me."

"Who's he supposed to be?" asked Trillian.

"Hotblack Desiato?" said Zaphod in astonishment, "you don't know? You never heard of Disaster Area?"

"No," said Trillian, who hadn't.

"The biggest," said Ford, "loudest ..."

"Richest ..." suggested Zaphod.

"... rock band in the history of ..." he searched for the word.

"... history itself," said Zaphod.

"No," said Trillian.

"Zowee," said Zaphod, "here we are at the End of the Universe and you haven't even lived yet. Did you miss out."

He led her off to where the waiter had been waiting all this time at the table. Arthur followed them feeling very lost and alone.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast - If I am Darwin's grandpapa, it follows don't you see, that what is good for man and best, is doubly good for me. (front) by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001156a

Binder label: Medical

Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast - If I am Darwin's grandpapa, it follows don't you see, that what is good for man and best, is doubly good for me. (front)

Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Clay & Co.

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 12 x 8 cm.

Subject: Monkeys; Patent medicines; Oils & fats

Notes: Title from item.

Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Company

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Dulce et Decorum est ... by Wes Stone

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"DULCE ET DECORUM EST"

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918 )

Lt., 2nd Manchesters, MC. Killed in action, Nov. 4, 1918

Sweet North Babe - DSC_0756 by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV

Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out to help celebrate the Grammys with the Red Carpet Events LA annual Grammy Awards Style Lounge at the W Hotel Westwood.

Red Carpet Events LA's Grammy Awards Style Lounge were ready with the best in gift suite swag for the presenters, nominees, celebrities, producers, directors and writers attending this "invitation only” gift lounge showcasing an array of luxurious products and services from inclusive trips to custom shoes, skincare, handbags, and travel goods.

Additionally, McLaren was on hand as the main sponsor to give nominees the speed test of a lifetime with their 641-horsepower McLaren 650S which uses banned motorsports technology and over 50 years of racing know-how to deliver the fastest, most dynamic and most efficient supercar on the market. Zoom Zoom!

Other luxury brands on site were Clarisse with fashion, SweetNorthBabe with bags and accessories from Yvonne B from Germany, Stephanie Henry and Luxury Gifts Bermuda, Ancestry.com, Halfbreed Clothing, Apathy! the all natural appetite suppressant, Julie Rae celebrity hair and makeup artist, Java Skin Care, Artizan by Robin Barre, Joy and Mario Footwear, Victoria Duke, Teeny Wingkini swimwear, Geek Eyewear, Nuwati Herbals (which we love and use year round!), Tikkun Holistic Spa, Peter W Inc, Martinson Fine Art Photography, Little Yellow Zpot, Luxe Fair online magazine, 3Wolves Productions.

SWAG for Guests

The guests were gifted with an amazing swag bag filled with goodies from the following sponsors:

ZICO

KIND BAR

JONATHAN PRODUCT

Just Truffles Chocolatiers

Ambiance Cosmetics

Stonefire Authentic Flatbreads

GREEN SISTER - natural health & beauty

Nouráge

Gargle Away® by Natures Jeannie™

Essence Water Inc.

Thin Optics

Joanna August

Energems

BODY BRONZE PRODUCTS

" I and love and you"

Switch Sunglasses

De Vita Natural Skin Care

ALTER EGO ITALY, SALON EXCLUSIVE

Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine

Rejuva Minerals, Inc.

bunglo by shay spaniola // hand painted in austin texas

Bagito /reusable solutions

Giving Good

Over 50 sponsors participated in giving good with Red Carpet Events LA’s charity of choice: African Millennium Foundation (AMF) seeks to target poverty, hunger and disease at its very root by providing African women and children with the necessary tools for achieving self-sufficiency.

Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:

About Red Carpet Events LA

Red Carpet Events LA produces Exclusive Luxury Celebrity and Media Gift Suites during the major Awards Shows. Red Carpet Events LA can also be contracted to produce Gift Bags for various charity and celebrity/media events. Media Contact: Roger Zamudio, www.RedCarpetEventsLA.com

For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here: