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Adjacent Routes 4m. The left-hand arete of the wall is technically teasing. Start on the right, although a good pocket around to the left may be found to be of more than passing use. USER COMMENTS
Bouldering problem. A pleasant slap followed by a harder problem to get established.
Giving this a route grade is a bizarre anomaly that I would expect the modernising Rockfax to change (as they have with crescent arete etc). A nice V1 or 2 problem.
i agree, no one can treat this as a route, its a boulder problem. a fun one though and should have a star for the satisfaction after quite a struggle
None of the grades on this wall make sense but they are right! Tricky starts, no gear but not 'dangerous' enough to be HVS.
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PUBLISHED: 09 Jul 2012 08:51:59 | UPDATED: 10 Jul 2012 08:12:22PRINT EDITION: 09 Jul 2012Koen de kort
Koen de Kort is riding the Tour de France as a member of the Argos-Shimano team. He will be writing exclusively for the Financial Review during the race, previewing the next stage's challenges and all the tactics.
Today started with some very bad news. Just after breakfast, we had to say goodbye to teammate Johannes Frohlinger. After talking to various specialists it became clear that his broken hand needed surgery. So after amazingly suffering through a whole stage yesterday he has finally had to pull the pin, and he's already had the operation in his home town in Germany.
It's always sad to have to say goodbye to a teammate. We started this journey with nine riders and we also wanted to finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris with nine riders, but unfortunately one week into the Tour we have only seven riders left. Sadly, you could say we've lost our best sprinter and our best climber but at least the atmosphere is still really good in the team, and we're sure we can make something out of the next two weeks, hopefully resulting in a stage win.
Today was a day where a breakaway was almost certainly going to make it to the finish line, so we expected a very hard start with lots of attacks. To try to be in the attack we had to have good tactics that would allow everyone could assist the team. We decided that in the first flat section Curvers and Timmer were going to cover the attacks so that the slightly better climbers – Huguet, Sprick and I – were going to be able to cover the attack when we started the climbs after 15 kilometres. The role of the two other riders, Veelers and Gretsch, was to put us in the front of the bunch and try to keep us there by bringing us back to the front if we dropped back a little.
In the beginning our tactic worked very well, with Curvers being in the first group that went up the road. Unfortunately, that breakaway was chased back on the first climb and Huguet went with the next move. But he eventually dropped back to the peloton and both Sprick and I weren't strong enough on the climbs to bridge across to the breakaway. The tactic worked and we did all we could, but the stage was simply too hard for our team, especially with our best climber out of the race.
I managed to hang on to the main peloton for a long time, crossing five of the seven climbs with them, until the bunch exploded on the second last climb of the day. From there on I rode with a group to the finish and we managed to easily make time cut-off. Even our sprinter Veelers had no problem finishing within the time limit, because he ended up in a fairly big group that worked well together.
They call a group that rides behind the main peloton a 'grupetto', and in a group like that the riders try to ride the pace of the worst rider uphill to stay together, so they can all work together in the flat parts and downhill sections. A grupetto loses time on a climb but they never lose time on downhills or flat parts of the course. Sometimes a grupetto will even make up some time there because all the riders will take turns on the front, whereas in the main peloton it's usually only a few riders working on the front.
Tomorrow we'll have the first long time-trial of the Tour de France, 41.5 kilometres of riding alone. When the legs are good and you find a good rhythm these time trials seem to fly past, but when you're tired or have a bad day they seem to take forever. Hopefully my time trial will fly past tomorrow!
■ Stage 8: Wiggins survives in yellow as Pinot wins day
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The nominee also pledged fealty to the long-standing U.S. policy view that a strong dollar is in the nation's interest and repeated the administration's position that China's currency remains undervalued, signaling an intent to keep pressing Beijing to let market forces more freely determine its value.
"We work through the international bodies, the G7, the G20, to advance the view that it's not just the United States, but the organized nations of the world that insist on having currency policies which are market-determined," he said.
Lew lacks the international stature of his predecessor, Timothy Geithner, who had met regulators from around the world as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and was a senior financial diplomat in a prior stint at the U.S. Treasury.
But Lew said he met plenty of foreign dignitaries while serving as a deputy secretary of state under Hillary Clinton, where his main responsibility was managing the State Department's resources. He also met with top leaders while at the White House as chief of staff, he told lawmakers.
Lew's real passion is for budgets. He worked as the White House budget chief twice, first under President Bill Clinton.
Analysts said the choice of Lew as the administration's top economic official signals the importance Obama places on ongoing battles in Washington over the government's budget.
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At the end of the hearing, Baucus and others repeatedly questioned if Lew had sufficient gravitas to be the chief U.S. economic spokesman.
"On the things I believe, I've never withheld my judgment," Lew said. "But the thing I would say that's different about Treasury is it is a job that requires you to transcend politics … I understand that."
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China buying up Facebook? Which one really needs innovation?
Reports of China's investment arm seeking a chunk of Facebook puts a spotlight on Beijing's long march for home-grown innovation. Real tech breakthroughs, however, require more freedom than China has.
Call it a great wall posting. News reports say China wants to buy a chunk of Facebook.
If these two giants do end up collaborating, it would be quite a change in relationship status for both of them. In sheer numbers, Facebook users will soon equal the population of China.
For now, the sale of any Facebook stock to China's official investment arm remains speculative. Still, it is worth speculating on why China might even want an inside track on one of America's most innovative companies.
Is it an admission that China's effort to create an "innovation oriented society" by 2020 is failing and that it still needs the talent and ideas of other nations to keep its busy-bee economy going?
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DOCTOR WHO: A Companion's Companion – The TV Movie
By Kyle Anderson on November 6, 2013
A bit of a quickie today in that it only encompasses a single 90-minute television presentation in 1996, but a very, very important one in the annals of Doctor Who. In 1989, as we discussed last time, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who, with the intention to bring it back in a few years' time once it had "rested." Or so they said. In the interim, the time and space exploits of the Seventh Doctor and Ace continued in comic strips and a series of novels called the New Adventures, in which all manner of writers took a turn or two at delving into the Doctor's continuing journey. Writers like Russell T. Davies, Mark Gatiss, and Paul Cornell, all of whom would go on to write for the new series (or bring it back, in Russell's case) wrote novels in this range.
These novels, by and large, became much more grown up and were catered toward the fans who'd stuck out the series and were now, more than likely, teenagers and not the younger children the show was geared more toward. Ace became a woman and seemed to sleep with quite a few dudes, but she was also being groomed to become a Time Lord herself, in accordance with Andrew Cartmel's so-called "master plan." The canonical nature of these books is irrelevant, because none of it's ever really mentioned again and a couple were actually reworked to be part of the new series.
Elsewhere, however, plans were being hatched to relaunch the series on television, and not in the stupid "Dimensions in Time" format it took in 1993 for Children in Need. I'd never tell you to watch it because it's awful, but you CAN watch it if you type it into various search platforms. But you're a fool if you do, seriously.
Anyway, the fact that Doctor Who returned in any kind of proper format at all was due to the tireless work of producer Philip Segal. For years, he'd been trying to mount an American version of Doctor Who, but the Fox Network, the only network that showed the slightest bit of interest, was only prepared to make a single television movie. It was Segal's hope that such a production could be used as a backdoor pilot whose staggering success stateside could be used to persuade Fox to greenlight a proper series. Did this happen? Well, don't lets get ahead of ourselves. First they had to make the thing. In order to get the proper funding for the shoot, and to obtain the rights to use the character in the first place, the production needed some outside assistance, and in the end was a co-production between Fox TV, the BBC, and Universal Television. Since the Beeb owned the series, they wanted to ensure the character remained British (and good for 'em).
Among the slew of names being bandied about, whether seriously or just fictitiously, for the role were Tim Curry, Eric Idle, Billy Connolly, Michael Palin, Jonathan Pryce, and Anthony Stewart Head. Apparently, all of them said no or were unavailable and eventually the part went to Paul McGann, a young actor best known for playing the role of "I" in the 1989 film Withnail & I.
Segal hired Matthew Jacobs, a British writer and huge fan of the series, to pen the telemovie. It was intended that this movie follow directly on from the TV show, to ensure fans would recognize it as "real" Doctor Who, and to that end, the story begins with Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy so that we could see a regeneration. A novel idea, but when we spend 20 minutes of the whole run time with a Doctor who ultimately isn't going to be around for awhile, it seems like a bit of a waste of time. Get to the McGann, I say! But that's not how it happened.
The story begins with the Eighth Doctor narrating that his arch-nemesis the Master had been captured and sent to Skaro (!) to stand trial for "a list of evil crimes." After he is convicted by the Daleks (!), he is sentenced to execution, but the miraculously kindhearted mutated killing machines allow the Master a request, which is to have his remains to be returned to Gallifrey by his old enemy, the Doctor. It's baffling, really.
The TARDIS hits some kind of turbulence, and the box containing the Master's remains to fall over and break, allowing the oozy Master-remnants to escape and seep into the TARDIS control, causing it to make an emergency landing in San Francisco's Chinatown in the last days of 1999. Almost immediately, he's gunned down by Chinese American gang members. One of them, Chang Lee, picks his pocket before the ambulance arrives.
A surgeon, Dr. Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook) is called away from the opera to operate on this strange man who apparently has two hearts. Despite him pleading for her not to use a sedative on him, she does and he goes into a coma. The Master goo, meanwhile, has infected the ambulance driver (Eric Roberts) and possesses him. The Doctor, seriously hours later, begins to regenerate.
The Eighth Doctor doesn't know who he is for awhile, but he finds Grace and tries to convince her of things. The Master, meanwhile, wants to harness the Eye of Harmony inside the TARDIS, but only a human can look into it (!) and since the Doctor's half human (!!!!), he needs him to do it. And New Year's Eve comes into play also.
Honestly, I've seen this thing several times and I still don't know exactly what happens. But, it kind of doesn't matter. The TV Movie is sort of a glorious mess. It's a hodgepodge of old ideas and new (batshit) ones that fans have more or less swept under the rug, especially the bit about the Doctor and his Earth lineage. Nobody wants to talk about that, and you can't really blame them. The Doctor also kisses Grace, which a lot of fans also dislike, but I'm less irritated by this. The Doctor just regenerated and wants to get cozy with a cute redhead; I get it.
Still, what IS important about this movie is that it kept the notion of Doctor Who on TV alive. And it also gave Russell T. Davies and company ideas about what to do and what not to do when updating and rebooting it in 2005. The lack of a visible regeneration and not being immediately hampered with the history of the show are very clear examples of how, at least in its outset, the new series learned from the TV movie.
Before that, though, were 8 years more wilderness. McGann was the official current Doctor as far as the BBC were concerned but it was mainly just in book and comic strip form. In 2001, he began doing Big Finish audio dramas which he has done ever since. Even though he has, to date, only appeared on television as the character once, there are now more Eighth Doctor adventures in audio than there are television stories of most of the other Doctors. So there.
Did I say this would be a quickie? Jeepers. Join me next time when we'll talk about the new series, in some fashion.
As a lifelong (32 years now) follower of the Doctor, that was about as succinct as that analysis could get. Good on ya Kyle!
I'm glad he's still doing the audio books, his were my favorite! I really really really really really hope there is some sort of mention or site of him in the anniversary episode. He's my favorite Doctor after Tennant's.
It didn't help that it aired against something like the last episode of Roseanne or something that killed everything int he ratings that night.
It would be nice if McGann will appear in Day of the Doctor, but I won't get my hopes up. Though advertising two Doctors and secretly having more would be a great way to have their cake and eat it too, surprise-wise.
The deliberate analogy with Frankenstein when The Doctor regenerates in the morgue is strangely appropriate considering the final movie is a bit of a Frankenstein monster itself,slightly unpleasant for serious fanboys to watch now.It made some proper progress with it's characterisation of Grace and portrayal of her relationship with Mc Ganns new Doctor and Paul Mc Gann is great.Tragically,it completely wastes it's opportunity to engage with a new American audience by being made in Vancouver and deciding that Doctor Who can only be popular in America by making the Doctor into a copy of one of Star Treks most popular characters.Even the producers attempts to pay homage to Pertwee era Who did'nt really work since Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks hated it.It's failure is a bit of a mercy despite Mc Gann,fortunately.
I love how Davies retconned the Doctor being half-human bit. The Master believes the Doctor to be half-human only after the Doctor has kissed Grace. Why is this important? In Smith and Jones, Martha's first episode, the 10th Doctor kisses Martha in order to fool the Judoon into thinking he's human. Therefore, we can assume that the Master, like the Judoon, was fooled into believing the Doctor had human DNA because of the kiss!
I remember my father watching Doctor Who when I was a child… back around 1981 (???), but like his watching Star Trek, I wasn't interested.
I started watching during 11's first year, and went back and watched all of the reboot. I tried really hard to watch the episode BBC aired after each 'Doctors Revisited' (leading up to the 50th), and though I like the specials themselves, I couldn't get into watching the classic series because it was just so dated (the acting style, the music etc).
BUT – I did watch 8's telemovie. Yeah the story was corny, and there were issues with the story, but I actually liked how 8 behaved, acted, dressed etc. It felt familiar. I watched his performance and thought "Yup, that's A Doctor".
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As of one of the largest and most well established veterinary colleges in the country, Ohio State veterinary students are also among the best prepared. Ninety-eight percent of the college's 140 graduates in 2009 passed the national board exam, scoring above the average of all graduates in all categories.


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The collision on W. San Marcos Boulevard near W. Discovery Street was reported at 4:20 p.m. Saturday, sheriff's Dep. Michael Gildersleeve said. The woman was driving a 2002 Infiniti I30 northbound on Discovery Street and making a left turn onto westbound San Marcos Boulevard when she was struck broadside on the right side of her car by a Ford F-250 pickup truck driven by a 31 year-old Fontana man, he said. "The preliminary investigation revealed the driver of the Infiniti may have run the red light at the intersection...while making a Advertisement The collision did not appear to be alcohol or drug related and remained under investigation. "The Infiniti sustained major damage and the F-250 sustained moderate damage," he said. "The driver of the Infiniti sustained serious injuries. San Marcos Fire Department Personnel attended to the female on scene, but lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful and she succumbed to her injuries on scene." The pickup truck driver and his passengers were not injured, Gildersleeve said. Anyone with information about the third vehicle or who witnessed the collision was asked to call the San Marcos Sheriff's Station at (760) 510-5200 or the sheriff's non-emergency line at (858) 565-5200. Anonymous tips can be phoned in to Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477, sheriff's officials said. 0 comments Be the first to share your opinion on this article!
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Police were called to three accidents this evening.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
There were three car crashes at rush hour this evening as traffic struggled in a sudden downpour.
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London, Feb 6 Madonna's 12-minute performance at the Super Bowl left the audience spellbound.
The singer's medley during half time at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Sunday was a treat for all sports lovers around the world. The performance featured appearances from celebrities like Cee Lo Green, Lmfao, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, reports contactmusic.com.
The medley included hit numbers like "Sexy & I Know It", "Express Yourself" and "Party Rock Anthem Pop".
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Making a list, checking it twice… trying not to forget anything for our shopping list. If you are anything like me, everything you need must be written down or put in your phone. I can walk into Wal-mart knowing exactly what I need. Walk out of Wal-mart with only two things I needed, plus five more things, I thought I needed. Get back to the house and remember there were three more things I needed, but forgot. While picking up the five extra items at Wal-Mart, I never looked at the label, I just saw the price.
I rarely pay attention to food labels, but I have a friend whose child is allergic to so many things. Going to the grocery store takes forever. She is just starting to eat, so looking for foods that don't have peanuts, milk, or eggs in them tends to take a while. After looking at so many food labels, I began to notice the sodium and fat in a lot of different foods. So I wanted to break down the Food Labels and I hope this helps you. The following information came from WebMd and Healthcare.
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Journey to New Athens -- a modern-day world where humans still worship the Greek Gods and the Greek Gods still meddle in the lives of men. In this world, if you think your wife's cheating on you, first you pray to Aphrodite for a way to win her back. If that doesn't work, you hire Jack Medusa, private eye, to get the goods on film. Son of the infamous Medusa, Jack wears a metal mask to protect the people around him. He's a social leper but a damn good P.I., and he takes on cases the police won't touch.
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You might already be a devoted Team Skeet fan or you might not. You might own, use, and sleep beside a handheld Internet-capable communication and media device or, just maybe, you might not. Either way, once you've experienced instant porno gratification that follows you everywhere you and your pockets go, there's no going back. Team Skeet Mobile takes to those wavy 4G waves and proves that even its inexperienced porn starlets won't be outdone when it comes to exploring the Internet in the sexiest possible fashion.
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Instead of saving up for a vacation of your own, a vacation on which you'll argue with your female companion, stay out late drinking by yourself, leaving you to wander back to the hotel room at 2am, apologize for staying out so late and being such an ignorant, insensitive, egocentric manchild, why not let the Internet take care of your desire for sexual adventure with Porn Traveling. A site that follows hot young European couples as they travel the world in search of the ultimate exhibitionist thrill, Porn Traveling takes us to the Pyramids, Times Square, and the alleyways of Istanbul, and shows us fierce, passionate sex in almost every location, public or private. A dream for exhibitionist and voyeur alike, Porn Traveling gives you access to the whole world from the comfort of your sofa or desk chair.
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Linux Command Line Parameters
Consider the following situations:
Scenario 1: You are installing Linux from CDROM, but the kernel isn't using the correct I/O address for your CD-ROM drive. You can correct this by recompiling the kernel, but to build the kernel you first need to install Linux from CD-ROM...
Scenario 2: You made a change to the system startup script rc.local and now your system hangs while booting. How can you fix the error without reinstalling Linux?
Scenario 3: You'd like to experiment with the various VGA console video modes available without having to recompile the kernel each time.
Scenario 4: You've just written a large application that runs well on your system. How well would it run on a friend's machine that has only 4MB of RAM and no floating point coprocessor?
One solution to each of these problems is provided by Linux and its ability to pass command line parameters to the kernel. Unfortunately, these options are not well documented, (some of the HOWTOs mention certain options in passing, e.g., the SCSI HOWTO mentions some SCSI related options) and a number of them have been added relatively recently. We'll explore them in this article.
In order to understand how command line parameters fit into the scheme of things, let's briefly look at what happens when Linux boots.
For those who aren't afraid to look at kernel source code, I'll mention some of the relevant files. The filenames given are relative to wherever you have installed the kernel source, usually /usr/src/linux. Therefore, a reference to the file boot/bootsect.S should be found in /usr/src/linux/boot/bootsect.S. This information is valid for Linux kernel version 1.2.
Starting from power on, the PC ROM BIOS routines load boot code from floppy or hard disk. If booting from hard disk, this is usually the boot loader installed by LILO. If booting fJ5m floppy, it is the code in the file boot/bootsect.S. This in turn loads the code found in boot/setup.S and runs it. This module reads some information from the BIOS (the VGA mode, amount of memory, etc.) and makes note of it for later use. It will be needed later as the BIOS routines will not (normally) be used once the kernel starts up.
The setup code next switches to protected (32-bit) mode, then loads and runs the code found in boot/head.S. (Actually, for compressed kernels, which is always the case in recent kernels, the kernel proper is first uncompressed using the code found in zBoot/head.S). This sets up more of the 32-bit environment, gets the command-line parameters (usually from LILO), and passes them to the routine start_kernel.
Up to now everything was written in assembly language. At this point we now switch to the function start_kernel, written in C, found in the file init/main.c. This is the code that does most of the option parsing, saving information on a number of kernel-specific parameters in global variables so that they can be used by the kernel when needed.
Any other parameters given as "name=value" pairs are passed as arguments and environment variables to the next process.
This first kernel process now sets some things up for multitasking, and makes the first call to the fork system call, creating a new process; we are now multitasking. The original (parent) process becomes the "idle process" which is executed whenever there are no processes ready to run. The child process (which has process id 1) calls the program init. (It actually looks in a number of places, including /etc/init, /bin/init, /sbin/init, /etc/rc, and finally /bin/sh.) The init program then starts up all of the initial system processes such as getty and other daemons, and shortly we have a login prompt on the console.
There are a number of important options that can be set when compiling the Linux kernel. These include the root device, swap device, and VGA video mode. The toplevel Makefile allows setting most of these.
The problem with this method is that recompiling the kernel is somewhat time-consuming (at least on my machine; do you have a 100MHz Pentium?). You must also modify the standard Makefile, and remember to continue to do so when upgrading to newer kernels.
The rdev command was written long ago to make it easier to set some of these important kernel options without a recompile. The program directly patches the appropriate variables in a kernel image. These are at fixed addresses (defined in boot/bootsect.S).
While using rdev is fast, it is still somewhat inconvenient in that you have to remember to run it after building each kernel. It is also limited in the options that can be changed. We can do better.
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Classes is a smart schedule for school and university.Immediately after starting the app, the next class is displayed with all relevant information. On rotating the device, you are presented with the complete timetable in landscape mode.
Classes shows all the information you need, when you need it.
Classes features:
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New grading at Rochester middle
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Editor's note: This is one of several stories about Rochester's new competency based grading system.
"This is a federal mandate that all schools are required to complete," said Rochester Middle School Principal Val McKenney.
"I hope (the system) will allow students to focus more on skills and wanting to develop those skills versus focusing on a grade," said Tim Shuffleton, a world language teacher at the middle school.
For a student to earn a C, he or she must demonstrate essential content knowledge and skills consistently and apply that knowledge and skills using strategic thinking. To earn an E, a student must extend that knowledge and those skills beyond the essential knowledge and skills.
There will still be an honor roll, both for academic recognition, high and honors, and for behavior. "You have to exceed expectations across the board," said Moriarty of earning a spot on the honor rolls.
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EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon Ducks continued to make their case for why they deserve to be in the National Championship. Oregon trounced Colorado, 70-14 Saturday at Autzen Stadium.
The Ducks rolled up 622 yards of total offense and their highest point total of the season. Kenjon Barner rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns, while De'Anthony Thomas had a breathtaking punt return for a touchdown. The Ducks led 56-0 at the half, and got their backups into the game early. Quarterback Bryan Bennett led all scorers with three touchdowns, two of those coming in the second half.
The Ducks face what should be their toughest test of the season next week as Oregon visits USC. That game kicks off at 4:00 PM on November 3rd.


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Dear Parents, We take great pleasure in announcing that Amiya Jain of Grade V has secured an All India Rank 18 in the first level of the National Science Olympiad in which more than 3 lakh children participated. This is a fabulous achievement by Amiya and we are extremely proud of her. Our heartiest congratulations to her parents for her brilliant performance in the Olympiads. Amiya is a self inspired learner and a very hard working girl who has set an example for her peer group and is an inspiration to them. We wish Amiya All the very best for her future endeavours and hope that she continues to scale greater heights in the days to come. Thank you. With warm Regards Shalini Nambiar
Our endeavor is always to empower our children to be the leaders to bring about a change in society. This has always been made possible with your support. Continuing with this philosophy we have been invited to participate in the Design for Change contest .This contest is taking place under the aegis of The Riverside School Ahmedabad. This contest is being simultaneously held all over the world, in which about 2, 00,000 schools are going to be participating. This contest aims at empowering the youth of tomorrow with the belief that they can and they will be the people who can change the society.
For the same we have short listed a group of 5 students from grades 6 to 8 who would be working on the project under the mentoring of Ms. Meenkshi. The students selected to represent our school are as follows:
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2.Vibhor Rohatgi grade 7
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4. Nandini Yaduvanshi Grade 6
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For this the students and the teachers have decided on educating the children of the shanties close by, where they had already gone for celebrating the Hindi divas. The work for the project shall be carried out in the school premises for duration of 45 min. everyday for 10 days. There after a project report shall be compiled and forwarded for the judgment. The name of the project is ' SEEDS OF CHANGE' .


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How to Reduce Redness After Waxing
After you wax, there may be redness or inflammation around the area. This is a natural result of pulling hair out of it's follicles and should be expected by people who wax. Here are some things you can do to reduce redness and/or inflammation.
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- When using a compress, use a cold one. Hot compresses will do the exact opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
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Abbott has rolled out Ensure Complete shakes, designed to provide multiple nutritional benefits in one beverage to help adults complement their diet and reach their health goals.
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ABBOTT PARK, Ill. – Abbott has rolled out Ensure Complete shakes, designed to provide multiple nutritional benefits in one beverage to help adults complement their diet and reach their health goals.
The company said Tuesday that Ensure Complete shakes offer four-in-one nutrition that provides targeted muscle, heart, immune system and bone support.
Ensure Complete nutritional shakes come in chocolate and vanilla flavors and are suitable for gluten-free and lactose-intolerant diets.
Abbott noted that Ensure Complete shakes feature its proprietary ingredient Revigor, a source of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), an amino-acid metabolite, and 13 grams of protein to help protect, preserve and promote muscle health. The company added that Revigor, in combination with protein, can help rebuild muscle by helping to stabilize muscle cells and slowing protein breakdown while promoting the production of new muscle tissue.
Ensure Complete also has omega 3s to support heart health, prebiotics and antioxidants (vitamins C, E and selenium) to support the immune system, and calcium and vitamin D for bone support.
Overall, Ensure Complete provides 24 essential vitamins and minerals, along with 350 calories to help gain or maintain a healthy weight when a normal diet may not be enough, according to Abbott.
"It's not always possible to get all the nutrients needed through a typical diet, and complete nutrition is important, particularly as someone is recovering from a health setback," stated Christine Steele, director of science, innovation and education, research and development at Abbott. "To provide nutritional support for adults, Abbott introduced Ensure Complete as a good source of nutrition to help meet dietary needs by contributing to muscle, heart, immune system and bone health. This four-in-one nutrition also makes Ensure Complete a great option for helping adults stay active and strong as they age."
Ensure Complete nutrition shakes are available nationwide in four-packs of 8-fluid-ounce bottles, for a suggested retail price of $9.99 at pharmacies, grocery stores, drug stores and mass merchants.


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The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg sets out to strengthen the development of civil society. The independent and charitable foundation aims to promote knowledge, enrich cultural life, and provide opportunities.
moreThe charitable activities of the ZEIT-Stiftung extend to research and scholarship, art and culture as well as education and training. The flagships of the foundation are the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and the Bucerius Kunst Forum in the heart of the hanseatic city.


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The ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still an issue that demands our attention. Children recruited as soldiers are particularly vulnerable in the DRC. In these videos, citizens of the DRC plead for us to take a stand.
The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has flared up once again: 10 years of tension, on-and-off warfare and violence have taken their toll on the population, who are being displaced yet one more time. More than 5 million people have died during this warfare, thousands of women have been raped, and thousands of children have been recruited as children soldiers. On the following videos we bring you calls for action from the DRC citizens pleading with us to take a stand to stop the humanitarian crisis in the DRC.
Previous Posts on Global Voices has focused on this resurgence of violence: D.R. of Congo: Blogging From the War Zone and DR Congo: Fighting Continues, giving us an overview of the dramatic human rights violations, the clashes and fights arising between UN forces, government and rebels, and the internal displacement of people leaving their villages, cities and towns, running away from the violence.
Bukeni Waruzi, a DRC native who is the project coordinator for the African and Middle East region for Witness.org, writes an article in The Huffington Post about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and also posts a video commentary explaining the political situation, the historical roots for the crisis, and a call to action for all citizens to bring attention to this crisis, and try and force the authorities to intercede in benefit of the civilians taking the brunt of the conflict.
A campaign by Médicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) to raise awareness on the stark state of the DRC will start on November 20th. The Condition:Critical project will collect voices from the war in Eastern DRC, starting off with a documentary to be published on the launch date. The trailer is extremely moving, starting with the poignant testimony of a child born and raised during the war, who perceives his future as a bleak path leading only unto death.
A first-hand account on the impact of this war is told in this interview on the Virunga National Park blog where Ranger Benjamin from the Kalengera Patrol Post, tells how he witnessed rebels killing his father and murdering twenty other people from his village, shooting them one by one. He ran into the forest and then decided to walk to the refugee camp and tell his story to peers and authorities. He makes a heart wrenching call for action for the international community to pressure the CDR's government to take action regarding the dire situation they are living in.
What can we do? Bukeni Waruzi has three suggestions for actions we can take:
* Write to President Kabila to urge him to stop mass rape, recruitment of children and bring an end to the conflict: http://hub.witness.org/DRCinCrisis
* If you're a blogger — embed this video interview talking about the crisis: http://hub.witness.org/DRCinCrisis
* Urge your local media to cover this issue — write to the editor and write your own opinion piece
On Witness' The HUB, there are many other videos providing different aspects of the humanitarian crisis: the violence, the refugee crisis and the epidemic rape of women and girls. The Ushahidi project has already deployed a taggable map to geographically locate and report incidents of violence and human rights abuses through SMS and web reporting
This blog post was originally published on Global Voices Online on November 15, 2008.
I live and work in Colombia, where I teach a course on emerging media to Communications students and I curate and write content for Global Voices Online on citizen uploaded video.


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CBS and Time Warner Should Have Cancelled 'The Big Bang Theory'
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- CBS (CBS - Get Report) has been a great stock, there's no question. So has Time Warner (TWX - Get Report) . Obviously CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is doing something right. Ditto that for Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes.
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That's why I argue that Moonves and Bewkes should have considered shutting down "The Big Bang Theory", a television program that runs on CBS television and is produced by Warner Bros. TV. Recently, there was a contract-negotiations problem holding up production. It was over money (of course). According to The Hollywood Reporter, the main stars wanted an increase from $350,000 per episode to $1 million per episode, a number that included backend participation. The situation was resolved, and the big stars of "Big Bang" as well as some of the lesser players, essentially got what they demanded.
"The Big Bang Theory" makes a lot of money. The show is worth billions of dollars of revenue in the broadcast and syndication arenas; how much of that is profit is hard to come by, but it has to be significant. Even so, it is my conclusion that Moonves and Bewkes should not have given in to the cast and instead called it a day on the show. Read More: 7 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Selling in 2014 That sounds insane certainly, but standing up to Hollywood talent and withstanding the pressure from all sides to cave to the demands of the celebrities involved should be the mission statement for executives. Have no doubt: here there be pressure. Massive amounts of it. Pressure from the public, from affiliates, from executives below the corner office, from agents and so on. It would be a tough thing to walk away from a show that has shown incredible revenue growth. Who takes the risk, ultimately? Is the star talent? No. It's CBS and Time Warner. Moonves and Bewkes should have gotten together and told Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco no. It's a simple one-syllable word that should be used more often in Hollywood. It's not that they don't deserve a good amount of money. Perhaps they do. Unfortunately, as a show matures, there is no guarantee that it will continue to be a hit. No one knows the future. "The Big Bang Theory" has been on the air for quite a long time; it's definitely a commodity that has demonstrated its value in the marketplace. Rejecting demands for overpriced contracts might provide dividends in the future, however. As unthinkable a move it would be to cancel "The Big Bang Theory," it might dissuade other agents and stars from asking for too much. Read More: 10 Stocks Carl Icahn Loves in 2014Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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(Baltimore, MD) -- Navy football player Will McKamey has died while in a coma. The 19-year-old slot back collapsed during a practice on Saturday morning and was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore. McKamey was hospitalized in 2012 with a brain injury but cleared to play after visits to four neurosurgeons. The freshman was from Knoxville, Tennessee.


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Hey, I'm new at this too.07/25/2008 1:51 PM - Chris Etheridge
This week three more AHL coaches got the call to the NHL. Of course, we've mentioned in two posts now that Mike Haviland is taking a post with the Chicago Blackhawks. But it's also worth noting that former Wolves bench boss John Anderson is taking Todd Nelson (Wolves assistant) and Rochester head coach Randy Cunneyworth with him to Atlanta. And in San Jose, Todd Richards from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton is joining the Sharks as an assistant. (so is former Chicago Blackhawks and Norfolk Admirals coach Trent Yawney).
EDIT 8/22/08 (added Philadelphia and Providence, removed two incorrect teams): That makes the unofficial AHL-wide count of new coaches in 2008-09 at 12 (Chicago, Grand Rapids, Iowa, Norfolk, Peoria, Philadelphia, Portland, Providence, Rochester, Rockford, Springfield, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton). Hershey's Bob Woods will be in his first full season. Let's take an updated look at the coaching situation in the West Division (new coaches in bold):
Oh and a treat for reading all the way to the end of the post -- here's the transcript from an AHL chat session last spring with the Chicago Blackhawks' newly-aquired center Tim Brent. Busy week for the IceHogs07/25/2008 9:25 AM - Mike Peck
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Jackie Hudson, one of three nuns arrested in 2002 missile silo protest, dies
Posted By Sara Burnett On August 12, 2011 @ 10:11 am In Federal Court,General | 5 Comments
One of the three nuns who was arrested during a 2002 protest at a Weld County [1] missile silo, then tangled with authorities over how to fulfill their restitution, has died.
Jackie Hudson, 76, died of blood cancer on Aug. 3, the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids announced yesterday.
Hudson spent three decades protesting war and nuclear weapons. In June, she was released from a Georgia jail where she was awaiting sentencing for a July 2010 demonstration at a Tennessee nuclear facility.
In 2002, Hudson and fellow nuns Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert were charged with destruction of national defense materials and injury to government property for damaging a fence during a protest in Weld County. In 2003, Hudson was sentenced to 30 months in prison. (Gilbert also was sentenced to 30 months. Platte got 41 months). The women were ordered to pay $3,080 in restitution.
The restitution created a new round of problems for the sisters, who said paying that money to the government would violate their beliefs in nonviolence because it would go to the military. In 2006 the women proposed instead to conduct a food drive for military families, but that plan was thwarted when officials at Buckley Air Force base – where they tried to drop off a truckload of food – turned them away, citing security concerns.
The sisters also tried delivering food to the U.S. Attorney's Office [2], but were told the office couldn't accept food in lieu of restitution.
The food went to the Denver Rescue Mission instead. The donation thrilled the mission's house manager, Jim Coelho, who told me at the time: "They're going to bless a lot of people."
Judge Robert Blackburn [3], however, refused to accept the food donation in place of the money.
The final entry on the court docket for the case was in 2009, when the sisters submitted a letter to the judge [4]. By then, they had received a "notice of intent to offset" – essentially a letter saying they were going to be sent to the federal government's version of collections – for not making payments.
In their letter, the sisters outlined their community service and both cash and in-kind donations, which they estimated to be worth $600,000. They asked Blackburn to notify the federal government that their debt had been paid.
"We continue to live our lives in service to the poorest in our neighborhoods and volunteer in our ministries," they wrote.
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joys of old house septic systems
Our septic backed up this last weekend while we had a houseful of company for Easter. Thankfully it was contained in the toilet.
When we had it pumped yesterday, which we regularly do, they told us it was plugged from the baffle on back to the house. They are coming again today to rotor it clean.
Any idea why it plugged? Other than someone flushed something they weren't supposed to, which I guess we'll soon find out?
Here is a link that might be useful: Mushroom Factor
Would someone kindly tell me what the justification is for pumping the septic tank annually, semiannually or even once every 5 years? In fact, there is strong evidence to indicate that pumping a tank is counter productive to its proper operation.
Let us examine the normal course of events when they come to pump your tank. The truck arrives and the operator opens the access cover of the septic tank. He or she as the case may be, then points out to the homeowner that the tank is full and needs to be pumped. Baloney, The tank if 5 deep, but the inlet to the tank is at the top of the tank and the discharge line from the tank to the leach field is only 6" below the level of the inlet pipe. The leach field is then designed to absorb an amount of liquid equal to the volume of waste produced by the structure on a daily basis.
The natural water level of the tank is determined by the height of the discharge line to the leach field, which is typically about 1Â below the top of the tank. Inside the tank there is a baffle that is solid until it reaches a point about 6" to 8" below the natural water line, then the baffle has holes that will permit liquids to pass from the first chamber into the second chamber. The first chamber is the sediment chamber. As the raw sewage enters the sediment chamber any heavy solids contained in the waste quickly settle to the bottom of the tank, while any floatable solids will remain on top forming a thick foamy sludge. Within hours any fecal matter, toilet tissue or other biodegradable materials break down into thick liquid slurry, which can then pass through the baffle into the digestion chamber while the heavy non-biodegradable solids collect at the bottom of the first chamber. In a healthy septic tank all the liquids contain a colony of anaerobic bacteria (bacteria which thrive in the absence of air), which perform the digestive process by literally eating the biodegradable materials. At this point we then have gray water, which flows into the leach field line. Although the leach field lines are laid underground, nonetheless there is a very small amount of atmospheric air that permeates the soil and enters the leach field lines. This small amount of air is sufficient to support a colony of Aerobic bacteria (bacteria which thrive in air) and the aerobic bacteria complete the digestive process by converting the remaining biodegradable material into various forms of nitrate and other chemicals that are natural plant nutrients. At this point the water leaches into the soil surrounding the leach field pipes and the grass covering the leach field completes the process by using the nutrients for its growth. (This explains why we are required to maintain a grass covering over a septic leach field.)
This entire process mimics the events that take place in nature, and if left to its own devices a septic tank will continue to function for years. On the other hand, when a tank is unnecessarily pumped the pumping process removes all the liquid that contains the bacterial colony. As a result the tank will be full of liquid within 3 or 4 days but it may take 3 to 6 weeks to restore the bacteria colony to a level necessary to maintain the proper operation.
The singular biggest reason that we must pump a septic tank it because the sediment chamber gets clogged up with non-biodegradable solids, such as used condoms, feminine hygiene products or those stupid disposable plastic toilet brushes.
The second largest cause of septic tank problems results from people discarding household chemicals down the drain and those chemicals adversely react with the bacteria colony.
In my house we have one cardinal rule. With the singular exception of toilet tissue, nothing goes in the toilet unless you ate or drank it first. Does this work? You be the judge, my septic tank was installed in 1979 and it has never been opened. At my granddads farm we have septic tank that was installed in 1961 and it has never been opened.
In my region pumping a septic tank is almost unheard of except in instances when abandoning a tank while connecting to a municipal sewer. In fact, there is only one septic tank pump truck serving three counties in this region and there is a proposal before the city council to have our municipal sewage treatment plant take over the operation because the current operator is giving it up for lack of business.
Many old house tanks are undersized (never planned on long showers, lots of laundry, etc.)
When the tank is too small, especially the surface area and is overloaded by usage and possibly flooded or failed leach fields, the solids float out with the gray water before settling and be allowed to do their thing (breakdown) thus the plugging.
No doubt big tanks and reduced usage can go for some people forever such as older couples and smaller families without pumping.
That may be the argument that the proponents of pumping would like us to believe but it simply is not factual.
Originally toilets required 5gal/flush, which was then changed to 3.5gal/flush in the late 50s and which is now mandated at 1.6gal/flush or less.
Laundry was done in wringer washing machines that required 15gal of water + another 15gal in the rinse tub, and most people used a double rinse tub, one to presoak and the other to rinse. That water was generally changed about 3 to 4 times during the complete washing event.
Primarily bathing was done in huge claw foot tubs that required 35 to 40gal or when there was a shower it was a 4gal/min flow rate. A standard bathtub now uses ½ that amount of water and showers are mandated at 2.5gpm. We also ran the water heaters at 180degF so we used a 50/50 mix of hot and cold and could stand in the shower for upwards of 30 minutes without the water getting cold, something that is almost impossible today.
It must also be remembered that in those days most women were homemakers and we cooked from scratch thus we consumed many gallons of water during the preparation and cooking process, not to mention that in many homes they consumed untold hundreds of gallons of water as they home canned seasonal foods, whereas today our culture primarily lives on carryout or pre-processed foods that go straight from the freezer to the microwave or oven.
In the 50s, 60s and even into the 70s any rural building lot where they intended to install a septic tank was required to be a minimum of 2acres and the total footprint of all structures on the land could not exceed 35% of the total land area. We were required to install a minimum of a 1250gal septic tank, while 2br required a 1500gal tank and 3br+ required a 2000gal tank, which is nearly twice the size of the tank requirements today. On top of that, we were required to have a minimum of three parallel leach field lines, each of which must be 60 long and not less than 5 of separation between parallel lines. As land prices went up, lot sizes went down and structure sizes increased so they began allowing shorter and shorter leach field lines. Today the total leach field area is a mere fraction of what the older homes were required.
It is argued that floating solids obstruct the leach field lines, but here again, that simply is not true. First of all, the internal baffles of the septic tank prevent any floating solid from entering the digestion chamber. In addition, the discharge line from the septic tank is required to have a dip tube that extends 1 below the water level so that floating solids may not enter the leach field line, except of course during that short interval after a tank is pumped when the water level is still below the baffles, but given that the tank will normally be refilled within 3 days that risk is minimal.
On the other hand, when a tank is pumped it removes all the liquid, and the major portion of the bacterial colony. It must also be remembered that the bacteria in the septic tank is anaerobic bacteria (bacteria which thrives in the absence of oxygen) and when a tank is pumped the entire vessel will be full of air, thus even the residual bacteria necessary to restart the culture is severely compromised by exposure to oxygen.
The notion that we must pump the septic tank because the lines back up is totally wrong. The tank is designed to hold the volume of waste created in three days, therefore at best pumping the tank could only alleviate the problem by three days.
The real problem is that people are allowing far too much non-biodegradable solid waste to enter the septic waste system, and the pump merely pulls that junk out allowing the proper flow of water through the system. The solution is easy, get a trash can and put the solid waste out to the curb.
they built a small house in the early 20's, septic tank at best was 450 gallons, over the years, they converted the attic to two bedrooms, added one bedroom and a kitchen onto the back of the house and I came along and bought it as my first house. Had constant problems with the septic, go figure,, near the end of my 19 years there, had to have the tank pumped out once a year. Have no idea why it would buy a year of peace but it did. I cannot believe that there ever was a design involved to begin with. I know that was not the only house done that way, I had neighbors.
Lazy pup-
I could also argue- People used to only take baths once or twice a week, flushed only when brown, wore clothes 2-3 days, never let a faucet run (a sin).
Periodic preventive maintenance is required to remove the irreducible solids which settle and gradually fill the tank, reducing its efficiency. In most jurisdictions this maintenance is required by law, yet often not enforced. Those who ignore the requirement will eventually be faced with extremely costly repairs when solids escape the tank and destroy the clarified liquid effluent disposal means. A properly cared-for system, on the other hand, can last for decades and possibly a lifetime.
If it was me and I once had a field fail on old house, I would pump it, come on it was only like $75.
Interesting conversation going on here and thoughtful ideas. We had our tank pumped today and I had a chance to talk with the specialist pumping.
In addition to the regular advice, things we all should know such as not flushing feminine hygiene products, food, chemicals, etc., he also talked about many problems prevalant to today that we didn't have years ago. Big problems today are the unatural products that get flushed into our systems. Things such as antibacterial soap and scented, multiple-ply and additive-laden toilet paper all destroy the natural balance of the septic system. He also said they are finding more and more pharmaceutical traces showing up in human waste which also throws off the natural balance.
I found that last issue especially concerning. Not only are we poisoning our drinking water with pharmaceuticals, but also our soils.
I have a newer septic. I use only the Scott type toilet paper, which breaks apart when wet, and do not have a garbage disposal. I also tell my wife not to throw any fats or oils down the drain. Also, use liquid laundry detergent. Powder cakes up. Other than water, toilet paper, poop, and pee, nothing else goes in there.
Wow I am glad I found this post. I have lived in this house for about 5-6 years. At first just myself, but then married...wife has been here about 3 years. I have never had a septic issue, never had a clog or backup, never had it pumped. I used ridex once a few years ago because I heard it was good to do...
Well, today I noticed the filmy water just past the tank - almost as if it has over-flowed and is leaking out the lid.
I have to admit I have now learned how bad it is to have a disposal which I do, and have dumped chicken grease, and other foods down it.
We have also had an enormous amout of rain, and melting snow this past month, and have been doing laundry more often due to a new puppy and his pee-towels from his crate.
I am really praying that I do not have a failed leach bed and just need to pump out the tainted scum and re-start my septic properly without the food and grease from food...
Anyone have any insight? I am fearing having to have a new system put in, new leach bed dug, or even worse a chlorination system requirement now that my system is possibly in jeapordy.
Does it sound like it is something that can be fixed or does it sound like I am screwed??
It's not uncommon for a leach bed to fail. After 35 years my clay tile pipe bed failed. Fortunately my 1000g tank was fine. $2,250.00 later and a lawn to rebuild, I sold my house 5 years later much easier when I produced the receipt for the work, putting the buyer at ease.
using a GD REASONABLY is fine on a septic system. the problem is tha tmost folks want to dump 5 pounds of meat, 2 pineapples, and a dozen bananas down them every day. we use our GD a few times a week when rinsing off dishes. the plates are scraped first, then whatever remains is sent down the GD. no problems fromthat what so ever.
now, the 3 inches of rain in under 3 hours last night seems to have flooded my field on my other septic system. my house has 2, one for the kitchen/laundry and 1 for the baths. funny how the one that serves the baths is the only one i ever have a problem with. during spring/fall, if it rains hard before the ground has had a chance to dry out, then we have problems with 1 toilet. the water backs up inthe line enough to keep this one from venting and thus it either backs up or it gurgles when it slowly flushes. the tub/shower right next to it never seem to backup or even drain slow, but they have a seperate vent.
i did have the other pumped last year, and the preivous owner had dumped at least 100 gallons of grease/lard down it over it's 30 years of service. but the field lines were fine, just hte line fromteh house and the tank itself were full of grease.
we had our septic tank pumped for the first time in 30 years. the previous owner said back then that we would never have to have this pumped if we used ridex once a month, since he had to blast and fill the lateral with extra rock. we didnt follow that religeously, but did add ridex occasionally. a few months ago, we noticed some blackwater starting to come out of the lateral about 60 feet from the tank.
we decided to have it pumped and the man who pumped it said that we needed it pumped about every 3 years.
he also said that ridex was a waste of money, and that we just needed to buy a pound of "bakers yeast" and put it in the same was as we would ridex. we would only have to do this once a year.
does anyone know if this is a good remedy instead of ridex? also.. my thought of unclogging the area with some blackwater is to put ridex in the same way as i used to, but right after i flush it down the commode... run the shower for about 20 minutes...thus forcing the ridex toward the area where the blackwater is. my thought is that this would help disolve any blockage if i could just get the bacteria to that point.
any help??? is this a dumb idea? its been about 3 weeks since we pumped the septic tank. the man left about 3-5 inches of sludge in the bottom of the tank so that all the bacteria wouldnt be taken away. thanks for any help you can offer. mike