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Associated Press
6 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Septic System Owners Are Ditching the Old Way of Cleaning Toilets
You're already cleaning your toilet — why not clean your septic system too, with the same flush? The first and only 2-in-1 cleaner that cleans your toilet and treats your septic system at the same time. Instead of using harsh chemicals that can harm septic health, this foaming formula uses Dr. Pooper's proven Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® bio-technology to safely break down septic solids. Hockley, TX - Jun 3, 2025 - In a market filled with 'single-purpose' bathroom cleaners, the new Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner is simplifying routines — and septic system maintenance — with a smarter, dual-function approach. What makes this product so different? It's the first and only 2-in-1 cleaner that cleans your toilet and treats your septic system at the same time. Instead of using harsh chemicals that can harm septic health, this foaming formula uses Dr. Pooper's proven Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® bio-technology to safely break down solids in your pipes, tank, and drain field. 'It's the easiest and most effective septic maintenance you'll ever do,' said Chris Denny, CEO and co-founder of Dr. Pooper. 'You're already cleaning your toilet — why not clean your septic system too, with the same flush?' The 2-in-1 Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner has quickly become a favorite among homeowners with septic systems, especially those looking to: And because it's totally non-toxic, there's no risk to pets, kids, or groundwater. The 2-in-1 Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner is available now on Media Contact Company Name: Dr. Pooper Enterprise LLC Contact Person: Chris Denny Email: Send Email Phone: 8323016075 Address:27122 FM 2920 City: Hockley State: Texas Country: United States Website: Source: Lead Optimize, LLC
Globe and Mail
7 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Septic System Owners Are Ditching the Old Way of Cleaning Toilets
You're already cleaning your toilet — why not clean your septic system too, with the same flush? The first and only 2-in-1 cleaner that cleans your toilet and treats your septic system at the same time. Instead of using harsh chemicals that can harm septic health, this foaming formula uses Dr. Pooper's proven Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® bio-technology to safely break down septic solids. Hockley, TX - Jun 3, 2025 - In a market filled with 'single-purpose' bathroom cleaners, the new Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner is simplifying routines — and septic system maintenance — with a smarter, dual-function approach. What makes this product so different? It's the first and only 2-in-1 cleaner that cleans your toilet and treats your septic system at the same time. Instead of using harsh chemicals that can harm septic health, this foaming formula uses Dr. Pooper's proven Accelerator by Dr. Pooper® bio-technology to safely break down solids in your pipes, tank, and drain field. 'It's the easiest and most effective septic maintenance you'll ever do,' said Chris Denny, CEO and co-founder of Dr. Pooper. 'You're already cleaning your toilet — why not clean your septic system too, with the same flush?' The 2-in-1 Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner has quickly become a favorite among homeowners with septic systems, especially those looking to: And because it's totally non-toxic, there's no risk to pets, kids, or groundwater. The 2-in-1 Toilet Bowl & Septic Cleaner is available now on Media Contact Company Name: Dr. Pooper Enterprise LLC Contact Person: Chris Denny Email: Send Email Phone: 8323016075 Address: 27122 FM 2920 City: Hockley State: Texas Country: United States Website:
NZ Herald
24-04-2025
- General
- NZ Herald
Anzac Day 2025: Northland Navy veteran Russell G. Hockley's memory of hydrogen bomb tests
Hockley had been a signalman on the HMNZS Rotoiti, charged with monitoring the weather during the United Kingdom's 1957 hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. After the Second World War, the United Kingdom had considered developing atomic and thermonuclear weapons a critical national policy. Hockley would don his 'anti-flash' gear consisting of cotton headgear, gloves, and goggles when a bomb was to be dropped. 'We'd hear the pilot talking through, saying 20 seconds to bomb drop, 10 seconds, nine, eight, seven ... bomb gone.' Then came the blast. 'They would say stand up and face the bomb burst and we would see the mushroom forming,' Hockley said. The cloud from the fourth bomb was 'huge'. 'You could actually see flames drawing from the bottom of the mushroom and pulling all of this stuff out of the sea,' Hockley said. 'It was just developing layer after layer after layer.' Overall, nine bombs were dropped as part of Operation Grapple but Hockley's ship returned after the fourth. He had been pleased when a King Charles III Nuclear Medal was made available for the people who served in Operation Grapple. He was awarded his medal last year by his son Russell Hockley Jnr at a ceremony at the Kaitāia RSA, where he is a life member and former patron. 'There wouldn't be many people who had pinned a medal on their father, I would think,' Hockley said. Russell Hockley Jnr, who also served in the Navy, thanked his dad for his service to the country – a calling that came about after a headmaster told a young Hockley two terms in that the school wasn't big enough for the two of them. 'One of us has to move on,' Hockley recalled. The headmaster told the teen that a naval recruiter was in town. 'I went down there and got all the paraphernalia and I trapped my mum and dad into signing, and I joined the Navy as a 15-and-a-half-year-old boy. 'I finished up doing 22-and-a-half years,' Hockley said. In the early days, his naval career was spurred by a want to provide for his young wife Hoana and their children. He said while the wage wasn't so great, the cheap housing was. Hockley found leaving his family to serve abroad to be a painful downside to a naval career. But Hoana, who died in 2012, had been 'amazing'. 'She was a great mother and a great partner. She was of that ilk that understood my life was the Navy,' Hockley said. Fortunately, all four of his children had been born while he was home. Impressive given he had served in 10 different shore establishments and 10 naval ships. 'Plus a 48-hour posting on submarine as the guy had an impacted tooth and couldn't sail,' Hockley said. 'That was an experience on its own ... I found it very difficult.' Hockley had joined the Navy shortly after the Korean War ended in 1953, and in 1955 found himself part of the conflict unfolding in Indonesia. He was also part of a bombardment on Borneo. He retired on a naval pension aged 38 and headed to the Far North with his family. 'I had a good career. I enjoyed the Navy,' Hockley said. His time serving had led him to rub shoulders with royalty in Christchurch during his time with the 1974 Commonwealth Games ceremonial committee. 'I met the Duke then met him a second time. I met the Queen twice, Princess Anne once, and the King once.' Hockley's contribution in the games and naval sport in general, given he coached nearly everything, saw him awarded the British Empire Medal in 1975. Despite the highs, his lifetime insight into war has stayed with him and he makes sure to never miss an Anzac Day. For 15 years, Hockley travelled 60km to Kaitāia for its dawn parade. Then home again to Te Kao for an 11am service before driving 20km down the road to Houhora for its 2pm Civic Service. But with his Navy mates dwindling in numbers, he decided to attend only the dawn parade. 'There used to be 10 or 12 of us. Every Anzac we would meet and enjoy ourselves. Swing the lantern as the Navy would say, telling stories,' he said. But parading alongside Hockley today in an Anzac Day 'highlight' were his son and two sons-in-law who all served. Hockley believed Anzac Day had remained resilient thanks to the many people who keep the memory of those who served alive. 'We don't forget and we'll never forget.'
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
A New Survey Finds 80 Percent of Parents Think Gun Violence Changes What It Means To Be a Kid in America
Stories like Nicole Hockley's should never have to be told. When Hockley sent her first-grader to school on December 14th, 2012, she had no idea that their morning goodbye would be their last. But 6-year-old Dylan — along with 19 other children and 6 faculty members — would never come home to their families, instead falling victim to the unimaginable tragedy of the Sandy Hook school shooting. More from SheKnows I Lost My Son in the Sandy Hook Shooting 12 Years Ago Today - & Here's What I Need You to Know 'As a parent, you never think it could be you,' Hockley wrote for SheKnows on the 12th anniversary of the day she lost her son. Letting grief compel her forward, Hockley co-founded Sandy Hook Promise to honor her son and all the others killed in the senseless act: a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting children from gun violence in the places they should feel most safe. Recently, the organization polled around 1,000 parents of children 17 and under. Of those, 4 in 10 parents said they feel 'uncertain, frustrated or hopeless' about preventing violence in schools. Nearly half of the parents said they worried about gun violence at their child's school on a monthly basis, while 40 percent reported having those fears weekly or even daily. But that isn't all; parents also overwhelmingly feel that this issue is literally changing the carefree nature of childhood as we know it — and Sandy Hook Promise's gut-wrenching new PSA highlights this. The new PSA shines a spotlight on a sad reality: Gun violence truly has changed our kids' childhood experience, and the teddy bear is a perfect symbol of this. 'Following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, more than 60,000 bears were sent to Newtown, Connecticut — so many that a storage facility was required,' says a press release from Sandy Hook Promise. 'These comfort objects, meant for playtime and companionship, have since become a go-to object placed at memorials.' For Hockley and the other founders of Sandy Hook Promise, whose children didn't get a fraction of the childhood they deserved, this is simply unacceptable. 'From our research, we know that 80% of parents feel that the threat of violence in schools has affected childhood in America today. At Sandy Hook Promise, we also know that school shootings are preventable when you know the signs, and that we all have a role to play in preventing this cycle from continuing,' Hockley tells SheKnows. 'With this PSA, we want to drive home the message that childhood doesn't have to be this way and encourage parents, educators, students and caring adults to learn the signs, so we can help ensure the innocent, carefree childhood our kids deserve.' According to the most recent data, released late last year, guns killed more children and teens (age 1 through 17) than any other cause — including car crashes and cancer. It's a daunting statistic, to be sure, but there's reason to be hopeful: Sandy Hook Promise's Know the Signs programs and Say Something anonymous reporting system have helped stop at least 18 planned school shootings — most recently at Mooresville High School in Indiana — and many other acts of suicide and self-harm. To confirm a prevented attack, they use a strict review process that checks for a clear threat, a plan, access to a weapon, and where the information came from. As Hockley says, childhood doesn't have to be this way. Parents, let's make sure it isn't. Learn more about how to make a change here. Best of SheKnows Chelsea Handler & Other Celebs Who Are Doing Just Fine Without Biological Children 'Mario Day' Is Today — & All the Can't-Miss Mario Bros. Deals Are Here! Wicked-Inspired Names Are Spiking — Here Are the Most 'Popular' Names from the Trend
The Independent
04-03-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Want lower rail fares to lure people out of their cars? We need a rail revolution
Train tickets in England and Wales cost 4.6 per cent more than they did last week. After I wrote about the rise, Michelle Hockley was prompted to ask: 'Why a huge hike in prices when we claim we want to curb traffic pollution and protect the environment?' Britain is not alone in having some very high fares. Nor are we unique in suffering chronically unreliable trains. And other countries also subsidise their railways to the tune of billions of pounds each year. But no other nation combines all three characteristics quite like the UK. Routinely, one in 25 trains is cancelled; northwest England is particularly prone to axed departures. Taxpayers, many of whom never go near a train, pump £12.5bn a year (or £400 per second) to keep the railways sort-of running. Yet, despite the Treasury's munificence, fares in England and Wales are rising faster than inflation. By normal political standards, transport secretaries tend to have brief lifespans; five different ministers have held the role in the UK in the past 30 months. Such a short tenure bestows at least one benefit: mercifully, these women and men need not endure responsibility for the excruciating conundrum of the railway for long. The fare increase certainly does not make the government look determined to shift people from road to rail in pursuit of net zero targets. I am currently travelling through Germany on a nationwide Deutschlandticket. For the right to travel anywhere in the country on all public transport except the fastest trains for an entire month, I paid €58 (£48). Germany also subsidises rail heavily, and its trains are also unreliable. But at least the fares are low. Ms Hockley's sensible question usually gets a stock answer: the railways cost a fixed amount to run, roughly £25bn a year. Conventional wisdom says the cost can be met only by rail passengers and the public purse. Last year ticket sales covered less than half of the total bill. To ease the burden on taxpayers, the argument goes, the financial needle must be tilted towards the traveller. This reasoning is lazy. It regards revenue and costs as fixed. For another source of revenue, let's tackle domestic airline passengers. Bizarrely, Rishi Sunak halved Air Passenger Duty (APD) on flights within the UK. Northern Ireland certainly deserves a break, as do isolated regions such as Cornwall and Scotland's Highlands and islands. Yet the Tory ex-leader's tax cut chiefly benefits relatively well-heeled travellers between Edinburgh and London – a route on which three different rail firms compete. Add £20 or more APD to journeys where trains provide a perfectly good alternative. Such a tax would be easy to avoid: just don't fly when you could take the train on links such as Newcastle to London or Birmingham to Edinburgh. The cash collected would be augmented by higher rail fare revenue as people switch from plane to train. All of this would ease the burden on 'normal' taxpayers, and the environment as airlines cut back on these short flights. That is the easiest of wins. Much harder – and more important – is to reduce the cost of the railway. More driver-only operation of trains looks inevitable. Productivity reforms not tied to wage hikes are essential. And deeply controversial issues such as closing ticket offices will doubtless come back to the table. These changes will take resolve from the current transport secretary, Heidi Alexander. Last month she told Parliament: 'We will be increasing value for money in the way we operate our railways. To start off with, we will be getting rid of up to £100m a year in management fees that we are currently paying out of the public purse to the train operating companies.' Every little helps, but Ms Alexander will be aware that the sum represents just 0.4 per cent of the cost of the railway. She added: 'We are determined to drive up performance on our railways and give better value for money to the taxpayer.' Labour's mechanism for the rail revolution is Great British Railways. This new organisation will subsume all the train companies who are currently instructed by the government what services to run and how much to charge, as well as Network Rail – the publicly owned infrastructure provider. The transport secretary says: 'By bringing together the management of track and train, we can strip out duplication in our railways, provide better value for the taxpayer and ensure that trains are turning up on time, with reliable and punctual services. That is what we will deliver.' I hope she has the staying power.
