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Community creates Emergency Network in the aftermath of severe storms

By Tania
27/08/2025

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Hill and Ridge Emergency Network Planning Day (Credit: Patrick Rychner)

In the aftermath of the 2021 storms the Red Hill Fire Brigade worked with local agencies and residents to create the Hill and Ridge Emergency Network.

The Network has been meeting regularly since October 2023 and brings together community groups, business owners, educators, agency representatives and local emergency services to improve community knowledge and skills to prepare and respond to disaster events.

Red Hill Fire Brigade Captain Sam Norris said the area was impacted by a major storm in October 2021.

“We lost power and all communications for between four and seven days. People couldn’t call Triple Zero and so the brigade and all the locals banded together,” Samuel said.

“We cleared roads and made access for emergency services to get into Red Hill. The community did a great job but there were gaps in the initial response that we thought this network could fix. That was the trigger point for it.

“In the last event, we had a woman who just had twins who were under a week old and she was stuck in her house for five days with no power. We also had a few elderly

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Dotz Nano: Advancing towards a carbon neutral future

By Tania
20/08/2025

Manny Anton: Hello, I’m Manny Anton from the Finance News Network and today we welcome back Dotz Nano. Dotz Nano has the ASX code DTZ and currently has a market capitalization of approximately $85 million. Dotz is a nanotechnology firm pioneering innovative climate and industrial nanotechnologies. The company’s primary focus lies in developing revolutionary carbon dioxide management technologies paving the way towards a carbon neutral future. Joining us today is Dotz Nano, CEO, Sharon Malka. Sharon, welcome back to the network.

Sharon Malka: Thank you very much and thank you for hosting me again.

Manny Anton: Always a pleasure. Okay, well why don’t we start with the company’s recent announcement on the completion of construction of a bench scale unit. How important is this?

Sharon Malka: We are very pleased with this achievement because it marks a significant progress in the development stage of our technology, Dotz Earth. It enables us to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology and now we will be focused on scaling it up and developing the technology towards the next stage of development.

Manny Anton: Excellent. And when you did announce this, you also announced that it was done ahead of schedule, which is a

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PainChek expands into UK market

By Tania
16/08/2025

Peter Milios: I’m Peter Milios from the Finance Use Network, and today I’m talking with PainChek. PainChek, trading under the ASX Code PCK with a market capitalization of 45 million, is the developer of the world’s first smart-based pain assessment and monitoring application. Today we are talking to the company’s chief executive officer, Philip Daffas. Philip, welcome back to the network.

Philip Daffas: Thank you, Peter. Lovely to be here again.

Peter Milios: Philip, to start, could you give us some context about PainChek for those who may not be acquainted with the company?

Philip Daffas: Certainly, and apparently, to bring it back to basics, pain assessment, as we all know, is very difficult to do, but it’s very difficult to do, especially for those who can’t reliably verbalize their pain. That includes people, one extreme, elderly people living with dementia and cognitive impairment who have lost those communication skills. On the other extreme, very young children who are pre-verbal who haven’t built those skills. PainChek specializes in building tools, medical devices, in the form of an app that actually provides a pain assessment technology to assess pain for those vulnerable people and therefore to improve the medication for them

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I’m a Behemoth Light Novels Get TV Anime – News

By Tania
15/08/2025

Hakusensha announced on Monday that Nozomi Ginyoku‘s I’m a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet (S Rank Monster no “Behemoth” dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet Toshite Kurashitemasu) light novel series is getting a television anime adaptation.

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The anime will star Tasuku Hatanaka as Tama, Riho Sugiyama as Tama in cat form, and Hinaki Yano as Aria.

Yen Press is releasing both the light novel series and the manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight finds himself reincarnated as one of the most powerful monsters in the world: a behemoth! Problem is, he has to grow up before he can really strut his stuff, and a baby behemoth looks an awful lot like…a housecat?! And when an elf adventurer decides to take him in, he may need his help as much as he needs!

Ginyoku launched the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) website in August 2017, and the story ended its fifth part in August 2021. Micro Magazine published

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Senate sends surrogacy bills to Whitmer for signature

By Tania
14/08/2025

Bills on their way to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk would repeal Michigan’s ban on surrogate parenting contracts.

Michigan was among the vanguard of states to outlaw paid surrogacy agreements with a 1988 law and is now among a small group of states that continue to do so.

Sen. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit), one of the bill sponsors, said Michigan should join the majority of states that allow and regulate surrogacy contracts.

Senator Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit) is one of the sponsors of legislation to legalize surrogacy contracts in Michigan.

“It’s time to update our laws in Michigan and bring them in line with modern technology and practices as well as our compassion for families of all types, ensuring that Michiganders can fulfill their dreams of parenthood,” she said. “These bills not only safeguard the rights of biological parents but also prioritize the protection and the reproductive freedom of those surrogates.”

The bills allow for compensation for carrying a pregnancy and expenses such as insurance and housing. Surrogates would have to be at least 21 years old and undergo a mental health screening.

The bills were adopted on mostly party-line voters with Democrats in support and

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Fox News Remains Most-Watched News Network

By Tania
07/08/2025

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of March 11, 2024.

It was a return to Earth for the cable news networks as the huge numbers they enjoyed during the busy news week of March 4, which featured two political-heavy events were nowhere to be found. That week contained coverage of Super Tuesday and President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address. Fox News, as usual, led the cable news networks, but each of them including MSNBC and CNN, saw double-digit drops in both measured categories (total viewers and Adults 25-54) and in both dayparts (primetime and total day).

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Nielsen live plus same-day data for the week of March 11 saw FNC average 2,056 million total viewers and 222,000 A25-54 viewers during primetime. The network was down in total viewers by -21% and -37% in the A25-54 demo, relative to the week prior (week beginning March 4).

In total day viewing, Fox News averaged 1,256 million total viewers and 147,000 A25-54 viewers. This translated to declines of -14% in total viewers and -23% in A25-54 from what Fox News averaged in those measurements the week prior.

Among all basic cable networks,

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When a teacher is a terrorist

By Tania
23/09/2024

March 6, 2024

DHAKA – Exemplary action must be taken against Sharif, administration of Sirajganj Medical College

In an incident that seems stranger than fiction, Raihan Sharif, a teacher of Shaheed M Mansur Ali Medical College in Sirajganj, reportedly shot a third-year student in the leg during a viva exam. While the student, Arafat Amin Tamal, was miraculously spared his life as the bullet first hit the mobile phone in his pant pocket, the fact remains that a teacher had the audacity to open fire on his student. According to witnesses, not only did he injure Tamal, but he also threatened to shoot the victim’s friend, who wanted to take him to the emergency unit for treatment. The details of the incident are beyond horrifying.

What’s even more shocking is that Sharif is known to wave around his gun regularly during class hours, threatening students from time to time and harassing them in various ways. Some students also claimed that he would make video calls to female students at night, make untoward proposals, and issue threats if they refused to comply.

We are glad to note that Sharif has been arrested and placed on remand, partly thanks to the students

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Expanding Internet Access, ITS Abmas Installs Network Transmitter

By Tania
21/09/2024

Image of the ITS Abmas team handing over to the people of Ketuwon Village

ITS Abmas Team during the handover and licensing of antenna installation repeaters And omnidirectional in Ketuwon Village, Pasuruan

ITS Campus, ITS News – As time goes by, internet access has become a person’s basic need in everyday life. To expand internet reach in Indonesia, the Community Service Team (Abmas) Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) built an internet network transmitter in Ketuwon Village, Pasuruan, Wednesday (15/11).

The Student Coordinator of the ITS Abmas team, Jona Meivan Frendo Saragih said that currently several areas in Indonesia still do not have good internet access, one of which is Ketuwon Village, Pasuruan Regency. This area becomes one of the zones blind spots internet because the internet signal cannot reach the Bromo mountain area.

Based on this problem, this team implemented an internet network retransmitter or repeaters to expand and strengthen signal connections in the area. Antenna repeaters installed will catch the signal from Base Transceiver Station (BTS) or signal transmitting center. From there, the captured signal will be transmitted back to the antenna omnidirectional which can expand the reach of the internet around.

Schematic drawing of the re-transmission tower flow

Re-transmitting tower flow scheme to expand the internet network

Furthermore, the activities which started in September began with determining the

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Construction and Design Expo begins Wednesday | WCHS Network | News • Sports • Business

By Tania
19/09/2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Construction and Design Expo is set for Wednesday and Thursday at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center.

Contractors Association of West Virginia Chief Executive Officer Jason Pizzatella said the expo was one of the highlights of the year for the industry.

“It’s the two days of the year where almost everyone that is associated with the construction industry will pop their head into the Civic Center for at least a little while,” Pizatella said.

The various parts of the industry represented will include contractors, engineers, architects, equipment manufacturers, equipment dealers, people building water and sewer infrastructure in West Virginia and those installing broadband.

Activities will include the display of the latest equipment in the industry, continuing education courses, job hiring opportunities and special speakers.

Pizzatella said the expo will include, for the second year in a row, a reverse job fair.

“It’s for students and young people who are considering getting into the industry to be able to walk into the Civic Center Wednesday and Thursday and see almost everyone involved in the industry and if they’re interested, someone may leave with a job,” Pizatella said.

The expo is also a good opportunity to

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Sand Land: The Series Anime Reveals Theme Song Artists in New Trailer, Key Visual – News

By Tania
16/09/2024

The staff for SAND LAND: THE SERIESthe anime series adaptation of the late Akira Toriyama‘s SAND LAND manga, announced the opening and ending theme song artists on Monday in a new trailer along with a key visual.

The trailer previews Kroi‘s opening song “Water Carrier” and Tempalay‘s ending song “Drive My Idea.”

The anime will debut its first seven episodes simultaneously on Disney+ Star’s “STAR Anime Series” programming on March 20, and will stream on Upstream in the US The first six episodes are labeled the “Akuma no Ōji” (Prince of Demons) arc, and will feature footage from the anime film recut to a series format, with some additional footage. Episodes 8-13 will debut one episode every Wednesday thereafter, and episodes 7-13 will be an all-new “Tenshi no Yūsha” (Angelic Heroes) arc, with the story set in a new place called “Forest Land.” Toriyama conceptualized the new arc’s story.

The series will also feature returning cast and staff members from the film.

The returning cast members are:

Two new cast members will appear in the “Tenshi no Yūsha” arc:

Toshihisa Yokoshima (“Tales of Crestoria: The

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