We Shall Fight on the Beaches: A Hearts of Iron III Black Ice Timelapse – Video

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The Second World War according to a round of Hearts of Iron III with the Black Ice mod. All mod settings were set to either normal or no bonus. The songs used are: Storming Omaha Beach March...

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Baird pledge: Shark detecting sonar to protect beaches

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Shark activity has marred the summer beach season, with Newcastle beaches closed for a record 10 days this month as a 5 metre great white shark swam close to shore. Photo: CLINTON DUFFY

Premier Mike Baird has pledged to boost public protection against shark attacks with a trial of cutting edge sonar detecting technology at NSW beaches if the Liberal and Nationals government is re-elected in March.

In Mr Baird's first election policy commitment, he said $100,000 would be spent on a technology trial at popular beaches. Surf life saving clubs will also be given specialist training and shark deterrent equipment.

"One thing we will not be doing in NSW is culling sharks," said Mr Baird."Instead, as well as continuing measures that have already proved successful, today I announce we will unleash new technology to make our beaches even safer for swimmers."

Three NSW swimmers or surfers have been killed by shark attacks in the past 18 months.

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An apparent increase in shark activity has marred the summer beach season, with Newcastle beaches closed for a record 10 days this month as a 5 metre great white shark swam close to shore.

Sydney's Bondi Beach has been repeatedly closed after shark sightings, and two great white sharks were pulled from the Bondi nets within days as the first beach weather beckoned swimmers in November.

A teenager was hospitalised after a shark attack near Mollymook Beach on the south coast a fortnight ago.

Mr Baird said there are 51 shark nets from Newcastle to Wollongong, and NSW beaches were among the safest in the country, but "we can always do more".

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Pleasure boats may be allowed to dump sewage closer to Vancouver-area beaches

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Vancouver Coastal Health wants to see local beaches exempt from a proposal by Transport Canada that suggests small pleasure boats be allowed to dump their sewage closer to shore.

Medical health officer Dr. Mark Lysyshyn said such a move, which is still in the public consultation phase, could potentially increase the occurrence of E. coli in local waters and lead to more frequent closures of the areas beaches. Under Transport Canadas plan, small boats carrying fewer than 15 people would be allowed to discharge sewage just one nautical mile from shore, closer than the three nautical miles that are required today.

One nautical mile is roughly the distance between Sunset and Kitsilano beaches, Lysyshyn said.

Last summer was one of the worst for E. coli at local beaches, Lysyshyn said, with West Vancouver beaches closed for much of August and favourites like Sunset Beach posting beach closed signs.

This concerned us because we dont know to what degree the water quality at the beaches is affected by small boats but thats part of the equation, Lysyshyn said. We just felt like this wasnt the right direction to go. The West Vancouver beaches were closed for almost four weeks, almost all of August, exactly when people would want to swim.

We typically have (high) counts in False Creek but this was a new problem.

Lysyshyn, in conjunction with Metro Vancouver municipalities, has sent a letter to Transport Canada outlining Vancouver Coastal Healths concerns with the proposal, which is among a series of amendments to Transport Canadas Vessel Pollution and Dangerous Chemical Regulations.

Lysyshyn notes its very difficult to police small vessels and is asking Transport Canada to maintain the status quo.

Wed like to work with them to have the beaches around our district, in Burrard Inlet, as a no-discharge area, Lysyshyn said, adding beaches are seen as great areas for recreation and physical activities. He noted municipalities, which are responsible for maintaining local beaches as well as sewage collection, have an economic incentive to keep the areas clean.

High levels of bacteria are usually blamed on fecal contamination from human or animal sources.

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The best NSW beaches for kids

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They're peppered along the Pacific: pretty pockets of green and gold.

Every family has a favourite but it's our patriotic duty to discover the full bounty of beaches along the New South Wales coast.

Over Christmas, we did our Griswold/Modern Family motor-home trip from Sydney to Brisbane (which will be explored in greater detail in a story I'm writing entitled, "It's a Miracle We're Still Married").

Here are our Top 5 Bonza Beaches:

Urunga

Yes, I know it sounds like an infection. But it's actually a picturesque town, where the Bellinger and Kalang rivers meet the sea, south of Coffs Harbour. We arrived at the North Coast Holiday Park at sunset to a glorious view of the gilded sea. It was five minutes' walk to the Ocean View Hotel, where they served swordfish caught that day. The following morning, I paddle-boarded on the river, while the kids climbed the casuarina trees. It was bliss.

Kids' best bit: "The playground at the holiday park."

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Virgin Galactic to test new rocket without longtime aerospace partner

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After last year's fatal crash, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will now test its new SpaceShipTwo rocket without its longtime aerospace partner that designed and built the first plane.

Since 2005, Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, a firm famous in the industry for designing the aircraft that won the coveted X-Prize, had worked together to build and test SpaceShipTwo. Their goal: blasting wealthy tourists into space.

Scaled was conducting the rocket's test flight Oct. 31 when it broke apart over the Mojave Desert about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, killing one of the two pilots aboard.

The tests of the new spaceship, which is under construction in a hangar in Mojave, will be conducted by Virgin's own team of pilots, George Whitesides, the company's chief executive, confirmed Friday. Those tests are expected to begin later this year.

Scaled will still be connected to the project in some way, Whitesides said. "My guess is that we stay involved with Scaled for years to come."

Virgin Galactic is working on an aggressive schedule of construction and testing even as federal investigators continue their probe into what caused the plane to tear apart at more than 10 miles high.

Whitesides said he was confident about proceeding with the new spacecraft already 90% structurally complete because Virgin Galactic is involved in the investigation and has access to information about what went wrong.

The spacecraft has been modified based on the investigation's not-yet-public findings, he said, adding that he couldn't be more specific because of the ongoing probe.

In preliminary findings, the National Transportation Safety Board said that a video taken inside the cockpit showed that co-pilot Michael Alsbury prematurely unlocked the spacecraft's movable tail, which may have started the sequence of events that caused it to break up seconds later.

Alsbury did not move a second lever designed to move the tail, but it deployed anyway.

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NanoViricides Reports that the FluCide Candidate was found to be Very Safe in cGLP-like Safety and Toxicology Study …

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WEST HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --NanoViricides, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NNVC) (the "Company"), a nanomedicine company developing anti-viral drugs, reported a good safety profile of an optimized FluCide drug candidate in a GLP-like toxicology study in rats. These results are extremely important since they indicate that FluCide continues to look very promising as one of the most advanced candidates in the Company's drug development pipeline.

No direct adverse clinical effects were found upon administration of the FluCide candidate intravenously at doses of up to 300mg/kg/day for 14 days (a total of 4,200mg/kg) in rats. Organs were examined for gross histological observations. Microscopic histological tissue analysis was also performed. There were no adverse histological findings in gross organ level histological examination, nor were there any adverse findings in microscopic histological analysis. Equally importantly, there were no meaningful effects observed on animal weight gain, food consumption, hematology, or clinical chemistry at the end of the 14 day dosing period.

The study was conducted at BASi (Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., NASDAQ: BASI) in Evansville, Indiana. The study was performed in a cGLP-like fashion, compliant with BASi Evansville standard operating procedures. BASi has over 40 years of experience providing contract research services and niche instrumentation to the life sciences, primarily drug research and development.

These results are in agreement with the previously reported results of a non-GLP toxicology study in mice. The current study results also support the Company's positive findings in animal models of infection with different influenza A virus strains in which no safety or toxicology concerns were observed. The Company has previously reported that many of its FluCide candidates demonstrated extremely high anti-influenza activity in those models.

This study was developed in collaboration with BASi and conducted by BASi in a cGLP-like fashion in order to understand the safety parameters of FluCide intravenous dosing.

The next phase of the toxicology package studies will involve larger animals, and will require much larger quantities of the drug candidate. The Company is in the process of commissioning operations at the new 1 Controls Drive, Shelton, CT facility in order to perform the scale up studies needed for making the large quantities of materials in a controlled manner. These upcoming studies will be performed in cGLP compliant manner to provide safety and toxicology data that are required for an IND submission to regulatory agencies.

About NanoViricides: NanoViricides, Inc. (www.nanoviricides.com) is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, seasonal Influenza, HIV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye including EKC and herpes keratitis, Hepatitis C, Rabies, Dengue fever, and Ebola virus, among others.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors. Certain statements in this release, and other written or oral statements made by NanoViricides, Inc. are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations include, but are not limited to, those factors that are disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in documents filed by the company from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities. Although it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors, they may include the following: demonstration and proof of principle in pre-clinical trials that a nanoviricide is safe and effective; successful development of our product candidates; our ability to seek and obtain regulatory approvals, including with respect to the indications we are seeking; the successful commercialization of our product candidates; and market acceptance of our products.

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