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Naturist's Food Drive
The Final Donation
At a recent activity, we asked members if they would be interested in organizing a charity drive. Well, the response was very positive! But then we had to decide what kind of charitable drive.
We decided that when someone is having financial problems, food and toiletries are usually the first to go, so we organized a food drive. We know that it is cute to donate clothes, since we are nudists, but realistically people are very picky about clothes...yes, even those in financial need! Besides, we think everyone should be comfortable and that means nude to some people!
Our hope was that the person we provide for will save the money on their grocery bill and use it to buy gifts that their children and nude people wanted. Not like where people just donate any toy. We have found that children are choosy about their toys, so many times the toy that is given is packed up or thrown out!
We contacted a local church and found out which member with children might be going through some hardships and could use our help, that was the family we provided.
We collected non-perishable foods (mostly boxed and canned), household stuff and toiletries in their original packaging and in pristine condition from our members. Then once everything was gathered, we decorated the baskets, boxes and bags. We included a card from us with a gift certificate for Toys R Us and another gift certificate for the mom.
These are the items we collected:
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Food Items Canned Corned Beef Hash Canned Fruit Canned Chili Ketchup Mustard Boxed Stuffing Sweet Snacks Boxes macaroni and cheese Spaghetti Angel Hair Pasta 3 lb. jar Spaghetti Sauce Cereal Canned Tuna Canned White Turkey Mayonnaise Boxed Hamburger Helper Instant Rice Canned Baked Beans Canned soup Maraschino Cherries Canned Corned Beef Hash Chocolate Salad Dressing Noodle Sides Rice Sides Canned Vegetables Jelly Juice Drinks
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Household and Toiletries Deodorant Laundry detergent Dish detergent Toothpaste Toilet paper Soap Scrubbers Paper Towels $50 Gift Certificate for Toys R Us Gift Certificate for Mom Toothbrush Body Lotion Body Powder Sun Block Shampoo Conditioner Chapstick Shoe laces Baby Wipes
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SCN Elections Held
Congratulations to our new board members! Elections were held during our yearly Nudist Party (Christmas) where our SCN president, and founder, announced our new board members. Our president is also putting together a New Taskforce/Steering Committee to developing a strategy for moving forward with the "We Want A Clothing-Optional Beach" effort. The committee's responsibility will include interfacing with neighboring naturist clubs, national organizations, local political and law enforcement organizations, and other entities that will help us gain an area where we can all go without clothing and without hassles from others.
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SCN scans the globe for naturist news and found this:
12/18/05
Garden of Eden without fig-leaves hits raw nerve- Apparently the property owner for Natura is having problems with funding. Natura is a development 40 miles north of Tampa, Fla., that when, and if, it opens next summer, will become the first nudist community for Christians.
12/11/05
Other campus: Nudity as art (Boston)
12/05/05
The naked truth: nude isn't rude, dude
Stripped! Secret lives of nudes
See what other sites found below!
Check out Nudeplaces News
Check Out PureNudism Naturists
Check out the Naturist Journal
Check out the Palm Beach Times Nudist News (Scroll waaaaaay down!)
Check out NAC Updates and Alerts
More "In The Nudes...oops...News"
News Prior to December of 2005
Hold the Dressing Please - The Start of a New Thanksgiving Holiday Tradition
Your Voices 2: response to "Warning this article may contain nudity"
They'll Give With Shirts Off Backs
Is it Legal to Be Nude on a Beach in Hawaii?
Strong bones are a key part of a healthy body
Did you know Paradise Lakes is now the site of a live, weekly radio broadcast? 4-5p on Fridays on AM 1340, AM 1350, or AM 1400
Lakeland Inn Will Allow Nude Sunbathing
Lauren Hutton poses naked at the age of 61
Nude artist cited for Niagara Falls stunt
Nudity ban fails to win approval
Submissions sought on legal nude beach
National Geographic Article (follow-up to TV segment)
US nudist group turns 75, plans year-long celebration
Keira Knightley Topless in the Desert
Farmers Pose Nude For Calendar
Naked Ramblers and the Freedom to be Yourself campaign
Case Against Anti-War Nudist Dismissed
Gwyneth's shock at nudist campers
Maggie Grace says Lost cast loves to skinny dip
*SCN takes no responsibility for the accuracy of linked stories
News Addressing Our Efforts in Obtaining a Nude Beach:
12/11/05
For the past 5 years our group has been slowly working towards obtaining a nude beach in Venice. The original plan has been to obtain support from local businesses, which has been successful to a point. It is a known fact that nude beaches contribute to an increase in local tourism, therefore it is common sense that local businesses should be willing to support us. This process takes time and needs support from members.
A preliminary plan was put forth this past week in order to start the ball rolling on designating a nude beach effective immediately. The plan has motivated our members to be a little more aggressive in reaching our goals. In response, our president announced his intention of putting together a Task Force/Steering Committee to interface with neighboring naturist clubs, national organizations, local political and law enforcement organizations and to develop a short term plan. All SCN nude members are encouraged to join and all ideas will be heard.
Our first meeting will be held January 6th at 5:30pm.
Did you know...?
Nudes Flying Through Space?
On March 2, 1972, the first space probe to an outer planet was launched from Cape Kennedy. To accomplish this feat, Pioneer 10 had to pass through what was initially feared to be an impenetrable asteroid belt.
After Pioneer 10 emerged through the asteroid belt, Pioneer 11, was launched on a similar trajectory. Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to encounter Jupiter and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Its closest encounter to Jupiter was some thirty two years ago on 3 December 1973, passing within 81,000 miles of the cloudtops. During its Jupiter encounter, Pioneer 10 imaged the planet and its moons, and took measurements of Jupiter's magnetosphere, radiation belts, magnetic field, atmosphere, and interior. These measurements of the intense radiation environment near Jupiter were crucial in designing the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.
Now the most remote man-made object launched into the cosmos, Pioneer 10 is approaching nearly 7 billion miles from the Sun. It became the first artifact to "leave the Solar System" on June 13, 1983 when it passed beyond the farthest known planet. It is now searching for the heliopause, exploring the very edges of interstellar space as it drifts onward in mankind's first journey to the stars.
Along with its sister ship Pioneer 11, Pioneer 10 carries a plaque with messages designed to make contact with possible alien civilizations. The late Dr. Carl Sagan helped devise the plaques that bear the illustration of a nude man and a woman as well as a diagram identifying earth's location in the galaxy. Like a message in a bottle, these plaques will journey out into interstellar space possibly to be found one day by an extraterrestrial civilization.
After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth. Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on 23 January 2003. NASA engineers report that Pioneer 10's radioisotope power source has decayed, and it may not have enough power to send additional transmissions to Earth. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) did not detect a signal during the last contact attempt on 7 February 2003. The previous three contacts, including the 23 January signal, were very faint, with no telemetry received. The last time a Pioneer 10 contact returned telemetry data was 27 April 2002. NASA has no additional contact attempts planned for Pioneer 10.
Pioneer 10 is now over 8 billion miles away. (On 17 February 1998, Voyager 1's heliocentric radial distance equaled Pioneer 10 at 69.4 AU and thereafter exceeded Pioneer 10 at the rate of 1.02 AU per year.)
Pioneer 10 will continue to coast silently as a ghost ship through deep space into interstellar space, heading generally for the red star Aldebaran, which forms the eye of Taurus (The Bull). Aldebaran is about 68 light years away and it will take Pioneer over 2 million years to reach it.
First Nude Broadcasting?
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National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen unembedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she was at the very center of the storm. The book Naked in Baghdad gives us the sights, sounds, and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy. Anne Garrel was able to outwit Iraqi security by broadcasting naked. She smuggled a satellite phone onto the country and filed reports from her Bagdad hotel room. She recounted "I decided that it would be very smart if I broadcast naked. If, God forbid, the secret police were coming through the rooms, that would give me maybe five minutes to answer the door, pretend I'd been asleep, sort of go 'I don't have any clothes on' and give me maybe a few seconds, minutes, to hide the phone.
Charlotte Church turned down film role due to weight requirement
Charlotte Church is a Welsh opera singer who earned a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for, at the age of 12, becoming the youngest artist to have a No. 1 selling album. At the age of 17 Miss Church was offered an audition for the movie of Phantom of the Opera but refused to attend because she was told that she would need to lose weight. "I get it all the time, " she said, "calls from the management in LA saying, 'We're not getting adverts and major film parts because you're too big'." It was reported that she said "Yeah, my arse is a bit big but I'm happy with myself. As long as I can sing it doesn't matter about the fame; it's disposable." She also reportedly said, "I won't fit into their ideals because I think it's really wrong. I think if I'd just fitted in with everything that everybody told me to, I would've been in rehab by age 12!"
You go girl!
80 Percent Say Nudism Natural, NOT Erotic
Most Italians think nude sunbathing is perfectly natural. While sunbathing topless is widely practiced in Italy, bottoms are usually required and can face fines of more than 500 euros ($595) on some beaches. A 2005 poll commissioned from a mainstream media outlet found nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said they would sunbath nude if everyone else did it. More than 80 percent said nudism was not erotic, but natural. Women were more frequently bothered by nude sunbathing than men. Just over 40 percent of women said they did not like seeing other naked females on the beach, while just 5 percent of men shared their opinion about nude women. The survey found nearly two-thirds of men said they weren't bothered by nude male sunbathers. When it came to unattractive or "brutto" sunbathers, most of those surveyed in the country that champions physical beauty said they didn't object to seeing them naked either. Only about 16 percent said they were vexed by unattractive women nudists and 9.7 percent objected to unsightly men. The Federation said the survey would bolster their hopes of getting more beaches set aside for nude sunbathing.
And The Dutch Take The Lead...
In 2005, the number of Dutch people who go nude in public, on a regular basis, is increasing! The Dutch Naturist Federation (NFN) has reported that about 1.9 million Dutch people opt to go nude. The majority of nudists are not members of any organization.
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Miami Nude
Beach Nudity, Please Read!
There's something liberating about the antic of being naked. The
freedom. The exhilaration. The lack of pocket lint. Unfortunately, for
most people the notion of nudity requires some rationale - no matter how
silly that rationale may be. Streaking across a football field.
Skinny-dipping in a lake. Mooning for the camera. Photocopying your
butt. Playing naked Twister. Flashing a nun after sixth-period class,
hoping she didn't recognize you and isn't at this instant phoning your
parents. For most people, it's all about the naughty thrill of getting
caught or exposing a private part. But not for all. No, for many it's
perfectly routine, as normal and natural as, say, kissing hands or shaking
a baby.
Nude beaches are the perfect denominators for these two groups, the
puritans and the pure exhibitionists, the fakirs and the non-fakers. Think
of it as a big game of strip poker where everybody has crappy hands. The
thing to remember is that nude sunbathing isn't about sex or exhibitionism
- we'll leave that to the nudist colonies and Courtney Love. Nude
sunbathing is about elation and free-spiritedness (and avoiding wedgies
and ugly tan lines).
I've made the trek to No Clothes Land many a time. I've dropped trou in
Europe, where it's no big deal - heck, even the Royal Family has displayed
a boob or two (not counting Prince Charles). Black's Beach in San Diego
is world famous for nude sun worshipping. And, of course, here in Miami,
we have Haulover Beach.
One of the misconceptions about nudity is that every human body is
beautiful (Right). The key to inoffensive nude sunbathing is to do just
that - sunbathe. Do not play volleyball in the buff. No grilling or
barbecuing. Even if your Playgirl's Mr. January, do not perform an oil
and air filter change on your auto while naked. An watch the jogging -
you could poke somebody's eye out.
Nude beachgoers often have their social cliques and routines. They picnic
and fraternize, and they love to mingle. Zoiks. These people who sashay
up and down the beach wearing nothing but a smile and a spare tire are the
same folks you find in the receiving line at a wedding wielding a business
card and a can of Binaca.
When I venture to Haulover, I stick close to my blanket or hit the water.
I don’t wander about. It’s like you want to work the room, but there’s
no place to put your hands and no appropriate place to hang your Walkman.
(Plus, you feel like you’ve gone to a party and everyone’s wearing the
same thing.) Personally, I happen to like being naked. It’s never
bothered me. I often get home from work, disrobe, and sit naked on my
couch eating cereal. (Did I just cross the line of too much information?)
Some people are uncomfortable naked. I’m not. What I do have a problem
with, however, is being ugly and naked. Statistics show that the number
of people who enjoy nude sunbathing is proportionate to those who should
put something on. Like a tarp. Or one of those tents that they use when
they’re debugging a house. That one of the reasons why I prefer the
sanctity of my blanket. I can feign sleep (or death, if necessary) should
some naked old man approach me and start to discuss today’s undertow as he
squats liberally in front of me.
Sunscreen: I’d be remiss if I didn’t stress the importance of proper
protection. Those regions that rarely see the light of day are the first
to succumb to the sun’s deadly rays. Hence, watch your behind, or your
buns will be toast. As for – how do I say this politely – garnishing your
weenie, yes, your little buddy needs sunblock, but remember, you’re in
public. There a fine line between safety and pleasure when applying
lotion to Mr. Happy. I’ve seen guys go at it like they’re greasing a fire
pole. So take it easy. Don't make things hard on yourself.
When it comes to accessories, there are certain things you should and
should not bring to a nude beach. Telescopes and binoculars are definite
no-nos. You may think of this as a ball game, but I’m sure the Red Sox
would beg to differ. Likewise with a camcorder – carrying a video camera
at a nude beach is the pervert’s equivalent of driving by a schoolyard
with a van full of candy. As for ready, avoid books with titles like
Justice of the Piece. Stick to Field and Stream, Reader’s Digest or the
Gideon Bible. Sunglasses are a must. If you’re gonna ogle, at least do
it behind your Maui Jims.
As for your random beach bump-ins, there are obvious encounters. Besides
bodies that you’d rather not see naked, piercings are immensely popular.
Popular, I surmise, because they’re in places that wouldn’t necessarily
be exposed at Publix (unless you shop at the new one by the bay). I’ve
seen nipples that look like parachute rip cords.
And below the belt, I’ve seen piercings that made me recoil. (Come to
think of it, I’ve seen coils down there, too.) And little napkin rings.
And something called a Prince Albert. I’ve seen less metal at a gun
show. And shaving. Hmmmm. Apparently trimming the hedges has become all
the rage. Some folks go for the close cropping; others like it smooth. I
haven’t seen topiary this creative since I was at the Botanical Gardens.
Nude sunbathing can be a kick, an exciting way to liven up an otherwise
dull day at the beach. For the ladies, it means being able to wear a
sundress without worrying about unsightly strap lines. For the guys, it
means there’s no need to adjust the boys: it’s a wind sock now. For all
of us it means an escape, a break from our daily worries and cares, a
moment’s freedom where less is so much more – except when it comes to that
sunscreen.