Ten people have drowned along Port Elizabeth beaches
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A nude beach is a beach where users are legally at liberty to be nude. Sometimes the terms clothing-optional beach or free beach are used. Nude bathing is one of the most common forms of nudity in public. As beaches are usually on public lands, any member of the public is entitled to use the facilities without membership in any movement or subscription to any philosophy. The use of the beach facilities is normally anonymous. Unlike a naturist resort or facility, there is normally no membership or vetting requirement for the use of a nude beach. The use of nude beach facilities is usually casual, not requiring pre-booking. Nude beaches may be official (legally sanctioned), unofficial (tolerated by residents and law enforcement), or illegal. However, nude beaches are relatively few and at some distance from cities, and access is at times more difficult than at a regular beach and the facilities at these beaches tend to be very basic.
A nude beach should not be confused with a topless beach (or top-free beach), where upper body clothing is not required for women or men, although a swimming costume covering the genital area is required for both men and women.
Nude beaches first became popular in the 1950s along the French coast[1] and have since spread around the world, though they are still few and far between. Some nude beaches are part of a larger nude area, such as the Cap d'Agde area. Most beaches in Denmark[2][3] and some beaches in Norway[4] are clothing-optional. In Germany there are clothes optional sunbathing areas in public parks, e.g., in Munich[5] and Berlin.[6] Beaches in some holiday destinations, such as Crete, are also clothing-optional, except some central urban beaches.[7] There are two centrally located clothes-optional beaches in Barcelona.[8]
Nude beaches tend to be separate or isolated physically from the non-nude bathing areas. In other instances people maintain a comfortable space between beach users. Signage is often used to warn unfamiliar beach users about the specially designated areas on the beach. This accommodates people who are not comfortable with nudity (see gymnophobia). This also accommodates beach users who do not like to be watched too much, especially by clothed individuals (see voyeurism).
On an officially sanctioned nude beach, beach goers of both sexes have an option to remove their clothing without fearing legal prosecution or official harassment.
Though free beaches developed separately from national naturist bodies, these bodies are taking an interest and helping to protect them legally, and through the publication of guidelines of acceptable behaviour.[9] In North America, the Free Beach Movement was the name of a group that was opposed to the direction of the official nudist organisation, the American Association for Nude Recreation, and set up the rival body The Naturist Society. Clothes free organizations and free beach associations, such as the Naturist Action Committee, lobby for the removal of laws which prohibit nude swimming and sunbathing or the increase in the number of nude beaches and sometimes to improve the amenities at nude beaches.
Most nude beaches had become accepted after many years of use as nude beaches. Many are "unmanaged" beach areas that have been adopted by the local users in an effort to maintain the beach's "quality". Others' right to existence has been recognized as such by the appropriate local authority, and are termed "official" (although not necessarily legitimate).
There are several categories of nude beaches:
Most beaches around the world, including nude beaches, are on public lands. That means that although private resorts and hotels that adjoin a beach may enclose their property behind fences with controlled access, most countries do not allow private ownership of the actual beach area. Thus, while a resort can control access and set clothing standards on its property, these standards would not necessarily apply to the beach itself, which remains subject to local laws or customs, and public access to the beach itself usually remains unrestricted. This applies, for example, to the islands in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Florida. On the Seven Mile Beach in Negril, Jamaica, for example, though the beach is lined with private resorts with fences down to the sand/waterline, the beach itself is open to the public. Though actual clothing standards vary from resort to resort, the beach area is officially designated as "topfree", and public access is unrestricted.
The International Naturist Federation has developed a code of conduct, or etiquette, for use by member organizations. The INF nude beach etiquette requires the avoidance of all forms of sexual harassment and sexual activity, such as masturbation or sexual intercourse. Predatory behavior is not permitted, nor is unauthorized photography.[11] In general, the standards call for the respecting of the privacy of other visitors. Staring is frowned upon by rule and social pressure.[12]
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A Jacksonville city councilmans draft bill designed to resolve a bitter landfill fee dispute between the city and Atlantic and Neptune beaches has instead caused more divisiveness as Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown described the legislation as unfair and costly for anyone not living at the Beaches.
City Council President Bill Gulliford, who wrote the draft and whose district covers the Beaches, and Beaches mayors impacted by the dispute accused Brown and his administration of failing to understand the needs of the coastal communities.
A letter Brown sent to the mayors of the two communities Wednesday said the draft bill does not address several remedies proposed by the city to help resolve an impasse in which Jacksonville says Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach owe it more than $1.4 million in tipping fees for solid waste dumped at the Trail Ridge Landfill since 2011. Jacksonville Beach does not have such an agreement with Jacksonville.
A BUDGET FEE
Jacksonville officials, as part of the consolidated county government, began charging the two coastal communities after the City Council added the fee to the budget. Jacksonville says about $370,000 annually from Atlantic Beach and $200,000 from Neptune Beach pays for using the landfill.
But the two smaller cities complained about a variety of problems with the fees, including fears over hidden charges.
The city officials said the proposed bill only covers a proposal for Jacksonville to expand its garbage collection into the two coastal cities.
That proposal would negate the need in the future for the two smaller cities to pay the fee for private contractors to dump residential garbage in the landfill. Jacksonville would charge the cities $12.65 per household for monthly garbage collection by its haulers, the same fee paid by Jacksonville residents.
The $12.65 charge would then be passed on to their residential customers as part of their current garbage fee: $17.78 in Atlantic Beach and $22 a month in Neptune.
But Jim Robinson, Jacksonvilles director of public works, said the reduced charge at the beach would still cost Jacksonville taxpayers about $200,000 a year because of the added travel expense for the citys haulers.
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John Sawyer is licked by his dog Charlie with his wife Linda and their other dog Oreo at a dog-friendly beach in Panama City Beach, Fla.
Dogs, long banned from most Volusia County beaches, are getting their chance this year. Eventually.
The County Council has agreed it will at least temporarily allow dogs on the beach in coming weeks, under certain conditions: Only after 4 p.m. and before 9 a.m., and only on leashes.
The move happened abruptly after Councilman Josh Wagner pitched it toward the end of Thursdays council meeting. Might as well throw it out there he said. I want to do a trial, pilot program to allow dogs on the beach.
Do what? responded County Chair Jason Davis.
As the discussion continued, it became evident that most other council members were open to the idea, except Doug Daniels, who asked: What about cleaning up behind them?
An ordinance is expected to come back to the council for a vote in February. The pilot program will last three months, after which the council could either end the practice or extend it.
The council vote ended up 6-1, with only Daniels against.
Vice Chair Pat Patterson, an insurance agent, did raise some concerns, asking: What kind of legal responsibility do we have if a couple of dogs get into it and somebody gets bitten?
County Attorney Dan Eckert said the county would be immune from that kind of liability. (Sovereign immunity protects county governments from liability over planning-level decisions like the dog ordinance.)
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Moffett Field, CA - infoZine - Each will be paired with a professional astronomer to observe first-hand how airborne infrared astronomy is conducted. After their flight opportunities, Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors will take what they learn back to their classrooms and into their communities to promote science literacy.
SOFIA is a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner fitted with a 100-inch (2.5-meter) effective diameter telescope. The aircraft flies at altitudes between 39,000 and 45,000 feet (12-14 kilometers), above the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere, and collects data in the infrared spectrum.
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SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The aircraft is based at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, CA manages the program. Ames manages the SOFIA science and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in Columbia, MD and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) at the University of Stuttgart.
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METRO VANCOUVER -- Burnaby will be home to a new $4.4-million observatory capable of tracking distant galaxies, Simon Fraser University announced Thursday.
The university said the Trottier Observatory, which should be completed at the main SFU campus by August, will be dedicated to engaging children and youth in science.
The observatory, and the newly opened Trottier Studio for Innovative Science Education, are being funded by the Trottier Foundation, headed by Montreal philanthropists Lorne and Louise Trottier.
Lorne's brother Howard Trottier is a professor of physics and astronomy at SFU. He has a passion for astro-photography, and said early Thursday that he felt like a kid again, recalling the first time he gazed up at the stars with his first telescope when he was in Grade 6.
Plans for the observatory have been in the works for more than seven years, but Trottier said it has been worth the wait.
"For me, it's a thrilling experience," said Trottier, founder of SFU's Starry Nights program which brings together students and other amateur astronomers to gaze at the stars from the top of Burnaby Mountain. It also hosts free, daytime telescope and astronomy workshops for grade-school kids.
"The observatory will be an anchor for a science plaza in a location where thousands of people will walk by it," said Trottier of the location at the east end of campus near Strand Hall. The studio is housed in the chemistry wing of the Shrum Science Building.
University classes in astronomy are expected for both science and non-science majors, although there will also be workshops for elementary and high school students, as well as tours for home-schooled youth, he said.
"This is more for amateur astronomers than for professionals, but amateurs do very serious work these days."
As well, would-be astronomers from across Canada will also be able to "look" through the telescope, because the observatory will provide a digital feed that can be remotely accessed by schools and community centres.
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By: Agence France-Presse January 10, 2014 1:15 PM
Detail of the controversial cover of the journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. 'The front-cover design is not intended to discriminate against women,' the group said in a statement on its website.
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TOKYO - A Japanese academic society has apologized for the front cover of their journal, which used a drawing of a cleaning woman with a cable in her back to depict the idea of artificial intelligence.
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence was hoping to make "Jinkou Chinou (Artificial Intelligence)" more appealing to potential readers with a cover illustration on the first edition of the new year.
Out went the dense tracts of text and complicated diagrams that have adorned the front for the last few decades, and in came an attractive, doe-eyed young woman holding a sweeping brush and with a thick cable plugged into her back.
A red-faced JSAI admitted Thursday that its attempt to popularize its small-circulation magazine may have misfired and apologized for any offense it had caused.
"The front-cover design is not intended to discriminate against women," the group said in a statement on its website.
The design "gave ... room for the interpretation that women should clean," it said.
"We deeply regret that, as a public academic group, this matter was not considered more carefully," said the statement issued under the names of the journal's chief editor and his deputy, both of whom are scientists.
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