A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant, AP reported Friday.
The city council in Brooksville recently approved a dress code that instructs employees to observe "strict personal hygiene" and prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul language, "sexually provocative" clothes and piercings anywhere except the ears.
Repeat offenders can be fired. (I would be sooo fired...if I didn't quit first.)
The city council approved the dress code in a 4-1 as part of a wider effort to update existing policies and ordinances. The one vote in opposition came from Mayor Joe Bernadini, who said the underwear edict "takes away freedom of choice."
"I voted against it. I think it takes away people's personal freedom in my opinion it insults their intelligence a little bit," he said, according to a First Coast News report.
Cayle Anthony.( WESH.com)At a court hearing, George and Cindy Anthony did not get the answer they wanted. George was emotional as he spoke to Judge Stan Strickland to try to convince him not to release his granddaughter's autopsy report.
"Please show us some peace and some dignity by keeping this report sealed," he said fighting tears.
The Anthonys said releasing the report would cause them even more anguish and are afraid that the results will be exploited. (Frankly, I read the report and I don't see how it would increase their anguish nor how it would be exploited.)
"This last year has been an emotional strain for our entire family," George said. "The protection of our family's rights and privacy and emotional well-being, has been tossed aside over and over again." (It's a murder investigation. Shouldn't they get that by now?)
On June 10, their attorney, Brad Conway, filed a motion to block Caylee's autopsy result findings claiming that publicizing the report would cause endless speculation. At the time, Judge Strickland ordered a stay on the release of the findings.
WFTV Legal Analyst Bill Sheaffer Caylee's grandparents had no legal standing in the case to ask the judge to seal the public record and said there was no legal basis for their argument."Unless there's a legal basis other than emotional distress, which is not a legal basis, this judge will not block the release of this public document," Sheaffer explained.
Casey, 23, is in the Orange County jail facing first-degree murder. She is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Susan Boyle continues to skip performances
Susan Boyle (AP photo)The singer's publicist said decisions on whether Boyle performed were taken on a day-by-day basis, BBC reported.
"She would love to be able to perform every single evening but she is aware of what she can and can't do," her publicist said in a statement. "I feel sorry for her because she doesn't want to let people down but also she needs to have a rest."
The rep took pains to shoot down British tabloid reports claiming Boyle was a no-show because she was hysterical and homesick for her cat, Pebbles.
Boyle, 48, has cancelled three other performances, nine dates into the tour. Britain's Got Talent stars are due to perform 25 times during the show's run, BBC reported.
She previously scrapped matinee and evening performances last Sunday in Manchester, provoking boos from the audience when a video montage was shown in lieu of her live renditions of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables and "Memory" from Cats. Boyle has also cancelled two performances at the Manchester MEN Arena last Sunday and one in Liverpool on Thursday, BBC reported.
She did rally for performances in Birmingham and her native Scotland, getting rousing ovations from crowds in Edinburgh and Glasgow earlier this week.
The trek wraps up July 5, and, if she's well enough, judge Piers Morgan has invited her to pop in on the fourth season of the U.S. edition of America's Got Talent, kicking off Tuesday on NBC.
The singer was treated for exhaustion at The Priory in London after the show that made her famous wrapped up.Evidently, something's wrong. It's hard to imagine someone getting severely tired from singing one or two songs per show--that's all she has to do. It's something else.
I think her body, to which her thoughts and emotions are inexorably linked, simply is not equipped for the limelight and the brutal UK tabloids. If she were younger, one could expect her to just get used to it. Nevertheless, I'm optimistic because there are some powerful people nearby who want to help her.
Sources: The Associated Press, CNN, BBC, NBC, WESH, WFTV, First Coast News, E! Online
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