| Almost-St. Patrick's Day Parade Set for March 16 | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:57:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bartow's tradition-steeped Somewhere-Near-St. Patrick's Day parade will be held on Friday, March 16. That puts the event only one day distant from the Real St. Patrick's Day, which will not be observed on March 17 in Bartow, even though that is the preferred day for the rest of the Irish-speaking world. The parade will run backwards again this year, starting at Nye Jordan Park - historically the end of the parade route - and meandering north on Oak Avenue, then west on Main Street, where it will dissolve into Bartow's monthly Friday Fest celebration. The Citrus Cinderellas - the self-styled stars of the event - will gather at the park in mid-afternoon to decorate their float, and the parade will begin promptly at 6 p.m., give or take a few minutes. As always, the parade is open to anyone of Irish ancestry, anyone who wishes he or she is of Irish ancestry, and anybody else with nothing better to do at 6 o'clock on a Friday evening.... | |
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| | | Civil court judges prepare to cast aside their wigs | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:00:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Judges are poised to scrap their wigs in civil court cases in a move which will end more than 300 years of legal tradition. Although the final details have yet to be hammered out, a consensus against the retention of wigs for civil cases has emerged from a review set up by the lord chief justice, Lord Phillips. But judges presiding over criminal trials are expected to keep their wigs for the time being. Criminal court judges and barristers argued that the horsehair headgear confers a degree of anonymity, protecting them from confrontations outside court with criminals, and adds to the dignity of court proceedings, helping to keep order. Lord Phillips has long felt that wigs contribute to the public view of judges as fusty and out of touch. He has described the judges' large wardrobe as ridiculous and favours a simple European-style black robe fastened with Velcro.... | |
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| | | Revellers go crackers as they see in New Year | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:59:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thousands of revellers, some armed with an assortment of fireworks, took to Pretoria's streets to welcome in the New Year. The weekend celebrations saw more than 10 000 people taking to the streets in Hatfield alone for the Tuks FM Capital Countdown bash and the city centre's Church Square New Year's party organised by the ATKV as the countdown to 2007 began. With people singing and dancing under the watchful eye of hundreds of police deployed throughout the capital, the New Year was welcomed in with a bang as hundreds of fireworks were fired in unison, lighting up the city skyline. Adults and children from all walks of life hugged each other as clock bells throughout the city struck 12. .... | |
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| | | Business Updates | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:00:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Business Update is a weekly omnibus of business information based on news releases from companies in Japan and abroad, domestic and international organizations, diplomatic missions and other entities. AIRLINES All Nippon Airways' First and Business Class departure lounges in the new South Wing of Narita Airport's Terminal 1 are now offering customers an automated currency exchange facility. To further add to the functional appeal of the lounges, ANA has collaborated with Mizuho Bank to provide an automated currency exchange service in each of the four lounges--two First Class and two Business Class. The service, the first of its kind in a Japanese airline lounge, and will offer exchange from yen into U.S. dollars, euros and Chinese yuan. As ANA is a member of Star Alliance, Star Alliance Gold Members as well as First and Business Class passengers of any Star Alliance member carrier may use these lounges and access the currency exchange facility.... | |
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| | | Britney Wigs Out at K-Fed Party | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:18:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Either Britney Spears enjoys a good costume party, or she just didn't want to be seen with K-Fed after his Halloween performance.Though Spears was nowhere to be seen when her husband took the stage last night at the West Hollywood Carnival, Brit was spotted rocking out by herself at an AOL Music party celebrating Federline's album release later that evening.The pop princess wore a pretty simple outfit to the party, consisting of a bright pink wig and big white sunglasses. We're happy that Brit got into the Halloween spirit, but you'd think a multi-millionaire like her would throw together a better costume. .... | |
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| | | Police: Hazed Frat Pledges Wore Wigs, Wings, Panties | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:14:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the oldest fraternities at the University of Central Florida has been disbanded amid a hazing investigation. Campus police and administrators are investigating possible hazing at the frat house on Oct. 26. According to police, a caller heard profane screaming, sobbing and moaning coming from the house. Police said they found pledges crawling on their hands and knees and wearing pink fairy wings, a rainbow-colored wing and a diaper, a striped prison uniform, a pink tank top, women's underwear and a blonde wig. Three men were taken to a hospital, and the house smelled of beer, urine and vomit. Police said they saw "mangled hot dogs" on the floor, along with scattered beer cans and bottles. .... | |
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| | | Winz pays for wigs, vasectomies | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:11:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Work and Income has paid for vasectomies and abortions, nearly $10,000 worth of wigs while also offering emergency cash to striking supermarket workers this year. Figures issued under the Official Information Act showed Winz paid for 50 vasectomies, costing $13,533, and 38 abortions and related travel costs at $5751 in the first eight months of the year. .... | |
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| | | Mera proves she can cut it for charity | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 11:10:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | A TEENAGER has had 18 inches of her hair chopped off to help create wigs for young cancer sufferers. Mera Finlayson, 16, is posting her shorn locks to a charity in America after being inspired by a television documentary which featured youngsters with the killer illness. She had been growing her hair for eight years in preparation for her donation and it had reached a length of 27 inches. But Mera, of Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, is now sporting a new shorter look after a brush with the scissors at KZ Hair. Salon staff were on hand to collect it to be sent across the Atlantic after the cut. The Williamwood High pupil has now mailed her crowning glory to Locks of Love, a Florida-based charity which makes hairpieces for children with cancer and implants hair into the scalps of burn victims.... | |
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| | | Police investigate suspended UCF frat | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:13:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Officers responding to an apparent hazing ritual at a University of Central Florida fraternity house found students sick and crying in bizarre costumes that included pink fairy wings, women's panties, diapers and various wigs, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG Local 6 News. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at UCF was suspended by its national office and has become the subject of a police investigation after three students were recently found so drunk that they had be rushed to a hospital. University police, acting on a tip, said they noticed loud, aggressive screaming and moaning coming from the SAE fraternity house. "At first, students would not let police into the fraternity house because they said they were performing a ritual," Local 6's Louis Bolden said.... | |
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| | | REVIEW / English group mines gritty splendor of Mozart, C.P.E. Bach | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:08:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | It wasn't all smooth elegance and powdered wigs in the 18th century, whatever some may think. The English Concert and its director, violinist Andrew Manze, made that much perfectly clear Sunday afternoon in an exhilaratingly rough-hewn concert in Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. The program, presented by Cal Performances, was devoted to music from the 1770s and '80s -- mostly Mozart, naturally, but with an important appetizer by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. And in zippy, gloriously urgent performances, this period-instrument ensemble stripped away the varnish of gentility from this music to reveal the tumultuous splendor below the surface. It was Bach, the most gifted and important of Johann Sebastian's abundant brood, who set the tone. His genius lay in mining a particular kind of startling rhetoric -- full of disjunct phrases, harmonic jolts and abrupt starts and stops -- for its emotional impact, and his Symphony No.... | |
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