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Group promotes cycling by riding naked

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 13 (UPI) -- A group promoting the energy-saving virtues of bicycling rode through Halifax, Nova Scotia, in an attention-getting -- and naked -- event, observers said.

About 30 unclothed cyclists took part in World Naked Bike Ride Day Saturday, featuring unclothed riding in cities around the world, including six in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

The Halifax ride was held in coordination with the Bluenose Naturist Club, the CBC said.

Organizer Tom MacDonald said the ride was intended to highlight bicycling as an alternative to cars and other oil-consuming methods of travel.

Doing it naked generates attention, he said, and makes people feel good at the same time.

"There's nothing like it," MacDonald said. "It's the wind on your face, the realization that your body is beautiful, no matter what it looks like, and that everyone will accept you for what you look like."

World Naked Bike Ride day has been observed in Halifax for the past three years, the CBC reported.

With bra or without, attorney denied entry

MIAMI, June 13 (UPI) -- An underwire bra kept a Miami lawyer from seeing her client, and when she removed it, prison dress codes meant she still couldn't see him, authorities said.

Attorney Brittney Horstman's bra triggered a metal detector at Miami Federal Detention Center, and security guards would not let her enter, The Miami Herald reported Saturday.

Horstman stepped into a bathroom, removed the bra, and in blouse and jacket cleared the walk-through detector, the newspaper said.

But security guards still refused to allow her in, saying since she was braless she violated prison dress code guidelines.

"So, simply because I was a woman who wore a specific bra, my client was denied access to his attorney today," Horstman said. "This is completely unacceptable."

Attorneys and the prison reached an agreement several years ago allowing female attorneys entry if guards confirmed by using a wand that an underwire bra was setting of the walk-through detector, the Herald said.

Prison officials would not comment on the incident with Horstman, but people familiar with the procedure say the guards on duty Friday probably "didn't get the memo."

New York watches Puerto Rican Day parade

NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez were among the nearly 2 million people at New York's 53rd annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade, officials say.

The city's largest parade Sunday saw Anthony replace actor Osvaldo Rios as "international godfather" after Rios' domestic violence conviction against his girlfriend, the New York Daily News reported.

Some elected officials allegedly said they would not attend the parade unless Rios quit, which he did Tuesday.

New city statutes limit parades to five hours and shorten their routes by 25 percent in a move to save $3.1 million in police overtime and other city expenses, the newspaper said.

One reveler wasn't put off by the shortening of the parade, the Daily News said.

"A parade is a parade. It doesn't really matter to us how long it is," said Angelica Baez, 19, of the Bronx, who grabbed a prime sidewalk spot at 7 a.m. "I always want to be the first person here."

Little Orphan Annie bows out of print

WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Almost 86 years after Little Orphan Annie was presented to American newspaper readers, the comic strip has ended -- with a classic cliffhanger, observers said.

With Annie missing in Guatemala, and Daddy Warbucks "resigning himself to Miss Annie's being lost forever," the comic ended Sunday with the teasing line, "And this is where we leave our Annie. For now --," The Washington Post reported.

Fewer than 20 newspapers carry the strip, created by Harold Gray and currently written and drawn by others, and its low earnings meant the end, the newspaper said.

But Annie is not likely to disappear. Tribune Media Services owns the lucrative licensing and production rights to all Annie characters, trademarks and copyrights.

"Annie, unlike many strips, has such wide, almost iconic presence in our culture," Steve Tippie, Tribune Media Service's vice president of licensing, said, "that it would serve the character and our business best if we focused on other channels more appropriate to the 'kids' nature of the property."

And of course there's "Annie" the Broadway musical, which brings generates income for Tribune Media.

"What we do not own, but participate financially in as a licensor, is the Annie musical and its songs," Tippie said. "But the musical creators license the property from us."