MONDAY, JULY 24, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 217
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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Hot and bothered Electrical blasts leave businesses, residents in dark BY MICHAEL J. TITTINGER Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
■ Joseph Weir, 23, who confessed to New York City police in May to forcibly licking the feet of as many as 70 women, said he didn’t mean to hurt anyone but just wanted “to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me.” “I get on my knees, grab their feet and bow,” he said (according to a New York Post story). “I compliment women, I bow to them.” ■ In June, British worker Mr. Sivanadian Perananthasivam was awarded three months’ paid leave plus medical expenses after proving that a supervisor had used two colloquial terms for the man’s posterior during an angry office exchange. ■ The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed in June that a woman divorced seven years ago is still so fragile from her husband’s leaving her that she should continue to get spousal support (in spite of Canada’s no-fault divorce law). ■ Two New Jersey schoolboys separately complained recently that in yearbook sports photos, a tiny portion of their genitals can be seen up the legs of their shorts. (A Colts Neck High School student’s lawsuit was dismissed in June, and a Phillipsburg High School student is pondering a lawsuit, even though a school official ordered the offending page ripped out of all books.)
THIRD STREET — A large swath of downtown buildings and businesses, including those on the west side of the bustling Promenade, remained shrouded in darkness on Sunday evening, more than 24 hours after a pair of electrical vaults exploded and caused widespread blackouts. As record-setting temperatures persisted throughout the region, hundreds of electrical transformers failed throughout Los Angeles County over the weekend, prompting blackouts, store closures and snarled traffic. Shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, two Edison Company transformer vaults — located in an alley east of Second Street, on the south side of Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press
See BLASTS, page 10 SEE RELATED STORY ■ Tower of power
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COMMUNITYPROFILES
URBAN OUTSIDERS: An employee tries to keep order outside Urban Outfitters on the Third Street Promenade on Sunday afternoon in the wake of a major power outage downtown. The Santa Monica fire marshal limited the store to 30 customers at a given time due to the lack of electricity and ventilation. Urban Outfitters was one of few stores on the west side of the Promenade open for business after two electrical transformer vaults exploded on Saturday afternoon.
A W E E K LY S E R I E S T H AT A P P E A R S E A C H M O N D AY A N D D E LV E S I N T O T H E L I V E S O F P E O P L E W H O L I V E , W O R K A N D P L AY I N S A N TA M O N I C A .
An artist with a sense of normalcy
INDEX Horoscopes Whirl it tonight, Cancer... Baby!
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BY JACQUELINE LEE
Surf Report Water temperature: 67°
Special to the Daily Press
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BY KEVIN HERRERA
Opinion Police getting bad rap
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Commentary Man with a plan
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Local Know Before You Go
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National Feeling the burn
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Sports Thinking Blue
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MOVIETIMES Catch a flick!
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Comics Strips tease
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Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press
He has completed the 24-mile Canadian marathon from Cocagne to Moncton in nine hours, pushing himself backwards in his manual wheelchair. He has published four poetry books, and his award-winning poem, “Happy Birthday, Canada,” is now being used by the Chief Citizenship Court for Canada. Still, 53-year-old Joseph Gille Legacy is most proud of the fact that he is the only nose painter he knows. Legacy, who has completed more than 900 paintings since the age of 8, was born with cerebral palsy. For the
Daily Press Staff Writer
SMC — The future of California’s economy — the world’s fifth largest — lies in the development and mass distribution of alternative fuels as viable competition for an increasingly unstable world oil market. That’s according to state lawmakers and auto industry insiders who testified here Friday during a hearing that provided updates on the progress of developing and marketing alternative fuels such as ethanol, bio-diesel and hydrogen.
OL’ FACTORY: Gille Legacy has gathered a following for his paintings, which he
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A curious state: Lawmakers fuel new energy push
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performs with his nose. Legacy was born with cerebral palsy.
See PROFILES, page 6
See ALTERNATIVE FUEL, page 9
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