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Ken Markling of Bear Valley Electric Service went to Rosemead for answers.Power outages Dec. 27 and Jan. 5 were linked to the Gold Hill Substation, but initial investigations by Southern California Edison came up empty, Markling said. Southern California Edison operates the Gold Hill Substation that feeds power to Big Bear Valley.Further investigations showed switches at the substation designed to cut power during spikes were incorrectly set, Markling said. The switches tripped prematurely and well below the threshold they are designed to trip at, Markling said.Bear Valley Electric Service said it would not pursue punitive action against Southern California Edison at this time. Bear Valley Electric Service would have to prove negligence on the part of Southern California Edison and that would be difficult, he said.
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With a Republican Party that loses elections as gracefully as Willkie and loses wars as pre-emptively as Chamberlain, America will forget the Bush presidency ever happened. ... 1:54 P.M. (link) Thursday, May 3, 2007 Animal Farm: As if the GOP needed any more bad omens, this week the Philadelphia Zoo became the latest to join a national trend—giving up on elephants. Now the press can start looking for the next sign of the Republican apocalypse: gun owners turning in their pickup trucks and riding donkeys to work. Perhaps because zoos represent the world the way man would have made it, they have long been a leading political indicator. In retrospect, China's seemingly innocent gift of pandas to the United States three decades ago should have been an obvious warning of its desire for global economic hegemony.
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