VICTORIA, BC, /PRNewswire/ — General Manager, Matthew Opferkuch is pleased to announce that Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa has been awarded the highest Five Star rating by Canada Select.
Canada Select is Canada’s national accommodations rating service. The Five Star distinction is reserved for properties that meet exacting standards and provide the highest levels of quality and luxury, a wide range of facilities and amenities, as well as outstanding guest services. Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa is one of only a few properties in Canada to be awarded with the Five Star rating.
Brentwood Bay Lodge & Spa is introducing special rates from October 16, 2004 through May 15, 2005 with seasonal savings of up to 40%. In addition, when you stay midweek before March 15, 2005, your second night is free. For reservations call toll-free 1.888.544.2079.
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Hundreds of
hair-thin fiber optic lines are damaged,
re-splicedBy
Barney Lerten
Bend.com
October 15 — A sleeping transient camped out at a spot near the Bend Parkway apparently knocked over his lantern late Thursday night, sparking a brushfire that melted and damaged BendBroadband’s fiber optic lines running overhead, knocking out TV and high-speed Internet service to thousands of customers for much of the day Friday.
The fire was reported at 11:45 p.m. between the Empire Avenue offramp from the northbound parkway and the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, said BendBroadband (www.bendbroadband.com) spokesman Lance Judd, citing police reports. Four fire trucks were dispatched at the time, but the blaze apparently smoldered and rekindled, and crews were called out again shortly after 3 a.m., Judd said.
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By Abigail Ho
Inquirer News Service
NEW interactive content firm Cube Interactive, a subsidiary of ePLDT and Infocom Technologies Inc., sees 20 million pesos in revenues by end-2005 from its CubeBlog service, a multi-portal „blogging“ service similar to currently popular web-based journals and online communities.
CubeBlog, which has only been in existence since Oct. 10, has already developed quite a following, now having close to 1,000 registered members, Cube Interactive business manager Riel de Guzman said.
By end-2005, he said CubeBlog subscribers should number roughly 110,000 people.
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[India News]: Chennai, Oct 16 : Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) today said that
call charges between India and Sri Lanka would be reduced to Rs. 12 per minute from the previous rate of Rs. 18 with effect from October 21, 2004.
Phone rates between India and Sri Lanka would be cut to Rs. 12 per minute, said BSNL CMD. A. K. Sinha at the launch of international long distance operations here.
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When Cox Roanoke speaks
or, in industry terms, launches a new productthe rest of the company listens. Roanoke’s manageable size makes it a favorite testing ground for corporate, which turned to it yet again for the launch of
VoIP phone service.
By Shirley Brady
When Marilyn Humphrey started at Cox’s Roanoke, Va., system as its new general manager last January, she was joining a team that was in the throes of launching a critical new product: VoIP telephone service.
«It was something of a moving train by the time I arrived, and it was a matter of making sure it stays on the tracks,» she recalls. «The beta test had started in October 2003, so a lot of the initial operating issues had been worked through and the really tough decisions about whether we were ready for prime time and ready to launch had [already] been made.»
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