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built 234 days ago
May 21, 2006: The Peninsula branch along with other branches around the SF Bay Area got together for a public demonstration at the Hakone Gardens in Saratoga. Read the report on the WSKO website.
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[O]f the settlement, persons who want to use groundwater on the Peninsula in the future must obtain advance approval from the appropriate regulator, either the Department of Ecology or the Lummi Nation. Further, all well owners on the Peninsula, both Lummi and non-Lummi, must install meters and measure chloride levels in their wells and report the measured data to a water master in an annual report. If chloride levels are too high, the Agreement imposes restrictions on use of the wells.
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Peninsula's legendary focus on technology is evident throughout the guestrooms, from the personal nail dryers in each dressing room, to the bathrooms, which turn into spa environments at the touch of a button. Each guestroom features two types of telephone -- a wired phone, which can be synchronized with guests' personal mobile phones to enable the automatic transfer of an incoming calls via Bluetooth synchronization to any handset in the room, and to make Skype calls in addition to regular calls. The second phone is a portable phone, which functions anywhere within the hotel as the in-room phone and converts to a mobile phone to place outgoing calls outside the hotel throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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"These new banking centers fill in a gap for us between San Mateo and San Francisco, and give us the opportunity to provide banking services to under-served communities on the Peninsula," said Fulton. "The regional economy is strong, and the Bay Area is an important part of the bank's overall growth strategy."
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[I]n the second half of the 20th century, an unprecedented wave of city-county-town local government consolidations took place in South Hampton Roads and on the Virginia Peninsula. Nowhere else in Virginia have rural areas and more dense cities been combined in such a manner as these two areas. The changes resulted in the two areas having Virginia's cities with the largest land areas and the most farming, even over 30 years after the consolidations in some instances.
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