He now works with the Blue Ridge Hunt and lives in the beautiful Shenandoah valley.
Born in Quitman, Texas, Ms. Spacek now lives on a farm at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Surrounded by 8, 000 acres of land, the Biltmore Estate is a picturesque castle hidden away in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Hanleys had roots near their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and in Palm Beach, Fla.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
We lived up on a big hill overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Then I went to John Fogerty and The Blue Ridge Rangers before turning off the phone to save my battery for the 911 call.
One glitch was a controller for a weather tracking antenna on the Blue Ridge that locked up when the clocked rolled over to Jan. 1, 2000.
"Obama is winning men and women in Virginia, and is doing well across the state east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, " CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
From the first, improbable view of Biltmore, looming over a vast lawn and framed by the Blue Ridge Mountains, we know we are in the realm of fantasy.
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So do Glenview Capital, Jana Partners and Blue Ridge Capital.
Or for a taste of the South, head to the Appalachian Mountains for a trip along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs through Virginia, North Carolina and into Tennessee.
In Virginia, as much as 12in of wet snow were forecast to hit coastal areas, while the inland Blue Ridge Mountains and other mountainous areas could receive as much as 21in.
Another less-tangible way to decide if a home is right for you is to trust your intuition, says Pat Trainor, a realtor with Coldwell Banker High Country Realty in Blue Ridge, Georgia.
Although the bank's shiny new Manhattan building is a landmark, Lewis does not seek to make the New York social scene, preferring weekends hiking and reading in his Blue Ridge Mountains retreat.
In interviews with The Associated Press, friends and family members described Duncan as a man who grew up in a working class family in Boiling Springs, a rural area at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Front and center, the globe trotting Darren Murph offers some tips for geotagging your shots from that next Blue Ridge Parkway trek and also takes Nokia Drive's offline navigation for a spin on a Lumia 900.
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"Cray is a leader in the high-end of the supercomputing industry, and the Cray XC30 system promises to continue the Company's strong standing in the market for designing, building and installing leadership-class supercomputers, such as the 'Titan' system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the 'Blue Waters' supercomputer at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications, " said Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for HPC.
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The GK110 GPU is expected to be incorporated into the new Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Blue Waters system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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