Stretching east from the pass is a long valley pocked with ultramarine lakes, watched over by sheer walls of striated granite that are striped with the wispy white of flowing waterfalls.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
Wineries are clustered along the length of the 132-mile long Okanagan Valley, which has a string of lakes running through its middle and is surrounded by mountains on either side.
In December IV tried the tactic that Silicon Valley long feared--filing patent infringement lawsuits.
Tarek Fahmi, a long-time Silicon Valley patent attorney, sees two key factors at play.
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Today a population of 13, 000 is strung out along the long road up the valley to the old mines at the top.
Deer Valley, UT Luxurious Deer Valley has long been famous as the top choice for deep pocketed visitors looking for the most white glove family ski experience.
This is something that Silicon Valley has long been demanding.
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Silicon Valley has long prided itself on avoiding the lumbering relationship between big government and most industries, but somehow it has become one of the top lobbyists in Washington.
Joining a long list of Silicon Valley investors in South America, Peter Thiel and his early-stage global venture capital firm, Valar Ventures, announced its first investment in a Brazilian company Tuesday.
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There has been a long-running war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley over copyright enforcement, and for too long both major parties have sided with Hollywood.
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Silicon Valley startups have long been ratcheting up perks as the competition for talent intensifies.
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Fred and Judy Wilpon moved from Roslyn Harbor to an estate in Locust Valley, on Long Island Sound.
The fundamental trait of the ideal Silicon Valley startup has long been scalability.
"Trees Lounge" is inspired by the drinking games that used to occupy Buscemi's time in the actual Tree Lounge located in Valley Stream, Long Island.
Silicon Valley has a long catalog of such repairs.
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People are combining the unique talent base and know-how in Southern California with the entrepreneurial spirit and long-term view of Silicon Valley.
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The Daily News, up for sale by Jack Kent Cookes estate, reaches 200, 000 daily subscribers in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley -- like Long Beach, part of the territory the L.A. Times regards as home.
Doctors and patients will dodge the Medicare reimbursement bullet, and Silicon Valley billionaires will not go long without their research and development tax credits.
In areas such as Laikipia in central Rift Valley, people who hold long leases issued by the colonial government would have those reviewed and the land could revert to the state.
The aerobatics team usually flies from RAF Scampton near Lincoln, but Squadron Leader Mike Ling said he hoped it would not be long before it could return from RAF Valley back to Lincolnshire.
Silicon Valley executives, who have long pressed the government to provide more visas for foreign-born math and science brains, are joining forces with an array of immigration groups seeking comprehensive changes in the law.
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Although women are still underrepresented in many technology leadership positions around the world (even here in Silicon Valley), I have long believed that women have the potential to thrive in the green technology sector because it serves a higher purpose of creating a more sustainable environment for the next generation and beyond.
For his part, Netanyahu this week reiterated his position that Israel must maintain a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley.
Snowfall predictions were 8 to 12 inches in the city, 10 to 15 in the lower Hudson Valley and 12 to 16 on Long Island.
Instead of the "suicide impulse" of lobbying for more regulation, Silicon Valley should seek deregulation and a long-overdue freedom to return to its entrepreneurial roots.
Every year, the valley's winemakers await the long, hot, dry days of the southern hemisphere summer that increases the sugar content and intensifies the flavor of the grapes.
Of course Silicon Valley neighbour Google, which has long been a player in the cloud computing world giving away free apps like Gmail and Google docs, would wholeheatedly agree.
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