Hewlett-Packard, a company that helped usher in the information economy, and put Silicon Valley on the map, may have lost its way in the eyes of many.

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Basically, it seems to me, the Valley of the Dawn operates as a refuge for lost souls and who on earth am I to mock that?

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Underscoring the fast times, Venrock just lost one of its three Silicon Valley partners, Terence Garnett, who landed the firm's Neoforma and Niku investments.

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Even so she has brought a gang of councillors up to Birmingham from the Thames Valley, one who lost his seat, and some new members that they've signed up.

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In the last ten years the Valley lost 47, 800 manufacturing jobs, most of them in nontech industries.

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He said it veered to the right and then sharply to the left before it went into a valley and he lost sight of it.

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And then we had those very dangerous flash floods in Toowoomba and into the Lockyer Valley that cost people a lot of -- a lot of lives were lost because there was no warning.

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