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...California politicians wanted to please potential donors....
...Many of those first in line to file and win legal claims, like representatives from California's once arid Imperial Valley, have ended up with senior theoretically unlimited water rights....
...Coyotes, mountain lions and the endangered California condor are encountered in its remoter reaches....
...The answer is that one tribe of professionals is relentlessly focused on cultivating such ties. This tribe is the venture capitalists....
...the original — Squaw Valley — was “a racist and sexist slur against Indigenous women”....
...Notice has finally been taken of the way Native American tribes lived largely in harmony with the forest before Europeans came....
...In the valley to our north is Rawlins, a prison town, and just east of there is the hamlet of Sinclair, renamed after its almost 100-year-old refinery....
...Mine are more qualitative than any data-driven Silicon Valley type would be comfortable with....
...(The Guardian) The orange skies and smoky air from California’s wildfires explained An insightful look at climate change, air quality and the risks ahead....
...Inspired by the tribes that live along the Omo Valley in south-west Ethiopia, Brazilian duo Aron and Hirsch became interested in the practice of fabricating clothing and adornments with natural materials...
...Once the sheep were gone, and with them 600km of fencing, herds of guanaco – related to the llama – returned to the valley....
...(NY Mag) California fire caused by single rancher He tried to plug a wasp nest but ended up sparking California’s biggest wildfire....
...In Silicon Valley, “blockchain for x” is the new “Uber for y” as start-ups embrace the idea of digital ledgers....
...In doing so, it joins numerous other plaintiffs, including Indian tribes and conservation organisations....
...Sonos’ response is to position itself as a neutral “Switzerland” amid the warring tribes of Silicon Valley....
...Now a Silicon Valley biotech company is trying to squeeze Allergan with not one but two competing products....
...None of this is uncommon in the Valley....
...Other versions of denial involve tying your self-esteem to your tribe or nation....
...This decades-old solution caters perfectly to tourism’s neo-tribes. andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...(NAR) California’s Laotian green rush A century and a half ago, the mountains of northern California were filled with miners digging for gold....
...In the past, human tribes coalesced to form nations because no tribe could deal effectively with vast trade networks and administrative structures....
...And few kids outside of Silicon Valley can ask their parents’ friends to help with virtual reality projects. Expanding beyond northern California could be tough, he argues....
...Certainly Wolfe doesn’t seem to miss life among the tech tribes of California. When I ask about any mentors there, she looks blank....
...During the summers, he says he hitchhiked to the western US and took odd jobs, canning peaches in Merced, California, fighting wildfires in Death Valley National Park and serving as a waiter in a German...
...Ingress also involved warring tribes of players using their phones to fight for control of real-world “portals”, and retains a modest but fanatical following....
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