Blue Nile Inc.; Case Analyst Blue Nile was founded in 1999 and today‚ it is one of the largest online retailers of diamonds. In addition to selling diamonds‚ it also offers platinum‚ gold‚ peral‚ and sterling silver jewelry. It is headquartered in Seattle‚ Washington and it operates in 25 countries‚ offering products through its United States‚ Canada and the United Kingdom Websites. The Company is public traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange and has received several rewards for its service price
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The Jersey Devil‚ also known as Leeds Devil is a creature that is described as a kangaroo like creature with the head of a goat‚ rough bat wings‚ horns‚ small arms with sharp clawed hands‚ divided hooves and a split‚ v- shaped tail. The Jersey Devil‚ was born in Philadelphia Bulletin‚ United States‚ in the region of Pine Barrens‚ New Jersey on January 1909. The surprise of The Jersey Devil’s mother being pregnant with him‚ and him being the thirteenth child was a even a bigger surprise to her. She
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Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Type Flavored Cola Manufacturer PepsiCo‚ Inc. Country of origin United States Introduced mid-2002 Discontinued 2004 (Canadian markets) Related products Crystal Pepsi‚ New Coke Pepsi blue‚ launched in mid-2002 and discontinued in 2004‚ was the result of taste-testing over 100 flavors over a 9-month period. Designed to compete with Coca-Cola’s Vanilla Coke‚ it is considered by some to be the company’s second equivalent of New Coke‚ after the much maligned Crystal
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BLUE BRAIN PROJECT WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN? * BLUE BRAIN—The world’s first virtual brain * It’s being developed by IBM * Within 30 years we will be able to scan ourselves into computers The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique in Lausanne‚ Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and
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Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is one of those timeless classics that is instantly recognizable to many people’s ears today‚ even ninety years after it was first introduced to the world. It is a piece that has found its way into contemporary movies and advertisements‚ making it likely as recognizable as Chopin’s Funeral March or Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But unlike these two pieces of iconic classical music‚ Rhapsody in Blue “resists classification.”1 In it are elements
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In ¡°The Blue Hotel‚¡± Stephen Crane uses various provocative techniques to ensure that the setting adds to the richness of the story. ¡°The Blue Hotel¡± is set in a cold Nebraska town at the Palace Hotel in the late 1800¡¯s‚ but there is more to setting than just when and where a story takes place. In a written work‚ it is the author¡¯s job to vividly depict events in order to keep the reader¡¯s attention and to create colorful mental images of places‚ objects‚ or situations. The story is superbly
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The Blue Bouquet I woke covered with sweat. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed‚ redbrick pavement. A gray-winged butterfly‚ dazzled‚ circled the yellow light. I jumped from my hammock and crossed the room barefoot‚ careful not to step on some scorpion leaving his hideout for a bit of fresh air. I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous. I returned to the center of the room‚ emptied water from a jar into a pewter
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The Blue Laws The Blue Laws were laws that were designed to enforce religious standards‚ especially those days that were designated as a day of worship or rest. The name was rumored to have come from the supposedly blue paper the laws were printed on‚ but since that was most likely false‚ historians have found that the name came the 17th century use of the word blue‚ which was a reference to the strict moral codes and those who observed them‚ as in blue-stocking. The blue laws were favored by
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Refugee Blues W. H. Auden’s poem of despair‚ misery‚ and isolation‚ “Refugee Blues”‚ describes the hardships faced by two German Jewish refugees attempting to escape Hitler’s Germany. Published in autumn‚ 1939‚ Auden is surrounded by the anti-Sematic hatred that is growing in Germany six months prior to the outbreak of World War II. Auden utilizes this environment and the experiences of German Jews to express the abuse of human rights and the sentiments of refugees. For the near two thousand
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The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram and co-directed by Felix Schürmann and Sean Hill. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running
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