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Messrs. Thomas R. Rutter, of New York City, and Gibbs L. Baker, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. Rufus S. Day, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This suit was brought to recover $73,964.48, being $3.70 per ton for 19,990.4 tons of coal furnished the Navy. Appellant seeks to recover the market price at the time of delivery, $6.50 per ton. The United States claims appellant was bound by contract to furnish it for $2.80 a ton, and this has been paid. The Court of Claims made findings of fact and concluded that the appellant was not entitled to recover.
In the spring of 1916, the Navy Department, being desirous of making contracts for coal for the ensuing fiscal year, ending June 30, 1917, issued its invitations for bids. Appellant submitted a bid and was awarded a contract to furnish a part of the coal required at Hampton Roads, Va. The invitation, form of bid, specifications, and contract [262 U.S. 495, 496] in this case are the same as in Willard, Sutherland & Co. v. United States, 262 U.S. 489 , 43 Sup. Ct. 592, 67 L. Ed. --, decided this day, except that in this case the contract price was $2.80 per ton, and the quantity specifically mentioned was 200,000 tons.
On March 26, 1917, appellant was informed by the department that the estimated quantity mentioned in its contract would be exceeded by about 10 per cent. Appellant stated that it had not bid on tonnage in excess of 200, 000 tons, and called attention to the heavy curtailment of production at its mines due to shortage of cars and labor. The department cited the provisions of the contract as authority for requiring thereunder additional tonnage, stated that the same requirement was being made of other contractors, and that the contract price must apply to the total requirements during the fiscal year. Appellant then called attention to the provisions of note (b), printed in the margin,1 giving relief in case of shortage of transportation, among other things, and submitted a statement as to the car supply, and maintained that on that basis it was only obliged to deliver 148,357 tons up to April 1, 1917, whereas it had actually delivered to date 160,377 tons, an excess of 12,020 tons, and stated that the total of 220,000 above referred to was subject to the reduction of 12,020 tons, making the actual tonnage deliverable by it under its contract 207,980 tons. The department answered by letter and insisted that the [262 U.S. 495, 497] 10 per cent. additional must be furnished under the contract, and said
Appellant then limited its claim for reduction on account of shortage of cars to the period prior to January 1, 1917, and stated that on that basis:
April 26, 1917, the department again insisted on the delivery of the additional 10 per cent. May 22, 1917, acknowledging an order of 10,000 tons to be delivered between June 1, and June 10, the appellant stated that 204,430.19 tons had been delivered; that 2,650 tons were assigned to barges, making a total of 207,080.19 tons, and that the 10,000 tons would make a total of 217,080.19 tons, leaving 2,920 tons. June 2, 1917, appellant wired the department, saying:
Appellant delivered 219,990.4 tons of coal in all. It billed 211,771 tons at the contract price and 8,219 tons at $6.25 per ton, and protested against accepting the contract [262 U.S. 495, 498] price therefor, claiming that on account of car shortage it was not bound to deliver it. The Court of Claims found that, when the excess over 200, 000 was delivered, the market price was $6.50 per ton, and that such tonnage-19,990.4-was worth in the market $73,964.48 in excess of the contract price.
On the authority of the Willard Case, supra, it is held that by the language of the contract it appears that the parties intended that the department might call for more or less than the 200,000 tons mentioned therein, and that because of lack of consideration and mutuality the contract at its inception was not enforceable, but that it became valid and binding to the extent that it was performed.
On the facts found it must be held that appellant abandoned its claim that it was not bound to furnish more than the 200,000 tons, and acquiesced in the department's interpretation of the contract and accepted and performed its orders. By its billing the appellant conceded that the contract price applied to all except 8,219 tons. The provisions of note (b) have no relation to price. The purpose of that paragraph was to relieve the contractors from liability resulting from their inability to fulfill their contracts on account of causes mentioned therein. The department at all times adhered to its position both as to quantity and price. Appellant's protest against delivery of the 8,219 tons because of car shortage, and against acceptance of the contract price therefor was of no avail. When it sued, the demand made was not in accordance with the billing, and it claimed the market price for all coal delivered in excess of the estimated quantity mentioned in the contract. The case is presented on the same grounds as was the Willard Case, and it must be held that all of the 219,990.4 tons was ordered and delivered under the contract.
The judgment of the Court of Claims is affirmed.
[ Footnote 1 ] '(b) Contractors will not be held responsible for fulfillment of their contracts during any war in which the United States may be engaged and which may affect them, or if prevented from doing so by strikes or combinations of miners, laborers, or boatmen, accidents at the mines, or interruption or shortage of transportation. In such cases the obligation to deliver coal under their contracts will be canceled to an extent corresponding to the extent or duration of such war, strikes, combinations, accidents, interruption, or shortage, and no liability shall be incurred by the contractors for damages resulting from their inability to fulfill their contracts on account of the aforementioned causes.'
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Docket No: No. 218
Argued: May 02, 1923
Decided: June 04, 1923
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Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940) was unusual for an authority on many esoteric, and many less esoteric, subjects in the history of mathematics in that he was never a university professor. The son of an English farmer from Lincolnshire, Heath demonstrated his academic gifts at a young age; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1879 to 1882; came away with numerous awards; and obtained the top grade in the 1884 English Civil Service examination. From that foundation, he went to work in the English Treasury, rose through the ranks, and by 1913, was permanent secretary to the Treasury, effectively the head of its operations. He left that post in 1919 at the end of the first World War, worked several years at the National Debt office, and retired in 1926.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
My top ten tips for settling back home beautifully.
Two: Make your home beautiful. Fill jars with flowers, open the windows and let the sunny air in, play your favourite tunes, make your bed, pop your holiday souvenirs around the house....
Three: Do something you love every day. Bake, crochet, dance, write, draw...
Four: Don't force yourself to settle back into old, busy routines too quickly. Have some quiet time in the afternoon, take a Nana nap, snuggle up with a book and a cuppa, challenge your kids to a board game, take a blanket outside and read a book on the grass...
Five: Be active. Go for a walk every day, dance around your lounge room, jump on the trampoline, go for a bike ride, skip rope...
Six: Keep it fun. Eat pancakes for dinner, read aloud to each other, give each other manicures, have a party...
Seven: Change things around a bit. Move the furniture. Change the focus of the room. Be brave.
Eight: Make new rules. No TV during the week, kids set and clear the table for meals, chores, family Friday fun nights (thanks for the idea Rapps xx)...
Nine: Eat well. Plan meals, buy lovely seasonal ingredients, pick from your garden, try new recipes, get everyone involved in the prep, set the table with your best and fanciest stuff, light candles, eat together.
Ten: Be a tourist where you live. Explore the local area, go for long walks, visit the shops/farm-gates/wineries/restaurants/lakes/attractions, go on a picnic, row the lake...
And if all else fails, fake it til you make it. Pretend you are enjoying yourself and then you probably will.
This list is by no means law. It's just what's working for me at the moment three days after coming home. I was a little worried about how I would feel when the holiday was over. I was worried we would come home and I would be sad. I can be quite emotional like that. But I haven't. In fact I'm having a lovely time at home. So I thought I'd share my list here. Partly to remind myself and partly because it might possibly be of use to you when you get back from your adventures.
Happy travels - happy homes - happy Hannukah - happy Christmas - happy weekend. xx
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Very wise. I've found the same thing, especially with the airing out of the house and the decluttering.ReplyDelete
Happy baking! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Kate. There's no place like home xxxReplyDelete
Life back at home sounds just as delicious as life on the road. So positive and inspiring, thank you! Happy Christmas to you and your family xReplyDelete
Wise words Kate, all sounds like great advice. PS Miss Jazzy looks tired.ReplyDelete
Definately some major 'thinking' going on in this camp for the return to the homeland...
YOU sound so happy Miss Kate.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous time.
Merry Christmas you guys!XXX
PS Kate love love love no.6ReplyDelete
Glad the homecoming is going smoothly. This list is actually great whether you're coming back from a trip or just in a bit of a rut at home. I find I suffer from the post holiday blues about 2 weeks after a return but I'm hoping the return to a new home will take the sting out of our trip coming to an end. Hope you have a very merry Christmas!!! Mel xxReplyDelete
It's a good list. I love the idea of coming home but continuing to be a tourist. Do we get to see the painting? I get very excited ;) when I see that word. CherrieReplyDelete
I love your list and such a positive way to look at life now you are home.ReplyDelete
Have a fantastic Christmas, it will be the best you've ever had.
Anne xx
Very sensible tips Kate. I wish I had read these before we finished out trip. My suggestion is to take things easy and resist the helter skelter or daily life as long as you can.ReplyDelete
I am loving the crochet rug and have just downloaded the pattern. thank you.
Hey, words to live by for any traveller returning home ... when it can all be a bit anticlimactic!! Luckily, I've always got another trip to look forward to!!ReplyDelete
A great list- even though we haven't been away, there is a lot of sound advice to bring a little freshness into our lives.ReplyDelete
WIshing you and yours all the best for a great Christmas and for
2012, Kate.
Jolly good advice for a happy life in general. I think you really have your life improvement goggles on since you have come back all fresh from this adventure and we are all reaping the benefits. melxReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2011 at 9:25 PM
I love this,list Kate...in fact we incorporate many of them in to our day to day lives already :)ReplyDelete
Sounds like you have it all under control.
Love your list Kate, but I want to know how to organize photos into iBooksReplyDelete
Happy Christmas to you and your lovely family!xxxxxReplyDelete
All sounds pretty great, keep it up! Your trip has clearly been good for all of you *just a little bit envious* xReplyDelete
CLever girl---this is dead right! I'll have to print it out for next time...ReplyDelete
Your funny, you'll be knackered with all that power your using and you'll need another holiday!!!ReplyDelete
Great to see you home safe and sound!!! May the force of the "de-cleanse" be with you!!! xx
Welcome Home. This list is fantastic. We haven't been away but I think it works for school holidays perfectly.ReplyDelete
We've had Fun Family Friday this year and it ranges from board games, movie, walk, dinner out, art. The kids love it and it is the most lovely way to end the week.
I'm off to read more of your blog having just found you in instagram I'm a but sad I've missed all. It the final days of your trip.
Carol x
beautiful advice to live by.ReplyDelete
thanks kate!
merry christmas to you and your loved ones!
Wise and insightful as ever. Going to print them and put on the fridge as I think we are going to need them come January 10! So, so pleased (and relieved) you are in a good place and not feeling flat post homecoming. Thinking of you guys and wishing you happy holidays!!!! Love to everyone xoxoxoxoReplyDelete
nice entry!ReplyDelete
merry christmas to you!
Merry Christmas action girl! Already new plans are under way in your home - I would still be doing the washing after a holiday! But i am with you on decluttering! I am on to it now!ReplyDelete
Welcome home family! Pepper / Kescha play date soon for sure! Mika xReplyDelete
oh kate, you are a legend. i wish i had read this list 6 weeks ago when we arrived home. it will have to wait to be implemented next trip. yipee. love the quilt in the most recent post. happy christmas to allReplyDelete
So glad you are back home safe ans sound and enjoying your return. I hope your trip was a life changer in a fabulous way!ReplyDelete
A recipe for happiness in general I think, loving all the happy energy you're throwing at the world.ReplyDelete
This list is brilliant! Oh my gosh! I will have to print it all out or something because these are the kind of things that are important to me but somehow get sidelined by less important but more pushy things. I am glad these sorts of things have been written in a list! So simple!ReplyDelete
I am going on Maternity leave in four months....I might have to use this lovely list of tips as a plan of attack for approaching more than two consecutive weeks at home for the first time since ..umm...years and years. Now just to remember the tips when the time comes.ReplyDelete
Seems like you have a lovely motivation in your settling back in. Lovely.
i like to let folks know when i link to their blog...i linked to this post in my post about landing after being away. I 'found' your blog deep late into last night and i am so glad i did. thank you. xReplyDelete
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What could possibly go wrong in Week 2 of the 2016 season?
You could lose your starting QB: Jimmy Garoppolo for the New England Patriots, who will miss the Week 3 game against the Texans on Thursday Night Football.
You could injure your starting RB:
- Adrian Peterson – Minnesota Vikings
- Jonathan Stewart – Carolina Panthers
- Doug Martin – Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Thomas Rawls – Seattle Seahawks
- Danny Woodhead – San Diego Chargers
- Ameer Abdullah – Detroit Lions
- Arian Foster – Miami Dolphins
We are still waiting on MRI details for these players to know whether we will see them Week 3.
You could injure one of your standout defensive players:Â
- DeMarcus Ware – Denver Broncos (out a few weeks with a broken bone in his forearm)
- Robert Ayers – Tampa Bay Buccaneers (ankle, being evaluated)
You could be at the bottom of your division already.
AFC East:
- Patriots 2-0
- Jets 1-1
- Bills 0-2
- Dolphins 0-2
AFC North:
- Steelers 2-0
- Ravens 2-0
- Bengals 1-1
- Browns 0-2
AFC West:
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AFC South:
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- Titans 1-1
- Jaguars 0-2
- Colts 0-2
NFC East:
- Giants 2-0
- Eagles 2-0 or 1-1, depending on the results of Monday Night Football
- Cowboys 1-1
- Redskins 0-2
NFC North:
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- Packers 1-1
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NFC West:
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NFC South:
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With only a couple games under their belts, some of these teams are clearly in a good place, while others are looking at a bleak picture for the remainder of the season. With fans judging their attendance on how likely their team can pull off a win, a slow start could mean poor home team help from the fans.
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Blueberry or Blackberry Cobbler
Those of you that follow me may remember that I grow my own blueberries. This year was absolutely amazing with the amount of blueberries that I picked! My freezer has many gallon bags filled with blueberries so I figured it was time to use some up. This recipe is a simple one to make with a whole lot of flavor. You can exchange the blueberries with blackberries or even huckleberries if you would like. We have many mulberry trees growing wild on our property. I may have to try them with this recipe next year.
The recipe book I found this recipe in is called Grandma's Recipes – Recipes From The 1920's, 30's and 40's, however, they called this recipe Blueberry pudding. I have no idea why they called it Pudding because it is exactly like a cobbler, so I did rename it.
In a medium bowl cream the butter
and the 1/2 cup of sugar.
Add the egg.
Stir well with a large spoon.
Add the flour, baking powder,
salt, milk and vanilla.
Stir well with a spoon.
Spray a 2 quart covered
baking dish with cooking oil.
Place the blueberries into the baking dish.
Pour 1/3 cup of sugar evenly over the top.
Place spoonfuls of the batter
on top of the blueberries.
Carefully spread the batter on
top covering the blueberries.
Put on the lid.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree
oven for approximately 70 minutes
or until the top is a light golden brown.
Serve warm or cold.
Blueberry or Blackberry Cobbler
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
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In my post about the Essie Bridal Collection I mentioned that there was a collection of sheer pinks and whites that I actually like. Here it is- the OPI Princess Charming Collection.
This collection is already a few years old, but it still holds the title of "Only collection of soft shades that I like." The difference is that these soft shades have personality. Observe:
Got A Date To-Knight! A light petal pink creme with a shiny, jelly-like texture. You know me- you know I never wear these colors! But I have actually worn this. Twice. Because I wanted to. There's just something about it that I like, I'm not quite sure what. It's just so... cute...?
I'm A Princess, You're Not! A sheer shimmery iridescent shade that flashes green, pink, silver and soft gold. It's sheer, yes, but it's a duochrome! If you haven't noticed, I use the term 'duochrome' loosely- there are often more than two colors present but I don't feel like counting how many. Would that make this a quadrachrome? See, that sounds weird. Anyway, this color is really pretty on its own, but it's also really cool over black.
My Daddy's The King! A soft, pearl-finish peach. One of the few peach polishes in my collection, actually. I can't believe how much I truly like this. The unique shade and the pearly finish make me love it. That, and it just looks so nice on me. (Wow, I sound like a total narcissist!)
Princesses Rule! A sheer pale pink shimmer. If you do not have this polish, run, do not walk, to the nearest nail polish store and get it! It's the pink version of OPI Hollywood Blonde... well, I guess Hollywood Blonde came out later so maybe Hollywood Blonde is the gold version of Princesses Rule!. Also looks hot over black. One of the things OPI does very well are these sheer crystal polishes. I always look forward to them. Some other examples besides Hollywood Blonde and Princesses Rule! are Up Front And Personal, Pink Before You Leap, Pink Ulta-Matum and That's All Bright With Me (just to name a few.)
Who Needs A Prince? A soft white jelly with red pearl. The red pearl in this shade gives the illusion that the polish is pink. At a distance it looks like shimmery pink, but up close you can clearly distinguish the white and red. So cool.
Your Royal Shyness. Very delicate light pink with a pearl finish. This is a very pale pink. This is the only one in the collection I'm not completely crazy about. It's pretty, yes, but it's so delicate! Delicate colors just aren't my thing. I love the pearl finish- it's not frosty and it's not shimmery, it just looks like a real pearl. It's hard to find polishes that are truly pearl and not frost. This one looks smooth and shiny, even without topcoat.
These polishes used to come with a really fabulous crystal flower toe ring with an invisible band. I think I have one or two of them, but most of the time people just stole the toe rings of of the bottles so I couldn't collect them all. Boo, thieving bastards. You suck.
The formula on this collection is excellent. I am pretty sure it's old-formula OPI, but I don't remember old-formula polishes having the Pro-Wide brush. The label on the bottom is black, so I can only assume it is. They all apply smoothly with no notable issues and they all dry very quickly and to a shiny finish, even without topcoat.
I really do not like sheers, pinks, soft colors, neutrals, what have you- but this collection is too good to resist. They all have character! They're interesting! They all remind me of fairy colors or something. Fairy-tale, for sure. And the names... how could you not like the names? Okay, I'm not into princess stuff at all, but Who Needs A Prince? Genius!
I'm almost positive that this collection is still available, and I've even seen it with green-label new formula bottles, so some of the shades might even be Classics now. If you're in the market for ladylike colors with character, you might really like these. I do.
*watches a pig fly past the window*
Monday, March 23, 2009
OPI Princess Charming Collection
In my post about the Essie Bridal Collection I mentioned that there was a collection of sheer pinks and whites that I actually like. Here it is- the OPI Princess Charming Collection.
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- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I just bought Who Needs a Prince yesterday and it is so pretty! Love the formula, but I like my polish pretty opaque and it took me a solid four coats to get it, but when I did...gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Love your blog and your pics Scrangie...but I was wondering, how many coats are these? I have Princesses Rule but have shied away from the others because I like the other comment like my polishes opaque.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 1:12 PM
I love these too! And I re-bought some of these recently to gift to a bride-to-be. His Royal Shyness is a great base color for layering sheers--I prefer it to using white. Princesses Rule is an awesome pedi shade too.ReplyDelete
Although I am shocked that you like them =P
I need a sea green equivalent of Princesses Rule. That is my pedi dream!
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM
i love them all. but im broke :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM
I'm a Princess, You're Not is so pretty! When I make my long-overdue trip to Trade Secret, I'm definitely looking for it.ReplyDelete
Scrangie, how do you keep your nails so pretty? They're always perfectly shaped!
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Thanks Scrangie..BTW your nails are looking great!ReplyDelete
I want Who Needs a Prince so badly!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Love all the colors on you! Btw, do you have swatches of the OPI Fairytale Bride collection? Are any of the colors from the new collection similar to the Princess Charming collection?ReplyDelete
They're all so pretty on your nails. My kind of sheers! I have Princesses Rule. Might have to get some of the others now!ReplyDelete
These are so pretty!ReplyDelete
I have My Daddy is the King coming in the mail, and I wasn't sure about the color when I ordered it, but now that I've seen the swatches I'm convinced I'll fall in love as soon as I open the package :)
Lindsay, it's so beautiful, isn't it? :DReplyDelete
Jessica, thank you! These are all three coats. You could use one coat over a coordinating base color if you want them to be opaque in two coats total :)
Firepail, I'm as shocked as you are lol but they're so pretty! I totally agree with the sea green Princesses Rule, that would OWN!!!
Ty, awwe, don't buy them if you're broke!
Sprinkles, Thank you :) I use a lot of cuticle oil (it helps your nails as much as your cuticles) and use a glass file once a week :)
Diann_co, thank you! :D
Erin, pretty but also professional!
Anonymous, I'll have them soon :) I'm not sure yet, but it looks like they'll be similar!
Velvet, thank you :) I can't believe I like them!
Vanessa, I bet you'll love it!
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Thankyou so much for reminding me I have the gorgeous I'm a princess, you're not in my stash! I'd completely forgotten about it and I used to wear it a lot! I have been umming and ahhing over princesses rule since this collection came out and now after seeing your pics must satisfy my lemming! I love hollywood blonde so am sure I'll love a pink version.ReplyDelete
Is my daddy's the king similar to Chanel django? It looks similar, perhaps a shade darker?
Thanks for the amazing swatches!
I've had Princess Rules for a while now and I just love it. Thanks for the swatches of the rest of the collection. I have my eyes on a few of themReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Princesses Rule is my favorite nail polish of all time! I actually need to buy a new one! I use it all the time on either my toes or nails.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous swatches Scrangie! I've never really paid attention to this collection but you really changed my mind about some of those colors!ReplyDelete
I have Princesses Rule and love it. My Daddy's the King is so pretty on you. I think I'll have to pick up more from this collection!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I really think Got a Date to-Knight is the prettiest pink I have ever seen. (chances are good, I'll say that again) To me, very girlie. I dig girlie. I will look for it. Others are pretty, too. Wow, you ROCK!ReplyDelete
Wow, I really like My Daddy's the King and I was just looking for a nice peach polish last night but ended up ordering without because I couldn't find one I liked! D'oh :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 at 7:40 PM
I LOVE KUMKWATS!ReplyDelete
Got A Date To-Knight! and Princesses Rule! are screaming my name...ahh, I don't need anymore lemmings!!! This is how a "traditional" collection should be!ReplyDelete
love got a date to-knight, who needs a prince, and royal shynessReplyDelete
Hi Scrangie!ReplyDelete
I have given you a Kreative Blog Award on my blog. Your blog is one of my seven prefered blog!! :-)
Many thanks for all your beautiful post!!!
I love Princess Charming collection, Princesses rule! is so beautiful :)ReplyDelete
I really love your blog!
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Can you maybe show us some of these over black? I'm all curious now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM
oooh! I agree these polishes are not just pinks/sheers in the bunch, they really have personality.ReplyDelete
I think I really want some of them now, cool huh:P
Your nails look amazing. I think beacuse of the the weather, Suddenly my nails are a dry, peeling mess:/
Scrangie I sat down at my computer and looked out the patio doors. Imagine my shock at seeing flying pigs! Even funnier is that Pink Floyd was on the radio. Hope you ge the reference! I own Princesse Rule. I bought it because of the shimmer. All of the collection looks beautiful on you. I can certaintly stand this collection more than that Essie mess.ReplyDelete
Princesses Rule! is one of my favorite layering polishes period. It looks hot with everything. I love it over ChG For Audrey! It's a polish I never expected to like as girly pinks aren't my thing and I hate sheer polishes, but this one is a must have for me. It's so awesomely sparkly and versatile.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 5:00 AM
I SO agree with you!!! This is THE collection for those of us who don't do pretty pale np, and the names have a wonderful kick-ass quality :)ReplyDelete
Alison, ooh, good question! I'm really not sure- I have only seen a couple pictures of Django... Django seems lighter and less peach? Sorry I'm not more help!ReplyDelete
Shadowy Lady, it's a beauty for sure :D
Colette, it's so beautiful, I hope they never discontinue it!
Karman, awe, thank you! :D I actually paid full retail for all of these when they came out, can you believe it??
Body And Soul, thank you! I think these will always be beautiful :)
Scott, haha, a true pink fanatic! Very cool :)
Laura, d'oh! :D It will be around for a while, I'm sure of it :)
Shibong Quisha, I LOVE SHIBONG QUISHA!!!!!! Hell yeah!!!!!!
The Asian Girl, I completely agree!!
Miss Yaya, very cool :)
Astasia, awwwe how sweet! Thank you so much! I will check it out as soon as I can :)
Charming Nails, awe, thank you! I love yours too :)
Felis, it might take me a while but I can definitely do that!
Sanna, thank you :) I think the weather was affecting my nails too, but now that it's a little warmer and less dry I think they're back to normal :) <3
Lucy, LOL!!!! Ahh, that's so awesome, thank you! Love the Floyd reference :D Rock on!
Diana, over For Audrey?? That's an awesome idea, I need to try that IMMEDIATELY!!! Thank you so much for the tip!
Anonymous, thank you :) I love it!
love you're royal shyness, and my daddy's the king is the perfect peach shade, I have been looking everywhere for a peach like this!ReplyDelete
I adore big time, Princesses Rule! for pedis! With all the sheers, neutrals and what not in big time this year, I am having fun revisiting this collection. Know these are as you say, not your thing for colors. But this is one of the best sets of soft shades ever done by OPI IMHO. FYI, these have been re-made in the new OPI formula with the green lettering on the bottom label.ReplyDelete
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Since Sucker Punch failed to conquer the box office, there's been lots of speculation about why it was a box office failure. Was it too stylized? Was it the reviews? Did it fail to appeal to women or older adults?
Actually, there's a very simple reason why Sucker Punch won't make back its money, and why its box office returns are disappointing. Are you ready? Here it is:
It's because Sucker Punch cost $82 million to make. If it had only cost $30 million to make, it would be considered a triumph.
(Actually, there are different estimates of the movie's budget out there — people have cited numbers anywhere from $75 million to $85 million, but Box Office Mojo says $82 million, so let's go with that.)
In the aftermath of its $19 million opening weekend, box office experts have been saying that relatively low gross is not that much lower than they were expecting. After all, this is a non-franchise movie without any huge stars in it (sorry Vanessa Hudgens), from a director who has a cult following but not a huge mainstream following. And it had an off-the-wall concept that was hard to convey in posters and trailers. You'd have to be a wild-eyed optimist to expect that film to make more than about $20 million in its opening weekend.
So the question isn't, "Why did Sucker Punch only make $19 million in its opening weekend?", it's "Why did it have such a huge budget?".
This is true of a lot of movies that people consider flops — it's not really that the movie bombed, it's that it cost too much in the first place.
I was mildly surprised, the other day, to realize that Batman Begins made almost exactly the same amount of money as Superman Returns — yet, the Batman film is regarded as a huge hit, while Superman Returns is regarded as a flop. The difference: Superman Returns cost between $270 million and $350 million to make, while Batman Begins cost only $150 million to make. (But actually, Superman Returns' budget included $65 million in write-offs for previous failed Superman films, including Tim Burton's. Thanks to Robert Meyer Burnett and Silas Lesnick for pointing this out.)
I get the sense, from reading the trades and talking to people, that we're moving away from the era of over-inflated movie budgets a little bit. We reached a kind of high-water mark with the Pirates of the Caribbean films — the second Pirates cost $225 million to make and the third cost $300 million to make. By contrast, the fourth Pirates movie is being made for a slightly more modest budget.
Here's a partial list of movie budgets, based on publicly released information — obviously, these numbers aren't entirely ironclad, and they disagree with other sources, like Box Office Mojo. But it does give the sense that a lot of movies were being made for $200 million-plus even a couple years ago, and a budget in the $100 million-$150 million range was considered normal. Now, with movie attendance falling, expectations may have been scaled back somewhat for films, unless they're a sure thing — and sometimes even then.
X-Men: The Last Stand cost around $150 million to make, but I've seen a budget of $80 million being bandied about for X-Men: First Class. Reportedly, a big reason why Sony decided to do a Spider-Man reboot, instead of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 was because the reboot with a new cast and director could be a lot cheaper. Captain America was made for around $140 million, way less than the Iron Man movies. And there were reports, a few months ago, that Marvel was forcing Joss Whedon to work with a much lower budget for The Avengers than he'd hoped for.
One reason the Bioshock movie hasn't happened, reportedly, is that director Gore Verbinski wanted a bigger budget than Universal was willing to cough up.
(Of course, Hollywood accounting is a thing of wonderment in its complexity, so all of these numbers are make believe to some extent.)
Sure, you don't want the studios to cut corners to the point where movies start looking cheap and silly — a big reason why superheroes and aliens have been making such a huge impact on movie screens in recent years is that we can finally make them look cool instead of tacky. Plus, Inception wouldn't have been nearly as cool a film if Christopher Nolan hadn't had so much money to play with.
But it's really hard to argue that so many movies need to cost $200 million — or that a personal project like Sucker Punch needed to cost $82 million, for that matter. The simplest way to keep a film from looking like a collossal failure is to be honest about what sort of film it is, and give it a budget that makes sense.
To be honest, even though I'm dying to see Guillermo Del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness, it's probably true that an R-rated, $150 million H.P. Lovecraft adaptation starring Tom Cruise would lose buckets of money. It would be a fantastic, epic film, but a box office failure.
Anyway, as you hear people talking about Sucker Punch having been a collossal failure, just bear in mind that they're only saying that because the budget was so huge. It actually did just fine for a small film from a cult director, that wasn't based on any well-known source material. So to the extent that we all enjoy playing Monday-morning quarterback about box office stuff, the real question is the film's inflated budget, not its box office.


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|.ll -8
|.B bunzip2
|.RB [ " \-fkvsVL " ]
|.I "filenames \&..."
|.B bzcat
|.RB [ " \-s " ]
|.I "filenames \&..."
|.B bzip2recover
|.I "filename"
|.I bzip2
|compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting
|text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is
|generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
|LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
|family of statistical compressors.
|The command-line options are deliberately very similar to
|those of
|.I GNU gzip,
|but they are not identical.
|.I bzip2
|expects a list of file names to accompany the
|command-line flags. Each file is replaced by a compressed version of
|itself, with the name "original_name.bz2".
|Each compressed file
|has the same modification date, permissions, and, when possible,
|ownership as the corresponding original, so that these properties can
|be correctly restored at decompression time. File name handling is
|naive in the sense that there is no mechanism for preserving original
|file names, permissions, ownerships or dates in filesystems which lack
|these concepts, or have serious file name length restrictions, such as
|.I bzip2
|.I bunzip2
|will by default not overwrite existing
|files. If you want this to happen, specify the \-f flag.
|If no file names are specified,
|.I bzip2
|compresses from standard
|input to standard output. In this case,
|.I bzip2
|will decline to
|write compressed output to a terminal, as this would be entirely
|incomprehensible and therefore pointless.
|.I bunzip2
|.I bzip2 \-d)
|decompresses all
|specified files. Files which were not created by
|.I bzip2
|will be detected and ignored, and a warning issued.
|.I bzip2
|attempts to guess the filename for the decompressed file
|from that of the compressed file as follows:
|filename.bz2 becomes filename
|filename.bz becomes filename
|filename.tbz2 becomes filename.tar
|filename.tbz becomes filename.tar
|anyothername becomes anyothername.out
|If the file does not end in one of the recognised endings,
|.I .bz2,
|.I .bz,
|.I .tbz2
|.I .tbz,
|.I bzip2
|complains that it cannot
|guess the name of the original file, and uses the original name
|.I .out
|As with compression, supplying no
|filenames causes decompression from
|standard input to standard output.
|.I bunzip2
|will correctly decompress a file which is the
|concatenation of two or more compressed files. The result is the
|concatenation of the corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity
|testing (\-t)
|of concatenated
|compressed files is also supported.
|You can also compress or decompress files to the standard output by
|giving the \-c flag. Multiple files may be compressed and
|decompressed like this. The resulting outputs are fed sequentially to
|stdout. Compression of multiple files
|in this manner generates a stream
|containing multiple compressed file representations. Such a stream
|can be decompressed correctly only by
|.I bzip2
|version 0.9.0 or
|later. Earlier versions of
|.I bzip2
|will stop after decompressing
|the first file in the stream.
|.I bzcat
|.I bzip2 -dc)
|decompresses all specified files to
|the standard output.
|.I bzip2
|will read arguments from the environment variables
|in that order, and will process them
|before any arguments read from the command line. This gives a
|convenient way to supply default arguments.
|Compression is always performed, even if the compressed
|file is slightly
|larger than the original. Files of less than about one hundred bytes
|tend to get larger, since the compression mechanism has a constant
|overhead in the region of 50 bytes. Random data (including the output
|of most file compressors) is coded at about 8.05 bits per byte, giving
|an expansion of around 0.5%.
|As a self-check for your protection,
|uses 32-bit CRCs to
|make sure that the decompressed version of a file is identical to the
|original. This guards against corruption of the compressed data, and
|against undetected bugs in
|.I bzip2
|(hopefully very unlikely). The
|chances of data corruption going undetected is microscopic, about one
|chance in four billion for each file processed. Be aware, though, that
|the check occurs upon decompression, so it can only tell you that
|something is wrong. It can't help you
|recover the original uncompressed
|data. You can use
|.I bzip2recover
|to try to recover data from
|damaged files.
|Return values: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file
|not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, &c), 2 to indicate a corrupt
|compressed file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which
|.I bzip2
|to panic.
|.B \-c --stdout
|Compress or decompress to standard output.
|.B \-d --decompress
|Force decompression.
|.I bzip2,
|.I bunzip2
|.I bzcat
|really the same program, and the decision about what actions to take is
|done on the basis of which name is used. This flag overrides that
|mechanism, and forces
|.I bzip2
|to decompress.
|.B \-z --compress
|The complement to \-d: forces compression, regardless of the
|invocation name.
|.B \-t --test
|Check integrity of the specified file(s), but don't decompress them.
|This really performs a trial decompression and throws away the result.
|.B \-f --force
|Force overwrite of output files. Normally,
|.I bzip2
|will not overwrite
|existing output files. Also forces
|.I bzip2
|to break hard links
|to files, which it otherwise wouldn't do.
|bzip2 normally declines to decompress files which don't have the
|correct magic header bytes. If forced (-f), however, it will pass
|such files through unmodified. This is how GNU gzip behaves.
|.B \-k --keep
|Keep (don't delete) input files during compression
|or decompression.
|.B \-s --small
|Reduce memory usage, for compression, decompression and testing. Files
|are decompressed and tested using a modified algorithm which only
|requires 2.5 bytes per block byte. This means any file can be
|decompressed in 2300k of memory, albeit at about half the normal speed.
|During compression, \-s selects a block size of 200k, which limits
|memory use to around the same figure, at the expense of your compression
|ratio. In short, if your machine is low on memory (8 megabytes or
|less), use \-s for everything. See MEMORY MANAGEMENT below.
|.B \-q --quiet
|Suppress non-essential warning messages. Messages pertaining to
|I/O errors and other critical events will not be suppressed.
|.B \-v --verbose
|Verbose mode -- show the compression ratio for each file processed.
|Further \-v's increase the verbosity level, spewing out lots of
|information which is primarily of interest for diagnostic purposes.
|.B \-L --license -V --version
|Display the software version, license terms and conditions.
|.B \-1 (or \-\-fast) to \-9 (or \-\-best)
|Set the block size to 100 k, 200 k .. 900 k when compressing. Has no
|effect when decompressing. See MEMORY MANAGEMENT below.
|The \-\-fast and \-\-best aliases are primarily for GNU gzip
|compatibility. In particular, \-\-fast doesn't make things
|significantly faster.
|And \-\-best merely selects the default behaviour.
|Treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they start
|with a dash. This is so you can handle files with names beginning
|with a dash, for example: bzip2 \-- \-myfilename.
|.B \--repetitive-fast --repetitive-best
|These flags are redundant in versions 0.9.5 and above. They provided
|some coarse control over the behaviour of the sorting algorithm in
|earlier versions, which was sometimes useful. 0.9.5 and above have an
|improved algorithm which renders these flags irrelevant.
|.I bzip2
|compresses large files in blocks. The block size affects
|both the compression ratio achieved, and the amount of memory needed for
|compression and decompression. The flags \-1 through \-9
|specify the block size to be 100,000 bytes through 900,000 bytes (the
|default) respectively. At decompression time, the block size used for
|compression is read from the header of the compressed file, and
|.I bunzip2
|then allocates itself just enough memory to decompress
|the file. Since block sizes are stored in compressed files, it follows
|that the flags \-1 to \-9 are irrelevant to and so ignored
|during decompression.
|Compression and decompression requirements,
|in bytes, can be estimated as:
|Compression: 400k + ( 8 x block size )
|Decompression: 100k + ( 4 x block size ), or
|100k + ( 2.5 x block size )
|Larger block sizes give rapidly diminishing marginal returns. Most of
|the compression comes from the first two or three hundred k of block
|size, a fact worth bearing in mind when using
|.I bzip2
|on small machines.
|It is also important to appreciate that the decompression memory
|requirement is set at compression time by the choice of block size.
|For files compressed with the default 900k block size,
|.I bunzip2
|will require about 3700 kbytes to decompress. To support decompression
|of any file on a 4 megabyte machine,
|.I bunzip2
|has an option to
|decompress using approximately half this amount of memory, about 2300
|kbytes. Decompression speed is also halved, so you should use this
|option only where necessary. The relevant flag is -s.
|In general, try and use the largest block size memory constraints allow,
|since that maximises the compression achieved. Compression and
|decompression speed are virtually unaffected by block size.
|Another significant point applies to files which fit in a single block
|-- that means most files you'd encounter using a large block size. The
|amount of real memory touched is proportional to the size of the file,
|since the file is smaller than a block. For example, compressing a file
|20,000 bytes long with the flag -9 will cause the compressor to
|allocate around 7600k of memory, but only touch 400k + 20000 * 8 = 560
|kbytes of it. Similarly, the decompressor will allocate 3700k but only
|touch 100k + 20000 * 4 = 180 kbytes.
|Here is a table which summarises the maximum memory usage for different
|block sizes. Also recorded is the total compressed size for 14 files of
|the Calgary Text Compression Corpus totalling 3,141,622 bytes. This
|column gives some feel for how compression varies with block size.
|These figures tend to understate the advantage of larger block sizes for
|larger files, since the Corpus is dominated by smaller files.
|Compress Decompress Decompress Corpus
|Flag usage usage -s usage Size
|-1 1200k 500k 350k 914704
|-2 2000k 900k 600k 877703
|-3 2800k 1300k 850k 860338
|-4 3600k 1700k 1100k 846899
|-5 4400k 2100k 1350k 845160
|-6 5200k 2500k 1600k 838626
|-7 6100k 2900k 1850k 834096
|-8 6800k 3300k 2100k 828642
|-9 7600k 3700k 2350k 828642
|.I bzip2
|compresses files in blocks, usually 900kbytes long. Each
|block is handled independently. If a media or transmission error causes
|a multi-block .bz2
|file to become damaged, it may be possible to
|recover data from the undamaged blocks in the file.
|The compressed representation of each block is delimited by a 48-bit
|pattern, which makes it possible to find the block boundaries with
|reasonable certainty. Each block also carries its own 32-bit CRC, so
|damaged blocks can be distinguished from undamaged ones.
|.I bzip2recover
|is a simple program whose purpose is to search for
|blocks in .bz2 files, and write each block out into its own .bz2
|file. You can then use
|.I bzip2
|to test the
|integrity of the resulting files, and decompress those which are
|.I bzip2recover
|takes a single argument, the name of the damaged file,
|and writes a number of files "rec00001file.bz2",
|"rec00002file.bz2", etc, containing the extracted blocks.
|The output filenames are designed so that the use of
|wildcards in subsequent processing -- for example,
|"bzip2 -dc rec*file.bz2 > recovered_data" -- processes the files in
|the correct order.
|.I bzip2recover
|should be of most use dealing with large .bz2
|files, as these will contain many blocks. It is clearly
|futile to use it on damaged single-block files, since a
|damaged block cannot be recovered. If you wish to minimise
|any potential data loss through media or transmission errors,
|you might consider compressing with a smaller
|block size.
|The sorting phase of compression gathers together similar strings in the
|file. Because of this, files containing very long runs of repeated
|symbols, like "aabaabaabaab ..." (repeated several hundred times) may
|compress more slowly than normal. Versions 0.9.5 and above fare much
|better than previous versions in this respect. The ratio between
|worst-case and average-case compression time is in the region of 10:1.
|For previous versions, this figure was more like 100:1. You can use the
|\-vvvv option to monitor progress in great detail, if you want.
|Decompression speed is unaffected by these phenomena.
|.I bzip2
|usually allocates several megabytes of memory to operate
|in, and then charges all over it in a fairly random fashion. This means
|that performance, both for compressing and decompressing, is largely
|determined by the speed at which your machine can service cache misses.
|Because of this, small changes to the code to reduce the miss rate have
|been observed to give disproportionately large performance improvements.
|I imagine
|.I bzip2
|will perform best on machines with very large caches.
|I/O error messages are not as helpful as they could be.
|.I bzip2
|tries hard to detect I/O errors and exit cleanly, but the details of
|what the problem is sometimes seem rather misleading.
|This manual page pertains to version 1.0.6 of
|.I bzip2.
|Compressed data created by this version is entirely forwards and
|backwards compatible with the previous public releases, versions
|0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and above, but with the following
|exception: 0.9.0 and above can correctly decompress multiple
|concatenated compressed files. 0.1pl2 cannot do this; it will stop
|after decompressing just the first file in the stream.
|.I bzip2recover
|versions prior to 1.0.2 used 32-bit integers to represent
|bit positions in compressed files, so they could not handle compressed
|files more than 512 megabytes long. Versions 1.0.2 and above use
|64-bit ints on some platforms which support them (GNU supported
|targets, and Windows). To establish whether or not bzip2recover was
|built with such a limitation, run it without arguments. In any event
|you can build yourself an unlimited version if you can recompile it
|with MaybeUInt64 set to be an unsigned 64-bit integer.
|Julian Seward, jsewardbzip.org.
|The ideas embodied in
|.I bzip2
|are due to (at least) the following
|people: Michael Burrows and David Wheeler (for the block sorting
|transformation), David Wheeler (again, for the Huffman coder), Peter
|Fenwick (for the structured coding model in the original
|.I bzip,
|and many refinements), and Alistair Moffat, Radford Neal and Ian Witten
|(for the arithmetic coder in the original
|.I bzip).
|I am much
|indebted for their help, support and advice. See the manual in the
|source distribution for pointers to sources of documentation. Christian
|von Roques encouraged me to look for faster sorting algorithms, so as to
|speed up compression. Bela Lubkin encouraged me to improve the
|worst-case compression performance.
|Donna Robinson XMLised the documentation.
|The bz* scripts are derived from those of GNU gzip.
|Many people sent patches, helped
|with portability problems, lent machines, gave advice and were generally