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The Splendor of Silence: A Novel (edition 2007)
by Indu Sundaresan
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Having read this author before and loving her books, I was really looking forward to The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan. Unfortunately, I wasn't as pleased with this book as I had hoped. There's a lot going on, it's partly a historical history, partly a love story, an partly a mystery. And I think that is the reason I was left slightly unsatisfied, simply too much going on and a feeling that some of the story was slipping through the cracks.
Starting in the 1960's a young woman, grieving over the death of her father, Sam, receives a trunk from India and learns about her unknown mother from the unidentified letters enclosed within. We are then drawn back to 1942 and the events surrounding her parents who meet and fall in love over the course of four days in the small principality of Rudrakot, in the northwest of India. If the focus had remained on these two people, I think the story would have benefited but other minor characters were also given detailed storylines.
This story touches on many events that were happening at that time, from the world war, to India stirring with a desire to throw off the British yoke for independence. A fascinating time and place, I wanted to be swept away with an touching storyline about this rapidly changing society but instead I felt the narrative was broken into too many pieces and it lost much of it's appeal. Still I would definitely try another of her books as I love her exotic settings and her insights into the mysterious country of India.
I really loved this book. It brought India to life for me. I found it so well written.
Amazing book. The characters are compelling, and the story is sad but beautiful.
In Short: A slow paced story that failed to grab my interest. So after reading about 1/2 the book I decided to put it aside and search for a more compelling read.
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This is a love story between a British soldier and a young woman who is to marry the local Raj. Fascinating historical read.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743283686, Paperback)When Sam Hawthorne, a twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army captain, arrives at the princely state of Rudrakot in May of 1942, it is on a personal quest to find his missing brother. But Sam's mission is soon threatened by the unlikeliest of sources -- he falls hopelessly in love with Mila, daughter of the local political agent. And Mila, unexpectedly attracted to Sam, finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the man she loves.
A sweeping and poignant story of forbidden love, The Splendor of Silence opens twenty-one years later with Olivia, Sam's daughter, receiving a trunk of treasures from India, along with an anonymous letter that finally fills the silences of her childhood. She finally learns the heartrending story of her parents' passionate and enduring love affair -- throwing them in the path of racial prejudice, nationalist intrigue, and the explosive circumstances of a country on the brink of independence from British rule.
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In 1942, Sam Hawthorne, a young U.S. Army captain, arrives in a tiny princely state in western India. He carries combat wounds and several secrets, one of which is the real reason behind his visit: to find his brother Mike, an idealistic American soldier who disappeared after joining the local struggle for independence from the British. But Sam's mission is soon threatened when he falls in love with Mila, daughter of the local political agent. Betrothed to the local prince, Mila draws Sam into a doomed affair that places them both in the path of dynastic intrigue, racial prejudice, and the explosive circumstances of a country torn between imperialism and nationalism.… (more)
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Game Development Myths: Players Want Smart Artificial Intelligence
One day in the office, a few years back, I heard the creative director of the game I was working on escorting a group of students (or maybe they were gaming press… I wasn't exactly sure) on a tour through the studio. While the lead AI programmer on the project was setting up a demo for our upcoming game, the creative director killed some time by talking up how smart that AI was. Our creative director was a great salesman. It's how he got the other leads to sign off on his ideas. That day, he held the crowd's attention by telling stories about how how smart the AI was, and how easily he'd get sniped for just peeking out even a little bit at the highest difficulty. He used body language to sell it, reeling back as if he had been physically shot in the face. Everybody laughed. A few minutes passed and the demo began in earnest. It's funny, because that was the day that I witnessed a game developer perpetuate the myth that good artificial intelligence somehow equated to accurate attacking firsthand. It wasn't until over a year later that I realized just how big a cognitive gap there was between truth and myth.
First, let me address the perpetual myth that more accurate AI is somehow "smarter". That's simply not true. If the game decides that the enemy is going to hit you, then the enemy is going to hit you. The game decides when you get hit, not if you get hit. Sure, you can add in factors to the simulation to decide… the enemy's skill with the gun, the amount of recoil, the type of gun, the rate of fire, the difficulty level, and so on and so forth. But these are all artificial factors that are added into the simulation. They aren't making the AI "smarter" any more than giving a D&D monster an extra +5 bonus on its attack roll makes it "smarter". AI Accuracy is a shell game that people use to fool themselves into thinking an AI is smart when it's really just been given a +5 to hit.
That said, I still think about that anecdote every now and again whenever I hear gamers talk about how they want real intelligent AI, better AI, not this stupid scripted stuff. At the time I heard it I just laughed and thought about how great a salesman our creative director really was, but later on, after the game was released and the inevitable criticisms of the AI system began rolling in from both critics and players, I really thought about what it was that had gone wrong. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that what the players and critics were complaining about wasn't the AI at all.
Here, let me show you what I mean. Here is your basic first person cover-based shooter scenario from a top-down view. You've got a fairly wide open map that has some interspersed cover, and you've got 3 AI dudes engaged in a gunfight with the player. Most would suspect that the AI would just hole up, take shots at the player, maybe throw some grenades to flush him or her out. And they'd be right, because that's how most games like this handle situations like these. At higher difficulty rates, the AI would be more accurate and deal more damage. Pretty standard stuff, right?
So the question here is… what should an intelligent AI do in this scenario? The AI guys on the team sat down and basically came up with this strategy for the bad guys:
One of the bad guys would move south and lay down covering fire (red arrow). Doing so would invariably draw the player's attention and fire (blue arrow), and they would shoot at each other while still being mostly safe. If the player would try to stick his or her head out, the bad guy laying down covering fire would immediately take pot shots at the player, and the AI accuracy was good enough that the player would usually orient on the threat. While this was going on, the other two bad guys would move north (green arrow). Can you guess what happens next?
Yup. The other two dudes would flank the player (green arrow) and start shooting from the weak side that gave the player no cover (red arrow again). The player would then usually take a bunch of damage and be forced to deal with a very tactically bad position. The idea was that by making the AI gunmen act in a strategic manner, it would force the player to keep moving and find new tactically advantageous positions while fighting intelligent bad guys. Adrenaline pumping gameplay, no real safe spots, truly smart AI with real squad tactics. Sounds like it would be pretty fun, right?
Players hated it.
Why would they do this? Wasn't this what shooter fans have been clamoring for? Intelligent squad-based AI! They took the lay of the land into consideration and formulated a tactically sound plan! The AI team worked hard with the level design team to come up with algorithms for the AI to figure out the best paths, the optimum places to lay down covering fire, where to come at the player and so on and so forth. The level design would dictate the AI tactics. It was going to be great.
In hindsight, the more I thought about it the more I realized just how wrong we were.
Here's what actually happened:
- Players didn't always see the bad guys doing the flanking. In fact, most of the time, they were so caught up shooting at the bad guy acting as bait that they completely ignored the other guys sneaking around to bust a cap in their asses. When the other guys finally appeared and started shooting at the player from their new position, the players complained about how the stupid game was cheating by spawning bad guys behind/flanking them.
- In order to combat this "unfair spawning behavior", players would then tactically withdraw (run away) until they were in narrow hallways where the AI could not flank. There, the players could then pick off the AI at their leisure one by one, since they had nowhere to go.
- Because this is the only tactic that worked well consistently, the players complained that the AI was dumb for just running in and getting shot while they stayed in relative safety.
In essence, we had built an AI that really did outsmart most players and players really don't respond well to being outsmarted, so they had turned the tables by repeatedly dragging the AI into situations where it was dumbest, and then winning through attrition. And that was a problem, because it wasn't fun. But it sure was effective.
The sad thing was that if you watched from observer mode or the video replay, you could literally see the tactics play out legitimately. Worse yet, so much time had been spent on making "smart" AI that the AI team really didn't have time to make a variety of AI. Most enemies all behaved in similar ways, because the idea was to have the lay of the land determine the actual tactics.
We tried a few things to make it better. We recorded voice-over audio of thugs basically spelling out exactly what it was they were doing. The bait would shout "COVERING FIRE" as he did so, the other guys would yell things like "I'LL GET HIM FROM THIS SIDE!" as they moved. The bad guys would all periodically shout "RELOADING!" when they were supposed to stop firing and give the player a chance to shoot back with impunity. It didn't work. Most players still tunnel visioned in on the bait like tween girls on Edward Cullen. In the end, the AI team hastily cobbled together a second AI type which would rush the player in a suicide charge just for some variety.
In hindsight, I believe that the way we approached the problem was fundamentally flawed. We had erroneously chosen the role the AI took, and that had been our downfall. We made the assumption that the AI's primary goal was to be given the same tools as the player, and to use those tools to defeat the player in an intelligent way. The problem with this approach is that it assumed the fun was inherent, when there was no real way to prove that out.
That is not what the goal should have been. The goal from the start should have been to design an AI that was fun to beat. This is a rather crucial difference that I think we glossed over at the beginning, and it ended up hurting us in the long run.
In retrospect, had we been able to do it over again, I would have erred on the side of more variety and less "intelligence". If we had enemies who actually behaved differently it would then be up to the player to mentally come up with a strategy to deal with each (recognizable) type and thus improve and exhibit skill with the game. As long as we provided a steady stream of reasonably interesting and varied decisions and choices to make (a mix of snipers, assault types, pistol types, breachers, mid-long range rifles, etc.) then the gun combat would be more interesting and less frustrating. It may not have been the "smart" AI that some players clamor for, but it would have been fun to play against and beat, and that's what really matters in the end.


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|Doctor Who character
|Clara Oswald
|Eleventh Doctor
Twelfth Doctor
|Home planet
|First appearance
|"Asylum of the Daleks"
|Portrayed by
|Jenna Coleman
|Other portrayals
|Sophie Downham
|Doctor Who character
|Clara Oswald
|Eleventh Doctor
Twelfth Doctor
|Home planet
|First appearance
|"Asylum of the Daleks"
|Portrayed by
|Jenna Coleman
|Other portrayals
|Sophie Downham
Clara Oswald is a fictional character portrayed by Jenna Coleman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. First appearing in the show's seventh series, Clara serves as a companion of the eleventh and twelfth incarnations of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi).
Clara is presented to the audience during the first half of the seventh series as three distinct though similarly named people living in different eras of time. The first two incarnations, Oswin Oswald and Clara Oswin Oswald, each die during the episode in which they appear. The third incarnation becomes the Doctor's companion, travelling with him for the remainder of the series as he tries to uncover the mystery of her multiple lives.
Oswin Oswald is introduced in the first episode of the seventh series, "Asylum of the Daleks". She is the sole survivor of the Starship Alaska, which crashed on the Asylum, a prison planet for insane Daleks. Oswin then learns from the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) that she has been converted from human into a Dalek, and has coped by retreating into a fantasy of her own survival. She assists the Doctor and his travelling companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, in escaping the planet unharmed, but at the cost of her own life.[1] Later in the series, the character is reintroduced as Clara in the 2012 Christmas special "The Snowmen". Clara is a Victorian barmaid and a governess who is invited to become the Doctor's newest companion after he saves her from an attack by snowmen brought to life by the evil Great Intelligence. After being shown the TARDIS, the Doctor's time and space machine, and given a key to the TARDIS, Clara is attacked from behind and falls from a precipitous height. At the end of the episode, her tombstone reveals her full name to be Clara Oswin Oswald. The Doctor realises she is the same woman as Oswin from the Dalek Asylum, and intrigued by a woman who has lived and died twice in different periods of history, he begins searching across time for another Clara.[2] In "The Bells of Saint John", a 21st-century Clara meets the Doctor in contemporary London, and he takes her on as a companion with a view to solving the mystery of the "impossible girl".[3] The Doctor's repeated attempts at investigating Clara's origins over the course of "The Rings of Akhaten", "Hide" and "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" consistently turn compelling evidence that she is just a normal young human woman.[4][5][6] In the latter episode, in an averted timeline, the Doctor confronts Clara about the two previous versions of her he had met, but she does not know what he is talking about.[4] The mystery surrounding Clara is finally resolved in "The Name of the Doctor" when she sacrifices her existence in time to undo the harm the Great Intelligence has done to the Doctor's timestream. As a result, incarnations of herself are scattered throughout the Doctor's history, appearing to every known face of the Doctor and saving his life in numerous ways—for the most part unnoticed—and even ensuring that the First Doctor (William Hartnell) picks the "right" TARDIS on his home planet, prior to the events of the show's first episode. Lost in the Doctor's timestream, she is eventually rescued and brought back into existence by the Eleventh Doctor.[7] In the show's 50th anniversary special, Clara is shown to have become a teacher at Coal Hill School. While on an adventure with the Doctor, she meets the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and the War Doctor (John Hurt) in person, and manages to convince the Doctor to change his history and save his home planet from destruction in the Time War of his past, instead sealing it in a pocket universe, where it remains lost.[8]
In "The Time of the Doctor," the Time Lords wish to return to the universe through a crack in time, but if they do so, the Time War will begin anew. He sends Clara home to her family at Christmas twice, but she returns in the TARDIS, after intervals of hundreds of years. With the Doctor facing certain death at the end of his regeneration cycle, she pleads with the Time Lords through the crack to save the Doctor; he is granted a new regeneration cycle and the crack closes. She witnesses the Doctor regenerate into the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) before her eyes, who worriedly asks if she knows how to pilot the TARDIS.
Clara (Sophie Downham) appears in a short prequel to "The Bells of Saint John" as a child who talks to the Doctor at a playground. The Doctor does not realise her identity, which is revealed to the viewer.[9] Coleman later played Clara in "He Said, She Said", the online prequel to "The Name of the Doctor".[10] Clara also features alongside the Eleventh Doctor in the New Series Adventures novel Shroud of Sorrow, published April 2013.[11][12] She appeared in IDW Publishing's comic story Deadwood.[13] Clara appeared briefly in issues 11 & 12 of IDW 50th anniversary Doctor Who mini-series "Prisoners of Time". Beginning with Issue 462 (June 2013), Clara appears regularly in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips.[14]
On 21 March 2012, it was announced that Jenna-Louise Coleman would replace Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill as the next companion.[15] She auditioned for the role in secrecy, pretending it was for something called Men on Waves, an anagram for "Woman Seven".[16] Executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat chose her for the role because she worked the best alongside Smith and could talk faster than he did.[17] Coleman had never seen Doctor Who before her audition, and watched "The Eleventh Hour" and "completely fell in love with the show".[18] However, she only watched the first five episodes of the seventh series – the final five featuring Gillan and Darvill – because she did not want to learn more about their relationship to the Doctor, as she wanted her acting alongside Smith to be "spontaneous".[19] Moffat stated that her character is different from previous companions,[20] though he attempted to keep the details of her character a secret until she debuted in the Christmas special.[21] In "Asylum of the Daleks", Coleman appears as the character Oswin Oswald, a secret which was kept from the public before transmission.[22] Coleman was originally given the role of a Victorian governess named Jasmine, and then for the second audition she was given both the characters of Oswin and Clara. She originally thought that the producers were looking for the right character, but later realised it was part of Moffat's "soft mystery" plan.[23][24] Neil Gaiman (writer of "Nightmare in Silver") revealed that the character was originally intended to stay as a Victorian governess.[25] Coleman stated that Moffat came up with the mystery during the audition process.[19] Coleman played each version of the character as individuals with "trust that there would be a payoff" to her mystery.[26] Moffat told Neil Cross, who wrote "Hide", the first episode Coleman filmed, that Clara was "a normal girl".[27]
Moffat felt that the introduction of a new companion made "the show feel different" and brought the story to "a new beginning" with a different person meeting the Doctor.[20] Executive producer Caroline Skinner remarked that her introduction allowed the series return to a more "classic Doctor Who format".[28] Smith said that Clara was different from her predecessor Amy Pond (Gillan), which allowed the audience to see a different side of the Doctor.[29] Moffat said that Coleman brings "a speed and wit and an unimpressed quality that makes the Doctor dance a bit harder"[30] Coleman stated that her character "holds her own" and was competitive with the Doctor, providing "a nice double act".[31] With her place in the series' narrative, Clara was intended to reawaken the Doctor's "curiosity in the universe and gives him his mojo back".[32] Concerning Clara's relationship to the Doctor, Coleman said, "It's been interesting how it's changed Matt's Doctor. There is a natural bounce between them, and a flirtation, and attraction. But, again, they've always got this friction because they're a bit magnetic and drawn to each other, but she can't quite figure him out. He's got loads of secrets and he's always looking at her, trying to figure her out."[31] The dynamic between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was an influence on Coleman and Smith.[33] In addition, Coleman revealed that Clara and the TARDIS have a "relationship", as there is a running joke about the TARDIS (previously established in the series as being sentient) not liking Clara or making fun of her.[34]
Nick Setchfield of SFX praised the effective surprise debut of Coleman as Oswin in "Asylum of the Daleks". He wrote, "Coleman brings sauce and sparkiness, and while she initially seems a familiar Moffat archetype, all snarky cracks about the Doctor's chin and throwaway lines about sexual experimentation... there's a deeper vulnerability there too, which makes her eventual fate in this episode genuinely heart-skewering."[35] Michael Hogan, writing for The Daily Telegraph, also found her debut promising and described her as "enchanting in an elfin way – rather like a brunette, curvier, less annoying Fearne Cotton".[36]
The character's reintroduction as Clara in "The Snowmen" received generally positive reviews from critics. The Guardian's Dan Martin wrote, "The masterstroke behind Jenna-Louise Coleman's surprise introduction is that it made us want to see more of her before Karen Gillan had even gone. The cheeky, self-assured Clara won a place in our hearts from the off."[37] Setchfield called her "less of a motormouthed quip-merchant than [Oswin], but Coleman makes her equally winning – plucky, smart and riffing on a very promising chemistry with Matt Smith".[38] IGN's Matt Risley felt that the Clara "trumped her already-bombastic debut with a character both fully formed and utterly unpredictable". He praised the mystery surrounding her and her independence, commenting that she seemed to be the "antithesis" of Amy Pond as she was "a girl who will wait for no-one".[39] Radio Times reviewer Patrick Mulkern admitted that he had "found Oswin's perkiness a tad wearing", but he was "completely won over" by Coleman's Clara in "The Snowmen".[40] Neela Debanth of The Independent felt that Clara's demise in "The Snowmen" made the episode "a bit of a tease" and set up the question of what the travelling Clara would be like. Unlike Mulkern, she favoured the Oswin version, describing her as "much more fun and flirtatious".[41]
Following "The Bells of Saint John", Digital Spy's Morgan Jeffery said that the new Clara was "more grounded and so far easier for the viewer to latch on to" than her two predecessors, both of which could have been harder to sustain as companions.[42] Mulkern said that he did not bother with the character's mystery and found it pleasing that Coleman played her as "a straightforward modern companion with no baggage".[43] Setchfield described Clara as "equally sparky and winning but altogether younger and possibly just a tad more vulnerable than her previous incarnations" with a "helplessly watchable chemistry" with Smith.[44] Debnath described her as a "softer version" of Oswin, still hoping that "the character will be taken up a notch, challenging the Doctor more and bouncing off him like Oswin did.[45] However, the Daily Mirror's Jon Cooper expressed concern that Clara, despite Coleman's success, was too similar to Amy.[46] Mike Higgins of The Independent felt that Coleman was "an improvement" upon Gillan, but wrote that "the pairing of an intellectually bright but emotionally dim male with a techno-illiterate but wised up female is a tired old trope of much drama and comedy".[47]
The character's development has also been met with positive reviews. Martin praised how her backstory was fleshed out in "The Rings of Akhaten", as otherwise the character "was danger of becoming simply a story arc in the shape of a girl".[48] SFX's Richard Edwards wrote that she had the potential to be "a truly great companion", and that it was "refreshing to see a companion who isn't in total awe of the Doctor... and she's not afraid to take the lead when she needs to".[49] Debnath praised her "caring nature" and "lovely maternal side",[50] but felt that she could be "annoyingly naïve".[51] Dave Golder of SFX stated that Clara was "to an extent, a bit of a cartoon character" and that Moffat was better at writing her in "The Name of the Doctor" than some of the preceding writers. He also commented that she "still feels too new a companion (and an underdeveloped one) to really care about her sacrifice".[52]
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Interesting one.....
I have seen a few cheap PCs that come with no OS except DOS? Likes of eBuyer etc.
Does a PC that comes with DR DOS 7 from the manufacturer qualify for the the Academic Windows XP Pro Upgrade License?
I emailed Ramesys to ask and they said it was fine (aslong as the PC has a previous Microsoft operating system). This seems like a way for schools to save money then, buying Windows XP Pro Academic License for £30 rather then the OEM version for £80+.
Now where can I buy DOS from these days?! :lol: :lol:


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Whitewash Yellow-y Pine Floors?
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Q: Our loft apartment has rough-sawn hardwood floors that I think are unstained pine(?) coated with polyurethane. Our building is only about 10 years old so they are pretty new. The problem is, they are extremely yellow. They seem more yellow in areas receiving direct sunlight all day so I suspect it may be the poly that is yellowing. I am tired of trying to design around our floor color and want to refinish with either a very faint whitewash so the wood grain and texture are still visible, or a light but non-yellow shade, if that's possible:
Secondly, what are people's opinions on whitewashed flooring in general? I am ok with rustic, and with scuffs on the white, but I don't want something that will look too West Elm/CB2 designer-y or dated in a few years when we resell. Would you buy a loft with whitewashed floors? Or do you think ours look okay the way they are? We have a LOT of wood in this apartment already because the ceilings are unfinished pine with steel beams.
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I don't have any information about whitewashing (sorry), but I did want to say that in the second picture, at least, your floors look perfectly fine/lovely. The first pic is pretty yellow, but I still think they're fine, with nice texture and warmth.
My advice is to stop designing around your floor color.
Your unstained floors go with your ceilings. I don't think whitewashed floors would.
I would hate to buy a place with whitewashed floors. I'll take unstained pine with poly, the natural color of which is yellow, which I have now, or old unstained oak parquet and long floorboards, which is naturally somewhat less yellow, which I've had in many previous places, or even medium or darker stained wood, but give me a wood tone, in some natural wood color, on wood floors, please.
I also don't understand what design style these floors would not go with. I've never found it necessary to design around my wood floors, whatever shade. I could only see needing to take floor shade into account if the floors were extremely dark. Otherwise, like yours, they are a very neutral backdrop.
I think your floors look great. I think you either don't particularly like the color, or else just don't like the vast expanse of the color, or just of wood floor. (Or maybe it is the rustic nature of the floorboards you don't like, but they go with the ceilings and loft style.) I don't like vast expanses of wood floor, either, however pretty the floor is. Which is why I like to use area rugs to define various areas on most of my floors. I enjoy seeing the floor color in the few feet between rugs and around edges. The colorful rugs set my design colors, and define the spaces. Whatever color your floor is, no matter how much you don't like the color, if you put down rugs, you won't notice the floor color as much, and likely will cease to find it offensive. You might even start to appreciate the floor color when broken up with rugs.
Also, since you mention it is an apartment, you likely are required to cover 80% of your floor anyway. Unless you are on the bottom floor, the neighbors below you will much appreciate your laying down rugs to cut down on the noise that travels from your footfalls to their space below.
You also may find you like the acoustics of your place better with rugs. I once put a large cotton rag rug down on a large kitchen floor to soak up sound...there was an empty echo in the room before I did so, which the rug did away with very nicely.
I don't have experience with whitewash, but I had white deck paint floors in my old apartment. LOVED it. I'd definitely buy a place with white floors again.
As for your situation -- If your main concern is non-yellow, have you considered going darker? An ebony stain is super easy to apply -- you don't have to sand, just clean.
Polyurethane does yellow the material it is applied to, which is why a polyacrylic is a better choice if you don't want that yellow tone. You may be able to sand off the polyurethane and reapply another finish. That being said, it is natural for pine in particular to darken with age and exposure to sunlight. In time your floors will likely lose their yellow tone and darken naturally. I put in a similar floor as yours a little over ten years ago, and it is now becoming a more honey color as time goes on. I think your existing floor is very appropriate to the space and is attractive in itself. If the yellow tone really bothers you, sand it off and try something like polyacrylic or even a natural wood oil finish - but the raw pine in itself is gorgeous, please don't whitewash it!
I have a Victorian apartment which had whitewashed (limed-effect) floors when we moved in and I really like them. The sellers told me that they brushed on white paint, that had been diluted with a medium that made the paint dry more slowly. Then, they wiped some of it off. Some of the white stayed on the floor. They painted and wiped until the effect they wanted had been achieved. They finished it with polyurethane. It's quite a subtle effect, the way they did it.
It looks fantastic with our modern furniture. The wood still shows through quite a bit, so it looks nice with medium tones of wood. It also does not show dirt the way an all white floor would.
It would be a lot of work and you should probably experiment with a few rough sawn boards to see how it worked with boards that aren't from 1830. Also, to see if you like the effect and it would be worth the effort.
The color is not so much yellow as wood colored. So wood is really just the same as background. Ignore it.
I would take a painted white floor.
those floors are oak, not pine.
all wood floors "patina" over time and will change color...
good luck.
Whitewash tends to be picky and wears unevenly. You'd probably have to put poly back down on top of it, which would end up being counter-intuitive if you didn't want it to wear.
The wood floor does go well with the ceiling, but if you absolutely feel the need for a change, I would recommend darker so they still go with the rest of the building's architectural details.
Agreed, those floors aren't pine - pine is too soft for flooring. I feel you on the yellow, though - we were going to refinish our glossy, orange 80s floors before we found out they were tacked down on vinyl and just redid them altogether in a red oak. I disagree that it reads as wood and should be ignored. Floor color can be distracting. Oaks will yellow, but if I were you I'd consider a darker stain instead of white washing. If you're not confident you'll get the effect you want, then it's a safer bet.
Pine floors are very common in Scandinavia.
Anyway, I think your floors look lovely.
My recommendation, after sanding and refinishing floors for 40 years, would be sand the floor down to the bare wood, bleach the floor and use a urethane acrylic for finish. This will eliminate the yellow color from the pine. Also, since the new finish is water base it will prevent the floors from yellowing (ambering) in the future because it is a non-oil product. Furthermore, the new waterbase finishes are more durable, non-toxic and non-flammable. Unfortunately, since the floor is currently finished with oil it is difficult to apply something over it and have it adhere properly. If you chose to change the color you will need to abrade the surface completely, particularly the recessed areas. If you dont remove the existing finish you will always have a yellow floor under whatever you choose to put on top. The disadvantage to this approach is that whenever the floor gets scratched or worn, the yellow will show through,which could potentially look even worse.
I don't know if those floors are pine, but pine is certainly a fairly common choice for flooring. My 1911 victorian has them on the 2nd floor (the first floor got the nice hardwoods), and we had them in the 1960s era house I grew up in. They are not as durable as hardwood, but I can say they'll last serviceably well for 50-100 years. ;)
There should be some good no VOC "stains" out there. You might try a not-quite-white shade rather than stark white. You should also consider whitewashing the ceiling/beams area.
You will probably need to sand quite a bit. Alternatively you could paint the floors. Another option is to lightly sand, then stain, and let the unevenness be part of the design; "real" whitewash would probably be a little less than pristine. Is there a hidden location that you could sand and stain before tackling the entire floor?
Personally I would love to have a whitewashed wood floor and/or painted floor but you do need to consider re-sale value, How long are you planning on staying in your place? If it's only one-two years then I'd say leave the floors alone for the next person. 5-10 years then go for it.
Big rugs?
I have oak floors that are too yellow for my taste so I plan to sand and stain them a neutral medium wood color. While I would love to ebonize the floors, I think that dark and white floors are a trend that will look dated over time. I am not planning to all, but everything I am doing is as classic modern as possible, because that will work best over the long haul.
Please, please leave the floors alone. They are fine. A friend of mine recently bought a condo and had to fix the former owner's big floor mistake of trying to do a dark finish. I suspect it would be the same for white. I wouldn't do either white or a dark finish as both are impractical and seem rather trendy at the moment. Natural oak floors will never go out of style.
The only way I know to change the color is to sand and stain the floors darker.
If they were my floors and I didn't like them, I'd go a Benjamin Moore Paint Store and share my problem with them. They have offered me amazing solutions to problems as I have restored houses that would not have occurred to me. And I have learned a lot about surfaces.
I think your BF is right about the paint over poly. That sounds like a peeling problem to me. And have you considered keeping a white floor CLEAN? I can imagine that would a nightmare. At least your floors don't show dirt.
Sanders can be rented, but it's a learning curve. In the meanwhile, you could carve serious grooves in your floor.
Another possibility is to have someone else sand the floors, and then you stain and seal them yourselves. That usually saves 50%, but you will have to get the floors hospital clean with no dust before you stain or seal. I did this once on a house to save money, and on the third poly coat, one of my long red curly hairs fell into the poly, and will be there forever.
Have you considered Osmo? It is an oil wax, not a stain, and comes in many colours. The advantage is that you can change the colour without painting or having to use polyurethane or a varnish. And when you need to refinish, you don't have to strip the old finish. You just reapply it directly where needed.
They have a white one and apparently you can still see the natural grain of the wood.
I've never tried Osmo but it's environmentally friendly and I have heard great things. If I had to refinish a floor, that is definitely what I'd use.
I love how everyone is telling you to just get over it and keep them as-is. Very helpful!
I have no advice for you, but I do support you and your wish to un-yellow your floors. ;)
I would agree about the wood species. The likelihood of that floor being pine is slim. It looks exactly like ash to me (or possibly oak), which are both harder woods, which would make sanding the poly out take a longer time. I think the floors are beautiful as is. OR I would sand the floors down to the non-poly natural color and then do a light colored stain and then re-apply the water based poly. Good luck!


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I found this recipe on Web MD. I am rather picky when it comes to my veggies and this gives a cheese recipe that you can drizzle over your veggies that might be good. I haven't tried it yet and hate to post something I haven't tried, but..... I am gonna do it anyway.
3-Cheese Sauce
Drizzle this creamy sauce over steamed veggies for a tasty change of pace.
2 tablespoons of flour
1 1/4 cups of low-fat milk or fat-free half-and-half
2 ounces of part-skim Jarlsberg (or reduced-fat Swiss) cheese, grated
2 1/2 ounces of reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese, grated
2 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon of pepper
1. In a small saucepan, blend flour with 2 tablespoons of the milk or half-and-half to form a smooth paste. Using a wire whisk, slowly blend in remaining milk until smooth. Simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened.
2. Reduce heat and add cheeses, garlic powder, and pepper. Stir until well blended and cheese has melted.
3. Remove from heat and use as desired.
6 servings
Nutritional Information:
Per serving: 99 calories, 9 g protein, 5 g carbohydrate, 4.8 g fat (3 g saturated fat, 1.4 g monounsaturated fat, 0.2 g polyunsaturated fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 0.1 g fiber, 177 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 44%.
Here is a link to the whole article too. It is about people who are not big on veggies and how to incorporate them into your diet in tasty ways.
It's called 15 Tips for Veggie Haters
Well I was really on a role with the bootcamp and doing great. Getting lots of cardio in and doing all the videos. But it all came to a screeching halt this week... since Sunday I have barely gotten out of bed. My birthday was Monday, the following day. This year for my birthday for the first time in my life, I got strep throat. I am sort of discouraged. I am out of bed for a bit today and feeling much better, but still very weak and drained. I hate it when something throws a wrench in my exercise because it is so easy for me to not get back on track again. I just keep thinking..."and I was doing so well".....
Hopefully I will continue to get better. Been on antibiotics for three days now. I am going to do my best to get back in the swing of things as soon as I am able. Although I might have to start back slowly until I am 100%. I am allergic to penicillin so I am taking a dumb Z-pack. They take forever to work it seems. Anyways, keep your fingers crossed and by Monday, be riding my butt to make sure I am doing as I should. PLEEEEEAAASE. Hope everyone is staying motivated and working towards your goals. I am doing my best....
I admit that until about three weeks ago I wasn't exercising as I should or really watching what I was eating. I do it for a while and then I quit. Well I gained a few pounds back, but my scale is driving me crazy. One minute it says I weigh 134 then it jumps later on to like 140. That is a big difference. So, I have no idea what I truly weigh. I guess I will weigh first thing in the morning if I can remember to do it. I am doing the new YOU Bootcamp and I am doing a good job. I am not skimping except a little on the cardio. I don't do 30 minutes every single day, but at least four or five out of seven days I am. So... why aren't any pounds coming off????? I am getting discouraged. Very discouraged and feel like I am wasting my time. I went in a few minutes ago and upped my weight in the weigh in section so I can put what it is saying right now. I will update in the AM if it changes. I know I have to stick to things and not be so sporadic, but sometimes it is hard. If my routine gets interruped, I am just off for a while after that. I am trying to stay focused, but right now I feel like no matter what I do, the weight is just going to keep on coming back.
Hmmm... I must be doing something wrong on the weight thing. I have lost seven pounds, but it keeps showing only four. I have gone in and corrected my weight twice now, but .... I must be doing it in the wrong place. I dunno.... OH well, I don't guess it matters. It just sux cuz I have worked hard to lose those seven pounds and I would much rather see that number than my four that it is showing. I was having good success and having no trouble at all staying motivated until....dum..dum....dum.... THE LONG WEEKEND. That has messed me up this week so far. I can't seem to get back on track. I have done no exercises today or yesterday. I did do some Sunday just in case I didn't get around to them on Monday though so that helps a bit, but I am not liking my feelings of absolutely NO MOTIVATION right about now. I have drank only three glasses of water today and this weekend, I actually drank none one day. Yes on Sunday I drank zero glasses of water. I had guests and we hung out and I was just bad and didn't do what I was supposed to do. I drank sodas all day long like a mad woman. Well not that many- I guess it just felt like it because I am not used to drinking them so much. I drank three or four. Ok, yes that is a lot. CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
Well today is my son's first day of kindergarten. I am sort of freaking out and want to burst into tears, so I have decided the best thing for me to do is stay very, very busy. So far today SparkPeople has saved me. Hopefully, I will keep it up every single day. I hope to drive him to school and then do exactly what I did today. Get busy and do my exercises, fill out my info., blog, etc, etc. I have been putting this off.... I want to lose some weight but lack the motivation to do it. Hopefully today will the a day of firsts for me too.... the first day that I GET OVER IT ALREADY and do something about it.
I was thin all my life and truly never understood how difficult it was for people to lose weight. I never had to worry about what I ate or whether I exercised or not. I just thought, well, if you need to lose weight, don't eat so much. LOL!!! Boy was I dumb. Now that I am struggling with lifestyle changes and body changes after my son came along, I realize there is soooo much more to it than that. I was very naive. Becoming a stay-at-home mom and leaving the work force I think had some impact on my weight, NOT that I lay around all day watching soap operas as so many like to think stay at home moms do. I work harder now than I did when I worked outside of my home. I think it is more of not having so much of a schedule. Anyways, I am rambling. I say all this to say, sparkpeople helped me keep my sanity today so far and I am grateful. Thanks Crystal for turning me on to this. Hopefully I will keep it up and get results...... Good luck everyone and btw, John Mayer is super hot. hehehe If we all want concert shirts, we have to lose a few pounds cuz his girly shirts only come in small and mediums. LOL!!!


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At Electronic House we favor high-end audio gear, and that doesn't end with headphones. Our friends at Audioholics feel the same way, but they wanted to take some budget priced products out for a test drive too and came up with the $60 RHA SA950i over-the-ear headphones. That's right, over-the-ear headphones for $60.
So what did the golden ears at Audioholics think?
While they may not be the most linear or accurate headphones I've tested, they are easily one of my favorites. With well extended highs, engaging bass, and no real weak point, you could do a lot worse for $60. Heck, you could do a lot worse for much more.
That's pretty good praise coming from a reviewer who regularly samples systems costing exponentially more.
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I had 12 treatments. It did not do a thing for me, but cost a lot of money. I was supposed to get a refund but fig went bankrupt before they got to it, I guess. I was told the refund would be submitted to the corporate office and I would for sure get my money back. Did not happen. The nurses even agreed I had no results at all. I never saw the so called doctor either. I thought that was a little strange. All this did for me was throw my trans fats out of whack and cause me kidney problems. Wish I'd never seen their commercials.
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BSkyB deals Ofcom a blow in battle over telly sports prices
BSkyB has won a major victory in a five-year battle with the UK competition authorities over its crown jewels: its pay TV sports channels. Both Ofcom and the Competition Commission had decided that the pay TV market was not serving consumers, ordering Sky to wholesale its premium sports channels to arch rivals Virgin Media and …
Sky and its parent company News Corp
are cancerous growths in the media world. They will not stop until they have absolute control of our media. They already have surmountable control of Australian media, massive influence in the US.
They need to be controlled vigorously..
Re: Sky and its parent company News Corp
I couldn't agree more.
Give up Sky / Virgin: ~£200+ p.a.
Give up your TV: £145.50 p.a.
With that combo you can watch pretty much whatever you want on the catch-up services.
Get out and play some sports instead of just watching them.
Listening to the radio instead of watching TV allows you to do something else at the same time.
There's always something like LoveFilm if you want to watch films on demand, or a bricks&mortar equivalent.
By giving up your TV and also installing decent ad-blocking software (like AdMuncher) you'll also dramatically reduce the number of adverts you watch. This is likely to affect your general spending habits positively.
We've not owned a TV in over eight years and I'm convinced that it's played a big part in keeping us and our children sane.
"[...]protect consumers. Aka, intervene in the market."
Yes, because leaving markets alone, with no (or poor) regulation, has the potential to lead to clusterf*cks like, oh, what happened five years ago today.
I won't touch Sky or News International
And some people think I am odd
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The Murdoch empire has correctly been likened to a crime family. Certainly, in the UK we've seen Murdochs snr and jnr lying with impunity at various hearings and getting away with it.
No corporate entity should be allowed such power over political governance. Successive UK PMs from Thatcher onwards have kow-towed to the most malign influence in media.
Murdoch is apparently too big to do time.
"Sky has no theological objection to wholesale supply"
From the article: "Sky did, on the whole, engage constructively," the ruling adds. "Sky has no theological objection to wholesale supply of its premium channels"
Is wholesale supply of entertainment a subject of theological study? Maybe it forms part of the commandments of the Dead Sea Scrolls? (I've not read them)
Or do they mean idealogical?
Explains this then:
I think you mean "insurmountable", but I get your drift and completely agree with you... sadly
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Sporting dog fans from all over the country are heading to nearby Grand Junction, Tenn.
They will have plenty of reasons to celebrate this year since new milestones have recently been accomplished at the National Bird Dog Museum. Little did anyone realize in February 1991, that the small structure then being dedicated as a "start-up" museum for bird dogs would grow and prosper to such an extent that it is today – a spacious, modern facility, and a destination for sporting dog fans from across the continent. But this year is extra special and will long be remembered…for a new building, new groups, and new events will be unveiled.
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Among the venues at the museum is The Field Trial Hall of Fame, where the greatest of the greats are enshrined – both people and dogs, who, over the decades, have made their marks in the field trial sport. The hall is considered hallowed ground among competitive field trialers and fans. It is an annual highlight of the competitive sporting dog world when the induction ceremonies convene. This year, ceremonies will be hosted at the facilities in Grand Junction on Saturday, Feb. 11. Eleven deserving dogs and 10 distinguished people will be inducted. Honorees have been selected from the Brittany, Pointer/Setter, Retriever, Springer Spaniel, and German Shorthair arenas. Festivities begin at 9 a.m. and will last the entire day. Sponsors are Purina and The American Field magazine. Incoming president of the board for The Bird Dog Foundation, Don Driggers of Robbinsville, N.J., will share duties at the podium with Dale Bush of College Station, Texas.
A major accomplishment at the museum during the past year has been the completion of the newest building addition, the 6,000 sq. ft. Sporting Dog Wing. Over the past two years, 10 different nationwide sporting dog groups have contributed to the financial success of this project by raising a half-million dollars. A dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new wing will take place during the midday break of the Field Trial Hall of Fame ceremony; time is set for 1:30 pm, Sat. Feb. 11. The Hardeman County Chamber of Commerce will orchestrate the ribbon-cutting. Local and state officials are expected to attend. With the new annex, the museum's building complex now approaches 30,000 sq. ft. under one roof. The latest construction has boosted the facility's total floor space by nearly 20 percent.
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Preview: Muppet Peter Pan #2
- Written by Royal Nonesuch on Tuesday, October 27 2009 and posted in Previews
Royal Nonesuch takes a look at this week's Muppet Peter Pan #2, published by Boom Kids!
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Your favorite Muppet characters (well, most of them) are cast in the second issue of this off-kilter re-telling of the famous Peter Pan story. Hijinks ensue.
Jim Henson's characters in The Muppets always displayed some oddball humor in their heyday. In those fleeting moments when they didn't say something really funny, they would say something that was at least interesting and in need of some unpacking. The trick for later writers has been to maintain their appeal to a wider audience. Most returns to the franchise bypass the issue entirely by skewing the characters and stories entirely towards the younger audience, as opposed to the all-ages one. Muppet Peter Pan is no different. That is not to say that some semblance of the unique Muppet voice isn't found here. In fact, this particular issue opens with Sam the Eagle, who ostensibly would have been our narrator, having a mental breakdown upon deep consideration of his horrific cannibalistic actions every Thanksgiving. It's odd, and doesn't really affect the larger story being told, but it is enjoyable all the same. There are some earnest attempts at the trademark clever Muppet quips here, but the writing never falls further short than in the dialogue of Statler and Waldorf, the greatest of the Muppet characters. These guys are far away from their famous showdown with Milton Bearle (they are the subject of the most clever sight gag in the book, as their recasting moves them from their usual theater balcony to a perch in the crow's nest aboard Captain Hook's pirate ship).
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