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As I watch the 'The Great Laughter Show', I realize that the history of India is replete with self-flagellation, masochism and self-goals.
A great country that extended from Hindu-Kush Mountains in present Afghanistan to Bali, Java and Sumatra and its influence as a rich and culturally vibrant country extended throughout the world. But then, when the invaders, marauders and looters came from the Northwest, they not only robbed our Sone-kee-Chidiya of precious jewels, gold and diamonds, they robbed us of our self-confidence, esteem and pride by raping and looting our invaluable heritage and rich cultural legacy. The country became smaller in size and much reduced in self-pride also. I'm keenly aware of the impact of history on national psyche and attitudes – let's face it, while for centuries, we Indians have been raped, massacred and indoctrinated with complete abandon, our leaders didn't break this mold – not just our politicians, but also our media and our news outlet owners – they just standby, they don't feel the need to change things and put them in proper perspective.
The last 60 years of our independent and sovereign existence are filled with abusing ourselves and belittling whatever is left of us. So much so, that many a people openly say that it was better to be a slave under Britishers than to be free. Now what kind of people are we?
It all started with father of our nation, Gandhijee credo of passivity and turning the other cheek. His claiming that the division of India will take place over his dead body. For every aggression and assault on Hindus in India, be it Noakhali or in undivided Bengal, Gandhijee put the blame on Hindus for the bloody murders and killings. Nay, the process had started much earlier with King Ashoka surrendering his sword and opening the borders for invasion. Buddha's insistence on non-violence somehow made us believe that it is better to surrender our motherland than to fight for it. The British rule took away the remaining pride that we had in ourselves and we started belittling ourselves in front of others. Gandhijee agreed to divide the country on communal lines; despite the fact that a majority of Muslims had rooted for a Muslim Pakistan and Britishers agreeing to a complete transfer of Hindu and Muslim population across the borders, we took the lofty path of 'secularism' and allowed the proven infection of Islam to fester in our body India. Nehru took the Kashmir issue to UNO instead of accepting Patel's advice of sending the Indian troops to Kashmir to remove the Pakistani Kabayalis and that resulted in a problem that has and will continue to plague our children and us forever.
Despite the four wars imposed on us, can you believe that there exist large chunks of Indian Muslims and Punjabis like Gujaral-Kuldip Nayyars in our country who nurture affiliations and romantic notion of jaffi-diplomacy or lighting the candles at the Wagah border post for peace while Pakistani sponsored terrorists kill our innocent Indian citizens? There are these people who openly say that 'India "must give up its inalienable right to Kashmir" and there's no one to counter that? And, our leading journalists, openly publishing anti-India, hate-India propaganda in Indian dailies, and not a word is said – not a single editorial, no public criticism, nothing? When our own people berate the Hindu Pundits in the valley and hold them responsible for their own plight; after the Nadimarg and Chittisinghpora massacre of Indians, including women and children, many wrote scathing articles, criticizing the Kashmiri Pundits, blaming them for leaving the valley – essentially the they-asked-for-it point-of-view, I wonder what is it in our Hindu psyche that we continue to accept this? Many editorials regularly come out and blame the Government of India for many things and--in the name of democracy and freedom of speech, we accept it with typical nonchalance. Mind you, not a word – not one word, criticizing either the Pakistani generals or the LeT. All these people, subtly yet completely undermined the case the Indian govt tries to build in international media on the persistent and genocidal nature of Pakistani terrorism. In essence, these Indians equate the ISI-backing army rule of perpetrators with us. After all, nobody in international media would cast any doubt on "Indian" writers, when they place the blame on ourselves, what can you say?
I'm amazed when our own brethren show astonishment and doubts at the great work being done by our engineers, doctors and scientists throughout the world, as if it were something impossible for us Indians. They arrogantly believe that China can do it; Japan can do it, but India and Indians? Hmmm…. are you sure? We all end up believing that Indians just cannot do the kinds of things that we hear so often. Is it our inferiority complex? You watch the discussion on our TV channel and the chances are that we end up deriding, cussing and degrading India and us Indians. You tell that security people killed the terrorists and we end up doubting that. You tell that Ishrat was a terrorist trying to kill Modi, our media doesn't believe that. But, when LeT accepts her 'shahaadat', we readily agree. When our own businessmen go to Dubai and pay money to Chhota Shakeel to sort out their business problems, or when he threatens T-Series not to interfere in his selling pirated CDs of Krrish, when our Gulshan Kumar is killed and we do nothing, when so many of these instances happen and we're left blaming ourselves, but do nothing, what am I to infer? No matter what happens and how it happens, it is India that is at fault, Indians are responsible. Journalists say that they must remain balanced. In the end, we deserve what we get and we get what we deserve.
We berate our magnificent achievements despite our massive problems and there is no one to tell these people to just shut up. Remember the NDA era when so much was done but day after day, the media would berate the communal BJP govt for one thing or the other? Our IT capabilities, our manufacturing base, our armed forces, our great strides forward—nothing but the scandalous, the extreme, the insulting exceptions would become the order of the day. Maybe, the journalists would score brownie points by being anti-establishment, but can you imagine the damage that this did to the psyche of our armed forces and our civilians? But, the fact remains is that if you point that out, you become a Communal and fascist Hindu Sanghi. Be it illegal Bangladeshis, the terrorists attacking our religious sites, the idea is not to protest but to maintain the communal amity. And, wait for the next attack on us. If you protest, you'll be blamed for inciting the religious sentiments of the general public. And all this, when the Javeds, the Shabanas, the Teestas of India would call a democratically elected Chief Minister a Hitler, while eulogizing the General next door. Someone can be so audacious as to go to another country and demand that Modi be tried in the international court for genocide and we say—Wah! Wah! Or, to get sadistic pleasure when Modi is denied visa or when someone derides India in front of the world community. Our Arundhati Roys, our Mahesh Bhatts and our Medha Patkars insulting our common sense, I wonder, do we really deserve this? We bend backwards in the name of Confidence Building Measures and buses to Pakistan and all we get is insults and aggressions that are a part of Pakistani DNA. So, when our Confidence Building Measures do not impress Pakistan, when our free heart operations on the children of Pakistan still result in killing our innocent people, including children, when our open visa policy to the Pakistani groups still result in no visa for Javed Akhtar, when Pakistan and its General openly declare us and our country as their enemy, I wonder what is wrong with us idiotic Indians?
In this country of 120 Crore people, we have to continuously prove our secular credentials by selecting a Pakistani as the laughter champion, a Meera as the best actress, an Adnan Sami as the best singer, a Ghulam Ali as the best ghazal singer and a Pakistani musical group as the greatest? All this would be acceptable but there is no reciprocity and we continue to flaunt our secularism to anyone and everyone?
Sometimes, I wonder if there's a Indian public choice in one of these TV debates, between our Mannjee and Gen Mush, the public may root for Mush as more capable to rule us. You never know us Indians!
India has truly become the 'The Great Laughter Show' of the world, I say!
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Thanks briggsy@ashtons for your reply. You're right that the wording of my post was quite confusing, I had trouble understanding it after re-reading it again :p, sorry about that.
1. It's just that the surface to the left of the sphere is further from the main light source.
Of course if the surface is big and its farthest point facing the light source is much farther than its closest point to the light source a noticeable difference would occur?
2. Yes, if you mean the colour of the specular reflection in sense B above; no, if you mean it in sense A (if it was a red ball, for example, there would be enough light reflected from the tabletop alone to show the local colour in this area)
Generally, how does the total light reflected of other objects behave as a light source? For example, in your picture, will the diffuse reflection from white paper (tabletop) illuminate the sphere uniformly, will it decrease as the surface turns away from the paper (like with a regular light source), is it strongest closest to the paper? Also does specular light reflected from an object contribute to illumination of other objects (with specular light I mean the part of light reflected at any point on a surface that follows the angle rule).
These questions arose when I tried painting a simple red cube in photoshop. I couldn't figure out how the ground (white canvas, e.g. white paper) would influence the lighting of the cube and how a potential specular reflection of the ground (white canvas) would look like: uniform in brightness across the surface of the cube or decreasing in brightness from bottom towards the top of the cube.
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inverse square law. With a small light source close to an object, this gradation is very evident.
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Yes, the main effect is the roughly inverse square fall-off of light flux with distance; but the decreasing angle of incidence of the light rays to the surface, which I think D.C. was suggesting as the explanation, is a distinct though secondary factor.
D.C., to answer the second part of your question you need to understand that the inverse square law applies precisely only to a point source of light; with larger light sources the fall-off is slower, and at the theoretical extreme of a wall of light extending infinitely in all directions, it turns out that there isn't any fall-off of light with distance. (You can demonstrate this by bringing up a white page on your monitor in a darkened room, and observing the minimal fall-off of light on objects up to a few cm from the screen). So you would expect little fall-off of light with distance from the table top on the vertical faces of your cube, whereas you do see it on objects like the sphere that curve away from facing the table top.
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briggsy@ashtons no issue in particular, it's more about a general sense of disorientation between a "mathematical" approach and an emotional approach based on eyeballing, taste and experience given by exercise.
I've seen many great artworks, both traditional and digital, that are quite off if compared to the mechanics of light and color you explained and yet they look awesome. In particular it looks like saturation of colors is subject to personal taste and choices.
I usually try to stick to your instruction when painting (digitally) but, assuming I apply them correctly, I feel that sometimes the result is a little bit boring, in particular in works from imagination. Can the technical parameters be stretched or overlooked in order to convey mood and emotions without screwing up a painting? To what extent?
PS I know it's a vague question but as I said I'm a bit puzzled by all the info about color theory I'm assimilating...
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I think its's a valid question. To me, theory is not there to tell you what to do, but to help you to do what you want to do. Take anatomy for example - just because you understand anatomy, it doesn't mean you can only draw "boring" accurately-proportioned humans. Artists who understand anatomy can draw better monsters, aliens or even spaceships than those who don't, because they can use their knowledge in the service of their imagination and emotion.
That's how it should be with light and colour. Certainly if you are trying to get a vivid sense of lighting and atmosphere, whether from life or from the imagination, then there are some relationships that you need to get right. But you are free to play with these relationships creatively as well as to report them objectively. To give two examples that are only just a beginning, you can obtain very beautiful effects by accurately transposing those relationships to a very limited tonal and/or colour range, or by transposing the shadow colours to suggest the effect of simultaneous contrast. Obviously this is a step beyond the basic theory, not a step short of it.
By the way, I'm not at all opposed to eyeballing. As I say somewhere on the site, I think eyeballing rather than mathematical precision is generally sufficient for painting if you understand the relationships involved. All of the spheres in my diagrams for the site were painted by eyeballing the fall-off of light rather than mathematically calculating it.
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I just wanna say I have read the colour theory stuff on your website.It is a little confusing to assimilate all those stuff but I am slowly getting it and it has improved my knowledge on colour.But I am a little confused cause I am normally into 3d stuff.All I do is model stuff,add the texture and set up my light,hit the render button and voila!!!I get my artwork.
Let me see if I am getting this right:
Lets say I have a sphere and I decided to give it say a red colour,towards the light,you will probably have 4 tones:shaded part(desaturated)dark red----half light(lighter dark red slightly desaturated)---full light(saturated red)----highlight(white).
Right?I understand some people do grayscale but that ain't working for me.I would have drawn a sphere but I am too busy to do so.Wonderful thread,keep it up,briggsy@ashtons.
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First post on this wonderful site! I just read thru the above color theory principles and added more insight to my rudimentary understanding. Thanks for all the input!
August 28th, 2010 #151
Hey Doc,
I've previously asked you questions, and you always been a source of enlightement
Though I understand the presence of diffuse and specular reflection on an object, im still trying to understand how light is physically reacting in some cases. Lights is either bounced or absorbed as I understand, however i still dont understand why I see some of the things i see.
The main exemple i could give you, is a black, polished, bowling ball, with bright white specular on it.
So the black comes from most of the light being absorbed by the ball and thus not a lot of light bounce back to the eye.. but you got that specular reflection that does contain white, or any color the environement could have. I think I understand why different surface have different speculars ( Prometheus tutorials explains it very weel, and makes a lot of sense )
But the question here is why can we see a bright specular reflection on a dark object, if photons are supposed to be absorbed almost competely, and not bounced back on dark objects?
If specular reflections is created by the object having a coating making everything shiny, shouldnt it completely override the underlying diffuse reflection ?
I Hope these questions make some sense
Thanks for taking time to read this.
August 29th, 2010 #152
Excellent question Virg.
The thing that Prometheus' tutorial doesn't explain is that specular and diffuse reflection are two distinct processes that occur simultaneously on most objects. The specular (or "interface") reflection, which generally remains the colour of the light source, is thought to consist of light that bounces at the surface. The diffuse (or "body") reflection is light that penetrates the surface and re-emerges more or less equally in all directions, often coloured by the object. For example if you look at an orange you will see the light-source coloured specular reflection as well as the orange-coloured diffuse reflection. An uneven surface makes the specular reflection fuzzy, but this fuzzy specular is an entirely different thing to the diffuse or body reflection.
So in your polished black ball, the part of the light that penetrates the surface is largely absorbed, but the part of the light that doesn't penetrate the surface is not affected, and produces the usual interface reflection that you see whatever the colour of the ball.
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That makes a lot of sense, thank you very much for the answer !
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I'm still seeking some answers or thoughts on a specific aspect of colors, and again, im asking for your precious help. I hope im not getting annoying ,im thinking others could read this and wanting to ask similars questions, so why not ask
This question concern mostly , color harmony , not color harmony in sense of emotion or psychological effect that specific colors are supposed to create to the viewer, but color harmony, as a ''rule'' that defines the amount of temperature shift that occur between light and shadow in a specific light situation.
Your probably seeing my question coming but here it is.
How do you make sure, all the colors in your picture obey to the same color harmony?
Im painting mostly digitally, and use the HSB color picker in photoshop, and your 3d space color system made a lot of sense to me, be cause it is something logical to me, where i can define extremes, a point A and a point B ( A=light B=shadow ) and can imply concious decision of colors and not just random color guessing.
So, as I understand, and tried to applied so far, different hues, either desaturate or get more saturated depending of the location of the color of the light source on the color wheel.
So how do you make sure all your colors have the same diagonal 3d color space , in a specific light situation. And properly place A and B for all colors?
I have know idea how traditional painter manage to do this, my guess is they use the same amount of pigment in each color equally to change their temperature equally.
Thanks so much for sharing all your expertise ! And sorry for my amateur english.
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Paint the (coloured) light and shade pattern that would be caused by each light source alone as a separate layer, then overlay these layers in LINEAR DODGE mode over a black background. Vary the strength of each light source by varying the opacity of its layer, and try to keep the total brightness down so that nothing "clips" against maximum brightness (B=100). You can apply the local colours of objects using a MULTIPLY layer on the top. If that all makes sense I'd love to see what you come up with!
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When they were first made the board was made out of wood for a reason and that was to represent a door.

Thats as far as I go.
No and I never will. like I said i know ordained priests that will not even discuss ouiji boards.
I will never speak of it...it was that horrible
I refuse to say what exactly happened. But we ended up burning it in the end and swore never to talk about it ever again.
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Bob Ney is hardly a household name, but in Congress, the Ohio Republican is well-known as "the mayor of Capitol Hill."
As chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Ney controls such key perks as congressional contracts, office space, parking places and even the cafeteria menus. He's the one who replaced "french fries" with "freedom fries" after the French opposed invading Iraq. Such authority sounds mundane, but, in fact, he wields plenty of power.
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In Texas, Schwartz represented the Tigua Indians of El Paso in their campaign to re-open the Speaking Rock Casino after the state had shut it down.
In 2002, Abramoff and Scanlon -- who had once worked with the Tigua's competitors to shut the casino, sold the tribe on a secret plan, called "Operation Open Doors," to get Congress to reopen Speaking Rock. But the Tiguas would have to pay to play.
"We anticipate the tribe will have to make approximately $300,000 in federal political contributions," the document read.
The scheme called for language to be quietly inserted into an entirely unrelated election reform bill. According to the tribe's consultant, the key contact would be Congressman Bob Ney. In March 2002, Abramoff sent Scanlon this e-mail: "Just met with Ney! We're f'ing gold. He's going to do Tigua."
"He agreed to put language into the bill on the House side and would help us, help the tribe in making sure that the language stayed and that this change would be affected," Schwartz said.
Six days later, Abramoff sent Schwartz an e-mail that said, "Congressman Ney. 'Please get the following checks for him asap.'" The requests -- which came from Abramoff -- for Bob Ney's campaign and political action committee -- totaled $32,000.


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PIERRE, S.D. – (DRG News) Details of the 125th Birthday Wagon Train are coming together as part of this year's celebration of South Dakota's Quasquicentennial. The event is to be sponsored by the South Dakota Draft Horse and Mule Association. Gerald Kessler of Fort Pierre, who is a co-Wagon Master for the ride, says the wagon train will begin on Wednesday, September 3 in Yankton and will officially end in Pierre on Saturday, September 20-covering about 250 miles.
The 17-day wagon train will be made up of 15-days on the trail and two rest days. Kessler says the first part of the anniversary wagon train will mostly travel on township and county roads, in road ditches and along undeveloped section lines-near what was an old trail that went from Yankton to Mitchell to Pierre.
Once the wagon train gets to the Wessington Springs area, riders will travel cross country. From near Fort Thompson to Pierre, Kessler says the route will mostly be in road ditches near Highway 34.
Over the years, Kessler has been on about 100 wagon trains and has served as Wagon Master for six-including for the 2008 Fort Pierre to Deadwood Trail Ride. Comparing this year's wagon train with some others, Kessler says it has involved a little less planning–since it will mostly travel on public property.
Kessler says each evening during the wagon train, local landowners and historians will present history presentations. Many communities are sponsoring meals and events along the way, too. The cost of the event is $125 per participant. Kessler says people can go along for the entire journey, but he says the cost is low enough for those who might want to only ride a few days. All fees and donations will be used to defray the costs of the wagon train, like buses, water, fuel and porta-potties. Organizers have set a limit of about 300 riders. He says people are already signed up-including some out-of-staters from Nebraska, Colorado and Minnesota. Those who want information and an application for the wagon train can visit the "Join the Wagon Train" tab on the anniversary website at http://125.sd.gov/
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I have been a gamer for 35 years, a childrens user interface developer for 15 years, an immersive environments user interface and platforms developer for around 10 years, and the chief designer of the Edusim project (more on that here) . Needless to say I've seen quite a few iterations and generations of immersive environments and virtual reality platforms, so below are a few of my observations regarding where I see them heading (these questions were posed to me for an interview of EdTech magazine and I am sharing them here.).
* What's on the horizon for K–12 virtual education?
# I believe the gap between real and virtual educational content will close to the point of being insignificant, and extremely rich educational experiences will become a daily opportunity for students to learn and understand at a very deep level. The day where every student can take a virtual field trip to the moon to understand its makeup and importance, virtual trips to the inside of a volcano to understand how and why they function, floating through a virtual kidney to understand how it works. The educational opportunities will literally only be limited by our own imaginations.
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# I think with projects like Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, & Microsoft Hololens we can expect the gap between our perceptions of what is real and what is virtual to shrink dramatically. I can imagine a time within the next 10 years that virtual reality goggle are as common as wearing earbuds connected to our smartphones, and the interaction with virtual objects, overlaid onto our real world objects (via our goggle/glasses display), is relatively common. Which will make education an extremely interesting field to be in in the coming years. Virtual field trips, data visualization, seeing "inside" objects as you look at them to understand how they work, step by step tutorials that walk students through a process superimposed onto the real life content itself as they are working with it (a breakout image of an motor as its being taken apart)
* What are some of the barriers?
# Schools traditionally lag several years behind the technology curve and tend to lack imagination when it comes to providing rich educational experiences. These barriers become less obvious with school leadership that truly understands the powerful role technology can play in the educational setting, but without a doubt the "traditional" school setting is the primary barrier to leveraging the tremendouspower of the immersive educational technologies that are coming our way relatively quickly!
* What examples do you have of K-12 doing great things with VR?
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# In Colorado (Southpark Elementary) they have been using CAVE visualization technology with their students for 4-5 years – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bdtAxATOemw … Whats going on here in the Czech Republic -http://tinyurl.com/ot8uwq5 … Schools are leveraging MinecraftEDU in interesting ways as well, several with Oculus Rift head sets … There are also some really cool ways Opensim environments with Oculus Rift displays are being leveraged for deeply immersive educational experiences.
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Vacant properties, rentals signal blight in Southeast Memphis
Lynda Whalen drove east on Quince in Southeast Memphis last week, pointing out some of the most unwanted additions to the part of town where she has lived for 37 years.
Along the road, just east of Ridgeway, the grass was littered with cans, bottles, broken sheetrock, tires and plastic bags.
Whalen is chairwoman of the Southeast Memphis Neighborhood Partnership. It includes 18 neighborhood groups, including her own Burlington Area Neighborhood Association. The neighborhoods lie between Quince and Getwell on the west and Quince and Winchester on the east. Quince is like a calling card for the surrounding neighborhoods, and Whalen organized cleanups along the road in October and again on March 23, removing some of the most visible blight.
But you don't have to go far to find more. As she drove through neighborhoods north of Quince, Whalen pointed out house after house that she said has been turned into rental property, often by investor groups.
Others are simply vacant with no owners on file. They are part of a "shadow inventory" of properties owned by banks or other financial institutions and waiting to be sold to investors. They are among properties the city hopes to track in the future through a property registry to be debated Tuesday by the Memphis City Council. Many are foreclosed homes, but, more and more, Whalen said her neighbors are voluntarily leaving. "If we continue to let mortgage companies, banks and investors do whatever they want, then we might as well turn the lights off in our city. If something doesn't change, we're going to have Frayser everywhere."
Whalen said one of her own neighbors told her last week, "'We applaud the work you're doing, but we just can't do it anymore.' They're moving to Germantown." Another neighbor was evicted after Whalen's group threatened to sue the landlord over pit bulldogs that "literally barked all night long."
"Every time I think I've seen it all, I see something else." says Whalen. One family complained recently after their daughter came inside screaming, "'The neighbors are cooking a dog on the grill.' It turned out it was a goat, but they were cooking it in the front yard," says Whalen. When the neighborhood association questioned one family about multiple cars in their front yard, Whalen said the family told them "they were trying to position the cars in front of the house in case of a drive-by shooting."
On many of the side streets, Whalen pointed out landscaped yards and well-kept houses that have made the neighborhoods attractive to buyers for 50 years or more as part of a relatively affluent part of the city. But on almost any street, Whalen also notes houses that have been vacant for months and houses with what she says are tipoffs that they now are rental houses.
At the University of Memphis, Phyllis Betts, director of the Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action, said the Frayser community became one of the hardest hit parts of the city partly because it lost its industrial lifeblood in the 70s. "International Harvester and Firestone are not coming back," she said, while Southeast Memphis has biomedical research and FedEx contributing to the economic base. "In the absence of that economic development, just the neighborhoods themselves would continue to decline."
Still, Betts said Southeast Memphis residents "have their work cut out for them." Turning around a declining neighborhood is no easy task. "A lot of it revolves around the housing market and continued migration of new building and new neighborhoods and higher-priced homes further east. What you get is people relocating, which leaves gaps in the older neighborhoods left behind. That's just a reality."
The scope of the problem is hamstrung by lack of numbers to back up the visible signs that Whalen notices as a neighborhood activist. Vacant houses may be potential rental properties, but the owner may not be known for sure. They may be part of the "shadow inventory" of homes owned by banks that have not yet foreclosed on the properties because they do not want to assume taxes, fines for code violations and other fees attached to the properties.
The city now is trying to set up a registry that would provide clear ownership data on properties when they first become part of the tax rolls so that the city could continue to collect taxes and code violation fines on the properties when they become vacant. "We can't quantify how big the problem is. The whole process is veiled in secrecy," said T.K. Buchanan, former senior research associate of Betts' group at the U of M. Deeds to the property are registered but mortgage documents aren't, she said. She said investor groups, many from outside the city, purchase properties sight unseen. While local investor groups are becoming more common, many of the "profit-mongering" investors are from as far away as California, Japan or Australia, she said.
In Frayser, Steve Lockwood, executive director of the Frayser Community Development Corporation, said Whalen is wise to stay on top of her declining neighborhoods "If you confront it earlier rather than later, then you have a shot at preventing additional levels of damage."
Lockwood, trying to bring back Frayser since 1995, said there is no one solution to revitalizing a neighborhood. "There are so many moving parts. You can get attention in one area, but you have to deal with issues like crime and schools and commercial revitalization. You have to go at it holistically, and the support is not there to do that."
He said neighborhoods tend to have "the old slash-and-burn mentality. You use a neighborhood for 50 years then abandon it. It used to take 50 years for a neighborhood to look crummy. Now it takes 20 years, and it looks crummy." And cities have contributed to the problem, he said, by seeming to entice people farther and farther from their urban cores, then building highways, like the Bill Morris Parkway, to help them leave town.
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Exeter have made just the two changes to their line-up for the visit of Bath in the Aviva Premiership on Saturday.
Club captain Tom Hayes is restored to the pack, while Phil Dollman is added to the centres.
That means James Hanks and Ian Whitten both drop to the bench, where they are joined by England international Tom Johnson.
Bath have made five changes for the derby clash - with Matt Banahan, Ben Skirving, Ryan Caldwell, and Dave Attwood all returning to action, while Ollie Devoto makes his first Premiership start.
Banahan will form a new-look centre partnership with Kyle Eastmond, while Devoto is handed the No 15 jersey.
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Exeter: 15 Luke Arscott, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 Phil Dollman, 12 Jason Shoemark, 11 Matt Jess, 10 Gareth Steenson, 9 Haydn Thomas, 8 Richard Baxter, 7 James Scaysbrook, 6 Dean Mumm, 5 Aly Muldowney, 4 Tom Hayes (c), 3 Hoani Tui, 2 Simon Alcott, 1 Brett Sturgess.
Replacements: 16 Neil Clark, 17 Ben Moon, 18 Carl Rimmer, 19 James Hanks, 20 Tom Johnson, 21 Kevin Barrett, 22 Ignacio Mieres, 23 Ian Whitten.
Bath: 15 Ollie Devoto, 14 Horacio Agulla, 13 Kyle Eastmond, 12 Matt Banahan, 11 Tom Biggs, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Michael Claassens, 8 Simon Taylor, 7 Guy Mercer, 6 Francois Louw (c), 5 Ryan Caldwell, 4 Dave Attwood, 3 David Wilson, 2 Lee Mears, 1 Paul James.
Replacements: 16 Tom Dunn, 17 Charlie Beech, 18 Anthony Perenise, 19 Stuart Hooper, 20 Will Skuse, 21 Mark McMillan, 22 Tom Heathcote, 23 Dan Hipkiss.
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"It should be a great occasion, it's been a sell-out for quite a while now. These local Christmas derbies are the best atmospheres of the season - not only are they big crowds but people are there to celebrate and have a good time.
"We have to get the crowd involved, play in a way that they want to get behind and get them cheering the guys on. We're hunting something very positive, a first win against Bath, and that's what we'll talk about.
"I've always said what's happening at Exeter has to be a relatively long-term thing and it's important to get a group of people learning from different experiences and different challenges and knocking them off one at a time. It doesn't matter when you knock them off, you've just got to keep knocking them off on a fairly regular basis.
"Beating Bath is one of the things we need to knock off down the line. Whether it's this weekend or another time, who knows? But what we've got to do is keep getting better and make sure, down the line, we are making things happen."
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Saracens closed within a point of the Premiership lead thanks to a 17-16 win over Northampton Saints at stadium:mk.
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