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Recently, the filter submission wizard kindly informed me on the current 20 preset limitation per filter. News to me! Apparently, it didn't share my enthusiasm for filters that come with a large number of presets just for the sake of user convenience.
Anyway, I suspect there is a reasoning behind this tiny annoyance, but I certainly hope for this limitation to ultimately be removed completely. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
Posted: October 29, 2006 10:23 am | ||||||||||||||
that actually changed a while back. i noticed this also when i tried to submit a filter with more than 20. i think it's due to the hassles of putting all those presets on the web site.
i get around it mostly by just keeping my filters in 'my filters'. but, that only works for my filters and not yours. so yes, it's a limitation to the end-user. but it's a compromise. i used to make endless presets and just upload the filter without really screening the presets before i did. so, a lot of less-than-adequate presets got uploaded. this system forces you to be more picky and only choose the better ones. the 20 is an arbitrary, and i normally hate arbitraries, but it somewhat makes sense here. but, if i recall, there is a folder which stores presets separate from the filter. i would think it would then be possible to upload those somewhere, including maybe the forum. i havent checked on this though, so dont take it as gospel. hmmm, and it might also then be possible to make a library sub-section for additional preset uploads. then, everyone could contribute their favorite presets for a given filter. Craig If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
Posted: October 29, 2006 12:22 pm | ||||||||||||||
There certainly is a point to encouraging a quality before quantity approach when it comes to presets.
Normally, I would just create the 9 presets that end up on the web library, and try to make these as representative of the filters' abilities as possible. But, since apparently only the first 9 presets get rendered for the library anyway, why impose this arbitrary limit of 20 presets? For complex noise-based generator type filters, there are often so many interesting patterns and looks worth preserving for other users that - in my humble opinion - the 20 preset limit becomes a hindrance. I would make the first 9 presets as good as possible, and thereafter provide a broad spectrum of presets for the user to browse though. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
Posted: October 29, 2006 1:08 pm | ||||||||||||||
Vladimir Golovin
Administrator |
We can't remove it completely, but we can increase the count to, say, 100 presets or so. We'll look into it. (Edit: 1000th post!!!) |
Posted: October 30, 2006 10:23 am | ||||||||||||||
Another milestone! Congratulations Vlad.
I think that the 20 presets are ok, otherwise you don't leave too much option for the user to play with the filter/texture and create him/her own variation without being too similar from the "100" presets. |
Posted: October 30, 2006 10:33 am | ||||||||||||||
Cool. A maximum of 100 presets should be more than enough for most users. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
Posted: October 30, 2006 11:28 am | ||||||||||||||
jffe |
I dunno 8-12 seems like more than enough to get the idea across. Plus, people making 100 presets is both 1) kinda a waste of time that they could be spending making it a better filter, or making a totally different filter, and 2) kind of an unfair advantage for them, since many users would download filters with more presets first. Ideally, a number of presets would be chosen, and required, for each filter, somewhere around 10 or a dozen seems reasonable. But, that's just my take on it, and I ain't been asked or elected to decide, so yer all safe so far ha-ha.
jffe Filter Forger |
Posted: October 30, 2006 7:39 pm | ||||||||||||||
if you're making nice, simple textures, 8-12 probably does seem like enough. but, if you're making large, multi-filter, art/photo manipulation type filters, or wild geometric pattern type filters, or anything with 20 or 30 controls (or more) 100 is a fairly nice, low minimum to give the end-user an idea of what's really possible with the billions and billions of possible combinations.
Craig If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
Posted: October 31, 2006 9:09 pm | ||||||||||||||
jffe |
Make more than 1 filter out of it then ? If it can't be expressed in 1/2 a dozen examples, then it's more than one filter needs 2 B, (historically speaking at least anyways), and could be simplified for the end users' sake. *shrug*
jffe Filter Forger |
Posted: October 31, 2006 9:12 pm | ||||||||||||||
i dont know your background, jffe. so, i dont know what type of filters you make. it sounds like you make more texture filters than anything else. and that's fine. i'm NOT trying to put you down here at all. i'm more used to filters like 'harry's filters', 'deep paint 2', 'impressionist' and those type of art plug-ins. so, my filters are more like plugins within the plugin that is FF and NEED many controls and many, many presets. there are literally hundreds of presets for 'impressionist', for example. users make them and pass them around to other users. you build up a bank of these which you use to make your art, or maybe just to get a start on a piece. presets are tools. they give you a starting point. they give you a reference. and, they give you something of an index or catalog of what's possible. so, with a large multi-filter, with many controls, you want a large bank of presets both for yourself AND as a help to the end-user. and since i see no way in which having more preset slots is going to hurt you. if you only want to use 8-12, then that's fine. but please allow that others may want more. Craig If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
Posted: October 31, 2006 10:00 pm | ||||||||||||||
jffe |
No problem, there's room for all kinds of filters. I just try to look at it from a customer p.o.v., and they usually always want quick & very specified results, I know I do if I'm paying for software, as opposed to using badly labelled/sorted/slow freeware. Not to say that a complicated filter is bad or something like crappy freeware, just saying, at it's best, it should make itself less complicated, under the hood, so people can make use of it better/faster/easier is all. I'm sure some artist types will find other uses than quick & easy results and all, but chances are, they'll make their own filters, and that makes it pointless for me to get too in depth with them. Just my perspective, and it's just one of many I realize. Peace.
jffe Filter Forger |
Posted: November 1, 2006 12:09 am | ||||||||||||||
Vladimir Golovin
Administrator |
I agree with this. "Less is more". |
Posted: November 1, 2006 10:37 am | ||||||||||||||
Psst! You're scaring away all the "Less is a bore" types... --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;) |
Posted: November 1, 2006 3:43 pm | ||||||||||||||
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Posts: 45 |
Why not add a feature to show the average user N presets and if they check an "advanced user" checkbox on install or in preferences show them ALL presets.
The less is more misnomer people are happy, the power users are happy, and the don't bother me with the facts type people are happy. win win. .. |
Posted: November 4, 2006 11:38 pm | ||||||||||||||
I have looking for information about the preset limit number and when searching in the forum I have found this thread FR OM 2006 !!!
Please, Is still the 20 preset limit in the FF 3.0 ??? When this thread was made it was the FF 1.0 and Vladimir wrote this
Please, have finally the limit been risen from 20 to 100 (or whatever) since FF 1.0 ? |
Posted: January 29, 2012 1:24 pm | ||||||||||||||
It would be fine to get able for more then 20 presets, because most of the time I have nearly 30 and more, so for the submission, I have to reject a lot of presets. | |||||||||||||
Posted: January 29, 2012 1:31 pm | ||||||||||||||
WOW, is very bas that you have to reject and remove a lot of presets that could be very useful and interesting. Thanks, from your answer I can guess that the 20 preset lim it is STILL present So in 6 years Vladimir is STILL looking into it ???? He said that it would be possible to be risen from 20 to 100 in 2006, and 6 years later in 2012 has NOT been done yet ? Why the 20 presets has not been raisen ? How is possible that in FF 3.0 is the same as in FF 1.0 ? |
Posted: January 29, 2012 1:53 pm | ||||||||||||||
Good question ! I'm still waiting for the answer... before I get white hairs... | |||||||||||||
Posted: January 29, 2012 2:01 pm | ||||||||||||||
Morgantao have given already the answer for this, we have been already waiting 6 YEARS for updating this very simple thing from 20 to a higher value, and he said that we will have to wait another 202 years more !!
Posted: January 29, 2012 2:58 pm | ||||||||||||||
Actually, upping the limit is not such a difficult thing, and I suppose it could be done in only 57 years, not 202, SpaceRay | |||||||||||||
Posted: January 29, 2012 6:54 pm | ||||||||||||||
Yes, you are right, it could be done probably faster, in just only 57 years but I am afraid that by that time I will be tired and bored to death of waiting for it If we have already waited 6 years for this, we can wait much more years until FF decides to make something about this Why this has not been done yet ? I suposse that is not ONLY to change the 20 limit and put 50 instead, because I think that probably there must be technical reasons that needs to care about, as this depends also on the server of the FF online library and probably on the FF software itself. |
Posted: January 30, 2012 1:45 am | ||||||||||||||
I am sorry to be negative on this and go against FF Inc. without knowing why in 6 years they have not yet raised the 20 limit, and without knowing if there could some important and difficult technical reason where this can not be done.
I am also being negative, because this is not the first and only thing that has been promised that "Vladimir would look into it" and then after years, nothing happened and there is no more news about it. Please, GMM or any fr om the FF Inc. team, could you be so kind to explain us why this 20 lim it has not been raisen yet and if there are some technical reason for not having done this yet? Thanks very much |
Posted: January 30, 2012 3:33 am | ||||||||||||||
Myself I will not submit a filter with more then 20 presets....For one, since the presets are rendered on the authors machine when submitting I do not want to sit for hours rendering all those presets before submitting.....TO get the filters use accross to the user I do not think that more then 20 presets are needed..... Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times! |
Posted: January 30, 2012 3:41 am | ||||||||||||||
Well, I agree with you that the presets are rendered on the author machine before submitting, and I respect that you would not send more than 20, and it´s up to you to decide how many presets you want to send with the filter, BUT why other authors that wish and want to send MORE than 20 presets CAN´T do it because of the FF submit wizard ? The time a preset takes to render depends totally on the render speed of the filter, if the filter is a simple photo effect filter, it wil probably take 2 seconds to render and not hours, and 30 presets x 2 seconds = 60 seconds. I agree that much more complex and slower filters would take much more time to make the preset BUT this should be the author decision and choice AND NOT A LIMITATION made by FF Inc. WHY GHISLAINE THAT WANTS TO SEND 30 PRESETS ON HIS BEAUTIFUL FILTERS CAN´T DO IT
As said I agree that you CFandM do not want to send more than 20 presets, but: Why Ghislaine that WANTS to send 30 presets have the difficult work to reject 10 of those presets and have to make a careful selection ? |
Posted: January 30, 2012 4:16 am | ||||||||||||||
You are right Spaceray. The choice between one an another one is a very hard work. Because if I create 30 presets, it is because I love the 30. And as I usualy have a lot of componenmts in my filters, I have a lot of variations to offer but I'm limited and cannot offer all the possibilities that my filters can do to the users. | |||||||||||||
Posted: January 30, 2012 11:18 am | ||||||||||||||
I think that it should be the author's decision how many presets to include. Upping the limit to 50 would be very welcome.
There's something else that confuses me... When I submit a filter, the presets are rendered one by one and sent to FF servers. However, only 9 presets + 4 maps are shown on the filter website in the library. Why do the other presets have to be rendered, and not only first 9 presets + 4 maps? Furthermore, once I download a filter from the library, all the presets take time to render on my machine too. The previews are not downloaded along with the filter. So why does the submition wizard need to render all the presets?? |
Posted: January 30, 2012 12:14 pm | ||||||||||||||
It is a pity and regreatably bad that you HAVE to choose and reject 10 of them because is not allowed more than 20. You love and like much those 30, so why have to work out and decide which presets must die?
YES! YES! YES! It should be the authors decision how many presets decides and wants to include and not have the problem of HAVING to reject some beautiful and interesting presets you could have (as it happened with Ghislaine) because the limit is JUST 20 presets. About the second part, I really do not have an answer to this, as I do not know.Sorry |
Posted: January 31, 2012 10:14 am | ||||||||||||||
ALSO I think that there should be a way to for FF to make already rendered presets for showing inside the Filter Forge Browser, because it needs to MAKE AND RENDER ALL the thumbnails in real time as you click over one filter AND the same for any preset found inside this filter.
This is not a problem if the filter is fast, BUT if the filter is slow you will have to wait a lot until you can see a simple thumbnails AND will have to wait a lot for EACH ONE of the presets as they need to be rendered in real time and is not available any kind of pre-rendered previews which should be the best way to avoid and fix this. |
Posted: February 1, 2012 12:11 am | ||||||||||||||
Nothing... | |||||||||||||
Posted: February 1, 2012 1:13 am | ||||||||||||||
I can use this interesting and misterious message from you to say that Is true and I agree NOTHING has been said from the FF Inc. and there is nothing said by GMM or any other person that could help about this topic. Please, could anyone from FF Inc. be so kind to tell us something about this and if it will be possible to change it in some way, OR will we have also to wait until FF 4.0 if you decide to change it ? Thanks very much for your help |
Posted: February 2, 2012 2:37 pm | ||||||||||||||
Hello again, I have more NOTHING here |
Posted: February 2, 2012 2:49 pm | ||||||||||||||
LOL SpaceRay I post a rather long about something there, just to see that you have already post the same in a new thread. So I edited the post to "Nothing".
Now I can't remember what it was about.... |
Posted: February 2, 2012 4:03 pm | ||||||||||||||
Another point of view is that I don't want more than 20 factory presets from authors, for a number of reasons.
There is no numbering on preset or drag and drop of presets to re-organise easily [or find a previous variant thats been used ]. I always make my own presets for a job/personnel project and don't want to wade through hundreds of factory preset to get to my own [especially with no numbering to quickly find my favorites ]. I think users shouldn't be hand fed every variation a filter can make, allowing them the freedom to discover and individualize the result. 20 preset is more than enough to show the range possible with a filter. And lastly from the authors perspective, it would and is painful waiting for presets to render when uploading to the library [ I realize your not saying it will compulsory to upload a filter with say one hundred preset ] |
Posted: February 3, 2012 12:10 am | ||||||||||||||
Even if I had 900 presets on a filter, I still don't understand why the submit proccess needs a render of all the presets... Only the first 9 are displayed anywhere, and the user machine needs to render all the preset itself anyway!
Anyone got an explanation to this mystery? |
Posted: February 3, 2012 2:30 am | ||||||||||||||
YES! I agree you are right, this is a very bad thing for presets, and there is no name or numbering, and you CAN´T place the presets wh ere you want and ove and re-organize them as choose the ones you like most and put them first. ALSO there is NO way to identify and difference the factory given presets fr om your OWN presets. Also thre is no way to choose your favorites presets.
Of course that you are free and is good always to make your own and personal presets customized to what you want and need. WHO SAID I WANT HUNDREDS OF PRESETS ? I just suggested to have around 40 presets that I think would be enough for most filters. I agree that it would be bad to have hundreds of factory presets and it would really be nearly impossible for the author to make so many interesting and different presets, so there is no point here. THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED A DELETE KEY TO ELIMINATE THE PRESETS YOU DO NOT WANT If you do not want to have many presets you are always free to DELETE all the presets you do not want, you are NEVER forced to keep ALL the factory presets inside the filter. So if you feel bad about having so many presets you are always free to delete all the ones that is distracting and blocking you fr om making your work efficiently and easily. Why should all the other users of the world DO NOT HAVE at least 30 or 40 factory presets because you need to make many of your own presets for your works ? Does everybody use FF in the same way like you do ? ALTERNATIVE TO HAVING 30-40 FACTORY PRESETS AND HAVE FREE SPACE FOR YOUR OWN PRESETS I have not tried this myself to see if it works BUT I think that there could be a possible alternative and it is to MAKE A COPY BACKUP of your choosen filter that you need to work with, so you sel ect the filter in FF library list and use CTRL + L keys and it will open then Library folder so you can sel ect and COPY the identified filter and so you will have a backup. Then as you a copy of the filter saved, you can delete and remove all the presets that is stopping and blocking you fr om getting your job done, and keep only the presets that you really want And you will have always a copy of all the factory presets in the backup copy.
Sorry, BUT I do not agree. Please answer me to the following: Why not a user shouldn´t be given MANY (not all and every one) of the most important, interesting and useful variations? So having at least 30 or 40 factory presets will block you, tie you, and you will loose all the freedom to discover and individualize the result ? If having 30 or 40 factory presets user will loose the free choice and will not be able to make their own presets fr om experimenting with the setting ? If you like to much more to diacover the filter and make your own presets, there could be ALSO others persons that will NOT want to do this, or do not know how to make it, or does not the multiple possible variations of a filter. Why spend time to find the possible variations when is the author who KNOWS BEST how it´s own filter works and is the one that could show through factory presets the best possible variations his own filter could have? If having 30 or 40 factory presets user will loose the free choice and will not be able to make their own presets fr om experimenting with the setting ? IT DEPENDS ON THE KIND OF FILTER if it is needed 5, 10, 15, 20 or 40 presets to show to show the range possible effects, on some filters is really enough with 5, other is enough with 10 and some would really need 30 or more. Why have the 20 lim it?
I have said that the filter author already knows that you will be forced, is compulsory, you are obliged and MUST render all the choosen presets when uploading and submitting the filter. For ALL and everyone of the FF users, this is a PAINFUL WAITING ? If it painful for you, well, do not do it, you are NEVER forced to make 20 presets, even you can submit a filter with just 1 or 2 presets. It´s up to you, and It´s the author´s decision and free choice how many presets he wants to add to the filter, and if you feel bad about it, do not do it. And if you WANT and do not care about the waiting and does not feel it like painful, and feels MORE painful to delete some presets already done and that loves to have BUT CAN´T do it because of the 20 preset lim itation, what happens? It should be the authors FREE CHOICE to be able to send 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or 40. DOES ALL the filters have a very slow and painful render and need to wait a lot for it? ABSOLUTELY NOT ! Lots of simple filters, especially photo ones and similar, take just only a few seconds to make the presets, so it will be very few minutes to make 30 or 40 presets and not painful at all. ARE YOU FORCED TO KEEP LOOKING AT THE SCREEN, SEATING STILL AND DO NOTHING ELSE WHILE THE PRESETS ARE BEING CREATED ? Absolutely not, and no one is forcing you to do it, you have many alternatives: You can keep working on any other thing on your computer, FF does not block your computer until it´s finished. You can go to the internet to make something You can put FF to submit before going to have lunch or dinner, and when you come back it will be ready. You can put FF to submit and go and take a walk, or go shopping, or whatever you want that is not related to the computer. There are many more alternatives, I suposse my point is clear of what I mean I AGAIN REPEAT THAT I HAVE NOT REQUESTED TO HAVE A LIM IT OF 100 PRESETS !!! I just want to have ONLY 30 or 40 presets and so the author could CHOOSE how many to add to his own filter creation. |
Posted: February 3, 2012 2:34 am | ||||||||||||||
NOTHING has been said from the FF Inc. and there is nothing said by GMM or any other person that could help about this topic.
Please, could anyone from FF Inc. be so kind to tell us something about this and if it will be possible to change it in some way, OR will we have also to wait until FF 4.0 if you decide to change it ? Thanks very much for your help |
Posted: February 3, 2012 3:34 am | ||||||||||||||
EXTREMELY annoying!
There's a way to identify them. The factory presets have a small white triangle in the corner of the preview. The user presets dont.
I don't know if you can delete factory presets (I have never tried), but even if you do, every time you update a filter the factory presets will come back.
I agree, some filters have many sliders, knobs and dials, so they need more examples as to how they work. Other filters may only have a color control and a slider, and you get the idea with just 3 or 4 presets. And still, nobody explained to me why ALL the presets need to be rendered on the author's machine while submitting, even though only first 9 presets are shown anywhere, and all the preset must be re-rendered on the user's machine when downloading the filter. |
Posted: February 3, 2012 3:40 am | ||||||||||||||
as I said this [ mine ] is another point of view and maybe if you did a survey no one would agree with me [ it wouldn't be the first time ]
importantly we need a simple numbering system on preset at the very least In an ideal world all filters would render in seconds but the library is full of filters that take a lot longer than a couple of seconds to render yes I could trawl through preset mass deleting, but at the moment 20 preset doesn't require the expenditure of that time so why added a step in work load. The hundred preset came from Quote Vlad wrote: We can't remove it completely, but we can increase the count to, say, 100 presets or so. We'll look into it. Cool. A maximum of 100 presets should be more than enough for most users. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid submission incentives!" so I'm disagreeing with Vlad and Dilla more on that number [ it's the gulag for me ] you arbitarly 30 or 40 will that appease the ones who want 100? to upload a filter with one or two preset only and allow FF to randomize the remaining of the nine visible onsite, to me is not putting your filter submission best foot forward and show a lack of pride and care and a waste effort put into creating a filter |
Posted: February 3, 2012 4:04 am | ||||||||||||||
unfortunatly the rendering was put on the authors computers only when FF3 came on the seen ...... I don't think you will find many author that cheered that decision |
Posted: February 3, 2012 4:08 am | ||||||||||||||
You are right Carl. 100, 50... is too much. But I agree for 25 or 30 max. | |||||||||||||
Posted: February 3, 2012 10:15 am | ||||||||||||||
I agree that 50 or 100 is too much, BUT I am very sorry, I do not think that changing fr om 20 to 25 would be good, is ONLY 5 more, it should be at least 30 up to 40, and I personally would prefer 40 better than 30, so there is a freedom of choice to put what you want and let the author decide what he wants to do. _______________________________________________________________
No, it will not, BUT please, can you be so kind to tell me how many FF users wants to have 100 presets ? Are they the greater majority ? You can´t make happy to everybody so perhaps a middle point would be good 40-50 (although I prefer 40)
Of course this is absolutely true and totally agree, and there are many that only offer 1 or 2 presets and I have downloaded them. And is true that is a lack of pride and care to the final user, and it could be a good filter, but if do not have presets will be a waste. _______________________________________________________________________
I totally agree and also find bad that you can´t arrange and place first your most used and favorites, OR put first you own custom presets, or be able to mix them.
Morgantao, perhaps it works well for you, but not for me as I have ALL the presets with exactly the same white triangle in the top right corner, so there is NO difference, at least no my own FF and library. Please see the screenshot, and this is a filter that you will recognize very well which ones are the factory presets |
Posted: February 3, 2012 10:52 am | ||||||||||||||
SpaceRay, first, let me say that's a fine looking filter you got there
Second, it's the other way around.. The factory presets DONT have the white corner, it's the user's presets that have the white corner. The reason you see the wite corner in all the presets is because you made a change to the filter (The picture ovelays), so now it's in your "My filters" folder, which means ALL presets are considered yours, and not factory presets. If you take the original filter, and add a preset you will see there's no white corner on the factory presets, only on the preset you just add. |
Posted: February 3, 2012 2:20 pm | ||||||||||||||
Yes have you already seen it before ?
OPS !!! YES, my fault, Sorry very much, this happens when you DO NOT look what you are doing, I searched for ball pit in FF, and click on the filter, and without knowing I choosed the one that was in the "my filters" folder of the REAL filter inside the FF library, sorry for confusing things I must look more carefully next time. |
Posted: February 3, 2012 5:36 pm | ||||||||||||||
It appears you cannot delete factory presets, which would mean that I move it to my filters to delete presets, no usage points for authors and more kaos in my hundreds and hundreds of my filters, even more reasons not to have more
Who knows? As you can't tell me how many want 30 or 40 ........ I expressed purely that I was happy with 20 and wouldn't want or need any more than that |
Posted: February 3, 2012 5:38 pm | ||||||||||||||
Good point. Perhaps if we could arrage the presets the way we like it could solve the problem, or at least if we could hide factory presets.... But I'm not holding my breath till any of the option on this thread come true. My wife would like me to stay alive. EDIT: Oh, and seems the submission wizard actually only renders the first 9 presrets + needed maps. So having 9, 19 or 99 presets on your filter wont change the submission time. |
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Another low cost technique Rift Valley farmers are using is cutting their maize stalks and stacking them in pyramid shaped heaps and leaving them to dry in heaps for up to two weeks before taking it home. The stack ensures even when it rains water drains down the stack without it getting to the grains.
Aflatoxin is known to cause liver cancer also incidences of Hepatitis B have been reported where grains affected by aflatoxins were consumed. Death from aflatoxin infection can occur within 48 hours.
Aflatoxins can't be destroyed by cooking "its heat stable," said Anne. Even milk consumed from cows fed on grains contaminated by aflatoxins is risky to consume. Such grains are also dangerous for animal consumption.
That has made some researchers deem the only safe use for such grains would be for generating ethanol energy. Other than that "the grains should be burnt," Anne said.
AGRA's post harvest management initiative has provided farmers pooled into groups the moisture metres in Eastern province regions like Meru, Embu and Northern and Southern Rift Valley regions of Transmara.
Maize that's properly dried and bulked by the farmers' groups according to Anne gives them more bargaining power and they stand to fetch a higher price for their produce. As opposed to if they each sold the grain individually.
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There are few things more nerve-wracking for paleontologists than fossil auctions. Exquisite specimens often command high prices and can be snapped up by private collectors, which keeps important fossils out of the hands of scientists. The impressive Tyrannosaurus "Sue," for instance, was sold for over $8 million in 1997, a price that required Chicago's Field Museum to strike a deal with Disney and McDonald's to afford the one-of-a-kind skeleton.
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Then, about a week later, there were rumors of a special deal made after the auction. It looked like a buyer had been found after all, but no one knew where the fossil would end up.
Now the mystery has been solved. The skeleton, given the nickname "Cliff," has just been unveiled at the Boston Museum of Science. It turns out that the anonymous buyer of the skeleton grew up in Boston and wanted to give something back to the city, and what better gift than a million-dollar dinosaur?
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This makes me really happy, it seems to me that making a skeleton like this available to the public (and science as well) really ought to be par for the course with fossil auctions. You'd never really know how valuable your fossil is until scientists can have a crack at it, and there isn't anything quite as extravagant as spending millions and then giving it away (or loaning it for seven years). Private collectors can easily still "collect" without making themselves appear like villains to the paleontological community.
Hang on, hang on — what's the point in that? A seven-year loan? The specimen is still privately owned, even if it happens to be physically located in the museum right now. What if you publish on it, and then in eight years' time I spot what I think is a mistake in your interpretation. If I can't go back to the specimen (which might now be concealed in the owner's undersea base), then your work is near worthless.
Sorry, but there it is. I wouldn't want to work on a specimen in these circumstances. If this person wants to benefit science, he or she needs to GIVE the specimen to the museum, not loan it.
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At Brown University, Dr. Lippencott served as a principle investigator for the "Racial and Ethnic Minority Disparities Project." With funding from the Rhode Island Foundation, Dr. Lippencott worked with undergraduate research assistants and an advisory board consisting of academicians, government agents, and community leaders. The project involved collecting and analyzing reports, and creating an annotated bibliography of articles and books on minority disparities in health, education, economic development, and safety issues in the state of Rhode Island. The project concluded with a final report on disparity issues and a website of the information gathered aimed at community groups, researchers, and other stakeholders interested in disparity issues.
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Dr. Lippencott contributed to a book entitled, HIV/AIDS and Women in Africa, published in 2009 by Nova Science Publishers. Her book chapter explores how HIV/AIDS has impacted women in Kisumu, Kenya. She has published in the Journal African Rural and Urban Studies, several online publications, encyclopedias, and regularly peer reviews manuscripts for publication.
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OK, Pet Peeve Time, readers of The Educated Reporter. Why is that so many charter schools in their promotional messages describe themselves as "tuition free"? I understand that people often are confused about what charter schools are or are not, but they are emphatically public schools, not private schools.
At a recent meeting I attended where a new Baton Rouge charter school was selling itself, the school's director used this "tuition free" phrase. He said he'd worked at private schools and public schools and that charter schools were in the middle, "the best of both worlds." Now, I understand a bit of what he's saying -- they are open to everyone, but have more freedom than traditional public schools -- but come on! These are public schools, no question. Yes, some raise private money on the side to supplement their budgets, but so do many traditional public schools. The best explanation for selling yourself in this way, to me, is to persuade parents interested in private schools, but who can't afford them, that going to a charter school is equivalent to attending a private school and doing so for free! Charter schools, while given some freedom, still have loads of laws to abide by that put them in the same family as traditional public schools. To my mind, it's purposely misleading. I have seen this "tuition free" wording elsewhere in Louisiana. And a Google search of the phrase "tuition free charter school" produced 86,000 hits just now, so we're not alone on this. It would be nice if charter schools would stop pretending and embrace the fact that they are public schools to all audiences. (By the way, I've been slow to post this week. I've got some OK excuses, but I know you all expect more while Linda is off. I will try to make it up to you on this Good Friday with some thoughtful posts. Never fear, The Educated Reporter herself is scheduled to return next week.) Labels: charter schools 13 Comments:
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SELECTION headaches could be enough to see Tadcaster Albion manager Paul Marshall reach for the painkillers.
His resurgent side, unbeaten in their last seven Northern Counties East League premier division encounters, face a test of their good form when they entertain second-placed Scarborough Athletic at Ings Lane tomorrow.
The Brewers put six past Hall Road Rangers in midweek with Danny Gray picking up a late brace.
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"This is the benchmark for us playing Scarborough but they have slipped up a bit recently," he said. "Thackley and Pickering beat them and I know they leak goals. We have scored in every game this season.
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