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[[Gnome Settlement]]: 500 gold, requires [[Gnome Camp]]
[[Gnome Settlement]]: 500 gold, requires [[Gnome Camp]]
[[Halfling Camp]]: [[Find the Halflings]] quest reward
[[Halfling Camp]]: [[Find the Halflings]] quest reward
[[Halfling Settlement]]: 500 gold, requires [[Halfling Camp]]
[[Halfling Settlement]]: 500 gold, requires [[Halfling Camp]]
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There are a lot of things that need to be unlocked in DD.
For all unlocks that involve finding something in a dungeon run, you are required to leave the dungeon alive. You do not have to win, and the item will not be unlocked if you die.
This page is still under heavy construction, as are many of the pages it links to.
Human: Human Settlement. Starting race.
Elf: Elf Settlement. Found via quest progression.
Dwarf: Dwarf Settlement. Found via quest progression.
Halfling: Halfling Settlement. Found in a sub dungeon. Will join if given a health potion.
Gnome: Gnome Settlement. Found in a sub dungeon. Will join if given a mana potion.
Orc: Search Western Dungeons for sub dungeon with Orc who will have you drink a potion.
Goblin: Search Southern Dungeons for a sub dungeon with a Goblin who wants money (20 gold).
Fighter: Guild lvl 1
Berserker: Guild lvl 2
Warlord: Guild lvl 3
Wizard: Mage Tower lvl 1
Sorcerer: Mage Tower lvl 2
Bloodmage: Mage Tower lvl 3
Priest: Church lvl 1
Monk: Church lvl 2
Paladin: Church lvl 3
Thief: Thieves' Den lvl 1
Rogue: Thieves' Den lvl 2
Assassin: Thieves' Den lvl 3
Tinker: Found in sub dungeon enclosed by walls (Requires Alchemist unlocked)
Crusader: sub dungeon after unlocking all 9 Gods, requires 100 piety with any god
Transmuter: Found in sub dungeon randomly. Unknown if any pre-req
Monster Classes
Half-Dragon: Requires completing Dragon Isle with 3 classes
Gorgon: Requires completing Naga City with 3 classes
Vampire: Requires completing Halls of Steel(Vicious) with 3 classes
Goat: DLC
Wraiths: Unlock Berserker Class
Goo Blob: Unlock Warlord Class
Dragon Spawn: Unlock Paladin Class
Glowing Guardian: Found in the East (sub dungeon with path and 3 Zombies of increasing level)
Dracul: Found in the East (Sub dungeon with your clone, you are locked in) (prerequisite: Glowing Guardian)
Mystera Annur: Found in the North (Sub dungeon with 999 hp dragon, creative use of magic will get you past him)
Jehora Jeheyu: Found in the North (Sub dungeon has imps and an alter, you will need ENDISWAL to escape) (Requires Mystera)
Taurog: Found in the West (Sub dungeon.. large room with Taurog altar at the center)
Binlor: Found in the West (Sub dungeon small room surround in walls, smash walls to find alter)(Requires Taurog)
Tikki Tooki: Found in the South (Sub dungeon with reviving enemy, unlocked by killing all forms without taking a hit) (Requires The Earthmother)
Earthmother: Found in the South (Sub dungeon filled with plants)
Pactmaker: Found anywhere (Sub dungeon giant room with alter in the middle, touch alter with all other gods unlocked to unlock) (prerequisite: Unlock any god)
Hexx Ruins: Defeat Southern Swamp
Ick Swamp: Find Naga sub dungeon in Hexx Ruins after completing at least once.
Labyrinth: Defeat Western Jungle
Dragon Isle: Defeat Labyrinth
Halls of Steel(Hard): Defeat Creeplight Ruins
Halls of Steel(Vicious): Defeat Halls of Steel(Hard) with 4 classes
Namtar's Lair: Defeat Halls of Steel(Hard)
Shifting Passage: Defeat Northern Desert
Demonic Library: Defeat Shifting Passage
Gaan'talet(Hard): Opened by quest progression in game and getting one of every trophy.
Gaan'talet(Vicious): Opened by completed Gaan'talet(Hard)
Kingdom Buildings
Bazaar lvl 1: Buy Portal scroll and exit the level without dying.
Bazaar lvl 2: Quest Reward, buy all shops in a single run
Bank lvl 1: Complete Dangerous Investments and Venture Capital
Bank lvl 2: Complete
Witch lvl 1: Eastern Tundra sub dungeon. You have to gather 5 items from killing plants
Witch lvl 2: 600 gold
Alchemist lvl 1: Buy Philosopher's stone and exit the level without dying.
Alchemist lvl 2: 1200 gold
Alchemist lvl 3: 1200 gold
Explorer's Guild: City Expansion quest reward
Tavern: City Expansion quest reward
Taxidermist: Taxidermy quest reward
Human Settlement: Default
Guild lvl 1: Default
Guild lvl 2: 1,000 gold, requires Guild lvl 1
Guild lvl 3: 2,000 gold, requires Guild lvl 2
Mage Tower lvl 1: 150 gold, requires Taxidermy quest completion
Mage Tower lvl 2: 1,000 gold, requires Mage Tower lvl 1
Mage Tower lvl 3: 2,000 gold, requires Mage Tower lvl 2
Church lvl 1: 150 gold, requires Taxidermy quest completion
Church lvl 2: 1,000 gold, requires Church lvl 1
Church lvl 3: 2,000 gold, requires Church lvl 2
Thieves' Den lvl 1: 150 gold, requires Taxidermy quest completion
Thieves' Den lvl 2: 1,000 gold, requires Thieves' Den lvl 1
Thieves' Den lvl 3: 2,000 gold, requires Thieves' Den lvl 2
Blacksmith lvl 1: 200 gold, requires Thieves' Den lvl 1, Mage Tower lvl 1, or Church lvl 1
Blacksmith lvl 2: 600 gold
Blacksmith lvl 3: 1250 gold
Elven Camp: City Expansion quest reward
Elven Settlement: 200 gold, requires Elven Camp
Dwarven Camp: City Expansion quest reward
Dwarven Settlement: 200 gold, requires Dwarven Camp
Gnome Camp: Find the Gnomes quest reward
Gnome Settlement: 500 gold, requires Gnome Camp
Halfling Camp: Find the Halflings quest reward
Halfling Settlement: 500 gold, requires Halfling Camp
Kingdom Preparations
Shop Scroll: Bazaar lvl 2
Apothecary: Bazaar lvl 2
Black Market: Thieves' Den lvl 2
Bet on the Boss: Thieves' Den lvl 2
Smuggler Den: Thieves' Den lvl 3
Patches the Teddy: Thieves' Den lvl 3
3-Slot Locker: Guild lvl 2
6-Slot Locker: Guild lvl 3
Magnet Fire: Mage Tower lvl 2
Extra Glyphs: Mage Tower lvl 2
Fewer Glyphs: Mage Tower lvl 2
Extra Boosters: Mage Tower lvl 3
Guaranteed God: Church lvl 2
Extra Altar: Church lvl 3 (requires all 9 gods)
Expanded Potion Kit: Witch
Sword: Blacksmith lvl 1
Shield: Blacksmith lvl 1
Bear Mace: Blacksmith lvl 2
Perseverance Badge: Blacksmith lvl 2
Slayer's Wand: Blacksmith lvl 2
Really Big Sword: Blacksmith lvl 3
Compression Seal: Alchemist lvl 1
Transmutation Seal: Alchemist lvl 1
Translocation Seal: Alchemist lvl 2
Agnostic's Collar: Paladin Silver
Vampiric Blade: Bloodmage Silver
Witchalok Pendant: Halflings Ho! quest
Fire Heart: Ice and Fury quest
Battlemage Ring: Minecraft quest
Hero's Helm: Confidence quest
Crystal Ball: From completing quest to win Den of Danger with second tier classes.
Soul Orb: Hello, gnomes! puzzle pack
Viper Ward: Hello, halflings! puzzle pack


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A few months back I had a request to do a make-over for pink lemonade cupcakes. The original recipe was totally decadent loaded with butter and buttercream icing and I wasn't sure how I would pull it off. I played around with this one several ways, and this is what I came up with. I chose to keep them naked and simple since they are sweet enough as is. If you like tart and sweet, these cupcakes are for you!
Pink Lemonade Confetti Cupcakes
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 24 • Size: 1 cupcake • Points +: 3 pts • Smart Points: 4
Calories: 97.4 • Fat: 2.3 g • Carbs: 17.3 g • Fiber: 0 g • Protein: 1.0 g • Sugar: 9.8
Sodium: 103.7 (without salt)
18.25 oz box confetti cake mix, I used Duncan Hines
2 1/2 tsp powdered sugar-free pink lemonade mix
1 cup water
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
lemon zest from half of a lemon
2 drops pink food coloring (optional)
confetti sprinkles, optional
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line cupcake tins with 24 paper liners.
Stir together the water and pink lemonade powder. Combine the cake mix, pink lemonade mixture, applesauce, lemon zest, food coloring and oil in a large bowl and with an electric mixer, mix until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
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Stanczyk honors, His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, who is being beatified tomorrow (1st-May-2011).
I want to write two parts upon this pope. Part One, is I want to write about his religious lineage. Part Two (on 5/1/2011), I want write about his genealogical lineage. The parallels to that statement should be obvious, so I will not draw it. If you do not get it, then read a good book.
Both parts will start with Karol Józef Wojtyła's birth. If you look at the prayer card to the left, you will see:
Birth-Priest-Bishop-Cardinal-Pope-Deceased-Beatified. That is the timeline: 1920-1946-1958-1967-1978-2005-2011, a period 91 years. If canonization occurs then we may well be speaking about a century or more. The dates are to the left (uh, or above) on the prayer card. But that is not what I meant by the great pope's religious lineage. What I mean is right here (Catholic-Hierarchy.org). So here is his religious lineage:
Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:
- Pope Karol Józef Wojtyła † (1958)
- Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
- Archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski † (1919)
- Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
- Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
- Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
- Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
- Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
- Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
- Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
- Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
- Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
- Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
- Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
- Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
- Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
- Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
- Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
- Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
- Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
There is also another religious lineage. The great pope is the 264th pope in direct line back to Saint Peter (the Apostle). John Paul II, was not the longest reigning pope, nor was he the oldest pope. That is his papal lineage (also a religious lineage).
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Since I've even pulled up this little blog. As you know, life has gone and turned itself upside down. Being pregnant is well, it's exhausting. I kind of thought that one of the perks of being pregnant would be to have crazy random cravings…you know, the kind I could blog about. And you could make fun of me for. Sadly, that hasn't happened. Now, to be fair, I will confess that my love of chocolate has increased exponentially, but I kind of just blame that on the fact that I'm still trying to make sure the Easter candy doesn't go to waste. Because that would be wrong.
And bad.
So I must eat it. Reese's peanut butter eggs and all.
But I had to say that I have missed you. And I promise I will make more of a concerted effort to blog more. And not in a "mommy-blogger" kind of way (you know who you are missy). I figure that even though I'll be tending to a newborn very soon, I may (God willing) have some time to bake…and test out new recipes. And let's be honest, my camera will be coming out of retirement. Hope the cobwebs will come off. So I'll most certainly need to practice taking photos on food too, right? Then again, it may be all diet food. Because homegirl is gonna have to lose some serious lbs.
Hope you all are well.
{ps. i apologize for the lack of pictures. i know reading without photos is like totally lame.}


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May 17, 2012
The Frustration Over Online Family Trees Gone Bad
A second error involved a marriage to his wife, correctly identified in this online tree. Children born to the couple were also correctly identified with birth years beginning in 1801. But the tree owner linked to a marriage in 1832 stating this was for the man and his wife. Not only is that impossible given the birth years of their children but a quick click on the link showed the marriage to be in a different state and for a man with the same name but marrying an entirely different wife!
And so I vented, expressing my dismay at the public posting of a tree so obviously incorrect. And the fact that at least six other researchers had copied the mistakes and posted them to their own public trees.
My rant, to my surprise, generated a heated discussion! It's been very interesting and some excellent ideas and suggestions were given for combating these types of errors without becoming the genealogy police.
It's tricky to critique another person's tree. Most of us don't take kindly to being told we're wrong. And it doesn't seem to matter how gently or kindly you express it, the bottom line is - you're telling someone they goofed.
Most of us agreed that the best method is to instruct through online tutorials, webinars, video how tos, to be come a mentor and to lead by example. I often write articles that I hope will guide those new to genealogy and help them become better genealogists. You can find some of these on Olive Tree Genealogy blog under the topic heading TUTORIALS in the right side nav bar. And there's an abundance of material out there to allow all of us, from the beginner to the experienced, to learn something new.
What's your opinion?
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32 comments:
- Rita A. said...
These issues have long made me want to rant and rave.
I think teaching and helping is great and will help a lot of people but I'm afraid there will be those who don't want to take the time for even free lessons and won't believe they can or have made those types of mistakes. The main thing is to be careful with what you accept into your own information.
- Frances Elizabeth Schwab said...
I'm not a credentialed genealogist and the citation police would definitely pull me over. I don't put my tree online because I don't have correct citation form, but I do write a family history blog. Anyone interested in my research can ask for sources (which I do have). I've had someone try to to help by offering additional info, but a simple comparison of the dates/ages I included made their info invalid. I tactfully tried to point out the discrepancy and didn't hear back. It's bad enough when you find a bad tree; it's worse when the bad info finds you.
IMHO, the people who provide bad info don't need genealogical education--they need critical thinking skills. *climbing off soapbox now*
- Cindy said...
I can so feel this post! Nothing like getting a member connect activity notification for a source that you have used, only to find that it's been linked to a person that clearly isn't correct. But what to do at that point. I myself, have indeed sent a kind note "it appears that you attached this census record to a person in your tree... if you review the information you'll find that this is not a correct use of this source for this person." My comments are usually met with "yes, I'm just starting and may have made an error there" or no reply at all. In the meantime they rarely correct the error and the tree is copied and copied and copied... you get the idea. I would love to read your rant, betting that it sounds very similar. Sure Ancestry is great, but people join, find a tree that matches, copy it and they're "done". Along comes another and another and another. No fact checking, no real look at the source - which is typically another tree. That's not research and new folks need to be informed, without feeling that they've made a huge error - guidance is needed and many times offered, but often not taken that way.
- David Freeman said...
Online tutorials, webinars, video how tos, mentoring, and leading by example will not change the obviously incorrect information you described. Telling someone to interpret sources correctly will not lead them to analyze all 39000 names in their copied tree.
My opinion is that all online tree systems should have a ranking system, from "Totally Incorrect" to "Plausible With No Sources" to "Correct and Sourced." Visitors could then rank the information for each family group they see. Tree with a high "correct" ranking can be shown at the top of results and "incorrect" rankings can be hidden or shown at the bottom of the list. Any family group consistently listed as "incorrect" would not be able to be downloaded, shared, or linked from within the tree website.
We should not spend any time dealing with people who can't appreciate someone else taking the time to help them correct their tree. Of course, engage people politely when you find bad information. But if they reject your help and don't make the changes, then you should feel free to tell people how bad the information is.
- Tim Campbell said...
Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent or correct this; and unfortunately there is no way from stopping the sheep from following. Chin up and continue your course of writing, instructing and mentoring.
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
Tim, that is the phrase I used in my rant on my Facebook page this morning -- "the genealogy sheep"
I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of my time and energy to try to convince one individual at a time of specific errors in their tree when I find one.
I'd far rather spend that time writing and getting my own research right.
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
Frances - if only we could magically give critical thinking skills! But we can't so the best we can do is mentor and guide and help.
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
Cindy - all too true. I haven't encountered many people in my 35+ years of researching who say "gee thanks for telling me my tree was wrong!"
In fact one woman told me years ago that I "spoiled" a family story when I showed her the proof that she was not related to her husband through a common 8th great grandpa!
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
Rita - absolutely! Verifying everything you find, offline and on, is the key to an accurate family lineage.
Sometimes by telling people privately that their information is incorrect, we have opportunities to not only correct them, but also to inspire them. Occurrences like these are rare. I've been lucky to have been rewarded for my time and effort on a few occasions.
I love David Freeman's proposed ranking system for online trees, but how could it be implemented?
When I first started doing genealogy research years ago, I'm afraid I was a sheep. In my excitement, I "found" information for a branch that took me back to the 1700s. Unfortunately, I have run across errors in some of it, but not before I copied the database into my own. I think the best a person can do is warn newbies of the large amount of error in family trees that are online. Too many of these incorrect trees are copied over and over and posted on websites to catch them all, but awareness is key. It sure would have kept me from blindly adding incorrect information into my own database. :)
- CallieK said...
I had someone message me about something I'd added mistakenly and I was grateful but I've sent messages to others suggesting that they might want to have second look and even provide proof and in only one case did the person thank me and correct it.
like David's idea as well- I guess it would have to function like a rating system but it would be so useful
- Celia Lewis said...
I agree with all the above! I have seen so many ridiculous errors in trees where the date is so obviously wrong that I gnash my teeth loudly! One very gentle reminder to check dates when inputting ancestors... got me a surprisingly nasty & highly sarcastic reply! So I replied that I'd sent feedback but really, it was totally up to them what they wanted to do with it - including dump it in the garbage. Oh well. In a few years, they may be more willing to learn to be more thorough. Sigh. There needs to be a BIG sign that most trees have errors in them (small to huge!). Mine included. I'm still digging out the bits and pieces of errors I've accumulated. Thanks for ranting for us all!
- Dorset_Canary said...
I got so fed up with people lifting details from my Ancestry tree and adding them incorrectly into their own, that I've now marked it as private and invite only those I know and trust. It's still in the search index so those that are interested can find it and ask for the information.
Early on I made a couple of mistakes with the wrong maiden names/marriages of women in my Ancestry tree. I've since corrected them but the mistakes live on in several trees that copied off of mine. I tried contacting some of the people but they apparently refused to correct errors they copied of me!
Perhaps a filter should be installed on all the firms which except family tree downloads. The filter would recognize obvious errors ie impossible dates, people born in MA before 1620 etc etc.. Let's recognize that some are human errors perhaps in copying records and the like. I know I would be appreciative of catching an error unknown to me.
Larry Kelley
Totally agree with about everything said. We all know that some folks are only concerned about how many names they can accumulate. A bit like "whoever has the most toys wins". I personally think Ancestry contributes to this by allowing the most ridiculous things to be shown as sources. I've had people show an e-mail from me as a source. Get real!
Family Tree maker has such a filter about marriages and children's dates of birth. It will pop up a question asking you if you want to include information that is questionable.
Many of the trees on Ancestry.com show several "sources" but when you analyze them, you find that they not only do not prove the assertion, but disprove it. I wish that people would realize that their research needs to go beyond what is available on Anestry.com. Another family tree even when it is supposedly sourced, is not good enough. I've also kept my family tree private.
- Jim said...
Sometimes I think in the excitment to promote genealogy we hide the hours of research and hard work involved in locating and authenticating lineage accurately. The show Who Do You Think You Are? is particularly guilty of making the process look far too simple.
- PatCarole said...
In am incensed every time I hear about people not paying attention to simple details which are usually most obvious. I had an issue with my cousin's wife -- taking my documented information and adding children who were born before the parents were married.
It is difficult to know what to do - I would hate not to share what I have found but it does cross my mind to make my tree private.
- Cassmob (Pauleen) said...
Oh I can so empathise with your rant! Yes teaching and educating may help those who care enough to learn, but agree with Frances, that critical thinking skills seem to be severely lacking. None of likes being told we've got it wrong but surely it's better to say "whoops I goofed" and fix it, than have everything incorrect forever. I've tried to tactfully correct some information, or suggest citations (however worded) be added, or that the wonderful but nonsensical family story needs researching not just blind faith. I guess we just have to live with it, but it's why I just don't touch Ancestry trees, except for my own convenience.
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
It's really interesting reading all of your comments. I don't merge online trees with mine - ever. But I do use them for clues which I track down on my own. If something is found to be correct, then I add it manually to my tree.
I'm not in favour of policing or ranking online trees. And I don't personally want Ancestry or other sites to be "tree censors" or have some method of not allowing proper sources.
The onus is on each genealogist to evaluate the record/tree/whatever and then decide if it's okay to accept.(the critical thinking that Frances and Pauleen were talking about)
My rant is about those trees that are just blind copies of a glaring error that should have been spotted! And of course the original tree with the error is high on my list of pet peeves.
And since we can't feasibly teach critical thinking to strangers, my wish would be that those who make such glaring errors would accept corrections gracefully and gratefully. Then fix them.
Is it definitely the tree (the research) that is wrong, or is it just that the wrong sources have been added to the wrong people? I have recently uploaded my tree to Ancestry and it's easy to do. If you have Dad, Mum and kids that have the same names, it's easy to link the correct record but to the wrong person. But a lot of 'copy and paste' genealogy goes on, I will admit, especially if they are only collateral lines and not your direct ancestor.
- P J Sabados said...
I did make the mistake early on of doing some cut and paste work on my family tree, but when I found the error, I corrected it. I have connected to trees of family members I know, but I largely ignore hints from family trees from the general populace.
Rejoice in the fact that you have put a single budding genealogist on the right path rather than focus on the 99 genealogy sheep that are still astray. The sheep are looking for greener pastures, and unfortunately, they get focused in on the "story" instead of the facts. The genealogists are searching for the history, and the paths they use to find it aren't always easy, but they are those that are accurate and true.
- Mirwin said...
I've had good results by putting the shoe on the other foot. I have sent my info (which conflicts with their illogical version) and asked them if they would please share their proof that I have made errors. Often in that process they see their own goofs, without being totally embarrassed in the process.
- JG in MD said...
I have a couple of lines that have been researched and written about for 100 years. In the 1990s I was thrilled; now I'm tearing my hair.
On one of my lines, a name searcher has found thousands of people and I've had to search every page for my possible ancestors, then check her logic, then look at her sources. She's very good, but it's as if she's sucked all the air out of the search. I track her sources, find her data confirmed, and nothing beyond that.
But I digress.
We need a way to go meta and broadcast the truth if we finally find it in the morass of old errors, new errors, and volume of work by others. But what if we add more errors? It could happen. <>
I like that phase: "the genealogy sheep." There's also "genealogy fiction".
I see glaring errors made by people who should know better, so is it little wonder why new comers believe whatever they find printed. I just found a site where a man is shown married to his mother's sister.
When I started researching our family's genealogy close to twenty years ago, an old timer told me to "always check your sources and always keep you sense of humor."
I'm really working on the second part of his advice.
Leigh Jones
- Patty said...
I just want to add to the conversation that one characteristic of a successful genealogist is "humility." Case in point: a cousin commented that I had some incorrect information in my Ancestry tree on a direct ancestor. For months I reasoned, researched and finally came to the conclusion he was right! I am GLAD he took the time to correct me and sorry I didn't listen sooner. Add eat "humble pie" to the menu...
- Michael F Harris said...
Drives me nuts when I see it. Usually I find it when it's too ate and have to correct a mess.
- Unknown said...
Yes, ranting is definitely appropriate here. Another problem of copying these trees and following the green leaf hints willy-nilly occurs at meetings and lectures when a newbie comes up to me and proudly tells me how wonderful it is that he/she or a cousin has just gotten started but they have their ancestry back to a royal family in the 1200's. My approach has been to include some sort of caution in every talk and then to just bite my tongue at these comments unless I am asked for my opinion...then I am duty bound to advise them to be cautious. But they don't get their feathers ruffled because I didn't say they were wrong (who knows, perhaps they are correct...stranger things have happened), I only advised them to check and cross document because someone else along the way may have erred.
And I thought I was the only one. I have been doing my tree for about a year. On and off. Many times I have found members of my family on peoples trees. They don't get cross references or do the math on births and how old they were in a census 30years later. Sometimes it seems like they just want to make a big tree.


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KOffice 2.0, The Vision
KOffice is working on its future, one based on KDE4. KOffice is starting new initiatives with libraries like Flake and Pigment that are going to be used for all KOffice applications. For the users of KOffice those changes are invisible until the 2.0 previews actually start to appear some months from now. Therefore the KOffice crew wants to show you their goals of what KOffice 2 is going to look like. Read more for the whole story.
When I first saw a paper on KOffice back in 1999 it showed the concept of embedded documents which allows me to have a formula or chart in my paper and allow me to update my charts by just altering some cells in my spreadsheet.
Now, many years later, we are moving to the next level. KOffice will define so called 'shapes' which can be anything from a simple triangle to a multi-layered image and allow those to be used in all KOffice applications as the building blocks of a document just like they are shapes that the application provides itself. So no more embedded documents which are always square and always start from the top-left corner. This allows for simple things like KWord finally providing simple lines to be drawn, but much more exciting are new features like being able to rotate or skew a KWord text frame. And not only being able to do that in a KWord document, but also in a Krita or a Karbon document.
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KOffice 2 will still have the most applications there are combined in any single office suite, and on top of that those applications will show an integration that's unparallelled in the industry. Each application really does make the whole more complete by literally making the other applications more powerful.
Every application that uses the Flake library will provide a shape-type that the other applications can use. Want to use that 1 cool Kivio-shape in your Krita painting, go ahead. But the most exciting part is that the shapes come with so called 'tools'. Where each application can use the interaction model for that shape type. And since its determined per shape-type, its the same across all the KOffice applications.
We already see the advantage with a basic interaction-tool that allows moving, rotation etc. of all shape-types. It has features like scaling with the control button down, reserving the aspect ratio of the shape. Unlike in KOffice 1.x that single interaction-tool will be used in all KOffice applications stopping the application from reinventing the wheel, they are literally all running the same code and thus all applications will work consistently towards the user. Definitely a good thing for usability.
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Re: Why 2.0
Yeah, why not call it KDE Power Office 3000 Professional Plus, Xtreme Edition?
Maybe because in the free software world we don't care so much about cool names (except for the K-thing) and marketing blah-blah. We do care about good software.
By Pingwing at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
> we don't care so much about cool names ...
> ... (except for the K-thing)
Hehe :-)
By KDE User at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
> Maybe because in the free software world we don't care so much about cool
Hm. plasma? solid? phonon? akonadi? pigment? flake? Those things used to be called "KDE Multimedia" or "PIM Storage Layer". Parts of KDE definately have started caring about cool names. I think that's good.
By PC Squad at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
KDE PO000PP XtremeE?
Sounds good
By Allan at Tue, 2006/06/13 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
All those strange versions dont work and are bad marketing. People will not know if this is a new version or not. There are only a few worldwide brands (like Microsoft) that can afford to do this because a new release is announced everywhere in the media. And then the gap between versions must be large enough.
By Martin at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
Why not call it "KO Round 2" ;)
By Super-Root at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
K O is a bad portuguese name. This is a brazilian slang that means "fake" or "lie" and also we have a genital lubrificant for maleXmale with this name at the drugstores.
By bb at Wed, 2006/06/14 - 5:00am
Re: Why 2.0
D'ont push it or someone will have the wonderfull idea to name it Koffice2 version 1,0. If i recall correctly this was schema was to be used on KDE2 until users protested.
By josel at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
Balancing feature race and stability
I commend the effort to add advanced functionality to Koffice.
Simply because it is too unstable and unreliable. You won't see me using Koffice before that is fixed, regardless of advanced new features. I suspect a lot of other people are of the same opinion...
By Roger F at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Balancing feature race and stability
Well, there are some very basic problems in Koffice right now, and hopefully these can be fixed by the Koffice 2 release. If they are, its very likely Koffice 2.0 (or 2.0.x) will be what you are looking for.
Many seem to think the Koffice guys just go for 2.0 because they want new new new lovely features. But it is also very much about a fundamental redesign to SOLVE some deep problems.
Re: Balancing feature race and stability
I hoped that it goes without saying that the stability and lack of features like tables and kerning are at the top of the list of things to do.
The creation of these two libraries move the development from several separate islands into one community with the positive effects that has with regards to peer reviews and code reuse (which means less code and thus less bugs).
Completely separate from this article, KOffice 2.0 will bring a new text engine for KWord to get rid of a lot of problems we had in previous versions. Including kerning and printing (wysiwyg).
This vision is not a list of features, its, well, a vision of the way we think it will look. We did not steal it, we are innovating. That does not mean that we don't care about stability and basic features.
Thanks for your feedback!
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Balancing feature race and stability
Yes, the same with me. Every time KOffice team releases bugfix release I install it and try to use, only to discover that with just casual use (editing some tables in KWord, embedding a formula etc. - usually not more than after 10 minutes :-) ) one of the apps (usually KWord - but not always) crashes. Ehhh... I can only hope that they would really do some QA on KOffice2 :-)
By Piotr Gawrysiak at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Balancing feature race and stability
Exactly like the subject states; tables are a balance where I honestly wanted to remove tables completely in the 1.5 series of releases since they were not up to snuff.
Needless to say we (and by that I mean I) really wanted to get it right, but for that we need some of the features that 2.0 will bring.
By Thomas Zander at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Flake and printing
Is flake going to solve the printing diabilities of KOffice ? I would love to use KSpread but I have always been seriously annoyed by the complexity to go from the screen to a nice A4 printed sheet.
Creating a well balanced set of printed sheets of paper is certainly not easy
By Charles de Miramon at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Flake and printing
> Is flake going to solve the printing diabilities of KOffice
Yes, it already makes printing a lot better for a lot of different issues. Flake will generate PDFs directly and solve lots of issues with regards to printing in one go.
I currently do not know how kspread will use flake, thats still in the future, but the printing issue will certainly be kept in mind when developers start to take advantage of flake.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Flake and printing
I'm sure Koffice 2 (based on KDE 4/Qt4) will be better in this area. But maybe you would like to elaborate about what is wrong, exactly?
Re: Flake and printing
Look the TeX algorithms.
When you print a text on a sheet of paper, you often cheat with geometry (because your eyes will not see the difference). You squeeze a line a little more, expand there a little, zoom a little bit this graphic. The TeX algorithms use the concept of penalties. It is a different logic that representing something on a screen which is just an infinite space.
The danger is thinking that going from the screen to the sheet of paper is just applying a mathematical transformation.
I would argue to make it possible in KOffice 2.0 to plug in a page creation algorithm. Maybe somebody will step in at some point and write one taking inspiration from the published and tested TeX mechanisms.
By Charles de Miramon at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Flake and printing
I know the algorithms, sure. But I'm afraid I need a little more explanation on where you think Tex is usefull to get a kspread sheet on paper.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Flake and printing
Well, TeX works with horizontal and vertical lists of boxes with spaces between boxes that are called glue or coils (I do not remember) and then cut this list in pages.
I guess that similar algorithms could apply for printing tables in KSpread.
By Charles de Miramon at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
OpenOffice Compatibility
what does this mean for cmpatability with OOo?
i bet all office suits will use ODF, but each in its own "interpretation", which will result in same old incompatability....
By hannes hauswedell at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: OpenOffice Compatibility
We will make sure that ODF support will be maintained. If OOo does not implement some part of the spec then it won't work and you have a right to tell them to fix their application since they claim to have good support.
We are doing the same, one of the things that we need to do is to provide various features for ODF; we are doing exactly that.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: OpenOffice Compatibility
Read Linus' post about standards.
By DS at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: OpenOffice Compatibility
I like Kpresent better than OpenOffice.org Impress because I like Koffice graphics better than OpenOffice.org's , but for text I like OpenOffice.org Writer because of the table of contents and bookmarks that can be done with the exported PDF.
I like having backup software in case I have problems with my main software and I also like to try out new software, so I would be really interested in how well Kword will open a lightly formatted ODT formatted document. I don't need advanced layout or specialized features, but I would like the simple stuff to be compatible. Is Koffice 1.5 at that level yet?
By Benjamin Huot at Sun, 2006/06/11 - 5:00am
What I would really like to see* in KOffice is tabs, like in Konqueror. I never saw an office suite that has such a simple but cool feature.
* Plus proper right-to-left support, at least like OpenOffice.org
By Youssef at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs
Well, good thing for you since KOffice has been supporting both those features since 1.4 (at least). :-)
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs
Well, the problem is that tabbing is only supported in the KOffice Workspace instead of providing tabbed documents in Kword itself. Mostly, I find myself working with different documents or different spreadsheets or different images and therefore do not like everything in a big overloaded application like the old Staroffice used to be.
Personally, I find the KOffice Workspace not an adequate solution as 1) switching between two Kword documents results in annoying flickering of the toolbars 2) switching between KOffice Workspace tabs is slow.
Furthermore, switching between two different applications such a Kword and e.g. a Krita is even more annoying as then the toolbars' positions and icons jump around even more.
By Tuxa at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs
IIRC Lotus Word Pro had tabbed documents many years ago. Long before it became cool.
By Matt Williams at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
my hope
well, then, let me add my 'hope' for Koffice 2: nice versioning support, change management and all this cooperation-ready. Easy sharing of documents, being able to see what someone else changed, annotations to changes, being able to change a doc both at the same time (preferably real-time) etcetera. These things would writing documents in a company or for university/school much easier...
I know there is a SOC project, but will it make these things possible?
Re: my hope
The SOC project is just about making this stuff available for KWord, minus the real-time editing, but we're already researching that topic, too.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Why not OOo
I bet KOffice users hear this all the time, but why not just use OpenOffice? Sure, it's big and all, and some hippies may complain about it using Java, but at least it's fully-featured and supported. I tried KOffice a couple of times and it left me at the most unimpressed.
By Josh Taylor at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not OOo
Josh, you're perfectly welcome to use OpenOffice. I use OpenOffice myself, from time to time. Even though you would probably call me a "hippy" in the sense that I care about free software and don't give a fig about open source.
But, well, OpenOffice is not an interesting topic for developers and users of KOffice. KOffice can go places; we can innovate. It is impossible to innovate with OpenOffice because it's committed to be a carbon copy of Microsoft Office. And innovation is fun, and may well give users something worthwile.
By Boudewijn at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not OOo
True, Boudewijn, that's what Freedom is all about--choice. Like you, I too care more about Free Software than Open Source. I hope that your work continues. It's a shame that Microsoft's proprietary, closed file formats are so damned ubiquitous. When ODF becomes a major player, I would have no problem using KOffice regularly, and I sincerely look forward to that day. Then, the choice of office productivity suite won't matter except strictly on its merits.
OpenOffice.org is very important for exactly what you "accuse" it of here. Its job, at this point in time, is to be as "MS Office-like" as possible. A really big part of that is its excellent MS Office file format compatibility, which, BTW, took some serious engineering. We thus have a major weapon in our arsenal to get MS Office users to consider migrating to something that supports ODF, and thus perhaps KOffice in the future. OpenOffice.org is the bridge that is enabling this to happen. *That* is its chief "innovation", and boy, am I thankful for it.
By Sum Yung Gai at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Why not OOo
OpenOffice has more features currently than KOffice, but KOffice integrates much more nicely with my desktop than OpenOffice.
I believe KOffice will be able to fix all of its shortcomings before OpenOffice can fix even half of its shortcomings. I'd love to be proven wrong about this, but I seriously doubt it.
By ac at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Why not MS Office?
Well, why use OpenOffice, why not use MS Office instead?
Seriously: KOffice integrates better with KDE. KOffice is relatively lightweight and fast, whereas OpenOffice is not. And maybe some people simply prefer using KOffice instead of OpenOffice? Obviously there are lots of people using KOffice all the time. And before you say "Yes but OpenOffice has a lot more users than KOffice!". Well, MS Office has a lot more users than OpenOffice, so what's your point? And it's even MORE "fully-featured" and "supported" than OpenOffice is! Clearly we should all drop OpenOffice and move to MS Office instead!
I use MS Office (at work). I have also used Koffice and OpenOffice. And I found both of them to be quite enjoyable. So why shouldn't I use KOffice?
I don't understand this "We should all just use this one particular piece of software!"-mentality that seems to be creeping in to the Free Software community.
By Janne at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why not MS Office?
First, MS Office is not, and probably never will be, Free Software. OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass this test; MS Office fails.
Second, I refuse to use an office productivity suite whose native file formats are not truly open. MS Office fails that test; both OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass it.
Third, MS Office does not run natively on my platform (GNU/Linux). Yes, I know about WINE and CrossOver Office. I said *natively*, though, meaning "the developer supports Free Software platforms." Both OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass this test, too.
I use OpenOffice.org at work, in a dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft shop, instead of KOffice or AbiWord/Gnumeric, because I need really good MS Office proprietary file format compatibility (I am one of two exclusively Free Software users). KOffice looks like it has some potential, but it just doesn't cut the mustard for handling MS Office files. I look forward to the day that ODF becomes a sufficiently major player that corporate offices will *have* to use applications that can correctly handle them; then, perhaps, I might be able to consider KOffice. But not until.
In the meantime, OpenOffice.org does the trick very well for me. For those for whom it's feasible, or even preferred, to use KOffice, by all means do so; it, too, is Free Software. That's what matters to me most for any tool that I choose to use; it must be a Free-As-In-Freedom tool that does the job that I need.
By Sum Yung Gai at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Why not MS Office?
"First, MS Office is not, and probably never will be, Free Software. OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass this test; MS Office fails."
The original poster was talking about functionality.
"Second, I refuse to use an office productivity suite whose native file formats are not truly open. MS Office fails that test; both OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass it."
It's fileformat is also the de facto standard, and it's support for .doc-files is overwhelmingly superior when compared to OO. And that was something very important to the original poster.
"Third, MS Office does not run natively on my platform (GNU/Linux). Yes, I know about WINE and CrossOver Office. I said *natively*, though, meaning "the developer supports Free Software platforms." Both OpenOffice.org and KOffice pass this test, too."
It runs on about 98% of desktops out there. And we WERE talking about functionality and fileformat-support. Both are areas in which MS Office excels.
FYI: I'm not REALLY advocating the use of MS Office, and my reasons mirror your reasons. I'm just arguing the "OO does this better than Koffice, use OOS instead!". MS Office does just about everything better than OO, so why not use MS Office then ;)?
Koffice does do some things better than OO. And it "feels" different to OO. So some people simply prefer it to OO.
By Janne at Sat, 2006/06/10 - 5:00am
Why is everyone so negative ?
Sure, Koffice is still at early development stage, but at least it is considering office work from a new point of view and stating, at this early stage, the basis of a good design to support all innovative stuff it will bring. AFAIK, this gives better results on the long term than jumping in the buffer and typing lines and lines of code, then hacking them. OOo actualy has a long history of code then think that leaded to the actual situation : Less than 10 people in the world are casual devs, the remaning being professional employees of companies doing it at full time. The reason ? It is a BIG stack of hacks not understandable for the non-fulltime dev.
By paul at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why is everyone so negative ?
The problem with K-Office is that it isn't ported to windows. Even if the K-Office developers will make an amazing KOffice 4, it doesn't help. Organizations will not like to train their staff on two different office suits. This would of course be a problem for only have KDE throughout their organizations. Unfortunately such organizations are quite rare.
Of course now that QT is GPLed for windows as well, a windows port would be possible. That would probably boost the interest in KDE and help make ODF a must to implement for every vender that sells an office suit.
By Uno Engborg at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why is everyone so negative ?
KOffice 2 will have native (as in no need for X11 or other 'extra' layers) ports for both Windows and OS X (OOo still doesn't have a native port to OS X last I tried).
By Corbin at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
True Type fonts are crappy...
"Times New Roman" and other MS TTFs are not printed nicely with KWord :( But other fonts like "Century" fonts look awesome. Please fix Printing (font issues). I still have to use MS Word for better printouts :(
also the one of the nicest fonts "Bookman Old Style" is rendered bold always :(
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: True Type fonts are crappy...
Fonts are pretty much broken because they are broken in Qt3 (so we couldn't fix it in KOffice 1.x even if we wanted to).
The font issue is one of the things that will be fixed with KOffice 2.0 simply because it is already fixed in Qt4. Another one of these bugs that will be fixed because of the overall redesign.
By Raphael at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
KDE and Koffice True Type fonts are crappy...
This Bug report shows KDE fonts printing problem and some solutions.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Sat, 2006/06/10 - 5:00am
Love what you guys are doing!
Please keep going ahead, full speed. KOffice is fantastic -- lightweight and innovative. I look forward to further compatibility, stability and functionality.
By Chase Venters at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Embedded documents not original to KOffice
"When I first saw a paper on KOffice back in 1999 it showed the concept of embedded documents which allows me to have a formula or chart in my paper and allow me to update my charts by just altering some cells in my spreadsheet. The idea that an open source and good looking office suite does that brought me into KOffice."
In these incoherent sentences, are you claiming that KOffice is responsible for bringing this concept to office automation software? I'm sorry... we had some fabulous DOS applications which did this, and frequently did it better.
By Malcolm Dean at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Embedded documents not original to KOffice
the key phrase i think you're skipping over is "open source".
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
headers and footers
every application (kword, kspread, kpresenter) has a different way to define and / or to present the header/fotter setup.
By ferdinand at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
kspread formulas not updated correctly
As long as kspread does not update the formulas as other spread sheets do, it has a very limited user base.
By ferdinand at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: kspread formulas not updated correctly
Oops, yes that's a serious limitation.
At least it should be possible to choose.
By KDE User at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Naming standard
Why all those strange names? Kexi? Karbon14?
Why not continue using the easy and catchy K-standard. Kbase, Kpaint, Kdraw, kplan etc. Much easier, sounds more professional
By ale at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Naming standard
People have asked, myself included, and the short answer is that the people who make those apps actually like the weird and inconsistent names, and so there's really very little chance that they'll ever be changed.
In my opinion, that's a shame. But that's where it stands. My personal preference is to drop the K-conventions altogether, but my second choice is your suggestion--to pick one convention and use it everywhere.
Also: saying things don't look "professional" seems to drive people batty, even though I certainly know what you mean. Stick to less value-loaded terms like "consistent" and you'll at least get a polite rejection.
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Through mid-2013, non-market cap weighted funds captured 42% of equity ETP flows YTD, more than two times their share of equity assets compared to 2012, according to BlackRock. Key drivers to this trend are dividend income and minimum volatility funds.
It should be noted the universe of non-market cap weighted ETFs includes equal weight funds, low and high volatility products along with fundamentally weighted products that use one or multiple factors for screening and weighting securities. To be sure, investors, professional and retail, have already displayed plenty of adulation for equal weight ETFs.
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InvescoPowerShares has one of the largest stables of fundamentally weighted ETFs, and the underlying indexes are managed by FTSE and Research Affiliates (RAFI).
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