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Packaging Guide (non-graphical version)
This guide shows how to make software available through 0install, using the command-line 0publish program. New users will probably prefer to start with the graphical GTK interface instead, but this version is useful when writing scripts to automatically publish new versions, or if you can't run the graphical version for some reason.
We will start by packaging SCons, a build system (a little like Make).
You should already be familiar with the general operation of 0install. In not, start by reading the user tutorial.
- Introduction
- Creating the interface file
- Adding the archive
- Publishing the interface
- Marking as stable
- Adding more versions
- Notes
- Further reading
SCons is particularly easy to package, because it is designed to be bundled with other applications and used in their build process, and can therefore be executed in place right after unpacking. To try it out, download the scons-local archive from their web-site, unpack it, and run it:
$ mkdir scons $ cd scons $ wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scons/scons-local-0.96.92.tar.gz $ tar xzf scons-local-0.96.92.tar.gz $ ./scons.py --version SCons by Steven Knight et al.: script: v0.96.92.D002, 2006/04/11 07:39:43, by knight on roxbury engine: v0.96.92.D002, 2006/04/11 07:39:43, by knight on roxbury Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 The SCons Foundation
Programs that can be run in this way are the easiest to make available through Zero Install. To do this we need to create a small XML file stating:
- Which versions are available.
- Where each one can be downloaded from.
- How each version can be run.
- Any dependencies each version has on other packages.
You can write this interface file with a text editor just by reading the file format specification, but it's easier to use the 0publish command. 0publish will create an initial template for you, check that the file is valid, and makes many operations easier. The command is, of course, available through Zero Install. To save typing it's full URI each time you run it, create an alias now:
$ 0install add 0publish http://0install.net/2006/interfaces/0publish $ 0publish --version 0publish (zero-install) 0.5
See also:
Creating the interface file
0publish works by reading in an XML interface file, modifying it in some way, checking that it is still valid, and then writing it back out. If the file doesn't already exist it will offer to create it for you. Run 0publish now to create a new file called SCons.xml:
$ 0publish SCons.xml Interface file 'SCons.xml' does not exist. Create it? [Y/N] Y
0publish will create a new template and fire up an editor to let you change it. If you don't like the default, set your EDITOR environment variable to something better, or create an alias called sensible-editor. E.g., to edit interfaces using Edit:
$ 0install add sensible-editor http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/Edit
Fill in the fields in the XML template. The comments should guide you, but these are the exact changes we will make now:
- Set the summary to a short description. Start with a lower-case letter (except for proper nouns) and don't include the name of the program. The summary is normally shown after a dash, e.g. SCons - a software construction tool.
- The description fields can be longer. Copying some text from the web page or from freshmeat often works well.
- Set the homepage to the program's main web-site (or to your own site if you have a page for it). This is where users will go if they want more information than is in the description. Don't forget to uncomment it by removing the <!-- and --> markers around it.
- Set the icon to the URL of a small PNG format icon if you want.
- The main program (which we ran above) is called scons.py, so change the main attribute to that.
You can leave the other elements alone for now. Save your file using the default name (it will be to a temporary file) and 0publish will write it as SCons.py if it's valid. If you made a mistake, 0publish will prompt you to fix it first.
Your final version should look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://0install.net/2006/stylesheets/interface.xsl'?> <interface xmlns="http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/2004/injector/interface"> <name>SCons</name> <summary>a software construction tool</summary> <description> SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects. </description> <homepage>http://www.scons.org/</homepage> <group main="scons.py"> <implementation id="." version="0.1" released='Snapshot'/> </group> </interface>
If you created the SCons.xml file in the same directory as you ran ./scons.py above, then you can now execute it already, like this:
$ 0launch ./SCons.xml --version SCons by Steven Knight et al.: ...
This type of XML file is known as a local interface because its name is a simple filename (normally, interfaces start with http:// and need to be downloaded). Also, the single version (implementation) is a local implementation, because it is also identified by a pathname (the directory containing the XML file, .). In this case, the local interface isn't very useful on its own because we could have just run ./scons.py directly. However, if we had listed any dependencies in the XML file then running it this way would have fetched them through Zero Install, so local interfaces can still be useful (especially for CVS checkouts of software, for example).
See also:
Adding the archive
The next step is to change the implementation so that Zero Install will download the archive from the SCons web-site instead of requiring the user to have it locally. We should also change the version number and release date to their correct values. Adding the archive is a little tricky to do manually because we need to calculate the secure hash of the contents of the archive. This is needed when downloading from the web to check that the archive hasn't been tampered with.
Luckily, 0publish can make the necessary changes and add the required hash at the same time. Use this command (split on to multiple lines for clarity):
$ 0publish SCons.xml \ --set-version=0.96.92 \ --set-released=today \ --archive-url=http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scons/scons-local-0.96.92.tar.gz
If you now run the program using 0launch again, it will offer to download SCons for you:
$ 0launch ./SCons.xml --version
If you look in the SCons.xml file, you'll see that 0publish changed the old implementation element to this:
<implementation id="sha1=4a12f3ecc173b779cda1ece201e08616d2c11758" released="2006-05-18" version="0.96.92"> <archive href="http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scons/scons-local-0.96.92.tar.gz" size="249688"/> </implementation>
The id gives the secure hash of the contents of the package. If the archive is changed (e.g., by someone breaking into SCons's web-server) then the hash won't match and Zero Install will refuse the download. Inside the implementation element is a list of ways of getting it. In this case, we state that a directory with the given hash can be created by downloading the named archive and extracting it.
See also:
Publishing the interface
You'll probably want to put your new interface up on the web, so that other people can get it easily. However, we can't just stick it up as it is because someone might be able to break into the web-server tamper with it, or intercept a user's network connection and insert their own version. We need to put our digital signature on it, using the GnuPG program, so that people can check that it's really from us.
If you do not already have a GPG key-pair, create one now. You can accept the defaults for most fields; just enter your name and email address:
$ gpg --gen-key
We also need to decide on the URL people will use to download it. Since other programs that depend on this one will use the URL to find it, try to pick a URL that won't change. Here, we'll use http://0install.net/tests/SCons.xml, which isn't a very good URL, to discourage people from relying on this test example! Once you've picked a URL you need to add it to the XML file:
$ 0publish SCons.xml --set-interface-uri=http://0install.net/tests/SCons.xml
The interface file now starts like this:
<interface uri="http://0install.net/tests/SCons.xml" ...
Finally, we'll add the GPG signature (if you have more than one key, use -k to specify which one to use). You'll need to enter the passphrase you set when you created the key above:
$ 0publish SCons.xml --xmlsign Enter passphrase: Exported public key as 'AE07828059A53CC1.gpg'
This command adds a digital signature to the XML file. It also exports a copy of your GPG public key, which people will need in order to check the signature. Upload both files to the same directory on your web-server. You should now be able to run your interface with its full URI:
$ 0launch http://0install.net/tests/SCons.xml --version SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
If this is your first interface, the injector should now ask you to confirm that you trust the new key for signing software.
Marking as stable
Each implementation in an XML file has a stability setting. Typically, this is testing for a new release and stable for versions that have been around for a while. Normally, the injector will select the highest-numbered stable version by default. However, users who selected Help test new versions will get any newer testing version selected by default instead.
By default, new releases are considered to have a stability rating of testing. After a week or so without major problems, set the stability of the testing version to stable:
$ 0publish SCons.xml --stable
If the version turns out to have serious problems, set it to buggy or insecure instead. There's no automatic option for this, so use -e to edit the file (0publish will automatically resign it when you save):
$ 0publish SCons.xml --edit
Adding more versions
You can add more versions of SCons to your interface using 0publish. The process is very similar to before, except that you use --add-version instead of --set-version. So, when version 1.0 is released, do this:
$ 0publish SCons.xml \ --add-version=1.0 \ --set-released=today \ --archive-url=http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scons/scons-local-1.0.tar.gz
You can also add earlier versions, which may be useful if some programs aren't compatible with the newest version.
Archives with top-level directories
The SCons archive is a little unusual because it unpacks the files directly into the current directory when you extract it. Most archives would have just a single top-level directory named after the archive (e.g. scons-local-0.96.92) and put all the files in that. While you could cope with that by setting the main attribute to be scons-local-VVV/scons.py for each version, it's better to use the extract attribute on the archive element so that all versions have the same structure. This is especially important for libraries, where the main attribute isn't used. Use the --archive-extract=DIR argument to 0publish for this.
Supported Archive formats
Archive formats are recognised by their file extensions. Supported formats are:
- .tar.gz (all versions)
- .tar.bz2 (since version 0.10)
- .rpm (since version 0.18)
- .deb (since version 0.20)
- .zip (since version 0.21)
You can specify that your program depends on other programs using the requires element. See the interface file format document for details. See Easy GTK binary compatibility for an example (building an application requires SCons and the GTK headers).
The Packaging Find case study gives an example of this.
Why do we need to put the URL in the XML?
This is a security feature to let 0launch check that it downloaded the XML the user asked for. Without it, this could happen:
- I may trust the author of the SecureDelete program to supply software.
- I tell 0launch to invoke a text editor on a precious document.
- 0launch tries to download the XML for the text editor from the web.
- An attacker returns the XML file for SecureDelete, correctly signed by the author of SecureDelete (possibly the same person who wrote the text editor).
- My file gets securely deleted!
XML signature format
There are two ways to sign interface files. The --gpgsign option creates signatures in a format that all versions of the injector can read but they don't look great if you view the interface using a web-browser. The --xmlsign option still uses gpg to sign it, but the result is still XML and can therefore be styled nicely. However, such interfaces require users to have version 0.18 or later of the injector.
When to use the 'buggy' rating
Only mark versions as buggy if there's a serious problem that means people really shouldn't use it (not just a few minor annoyances; all software has some bugs). Normally, just releasing a newer (fixed) version is sufficient, since the injector will offer to upgrade the version anyway.
Further reading
- Example: Find
- Find is a Python program with a dependency on a Python library. This example shows how to depend on other components.
- Example: Inkscape
- Inkscape is distributed as a binary RPM (among other formats). This guide shows how to publish these RPMs so that they can be run using Zero Install (by users without root access or on Debian systems, for example).
- Example: ROX-Filer
- ROX-Filer is a C program, which requires different binaries for different platforms. These binaries are built and published in interface files maintained by different people. Using the injector's feed mechanism, users only need to use the main ROX-Filer interface and will automatically get a binary for their platform, from the maintainer of that binary.
- 0publish
- A command reference for the 0publish command.
- Compiling with SCons and GTK
- Now that we've made SCons available through Zero Install, we can use it in our build scripts. This example shows how to build a GTK application written in C using Zero Install to get the build tool and the header files automatically.


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Sadly, coffee appears not to be an LSD analog.Friday, January 23rd, 2009
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It's very disappointing, truth to say. Although I suspect my kidneys (and employer) will quickly become much happier with me.
Aside: In high school, I was once hospitalized for overdosing on caffeine (nine shots of espresso and 1.6g of caffeine in pill form). The only voices I heard were those of concerned (or at least slightly put-out) hospital personnel, and that of my mother. The punchline to this story should rightly be, "And I have never had a cup since," but really, I think that was merely the beginning of a drug-infused spiral that lasts to this day. I expect I shall begin shooting Vivarin any minute now.

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Ciara and Russell Wilson are having a baby
Singer Ciara shared special news on her birthday Tuesday: She and husband Russell Wilson are expecting their first baby.
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We talk a lot here about franchising and for good reason. After all, many restaurant owners make great money by developing or buying into a great franchise concept. However, some restaurant owners take a different approach: they develop their own brand and remain the key figure in each additional restaurant.
Stephen Pyles is one such restauranteur. He's on the cusp of opening his latest creation: Stampede 66. According to a terrific article by June Naylor of the Eat My Words blog at Texas Monthly, Stampede 66 will be a Texas-sized monster, with 7,000 square feet and room for 130 seats. For nearly 30 years, Stephen Pyles, a five-generation Texas native, has knocked out restaurant after restaurant here in the Lone Star State.
With all of the talk about franchising, why would Mr. Pyles continue to produce new restaurants without franchising? We have not interviewed Mr. Pyles, but here are some of the advantages surrounding this strategy:
Control is a huge issue for restaurant owners. Whether it is your creation or you are buying into a franchise, you care about control, and you lose some of that when you deal with franchises. On the other hand, if it is your restaurant and you are the sole owner and operator, you control the look and feel of the restaurant, the taste and quality of the food, and every other aspect of the business. This level of control is not for everyone, but it can streamline your operation and save a lot of headaches.
Fewer Issues And Costs
With fewer "cooks in the kitchen", there are tremendously fewer issues when you remove the franchise element from your operation. As the owner, you have the control. With the control, you get to change the menu when you want. You get to change the costs when you want. Further, you have no one else to pay. Thus, franchises can be a great source of capital to expand your business, but you can actually decrease your costs by not franchising.
Fewer Regulation
Many restauranteurs fail to understand the tremendous regulation associated with franchises. In Texas alone, there are three different sets of regulating statutory bodies that govern franchising. That level of complexity absolutely requires hiring lawyers and accountants to deal with it, and there are costs associated with their services. Without the franchise, those issues and costs are eliminated.
There are many restaurant owners that need franchising, either to raise capital (as a franchisor) or to have a solid game plan and concept (as a franchisee). However, there are just as many that decide that franchising is either too costly or complicated, and they rely solely on their own skills and decision-making to run their restaurants. Thus, the question is this: "Which concept, franchises or non-franchises, is more successful?" The answer is that franchises certainly can be quite successful, but so can non-franchises. If you doubt that, just ask Mr. Pyles.


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Accessible Navigation
Tom Pereira
3 October 2000
Who are we?
JSC produces web-enabled designs and applications for the government, retail and health sectors.
This means that work increasingly raises:
Multi-technology channel interface requirements.
The need to run channels from common content.
Interleaved sites where access might be inconsistent and functional behaviour different.
Transactional needs with some sites having to be secure.
A requirement for wide community use.
JSC specialises in public-facing systems where many users are expected to not have Internet experience.
Who needs access to what?
Simple, brief language
All; especially deaf, poor readers, those with poor sight, etc.
Simple, unassuming navigation
Inexperienced users, those who've never seen or used the web.
Various browsers
Many community groups have older technology, corporates have standards that may not be updated immediately - and then there's the new phones!
Websites and access
Crudely, web-enabled solutions can be grouped:
Simple information sites
Access easily achieved by meaningful ALT tags.
Hierarchical sites
Access fits the guidelines provided there is sensitivity to any forms or browse loops on the return.
Portal sites
Access complex, especially for government as lots of information and links to inconsistent sites.
Multi-channel sites
Uncharted group for access and likely to need audio within the content plus influence with the tools.
Perhaps guidelines need to address the different groups of sites that now exist?
What sectors are different?
A need to sift through masses of information
Little knowledge of how to consumerise content
The need for use of complex forms
A need to organise content in groups like "life events"
Why is access screwed up by government sites?
Brief text is critical
More guidelines needed
Orientation is complex and users not experienced
Numerous sites are linked or traversed in models where browsers must read in the right order
It is easy to confuse
Sites with complex navigation models often leave the user 'lost in web-space'.
Sites must provide comprehensive context information, difficult without repeating cues endlessly...
Portals often present lots of information
[MSN Example]
This is great for visual users who can parallel-process the input for cues, but non-visual browsers must present the information in serial.
Content from elsewhere can ruin navigation:
Breaking the rules
Using nested tables breaks a WAI checkpoint.
However, in some circumstances this can increase accessibility.
In this example, the row-first scan employed by the speech browser can be diverted using a nested table.
Navigation models are getting more complex.
A digital divide.
Designers assume knowledge of the internet (and their site!)
WAI Techniques are atomic and can lead to unusable sites.
Content is too long, too complex and multiple access channels are badly managed.
Real users need more involvement.
Guidelines are used as standards!
What is needed
A general training module is proposed.
Some groups are at a disadvantage not purely through access, but also because they don't understand terminology and haven't seen what they are navigating.
Navigation needs a semantic framework.
Better exchange of access concepts is needed.
Multi-channel needs demand more complex orientation requirements; not just prescriptive guidelines that are mistakenly taken to be standards. Atomic techniques could be expanded into good practice resource.
Techniques for content management should be promoted to avoid second class web citizenship.
Guidelines should emphasise the need for appropriate content.
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Tales from Outer Suburbia is an anthology of fifteen very short illustrated stories. Each one is about a strange situation or event that occurs in an otherwise familiar suburban world; a visit from a nut-sized foreign exchange student, a sea creature on someone's front lawn, a new room discovered in a family home, a sinister machine installed in a park, a wise buffalo that lives in a vacant lot. The real subject of each story is how ordinary people react to these incidents, and how their significance is discovered, ignored or simply misunderstood.
'water buffaloes are like that; they hate talking.'
'He was saying the same sentence over and over, ending with "tasoo-ke-te, tasoo ke-te."'
'It floats gently above suburban rooftops... inspiring lonely dogs to bark in the middle of the night.'
'We were young and full of confidence, always in a hurry too.'
'It opened into another room altogether... an impossible room somewhere between the others.'
'The fire burned with astonishing intensity.'
'We only have to wash and wax our missile on the first Sunday of every month.'
'He told us to just call him "Eric"'
'How great it must have been long ago, when the world was still unknown.'
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text: The African Martyr is a satirical, tragic play that condemns every form of religious terrorism. The play reveals the number of lives destroyed throughout the world in the name of God. This play, therefore, becomes a piece that discourages hatred connected to religious differences. The author of this work is balanced in the presentation of his play. His objective is to inform readers that all of mankind originates from a loving Creator, who also expects man to show love to one another. This is a drama that presents an African boy, Ben, who suddenly discovers that there are unnatural hidden forces holding humanity hostage. Out of his love and unquenchable passion for adventure, he takes the responsibility of liberating the world, beginning with his college campus. Says the author, "What moved me to write this drama was the level of bloodshed in the name of God. I grew up to discover that the world has been divided by religion. Not simply that this division is restricted to the different ways by which human beings approach God, but the division has remained the outlet by which humans create terror. I therefore think that this drama will reshape human?s thinking towards their neighbor."


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Statistical Data
General Statistical Sources
- Statista — contains data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources. More info and a tutorial video on Statista.
- Wolfram Alpha — a "computational knowledge" search engine that enables searching for basic statistics & data on various topics.
United States
- American Factfinder — contains population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States— published annually since 1878, this is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States, with data from both government and private sources.
- Historical Statistics of the United States — covers all aspects of American history "from the earliest times to the present."
- StateMaster — compilation of data from many sources; allows easy comparison between states.
- CIA World Fact Book— "information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."
- Europa World Plus — Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations.
- NationMaster — compilation of data from many sources; allows easy comparison between countries.
- UN Data — compilation of more than 30 databases; also include links to official statistical sources for individual countries.
Additional Sources
LibGuides — many of our LibGuides (research guides for classes and subject areas) contain information on statistical sources. Here is a link to all Guides which contain the word statistics.
Emory University Electronic Data Center — The "Data Freeway" contains a large number of links to data sources, arranged by subject. Because this is not an Ohio University site, a few of the links lead to sources for Emory University only; if you are asked for a login to one of these, it won't do any good to try. Instead, copy the name of the database and search for it by Title in ALICE.


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New friends to be made, a new enemy to be found.
The universe just got a whole lot bigger.
More universe, more ships, more stations, more missions!
The X-Tended Mod "Revelations"
X-Tended-Mod Public Beta 0.7.5 Phase I "Revelations"
New in 0.7.5
There is nothing new in 0.7.5. This is only a bug fix release for 0.7.4 >>>Click for the full change log<<<
The X-Tended Mod 0.7.5 FULL version.
This is the complete XTM package which includes all files needed to play XTM 0.7.5.
ONLY download this version if you do not have a previous XTM 0.7.* installation.
>>>Click for the full download.<<<
The X-Tended Mod 0.7.5 PATCH version.
This is the 0.7.5 patch. Use this if you are upgrading from any previous 0.7.* version of the mod.
DO NOT download the full version if you are already using XTM.
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You must install the full mod or patch to your X3 root folder. This is the same folder that has X3.exe in it.
Online Help
- The X-Tended Mod Forums: >>>Click<<<
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Featuring over 90 new sectors including:
- The Terran Solar System
- New Xenon, Khaak, Pirate, and Yaki Sectors
- New Goner, Unknown and Main races sectors
- Countless other places to explore or conquer, each one unique and useful to every players' needs.
95 New Ships:
- Argon, Terran, Paranid, and Otas M0 class ships
- Full compliment of M7 frigate class ships
- Full complement of MM6 military corvette class ships
- An M8 class ship for each of the major races with a special feature per M8:
- Argon Griffon: capable of producing and launching Fighter Drones MkII
- Boron Swordfish: a powerful Ion-Blast (shield damaging) Frigate
- Otas Custodian: group shield and repair Frigate
- Otas HCF: allows capture of enemy ships and repair of damaged hulls
- Paranid Agamemnon: fitted with the latest in powerful missile technology
- Split Panther: a support frigate capable of producing Split fighters
- Teladi Tern: a mine layer frigate for laying explosive blockades.
- Terran Ollerus: wormhole deployment to make dynamic tradelanes.
- 7 Ships from X2 brought back, remodeled and refitted by special dealers across the universe
- Full compliment of Terran ships on sale and active in the universe from M0 down to TS/TP and fighter class.
- MTS, Military Transport class ships, TS ships with much improved statistics.
- Pirate Galleon, Frigates, Corvette and 4 unique Pirate fighter models.
- Otas (a corporation specializing in highly advanced technologies) will have a full compliment of ships from M0 down to M3, each with special distinctive features.
- A new race, and over 9 ships used by them.
- A fleet of new Yaki and Goner ships to discover, buy and use.
- New T0 class Civilian ships. These HUGE hulks go back to the days before cargobay-compression was invented. Nowadays most are converted to mobile ware- and resource production facilities.
- Full complement of M3+ fighters for each race, even the Yaki!
- The Goner Aran, the most powerful vessel the player can own, capable
of mobile ship construction, reverse engineering, template equipping, remote fleet transport and even the 'conversion' of rogue-minded villains.
- Many other ships and lifeforms like Boron X-Craft, revamped Xenon vessels, who knows, you might even encounter a Space Dragon!
X-tensive Effects improvements
- Shockwaves and improved capital ship explosions
- Added detailed debris in most ship explosions
- New pirate and Yaki engine effects
- New sound effects for weapons and missiles
- New sector soundtracks
- Missile trails
- Many new types of Suns
- Many new Planet types
- Improved Nebulae.
2 New Weapons, 3 new Missiles and over 8 new shield types
- The Paranid Heavy Missile Gun: An ammo base missile launcher capable of devastating long range bombardment
- The Sohnen Beam Cannon: Limited intel available due to a distinct lack of survivors.
- Military 5MJ, 25MJ, 125MJ, 500MJ, 5GJ shields as well as special pirate and Sohnen shields
- Additionally all Terran weaponry can be purchased at Terran equipment docks (if your Terran notoriety is high enough!)
Over 45 New commands and features including:
- Shipbuilding capabilities on some ships
- Drone building capabilities on the Argon Griffon Drone Frigate
- Ship extension upgrade options at player owned equipment docks for fleet equipping purposes.
- Complex warehouses to increase the amount that can be stored at factory complexes, or for their own stand alone use to store goods.
- Multiple electronic warfare and hull repair features on Otas ships.
- Point to Point jumpdrives on some advanced- and M0 class ships.
- Many other features including installing ship repair facilities on docks and on carriers, setting capital ships to automatically execute tactical retreats when under fire, the ability to deploy scout drones for long range reconnaissance, and much more...
New stations:
- The huge and ancient Dyson Sphere, under control of an unknown force
- The magnificent Otas Headquarters built around a series of old mining facilities.
- New factories for the production of the Heavy Missile Gun and ammo, Concussion Impulse Generator, Scout Drones and new Shield types.
- Many larger factories for weapon and ship components production (potentially still compatible with Ashley's XXL fabs)
- New, distinct Shipyards for the 5 main races AND Terrans
Over 20 New Missions:
- Including a new Xtended plot involving a new and terrifying race with the player trying to avert a universe shattering war.
- Multiple ships to discover and interact with within the universe, leading to missions and side quests and general interaction with the universe.
- Several new BBS missions, including missions to unlock new ships such as the Argon Leviathan.
- Dangerous new missions into uncharted enemy space
Many other new features including:
- Countless new wares, freebies and features to find and use
- Much improved AI usage of all ships, leading to more variety and life in the universe
- New docking bays that allow M5 only, M6 only, TS/TP only docking, as well as new internal docking options
- various AL plugin options to enable:
- Shockwave damage from capital ship explosions.
- Other independent companies within the universe.
- Randomized or fixed locations for new shipyards and important stations.
- Many new stations to find and trade with
Below is a list of all the ship classes, each with a link to a screenshot. For 'Spoiler' ships, follow this link: http://www.thexuniverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=42424#42424, but be warned, these are ships revealed as part of the plot.
Argon Leviathan
Otas Castrum
Paranid Olympos
Terran Valhalla
M1 - Carrier:
Pirate Galleon
Terran Odin
Yaki Akuma
M2 - Destroyer:
Kha'ak Destroyer
Otas Boreas
Terran Tyr
M2M - Missile Destroyer:
Paranid Poseidon
M3+ - Ultra Heavy Fighter:
Argon Eclipse
Boron Skate
Goner Chidon
Otas Elite
Pirate BlastClaw
Pirate Eclipse
Pirate Elite
Pirate Kea
Sohnen Oriax
Teladi Kea
Terran Thor MkII
Yaki Tenjin
M4 - Fighter:
Terran Mjollnir
M5 - Scout:
Sohnen Lilith
Terran Valkyrie
Xenon N
M6 - Corvette:
Goner Zemira
Kha'ak Corvette
Pirate Marauder
Yaki Sennin Raider
Xenon P
Xenon P Raider
MM6 - Military Corvette:
Terran Vidar
Argon Centaur MkIII Vanguard
Boron Hydra MkIII Vanguard
Goner Nebai
Otas Reaper
Paranid Nemesis MkIII Raider
Sohnen Zepar
Split Dragon MkIII Vanguard
Teladi Osprey MkIII Vanguard
M7 - Frigate:
Argon Cerberus
Boron Hammerhead
Boron Whale - Courtesy of Imp.-
Kha'ak Frigate
Paranid Deimos
Pirate Carrack
Pirate Reaver
Sohnen Seth
Split Tiger
Teladi Hawk
Terran Aegir
Xenon Q
M8 - Utility Frigate:
Argon Griffon - Drone Frigate
Boron Swordfish - Ion Frigate
Otas Custodian - Shield Frigate
Otas HCF - Capture Frigate
Paranid Agamemnon - Missile Frigate
Split Panther - Support Carrier
Teladi Tern - Minelayer
Terran Ollerus - Gate Deployment Frigate
WP - Weapons Platform:
Argon Orbital Weapons Platform XL
Amaranth - Greenhouse Ship
Anastasius - Mobile Solar Plant
Darius - Mobile Crystal Fab
Faunus - Mobile Weapons Forge
Panos - Mobile Ore Refinery
TL - Large Transport:
Goner Ozias
Terran Asgard
MTS - Military Transport:
Otas Scarab
Terracorp Vulcan
Terran Sleipnir
TS - Small Transport:
Goner Shiloh
Otas Sinuator
Terran Baldur
TP - Personnel Transport:
Boron Angel
Terran Loki
Argon Fighter Drone MkII
Terran Andvari
Argon Shipyard
Boron Shipyard
Split Shipyard
Paranid Shipyard
Teladi Shipyard
Otas Headquarters
The XTM team would like to thank the following Non-XTM team members for their contribution(s) to XTM 0.7.5:
-Mox- - For starting XTM in the first place. Without him there would not be an X-Tended Mod
ULiX - BBS Mission fixes
Jakesnake5 - Fixed missing ring on Teladi SY model, New Kha'ak MAT6 textures and engine effects, Xenon P Raider fix, Fixed the problem with only one of the three available bays being used for docking in the Teladi SY, Fixed Thor MKII Weapon placement and engine thruster effects.
Chem [EG] [ru] - For weapons icon description fix, mediation between the XTM team and Russian scriptwriters.
Yaki - Custom starts ideas.
Pyromancer - Fix to Dead Sohnen ships in Goner Mission.
Generalwest - Goner station ownership fix.
The XTM team would also like to thank the unsung heroes of this release - our beta testers. They did a superb job of finding all our mistakes and didn't allow us rest on our laurels.
If we have missed anyone please let us know and we will add your name here ASAP.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Linda Stevens Connor
American photographer
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Connor studied photography with Harry Callahan at Rhode Island Institute of Technology. In 1966, she worked as a freelance photographer in San Francisco, and from 1967 to 1969 she studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology with Aaron Siskind. Connor began to teach photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969. From 1973 to 1975, she was co-president of the photography department, and since 1975 has been president. Connor photographed in India and Nepal in 1979-1980 and from 1978 to the present, she has been documenting North American petroglyphs, or rock art.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500037132.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Linda Stevens Connor:
|Linda Stevens Connor
|Untitled (grackle on leaf), published 1975
|Gelatin silver print
|Linda Stevens Connor
|Petroglyphs, Moab, Utah, 1987
|Printing-out paper with gold toning
|Linda Stevens Connor
|Spanish Rider, Canyon de Challey, Arizona, 1987
|Printing-out paper with gold toning
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And it's about frickin' time.
I've been avoiding calling Telstra's billing enquiries line for 3 months now, which in turn has cost me $150 more than it should have. How bad must things be when a customer would rather pay that kind of money in unnecessary fees rather than actually ring your call centre to fix it? It's often such a saga trying to deal with phone companies – I have yet to meet one who's people did not leave me feeling more confused after I called than before (of course Telstra aren't the only culprit by a long shot, but they serve as my focus for the purposes of this rant).
So the issue was thus: I recently dropped down my fixed monthly cost plan and was told at the time that there would be no extra charges, it's all fixed for you ma'am, and by the way your contract runs out in June and would you like to renew it? Uh… no thanks.
Fast forward to the next billing period and I receive a bill for twice what I was previously paying. A complicated phone call later and I believe I have sorted out the problem. Nope – my next bill is still showing the wrong amount. Now I just think 'stuff it' and pay the thing because I don't have the emotional strength to deal with another 'customer care' person (what a total misnomer).
Today I discovered I had a rare hour of spare time to devote solely to telco gobbledygook so I bit the bullet and called Telstra.
To my utter surprise I had the pleasure of dealing with a call centre rep who not only explained things to me in plain English but actually fixed the problem, AND waived a fee, AND he sounded like he actually wanted to be at work.
Hooray! At long last the phrase customer service is actually put into practice. A positive attitude is such a simple thing, but it can have such a great and lasting effect on customers.
Dammit, I can't remember his name but if I did I would recommend him for some sort of award.


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The Daily Caller looks at the coordination between Media Matters, the White House, and the MSM.
George Will explores a question before the courts: is it bribery when an elected official takes actions that financially benefit a contributor if there is no explicit quid pro quo?
Arthur Laffer celebrates the pro-growth revolution taking place in the states. Other states can learn from these steps.
Ron Chernow reminds us of the leadership lessons that can be learned from George Washington.
Robert Samuelson, who really is a Cassandra warning us of what will come, writes of how Social Security mushroomed to the huge fiscal liability that it is today. And the pattern is duplicated even more for Medicare.
The larger budget quagmire now comes into focus. What the federal government does is so vast that it suffocates informed debate and political control. The built-in bias for the status quo reflects the reality that the various parts of government are understood, defended and changed mainly by those who benefit from their existence. However strong the case for revision (and it is powerful here), it is tempered by political inertia. What's sacrificed is the broader public good. The quagmire is of our own making.
Oops, Obama's new Chief of Staff, who used to be the OMB director goofed when he claimed that the Senate hasn't passed a budget because it takes 60 votes. Actually, it just takes a simple majority. You'd think that someone who served as OMB director would know such a basic fact. Or was it an error? Could he just be trying to continue the President's message that he'd be doing such wonderful stuff if it just weren't for those evil Republicans and those pesky checks and balances?
Nate Silver examines the stats to see if Jeremy Lin's fantastic start is a fluke or not.
John Steele Gordon examines the President's semantics.
Will Republicans and Democrats show that they mean it when they talk about getting rid of corporate welfare?
Ari Fleischer explains the "fundamental fraudulence of Obama."
Steve Kornacki has a very interesting historical recounting of all the times that political observers thought that there might be a deadlocked convention and how all these fantasies eventually yielded to political reality.


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Ricoh UK Sales & Senior Management Conference
Friday, 06 April 2012
Ricoh Arena, Coventry 2012
mclcreate were delighted to be selected by Ricoh UK to deliver a high profile conference event on the theme of 'Imagine Change'. This event was held over three days at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry and was to launch the new brand and strategy for Ricoh UK to 350 of Ricoh's senior managers and sales staff. mclcreate were selected to deliver this event following a competitive pitch process in which costs and creative ideas for the event delivery were put forward.
mclcreate provided full production for this event and in addition to technical delivery, speaker support and logistics on site, provided a full program of video stings and creative content via our Creative Hub offering.
mclcreate utilised a multi screen set solution utilising Spyder to carry the event message and this system allowed images to be seamlessly switched across any of the screens. The central screen acted as a mood screen throughout the event carrying theme graphics and inspirational images to support the conference presentations. mclcreate also filmed and edited a number of testimonial and interview pieces across the UK which were utilised as conference content
The full support package included:
- Multi screen set solution with full HD projection
- Creation of video stings and live video pieces for use at conference
- Provision of presenter ready room with dedicated graphics technician support
- Show calling and logistics management on site
- Filming of conference and world record throughout the event
- Management and delivery of the event
mclcreate delivered a hugely successful event for Ricoh UK and feedback from the client has been very positive.
"I just wanted to say thank you for a great week and a job very, very, very well done. The feedback has been great from the board."
Chas Moloney, Marketing Director Ricoh UK Ltd
I just wanted to say thank you for a great week and a job very, very, very well done. The feedback has been great from the board. It seemed a long week, very long at times, but you don't get results without effort! Can you please pass on my thanks to the entire team as they were all fantastic.
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I posted my vlog last night and guess what…I got tons of encouragement and "You can do it" type messages! Thanks, it helped me get through the evening VICTORIOUSLY …It was so nice to have the encouragement!!
I was able to get in a small workout last night and by small I mean small
I did bench and biceps plus some abs.
45×10, 95×10, 115×10, 115×8
paired with Bicep curls
2 sets Ab ball crunches- 10 front, 5 each side
Prior to that I did mess around doing the INCHWORM exercise a bit…didn't know the technical name for that exercise until yesterday, ha!!
That was all!
It's raining here today, so I'll be doing a treadmill run again.
TGIF!! -Michelle
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2015/12/11 Minutes
Minutes of the Meeting of the CIRA Board of Directors held via teleconference on December 11, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.
Directors attending: Kerry Brown, Andrew Escobar, Michael Geist, Rowena Liang, Louise Macdonald, Kevin McArthur, Helen McDonald, Susan Mehinagic, Marita Moll, Bill Sandiford, Rob Villeneuve, Faye West
Advisors: John Demco, Byron Holland
Regrets: Adam Scott
Corporate Secretary: Paul Havey
Recording Secretary: Lynn Gravel
1. Approval of Agenda
It was resolved that the agenda for the meeting be adopted as presented.
(Moved: B. Sandiford, seconded: L. Macdonald)
2. Appointment of Independent non-Directors to the Community Investment Committee
It was resolved that the Board of Directors re-appoint Iris Almeida-Côté, Ron Deibert and Elliot Noss for a two-year term and appoint Sylvie LaPerrière for a two-year term to the Community Investment Committee.
(Moved: B. Sandiford, seconded: M. Moll, unanimously carried)
3. Other Business
There was no other business to discuss.
4. Adjournment
There being no further business, on motion by F. West and seconded by B. Sandiford, the meeting was concluded at 1:10 p.m.


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And now, a reading from The Other Wiki (It's a really rather complicated book):
The Doctor travels to Foremans World to discuss matters with his old acquaintance I.M. Foreman. He is trouble by aspects of his most recent adventure on Earth, the one in which he lost Sam, and is convinced that he is missing something vitally important — something that is connected to his previous encounter with I.M. Foreman on Dust. I.M. Foreman puts aside her new creation, a Universe in a bottle, to listen to the Doctors story...
Coldicott, an official at the United Nations, uses the Doctors space-time telegraph to summon him to Earth in 1996, and the Doctor responds reluctantly, knowing that this means Sam is going to leave him. The UN has been contacted by aliens called the Remote who have offered to sell them weapons far beyond anything the Earth has developed at this point in time, but when the Doctor watches the Remotes promotional video he realizes that they are lying — and that theyre human. Sam agrees to wait in London while the Doctor follows a possible lead; meanwhile, Fitz goes to Geneva to ensure that none of the struggling factions in the UN — particularly not its new Security Yard division, UNISYC — get their hands on the new weapons. The Remote fail to show up at the appointed time, however, and the Doctor also seems to have disappeared. Sam therefore follows a lead to COPEX, an international conference for internal security devices — weapons of torture sold on British soil to countries known to be guilty of appalling human rights violations. Sam, using a set of binoculars borrowed from the 50th century, observes the exhibition from a distance and sees the leader of the Remote, Guest, and a young man named Kode who seems oddly familiar, leaving the exhibition with a man named Alan Llewis — and with Ogron bodyguards, whom the other exhibitors all assume to be badly-dressed foreigners.
Sam follows Guest back to his hotel, where Sarah Bland, another of Guests contacts catches her spying; fortunately, she turns out to be an undercover Sarah Jane Smith. Guest has demonstrated his new weapon, a spray called the Cold which can remove its targets the physical Universe, leaving nothing behind at all. Sarah also shows Sam pictures shes captured from the hotels television screens; ever since Guest, Kode and Compassion showed up at the hotel, odd interference patterns have been appearing on the hotels sets. Sarah had a friend of hers blow up the patterns, and she and Sam pick out images of screaming faces and other horrendous images like bat wings — depicted in fractal patterns more detailed than should be possible on an ordinary 625-line television screen. They attempt to use the binoculars once again, but this time Kode has re-inserted the receiver in his ear which enables him to pick up the local media transmissions, and he sees an image from the binoculars and realizes that he and his associates are being spied upon. Guest and Compassion kidnap Sarah and Sam, intending to question them and determine whether this is the attack that theyve been expecting.
Compassion fits Sam with a receiver, and Sam experiences something like a flashback to the time she took hard drugs in order to see how far her parents could be pushed. She recalls being in her attic and telling her frightened friends that she was in the hotel and that tomorrow was when it would all fall apart. Compassion doesnt understand Sams need to fit the images shes receiving into a coherent story, or Sams outrage that the Remote are selling weapons of torture; after all, motorcars kill millions of people by accident, so why isnt Sam outraged at that instead of weapons that kill just a few dozen people deliberately? Compassion claims that the principles Sam claims to hold are in fact just attempts to impose meaning on the random signals she picks up in life. Sam isnt convinced, and is appalled when Compassion explains that her people base all of their decisions upon the signals they receive from local media via their implanted receivers.
The Doctor is in a prison cell with a man named Badar, a writer accused of heresy for calling some of his countrys ancient customs into question. Badar and the Doctor are being brutally beaten and tortured with electric shock batons, and the Doctor is finding it difficult to concentrate upon escaping. Every other time hes been locked up, hes escaped by finding the holes in the prisons routine, but this time theres no reason for whats happening to him. He was captured by accident, charged with espionage, and is being tortured not as part of a master plan, but because the guards have nothing better to do. In order to stay sane, Badar has retreated into a world of ideas, and to help him cope, the Doctor tells him about the TARDIS and the Time Lords. To escape from harsh reality they build up a picture of the world of the Time Lords, but Badar cant make sense of it; if the Doctor can change the history of other worlds why cant he change history on Earth? If he can topple dictators on other worlds, why cant he bring down brutal governments on Earth, and why cant he change history to prevent himself and Badar from ever being in this cell in the first place? Is it really because there are devastating forces waiting outside time and space to swarm through the cracks in causality to consume the Universe — or is that just a lie the Doctor has convinced himself to believe, because hes too frightened to try? The Doctor claims that he doesnt get involved in local politics, but by choosing a side and fighting for it on other worlds in other times, isnt he taking a political stance? What makes Earth so inviolate? Badar is taken away to be executed, but before going he begs the Doctor to finish off their world of ideas, and make it make sense.
Guest finishes his deal with Llewis to distribute the Cold, although Llewis is utterly terrified by what hes become involved in. Guest then takes Sam and Sarah to the warehouse where the Remote is storing the Cold, hoping they will be able to learn more once the women are away from the interference of the local media transmissions. Sarah tricks Kode into letting her summon K9 for help, but in the resulting confusion Compassion manages to spray Sam with the Cold, and she vanishes. Sarah escapes, and decides to call in the Doctor for help; first, however, she has to find him. She speaks with Coldicott, tricks him into giving her Sams last name, and has K9 hack into UN records to find Sams home address. Surprisingly, this turns out to be in a quiet suburban neighbourhood — but when Sarah, snooping around, hears voices in the attic and recognizes one voice as that of a young Sam, she realizes that the Sam she met comes from the future — and that shes broken into the house of a Sam who hasnt yet met the Doctor. In the attic, the drugged-out young Sam, picking up on random signals from the world around her, warns her frightened friends not to open the door, or shell see Sarah before she met her for the first time, causing a paradox...
Fitz, meanwhile, is being quietly kept out of the way in Geneva to prevent him from interfering where he isnt wanted, but while surfing television channels he is attacked by two figures who step out of thin air and spray him with the Cold. By the time hes brought out of the Cold, six hundred years have passed, and hes stuck on a human colony centuries in the future with no way back. The true rulers of the colony turn out to be Faction Paradox, the Time Lord voodoo cultists with a special interest in the Doctors companions, and they inform Fitz that he was sent into the Cold by a general in the UN who wanted him out of the way while he conducted his own political power play — which came to nothing in any case. Fitz agrees to undergo an initiation into Faction Paradox, believing that the Spirits are all hokum and that hell be able to resist easily — but when Mother Mathara fits him with a receiver he realizes, too late, that just because the spirits arent real that doesnt mean the signals entering his brain cant change him... Fitz emerges back into the colony with little memory of what passed, or of the one-armed man who showed him his personal future. Word comes that the Time Lords, aware of Faction Paradoxs interest in the colony, are coming to destroy it, and Fitz is one of the chosen few who are evacuated by Faction Paradox to start a new colony elsewhere...
While trying to get out of the Jones house, Sarah is contacted by one of Guests Ogron bodyguards, Lost Boy, and is surprised to realize that he intends to betray his masters. When K9 offers to act as a translator, Sarah realizes that most of the Ogrons speech is subsonic, and thus inaudible to human ears; this is why they sound brutish and stupid to humans most of the time. Lost Boy explains that the Remote are trying to interfere in history to attract the Time Lords attention, and have thus brought TARDIS detection equipment which Sarah can use to find the Doctor. While Lost Boy steals the equipment from the hotel, Sarah goes to Llewis company to investigate further. Guest is making a deal with Llewis company to distribute the Cold across as much of the world as possible; hed originally intended to make a deal with the U.N., but changed his mind due to the media transmissions he was picking up, started making deals with individual countries, and then went to COPEX. Sarah learns that Guest has supplied surveillance equipment to the company as samples of his technology, and manages to steal one of the surveillance units.
While passing through the skin of the Cold, Sams subconscious puts together the signals shes received and makes a story to string them together. Faction Paradox, like the voodoo cults of Earth, dresses itself up in symbols meant to unnerve its enemies, the Time Lords; thus they mock the Time Lords immortality by dressing in symbols of death, and challenge the sanctity of Time by breaking causality and worshipping Paradox. Sam emerges from the Cold to find that Compassion has brought her to the Remotes home city of Anathema, a world built by the signals beamed out from a central media transmitter, where space fighters destroy buildings at random simply because thats what fighters are supposed to do. Again, Compassion is forced to point out that Sam herself is a product of a signal-dependent civilisation; the thoughts she believes are her own are the result of signals from her parents, her television, books, radio... As Compassion leads Sam to the transmitter, where Guest hopes to find out how much of a threat she poses, Sam starts to pick up further images and string them into a story. She sees the ancient Gallifreyans, led by Rassilon, bursting open a sun to tap its power, only to poke holes into another Universe and let free the vampiric beings on the other side. After a long, brutal war the Time Lords sealed off the holes beneath shells which to the lesser races would seem like ordinary planets, and parked agents near each world to ensure that nobody ever tried to destroy them or drill through to the core. But Sam isnt sure how much of the story is real, and how much is Faction Paradox propaganda; are there really evil spirits on the other side of the Universe? All Sam knows is that on the surface of the dark suns, she saw the screaming faces shes seen in the Cold...
The Doctor tries to use what little wits he has left to scrawl temporal equations on the floor of his cell, in his own blood. Unfortunately, his mind is wandering due to the brutal torture inflicted upon him, and he starts to think about Sam. Blonde Sam was created by paradox and biodata to be a part of the TARDIS crew, so what happens when she leaves him, like his past companions such as Ace and Sarah? There will be no place for her in the world, and he must find some way to give her a new life. He manages to complete his equations, temporal mathematics which remove his entire body from time and space; since he is nearby the TARDIS, automatic procedures pick him out of the Vortex and place him in a store room to await return to his original position. He was hoping for time out in which to pull himself together, but since his mind was wandering hes accidentally included Sarah in his calculations, and shes ended up in the storage room with him. She gives him the surveillance device from Llewis office, but he has no idea what to do with it, and her presence has destabilised the equations. Before he can regain his sanity and come up with an escape plan, hes back in the cell and the torture has begun all over again...
It has been a very long day on Foremans World, and the Doctor is tired of talking. I.M. Foreman senses this and offers to tell her story for a while instead...
Shortly after leaving Quiescia, the Third Doctor finds an unexpected door in the TARDIS, and enters it out of curiosity to find a long, dark passageway leading to a prison cell — where one of his future incarnations lies dying in a temporal equation scrawled from his own blood. Somehow, this future Doctor has made an error in his calculations and has crossed his own timeline, or else Faction Paradox has changed his past — but by warning his third incarnation about the Faction hes made another error, since he didnt know of the Factions existence until his fourth incarnation. The Third Doctor, troubled by what hes seen, returns to the main corridors of the TARDIS, only to find the horrified Sarah standing in the middle of the console room as the TARDIS itself begins to drip blood as if from some trauma to come. The ship then materializes in the distant future, on the planet Dust, the dead edge of the human empire where the human race got as far as it was ever going to get in the galaxy and then gave up.
The dying settlements on Dust are being captured by the last survivors of the Remote, who crashed on this planet some time ago, drawn by some force they dont understand, just as the Doctor has been. The agents of the Remote sent to this settlement, however, have found themselves rebuffed by a newcomer, a blind showman named I.M. Foreman whose travelling caravan seems to have arrived from nowhere. The towns defender, Magdalena, doesnt understand how I.M. Foreman got past her defenses or where the Doctor and Sarah have come from. All she knows is that her gun has a single bullet, and that before the day is out it will be called into play to defend her people. As she holds the Doctor under arrest and questions him, Sarah visits I.M. Foremans show and finds it grotesque at best; he has somehow assembled eleven freaks of nature together, to display them as examples of how far the human body can be pushed if it opens itself up to the extreme limits of possibility. One of the freaks, the If, is a lump of flesh which breathes out raw Time; just by being in the same room with it, Sarah sees her own future as a married woman, and sees her best friend give a eulogy at her funeral — attended both by United Nations soldiers and by people wearing a black seed emblem of some kind.
Despite Sarahs revulsion at the exhibits, shes starting to understand that they somehow give the people of the village just what they need to complete themselves, when suddenly a sandstorm blows up and a giant spaceship arrives. The leader of the Remote, investigating his agents story, has detected Gallifreyan life signs and has pulled his entire army out of the dust to track down what may be their only means of escape. The Doctor and Sarah retreat to I.M. Foremans tent, number one in a set of thirteen, while the Remote land and capture the town. What nobody yet realizes, not even the leader of the Remote, is that programmes buried in the Remote ships controls have alerted the leaders of Faction Paradox to the events taking place on Dust, and that the Mothers and Fathers of the Faction have realized their significance. Even now, one of the Factions warships is on its way from the Eleven-Day Empire to take action...
Night has fallen over Foremans World, and the Doctor and I.M. Foreman both go to sleep on the grassy hills, lit by the stars from the bottled Universe. They will finish their stories tomorrow.
Tropes present in Interference: Shock Tactic include:
- Alien Geometries
- Artificial Human: The Remote.
- Call-Back
- Cold-Blooded Torture: The Doctor undergoes this for a good part of the book. It's not pretty.
- Continuity Porn: As just one example, there's a reference to the 1996 Festival of Ghana and concerns that the android attractions were built too dangerous; the Festival appeared years earlier in "The Chase", where the androids were able to hold their own in a fight against the Daleks.
- Couldn't Find a Pen: Scrawling temporal equations all over the cell in your own blood might not be the best example of sanity, Doctor. Then again, it was for a reason.
- Creative Sterility: The Remote don't really come up with their own ideas; they just listen to the transitions to help them make choices and figure out what to do.
- Emotionless Girl: Compassion.
- Formulaic Magic: The Doctor's temporal equations.
- Framing Device: I. M. Foreman is telling the story to the Doctor as the two of them rest on a hill on a planet called Foreman's World.
- The Freakshow: I. M. Foreman has one on the Dust.
- Four Lines, All Waiting
- Hard Head: Lampshaded in Interference.
- Long Bus Trip
- Make Way for the New Villains: "The oldest of the Remote" has had the Master and the Rani's heads stuffed and mounted.
- Myth Arc
- Punch-Clock Villain
- Sanity Slippage: The Doctor starts to experience this while being trapped in a cell and tortured daily.
- Shout-Out
- Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: The Remote start out as a bland grou of people going about their daily lives influenced by the transmissions, but some of Sam's ideals come through the media and they become willing to die for their beliefs - although it's pointed out that dying isn't going to do much good if they don't do anything else.
- Strangely Arousing: "Sarah started rummaging around in her pockets, in a fashion the Doctor found strangely appealing."
- The Bus Came Back: Sarah Jane Smith appears in this book...
- Took a Level in Badass: ...and she's now a slightly more cynical Intrepid Reporter who investigates the traffic of highly dangerous weapons.
- Wham Episode
- Wild West: The Dust is a sort of Sci-Fi Counterpart Culture to this.


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