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The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are among the most persistent enemies of The Doctor in the British science fiction television programme, Doctor Who. All but the third, eighth, war, and ninth incarnations of The Doctor faced them. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more and more artificial parts into their bodies as a means of self-preservation. This led to the race becoming coldly logical and calculating, with every emotion deleted from their minds. they were created by Dr. Kit Pedler (the unofficial scientific advisor to the show) and Gerry Davis in 1966, first appearing in the serial The Tenth Planet, the last to feature William Hartnell as the First Doctor" href="1stdoctorpage">First Doctor. They have since been featured numerous times in their extreme attempts to survive through conquest up until the show was cancelled.
Following the revival of the show, the Cybermen returned as a parallel universe version and appeared in the 2006 series' two-part story,"Rise of the Cybermen" and"The Age of Steel", and have been recurring villains in the revived series since. A further redesign took place in the 2013 episode"Nightmare In Silver", showing technologically advanced Cybermen able to instantly upgrade themselves to fix flaws and weaknesses.
The species also appeared in The Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in its fourth episode,"Cyberwoman" (2006). Cybermen have also appeared in 2010 installments of The Doctor Who video game series The Adventure Games.
While The Doctor's archenemy, the Daleks, were on the whole unchanged during the original series's 26-season run, the Cybermen were seen to change with almost every encounter. The Cybermen are humanoid, but have been altered until they have few remaining organic parts. They retain living human brains. In their first appearance in the series, the only parts of their bodies that still seemed human were their hands; by their next appearance in The Moonbase (1967), their bodies were entirely covered in their metallic suits, with their hands replaced by two finger claws, but they changed back to regular five-fingered hands in The Invasion (1968).
As they are relatively few, the Cybermen tend towards covert activity, scheming from hiding and using human pawns or robots to act in their place until they need to appear. They were seek to increase their numbers by converting others into Cybermen (a process known as"cyber-conversion" or"robotisatedition" in the older episodes and"upgrading" in the newer episodes), an often painful process as body parts are removed and replaced with cybernetic replacements.
It is presumed (and often implied) that there are still organic components beneath their suits, meaning they are cyborgs, not robots: in The Tenth Planet, a Cyberman tells a group of humans that"our brains are just like yours", although by the time of Attack of the Cybermen (1985), their brains seem to have been replaced with electronics. Also in this story, two human slave-prisoners of the Cybermen on the planet Telos, named Bates and Stratton, reveal that their organic arms and legs have been removed by the Cybermen and replaced by cyber-substitutes.
In Earthshock (1982), the actors' chins were vaguely visible through a clear perspex area on the helmet to suggest some kind of organic matter. In The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), veins and brains were visible through the domed head of the Cyber-Controller, and similarly, in Attack of the Cybermen (1985) and"The Age of Steel" (2006), the Cyber-Controller's brain is visible through the dome.
The first is a Mondas Cyber Controller, and the second involves alternative Earth's John Lumic. However, in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975), The Doctor says they are"total machine creatures".
The audio play Real Time implies that the converted victim's face remains beneath the Cyberman faceplate, although the audio plays, like all non-televised spin-off media, are of uncertain canonicity with regard to the television series. This implication was confirmed in 2014's Death in Heaven, when Danny Pink removes the faceplate, although this is relatively soon after his cyber-conversion. The Virgin New Adventures novel Iceberg by David Banks states that some Cybermen experience rare flashes of emotional memory from the time before they were converted; these flashes are then usually suppressed. The Cybermen in the revived series are usually constructed from human brains bonded to a Cyberman exoskeletal shell with an artificially-grown nervous system threaded throughout ("The Age of Steel"), although direct grafting of cyber-components is another method of conversion ("Cyberwoman"). In"The Pandorica Opens", a Cyberman head is shown to open up, revealing an entire human skull, not just the brain.
Although the Cybermen often claim that they have done away with human emotion, they have exhibited emotions ranging from anger to smug satisfaction in their confrontations with The Doctor (although this is only clearly present during their appearances in the 1980s). S
Some Cybermen in the early stories were even given individual names such as"Krang". Some parallel Earth Cybermen did retain some memories of their pre-conversion lives, although their emotional response varied. In"Cyberwoman", the partial conversion led to a degree of insanity in Lisa Hallett, which was retained even after she transferred her brain into a fully human body. In"Doomsday", Yvonne Hartman retains at least some elements of her personality to prevent the advance of a group of other Cybermen, and is last seen weeping what appears to be either an oil-like substance or blood. In the same episode, the Cyber-Leader expresses clear frustration at the humans' refusal to surrender, although in a later scene he criticises The Doctor for showing emotion. In"The Age of Steel", defeats the Cybermen by shutting down their emotional inhibitors, enabling them to"see" what had become of them. Their realisation of what they had become led them to either simply shut down out of sheer horror, or partially explode. Lastly, when the first Cyber Leader is killed, his head explodes with some white liquid leaking down his body; there are references in that episode to a patented Cybus Industries mixture of chemicals used to preserve the brain. In"Death in Heaven", Danny Pink also retains some of his personality traits, including shock at seeing his reflection and what he's become, but also his love for Clara Oswald, while his emotional inhibitor. Twelfth Doctor turns it on to gain intelligence and reveal that the Cybermen have developed a way to cyber-convert living humans. Only then does The Doctor exploit Danny's keeping of his personality traits, even under the inhibitor, to command the Cyber-Army.
The Virgin Missing Adventures novel Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons suggests that some Cybermen imitate emotions to intimidate and unnerve their victims. The Big Finish Productions audio play Spare Parts (set on Mondas in the early days of Cyber-conversion) suggests that the Cybermen deliberately remove their emotions as part of the conversion process to stifle the physical and emotional trauma of becoming a Cyberman.
This motive behind the removal of emotions is made more explicit in"The Age of Steel", where it is done by an emotional inhibitor. In that episode, deactivating their emotional inhibitors causes the converted Cybermen to realise what they have become, driving them insane and killing them. This motive may also be applicable to Mondas Cybermen, given their forcible conversion of other lifeforms to Cybermen to maintain their numbers, although the Mondasians appear to have originally willingly converted themselves as a survival mechanism
The Cybermen have had a number of weaknesses since their introduction. The most notable weakness of the original Cybermen is the element gold. Their aversion to gold was not mentioned until they try to destroy the planetoid Voga (the so-called"Planet of Gold") in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975). Initially, it was explained that, due to its non-corrodible nature, gold essentially chokes their respiratory systems. For example, the glittergun, a weapon used during the Cyber-Wars in the future, fired gold dust at its targets. However, in later serials, gold appeared to affect them rather like silver affects werewolves, with gold coins or gold-tipped bullets fired at them having the same effect. The revived series's Cybermen have no such weakness, though the tie-in website for the episode mentions it. Cybermen are also efficiently killed when shot with their own guns, or by a Dalek.
Other weaknesses from early stories include solvents, gravity based technology, and excessive levels of radiation. In"The Age of Steel", an EMP grenade is shown to disable a Cyberman and shut down its emotional inhibitor. The vulnerability to gold is clearly not present in some early Cyberman types, for example the type seen in the 1968 serial The Invasion were unlikely to possess it, or perhaps more likely the weakness is not known, otherwise The Doctor/UNIT would simply have used it and not needed the elaborate plan involving the assistance of a Russian missile base and the Cybermen's puppet ally, Tobias Vaughn. In"Nightmare In Silver", The Doctor uses gold to slow down though not destroy some circuitry of technologically advanced Cybermen in the distant future. It is unclear precisely how many of the different types, and which types, of Cyberman are vulnerable to gold.
Their armour is often depicted as flexible and resistant to bullets, but can be penetrated by gold arrows and projectiles made of gold. The Cybus Cybermen are bullet-proof and are very resilient, but are not indestructible—They are vulnerable to heavy explosives, electromagnetic pulses, and specialised weaponry, and Dalek weapons.
The first Cyberman costumes were designed by BBC costume designer Sandra Reid. Early Cyberman costumes included items and material such as cloth, rubber diving suits, PVC, chest units, tubing, practice golf balls, cricketers' gloves, and silver-painted Doc Martens boots.
A BBC Cyberman costume from the black & white era of has recently been discovered.
The 1980s design used converted flight suits painted silver. Unlike The Doctor's other foes, the Cybermen costumes have changed substantially in appearance over the years, looking more and more modern, although retaining certain commonalities of design, the most iconic being the"handle bars" attached to Cybermen heads that were supposed to aid with their hearing. Other design elements include their round eyeholes and their chest units. Disguised black-coloured Cybermen were seen briefly in Attack of the Cybermen. Aside from these changes, variations in design between rank-and-file Cybermen and their leaders have been seen. In The Wheel in Space and The Invasion (both 1968), the Cyber Director was depicted as an immobile mechanism. In The Tomb of the Cybermen and Attack of the Cybermen, the Cyber Controller was a larger Cyberman with a high domed head instead of the"handle bar" helmet design. In Revenge of the Cybermen, the Cyber Leader had a completely black helmet except for his face. From Earthshock (1982) onwards he could be distinguished from his troops by the black handle bars on his helmet. The Cyber Leaders in"Army of Ghosts" and"The Next Doctor" also had black handles, with the latter also sporting a black face (or visor), and transparent brain casing.
Because The Doctor is a time traveller, he meets the Cybermen at various points in their history out of sequence from the order the serials were made. This can be confusing since Cybermen from serials set in"earlier" periods of history can sometimes look more sophisticated than those from"later" periods. Lawrence Miles suggests in his reference work About Time 5 that the anachronistically designed Cybermen of Earthshock and Silver Nemesis are time travellers, like those in Attack of the Cybermen.
The Doctor Who Role Playing Game"Cyber Files" worked around the contradiction by stating that in the Tenth Planet, the oldest designs of Cybermen were used for the attack while the later more sophisticated models remained on Mondas. A Cyberman head was seen in the 2005 episode,"Dalek", kept in a display case. The text on the info card states that the head was found in a sewer, suggesting that the head was from The Invasion. However, the corrugated type of handles on the head indicate that the prop is from Revenge of the Cybermen. The info card states the head was found in 1975, the year in which The Invasion was possibly set and the year in which Revenge of the Cybermen was broadcast.
The Cybermen returned in episodes 5 and 6 of the 2006 series of the revived show, in a two-part story set on an alternative Earth. The new Cybermen were designed by production designer Edward Thomas's team and Neill Gorton at Millennium FX. The new Cyberman design is physically imposing, being about 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall. They are made from burnished steel instead of silver, feature the Cybus Industries logo on its chest, and have a general art deco design. The other distinct Cyberman design is that of the Cyber Controller, which had glowing eyes, a transparent forehead revealing the brain, and sockets on its chest plate providing connectors to other systems.
The Torchwood episode"Cyberwoman" features a partially cyber-converted woman who lacks the outer plating of a fully converted Cyberman. Her body is encased in metal structures but much of her flesh, including her face, is visible. She also has clearly visible metallic breasts, though it is not clear how much of her own flesh has been replaced and how much is merely covered. Another character speculates she could be 40–45% human, and 55–60% Cyberman.
Early Cybermen had an unsettling, sing-song voice, constructed by placing the inflecteditions of words on the wrong syllables. In their first appearance, the effect of this was augmented by having a Cyberman abruptly open his mouth wide and keep it open, without moving his tongue or lips, while the separately recorded voice would be playing, and then shut it quickly when the line was finished.
Although the cloth-like masks of the first Cybermen were soon replaced by a full helmet, a similar physical effect involving the mouth"hatch" opening and then shutting when the line was finished was used until The Wheel in Space (1968).
Later, the production team used special effects from its Radiophonic Workshop by adding first a mechanical larynx, then a vocoder, to modify speech to make it sound more artificial. In later stories of the original series and in the audio plays, two copies of the voice track were sampled and pitch-shifted downwards by differing amounts and layered to produce the effect, sometimes with the addition of a small amount of flanging. From Revenge of the Cybermen to Silver Nemesis (1988) the actors provided the voices themselves, using microphones and transmitters in the chest units.
The voices for the 2006 return of the Cybermen are similar to the buzzing electronic monotone voices of the Cybermen used in The Invasion. they were provided by Nicholas Briggs (who performed the voices for the Cybermen in Big Finish audio stories as well as the Daleks in both the new series and the audio stories). As shown in the second series of Doctor Who Confidential, the timbre was created by processing Brigg's voice through a Moog moogerfooger ring modulator. Unusually, in"The Age of Steel", the Cyber-Controller (John Lumic, played by Roger Lloyd Pack) retains his voice after being upgraded, but it is still electronic. In"Doomsday", a Cyberman which contains the brain of Torchwood Institute director Yvonne Hartman retains a female-sounding though still electronic voice, as does the partially converted Lisa Hallett in"Cyberwoman" when her Cyberman personality is dominant. In an effect reminiscent of the earliest Cybermen's mouths snapping open while speaking, the new Cybermen have a blue light in their"mouths" (or"teeth") which blinks in synchronisation with their speech.
Since"The Age of Steel" in 2006, the Cybermen have had nasaly-sounding electronic voices; this continued all the way until"Closing Time" in 2011. As of the 2013 episode ome Cybermen are given titles, being cred as"Cyber Leader" (or variants thereof),"Cyber Lieutenant","Cyber Scout" or the"Cyber Controller". An immobile computer has appeared in The Invasion that has been referred to as the"Cyber Planner". The Controller seen (and destroyed) in various serials also may or may not be the same consciousness in different bodies; it appears to recognise and remember The Doctor from previous encounters. In Iceberg, the first Cyber Controller is created by implanting a Cyber Director, or Cyber Planner, into the skull of a recently converted Cyberman.
The Cyber Controller in"The Age of Steel" used the brain of John Lumic, the creator of the Cybermen in that parallel reality. In"Doomsday", a Cyber Leader appears, and when he is destroyed, mention is made of downloading his data files into another Cyberman unit, which is then upgraded to Cyber Leader.
The 2008 Christmas special,"The Next Doctor", featured a new, more agile variant called a Cybershade. The Doctor theorises that it is a more primitive version of a Cyberman, using the brain of a cat or a dog, and they physically resemble animals as they have fur and walk on all fours. In the same story a"Cyber-King" appears; according to The Doctor, it is a"Dreadnought-class" ship for use in invasions resembling a Cyberman hundreds of feet tall, and contains a Cyber-factory in its chest. It is controlled from within its mouth. Its right arm can be converted into a cannon, and its left into a laser.
A redesigned version of the Cybermen appeared in"Nightmare In Silver" on 11 May 2013.
After"almost 1000 years" of evolution, these latest Cybermen are more agile and flexible than ever before with an ability to upgrade against any attack and move at blurring speeds. The Cyber-Planner also made a return when it attempted to take control of the Eleventh Doctor's brain, briefly developing a manic personality due to its Time Lord host.
"The Time of the Doctor" introduced a unique prototype Cyberman that was made of wood to avoid detection by the Church of the Papal Mainframe and equipped with blowtorches.
Cybermen technology is almost completely oriented towards weaponry, apart from their own bodies. When originally seen in The Tenth Planet, they had large energy weapons that attached to their chests. In The Moonbase, the Cybermen had two types of weaponry: an electrical discharge from their hands, which stunned the target, and a type of gun. they were made use of a large laser cannon with which they attempted to attack the base itself.
The hand discharge was also present in The Tomb of the Cybermen, which featured a smaller, hand-held Cyber-weapon shaped like a pistol that was described as an X-ray laser. In The Wheel in Space, the Cybermen could use the discharge to also operate machinery, and had death rays built into their chest units. They displayed the same units in The Invasion as well as carrying large rifles for medium distance combat. In Revenge of the Cybermen and Real Time, their weapons were built into their helmets. Killing Ground indicates that this type of Cybermen also have more powerful hand weapons. Subsequent appearances have shown them armed almost exclusively with hand-held cyberguns.
The Cybermen have access to weapons of mass destruction known as cobalt bombs, also sometimes as Cyber-bombs, which were banned by the galactic Armageddon Convention(Revenge of the Cybermen). A"Cyber-megatron bomb" was mentioned in The Invasion, supposedly powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. In Earthshock, the Cybermen also used android drones as part of their plans to invade Earth.
The revived programme Cybermen electrocute their victims by touching them and at first carried no other weaponry. In"Army of Ghosts" and"Doomsday", the Cybermen are equipped with retractable energy weapons housed within their forearms (these were actually first shown in"The Age of Steel", but only very briefly and were not used during that episode), but also use advanced human weapons to battle the Daleks. The arm mounted guns prove effective against humans but are unable to penetrate Dalek shields. Two Cybermen sent to parley with Dalek Thay at the Battle of Canary Wharf shot the Dalek but were promptly exterminated. In the Torchwood episode"Cyberwoman", the partially converted Lisa Hallett used her electrical touch against the Torchwood team, as well as an energy beam fired from her arm which could only stun the part of the body at which it was aimed. In"The Pandorica Opens", the Cybermen again have the wrist-blaster, but also regain the modified human weapons. In"Nightmare In Silver", the Cybermen have the ability to move at a warp-like speedat this speed They appear as blurry after images. Cyberman had also overcome the weakness of solely being able to convert human-like species; The Doctor had been safe from being in danger of conversion until this point.
The Cybermen first appear in the serial The Tenth Planet in 1966, set in 1986, in which their origin story is given as follows. Millennia ago, during prehistoric times, Earth had a twin planet known as Mondas. Mondas was knocked out of solar orbit and drifted into deep space. The Mondasians, already far in advance of Earth's technology and fearful for their race's survival, replaced most of their bodies with cybernetic parts. Having eventually removed all emotion from their brains, to maintain their sanity, the natives installed a drive propulsion system so they could pilot the planet itself through space. As the original race was limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, the Mondasians – now Cybermen – became a race of conquerors who reproduced by taking other organic beings and forcibly changing them into Cybermen.
These Cybermen fought against the First Doctor (William Hartnell) when the Cybermen attempted to drain the Earth's energy to make way for Mondas' return to the solar system. However, Mondas absorbs too much energy from Earth, destroying it and those Cybermen on Earth. The adventure took its physical toll on The Doctor, forcing him to regenerate for the first time, becoming the Second Doctor(Patrick Troughton).
The Cybermen as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets in their first invasion of Earth as seen in The Invasion. Redesigned Cybermen next appear in The Moonbase (1967), set in 2070, opposite the Second Doctor, who discovers a crypt containing Cybermen during a visit to the Moon.
They attempted to remotely destroy the Earth by affecting its weather patterns with a device called the Gravitron. However, the Gravitron is used against them, hurling them into space. Later that year, The Tomb of the Cybermen sees a 25th Century human expedition discover sarcophagi containing hibernating Cybermen on the planet Telos, where the creatures arise and attack. This episode introduces the cybermats, small mechanical scouts used by the Cybermen, as well as their leader, the Cyber Controller. In The Wheel in Space (1968), The Doctor and his crew face off against the Cybermen on a marooned Earth space station in the 21st Century. This episode introduces the Cyber-Planner, an immobile unit which directs the Cybermen. The Cybermen plan to take over the space station, after which their fleet will invade Earth. The Doctor uses an x-ray laser to destroy the Cybermen. In The Invasion that same year, The Doctor and his companions visit late 20th century England where he discovers an army of Cybermen are hidden on Earth, working with magnate Tobias Vaughn (Kevin Stoney) for their fleet to invade Earth. Their invasion is defeated by The Doctor and the military support of the newly formed UnitedNations Intelligence Taskforce.
The Cybermen did not face the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), but one is shown as part of an exhibit in Carnival of Monsters (1973). Fourth Doctor(Tom Baker) is next to encounter a small group of Cybermen in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975), for which they were once again redesigned. These Cybermen are depicted as the wandering remnants of a fallen empire, ravaged by the so-called Cyber-Wars against victorious humanity, which had crucially exploited the Cybermen's weakness to gold. They will be facing him in a new series of Big Finish Audios.
These Cybermen attempted to restore the glory of their race by destroying the humans' gold-rich asteroid Voga. Another long hiatus preceded Earthshock (1982), in which the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) encounters Cybermen in Earth in the year 2526, who seek to destroy the planet with a large bomb while alien dignitaries visit Earth to discuss the ongoing Cyber-Wars. After The Doctor foils this plan, they decide to crash their freighter into the planet to much the same effect. The Doctor's companion, boy genius Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), is trapped on board and attempts to escape from the freighter, but inadvertently causes it to hurtle back in time. The freighter crashes into prehistoric Earth, killing Adric and triggering the K-T extinction event. The Cybermen appear once more in the Fifth Doctor's era, alongside the four previous Doctors, in The Five Doctors (1983), when they are all transported alongside other nemeses of The Doctor to his home planet of Gallifrey by the Time Lord President Borusa (Philip Latham). Attack of the Cybermen (1985) is set much earlier in the Cyber-Wars than Revenge, during a time in which the Cybermen faced defeat following the human invention of the glittergun and the discovery of gold-rich Voga. The Cybermen attempt to use a time machine to avert the destruction of Mondas.
Their plan fails, and they were lose their adopted homeworld of Telos to its original inhabitants, the Cryons, following the intervention of theSixth Doctor (Colin Baker). The Cybermen appeared for a final time in the classic series in Silver Nemesis (1988), in which a fleet of Cybermen warships assemble to convert Earth into a new Mondas. A Cybermen scouting party is sent to Earth in search of the legendary Nemesis statue, a Time Lord artefact of immense power, made of the"living metal" validium. The intervention of the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion AceAce (Sophie Aldred), however, ensured that the Nemesis destroyed the entire cyber-fleet instead. Between the series' cancellation and its subsequent revival, they make one other brief appearance in the 1993 Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, as one of the enemies the evil Time Lady the Rani (Kate O'Mara) uses to hunt the doctor.
Doctor Who was revived after a long hiatus by new showrunner Russell T Davies in 2005. By then, development of CGI let script-writers include large numbers of Cybermen or Daleks in stories. In the first series of the revived programme, the Cybermen do not appear except for the inactive head of one seen in a private museum of alien artefacts on Earth in the episode"Dalek". For series 2 in 2006, Cybermen were reintroduced with a new origin story set in a parallel universe. In the"Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" two-part story, The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and his companions crash land in a parallel London where the Cybermen are being created on modern-day Earth. The Cybermen are created by the owner of Cybus Industries, the dying transhumanist mad scientist John Lumic (Roger Lloyd Pack). Lumic's Cybermen successfully convert much of the world's populationby placing their human brains into robotic shells. The Doctor and his friends free London from their control. A human resistance group, the Preachers, then sets about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world.
The Cybermen reappear in the 2006 finale"Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday", exploiting a breach between universes to invade The Doctor's Earth. This breach is caused by a transport device belonging to the Daleks, who reveal themselves and trigger all-out war between the species. The Doctor ultimately re-opens the breach, causing the Cybermen and all but a few Daleks to become trapped inside before it is re-sealed. The episode"Cyberwoman" from spin-off programme Torchwood follows on from these events. Torchwood employee Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) is shown to be hiding his girlfriend and colleague Lisa Hallett (Caroline Chikezie) at the organisation's Cardiff base as he tries to reverse her partial conversion. Lisa is killed by Torchwood's Cardiff agents after her programming asserts itself and she began killing. Cybermen next appear in the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special"The Next Doctor", emerging in 1851 London after the Daleks damaged the walls of reality in the previous episode. They attempt to raise a new army on Earth using period technology, but are again foiled by The Doctor.
After Steven Moffat took over the role of executive producer in 2010, Cybermen of essentially the design introduced by Davies continued to appear. No explicit reference is made to their origin, but generally the stylised 'c' (for Cybus Corporation) on their breastplate had been replaced by an plain circle, implying that they were not from the parallel universe.
They appear in"The Pandorica Opens" (2010) alongside many of The Doctor's recurring enemies as part of an alliance dedicated to stopping him, arriving in cyber ships in 102 CE. They appear again in"A Good Man Goes To War" (2011), when theEleventh Doctor's (Matt Smith) companion Rory (Arthur Darvill) demands the location of a secret asteroid base in a quadrant of space which they monitor in the 52nd century. The Doctor destroys a large fleet of their spaceships to indicate their seriousness. In"Closing Time", an old, long-since-crashed cyber ship beneath Earth's surface is reawakened by electrical work in 2011 Colchester; cybermats are reintroduced to the series. A Cybermen invasion is successfully repelled by The Doctor and his friend Craig (James Corden). Neil Gaiman's episode"Nightmare In Silver" (2013) depicts the re-emergence of Cybermen in the distant future, following what was believed to be their complete eradicatedition by humankind. These redesigned Cybermen have discarded many of their limitations, exhibiting increased speed, rapid upgrading to overcome weaknesses, and the ability to cyberconvert any biological organism into their ranks. The Eleventh Doctorundergoes a partial cyberconversion, and mentally duels with a Cyber-Planner for control of his body.
The emperor of the galaxy (Warwick Davis) orders a planet's destruction to wipe out the Cybermen, but one intact cybermite (new, minuscule cybermat variants) is later seen floating through space. A dead Cyberman head is briefly shown in the UNIT Black Archive in"The Day of the Doctor", and in"The Time of the Doctor" They are among the many species which besiege the planet Trenzalore for centuries. In the latter episode, The Doctor also uses a disembodied Cyberman head, devoid of any remaining organic parts; named"Handles", he serves as The Doctor's personal assistant and confidant for several centuries until his eventual 'death' brings The Doctor to tears.
In finale of the 2014 series,"Dark Water"/"Death in Heaven", the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) learns too late that the Cybermen have formed an alliance with The Master (Michelle Gomez), who is converting the stolen bodies of the dead into an army. A cyberconversion process begins on all of Earth's dead. The Master offers The Doctor control of the Cybermen army so they can rule the universe together, but her plans is foiled when Danny (Samuel Anderson), the cyberconverted boyfriend of The Doctor's companion, resists his programming and destroys himself along with all the other Cybermen.
The Cybermen have appeared in various spin-off media.
The BBV audios Cyber-Hunt and Cybergeddon and the BBV video Cyberon feature the Cyberons, which are a race of cyborgs not dissimilar to the Cybermen; Cyber-Hunt was quite blatantly using the Cybermen and the Cyber Wars under another name, with the plot based around the Cyberon/Cybermen being converted humans.
The Cybermen were also featured in the novel Iceberg by actor David Banks, who played the Cyber Leader in the television series from Earthshock to Silver Nemesis. Banks had previously written, in 1988, Cybermen, a fictional history of the Cybermen which included a"future" design for them. The Missing Adventure Novel Killing Ground also features Cybermen of the type seen in Revenge of the Cybermen. During this novel, the Sixth Doctor's new companion Grant Markham returns to his home planet and learns that a group of Cybermen have hidden on it for centuries, with his robophobia being based around the repressed memory of witnessing a Cyberman kill his mother before he escaped.
In two Virgin Missing Adventures novels by Craig Hinton, the Cybermen become Cyberlords at some point in their history.
They are mentioned in passing in Hinton's The Crystal Bucephalus, where the Cyberlord Hegemony is a peaceful future version of the Cybermen who have an empire in the Milky Way; their description was modelled after Banks's designs. In The Quantum Archangel, there are numerous unexplained references to the Cyberlords as an extremely advanced raceat one point, they are referred to as the Time Lords' greatest ally in the Millennium War, though because that war was supposed to have taken place a very long time before the modern era, it is unclear how this bit of Cyberhistory fits in or whether or not they have achieved advanced time travel capabilities. While not explicitly mentioned, Hinton may have adopted this idea from the aborted script for the Five Doctors by Robert Holmes (scriptwriter), which would have had the Cybermen adopting Time Lord DNA to achieve their higher state of being. The Past Doctor Adventures novel Illegal Alien featured Cybermen and Cybermats in London during the Blitz. Cyber-technology left over from that adventure was subsequently misused in Loving the Alien, written by the same authors. the Fifth Doctor story Warmonger by Terrance Dicks has the Cybermen join The Doctor's alliance against Morbius. The First Doctor story The Time Travellers by Simon Guerrier, set in an alternate reality, has the Cybermen (who are never named) living at the South Pole and trading advanced technology to South Africa.
the Doctor Adventures novel Hope by Mark Clapham features the Silverati, a group of cybernetically enhanced humans heavily reminiscent of the Cybermen, in existence in the very far future as the universe approaches its end, with some evidence suggesting that the Silverati were adapted from remnants of the Cybermen of the present.
The Cybermen have appeared in several Big Finish audio plays battling The Doctor, the first of which was Sword of Orion (released on CD in 2001 and broadcast on BBC 7 in 2005), where the Doctor deals with humans and androids engaged in a war who seek Cyber-technology to improve their sides.
The 2002 play Spare Parts explored aspects of the Cybermen's origin, revealing that the design was ironically only perfected after their creator, Doctorman Allan, studied the biology of the Fifth Doctor and duplicated a third lobe to The Doctor's brain that controlled his body functions. they were the villains in the company's BBCi webcast Real Time in 2002 and appeared in a linked trilogy of plays entitled The Harvest (2004), The Reaping (2006) and The Gathering (2006). They most recently appeared in Human Resources,
The first instalment of a four-CD series titled Cyberman, which does not feature The Doctor, was released in September 2005. Sword of Orion and the Cyberman series are set around the"GreatOrion Cyber-Wars" of the 26th century, when androids rebelled against humanity in the Orion System and both human and android turned to the Cybermen to gain a military advantage. In Sword Of Orion, the Cybermen are still entombed on Telos and are mostly forgotten, setting it before Earthshock; by the time of Cyberman, Telos has been destroyed by an asteroid collision, placing that series after Attack of the Cybermen.
The Bernice Summerfield play The Crystal of Cantus features a former human colony turned into Cybermen, with Irving Braxiatel planning to use them as a private army. A Cyberman tomb also appeared in the Bernice Summerfield play Silver Lining, which came free with Doctor Who Magazine #351.
They have also appeared in the various Doctor Who comic strips, beginning with The Coming of the Cybermen in Comic #824-#827. Comic cashed in on their frequent presence in the series in the late 1960s by featuring them regularly, and they appeared in Flower Power (C #832-#835), Cyber-Mole (C #842-#845), The Cyber Empire (C #850-#853), Eskimo Joe (C #903-#906), Masquerade (C Holiday Special 1968), The Time Museum (C Annual 1969), The Champion (C Holiday Special 1969) and Test-Flight (C Annual 1970). Their absence from the show for most of the 1970s was reflected in a lack of appearances in the strip: They eventually returned in the early 1980s in The Doctor Who Monthly strip Junk-Yard Demon (DWM #58-#59). They made further appearances after the publication was re-titled Doctor Who Magazine: Exodus/Revelation/Genesis (DWM #108-#110), The World Shapers (DWM #127-#129, written by Grant Morrison, which revealed that the Voord were the race that evolved into the Cybermen and that Mondas was previously the planet Marinus), The Good Soldier (DWM #175-#178) and The Flood (DWM #346-#353). In addition, a Cyberman named Kroton, who originally appeared in a couple of Doctor Who Weekly back-up strips called Throwback:
The Soul of a Cyberman (DWW #5-#7) and Ship of Fools (DWW #23-#24), was reintroduced in Unnatural Born Killers (DWM #277) and was briefly a companion of the Doctor in The Company of Thieves (DWM #284-#286) and The Glorious Dead (DWM #287-#296). The Cybermen had their own one-page strip in DWM from issues #215-#238, written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Adrian Salmon.
In 1996, the Radio Times published a Doctor Who comic strip. The first story, entitled Dreadnought, featured the Cybermen attacking a human starship in 2220 and introduced the strip companion Stacy Townsend.
In The Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover, Assimilation2, the Cybermen join forces with the Borg, forcing the Eleventh Doctor to join forces with the crew of the Enterprise-D to stop them. The Borg and Cybermen have begun to attack and convert worlds without warning, with the apparent 'leader' being a Cyber-Controller with Borg components.
The Doctor also recalls a past incident where he helped the crew of the original Enterprise defeat a Cyberman infiltration of a Federation outpost in his fourth incarnation, although it would appear that this is a recent addition to his past history as the Eleventh Doctoralso remembers not remembering that encounter. The Cybermen attempt to subvert and take over the Borg Collective, forcing The Doctor and the Enterprise to ally with the Borg to stop the Cybermen and restore the Collective to normal.
The 2010 video game Blood of the Cybermen, features Cybermen of the 2006 design without the Cybus Industries chest plate. These Cybermen are unearthed in the Arctic in 2010; their ship is said to have been damaged by a time-storm and crashed 10, 000 years earlier. The player plays as the Eleventh Doctorand his companion Amy, who work to defeat The Cybermen.
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Quick Look: Inflation by Integrity Logic
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March 21, 2009
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Have you ever wondered how much that nickel candy that your grandparents are always telling you about would cost today? Or what the $5,000 dollars you spent on your first new car would be equal to today? Integrity Logic and their app Inflaton will tell you just that. You just enter in the amount you spent, the year it was spent in, and the currency used. The app quickly calculates the modern equivalent. Curiosity satisfied.
This app will make calculations in US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, UK Pounds, New Zealand Dollars or Pounds, and Australian Dollars or Pounds. To make their calculations, the app uses official data published by the government of each country on inflation rates. The makers of the app claim that while they don't promise 100% accuracy, there should be a less than 1% margin of error.
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California GOP out of sync with most state voters
The California Republican Party, which begins its three-day convention in Burlingame today, is in a bind at a moment when it is trying to broaden its appeal.
A Saturday appearance by presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will be a highlight, but rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum skyrocketed this week in a Field Poll - bringing Santorum's long list of controversial social stands into the national spotlight. Gingrich finished last in the poll.
While California GOP members hope to focus on the struggling economy - their best shot at unseating President Obama and state Democrats - a growing number of state Republicans are falling in love with Santorum, who is out of step with most Californians on abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, thinks contraception is a "license" to do things that are "counter to the way things should be"; opposes abortion even if a woman's life is in danger; opposes same-sex marriage; and thinks there "are a lot of problems" with the teaching of evolution.
His second-place showing in the Field Poll, just six points behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, comes as the California GOP is trying to broaden the party's appeal beyond a shrinking knot of conservatives to include Latinos, Asian Americans and young voters.
Republicans outnumbered
Only 30 percent of Californians are registered Republicans - down from 35 percent in 2003. Democrats hold a nearly 14 percentage-point advantage in voter registration in the state.
Other than House Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County) - each of whom has a prime speaking slot today - few California Republicans have the name recognition or financial clout to run statewide.
About three months before the June 5 primary, the GOP hasn't fielded a well-funded opponent to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
"California has a Texas Republican Party - social conservatives dominate the party here," said Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution in Palo Alto and co-author of "Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America."
While the party's last two big-name candidates - former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and failed 2010 gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman - supported abortion rights, neither will attend the GOP convention. Whitman is CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Schwarzenegger, never a favorite of the conservative base, was not invited.
Fiorina and others concede that much of Santorum's recent rise in California has to do with voter dissatisfaction with Romney. Santorum has the support of 25 percent of the state's Republican voters, according to Field, second only to Romney's 31 percent. The poll did not survey voters on their support for Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who drew just 8 percent support from GOP voters in the state in a November poll.
In November, when eight candidates were running, Santorum was the choice of only 2 percent of the respondents - good for seventh place.
"It's illogical to represent the party as monolithic when 75 percent of the voters support someone other than Rick Santorum," said state party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro. "We allow a lot of different voices to speak here."
For the past year, Del Beccaro has made public outreach campaigns to Latino and Asian American voters a priority. He will host two such forums during the weekend convention, plus another aimed at young voters.
"Our job is to broaden the party," Del Beccaro said. It's a long-term goal that "should be measured over the next two, four, 10 years."
But analysts say GOP voters in several recent primary states are supporting Santorum because they admire his full-throated defense of conservatism.
Conservative voices
The weekend convention won't be short on those voices, starting with today's speaker, Issa, who is under fire from liberal groups and Democrats for not including female witnesses in a hearing he chaired last week on President Obama's plan to include contraception in insurance coverage for employees of religious institutions.
In February 2009, 89 percent of Californians had no "religious or moral objections to contraceptives - that is, to using a condom, taking the pill, or using some other method of birth control," according to a survey from the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.
The same survey found that 77 percent favored "the government funding programs that provide lower-income residents with birth-control methods and contraceptives."
Aside from Gingrich, Saturday's lineup will feature the more mild-mannered Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and former presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
But Sunday's star speaker will be the Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, author of "The Homosexual Agenda" and a leading conservative culture warrior for decades. The title of Sheldon's speech: "The role of Christianity in the founding of the American republic."
Last year, Sheldon wrote that the "gay agenda" is "the crisis of our time."
"It is the very face of evil. From the college campus to the media centers of New York and Hollywood, people who should know better are buying into an agenda that could destroy us, and they're doing it in a big way," Sheldon wrote in July in Charisma magazine, a Christian-focused publication.
Growing disconnect
The disconnect between California Republicans and the rest of the state over social issues has grown over the past three decades, said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll.
In 1977, 31 percent of Californians supported same-sex marriage. That grew to 49 percent in 2009, according to the Field Poll. At each point, a similar number of Republicans - roughly two-thirds - opposed gay nuptials.
In 1975, 51 percent of Californians supported abortion rights, according to the poll. While that support swelled to 70 percent in 2006, Republican opposition stayed relatively consistent - about 55 percent.
The polls "show that (Republicans) are static in their social views," DiCamillo said, "and that's one reason that their numbers have been static, too."
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U.K. Court Orders Uganda President To Pay Millions To Ex-Newspaper Publisher
Uganda-born British national, Dr. Jesse Mashate, is seeking to enforce a $10,256,485 judgment (£6,850,00)--He is also seeking $59,245,050 in interest dating to when his newspaper was seized 24 years ago and $5,128,242 in legal costs
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In the latest twist to a dragged-out case, a U.K. Court has ordered Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to pay a former newspaper publisher millions of dollars for a newspaper seized in Uganda in 1986, The Black Star News has learned.
The court gave the plaintiff approval to amend his papers and serve the Ugandan leader through U.K. officials.
Uganda-born British national, Dr. Jesse Mashate, is seeking to enforce a $10,256,485 judgment (£6,850,00)--He is also seeking $59,245,050 in interest dating to when his newspaper was seized 24 years ago and $5,128,242 in legal costs. The total Dr. Mashate is seeking from President Museveni comes to $74.6 million or £ 49.8 million.
Dr. Mashate originally won a summary judgment after filing his claim in a U.K. court in December 2006; the judgment was later set aside when President Museveni submitted that he had never been served. Dr. Mashate had argued that the papers had been served upon the Ugandan president while he visited Uganda's High Commission in Trafalgar Square, London, U.K.
Dr. Mashate was permitted by the court in October, 2009, to amend his papers and initiate fresh service in Uganda. This time, Chris Ward, a consular official at the United Kingdom's High Commission --the equivalence of an embassy-- in Uganda served the claim against the Ugandan president, with John Nuwamanya, Deputy Chief of Protocol at the East African country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, records show.
In reference to the case, on March 4, 2010, Lucy Newman, an official of H.M.'s Court Service, foreign process section, wrote to Dr. Mashate, confirming: "Please find enclosed herewith evidence of service of documents in the above matter received from the authorities of Uganda."
The court allowed Dr. Jesse Mashate, who had published The Weekend Digest, a Ugandan newspaper, to compute interest at 8% annually, from the date the paper was seized in 1986. The court also allowed him to recover costs. The order for payment was made on May 5, 2010, by the U.K.'s High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, records show, after President Museveni did not respond to the papers served through the Foreign Ministry.
Uganda's High Commissioner --the equivalence of an ambassador-- to the United Kingdom, Joan Rwabyomere, dismissed Mashate's case. "That matter as far as Uganda is concern was closed," said Joan Rwabyomere. In 2007, The Black Star News reported that questions had been raised about the authenticity of some documents used by President Museveni's team to have the original judgment set aside, including one paper bearing the signature of Rwabyomere.
President Museveni's press secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi questioned whether the U.K. court was overreaching. "Do they have jurisdiction over Uganda? We are no longer a colony of Britain," he said.
Noting that Uganda's attorney general was best placed to answer questions over jurisdiction, Mirundi added: "A court must have jurisdiction over a country. Two, is he suing the president as an individual or as the president of Uganda. Three, what is the enforcement capability?"
Uganda's attorney general, Khiddu Makubuya, could not be reached for comment by publication time.
In terms of the order for payment, the court has granted Dr. Mashate "permission to serve the defendant out of jurisdiction under the State Immunity Act of 1978, at State House, Nakasero, P.O. Box 24594, Kampala, Uganda or elsewhere in Uganda," records show.
The State Immunity Act 1978 is an Act of the U.K. Parliament passed to implement the European Convention on State Immunity of 1972. It changed the doctrine of absolute state immunity to one of restricted immunity--a foreign state could now be sued in U.K. courts for certain activities, usually of a commercial nature.
Contacted in London, Dr. Mashate declined to elaborate on the case. "In legal terms Museveni is virtually a tired elephant in a swamp that could only sink deeper with every step," he said. "We promised you a David victory in the fight against Goliath."
It is unclear how Dr. Mashate intends to collect on the court order should it survive another challenge. The court order was issued by Master Leslie and is captioned HQ07X01288 Dr. Jesse Mashate and Gen. Yoweri Museveni Kaguta.
President Museveni previously was represented by Forest Solicitors and later by Pillai & Jones Solicitors, both U.K. firms based in London. Dr. Mashate was represented by Graceland Solicitors.
Miwambo writes for The Black Star News from Europe.
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Only Solution: Cultural Alliances
In the history of civilization, no other group has more strenuously attempted to subvert the democratic process by denying fair play to other competitors than those descended from the European race. Racism is not a "Black Problem". It is a "White Sickness." It is something that the white race has to work to overcome and make amends for.
Staughton Lind, noted civil liberties Attorney, was in Pittsburgh on October 02 at Carnegie Mellon University to lecture on the state of race relations in the U.S. The event was well attended by local activists, students and regular folk.
Aged 70-something, Lind, talked about his experience in the Civil Rights movement and how, at one time, there was a level of reciprocal interaction among persons of color and whites that is not apparent in current social movements in the U.S. Lind called on all in the audience to work to "re-establish the solidarity" that existed in the 1960s and 70s, among the people, for a period of time in American history.
The government crack down on dissent has grown increasingly aggressive during the Bush Administration, and is far more wide reaching than average American citizens can possibly imagine. Members of religious groups are targets of government surveillance. Local anti-war activists, who object to our government's domestic and foreign policy, are under FBI surveillance, and blatant attack, by a Police Force that overreacts when they are taunted at public protests. People of color are stopped on streets, highways and commercial airlines on a weekly basis simply because of the shade of their skin or their attire. With this many diverse groups under attack, one would think that American citizens would band together to oppose this abuse of government power.
Yet, in Pittsburgh and around the nation, despite efforts to mobilize across ethnic, cultural and religious lines, there appears to be a distinct divide or should we say--- a disconnect. Communities that should create alliances, seem suspicious of one another's agenda, and have failed to establish the relationships that strengthen movements. Those who are committed to social justice recognize that there is strength in numbers, but too often, organizers don't know how to foster a movement that is inclusive of all the people. Or one might say that "those who believe in freedom" recognize the importance of inclusion, but fail to persist the in the tedious, thankless and often frustrating journey that establishes and cements cross-cultural liaisons.
At your next planning meeting, look around the room. Examine who is at the table. If your group or organization, does not reflect the diversity the we know exists in the world then, maybe you should ask yourself why. One thing, that Staunton Lind made clear was that those, who are not authentically impacted by societal ills such as racism, and who benefit from white supremacy, cannot define a movement for those who are members of an oppressed group. Lind said that when he sat down with Black civil rights leaders back in the 1960s, he did not thrust his agenda upon the organizers, he joined in on the leadership that was already established.
In the history of civilization, no other group has more strenuously attempted to subvert the democratic process by denying fair play to other competitors than those descended from the European race. Racism is not a "Black Problem". It is a "White Sickness." It is something that the white race has to work to overcome and make amends for.
In what is certainly the twilight years of his life, and with a wealth of knowledge and experience behind him, Staunton Lind challenged a new generation to carry on the legacy of social protest and cultural interaction that he lived.
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Aryaka Receives 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Aryaka Receives 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award Oct 2012
For Second Consecutive Year, Aryaka's WAN Optimization as-a-Service Honored for Innovation
MILPITAS, Calif. – Oct. 16, 2012 — Aryaka® (www.aryaka.com), the leading provider of WAN Optimization as-a-Service to solve application and network performance issues across the distributed enterprise, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Aryaka's WAN Optimization as-a-Service solution as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.
"We're honored again to be recognized by Cloud Computing magazine for our industry-leading network and application performance solutions," said Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka. "Aryaka's market-disrupting WAN Optimization as-a-Service ensures fast, reliable access to data and applications for employees around the globe so they can better communicate, collaborate and share applications, large files and data. We're delighted at the rapid market traction we've gained as more companies are migrating to a more affordable and intelligent alternative to specialty WAN optimization appliances and costly WAN services like MPLS. "
In the revolutionary Aryaka model, the intelligence is moved into the global platform comprised of the Aryaka-built WAN optimization software stack that runs on dedicated points of presence (POPs) across various continents, meshed via dedicated links. Aryaka accelerates all applications, both within and outside the enterprise firewall. Enterprises achieve global reach, bandwidth savings, improved application performance, data center-to-data center replication, disaster recovery and optimized access to cloud services.
Aryaka's Network as-a-Service provides enterprise-grade connectivity via a dedicated reliable core network based on globally distributed Points of Presence (POPs). It delivers LAN-like application performance across the WAN without the high cost of MPLS in a single, no CAPEX monthly service. Enterprise locations connect into the Aryaka network with IPSec across an existing Internet link to one or more of Aryaka's POPs and are up and running in minutes, not in the weeks or months required to provision MPLS.
"Aryaka has been recognized for their achievement in bringing innovation and excellence in the market while leveraging the latest technology trends to create an enriched user experience," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, TMC.
"Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce Aryaka as a recipient of the second annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Aryaka's solutions – WAN optimization as-a-Service and Network as-a-Service– have demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud."
The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognized the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.
Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the October 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.
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Aryaka delivers application and network performance for the globally distributed enterprise for better collaboration, communication and business productivity. Aryaka eliminates the need for costly WAN appliances or long-haul private links. Aryaka's premier WAN Optimization as-a-Service accelerates any application to any location on one affordable, optimized network. Aryaka's Network as-a-Service provides organizations an optimized TCP network with QoS for instant and reliable business connectivity. Both services provide elastic bandwidth capacity and 24×7 world-class support. To learn more, visit www.aryaka.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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Official notification of District Court courthouse closings can be obtained from:
- the Emergency Notifications link on the banner at the New York State Courts homepage
- a text message from the Court System's nycourtsnotice account
- (631) 208-5775 automated answering system
- www.cancellations.com: enter the 11722 ZIP code for Central Islip - listed as "Suffolk County State Courts"
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Some of the civil courthouse telephone messages will also provide details of schedule changes.
If the "Suffolk County State Courts" or the "Suffolk County Courts" are closed because of weather conditions, all 6 of the District Court Courthouses are closed.
If the Courts are "closed"
- litigants are advised to contact the filing attorney or check eCourts to confirm the new date a day or two after the closing. The civil clerks will notify filing attorneys or self-represented litigants of the new court date. Special proceedings (like Landlord-Tenant matters) are usually adjourned to the next week, other cases are generally given a longer adjourned date.
- criminal and traffic defendants will be notified by mail of the new court date.
- check the next court date on WebCrims
- notify the court of your current mailing address
- defendants who are in the custody of the Sheriff are produced the next regular court day.
- defendants who are in the custody of any police agency awaiting arraignment are produced the next day that the court is open for arraignment.
- town ordinance defendants - The court clerks will usually notify filing attorneys or self-represented litigants of the new court date. You may call the courthouse where your case is pending 3 or 4 days after the courthouse reopens to request the new court date. Have your index number available when you call.


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This might take a few weeks
On Friday, Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio both attended the AFI gala. I found a photo of them together. And, obviously, my immediate association was Romeo & Juliet. Only one of my all time favourite movies. Click here if you missed that post.
Anyway, fuelled by nostalgia, I went looking for my Romeo & Juliet DVD on Friday night. And, well, pretty much had it on replay all weekend. Which is how my Five List got updated.
1.Leonardo DiCaprio
2.Matthew McNulty
3.Jim Sturgess
4.Jordan Staal
5.Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
I totally forgot how f-cking beautiful he was. It was never Titanic for me. It was always, always Romeo.
Let me play you the fish tank scene. I suggest you watch it alone. Not for any pervy purpose but because he falls in love with her so convincingly, with that exquisite face of his, at 22 years old, that you can't help but feel so hopelessly involved yourself, never mind Shakespeare's incomparable words describing their instant legendary connection, I promise you won't want anyone to see you go through it, nor will you want to share it with anyone else.
Look at how he looks at her through the glass. And at the very end, when he gently nudges his nose in her direction...
Those eyes access every girl's socialised expectation of romantic yearning, you can't possibly resist. And that belonged to the first era of our discovery of Leonardo DiCaprio's gift - beyond the modelising and all the other shenanigans we know him for now, he was and is a spectacular talent.
And oh my God he was pretty. SO pretty.
So I see him now, at the Globes last night, and it's not the same face, but it still kinda is. And that's what's sick as sh-t: I'm not actually sure which one. Also it's not that I don't know he's gross either, because I do.
Give me a week or so, I can work this out. That's the great part about being fickle. Things pass very quickly. Until then though, you may be seeing a lot of him on the site. Sorry?
Oh and PS - we should revisit the definition of the Five List. Because it has nothing to do with personality. This is not your boyfriend; this is one free pass.
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Inside The Beautiful Bathrooms Of House & Home Editors
It's a private space for sure, but House & Home editors aren't shy about revealing the insider design tricks they used in their own bathrooms. Whether it's a busy family hub or a serene escape, these bathrooms are savvy style statements that both translate and transcend the trends to become functional spaces. From modern bathrooms to colorful family bathrooms, click through for fresh decorating ideas from our editors, past and present.
Sally reclaimed her two daughters' bedroom to carve out this dreamy ensuite for her renovated bedroom. Setting the tub under the existing skylight creates a bright spot for bathing, while statement tile turns the wall into a piece of art. The European-style wet room houses the bathtub and shower area behind a glass door to contain moisture. Open shelving keeps soaps, brushes and apothecary goods within reach.
Sally kept the design of the Corian vanity simple and clean, with double sinks and added storage space behind the mirrors and in white oak-trimmed lower drawers. With everything tucked away, there is space for a pretty tray of her favorite fragrances and a vase of peonies.
The design of the wet room ensuite is a chic, clean envelope that highlights handwrought natural materials such as a basket and rustic stool.
In her hardworking — but compact — family's main bathroom, Stacey updated the space with a tranquil watery blue and soft white. A window was replaced and shifted down the wall slightly to accommodate the wider tub and shower area. Mixing metals — brass hardware and lighting, a matte black faucet and polished-nickel fixtures in the shower — adds character.
Stacey had fallen in love with the bold Manuel Canovas floral fabric used for the shower curtain years ago. The stylized pattern injects color and life to the room and is a rich focal point. The tub and shower plumbing is housed inside the new linen closet created alongside the door. Gleaming polished-nickel fixtures have a modern sensibility and temper the old world brass of the vanity's hardware.
Kai is known for an adventurous use of color and standout wallpapers. In her bathroom, she captures a Bloomsbury vibe (just witness the handpainted clawfoot tub and Turkish rug) with lush, layered patterns and jewel tones. Wallpaper with a Bloomsbury-era floral pattern warms up the white tile and lends its colors to the watery blue shower curtain, making the room feel pulled-together.
When Suzanne and her husband designer Arriz Hassam of arriz + co renovated their second floor, they were able to incorporate his-and-her bathrooms. His bathroom is bright and feels spacious. Suzanne kept the tub fixtures from the previous update.
Suzanne bought new faucets for the upgraded wall-mounted sink. To get a uniform — and luxurious — look, she had all the pieces dipped in unlacquered brass. A subtle ocelot print wallpaper adds just the right amount of pattern.
Suzanne's basement bathroom is a study in spare, Scandinavian style with a white oak vanity and white panelled walls. A single black sconce (repurposed from another room in the house) and black-painted mirror punctuate the glossy subway-tiled wall. Simple hardware dowels stand in for towel hooks, and textural woven baskets hide the plumbing. A Nuheat system warms the tile floor for a year-round spa-like experience.
Back in 2013, Sarah Hartill revamped her family's seriously outdated bathroom as part of a major overhaul to her '50s bungalow. A double vanity makes the bathroom twice as functional, while brass picture lights and cabinet pulls add a decorative feel. Sarah brought in the photo of lily pads by Michael Graydon (who also shot this image) for added color. Heated floors keep bare feet warm, even in the winter.
A tiled chair rail gives the tub walls a trad flavor. The shower curtain fabric (Midnight Moon in Blossom by Beacon Hill) was chosen for its pink and purple palette and painterly pattern, which play off the photograph next to the vanity.
In 2013, when Mandy reinvented her dated bathroom on a budget, an authentic clawfoot tub topped her wish list. The cost to reseal and refinish a vintage clawfoot would torpedo her budget, so she sourced a present-day cast-iron model for a fraction of the cost. Stacey Smithers, who Mandy turned to for design advice throughout the makeover, suggested hand-painting the tub a matte black and plating the stainless steel feet in patinated brass.
A crisp black and white palette and brass accents define Mandy's bathroom. Square-cut tiles laid in a brick pattern with dark grey grout make a modern statement behind the sink. Personal touches, such as the painting, give the pared-down design personality.
In the "wet room," a honed granite slab covers the threshold for a seamless transition into the shower. The shower floor has a subtle slope toward the drain so no water builds up at the feet. A linen shower curtain and dramatic brass rod give the clawfoot tub presence. A weathered stool is a homey touch.


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Friday, July 07, 2006
Arrrrh! Need a Hook?
Arrrrh! Just in time for the release of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest which opens today. See the movie trailer here.
As I checked out some of the available resources, I began to think that this information on Blackbeard and the efforts to research the ship might be a great vehicle to introduce the preservation side of history as well as the difference between primary and secondary documents. Pirate tales might be the thing to hook em' the first week of school.
Hmmmm…..I may just need to work on a power point for that.
You can find lots of Blackbeard resources here , here, here, and finally here. So, go find out everything you can about Blackbeard, or you might just have to suffer the consequence.
What would that be? Why walking the plank, my friend!
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You may be interested in a 2 hour National Geographic special on Blackbeard. Blackbeard: Terror at Sea (which will be on tonight again at 9pm EST) was an entertaining and pretty informative dramatization of 2 of his years as the pirate we all know and love. I don't know your students' age group so I'm not sure how appropriate it would be, but I do hope that you at least catch this comment in time to watch the show tonight.
- EHT said...
I caught some of the Blackbeard show on National Geographic the other night (Thursday, I believe). It was pretty good----I came in in the middle of it and did think it was fairly G-rated until I saw the part about him sharing his wife with his crew and then no one ever heard from her again. That part would land me on the 5 o'clock news. It would be great for high school kids though. Thanks for the info......


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Phil Speirs
Founder and editor
Most of Phil's friends thought dropping out was an easy option to avoid 'real work'. Little did they know that many years on the road, exploring foreign lands and delving into mystic cultures, would eventually lead to the setting up of La Chispa, and more hard work than he had ever imagined. Having settled in southern Spain in 2001 and launching La Chispa soon after, Phil has long had an interest in the alternative scene, ecology, natural health and finding a way to live more lightly on the planet. La Chispa has provided the perfect opportunity to bring together these interests with his experience in publishing and a passion for communication and information. Based in the rural hills around Coín, Málaga with partner Kate and two children, Phil is trying to practice what he preaches, having run an organic box delivery scheme in the local area, researching eco-building techniques for personal use and getting to grips with a small Permaculture garden. The compost toilet is next on the list. Recently the Transition Town movement has caught his interest and there is now a group working together in Coin to develop sustainable solutions for their local community under the 'Coin in Transition' banner.
Sara Shaikh
Assistant Editor
Sara has been an avid reader of La Chispa since moving to Málaga, and now with her journalistic background, interest in alternative living and linguistic abilities, is very excited to have joined the editorial team. Her work experience includes publishing articles in Spanish magazines as well as being Section Editor for online magazine lecool.com and Neo2. A passion for communication has led her to work as a graphic designer and translator for 10 years. She was born in London and has lived in the UK and California where an interest in the environment, eastern philosophy and healing practices deepened. However with a Spanish mother she was brought up speaking both English and Spanish, and has lived in Spain for 14 years. These days she often has a feeling of dejá vu, mainly as a result of having lived in the USA where an aggressive form of capitalism dictates the lifestyle of most of its population. She sees how trends are repeated here, how quantity is drowning quality and people's desires in life are changing. Luckily she lived US culture from a Californian perspective and was also privy to an environmental education, an awareness of how to soften our impact on the planet as well as other methods of making life more worthwhile (or at least less empty). She sees La Chispa as an excellent way of spreading such a perspective in Andalucía and is happy to be a part of this process.
Kate Vaughan
Proof reader and reality checker
Having agreed to 'give it a try' living in Andalucía with partner Phil Speirs and to set up an alternative magazine together, many years later she is still here and slightly startled to fine herself enjoying it. Nurturing the children and the vegetable patch, Kate still finds time to bring her keen eye to the editorial, making sure 't's are crossed, 'i's are dotted and some of the wilder articles are tamed into making sense. As Chispa has continued to grow and the children allow more time, Kate's role in the magazine has increased, managing the office and admin and as she has got more involved in the local community has been the driving force behind Chispa helping to promote eco-activities organised by local environmental groups, such as tree planting and cleaning up areas of natural beauty.
Mario and Viviana Morán
Design team
Mario and Viviana, our Argentinean design team, bring the articles in Chispa to life. Since they took over the design of the magazine in early 2007 positive comments about the magazine from our readers have multiplied. Their work developing the original Chispa web site into the premiere portal for natural and holistic living has created a fantastic visual vehicle for the content of la Chispa.
Merce Viscarro
Of Catalan stock, Merce worked in the Spanish foreign service in Ireland for over twenty years and then settled in the Sierra de las Nieves in the year 2000 following the sun and her destiny. An integral part of the Plantaromed project with her husband Alonso Navarro. She now works full time in public administration in Málaga but still finds the time to translate Chispa and has done so for many years. Her main interest is her spiritual development with the help of the Universal Gnostic School.
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CU preview: Underachieving in the past, O-line looking to dominate
In the third part of a series of look-aheads at Colorado's 2010 season, broken down by units, we look at the Buffs' trenches, the offensive line …
Newcomers: Two freshmen, three redshirt freshmen and a junior-college transfer join the competition. Those with the best chance of cracking the two-deep appear to be a pair of redshirt-freshman tackles, David Bakhtiari (6-4, 275) and Chaparral HS product Jack Harris (6-5, 290), and junior-college transfer Eric Richter (6-3, 310), a guard from Saddleback (Junior) College in Southern California. In fact, Bakhtiari, who has a brother playing for the NFL's Tennessee Titans, has been practicing with the first team at right tackle, ahead of incumbent sophomore Bryce Givens.
Biggest losses: None
Strengths: If there's strength in numbers, Colorado has it. There are 20 offensive linemen on the roster, enabling CU to practice with four offensive lines. During Dan Hawkins' first spring, CU had only six health and available blockers – total. CU is the only Big 12 team to return all five starters. There's literally tons of experience. And some quality, too, with senior left tackle Nate Solder and junior right guard Ryan Miller being named to the preseason all-Big 12 first team.
Weaknesses: The offensive line was supposed to be a rock of the team in 2009 and it did not turn out that way. Despite the 6-9, 310-pound Solder being named to the all-conference first team by the league's coaches, Colorado rushed for an average of just 2.8 yards per carry to rank only ahead of pass-happy Texas Tech among Big 12 teams. CU quarterbacks were sacked 44 times, easily the worst in the conference. There are some tough, hard-working guys, but aside from Solder it's not an especially athletic group.
What to look for: Aside from the Bakhtiari vs. Givens battle, the most heated competition could be at left guard, where incumbent junior Ethan Adkins may have to hold off Richter or junior Blake Behrens. Givens is still thought to have a big upside. Bottom line: This unit either underachieved last season or it has been overrated. Pass protection and run blocking must improve dramatically. There can be no more excuses or explanations about a lack of experience. As senior wideout Scott McKnight said during Big 12 media days in Dallas, the key to the entire offense will be the O-Line. In other words, the performance of this unit could be the key to the season and perhaps determine the future of the Dan Hawkins regime.
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** QBs: As usual, starting passer not yet decided
** RBs: Depth needed from freshmen backfield


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Highway Patrol has released audio of two motorists' calls reporting erratic driving and the aftermath of an early-morning collision involving actor-comedian Chris Kattan.
Kattan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Monday after crashing into a road crew on westbound U.S. 101 in Southern California. No one was injured in the crash and Kattan was released after his arrest.
Audio released Wednesday shows dispatchers received two calls related to Kattan's driving and accident. One caller estimated the actor was traveling around 70 mph moments before the crash. Another motorist who reported the accident described the 43-year-old comedian leaving his car and walking on the highway afterward.
Kattan's manager and agent did not immediately return email messages seeking comment.
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'TIS THE SEASON... for digging out your holiday card addresses and tracking which of your friends moved during the year and finding wrapping paper that's wide enough to adequately wrap your nephew's new trike and to read tons of recipes involving egg nog (without truly intending to try any of 'em, what with the fleeting days and all). But it is also another season -- a word we frankly hate to type without "'tis" in the near vicinity -- and a good one at that. The end of the year is when the travel sites and blogs and guidebooks round up the destinations they think will be "hot" -- take that how you will -- and interesting and fun and lively in the coming year. Call them the fun and daydream-inspiring lists that help our stressful seasonal errands feel a little bit lighter.
PALM SPRINGS... just made a rather tony one, courtesy of Frommer's. The roster? Top Destinations of 2014, and that's world destinations, too, so yay you, Palm Springs. You're up there with the biggies (but, then of course, you are indeed a biggie yourself). There's also been the 2013 top Facebook check-ins -- Disneyland was numero uno, you betcha, and Dodger Stadium and Universal Studios made the list, too -- and now Lonely Planet's list-o-rama is in. The name? Top U.S. Destinations for 2014. The two California entries?
YOSEMITE AND CENTRAL COAST... at spots two and four. No surprise there, given that both are places of nearly supernatural beauty. The national park's "flower-peppered subalpine meadows" are given the guidebook great's love, and the Central Coast's "cliff-top lookouts" get a shout-out, too. Check it out, if you've had enough wrapping drama and holiday crowd angst for one day, and start dreaming of next year's roadtrip. Sure, you can hit all ten -- they're all solid -- but with two in your own state, why not start there?