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Managing multiple asynchronous operations in WCF is currently very complex regardless of whether you use the existing event or Begin/End asynchronous patterns. In fact, both internal and external customers frequently ask about how to implement simple coordination of WCF operations, and even though sending multiple requests to a WCF backend is a core scenario, WCF does not provide a satisfactory solution. The amount of code needed to facilitate even simple coordination tasks is large and prone to bugs, handling errors and timeouts. Yet there are some very common communication-oriented scenarios that require managing multiple outstanding asynchronous operations:
However, regardless of the current complexity, WCF developers have to use asynchronous requests to write robust implementations, and doing that today is a difficult challenge.
During PDC'10, the C# and VB.NET teams released the Visual Studio Async CTP, which aims at providing a new simplified model for doing asynchronous programming in both languages. In WCF, we have decided to adopt this model because we believe it removes the barrier to writing WCF robust asynchronous application, has the least possible learning curve from the existing CLR APM pattern, and provides a simple and consistent model for coordinating, submitting and managing multiple asynchronous WCF operations.
WCF vNext will adopt the Async model in both the client and the server side, and provide new Task-based overloads for some of the most used asynchronous APIs:
WCF service developers will be able to define asynchronous operation contracts that return Task/Task<T>:
public interface IServiceContract
Task<string> HelloAsync(string name);
As you may notice, there is no need to switch OperationContract.AsyncPattern to true anymore (yeah!), or define Begin/End methods in your service contract.
In the service contract implementation, WCF service developers will be able to implement that operation contract as an async method, and create/start new tasks, etc.:
namespace WCFServiceModelSamples
public class HelloService : IServiceContract
public async Task<string> HelloAsync(string name)
return await Task.Factory.StartNew(() => "hello " + name);
There is no need to explicitly implement any Begin/End method, IAsyncResult objects or any type of callback. Internally, WCF will add an operation invoker to the dispatcher that will be able to process Task-based operations, which will make all work transparently to the user.
The support for generating Task-based operations on the client side will be available to users who rely on proxies generated by our client generation tools (svcutil.exe or Add Service Reference), as well as to users who prefer to directly use ChannelFactory<T>.
The client proxy generation tools will generate Task-based overloads for all operations in the contract by default. This means that WCF client application developers will not need to switch any new knob in the tools to be able to use this model. But they will always be able to opt-out with the /syncOnly switch if they wish. The output of executing 'svcutil.exe /async' will still generate Begin/End methods, as it does today. WCF users should not experience any breaking change in their code. Finally, it is worth mentioning that WCF developers will be able to generate Task-based overloads as well by using ServiceContractGenerator.
From the implementation side, the support for executing Tasks will be implemented directly in the channel, which makes the generated client proxy code look as clean as this:
public partial class HelloServiceClient : ClientBase<IServiceContract>,
IServiceContract {
public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<string> HelloAsync(int value) {
return base.Channel.HelloAsync(value);
Finally, a code snippet for a WCF client application calling asynchronously the WCF service defined above will look like the following:
namespace MyAsyncApplication
class AsyncClientApp
static void Main(string[] args)
string[] names = { "daniel", "john", "tarae" };
.ContinueWith(delegate { Console.WriteLine("Done."); });
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit.\n");
static async Task PrintHelloNames(string[] names)
foreach (string name in names)
Task<string> task = new HelloServiceClient().HelloAsync(name);
if (task == await Task.WhenAny(task, Task.Delay(1000)))
Console.WriteLine(await task);
else Console.WriteLine("Timed out");
catch (Exception e)
Even though WCF developers will be able to add their own Task-based wrappers for existing asynchronous APIs based on the Begin/End model via Task.Factory.FromAsync, WCF will provide Task-based overloads for some of the main asynchronous public APIs. In particular, for those in the MEX and Discovery client, for consistency with the tools-generated clients:
That's all folks! Feedback is always encouraged. Please let us know what you think about this new programming model in WCF. Welcome to the new asynchronous programming world!
Amadeo Casas Cuadrado
Program Manager, WCF
Wow! nice article! I've been searching for this topic for a while and this article just clarified most of my doubts. Thank you, Casas
Looks really nice! Currently creating a high performance async wcf service that does a few database calls and such is very difficult to say the least. This should simplify that task a lot. Now, as always, if it only was released yesterday ;)
This is all great news. A question though (i think) is worth asking, and it's related to threading in service operations.
In the context of a wcf service operation implementation, as of today, besides the difficulties in programming continuations via custom IAsyncResult implementations, there are some threading implications you have to take into deep consideration. If, for example, you have part of your code that does not run asynchronously (say you make for instance, an async db call, and then you have to populate an object hierarcy based on the result), and you don't need a specific synchronization context, than, the best option, would be to have that portion of the code, to be run by one of the completion ports thread used by the wcf runtime. Unfortunately, unless you are implementing the service operation as an Async Activity (inside a WF4 service), you have no easy way of doing so (IOThreadScheduler and related api are not publicly available).
Now, my question is: Given the current implementation of async methods, by the c# compiler, which (as far as i've read), uses a current sync context (is any) to post the execution of the non async code blocks in an async method, wil the new IOperationInvoker implementation setup an appropriate synchronization context (if none provided) so that, those code blocks will be run in the context of an IOCP thread?
Of course I hope the anser will be yes.
Antonello Tesoro
Enterprise Software Architect
WCF is adopting this new asynchronous programming model at the level of abstraction of Task/Task<T>, which means we will not do anything different about synchronization context from what Task/Task<T> will do.
That said, WCF already has today a very sophisticated and optimized infrastructure for asynchronous execution of operations, and with the adoption of this new model we are hoping the user experience will greatly be simplified by wrapping the existing foundation into Tasks. We are being very careful with performance and making sure that all the requirements around performance are satisfied.
Thank you for your first answer.
I'd like to clarify my question a little bit though, because it has not only to do with threading issues but also with call context. As you know (much better than me :)), when invoking a service operation, the wcf runtime will setup the context in which the service operation will run. The setup is made by the following steps:
- apply the HostingIntegrationContext
- set the Current OperationContext
- setup the Transaction Scope (if required)
- ask all the ICallContextInitializers to initialize the context
- set the current principal
- start impersonation (if required).
(The runtime will also cleanup the aforementioned context as the call returns).
In case of an async invocation, the runtime will repeat those steps for both the Begin and the End Method. Prior to the context setup, the runtime will also make sure the call will happen in the right thread (via a SynchronizationContext if one provided, or by the use of IOCP).
When it comes to operations implemented via the new TAP though, those operations will contain both async calls (mostly IO bound) and computations, as in the following example.
public async Task<OpReturnType> MyServiceOperation(…) {
OpReturnType result = default(OpReturnType);
// do something
await Metod1Async(…);
// do some other processing
await Method2Async(…);
// do some final processing
return result;
As soon as the execution reaches the first "await", the method will return, and the execution will resume in whichever thread, the async implementation of Method1Async will call back into the code. Now the questions are:
- In which thread should the "do some other processing" and "do some final processing" code blocks, be run?
- should the runtime set up the context before running those code blocks?
The fact is, that TAP based implementations are in fact Continuations and, as such, the execution will be split into multiple steps (not only a Begin and an End). Moreover, given the fact that the compiler, gives devs the illusion of writing a standard method, it's very likely that people will expect to be able to do what they normally do, in whichever part of the method implementation (for example is highly probable that a dev will think he can call OperationContext.Current or Thread.CurrentPrincipal in "do some other processing" and obtain the correct result).
I'm sure you guys, in the Wcf team, are already thinking about those issues and will come out with the best possible solution.
The processing code that happens after a task is awaited may or may not be executed by the same thread pool thread. In any case, the execution context is captured when the task is awaited, and when the task completes the corresponding execution context will be set up again to execute the continuation code block.
Thanks for your feedback.
Now Async is devloper friendly. Thanks for sharing.
When, inside of Task, we have an I/O operation (database call), will this task run on IOCP thread?!
Yes, I/O operation will run on IOCP thread.


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Thought for the day: If you're waiting for your chance to win the lottery, take a look at some of these headstones where the person lived a few decades, a few years, a few months or even just a few hours and then you'll realize you're already the big winner.
I've been doing general genealogy for a little over a year now (as of August '09). I get pictures of headstones here and there hoping it will help somebody somewhere and I consider it an honor to post cemetery information of the men and women that served this great land called the United States of America.
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There are two photos of this person as well. Would you consider removing your photo? The tree shaded the photo and the sun makes the other photo more easily readable. How do you connect to the Smith family? I was curious if you knew the J.W. connection to L.T.?
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''I'm tired of hearing about you never hit a girl or punch a girl,'' he added. ''But if three girls are attacking you what recourse, you know if someone can come up with a reasonable recourse that he had, I will be glad to listen to it.''
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California Prison slang for a mentally Ill person. Shortened from Catagory "J" (Meaning Mental Patient/Inmate) to Jcat.
That guy down the tier talking to himself is a jcat!
by CJ Smith May 16, 2006
An individual who is looped up on psychiatric medications.
That girl's a j cat.
by Doug March 28, 2005
A psychotic breakdown.
anymore of this and im going to go j-cat.
by homerower April 13, 2006
a person who doesn't know how to act in jail (when in jail)
These new bitches in are tank are straight j-cats.
That fool keeps cattin off.
That fool keeps cattin off.
by Maguire Corrections October 11, 2010
An fan of the amazing and talented, new boyband Union J. Jcats are loved by the boys from Union J. JCats will understand all the inside jokes including "believe the hype" and "you sound like a fifty year old man from Birmingham". Jcats are part of an amazing fandom and will support the boys forever!
" why is that girl running round shouting ' I'm a spatula because I'm so flipping crazy!'?"
" oh she must be a JCat!"
" oh she must be a JCat!"
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WASHINGTON The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.
The government awarded the $20 million project to Boeing Co., for the towers designed to assist agents stationed along the 4,000-mile northern stretch. Eleven of the towers are being installed in Detroit and five in Buffalo, N.Y., to help monitor water traffic between Canada and the United States along Lake St. Clair and the Niagara River.
At present, Border Patrol agents are posted along the river to keep an eye on water traffic.
The cameras will be used to zoom in on a boat that left Canada, for instance, and watch where it goes and what it does, said Mark Borkowski, executive director of the Secure Border Initiative at Customs and Border Protection.
"So the idea is to have cameras watch, and then agents are freed up to respond," Borkowski said in an interview with The Associated Press. The cameras will cut down the agent's response time by minutes, he said.
Four similar video towers have already been erected in Buffalo. Security operations along the northern border include the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and coordination and intelligence sharing with local law enforcement.
Boeing is the firm responsible for a 28-mile stretch of technology erected along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tucson, Ariz., as part of the government's Secure Border Initiative. The company was widely criticized for delivering an inferior product.
Last year the government withheld some of the payment to Boeing because technology used in the test project near Tucson did not work properly. Boeing also was late in delivering the final product.
Borkowski said he is confident the Homeland Security Department, which oversees the Secure Border Initiative, will not run into the same problems it had with Boeing in the past.
Boeing spokeswoman Jenna K. McMullin said the company has "learned quite a bit from our previous SBInet experience and demonstrated how to implement lessons learned."
Deployment of the surveillance cameras will allow the Border Patrol to evaluate whether the technology can be effective in monitoring movement in often a cold-weather, river environment.
"We're committed to providing (Border Patrol) agents along the northern border with improved border security capabilities to enable them to do their jobs even better," said Steve Oswald, vice president of Boeing's Intelligence and Security Systems. "At the same time, the lessons learned from this deployment will contribute to even greater enhancements in the future."
Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the Secure Border Initiative has been a disaster since its inception.
"The technologies don't work, they're not weather-resistant and they're certainly privacy invasive," Sparapani said. "Putting them in America's backyards only invades the privacy of Americans, it doesn't add to our security."
In a few cases, the Border Patrol will have to address land-use issues, such as determining whether the technology will hurt the environment, before installing the towers.


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I am psyched for you and can't wait to do this myself. My wife and I are moving back to Florida and looking for a boat to sail and eventually sail away on. We are novices so we have a few years to learn before any potential live aboard situation, plus we have a 1 yr old so until he is a bit older we will take more lessons and improve our safety while having fun. At any rate, I read all these threads and loved the update. Good luck to you and please update on your trials both for our curiosity on your success and b/c others following in your steps will read and learn! Good luck!
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Body image is a term used to describe how someone looks at their body and thinks that other people look at it the same way. Basically it means that you think you are too fat, too skinny, too tall etc and you start thinking that that is how other people in your lives see you as. It's an image in your mind which does not go away easily.
You feel awkward and uncomfortable in your own skin. You start feeling self conscious, ashamed that nothing looks good on you. And people will not like you because of it. You convince yourselves that everyone but you is attractive, that no one likes your body.
This thing comes from low self esteem, morale and confidence. Your insecurities about life give rise to you not liking how you look. There is this background checklist of what a girl should look like, in our minds, long legs, slender hands, tiny waist, big butt etc, that everyone feels entitled to compare it with their selves.
Girls around 11, 12 years of age will start dieting because they want to look thinner, wear tight jeans to show off their legs, to make an image of themselves in front of their friends, peers etc. Social media has destroyed us in this sense that now every girl wants to look like Kendall Jenner. Or Jennifer Lopez.
When you start worrying about your bodies at such a young age, it gives rise to eating disorders like Bulemia, Anorexia etc. You start getting depressed, if dieting, running does not work. Your morale gets even lower. Because you think that the people who love you will not like you like this, happy and healthy.
95 percent of people with eating disorders are girls between the ages of 12 and 25. Its simply because they are not happy with themselves, with something that is not in there control at all. Sometimes this even leads to suicides.
This is a serious health issue which needs to dealt with baby steps. You cannot just give a lecture and be done with it. You have to live with that person. Show them what life is all about. Introduce them to people who like them just as they are, happy and healthy. Support them in their recovery. Its an ongoing battle with yourself. Because people judge you without even thinking for a second about it. And what is said is said, never to be taken back.
Start doing things that make you confident, give you self esteem, boost your morale and show you a better world. Surround yourselves with family, friends, peers, who help you in your difficult times. Take on different things in your daily routine. And the minute you start feeling down, call that friend of yours. Talk to her about how you feel, it will get better.
Confidence is the key to achieving things in this life. Be comfortable in your own skin. Be it black, brown, red, green or purple. Its your skin. So its perfect just the way it is.


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DMV to Internet-less New Yorkers: Get in Line
By Jared Chausow
By Katie Toth
By Elizabeth Flock
City Hid Facts From Feds About Rikers
By Albert Samaha
Flood Wall Street Gets Pepper Sprayed and Arrested
By Anna Merlan
By Jon Campbell
Report Sheds Light on Anti-Muslim Bias
By Jon Campbell
Rikers Island Lawsuits Over Diabetic Care
By Albert Samaha
Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
He recorded precinct roll calls. He recorded his precinct commander and other supervisors. He recorded street encounters. He recorded small talk and stationhouse banter. In all, he surreptitiously collected hundreds of hours of cops talking about their jobs.
Made without the knowledge or approval of the NYPD, the tapes—made between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009, in the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant and obtained exclusively by the Voice—provide an unprecedented portrait of what it's like to work as a cop in this city.
The Voice presents excerpts from "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct," from precinct roll calls between June 1, 2008 and Oct. 31, 2009.
"How Many Superstars and How Many Losers Do You Have"
In this excerpt, the 81st Precinct commander, a lieutenant and a sergeant talk about the constant pressure from bosses, and push cops to "get their numbers."
They reveal that precinct bosses threaten street cops if they don't make their quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks, but also tell them not to take certain robbery reports in order to manipulate crime statistics. The tapes also refer to command officers calling crime victims directly to intimidate them about their complaints.
As a result, the tapes show, the rank-and-file NYPD street cop experiences enormous pressure in a strange catch-22: He or she is expected to maintain high "activity"—including stop-and-frisks—but, paradoxically, to record fewer actual crimes.
This pressure was accompanied by paranoia—from the precinct commander to the lieutenants to the sergeants to the line officers—of violating any of the seemingly endless bureaucratic rules and regulations that would bring in outside supervision.
The tapes also reveal the locker-room environment at the precinct. On a recording made in September, the subject being discussed at roll call is stationhouse graffiti (done by the cops themselves) and something called "cocking the memo book," a practical joke in which officers draw penises in each other's daily notebooks.
"As far as the defacing of department property—all right, the shit on the side of the building . . . and on people's lockers, and drawing penises in people's memo books, and whatever else is going on—just knock it off, all right?" a Sergeant A. can be heard saying. "If the wrong person sees this stuff coming in here, then IAB [the Internal Affairs Bureau] is going to be all over this place, all right? . . . You want to draw penises, draw them in your own memo book. . . And don't actually draw on the wall." He then adds that just before an inspection, a supervisor had to walk around the stationhouse and paint over all the graffiti.
The Voice is releasing portions of the tapes in batches on our website, villagevoice.com, and is also publishing several stories to deal with the issues that the recordings present. In this week's installment, we look at the roll calls at the Bed-Stuy precinct and the conflicting instructions given to street cops, who must look busy at all times, while actually suppressing crime reports. (Repeated attempts to get an official response from the police department have been met by silence.)
The Voice obtained the digital audio recordings from Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD. (The Voice has identified the NYPD bosses speaking at roll calls, but is using initials—different from their names—for most of them.)
Schoolcraft first made headlines in February, when the Daily News reported that he was speaking out about manipulation of crime reports at the 81st. His complaints, the Daily News wrote, had sparked an investigation that had put even the precinct's commander, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, under suspicion. Those stories, however, gave no indication that Schoolcraft was also in possession of the remarkable audiotapes.
Schoolcraft tells the Voice he carried the audio recorder initially to protect himself from the civilian complaints that can result from street encounters. But then he began to document things happening in the precinct that bothered him. After he ran afoul of precinct politics, he recorded what he viewed as retaliation by his bosses.
"How else would you present the fraud being committed on the public?" he asks.
ON JANUARY 28, 2009, PATROL OFFICERS on the evening tour at the 81st Precinct gathered in the utilitarian muster room at the 30 Ralph Avenue stationhouse. They stood on white floors in ranks. The blue-and-white walls are decorated with old Wanted posters, two glass cupboards with crime maps, posters with warnings about sexual harassment and retaliation, and a flat-screen television. There are two tables, three chairs, and a podium used by supervisors to address the cops.
A roll call is the key moment in the workday of any police officer. Think Hill Street Blues and "Let's be careful out there." The sergeants, lieutenants, and, sometimes, the precinct commander relay orders to the rank-and-file. The officers are told about recent crimes and trouble spots in the neighborhood. Officers are subject to inspection and are given training. The language, naturally, is a mix of quasi-military jargon, street slang, rough epithets, and a fair bit of gallows humor—in other words, cop-speak.
The 81st Precinct covers Bedford-Stuyvesant, a densely populated, multiracial patchwork of low-income areas, public housing projects, and blocks going through gentrification. At just 1.7 square miles, Bed-Stuy is geographically small, but a place that, according to the tapes, the officers view as a "heavy precinct."
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Four years after their de facto breakup, just when we'd finally forgotten all the embarrassing LiveJournal entries they inspired the first time around, Fall Out Boy return with a big, bombastic album, complete with sleazy disco grooves, a fat dubstep breakdown, a semicoherent rant by Courtney Love, a random Big Sean rap verse and a song that manages to bite both Willie Nelson and Adele.
From the RS review: "Does rock's future depend on this overheated nonsense? Of course not. But life is more fun with Fall Out Boy than without them."


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Initiated in 2002, this lecture series creates greater visibility for distinguished women in their respective fields. In bringing these accomplished professionals to campus-each woman an outstanding example of achievement and success in science and engineering-the program offers encouragement to our female students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty.
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Columbia University
Seminar Title: Problems in Biologic Imaging: Opportunities for Signal Processing
Lunch event with women graduate students and postdocs
|Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014
Lunch event: Noon–1:30 p.m.
Walter Library, Room 101 (box lunches available)
Seminar: 4–5 p.m.
Keller Hall Annex, Room 3-230
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Pratt Institute, Department of Math and Science
|Friday, Dec. 12, 2014
Lunch event: 12:30–2 p.m.
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Fa'afafine, a third gender culture native to Samoa, are celebrating because a new law decriminalizes 'impersonating a woman'.
The Crimes Act 2012, which came into law yesterday, replaced the Crimes Ordinance 1961 which criminalized 'the impersonation of a female' by any male in Samoa. The law was used to persecute fa'afafine with fines or imprisonment as the penalty.
Although the law stopped being enforced by police in the early 1980s. The Samoa Fa'afaine Association (SFA) said the repeal of the law is 'a huge celebration for the fa'afafine community and vindication for families who have lost members to acts of violence'.
President of SFA Roger Stanley said:
'SFA is calling out to all fa'afafine of Samoa and fa'afafine of Samoan decent living overseas - come, lets celebrate! Today is when our fight to reform these laws has resulted in great success.
'This means that you are now legally allowed to dress and act like a lady if it is your choice, and you will not be fined or imprisoned for your choices, ever!'
Stanley thanked Alex Su'a, Phineas Hartson-Matautia and Ymania Brown for spearheading the submission to the government arguing for a repeal of the law.
'All those that came before us who suffered, and were imprisoned or fined and even died due to their choices, well they did not do so in vain,' concluded Stanley.
Last week Stanley told Radio Australia that SFA are not pushing for gay marriage, despite former colonial rulers New Zealand legalizing it.
'We are happily living in harmony here in Samoa,' said Stanley. 'So we just don't want to stir things up.'
Samoa, formerly known as Western Somoa, became independent from New Zealand in 1962. In the 2012 census a population of nearly 200,000 was recorded.


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Harmoniously combining a Maldivian paradise with contemporary indulgences, Maafushivaru is the very epitome of an island hideaway. With barefoot luxury surrounded by idyllic turquoise water and the archipelago's finest coral reefs, its secret delight is a beautiful romantic and uninhabited sister island.
Maafushivaru is a small island with two stunning beaches and a crystal clear turquoise lagoon. There is a house reef for amazing snorkelling and if you fancy one of the dive centre's boat trips, there is a great chance of seeing turtles,rays and whale sharks. The main restaurant is the Cuisine Gallery, buffet style, which offers various cuisines with local Maldivian flavours. There is also an option of the à la carte menu.
A visit to the intimate over-water Japanese sushi/teppanyaki restaurant called 135 degrees east, is recommended at least once during your stay.
Maafushivaru's also offers its beautiful uninhabited sister island, Lonubo. For an authentic experience, take a short boat trip across to this tiny desert island for romantic picnics, candlelit dining or even a wonderful overnight stay.
The villas offer style complete with Maldivian touches. Beach Villas have a semi open-air bathroom, while Pool Villas are in groups of two with a shared pool. These are ideal for couples travelling together.
The stunning Water Villas sit on stilts over the crystal clear lagoon, with floor-to-ceiling windows and direct access to the water.
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Sword of Orion (audio story)
|Sword of Orion
|Eighth Doctor
|Main enemy:
|The Cybermen
|Main setting:
|The Garazone System, 2503
|Key crew
|Big Finish Productions
|Nicholas Briggs
|Nicholas Briggs
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|Cover by:
|Clayton Hickman
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|February 2001
|4 Episodes on 2 CDs
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|Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
|Storm Warning
|The Stones of Venice
|Official trailer
Sword of Orion was the seventeenth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. This was a double first, being the first Big Finish story to feature the Cybermen, and the first Eighth Doctor story to feature the Cybermen. This is also another of Big Finish's stories which was originally created as part of the Audio Visuals, a fan produced series which featured many people who went onto create and work for Big Finish and BBV Productions. Nicholas Briggs filled many roles in the production of this story — he provided the voice of the Cybermen, sound design, music, direction, and writing; his appearance as the voice of the Cybermen here predates TV: Rise of the Cybermen.
This story also established the Orion War which would be built upon years later in Big Finish's spin-off series, Cyberman.
Publisher's summary Edit
The human race is locked in deadly combat with the "Android Hordes" in the Orion System. Light years from the front line, the Eighth Doctor and Charley arrive to sample the dubious delights of a galactic backwater, little suspecting that the consequences of the Orion War might reach them there. But High Command's lust for victory knows no bounds.
Trapped aboard a mysterious, derelict star destroyer, the Doctor and Charley find themselves facing summary execution. But this is only the beginning of their troubles. The real danger has yet to awaken.
Until, somewhere in the dark recesses of the Garazone System, the Cybermen receive the signal for reactivation...
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Part 1 Edit
Charley is worried about Ramsay looking ill. She and the Doctor can't carry him to the control room and Ramsay is dying from being away too long from the time vortex. The Doctor decides that there is one way to restore Ramsay back to health, but doesn't tell Charley, who is flustered to know.
2503. The Orion War continues to rage and a ship called the Silver Jackal receives contact from a patrol ship. Onboard the Silver Jackal, Digly convinces the patrol ship to leave so they can salvage an area in space. Digly wakes up Captain Thinnes and then picks up something on radar—an abandoned star destroyer. Captain Thinnes decides to go onboard the star destroyer to investigate and find "souvenirs".
Captain Thinnes and Digly don their spacesuits and enter the star destroyer. They sense a foul stench onboard, but before they continue, something heads towards them. They open fire, but it is not harmed. They retreat, but they are killed by the figure.
The TARDIS lands in a bazaar on the Garazone Central. Charley tries to communicate with a merchant to get help for Ramsay, but Charley is slightly disturbed by the merchant's suggestive compliments to her. She gives up and meets up with the Doctor, who also hasn't found anything. The Doctor and Charley then check out another shop in the bazaar and decide to look around. The Doctor convinces the shopkeeper, Ike, that they are Customs and Excise officials so they can browse peacefully and the Doctor comes across a recorder. The Doctor and Charley then find a golden plated Cyberman head in the shop and the Doctor recognizes it.
Outside, Ike contacts a man named Grash and Ike expresses concern about the disappearances of Thinnes and Digly as well as the Silver Jackal. Grash orders him to calm down, but Ike thinks that his shop is about to be "rumbled" by two individuals. Grash then tells Ike that Captain Obermann has been transferred to the Vanguard. And a new captain has been brought onboard and brought forward the disembarkation time. Grash urgently tells Ike to leave the shop and get to the docking bay immediately.
Back in the shop, Charley asks the Doctor the length of the Cyber-War. The Doctor answers that it was a very long time and informs her that the Cybermen remain in their tombs on Telos for the time being. The Doctor and Charley then notice that Ike has abandoned them. Charley thinks that he has gone to get his "smuggler friends" to beat them to a pulp, but the Doctor disagrees. Charley reminds the Doctor that he told Ike where the TARDIS was and confirms that the Doctor is indeed worried. The Doctor orders Charley to take a grav-pad and the nearby book of ancient remedies. Charley protests that this would be theft, but the Doctor remarks that it's probably stolen anyway and they run from the shop.
A man named Vol contacts the Vanguard captain from the docking bay. The Captain asks for the status of the supplies. Vol answers that they are in place, but he has to check each of them. The Captain responds that this would take too long and they are to load them immediately, disobeying procedures.
The Doctor and Charley activate the grav-pads, which excite Charley and head to the warehouse, where the TARDIS is parked. They then spot the TARDIS being loaded onto the Vanguard as cargo. Charley sees that the cargo number is 38B. The Doctor then tells Charley that they have less than ten minutes to get onboard before it takes off. Ike arrives onboard and Captain Jensen orders Vol to blast them off. The Vanguard leaves the docking bay.
It is then revealed that the Doctor and Charley were successful in stowing away onboard thanks to the Sonic Screwdriver. They then begin to search for the TARDIS in the cargo area for 38B. Charley feels a vibration on the wall and the Doctor confirms that this is from some sort of interstellar drive for ship that is moving really fast. The Doctor sees that the Vanguard is a scrap ship and wonders why they are in such a hurry. Charley sees that they are now in 38A, but then hear a noise that indicates that there may be something wrong with the engines.
On the bridge, a proximity alarm sounds and Vol then orders Ike to cut the power on the engines. The engines die just when Charley finds 38B, but the Doctor remarks that they better get off the ship because cutting off the engines in midflight of this ship is dangerous.
The Vanguard then picks up on radar that they have come across an abandoned star destroyer. Captain Jensen orders a maneuver, but the engines have been cut off. Jensen reluctantly orders to initiate the hyperdrive. Ike and Vol protest that they just cut the engine off and that restarted would be dangerous and would also take time to power up again. Jensen insists her orders.
The Doctor and Charley come across the TARDIS and enter. The Doctor runs to the console and patches the TARDIS' scanner to visual transmission of the Vanguard, meaning that from the TARDIS, they'll be able to see what the Vanguard sees. They then see that there is a cold-looking star destroyer in front of the Vanguard. Charley sees that the star destroyer is moving towards them, but the Doctor sees that rather the Vanguard is moving towards it. The Doctor rushes the controls and decides it's time to go. The TARDIS then stops suddenly. The Doctor then sees that the TARDIS has been caught in the Vanguard's warp field, preventing them from travelling away. Ramsey would feel better from the temporal time feedback that surged when the TARDIS failed to leave. The warp field's energy has dissipated and the TARDIS has materialized. It feels cold and Charley senses a foul stench. The Doctor and Charley look outside the TARDIS and realized that they have landed onboard the star destroyer.
Grash and Captain Jensen argue about spacewalking, but Jensen offers to double their bonuses if they investigate. Grash then takes crew members Chev and Kelsey to investigate.
On the star destroyer, the Doctor and Charley hear the sounds of the Vanguard crew approaching from afar. The Doctor decides that it's time to leave, but as they approach the TARDIS, they hear a howling sound. The crew members hear this as well and decide to split up. Crew member Kelsey then discovers the TARDIS. Kelsey calls out for the others to look at what he found just when an unseen figure appears and attacks him. The figure utters "destroy."
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A scream is heard. Jansen calls for the recon group and Ike responds that Kelsey is in some sort of trouble and requests backup. Jansen requests that she and Vol join them.
The Doctor and Charley hear the scream as well and come across the TARDIS and a severely injured Kelsey. The Doctor checks for a pulse, but it's very weak and finds from his space suit that he's a crew member of the Vanguard. Charley checks the name tag which reads Mark Kelsey. As Charley and the Doctor wonder who Kelsey's assailant is, they hear footsteps approaching. Chev and Grash reveal themselves and are horrified to discover Kelsey's body. The Doctor urges that Kelsey needs immediate medical attention ASAP, but Jansen's crew draw their weapons and hold the Doctor and Charley at gunpoint, thinking they were responsible for Kelsey's attack. Grash contacts Jansen and reports to her that Kelsey's body has been found as well as the "murderers". The Doctor then checks for a pulse from Kelsey, but he has succumbed to his wounds. Jensen orders Grash and Chev to turn on their cameras for a visual confirmation and Jansen sees it for herself. Grash requests permission to kill the Doctor and Charley on her authority. Jansen, however, is convinced that there may be something else that killed Kelsey. Jensen orders them to bring the Doctor and Charley to the Vanguard and Charley is thankful that there's a woman in charge.
As the Doctor and Charley are being brought on the Vanguard, Jansen orders Ike to examine Kelsey's body. The Doctor and Charley introduce themselves to Jansen as travelers. Jansen asks why they were on the star destroyer and the Charley responds that they were "getting exercise" and looking around. Suddenly, Vol contacts Jansen and says that he has picked up a transmission, but can't find where it's coming from. Jansen orders Grash to scan them and finds the sonic screwdriver from the Doctor as well as a tracking device. The Doctor assures them that they are not transmitting anything. Jansen decides to confiscate them and Vol still picks up a transmission and the Doctor sees something moving in the shadows, but it vanished. Jansen asks what it was and Charley sees that it lead to the air locks and left behind scratch marks on the deck plates. Jansen then comes to the conclusion that the Doctor and Charley are not indeed responsible for Kelsey's death. Grash then thinks that they could be androids, feeling from the Orion War, but Jansen tells him that the Orion War is light years away. Suddenly, the lights begin to flicker. Vol reports that there is some sort of power failure in their area and has activated several emergency batteries, but they're not working.
Kelsey's body is examined by Chev and Ike and they, too, notice the lights flickering. They try to contact Jansen, but they lose contact with her. The Doctor asks Jansen where the nearest power system maintenance is located on the ship and they go look for it. They then see that someone has burned a hole through the hatch as well as more scratches. The Doctor sees that whatever caused it has a highly focused weapon or an energy beam. Jansen hands the sonic screwdriver to the Doctor and he sees that the impact of the beam has damaged the cables and sees that the life support cables have been remained unharmed. Because of this, the Doctor realizes that something doesn't want to kill them and whatever it is, it's moving fast.
On the flight deck, Jansen asks Vol if there is any way to track down the intruder, but there doesn't seem to be any. Chev berates Charley for killing Kelsey, but Charley remarks that if they weren't so busy accusing her and the Doctor he'd still be alive. The Doctor calms everyone down and tells them that he can help them find out who did kill Kelsey. The Doctor then sees that everyone hasn't changed her spacesuit since she got back and orders everyone to turn around. The Doctor notices that Grash's backpack has a scratch mark on it, meaning that it snuck onboard the Vanguard while no one was looking. The Doctor then decides that the game plan is to reboot the power cables by shutting down the life support systems in deserted areas to draw out the intruder. Jansen, Grash and Charley stay on the flight deck while the Doctor, Vol and Chev try to shut down the life support systems. Charley assures Jansen and Grash that once they are done, they'll be heading off, but the TARDIS is still on the star destroyer.
As the Doctor is doing his work, Vol and Chev ask the Doctor why he was on the star destroyer. The Doctor responds that he was "discovering, not murdering" and wants to head back there once this is over because that's where he parked his "transport". The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver and the security systems are back online. Vol tells the Doctor that he picked up a signal that is transmitting from the stern of the ship and it's the same signal from earlier.
Meanwhile, the others see that the security systems are back online and there's a signal in the star destroyer's stern. The Doctor, Chev and Vol return to the others and Jansen asks the Doctor to join her on her salvage on the star destroyer. The others refuse and Grash accuses Jansen of endangering her whole crew and suddenly holds her at gunpoint and orders Ike and Vol to their stations and get them out of here. They reluctantly obey and set course for the Garazone system, but there is a malfunction—the engines are dead. The Doctor sees that the intruder as sabotaged the Vanguard's engines. Jansen and the Doctor decide to go onboard the star destroyer, but Grash orders Charley to stay behind and won't be waiting for them as soon as he gets the engines repaired.
The Doctor and Jansen enter the star destroyer and the Doctor asks Jansen why she cam here. Jansen says that this would be worth a lot in salvage. The Doctor hears a noise and tells Jansen to keep her gun in handy.
Meanwhile, Ike and Grash discuss about the Doctor and Charley and Ike recognizes them from his shop earlier. Chev asks why didn't the Doctor and Charley say that recognize Ike and report to Jansen, but Ike doesn't know. Grash deduces that they could blow this operation. Vol reports that the engines remain unresponsive. Grash orders Vol and Ike to go down to the engine room and repair the main drive. Charley says that whatever is down there could be hostile, which is why Grash will be sending Charley down there as bait.
The Doctor and Jansen continue their search, but then the Doctor runs into a Cyberman. The Cyberman lunges to attack them, but Jansen destroys it with her weapon and it alls to the floor. As the Doctor examines it, Jansen reveals that she knows about the Cybermen from majoring in galactic military history at a university and thought that they were extinct, much to the Doctor's fascination. The Doctor opens the Cyberman's faceplate open and sees a signal being transmitted. The signal that is being transmitted in the engine room onboard the Vanguard is a Cybermat. Suddenly, the Cyberman jerks violently, scaring Jansen. That was the Doctor tampering with the nervous system, meaning that something happened in the refrigeration process, and this was rogue. Jansen then realizes that there are other Cybermen onboard this ship, frozen in hibernation.
It is then revealed that the Cybermen are already awake…and have revived their Leader.
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The power is low due to the humans' interference, but the Cybermat is still transmitting. One of the Cybermen orders two others to proceed to the Vanguard while the Cyber Leader will be restored.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jansen find a door to a large chamber, but it is locked. The Doctor sees that the controls have been disrupted by some sort of energy blast. Jansen suggests that it may have been an ion storm, which is common in the Garazone system. The Doctor then sees that this was why the hibernation unit malfunctioned as Jansen prepares to open the door. As they try to pry open the doors, an odor arises. The Doctor and Jansen realize that the odor is the smell of a thousand corpses onboard, which were in the middle of Cyber-conversion and the chamber was once active before the ion storm. The Doctor deduces that the Cybermen hibernated themselves hoping that they would be safe from the ion storms. Jansen detects that there is another chamber nearby.
In the engine room, Ike and Charley find the Cybermat. Grash orders Ike and Vol to wait until the Cybermat kills Charley and then kill it themselves. Vol disobeys and shoots the Cybermat, destroying it. Afterward, they see that the Cybermat has damaged the engines severely beyond repair. Grash then contacts Ike, who reports that the Cybermat has been destroyed. As Grash expresses his dismay, Chev says that someone is trying to open the airlock. Grash and Chev investigate the airlock, thinking that the Doctor and Jansen have returned. But it is revealed that they are actually two Cybermen. Grash opens fire on them, but they are unharmed. Chev runs away, but they stun Grash and prepare a controlling device for him.
The Doctor and Jansen then come across the chamber where the Cybermen are, but hide to avoid detection. There, they witness that the Cyber Leader has finally been restored. The Cyber Leader asks why his revival has been delayed. The Cybermen explain that there was a system failure from the humans. The Cyber Leader orders the humans on the Vanguard to be taken and converted. The Doctor and Jansen quietly sneak away and the Doctor informs her that they have got to find his ship, the TARDIS.
After the destruction of the Cybermat, Vol, Ike and Charley inspect it. The Cybermat then springs to life, but its weapon has been disabled. Vol decides to play with it, just when Chev appears, looking terrified. She informs them that Grash has been killed by whoever was in the airlock.
The Cybermen have restored the security systems and detect that two humans have been detected nearby. The Cyber Leader orders them to be captured immediately. Jansen and the Doctor hurry on their way to the TARDIS, just when they are cornered by the Cybermen. The Doctor and Jansen then hurry into the airlock to escape.
Charley and the others realize that the Cybermat was responsible for sabotaging the engines. Charley then sees something in the corridor as the others prepare their weapons. Grash then appears, much to Chev's surprise. Grash calmly assures them that he has killed them, but there are more on the way, so they must fight back. Charley questions this, but Grash insists.
In the airlock, the Doctor tells Jansen that it's a bit odd that the Cybermen on the star destroyer just gave up on chasing them. The Doctor and Jansen leave the airlock, but Cybermen confront them. Jansen fires and kills them just when Charley and the others meet up with them, just when Grash loses consciousness. Charley wonders what is going on and the Doctor explains that they are Cybermen, who were once humans like them, but have been converted into machines, removing emotions. Vol tells the Doctor that the Cybermat on the Vanguard has been disabled, but the Doctor tells them that since these two Cybermen have been killed, more will be coming. Jansen orders the airlock systems to be deactivated and Ike to take Grash back to his cabin. Jansen then orders the Doctor and Charley to return to the flight deck as she goes in alone.
Meanwhile, more Cybermen have been assembled. They managed to establish contact with the Cybermat, but it has been damaged. The Cyber Leader assures that it will be programmed with new instructions soon.
Vol asks the Doctor and Charley if they knew Ike because they met him back in his shop. The Doctor reminds him that now's not the time as they are facing bigger concerns. Ike appears and the Doctor tells him that he's not interested in his criminal activities. Charley then tells Ike that this is why they haven't told Jansen. They then try to find Jansen on their security scan and they are fascinated to discover that she's in the ship's computer command module. Meanwhile, Jansen looks up information on the Doctor and discovers that he's an alien who owns a "TARDIS". Charley then tells the others that Jansen doesn't seem to be like them. Chev agrees, seeing how Jansen's always calm and never out of place. The Doctor agrees and also finds it odd how her weapon can take out Cybermen while they can't. The Doctor asks Ike to get him into the computer's databases just when an alarm alerts them. It is the Cybermen making their way through the airlock. The Doctor calls Ike to tell her that they need her to stop the Cybermen with her weapon as he leads the others away.
Jansen sees that the Doctor is from a different time period and has valuable information about the Cybermen. Ike then contacts Jansen and informs her that the Cybermen are breaking through the airlock and need her weapon. She confirms and heads back.
The Doctor orders Chev to open a shutter to see the Cybermen's activities and sees that they are indeed trying to get in. Jansen arrives and they see that there are more Cybermen than they have ever encountered. Jansen arms her weapon as the others step back. The Doctor then finds another way of stopping them by discarding the outer door, trapping them in there since they only want the humans for conversion. The Doctor initiates this and they are trapped.
The Cyber Leader then initiates contact with the damaged Cybermat and the "human subject". Jansen calls Vol and asks for an update about the trapped Cybermen, which are still unable to move. Chev has gone to check on Grash and Jansen tells the others that they should be safe. Charley then suspects something odd seeing how Grash just simply passed out earlier. And even before, Grash was attacked by the Cybermen and turned out too perfectly okay afterward. The Doctor then realizes that Grash has been under Cyber control.
The Cyber Leader establishes contact with Grash as Chev enters the room where Grash is, but he has gone. Suddenly, Jansen calls Chev and asks if he has taken his gun. Chev is skeptical, but the Doctor informs her that Grash is under Cyber control and he regained consciousness because the Cybermen have regained contact with him. Jansen orders Ike to alert Vol and Chev to step aside. Ike calls Vol and warns him that Grash is being controlled by the Cybermen and is heading towards him. Jansen decides to stop Grash herself, leaving the others behind. The Doctor then decides to look into the command access only computer file.
The Cybermen establish contact from the Cybermat and conclude that there is another way to the humans by creating another airlock by blocking off all reception areas. This will be carried out by Grash. The Cyber Leader initiates this and orders the Cybermat to assist Grash. Jansen calls Chev and Chev says that something might be following her.
The Doctor finds a Garazone Space Patrol file on the computer and finds information about a ship called the Silver Jackal. Ike confirms that it was a salvage ship that went missing along with its crew and its last known coordinates were located nearby where they are. On the file, it also says that the star destroyer was also found. Before they can look any further, they are locked out by the Tellurian military classification Orion D7 and the computer shuts itself down. Charley then remembers that she and the Doctor were mistaken as androids when they were first discovered. Ike tells them that according to Jansen, there were no androids outside Orion.
Chev approaches the airlock reception area and hears a noise. She calls out Grash's name, but no response. Instead, she hears a high pitched sound and finds the Cybermat and screams.
Part 4 Edit
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Cast Edit
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard - India Fisher
- Thinnes - Mark Gatiss
- Digly - Barnaby Edwards
- Ike - Ian Marr
- Grash - Bruce Montague
- Vol - Hylton Collins
- Deeva Jansen - Michelle Livingstone
- Chev - Helen Goldwyn
- Kelsey - Toby Longworth
- The Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs, Alistair Lock
References Edit
Real World Edit
- Charley mentions Aladdin's cave.
The Doctor Edit
- The Doctor finds a recorder in the smugglers shop and plays it to Charley; he has lost practice. (TV: The Power of the Daleks et al.)
- The Doctor tells Charley to grab a book and take it with them from the smugglers' shop without paying for it. Charley makes note of this but the Doctor claims that "it's probably stolen anyway".
- While on board the star destroyer the Doctor mentions feeling something waking up, unknowingly referencing his encounter with the Cybermen on Telos in his second incarnation. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
Conflicts Edit
Cybermen Edit
- A Cybermat is present on the Cybermen's ship.
Weapons Edit
- Deeva has in her possession a powerful gun which is able to destroy Cybermen.
Notes Edit
- Sword of Orion is a remake of the Audio Visuals audio drama of the same name.
- An illustrated preview for this story by Lee Sullivan appeared in DWM 301.
- This story marks the first appearance of the Cybermen in an audio drama.
- This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 17 May 2000 at studios in Bristol.
- Nicholas Briggs' score to this story was released on the CD Music from the Eighth Doctor Audio Adventures, alongside the other three initial Eighth Doctor audios.
- The story formed part of an Eighth Doctor series on BBC Radio 7 in 2005, alongside the stories Shada, Storm Warning, The Stones of Venice, Invaders from Mars and The Chimes of Midnight,and has been repeated on multiple occasions since. This led to the commissioning of the original seriesThe Eighth Doctor Adventures, debuting on the digital station in December 2006. Due to a limited timeslot, scenes were edited out of these versions; excluding Shada andThe Chimes of Midnight, these were collated into The Eighth Doctor Collection in 2008 with an exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary and booklet. Minuet in Hell was excluded from broadcast due to its adult themes.
Continuity Edit
- Ramsay is feeling sick for being outside the Time Vortex for too long. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
- The Cybermen refer to their encounter with the Doctor on Planet 14. (TV: The Invasion)
- A secret government organisation called Scorpius was formed in the aftermath of the Sword of Orion incident. (AUDIO: Scorpius)
External links Edit
- Official Sword of Orion page at bigfinish.com; note that it is out of print and is available as download only.
- Sword of Orion at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Sword of Orion at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
- Transcript of Sword of Orion at Chrissie's Transcripts Site


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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom asked for state
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