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Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa - Kampala
You will be spoilt for choice in terms of dining as this resort offers 2 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and brunch so you are sure to find something tasty to tempt your palate. Escape the stress of everyday life at Serena Maisha Spa, offering facials and body scrubs, as well as detox wraps, Swedish massages and deep-tissue massages. Take a splash in one of the 2 outdoor pools during your stay. Fancy sipping an ice-cold drink by the pool? Don't miss out as there is also a poolside bar.
In addition to the on-site spa, a health club, a spa tub and a sauna are among the leisure facilities on offer. Free WiFi is available.
Beautiful property, that is still a work in progress, but much too far from the city…
We picked the hotel for a long weekend in Uganda and could not be more pleased. The hotel…
Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa - Kampala
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $160
- Executive Suite
- Suite
- Deluxe Room
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 124 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time starts at noon
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No pets or service animals allowed
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Free valet parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Free breakfast
- 2 restaurants
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Golf course on site
- Full-service spa
- Spa tub
- Golfing nearby
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Hair salon
- Number of buildings/towers - 22
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
In the room
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Turndown service
- Bathtub only
- Hair dryer
- Cable/satellite TV channels
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Special features
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the resort's full-service spa, Serena Maisha Spa. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, Swedish massages, and massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and reflexology.
DiningThe Citadel Restaurant - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
The Kigo Bar - Onsite bar.
Lake View Pool Terrace - This poolside café serves light fare only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Courtyard Lounge - This bar serves light fare only.
SEA Restaurant - This fine-dining restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Open select days.
Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa - Kampala's small print
Also known as
- Lake Victoria Resort
- Lake Victoria Serena Hotel Kampala
- Lake Victoria Serena Golf
- Lake Victoria Serena
- Lake Victoria Serena Kampala
- Lake Victoria Serena Resort
- Lake Victoria Serena Resort Kampala
- Serena Lake Victoria
- Serena Lake Victoria Resort
- Serena Resort Lake Victoria
- Victoria Serena
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for UGX 268900 per night
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of UGX 67225 per person (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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Eli Young Band gets up to speed for Kenny Chesney opener
Opening up stadiums for Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Nation tour was a bit of an adjustment, said James Young, guitarist for the Texas-based Eli Young Band.
"It would have been nice if we could have actually warmed up with an arena or amphitheater," Young said of playing the tour kick-off at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., in March. »Read Full Article
New CDs in stores this week
■Aidan Knight, "Small Reveal" (Outside Music). Canadian band named after one of its members decamps to a cabin in British Columbia, returns with 15 songs with widescreen tendencies and smart instrumental arrangements on a disc getting a delayed U.S. release.
■Kyle Andrews, "Brighter Than the Sun" (Elephant Lady). Nashville electro-pop artiste continues to find the pop hooks and production sheen inside the quirks of his chosen form on his latest LP. »Read Full Article
Three Milwaukee artists to compete in world's largest art competition
Anytime 400,000 people become actively engaged in a dialogue about art, someone, somewhere is doing something right. ArtPrize, described as a "radically open" international art competition, takes place each fall in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Today, the organization announced its final list of artists for its fifth art festival. Three are from Milwaukee. A total of 1,524 entries representing 47 countries and 45 states will show work at 169 venues. The artists and venues "met" via the online dating-like system that ArtPrize sets up. It's curating by crowd sourcing. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
John Legend to play Riverside Theater Nov. 18
R&B crooner John Legend will perform at the Riverside Theater at 7 p.m. Nov. 18.
The show is part of Legend's "Made to Love" North American tour, which was announced Monday afternoon. Tamar Braxton opens. »Read Full Article
Carson's downtown opens for lunch
Carson's, the steak and rib restaurant that began serving dinner at 301 W. Juneau Ave. in late June, has begun serving lunch.
The restaurant now opens daily at noon, serving the lunch menu until 4 p.m. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap for Today: Brewers, Yard Dog Charlie and Springsteen on screen
Welcome to the promise of a new week.
Seriously. »Read Full Blog Post

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Sonic Generations, the newest Sonic game, has continued the trend started by Sonic Colors of not sucking. It's even been popular with critics; 8/10, as the commercials trumpet a little too proudly. But there is one thing that it does that is so amazingly impressive, that it deserves special notice. You remember Sonic '06, right? The poor level design, focus on characters that you didn't care about, and undercurrent of bestiality? Of course you do, and nowhere was this first problem more prominent than the awful Crisis City. But Generations has a whole level based on it, and guess what?
The level design has been completely redone, and this time they did it right. It's fun to play, and even the music has been fixed: you now hear something that both fits with the level and sounds amazing. Also, the Classic Sonic version is fun, too. Unique controls, interesting mechanics, and the final stretch of the level is genuinely unique. It's hard, too: no level in the previous two sections was nearly as difficult. It's like Sonic team said, 'Remember this? Well, here it is again, but better!'
It sets a good precedent for the rest of the section. I was particularly worried when I reached the Modern area, but Sonic Team shifted from reminiscing about their better games to repairing the damage caused by their newer games almost perfectly! They keep it up, too - the Sonic Unleashed level incorporates a few elements from the Night stages into their Classic level, perhaps to prove that there was a reason it existed in the first place.
One redesigned level is hardly enough to forgive so many bad games, but by erasing the bad Crisis City, Sega has proved that this franchise is on its way to redemption. It's up to Sonic 4 Episode II to prove if they can stay on the road of recovery. For more, look forward to my next article, The history of Sonic: From inception to redemption.
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Sweltering In The Schools
CHICAGO – When city students arrived for the first day of school under the blazing temperatures of a Midwest heat wave, staff greeted them with some unusual school supplies: water bottles, fans and wet towels to drape around their necks.
What they couldn't offer was air conditioning.
"It's kind of hard to focus because everyone was sweating," said Deniyah Jones, a 12-year-old 7th-grader at Nash Elementary School on Chicago's West Side, which has just a few window units for the entire fortress-like brick and stone building.
This year's late August heat exposed a tug-of-war in school districts that are under pressure to start school earlier than ever but are unable to pay to equip aging buildings with air conditioning. Parents who worry hot classrooms are a disadvantage for their kids are issuing an ultimatum: Make classes cooler or start the year later.
"Thinking about air conditioning – we can't even afford new textbooks," said Bement Community Unit School District Superintendent Sheila Greenwood, who oversees a tiny district of 380 students about 20 miles southwest of Champaign, Ill.
Many people can recall school days spent inside ancient, brick-construction buildings that on sweltering days seemed as hot as pizza ovens. But hot classrooms are becoming a bigger problem for schools than in years past, and increasingly, getting a "heat day" is as common for students as a "snow day."
As temperatures soared past 90 last week, some Midwest schools gave students extra water and bathroom breaks or canceled after-school activities. Districts from St. Joseph, Mo., and Frankfort, Ind., sent kids home early. In Fargo, N.D., five schools got the week off, and schools in Minneapolis closed down, too.
"I was up on the third floor and it was 93.8 degrees in the classroom and the kids hadn't been there in hours," said Matt Patton, superintendent of a one-school district in Baxter, Iowa. "You put 20 bodies in there and it will go up to at least 95 and you can imagine all the sweat on the desks and textbooks."
For years, schools have been moving to start the year in late or mid-August rather than just after Labor Day, when it is typically cooler. Part of the reason is that schools need more training days for standardized testing and new academic standards. Holiday breaks have also grown longer, and administrators say the only direction they can go is back into August.
In Chicago, starting a week earlier is part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's strategy to improve education in the nation's third-largest school district by getting students in school longer. Air conditioning isn't part of that plan.
"The last estimate was over a billion dollars," said Becky Carroll, a spokeswoman for Chicago's district of 700 schools. "Those aren't dollars we have."
The concerns go beyond comfort. Excessive heat makes the body work harder to maintain the ideal 98.6 temperature, and that can cause people to feel sluggish. Some worry that makes it hard to learn. Sweating helps cool things down, but children sweat less than adults, so heat can affect them more quickly.
"I was speaking with teachers yesterday and they said there were students who had to leave early, students with bloody noses, students (who) had fainting spells or fell asleep in the classroom," said Chicago state Rep. La Shawn Ford, who received a number of complaints after the start of school. "It's just not a learning environment."
Some studies have also shown that students in classrooms with air conditioning do better on achievement tests than those in classroom that don't. Vic Zimmerman, the school superintendent in the central Illinois community of Monticello, said there is simply no point in keeping kids in class. Some of his district's students were given Popsicles just to get them through morning reading time.
"They become a little bit lethargic," he said.
Parents are beginning to push back. Sioux City, Iowa, schools decided to move the start of school a week later next year after getting an earful, school board president Mike Krysl said. And a parent group in North Dakota is looking to launch a ballot measure requiring schools to start after Labor Day, said Jeff Schatz, the Fargo school superintendent.
In Iowa, lawmakers enacted legislation that requires school districts wait until September to open. But the law allows districts to obtain a waiver to start early, and all but 10 of the state's 346 school districts did just that. Indiana lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully for years to push the start of the school year back to after Labor Day, but have run into resistance from schools who have scheduling concerns and local officials who think the state shouldn't control the school calendar.


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German Drug Company Offers $62 Billion for Monsanto to Merge
This would create the world's largest agricultural supplier.By Clint Rainey
This would create the world's largest agricultural supplier.By Clint Rainey
Highly paid CEOs don't have a sense of humor.By Chris Crowley
It's considered "probably carcinogenic to humans" by the WHO.By Clint Rainey
The head of a Chinese spy ring is facing trial next month for stealing agricultural technology.By Chris Crowley
A consortium of industry forces tries to explore their cinematic side.By Hugh Merwin
The award favors industrialized farming.By Sierra Tishgart
Monsanto and the Gates Foundation are big donors.By Sierra Tishgart
The bill has bipartisan support.By Jessie Cacciola
Seedy business.By Hugh Merwin
Two tough adversaries.By Sierra Tishgart
The GMO strain of wheat was never approved.By Hugh Merwin
Trouble at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.By Hugh Merwin
Monsanto et al better watch out.By Jay Barmann
The opposition raised over $43 million to convince voters their grocery costs would sky-rocket.By Hadley Tomicki
The paper stands in direct opposition to Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Mario Batali.By Hadley Tomicki
Nearly one million signatures were collected for a ballot measure that supports labeling.By Hadley Tomicki
After Chipotle airs a Super Bowl ad, The Golden Arches addresses the confinement of pigs.
Plus: Bon Appetit hits the iPad; and a smooch gets you a buy-one-get-one-free dealy at Qdoba today, all in our morning news roundup.
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May I ask you a question: did your teacher write up these problems after drinking
a 40-ouncer of tequila straight ?
Hello all,
Im having some difficulty with the following problems. Can someone please guide me on how to solve them?
1) Suppose Sean invests P dollars today in a new company. In return, the company will pay him 185.65 dollars per year, starting with year 19 and ending with year 45 . In addition, in the last year (i.e., year 45) the company will pay Sean a lump-sum (i.e., a single) amount equal to 804.29 dollars. What is the P amount such that Sean achieves an annual rate of return equal to 185.65/804.29 per year ?
For this problem i think the part im stuck on is how to handle the rate or return. I know how to manage the shifted annuity.
2) Suppose interest is 17.13% per year, compounded daily. Assume there are 364 days in one year.
Find the present value of the uniform series given by
At=236.28, t=1,...,50
given the payment period length is "one week" , that is, 1/52 of a a year.
For this one im confused by the first sentence, how can interest be 17.13% per year compounded daily?
3) Pat is an excelent tennis player. Her friend Mat estimated that if she becomes a professional player today, her income will be 9 dollars in year 1 and then will continue to increase by 25.78% each year until year 8. According to Mat's estimates, Pat will be at her peak in year 8. After that point in time, her income in each period will be only 1/7 of her income in the previous period. Suppose Mat's predictions are correct. If Pat plans to retire at the end of year 14 and to save 1/7 of her income each year in an account paying interest at 21% per year, how much will she accumulate by the end of 14?
For this one i have tried to sole several times, id like it if someone could provide the steps, i cant seem to do this one correctly and have difficult with finding the 1/7th of the income. do i have to do this for each year or can i find the present value of the series and multiply by 1/7?
In short this one will need to be spelled out for me im new at these problems.
Thank you for your help! I hope i didnt break any rules by posting several questions in on thread, i just didnt want to clutter up the forum.
rate of return (over the whole period of investment)=total return/total investment, where investment is P
annual rate of return = total rate of return as above/'relevant' number of years
I think here the 'relevant' number of years is from the initial investment to the last payout, ie 45 (or may be even 46, if he invests in the beginnign of Year1, and the last payout is in the end of Year 45)
So once you add up all incomes (annual and the last payout), substitute it into the equations above and solve for P.
That "seems" to represent an annual rate of ~23.08%, since 185.65/804.29 = .2308....
The problem "seems" to be equivalent to:
A company borrows $P from Sean at an annual rate of 23.08%, repayment terms
being $185.65 annually from year 19 to 45, at which point a final (balloon) payment
of $804.29 will be due. What is P ?
Well, .07 (7 cents) will accumulate to ~$800 at that rate, over 45 years;
hence my confusion. Plus whole thing is made worse with the annual payments...
You are right, it's more twised than I though initially. I would expect to see some discount rate, as a start. Not sure if annual rate of return can be approximated for the discount rate. And 7 cents will accumulate to that much only if any annual income from this P is reinvested down to the last cent, and I don't see anything in the question about him doing that.
The model looks like purchasing a life insurance policy.
(1 + .1713/364)^364 - 1 = .186798... hence ~18.68%
The rate compounded weekly to achieve this effective rate is:
(1 + r)^52 = 1.186798...
r = .003298..., hence annual of .003298 * 52 = .171542... or ~17.15%
Hope that helps...disregard if I've "missed the point"!


text: Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Dean Wilson will not be competing today at the fifth round of the Monster Energy/AMA Supercross Lites East Championship in Dallas, Texas.The Canadian was returning to the United States after last weekend's Supercross round in Toronto but he, along with his parents, was denied entry into the U.S. and is still in Canada. Evidently, Wilson, who waited until he was 18, December 28, to sign his contract with Pro Circuit, was held up at the border due to a problem with his immigration paperwork, which apparently has yet been completely processed yet. He was hoping to have everything in order yesterday, Friday, March 19, but evidently it was not, so Wilson will have to watch today's race from home in Canada.Wilson was third in the Lites East standings behind leader Christophe Pourcel and Austin Stroupe.Wilson is expected to have everything all worked out by next week, before the Jacksonville round of the series.


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The Detective Inspector Chen Novels (Book 1)When a soul goes missing, an occult detective ventures into Hell to retrieve itWhen the fourteen-year-old daughter of Singapore Three's most prominent industrialist dies of anorexia, her parents assume that Pearl's suffering has come to an end. But somewhere along the way to the Celestial Shores, Pearl's soul is waylaid, lured by an unknown force to the gates of Hell. To save their daughter from
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An Inspector Chen Investigation (Book 1)In this Anthony Award-winning debut, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. A Loyal Character Dancer is the latest in Qiu's Shanghai series featuring Inspector Chen. "A marvelously assured debut. . . . Engrossing, immensely readable."—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Trade Paperback
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Inspector Chen Cao (Book 7)"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions.
The Detective Inspector Chen Novels (Book 5)Chen searches for a missing book that holds the fate of creation in its pages No mortal has ever heard of the Book, and few in Heaven even believe it is real. Instead, they regard the stories of a bound volume older than time itself as something of a creation myth. But Mhara, the Emperor of Heaven, knows the Book is very real, very powerful, and very much missing. It has a mind of its own, and it
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The UMaine-developed, patent-pending, VolturnUS floating concrete hull technology can support wind turbines in water depths of 45 meters or more, and has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of offshore wind.
The VolturnUS technology is the culmination of more than a decade of collaborative research and development conducted by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium.
- VolturnUS 1:8, deployed in 2013, is a 65 foot tall floating turbine prototype; 1:8th the scale of a 6 megawatt (MW), 425-foot rotor diameter design. It was designed and built at UMaine, assembled at Cianbro's facility in Brewer, ME, and towed 30 miles from Brewer to Castine, ME by Maine Maritime Academy. This was the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas.
- The UMaine-led New England Aqua Ventus I project won top tier status in May 2016 from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Technology Demonstration Program for Offshore Wind. This means that the Aqua Ventus project is now automatically eligible for an additional $39.9 Million in construction funding from the DOE. This major development represents the strongest possible endorsement of the transformational VolturnUS concrete hull technology by the DOE. With this new funding, the Aqua Ventus project will likely become the first commercial scale floating wind project in the Americas.
- New England Aqua Ventus I is a two × 6 MW turbine = 12 MW floating offshore wind pilot project 14 miles off Maine's coast, developed by Maine Aqua Ventus, GP, LLC. The objective of the pilot is to demonstrate the technology at full scale, allowing floating farms to be built out-of-sight across the US and the world in the 2020s, bringing lower-cost, clean renewable energy to coastal population centers.
- In 2011, UMaine published the Maine Offshore Wind Report. Funded by more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, the report examines economics and policy, electrical grid integration, wind and wave, bathymetric, soil, and environmental research. It also includes summaries of assembly and construction sites, critical issues for project development and permitting, and an analysis of the implications of the Jones Act.
Videos of VolturnUS Performance:
VolturnUS 1:8 – Tow Across Penobscot Bay, November 2014
VolturnUS 1:8 November 2013 Extreme Event Performance
VolturnUS 1:8 December 2013 Extreme Event Performance
VolturnUS 1:8
VolturnUS 1:8 is a 65-foot-tall floating wind turbine prototype that is 1:8th the geometric scale of a 6-megawatt (MW), approximately 450-foot rotor diameter design. The patent-pending VolturnUS 1:8, was designed and built at UMaine, assembled at Cianbro's facility in Brewer, successfully towed nearly 30 miles from Brewer by a Maine Maritime Academy tugboat, and anchored for testing off the coast of Castine, Maine in 90 ft of water. On June 13, 2013, the turbine was energized and began delivering electricity through an undersea cable to the Central Maine Power electricity grid, making VolturnUS 1:8 the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas.
The innovative VolturnUS design utilizes a concrete semisubmersible floating hull and a composite materials tower designed to reduce both capital and Operation & Maintenance costs, and to allow local manufacturing throughout the US and the World. The VolturnUS technology is the culmination of more than seven years of collaborative research and development conducted by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. The DeepCwind Consortium is a unique public-private research partnership funded by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation-Partners for Innovation, Maine Technology Institute, the State of Maine, and the University of Maine, and includes more than 30 industry partners such as Cianbro and Maine Maritime Academy.
The VolturnUS 1:8 behaves as a floating laboratory with over 50 sensors onboard measuring wind, waves, current, temperature, accelerations, strains, turbine performance and mooring line loads. Data acquired during the past year's deployment off Castine validated design assumptions and performance, and have been used to further optimize UMaine's VolturnUS system. The program goal when the technology is scaled up is to reduce the cost of offshore wind to compete favorably with other forms of electricity generation.
As anticipated for a 1:8 scale unit, over the past year, the VolturnUS 1:8 has experienced numerous storm events representative of design environmental conditions prescribed by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Guide for Building and Classing Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, 2013. For example, Table 1 shows measured data from an event experienced on March 1, 2014 between 1-2 pm, and compares that to a 50-year ABS Design Load Case (DLC), called DLC 1.6. Also shown in Table 1 is the predicted behavior from a coupled aeroelastic/hydrodynamic simulation of the full-scale VolturnUS 10-miles offshore Maine subjected to the specified American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) DLC 1.6 conditions. Please note the proximity of the measured March 1 event data and the VolturnUS 1:8 response to the ABS DLC 1.6 50-year prescribed condition. During this major storm event on March 1, the maximum-recorded wave height and peak period were within 1% and 7 %, respectively of the ABS DLC 1.6 prescribed scaled conditions. The resulting max nacelle acceleration and max heel angle, were within 14-16% of what a 6 MW VolturnUS system would experience under DLC 1.6, 10-miles offshore.
During the deployment, the prototype performed as expected in both operation and ABS extreme Design Load Cases (DLC) as follows:
- Over 110 operational load cases similar to ABS DLC 1,2,
- Over 18 extreme load cases equivalent to ABS DLC 1.6 and 6.1, representing 50-year Return Period Events
- One event equivalent to the ABS survival load case, representing a 500-year Return Period Event.
Based on observations over the past year, the 1:8 VolturnUS exhibited responses in line with coupled model design predictions and provides confidence moving forward with design and construction of a full-scale floating offshore wind turbine utilizing the VolturnUS platform technology.
In all 119 events described above, the VolturnUS floating platform performed markedly well. It exhibited accelerations very close to the predicted results, less than 0.17g for the whole year under all operational, 50-year scaled, and 500-year scaled return period events.


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But Israel's security would be better served by leaders committed to preserving Israel as a democratic state and engaging in serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
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The Sisters
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===Story=== Four siblings struggle to banish the ghost of their dead father and create some semblance of harmony using a college on New York's Upper East Side as their surrogate home. ===DVD Features=== *Commentary by director Arthur Allan Siedelman and writer Richard Alfieri
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|Nancy Pecket
|Maria Bello
|Marcia Prior Glass
|Erika Christensen
|Irene Prior
|Steven Culp
|Dr. Harry Glass
|Tony Goldwyn
|Vincent Antonelli
|Mary Stuart Masterson
|Olga Prior
|Eric McCormack
|Gary Sokol
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- Genre: Drama Movies
- Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
- Producer: Arclight Films
- Length: 113 min
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Theatrical Release North America Apr 14, 2006
Ratings North America R
DVD Release North America Jun 13, 2006


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