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Standard Double Room, Lake View
- One Queen Bed
Deluxe Double Room, Lake View
- One Queen Bed
Family Room, 1 Double Bed with Sofabed
- One Double Bed
Junior Suite, 1 Double Bed with Sofabed, Lake View
- One Double Bed
Montreux hotel offering lake views
Near city center
This Montreau hotel is within one kilometer of Montreux Casino, Place du Marche, and the Freddie Mercury Statue. Chateau de Chillon is 1.9 kilometers away.
Wellness access
Hotel du Grand Lac Excelsior features a restaurant, a full-service spa, and a wellness center with a pool.
High-speed Internet
Accommodations at Hotel du Grand Lac Excelsior feature balconies with lake views, in-room safes and minibars. All our rooms are equipped with free Internet access through the TV and a computer plug for laptop.
Renovations & Closures
- Details
- The hotel will be renovating from 4 November 2013 to 12 December 2013 (completion date subject to change). The following areas are affected:
- Elevator
The following facilities will be closed from 4 November 2013 to 10 December 2013 (dates subject to change):- Swimming pool
Every effort will be made to minimize noise and disturbance.
Hotel Amenities
- General
Located in a haven of peace right along the shores of Lake Geneva, Hotel du Grand Lac Excelsior**** takes to provide you with a perfect stay. Our newly renovated contemporary rooms as well as our classical Belle Epoque rooms offer all panoramic lake views.Whatever your favorite activities are, we will make sure they are fulfilled. Whether you would like to dine within our gourmet restaurant, relax in our Thalgo Health Center, swim in our semi-olympic pool, take a walk through our beautiful gardens, it is all within the hotel. Among other benefits received by our guests are free local transportation with the Riviera card and a free access to the Casino`s outdoor pool during the summer.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop or café
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Business services
- Total number of rooms - 87
- Number of floors - 5
- Audiovisual equipment
- Elevator/lift
- Banquet facilities
- Beauty services
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service health spa
- Hair salon
- Half board rates available
- Full board rates available
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Medical assistance available
- Multilingual staff
- Free parking
- Self parking
- Free parking (limited spaces)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Parking nearby
- Garden
- Terrace
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1907
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 5584
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Snack bar/deli
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 519
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 3
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Smoke-free property (fines apply)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Technology helpdesk
- Television in lobby
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Parking limited (surcharge)
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Free parking, Parking (surcharge), Self parking, Free parking (limited spaces), Parking limited (surcharge), Parking nearby, Parking nearby (surcharge), Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Direct-dial phone
- Phone
- Minibar
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Bathrobes (on request)
- Window opens
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- TV Internet access (complimentary)
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Individually decorated
- Lake view
- Mountain view
- Garden view
- Dining
Les Magnolias - Gourmet restaurant. Dishes incorporate seasonal ingredients. La Mouette Snack Bar - Menu of snacks and smaller bites. A terrace overlooks the lake and mountains. Breakfast - Available buffet or a la carte, and can be served in the restaurant or in guestrooms. Room Service - Available during limited hours.
- Recreation
Hotel du Grand Lac Excelsior features a wellness center with a sauna and steam room, spa tub, 25-meter indoor pool, and exercise room. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Skiing - downhill nearby
- Skiing - cross-country nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Motor boating nearby
- Rowboats nearby
- Dock nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Boating nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Sports center nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Tennis lessons available nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Bowling alley nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Kayaking on site
- Sports center on site
- Swimming on site
- Toboggan run nearby
- Skiing - alpine nearby
- Paddle boats (pedalos) nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Boat cruises nearby
- Spa
Thalgo Beauty Centre offers massages and a range of beauty treatments.
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Water view from spa
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Parking height restrictions apply
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
- A tax is imposed by the city: CHF 5.00 per person, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.- Breakfast fee: CHF 23 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: CHF 25 per day
- Pet fee: CHF 29 per night
- A late check-out fee will be charged
- Rollaway bed fee: CHF 69 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Additional Details
Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. 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.


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Strict Criteria Sperm Morphology for Infertility Diagnosis and Treatment, Semen
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Infertility affects 1 out of 6 couples of child-bearing age. Approximately 40% of infertility has a female-factor cause and 40% a male-factor cause. The remaining 20% of infertility is due to a combination of male- and female-factor disorders or is unexplained.
One of the more successful treatments for male and/or female infertility is in vitro fertilization (IVF). Male partners are tested with the strict criteria sperm morphology test prior to IVF to assist in the diagnosis of male-factor defects which are not evident from the standard semen analysis (SEMA / Semen Analysis with WHO Morphology).
The World Health Organization morphology procedure used in conjunction with the standard semen analysis provides only a rapid, subjective estimate of sperm shape and size. Morphology testing does not permit diagnosis of all sperm function defects because sperm are not categorized according to strict criteria by measuring sperm dimensions with a micrometer, as is the case with strict criteria sperm morphology. Assay reproducibility (inter- and intra-assay technician variation) is greatly improved with strict criteria sperm morphology testing as compared with the quick assessment provided with a standard semen analysis.
Abnormalities in sperm morphology cause or are related to: defects in sperm transport, sperm capacitation, the acrosome reaction, binding/penetration of the zona pellucida, and/or fusion with the oocyte vitelline membrane. All of these steps are essential to normal fertility.
Strict criteria sperm morphology testing also greatly assists with selecting the most cost-effective in vitro sperm processing and insemination treatment for the couple's IVF cycle. Sperm with severe head abnormalities cannot bind to the zona pellucida. These patients require intracytoplasmic sperm injection in association with their IVF cycle to ensure optimal levels of fertilization are achieved. This, in turn, provides the patient with the best chance of pregnancy.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Categorizing sperm according to strict criteria based on measurements of head and tail sizes and shapes. Sperm with abnormalities in head/tail size/shape are not capable of completing critical steps in sperm transport and fertilization. Therefore, the test is useful in diagnosing male infertility.
Selecting the most cost-effective therapy for treating male-factor infertility
Quantifying the number of germinal and WBCs per mL of semen. High numbers of germinal cells and WBCs are indicative of possible disorders in spermatogenesis and genital tract infection, respectively.
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Normal forms:
Germinal Cells:
-<4.00 x 10(6)/mL semen: normal
-> or =4.00 x 10(6)/mL semen: indicative of a possible disorder in spermatogenesis
-<1.00 x 10(6)/mL semen: normal
-> or =1.00 x 10(6)/mL semen: indicative of a possible genital tract infection
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Conventional semen analysis (#81641 Semen Analysis) should be performed in conjunction with each strict criteria sperm morphology.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
Normal forms
> or =4.5%
Germinal cells/mL
<4.00 x 10(6) (normal)
> or =4.00 x 10(6) (Elevated germinal cells in semen are of unknown clinical significance.)
<1.00 x 10(6) (normal)
> or =1.00 x 10(6) (Elevated white blood cells in semen are of questionable clinical significance.)
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
Kruger Morphology Conference, Boston, MA, October 9, 1993

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this one kid is playing all of the instruments on this Boston classic tune and I have yet to master the comb and wax paper.
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This video: A cover version of Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" presented in split screen. Jon Baglo playing all the instruments. Spencer Needham doing all the bg vocals. And featuring the amazing David Steele on lead vocal. Here's David's web site: http://www.e-session-singer.com/ Note re: the drums... You're hearing take two... a continuous performance with no punch-ins or fixes. Unfortunately, I could not be there to videotape it. So Jon did ONE more take just for the video camera. Hence the discrepancies . I'd say 3 or 4 mismatches during a re-enactment of over 7.5 minutes of drumming is pretty good. Recording engineer: Jon Baglo. Mix engineer: Dale Baglo. Steadicam & video editing: Dale Baglo. Jon is forming a band: "Subject Zero" Become a fan here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Subject-Zero/104044562967334?ref=ts
http://www.youtube.com/v/6H57pWC5rvkWow... that kid is amazing! He can't be much older than mid to late teens... and loaded with musical and instrumental talents. CRAZY!
As some of you know, I'm one of the biggest Boston fans on the planet... so for that young lad to pull off a "one man band" rendition of, perhaps, the greatest song ever (a personal favorite of mine)... it just blows me away. It wasn't perfect, but damn... it was impressive to say the least. If he don't already have an agent after that youtube release, then, it's official... nothing makes sense anymore and there is no more justice in America.
I must agree he is one of the most talented kids I've ever heard doing a cover ... but that he plays all the instruments is freaking mind blowing - hell, I can't even play the kazoo and to think today is National Kazoo Day. Not to be overlooked is the vocal arrangements of David Steele and Spencer Needham.
Equally as impressive to me is the cover of Kansas' Carry on my Wayward Son which I have linked for people's convenience.
NEWS UPDATE: Jon is touring with Funk Vigilante in July. For cities/dates: http://www.funkvigilante.com. This video: New STEREO mix, with brighter, better picture. Jon's One Man Band covers the Kansas hit. Jon plays all the instruments, and Spencer does all the vocals. (original file was uploaded August 2007, 4 months after Jon turned 16)
http://www.youtube.com/v/QfEyZH9DGGMAnother one man band
Another cover song... this time up, it's "Lady" by the Little River Band (1978). The audio was recorded and mixed on the night before Thanksgiving. The video was shot the day after Thanksgiving. A better quality audio file (stereo mp3) is available here if anyone is interested: http://www.imaginary-friend.com/files/youtube/lady.mp3 -Jeff PS - to those with sensitive ears, apologies for my slightly out-of-tune piano...
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Students propose Leavey Esplanade for alternative Georgetown Day
Posted by: Vanya Mehta and Rachel Calvert in News, Vox Populi, tags: Alternative Georgetown Day, Facebook, Student Affairs, Take Back Georgetown DayWednesday night at 10pm, "Saxa Silence Dogood" and "Cura P. Workinggroup"—ostensibly Georgetown students—created an event called "Georgetown Day Study Group on Leavey Esplanade." Within the span of three hours, 1,000 had clicked "attending."
Although the maximum capacity of the Leavey Esplanade remains unclear, it was probably not calculated to include a sixth of the student body—plus kegs and kiddie pools. Or kiddie pools filled with beer. But where there's a will, there's a way. If nothing else, Georgetown Day roamers have the will to study.
In any case, given the administration's resolve to kill all the fun hamper the Georgetown Day festivities, a thousand students and counting are in the market for an alternative to the nostalgic fun-fest fostered by inflatables on the lawn.
Submitted for your enjoyment, dear readers, are some highlights from the "Study Group" wall:
The event creators refer to themselves as "The Committee."
Videos posted: "(You Gotta) Fight for your Right (to Party!)" by the Beastie Boys, and "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister, and "Fuck the Police" by N.W.A.
Hashtags employed: #De-OccupyHealylawn, #hoyapride
And, last but not least, our beloved Derrik Sweeney (COL '13) encourages the comparison to the Egyptian revolution:
As of 2:12am, 1,174 clicked "attending" on the event page.
Meme: John Sapunor
Editor's note: This post has been updated to spell two real students' names correctly. The Voice sincerely hopes the two weren't offended by our error.


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guy: "who is most powerful, Duan yu, xu zhu, or sweeper monk?"
JY : sweeper monk.
guy: what about xiao feng, zhang wu ji, and sweeper monk?
JY: sweeper monk.
guy: GJ, YG or Sweeper Monk?
guy: really?
JY: no you idiot, sweeper monk.
hahhaah...well somebody did ask who was stronger between the TL 3 brothers and SW. S.W was the answer(obviously), however, I was surprised that SM had> inner power than even XZ...wonder how that's even possible.
wow..04-08....4 years just like that..time flies..
I'm going to bust out my camera and start snapping away. Surely the last photos of the famous Jin Yong should be worth something.
RE: Chance Encounter
It's been floating around for a while...even posted on this site.....
Part I was talking about.
wow..04-08....4 years just like that..time flies..
No, that shows Sweeper Monk is the strongest, but not for every individual category.
Following up on this rather insanely amusing scenario, which of the two camps is more likely to lose their minds and actually physically assault Jin Yong over this: the Gwok Jing fans or the Yeung Gor fans? Or are both camps equally crazy?
^ how about the Yg/Xln anti-fans? I'd be more than willing to send Jy's teeth flying outta his mouth for writing such a dumbas$ novel that is Shen diao xia lv, of course on the condition that i am not to be charged w/ any kind of offence.
Yeah i agree with this. There's no point in answering this Q because it'll effectively kill off one of the great JY mysteries. There might be significantly less wuxia internet activity if JY answers all the mysteries in his novels.
Jin Yong: You know, deadlines, deadlines. Didn't have enough time to fix everything. Those marketing PR guys were also pressuring me to appeal to teeny bopper wuxia audience. You know how much pressure i was under?? How the f am i supposed to know what teeny bopper wuxia fans like? So yes, i created some half-*** characters and a half-*** storyline, but don't tell anybody ok? ROCH made me millions muahahahaha.I wouldn't go *that* far, but after I dragged Jin Yong out from under the pile and rushed him to safety, I'd ask him, "Dude...you've written so many great novels with so many great characters. How the hell did you FAIL SO HARD with this novel?"
He could just say "they are about the same".
TC to Ken: "You need to watch the ending of ROCH 83."
This is what I visualize the Jin Yong Q&A session looking like.
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April vacation is over, and I have to say that this was one of the most enjoyable vacations we have had. I think the warm weather made a huge difference, no one was freezing. I planned a trip to NYC as it was something that was relatively close to home and didn't require any flights, and easier than Disney. Oddly enough it seemed like everyone I knew was also in the city, but as schedules had it, we never connected. I had girlfriends each going at a different time, and they sent me texts or called to give me the heads up on various activities that were either a yeah or neigh.
So I am going to run down my list of the top things that we did in NYC and also the things that we didn't get to do but have to save for another visit.
What a ball we had here. Just be warned it is very expensive. It is about $36 for an adult and $26 for kids. Before you go, get a coupon on line to save yourself about 20%. We made the mistake of going later in the evening and the kids were exhausted but thrilled just the same. They loved seeing Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber and I was just as happy posing with The Backstreet Boys and Madonna. You walk through at your leisure and it finished with a 4D movie for Happy Feet 2. I will say that it was worth the cost on this one.
A giant carousel in Toys R Us in Times Square, what could be better. For $5 per person you get to go around about 6 times, which was about 10 minutes or so. From up high you can see the whole store and everything that is happening on the floors which is quite a lot. A animated giant T-Rex in Jurassic Park and live superheroes in the store who you can have your picture taken with. The kids were thrilled and I too felt like a kid. Fun Fun Fun!


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After hearing of Romeo's death, Sasha seeks comfort from Spencer. But Spencer's distracted and Sasha's hurt that he's so indifferent to her grief.
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As Spencer and Sasha try to study, Sasha is distracted by his un-focused behaviour and leaves. But as Spencer tries to follow her, he sees Josh with Maddy and immediately lunges at him.
After Evelyn runs away, Oscar returns to the room to find Zac still out cold. When Hannah returns, Zac wakes up and they try to decide what do next.
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Dex tries to tell April that he has fixed the situation with Dr Bradley, by quitting his job, but she misunderstands and thinks that he has finally stood up to her.
Heath shows up and Bianca's annoyed that he's been AWOL the last couple of days. But Heath's more annoyed to discover Tamara and Kyle have broken up.
As Chris struggles with his failed relationship with Hudson, and Rhiannon wrestles with the new life a job with Paul offers, Sheila is frustrated by her inability to get through to either of them.
Casey feels betrayed that Brax has left town, while Ricky realises it's time to ask Tamara to talk to Casey.
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Superstar Aamir Khan is in Tezpur, Assam with wife Kiran Rao and son Azad to bring in Kiran Rao's 40th birthday. He was accompanied by director Ayan Mukherjee, filmmaker Karan Johar and music director Salem. They all stayed in a resort inside Nameri National Park in Sonitpur district.


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Austrian actor
Karl Markovics
began signing for onscreen work in the early '90s -- typically in projects in his native country -- and became immediately known for performances and characterizations of marked intensity in such continental productions as
Helmut Dietl
Late Show
(1999, a supporting turn) and
Houchang Allahyari
Geboren in Absurdistan
received lead billing in the latter -- a black comedy about a member of the Australian government who sternly opposes immigration and becomes implicated in a horrid mix-up involving the swap of his newborn baby with a Turkish infant at the local hospital. The actor achieved some international crossover success that same year, with a small role in
Stefan Ruzowitzky
's farce
All the Queen's Men
(2001), but really only came to the forefront of public attention with his lead in the arthouse hit
The Counterfeiters
(2007). In the latter -- a bleak WWII-era drama --
played an artist willingly tapped by the Nazis to use his penmanship for dark and nefarious means. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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A young man who has developed an awareness of death wants to learn the secret history of his own life in this drama. Nineteen-year-old Roman Kogler (Thomas Schubert) has spent four years in a detention center for teens after being implicated in the death of another boy. Roman is thoughtful but withdrawn, making few friends with his fellow inmates and keeping his distance from the chaos that surrounds him. Roman's parole officer (Gerhard Liebmann) is trying to prepare him for his eventual freedom, and has made several efforts to place him in a work-release program, but Roman has a hard time readjusting to the outside world and getting along with others. Running out of opportunities, Roman is given a position at a mortuary, helping move and prepare recently arrived corpses, and while it doesn't seem to be a job that would agree with anyone, Roman unexpectedly bonds with his stern and sometimes contrary co-workers, and comes to respect the importance of their work. One day, Roman has to help with the body of a middle-aged woman named Kogler, and he begins to wonder if she's the woman who gave him up for adoption when he was an infant. While Roman's research soon confirms the woman was no relation to him, it sparks a keen interest in finding out more about the mother he's never known. Atmen (aka Breathing) was the first directorial credit for respected Austrian actor Karl Markovics; the film received its world premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight program. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Liam Neeson headlines this thriller about a prominent doctor on a business trip to Germany when he awakens from a coma to find that another man has stolen his identity and taken over his life. Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) has just arrived in Berlin to deliver an important presentation when he realizes that his briefcase has gone missing, and leaves his wife, Elizabeth (January Jones), at their hotel to try and retrieve it. During his cab ride back to the airport, however, a serious car accident lands Dr. Harris in the hospital, where he lies in a coma for four days. Upon awakening, Dr. Harris is horrified to discover that every relic of his identity has been completely erased. His shock is soon compounded when, upon seeking out his wife at a lavish party, another man (Aidan Quinn) appears by her side claiming to be the real Dr. Martin Harris, and requests that hotel security protect them from the unstable "imposter." Facing total denial from everyone he turns to, Dr. Harris gets a tip from a sympathetic nurse to seek out the assistance of Ernst Jürgen (Bruno Ganz), the former head of the German Secret Police, who implores him to track down Gina (Diane Kruger), the illegal immigrant taxi driver who narrowly saved his life, and may hold the answers to all of his questions. Now, the closer Dr. Harris gets to solving the mystery, the greater the danger becomes until the astonishing truth is revealed, plunging him into a desperate race against time. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his creativity for more nefarious means. Arrested by the police inspector Herzog (Devid Striesow) at the onset of World War II, Sorowitsch is sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. It's not long before Salomon's thinly veiled opportunism earns him a relatively comfortable position as the camp's resident sketch artist, and five years later he is mysteriously swept away to Sachsenhausen. Upon arriving at the camp, Sorowitsch discovers that Herzog, now a commandant, is attempting to destabilize the economies of the Allies while simultaneously funding the Nazi war machine by assembling a special team of counterfeit artists to create millions in fraudulent pounds and dollars. As the operation gets under way, Sorowitsch finds the efforts of the team continually undermined by unyieldingly idealistic collotype specialist Adolf Burger (August Diehl). In the months that follow, the team wrestles with their consciences as Axis forces are gradually overwhelmed by Allied might. The Counterfeiters won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to transmit their most sensitive secret information. A working Enigma machine would be invaluable to the Allied cause; O'Rourke is able to obtain a machine, but Col. Aiken (Edward Fox), a British officer whose stiff upper lip sometimes overwhelms his common sense, mistakes O'Rourke for a plunderer and destroys the previous gadget, which is hidden in a typewriter. An altercation with Aiken lands O'Rourke in military prison, but he's released in time to carry out a new plan to obtain an Enigma for Allied use. A small factory has been set up in rural Germany to build the machines, which is entirely staffed by women, so O'Rourke, communications expert Johnno (David Birkin), and veteran intelligence man Archie (James Cosmo) are to infiltrate the plant disguised as women, with Tony (Eddie Izzard), an agent who moonlights as a drag performer, giving the men a crash course in looking and acting like women. All the Queen's Men also features Nicolette Krebitz as Romy, a double agent working at the Enigma plant, and Udo Kier as Lansdorf, a Nazi general. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Politically enforced racial prejudice is parodied in this dark comedy from Austria. Stefan (Karl Markovics) is a bureaucrat with the Austrian government who supervises immigration issues; Stefan's politics lean rather strongly to the right and he has little use for people from abroad. Stefan and his wife Marion (Julia Stemberger) are expecting a baby, and when Marion goes into labor, she arrives at the hospital's maternity ward at the same time as Emine (Meltem Cumbul) and her husband Emre (Ahmet Ugurlu), a couple of Turkish birth who are also about to have a child. Marion and Emine end up sharing a room, leading to an argument between Stefan and Emre. Emre's quarrel with Stefan turns out to be an omen of things to come; though he and his wife have been living in Austria for close to ten years, a mix-up with the immigration department forces the couple and their young child to return to Turkey. However, a nurse at the hospital informs Marion of a terrible mistake -- she was accidentally given Emine's baby, and vice versa, and so Stefan and Marion travel to Turkey, hoping to track down the recently deported couple and exchange their children. Geboren in Absurdistan was directed by Allahyari Houchang, who began his career in Iran before relocating to Vienna in the wake of the Islamic revolution. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Two top German television personalities star in this comedy in which they parody the entertainment industry, as well as their own on-air personalities. In Cologne, Germany, the Tele-C network is in deep trouble -- they're stuck in the ratings cellar, the star of their most popular show has just quit, and the moneymen are not at all happy. Program director Conrad Scheffer (Harald Schmidt) thinks he sees a light at the end of the tunnel when he meets the partner of his assistant, Carla Sperling (Jasmin Tabatabai). Hannes Engel (Thomas Gottschalk) is a handsome and personable disc jockey working at a small radio station in the country, and Conrad is convinced he'd be perfect for television. All Conrad has to do is (a) convince Hannes to take the job, (b) get Carla over her belief that Hannes would be making a horrible mistake by going into television, and (c) get the network's current talk show host out of the way. Schmidt and Gottschalk have been called the Jay Leno and David Letterman of German TV, and their presence together made this comedy something of an event in its home country. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Politics of Lifestyle
The speculative focus on "the gay lifestyle" casts light on the very nature of epidemiological science. When a mysterious illness appears in a specific social group, it makes eminent sense to ask what distinguishes that group from others not affected, or less affected, by the illness. The difficulty is that the isolation of "difference" presupposes a common understanding of what constitutes the "background" against which this difference stands out. In this sense, epidemiology is inevitably a "normalizing" science, employing—and reinforcing—unexamined notions of normality to measure and classify deviations from the norm.[14] Faced with a "gay disease," epidemiologists immediately fastened upon the most sensational markers of homosexual difference, trumpeting the cases of men with histories of thousands of sexual partners, while ignoring the cases, also reported by clinicians from the very beginning, of gay men who were monogamous or who engaged in relatively modest amounts of sexual experimentation.[15]
With the advantage of hindsight, it is easy to recognize that the initial link between gay men and the new syndrome—while certainly the single most consequential aspect of the social construction of the epidemic—in fact reflected the confounding influences of what Irving Zola has called the "pathways" from doctor to patient. As Zola concluded from a more general study, it is often the case that apparent epidemiological differences in the incidence of some medical conditions actually derive from "factors of selectivity and attention which get people and their episodes into medical statistics..."[16] There are important reasons why people do or do not seek medical help, yet, as Eliot Freidson has noted, the doctor tends to "assume that the cases he sees are no different from those he does not. And so he develops conceptions of illness that may have an inaccurate and artificial relationship to the world."[17]
To put it simply, some people get better medical attention, which means that medical professionals "attend" to their "unique" conditions. In New York City, if not elsewhere, it appears likely that there were at least as many cases of pneumocystis pneumonia among injection drug users as among gay men at the time of he discovery of the syndrome.[18] But gay men, some of them affluent and relatively privileged, found their way into private doctors' offices and prominent teaching hospitals—and from there into the pages of medical
journals—while drug users often sickened and died with little fanfare. Even as cases among injection drug users began to be reported, the "gay disease" frame for understanding the epidemic was already falling into place. Colloquially, the epidemic became known among some medical professionals and researchers in early 1982 as "GRID": Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.[19]
The power of frames as organizers of experience is precisely that they work to exclude alternative ways of interpreting an experience.[20] Because "GRID" was a "gay disease," medical practitioners and researchers sometimes resisted the idea that it might appear elsewhere, and those who proposed that the epidemic could affect other people risked being discredited within the scientific community.[21] Randy Shilts described how, throughout 1981, "there was a reluctance [at the CDC] to believe that intravenous drug users might be wrapped into this epidemic, and the New York physicians also seemed obsessed with the gay angle.…" "He says he's not homosexual, but he must be," doctors would confide to one another. One New York pediatrician was rediculed for his contention as early as 1981 that he was seeing children suffering from the same immune dysfunction as homosexual patients.[22]
But the differences in access to health care and the accident of the initial discovery of the syndrome among gay men are not adequate to account for the potency of this frame or the ease with which it fell into place. If gay men were perceived as plausible victims of a medical syndrome, it was in part because in the medical literature their sexualized lifestyle was already depicted as medically problematic. On one hand, epidemiologists and clinicians were genuinely surprised by the appearance of such devastating illness among "previously healthy" homosexual men. On the other hand, they were quick to make use of the existing stock of medical knowledge linking gay men with disease—specifically, the literature on sexually transmitted diseases among gay men that was published in the years just prior to, or coincident with, the onset of the epidemic.[23] This literature, which was often cited by early medical claims-makers discussing the new epidemic of immune dysfunction,[24] described an explosion of venereal diseases among gay men, the apparent aftermath of the "sexual revolution" and gay liberation. Concluding that homosexuality must be considered a risk factor in infectious disease, these articles stressed the need for clinicians to confront what one referred to as "homosexual hazards."[25]
Of course, modern conceptions of gay identity have always been
partially medicalized. The very term "homosexual" dates from the nineteenth-century literature of doctors and sexologists. Gay identities have been formed, over the past one hundred years, through the dialectical interplay between an affirmative process of self-definition by homosexuals and the imposition of models by various groups of expert claims-makers.[26] In this sense, what is ironic about the medicalization of gay male sexuality in the years just prior to the gay beginning of the epidemic is that is presupposed the successes of the gay movement, which were in part directed against an earlier medicalization (or "psychiatrization"). In opposition to a conception of homosexuality as a "mental illness," gay activists had put forward a positive conception of gay identity and the gay community. And in fact, the new medical discourse on gay men took as its starting point a particularly recent conception of the "lifestyle" of the urban gay male; this discourse marked the entry of the modern "gay community" into medical history.
While it cannot be doubted that doctors were genuinely concerned with treating the venereal diseases of gay men, the issue was framed in particular ways that influenced medical perceptions of homosexuality. First, the key phrases that were used—"homosexual hazards," "gay bowel syndrome," "homosexuality as a risk factor"—posed the problem essentially as one of identity and "lifestyle," rather thatn contraction of specific infections.[27] (It seems far less likely that any medical journal would refer to "heterosexual hazards.") Second, the use of abstract, universalizing terms such as "the gay way of life" masked the considerable diversity of the life experiences and sexual practices of gay men;[28] such stereotypes obscured the fact that researchers had made no attempt even to define, let alone systematically sample, the communities they characterized with rather sweeping generalizations.[29]
Yet this was the understanding of gay male sexuality that informed medical speculation in the early days of AIDS. To be sure, the reasoning behind the immune overload hypothesis was not irrational, and the hypothesis was not absurd: after all, the epidemic was being observed mainly among gay men; many of these men did have many sexual partners; many sexually active gay men were known to contract sexually transmitted diseases, as well as use poppers and other drugs. But the strength of the resulting hypothesis depended on a long chain of implicit assumptions—that the syndrome was in essence linked to homosexuals (and the cases among heterosexuals could be explained
away); that the link to gay men meant that the epidemic was related to gay men's sexuality; that if gay men (by this view) were "promiscuous," then the illness must be a consequence of their promiscuity; and crucially, that repeated exposure to sexually transmitted pathogens (and to drugs) was actually capable of causing the immune system damage being observed. Furthermore, there was the assumption that the recent reported increases in rates of sexually transmitted disease and of drug use among gay men were indeed of sufficient magnitude to explain why the syndrome was emerging when it was.
As an initial hypothesis, immune overload was probably no more or less reasonable than many in the history of epidemiology or medical science. Nor was it ever hegemonic. For example, the first editorial on the syndrome in Lancet, the influential British medical journal, speculated on everything from "new or unrecognised environmental pollutants" to "even another infective agent";[30] and such conjecture continued in the medical and scientific literature throughout 1982 and 1983. where "immune overload" (or, more generally, what Murray and Payne call the "promiscuity paradigm")[31] exerted its greatest influence was outside the world of mainstream scientific practice. Reinforced by the mainstream media and filtering out into diverse arenas, the idea of a linkage between homosexuality, promiscuity, and illness informed an emergent sensibility about the syndrome—a vision, sometimes an unarticulated perception, of the epidemic as somehow the product of "the homosexual lifestyle." At times it has been voiced as a direct accusation: as late as October 1987, North Carolina's Jesse Helms could stand on the U.S. Senate floor and proclaim that "every case of AIDS can be traced back to a homosexual act."[32] The notion that gays brought on the AIDS epidemic—and should be held responsible for having done so—has persisted long after the decline of mainstream biomedical support for etiological arguments focusing on "the gay lifestyle."
The idea that homosexuality "causes" AIDS also indicates the tangle of meanings packed into one short word—"cause"—and the difficulties involved in carrying out a conversation about causation that cuts across a range of lay and specialist communities. As Jana Armstrong has observed, "the word `cause' is embedded in the language of public policy, the language of cell biology, the language of epidemiology. But the word does not mean the same thing in every instance of its use."[33] Even a glance at a medical dictionary generates confusion: one such dictionary distinguishes between constitutional causes, exciting causes, immediate or precipitating causes, local causes, predisposing
causes, primary causes, proximate causes, remote causes, secondary causes, specific causes, and ultimate causes.[34] ("Etiology" fares little better, since the definition of that term points back to the word "cause.")
Generally speaking, medical doctors were interested in finding a "primary cause"; that is, "the principal factor contributing to the production of a specific result"—in this case, the destruction of cell-mediated immune responses. But epidemiologists, in their focus on identifying risk groups, were in effect concerned significantly with "predisposing causes": "anything that renders a person more liable to a specific condition without actually producing it." Outside of the medical and scientific professions, the various usages of the word "cause" not only blurred these meanings but embedded notions of causation within a more general vocabulary of moral blame. Like cholera epidemics, which in the nineteenth-century United States were blamed on the squalid lifestyle of the poor;[35] like gonorrhea, once regarded even by doctors as arising "from the continual irritation and excitement of the generative organs" of prostitutes;[36] like smallpox and leprosy, which were blamed on the "unclean" practices of the U.S. Chinese population in the late nineteenth century;[37] the genesis of the new epidemic of immune dysfunction was considered all too often with a view to assigning culpability. Partly through the power of the medical definitional process, partly through the ideological work of the opponents of gay liberation, gay men increasingly came to be equated with the emergent epidemic—it came to constitute part of their social identity.


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'Outerbridge: Clockwork Mysteries'
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The Montréal Gazette calls Ted and Marion Outerbridge "the most successful magicians in Canada." Starring in the award-winning show, Outerbridge: Clockwork Mysteries, the husband and wife team take audience members on an awe-inspiring journey through time. Featuring world-class lighting and more than 20 custom-designed illusions — including giant clock faces and an elaborate Victorian time machine — this well-orchestrated production fuses magic, dance and theater. Made for the stage, the couple's chemistry and knack for entertainment is evident in each choreographed move. They draw on these attributes when performing split-second acts that render viewers of all ages spellbound.


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Oildale Celebrates its Centennial
How YOU Can Participate!
2009 is the Year of Oildale: at least this is the year Oildale is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What's so special about Oildale? In May 1899, brothers James and Jonathan Elwood discovered oil on the north bank of the Kern River in what came to be called Oildale. By October of that year, Bakersfield had become a boomtown, and a trading center developed around Oil Center, renamed Oildale in 1916. Schools, stores, a post office, churches, and oil lease housing sprang up, and by 1912, there were some 10,000 workers in the oil industry there.
What does Oildale have to do with us? CSUB is collaborating with the Oildale Centennial project to deepen our understanding of this community, which has been such an important part of local history for over a century. From the oil industry, and Basque sheepherders, to a WWII spy program at Minter Airfield, and the development of a unique style of country music called the Bakersfield Sound, Oildale has contributed enormously to the culture, development and economy of this region. Oildale has also produced several individuals who have made their mark nationally, including author Gerald Haslam (Workin' Man Blues, among others), Richard Cook (CEO of Disney) Merle Haggard of country music fame, and Kevin Harvick (top 10 in NASCAR).
As part of our work with the Oildale Centennial project, the CSUB History Department is making plans to sponsor a conference on Oildale's history in fall 2009. We are thus encouraging students, especially those with an interest in local history and in research, to sign up for HIST 499 with Prof. Jeanne Harrie (Chair) for spring. (Graduate students will sign up for HIST 699.) You may earn up to five units of credit for your work, though fewer units may be negotiated. Ultimately you might have the chance to present your work at our fall conference! See the announcement in this newsletter about how to sign up.


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Henrico Earns SNAP Hunger Award
Henrico County was among the recipients of the Bronze Hunger Champion Award as part of the 2010 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), announced last month by the USDA. Award recipients were cited for demonstrating exemplary service, conducting outreach activities and assisting eligible clients to obtain nutrition benefits.
"Putting healthy food within reach for low income Americans has never been more important," said USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon. "These local offices have gone the extra mile to reach out to and educate needy members of their communities about the nutrition benefits of SNAP and how to apply. Through innovative strategies and creative partnerships, these honorees serve as models for local offices across the country." Two jurisdictions, including the Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services, earned the Gold Hunger Champions award, the highest award presented. Five jurisdictions won Silver awards, and 23 earned Bronze awards. USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) oversees the administration of 15 nutrition assistance programs that touch the lives of one in four Americans over the course of a year. These programs work in concert to form a national safety net against hunger. SNAP, the largest program, serves nearly 42 million people each month putting healthy food within reach for low-income Americans nationwide. Visit http://www.fns.usda.gov for information about FNS and the USDA nutrition assistance programs. |
Varina's Big Toy parade to help usher in holiday season
In Varina, one of the most anticipated events of the season is approaching. The 19th Annual Big Toy Parade will return on Dec 14, offering a "homey," small-town feel that helps elicit holiday spirit among participants and spectators alike.
The parade, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the Battlefield Ruritans and Henrico County Parks and Recreation and is held in conjunction with the James River Boat Parade. It is led by a grand marshal along Old Osborne Turnpike and ends at the Osborne Boat Landing, where hundreds of community members gather to await nightfall and the arrival of lighted boats, concluding a festive holiday celebration. > Read more.
Strikers, Kickers form partnership
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
Gettin' piggy with it at Henricus
Photo by Roger Walk for the Henrico Citizen 11/24/2013
Henricus Historical Park has a new, messy guest. Eleanor, a rare five-month-old Tamworth pig, was donated this month to the Chesterfield park by the Chesterfield County Farm Bureau as part of an effort to enhance the living history museum's partnership with the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. Eleanor and her livestock pig and goat neighbors at the park will be a special attraction for the schoolchildren and others who visit the Henricus Historical Park. Eventually, she will triple from her current 150-pound weight and grow to about two feet tall. > Read more.
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Holiday events are in full swing this weekend in eastern Henrico! The Henrico Theatre will show the holiday classic "Elf" and the Concert Ballet of Virginia will perform a shortened version of "The Nutcracker" at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center. On Sunday the North Airport Drive Civic Association's annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place at Fire Station #3. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Restaurant watch
Find out how your favorite dining establishments fared during their most recent inspections by the Virginia Department of Health. > Read more.
AMC television series seeks background actors
The new AMC television series "TURN" is currently being filmed in and around Richmond, and casting officials are seeking background actors to appear on screen.
"The background actors are profoundly important to the filmmaking process," said Erica Arvold, casting director. "The show takes place during the Revolutionary War, and background actors contribute to the atmosphere of that era." > Read more.
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Over the past few weeks, we've seen a lot of Christmas-themed Blu-rays released. With just a week left in the shopping season, it looks like the studios have wrapped up the holiday releases. Now, we're left with a little music, a little drama, and a lot of one Wimpy Kid.
This week's spotlight may seem like a shocker. Well actually, it's more of a thriller. It's Arbitrage. The critically acclaimed thriller includes Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth. However, if you aren't the type that can enjoy a good Wall Street-themed thriller, know that this week is probably the best-rounded week that we've seen in a while. Look for the ultimate sing-off, a sci-fi remake, one wimpy kid, a mellow Clint Eastwood, and one hilarious, highly offensive TV family.
Did we miss one of your favorites for the week? Have something to say about one of this week's new releases? Sound off in the comments below. Otherwise, all of these titles are out now, except where noted. Enjoy!
Check out our Blu-ray Picks for the Week of December 18, 2012.
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Hey guys and gals, having a problem with my transmission. Was driving to the store and stopped at a light. When i went to take off, my truck didn't want to go. Felt like it never downshifted from OD as i approached the light and stayed in that gear. The take off was real slow. Checked the fluid and that was good. Was reading a few posts on here stating that the fluid will smell like sh** if it was bad, and no odd smell.
Drove it today and it started fine. I turned around and headed back home, and it started doing it again. Seems like it gets stuck in drive, and never shifts to over drive. I will run at 55mph, and my rmps will be at 2500. I had this problem a few years ago, and a tranny flush and filter change did the trick. Maybe the same problem? It is the original transmission and has never had work done to it, outside the fluid change. Maybe a solenoid?
The transmission would usually shift hard going into second. Not real hard, but not smooth like the others shifts. When cold it would also take a while to shift to OD. So maybe a rebuild or new tranny is needed?
Also, probably a stupid question but is it safe to drive when if it does not shift to OD? The manual says to just use drive when towing heavy loads so I would imagine it would be?-K&N Air Filter
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Ok quick ? Do you have a remote start in that truck? What year is it?
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01-20-2013, 02:51 PM #3No remote starter. Its a 94k1500 with 167,9xx miles.
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01-20-2013, 03:04 PM #5Nope, just stays in that one gear and reverse.
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I'm not a Trans pro.. I do know when the trans went on my 02 Avalanche It was a Ing Mod that went and locked up the truck in 3rd and 4th.
01-21-2013, 03:32 PM #7Drove her to Advanced Auto to see if they could run it on their computer. Shifted fine, even had to use 4wd to get out of my apt complex. They couldnt because its a 94, and their tool can only do a 95 and newer. Rats, just my luck lol. They did recommend me to a shop, so went there and they were too busy to scan it at the moment, so I am going back tomorrow after work. With it shifting fine, I'm just going to have them them do a flush, filter change, and solenoid.
Is it safe to drive with it being a hit and miss? I drove my camaro to work last night and boy did the drive home suck. Tonight is expected to be worse, so I would much rather drive my truck then car.
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