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The use of human papillomavirus DNA testing plus Papanicolaou (Pap) testing (cotesting) for cervical cancer screening in women 30 years and older has been recommended since 2006. However, few studies have detailed the adoption of such cotesting in clinical practice. We examined the trends in monthly percentage of Pap tests ordered as cotests in our laboratory over a 2.5-year period and used joinpoint regression to identify periods in which there was a change in the average monthly proportion of cotests. Cotesting of patients 30 years and older increased from 15.9% in January 2008 to 39.4% in June 2010. In patients aged 18 to 29 years, cotesting initially increased, but showed a downward trend in the last 14 months of the study, ending at 7.7% in June 2010. Our study highlights increased adoption of age-appropriate cotesting as well as the persistence of age-inappropriate cotesting.
Clinical practice guidelines are established by professional organizations to aid clinical decision making by recommending management that maximizes patient benefit while minimizing harm and providing the most cost-effective care. In the United States, several such sets of clinical practice guidelines exist for cervical cancer screening with Papanicolaou (Pap) testing and high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing, as well as for clinical management of uterine cervical abnormalities. One of these is a set of consensus guidelines developed by The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) in 2001,1 and updated in 2006.2 Interim guidelines were issued by the ASCCP in 20043 endorsing the use of HPV testing in conjunction with cervical cytologic tests in women aged 30 years or older, referred to as "cotesting," after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved this use of the HPV test. Routine HPV testing of negative cytologic specimens in women younger than age 30 years is of low clinical usefulness given the high prevalence of HPV infections, most of which will spontaneously resolve, in the adolescent and young adult population in the United States.4 Thus HPV cotesting with a normal Pap test result among patients aged less than 30 years is not an FDA-approved use of the HPV test, nor is it endorsed by the ASCCP guidelines.
In addition, the 2006 ASCCP guidance recommends that women who are cotested and have negative findings on both the Pap and HPV tests should not be rescreened before 3 years, because the combined negative predictive value for the 2 tests is higher than 99%.3,5 The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) endorsed the 2006 ASCCP recommendations in a practice bulletin in December 2009.6 The American Cancer Society (ACS) issued provisional recommendations in 2002, with FDA approval, that support the use of cotesting as an option for cervical cancer screening.7
Most assessments of provider ordering practices in gynecologic cytology and HPV testing reported to date are based on self-reported data from provider surveys, many using case vignettes,8–11 rather than on actual testing patterns observed from the laboratory perspective. A few studies have used laboratory data to evaluate cervical cancer screening practices, including an earlier study from our institution which reported that the overall proportion of HPV cotesting in women over age 30 years (from February 2004–December 2007) was 7.8% and that the proportion of Pap tests ordered as a cotest reached a plateau of approximately 13% by the end of the study period.12 Another study that used laboratory data to evaluate HPV ordering practices found that 23% of HPV tests ordered in the course of 1 year were inappropriate and unnecessary according to the ASCCP guidelines.13
The objective of this study was to extend our observation of trends in ordering practices for Pap tests and associated HPV tests and to further assess temporal changes in the cervical cancer screening practices based on specimens submitted to our laboratory. We used 2.5 years of specimen data from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Division of Cytopathology in Baltimore, MD.
Materials and Methods
Data were retrieved from the Pathology Data System (PDS), which is an internally developed laboratory information system administrated by the Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) Department of Pathology. In this study, we extracted PDS data that included Pap specimens processed by the JHH Division of Cytopathology and HPV tests processed by the JHH Division of Microbiology. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board determined the study to be "exempt human subjects research" and the requirement to obtain informed consent was waived.
A statistical programmer deidentified the PDS data to create a limited dataset for the analysis. The limited dataset contained all liquid-based Pap specimens processed by the JHH Division of Cytopathology from January 1, 2008, to June 30, 2010 (n = 75,396). All Pap specimens were processed using SurePath (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ), and for each Pap specimen, the dataset included a unique specimen identifier, a unique patient identifier, date the Pap specimen was taken, Pap diagnosis, HPV test result if ordered, and clinic from which the specimen originated. In addition, for each specimen, the patient's age, race, sex, home ZIP code, and health insurance type were collected. Pap diagnoses were categorized as "negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (negative)," "atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS)," "atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC-H)," "low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL)," high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL)," "low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, cannot exclude high grade (LSIL-H)," "atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS)," "squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)," "adenocarcinoma (ADCA)", and "specimen unsatisfactory/discarded." HPV testing was performed using the digene HC2 HPV test (Qiagen, Gaithersburg, MD) and results were categorized as "negative," "positive," and "equivocal," based on the following cut-offs determined by the JHH Division of Microbiology: negative HPV, less than 0.85 relative light units (RLU); equivocal HPV, 0.85 to 3.0 RLU; and positive HPV, more than 3.0 RLU. Pap test specimen records were categorized based on 2 Pap test ordering codes developed internally in our laboratory indicating either "Pap test with reflex HPV only" or "Pap test with HPV (cotest)."
For the present analysis, we excluded specimens that were unsatisfactory for evaluation or discarded because of collection or labeling errors (n = 442). We excluded records with unknown patient age, those from patients younger than 18 years, and those from patients older than 89 years (n = 1,766). Records with unknown or male sex listed were eliminated (n = 314). In addition, we excluded specimens from subspecialty referral clinics (colposcopy, human immunodeficiency virus, adolescent, gynecologic oncology, n = 3,262) to reflect screening practices among healthy adult women. We also eliminated records from clinics that submitted only 1 Pap specimen during the entire study period (n = 35). Specimens that were not ordered by the clinician as either reflex or cotest were excluded from analysis (n = 7).
Patient results were categorized into the following age groups for analysis: 18 to 20 years (ie, adolescents), 21 to 29 years, and 30 years or older. These age groupings were based on the ASCCP recommendations that women younger than 21 years should not be screened with the Pap test, and if they are, and are diagnosed with an ASCUS result, they should not be tested for HPV. The ASCCP also recommends that women in the 21- to 29-year-old age group receive cytologic screening with reflex HPV testing for a Pap diagnosis of ASCUS. Cotesting is only recommended in women aged 30 years or older, because of the high prevalence of HPV infection in the younger population.
We calculated the monthly proportion of cotests for 2 age groups (18–29 and ≥30 years) by dividing the total number of Pap tests ordered as cotests by the total number of Pap tests ordered in the same age group in a given month.
To establish whether the screening interval was extended in patients having dual negative cotest findings, we tracked all patients who received a dual negative cotest result in the first year of our study (2008), and recorded all repeat Pap and HPV testing results during the remainder of the study period.
We used the Joinpoint Regression Program (Version 3.5.1, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD) to identify points at which the changes in the monthly rate of cotesting among the 2 age groups were significant. Joinpoint analysis identifies time points when a significant change in the slope of the trend is detected. Briefly, the analysis starts with 0 joinpoints (a straight line), then tests whether additional joinpoints (up to 3) are significantly different. The best-fitting model was chosen based on the Monte Carlo permutation method, which maintained an overall 2-sided P value of less than .05. All data management and analyses were conducted using Excel 2010 spreadsheets (Microsoft, Redmond, WA).
The final analytic dataset contained 69,570 Pap specimen records (92.3% of total data) from 50,392 unique patients submitted from 723 unique providers among 115 unique clinics in the Baltimore, MD, metropolitan area. The mean number of Pap test specimens submitted per patient was 1.38 (range 1–8). A total of 17,518 HPV test specimens were included in the analytic dataset. Patient demographics are highlighted in Table 1. Most of the patients were either white (41.5%) or black (43.2%), and had a home ZIP code of either Baltimore city (41.5%) or a surrounding Maryland county (43.0%).
HPV reflex testing in patients 21 years of age or older was performed on a mean of 97.2% of Pap test specimens diagnosed as ASCUS over the entire study period. HPV testing was positive in 53.9% of all ASCUS Pap tests, comparable to rates reported in other laboratories.14,15
Among patients aged 30 years and older, the mean monthly proportion of HPV cotesting was 27.7% during the entire study period. The monthly proportion of cotesting among all Pap tests in this age group was 15.9% in January 2008, and increased to 39.4% by the end of the study period, June 2010 Figure 1. The monthly proportion of cotesting peaked in February 2010, at 45.2%, and remained above 38% for the first 6 months of 2010.
Among patients in the 18- to 29-year-old age group, the mean monthly proportion of HPV cotests was 7.6% during the study period. The monthly proportion of cotesting in this age group rose from 5.3% in January 2008 to 7.7% in June 2010. This nonrecommended use of cotesting peaked in May 2009 at 11.2% but remained above 7% for the first 6 months of 2010.
For both age groups, 3 periods of monthly percent change in cotesting were identified using joinpoint regression. For patients aged 18 to 29 years, they were January 2008 to September 2008, October 2008 to April 2009, and May 2009 to June 2010. The latter 2 of these periods showed statistically significant trends. For patients aged 30 to 89 years, the 3 periods were January 2008 to January 2009, February 2009 to August 2009, and September 2009 to June 2010. One of these trends (February 2009–August 2009) was statistically significant Table 2.
For adolescent patients (18–20 years) screening with Pap and HPV testing is not recommended; a total of 4,057 Pap test specimens were submitted for this age group during the study period. Of these, 280 (6.9%) were ordered as cotests. Reflex HPV testing was performed in 387 (93.2%) of the 415 Pap test results diagnosed as ASCUS, and in 23 (82.1%) of the 28 Pap test results diagnosed as ASC-H.
To evaluate whether patients with a dual negative cotest result were being screened at a longer interval, we looked at all women who underwent cotesting in the first year of our study (2008). Of the 3,081 patients who had a dual negative cotest in the first year of the study, 785 (25.5%) underwent repeat testing during the remaining portion of the total 2.5-year study period. Of those 785 patients, the repeat Pap and HPV results remained negative in 730 patients (93.0%). Of those patients with abnormal Pap results on repeat testing, the diagnoses rendered were ASCUS (n = 18), atypical glandular cells (n = 2), and ASC-H (n = 1). No cases of LSIL, HSIL, or carcinoma were detected on repeat Pap testing.
We compared the ordering practices at the 2 clinics that submitted the 2 highest volumes of Pap test results in patients aged 30 years or older (7,188 and 4,086 Pap tests, respectively; a combined total of 23.8% of submitted Pap tests in patients aged 30 years or older). The difference in trends of ordering practices is highlighted in Figure 2. At "clinic 1," the monthly proportion of cotests ranged from 2.5% to 13.6% in women aged 30 years or older during the study period. In contrast, for "clinic 2," the monthly cotesting rate ranged from 0% to 100% during the study period, but remained above 94% from June 2009 through June 2010.
Of the 14,714 Pap tests ordered as cotests, 13,701 (93.1%) were diagnosed as negative on Pap testing, and HPV testing was positive in 6.0% of those specimens. Among women 30 years or older with negative Pap test results, the HPV positivity rate was 4.7%, comparable to previously reported rates.16,17 In women aged 18 to 29 years with negative Pap test findings, the HPV positivity rate was 18.1% Table 3.
HPV testing was performed on 402 (19.5%) of 2,065 specimens diagnosed as LSIL, LSIL-H, and HSIL, and was positive in 85.0%, 92.3%, and 84.2% of those cases, respectively. HPV testing was performed in 2 of 5 cases diagnosed as SCC and was positive in 1 of those 2 cases (Table 3).
Our study assessed cervical cancer screening practices from the laboratory perspective using records from over 69,500 Pap specimens among more than 50,000 unique patients, 115 unique clinics, and 723 unique providers. Our results show a rise in the overall proportion of cotesting in our laboratory during a course of 2.5 years, corresponding with a gradual adoption of the ASCCP practice guidelines for cervical cancer screening. However, the overall monthly proportion of age-appropriate cotesting still remained less than 45% at the conclusion of the study. Cotesting in patients aged 18 to 29 years decreased significantly during the last 14 months of our study, showing an average monthly decrease of 2.2%.
Despite the fact that cotesting in women younger than 30 years is neither FDA approved nor recommended by the ASCCP, a mean of 7.6% of all Pap tests ordered in the 18- to 29-year-old population were ordered as cotests in our study. Although the monthly proportion of this nonrecommended testing stayed below 10% for the last 12 months of our study, all of these tests are considered unnecessary and waste resources that could be better used in cervical neoplasia screening and management.
Our data show increased use of the cotest in cervical cancer screening in our laboratory, but detailed analysis indicates that practice patterns varied widely by clinic. The comparison of our 2 highest-volume clinics for women aged 30 years or older was striking. "Clinic 1" had no clinic-wide policy in place to encourage cotesting and monthly proportions of cotests ranged from 2.5% to 13.6% of Pap tests during the study period. In contrast, "clinic 2" established a policy in May 2009 recommending that all practitioners order routine Pap tests as cotests. There was no change in physicians or other providers, or any significant change in administrative personnel in "clinic 2" during this time, rather the policy change reflected a consensus decision to standardize Pap test ordering. The monthly proportion of cotesting in "clinic 2" ranged from 0% to 100% during the study period, but remained above 94% from June 2009 through June 2010. A 2-month increase in cotesting in June and July of 2008 was attributed to a first attempt to implement widespread cotesting in "clinic 2," which was deferred while the management and billing implications of cotesting were evaluated by the practice. This highlights the importance of clinic-level factors in how testing is ordered. Clinics must use mechanisms to not only facilitate ordering of HPV tests and enable appropriate billing but also ensure proper follow-up and treatment of patients with abnormal test results.
We examined all patients who received a dual negative cotest during the first year of our study (2008), and found that 785 (25.5%) of 3,081 underwent repeat cotesting during the remainder of the study period, with the cotest remaining dual-negative in 730 patients (93%). Although the possibility of a prior abnormal Pap test result or positive HPV test result may have precipitated more frequent surveillance, the ASCCP guidelines advocate a return to a 3-year screening interval after a negative cotest result, regardless of prior history. Though this subset of patients was a small component of our total study population (1.6% of total patients), over one quarter of those with dual negative test results underwent repeat testing at an interval less than 3 years. Thrall et al16 also found that follow-up was inconsistent with published guidelines in approximately half of the cotested patients. As the overall proportion of cotesting increases in our population, the number of women being tested at inappropriately short intervals has the potential to grow proportionately and the purported cost benefits of lengthened screening intervals may not be fully realized.
Multiple factors are likely to be driving this practice, including patient demand for the most complete workup available and provider desire to maintain yearly gynecologic examination of patients. At present in many settings there is no economic disincentive for performing the repeated tests; however, reimbursement may change as payors change their payment schedules to reflect widely endorsed guidelines.
Numerous factors influence Pap and HPV test ordering and adoption of clinical practice guidelines in many different clinical settings. These include provider characteristics; practice setting; legal, financial, and regulatory factors; laboratory factors; and patient-level factors18 We considered changes in these multiple factors influencing Pap and HPV test ordering to explain the changes in ordering practices. No changes were made to the laboratory requisition during our study period, and no laboratory-driven provider education was provided during the study timeframe. No changes in the FDA-approved uses of the HPV test were made during the study period. We were unable to obtain specific information regarding reimbursement for the HPV test by various health insurance carriers, and thus are unable to link reimbursement with any change in test ordering practice.
While changes in cotesting practices cannot be directly linked to a particular event, a marketing campaign by Qiagen aimed at the general public as well as at clinicians occurred in the Baltimore area in late 2008. Direct-to-consumer advertising for pharmaceutical and other medical devices has been shown to influence patient and provider behavior.19 Specifically in the realm of HPV testing, direct-to-consumer advertising has been shown to increase overall HPV test use, both appropriate and inappropriate.20 The Qiagen marketing campaign preceded the increase in HPV cotesting by several months, but the delay may be related to a lag time for practitioners to implement changes in their practice and/or direct-to-consumer advertising–influenced demand for testing by patients.
Finally, it is also important to acknowledge that the laboratory plays a role in providing a more cost-effective service to patients and to the system as a whole. To improve turnaround time in our laboratory, HPV testing on cotests is initiated before the cytologic diagnosis is rendered; thus HPV testing was performed on 402 cases of dysplasia and 2 cases of SCC. This testing is unnecessary and redundant but illustrates the difficult balance that laboratories face in the current healthcare environment where rapid turnaround time is expected by the laboratory's customers. Despite the recognition of this unnecessary testing, our laboratory has been unable to develop a solution to avoid this practice because clinicians expect to receive HPV test results concurrent to the results of the Pap test. This problem is expected to grow as the overall number of cotests increases. A survey of laboratory practices in the year 2006 indicated that 58% of laboratories offered nonrecommended combinations of HPV testing, including reflex testing on ASC-H, LSIL, HSIL, and atypical glandular cells, and 45% of laboratories offered low-risk HPV testing, which has been shown to have no usefulness in triaging abnormal cervical cytology results.14 The continued use of low-risk HPV testing was also noted in a survey of clinicians, and one suggestion to end this unnecessary practice was for laboratories to stop offering the test regardless of demand.21 It is unclear why these practices continue despite evidence that they are of no use, but education of laboratory leaders is also essential to allow for the most efficient and meaningful testing for patients.
A recent review article by Colgan22 summarizes many of the barriers and challenges to compliance with the ASCCP guidelines, particularly among generalists, as the algorithms become more complex. Colgan emphasizes the role that the laboratory can play in guiding appropriate test ordering and even making management recommendations based on risk assessment tools that incorporate clinical and laboratory data, such as one proposed by Austin et al.23
Our study provides a better understanding of cervical cancer screening practices in the many clinics that submit specimens to our laboratory, and highlights opportunities for improvement in the ordering practices for Pap and HPV tests. It also provides benchmark data that clinicians and laboratories can use to assess their test-ordering practices.


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Mike Pride's ensemble with Brian Moran, Jessica Pavone, Aaron Ali Shaikh in an extended work recorded live at Freddy's in Brooklyn in February of 2003, a slowly building work of unusual acoustic and electronic improvisation.
Pride, Mike's Scene Fucker #5
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"Back in November last year I got a huge package of discs from "Omaha's most unknown label", Bryan Day's wonderfully active and often ignored Public Eyesore, which first came to my attention a while back when I was asked to write liners for Jack Wright and Bob Marsh's Birds in the Hand. I haven't heard much from PE - that's Public Eyesore, btw, not Public Enemy (though come to think of it I haven't heard much from them lately either) - for a while, so forgive me if some of the releases I'm nattering on about here aren't exactly new.
This one for example was recorded way back in February 2003 and appeared a couple of years after that. It's one of an ongoing series of releases by the ahem attractively named Scene Fucker project, which is basically percussionist Mike Pride and anyone he can get his hands on. Very much Improvisation, as opposed to Improvised Music (if you read what I wrote on the subject in last month's Wire): we're talking a gnarly no-holds-barred snarling mess of moments, some inspired, some less so, but all constantly entertaining. Like life, really.
Joining Pride, who plays percussion, glockenspiel (though as the glockenspiel is a percussion instrument to start with you wonder why it merits a separate mention), electronics and microcassette, are Gerald Menke on pedal steel, Jessica Pavone on viola, Brian Moran on electronics and Aaron Ali Shaikh on soprano and alto saxophones. At times lyrical (Pavone sounds great, and so does Menke - imagine Bill Frisell playing Scelsi), at times gritty and combative (Pride is especially good at throwing spanners in the works - he even gets stuck in a kind of drum'n'bass groove at one point, to the apparent indifference of everyone else involved), it's a fine example of what American improvisers do best: get down, get dirty, take risks, go for it."-Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic 02/2007
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Six Questions with Gobbler Country
1) What are three things that UM HAS to do in order to have a chance to beat VT?
First and foremost, the Canes have to avoid turnovers. UNC's last four drives ended with turnovers and it sprinkled a muffed punt in there as well. The game would have been completely different if UNC had been able to hang on to the ball.
Miami needs to establish, and stick to, the run game. As good as Stephen Morris has played so far, the Canes' run game has done a good job of taking pressure off him by being successful. You guys have an impressive stable of backs that all complement each other very well. The guy I'm most worried about in this game is Damien Berry because teams have been able to gash us between the tackles this year. The Canes can't afford to abandon the run game if it's not gaining ground early, though. Same with Virginia Tech.
They also need to contain Tyrod Taylor. When teams have blitzed Tyrod, he's been able to make plays. But it seems like recently when Tyrod has had a ton of time in the pocket, he's chosen to stay there and try to force the ball downfield instead of take off running. Teams that rely on good coverage, rather than blitzing, have had success against Tech's passing game.
2) How do you think Beamer, Foster, et. al. were able to turn the season around after starting 0-2 to Boise State and James Madison? Were Hokie fans sticking by the coaches during this time?
It would have been easy to write this season off as a lost cause after the JMU game, but the team seems to have rallied around the goal of winning the ACC. It's been a great coaching job by the staff of fixing things that were plaguing both sides of the ball early and not folding after getting down early in games.
No Hokie fans have stuck with the offensive coaching staff at any time, win or lose, so you can imagine the uproar after the JMU loss. As for Bud Foster and Frank Beamer, there's always been a consensus that whatever ails the defense will eventually be fixed. For the most part that's been true, but we still can't stop the run this year.
3) What type of offensive game plan do you expect VA Tech to employ against the 'Canes?
You'll see us try to pound the ball, I'm sure. As long as we aren't running draws out of the shotgun I'll be happy. I'd like to see some more zone-read option like we saw in the middle part of the season with Tyrod as well as some counter plays. Stuff like that to try and use Miami's speed and over pursuit against it.
It's going to be tough sledding against the Canes' D, though. The front seven is imposing and the secondary has been outstanding lately.
4) Who would the Hokies rather have at QB for Miami: Jacory Harris or Stephen Morris?
If this game were in Blacksburg, I'd say Morris, because you always prefer the freshman coming into that environment. But in Miami, I'd say Jacory Harris. Even though Harris has historically been really, really good at home, I think you'd rather see him simply because he's a known commodity. There's a lot more film available on Harris than Morris and he's going to be easier to prepare for. He may execute better than the freshman, but you know what to expect.
5) In your opinion, what are the Hokies' greatest strength and weakness, offensively and defensively?
On defense, it's definitely the secondary. I had high hopes for them going into the year and they've exceeded my expectations. We had trouble with blown coverage against slot receivers early on and responded by switching primarily to nickel and adding Antone Exum to the secondary. Surrounded by veterans, he's been outstanding and I expect him to have a great career. The weakness on defense is run defense and tackling. That combination could lead to a big gain or two by Lamar Miller.
On offense, the strength is our running game with three solid backs. The run blocking, which was atrocious early on, has improved. The outside run blocking by the tight ends and receivers has always been good. Danny Coale is one of the better run-blocking receivers we've seen at Tech and that has helped turn 5-10 yard gains into 10-20 yard gains. The weakness is our tendency to sometimes abandon the run at times.
6) Recruiting question: What area do the Hokies consider to be their base recruiting area i.e. Tidewater/Newport News and who is their biggest competition to retain this area.
It's definitely the "757," that Tidewater/Newport News area you're talking about. Right now the biggest competition is UVA with new coach Mike London, who has a lot of ties to that area and UNC's Butch Davis has pulled some good talent out of the 757 since he arrived at UNC.
We thank furrer4heisman and our friends over on Gobbler Country for their friendship and willingness to share some information about their team. You can visit Gobbler Country, just follow the link provided under our Favorite Sites list.


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French Manoir with 6 en-suite bedrooms offers comfort, style, privacy and space
MANOIR LES GAILLARDOUX, a Manoir for all seasons with year round comfort, offers you the opportunity to celebrate life all year round, 'en famille' or with friends...
In summer by the heated pool and sharing French conviviality in the local street markets; at Christmas and New Year with log fires in the chimney; at the height of the Black Truffle season from December to March, or simply enjoying the spectacular colours of autumn and spring - our thoroughly comfortable Manoir, the generous gastronomic delights of the area and the authenticity of this rural part of SW France combine to provide an epicurean retreat...
... A retreat which British author Oscar Reynard enjoyed for several months while writing a large part of his book "A Clean Pair of Hands" published in June 2013.
THE SUCCESS OF YOUR HOLIDAY IS IMPORTANT TO US ! We plan ahead of your needs, so that we can respond positively and help you make your stay at Manoir Les Gaillardoux not only meet, but exceed your lifestyle expectation.
WE INVITE YOU to sample the charm of our Manoir...
For instance:
Thinking of Summer ?
Imagine a stone-built 17th/18th Century Manoir - about 500 m2 of stylish comfort, with tall windows, tiled floors, large fireplaces and wooden beams, impressive stone staircase from cellars to attic - set in its own secluded and private 1.25 hectares of park and orchard in sunny rural SW France: Welcome to Manoir Les Gaillardoux in the heart of the Quercy Blanc!
Come and enjoy its salt water heated swimming pool, the comfort of its 6 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, the cool space of its 3 lounges and the charm of dining under the stars on its spacious elevated terrace... or a stroll in the park listening to the nightingales.
Can you already feel the warm breeze under the trees, the singing of the birds and the buzzing of the bees in the lavender? Time for a cool drink? The American fridge-freezer will dispense cool water or ice cubes just when you want them. Fancy an easy grill? The large Australian BBQ awaits you on the terrace. Don the big apron and show your mastery! The local butcher and the farms around supply excellent meat and poultry, the street markets abound with fresh produce and local delicacies. After all, you are in a gastronomic heaven and the kingdom of the Malbec wines!
Or, if you prefer, we can arrange for a cook or a Chef to come and bring the local gastronomy to your table... A festive end to a happy day... Our generously equipped kitchen is of gourmet cook standard - so why not be the 'gourmet' and hire the cook? you are on holiday!
Don't worry about the washing up: there is a double dishwasher in the kitchen and we can also provide housekeeping help. Just come and relax!
Coming early in the season and dreaming of a log fire?
Just look at our spacious dining room and the log piles outside the door: nothing easier than creating a cosy atmosphere, with candles on the long walnut refectory-style table and matching sideboard, and dimmed lights under the beams. A little music from the Bose music centre, too, perhaps? Create your favourite ambiance... And when dinner is over, how about a game of billiards or pool?
Equipped to welcome up to 12 guests in style and comfort...
Manoir Les Gaillardoux is centrally heated and warm in winter, cool in summer and comfortable in all seasons. It offers space and privacy: the 60 m2 Master bedroom suite has a large bedroom with double bed, boudoir, dressing room and en-suite bathroom with double washbasin, large shower, Jacuzzi bath and separate WC. A further five bedrooms, each with en-suite shower room (WC, double washbasin, shower) with plenty of storage space for personal toiletry. Hair-dryer in each bedroom suite, bath and pool towels supplied and the beds are made as double or twins to suit your needs, of course.
The two living rooms, the Grand Salon (drawing room) and the Petit Salon, are spacious and bright, and there is comfortable seating for at least twelve guests in the drawing room – an ideal atmosphere for a cosy winter get-together or a smaller intimate party. And, let's not forget the billiard room, also with a second TV and DVD player.
The Manoir offers entertainment for all the family: LCD wide screen satellite TV with DVD player, quality music centre, billiard room with further TV and DVD, and wireless broadband internet access.
Remember: Manoir Les Gaillardoux sits in its own 1.25 hectares (3 acres) of park and orchard, offering space and privacy, and areas of shade and sunshine for play or relaxation.
There are "boules" to play "petanque" in the courtyard and our large, partly-walled salt water heated swimming pool faces south and can be enjoyed from spring to October. Suitable for children, with steps and a gentle slope leading to diving depth, the pool has a sound ringing security alarm but is not fenced. Sun loungers for everyone, with cushions and some sunshades for your comfort are arranged on a stone paved terrace around the pool.
If you like the charm of old stone buildings, then you will also love our large coach house, barn and round 'pigeonnier' – all fine examples of the local architecture. You can see more pictures on www.ManoirLesGaillardoux.com
But Manoir Les Gaillardoux is only part of the story... your home base from which to explore the Quercy Blanc... and that is another happy story! A story which the information in the Welcome Book we have compiled for our guests will help you turn into your very own Happy Holiday Memories! Bonnes Vacances!
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About the Owner
Guestbook comments from the owner
This house is exceptionally beautiful. The furnishings and maintenance are impeccable and it is both elegant and comfortable. The owner went out of her way to help us with every aspect of our stay, and was exceptionally generous with her time in providing information about the house and area prior to and throughout our stay. In this region of France I cannot imagine a more perfect place to stay.
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Guestbook comments from the owner
This house is exceptionally beautiful. The furnishings and maintenance are impeccable and it is both elegant and comfortable. The owner went out of her way to help us with every aspect of our stay, and was exceptionally generous with her time in providing information about the house and area prior to and throughout our stay. In this region of France I cannot imagine a more perfect place to stay.
Guest gave 5 star rating.
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"In July, 2011, our group of family and friends spent two very happy weeks at this lovely house in a beautiful and unspoiled part of France. All of the rooms are large, well furnished and equipped, including the kitchen. There are two large refrigerators and two automatic washing machines. Most importantly the beds are comfortable. Our party of 8 had more than enough room for everyone never to feel at all crowded. Overlooking the garden and the fields beyond is a spacious patio, equipped with two big tables, huge umbrellas, and a first class gas barbeque. At the front there is a large swimming pool. The Manoir, about ten minutes south of beautiful Cahors, is situated in bucolic splendour on a large property looking out upon working farms and the hilltop town of Montdoumerc. Scores of wine estates are nearby, many offering tastings and restaurants. Many great sights and weekly markets are within an easy drive. We all had a great time."
Activity and Interests
Discover Midi-Pyrenees and particularly the Lot region.
The scenic Causses du Quercy Blanc are an elevated limestone plateau with extended views over a rolling hilly and wooded landscape. The area enjoys a sunny, dry climate with mild spring and autumn weather yet relief from extreme summer heat, making it possible to live outdoors for a large part of the year.
The Quercy region is sparsely populated and is well-known for its picturesque medieval villages, many of which have shops, cafés, restaurants and traditional street markets. If you have a sophisticated palate you will find much to delight you in the local delicacies, such as the rare black truffle and the goose and duck "foies gras" which can be enjoyed at a number of restaurants for all occasions within easy reach of the Manoir. The Lot is also well known for the "black wines" of Cahors. Most of the local chateaux and vineyards welcome visitors for guided tours and wine tasting.
We can help you organise a Gastronomic Discovery Programme to suit your taste.
The area around Manoir Les Gaillardoux is a lively centre of cultural and sports activities based around its rivers, pre-historic caves, gastronomy, vineyards, villages and history.
Our Welcome Book contains lots of information to help our guests make the most of their holiday, enjoy the local folklore and activities - and of course taste the local gastronomy and Malbec wines.
The Quercy boasts a rich architectural heritage and a wide range of cultural activities: spectacular cliff-top fortresses and historical remains; at Cahors, Pont Valentré, the magnificent medieval bridge, and the 11thC cathedral; the stunning 15thC Chateau de Cieurac near Lalbenque, and the medieval village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie to name but a few, all of which are less than a half hour drive from the Manoir. The limestone geology throughout Périgord and Quercy has resulted in series of caves with stunning pre-historical cave paintings which are open to the public.
With spectacular sculptured rocky landscapes, the wide river valley of the Lot and smaller rivers like the shallow Célé attract water sports lovers for boat hire, fishing, canoeing, swimming and picnicking. The area also provides opportunities for cycling, walking, caving and golf, as well as adrenaline-raising activities such as Go-karting, sightseeing flights, parachuting and gliding at the nearby Aerodrome of Lalbenque.
The Manoir is located just 16 km south of Cahors and is easy to find: less than 2 km from the N20, and 8 km from the Cahors South junction of the A20 motorway, part of the Paris to the Pyrenees network of motorways.
For guests coming by train, Cahors station (on the main line from Paris to Toulouse and beyond) is 16 km away. Toulouse Blagnac International Airport is just over an hour by road (motorway). The low cost airlines fly into Toulouse airport and into Bergerac airport which is less than two hours away, and for private flyers, Lalbenque private aerodrome is just 5 km away. Car rental is available in Cahors and from Toulouse Airport or Station. Local taxis and mini coaches available for booking in advance.
Prices and Availability
Rental rates
|Rental Period
|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
My Standard Rate
Changeover Day: Saturday
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Additional pricing information
|No additional mandatory fees
|Refundable Damage Deposit
Our weekly fee includes thorough cleaning of the interior of the Manoir before your arrival and after departure + all beds made + a generous weekly supply of bath and pool towels + weekly cleaning for multiple week rentals + weekly supply of fresh towels and change of bedding. Also laundry washing products and other everyday necessities… Optional extra services available by prior arrangement, including cooking and airport collection. Please ask for details and quote.
Owner's Cancellation Policy
- Cancelled bookings will not receive a refund.
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Property Type
- chateau / country house
- Away From It All
- Family
- Historic
- Luxury
- Romantic
- Activities Guide
- Basic Soaps
- Broadband Access
- Filtered Water
- Fireplace ...
- Firewood
- Garage ...
- Hair Dryer
- Heating ...
- Internet
- Iron & Board
- Laundry Soap
- Linens Provided ...
- Living Room ...
- Local Activities Guide
- Local Maps
- Local Restaurant Guide
- Parking ...
- Telephone
- Toilet Paper
- Towels Provided ...
- Tumble Dryer ...
- Washing Machine ...
- Water Cooler
- Wireless Internet
- Blender
- Coffee Grinder
- Coffee Maker
- Cooking Utensils ...
- Dishes & Utensils ...
- Dishwasher
- Freezer ...
- Grill
- Ice Maker
- Kitchen ...
- Microwave
- Oven ...
- Pantry Items ...
- Refrigerator ...
- Hob ...
- Toaster
- Child's Highchair
- Dining ...
- Dining Room
- Books
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Game Room ...
- Games ...
- Pool Table ...
- Radio
- Satellite / Cable
- Stereo ...
- Television
- Video Library
Pool / Spa
- Heated Pool
- Jacuzzi
- Private Pool ...
- Events Allowed
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome ...
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- wheelchair inaccessible
Location Type
- rural
- autumn foliage
- caves
- churches
- cinemas
- forests
- library
- live theatre
- museums
- pond
- recreation centre
- restaurants
- ruins
- theme parks
- winery tours
Leisure Activities
- bird watching
- eco tourism
- horse riding
- outlet shopping
- paddle boating
- scenic drives
- sight seeing
- walking
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/bank
- Babysitter
- fitness centre
- groceries
- hospital
- massage therapist
- medical services
Sports & Adventure Activities
- cycling
- equestrian events
- fishing
- freshwater fishing
- golf
- hiking
- paragliding
- snorkelling
- caving
- swimming
- tennis
Floor Area
- 490 m²
- Bathroom 2 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, En-suite with bedroom. Double wash basins + storage space
- Bathroom 3 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, En-suite with bedroom. Double wash basins + storage space
- Bathroom 4 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, En-suite with bedroom. Double wash basins + storage space
- Bathroom 5 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, En-suite with bedroom. Double wash basins + storage space
- Bathroom 6 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, En-suite with bedroom. Double wash basins + storage space
- Bathroom 7 - Shower Enclosure, with washbasin. Accessible from swimming pool and garden.
- Bathroom 1 - Toilet, Bath with Shower, Shower Enclosure, Jacuzzi, En-suite with Master. Jacuzzi/spa bath and separate shower.
- In all, Manoir Les Gaillardoux has 8 WCs (6 en-suite with bedrooms and 2 cloakrooms with washbasin), 7 shower rooms (also with jacuzzi bath in the Master bedroom suite). The 7th shower room is off the laundry room and easily accessible from the swimming pool and garden. We supply ample quantities of hand, bath and pool towels and change them weekly on Saturdays. Should there be the need to wash any in-between, there are 2 Miele washing machines and a dryer in the laundry room. The washbasins are sitting on large shelves with another shelf below, to give plenty of storage space for personal toiletries. We supply a hair-dryer in each bedroom suite. Windows and good ventilation in all en-suite bathrooms/shower rooms. Controllable electric towel dryers in each en-suite shower room, for our guests' convenience. There is a separate shower room with washbasin and separate WC/cloakroom on the ground floor, easily accessible from the swimming pool or the garden.
- 6 Bedrooms, Sleeps 12
- Bedroom 1 - 1 Large Double Bed, 1 Cot, En-suite
- Bedroom 2 - 2 Single Bed, En-suite. Beds can be made as 2 singles or 1 large double
- Bedroom 3 - 2 Single Bed, En-suite. Beds can be made as 2 singles or 1 large double
- Bedroom 4 - 2 Single Bed, En-suite. Beds can be made as 2 singles or 1 large double
- Bedroom 5 - 2 Single Bed, En-suite. Beds can be made as 2 singles or 1 large double
- Bedroom 6 - 2 Single Bed, En-suite. Beds can be made as 2 singles or 1 large double
- Manoir Les Gaillardoux's Master suite is about 60 m2 and comprises a large double bedroom, a boudoir, a dressing room, a bathroom with double wash basins, large shower and a jacuzzi bath, separate en-suite WC with further washbasin. In this bedroom, the bed is a large double bed. There are tall windows to the East, South and North with view over the park and rolling countryside . The other 5 double bedrooms, each have their own en-suite shower room, each comprising double washbasins, large showers and WC. Each of these bedrooms has 2 large single beds, which can be linked to make an extra-large double bed or kept apart as 2 single beds. Beds are made for our guests prior to their arrival. All linen and towels (including for the pool) are supplied and changed weekly. The Manoir is thoroughly cleaned before arrival and after departure. These and the weekly clean on Saturdays are also included in the rental fee. A cot and child high chair are available on request.
- Deck Chairs
- Bicycles ...
- Terrace ...
- Golf ...
- Kayak / Canoe ...
- Garden ...
- Barbecue ...
- Outdoor Grill Gas
- Veranda ...
- Tennis ...
- Terrace
- veranda
- Wood Decking
- 1 bicycles
- Self-catering
Learn more about this holiday rental at the owner's website
- Cook, chef, maid services can be provided for a fee. The kitchen is a 'gourmet kitchen', with easy to use quality equipment and manuals to help with initial use. The Manoir is equipped for comfortable dining, indoors in the dining room, or outside on the terrace - and generally for comfortable and gracious living. Our Welcome Book is full of useful addresses to help our guests orientate themselves quickly and make the most of their holiday. Local activities are communicated weekly. Taxi service and people carriers can be arranged to and from airports and restaurants. The well furnished heated salt water swimming pool is a favourite spot with our guests. It is open from mid-May to mid-October. Sometimes longer, weather permitting. The large garden offers areas of shade and sunshine for play or relaxation and, depending on the season, our guests can help themselves to fruits from our trees: cherries, plums, figs, walnuts, apples...


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Aug. 11, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) If you kill an enemy on the first move of your turn and click the attack button again afterward you can kill the same enemy a second time for more loot!
Jun. 11, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I didnt know the food had permanent effects, I thought maybe they healed. You should put the +1 max hp etc labels on the food everywhere in your inventory and not just in the use consumables menu. I had been selling them whole game.
Jun. 12, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) An "enemies remaining" display would be nice. Otherwise, love it.
Feb. 10, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Unholy temple is one hell of a huge increase in difficulty compared to the last lot of levels i was playing through
Jun. 11, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I still have my original longsword sitting in a dusty corner of my shop. No one will ever buy it.
Jun. 19, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) You just can't go to the Underworld without bringing back all the coal you can carry. Sure, it's cheap, dusty, and probably needlessly heavy, but who can resist?
Jun. 13, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Regarding end of map loot- The values listed aren't based on the number listed at any given enemy. Rather, those listed values are a combination of their initial chance to drop their own item on defeat and the treasure tiles you collect. The end-of-adventure rewards are based ONLY on the treasure tiles you collect- ACROSS ALL FIGHTS. There is no stat listed that displays this, you simply need to remember it. Example- I fight my way to the end of a four map adventure. The treasure value listed is 50, but I collected 25 treasures in each fight, for a total of 100 treasures. This will result in collection of all four listed end-of-adventure treasures, but the endboss only has a 50% chance to drop an addition treasure of his own. You can tell when you get these additional treasures by the animation of the words "LOOT GAINED!" that come up across the battlefield after defeating an enemy.
Jun. 15, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) The difficulty ramps up a LOT at Unholy Temple (quest 21).
Jun. 9, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) It would be nice to have some reward for making T and Corner matches, like the one for 4s and 5s
Jun. 14, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I know I'm a mystical shop keeper slaying denizens of the dark wilds using magic gems and spells... But musically, I'm on a constant jungle safari. My mind is blown.
Jun. 26, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) So does consuming carrots actually do anything? Or just it just help you "see better in the dark"?
Jan. 21, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) A small thing but i think it would be nice if the background was different for each place you can go to adventure
Oct. 1, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) WTF happened with Arkandia? A leather gloves is much cheaper than a slice of a watermelon?!
Jul. 3, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Game is EASY MODE once you get to about the 20th dungeon (and have the following spells) Midas touch (coins = gone) Firestorm (fire = gone) Planned Assault (rage = gone) Healing flame (ice = gone) Sneak attack (attacks dont take a turn) Your last spell can be anything you like. just match until you have mana to cast all of them and you can clean out the entire board VERY quickly (and thus have practically unlimited turns (by matching 4 of a kinds only) and mana By eliminating 4 types of gems with 4 spells, all the board will then be filled with poison, energy, or treasure boxes since there are only 7 types of elements that can show up on the board... removing 4/7 leaves you with 3... and when theres only 3 different things on the board, EVERYTHING cascades like mad allowing easy 4 ofs and 5 ofs. Vote up so everyone can see!
Jun. 12, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Got every treasure, cleared every adventure and no final screen? I guess the ending is..... (puts on sunglasses).... undefined.
Jun. 16, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Hmm I just got 3 "Legendary Pyjamas" in one Adventure. Gregopolis must have a lot of legends. Or maybe the Dark Knights just love sleepovers.
Jul. 17, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) "It's Undefined's Birthday! Everything will sell amazingly!" My longsword is still intact.
Jan. 19, 2014
Under rating threshold (hideshow) This game does start a bit slow in my opinion. For anyone just starting out, the important number of upgrades for the "essence of (element)" are 2, 5, 9, 12, and 15. At those benchmarks, instead of getting 3 mana for matching 3, you will instead get 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 respectively. This also applies to rage, gold, and treasure boxes.
Jun. 28, 2011
Jun. 26, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) DEFEATED; Great work you'll make a fine adventurer. -facepalm-
Jan. 14, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) There should be Impossible badge for selling your initial sword.
Jun. 10, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) For people who need help on the last level, which has three monsters that each hit for around 22 damage per hit and have 1500 hp each, I used a nymph's spellbook with the stone of destruction and various regen items, so each hit would do around 105 damage and I would regen 7 per turn. I used warlord, planned assault, wealth, and sneak attack for my spells. I would ignore all rage gem matches and instead use planned assault to destroy them, and then attack. Then I would use warlord, and by then there would be enough rage gems back on the board to use planned assault again. Excess green mana gets sunk into sneak attack since it doesn't use a turn, excess blue mana gets sunk into wealth to quickly clear the board of coins, and red and purple mana get used by planned assault. With the strategy you take around 120 damage per monster to deal 1500 points of damage, so make sure you have at least 350 hp.
Jun. 15, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Unholy Temple level is unacceptably hard compared to the all-game curve.
Jun. 18, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) To eat food in Elements of Arkandia, you have to go to the Armoury. Then click on the potion icon to the right of the armour slot in the Armoury. Then to consume food, click on the food in your inventory that you want to consume
Jun. 15, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Some things I found: -All the storm spells also do damage, but it doesn't say so in the description. The last 3 levels don't reward items after you get the named rewards, they do however reward the cheap coal things. -The longsword doesn't sell, ever. -Heal affinity adds to all heals, the description states it only adds to 4 and 5 match heals. Some suggestions: -enemies remaining, or something to show how many foes you still have to fight after the one you are fighting would be nice. -Continue making great games! I enjoyed it, so thanks for the game!
Aug. 5, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Fun game, but definitely too repetitive.
Jul. 11, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I've got a single item that won't sell. Is there a trash option? ._.
Jun. 17, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) unholy temple is like a huge jump.. I am farming the mission before it easily and then barely getting past first enemy on unholy temple
Aug. 5, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) The difficulty ramp between River's End and Unholy Temple is just ridiculous.
Jun. 17, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Since alot of us have already played it, (when you removed debt, most of us stopped, but came back when you made debt playable again)could you please add a skip tutorial button, please?
Jun. 14, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) 5/5, great game I think there should be something like fame, which would increase the more battles you won and adventures you completed, and would make items in the shop sell better.
Sep. 29, 2013
Sep. 9, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Storekeeper: "I have ventured far and wide, slaying demons and undead. I have goods are from hell itself" Customer:" show me!" Storekeeper: "this is all from the underworld" Customer" its coal." Storekeeper:"its pretty boring there."
Jun. 12, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Best way to win, get the 4 storms and warlord. Wealth also helps a lot in early stages when you dont have all 4 storms. Then get a very very high damage per rage useage weapon (mine was 40 for 15 rage). Stack +damage on your gear as much as you can and still survive and after initially matching a few, you dont have to match at all. Whichever mana you're short, you just hit that storm and it'll usually fill it at the cost of the other mana. 4 storms used one after the other will fill all mana and will allow for 2 or more warlords.
Jun. 15, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) "I am He who crossed the gates of Heaven, He who conquered Hell. I am the One who challenged the Beings who lives Beyond the End of the World and the Power who smited them. I am the bearer of the Shield of the Gods, I am clad in daemon's skin and I wield the bow of the Angels. Now, would you be so kind and buy me some of this coal? I need some money... you know, I've to pay for the permission of keeping open my store this extra hour..."
Sep. 29, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) After going against what everyone in the comments said, i decided to play this anyway, to get the badge of the day. However after playing for a little while I'm actually starting to enjoy this game. It's an interesting concept however it not everyone's style of game. So before anyone passes this up based on reviews you should give it a few minutes of your time.
Jan. 12, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I put up every decoration with a + for weapons, on a day that said "...weapons will fly off the shelves today..." and I still couldn't sell the longsword.
Mar. 15, 2014
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Would be nice to have a button that just said "fill shop from inventory". Often I have to manually fill up thirty spots with coal or useless armor, and I dont really need to do that manually.
Oct. 3, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I wish the items in your inventory were organized somehow, not just the order you got them.
Jun. 12, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) In the beginning verry nice game and addicting. But the endgame is boring. I hate it when the main (and only !) challenge in the Endgame is that the enemy get to much hitpoints ...
Apr. 25, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) a really really easy way to win late game is to have all the "storm" spells equipped, along with wealth and planned assault. Then once you have enough at the beginning for your first spell you use it, and just keep using storms of whatever there's most of on the board. THEY DO DAMAGE and they keep your mana full, and they recycle the board so quickly that you can keep getting those rage gems with planned assault. I was doing 112 with each rage attack(nymphs spellbook) and 30-50 with each storm.
Jun. 17, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Awesome game. Best I've played in a long time. Only suggestion is that "Unholy Temple" is too big of a difficulty jump. Was this level meant to have only 3 monsters? Can't beat 5.
Sep. 16, 2013
Jun. 14, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) *blink blink* I...I just lost my whole day.
Jun. 17, 2011
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Difficulty jump from rivers end to unholy temple is just ridiculous. Needs to be redone. Also, there is a problem with the health from gem combinations where if you make to combinations at once, you only seem to get the health bonus from one of the combinations. I also personally think that the health bonuses should be larger. Possibly based off of max health. Fun game except for the ridiculous difficulty jump.
Dec. 6, 2016
Under rating threshold (hideshow) *Matches 3 elements* *Whole board goes crazy, combos everywhere, mana almost full* "...Yeah, I was planning that."
Feb. 16, 2013
Under rating threshold (hideshow) As 14kurtis14 there's definitely a too big difficulty spike on Unholy Temple, there are a few other unnecessarily big difficulty spikes; it feels like the game needs quite a bit of tweaking in this department; otherwise a cool game.
Apr. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I have slain angels, demons, and the elements themselves. I have gathered unbelievable treasures from across the world. But if someone walks into my shop, all they'll see for sale is coal, and the longsword I started the adventure with.
Feb. 6, 2015
Under rating threshold (hideshow) @Linty's comment: If you use the 'Sneak Attack' spell before you use Linty's double loot trick you can actually get TRIPLE loot from every enemy!
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ENDICOTT, N.Y. — The only previous author of a 62 in Dick's Sporting Goods Open history was R.W. Eaks on his way to victory six years ago in the first edition of the event at En-Joie Golf Course.
Bart Bryant can only hope history repeats itself after he shot a 10-under-par 62 on Saturday to take a four-shot lead over Corey Pavin after two rounds.
A few years removed from a career-threatening wrist injury, Bryant is 18 holes away from his first Champions Tour title.
"No matter what arena you're playing, you feel a little bit of pressure when you have a chance to win." said Bryant, whose 16-under 128 total is a 36-hole tournament record. "It may not be the amount of pressure you feel on the PGA Tour, but you're always going to feel some pressure.
"I know I am going to have to go out and play really well (today) to win this."
Pavin shot a second-round 64 to get to 12-under 132. Duffy Waldorf is in third place at 11-under, with Russ Cochran and Rick Fehr tied for fourth at 10 under. First-round leader Kenny Perry shot a 71 to fall into a tie for ninth at 8 under.
Bryant, a shot behind Perry when Saturday's second round began, vaulted into the lead with six birdies over his first seven holes.
He made putts of 12 and 20 feet on his first two holes. After par on the par-5 third hole, Bryant made four consecutive birdies, including putts of about 30 feet on both the sixth and seventh holes to make the turn at 31.
Bryant rolled in a 18-footer for birdie on the 11th hole, then two-putted for birdie on the par-5 12th to get to 14 under.
His best shot of the day came at the 212-yard par-3 14th, where he hit a 4-iron within 6 feet. Bryant made that putt, then after missing birdie putts on the 16th and 17th holes — the putt on 17 rolling in and out — he calmly rolled in a 10-footer for birdie and the second 62 in Dick's Open history.
Eaks shot his 62 in the second round on his way to a three-shot victory over Bruce Vaughan in 2007.
"I played really solid today — hit a lot of solid golf shots but probably the club of the day for me was the putter," Bryant said. "That's kind of been the club that's been holding me back this year."
After missing three years of competition following two surgeries on his left wrist that sidelined him until last summer, Bryant — a three-time winner on the PGA Tour — has enjoyed a solid rookie season on the Champions Tour with four top-10s in 13 starts, ranking 26th on the money list with $434,091.
"I feel like I've been gaining momentum all year," said Bryant, 50. "I didn't have a lot of game at the beginning of the year. I was able to kind of piece together some rounds, but I knew there wasn't much game there.
"Now I feel like I can piece together a round, but I might also be able to piece together another round the next day because I just have a bigger arsenal of shots now."
Pavin stumbled early in his round, missing a 2½-footer on the second hole for a three-putt bogey. But he rebounded quickly with a birdie on the par-5 fifth hole.
Pavin then added three more birdies on the front side by making a 12-footer on the sixth hole, a 20-footer on the seventh hole and then a 10-foot putt on the ninth hole.
Pavin moved into contention a few holes later when he rolled in a 25-foot eagle putt on the par-5 12th to get to 10 under, then added birdie putts of 6 feet on the 15th hole and 15 feet from the back fringe on the 16th.
"I missed that little 2-foot putt and made bogey and I was 1 over after (two holes) and I wasn't feeling as good as I would have liked," Pavin said. "But I just played really well after that, I hit a lot of good shots, made some nice putts.
"I just made a little mistake on No. 2, but it was a pretty solid day out there."
Waldorf shot a 65 on Saturday, vaulting up the leaderboard with a birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie stretch over holes Nos. 3-6 on his front nine. After a bogey on the par-3 seventh hole, Waldorf carded birdies on 11, 12, and 16 to reach 11 under.
"I had a nice stretch on the front there," Waldorf said. "I made a three-putt bogey and missed a couple short birdie putts there in the middle of the round then finished pretty strong. It was a solid round, the good news is I left a few out there, so hopefully tomorrow I can put it all together."
"It'll be a challenge for tomorrow, but I'm obviously very happy with where I am at now."
Perry, the Charles Schwab Cup leader and winner of the Champions Tour's last two majors — the Constellation Senior Players Championship and the U.S. Senior Open — could get nothing going on a record-day of scoring in which the average score was 69.725, bettering the previous low average of 70.286 in 2009's second round.
Perry made back-to-back birdies on the fourth and fifth holes to get to 9 under, but played the remainder of his round in 1 over.
Mangan writes for the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press & Sun-Bulletin, a Gannett property.


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Villagers armed with hunting rifles, old pistols and small-bore shotguns set up armed patrols and roadblocks in the township of Ayutla almost one month ago to defend their communities against crime, saying authorities have failed to bring peace and safety to the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. So far, the state government has tolerated but not formally recognized the self-defense squads.
The growing movement toward self-policing, which has since spread to other towns in Guerrero, has sparked concern among human rights officials who say residents shouldn't be allowed to take the law into their own hands.
But in townships like Ayutla, it is clear the vigilante movement already has authorities cowed.
Villagers in squads of about a dozen each patrol roads and search passing motorists, checking their identification against handwritten lists of "bad guys."
While the Ayulta detainees appeared to be clean and adequately fed Thursday, and bore no obvious signs of mistreatment, reporters at the scene were not allowed to speak with them.
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Beat the eggs and powdered sugar in electric mixer or with electric hand beater until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture is light and airy.
Work in the flour and let the dough rest, wrapped in foil, at least 1-2 hours.
Briefly knead the dough once more and place it between two wooden bars of 3/8-inch (1-cm) thickness.
Dust the upper surface of the dough with flour or cornstarch and smooth with the balls of your thumbs.
Press the mold into the dough, picture side down, and lift it straight up.
The carved image must be visible down to the last detail. (Incidentally, in no case should the mold itself be sprinkled with flour or cornstarch, since this will cause the fine carved details to disappear in the course of time.)
Cut out the Springerle (using the molded borders as a guide) and allow to dry overnight on a baking sheet thinly dusted with flour.
Preheat the oven to 325°F. (160°C).
Coat a baking sheet very lightly with flour, sprinkle with aniseed, and place the Springerle on it.
Bake for 20-30 minutes on the center shelf, with the oven door slightly ajar; cookies should be very light in color.
The dried upper surface should remain as white as possible, but the lower part should rise to form a little "foot."
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 5800 Calories from Fat 233
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 26 g40.6%
Saturated Fat 6.9 g34.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 845.9 mg282%
Sodium 301.9 mg12.6%
Total Carbohydrates 1343 g447.7%
Dietary Fiber 17.8 g71.1%
Sugars 1001.8 g
Protein 73 g145.5%
Vitamin A 19.9% Vitamin C 5.3%
Calcium 36.1% Iron 149.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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