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The room looked clean, but when I got into bed there was sand in one. I was alone so used the other bed, which was fine. Everything else was clean. V basic. Tv, no fridge, ok shower. One bed was dirty. Location not great - on an industrial estate... Not clear from hotel description!
Very clean, small roadside hotel. Exactly what we expected from the chain. Nearby restaurant looked like a Denny's in America, but the food was way better.
well sited for our journey from Spain to the UK a little too far from the centre of Narbonne to walk, after travelling all day so the choice of restaurants was limited
we stayed twice at this hotel, once as we went through to Dunkirk and again on the way back, our comments are relevant to both stays
The staff really were very very good-always a smile !
The beds were so hard it was like trying to sleep on a park bench, not good value for money
restaurant on site, good food & value location on industrial estate
Staff were superb and very helpful Location - on an Industrial Estate
Pleasant staff, nice setting.
convenient for motorway and on-site restaurant open on sunday night The cost of beverages in the bar
The hotel was clean and the staff courteous. We booked the hotel as an en route stop over to Spain. A good stop over hotel/
hotel was clean I was going to take the train to Spain. Hotel location was not suitable for this purpose.
friendly staff, good location, pool, restaurant very reasonable found cost of alcohol and soft drinks very expensive compared to hotel next door
Close to the motorway, in fact you can see the hotel as you turn-off, so easy to find. Good standard of facilities for this class of hotel.
The hotel was fine, but the directions given by your company were totally wrong, the hotel was in a totally different location to the ones you supplied, it took us two hours to find, and completely ruined our stay at the hotel. I would never recommend your directions to anyone.
very close to the highway, nice dehors for breakfast, staff very friendly directions appearing on the website are totally wrong, get off at Narbonne South, the hotel is nearby. Our room smelled terribly of cigars
A nice clean hotel, ideal for a stopover when travelling. Too many mosquitos - I was badly bitten when playing with my child in the play area. It was very hard to find the hotel and the post code on the website did not direct us to the right place when using sat nav.
Good value for money and free breakfast for the kids. Pool was just what was needed at the end of the day. Lots of choice on eating out in the near vacinity. Bit surprised by the location appearing to be in an industrial estate but the hotel garden hid this well and no problem with noise. Very easy to get to motorway etc.
The hotel was quiet, clean and convenient, easy to find, decent restaurant nearby.
if you go in october expect a windy stay on the plus side they do a good continental breakfast no bar facilities when we were there
Easy access from motorway.Walking distance to restaurant(s).Reception helpful & friendly for this chain 'motel' offering basic standards that are accceptable for price. No secure car park but apparently no problems historically ! & hotel is set at end of a cul de sac type Rd
Pleasant and helpful staff staff
Friendly & helpfull staff, comfy bed & good shower - Good Value Decor was a little tired - Could do with a resturant....
The arrangement for a 15% discount at the Ibis hotel restaurant the duck was excillent
Free Wifi, a bath, close to the motorways, good price Not very big room, distant from any amenaties
That we got a room. If something else near the city were possible to get we had take that instead. I was far away from the citycentre.
Helpful staff. Great facilities....coffee ect Access to outside area for dog. Location good for travellers not far from main routes None
fine as a transit stopover and the buffet breakfast was best value for money and the nearby restaurant was convenient
Old atmosphere nothing
In the center of the town As usual - king size beds are small in France. The room was shabby and the bathroom old.
On arrival we changed our room from a twin to a double. We were informed that this would also be a cheeper room, therefore they reduced the rate. On check-out the rate had been increased again without informing us. When I questioned this I was met with a very rude responce from the person manning reception and the manageress! Extreamly rude! I would not recommend this hotel to anyone
Very friendly. Good location in Narbonne
The friendliness and helpfulness of the staff
Excellent central position near canal and restaurants. Interesting building and history. manageress
Close to the old town, comfrtable, clean, and friendly staff.
Location was fantastic, very close to the Cathedral and main square. The staff was for the most part, very friendly and helpful. The room was spacious. Hotel is general is very charming and a nice place to stay. We had two twin beds and it would have been nice for my wife and I to have a double or queen bed. The walls of the hotel are thin and you can hear people in other rooms
The staff were friendly, the rooms were clean and comfortable N/A
The staff was great, the rooms a real treat. Breakfast very good, Location ideal. Early morning (municipal) garbage collection on the street gives wake-up call !
A beautiful location among vineyards. A very peaceful place, yet with a car not very far to get to the centre of Narbonne.
pleasant location, lovely countryside, nice buildings. good breakfast - choice - and inside/outside tables. very helpful maintenance staff (when left key in room - came to assistance); friendly. Interesting to see 'wine business' at close quarters - not an easy sector. no window to open at night (prefer fresh air, not air conditionng; only possible to open french window - not practical as at garden level). Food cooked carefully, but tepid when served; waited almost one hour for service (dinner). Would prefer 'real coffee' (not from flask); minimum interaction with staff (dining room - breakfast) - one had the impression that breakfast was an intrusion as they went about their business (noisy)
The setting was beautiful and the wine tasting was a really enjoyable experience! The whole 'vineyard' experience was excellent.
A beautiful location, great wine and food. Good service at the reception and in the restaurant. The wine cellar stuff wasn't really helpful. Did not even offer the wine tasting.
The staff were excellent., the cleanliness and care taken and the general atmosphere.
The restaurant and wine production room design a bit like motorway hotels totally out of caracter to the rest of the hotel and surorundings
Everything. Service and food, room decor particular strength.
The hotel was friendly and welcoming. Rooms were modern, clean and comfortable. Our room not being available until 16:00 was disappointing
Rooms were spacious and clean. Pool was small but adequate and quiet. The freedom to walk in the vineyards free from traffic was great. Set dinner for €26.00 including wine buffet was good value but menu didn't change. The breakfast was expensive at €12.00 for continentakt breakfast only. Cereal was not included in the breakfast price!
Good Location and recently refurbished so everything is good condition. NO Lift - so if your on the 2nd floor as we were, suitcases had to be dragged up the narrow stairs. Room had all mod cons however too much crammed into such a small space especially in the bathroom which was very tight for space. The restaurant looked great, the food was good however the service was very slow. Some very disappointed diners, including ourselves, the night we had a meal. Breakfast the following morning was no better taking 75 minutes to get a continental breakfast. This is not the staff's fault. They are very hard working and friendly but , from what I observed during our short stay, under severe pressure to deliver the standards of service which the owners aspire to achieve without allocating sufficient resources.
nice surrounding, very nice rooms esp. those with a small garden they should water the flowers in tthe back otherwise it looks so sad!
excellent restuarant & freindly staff. Difficult to find , a map would help.
This was a very comfortable, very clean, very friendly, extremely serene place that's a short drive to the ancient town of Narbonne. We were traveling with one person who is physically disabled and they gave her and her husband a room with special amenities for the handicapped. This was the only place out of the total of 4 hotels that we stayed in that could provide such a room -- this was wonderful! They turn off the AC for the season on September 1st, and the rooms don't have extra ventilation (aside from a bathroom vent and the front door). Because my husband and I like a cool bedroom, we decided on keeping the door ajar over night, although we were on the ground floor. Given that this place is in such a small town and in such a serene setting, it seemed perfectly safe (in fact, the family that runs the hotel said that's what they did), and we slept very well.
Extremely friendly people; Great welcome atmosphere (due to decoration) when you arrive on a chilly evening; excellent room (we actually had the family room, tho booked a double) so very spacious). Restaurant was excellent. TV in the dining room, great shame.
it was so french couldnt access the internet
Liked that the hotel was in a small quiet town, but not too far from attractions and Narbonne. Lots of wineries just down the road. Very pleasant hotel with nice facilities. Great value and friendly staff! FYI, the English spoken by the staff is very minimal. Brush up on your French phrases!
Everything. Very good breakfast
Pleasant little hotel in semi-rural situation a few miles outside Narbonne. Simple but well run. Fairly plain, but adequate bedrooms, particularly for the price. Parking for clients in front yard. The attached bathroom was only just adequate- very small bath indeed.
quiet place continuous sound of the airco
nice breakfast outside,pleasant welcome,easiness of access to a great family restaurant next door,so no need to worry about driving back to your room stuffy room,hardly able to breathe at night for lack of descent air-conditioning system,lack of privacy when windows are left open
The new clean hotel situated in walking distance to city tourist points. Basic but comfortable, good size room. Free internet, easy parking.
The fact that the hotel was next to a fire station and that i was quite noisy
good staff
Staff were helpful. Garage provided for 5 bikes. Held gear for us after checkout. Told us local info clearly. Restaurant was spartan and not used by us. Noisy road but excellent double glazing that cut noise out completely
The hotel had an excellent location, close to everything we needed. The staff were very helpful.
The propriter was very helpful and friendly. It was a little old and worn, but very clean.
Booked two rooms. Both had very small cramped space for WCs
The Staff waited for me even though the hotel was closed (around 23:30 on Sunday!). There was free wifi in hotel!. Bathroom was really nice and clean.
hotel muy centrico,correcto,todo fue muy bien,totalmente recomendable.
A bit run down but OK for the price. Breakfast was a bit 'thin' for the cost.
attitude of receptionist location not good in winter. Only one restaurant available nearby with exception of casino which had not a suitable menu
It was comfortable, convenient (we had to be in Narbonne but didn't want to stay inland) and clean. A little noisy next to the Casino. The pool was closed - for what reason we weren't told, thus there was nowhere to sunbathe in the hotel complex. It's the first building in Gruissan, so farthest from the sea.
hotel itself was quite ok. we stayed there just one night so it was ok ... a little bit far from the village and beach ... without a car it would be a nice walk and in 30 degrees its not very pleasant :)
The Staff were extremely pleasant and courtous at all times and made our very short stay a pleasant one, we would certainly use your hotels again Mrs Janet L Stephens
Lack of maintenance of grounds, landscaping etc, looks tired. Very little done to improve the appearance. The hotel generally needs refurbishing
we stayed at seven hotels during our last visit to france, le phoebus was the cleanest. and staff very helpful.
Bit of a dump really. Overpriced and dowdy nothing to like Dump really needs a good tdy up
There is little positive to state about this place. The rooms were very small and the property was not maintained.
Large comfortable room, good bathroom. Paid single price for double room. Breakfast way too expensive. I ate my breakfast in a cafe in town for one third of the price.


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Tian Tian, one of four the giant pandas at Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian National Zoo, is having the time of his life in the snowy storm.
Winter Storm Jonas could be largest in Washington D.C.'s history with up to two and a half feet of snow expected by Saturday night.
While the city's residents are stuck in a snow-filled nightmare, Tian Tian seems be over the moon, tumbling and rolling through the white stuff.
The Smithsonian National Zoo posted a video of Tian Tian rolling around in piles of snow, complete with a panda emoji and a snow emoji. The New York Daily News reported that keepers caught adorable footage of the 19-year-old giant panda rolling around in the 13 inches of snow that covered the area.
Tian Tian woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty excited about it. ???????? #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/GrhI9t1u7j
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By noon on Saturday, the video had been viewed 1.7 million times on Facebook and shared more than 135,000 times. It had been retweeted more than 56,000 times.
Aww SO cute! @NationalZoo #tiantian #giantpanda #snowzilla https://t.co/aH1AlPBOVC
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Tian Tian, whose name means "more and more," was born at the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in 1997. He weighs about 264 pounds and arrived in America in 2000.
Tian Tian is the father of two of the zoo's panda cubs: 2-year-old Bao Bao and 5-month-old Bei Bei.
Bao Bao seems to have inherited her father's love of snow. In 2015, the zoo shared a video of the cub's first snow day that featured her somersaulting down a snowbank.
Bei Bei, on the other hand, has been more timid in his snow exploration. Winter Storm Jonas was his introduction to snow.
#BeiBei had his first introduction to snow today! Keepers took him outside to a small behind-the-scenes area to let him explore in a light dusting of snow for a few minutes while Mei Xiang ate her breakfast in her outdoor yard. Keepers said he wasn't quite sure what to make of the powdery snow and made his way back inside quickly. #WeSaveSpecies
When panda cub Bei Bei was allowed to explore the snow on Friday, he was less excited, as zookeepers noted on Instagram.
"Keepers took him outside to a small behind-the-scenes area to let him explore in a light dusting of snow for a few minutes," the post said. The little guy "wasn't quite sure what to make of the powdery snow and made his way back inside quickly."
Unfortunately, you won't get to see Tian Tian's snow dance in person. The National Zoo is closed through Sunday because of the severe weather. But hopefully, the adorable video above will hold you over.
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Nancy Hamilton, director of the Wayne County Board of Elections, spoke about the upcoming election and the mailing with the county commissioners during a meeting about her office's budget for this year and next.
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In June, Secretary of State Jon Husted agreed the state would mail the absentee ballot applications to all registered voters. The decision arose from differences Husted had with Cuyahoga County officials who mailed unsolicited absentee ballot request forms to all voters. Husted met with Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald and Councilman Michael Gallagher in September and reached an understanding.
The Cuyahoga County leaders agreed not to send out unsolicited applications for the 2011 general election and that the state would send absentee ballot request forms to voters in all of Ohio's 88 counties for the 2012 presidential election.
Initially, Husted estimated the cost would be between $2-$3 million, however, the price tag will be about $1.4 million.
Commissioner Ann Obrecht said she wished the process would have continued to be the same where only those people who requested the applications received them.
Part-time workers began working in the Board of Elections office a couple of weeks ago, and they have already processed nearly 600 absentee ballot applications, Hamilton said. She noted these requests were made before Husted's first mailing went out.
On Election Day, poll workers will have books of signatures. In those books will be indications of those who have requested absentee ballots. If a voter who requested an absentee ballot opts to vote at the polls instead, then the person will have to cast a provisional ballot, Hamilton said. "There are checks and balances."
Carmichael said voters have so many ways to cast ballots and with everything being done to make it easier, turnout should be around 98 percent.
"Numbers should be skyrocketing," Carmichael said. "That's the goal of all of this."
Voters can start voting absentee in person beginning Oct. 2. That is also the day when absentee ballots will be mailed to those who requested them.
While Oct. 2 is when absentee voting begins in Ohio, when it ends is still up in the air.
President Barack Obama's election campaign has asked a federal judge to force Husted to extend in-person, absentee voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before Election Day for all registered voters, not just military and overseas voters.
U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus ruled Aug. 31 Husted's office restore early in-person voting on the final three days before Nov. 6.
Husted issued a directive to county elections officials prohibiting them to change voting hours until the legal matter is resolved in order to avoid confusion and to keep everything uniform.
Reporter Bobby Warren can be reached at 330-287-1639 or firstname.lastname@example.com. He is @BobbyWarrenTDR on Twitter.
All kinds of complaints from the left about poll hours,but not a comment here about everyone getting the chance to get a ballot by mail.I should be amazed,but not so much.


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Thursday, 15 August, 2002, 09:22 GMT 10:22 UK
More judges for Rwanda's genocide
The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to add extra judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to speed up the trials of genocide suspects.
A pool of 18 temporary judges will be set up to help out the court's current 16 permanent judges, the UN says.
The court has worked very slowly and so far only eight people have been convicted of genocide-related crimes and one person has been acquitted.
The announcement of the additional judges follows the news of the arrest in Angola of one of the alleged leaders of the 1994 genocide.
General Augustin Bizimungu, Rwanda's military head during the genocide, will soon be transferred to the Arusha tribunal, a spokesman has said.
The Rwandan Government is involved in a dispute with the tribunal over the pace of justice and over what its chief prosecutor, Gerard Gahima, says is a failure of the tribunal to protect witnesses testifying against those accused of crimes.
Mr Gahima has said the tribunal is badly managed, according to Reuters news agency.
The chief prosecutor of the tribunal, Carla del Ponte, told the UN Security Council in July that Rwanda had stopped cooperating with the tribunal.
She said the Tutsi-led government there did not want tribunal staff to investigate allegations of crimes by its supporters during the genocide.
Kingsley Moghalu, the tribunal's chief spokesman, told the BBC Focus on Africa that Mr Bizimungu was one of the alleged masterminds of the genocide, accused of arming and training the militias.
He will be charged with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Mr Moghalu said.
In an earlier interview with the BBC, Mr Moghalu said that the tribunal had 53 suspects in detention, 17 of whom were on trial and the remainder awaiting trial.
He defended the slowness of the court, saying that international justice "is a very special kind of justice, it is very unique, it is perfectionist".
He said it could take up to seven more years to complete the trials of the genocide suspects currently being held.
The search for perpetrators of the genocide continues, with the United States offering a reward of up to $5m for information leading to arrests.
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|Not as stinky as I thought
So, this lead me to re-think what is going on in our hives. Not only are the wax worms not to blame for the odor, I think all that debris we're finding on the pull-out tray is coming from the bees chewing up the strips of Hopguard.
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The hotline is part of an independent inquiry into allegations of misconduct by Mr McInnes, who stepped down as David Jones chief executive last week after admitting behaving in a "manner unbecoming" to a female staff member at two company events.
David Jones is engaging a third-party investigator, a female partner at a major law firm who specialises in sexual harassment claims, to conduct the inquiry.
David Jones has yet to identify the lawyer, but is setting up an anonymous telephone line to channel complaints to the investigator.
The retailer is also reviewing its internal reporting processes after an employee hotline set up specifically to uncover staff sexual harassment and bullying failed to alert the board to Mr McInnes's alleged behaviour.
David Jones revealed last Friday that the employee hotline had dealt with 12 recent staff complaints, but none related to sexual harassment.
David Jones chairman
However, further allegations of inappropriate behaviour have emerged since Mr McInnes stepped down. On Monday, one woman claimed to have been harassed at a David Jones function six years ago. Mr McInnes has denied the allegation.
David Jones shareholders have also raised questions about why Mr McInnes was prepared to step down – forgoing $16 million in shares due to vest in the next 15 months and annual remuneration worth about $7 million a year – after admitting to one "error of judgement".
The nature of Mr McInnes's behaviour towards his 25-year-old employee has not been revealed. The woman, a publicist in the David Jones marketing department, engaged workplace lawyers Harmers to complain on her behalf to David Jones directors and is now believed to be considering legal action.
Mr McInnes, who is overseas, has apologised to the woman and to David Jones board, staff and shareholders.
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There will be a strong stance on anti-social behaviour this autumn with six new dispersal orders being introduced.
The six-month orders will cover South Norwood, Greenview, Fieldway in New Addington, Aurelia Gardens in Thornton Heath, Croydon town centre and Broad Green.
Orders for South Norwood and Greenview started on Thursday 18 October and will run until Wednesday 17 April. The Fieldway and Aurelia Gardens orders start on Thursday 25 October and run until Wednesday 24 April.
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Time Passages... - Poem by David Lessard
There was a time in my life,
when I could run forever;
when I could work all day,
at my perceived endeavor.
But that time has passed away,
I'm content that it's expired;
now I do the little things,
that my heart's inspired.
A walk, a hike, a ramble,
viewing scenes as they roll by;
watch clouds that chase the sun,
in that inverted dome, called sky.
Today, it was a roadrunner,
that scurried in my sight;
that stayed fifty yards ahead,
unconcerned about its plight.
He finally wandered off,
made his own trail in the grass;
now a fleeting image,
soon it too, will pass.
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I enjoyed this very much. It projects a certain feeling of peace and acceptance of what life now offers. Truly beautiful. (Report) Reply
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A nicely written poem on just enjoying life and all of its offerings. An enjoyable read! I always forget that there really is such an animal as a a Roadrunner. And not just in LooneyTunes! Lol. (Report) Reply
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So, here's my two cents about B16's resignation. In a piece in the Washington Times today, I maintain that this is part of John Paul II and Benedict's vision for the future of the Church. You can read the piece here.Additionally, I think it's important to note that Benedict will be remembered for influencing two consistories conclaves. The last with his homily on the dictatorship of relativism and this with his extremely clear signals as to what the leadership of the Church should look … [Read more...]
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The Telegraph, a UK news publication, reports that the top ten things that children put on their Christmas lists, included siblings and a dad. The number one gift children requested was a baby brother or sister. But it's their number ten request that speaks volumes: a dad. In my book, that's something that a child shouldn't have to put on a Christmas list. That should be a given, no pun intended.And yet, the fact that a sibling and a dad ranked so high on wish-lists gives me great hope. Even … [Read more...]
B16's "Jesus of Nazareth": it's worth your time.
Released today, just in time for Lent – Pope Benedict's new book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week.Last week, the book made headlines with old news that needed to be heard again, namely that the Jewish people are not responsible for the death of Jesus. The book continues to make international news.Yesterday, Ignatius hosted a telepress conference to introduce the book. Experts included Fr. Fessio, Mark Brumley, Dr. Craig Evans, Dr. Jacob Neusner, Dr. Brant Pitre, Fr. Thomas Weinandy, and Dr. … [Read more...]
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Dose Intensity for Breast Cancer
Dose Intensity for Breast Cancer
It has been roughly 20 years since chemotherapy dose escalation was proposed as a possible strategy for improving outcomes in patients with breast cancer.[1,2] This concept has sustained a series of remarkable rollercoaster-like controversies, with heated arguments at national meetings, substantial lay press coverage, patients suing their insurance companies seeking coverage, legislative fiats requiring third-party payment long before critical data were available, and a well-publicized episode of clinical scientific fraud that is nearly unprecedented in its audacity. How did we get here from there?
Clearly, there is a dose response for chemotherapy in breast cancer, both in laboratory models and in the clinic. Indeed, in both the metastatic and adjuvant settings, abundant data demonstrate that some therapy is better than no therapy. Prospective, randomized clinical trials have demonstrated an added benefit of increasing the dosage of regimens like CMF (cyclophosphamide [Cytoxan, Neosar], methotrexate, fluorouracil [5-FU]) and CAF (cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, 5-FU) from levels of minimal toxicity to those that produce modest toxicity.[3,4] So, why hasn't the promise of "more is better" rung true?[5]
Colossal Disappointment
In this issue of Oncology, Drs. Armstrong and Davidson provide an elegant discussion of the preclinical and theoretical infrastructures that have supported an enormous amount of clinical research, as well as personal angst (for patients, physicians, and the public at large). They conclude, correctly, that "despite nearly 2 decades of study, the hypothesis that increasing chemotherapy doses above standard levels will positively affect clinical outcome in breast cancer remains unproven."
This statement, with which I absolutely agree, represents a colossal disappointment. Put simply, dose escalation for patients with breast cancer, especially to very high doses requiring bone marrow stem cell support (ie, high-dose chemotherapy/bone marrow transplantation, or HDC/BMT), does not represent the cure for cancer we had hoped for. Nonetheless, progress has been made, and there are lessons to be learned.
Lessons Learned
First, as has always been true in every scientific endeavor, a "good idea is not a fact." By 1980, very high-dose chemotherapy had been shown to cure a percentage of patients with leukemia who were destined to die of their disease after standard therapy. Indeed, this observation earned a well-deserved Nobel prize. However, in a second lesson learned, breast cancer is not leukemia. Early enthusiasm over high-dose therapy for breast cancer should have been tempered (and it was in some circles) by a thorough knowledge of the long and heterogenous natural history of breast cancer, even in the metastatic setting.
Barring nearly 100% cure rates in the metastatic setting, historical controls are of value only in the very early stages of clinical experience in this disease. There is no question that phase I trials of HDC/BMT were required and important, as treatment-related mortality dropped from an unacceptable 30% to the current level of 3% to 5% from the early 1980s to the late 1980s. Clearly, prospective, multi-institutional, randomized trialsespecially in patients with relatively favorable prognosescould not have been performed in the early 1980s.
However, the principal drop in mortality for patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy was achieved by the early 1990s, and it is unconscionable that we are just now getting the results of the prospective, randomized trials a decade later. The heterogeneity of the natural history of this disease, coupled with the pitfalls of selection bias, seemed to have been forgotten by many. Biases are hard to overcome, whether in society at large or in medicine. Nonetheless, by the late 1980s the safety of HDC/BMT was sufficiently improved, so that only a few phase II trials demonstrating some promise for this approach were required to proceed with large prospective, randomized clinical trials, to definitively investigate its relative worth.
Trial Delays
As with any new approach, everyone involved should have accepted the investigational nature of HDC/BMT and agreed to keep their enthusiasm sufficiently muffled to facilitate the rapid completion of these important trials. As with any investigational therapy, no center should have offered HDC/BMT outside of a clinical trial, and for the most part, those trials should have been concurrently controlled studies.
At the 1993 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), more than 25 phase II studies of HDC/BMT for breast cancer were reported, each using strikingly similar regimens and each coming to the same conclusion: High-dose chemotherapy is feasible and promising for patients with breast cancer. Since at least three National Cancer Institute-sponsored, multi-institutional, prospective, randomized clinical trials addressing HDC/BMT were already open in the United States by this time, these conclusions seemed anticlimactic.
Those patients, and the other thousands who were treated completely outside of a clinical trial, should have been offered the opportunity to participate in the large prospective, randomized clinical trials being run at that time in the United States. The largest two of these, which both targeted women with 10 or more positive nodes and who did not have metastases, were performed by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). Sadly, they took an inordinately long time to accrue. Indeed, the ECOG study, which opened in 1990 and required only approximately 700 patients, has still not been reported. The CALGB study, for which preliminary results have been reported, required nearly 6 years for accrual. During the time it took to enroll roughly 1,500 patients to these two studies (1990-1997), more than 12,000 node-positive patients were enrolled into other US Intergroup and National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project trials.
Admittedly, these rapidly accruing studies were more successful, in part, because the pool of patients was larger. (The HDC/BMT studies were restricted to patients with 10 or more nodes). However, it is also clear that the HDC/BMT studies were less successful because of the vitriolic debate, fueled by investigator and physician bias, which was played out in the public arena. In fact, during this time, the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry (ABMTR) recorded nearly 1,500 stage II and III breast cancer patients who were treated with HDC/BMT outside of randomized trials.[6]
Of note, the ABMTR estimates that it captured only 50% or fewer patients who were actually treated. I suspect that had these 3,000 or so patients been told that HDC/BMT was a "good idea" but far from proven, many would have participated in the clinical trials to determine whether the potential benefit was a "fact." The ultimately successful accrual of the CALGB and ECOG trials, driven by those who were willing to test their biases, speaks to this opinion.
Is the Concept of HDC/BMT Dead?
A third lesson to be learned is that a single study does not a whole story make. The series of Oxford meta-analyses clearly demonstrate that even a single well-designed clinical trial is not as meaningful as several highly powered studies addressing the same question.[7-9] Following the 1999 ASCO meeting, at which the preliminary results of several trials were released, it was widely reported by the lay press that the idea of HDC/BMT was effectively dead.[10] It was remarkable how quickly the pendulum had swung from the overabundant enthusiasm of the late 1980s to dogmatic skepticism, based on heterogeneous and immature data.
At the time of this writing, at least five prospective, randomized clinical trials of HDC/BMT for high-risk adjuvant patients have been reported. Each of them has a different trial design with different follow-up. The results from some of them appear completely equivalent, while others suggest a small benefit. Currently, at the least, we can conclude that HDC/BMT is not the "home run" that had been anticipated. In other words, it clearly does not have the impact of penicillin for pneumonia or cisplatin (Platinol) for testicular cancer. However, there may be some small benefit for selected patients. The challenges now are to determine the magnitude of that benefit and to assess whether that benefit is worth the risks, toxicities, and costs for individual patients and society at large.
Making Use of Available Results
The HDC/BMT experience suggests that many patients with metastatic disease achieve a complete remission, and it is reasonable to consider HDC/BMT as a platform for other investigational therapies. In that regard, Drs. Armstrong and Davidson discuss the use of immunotherapies. Integrating HDC/BMT and immunotherapy is particularly appealing. One may wish to manipulate bone marrow stem cells ex vivo so that they serve as mediators of the immune response, for example, by inserting immune-regulating genes or treating with various immunologically active cytokines.[11,12] Indeed, one may not need the HDC aspect of HDC/BMT to achieve this goal. In this regard, the field of minitransplants, in which bone marrow stem cells are harvested, manipulated, and reimplanted without bone marrow ablation, is progressing rapidly.
Other novel therapies might be applied with or after HDC/BMT, such as the application of inhibitors of angiogenesis or tyrosine kinases.[13] In theory, these might be more effective in patients with minimal residual disease than in those with large established metastases. Although it is anticipated that these novel therapies will be tested in the true adjuvant setting, HDC/BMT might reduce tumor burden in patients with more advanced disease to the point where they would have an improved chance of working.
Patients Who Might Achieve Greater Benefit
Finally, in the debate about HDC/BMT, we seem to have forgotten another lesson from our experience with breast cancer: Based on either prognostic or predictive factors, subgroups of patients may be identified who are more likely to benefit than others. Currently, patients have been selected as candidates for HDC/BMT based solely on prognostic features that principally delineate tumor burden (locally advanced disease, large number of positive nodes, or metastases). A growing body of literature has demonstrated that certain molecular features can serve as predictive factors for specific therapies.[14-16] The best example of such a predictive factor is the very tight correlation of estrogen-receptor content with benefit from endocrine therapy.
Recent studies have suggested that markers like p53 mutations and overexpression/amplification of erbB2 may predict the activity of specific chemotherapeutic agents, such as the anthracyclines and taxanes.[17,18] Given the reliance on alkylating agents in most HDC/BMT regimens, it seems possible that measures of alkylating agent resistance, such as glutathione synthetase or O-methyltransferase levels and/or activity, might identify subgroups in whom dose escalation is more effective.
In summary, it is time for us to get beyond the debate about whether HDC/BMT "works." Currently, we can conclude that there is a small window of patients for whom it is not inappropriate (an intentional double-negative) and for whom participation in studies that address the next generation of questions is appropriate. As with all new and investigational therapies, with time we will be able to determine the relative worth of HDC/BMT. If an additional benefit does emerge, society must decide whether that benefit outweighs the costs.
In the meantime, our focus needs to shift from questions regarding dose to very different approaches, which may or may not encompass HDC. The exciting decline in breast cancer mortality during the past decade is tempered by the unacceptable loss of 40,000 women this year from the disease. Clearly, we must redouble our efforts to bring exciting new therapies into the arena. In doing so, we must also remember lessons from the past and remain cautiously optimistic but scientifically skeptical.
1. Frei III E, Canellos GP: Dose: A critical factor in cancer chemotherapy. Am J Med 69:585-594, 1980.
2. Henderson IC, Hayes DF, Gelman R: Dose-response in the treatment of breast cancer: A critical review. J Clin Oncol 6:1501-1515, 1988.
3. Tannock I, Boyd N, DeBoer G, et al: A randomized trial of two dose levels of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil chemotherapy for patients with metastatic breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 6:1377-1387, 1988.
4. Wood WC, Budman DR, Korzun AH, et al: Dose and dose intensity trial of adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II, node positive breast carcinoma: Initial results of CALGB 8541. N Engl J Med 330:1253-1259, 1994.
5. DeVita VT: Dose-response is alive and well [editorial]. J Clin Oncol 4:1157-1159, 1986.
6. Antman KH, Rowlings PA, Vaughan WP, et al: High-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic stem-cell support for breast cancer in North America [see comments]. J Clin Oncol 15:1870-1879, 1997.
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Arena Football League coming to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh will be home to outdoor hockey this winter and indoor football in the spring.
Multiple sources confirmed Wednesday that the Arena Football League is returning to one of its original cities with an expansion team whose ownership group includes former Steeler and NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann. An announcement is expected Friday at Consol Energy Center.
The indoor football team will play home games in the city's state-of-the-art arena, which opened last night.
Neither the Penguins nor the Steelers hold ownership stakes in the AFL team. Officials from both franchises and the AFL declined comment. Swann did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
The arrival of an AFL team continues a big summer for the Penguins, who will play their first regular-season NHL game at Consol Energy Center on Oct. 7.
The team pledged to bring big events to the region if a new arena were built. The AFL announcement will follow McCartney's first local arena shows since 1990. Last month, the NCAA awarded the 2013 Frozen Four — men's ice hockey semifinals and final — to Consol Energy Center, which will host the first and second rounds of the 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Penguins President David Morehouse said last month the team is trying to land NCAA wrestling championship tournaments, the NHL All-Star Game, the NHL Entry Draft and hockey's World Junior Championships.
The Pittsburgh Gladiators were one of the four original AFL franchises in 1987. The AFL's first game was played in the Civic Arena between the Gladiators and Washington Commandos. The Gladiators lost ArenaBowl I to the Denver Dynamite that season in a game played with the dome open at the Igloo.
The Gladiators relocated to Tampa Bay in 1991. Renamed the Storm, that franchise will try for its sixth AFL title Friday night in ArenaBowl XXIII in Spokane against the Spokane Shock.
The AFL returned for a 2010 season after financial problems forced the league to cancel its 2009 season. The league filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in December 2008, and all assets were liquidated. A league known as Arena Football 1 purchased those assets, which included league history and team names, and restored the AFL name in February before 15 teams began play in April. The league has a contract to have games televised on the NFL Network.
Pittsburgh will be the fourth city added for the 2011 season, joining former AFL members San Jose, Kansas City and Philadelphia.
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• The AFL uses a football equal in size and weight to an NFL football. Basic uniform components are the same, and touchdowns count for six points, but otherwise, the leagues differ in many ways.
• The AFL artificial playing surface is 85 feet long and 50 yards wide. Goal posts are 9 feet high, and end zones include rebound nets that are in play. Also, the surface is lined by 48-inch-tall sideline walls consisting of foam rubber.
• Eight players from a 20-man active roster are allowed on the field of play, with four offensive and three defensive players at the line of scrimmage. Blitzing is limited to one designated linebacker, and offenses are afforded one wide receiver to move forward while in motion before the snap.
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Touchup on anodized aluminum
Is there a way to touchup a black anodized part(sulfuric) that has had the finish worn off in a spot or two? I don't want to re-anodize the whole part again if it can be avoided.Jimmy Dickard
- Easley, SC, US
It depends on what specs, if any, you have to meet. And it depends on what wear resistance you need in the repaired area. But, believe it or not, many people accept touching up with a black magic marker as perfectly valid.
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Pine Beach, New Jersey
Theoretically YES, practically NO. You will have to clean off, probably mechanically, all residual anodic oxide, make contact, deox briefly in Nitric Acid (some proprietary deox will work, others will attack the other anodized and dyed areas), put back in the anodizing tank and set the voltage for the alloy, redip in dye, seal in plain hot water.
I have done it, it is difficult.
Robert H Probert Technical Services
Garner, North Carolina
A possible solution may be to brush anodize the bare spots. Connect the positive wire to the work, the negative wire to a cathode wrapped in felt,(ensuring the usual electrical safety issues are addressed)then wet felt with electrolyte, and brush over the bare spots. You must take into account the thickness of the felt, due to the possibility of arcing. This method is used to colourfully anodize titanium, so maybe it could be of some use to you.
Apparently a well bristled chip brush will hold a nice little piece of cathode up inside the centre of the bristles, using the power lead as a fastener. Trim bristles to appropriate length, allowing a decent gap.
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Quincy studies separation
The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Quincy is studying the question, "Shall the Diocese of Quincy separate from the Episcopal Church?"
It has distributed a 35-page document, "The Church in Crisis: A Resource for the Diocese of Quincy," to every member household in the diocese. The standing committee says it contains "reliable information on the current situation."
It's worthy of note that Virtue Online is listed as a reliable source. That's not surprising given that Bishop Ackerman and David Virtue hung out together at Lambeth. So why do conservative websites, among others, consistently ignore Virtue?
Indicative of the overall sloppiness of the document, the Presiding Bishop's name is inconsistently and incorrectly spelled throughout. On page 11 alone you will find Katharine Jefferts Schori (correct), Kathyrn Jefferts Schori, and Kathyrn Jefferts-Schori.
The document devotes a page to listing names of "Clergy Casualties." But most of those are not casualties. These individuals merely resigned; they were not forced out.
The diocese reported an average Sunday attendance of 1,105 in 2006. In 1996 its ASA was 1, 325. (Source.) Much of the Sunday attendance is at the Cathedral. Since 1996 ASA in diocese has declined 19 percent; Ackerman became bishop in 1994. By comparison, domestic attendance in The Episcopal Church has declined 8 percent over the same time period.
Read the document and check the facts (PDF).
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What is it about, "Bishop, you may leave at any time, but you may not take the diocese with you," that they do not understand?
David Virtue as a reliable source? Please.
June Butler
The cathedral statistics are interesting. A 33% drop in baptized membership over the last two recorded years (2005/2006), going from a little over 600 members to just under 400, but an 43% boost in income ("plate/pledge" - $350,000 to $500,000) in that same two year period.
33% fall in membership, 43% increase in income, in one 12 month period?
In praise of David Virtue, Mimi, I have found his archive the only reliable source of now-expired "local" South Carolina newspaper items on the All Saints, Pawleys Island lawsuits. StandFirm and T19 seem to have reported very little on the legal proceedings. Mr Virtue has reported and archived far more, regardless of which side the judgments favored.
"What is it about, "Bishop, you may leave at any time, but you may not take the diocese with you," that they do not understand." They understand, they just don't care to follow the rules because they believe TEC is so corrupt that the rules no longer apply to them. Arrogant and a lack of integrity, if they had any they would renounce their orders and just leave.
Richard Warren
The document devotes a page to listing names of "Clergy Casualties." But most of those are not casualties. These individuals merely resigned; they were not forced out.
Geez Louise: Drama Queens! :-0
Why don't they go try being an LGBT person in Nigeria or Uganda, if they want to see what a "casualty" really is!
Lord have mercy...
JC Fisher
The clergy list is even sloppier than described. For example, several of the priests listed are from the Diocese of Pittsburgh. One was suspended by Bishop Duncan until Sept 21, 2008 for issues related to a remarriage. He is committed to remaining in TEC. He's a casualty, but not the kind Quincy thinks. Another is a woman who has not been active in ministry for several years and has converted to one of the Eastern Rite churches. Two others left Pittsburgh in good standing with Bishop Duncan when they accepted calls to breakaway parishes now affiliated with CANA. Another is from KANSAS (although listed as canonicaly resident in Pittsburgh for the last several years) and went to Uganda to be a member of Archbishop Orombi's staff. She left in 2004 BEFORE her parish separated from TEC.
The booklet shows signs of being scissored and pasted together with contradictory statements and multiple descriptions of the same event. Two versions of the posting of a pagan liturgy on site on Women's Ministry resource page that permitted uploads from anyone are shown one following the other as though they were separate incidents.
Two different descriptions of the group Via Media USA actually contradict each other. One claiming that Every Voice Network formed VMUSA and the other that it is an alliance of groups dedicated to heterodoxy. This latter takes the VMUSA mission statement and adds phrases to it such as "celebrates its diverse understandings of matters outside the basic tenents of the faith" -- distorting greatly what the mission statement actually says.
JR Gunderson
Upon reviewing Quincy's document, I noticed immediately a remarkable similarity to a document produced earlier this year by the rector of St. Martin's, Houston. Like the Quincy document, the rector's production seemed aimed at persuading its readers that they soon would need to choose either the Anglican Communion or the Episcopal Church, i.e. that the two were no longer congruent. Aside from the material that is specific to the Diocese of Quincy, the rest of the material is virtually identical to what was incorporated in the rector's tome at St. Martin's. Comparison of these documents moves one to wonder if there is a "Q" source, a boilerplate document, from which both the Diocese of Quincy and the Houston church's rector have drawn. It suggests a coordinated effort, albeit awkwardly so, to misinformation to promote an ideology and schism.
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New body to lobby for deal for Polish filmmakers
Polish film and television producers have established a new consultative body which will lobby the government for better legal and commercial conditions for the Polish audio-visual industry. The newly formed Association of Producers made up of producers working in both film and television will act as Chamber of Commerce for the industry.
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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- A new musical based on Chappaqua's Hillary and Bill Clinton will premiere at New York City's New York Musical Theater Festival in July, according to Politico.com.
Two different men play versions of Bill Clinton in the musical. The production was nominated as best new musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Politico.com said.
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Santiago (AFP) Jan 1, 2012
Firefighters in Chile made inroads Sunday in their battle against a massive wildfire that has consumed 30,000 acres (12,500 hectares) of a national park that is one of the jewels of Patagonia, officials said Sunday.
Vicente Nunez, Chile's top emergency officials said Sunday that the five-day old inferno has failed to spread over the past 10 hours -- a hopeful sign that efforts to contain it appeared to be having success.
Nunez added that if the 600 fire fighters, soldiers and park rangers battling the blaze continue to make progress, the blaze could be brought under control "within the coming hours or days."
High winds have fanned the fire, thwarting an international effort that will soon be comprised of specialist fire-fighting teams from Uruguay and neighboring Argentina, as well as Chilean soldiers, planes and helicopters.
Torres del Paine National Park is a 2,400-square-kilometer (927-square-mile) paradise of granite-peaked mountains, natural Andean forests, Patagonian steppe and turquoise lakes deep in southern Chile.
Investigators arrested and later freed on bond an Israeli tourist they believe inadvertently set off the massive blaze on Tuesday by failing to properly extinguish a roll of toilet paper he had been burning.
The Israeli, 23-year-old Roten Singer, denies starting the fire and his family accuses the Chilean authorities of making him a scapegoat for the disaster. Singer faces up to 60 days in jail and a fine if found guilty.
President Sebastian Pinera has said the park, visited annually by 100,000 tourists, will remain shut throughout January.
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Date: June 21, 2010
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From: Jody Gould [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 12:31 PM To: Staten, David Cc: Temenak, Joseph Subject: BLA STN 125363 - Request for Clarification Importance: High
Dear David,
As communicated in my voicemail this morning, GSK is respectfully requesting clarification of the following items from the June 11 CR letter.
Please contact me with any questions.
Thanks again for your help!
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GSK uses the following parameters to define an individual 'assay run': ---------(b)(4)----------. The variable -----------------------------------------------(b)(4)----------------------------------------------- technician on a given day) is unique, and combined with the --------------------------------------------(b)(4)---------------------------------------, allows exact identification of the assay run. Please clarify if other parameters should be considered.
Because an assay run will be identified uniquely based on the "(b)(4)" and ------(b)(4)-------, we don't need to consider other parameters.
Item 15
We believe this item refers to the subjects that withdrew or prematurely discontinued the study due to an SAE or AE. We kindly request that CBER confirm our interpretation or clarify the request.
We are referring to the 11 subjects (10 Hib-MenCY-TT and 1 Hib) who withdrew or prematurely discountinued the study due to SAEs or AEs.
Item 84
Item 84 includes the statement "You have not provided information showing that the technicians who performed the assays for this study were capable of providing consistent (b)(4) readings". Please clarify if this statement relates to blinding of the samples (part b of Item 4). If not, please clarify what information is needed regarding technicians performing this assay.
Yes. Our statement relates to part b of Item 84 "Please provide information regarding whether the clinical samples were handled in a blinded manner when using -(b)(4)- to detect anti-VZV antibody, and how many technicians were directly involved in the analysis of samples by (b)(4)." Records showing that the technicians who were directly involved in the analysis of the clinical samples by (b)(4) were successfully trained will also be helpful.
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I just installed bt3 usb and I am having problems with my wireless card working. I am using a Broadcom 4318 wireless card on a HP Pavilion zv6000. When I airodump it shows up the routers but when I try to connect it will fails. I have also tried this from shell. Any suggestions?
-Monkeys are like nature's humans.
ifconfig <interface> up
iwconfig <interface> essid "ESSID"
iwconfig <interface> mode Managed
dhcpcd -nd <interface>
WEP - any wireless card
ifconfig <interface> up
iwconfig <interface> essid "ESSID"
iwconfig <interface> key HEXKEY
iwconfig <interface> mode Managed
dhcpcd -nd <interface>
*** Note if using ascii key instead of hex key you do the following
iwconfig <interface> s:asciikey
WPA with Ralink cards, e.g RT61
ifconfig <interface> up
iwconfig <inteface> essid "ESSID"
iwpriv <interface> set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv <interface> set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv <interface> set WPAPSK="WPAPSKKEY"
dhcpcd -nd <interface>
Taking from hm2075.
Alright I will give that a try. Thanks for all the help.
I have this exact card and it is not weak in anyway. It can pick up networks that my other 4 cards can't even see. It works perfect in windows with a strong signal from 300 feet away.BBright I have searched a dozen forums...it's got to BackTrack drivers, not your card, or some other problem. This card works great for cracking and signal strength.. trying to get wifi up is the hard part. I love Backtrack...but know I see why people pay for Windows! There needs to be a working wifi assistant...the built in one just crashes constantly. When I try wlassistant it connects/says it's connected and then a minute latter crashes.
As for your actual problem, simply use the command line to connect as the wireless assistant is rather buggy and will introduce many problems unrelated to the actual card/driver. The appropriate commands have been posted countless times on the forum already so you should have no problem finding them.
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If I am not mistaking aren't most wireless cards tuned down to about 50% power? If so how can I increase the power of my wireless card. Is that really going to make a difference though? Thanks for all the help!
I've a broadcom too and all is working well, injection, etc...
are you sure that you have a 4318 ?
You can start again from the beginning and remove any protections from your router.
be sure that you're not in monitor mode.
start wlan assistant and try connection auto with dhcp, if it doesn't work you can configure it manually. You must know your router ip, gateway, etc...
Another way is to install b43-fwcutter.
and last solution but injection will never work.
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Prompted by the success of 2004's Close Ups, his strikingly successful acoustic reworking of some of his best-known songs, Love-O-Meter is a concept album of sorts, a song cycle focused on love lost and found again. If your Misery-O-Meter is twitching into the red right about now, fear not. "I like happy endings," says Cummings. "I won't go to a movie unless I know it has a happy ending."
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