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I believe Inter will manage to be undefeated until the end of the season and win with many points this season as well.
Do you agree people?
Anything to say about Italian football?
It almost happened last season, or did it? It is a wonder why they sacked Mancini with the performance of his team in recent seasons!
Mourinho have struggled a bit with internal problems etc.
Totaly agree. Inter were crazy to sack Mancini. He sent them to the top of Italian football, should have been given at least one more season to prove himself in the Champions League.
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Siri six months later: Community report card
Siri, the iPhone 4S' flagship feature has been on the market now for 6 months. On one hand, Siri is absolutely amazing -- the first real virtual personal assistant with a personality right out of Pixar. On the other hand, Siri is obviously still in beta and often fails or works just enough to frustrate more than any outright failure. That makes it an odd choice for a flagship feature, but given the lack of a physical redesign and the obvious potential for awesome demos, rightly or wrongly, Siri was what Apple had to work with.
But does it work for us?
Survey says: Siri usage is low
iMore is an iPhone enthusiast site, so our community is predisposed to adopt new features quickly and use them extensively. Yet Siri usage among the iMore nation remains curiously low. As of today, with over 4000 votes cast, nearly 50% of our readers seldom, if ever, use Siri.
That's... astonishing. Here's the full break down:
- Almost 5% use Siri often, many times a day.
- Over 15% use Siri frequently, on a daily basis.
- Roughly 23% use Siri infrequently, at least several times a week
- Nearly 50% almost never use Siri, monthly or less.
- Just over 7% might use Siri, but it's not yet available in their native language.
Taken together, only 20% of our iPhone 4S users are using Siri on anything approaching a regular basis. That leaves 80% using it irregularly at best, and 50% barely using it at all.
This in spite of Apple showcasing Siri during the iPhone 4S introduction, putting it front and center on Apple.com, and making Siri the focus of most of the iPhone 4S advertising. They gave it the iPhone event keynote. They gave it Santa. They gave it Samuel L. Jackson.
And still few of our readers are using it.
That's not unprecedented, of course. The 2010 iPhone 4 launch saw a lot of attention placed on Apple's video calling service, FaceTime. But it's still interesting.
Siri community commentary: six months later
So why are -- or mostly aren't -- you using Siri six months after it was introduced? Here's what you've told us:
I prefer dictation to Siri most of the time. Use Siri not quite everyday, but I think several times a week is still pretty often. Now my 5 year old thinks Siri is great, talks to her several times a minute when i let her.
Some of you in the US who think its bad should try Siri in the UK. It's virtually useless. I'd love to ask Siri to locate the nearest pub or something, but we can't even do that. Yes I know it's in BETA, but I really had hopes they'd be releasing updates more frequently when I purchased my 4S to be perfectly honest.
It's always down, or something else is wrong. Or it just hangs when I tell her to call someone. Kind of giving up on it. Needs a few more years of seasoning.
I've stopped differentiating between Siri and voice dictation, as I believe it is largely the same animal. Siri interaction is a bit more problematic, so I often leave Siri alone and then dictate directly within a given app. For appointments and reminders, I ONLY want to use Siri. I almost won't set the calendar/reminder item until Siri is no longer "sorry." So, I use it a good once a day, at least, if you consider the above under the same umbrella.
I use Siri daily.. with 90% success rate. I use it for meetings, reminders, appointments, looking stuff up, texting and calling. So easy to say call Wife at work and it is done.
Siri NEVER works for me. I'm always in full signal 3G or Wifi at work and home and it takes her at least 30 - 60 seconds and I get to frustrated and turn it off. I am not a fan.
I use Siri all the time. Reading, writing texts. Setting up reminders, making and editing notes, getting directions (navacon), toggling Bluetooth, wifi, flashlight etc... I'd be lost if I couldn't talk to my phone.
I use Siri for reminders. The few times I've tried using it to send a text while driving I've gotten so frustrated I could have just as easily been texting. The whole idea is to to not take your mind off the road.
I still use Siri and it is very helpful. As I stated in another thread, I use if primarily to text & respond to text messages while driving, set reminders, look up information and to dial contacts for me. I have never asked it frivolous questions and it did not factor in to my reason for buying my iPhone 4S. Could it be better? Heck yeah. Do I depend on it? Absolutely not. I've had a smartphone or a PDA phone for so long and I'm so used to doing things manually that I forget about Siri sometimes.
I use Siri everyday and every time Siri comes up I can't help thinking 3 things: 1. Why didn't we have this 10 years ago? 2. Why isn't this better? (Can't launch apps or modify settings) 3. How do people still "type" messages, it feels so archaic to type in 2012. It's great for reminders and meetings. Sending texts, timers for cooking or whatever it is you are doing. Why type???? I just don't get it besides being in an environment where you it wouldn't be appropriate to speak.
Deciphering the disuse and discontent
For a few readers Siri has become important or even quasi indispensable. (Some of our editors have even joked Siri has made them so lazy that, if it's unavailable, they'll wait rather than actually type out a text message...) However, for many more readers, Siri simply wasn't part of their iPhone usage pattern. Based on the feedback we've gotten, it seems the disuse or discontent with Siri can be broken down into a few categories.
- Some people just forget Siri is there. Siri is something new and new things don't always enter into, or find a place in, established workflows.
- Siri not working -- either because it doesn't understand certain accents, because the required network connection fails, or because it simply takes too long to respond -- causes enough frustration that some users simply abandon it and don't go back. How many people would use Google if searches routinely took 30 seconds or more to return?
- The inconsistent implementation -- ability to read texts but not emails, ability to launch some apps for specific functions but not simply launch an app, etc. -- creates an unpredictable or incomplete enough usability model that many simply exclude it entirely.
- The lack of timely and consistent updates from Apple -- only one new language in 6 months and no new features or integration -- creates a wait and see attitude that, so far, is still waiting but not seeing.
- The amount and type of Siri advertising creates expectations that the actual service (point #2) and support to date (point #4) don't live up to, leading to dissatisfaction.
There's also another alternative -- Siri is a new kind of interface meant for a new kind of user. iPhone sales numbers indicate it's the first smartphone to capture a predominantly mainstream audience. That audience isn't familiar with how smartphones historically worked, and something like Siri might ultimately prove more accessibly and less intimidating than a traditional app-launcher style interface. All of the factors listed above absolutely hurt Siri's chances of achieving that right now, but Siri could still achieve that in a future where it's both more reliable and more functional.
If that's the case, our iPhone enthusiast audience may never be the target for Siri, but the mainstream audience that is its target isn't using it, or isn't enjoying the use of Siri just yet.
Siri next steps
So six months later and Siri usage among iMore readers is low. What can be done to change that? The opposite of what we conjecture is causing it.
- There's not much more Apple can do to boost Siri awareness, given that it's already the centerpiece of their iPhone 4S advertising, and making Siri popup like Microsoft Assistant would cause most of us to throw our phones at a wall. They can't just make people more aware of Siri, they have to make Siri more usable.
- Improve Siri's ability to understand accents in the U.K. Since Siri claims to support U.K. English, supporting U.K. English is something important to do. No doubt the beta period, where Siri is fed more and more voice data, will help with that. Network connection issues are tougher. There's absolutely no excuse for Siri's servers on Apple's data centers to go down or even be slow to respond. Apple is rich enough to support the best technology and ensure among the best up times and availability in the business. Carrier connection problems. especially notorious in the U.S., are beyond Apple's ability to address unless/until they can put some base level of Siri functionality locally, on-device, as a fallback.
- Adding more well-rounded features may be non-trivial but is necessary to create consistency in the Siri experience. If text entry or basic navigation was different, or non-existent, from app to app, it would make the iPhone unusable (see early versions of Android). Siri working differently, or not working at all, with some core apps makes it likewise difficult to count on. Adding the basics like Settings toggles, app launching, email reading, etc. would increase consistency and also solve general iOS pain points. ("Siri, turn Bluetooth off!" alone would likely bolster usage considerably.)
- Roll out incremental updates. The power of online services is that they can be updated on the server-side, which means they're less disruptive and can be more frequent than larger software patches. Updates create confidence. Japanese was a great addition in iOS 5.1, but it was the only addition in 6 months and that's a long time.
- Obviously Apple isn't going to stop advertising Siri unless and until they have something just as compelling to replace it with, and they're not going to make it tell Zooey Deschenel it can't connect to the network when she wants to get her dance on. That's the cost of marketing based on a beta feature that sets expectations the product can't meet. Apple doesn't often do it, but they've done it in this case and they're stuck with it now.
No doubt Apple is working away on Siri, and adding Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and other languages is certainly non-trivial. Nothing about voice and context parsing is easy. Yet positioned the way it is, as the flagship feature of the iPhone 4S, Siri legitimately brings equal and opposite expectations down on Apple.
Six months later and a lot of you simply aren't using Siri. If you're one of them, let us know what Apple could do to get you on board. If you are using Siri, why do you think so many others aren't? The first developer betas for iOS 6 may be just around the corner, and the next generation iPhone 5,1 may just be on track for a fall release. What does Apple have to do to turn the corner on Siri and make it as mainstream and popular a feature as the iPhone itself?
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Siri six months later: Community report card
My iPhone 4 was useful when it came to voice recognition. I could dial a number by saying the name of the entry and it worked every time (I honestly can't think of a time it didn't work). Now with Siri, I have yet to make this 4S brick understand a word I am saying. Apparently, Northern Midwest isn't a version of English that is compatible with Siri. I guess US English is Californian only.
It works for North Eastern English.
"why do you think so many others aren't?"
I think some people are asking it to do what it wasn't designed to do. People trying to play a disc full of mp3 in a car cd player not designed to play mp3s. Maybe apple needs to include a tutorial. I'm sure others simply don't know how to use it to do what they want or have other issues like those accent problems you mentioned. And like you said some things like a network issue is the network's fault. I do think they should add some more functions to it like why can't i voice plot navigation point? That's rhetorical but point is i'd like to do it by voice when driving just like on Android. but there is lots of room for improvement in ios.
The entire selling point of Siri is that you do not have to know what it can or cannot do -- that it is intelligent enough to decipher your meaning from language and context. Otherwise, it is just a fancy dictation system and voice-activated dialer.
Most long-time tech users understand what you imply -- that the more you know about and tailor yourself to a device, the more you can get out of it. The problem is that Apple relentlessly markets Siri as something that does away with that paradigm, and understands you, rather than forces you to understand it. That's an enormous technical challenge, and one can hardly fault Apple for not fulfilling it 100%. But they need to bring their marketing more in line with the reality, if they do not want to spawn a round of disappointed users.
No that is YOUR selling point. That's now how it is sold. It is not marketed as a device that can do anything. It was sold as a device that can understand some naturally spoken language. It wasn't sold as a device that is artificial intelligence. Everything in apple commercial are one of about 12 things siri can do. It's setting an alarm, setting a date in a calender, setting a reminder, sending a text. That's what's said in the press conference, that's what's in the commercials, that's what in the documentation. You're merely grafting onto siri your own expectations not what they've sold it as.
People complaining that it doesn't so all the things you want it to do is like getting mad at Coke for saying "Coke will refresh your thirst on a hot day" only to find out that Coke is not the going to be a sole nutritional drink that you can rely on. I think it's lazy and naive. It's one thing to say it can't understand my accent. It's another to ask it to do what it was not designed to do or capable of doing then claiming they've somehow said it can do it. I've seen no commercial that with Apple claiming Siri can start my car or turn on my lights in my house or I'm not frustrated that it can't launch my Waze gps app cause i'm smart enough to read up on it and find out that it can't launch that app. People are just lazy and don't want to inform themselves and are hearing what they want to hear not what is said.
Nice try, but you seem to be responding to what you want me to have said, instead of what I said. My point had nothing to do with features that Siri can or cannot command. My point refers to the expectations Apple has set for how Siri performs the things it can in fact do.
Watch the ads again. "Is that rain?" "Let's get tomato soup delivered." "Find me a store that sells organic mushrooms for my risotto." "How do I get to Charlie Grant's house?" "How many ounces in a cup?"
These are not questions narrowly tailored for a machine to understand; the entire thrust of Apple's marketing is that you can speak conversationally to it, as you would to a person, and Siri can decipher what you meant, providing fast, accurate results. Siri performs that task well -- up to a point.
However, as the results of this very survey suggest, people's everyday experiences with Siri fall short of what is portrayed in the commercial. Whether the fault lies with network latency, funny accents, bad grammar, or background noise is ultimately besides the point; for perhaps the first time, Apple's ads are writing a check that the product cannot cash.
Nobody is going to be disappointed that Siri cannot control their toaster, and I never said they would be. People are disappointed that Siri cannot understand and answer their questions as quickly and accurately as portrayed by Zooey and Sam; that is what I meant when I said Apple needs to bring their marketing more in line with reality, if they want to avoid a smudge on their brand.
I am in the UK and have worked on the radio and have what is described as an 'accentless' voice. It should be easy for Siri to understand me and yet a good 70 per cent of the time it doesn't. Also, unlike competitors like Evi, it can't be used to find local services which is a big incentive to use it. To wait so long and still not have a slight update is unacceptable. Also, who do we have to have a male voice?
Very good article that provides a well balanced approach to assessing the marquee feature of the Apple iPhone 4S. I was using Siri several times daily but my usage pattern has changed due to some life changes.
I believe there are some improvements Apple could make that would improve adoption of Siri as the revolutionary user interface:
Allow Siri to activate/deactivate key settings features, including; 3G data, Airplane Mode, App Store Updates, Bluetooth, LTE data (coming soon?), Software Updates, Wi-Fi, etc.
Allow Siri to search for addresses and directions as a interface for Maps (Placebase, Poly 9 and C3 Technologies based maps and directions).
Develop more APIs for app developers and improve integration with Apple apps such as "Apple Store," "Find Friends," "iTunes Store" and "iTunes Movie Trailers." A simple simple APIs that allow Siri to open apps, check-in (FourSquare, etc.) and update social status would create far more opportunities for Siri usage.
Create partnerships with more companies. Lack of partnerships is the primary reason Siri is of limited use outside of the United States.
I think a lot of it is that people I see always ask Siri a question like they are searching for something but that's not really what it's supposed to do all the time. It's an assistant to accomplish tasks on the phone itself.
If you want something like that you should talk to IBM about releasing a Watson app.
I think people want it to be an advancement over the competing product that was released more than a year earlier (Google's Voice Actions) which sadly it isn't. All the fanfare aside Siri offers roughly the same functionality (less in some respects, more in others), not exactly spectacular for a company claiming to drive innovation.
Well let's be honest with ourselves. It sucks. But because apple did it we try real hard to like it, make excuses for it, saying things like "oh it's beta". Point blank period it sucks. I use it only to show people how it works or to try to get Siri to say something funny and make me laugh. To date this is still the only thing related to iPhone that has been released as beta, they tagged it beta because it sucks. And thats if the "servers" are not busy and you can even use it at all. Just admit it people, lay off the kool aide. And it's been six months why is it still beta. The only company that waits that long to update stuff is Samsung.
Here's my honest opinion it's not beta its as good as it gets they call it beta because they know it's just a sailing point, it's cool, its apple.
F-that I can do without Siri just give a damn 4" screen. That littersally is all I need and I'm set.
^^ What Master P said!!! ^^
I don't have an iPhone 4S, so I don't use Siri, but my co-worker has one and uses it from time to time. However, I notice that he has to ask it sometime 2 or 3 times before it will 'get' what he is asking it to do.
Another site note, another co-worker came to me saying that his iPhone crashed and didn't know how to reset the phone. I pulled out my Windows Phone and used the Bing Voice and just spoke 'iPhone reset' which is got correct on the first try (even spelled it iPhone!) and it came up with a search result with what to do. My other co-worker with the iPhone 4S said, thats great. He pulled out his phone asked the same thing, and Siri said it didn't understand....
I use Siri as a novelty, but never as a tool. Since it works so infrequently, I cannot rely on it. I certainly won't send a text with it unless I can append a message to the text that says "composed with Siri" so the recipient doesn't think I'm drunk. "I'll be home soon" goes out as "Bill is bald goon." If someone asks me a question, I'll pull out Siri to ask for the answer, because if it works it looks cool, and if it doesn't I didn't really need it anyway.
So let me get this straight, Apple releases Siri, it performs badly, and now the excuse is "On the other hand, Siri is obviously still in BETA and often fails or works just enough to frustrate more than any outright failure." Since when did Apple think that releasing a BETA version to the public was acceptable?
But they compound that acceptable mistake by making it the cornerstone of all their marketing. For the first time, Apple is seriously marketing (misleading) a feature that underperforms overwhelmingly for most people.
"but given the lack of a physical redesign and the obvious potential for awesome demos, rightly or wrongly, Siri was what Apple had to work with."
I don't accept that. Were there no new features? Airplay mirroring? iCloud? iMessage? There's a lot of gee whiz stuff they could market and at least come off looking better than marketing (misleading) something that doesn't work. If Apple can't find anything compelling to market about their ecosystem, new things, etc, then they are in trouble. You can't tell me they exhausted all this in previous iphone marketing, which was all about apps.
And...why worry about the iphone 4S or differences from previous in particular? It's the iphone. I didn't think they were targeting iphone 4 users but the rest. Just market the iphone (remember, they're dropping the numbers). Why would you want one? What's great about the ecosystem?
As a result, Apple has stopped educating the masses. I talk to many who still don't understand what iCloud is. To this day, my wife couldn't tell you what imessage does any differently, it just turns blue is all. Airplay? Few know about it but are impressed seeing it in action. iTunes Match?
People forget that iPhone has built-in voice commands that work pretty good if you turn Siri off. I used Siri a lot until I turned it off when I went on vacation and couldn't use it. I haven't turned it back on
Now, voice dialing and playing music works much better and is more responsive. I can say "Play playlist classic rock" or "Play songs by Brad Paisley" and it works instantly. So does "Call the office" or "Call Helen, Mobile".
When I call a number that has commas in it (eg. numbers with extensions or other touch tones) it doesn't say "Calling Authorize Visa dollar sign car dollar sign".
Most of all, I NEVER get "I'm so sorry, Don. Something seems to be wrong.".
All of this actually works better on the 4S than on the 4 because of the faster processor.
Now if I could only get it to stop calling some ex girlfriend that i haven't talked to in 8 years when I ask it to play my workout playlist I would be happy.
I do really miss being able to add mayonnaise to my shopping list though.
For me, Siri is more hassle than function. It was fun to try it out at first like FaceTime, but it seemed to take longer than to just do the task myself. It also has seemed to be WORSE over time and things that it could look up months ago, it now asks if I want to do a web search. I also find that it is just plain awkward talking to your phone. I would rather manually type a text than talk to my phone and have people look at me funny. Most of my friends that have a 4S as well never use it either. I would be perfectly happy if Apple focused more on something else than to expand on Siri.
siri can sometimes work, when ur 10 ft from your router that is. using it in the car is worthless as the headphoes my iphone came with had a broken mic. i replaced them and siri is still worthless. consistently misunderstands my voice or cant connect to the network. ive been so frustrated while driving ive literally thrown the phone behind me and not cared. siri is a great case of false advertising and is nowhere near the advertised level of functionality. the only time i use it is when i am half asleep and ask it to wake me up in the morning.
Don't have a 4S, but I do know people that do (my Mom is one of them) so I have had the chance to use it. YAWN. Another "magical" feature that falls flat. Is it just me, or does this look like another Apple desperation move to release a "new" phone. They had to have something to call the 4S new. Same phone, slightly better camera, slightly faster (like you can tell) so this was their "big gun". They had to have SOMETHING. And, they didn't do themselves any favors by releasing those ads that give the impression it is way faster than it is. When they went from the original to the 3G, it was a new phone. The 3G to the 3GS, had video, faster, and white! The 4 was a total rebuild, but keeping their cycle, we needed the updated version. What to do? And this brings us to a bigger problem. They are reaching a point where this is it. What else CAN they add? Same phone, bigger screen?? Same phone. Same phone, different color? Same phone. Siri has GREAT potential for future applications, but Apple being Apple, will they ever be realized? And, just for the record, I have a 4, had a 3G, wife has a 4, son has an iPod touch, iPad2, Macbook Pro, and an Airport Extreme.
i think Apple should have been updating siri in the past 6 months... adding location to all of the supported languages should have been done by now?? and tbh i think apple should of worked with the people who create the iPhone app evi, maybe buy them and get them to help apple improve so much....
Let's take a step back from Apple's execution of Siri and look whole premise of voice recognition. I've always thought that VR is one of those fantasies of yesterday's future—a staple of Sixties sci-fi that was bypassed by more efficient, less glamorous input methods in personal and mobile computing. What was novel and impressive about language processing, especially in the past, was that computers would actually be powerful enough to parse spoken thoughts. It never had to do with a better user experience.
I'm actually surprised that 20% of respondents use Siri, even infrequently. I've used it maybe half a dozen times before the novelty wore off. I never see anyone use Siri on the street, which lead me to believe that people only use it when they're stationary and have time to repeat themselves.
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Is it a Gauguin or a Cezanne?
New work by two major artists in the Hickory, N.C. area begs the question. Inspired by the masters – Gauguin and Cezanne, respectively - artists Dan Smith and Steve Brooks of Hickory, North Carolina have painted abstract images of faces put together in a collage-like fashion (Smith) and impressionistic oils of the forests blanketing the North Carolina Highlands (Brooks). These two "masters in their own time" hold Masters in Fine Arts degrees and have taught and exhibited across the Carolinas.
A dual artist exhibit of their new large format work runs from March 1 through April 26 in the Welborn Gallery of the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center in downtown Yadkinville.
Both of the artists build up and break down paintings in their own fashion, using acrylics and oils, layer upon layer, image over image. Dan Smith's self-portrait cum John Smith cum who knows what's next? - An ever-evolving painting - covers an 80 inch by 40 inch canvas. Titled Deere John Maerkle, the painting has been a work in progress since 2007. During the month of March, Dan Smith will be painting on this work every Wednesday in the Welborn Gallery at the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center.
Steve Brooks, a Georgia native, spent much of his time growing up out of doors, planting beans and checking the cows, a happy wanderer in the field or forest.
When he moved to western North Carolina the mountain environment inspired his first water color paintings as a young man. His early influences include Bonnard and Wolf Kahn but later on during graduate school he was encouraged to study Cezanne and other post impressionists. His body of treescapes is about light, its interruption and space.
The public is invited to the opening reception at the Welborn Gallery on Friday, March 1 beginning at 5:30 pm. A drawing for two season passes to the opening series of the Willingham Theater will take place at 6:30 pm.
The Yadkin Cultural Arts Center is the home of the Yadkin Arts Council. A cultural complex, it houses the new Willingham Performing Arts Theater, the Third Branch Café,
The YARD artist studios, a gift shop, plaza and stroll way recently crowned by a majestic cast bronze sculpture Aiming for the Mark created by the artist Heloise Christa who came to study at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen West in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1956.
The Yadkin Cultural Arts Center is located at 226 E. Main Street, Yadkinville, NC 27055. Visit www.yadkinarts.org or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Center hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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FREEPORT — There will be no repeat as district champions for the Baker girls basketball team.
The Gators took on a tough Chipley team in the District 2-1A semifinals Thursday night and saw their dreams for a title come up short.
Jasmine Belser scored a game-high 27 points to lead the Tigers to a 65-59 win.
"They are a good ball club," Baker coach Brian Wagner said of Chipley. "Our girls knew we were going to have to play our best basketball. With the exception of missing some easy ones we shot lights out from 3-point land, which is something we haven't done all year long.
"We played like I knew we would play. We played extremely well. But in crucial moments you have to make those things happen and there were times that we did and there were times that we didn't and that was the difference in the game."
The Gators, who ended the season with a 16-7 record, got off to a fast start behind the hot shooting of Kathryn Quigg.
Quigg scored the first four points of the game and nine of her 16 points in the first quarter as the game was tied at 16-16 at the end of the first quarter.
Belser's big night started innocently enough as she scored five points in the first quarter, but she was just getting cranked up as she scored 10 second-quarter points as Chipley took a 32-31 lead into the intermission.
Quigg continued to play well for the Gators adding five more points in the second quarter to increase her total to 14 points at the half. Cassidy Anderson also started to find her range for Baker in the second quarter as she scored six points in the period and Lily Phillips was good for four second-quarter points for the Gators.
Anderson and Bethany Chestnut led the Baker charge early in the third quarter.
Baker led 42-38 after a score by Anderson with 3:50 left in the third quarter. The Tigers then came roaring back closing out the third quarter with a 12-4 run behind play of Amanda Paschal and Ebony Williams to take a 50-46 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
A Chestnut basket 27 seconds into the fourth quarter closed the Tiger lead to two points. But the Tigers answered with a 3-pointer by Rikia Sorey to go up 53-48.
The Gators were never able to get any closer than four points after the Sorey basket as Chipley held on for the win.
"Give credit to Chipley," Wagner said. "No. 12 (Paschal) is a heck of a player and 23 (Belser) stepped up big for them.
"But I can't say enough about my seniors and the things they have meant to me. And the opportunity to coach my daughter (Haley Wagner) is undescribable."
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Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
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I tried roasting the cauliflower a few weeks ago. I just used the olive oil, Kosher salt, pepper, and crushed garlic. My husband and son wanted grated jack/cheddar on their servings. It was ALL delicious and it was gone so fast. None of us were cauliflower fans. In fact, I verged on the border of hating cauliflower. Now, I am buying it at least once a week. I have been raving about it to all of my family and friends. Many have said they don't like cauliflower either. I know there will be many more converts out there!
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'The Woman in Me' to raise support for women's programsWritten by Matt Liasse | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Kamala Tamirisa grew up in a rural village in India where some women never went to school.
While her father motivated her to get an education, her mother always taught her to help others. She worked to become a physician and today practices at Northwest Ohio Cardiology Consultants (NWOCC). She now gives back by helping women in the community who have fallen on hard times.
"I was raised very fortunate," Tamirisa said.
Tamirisa will host "The Woman in Me … the Women in My Life," a fundraiser for Sparrow's Nest and the women's programs of Cherry Street Mission Ministries. The event will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oct. 12 at The Pinnacle, 1772 Indian Wood Circle in Maumee.
"I'm a big supporter of women," Tamirisa said. "'The Woman in Me' is you have that power, you have that energy, bring it out. … 'The Women in My Life' [means] your best friends, your mothers, your daughters, your neighbors. We can spread the wave of positive
energy among women and uplift ourselves."
With support from ProMedica Physicians and NWOCC, Tamirisa wants to use the event to provide information, entertainment, refreshments and networking, according to a news release. The event will include a panel of four women discussing women's health information through a Q&A discussion with the audience.
"I'm visualizing a woman who was abused … or she went bankrupt and became homeless, [this event is] to help her get back on her feet," Tamirisa said. "Now, we talk about taking care of her health; we talk about how to look at the body, inner beauty of the body … and wealth, money, how to get a job and how to get money."
Tamirisa said the event will also provide information on building a savings account and how to put aside money.
Tamirisa came up with the idea through collaboration.
"All of us have some kind of story to tell," she said. "Some women have personal experiences."
Tamirisa said she was also motivated by a friend who was a victim of domestic violence.
She said this event will raise awareness and prevent women from hiding "behind the curtain."
"We can hold hands together; we can help each other out," she said. "We need strong women so we can pull the ones in difficult situations out. … Don't be scared to come out and ask for help."
Tanya Biank, New York Times best-selling author of "Army Wives" and "Undaunted," will appear at the event to speak.
Entertainment will be in the form of a fashion show, which will consist of $100 outfits suitable for today's working women.
Live and silent auctions will also take place and breakfast and lunch will be served.
Cherry Street Mission Ministries focuses on the homeless, providing emergency shelters that are open 24 hours a day, every day. Sparrow's Nest is the women's division of Cherry Street Mission Ministries, providing shelter for homeless women.
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Located in the recently completed Brenda Lawson Student-Athlete Success Center, the Chattem Facility was officially opened as Chattem CEO Zan Guerry made the first basket with a driving layup on the East goal.
"This facility exceeds all expectations," said Head Men's Basketball Coach John Shulman. "This puts us on par with the high majors. This is home."
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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Clayton Richard's 2011 was cut short due to a shoulder issue that eventually required surgery.
The southpaw displayed no rust in his first outing since last July 4, limiting the Los Angeles Dodgers to just two hits over seven strong innings as the San Diego Padres posted an 8-4 victory Sunday and salvaged the finale of a four- game series at PETCO Park.
Chase Headley clubbed a game-sealing grand slam in the eighth inning for the Padres, who avoided their first 0-4 start in 18 years.
San Diego native and former Padre Aaron Harang (0-1) gave up four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits, walked five and struck out six in 4 1/3 innings.
"We just weren't able to scratch anything together," said Los Angeles manager Don Mattingly.
The Dodgers were looking to open 4-0 for the first time since their 1981 championship season.
Richard (1-0) committed two of San Diego's three errors, but a misplay by right fielder Will Venable led to Los Angeles getting on the board. Pinch- hitter Mark Ellis reached base when Venable dropped a fly ball to start the sixth. The next two batters were retired but Matt Kemp launched a two-run homer over the wall in center, trimming the deficit to 4-2.
San Diego extended its lead on Headley's first hit of the season. After pinch- hitter Jeremy Hermida, Cameron Maybin and Venable singled to load the bases with no outs, Headley snapped an 0-for-12 drought and crushed Scott Elbert's offering to left field for his second career grand slam.
"I felt like I was seeing the ball a lot better, all day I had better at- bats," Headley said.
Elbert had relieved Todd Coffey earlier in the eighth.
Andre Ethier hit a two-run shot in the ninth off San Diego's Ernesto Frieri to complete the scoring.
Harang, who led the Padres with 14 wins last season and compiled a career-low 3.64 ERA, hit Maybin to begin the bottom of the first inning and issued a one- out walk to Headley, who advanced to third on Jesus Guzman's RBI single to left and scored on a sacrifice fly by Yonder Alonso.
John Baker added an RBI single in the third, and Andy Parrino's first major league home run put the Padres up 4-0 in the fourth.
The Padres placed pitcher Dustin Moseley on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a strained right shoulder and recalled left-hander Josh Spence from Triple-A Tucson. Moseley gave up five runs over five innings to the Dodgers on Saturday...Richard improved to 5-1 lifetime against the Dodgers...Headley walked three times...Maybin stole two bases...The Dodgers' last four-game sweep in San Diego was from June 28-July 1, 2001...Kemp has a 16-game hitting streak dating back to last season and has hit safely in each of his last nine games against the Padres.


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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Kevin Correia tossed six strong innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates avoided a sweep with a 4-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants in the finale of a three-game set at AT&T Park.
Correia (1-0) gave up just one run on three hits and one walk while striking out two. Joel Hanrahan struggled with his control in the ninth, but managed to turn away the Giants and record his first save of the season.
Alex Presley finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and Garrett Jones crushed a solo home run, while Neil Walker had two hits and Josh Harrison added an RBI for the Bucs, who snapped a five-game skid.
"We had lost five in a row and we had to turn it around," said Correia. "I think we've been throwing the ball pretty well. We haven't quite gotten on the board enough and today we came through with some runs."
Ryan Vogelsong (0-1) took the loss in his first start of the season after recovering from back pain that caused him to miss time during spring training. Vogelsong gave up just two runs on four hits and three walks while fanning seven in 6 1/3 innings.
"He threw great. He did a great job in his first time out," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said about Vogelsong.
Emmanuel Burriss knocked in the only run of the game for the Giants, who had a three-game winning streak halted.
To make matters worse for San Francisco, the team placed star closer Brian Wilson on the 15-day DL with a right elbow sprain.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy announced on Saturday that the hard-throwing righty likely has structural damage in the elbow and would consult orthopedist Dr. James Andrews, but he will likely require season-ending Tommy John surgery.
The Pirates opened the scoring with a pair of runs in the second inning. Jones led off the frame by blasting a fastball from Vogelsong over the wall in right-center field. Walker followed with a single into left, moved to second on a single by Clint Barmes and Michael McKenry drew a free pass to load the bases. After Correia popped out, Presley beat out an infield single, allowing Walker to score.
San Francisco finally cracked the scoreboard in the fifth when Brandon Belt ripped a double to right to begin the inning, moved to third on a groundout by Brandon Crawford, then came home on a groundout by Burriss to cut the Pirates' lead in half.
Pittsburgh extended its lead to 4-1 in the eighth. Andrew McCutchen ripped a single to left to start things and McGehee followed with a single to put the first two men on base. Jeremy Affeldt was then summoned from the bullpen and the first batter he faced -- Walker -- laid down a sacrifice bunt, but Pablo Sandoval threw the ball away, allowing McCutchen to score. Harrison, as a pinch-hitter, then put down a bunt which allowed McGehee to score.
San Francisco stranded two runners in the eighth and the ninth.
Including his two appearances this season, Wilson has recorded 171 saves and a 3.21 earned run average in 315 appearances over his seven professional seasons...Pittsburgh went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine, while San Francisco was 0-for-11 with RISP and left nine on base...The Giants will host Philadelphia for three games starting on Monday, while Pittsburgh will open a three-game set against the Diamondbacks also on Monday.


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Sessei Meg Levie, MA, has been practicing Zen for over 20 years and received ordination as a Zen priest in 2003. She holds degrees in English from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. Currently she serves as the Program Development Director for the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.
She practiced monastically at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, has studied Buddhism in Thailand and Japan, and served as the teacher for the Bolinas branch of the Mountain Source Sangha from 2008 to 2011.
After 15 years of residential practice at Zen Center, she felt called to find ways to help make awareness practices more accessible to the wider world and received professional coaching certification from New Ventures West in San Francisco. Her coaching practice draws on her background in Zen Buddhist training to help her clients uncover and embody their authenticity, creativity, and vision, both personally and professionally. Since 2008 she has taught beginning and advanced classes on integrating mindfulness practice into work and life at the biotech firm Genentech, as well as leading daylong and overnight corporate retreats. She has designed and taught classes on mindfulness at Twitter and has coached leaders from Zynga and Google on developing awareness and presence.
She also is a member of the Global Leadership Network, a foundation created to support the development of leadership capacity through integrating personal development with organizational and societal transformation.
She received her BA degree in English from Stanford University and an MA, also in English, from the University of Texas at Austin. Before encountering Zen, she worked in the publishing industry in New York and Tokyo. Currently she lives at Green Gulch with her husband, Jeremy, and their daughter, Elizabeth.


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KENNESAW, Ga. --- The Chattanooga Mocs (2-4) went on the road for a 65-51 win at Kennesaw State (1-6) Saturday afternoon. UTC used a strong first half offensively and a lockdown defensive second frame for the win.
Z. Mason (Nashville, Tenn.) led four double-digit scorers for the Mocs with 14 points, eight rebounds and a career-high four blocks. Gee McGhee (Baton Rouge, La.) added 12 points for the day. Markeith Cummings had a game-high 16 points for KSU. Aaron Anderson chipped in 10 points and seven boards.
It was a four-point game, 21-17 UTC, with 8:20 left in the first half when the Mocs took control. It out-scored the Owls 17-4 the rest of the way with McGhee's 16-footer as time ticked away to end the half sent a jubilant group of Mocs into the locker room up 38-21.
Drazen Zlovaric's (Novi Sad, Serbia) layup with 12:11 remaining put UTC up by 20, 44-24. Casey Jones (New Orleans, La.) and Farad Cobb (West Palm Beach, Fla.) matched that lead almost four minutes later.
Jones hit the first of two free throws, but Mason hustled for the offensive board on the miss keeping possession on the Mocs' end. He found Cobb just to the right of the top of the key who nailed a three-pointer for the four-point trip and a 51-31 lead.
It wasn't easy, however. Chattanooga had 18 of its 23 turnovers in the second half. Its defense was well, its defense. The Mocs limited Kennesaw State to just 29.4 percent shooting after intermission including a 0-13 effort from three-point range.
The Owls closed to a single-digit deficit, 59-51, with 1:37 left on two Jordan Montgomery free throws. But the Mocs stayed tough down the stretch. Ronrico White (Knoxville, Tenn.) made five-of-six free throws to cement the win.
White and Zlovaric scored 10 points apiece for the Mocs. Zlovaric grabbed seven rebounds as UTC dominated the glass. It out-rebounded the Owls 43-22 matching its season-best plus-21 margin (Tennessee Temple).
That was pronounced on the offensive end of the floor. The Mocs grabbed 14 of its own misses while KSU managed just 12 defensive rebounds. That amounted to an 18-4 advantage in second chance points.
Chattanooga returns home Saturday, December 1, opening Southern Conference play. Defending champion Davidson visits for a 7:30 p.m., tip. It's a doubleheader with the Lady Mocs tackling Furman at 5 p.m. Tickets are available on GoMocs.com or by calling 266-MOCS (6627).
Listen to all the exciting play-by-play from "Voice of the Mocs" Jim Reynolds on ESPN 105.1 the Zone in Chattanooga, or world-wide on GoMocs.com. MocsVision has the live video and audio action online and you can follow @GoMocsMBB on twitter for news, notes, stats and links to game notes, live stats and more.GoMocs.com is the official website of the Chattanooga Mocs. The Mocs can also be followed on their official Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ChattanoogaMocs, or on Twitter, www.twitter.com/GoMocs. Find out how to join the UTC Mocs Club and support more than 300 student-athletes by clicking here.


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CLEMSON — Clemson University police have arrested Micah Rogers of Pisgah Forest, N.C., in connection with the case of vandalism to Howard's Rock, the iconic fixture Clemson football players rub prior to entering Memorial Stadium.
Rogers, 18, was charged with one felony: malicious injury to animals or personal property valued at more than $2,000, but less than $10,000; and one misdemeanor: trespassing, unlawful entry into enclosed places.
Howard's Rock was vandalized earlier this month. The protective casing was destroyed and a portion of the rock was chipped away.
Capt. Eric Hendricks said the vandalism occurred the night of June 2 and was captured partially by video surveillance cameras. The suspect also was identified by a witness.
The broken portion of the rock has not been recovered yet, and the investigation is ongoing.
Rogers appeared in Clemson University Municipal Court this morning and was released on personal recognizance bond of $5,470.
"On behalf of the athletic department and the football coaches and players, I want to thank the Clemson University Police Department, the State Law Enforcement Division and the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office for acting in a swift, thorough manner with regards to the vandalism to Howard's Rock," said Clemson Athletic Director Dan Radakovich. "We appreciate the efforts of everyone involved in this case."
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- N-terminus of hMLH1 confers interaction of hMutL{alpha} and hMutL{beta} with hMutS{alpha} (2003)
- Mismatch repair is a highly conserved system that ensures replication fidelity by repairing mispairs after DNA synthesis. In humans, the two protein heterodimers hMutS{alpha} (hMSH2-hMSH6) and hMutL{alpha} (hMLH1-hPMS2) constitute the centre of the repair reaction. After recognising a DNA replication error, hMutS{alpha} recruits hMutL{alpha}, which then is thought to transduce the repair signal to the excision machinery. We have expressed an ATPase mutant of hMutL{alpha} as well as its individual subunits hMLH1 and hPMS2 and fragments of hMLH1, followed by examination of their interaction properties with hMutS{alpha} using a novel interaction assay. We show that, although the interaction requires ATP, hMutL{alpha} does not need to hydrolyse this nucleotide to join hMutS{alpha} on DNA, suggesting that ATP hydrolysis by hMutL{alpha} happens downstream of complex formation. The analysis of the individual subunits of hMutL{alpha} demonstrated that the hMutS{alpha}–hMutL{alpha} interaction is predominantly conferred by hMLH1. Further experiments revealed that only the N-terminus of hMLH1 confers this interaction. In contrast, only the C-terminus stabilised and co-immunoprecipitated hPMS2 when both proteins were co-expressed in 293T cells, indicating that dimerisation and stabilisation are mediated by the C-terminal part of hMLH1. We also examined another human homologue of bacterial MutL, hMutL{beta} (hMLH1–hPMS1). We show that hMutL{beta} interacts as efficiently with hMutS{alpha} as hMutL{alpha}, and that it predominantly binds to hMutS{alpha} via hMLH1 as well.
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- Background: MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is up-regulated in tumor tissue of patients with malignant diseases, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Elevated concentrations of miR-21 have also been found in sera or plasma from patients with malignancies, rendering it an interesting candidate as serum/plasma marker for malignancies. Here we correlated serum miR-21 levels with clinical parameters in patients with different stages of chronic hepatitis C virus infection (CHC) and CHC-associated HCC. Methodology/Principal Findings: 62 CHC patients, 29 patients with CHC and HCC and 19 healthy controls were prospectively enrolled. RNA was extracted from the sera and miR-21 as well as miR-16 levels were analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR; miR-21 levels (normalized by miR-16) were correlated with standard liver parameters, histological grading and staging of CHC. The data show that serum levels of miR-21 were elevated in patients with CHC compared to healthy controls (P<0.001); there was no difference between serum miR-21 in patients with CHC and CHC-associated HCC. Serum miR-21 levels correlated with histological activity index (HAI) in the liver (r = −0.494, P = 0.00002), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (r = −0.309, P = 0.007), aspartate aminotransferase (r = −0.495, P = 0.000007), bilirubin (r = −0.362, P = 0.002), international normalized ratio (r = −0.338, P = 0.034) and γ-glutamyltransferase (r = −0.244, P = 0.034). Multivariate analysis revealed that ALT and miR-21 serum levels were independently associated with HAI. At a cut-off dCT of 1.96, miR-21 discriminated between minimal and mild-severe necroinflammation (AUC = 0.758) with a sensitivity of 53.3% and a specificity of 95.2%. Conclusions/Significance: The serum miR-21 level is a marker for necroinflammatory activity, but does not differ between patients with HCV and HCV-induced HCC.
- Anti-angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma treatment : current evidence and future perspectives (2011)
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most common cancer diseases worldwide. Arterial hypervascularisation is an essential step for HCC tumorigenesis and can be targeted by transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). This interventional method is the standard treatment for patients with intermediate stage HCC, but is also applied as "bridging" therapy for patients awaiting liver transplantation in many centers worldwide. Usually the devascularization effect induced by TACE is transient, consequently resulting in repeated cycles of TACE every 4-8 wk. Despite documented survival benefits, TACE can also induce the up-regulation of proangiogenic and growth factors, which might contribute to accelerated progression in patients with incomplete response. In 2007, sorafenib, a multi-tyrosine kinase and angiogenesis inhibitor, was approved as the first systemic treatment for advanced stage HCC. Other active targeted compounds, either inhibitors of angiogenesis and/or growth factors, are currently being investigated in numerous clinical trials. To overcome revascularisation or tumor progression under TACE treatment it seems therefore attractive to combine TACE with systemic targeted agents, which might theoretically block the effects of proangiogenic and growth factors. Over the last 12 mo, several retrospecretrospective or prospective cohort studies combining TACE and sorafenib have been published. Nevertheless, robust results of the efficacy and tolerability of such combination strategies as proven by randomized, controlled trials are awaited in the next two years.
- Portal vein thrombosis and arterioportal shunts : effects on tumor response after chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma (2011)
- AIM: To evaluate the effect of portal vein thrombosis and arterioportal shunts on local tumor response in advanced cases of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma treated by transarterial chemoembolization. METHODS: A retrospective study included 39 patients (mean age: 66.4 years, range: 45-79 years, SD: 7) with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who were treated with repetitive transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the period between March 2006 and October 2009. The effect of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) (in 19 out of 39 patients), the presence of arterioportal shunt (APS) (in 7 out of 39), the underlying liver pathology, Child-Pugh score, initial tumor volume, number of tumors and tumor margin definition on imaging were correlated with the local tumor response after TACE. The initial and end therapy local tumor responses were evaluated according to the response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) and magnetic resonance imaging volumetric measurements. RESULTS: The treatment protocols were well tolerated by all patients with no major complications. Local tumor response for all patients according to RECIST criteria were partial response in one patient (2.6%), stable disease in 34 patients (87.1%), and progressive disease in 4 patients (10.2%). The MR volumetric measurements showed that the PVT, APS, underlying liver pathology and tumor margin definition were statistically significant prognostic factors for the local tumor response (P = 0.018, P = 0.008, P = 0.034 and P = 0.001, respectively). The overall 6-, 12- and 18-mo survival rates from the initial TACE were 79.5%, 37.5% and 21%, respectively. CONCLUSION: TACE may be exploited safely for palliative tumor control in patients with advanced unresectable HCC; however, tumor response is significantly affected by the presence or absence of PVT and APS.
- SEMS vs cSEMS in duodenal and small bowel obstruction: High risk of migration in the covered stent group (2013)
- AIM: To compare clinical success and complications of uncovered self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) vs covered SEMS (cSEMS) in obstruction of the small bowel. METHODS: Technical success, complications and outcome of endoscopic SEMS or cSEMS placement in tumor related obstruction of the duodenum or jejunum were retrospectively assessed. The primary end points were rates of stent migration and overgrowth. Secondary end points were the effect of concomitant biliary drainage on migration rate and overall survival. The data was analyzed according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines. RESULTS: Thirty-two SEMS were implanted in 20 patients. In all patients, endoscopic stent implantation was successful. Stent migration was observed in 9 of 16 cSEMS (56%) in comparison to 0/16 SEMS (0%) implantations (P = 0.002). Stent overgrowth did not significantly differ between the two stent types (SEMS: 3/16, 19%; cSEMS: 2/16, 13%). One cSEMS dislodged and had to be recovered from the jejunum by way of laparotomy. Time until migration between SEMS and cSEMS in patients with and without concomitant biliary stents did not significantly differ (HR = 1.530, 95%CI 0.731-6.306; P = 0.556). The mean follow-up was 57 ± 71 d (range: 1-275 d). CONCLUSION: SEMS and cSEMS placement is safe in small bowel tumor obstruction. However, cSEMS is accompanied with a high rate of migration in comparison to uncovered SEMS.
- Gemcitabine plus sorafenib versus gemcitabine alone in advanced biliary tract cancer: a double-blind placebo-controlled multicentre phase II AIO study with biomarker and serum programme (2014)
- Background: Since sorafenib has shown activity in different tumour types and gemcitabine regimens improved the outcome for biliary tract cancer (BTC) patients, we evaluated first-line gemcitabine plus sorafenib in a double-blind phase II study. Patients and methods: 102 unresectable or metastatic BTC patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma of gallbladder or intrahepatic bile ducts, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0–2 were randomised to gemcitabine (1000 mg/m2 once weekly, first 7-weeks + 1-week rest followed by once 3-weeks + 1-week rest) plus sorafenib (400 mg twice daily) or placebo. Treatment continued until progression or unacceptable toxicity. Tumour samples were prospectively stained for sorafenib targets and potential biomarkers. Serum samples (first two cycles) were measured for vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) and stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1)α by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Results: Gemcitabine plus sorafenib was generally well tolerated. Four and three patients achieved partial responses in the sorafenib and placebo groups, respectively. There was no difference in the primary end-point, median progression-free survival (PFS) for gemcitabine plus sorafenib versus gemcitabine plus placebo (3.0 versus 4.9 months, P = 0.859), and no difference for median overall survival (OS) (8.4 versus 11.2 months, P = 0.775). Patients with liver metastasis after resection of primary BTC survived longer with sorafenib (P = 0.019) compared to placebo. Patients who developed hand-foot syndrome (HFS) showed longer PFS and OS than patients without HFS. Two sorafenib targets, VEGFR-2 and c-kit, were not expressed in BTC samples. VEGFR-3 and Hif1α were associated with lymph node metastases and T stage. Absence of PDGFRβ expression correlated with longer PFS. Conclusion: The addition of sorafenib to gemcitabine did not demonstrate improved efficacy in advanced BTC patients. Biomarker subgroup analysis suggested that some patients might benefit from combined treatment.


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When a person expresses love, interest, or affection for someone or something and the person they are speaking to only says "Ditto", like Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost.
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by B. Peppers October 18, 2007
A term used among women to describe when a man (or woman) they have been seeing for a while stops taking their calls and answering their texts. These actions are usually preceded by many a broken promise to "hang out" "have a drink or two" or "catch up" on the part of the Ghoster. The Ghostee is left wondering whether the person that was just inside of them two weeks ago is now alive or dead. Neither can be definitively proven.
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verb: to disappear with or without notice
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When you walk by somebody pretending they don't exist. Or when somebody says something to you and you pretend you didn't hear it from close range.
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Dick has ghosted Delaris in both ways.
Dick has ghosted Delaris in both ways.
by the6man March 29, 2015
The act of being fooled by a ghostly happening or occurrence.
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1. To leave a social event without saying good bye.
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2. To say you'll be right back or step outside and not come back to the party.
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Brian's hanging out with his co-workers at the bar and says he's going to step outside to grab a smoke. After sometime, his co-workers realize he never came back.
Co-workers reaction - That fool freakin' ghosted us again.
Co-workers reaction - That fool freakin' ghosted us again.
by J'abu April 22, 2010
to be moved from one prison to another without being told in advance.
you get unlocked for breakfast and the screw tells you pack your stuff you're being ghosted
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