Tigers reach Bailey, rally to beat Red Sox

By NOAH TRISTER

AP Baseball Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 10:21 p.m. ET June 20, 2013

DETROIT (AP) - Jhonny Peralta's ninth-inning homer gave the Detroit Tigers a joyful break from all that talk about their beleaguered bullpen.

It was Boston's closer who lost this game, and now the Red Sox have some relief issues of their own to sort out.

Peralta hit a two-run homer off Andrew Bailey in the bottom of the ninth to give the Tigers a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Thursday night. Boston led 3-2 when Victor Martinez drew a leadoff walk off Bailey, and Peralta followed with a line drive over the fence in left field for his seventh homer of the year.

"I don't try to hit a home run, but I try to have good contact with the ball," Peralta said. "That's what happened when I had good contact."

Detroit manager Jim Leyland said before the game he was ready to use Joaquin Benoit to close instead of struggling Jose Valverde - although he stopped short of officially naming Benoit as the closer for the long term.

After the game, Red Sox manager John Farrell said Bailey would be given a break from closing.

"We're going to back him out of there right now and try to get him fixed, so we'll look at some other internal options to close," Farrell said. "His velocity hasn't come back since the DL stint, and although he says he feels fine, the results obviously aren't there."

Bailey (3-1) missed time in May because of a bicep problem. Joel Hanrahan, Boston's top choice to close, is out for the season after elbow surgery.

David Ortiz homered and drove in a tiebreaking run with an eighth-inning single to put Boston up, but Drew Smyly (3-0) replaced Phil Coke for Detroit and prevented any further scoring by the Red Sox. He struck out four in two innings of relief.

Detroit improved to only 2-19 when trailing after eight innings.

The Red Sox wasted a nice performance by John Lackey, who allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings. Koji Uehara pitched a perfect eighth, but Bailey didn't get an out.

Detroit's Jose Alvarez allowed two runs and five hits in five innings in his second big league start, and Luke Putkonen got five straight outs in relief.

Then Leyland brought in Coke, the left-hander who has struggled against right-handed hitters. Coke struck out the left-handed hitting Jacoby Ellsbury to end the Boston seventh, but he walked switch-hitting Shane Victorino and right-handed hitting Dustin Pedroia to start the eighth.

The lefty-swinging Ortiz followed by pulling a base hit to right to give the Red Sox the lead.

Ortiz was 1 for 15 off Coke before that hit, which is why Leyland stuck with the left-hander and hoped he could get out of trouble.

"He didn't do very good, because he walked guys," Leyland said. "He gets those two guys out, he probably gets Ortiz out. But he walked them, and that's a no-no."

Peralta made up for that with one swing and was of course mobbed at the plate.

"I see everybody at home plate, it's a good feeling, hitting a walk-off home run," Peralta said. "It's the best that I can feel."

Smyly, one Detroit reliever who has been terrific this year, kept the deficit at one and gave the Tigers a decent chance at a comeback.

"It's too late to score three or four runs. You've got to keep it where it's at," Smyly said. "I'm glad I was able to do that."

Alvarez, who held Cleveland to a run in six innings in his major league debut earlier this month, handled Boston's lineup reasonably well, but Ortiz went deep in the fourth for his 15th homer of the season, a solo shot to open the scoring.

Jose Iglesias led off the fifth with a triple and scored on Ellsbury's single to make it 2-0.

In the bottom of the fifth, Torii Hunter's soft line drive with the bases loaded fell in for a two-run single, tying the game.

Alvarez is expected to make at least one more start for the Tigers in place of the injured Anibal Sanchez.

NOTES: Detroit scratched OF Matt Tuiasosopo before the game because of a mildly strained intercostal muscle. ... Farrell announced that RHP Allen Webster will start Saturday night's game against the Tigers. ... Boston LHP Jon Lester (6-4) faces Detroit RHP Doug Fister (6-4) on Friday night.

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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash

DALLAS (AP) ? The owner of a Houston bus company has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the 2008 Texas crash that killed 17 people on their way to a religious conclave, authorities announced Wednesday.

Angel de la Torre of Houston and an associate are charged with making false statements on federal forms and other offenses stemming from the crash in Sherman, 60 miles north of Dallas. The indictment was returned on May 30, authorities said in a news release, and de la Torre and his associate were taken into custody when the indictment was unsealed.

The indictment charges de la Torre and his company, Angel Tours, with one count of conspiracy to make false statements, four counts of making false statements and one count of operating a commercial motor vehicle after being placed out of service.

It was not immediately known whether de la Torre, 64, had an attorney. Phil Sellers, a Houston attorney who represented de la Torre in civil litigation stemming from the crash, said he isn't representing him in the criminal case.

Fifty-five members of Houston's Vietnamese Catholic community were headed to an annual conclave in Carthage, Mo., when the bus plunged over a highway bridge just after midnight on Aug. 8, 2008.

The National Transportation Safety Board concluded the crash was caused when a retreaded tire on the right front axle was punctured by an unknown object. The retread itself wasn't cited as the cause, but the NTSB noted that the tire was affixed to the front axle illegally, that Angel Tours didn't have the authority to leave Texas and that the company that inspected the bus wasn't equipped to judge whether it should be on the road.

Yen-Chi Le, whose mother was among those killed, said she was pleased to see the indictment, the first significant criminal action to result from the crash, but was puzzled by the timing.

"The fact that they waited almost five years before issuing an indictment isn't ideal," said Le, a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston who has become a well-known advocate for improved bus safety. "But hopefully it will be a deterrent for other (bus) operators who think infractions won't be noticed."

Angela Dodge, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Houston, said in an email that she generally can't comment on investigations.

The indictment alleges that de la Torre and Carlos Ortuno, 52, made false statements on government documents seeking motor carrier authority. It also alleges that they operated a commercial motor vehicle after it was placed out of service because of an unsatisfactory safety rating. The rating followed an inspection that uncovered numerous record-keeping and safety violations.

Each of the charges relating to the false statements carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Continuing to operate a commercial motor vehicle after it was placed out of service carries a sentence of up to one year in prison and a $25,000 fine.

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Advertising on Wedding Blogs | Burnett's Boards - Wedding Inspiration

This isn?t our typical event design and styling kind of post ? but I think it?s a worthwhile discussion to have.?Monetizing this wedding blog of mine has been an interesting journey for me since I dove headfirst into it and initially had no idea what I was doing. One thing I did? learn early though is that relationships matter!

(before getting any further along I?d like to take a second to thank the lovely Christina Heaston for allowing me to use these engagement?inspiration?shoot images to spruce up this post with ? mahalo!)?

There are real people behind each and every advertisement you put on your website, and by and large ? those people are absolutely lovely and wonderful to work with. They are just like the rest of us: trying to get by in this world doing what they love.

I recently had a vendor not renew their shop listing and it was somewhat devastating to me in that I took it personally. Now before you go assuming that I?m a super sensitive tearful kind of woman (I?m not) I?d like to add that I took it personally because up until that point a week or two ago I had a 100% renewal rate. And to be frank, I was pretty proud of that. So that little setback really got me thinking ? what could I have done more of to better serve that vendor?

I?ve never viewed advertising on wedding blogs as a one-time transaction; I try to think of it as a relationship. Yes, vendors pay us to place advertisements on our blogs, but it shouldn?t stop there for either party. Advertising on wedding blogs should not just be a mutually beneficial relationship, but also a mutually supportive one ? an investment from both parties.

Things bloggers can do to support their vendors:

- Recommend and use products in styled shoots.

- Share noteworthy shoots and posts from vendors? business pages.

- Pin from your vendors? blogs.

- Create a Facebook group to help connect vendors with each other, and vendors with their blogger for future collaborations.

- Limit sidebar advertisement spots to help combat ad blindness.

- Create a vendor newsletter that shows how you promote their work and encourages creative thinking and brainstorming for collaborations.

From Lily of Behold Designz: ?Collaboration seems to be key for me. Readers respond more to posts than ads so if a blogger truly believes in their vendor?s products and can provide content in addition to a sidebar advertisement that has a huge impact.?

?A collaborated post is not simply ?plugging a vendor? which comes across as dead, but sparks interest and shows a real partnership between a blogger and vendor.??(see example collaboration?here)

?Perhaps another step forward would be for the blogger to orchestrate brain storming and sharing of ideas between vendors. Instinctively vendors don?t want to do this as they want to maintain a competitive edge ? especially if they have similar products. However, I think it can be mutually beneficial if vendors share ideas and discuss trends and new directions, ultimately benefiting our customers! Vendors don?t necessarily talk to each other directly ? but the blogger can certainly mediate and share the ideas.?

From Gaelan of Uschi & Kay: ?I think the best way to support vendors is to have a relationship with them on social media. Not only can you help drive traffic to them by sharing, retweeting, and pinning, but it will help you build a strong business relationship with them and the stronger the relationship you have the more likely you are to keep them on as vendors.?

?I feel strongly though that the engagement needs to be genuine and happen organically; if you are just pinning somebody?s stuff because they?re your vendor or always retweeting someone instead of just sharing the content that is most interesting and relevant to you and your readers, it will come off as insincere and will hurt both you and your vendors in the long run.?

And now for the flip-side of the coin?

Things vendors can do to support their blogger:

- Email your blogger with creative collaborative ideas.

- If you love what your blogger is doing for you ? share that! Tell the world that you enjoy working with ?so and so? and have seen benefits from doing so.

- Promote your blogger by sharing their blog posts whether it?s about you or not. Pins, Facebook posts etc tend to have a ripple effect. For example: one person pinning one image from a blog can lead to thousands of page views down the road ? that?s thousands of more eyes on your advertisement.?

From Chelsea of Bit of Ivory Photography: ?I would encourage vendors to look at their own website?s analytics. It will help them see what is working in a visual/tangible manner.?

See which blogs are your top referrals and invest more time there. ?Keep in mind though that click-throughs don?t necessarily mean bookings or purchases ? a smaller niche blog might send you fewer referrals, but if your style matches the blog?s those referrals are more likely to be people who will adore your work and be long-term customers.

What are your thoughts on the relationship between bloggers and advertisers? What makes you click on an advertisement on a blog??We?d all love to hear everyone?s ideas on this so feel free to leave a comment or suggestion below!

Further reading:?tips for advertising on wedding blogs (see mid-page)

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Photography: Christina Heaston Photography // Event Design & Styling: Fred + Kate Events // Location: Tantalus, Oahu, Hawaii // Dress & Accessories: Eden in Love // Props: DIY by Fred + Kate Events.

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Join Quib.ly's home education Twitter chat tomorrow (I'll be there ...

I?ve been aware of Quib.ly for a while, but haven?t really had the time to have a good look around the site, so when I was invited to take part in a home education Twitter chat, I jumped at the chance.

Quib.ly is a membership site focussed on children and technology. Members can ask questions ? or answer questions posed by other members ? on subjects such as Safety & Privacy, Toys & Gadgets, Child Development and more. And, of course,?Quib.ly has an education section?that covers home education more than any other site I?ve seen, which is great for us since we?re relatively new to home ed. In fact, we?re coming up to the end of our first ?school year? of home educating ? Harry would have gone in to Year 4 last September, but we decided to keep him home instead.

The main thing I want to say about our decision to home educate is that it was much more a positive than a negative one. When people ask me about home ed, they seem to assume there was a problem with the school ? it wasn?t that at all. Yes, we started out questioning school because the curriculum seemed so stuffed that Harry was feeling rushed and asking to learn more about certain subjects, but once we started learning about home ed, it became more about us being together as a family and the boys (Harry is almost 9, Joe is 4) learning through living.

One of the people who inspired me when I was considering home education was American blogger Penelope Trunk. This quote of hers sums up home I feel about home education:

?I love seeing how excited I can make them with the world around them? I want their whole lives to be like that? I want to teach them how to make that for themselves. In the meantime, they give that to me. At least once a day. And I think that is really why I?m keeping them out of school. So we can all have more joy, each day, together.?

On Thursday 20 June (tomorrow!)?at 11am BST, Quib.ly will be hosting a Twitter chat to explore home education. They are hoping to demystify and bust some myths for those curious (and maybe even sceptical) about homeschooling, celebrate the successes of homeschooling families and discuss all the tools and techniques that can make homeschooling, flexischooling and unschooling a positive experience for many families.

One of the things I love about home ed is that all home educating families are different and work in different ways, so I?m looking forward to getting to know the other bloggers involved and answering everyone?s questions.

To get involved, follow @quibly and use the hashtag #QuiblyQs

Disclosure: this post has been sponsored by Quib.ly and is cross-posted on my personal blog.

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WHO study: Third of women suffer domestic violence

LONDON (AP) ? In the first major global review of violence against women, a series of reports released Thursday found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner.

The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it "a global health problem of epidemic proportions," and other experts said screening for domestic violence should be added to all levels of health care.

Among the findings: 40 percent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner, and being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.

Researchers used a broad definition of domestic violence, and in cases where country data was incomplete, estimates were used to fill in the gaps. WHO defined physical violence as being slapped, pushed, punched, choked or attacked with a weapon. Sexual violence was defined as being physically forced to have sex, having sex for fear of what the partner might do and being compelled to do something sexual that was humiliating or degrading.

The report also examined rates of sexual violence against women by someone other than a partner and found about 7 percent of women worldwide had previously been a victim.

In conjunction with the report, WHO issued guidelines for authorities to spot problems earlier and said all health workers should be trained to recognize when women may be at risk and how to respond appropriately.

Globally, the WHO review found 30 percent of women are affected by domestic or sexual violence by a partner. The report was based largely on studies from 1983 to 2010. According to the United Nations, more than 600 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not considered a crime.

The rate of domestic violence against women was highest in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where 37 percent of women experienced physical or sexual violence from a partner at some point in their lifetimes. The rate was 30 percent in Latin America and 23 percent in North America. In Europe and Asia, it was 25 percent.

Some experts said screening for domestic violence should be added to all levels of health care, such as obstetric clinics.

"It's unlikely that someone would walk into an ER and disclose they've been assaulted," said Sheila Sprague of McMaster University in Canada, who has researched domestic violence in women at orthopedic clinics. She was not connected to the WHO report.

However, "over time, if women are coming into a fracture clinic or a pre-natal clinic, they may tell you they are suffering abuse if you ask," she said.

For domestic violence figures, scientists analyzed information from 86 countries focusing on women and teens over the age of 15. They also assessed studies from 56 countries on sexual violence by someone other than a partner, though they had no data from the Middle East. WHO experts then used modeling techniques to come up with global estimates for the percentage of women who are victims of violence.

Accurate numbers on women and violence are notoriously hard to pin down. A U.S. government survey reported almost two years ago that 1 in 4 American women said they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends, and 1 in 5 said they were victims of rape or attempted rape, with about half those cases involving intimate partners.

Some experts thought the rape estimate was extremely high but said it may have to do with the definition of assault. The results were from a survey that did not document the claims, which were made anonymously.

In a related paper published Thursday online in the journal Lancet, researchers found more than 38 percent of slain women are killed by a former or current partner, six times higher than the rate of men killed by their partners.

Heidi Stoeckl, one of the authors at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the figures were probably an underestimate. She and colleagues found that worldwide, a woman's highest risk of murder was from a current or ex-partner.

In countries like India, Stoeckl said "honor killings," where women are sometimes murdered over dowry disputes or perceived offenses like infidelity to protect the family's reputation, add to the problem.

She also noted that women and men are often slain by their partners for different reasons.

"When a woman kills her male partner, it's usually out of self-defense because she has been abused," she said. "But when a woman is killed, it's often after she has left the relationship and the man is killing her out of jealousy or rage."

Stoeckl said criminal justice authorities should intervene sooner.

"When a woman is killed by a partner, she has often already had contact with the police," she said.

Stoeckl said there should be more protection for women from their partners, particularly in cases where there is a history of violence.

"There are enough signs that we should be watching out for that," she said. "We certainly should know if someone is potentially lethal and be able to do something about it."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/study-third-women-suffer-domestic-violence-205228597.html

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New microfluidic chip can help identify unwanted particles in water and food

June 19, 2013 ? A new process for making a three-dimensional microstructure that can be used in the analysis of cells could prove useful in counterterrorism measures and in water and food safety concerns.

The research, conducted by members of Virginia Tech's Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory (MEMS) Laboratory in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the focus of a recent article in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Journal of Microelectomechanical Systems.

In their engineering laboratory, the researchers developed a new microfabrication technique to develop three-dimensional microfluidic devices in polymers. Microfluidics deals with the performance, control, and treatment of fluids that are constrained in some fashion, explained Masoud Agah , director of the laboratory.

As a result of this work, Agah, associate professor of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and Amy Pruden, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, have received a National Science Foundation award of $353,091 to use the technology and develop new microchips named 3D-?DEP standing for "three-dimensional, passivated-electrode, insulator-based dielectrophoresis" for pathogen detection.

The NSF grant will allow them to focus on the isolation of waterborne pathogens that represent one of the "grand challenges to human health, costing the lives of about 2.5 million people worldwide each year," Agah and Pruden said.

According to the World Health Organization, the isolation of pathogenic bacteria from the environment has not significantly changed since the 1960s, when methods for chemical treatment of samples to remove background organisms were first implemented.

In the past, Agah said, researchers have mainly used two-dimensional microfluidic structures since this type of fabrication is more simplistic. With the three-dimensional device developed by Agah and his collaborators, Yayha Hosseini and Phillip Zellner, both graduate students in the department, they are able to customize the shapes of the channels and cavities of the devices the fluids passed through.

The advantage of the fabrication process is that with a very economical technique it creates three-dimensional varying channels and cavities in a microfluidic structure with rounded corners as well as many other customized shapes.

These shapes are important because they resemble the living conditions as they occur naturally and this allows the use of the three-dimensional microfabrication technology beyond pathogen detection.

As an example, in human blood vessels, cells interact with each other and their surrounding environment inside circular channels. They have varying diameters, along with multiple branching and joints.

"Only under this type of condition can one truly study the biology of cells within a system in vitro as if it is occurring in vivo -- our new microfluidic fabrication technology can resemble more realistically the structures of a cell's true living conditions," Agah said. It is the introduction of the three-dimensions that provides this distinctive environment.

The combination of Agah and Pruden's expertise is important to the NSF-awarded work. Pruden has a broad background in applied environmental microbiology, and has worked extensively in the detection and characterization of pathogens in various environmental systems. She is also leading other research efforts focused on the detection and monitoring of various pathogens and antibiotic resistant pathogens in drinking water and in wastewater.

Agah is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work in three-dimensional micromachining and its use in microfluidics and chemical detection. Prudent also has a CAREER award as well as a presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.

By blending their proficiencies, with Agah's group designing, modeling, and fabricating the chips, and Pruden's group preparing the different bacterial cultures for characterizing their dielectrophoresis properties and benchmarking it against more acceptable yet costly methods, they believe they will be able to isolate different pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria.

To make their three-dimensional structure, the Virginia Tech researchers used the material polydimethylsixolane, known for its elastic properties similar to rubber. This material is already widely used because of its transparency, biocompatibility, and low-cost.

"Our work establishes a reliable and robust, yet low-cost technique for the fabrication of versatile 3-D structures in polydimethylsixolane," Agad said.

Microfluidic devices can be used to trap and sort living organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and cells. With this new three-dimensional device that has a higher sensitivity and throughput than the two-dimensional version, according to Agah, he is able to make their predictions of applications ranging from water and food safety to fighting biological and chemical terrorism and to healthcare by fishing for abnormal cells in body fluids.

Both Hosseini of Kashan, Iran, and Zellner of Hampton, Va., are working on their doctoral degrees. Zellner is a SMART scholarship recipient from the Department of Defense.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/biochemistry/~3/9PhkhoI35qo/130619164339.htm

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Aio Wireless gains LTE support, intros the ZTE Overture to match

Now that AT&T is willing to offer LTE on budget services like GoPhone, the floodgates are open: it just extended the faster cellular data to its Aio Wireless prepaid brand. An automatic update is rolling out that enables LTE on Aio customers' existing SIM cards when they're in one of the provider's coverage areas. To mark the occasion, the carrier is launching the ZTE Overture, a 4-inch phone packing LTE alongside a 4-inch display, Jelly Bean, a 5MP rear camera and an unspecified front shooter. Aio hasn't divulged pricing for the Overture, but we wouldn't expect a large outlay when the handset ships within the next month.

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