The Orioles know that C.C. Sabathia is one of the best pitchers in the game, but they have to be going into Sundays American League Division Series opener confident given their success against the Yankees left-hander this season.

Sabathia is winless in three starts with a 6.38 ERA against the Orioles this season, with Baltimore winning those last two starts. Hes allowed at least four runs in each of those outings and hasnt lasted more than 6 1/3 innings in any of those starts.

The Orioles are hitting .312 off Sabathia this season, the highest average of any American League team.

Just with me it's just command, starting with fastball command, Sabathia said Saturday. They have a great lineup, and I've faced these guys a lot, and they know what I am trying to do. It's just up to me to go out and execute pitches, and you know, make sure I keep the ball down and get the ball in where I need to and go out and make pitches.

Granted, Sabathia is 16-4 with a 3.12 ERA in his career against the Orioles, but combine this years success against Sabathia with his recent postseason struggles and the Os can afford to be optimisitc.

Why are they here?" Sabathia said. I mean, it's a good team. Adam Jones has gotten a lot better, obviously. Mark Reynolds has gotten adjusted to the American League and is swinging the bat well. Wieters has gotten better over the years, so they've just gotten a bunch of talented guys that have gotten a lot better and they've made it tough on me. Hopefully [Sunday] night, like I said, I can go out and command the baseball like I want to and make pitches and be successful.

Sabathia pitched to a 6.23 ERA in last years American League Division Series, which the Tigers won in five games. Dating back to the 2010 postseason, Sabathia has a 5.84 ERA.

As far as CC, I don't think you can make too much of last year just because of the way the schedule was, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. We started a game and stopped it, and then he came back on short rest, so I don't really make too much of that.. He's pitched pretty well for the most part.

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Oct. 8, 2012, midnight

Accelerate team members (back from left) Sophie Bellman, Tiarna Drake, Sarah Hill, Gaby Carty; (middle) Emily Lacey, Samantha Stewart, Stephanie Umbers and (front) Aylish Auchettl try out their new uniforms.

THE countdown is on for a Warrnambool aerobics combination ready to test itself on the world stage.

EKB Fitness and Aerobics Accelerate team members received their Australian uniforms at a presentation on Saturday.

They will fly to the Netherlands on Thursday for the world championships.

Coach Emma Bellman said her eight-member junior fitness teams preparation had been flawless.

I watched their nationals routine yesterday and got a mum to film their routine yesterday, she said.

They have improved since nationals in such a short amount of time.

Making finals (at worlds) is reasonable.

Bellman said the teenage team had worked diligently fine-tuning its routine and building its fitness base. Every day except Wednesdays theyve had some sort of training, she said.

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Schaumburg native Patrick Rizzo will be one of the elite athletes in the hunt during Sundays Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

He knows he wont be pushing the lead pace with the Kenyans and others who have clocked in blazing marathon times. But thats OK with Rizzo as hes OK with his steady-as-it-goes approach. Sundays race will be his eighth marathon overall and fourth in Chicago. He looks to continue his progress and set a new personal record.

Anyone who has ever gotten to compete against me knows I am not a very fast runner, Rizzo said. Thankfully I dont need to run very fast in a marathon. I just need to outlast people.

And outlast people Rizzo has. His personal best of 2:13:42 is certainly impressive as far as marathon times go. He clocked that at his most recent marathon the U.S. Olympics Trials in Houston on Jan. 14, 2012 where he finished 13th overall.

In that race, he strategized with his coach Brad Hudson to run conservatively in the first half and left enough in the tank to pick off runners in the second part. At the halfway point, he was in about the top 50, then ran one of the fastest half marathons among the field to climb the charts. He ran nearly even splits 1:06:52 in the first half and 1:06:50 in the second.

Rizzo was thrilled with his performance.

To go (somewhere) from 40th to 50th place at halfway and to finish at 13 was what I thought I would do, Rizzo said. To actually accomplish everything and execute it to a T is such a feeling of triumph. You can prepare for it every time. Preparation can sometimes go flawlessly. The race day does not always collaborate.

The success Rizzo had in his last race will provide momentum for Sundays showdown against some of the fastest runners in the world. Chicago Marathon Executive Race Director Carey Pinkowski calls the field the deepest ever weve had in Chicago and notes he has gone back to the marathon roots by bringing in athletes with impressive track credentials.

Ethiopias Tsegaye Kebede (2:05:18) will be a top contender along with Wesley Korir (2:06:15) of Kenya, who won the 2012 Boston Marathon. Kenyas Levy Matebo is the fastest entrant in the field, with a 2:05:16 performance at the 2011 Frankfurt Marathon. Three-time U.S. Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein (2:09:55) is someone to watch as well.

On the womens side, Russian Liliya Shobukhova looks to capture her unprecedented fourth consecutive Chicago Marathon. She ran the third-fastest time in history (2:18:20) to win last years race. Kenyas Lucy Kabuu (2:19:34) and Atsede Baysa (2:22:04) of Ethiopia will push her. The top female American runner is Dot McMahan (2:31:48).

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MICHIGAN CITY Calling the congregation of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church pioneers, Dion Campbell, director of Worldgate Christian Center, drafted Pastor Anthony Getter and his congregation into becoming advocates to change the future of Michigan City's youth.

"What we are doing was birthed from the heart of God," Campbell said during the introduction of the educational empowerment seminar Sunday. "We want to make sure every person in Michigan City is empowered to understand the educational system."

Campbell's church hosted the first seminar in August, with principals from Michigan City Area Schools taking part. Peggy Thomas, Edgewood Elementary, Mohamed Mroueh, Barker Middle School and Lee Dabagia, Michigan City High School, attended Sunday to explain how parents can help their children excel, how to become involved in their children's education and how to understand the assessment process.

While parent involvement is key, parents also have to be role models, open doors of communication with their children's teachers and create a home culture that values education beyond high school, the principals said.

The goal of talking about the education process is to "empower parents to become educators in their own home," Mroueh said. "The earlier in the educational process that parental involvement begins, the more powerful the effects."

Creating a climate that encourages and expects success is a key element, Thomas told the crowd that filled the New Hope sanctuary for the seminar. When parents set high standards, "children know that is what you expect of them," she said.

Parents should establish a routine at home, know their children's social network and email passwords and know who their friends are. This applies even to high school age students.

"There is no reason they should have a password you don't know," Dabagia said.

"We are blessed to have had the opportunity to host this event on this day," Getter said. "Thank and praise God for this educational seminar."

Campbell said the seminars are offered to churches, with the hope that the church will embrace the message and reach out into the community. Recruiting mentors or tutors, establishing public access computers and helping set the standards for high achievement can make a difference.

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Friday, October 5 marks the one year anniversary of the death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. How did Jobs, whose death was mourned around the world, achieve such remarkable success during his relatively short life? What lessons can we learn from him? Let me share what I witnessed up close.

I had a ringside seat during the ramp-up of the personal computer industry in America -- serving as public relations counsel to CEOs and entrepreneurs who were re-inventing the way we would do business in the modern world. It was a pretty heady experience for a young, non-engineering female, not to mention an amazing learning laboratory.

A key barometer of industry clout was Esther Dyson's PC Forum, where the elite players would convene, preen and be seen.

You could see early on that Steve Jobs was a different kind of cat. He had an aura of cool amid a sea of self-professed tech geeks. He was a marketing impresario, not a programmer. A liberal arts major, not an engineer or MBA. He even dressed differently. (For example he wore a blazer and a bow tie, forerunner of the black turtleneck, at one of the PC Forum events in 1984, the year of Macintosh launch.)

Jobs didn't play nice with the other kids. When the industry moved toward standards and compatibility, Apple stood alone with a proprietary system. When the IBM "clones" (Compaq, Dell, HP, DEC et. al.) dominated the high-volume Enterprise sector, the Mac was beloved by students, graphic designers and creatives -- a much smaller niche.

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Today, Apple reigns as the world's market cap leader and most valuable brand -- with Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn predicting that the stock could eventually reach a valuation in excess of $1 trillion.

Competing in the ultimate center of brains and brilliance, how did Jobs accomplish this feat? Here are some clues:

1. FOCUS!

Instead of letting product lines proliferate or permitting a thousand ideas to bloom, Steve Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time, according to the best-selling biography by Walter Isaacson.

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Call it self-marketing, personal branding, professional development, or any other buzzword you'd like. In any case, both finding a job and climbing the career ladder are all about investing in the business of you.

As a professional, you are a brand unto yourself. The target market for the unique value you provide are employers who are constantly bombarded with messages from your competitors (read: other industry professionals) and also always on the lookout for innovation. Develop and market your personal brand effectively by using traditional marketing techniques.

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Though the boundaries of traditional marketing no longer exist due to online media and new digital technologies, its core tactics can be reworked to guide your self-marketing strategy online.

The four Ps of marketing are product, price, promotion and place. In the realm of self-marketing, you are the product that's up for sale, which means you must successfully apply the traditional marketing model to you: the person, the professional and the brand.

To develop an online self-marketing strategy, you must determine who you are as a professional and build a personal brand around your core strengths, skills and experience. What do you bring to the table that others in your industry do not? Know your strengths and play to them by creating a consistent brand around yourself that's complete with mission, objectives and recognizable visual brand elements. Today's hiring managers are social consumers who are more apt to hire you based on the experience you're selling rather than your ability to carry out a few specific tasks.

Just as you instantly know a can of Coca-Cola when you see one (and know what to expect once it's open), your audience should know exactly what you bring to the table and what they're getting by working with you. Whether you've branded yourself as a no-nonsense people mover who's apt at managing staff, or an industry expert and consultant who provides fresh insights and innovates the way a company operates, be consistent. Decide on your core messages and stick to one brand name.

The importance of this element in online self-marketing is twofold. In addition to accounting for the value you add to an organization, you must decide what you, the hard-working professional, are worth and what your bottom line is -- particularly if you ever decide to freelance or become an independent contractor.

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Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested two Thai citizensduring the bust ofa ring that allegedly trafficked 2.06 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil into Vietnam, Tuoi Tre reported Friday.

One of the suspects, Chaimongkol Suracha, 30, was caught carrying the drugs hidden in two photo albums when he arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on a flight from Brazil on October 1.

Later that same day, police set up a sting operation and arrested Pakaporn Thatchun, while she was receiving the drugs from Suracha at a hotel in District 1, the newspaper said.

Suracha told police that he got to know two Brazilians, known as Fosta and Mieare, on the Internet and was promised a job at a car export company in Vietnam.

On August 12, Mieare took Suracha to Vietnam, but then said that there was a job vacancy in Brazil, so they took a flight to that country that night, according to the news report.

When they arrived in Brazil, Mieare introduced the Thai man to an African man and left, according to the article, adding that on September 28, Suracha was taken to a supermarket for shopping and given a suitcase.

Later, another African man gave him an air ticket to Vietnam, claiming that he needed to return to Vietnam to meet the employer of the car company to getthe jobpromised earlier by Mieare.

Suracha also said the man gave him the two photo albums as a gift to his friend.

Vietnam has some of the worlds toughest drug laws. Those convicted of smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine face the death penalty.

Earlier this week an appeals court in HCMC upheld a death sentence against a 23-year-old Thai student who was caught with more than three kilograms of meth, when she arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport on October 29 last year.

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