Tigers lead Yankees 6-1 after 6 innings in ALCS

Detroit Tigers' Delmon Young hits an RBI single in the first inning during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the New York Yankees Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Detroit Tigers' Delmon Young hits an RBI single in the first inning during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the New York Yankees Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

New York Yankees' Robinson Cano reacts after striking out in the first inning during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the Detroit Tigers Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

New York Yankees' CC Sabathia throws in the first inning during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the Detroit Tigers Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez watches Game 4 of the American League championship series against the Detroit Tigers Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya )

Detroit Tigers' Max Scherzer throws in the first inning during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the New York Yankees Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

(AP) ? The Detroit Tigers are closing in on earning their first trip to the World Series since 2006.

Max Scherzer didn't give up a hit through five innings and got plenty of run support as the Tigers led the New York Yankees 6-1 through six innings Thursday in Game 4 of the AL championship series.

Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera ? with the Comerica Park crowd chanting "M-V-P! M-V-P!" ? hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Jhonny Peralta followed with another two-run shot in the pivotal inning against CC Sabathia.

New York's Eduardo Nunez broke up Scherzer's no-hit bid with a leadoff triple in the sixth and scored on Nick Swisher's double.

Alex Rodriguez, who was left out of the starting lineup, got a chance to redeem himself when Yankees manager Joe Girardi used him as a pinch-hitter with two on and two outs in the sixth. And, Rodriguez failed to take advantage by hitting an inning-ending, weakly hit fly to center.

Scherzer struck out a career playoff-high 10 and gave up just two hits, one run and walked two over 5 2-3 innings.

The Yankees wished they had gotten a similar performance from their ace.

Sabathia lasted just 3 2-3 innings because the Tigers were teeing off on him with 11 hits, six runs ? five earned ? and striking out just three times.

It didn't take long to see Sabathia didn't have his best stuff.

Delmon Young had one of three hits for the Tigers in the first, including a two-out RBI single. Young is the only player in baseball history to have game-winning RBIs in three straight games of a postseason series, according to STATS LLC. Tigers rookie Avisail Garcia drove in a run in the third to put the Tigers ahead 2-0.

Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson were left out of New York's starting lineup for Game 4, a day after the game was postponed by rain. Rodriguez started the game on the bench for the third time in nine postseason games and fell to 3 for 24 with no RBIs in these playoffs after his pinch-hit flyout.

To make matters worse for the Yankees, they played poor defense ? especially reliable first baseman Mark Teixeira ? and didn't get a good performance from Sabathia when they needed it most.

If New York rallied to avoid elimination, Game 5 would start at 4:07 p.m. Friday in Detroit.

Associated Press

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Prep Roundup: Cross Country, Field Hockey - The Sports Desk

Prep Roundup: Cross Country, Field Hockey

YOUNG, ARMENTROUT WIN ALL-AREA RACES

FROM STAFF REPORTS

CROSS COUNTRY
FREDERICKSBURG ALL-AREA MEET
Riverbend?s boys cross country team finished 1?2?3, led by winner Will Young (16:29), to comfortably win the Fredericksburg All-Area Meet held at Fredericksburg Christian on Wednesday.
King George had four runners finish in the top 13 spots, led by winner Haley Armentrout (19:26), to get a 45-point win in the girls race.

    BOYS
    Team standings: 1. Riverbend 23, 2. Brooke Point 76, 3. Courtland 101, 4. North Stafford 119, 5. Colonial Forge 128, 6. King George 209, 7. Culpeper 215, 8. James Monroe, 9. Washington & Lee 245, 10. Chancellor 254, 11. Eastern View 267, 12. Massaponax 280, 13. Mountain View 305, 14. Fredericksburg Christian 381.
    Individual results: 1. Will Young (Rb) 16:29, 2. Garrett Horne 16:35, 3. Bruce Garth (Rb) 16:36, 4. Zachary Batt (NS) 16:42, 5. Nate Lasker (Rb) 16:55, 6. Jonathan Mersiowsky (Ct) 16:59, 7. Jeffrey Bryant (NS) 17:00, 8. Mike Knaus (BP) 17:02, 9. Cullen Monahan (CF) 17:09, 10. Kyler Jourdan (Ct) 17:11, 14. Elliott Sellers (Cu) 17:23, 21. Knick McKay (JM) 17:47, 22. James Burtle (FCS) 17:51, 25. Christian Koon (KG) 17:54, 26. Bailey Bell (Ch) 17:55, 29. Logan Ellis (Ma) 17:58, 31. Hasan Gill (WL) 17:59.6, 38. Blake Harty (EV) 18:05, 56. Miles Gordon (MV) 18:35.6.
    GIRLS
    Team standings: 1. King George 63, 2. North Stafford 108, 3. 3. Colonial Forge 119, 4. Massaponax 130, 5. Riverbend 138, 6. Mountain View 148, 7. Courtland 167, 8. Eastern View 186, 9. Brooke Point 189, 10. James Monroe 208, 11. Washington & Lee 254, 12. Culpeper 270, 13. Chancellor 398.
    Individual results: 1. Haley Armentrout (KG) 19:26, 2. Victoria Parent (Ct) 19:43, 3. Madeleine Rodman (CF) 20:02, 4. Brittany McGraw (NS) 20:05, 5. Casey Soper (Rb) 20:15, 6. Kerri Somers (CF) 20:26, 7. Taylor Boruch (Ma) 20:35, 8. Jillian Parkyn (NS) 20:36, 9. Ranea Saadeh (EV) 20:37, 10. Ainsley Patrick (Ma) 20:42, 14. Annie Davis (MV) 20:51.3, 15. Kathryn Beddo (WL) 20.51.4, 19. Briania Collins (BP) 21:00, 21. Kelsey Metcalk (Cu) 21:06.8, 23. Katherine Smith (JM) 21:11, 77. Cate Bonner (Ch) 24:15.

    FIELD HOCKEY
    JAMES MONROE 3, KING GEORGE 2
    L.C. King scored off a penalty corner, with help from Sarah Schmitz, with no time on the clock as visiting James Monroe rallied from a 2?0 halftime deficit to get a Battlefield District win.
    Meghan Yanchulis and Mia Meyer scored in the first half to stake King George (9?5) to the two-goal advantage at the half.
    Sarah Frank and Hannah Fisher scored to tie the game for the Yellow Jackets (12?2) before King?s game-winner. Fisher and Sarah Miller also provided assists.
    Goalie Jackie Gover registered 25 saves for the Foxes.

    COURTLAND 2, CAROLINE 1
    Emily Zaluzney and Caroline Mastin each scored goals to give Courtland a 2?0 lead and the homestanding Cougars held off Caroline for a Battlefield District win.
    Coral Osborn-Peraza tallied for the Cavaliers.

    CHANCELLOR 11, SPOTSYLVANIA 0
    Chelsea Galera and Chloe Fernandez each had three goals and two assists, and Kate Colley also scored three times as Chancellor cruised to a Battlefield District win.
    Allison Weiland and Kenzie Neylon also scored for the Chargers (14?2, 14?0).
    Weiland (two), Greer Trainham (tw0), Neylon and Katherine Hull provided assists for Chancellor.

    By Sports Desk on October 17th, 2012 10:45 pm



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EXIT Realty Names Craig Witt North Central Divisional President

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Craig Witt was recently appointed President of the North Central Division of EXIT Realty Corp.

By Natalie Terchek

EXIT Realty Corp. International announced the appointment of five Divisional Presidents to aid in the company?s regional growth on Tuesday, October 9. Craig Witt, former EXIT Realty regional president for Michigan, was appointed the position of president of the North Central Division, comprised of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Witt is a licensed real estate Agent in Michigan and has owned and operated three EXIT franchises since joining the company in 2004. He has a background in commercial construction, land development and real estate consulting.

?I am extremely excited and optimistic about the future of EXIT Realty,? Witt said. ?We have momentum and a proven track record on our side, along with the best business model and leadership in real estate today.

Witt?s Goals for EXIT?s North Central Division

Witt?s focus will be on growth, development and retention throughout the North Central Division, as well as company-wide. ?I have a strategic plan to accomplish this that aligns with our corporate goals of 3,600 offices and 100,000 agents by 2020 who absolutely love our company,? he said. ?We are the smartest real estate company and in partnership with all of our associates, we will attract new, quality Agents and Brokers who not only share our vision, but are well-equipped to help us reach our goals.?

?Craig has been a leader within EXIT for several years,? Tami Bonnell, CEO of EXIT Realty Corp. International, said. ?EXIT?s strong growth plans combined with Craig?s understanding of the real estate industry in the North Central states make an unbeatable combination, and we are excited about the future.?

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Airlines urge overhaul of security - Spokesman.com - Oct. 17, 2012

October 17, 2012 in Business
Pre-Check program cited as bright?spot

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates ? Airport security needs to undergo a radical overhaul or else passengers will become further disgruntled, lines will grow and terminals will be overwhelmed, airline executives said Tuesday at a global aviation?conference.

?We simply can?t cope with the expected volume of passengers with the way things are today,? said Tony Tyler, director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association, the airlines? trade?group.

Tyler spoke at an airlines conference held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab?Emirates.

He predicted that by 2020, governments will be using a ?checkpoint of the future? where passengers can race through without stopping, removing clothing, or taking liquids and laptops out of?bags.

While a lot of work has to be done to get numerous countries and regulators on board, Tyler is optimistic that today?s ?one-size-fits all approach to screening? can be replaced with a system based on individual passenger risk. The industry hopes to test the concept at a handful of airports starting late?2014.

The example cited by Tyler and airline executives of what is working: the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration?s relatively new PreCheck?program.

Frequent fliers who voluntarily share more information with the government get to keep their shoes, belts and light jackets on at security. The program will be expanded to 35 airports by the end of the?year.

?If you are willing to share a little more information, then you can have a much better experience,? John S. Pistole, head of the TSA, told the conference. ?We can then spend more time on those we know the least?about.?

The additional personal information would most likely be handed over voluntarily to the government by passengers who see the benefit of the time?savings.

Pistole said the TSA would ideally like to analyze passengers? travel history and patterns but currently lacks congressional authority to do so. Any such changes would occur after the election, at the earliest, he?said.

?I applaud the TSA. I never thought I would say it because they are the worst part of travel,? said Montie Brewer, former CEO of Air?Canada.

The ultimate challenge may not be developing the technology but having multiple nations agree on uniform?procedures.

?We cannot continue to build and build and build to provide space for the existing systems and queues.? Tyler said. ?The whole inconsistency destroys the?credibility.?

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Netanyahu praises EU for tougher Iran sanctions

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the European Union on Tuesday for ramping up sanctions against Iran, saying such measures were having a strong impact on the Iranian economy.

"I want to commend the EU for the tough sanctions that were adopted yesterday against the greatest threat to peace in our time," Netanyahu said in an address to EU diplomats.

"These sanctions are hitting the Iranian economy hard," he added. "We'll know they are achieving their goal when the centrifuges stop spinning and when the Iranian nuclear program is rolled back."

EU governments agreed on Monday to further sanctions against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry, and strengthened restrictions on the central bank.

Andrew Standley, the EU ambassador to Israel, said in public remarks at the meeting with Netanyahu that "Iran's nuclear program is a concern not only to Israel but also to the region and the wider international community".

Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes only. Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, believes Tehran intends to build atomic weapons and has consistently urged the West to ramp up sanctions.

Western countries have rejected Netanyahu's demand to set a red line for Iran's nuclear program that could trigger military action against it.

Amid concern in the West that Israel could strike on its own, Netanyahu signaled at the United Nations last month there was more time for diplomacy, saying Iran would be on the brink of nuclear weapons capability only next spring or summer.

(Reporting by Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Writing by Jeffrey Heller)

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Google Brings Call Reporting To AdWords Express For Small Businesses

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This time, voters pose the debate questions

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama wave to the audience during the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Denver. The sixth "town hall" style presidential debate will bring Obama and Romney to Hofstra University on New York?s Long Island Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. They?ll take questions from undecided voters selected by Gallup. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama wave to the audience during the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Denver. The sixth "town hall" style presidential debate will bring Obama and Romney to Hofstra University on New York?s Long Island Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. They?ll take questions from undecided voters selected by Gallup. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 1992, file photo President George H.W. Bush looks at his watch during the 1992 presidential campaign debate with other candidates, Independent Ross Perot, top, and Democrat Bill Clinton, not shown, at the University of Richmond, Va. The ?town hall? style presidential debates began 20 years ago as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks that she spent days mapping out the presidential candidates and their issues on 3-by 5-cards, just in case. Viewers want the candidates to show respect for those voters in the room, who stand in proxy for all Americans. Bush was thrown by a women's oddly and even worse just as she began her question, TV cameras caught Bush checking his watch. That gesture would be replayed over and again as evidence that the president was indifferent and out of touch. ?I took a huge hit,? Bush said years later. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

(AP) ? The every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks and their questions that she spent days mapping out the presidential candidates and their issues on "a zillion 3-by-5 cards," in case she had to take over the questioning herself.

"I was afraid these undecided voters from Richmond, Va., might get into this huge TV studio where they'd be seen by millions of people and they'd just freeze," the former ABC journalist recalls. "I wanted to be prepared."

No need to worry. The voters did fine. That "town hall" 20 years ago was such a hit that there's been one in every presidential election since.

The sixth will bring President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney to Hofstra University on New York's Long Island Tuesday night to take questions from undecided voters selected by the Gallup polling company.

Debate coach Brett O'Donnell, who worked with John McCain in 2008 and Romney during this year's primaries, says: "This is the one debate that belongs to the people."

It can be a tricky one for the candidates.

Obama, especially, needs a forceful showing to recover from his leaden performance in the campaign's first debate. But he must tread carefully in an atmosphere more suitable for share-your-pain moments than aggressive attacks.

"You can't have this sort of all-out slugfest at a town hall debate," O'Donnell said, so don't expect the fireworks of last week's Joe Biden-Paul Ryan vice presidential match.

Viewers want the candidates to show respect for those voters in the room, who stand in proxy for all Americans.

"You've got to connect with the person who's asking the question ? look them in the eye," said Robert Denton Jr., head of the Communications Department at Virginia Tech. "It's about empathy and connection."

Romney comes to the arena strengthened by his first debate. And the people-first format gives him a unique chance to overcome a persistent weakness: suspicion among some voters that he's too wealthy to relate to the middle class and the poor. But if Romney fails to engage with his questioners, he could reinforce that impression.

That's what happened to President George H.W. Bush in the first televised town hall debate, a low moment in a failed bid for re-election. That 1992 event at the University of Richmond stands unmatched as an example of the format's risks and rewards.

Bush was thrown by a woman's oddly worded question: How had the national debt personally affected the candidates? He stumbled through a meandering response, asked the woman to clarify and ended up sounding irritated and a bit argumentative: "Are you suggesting that if somebody has means the national debt doesn't affect them?"

Even worse, just as she began her question, TV cameras caught Bush checking his watch.

That gesture would be replayed over and again as evidence that the president was indifferent and out of touch. "I took a huge hit," Bush said years later.

When Democratic challenger Bill Clinton got his shot at the same question, he set the standard for town hall emoting.

Clinton crossed the stage to stand before the woman, locked her in his gaze, and recounted the economic pain he'd personally witnessed as governor of Arkansas. "He just burst through the TV set," Simpson recalls.

How did that town hall come about? Not surprisingly, Bush had resisted the risky new idea. But Clinton pushed it in negotiations with Bush and the Commission on Presidential Debates because his campaign thrived on town hall-style events.

"It's the flesh and blood of America, so I love those things," Clinton later told Jim Lehrer of PBS. "And I loved that one."

Bush told Lehrer he hated debates, period.

Because candidates are free to walk about, town halls are body-language danger zones.

In 2000, Al Gore was ridiculed for striding unnaturally close to George W. Bush as his rival spoke. Bush deflected Gore with a surprised look and curt nod, to audience laughter. In 2008, comedians emphasized McCain's age by ridiculing the way he seemed to wander aimlessly about the stage while Obama talked.

Then there are the questions. They tend to be broader and more straightforward than those posed by the old-style panels of journalists or the single moderators favored more recently. But they can be unpredictable. And while debaters often ignore reporters' questions and veer off to some other talking point instead, it's less acceptable to treat a citizen's question that way.

In 2004, President George W. Bush took heat for failing to come up with a single mistake when a woman asked him to describe three wrong decisions and how he fixed them.

Town halls have lost some of their spontaneity. The 80 or so undecided voters chosen for Tuesday's event must submit their questions in advance and moderator Candy Crowley of CNN will decide which people to call on. She can pose her own follow-up questions.

In 1992, questions weren't screened in advance. Simpson walked through the audience Oprah-style and a producer signaled which person to talk to next, seeking a good demographic mix. She had no idea what the next person might ask.

"They were not the questions the media had been focusing on," said Simpson, who now teaches journalism at Emerson College in Boston. "They were asking about bread-and-butter issues that they were interested in ? the education in their schools, the crime in their neighborhoods, the economy and jobs."

"We're still talking about the same things ? the deficit, jobs, outsourcing," she said. "We'll probably hear some of the same subjects Tuesday."

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Associated Press writer Larry Margasak contributed to this report.

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I didn't like Avatar, but is James Cameron really a terrorist?

Scott Stein is editor of When Falls the Coliseum and author of the novels Lost and Mean Martin Manning. His short fiction, book reviews, and essays have been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The G.W. Review, Liberty, National Review, PopMatters.com, and Art Times. He is an associate teaching professor of English at Drexel University.

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Election 2012: Organizing to eliminate the death penalty in California

By Task Force Senior Field Organizer Trystan Reese and?Task Force Organizing Fellow Malcolm Shanks?

The Task Force has always held that ?liberated bodies? is one of the core frameworks through which we do our work. For us, being respectively a gay trans man and a queer black Muslim, we hold this value as central to our lives. We have felt the heavy hand of the state on our bodies, our identities, our relationships, our spirituality and our families. We can only imagine what it would feel like to have our very life being determined by those who have power we have never had access to.

Task Force Organizing Fellow Malcolm Shanks (center) educating voters on Prop. 34 at UCLA.

It is through this lens that the Task Force has been dedicating critical resources to the fight to pass Prop. 34 and replace California?s death penalty with justice that actually works. The Task Force passed a formal resolution against the death penalty in 1999 and continues to work to end the discriminatory and inhumane practice.

While LGBT and allied people around the country are working hard on issues of economic justice, choice, relationship recognition and voter suppression, we join them in an equally significant fight in the national arena.

Joining forces with our longstanding organizational partners the ACLU of Southern California and the California NAACP, along with our newest collaborator Amnesty International, we have dedicated a full-time 2012 organizing fellow (Malcolm) to this struggle that cuts across issues of class, race and gender.

In the past two months, two inmates have been exonerated from their death row sentences. We know that many innocent people have already been wrongly executed, and we must never take that risk again.

In our fight to lift up voices of opposition to the death penalty, we are working side by side with students from a diverse set of campuses, from UCLA and UC-Irvine to Occidental and East LA Community College. We are on the streets and campuses educating voters about our broken death penalty system, and ensuring that they are registered and planning to vote yes on Prop. 34 in November.?They are often shocked to learn that the death penalty is costing our state critical time and money that could be dedicated to education, victim?s families and actually solving crimes.

In California, we are millions of dollars in debt, bogged down by flawed legal procedures and a drawn out appeals process. The state spends $130 million a year on death-row inmates in the state, who make up almost a quarter of the entire country?s death row population. Speeding up the legal process would likely result in the execution of innocent people, and several Supreme Court justices have stated that fixing this broken system is impossible. Our polling among students reveals that they are an energized, supportive base, which is why Malcolm has dedicated his time fully to engaging with these important issues on campuses.

The importance of Prop. 34 cannot be overstated. It is choosing life over death. It is choosing to reject false oppositions between mercy and safety, and following the harder route of true justice that is based on real facts and community needs. Prop. 34 saves our state money, and replaces a broken death penalty system with justice that works for everyone.

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