Saco/Dayton rallies past Cumberland/North Yarmouth to win Little League state title - pressherald.com

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Members of the Saco/Dayton Little League team carry the state championship banner after a 7-6 win Sunday against Cumberland/North Yarmouth. Saco will represent Maine in the Northeast Regional in Bristol, Connecticut. Michael Kelley/The Forecaster

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — After splitting two earlier matchups in the Little League Baseball state tournament, Cumberland/North Yarmouth and Saco/Dayton went down to the wire Sunday in the championship game.

And for the second night in a row, Noah Fullerton was in the middle of the action as Saco/Dayton completed its charge through the losers’ bracket of the double-elimination tournament with a 7-6 comeback victory.

The District 4 champions won five straight games over six days after a 3-0 loss to Cumberland/North Yarmouth in their tournament opener. They faced more adversity when they fell behind 4-0 in the top of the first inning Sunday, but they answered with three runs in the bottom of the first.

Then Saco/Dayton erased a 6-3 deficit with two runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and one in the sixth. Fullerton tied the game with a home run in the fifth and won it with an RBI single in the sixth.

“When we came up to bat, we knew we had to put the ball in play because we were facing a really good team,” said Fullerton, who allowed just one hit in five innings Saturday night in a 5-1 win over Cumberland/North Yarmouth.

“This game was a microcosm of the tournament for us,” said Jamie Gagnon, Saco/Dayton’s manager. “We got down early but battled back, taking it one pitch at a time, one at bat at a time. I couldn’t be more proud of this team.”

Gagnon said his team’s busy schedule after falling into the losers’ bracket helped the players stay locked in at the plate and in the field.

“It was the best thing for us, but was not an easy thing to do,” he said.

Cumberland/North Yarmouth Manager Chris Tyll said his players gave it their best effort.

“It came down to the bottom of the sixth inning. You couldn’t ask for a better game,” said Tyll. “This is something they are going to remember for the rest of their lives.”

Saco advances to the New England Regional in Bristol, Connecticut, from Aug 8-14. Because this year’s Little League World Series will not have any international teams, the top two teams in each of the eight U.S. regionals will advance to the World Series.

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JGB little changed ahead of 10-year auction - Reuters

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TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds were narrowly mixed at the start of a new month on Monday, with benchmark 10-year bonds untraded by early afternoon as investors looked to an auction the following day.

While the benchmark 10-year JGBs were untraded , the 10-year JGB futures price dipped 0.02 point to 152.28 and the yield on the 20-year JGBs fell 0.5 basis point to 0.630%.

Benchmarks for other major maturities were also untraded ahead of Tuesday’s auction of 2.6 trillion yen 10-year JGBs.

The Bank of Japan’s bond buying plan for August, announced on Friday, showed its first buying in 10-year JGBs will be on Aug 12.

That is the latest date for the BOJ’s buying in that maturity since the BOJ began its massive easing in 2013, said Takenobu Nakashima, chief rates strategist at Nomura.

“By refraining from buying for a long period after the auction, the BOJ may be trying to raise the market’s volatility.” Nakashima said.

Since mid-July, the 10-year yield has been stuck in a narrow range of 1.5 basis points.

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Charles Connor, drummer for Little Richard, dies at age 86 - Associated Press

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Connor, known for being Little Richard’s drummer who performed with other music greats including James Brown and Sam Cooke, has died. He was 86.

Connor’s daughter, Queenie Connor Sonnefeld, said her father died peacefully in his sleep early Saturday while under hospice care at his home in Glendale, California. She said her father had been diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain disorder that causes fluid buildup.

Connor Sonnefeld called the drummer a “great father” who was always positive and a person who never gave up on his dreams.

“He was one of those drummers that was a bricklayer of creating that rock ‘n’ roll genre,” she said. “He played behind so many legendary musicians in the 1950s. He was a loving grandfather and was very proud of his family and took a lot of pride in his contributions to rock ‘n’ roll.”

Connor began playing drums at age 12. Three years later, he started his professional career when Professor Longhair, a singer and pianist, hired him as a last-minute replacement for the 1950 Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

After Connor turned 18, he joined Richard’s original road band, The Upsetters. The band appeared in several popular feature films including “The Girl Can’t Help It” with Jayne Mansfield along with “Don’t Knock the Rock” and “Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

During his career, Connor toured with various musicians such as James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the original Coasters. He also received a certificate of special recognition from Rep. Maxine Waters in 1994.

Connor released his motivational book “Don’t Give Up Your Dreams: You Can Be a Winner Too!” 2008. He was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame two years later.

In 2013, Connor released his EP album “Still Knockin.” At the time of his death, he was working on his autobiographical documentary.

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Taylor Street Little Italy festival canceled again; organizer vows to return in 2022 - Chicago Sun-Times

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The Taylor Street Little Italy Festa has been canceled for the second year, with organizers saying holding the event would put an additional strain on already struggling businesses.

The announcement was made jointly by the Little Italy Chicago Neighborhood Association and Onesti Entertainment, the organization that puts the event, which typically draws tens of thousands of people to the neighborhood.

“This setback is a function of the times,” Mary Howard, secretary of Little Italy Chicago Neighborhood Association’s board, said in a statement.

Ron Onesti, president of Onesti Entertainment, said it was a difficult decision to cancel the festival again, but he couldn’t host the event in good conscience.

“The main reason is our vendors, especially Taylor Street restaurants, are still struggling and are having a hard time finding help and workers,” Onesti said. “It is no secret that labor is a problem for everyone, and on Taylor Street it is really prominent. Some businesses already have to close on Sundays or reduce their hours to get by.”

Onesti said the festival, normally held on the second or third weekend of August, would bring attention and much needed business to neighborhood restaurants and businesses, but that would come at a cost.

“I would be asking people to put their home-base restaurant at risk by moving their limited staff for hours at an outdoor stand,” Onesti said. “They can’t possibly manage both locations on a skeleton staff.”

There’s also a gamble with participating in the festival, Onesti said, given variables such as the weather.

“These people have already been shut down for months, and I can’t in good faith ask them to risk any money, and if it were to rain, they are losing out on a lot of money,” Onesti said.

Then there is the adverse effect the festival might have on businesses along Taylor Street, Onesti said. Streets would be blocked off from traffic and other businesses, like a hardware store or a dry cleaner, could lose customers.

“With all these businesses closed for nearly a year, my conscience didn’t want to hurt anyone, and the slightest chance of hurting any business didn’t sit well with me,” Onesti said.

The other factor was rising COVID-19 case numbers and the emergence of the Delta variant.

“Sure, Lollapalooza is going on right now, but I don’t have control over Lollapalooza,” Onesti said. “For me, it was much more of a personal reason regarding the health safety of our guests.”

Onesti said he can’t predict what the pandemic has planned for Chicago over the next year, but for now, he plans to bring the festival back in 2022.

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The life lessons of "Three Little Engines" - CBS News

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Locomotive No. 40 is more than a hundred years old – still with a fire in her belly that has her chugging her way through the Connecticut countryside to this day. Now, that's determination. She's not unlike "The Little Engine That Could," that train in the children's classic that for more than 90 years has been teaching us that believing in ourselves can get us up and over life's rough spots.

But let's back down that mountain for a second. While the mantra, "I think I can, I think I can …" works pretty well for the Little Blue Engine, what about those who think they can't?

"Working hard and believing in yourself makes achieving your dreams possible, but not always probable," said Bob McKinnon, an author and adjunct professor who teaches classes on social mobility. He's just written what he sees as a companion to "The Little Engine That Could," called "Three Little Engines."

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"The stationmaster called to the Little Blue Engine: 'You're up first. Are you ready?' Yes, ma'am,' she replied, and off she went …"

In his telling, the Little Blue Engine does what she always does:

"Up and up the Little Blue Engine climbed, chugging, 'I think I can, I think I can, I think I can ...'"

But her friends – the fierce and confident Yellow Passenger Engine, and the strong and fiery Red Freight Engine – don't have it as easy. They each encounter trouble on their tracks that, through no fault of their own, forces them to stop.

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McKinnon said, "In the early parts of my life, I was the engine that got stuck. I literally had things that would fall on my track or the winds that were blowing me in the face, and I just got too tired to move on."

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McKinnon grew up poor, raised by a single mom. No one in his family had ever been to college. McKinnon was the first, graduating from Penn State in 1990. But it was bittersweet.

"I felt more guilty and more angry when I would look back and I'd see friends or family members that were struggling," he told correspondent Lee Cowan. "I was angry at the system. I was angry at, like, how can we as a country that affords opportunities for some kids or some people, you know, to do well, let so many down? And so, I was frustrated that they were still struggling."

Granted, social mobility is a pretty weighty issue for kids, but McKinnon hopes to ease into the topic by teaching them that they each have their own rails to follow – they're not always equal, but accepting help is a sign of strength, not weakness.

Cowan asked, "You, at one point, actually sat down and made a list of all the people that had helped you along the way. And it ended up being a pretty long list?"

"Yeah," said McKinnon. "I can't tell you how good that made me feel, and how lucky, and how blessed."

The whole Horatio Alger idea that grit and good moral character can improve our circumstances is as old as the transcontinental railroad itself. What's often overlooked, McKinnon said, is the role empathy and compassion play in success, too. "I guess if I had one wish, I would want people to use it as an opportunity to really reflect on their journey," he said.

McKinnon wrote the first draft of his idea in a pretty fitting place: a notebook his own children used for coloring and doodles. "Pardon my chicken scratch!" He wrote it in one sitting.

Bob McKinnon's original manuscript for "Three Little Engines." CBS News

Sorry, spoiler alert! No tears here – there is a happy ending. All three made it up and over the mountain.

The plot twist? The Little Blue Engine went back to help her friends, a gesture that had little critics cheering.

Amelia said, "I liked how all their trains had their different personalities."

Elizabeth said, "Two thumbs up and smiley face!"

We should all blow our whistles whenever we get up and over a mountain – but real success is giving others that head of steam so that they can do it, too.

       
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Little dog, big heart - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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I have sad news.

One of my dogs, a black-and-tan Cavalier named Little Tony, isn’t doing so well. At 13 years old, he has congestive heart disease, and his heart is failing.

It seems impossible, for a dog that’s all heart.

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I know many of you have been in this situation, which has a very cruel sort of sadness, because I know he’s dying and he doesn’t.

That disconnect makes it harder.

I had the hard talk with the vet, one which I’m sure many of you have had, where I’m told what to expect at the very end of Tony’s life, which could be sooner, or later, God only knows.

So the time we have left is Tony Time.

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Almost every day, I take him out in the stroller, since he isn’t supposed to exert himself, and he loves the ride, sitting up, looking around, and taking in the sights. He never tries to get out, tacitly acknowledging that he deserves a sedan chair.

All dogs do.

I carry him up and down the stairs, because the strain would be too much, and he waits for me to pick him up, looking from me to the stairs and back again, the way dogs look at what they want. I’ve learned to groom him myself, since the vet doesn’t think he could take the stress, so you can imagine he looks raggedy, with tufts of hair in uneven patches.

In other words, adorable.

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He has to be hand-fed, and I think he enjoys that, looking up at me and happily chewing away. The vet said I should make food to put some weight on him, so he gets fresh chicken twice a day.

It’s a series of last meals, without knowing which one is really the last.

He’s on two heart pills a day, with extra peanut butter.

Tony accepts all without complaint or resistance, understanding this is the way things are now. The other dogs accord him a deference they hadn’t before, nor do they try and play with him.

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They know.

I’m wondering now if he does.

Certainly he knows he doesn’t feel as well as he used to, and though he’s in no pain, he’s just slowing down. And the vet said to keep him cool, so I run the air conditioner 24/7, and he has his own personal fan.

Me.

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I’m his biggest fan.

I secretly think he loves Francesca more. He wags his tail whenever she’s home, and we’re both convinced he thinks she’s his girlfriend.

And, to my eye, Little Tony only gets cuter as his days get shorter. He’s a little wobblier than he used to be, and since Cavaliers have overgrown fur on their feet called slippers, he’s actually shuffling around in slippers.

If I had a bathrobe, I’d give it to him.

I’m taking plenty of pictures of him, mindful they are for the not-too-distant future, when he’s no longer around. I even have a watercolor of him, a gift from one of my readers, and the other day I caught him looking at his own portrait.

It’s a dog selfie.

And though the analogy isn’t perfect, I find myself remembering when my wonderful father was in hospice. He didn’t want to make his illness a big thing, so instead, we made memories.

And went to Cirque du Soleil.

I’ll never forget sitting next to him and seeing his face as he watched acrobats soaring through the air on pink-and-green wings. He cried with joy and wonder.

So did I.

What I feel now for Tony is joy and wonder.

For having him just a little bit longer.

For having him at all.

We love our animals their whole lives.

And ours, too.

Look for Lisa’s best-selling historical novel, “Eternal,” in stores now. Also look for Francesca’s critically acclaimed debut novel, “Ghosts of Harvard,” now in paperback.

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New Spartans Receivers Coach Counts On The Little Things For A Big Payoff - SJSUSpartans.com

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Arcata, Calif.---  New San Jose State University wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Eric Scott describes himself as detail-oriented. The little things mean more than "just a lot" to him and are vital to succeed.

            He prides himself as a coach on identifying what makes a receiver better.
 
            "I tell it to them. I write it out. I show them. I critique every little thing. I am very meticulous when it comes to these little bitty things and they (the players) will tell you I'm always talking about the little things," he says emphatically.

            Scott has playing time to offer a group of 16 wide receivers this fall after former first-team All-Mountain West Spartans Tre Walker and Bailey Gaither signed National Football League undrafted free agent contracts following San Jose State's 2020 conference championship season.
 
            With a career 16.5 yards per catch average and six touchdowns, Isaiah Hamilton is the most experienced player in the group. Jermaine Braddock, who spent most of his 2020 spelling Gaither when needed, has four career touchdown receptions. Isaiah Holiness, Andre Crump, Jr., and Malikhi Miller have vary degrees of playing experience and seek bigger roles this season.
 
            Like Coach Scott, there are a group of newcomers. They range from freshmen Charles Ross, a transfer from the University of Nevada, where Scott had coached the previous four seasons, Branden Alvarez, and Assani Berkeley; to junior college transfers Donald McKinney and Taariq Johnson; and graduate transfer Trevon Sidney.

COACH SCOTT DEFINES THE STAR WIDE RECEIVER
 
            Scott defines a superb wide receiver playing at an all-conference level or higher as one who excels in precise route running, carries oneself with an on-the-field arrogance while in the game, and is quick with the understanding that catching the football is a natural.
 
            The new Spartan coach believes every player in his group should strive to play an entire game. However, there are two important distinctions – don't take any plays off because it will show up on film, don't be selfish, and there is no distinction between playing in the slot or along the perimeter.
 
            "A receiver is a receiver. I have no height requirement. I have no size requirement. I have a 'heart" requirement," Scott said. "That's my requirement – to have a heart. If you want it, go get it. That goes along with the arrogance I'm looking forward to seeing."

KEEPING AN OPEN MIND
 
            After two days at Humboldt State, he is not drawing any conclusions yet since the Spartans have been practicing in shirts and helmets.
 
            "…That's not football to me. Tomorrow (Sunday, August 1) will be our first padded practice. Once we get into pads, I can give a better evaluation, but I'm expecting guys to do their job. This is a defending championship team and I expect guys who have been here to perform that way. I expect the guys who just came in to be able to step up to that (championship) level," said Scott, a teammate of Spartans head coach Brent Brennan at UCLA after beginning his college career at Northwestern.
 
            The Spartans will continue their preseason practices at Humboldt State and in the Redwood Bowl through Saturday, August 7, and return to San Jose on August 8. San Jose State's first practice day on campus is Tuesday, August 10 following the completion of the 50^th annual Women's Tennis Association's Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic the same day the team begins its 325-mile bus ride back to San Jose.
 
            Season tickets for the 2021 San Jose State University football six-game home schedule are available by visiting https://am.ticketmaster.com/sjsuathletics/21football or by calling 408-924-7589.

 

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