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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Barclay Goodrow scored 18:19 into overtime to send San Jose into the second round of the playoffs with a 5-4 win Tuesday night, capping a wild Game 7 that featured the Sharks erasing a three-goal deficit by scoring four times on a disputed major penalty in the third period and Vegas tying the g...
What looked like was going to be a relatively easy Vegas win turned crazy with 10:47 to play in regulation after a bloody scene on the ice led to a major penalty on Cody Eakin and sent San Jose captain Joe Pavelski to the locker room dazed.
Thousands of Boy Scout troop leaders are accused of sexual abuse.
The allegations, revealed Tuesday by a pair of law firms on the East Coast, date back decades and have Bay Area ties.
Christians in America are, like Russell Berger and Jack Phillips, going to be increasingly targeted by the mob for trying to live their faith publicly.
In 155 AD, Roman authorities ordered a man named Polycarp to burn incense for the Roman Emperor. Witnesses say the local authorities begged Polycarp to comply, some even acknowledging it was a meaningless act. But Polycarp refused. "Eighty-six years I have served Christ, and He never did me any wrong. How can I blasphe...
Eyewitnesses say Polycarp told the proconsul there would be no need to tie him to the stake as he would not flee. Others claim the flames would not touch Polycarp so the proconsul ordered him stabbed through the heart. Polycarp's refusal to do what others told him was meaningless because he viewed it as an affront to h...
You will probably not have heard of Russell Berger. He is a orthodox believing Christian, pastor, and, until last week, was the Chief Knowledge Officer of CrossFit. A local CrossFit gym (they call them boxes) did not want to have a gay pride event and gay rights activists subsequently began harassing the owner of the g...
He continued, "The intolerance of the LGBTQ ideology toward any alternative views is mind-blowing. The tactics of some in the LGBTQ movement toward dissent is an existential threat to freedom of expression. The lack of tolerance for disagreement, which has been replaced with bullying Twitter mobs promising 'consequence...
CrossFit bowing to the mob came only a few days after the Supreme Court sided with Masterpiece Cake Shop against anti-Christian bigots in Colorado. Gay activists targeted Jack Phillips, the owner and a renown cake designer. The activists asked Phillips to design a wedding cake for them and he declined. Though others to...
Phillips does not create cakes for Halloween, which he considers a pagan holiday, or for several other events. But he does make cakes for gay couples. He even offered to bake for this gay couple. He just declined to do the wedding cake. The couple sued Phillips and commissioners on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing a 7-2 decision for the Supreme Court, sided with Philips. The Court found that one commissioner described Phillips' faith as "one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use." Kennedy noted that disparaged Phillip's "religion in at least two distinct ways: by describin...
June is both the month where a Christian received protection from the Supreme Court to live his faith in contravention of the present age's zeitgeist and also the month the Court legalized gay marriage. Christians in America are, like Russell Berger and Jack Phillips, going to be increasingly targeted by the mob for tr...
Christian pastors in America who devote a Sunday each year to preach on life in response to Roe v. Wade should spend just as much time preaching on why marriage is between one man and one woman and why Christians, like Polycarp, Berger, Phillips, and others should stand strong for their faith even when the world around...
Specialty mattress maker Select Comfort Corp reported third-quarter results well below analysts' estimates due to higher costs and sagging demand for its mattresses, sending its shares down 25 percent after the bell.
The company, which also warned on its current-quarter profit, has been struggling with higher marketing and sales costs after a botched marketing strategy earlier this year.
Select Comfort reverted to its earlier strategy of keeping multiple agencies for its marketing campaigns after a move to hire a single agency backfired.
Operating expenses rose about 5 percentage points in the quarter ended September 28 as sales and marketing costs spiked 16 percent from a year earlier.
The company was also hit by cautious shoppers who have been holding back on spending due to the U.S. budget crisis in Washington and slow job growth.
Mattress makers have not been able to reap the benefits of a recovering U.S. housing market as consumers defer the purchase of new mattresses when they move in to a new home.
Rival Tempur Sealy International Inc slashed its full-year profit forecast in July, while specialty bedding retailer Mattress Firm Holding Corp reported lower-than-expected second-quarter results in September.
Shares of Tempur and Mattress Firm also fell after Select Comfort's results and outlook on Wednesday.
Select Comfort said it expects current-quarter profit of 18-26 cents per share, which could miss the average analyst estimate by as much as 14 cents per share.
"We are providing a wider guidance range for the fourth quarter than in prior years, given the current level of uncertainty around the consumer environment," Chief Financial Officer Wendy Schoppert said.
Select Comfort, known for its Sleep Number adjustable-firmness mattresses, said revenue rose 7 percent to $264 million.
"Our execution was muted by a progressively more challenged macro-economic environment, resulting in performance below expectations," Chief Executive Shelly Ibach said.
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Select Comfort's shares fell to $18.25 in extended trading after closing at $24.20 on the Nasdaq on Wednesday.
Enjoy reading these. If you wish, consider their subjects. What would you say about “the real thing” or a “blackbird feather” or your “secondary education.” Try writing a few sentences on one topic — or on all of them. Then write a paragraph, maybe a few more — or maybe not, concentrating on the ones you wrote. By now ...
I watched the gull from my dock as it struggled with something out in the bay, probably a fish that was dead or wounded but too big to pick up. It squawked with frustration and disbelief. This went on for quite a while, until I grew bored and went back to editing a rejected poem. Just then a dark shape came swooping do...
If I were Arapaho, I might think less of this feather, knowing that the blackbird failed to save a young girl married to a bull. Yet it knew enough to recommend the badger and the mole. With their cunning they rescued Splinter Foot Girl from the bull and later from a merciless stone. The blackbird played its role, whic...
Did you know that when you stuck this jaunty feather in your cap? Did you notice the white tip of the quill and imagine the blackbird naked and white? Did you think, If night is a blackbird’s wing, I am holding a piece of night? Was it the crystalline perfection or just that beauty, once discovered, cannot be given bac...
Bart Galle is a medical educator and visual artist living in St. Paul. He is a 2008-2009 Loft Mentor Series Winner in Poetry and the winner of the 2008 Passager Poetry Contest for writers over 50 and the Fall 2009 Hollingsworth Prize for outstanding poem from White Pelican Review. His poems have been nominated for a Pu...
* Kindergarten — I didn’t go to kindergarten because there wasn’t one at Holy Trinity School in Rollingstone, MN, which went from first through twelfth.
* Grade 2 — I talked during the fire drill but blamed it on Tommy Kalmes because of the similarities of our names.
* Grade 3 (first time) — Outside the classroom window, the pond and the passing clouds claimed much more of my attention than did Sister Nancy who had a nervous breakdown mid-year, but she wasn’t the only one who flunked that year.
* Grade 3 (the repeat) — After several half-hearted attempts in my first three years, I finally buckled down and got really serious about developing my class clown skills.
* Grade 4 — I knew when the knock came to the door that Daddy had died and that I’d be going home to a very different home life forever.
* Grade 5 — My teacher Mrs. Wise lived across the street from the school and brought the class over during school one afternoon to watch a World Series game between the Cardinals and the Red Sox.
* Grade 6 — I brought a frog into the classroom and released it and put a large rubber spider under Sister Michon’s grade book, which got me banished to the broom closet where, after a day and a half, I learned to feign remorse so I could get back to my audience.
* Grade 7 — At the chaotic junior high in Winona where punks like Mark Gilson stole french fries with impunity off of other kids’ trays and Jim McGill picked fights every day and Principal Harvey Kane told me I looked like Phyllis Diller, I walked the jagged and violent halls in fear, a lost boy learning to retreat inw...
* Grade 8 — I was proud of my A in astronomy, which floated across my report card amidst a veritable sea of Ds and Fs in English and Math.
* Grade 9 — I liked the smaller ambience of Cotter High School where I was recognized by friends of older siblings, but now it was the Fs in algebra that swam in a sea of Ds.
* Grade 10 — My puzzlement over the fact that “Christian Marriage” was taught by a supposedly celibate priest was shared by neither my friends nor the administration.
* (what would have been Grade 12) — I headed west with friends where we named ourselves “The Celestial Circus” and played a slide show of nature photos to “Dark Side of the Moon” and passed the hat.
* College, Year 1 — I made the dean’s list at the U of M the first two quarters and began piano lessons.
* College, Year 2 — I lost interest in things academic but immersed myself in Beethoven and Edgar Allan Poe, for which I received no credit, or credits.
* College, Year 3 — As a humanities major and philosophy minor at St. Mary’s College, I discovered Homer’s Odyssey and his poetic language, both still a living force for me.
* College, Year 4 — Biking down from a dingy north Minneapolis apartment to the U of M every day, I wondered why I was able to ride away from a dead end life when so many of my neighbors were not doing the same thing.
* College, Year 5 — I earned my B. A. in history, writing my senior paper on “Old Slave Days,” an event that was celebrated in my mother’s childhood in North Carolina.
* Master’s Year 1 — I began the elementary education licensure program at the U of M under Dr. Buggey, whose low regard for me was exceeded only by mine for her.
* Master’s Year 2 — I secured my master’s degree with considerable influence from my mother’s prayer life, becoming the 10th child of 14 in my family to enter the field of education.
* Today — On my classroom wall, suggesting just a trace of irony by their mere presence alongside each other, hang three framed certificates: my G.E.D. diploma and my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and I am equally proud of all of them.
Thomas Kendrick is a second grade teacher in St. Paul and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. He enjoys song-writing, word play and starting his day at 4 a.m. with a hot cup of English Breakfast tea. His favorite authors include Homer, Loren Eiseley and Dr. Seuss.
The bomber targeted a Shiite procession being taken out as part of Muharram festival in Jacobabad.
ISLAMABAD: At least 20 people including four children were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack on a procession by minority Shias in Pakistan's Sindh province today, a day after 12 others were killed in another suicide attack at a Shia shrine on the eve of Muharram.
Rescue sources said that at least 20 persons were killed in the attack, including four children, while over 30 were injured, Dawn News reported.
Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Khuda Bakhash said it was a suicide bombing.
SSP Jacobabad Malik Zafar Iqbal Awan said: "Police have recovered lower part of the body of the possible suicide bomber from the site."
Police said that the death toll may rise as some of the injured were in critical condition.
The injured were rushed to the District Hospital Jacobabad where an emergency has been declared.
It was the second major attack that targeted the minority Shia Muslims in the holy month of Muharram when they organise special prayers and take out processions to observe the martyrdom of Hussain Ibne Ali, the grandson of the Prophet.
It came just a day after 12 other people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia shrine in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province.
The minority Shias are regularly attacked by extremist Sunni militant groups in Pakistan who consider them as heretics.
As many as 61 people were killed and at least another 60 injured in a bomb explosion in a Shia imambargah in upper Sindh district of Shikarpur on January 30.
Thousands of lives have been lost in the last decade due to the ongoing sectarian violence.
The government has taken extraordinary security measures for the two most important days of the month of Muharram with thousands of paramilitary rangers and police deployed in major cities and towns to avoid any terrorist attacks which could trigger off sectarian violence.
The Sindh government had already imposed a ban on pillion riding in Karachi and many other cities of the province.
Mobile phone and internet services have also been blocked in major cities, including Karachi.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain has scheduled a town hall meeting at 11:45 AM this Sunday in Polk City, Florida. The National Clergy Council, representing church leaders of Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestant church traditions, objects to a major camp...
"John McCain is showing an obvious insensitivity to church people by scheduling a major campaign event smack in the middle of Sunday morning church hours. We object to any candidate interfering with church attendance by encouraging supporters to skip church services to participate in political activities. If Senator Mc...
Rev. Schenck is available for further comment during weekend hours, except Sunday morning until 1:00 PM, at mobile 703-447-7686.
André Holland stars as Ray Burke in Steven Soderbergh’s “High Flying Bird,” a D.I.Y. film about the business and politics of sports.
In 2009, Steven Soderbergh was about to direct “Moneyball,” the film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book about an effort to assemble a championship Major League Baseball team on a low budget, when, five days before the start of the shoot, the studio pulled the plug on the production. The reason was creative d...
Soderbergh’s new movie, “High Flying Bird” (which premières on Friday, in a limited theatrical release and on Netflix, and will have a special screening at Lincoln Center, on Thursday), is, in a way, the fulfillment of that aborted plan. Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, it is a sports movie—a business-of-sports movie—...
André Holland stars in “High Flying Bird,” as Ray Burke, a sports agent with a major agency, whose hottest new client is Erick Scott (Melvin Gregg), the N.B.A.’s No. 1 draft pick, selected by the New York Knicks. But, between the time of the draft and the start of the preseason, the owners, unable to settle with the Pl...
“High Flying Bird” is set mostly in New York, largely in modern, hard-edged corporate offices and high-end restaurants and bars in Manhattan; it’s a movie that features the heady, intoxicating power of glass-and-steel spaces and boss-of-it-all skyscraper vistas, with an architectural movie aesthetic to match. Most of i...
From the first scene, set in a high-rise restaurant, where Ray is trying to get Erick out of a jam of the young man’s own making, McCraney evokes a tangle of loyalties and interests terrifyingly shifting under external pressures. Soderbergh, meanwhile, bangs the scene out in brash, confrontational angles that feel like...
Others may be willing to disclose some big plot points; I enjoyed the discovery too much to spoil them. It’s enough to say that a series of coincidences involving a Twitter battle and a viral video gives Ray the idea for a D.I.Y., player-run alternative to N.B.A. competition—one that, not coincidentally, also entails a...
“High Flying Bird” features one of the great characters in recent cinema, a venerable basketball coach named Spence (Bill Duke), who is Ray’s friend and mentor, and a living conscience of the sport. Spence runs a youth basketball program in the South Bronx, and an annual event he organizes for the kids—an event usually...
McCraney’s script encompasses, in its deft and elaborate dialectical wrangling, a vast range of historical currents and present-day phenomena—it’s a movie about the uses of digital media and the changing experiences and expectations that they incite. Its backroom confrontations are performed and filmed with an intense,...
As he did with the film “Unsane,” released in 2018, Soderbergh—who has long done his own camerawork, under the pseudonym of Peter Andrews—shot “High Flying Bird” with an iPhone, and it shows, for the better. With “Unsane,” I had the sense that Soderbergh was doing a technical experiment with a story to which he was rel...
One of the movie’s signal lines of dialogue is spoken by Spence, when he describes how the N.B.A. owners took control of the sport. “They invented a game on top of the game,” he says. Though “High Flying Bird” gets behind the scenes of the game on the court to reveal the one that’s played in boardrooms, there are still...
This gap points to a distinguishing feature of Soderbergh’s aesthetic. One of the peculiarities of sports is that the rules are arbitrary, but they nonetheless inspire a vast set of conventions and of emotional investments. The same is true of stories. As much as “High Flying Bird” offers the distinctive gratifications...
Knight creates an imagination-sludge, in which the ingredients are thrown together raw and then overcooked beyond recognition.
A once-trusted associate of mob boss John Gotti is giving a thumbs-down to having John Travolta portray the late “Dapper Don” in an upcoming biopic.
Mob rat Lewis Kasman — whom Gotti once considered like an “adopted son” — told The Post that picking the “Pulp Fiction” star probably has the notorious Gambino crime-family godfather spinning in his grave.
“I think if he was asked, he would not be pleased at Travolta playing him,” said Kasman, who entered the witness-protection program after cutting a deal with the feds.
“For John Gotti Sr., you need a man’s man to play that role,” Kasman said.
“John Gotti Sr. never danced a dance in his life,” he said, taking a jab at the “Saturday Night Fever” hoofer Travolta.
A better choice, he said, would have been “Godfather” veterans Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, who’s set to play a supporting role as Gambino family underboss Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce.
Kasman — whose undercover work for the feds helped him avoid an 11-year prison term — also said that “X-Men” star Ben Foster had been “miscast” as John “Junior” Gotti.
“He’s a thug, so you need someone who’s a thug . . . a guy who grew up in that life,” Kasman said of Junior, offering “The Fighter” star Mark Wahlberg as a better pick for the role.
Kasman maintains that the elder Gotti died “hating” Junior.
Those movers-and-shakers allegedly include the late hotelier Leona Helmsley, with whom Kasman claims he was carrying on an affair when he arranged Junior’s lavish 1990 wedding at the former Helmsley Palace Hotel.
Travolta was summoned to Victoria’s home in Howard Beach, Queens, on Thursday to get Mamma Gotti’s blessing for the role. He spent more than two hours at the house screening family movies.
The actor — who was still making his bones playing “Sweathog” Vinnie Barbarino on “Welcome Back, Kotter” when John Gotti Sr. was being made as a Gambino family capo in the late ’70s — mimicked the boss of bosses’ sprightly strut as he left the mob matron’s house with Junior.
A university feminism society is being accused of discrimination and reported for hate crime after it charged men more for cakes at a bake sale to reflect the gender pay gap.
The University of Essex Feminist Society asked women to pay 82p (US$1) per baked good while men were charged £1 at the fundraising event.
The event sparked a complaint to the university’s Hate Incident Reporting Center, according to the Sun. The event also faced a backlash on social media, with some branding the bake sale as hypocritical and discriminatory.
One Facebook user wrote: “Millions of men were FORCED to die for our country for simply being male (also in many countries men are still forced into the military) while women got to stay home but women get cheaper cakes because they’re treated ‘unfairly’?

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