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The Riders have won eight of their last 12 games, but head coach Chris Jones wasn’t a fan of his team’s final performance in the regular season.
Brandon Bridge and Marcus Thigpen were bright spots for the Riders. Bridge relieved starter Kevin Glenn and promptly threw a touchdown strike to Thigpen that cut into Edmonton’s 11-0 lead in the second quarter.
With running backs Trent Richardson and Cameron Marshall not dressed, Thigpen led Saskatchewan in rushing (32 yards), which included an eight-yard touchdown rush in the third quarter. He also had 31 receiving yards.
CJ Gable rushed for a game-high 70 yards for Edmonton.
If they were bringing across 850 pills as “mislabeled,” were they mislabeled at the pharmacia or did the two men put them into mislabeled bottles?
That’s never really been made clear in the federal court papers of their case. Either way, though, hanging your defense on a scenario as a “mistake” is a dog-ate-my-homework excuse.
Just so we know what’s at stake here, these guys brought in methyl-phenidate, also know by the brand name Ritalin.
It’s a drug that’s used by parents for children who are hyperactive. It’s a stimulant, a legal speed when prescribed by doctors. And, as such, its side effects are agitation, anxiety, hypervigilance, anorexia and depressed appetite. Sounds a lot like the kind of high that meth tweakers supposedly get a kick out of.
The other two types of drugs were both restricted class C-IV drugs commonly used as diet pills. They both offer overstimulation of the nervous system as side effects.
Their defense? It’s a mistake; we thought we were only buying diet pills.
Oh, right. Some 850 doses of Ritalin and diet pills is an adequate amount for one’s personal prescription.
As to the amount of money that McDow and Limon received from the city while on almost a year’s paid leave — $305,228 in salary and compensation — well, that’s a different issue. The Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights guarantees that officers get paid while under investigation. The feds took almost eight months for their investigation, which resulted in guilty pleas; San Luis Obispo Police Department Internal Affairs took another couple of months to bounce them from their jobs.
OK, so that’s galling. But here’s the more galling part: These guys are appealing the city’s decision (as part of their plea bargain with the feds, they can’t appeal that conviction) to be reinstated, saying they will repay their leave of absence pay as a show of good faith.
Ummm. I don’t think so.
Unless some politician worth his or her salt wants to take on the powerful peace officers union of this state and try to rewrite their bill of rights for leave-of-absence restitution, this sorry saga will have to be written off as a sock to the chops of taxpayers.
But we taxpayers aren’t the only ones getting hosed here.
Despite their protestations of being the victim/stooges of a “mistake,” McDow and Limon failed on multiple levels, which should pretty much put the kibosh on any further appeal to the city to be reinstated.
Second, they failed their families.
Third, they failed their brothers and sisters of law enforcement.
THE young government security agent sat in the hotel lobby, trying not to be too obvious as he watched people come and go and eavesdropped on conversations. Such agents have been assigned to many hotels and other public places around this decaying capital city. Nearly 16 months after a predawn coup in June l989, Sudan's military regime has seen initial public enthusiasm turn to disillusionment and opposition.
``People thought this regime would be much better'' than the previous democratic government led by Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, says one Sudanese here. Many had grown disillusioned with Mr. Mahdi's failure to end the civil war in the south and to mend the deteriorating economy.
But critics of the regime say that peace seems more distant today and the economy has slipped even further. And many Sudanese are upset by the regime's use of torture and execution against suspected opponents.
Most analysts say the war is at a stalemate. Western and Middle Eastern diplomats and Sudanese sources say that Sudan's military regime faces increasing threats on a number of fronts.
Exiled leaders of political parties banned by the military, many formerly in the government, have met several times with the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and reaffirmed their commitment to ending the civil war. They have agreed on the need for a constitutional conference involving all segments of Sudanese society to set up a unified government.
Egypt, Sudan's powerful neighbor to the north, accuses the military of aiming missiles obtained from Iraq at Egypt's strategic Aswan Dam. Sudan strongly denies the allegation. Sudan and Egypt split over the Gulf crisis, with Egypt sending troops to Saudi Arabia and Sudan condemning the presence of outside troops.
There were unconfirmed reports that Egypt had been supporting a coup to overthrow former Prime Minister Mahdi. And Egypt has long been close to some of the factions that now oppose Sudan's military government.
On April 24, the government executed 28 Army officers one day after the government announced it had foiled an attempted coup. (The military may have used the pretext of a coup attempt to eliminate suspected opponents, SPLA officials say.) The government said it put down another attempted military coup in September.
UP to 9 million Sudanese face starvation next year. If they start food riots, the regime could be threatened.
``If the crisis becomes more severe, they will be faced with an explosion: Starving people could come to the street. People could revolt,'' says a Middle Eastern diplomat here.
Sudan's intellectuals ``are desperately embarrassed by the torture and execution'' this regime uses against its suspected opponents, says an international official working in Sudan. Another international official working in northern Sudan says villagers were upset by the executions of the Army officers in April. Such reactions drain potential support from the regime.
The government has consistently denied human rights abuses, admitting only the possibility of some instances of excessive force by individual officers. But Amnesty International and Africa Watch, human rights monitoring groups, have compiled long lists of alleged torture, detention, executions, and harsh prison conditions for prisoners and detainees in Sudan.
According to Amnesty, a letter smuggled this year from Shalla Prison in western Sudan said: ``A whole day would pass without detainees receiving a single drop of water. With the steaming desert heat, dirty clothes and bodies, swarms of flies, and stench from open sewers in the prison, the place became truly hazardous to health and to life.'' Detainees thought to be in Shalla include human rights activist Ushari Ahmed Mahmud.
Sudanese sources told the Monitor that treatment of prisoners appears to have improved somewhat since the strong Sudanese revulsion over the death earlier this year, allegedly under torture, of Ali Fadul, a medical doctor accused of helping organize a doctors' strike last year. The government says he died of malaria, but refused to show the body to the family.
Amnesty estimates that there are at least 250 political detainees in Sudan. A Sudanese source estimates 400. Amnesty has received reports of the rebel SPLA killing hundreds of prisoners, including soldiers, suspected informers, and militia. In western Sudan, thousands of people have also died in tribal conflicts between militias armed by the government to fight the rebels, Amnesty says.
(CNS): A local marathon runner who is no stranger to extreme conditions when running long distances is taking on another running adventure for charity next month. Founder & CEO of KRyS Global Ken Krys will be heading to Brazil and the Amazon rainforest for the Jungle Marathon where he will be running 220km for the charity Facing Africa and for the Cayman’s NCVO. The jungle marathon will take place from 6-15 October like the Marathon des Sables which Krys ran in 2009, runners in the Jungle Marathon are expected to be completely self-sufficient – bringing their own food, provisions, and even their own hammock to sleep in between the running stages.
Competitors have a choice of completing 110 km or 220 km in either 4 or 6 respective stages over the course of the week. Krys has chosen the longer distance of 220 km, which includes a gruelling non-stop overnight stage of 89 km.
Anyone who wishes to sponsor Krys on this gruelling run in the jungle should contact Peggy Based at Peggy.Basdeo@KRyS-Global.com or +1 345 947 4700 for further details.
Facing Africa is a charity dedicatedto helping children in Nigeria and Ethiopia who suffer from a devastating disease called NOMA, which is an acute and ravaging gangrenous infection affecting the face. The victims are mainly children under the age of 6, caught in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty and malnutrition. Facing Africa provides funding for teams of volunteer surgeons to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa to perform facial reconstruction surgery on the victims of NOMA. Further information is available at www.facingafrica.org.
The NCVO, or the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, is an independent, non-profit, charitable organisation that engages in projects to meet the ever-increasing social needs of the community. Further information on the current projects of the NCVO in the Cayman Islands can be found at www.ncvo.org.ky.
The iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers owned by billions of Apple consumers worldwide are in danger of being hacked due to a potentially devastating security flaw.
No, Meltdown and Spectre are not titles of James Bond films. They are bugs that are reportedly 20-years-old but have only recently been discovered. The Silicone Valley giant announced last night that every single Apple device running either iOS or macOS operating systems are currently compromised. The tech giant added that owners of Apple TV’s are also affected.
According to a report by The Telegraph, owners of Apple devices are at risk of potentially being the target of a hacking onslaught that would see secret data such as passwords, photos, financial records, and emails exposed to criminals.
Thus far, the Meltdown bug issue has been partially fixed with an update that was released in December. Apple officials clarified that there had been no evidence that hackers managed to take advantage of the security flaw.
Spectre, on the other hand, is allegedly much more challenging to solve. The ARM microchips installed in recent iPhones and iPads are the primary carriers of the Spectre bug.
Technology specialists have reportedly been working on creating bug fixes since the flaws were discovered last year. Intel, ARM, and AMD were informed of the problem at the time, and they have their experts and researchers frantically trying to find ways to beat the bugs.
Meanwhile, technicians for web browsers such as Google Chrome and Apple’s own Safari have also been scrambling to find solutions to the significant problem.
While tech companies and manufacturers are currently in the process of updating operating systems, browsers, and antivirus software, these measures aren’t enough to put an end to the scare. The Telegraph notes that experts have said Spectre is a particularly pernicious bug and is likely to remain a problem for years to come.
In tech terms, bugs are errors, failures or faults in computer hardware or software that lead to incorrect, unintended or unexpected behaviors that expose an infected product to external attacks by hackers. If cybercriminals manage to access a consumer’s device, they could easily find and exploit system flaws to retrieve sensitive personal data.
Apple Inc. asserts that it takes the matter of device security very seriously. One of the measures the company prides itself on is the App Store, which is a marketplace for consumers to purchase and download third-party applications. All products available in the App Store are approved by Apple Inc. before they are introduced to the marketplace.
Moreover, Apple software updates are known for their superior restrictions that have historically offered better protection against viruses than competitors such as Android and Windows.
Luckily, according to Reuters, Apple Inc. is planning to release a bug fix for the Safari web browser on its iPhones, iPads, and Mac devices in the next few days. The critical software update is intended to protect devices against Spectre, according to a spokesperson for the company.
In the meantime, consumers have been urged to ensure that their devices have the very latest software updates installed, as well as to keep an eye out to see when the next update becomes available. Customers should also be extra vigilant when accessing unknown websites and when installing new apps or programs onto their devices.
Real Madrid's players have made a title promise to president Florentino Perez, it has been revealed.
Okdiario's chief pundit Eduardo Inda, speaking on El Chiringuito, says Real's senior players have assured Florentino he will see silverware this season.
"The players have had a conversation in the locker room and they have told him that they will win at least two titles," stated Inda.
"They have not specified which, but they think about the LaLiga and the European Cup."
Real also remain alive in the Copa del Rey after this week's 1-1 draw with Barcelona in the first-leg of their semifinal.
Razer's phone has amazing speakers; now it has the 5.1 audio content to take advantage of them.
LAS VEGAS—Razer and Netflix announced today at CES that the Razer Phone will start showing Netflix content in HDR and 5.1 surround sound, for content where that's available. While other high-end smartphones support HDR, this makes Razer the first phone to have both capabilities, the company says.
The Razer Phone has an HDR screen and dual front-facing, Dolby-certified speakers. Obviously, it doesn't have six speakers, so the "surround sound" here is virtual. The phone's front-facing speakers, as we noted in our review, are louder and more powerful than other phones' speakers.
Finding HDR 5.1 content on Netflix can be tricky, though. There's no official list. When we searched, we mostly found recent editions of Netflix original series and movies—Stranger Things 2 (good), the Netflix Marvel TV series (good), Marco Polo (so-so) and Bright (bad), for instance. It'll clearly take a while for Netflix to ramp up that content.
We tested out Netflix playback on a Razer phone versus a Nexus 6P using Stranger Things 2 in Razer's suite. Honestly, we didn't see much of a difference. The Razer phone definitely showed "HDR" and "5.1" logos in the Netflix app while the Nexus only showed "HD." But watching the show on the two phones, the difference wasn't hugely striking. Maybe the lighting on the Nexus seemed a little harsher. But the Razer phone's relatively dim screen muted the effect that HDR might have, as the brighter screen on the Nexus 6P delivered more punch.
The new capabilities will come to Razer Phones later this month in a software update that also includes "improvements to screen and sound," which may improve that HDR experience. Razer has been pretty good about pushing through software updates to address some of the issues we remarked on in our review. Specifically, they've asked us to re-test the phone based on new camera software. Messed-up camera software is a perennial pitfall for new phone makers (see: Essential), so it's good to see that Razer is on top of it.
If Netflix and Razer want to sell phones based on HDR 5.1, they're going to have to show a major difference. Hopefully, the final software updates will push Razer's Netflix quality beyond its competitors.
Marvel fans saw how powerful Thanos was in Avengers: Infinity War, especially after he gained all of the Infinity Stones.
Earth's Mightiest Heroes will have another chance to take down the Mad Titan in Avengers: Endgame, but what if Thanos isn't the biggest threat to the universe? This new fan theory suggests another big bad might be out there, someone even worse than Thanos.
After the events of Infinity War, Thanos drastically changed the universe, and we're waiting to see if it can be fixed or if this is the new status quo. Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo spoke with Empire magazine about how the MCU and Thanos were affected.
Even the Mad Titan himself found a new purpose, as evidenced by the last scene of Infinity War.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previously explained Thanos' importance in this first decade of storytelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
We'll find out if there's a bigger threat than Thanos when Avengers: Endgame premieres in theaters on April 26th.
Russia would be prepared to consider new proposals from the United States to replace a suspended Cold War-era nuclear pact with a broader treaty that includes more countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.
The 1987 treaty eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers, but leaves other countries free to produce and deploy them.
"We of course saw the reference in president Trump's statement to the possibility of a new treaty that could be signed in a beautiful room and that this treaty should also include other countries as its participants," Ryabkov said.
"We look forward to this proposal being made concrete and put on paper or by other means..." Ryabkov said at a news conference in Moscow.
Russian officials have pledged to revive missile production and said Moscow was ready to “respond militarily” to the United States.
The U.S. said it was giving Russia 60 days to end what Washington charges is the missiles' violation of the 1987 INF Treaty.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The Virginia Tech police officer who was gunned down in a campus attack joined the force six months after the university was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. He was a proud policeman who recently invited a friend to ride along with him, which made his death during a traffic stop even more puzzling.
Deriek W. Crouse, an Army veteran and married father of five, was killed Thursday after pulling a driver over in a school parking lot. Police said the gunman walked up, shot the officer and then fled on foot before he apparently killed himself nearby. The deceased suspect was not involved in the traffic stop.
Investigators believe the gunman acted alone and that he changed clothes after fleeing the scene, then killed himself with his handgun when another officer spotted him, state police said Friday. Police are still trying to piece together a motive for the attack..
"That's very much the fundamental part of the investigation right now," State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told said at a news conference.
The gunman was not a student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the deadliest gun rampage in modern U.S. history in 2007. Geller said investigators were confidant they know the gunman's identity but she declined to say anything more about his name, age or hometown until the medical examiner confirms his identity and next of kin are notified.
State police said in a news release earlier Friday that ballistics tests confirmed Crouse and the deceased suspect had been shot by the same handgun. The tests have "officially linked the two fatal shootings," the release said.
Authorities have in-car video from Crouse's cruiser that shows a man with a handgun at the officer's car at the time of the shooting.
Geller laid out the most detailed account thus far of the shooting. She said Crouse had pulled over a car driven by a student and was stopped on a campus parking lot with the car in front of his cruiser. She said the driver, who she didn't name, had no connection to the shooting and has been very helpful to investigators.
Crouse was sitting in his cruiser when the gunman walked up and shot him. Geller declined to say if the officer was wearing body armor or where exactly he was shot. He was not able to return fire, she said.
The events unfolded on the same day Virginia Tech officials were in Washington, fighting a federal government fine over their handling of the 2007 massacre where 33 people were killed. The shooting brought back painful memories. About 150 students gathered silently for a candlelight vigil on a field facing the stone plaza memorial for the 2007 victims. An official vigil is planned for Friday night.
Ironically, Crouse was killed across the street from the dormitory where the 2007 massacre that began, reports CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano.
Freshman Juliette Fielding was leaving a nearby building in the moments after the shooting and emotionally described what happened when police officers responding to the scene opened Crouse's patrol car door.
"The officer in the driver's seat fell out onto the ground and when I saw his face it was covered with blood," she said tearfully. "So I knew immediately that he had to have been shot in the face or head or both."
This time the school applied the lessons learned during the last tragedy, locking down the campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty members to stay indoors.
Heavily armed officers swarmed the campus and caravans of SWAT vehicles and other police cars with emergency lights flashing patrolled nearby.
Crouse was an Army veteran and married father of five children and stepchildren who joined the campus police force in October 2007. He previously worked at a jail and for the Montgomery County sheriff's department.
He was a jokester who enjoyed riding his motorcycle and rock music, his friend Aaron Proden told the AP. The two recently saw Metallica in concert in Charlotte, N.C. Crouse recently invited Proden to go on a ride-along "just to see what he does, his job, his lifestyle," the friend said.
"He was a standup guy," said Rusty Zarger, a former neighbor whose two young daughters used to play with Crouse's sons at the townhouse complex where they lived. "He was very mild-mannered, very confident. You could tell he was strong in believing in himself, but very comfortable."
Zarger said that after the Fourth of July, Crouse had leftover fireworks and went around the complex knocking on doors to get neighbors -- especially the children -- to watch him set them off.
"He came over and got all the kids to come outside and watch it -- made it a very community thing when he didn't have to," Zarger said.
A woman who answered the door at the Crouse home at the end of a three-unit townhouse building Thursday night said it wasn't a good time to talk, and they were trying to get the children to bed. A group of people were sitting around a table inside.
Crouse was one of about 50 officers on the campus force, which also has 20 full- and part-time security guards. Crouse received an award in 2008 for his commitment to the department's drunken driving efforts. He was trained as a crisis intervention officer and as a general, firearms and defensive tactics instructor.
The school was a bit quieter than usual because classes ended Wednesday. About 20,000 of the university's 30,000 students were on campus when the officer was shot. Exams, set to begin Friday, were postponed until Saturday.
The university also its counseling center would be open all day Friday for students.

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