Dual...

Canada said it is disappointed the United Kingdom has decided to "off-load their responsibilities" after its close ally revoked the citizenship of a British-Canadian man who is imprisoned in Syria.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale "Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities."   

A statement from the British Home Office said revoking British citizenship is one way it counters terrorist threats. It said it does not comment on individual cases.

In 2015, Letts posted on Facebook that he would like to perform a "martyrdom operation" on a group of British soldiers. But by the end of that year, he was indicating that he wanted to come home.

The man's parents are from Oxford and were found guilty earlier this year of sending him money. They received a suspended sentence.

Interact...

It has been proven that individuals who rarely talk and interact with others will suffer from negative impacts in the brain. 

This is because when one is not actively engaging in conversation, the brain cells tend to become dormant causing the brain the shrink. 

However, if one is participating in an intellectual discussion, it is assisting in expanding the mind with knowledge. 

This is essential for brain development and growth as processing information and thinking, as it is similar to our brain as exercise is to our bodies. 

The deeper the thought process, the more the brain muscles are used, and the better the brain develops. Reading a book is recommended to keep the brain active.

Multi-Task...

It is often said women are better at multi-tasking than men. Women sometimes tease their male partners about their ability to multi-task. 

However, it has been proven those individuals who choose to multitask more frequently were more likely to physically harm the brain by hindering brain development than those who do not. 

This is because of the brain’s gray matter, which is responsible for emotional control, decision-making, and empathy, as it tends to shrink during multitasking. 

To avoid this harm, one is recommended to stick to one task at a time during daily activities. This will not only increase work performance but also protect the brain from a lot of troubles.

Saws...

Fry...

John C. Fry, 54, a former investigative analyst with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the law enforcement arm of the agency, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), NBC News reports.

SARs refer to reports filed by banks when they notice transactions that they view as potentially suspicious.

He specifically noted Cohen’s $500,000 payday in 2017 from Columbus Nova, a company with Russian ties, and companies including AT&T

Fry gave Avenatti that information via cellphone correspondence as well as through emailing him screenshots of the reports.

Within days of Fry leaking the intel, Avenatti publicized the information on Twitter.

Avenatti is battling federal indictments on fraud and extortion charges.

Woo...

Double dip...

The DOJ inspector general's finding this month that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was paying other government officials at the Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to work as informants. 

The IG spared few words in decrying the idiocy of allowing government security officers collecting a federal salary to double-dip into taxpayers' money by receiving informant pay to report criminal activity they were required by their jobs to
disclose.

Two agents and one supervisor "violated the DEA Confidential Source policy" by paying three TSA workers as informants, the report concluded. And one agent wrongly served as handler for a TSA informant with whom he was involved in a "personal relationship," investigators found, exposing a problem dating to 2013. 

"By establishing the TSA employees as paid Limited Use Confidential Sources, the DEA agreed to pay for information that the TSA employees were already obligated to provide to law enforcement," the IG concluded.

Snitches...

One of the inevitable outcomes of the Russia case will be that the Department of Justice (DOJ) almost certainly will need internal reforms.

The first reform is the most obvious, given the unraveling of the Russia collusion narrative: a new set of rules governing when the FBI can investigate or spy on a First Amendment-protected political campaign during an election.

The FBI never should have been allowed to sustain a counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump's campaign based on hearsay from Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who helped to arrange a $25 million Australian government donation to the Clinton Foundation, and on a "minimally" verified dossier written by British spy Christopher Steele, who was working on the Hillary Clinton opposition-research team.

The second reform may be less visible but becomes painfully obvious, thanks to a series of internal DOJ investigative memos released this month that expose glaring issues with the handling, vetting and weighting of "confidential human sources." That's a fancy term for people - sometimes called "snitches" or informants, in street vernacular - who secretly provide evidence to law enforcement.

I am not going to conclude. Just a thought.

Hurting...

More police officers have died by suicide this year so far than in the line of duty. NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said the department was in the throes of a "mental health crisis."

For us, we are hurting right now," he said. "We’re all feeling it and we’re all trying as best as we can to come up with initiatives to do more."

Police official said the department is bringing in outside resources to work with officers. He told WNYC-FM the department is also "looking to get peer counselors so cops at each level, if you are in crisis, you can go talk to someone at your level that will have the training."

We're only human.   Just a thought.

Shortage...

The discontinuation of immediate-release (IR) Adalat capsules and shortages of some other nifedipine products has led to supply issues in parts of the UK.

The 5mg and 10mg Adalat capsules were the only form of IR nifedipine available, as well as the only licensed treatment for Raynaud’s syndrome, until both strengths were discontinued by manufacturer Bayer.

Commenting on the discontinuation in June, the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS)advised that patients with Raynuad’s syndrome on Adalat IR capsules could be switched to a similar dose of a modified-release (MR) nifedipine preparation.

Bayer discontinued its own MR nifedipine products – sold as Adalat Retard – last year, while it expects its three strengths of Adalat LA prolonged-release tablets to be out of stock until 2021.   

Another supplier is in the process of launching a replacement IR preparation, which it expects to be available by early September. 

Chiesi reported in May that its Adipine 10mg and 20mg MR tablets were experiencing a “bulk supply issue with raw ingredients and an increase in demand” following the discontinuation of Adalat.