Thanx Kukeh for your timely service. Ellen's listmanagers are our yeomans and guardian angels. I want to take this opportunity to again thank our host at ICORS and Washington university for affording us this platform au gratis. May God/Allah bless them all and their families. Whenever you want volunteers for listmanagement or other, please do not hesitate to let me know. If I had it my way, we would have set up a Gambia Ellen Educational Foundation (GIVE, or as my friend Baboucarr Jatta is wont to quip, GEEF), to be implemented with our partner host. It is not beyond our reach still and before I go, I will do all I can to gain the support of my friends and coleagues here for just such an endeavour.

 

Now then Laye; How are you? Hope great as ever. I have now signed the actual contract with the production team of the movie FIVE KILLERS starring the indomitable Ashton Kutcher. Signed, sealed, and delivered. OBAMA. I have a lot of work to do but I am never too busy for you my friend. Now about the experiment:

 

1. Take a glob of putty and place it between two fingers.

2. Apply pressure from the fingers onto the putty.

3. You may now remove the putty from the grip.

 

Putty has a memory characteristic whereby it will keep the form toward the least resistance when pressure is applied, all within the concept of conservation of energy.

Now you have physically reduced (made thinner, or smaller) the size of the putty at the point of application of pressure but you have also elongated or enlarged the areas where less or no pressure is applied. The entire process of reducing one area corresponding to a commensurate elongation of another, I call attenuation. Don't worry about the dictionary. Tell them to call me. Besides they are not aware of Halifa and his demarche.

 

The complex quality of the word "attenuation" lends it to being used for exclusively diminutive demarche or a combination of attributes (diminution and enlargement. It doesn't really describe an act. It describes a process. Tell the dictionary people to call me or send me an email. The reason it is difficult to give a dictionary definition of such compound words is that it is difficult to convey all the in-situ contradictions of life. In gas chromatography, attenuation is the rendering of peaks in the chromatograph to present the sensitivity of the needle into readable form. At low attenuation, sensitivity is increased and at high attenuation, sensitivity is reduced. Attenuation helps you yield further appreciation for the sample data you're reviewing.

 

Anyway Laye, to keep us focused, don't worry too much about the dictionary meaning of attenuation. I say this because I generally use it to capture nuanced appreciation. And when I used it in my notes, I meant Halifa using his proprietorship of Foroyaa, his leadership of PDOIS, and his gravitasse within and outside of Gambia (Pan-African stuff), to yield PDOIS added fortune. And what was his method you may enquire? Bearing on lesser "Fact-finding". AGAIN.

 

And when I used the word "attenuate", you had understood the context in which I used the word as the montage I will share with you later will indicate. It was much after when you wanted to portray me as deceitful, that you consulted the infamous dictionary to yield the inadequate dictionary definition of the word. SO for the purposes of our conversation and our mutual understanding of the context in which I used attenuation, you didn't have any need to consult the dictionary and yield yourself unnecessary confoundment. You will realise that the most egregious default of mine will have been ignorance of the global meaning of "attenuation". It will not have affected my response to your query, if indeed you were interested in my view as you feigned.

 

I will not even treat the other "apparent contradictions" you surmised from my notes because that will be more difficult to explain to you, even for me. Suffice it to say that "directly affect" was used in a legal context. And Gambia, Gambia's good or bad, or Gambians taking an interest in a crime does not necessarily mean they are directly affected by the crime in the eyes of jurisdictional jurisprudence.

 

I must leave now. I will send the montage later to demonstrate how you appreciated my context of attenuation but were determined to create the illusion of ignorance or deceit by Haruna. And in so doing, you thoroughly confused yourself. I will share with you for posterity, that it is generally difficult to discern intent from expression of view. Discernment of intent is triggered by an action. That is where innocent until proven guilty gets its foundation. If you want to really know whether I love or hate Halifa, I suggest you ask me. If you try to deduce that from my notes which are responses to your cockamayme querries, you will frustrate yourself for nought. ANd you will have been primed prey for future angst.

 

You know I love you that's why I went through this whole rigamarole. I don't know about Halifa. But you I know I love. For Halifa I have think a bit more on whether I love or hate the man. He is handsome. He has that going for him. And I see he has jettisoned the Afro. And Yanks I don't want you calling him Afroman again. Please. Like Pasamba, he has had a makeover. Does any of you love Yahya's new dental work or what???? Haruna. MQJGDT. Darbo. Al-whatever.