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.
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