After Benghazi Attack, Talk Lagged Behind Intelligence WASHINGTON — Even as Susan E. Rice took to the Sunday talk shows last month to describe the Obama administration’s assessment of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, intelligence analysts suspected that the explanation was outdated. Ms. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has said that the judgments she offered on the five talk shows on Sept. 16 came from talking points prepared by the C.I.A., which reckoned that the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans had resulted from a spontaneous mob that was angry about an anti-Islamic video that had set off protests elsewhere. That assessment, described to Ms. Rice in briefings the day before her television appearances, was based on intercepted communications, informants’ tips and Libyan press reports, officials said. Later that Sunday, though, American intelligence analysts were already sifting through new field reports that seemed to contradict the initial assessment. It would be several days, however, before the intelligence agencies changed their formal assessment based on those new reports, and informed administration officials about the change. Intelligence officials say such a lag is typical of the ever-changing process of piecing together shards of information into a coherent picture fit for officials’ public statements. Gov. Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans have sharply criticized Ms. Rice’s comments and the administration’s shifting public positions on the cause of the attack, criticisms that Mr. Romney will probably reprise in the final presidential debate on Monday night. On Sunday, Congressional Republicans cited the administration’s response to the attack as symptomatic of larger leadership failings. “This is going to be a case study, studied for years, of a breakdown of national security at every level, failed presidential leadership — senior members of the Obama administration failed miserably,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on “Fox News Sunday.” The gap between the talking points prepared for Ms. Rice and the contemporaneous field reports that seemed to paint a much different picture illustrates how the process of turning raw field reports, which officials say need to be vetted and assessed, into polished intelligence assessments can take days, long enough to make them outdated by the time senior American officials utter them. Intelligence officials, alarmed that their work has been turned into a political football, defend their approach, noting that senior administration officials receive daily briefings that reflect the consensus of the nation’s array of intelligence agencies, but can also dip into the fast-moving stream of field reports, with the caveat that that information is incomplete and may be flat wrong. “A demand for an explanation that is quick, definite and unchanging reflects a naïve expectation — or in the present case, irresponsible politicking,” James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said at an intelligence symposium on Oct. 9. The Associated Press reported Friday, for instance, that within 24 hours of the attack, the C.I.A.’s station chief in Tripoli, Libya, e-mailed headquarters that witnesses said the assault was mounted by heavily armed militants. But intelligence officials said Sunday that one report was not enough to establish the attack’s nature. According to interviews with a half-dozen American officials, including policy makers and intelligence officials, here is a rough chronology of what happened, some details of which The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. On Sept. 13, Ms. Rice and other cabinet-level officials were told about the assessment that there had been protests at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi. “The first briefing was exactly as one would expect in the early aftermath of a crisis,” an American intelligence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the continuing F.B.I. investigation of the assault. “It carefully laid out the full range of sparsely available information, relying on the best analysis available at the time.” Briefers said extremists were involved in attacks that appeared spontaneous.

Cell Phones Track Malaria’s Spread

Researchers used mobile phone data to track malaria parasite movements across Kenya. The results may help guide the design of more effective disease control programs.

Nearly a million people die of malaria each year—mostly infants, young children and pregnant women, and most of them in Africa. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite called Plasmodium. Female mosquitoes can become infected after feeding on an infected human. They, in turn, can infect a new person when they feed again. Malaria may bring fever, chills and flu-like illness. Left untreated, it can cause life-threatening complications.
Both the parasites that cause malaria and the mosquitoes that carry them have been extensively studied. Less well understood has been how human travel affects the spread of the disease. A team of researchers led by Dr. Caroline Buckee at the Harvard School of Public Health set out to use mobile phone data to better understand how people help spread the parasite.
The researchers estimated the daily locations of almost 15 million mobile phone subscribers in Kenya between June 2008 and June 2009. They mapped every call or text made by each person to one of almost 12,000 cell towers. They then compared the mobile users’ movements with a malaria prevalence map from 2009. Their study was supported in part by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The results appeared on October 12, 2012, in Science.
As expected, the Kenyan travel network was dominated by the capital Nairobi, which forms a hub for human movement to and from all regions of the country. The parasite routes show that the Lake Victoria region serves as a major source of malaria. Main destinations for the parasite lay around the Lake Victoria region and in the Nairobi area.
Areas in the highly urbanized center of Nairobi had a low ratio of clinical cases to phone data estimates of imported parasites. In contrast, hospitals on the periphery of the city had a higher ratio of clinical cases to estimates based on the phone data. These patterns suggest that there is some local transmission in the residential and less developed areas, but less within the urban city center.
“This is the first time that such a massive amount of cell phone data—from millions of individuals over the course of a year—has been used, together with detailed infectious disease data, to measure human mobility and understand how a disease is spreading,” Buckee says.
Officials can employ mosquito control programs, medications and other measures such as bed nets to combat malaria. Understanding the roles that different regions play in the spread of disease can help them decide where best to direct their limited resources. Officials might also target human travel itself, encouraging travelers to alter their behaviors and focusing their surveillance efforts along high-risk routes.
—by Harrison Wein, Ph.D.

THE EXAMPLE OF THE PARENTS.

THE EXAMPLE OF THE PARENTS.

BRINGING a thin, sick, three-months-old baby into the dispensary one day, a distracted mother begged for help. Why was her baby so sick? Why so thin? What did the baby need?

It was easy for us to see, after an examination, that the mother’s milk was not sufficient, neither was it nourishing enough, for the baby. The mother loved the baby and she had tried to feed it, but because she did not have the proper milk supply, the child had not been able to give her baby that physical nourishment which she did not have herself.

There are many children who are weak, not in body as that one was, but in character. They are not developing within themselves the qualities of love, obedience, patience, industry, and honesty. They are weak in the traits that make for good people, and the reason is that the parents do not already have within themselves the right traits of character. They cannot give to their children what they do not have.

Some parents, after having tried hard to teach their children the right way, are very bewildered to find that the children drift away from it. When these parents come to the pastor sadly telling the facts, the pastor may readily be able to see the cause. What the parents failed to understand was that the lessons they had tried to teach their children they had not learned themselves.

One of the first lessons to teach our little ones is the love of God. Yes we may read to them, tell them bible stories, send them to Sabbath school, and teach them to pray; but underneath all our teachings, underneath all our words and outward actions, there must flow a strong current of the love of God in our very own hearts. Then our children will feel it and understand it, because of the fact that we feel it and understand it.

Ask yourself the following question: “ Would I rather read my Bible than read any other book? How much time do I spend in Prayer? Do I talk to God for as much as ten minutes a day? Would I rather place a gift for my savior into the offering plate than buy a new suit or a new dress? Do I really love the worship periods I have with my children each day, or are they just something in which I feel I must engage? Do I have a deep longing for a blessing from God as I walk into the church on a Sabbath day? Or are my thoughts upon my own clothes or upon my neighbour’s apparel? Do I love truth more than anything else in the word?”

All parents want their children to obey them. We want them to come when called, and to go when we tell them to go. We want them to obey what is right. When we teach them to obey us we are laying the foundation for their obedience to God. Just as we saw how the mother could not give her baby milk she did not have, so we cannot give our children a desire to obey God that we do not have within ourselves. We may again ask ourselves a few question: “Do I pay an honest tithe? Do I break the seventh commandment with my thoughts? In little things, do I sometimes break the commandment that tells me not to steal or to bear false witness?”

We should test ourselves on other points we wish to teach our children. We wish them to be respectful to adults; yet, do they hear us as parents being rude to each other? We wish them to be calm and patient under trial and provocation; yet perhaps, they hear us grumbling and complaining about the events of the day. We expect that they shall never lose their tempers; yet, we punish them severely if they lose control of themselves.

In times of drought herdsmen may take their cattle for many miles to find grass. Sometimes they come upon a country with much stubble. Thought the cattle may seem to be satisified with this type of food, they continue to weaken and to grow thinner. The stubble cannot nourish them. Though the herdsmen feel sad to see their cattle in such a poor condition, they cannot help it, for they do not have nourishing food to give them.

Our scoldings, our warnings, our teaching through the years, will be of no more value to our children than the stubble is to the cattle, unless we live what we teach. Even as the stubble cannot nourish the cattle, so a sham, pretended goodness cannot guide our children.

“Children imitate their parents; hence great care should be taken to give them correct models. Parents who are kind and polite at home, while at the same time they are firm and decided, will see the same traits manifested in their children. If they are upright, honest, and honourable, their children will be quite likely to resemble them in these particulars. If they reverence and worship God, their children, trained in the same way, will not forget to serve Him also,” (“Child Guidance”, p. 215). “Parents, let the sunshine at love, cheerfulness, and happy contentment enter your own hearts, and let its sweet, cheering influence pervade your home.” (“Ministry of Healing”, p. 387).

KUFAHAMIANA TABIA NA KUZIFURAHIA TOFAUTI HIZO KUTADUMISHA FAMILIA.

KUFAHAMIANA TABIA NA KUZIFURAHIA TOFAUTI HIZO KUTADUMISHA FAMILIA.

Kufahamiana kwa tabia kwa mume au mke alivyo hasa kutasaidia kukuza familia yenye furaha na kurekebisha yasiyofaa.Kufuatisha wataalamu wa saikolojia kama vile Robert Cruise na Peter Blitchington wa chuo kikuu cha Andrews na wengineo palitokea uamsho wenye mvuto mkubwa katika miaka ya 1990’s kuhusiana na mada hii. Ilionekana kuwa wanadamu wamegawanyika katika tabia/mwenendo aina kuu 4, ili uweze kugundua mmeo au mkeo ana aina ipi na muweze kuungana na kuwa mwili mmoja. Soma Mwanzo 2:24.

1.Choleric

a)Kihisia. Anajiamini katika uamuzi wake, Ana nia thabiti, Mgumu, Shupavu, Aaminiye kuwa yote yatatokea vizuri, Haogopi kitu, Macho makavu, Mkali sana, Ana hasira kiasi cha kutumia nguvu, Hapendezwi kulia lia.

b)Uhusiano na wengine.

Hatazamii mwingine kufanya asichokiweza, Hakati tamaa upesi, Kiongozi mwenye bidii, Mwamuzi mzuri, Mhamasishaji wa mambo, Mshauri, Hatishwi na mazingira, Hana huruma, Huamua mahali pa wengine, Aweza kuwa mkatili, Msema wazi bila kusifu sifu, Aweza kutia uchungu, Huelekea kuwa na amri juu ya ….., Mwene kudeka, Bwana, Mtumia watu kwa faida yake, Asiyesamehe, Mlipiza kisasi, Shupavu, Mwenye dharau.

c)Kazi.

Mpangaji na mkuzaji mzuri, Kauli bora, Mwepesi na hodari, Mchapa kazi, Uwezo mkubwa wa utendaji, Hasitisiti, Huwatia nguvu wengine kufanya kazi, Hukabili upinzani, Huweka malengo na kuyafikia, Hupenda ajenda, Anajiamini sana, Mwerevu, Mshika shauri lake, Huwalazimisha wengine kufuata yake, Hawasiliani na wengine juu ya ajenda zake, Mgumu kupendeza, Huchosha, Huvunjika moyo mambo yasipokamilika.

2.Melancholy.

a)Kihisia

Mpenda muziki na sanaa, Mchanganuzi, Mwepesi kuona, Kukasirika, Kutovumilia hali, Mwenye kufikiria mambo kwa kina, Hufurahia usanifu, Huhurumia, Mwenye moyo mzito, Hutazama sana upande wa hasi, Hupenda kuteseka, Mfia dini, Mwenye mashaka juu ya afya, Mwenye kujiwazia, Mwenye huzuni, Hujivuna.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Rafiki wa kutumainia, Hujitolea mhanga, Mwaminifu, Hufanya urafiki kwa hadhari, Husahau mambo, Huwafikiria sana wengine, Mjenzi wa mapokeo ya kifamilia, Msikilizaji mzuri, Hukosoa sana mapungufu ya wengine, Hutaka ukamilifu na huamua kila kitu kwa mtazamo wake, Huhofia yale

wamfikiliayo wengine, Haamini wengine, Aweza kutumia nguvu hasira iliyoendelezwa kuleta uadui, Huumizwa na mambo ya wengine, Anaweza kufunga fundo la ugomvi wa kale na kulipiza, Hawapendi wanaompinga.

c)Kazi

Mpenda ukamilifu, Hupenda kazi yote ni mwenye nidhamu, Hukamilisha alichonuia, Mbunifu, Mwenye busara na akili, Ajua mipaka yake, Si dhahiri mpenda nadharia, Hachoki upesi, Husita kuanza mradi mpya, Wachanganuzi mno, Humwongoza kukata tama, Hufurahia uumbaji.

3.Phlegmatic

a)Kihisia

Mtulivu,Hutumainika, Hajiamini, Kuchukuliana, Hasadiki hivi hivi, Mwoga, Mwepesi kufadhaika, Mkunjufu hata kama hana neno, Mwenye huruma mpenda amani, Hukubali kupatana.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Huffurahia kuwa naye ana rafiki wengi, Mwana diplomasia, Mpatanishi, Msikilizaji, Rafiki mwaminifu, Hutoa ushauri anapoombwa, Mchekeshaji, Mnyimifu, Mtundu, Ni baridi kwa wengine huwanyanyasa au kuwachambua wanaomsumbua, Hakaribishi vizuri, Hujiona mkubwa.

c)Kazi

Hufanya kazi vizuri kwa msukumo, Mtulivu, Mwenda pole, Mvivu, Hapendi mabadiliko, Msafi na mwelekevu, Hupanga kazi kabla ya kuianza, Hukatisha tamaa ubunifu wa wengine.

4.Sanguine

a)Kihisia

Mkunjufu sana, Mcheshi, Msemaji sana hajali yaliyopita wala yajayo, Mpenda hadithi, Huishi kwa yaliyopo mpenda raha, Ana kelele, Hajitawali, Huamua na kununua kwa urahisi bila shauri, Ana tabia za kitoto, Hutokea kwa mshindo.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Hujipatia marafiki haraka, Hufurahisha, Daima hufurahisha na ni rafiki, Mwepesi kuomba radhi, Huhurumia, Huongea kwa uchangamfu wa kweli, Hushiriki furaha na masikitiko yaw engine, Hutaka azungumze yeye tu hata bila kufikiri vizuri, Si msikivu, Nia hafifu, Hutafuta sifa na kukubalika, Huwafurahia watu na kuwasahau, Huongelea sana juu ya nafsi yake, Husahau ahadi na wajibu.

c)Kazi

Hana mpangilio lakini ana mvuto kwa mara ya kwanza, Si wa kuamini, Mchelewaji, Hana nidhamu hupoteza muda, Kazi zake nyingi hazikamiliki, Mwenye wasi wasi, Hafikii lengoHuingilia mipango mipya kwa urahisi, Ana talanta ya kutunza wagonjwa.

Ukijua mumeo/mkeo ni aina ya

a)Choleric au

b)Melancholy au

c)Phlegmatic au

d)Sanguine ni njia ipi ungeitumia kuwafanya muishi pamoja kwa amani?

I)Kumnunia, kumkosoa tabia yake, avaavyo, afanyavyo mambo kwa sababu yeye hajali haoni kuwa mimi sipendi mambo yake. NI KUMPASHA UKWELI WAKE.

II)Ukijua udhaifu wa wenzako tena mkiwa ndani ya ndoa jitahidi kumjibu kwa upole, Mithali 15:1. Mpende na kumtia moyo mfurahie alivyo maana yeye ndiye mumeo/mkeo. Umsifu kwa yale mazuri aliyo nayo , pia mvumilie.

“Tunatofautiana sana katika silica, tabia, elimu, kiasi kwamba namna tunavyoyatazama mambo hutofautiana. Huamua namna tofauti. Namna ya kuelewa kwetu ukweli, mawazo yetu kuhusiana na mambo ya maisha hutofautiana sana. Hapana watu wawili wanaofanana kabisa mambo yao ya maisha katika kila jambo. Majawabu ya huyu si majaribu ya Yule. Wajibu ambao mmoja anao ni mwepesi ni mgumu na wa kutatiza kwa kwa mwingine” GW 473. Kumwelewa mwenzako alivyo kutasaidia kukuza uhusiano na umoja wenu.

Kufahamiana kwa tabia kwa mume au mke alivyo hasa kutasaidia kukuza familia yenye furaha na kurekebisha yasiyofaa.Kufuatisha wataalamu wa saikolojia kama vile Robert Cruise na Peter Blitchington wa chuo kikuu cha Andrews na wengineo palitokea uamsho wenye mvuto mkubwa katika miaka ya 1990’s kuhusiana na mada hii. Ilionekana kuwa wanadamu wamegawanyika katika tabia/mwenendo aina kuu 4, ili uweze kugundua mmeo au mkeo ana aina ipi na muweze kuungana na kuwa mwili mmoja. Soma Mwanzo 2:24.

1.Choleric

a)Kihisia. Anajiamini katika uamuzi wake, Ana nia thabiti, Mgumu, Shupavu, Aaminiye kuwa yote yatatokea vizuri, Haogopi kitu, Macho makavu, Mkali sana, Ana hasira kiasi cha kutumia nguvu, Hapendezwi kulia lia.

b)Uhusiano na wengine.

Hatazamii mwingine kufanya asichokiweza, Hakati tamaa upesi, Kiongozi mwenye bidii, Mwamuzi mzuri, Mhamasishaji wa mambo, Mshauri, Hatishwi na mazingira, Hana huruma, Huamua mahali pa wengine, Aweza kuwa mkatili, Msema wazi bila kusifu sifu, Aweza kutia uchungu, Huelekea kuwa na amri juu ya ….., Mwene kudeka, Bwana, Mtumia watu kwa faida yake, Asiyesamehe, Mlipiza kisasi, Shupavu, Mwenye dharau.

c)Kazi.

Mpangaji na mkuzaji mzuri, Kauli bora, Mwepesi na hodari, Mchapa kazi, Uwezo mkubwa wa utendaji, Hasitisiti, Huwatia nguvu wengine kufanya kazi, Hukabili upinzani, Huweka malengo na kuyafikia, Hupenda ajenda, Anajiamini sana, Mwerevu, Mshika shauri lake, Huwalazimisha wengine kufuata yake, Hawasiliani na wengine juu ya ajenda zake, Mgumu kupendeza, Huchosha, Huvunjika moyo mambo yasipokamilika.

2.Melancholy.

a)Kihisia

Mpenda muziki na sanaa, Mchanganuzi, Mwepesi kuona, Kukasirika, Kutovumilia hali, Mwenye kufikiria mambo kwa kina, Hufurahia usanifu, Huhurumia, Mwenye moyo mzito, Hutazama sana upande wa hasi, Hupenda kuteseka, Mfia dini, Mwenye mashaka juu ya afya, Mwenye kujiwazia, Mwenye huzuni, Hujivuna.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Rafiki wa kutumainia, Hujitolea mhanga, Mwaminifu, Hufanya urafiki kwa hadhari, Husahau mambo, Huwafikiria sana wengine, Mjenzi wa mapokeo ya kifamilia, Msikilizaji mzuri, Hukosoa sana mapungufu ya wengine, Hutaka ukamilifu na huamua kila kitu kwa mtazamo wake, Huhofia yale

wamfikiliayo wengine, Haamini wengine, Aweza kutumia nguvu hasira iliyoendelezwa kuleta uadui, Huumizwa na mambo ya wengine, Anaweza kufunga fundo la ugomvi wa kale na kulipiza, Hawapendi wanaompinga.

c)Kazi

Mpenda ukamilifu, Hupenda kazi yote ni mwenye nidhamu, Hukamilisha alichonuia, Mbunifu, Mwenye busara na akili, Ajua mipaka yake, Si dhahiri mpenda nadharia, Hachoki upesi, Husita kuanza mradi mpya, Wachanganuzi mno, Humwongoza kukata tama, Hufurahia uumbaji.

3.Phlegmatic

a)Kihisia

Mtulivu,Hutumainika, Hajiamini, Kuchukuliana, Hasadiki hivi hivi, Mwoga, Mwepesi kufadhaika, Mkunjufu hata kama hana neno, Mwenye huruma mpenda amani, Hukubali kupatana.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Huffurahia kuwa naye ana rafiki wengi, Mwana diplomasia, Mpatanishi, Msikilizaji, Rafiki mwaminifu, Hutoa ushauri anapoombwa, Mchekeshaji, Mnyimifu, Mtundu, Ni baridi kwa wengine huwanyanyasa au kuwachambua wanaomsumbua, Hakaribishi vizuri, Hujiona mkubwa.

c)Kazi

Hufanya kazi vizuri kwa msukumo, Mtulivu, Mwenda pole, Mvivu, Hapendi mabadiliko, Msafi na mwelekevu, Hupanga kazi kabla ya kuianza, Hukatisha tamaa ubunifu wa wengine.

4.Sanguine

a)Kihisia

Mkunjufu sana, Mcheshi, Msemaji sana hajali yaliyopita wala yajayo, Mpenda hadithi, Huishi kwa yaliyopo mpenda raha, Ana kelele, Hajitawali, Huamua na kununua kwa urahisi bila shauri, Ana tabia za kitoto, Hutokea kwa mshindo.

b)Uhusiano na wengine

Hujipatia marafiki haraka, Hufurahisha, Daima hufurahisha na ni rafiki, Mwepesi kuomba radhi, Huhurumia, Huongea kwa uchangamfu wa kweli, Hushiriki furaha na masikitiko yaw engine, Hutaka azungumze yeye tu hata bila kufikiri vizuri, Si msikivu, Nia hafifu, Hutafuta sifa na kukubalika, Huwafurahia watu na kuwasahau, Huongelea sana juu ya nafsi yake, Husahau ahadi na wajibu.

c)Kazi

Hana mpangilio lakini ana mvuto kwa mara ya kwanza, Si wa kuamini, Mchelewaji, Hana nidhamu hupoteza muda, Kazi zake nyingi hazikamiliki, Mwenye wasi wasi, Hafikii lengoHuingilia mipango mipya kwa urahisi, Ana talanta ya kutunza wagonjwa.

Ukijua mumeo/mkeo ni aina ya

a)Choleric au

b)Melancholy au

c)Phlegmatic au

d)Sanguine ni njia ipi ungeitumia kuwafanya muishi pamoja kwa amani?

I)Kumnunia, kumkosoa tabia yake, avaavyo, afanyavyo mambo kwa sababu yeye hajali haoni kuwa mimi sipendi mambo yake. NI KUMPASHA UKWELI WAKE.

II)Ukijua udhaifu wa wenzako tena mkiwa ndani ya ndoa jitahidi kumjibu kwa upole, Mithali 15:1. Mpende na kumtia moyo mfurahie alivyo maana yeye ndiye mumeo/mkeo. Umsifu kwa yale mazuri aliyo nayo , pia mvumilie.

“Tunatofautiana sana katika silica, tabia, elimu, kiasi kwamba namna tunavyoyatazama mambo hutofautiana. Huamua namna tofauti. Namna ya kuelewa kwetu ukweli, mawazo yetu kuhusiana na mambo ya maisha hutofautiana sana. Hapana watu wawili wanaofanana kabisa mambo yao ya maisha katika kila jambo. Majawabu ya huyu si majaribu ya Yule. Wajibu ambao mmoja anao ni mwepesi ni mgumu na wa kutatiza kwa kwa mwingine” GW 473. Kumwelewa mwenzako alivyo kutasaidia kukuza uhusiano na umoja wenu.