Gentle People:

 It has become a crowded world. Millions of people move and inter-mingle with each other every single day and one sad fact is that ( aside from text messaging on tiny computers) personal communication has dropped dramatically. For one example, you can stand in a crowded bus and be absolutely jammed tight against a fellow passenger and except for a few words like sorry and excuse me, zero conversation takes place. For another example you can go to a football or baseball game and shout and cheer for hours and never talk to the person in the next seat. Put simply, over-population and crowding creates less direct communication with our neighbours, especially in large cities. Add poverty to the mix and you create serious social problems affecting the most vulnerable inner-city women, children and the elderly.
Here is a Poem you might like..I call it The Hypocrite.

The Hypocrite.
 Every day I would say hello
As I passed him on this street,
And every day he would look at me and say
"Now my life's complete!"

Years went by and here I am
Sitting in his place,
And you kid now wear
My smile on your face...

So thank you kid
For the smile,
Though it's not very deep...,

This seat I will keep warm for you...
Now my life's complete.

Copyright: Joseph Raglione.

Gentle People:

 For years non-profit organizations have been raising money for genetic Cancer research. The fact that

less than ten percent of Cancers are genetic related has not bothered to slow fund raisers.

Millions of Dollars continue to flow into Cancer research. Sadly, the truth is in plain sight. All anyone has to do is look in car parking lots for the main cause of Cancer. 

 Cancers created by toxic industrial pollution continue to be ignored by Oil and Gas companies. Countries like Russia and Canada continue to damage the environment by pumping and digging Oil from the ground. Internal combustion machines continue to dominate the open market supported by millions of dollars of Media marketing hype and only Japan has made a concerted effort to bring out all Electric clean machines to the open market. The following is a message from the WHO.

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Air pollution linked to seven million deaths globally

By Helen Briggs BBC News 

From The World Health Organization.

 The World Health Organization estimates that Seven million people died as a result of air pollution in 2012.

Its findings suggest a link between air pollution and heart disease, respiratory problems and cancer.
One in eight global deaths were linked with air pollution, making it "the world's largest single environmental health risk", the WHO said.
Nearly six million of the deaths had been in South East Asia and the WHO's Western Pacific region, it found.

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The evidence signals the need for concerted action to clean up the air we all breathe”

Dr Maria Neira WHO

The WHO said about 3.3 million people had died as a result of indoor air pollution and 2.6 million deaths were related to outdoor air pollution, mainly in low- and middle-income countries in those regions.

'Heavy price' WHO public health, environmental and social determinants of health department director Dr Maria Neira said: "The risks from air pollution are now far greater than previously thought or understood, particularly for heart disease and strokes.
"Few risks have a greater impact on global health today than air pollution.
"The evidence signals the need for concerted action to clean up the air we all breathe."
Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives, said the WHO.
WHO family, woman and children's health assistant director-general Dr Flavia Bustreo said: "Cleaning up the air we breathe prevents non-communicable diseases as well as reduces disease risks among women and vulnerable groups, including children and the elderly.
"Poor women and children pay a heavy price from indoor air pollution since they spend more time at home breathing in smoke and soot from leaky coal and wood cook stoves."
'Robust and accurate' The WHO assessment found the majority of air pollution deaths were linked with cardiovascular diseases.
For deaths related to outdoor pollution, it found:

• 40% - heart disease

• 40% - stroke

• 11% - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

• 6% - lung cancer

• 3% - acute lower respiratory infections in children

For deaths related to indoor pollution, it found:

• 34% - stroke

• 26% - heart disease

• 22% - COPD

• 12% - acute lower respiratory infections in children

• 6% - lung cancer

University of Birmingham professor of environmental and respiratory medicine Jon Ayres said the review needed to be taken seriously.
"The estimates for the impact of outdoor air pollution are robust and as accurate as can be developed at the moment," he said.
The WHO estimates were based on:

• satellite data
• ground-level monitoring
• modelling how pollution drifts in the air
• pollution-emissions data

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Attention industrial polluters, after reading the following (IPCC) article can you guess what will happen to your children and grand children? Do you still want to continue pumping carbon monoxide and CO2 into the atmosphere? Do you still want to sell polluting cars on Television and on the Internet?
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that sea levels will rise between 0.18 and 0.59 meters (0.59 to 1.9 feet) by 2099 as warming sea water expands, and mountain and polar glaciers melt. These sea level change predictions may be underestimates, however, because they do not account for any increases in the rate at which the world’s major ice sheets are melting. As temperatures rise, ice will melt more quickly. Satellite measurements reveal that the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are shedding about 125 billion tons of ice per year—enough to raise sea levels by 0.35 millimeters (0.01 inches) per year. If the melting accelerates, the increase in sea level could be significantly higher impacting Ecosystems. More importantly, perhaps, global warming is already putting pressure on ecosystems, the plants and animals that co-exist in a particular climate zone, both on land and in the ocean. Warmer temperatures have already shifted the growing season in many parts of the globe. The growing season in parts of the Northern Hemisphere became two weeks longer in the second half of the 20th century. Spring is coming earlier in both hemispheres. This change in the growing season affects the broader ecosystem. Migrating animals have to start seeking food sources earlier. The shift in seasons may already be causing the lifecycles of pollinators, like bees, to be out of synch with flowering plants and trees. This mismatch can limit the ability of both pollinators and plants to survive and reproduce, which would reduce food availability throughout the food chain. See Buzzing About Climate Change to read more about how the lifecycle of bees is synched with flowering plants. Warmer temperatures also extend the growing season. This means that plants need more water to keep growing throughout the season or they will dry out, increasing the risk of failed crops and wildfires. Once the growing season ends, shorter, milder winters fail to kill dormant insects, increasing the risk of large, damaging infestations in subsequent seasons. In some ecosystems, maximum daily temperatures might climb beyond the tolerance of indigenous plant or animal. To survive the extreme temperatures, both marine and land-based plants and animals have started to migrate towards the poles. Those species, and in some cases, entire ecosystems, that cannot quickly migrate or adapt, face extinction. The IPCC estimates that 20-30 percent of plant and animal species will be at risk of extinction if temperatures climb more than 1.5° to 2.5°C. Impacting People The changes to weather and ecosystems will also affect people more directly. Hardest hit will be those living in low-lying coastal areas, and residents of poorer countries who do not have the resources to adapt to changes in temperature extremes and water resources. As tropical temperature zones expand, the reach of some infectious diseases, such as malaria, will change. More intense rains and hurricanes and rising sea levels will lead to more severe flooding and potential loss of property and life. Photograph of beach erosion in Massachusetts, 2007. One inevitable consequence of global warming is sea-level rise. In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor’easter of April 2007 that caused this damage. (Photograph ©2007 metimbers2000.) Hotter summers and more frequent fires will lead to more cases of heat stroke and deaths, and to higher levels of near-surface ozone and smoke, which would cause more ‘code red’ air quality days. Intense droughts can lead to an increase in malnutrition. On a longer time scale, fresh water will become scarcer, especially during the summer, as mountain glaciers disappear, particularly in Asia and parts of North America. On the flip side, there could be “winners” in a few places. For example, as long as the rise in global average temperature stays below 3 degrees Celsius, some models predict that global food production could increase because of the longer growing season at mid- to high-latitudes, provided adequate water resources are available. The same small change in temperature, however, would reduce food production at lower latitudes, where many countries already face food shortages. On balance, most research suggests that the negative impacts of a changing climate far outweigh the positive impacts. Current civilization—agriculture and population distribution—has developed based on the current climate. The more the climate changes, and the more rapidly it changes, the greater the cost of adaptation. 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Earth Observatory. Accessed April 13, 2007. Related Reading United States Global Change Research Program. Real Climate Introduction Global Warming How is Today’s Warming Different from the Past? Is Current Warming Natural? How Much More Will Earth Warm? How Will Global Warming Change Earth? References and Related Resources Print this entire article Share facebook twitter stumbleupon Google+ pinterest Subscribe Today

WHAT IS GRAVITY?

What this philosopher believes is gravity.
 The Earth attracts dust and dirt from space and this creates weight. Earth becomes a heavy mass.  Gravity is created when the mass becomes so dense it creates inward pressure which converts matter to heat energy. Heat is basically created when Atoms speed up. In my opinion, Atoms are forced with pressure to move so fast deep within the centre of the Earth, they convert to hot liquid plasma and break apart, losing sub atomic particles. The more they lose particles, the stronger is the downward pull on surrounding cooler Atoms because nature abhors a vaccuum. This is what I consider to be the pull of gravity...a vacuum effect like water being sucked down the hole in the bath tub. Mass in essence creates compression which in turn creates heat which then accelerates the speed of Atoms which melt and expand surrounding matter which in turn lose sub atomic particles which are so small they can travel up and out through the mass of Earth leaving behind tiny sub atomic vacuums or little black holes. These holes are then filled in with random particles from cooler surrounding Atoms. The process of filling the holes is what I believe to be gravity.

  As sub-atomic holes are filled in, cooler and more solid Atoms are pulled downwards from the surrounding Earth and from Space which creates more mass and more pressure and more heat which creates more plasma and faster Atoms. As tremendous pressure and heat create more sub-atomic holes, more particles are absorbed from cooler surrounding matter and the downward pull we feel on our bodies is the Earth absorbing sub atomic particles like a sponge. This is what I believe to be gravity. It may or not be the case but it makes logical sense to me. What do you think? Signed: Joseph Raglione.
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Here is N.A.S.A's version of Black Holes with tremendous gravity.

NASA-Led Study Explains Decades of Black Hole Observations

June 14, 2013

 A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.

"Our work traces the complex motions, particle interactions and turbulent magnetic fields in billion-degree gas on the threshold of a black hole, one of the most extreme physical environments in the universe," said lead researcher Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

By analyzing a supercomputer simulation of gas flowing into a black hole, the team finds they can reproduce a range of important X-ray features long observed in active black holes. 

This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees Fahrenheit as it spirals toward the black hole glows in low-energy, or soft, X-rays. Just before the gas plunges to the center, its orbital motion is approaching the speed of light. X-rays up to hundreds of times more powerful ("harder") than those in the disk arise from the corona, a region of tenuous and much hotter gas around the disk. Coronal temperatures reach billions of degrees. The event horizon is the boundary where all trajectories, including those of light, must go inward. Nothing, not even light, can pass outward across the event horizon and escape the black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Lost in Space" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist › Download video in HD formats › Watch video on YouTube http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/black-hole-study.html#.UyxdwdJDufA

Gas falling toward a black hole initially orbits around it and then accumulates into a flattened disk. The gas stored in this disk gradually spirals inward and becomes greatly compressed and heated as it nears the center. Ultimately reaching temperatures up to 20 million degrees Fahrenheit (12 million C) - some 2,000 times hotter than the sun's surface - the gas shines brightly in low-energy, or soft, X-rays.

For more than 40 years, however, observations have shown that black holes also produce considerable amounts of "hard" X-rays, light with energy tens to hundreds of times greater than soft X-rays. This higher-energy light implies the presence of correspondingly hotter gas, with temperatures reaching billions of degrees.

The new study bridges the gap between theory and observation, demonstrating that both hard and soft X-rays inevitably arise from gas spiraling toward a black hole.

Working with Julian Krolik, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Scott Noble, a research scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., Schnittman developed a process for modeling the inner region of a black hole's accretion disk, tracking the emission and movement of X-rays, and comparing the results to observations of real black holes.

Noble developed a computer simulation solving all of the equations governing the complex motion of inflowing gas and its associated magnetic fields near an accreting black hole. The rising temperature, density and speed of the infalling gas dramatically amplify magnetic fields threading through the disk, which then exert additional influence on the gas.

The result is a turbulent froth orbiting the black hole at speeds approaching the speed of light. The calculations simultaneously tracked the fluid, electrical and magnetic properties of the gas while also taking into account Einstein's theory of relativity.

Running on the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center located at the University of Texas in Austin, Noble's simulation used 960 of Ranger's nearly 63,000 central processing units and took 27 days to complete.

Over the years, improved X-ray observations provided mounting evidence that hard X-rays originated in a hot, tenuous corona above the disk, a structure analogous to the hot corona that surrounds the sun.

"Astronomers also expected that the disk supported strong magnetic fields and hoped that these fields might bubble up out of it, creating the corona," Noble explained. "But no one knew for sure if this really happened and, if it did, whether the X-rays produced would match what we observe."

Using the data generated by Noble's simulation, Schnittman and Krolik developed tools to track how X-rays were emitted, absorbed, and scattered throughout both the accretion disk and the corona region. Combined, they demonstrate for the first time a direct connection between magnetic turbulence in the disk, the formation of a billion-degree corona, and the production of hard X-rays around an actively "feeding" black hole.

A paper reporting the findings was published in the June 1 edition of The Astrophysical Journal.

In the corona, electrons and other particles move at appreciable fractions of the speed of light. When a low-energy X-ray from the disk travels through this region, it may collide with one of the fast-moving particles. The impact greatly increases the X-ray's energy through a process known as inverse Compton scattering.

"Black holes are truly exotic, with extraordinarily high temperatures, incredibly rapid motions and gravity exhibiting the full weirdness of general relativity," Krolik said. "But our calculations show we can understand a lot about them using only standard physics principles."

The study was based on a non-rotating black hole. The researchers are extending the results to spinning black holes, where rotation pulls the inner edge of the disk further inward and conditions become even more extreme. They also plan a detailed comparison of their results to the wealth of X-ray observations now archived by NASA and other institutions.

Black holes are the densest objects known. Stellar-mass black holes form when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse, crushing up to 20 times the sun's mass into compact objects less than 75 miles (120 kilometers) wide.

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A message from Joseph Raglione.

  I believe there is a connection between density and gravity.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD HUMANITARIAN

 PEACE AND ECOLOGY NEWSLETTER.

Years ago, when I set out to help a  These Nobel prize winners helped to release the  Greenpeace crew from Russian custody. Black United States Senator win the White House, I did not  know how difficult the task was going to be, but unfortunately I  quickly learned. My personal goal was to slow global warming and  Barack Obama was my candidate for the job. Obama was my hope along with  the hope of a few million others for some real changes,  but so far  change has not been forthcoming and next year the president of the  United Nations: Ban Ki-moon, will be inviting world leaders to a  U.N. summit conference on the topic of global warming. He will be  extending that invitation to  international business leaders and  I will be reporting  to you, along with several thousand  of my journalist compatriots on whom exactly  attends the conference and  which individuals decide they  can continue to ignore the problem. It may be our last  chance to slow and reverse global warming and at  the very least, we  can ignore and slow down the  individuals and companies who do not take  global warming  seriously. Signed: Joseph Raglione  Executive director: The World Humanitarian  Peace and Ecology Movement. ============================================================== THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS FROM  PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. Joseph -- When you and I set out on this journey three years ago,  we knew that ours would be a lengthy struggle to build  a new foundation for this country -- one that would  require squaring off against the special interests who  had spent decades stacking the deck in their favor. Today, it is clear that you have shifted the odds. This morning, I signed into law a bill that represents  the most sweeping reforms of Wall Street since the Great Depression, and the toughest consumer  financial protections this nation has ever seen.  I know that I am able to do so only because the tens  of thousands of volunteers who make up the  backbone of this movement overcame the most  potent attack ads and the most powerful lobbying  the special interests could put forward. Our special-interest opponents and their Republican  allies have now set their sights on the elections in November as their best chance to overturn the  historic progress we've made together. Organizing for America counts entirely on supporters  like you to fight back -- no special interests,  no corporate PACs. To keep making change and to  defend the change we have already won, Because of Wall Street reform, we will ensure  that Americans applying for a credit card, a  mortgage, or a student loan will never again be asked to sign their name under pages of  confusing fine print. We will crack down on  abusive lending practices and make sure that  lenders don't cheat the system -- and create a  new watchdog to enforce these consumer protections. And we will put an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts,  giving us the ability to wind down any large financial  institution if it should ever fail. The passage of Wall Street reform is at the forefront  of the change we seek, and it will provide a  foundation for a stronger and safer economy. It is a foundation built upon the progress of the  Recovery Act, which has turned 22 months of job losses into six consecutive months of private-sector  job growth. And it is a foundation reinforced by the historic health reform we passed this spring, which  is already giving new benefits to more than 100  million Americans, ushering another 1 million Americans into coverage by next year. But today's victory is not where our fight ends. Organizing for America and I will move forward in  the months ahead on the tough fights we have  yet to finish -- even if cynics say we should wait  until after the fall elections. This movement has  never catered to the conventional wisdom of  Washington. And we have fought to ensure that  our progress is never held hostage by our politics. You and I did not build this movement to win one election. We did not come together to pass one  single piece of legislation. We are fighting for  nothing less than a new foundation for our country  -- and that work is not complete. As we face the  challenges ahead, I am relying on you to stand  with me. We need you to contribute so we have the resources necessary going into the election.  Please  donate $5 or more today and help Organizing for America  lay the groundwork for the fights that lay ahead.  https://donate.barackobama.com/WallStreetReformed Thank you for helping us get here, President Barack Obama

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The Secretary-General of the united nations,

 Ban Ki-moon, with

 important off-the-cuff remarks at a Sierra Leone press conference.

Q: What is the UN’s concern on climate change and how is 
Sierra Leone expected to participate in this process? Secondly, are
 you concerned that Russian troops will go beyond the Crimean 
region of Ukraine?

SG: For your first question on climate change, I had an in-depth
 discussion with President Koroma in my bilateral meeting and with the
 cabinet members, including the Vice-President. This is one of the
 most serious, important issues which world leaders must tackle
 without wasting any further time. 

Time is of essence. You have seen so many such cases of extreme 
weather patterns which have been striking all around the world. 
It is not only in the developing world; it happened even in the 
middle of New York, Manhattan. So it is happening. 

Climate change is happening much, much faster than one would 
expect. The science has made it simply clear that climate change 
is happening because of human behaviour. And if it is happening
because of us then it is us, we, human beings, who must address
this one, who must correct [it]. We have only one earth, 

one planet earth. Some people who are wasting, who do not support
this, may think that we have “planet B”.
No, we only have one planet earth. There is no plan B. 

We have only plan, one plan A. That is why I really am emphasizing 
the importance of this issue, particularly we need a political
 leadership role. That is why I am convening on 23 September 
this year at the United Nations a world leaders climate change

summit meeting. This time I am inviting not only political leaders but
business leaders and civil society leaders because this is one that 
everyone must be doing.There [are] no national, geographic
 boundaries. Climate change might have happened 

because of some part of industrialized countries but the impact does
not respect any natural borders. It impacts the whole world, 
all of us. We must have a universal, global, legal climate agreement
 by 2015, next year. That is a must. 

That is why the United Nations has taken three priorities now:
one priority, the Millennium Development Goals. 
The second priority: define post-2015 […] 

that is sustainable development goals. Then climate change. 

So I have invited President Koroma and he gladly accepted that 
he would come,and I asked President Koroma, African leaders, 
that they raise their voices. If not African leaders who have 
to raise voices, who will do it? We need to do it.

On your second question, in fact I am not here to address all these
 questions but while I stay here, I am also addressing this issue. 
This is very, very serious issue. Even this morning in Freetown,
I had a long talk with Secretary of United States John Kerry on how
 to address this issue. During the last few days, 

I have been engaging with many world leaders, starting from 
President Putin of the Russian Federation and I met the 
Foreign Minister of Russia two days ago in Geneva. 
I have been engaging with the leaders of France, Great Britain,
Germany, the European Union, the OSCE and many world leaders 
with whom I have discussed this matter very seriously. 

As Secretary-General of the United Nations, what is most important
 and urgent is that the principle of unity, sovereignty and territorial 
integrity of Ukraine must be protected. Preservation, protection of
 this is very important. This is a fundamental principle of the
United Nations Charter.
It is clear. At the same time, I have been urging both parties and
 other concerned parties to lower down their temperature, 

lower their unnecessarily provocative rhetoric. I have been urging 
Russian and Ukrainian authorities to sit down together and engage
 in constructive and direct dialogue to resolve this issue.
 I have dispatched my Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson,
 to Kiev. He is now in Kiev.
I also dispatched my Special Envoy Robert Serry

to Kiev. He visited Crimea yesterday and he is still in Crimea to 
apprise the situation there and how the United Nations can help 
this one. Most importantly, this should be resolved between the
parties concerned. But because peace and security in Ukraine has
very serious regional and in a sense global implications, we must
address this issue on an urgent basis. And I am urging from 
Freetown again those leaders of Russia and the Ukrainian 
authorities to sit down together and directly resolve this issue. 

And the UN is ready to provide whatever assistance and role to play 
in first of all defusing these tensions and also help maintain all 
United Nations Charter principles of unity, sovereignty and territorial
integrity.
Thank you.

Q: What message of hope do you have for the people of Sierra Leone 
that as we journey into the Agenda for Prosperity the UN will continue
to stand by us until we attain sustainable national development?

SG: Thank you. Before I answer your question, let me add one [thing]
which I had forgotten to mention about the situation in Ukraine. 
I have decided to dispatch the Assistant Secretary-General 
for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Simonovic, to Ukraine to visit

Kiev and the eastern part of Ukraine, including Crimea, to see and
monitor the human rights situation there. 
his is what I wanted to add to the AP correspondent.

On the question raised by you - what kind of message we can 
learn from the people of Sierra Leone-, my first answer would 
be that the people of Sierra Leone should be very proud of 
what they have achieved. Out of this civil war, out of war, 
you have successfully established peace and stability not only
for your own country but also for the region. From a recipient 
country of United Nations peacekeeping operations,

you have transformed yourself as a donor country in peacekeeping 
operations. 

As I just mentioned, you are at least participating in six or seven 
peacekeeping operations.

It is not only on the African continent, […] in Lebanon, UNIFIL. 
That means you are contributing to global peace and security. 
You should be proud of that. Now you are making remarkable 
economic progress -- 13 to 14 per cent annual economic growth.
That is remarkable. It is very difficult to see that kind of economic

growth at this time particularly. I know that many African countries
are making good economic progress, around 6 to 8 or 9, 
even 10 per cent. This 13-14 percent is remarkable. 
I hope this will continue under the leadership of President
Koroma. 
The United Nations will spare no effort in working together with
 concerned, related ministries and ministers and business 
communities to work for that progress so that President Koroma 
and his successors will be able to meet this vision of 
President Koroma, Agenda for Prosperity, even five years before,
 as he mentioned -- by 2030, in line with the United Nations
 sustainable development blueprint. Now, that I said should 
not be a source of complacency. There are many areas 
[in which] you have to grow. I have emphasized the importance
 of a firm foundation of rule of law, good governance, quality 
education. Those are two pillars on which you can build further. 

When you have good governance on the basis of a good
 rule of law system, you can build further your economic 
and social and political stability. When you have educated,
trained human resources through quality education that is 
promising a future much, much better and brighter future
of your country. 

This is what I can tell you based on the experience of my own
country, Korea: good education, good governance and 

foundation of the rule of law. I hope this will give some further
motivation to Sierra Leoneans to move ahead for a brighter, 
better future for all.
Thank you very much.

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• Freetown, Sierra Leone - Transcript of the Secretary-General's remarks at a 
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