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hello my name is juliana colanovakova

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i'm from the charles university in

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prague and the european astrobiology

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institute

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and today i'm presenting life beyond

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this project

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of astro belch outreach through science

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fiction

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this genre is especially well suited for

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outreach and education

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because to some extent it shapes the

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public beliefs and conceptions about

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science

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it can elicit curiosity and interest in

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stem

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provide a sandbox for new ideas so not

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just in science but also its

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social impacts or ethics and

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also using narrative and in general

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emotion uh has been shown to

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increase knowledge acquisition there

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exists uh the so-called narrative-based

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learning environments

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which can be used in both formal and

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informal education

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and many studies have shown that they

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are

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helpful for long-term memory and

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putting the facts in context

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and other studies have shown that they

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may not increase

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learning gains as opposed to traditional

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education

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but they do increase motivation for

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learning

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and the media used in nle can be audio

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literature games comics etc

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and public outreach of course can use a

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similar strategy

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for informal education and such examples

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are for instance

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special issues of science fiction

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magazines

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themed um about science such as

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the future science fiction issue about

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future medicine

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or there can be outreach

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such as andrew frankney uh

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using science fiction to teach astronomy

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or james cacalios using superhero

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stories to illustrate concepts

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in physics and in astrobiology there are

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also abundant examples

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of a similar approach for instance nasa

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releasing

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its graphic novels about astrobiology

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or the czech academy of sciences

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producing a series of comics

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about seismology magnetism and

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more upcoming topics which are in many

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ways

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related to astrobiology

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there's also theater especially

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uh the jet propulsion theater project

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which aims to teach planetary science

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and other sciences

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through augmented lectures and theater

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plays

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conferences have adopted the approach as

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well for instance last year's exoplanet

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demographics

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where each day's scientific

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contributions

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were accompanied by all science fiction

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stories and poems that were about

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the contributive topics

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and there are also many projects for

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children such as the stories of tomorrow

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where pupils and students can contribute

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their own stories

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about the future of space exploration

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including searching for life beyond

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earth

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so at the european astrobiology

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institute

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which was founded two years ago uh

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and among other things to increase our

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knowledge of astrobiology and master

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biology outreach

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we have utilized this approach

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as well and created the team science

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fiction as a tool for astrobiology

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outreach

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and education which i'm reading at the

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institute and last year we have released

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an ebook anthology strangest of all

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which was freely available for download

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and has been downloaded several thousand

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times

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and used in classrooms and astrobiology

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seminars

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it includes eight science fiction

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stories each accompanied by a

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non-fiction assign

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about the topic or present in the story

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such as life in subsurface oceans

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or dyson spheres

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as an example uh let's have a look at

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the story war

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ice universe by gerald david norbly

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which features life in a subsurface

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ocean

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of a warm europa and

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exploration of such a moon and the

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non-fiction assay which accompanies it

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explores how ubiquitous liquid water

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is in our solar system and the universe

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uh what we know about uh the ocean

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of europa enceladus and other moons

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how such oceans are created and

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maintained which is especially

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tidal effects and

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finally also explores the question

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of energy and chemical gradients

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for life and how we might explore

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such oceans and even the existence of

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very exotic environments

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such as high-pressure ices on ganymede

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and other large moons and the

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possibility

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of sandwiched oceans created

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and even the uh wet success

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of this project we have decided to

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continue this approach with another

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anthology this time released in both

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print and ebook this one is titled life

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beyond us

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and plans to be released next september

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coinciding with the launch of

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european space agencies rosalind

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franklin rover

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to mars we have successfully

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kick-started this anthology

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this spring and it includes

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28 science fiction stories by

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award-winning world authors of science

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fiction

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most of whom have a stem background

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and each story will be accompanied by an

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essay

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by a professional astrobiologist

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researching the topic

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present in the story which uh

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range from the deep hot biosphere

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through exoplanet detection

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to topics such as life on titan

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or in general or the possibility of life

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in liquid hydrocarbons and other exotic

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and the author's sentiments can

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illustrate what we aim to achieve with

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this anthology

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it's especially all

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teaching people about the

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interdisciplinarity of

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astrobiology showing them the scientific

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method and the processes

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of science and eliciting more

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curiosity and as is illustrated well by

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this quote

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by stephen baxter i'm just old enough to

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remember the first

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mariner 4 pictures of mars the grainy

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so-called moonscape

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and now we can examine the sand grains

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and it shows how far we have got um

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in the past decades and

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we can in science fiction very well

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imagine what may happen

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in the next decades whether we'll find

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traces of past life on mars

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or whether we'll discover that venus

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likely had liquid water oceans for

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the larger part of its existence or

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we may detect some chemical this

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in exoplanet atmospheres which might

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life presence there and

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the possibilities grow even larger

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with the passing time so

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life beyond us means to showcase to the

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uh what astrobiology is and how

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rapidly growing and their

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interdisciplinary discipline

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it is and science fiction itself

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is so an interdisciplinary field

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combining art and drawing inspiration

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from sciences so it's especially well

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outreach in this respect so

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let me conclude that using narrative

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is extremely useful in teaching uh

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and science fiction in particular uh

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lends itself to outreach because it

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shapes the public awareness

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and perception of science

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because of its interdisciplinarity

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and because the interest in both science

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and the search for life in the real

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world and will elicit

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in people and now it's time to

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welcome your questions so thank you for

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your attention