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and we can see here in the foreground

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perspective is payload commander susan

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via still photos

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this particular container

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experiment are left unbent

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those samples will be

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and returned to earth

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we can see now members of columbia's

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payload crew now preparing to take a

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see that two of these seedlings

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samples within this plant growth

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in this procedure one payload crew

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member makes a rough cut of the seedling

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stands ready with the vacuum

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to remove any potentially hazardous

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the weightless environment inside the

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front of the space lab module

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in front of the workbench where he is

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stowing equipment used to take cuttings

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from fur seedlings

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as part of the plant growth facility

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experiment

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plant growth facility glove bag

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he has isolated a fixation bag

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and is now removing

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fur seedling samples harvested a few

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the purpose of the glove bag is to

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provide an additional level of safety

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and containing the

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chemical fixative used to preserve the

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and we can see him now installing the

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he will then reinstall

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this clip

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to seal the opening of the bag through

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which the sample was installed

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the chemical fixative is contained

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within the lower portion of the bag

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this is michelle coyden with the

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associated press have you noticed

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increasing fatigue and short-term memory

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loss as the mission goes on

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and could this be a major problem on

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uh to answer your question i think uh

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the crew has been doing exceptionally

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think we're pacing ourselves for right

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on target and i don't think we've had

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excessive fatigue or any memory loss we

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in fact seem to be working better uh

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this is mark crowe of the houston

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chronicle and my question is for either

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tom hendricks or

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susan could you just give us a sense

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your sense of the success of your

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endeavor to this to this point do you

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feel like you're accomplishing the

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uh yes mark in a nutshell we had a very

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very demanding mission that uh from the

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very beginning was going to be

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challenging just simply because it was

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so unique it had so many different

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aspects between the microgravity as well

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as the life science and we have just

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been thrilled to be able to accomplish

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all that we were able to accomplish to

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tell you the truth coming into this

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mission i don't think i was sure it

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could be done and these guys have been

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get right to it and do things had a few

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glitches but they got fixed thanks to

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the great support we had from the ground

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and you can't ask for more than that

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that concludes our question sir from jsc

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columbia please stand by for kscpao

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columbia this is kennedy pao how do you

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columbia regional lock and clear and

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we're ready for the questions

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this is irene brown with upi for um tom

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hanricks i don't know what you know of

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the saudi bombing that happened last

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week and i was wondering if you there's

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a memorial service this afternoon for

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five of the crew members who are from a

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unit that also supports

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nasa's shuttle launches i was wondering

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previous shuttle missions or training

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and if you had any thoughts on the

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and we regret that there were any loss

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of life and especially

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loss of military members that some of us

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we were notified by message but we have

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not seen a list of the casualties

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our sympathies go out to those that the

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lost loved ones and our prayers go out

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to those that are still in the recovery

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and from space so we do not see

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the conflicts that humans are

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on the earth we just see a beautiful

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earth and we wish that we could share

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that perspective and help bring peace

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this is stephen young with reuters for

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susan helms i was wondering how you're

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feeling um this far into the mission

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which is longer than than many shuttle

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previously and you seem to be quite uh

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keen to go longer than 17 days how much

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longer do you think

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well you're right this is going to be my

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longest mission i've had two before and

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we're at the 11 day point today and i

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i'm feeling great i'm feeling better

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absolutely no problems

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with with any of my physiological uh

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being because i've been getting exercise

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and eating well and sleeping well and

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done that in the past but there's no

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change for this mission so things are

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going extremely well

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flight unfortunately we don't have the

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consumables to get beyond a certain

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point and that's probably about flight

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day 19 or 20 and if that's what they

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want to give to us we would take it but

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on sunday and the next time around maybe

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this one and that would be great

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robin soriano with florida today for

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susan kevin or tom you've had the chance

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on this flight to use video

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teleconferencing to fix things and to

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talk with families i wonder how that

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kca or the video teleconferencing that

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fixed the bubble dropped experiment it

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a two-way communication they could show

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us diagrams they could point exactly

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opposed to sending up a message and then

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trying to interpret the message it also

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has been a morale booster because we've

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the new video teleconference so i think

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it's a great state a step in the future

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they'll probably have it on the

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bill harwood for cbs news uh for anyone

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the group in houston that's in the

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chamber the life support chamber that

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they're testing regenerative life

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support systems the other day and i'm

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curious from your perspective on a 17

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day mission and thinking about shannon

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how does it shake out in terms of the

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psychological pressures on living with a

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large group of people in a small area

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versus the medical sorts of things you

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guys are studying what's what's kind of

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the balance there for long-term space

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well we can only speak from this

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experience and from this experience it's

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been absolutely fantastic working as a

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team together in fact what you're seeing

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at huntsville alabama and at the primary

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investigator sites around the world and

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we're just a visible part of that team

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majority of the experiments

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enclosed environment uh through the

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communications that we have we feel like

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we're just a member of the team and

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environment to us it seems very roomy we

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flight deck look out the window come

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back and do some work and we don't have

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laboratory or the future space station i

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flights and of course uh shannon lewson

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can give us a better perspective from

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this is the filter on earth news for

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rick linehan uh what's it like as a

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veterinarian that handling these large

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two-legged mammals instead of your

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at least the four members of the payload

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crew and uh i i used to joke about that

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um we we are the experiment on this

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uh calcium metabolism uh different

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physiologies this pertains to how a

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human might

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this is sort of a prelude to

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stay on the space station a lot of the

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studies that we're doing here actually

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first time and we'll use all this data

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and uh figure out better ways to keep

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people in space learning keep them

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healthier stop the muscle and bone

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degeneration and as a spin-off of that

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processes which occur in our elderly

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population on the ground and hopefully

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tell me for any young people who are

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aspiring to be just like you who are

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home here in north carolina any advice

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you want to give to an aspiring new

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participating with sarix amateur radio

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and so we talked to the schools around

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around the world and listening to my

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crewmates and myself i think we uh we

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all agree that uh

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to work hard to dream those dreams and

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to not give up on dreams

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and to take good care of oneself and

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to keep

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working as you as a team

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trusting in people and helping each