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Hi, everyone.

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I am Ruth Wondimu,
an architecture

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and geography double major.

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And this past summer
I did an internship

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in [INAUDIBLE] [? Ethiopia. ?]
And my presentation

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is called Learn then
Experience Architecture.

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So this pat summer I did an
internship at an engineering

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and architecture consultancy
firm called Reece Consultancy.

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Initially I looked
for internship

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through various online resources
but I was unable to attend one.

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So I had to go through
[INAUDIBLE] Connections, which

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is how I found this.

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The reason that I chose to
do an internship in Ethiopia

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is because I am from Ethiopia.

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And one day I'd like to go back
home and then work there and be

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able to live there.

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But I needed the educational
experience so that I can

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[INAUDIBLE] to what I learned
here and then [INAUDIBLE]

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there.

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So on the first day
of my internship,

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I sat down with my boss and
went through employee materials.

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And this is a rendering that
I did for my final project

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and my digital design test.

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And then when he
looked at this, he

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asked me various
questions such as,

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what are the materials
used that and what is

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the structural design for it?

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And where are the beams?

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We did think of that
in our design class.

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But then we thought of it.

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And this is done
where we would access

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to steel and other kinds of
materials that would hold

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on to this building very well.

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But then he explained
about how we don't really

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have the financial
resources and the material

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access to the
different resources

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that I have put up here.

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And then he explained
to me about even

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if we had the
financial flexibility

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from a certain kind, we
would not have that resource

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accessibility.

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So I got there with
an education here

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at Mount Holyoke that
[INAUDIBLE] in an ideal world

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and with good resources.

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But then I have to learn how
to integrate my knowledge

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and try a new set
of [INAUDIBLE]..

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So this is what he had
emphasized on my education.

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Skills, skills, and skills.

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I did have some skills because
I did a digital design class

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and then we had learned
Illustrator and Rhino.

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But then the softwares
that they were using

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were AutoCAD and [INAUDIBLE],,
so I had to learn those.

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Initially I was struggling.

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But then, as I progressed,
I was really good at it

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that they were
actually giving me

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projects [INAUDIBLE]
residential housings, and more.

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And then I was really
progressing in those.

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And this was also one of the
projects that I [INAUDIBLE]

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that I did for them that was
incorporated into the proposal

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that they had to give.

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And I was very happy
to be a part of that.

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And then after my skills were
[INAUDIBLE] in 2D design,

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they wanted me to
progress onto 3D modeling.

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And there I was able
to start on projects.

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Initially they
were very box-like

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and I needed to
learn more skills.

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So I progressed into
curves and others.

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And after they found
out that I was really

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progressing on my
3D modeling skills,

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they put me on research.

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This was the most exciting
part of my internship.

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I was very happy and very
devoted in every minute of it.

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It was a church project.

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The firm usually does
a lot of cathedrals.

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They're just very big
[? ring ?] in Ethiopia

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where they're building very
big cathedrals [INAUDIBLE]..

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So this was a church project.

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It wasn't a very big cathedral,
but it was a modern size church

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and then he had
given me the liberty

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to work on it because it was
one of their smaller projects.

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So I received instructions
to modify the floor plans

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and the presentation details.

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So I went to other
cathedrals, church sites,

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and their construction sites,
and then studied the history

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behind them.

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It was a combination between
modern and traditional design

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[INAUDIBLE].

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One thing that I
learned is that this

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is a very interesting
story where you see

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the circle on the church cross.

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So I didn't see the need to
have a circle on a cross.

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What was the need to have
a circle on a [INAUDIBLE]..

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It takes away
from-- it's looking

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like a cross and people
being able to identify

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that that is a church.

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But then during my
research I found out

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that this circle is meant
to symbolize an ostrich egg.

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And ostriches are very
well known to take care

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of their eggs and the
eggs are very strong,

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[? those ?] [? chicks ?]
are very strong.

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So that is meant to symbolize
how the church really

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takes care of its people
and how the people are

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very strong in their faith.

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So I was about to eliminate one
of the most important points

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of a church.

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So research is very important.

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And then this is a
very rough sketch

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of what my boss gave
me as a floor plan.

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It was more circular.

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It has history behind it.

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Each and every section of
the church is very important.

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And I had to learn
what each meant

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and how each was worked on.

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So after learning each of
them was very important,

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I was able to sit down and
then come up and then come up

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with a cross-shaped church.

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I thought the cross
would be very well

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because of aesthetic reasons.

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But I also wanted
to make [INAUDIBLE]

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no problem with making
it a cross from a circle.

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So I went over my design.

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And then I provided
it to my boss.

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And he said it was OK.

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He put some
modifications onto it.

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And then we went on
with that design.

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3D rendering, I had
to fight through it.

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It was a lot of work because
I spent a lot of time

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on different designs.

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This was the final 3D
picture that we had.

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I used [INAUDIBLE] because it
had its modern history as well.

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So I wanted to [INAUDIBLE]
and [INAUDIBLE] that as well.

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And then I went onto
final video rendering.

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My other students
that were doing

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internships there
were very skillful,

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so they were doing various video
rendering [INAUDIBLE] and then

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[? participated ?] on that.

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So it's [INAUDIBLE] but it was
one of the most exciting things

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that I had [INAUDIBLE].

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And you can see my church there.

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And it's actually located
on top of the mountain

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as well so it was very exciting
to do an exact replica of what

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it will be.

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And here's the cross
coming in [INAUDIBLE]

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because when you see it from
a helicopter [INAUDIBLE],,

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you can see how
the cross is there.

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And there are birds.

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And here's my ostrich egg.

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So after going through all
of that on my internship,

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it has tremendously
impacted my future plans.

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I was reading-- my
plans have not changed.

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I've always wanted to
go into grad school.

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But [INAUDIBLE] tell me that
I need more education in terms

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of [INAUDIBLE] education
I want the work experience

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education that is very different
from what I learned in school.

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So I need [INAUDIBLE]
work experiences,

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internships in other fields
to [? test ?] [INAUDIBLE]..

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So in conclusion,
this internship

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has grounded my
experience [INAUDIBLE]

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one day go back
home [INAUDIBLE]..

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Question?

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Sara Ann.

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Did you have to model the
mountain as well [INAUDIBLE]??

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Lumion, the software
that I used [INAUDIBLE]

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and it's very easy to do that.

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[INAUDIBLE] Lumion.

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Lumion.

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Lumion.

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Yeah.

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So basically there's
this flat surface

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and then you can put
a cursor on the ground

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and then you can form just
various mountains and hills

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and everything.

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There are also
some sample models

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that you can use as well.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Yeah.

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It's like, I just started to
like know about this major.

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Like I know that yearly--

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this is a general question.

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Like yearly the
architecture major

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requires an education
of five years.

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But do you feel capable
to do some internship

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like with your current
knowledge [INAUDIBLE]??

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The thing that I
will tell you is

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that I was very scared that my
skills were not [INAUDIBLE]..

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But then once [INAUDIBLE]
know how to find information.

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Even though we don't know
it, we know how to find it.

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And we would actually go
through [INAUDIBLE] knowledge

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to get certain
questions answered.

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And it's very helpful and I'm
very grateful for [INAUDIBLE]..

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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