Amid ongoing talks between the Korean government and General Motors on how to support the automaker's
struggling Korean subsidiary,... the Korean public have mixed views over what should be
done.
According to a public survey by Realmeter, conducted last week on five-hundred adults
in Korea,... only 6-point-four percent of respondents supported giving unconditional
support to GM Korea to prevent mass unemployment.
Nearly one third said taxpayers' money should not be spent on supporting foreign corporations,...
while about half of the respondents said the Korean government should financially help
GM Korea,... only when its parent company show signs it can end the crisis.
GM is reportedly asking the Korean government to provide a package deal of about one-point-five
billion U.S. dollars' worth of financial benefits.
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Public Speaking Tips │How To Prepare By A Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Duration: 3:13.
You Pierre, you wanna come out here. Hey everybody welcome back this is Pierre and this is
Pierre presents public speaking so quick tip for you you know we always talk a
lot about preparing for a presentation and a big part of preparing is asking
the audience what they want right so you may think you have something really
important to say but what really matters at the end of the day is with the
audience here's so you may present you may present this awesome PowerPoint you
put all this great stuff together and you think that the message that you have
conveyed is what the audience is heard but it may not be what actually happened
I see it happen all the time somebody does a great presentation and they feel
like they conveyed a great message but then when you actually ask the audience
they got something different so one tool that you can use and it's actually a
pretty simple tool if you have enough time between when you've been asked
through the presentation and the actual delivery of the presentation it's a
sample the audience maybe just ask two or three people especially if they're
going to be colleagues and you have the ability to maybe email or text or call
them and just say hey I'm going to be doing this talk on public presentation
what are some things you might be expecting to hear what would you want to
hear in a tough in a conversation or talk about public speaking you might be
surprised at what they want to hear might be different than some things that
you were going to put in maybe somebody says hey I'd love to hear some you know
some foundational steps on how to put a PowerPoint together and you weren't
going to do that but that's really good feedback and how you can put that into
your presentation or maybe somebody says or a few people say I'd love to hear
this and you were going to talk on that but now you can elaborate and give
people what they really want so it can be a fine line right you don't want to
necessarily sample the audience and change your entire presentation that's
not what I'm saying if somebody's asked you to speak they've
obviously thought that there's something important that you can add to their
presentation but it's not a bad time to just ask around especially if there are
colleagues that you know you feel comfortable hey hey we have hey Matt I'm
gonna do this talk next week on this topic what are some things you might
want to hear gauge your audience and I have found that
makes you a little less nervous you can have an idea of what the audience wants
you feel better you'll feel more confident and you can even anticipate
some of the questions that might come up in your presentation so if you're
someone who gets nervous in front of the camera or in front of the audience take
this simple step and just ask a few people what is it that you would want to
hear from this type of presentation you might be surprised how important what
they have to say is and you might be surprised at how much more robust your
presentation can be so that's it for me I'm Pierre thanks so much
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The End of Public Sector Unions? - Duration: 14:30.
It's The Real News Network.
I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore.
The US Supreme Court heard arguments for what could be one of its most important cases in
labor history.
The case is Janus vs. AFSCME has to do with the issue of whether public sector unions
are allowed to require non-members to pay union fees.
Janus is a worker and AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees.
Now that conservatives have the majority in the Supreme Court again, with Trump's appointment
of Neil Gorsuch, it seems likely that the court will rule against AFSCME that would
make life much more difficult for public sector unions as public sector employees stop.
If they stop paying union fees while still benefiting from union services.
Joining me now to discuss the consequences of this decision is . Bill has served as a
senior staff person in the National AFL-CIO.
His most relevant book for this discussion is "They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other
Myths about Unions.
Thanks for joining me, Bill.
My pleasure.
Thank you, Sharmini.
Bill, a large part of the argument heard in the Supreme Court centered around unions basically
forcing non-members to speak in favor of political candidates that unions chose to support.
Now, aside from the questionable argument of conservatives that money is a speech and
that speech is protected by the first amendment, is it even true that public sector unions
force their members to support certain candidates?
No, it's completely ludicrous.
Anyone who knows anything about unions knows that that's not true.
A union is an organization of workers.
Unions endorse candidates.
Usually there's some sort of vote by the executive board of the union.
Sometimes there's an referendum of the union members and the union takes a position.
But even after taking a position, it's not as if the members of the union have to do
or have to go along with that vote.
What's really at stake here, Sharmini, is that it costs money to represent workers.
That's the basic issue.
This is not about freedom of speech.
So, when a worker is represented by a union, that means that if a worker has problems on
the job, the union is there to help them and the union is there to represent them.
That takes resources.
That doesn't happen based on magic.
So, the idea of what are called agency fees is to help to defray the cost of representation.
That's what's going on.
The conservatives don't want that because what they want is to appeal to greed on the
part of individuals so that you'll have individual workers who will say, "Well, I'm not gonna
pay anything, yet I want to be represented by the union."
That's whats at stake in this court decision.
They might not even actually say that they want to be represented by the union because
they're going to benefit from having the union in the shop anyway.
So, one of the things about all of this is that the likelihood of this actually passing
and we already know that when this case was before the courts last year, when there were
only eight justices and it was divided four to four, so now that the Republicans or the
conservatives have Gorsuch on the court, it seems likely that the conservatives will win.
Now, if this is the case, what will be the consequences for public sector union membership
and their ability to participate in political processes?
Well, there's two points there, Sharmini.
First, I don't think anything except death is a sure thing.
So, I don't necessarily think that we should just simply assume that the court will do
this because when the court was split in the Friedrichs decision, which is the one that
you were discussing before, that was because Justice Scalia had died.
So, there were different things at stake.
Some of the justices could vote or the conservatives could vote a particular way and know that
it would make no difference.
What's different now is that if the justices rule in favor of Janus, they are going against
more than 20 years of precedent and the court normally doesn't like to do that.
So, it's not to me a sure thing.
I think it's likely that they will, but it's not a sure thing.
Now, if the court does rule in favor of Janus and against AFSCME, what this will mean is
that individuals who are paying agency fees will no longer have to do that and they will
mean that they will be represented.
It means that they will have the benefits.
It means that they can file grievances and do all of that for free.
And the effect of that will be to weaken the ability of the union to operate because if
there are large numbers of workers who are asking the union as an organization to work
on their behalf, yet they're not paying anything?
Think about it this way, Sharmini.
Imagine a city that made taxation voluntary, yet guaranteed everybody free public education,
police, fire and sewer.
Just imagine that.
There's no institution in the United States that would accept such a thing, yet that's
in fact what is being asked of unions.
Bill, union membership has been declining for decades now.
What do you think unionization rate in public and private sectors and what are the reasons
for the decline?
Several things.
The unionization in the United States overall is about 11%.
Unionization in the public sector is around 30%.
In the private sector, it's about 7%.
And the reasons for this decline since 1955 when unionization was about 35% rest in two
areas.
One is very vicious repression by employers and resistance, actually theres a third area
which is labor law, which has not caught up with the changes in workforce since the 1930s.
And the third factor is the unions themselves, that the unions since, certainly since the
1950s, have not engaged in the kind of organizing, bargaining, that they need to in order to
retain and grow.
Retain the kind of membership that they need and to grow.
There has been for too many years of lackluster approach to organizing that began to change
in early 1990s when new leaderships emerged in a number of unions.
But even then, there was not enough of an internal transformation process.
So, these three factors contributed to this situation.
Let me just say one other thing about this.
Many people in the United States do not realize that the United States has the history, the
most violent history, of labor management relations of any of the advanced capitalist
countries and that is because of employer resistance, not because of what workers do.
Ever since the 1800s, employers have tried to do everything in their power to stop workers
from organizing and stop workers from bargaining.
In the public sector where there's been fewer restrictions in terms of organizing, that's
one of the reasons that union membership has been able to grow, except in the south and
in the southwest.
Bill, some analysts has argued that the militancy of unions have declined with a closed shop,
that they don't have to really fight for things.
Do you agree with that sentiment?
No.
No, you're talking about this thing called union shops where basically what happens is
that after someone is hired, they work for a certain number of days and then they, assuming
that they stay on the job, they automatically become union members unless they have some
personal or religious objection.
No, that's not what stopped the militancy.
What stopped the militancy really goes back to the late 1940s and the development of the
Cold War when there were efforts to suppress union militancy through instruments such as
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
What happened there is that unions that were the most militant were frequently branded
Communist, irrespective of who their leadership was and they were chased out of the union
movement in many cases, sometimes actively destroyed.
So, it was that kind of response that had an effect.
The other part was that there were those that remained in organized labor that actually
believed at a certain point, much like Neville Chamberlain believed in 1938 in facing Nazi
Germany, that they had achieved peace in our time and that employers had come to accept
unions.
And employers never came to accept unions, they just simply were waiting for the best
opportunity to move forward and crush unions.
Now, Bill, the Republican resistance to the unionization and supporting unions and so
forth, is that largely because unions end you supporting democrats in elections or is
this a sort of a Republican values that to support corporations and employers over workers?
Yeah, no, it's more the latter.
Republicans ideologically, well, let me back up, Sharmini.
There was a point when there was actually a so called liberal wing of the Republican
party.
This is back in the 1960s when you had senators like Jacob Javits, you had Nelson Rockefeller
became vice president of the United States.
You had a number of Republicans who actually would be described as liberals and they, to
different extents, accepted unions.
But there was a current that developed within, or exited within the Republican party, particularly
as the Republicans embraced more right wing ideas and constituencies and the idea was
that unions got in the way of profits.
And unions got in the way of the totalitarian dominance of the workplace by employers.
So, this becomes a very, very important ideological point.
Now, the rhetoric of the Republican party is that they would be more open to unions
if unions backed them in elections.
That's sort of sophistry because the problem is that in the elections, the Republican candidates
more often than not run on platforms that are anti-worker, anti-regulations, anti-protection
of workers.
So, why would unions support people that are trying to kill us?
It doesn't make any sense.
So, it really is something very ideologically driven.
There's this whole notion of so called free enterprise, the free market, individualism,
all of these various myths and the idea is that unions get in the way of this.
All right, Bill.
So much more to discuss on this issue, but let me ask you finally, when is a decision
expected to come down and is that the final say?
It's expected in late spring.
It could be very late, like in June and that's it.
If they decide, they decide.
Now, certainly if there was a change in Congress, it would be possible to rewrite a federal
labor legislation.
But the real issue right now, Sharmini, is that unions need to assume the worst.
That means that they need to be organizing their members, making sure that they're recruiting
people, but also, and in some ways even more importantly, they need to be reaching out
to the broader community so that the broader public understands that unions are organizations
for economic and social justice, not organizations that are for special interest.
Then I must ask you before you go, is there anything that people can do between now and
when the decision comes down to influence the decision?
The Supreme Court always likes to lead people to believe that nothing can be done.
My experience is that when people are in the streets, when there are massive protests,
when there is a real, strong presence in the media, all of that has an impact on the conscience
and the consciousnesses of the Supreme Court justices.
All right, Bill.
I thank you so much for joining us.
My pleasure.
Thank you very much.
And thank you for joining us here on The Real News Network.
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China sparks NORTH KOREA comparisons in public reaction to Xi Jinping - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 5:38.
China sparks NORTH KOREA comparisons in public reaction to Xi Jinping
CHINA'S plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely has sparked
social media opposition, drawing comparisons to North Korea's ruling dynasty and charges
of creating a dictator by a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist.
The social media reaction late on Sunday quickly saw China swing into a concerted propaganda
push by Monday, blocking some articles and publishing pieces praising the party.
The ruling Communist Party on Sunday proposed to remove a constitutional clause limiting
presidential service to just two terms in office, meaning Xi, who also heads the party
and the military, might never have to retire.
The proposal, which will be passed by delegates loyal to the party at next month's annual
meeting of China's largely rubber stamp parliament, is part of a package of amendments to the
country's constitution.
It will also add Xi's political thought to the constitution, already added to the party
constitution last year, and set a legal framework for a super anti-corruption superbody, as
well as more broadly strengthen the party's tight grip on power.
But it seems the party will have its work cut out trying to convince some in China that
the move will not end up giving Xi too much power.
One Weibo user, where the Kim dynasty has ruled since the late 1940s, said: "Argh, we're
going to become North Korea."
Another user wrote: "We're following the example of our neighbour."
The comments were removed late on Sunday after Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, began blocking
the search term "two term limit".
In an unusual step amid intense international media attention, China's foreign ministry,
which normally only comments on diplomatic matters, said amending the constitution was
a matter for the Chinese people.
Since 1954, when the constitution was first adopted, everybody can see that it has been
"continuously improved", spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing.
He said: "I hope everyone can acknowledge the voice of all the Chinese people."
State media has added its voice too.
Widely read state-run newspaper the Global Times said in an editorial the change did
not mean the president will stay in office for ever, though it did not offer much explanation.
It said, referring to landmark economic reforms that began four decades ago: "Since reform
and opening up, China, led by the Communist Party, has successfully resolved and will
continue to effectively resolve the issue of party and national leadership replacement
in a law-abiding and orderly manner."
The party's official People's Daily reprinted a long article by Xinhua news agency saying
most people supported the constitutional amendments, quoting a variety of people proffering support.
It wrote: "The broad part of officials and the masses say that they hoped this constitutional
reform is passed."
The WeChat account of the People's Daily, after initially posting a flurry of positive
comments under its article, then disabled the comments section completely late on Sunday.
It was back again by Monday, complete with remarks lauding the party.
The overseas edition of the same paper's WeChat account removed entirely an article focusing
on the term limits, replacing it with the lengthy Xinhua report summing up all the amendment
proposals.
In one confusing moment for many Chinese, Xinhua initially only reported the news in
English.
Jokes have also circulated on social media.
One shows a picture of a condom in its wrapper under the words "doing it twice is not enough".
Others shared pictures of Winnie the Pooh, an internet meme that plays on Xi's supposed
likeness to the rotund cartoon bear, an image censors have repeatedly tried to remove.
Parts of the stock market took heart from the news.
Chinese speculators pounced on stocks with "emperor" in their name on Monday.
The decision has also unsettled some in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, where authorities
have been trying to rein in a pro-democracy movement.
Joshua Wong, one of the movement's leaders, said: "This move, which would allow for a
single individual to amass and accumulate political power, means that China would again
have a dictator as her head of state - Xi Jinping.
"The law may exist in China in form, but this just proves that the Chinese law exists to
serve the individual and the party's purposes."
China is likely though to see any such criticism as a plot against the party.
The Global Times said: "Every time China deliberates on reforms and key decisions, effect on public
opinion is worth pondering.
"Misinformation and external forces' meddling will affect public opinion in China."
Still, on China's streets, there was some support for Xi staying on.
Beijing resident Zhao Yisu, 42, said: "I think in our country, nowadays, many policies, such
as deepening reforms, need more continuity.
"Particularly in politics, I believe stable leadership is good."
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NRA's 24/7 TV channel turns public anger toward streaming companies - Duration: 1:40.
The mainstream media love mass shootings.
The mainstream media love mass shootings.
90% or more of the racial problems that we have in this country are manufactured by the left.
I myself had said, arm the gays after this.
The liberals in America and ISIS, they both hate America.
Bushmaster for instance was blamed for Sandy Hook.
That's like blaming kleenex for the flu.
These hateful leftist reporters are willing to let America burn in their quest to remove
President Trump.
They support an agenda to disarm women and they love exploiting rape survivors when it
suits them.
Barak Obama's presidency set race relations back 100 years in this country.
This is an anti-American movement.
They want to simply profit off hate.
This racial tension, this racial hatred that is being foisted on the American culture by
the Black Lives Matter crowd.
So I have only one explanation for why Don Lemon would say something like this, Grant.
And the only explanation I can come up with is he's a malignant racist who thinks that
white people are not smart enough to understand the big words that black guys like you and Barak Obama understand.
So how do you like that pal?
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The Importance of Public Hearings During the Budget Process - Duration: 3:26.
An engaged public makes our government stronger.
Individuals and representatives of
organizations are encouraged to sign up to
testify during public hearings to let their views
be known. This is never more important than during
the budget process. To help us understand this part of
the budget process is Joe Mondoro, Chief Financial
Officer from the Department of Management and Budget.
Thanks for joining us Joe. So how important is the
public hearing process? The public hearing process is
very important. In Fairfax, the way the budget is
developed is the county executive makes
recommendations and then the board considers those
and makes changes to it before ultimately voting on
the budget. And the public hearing process provides
them with the input that they need from the
community to make those decisions. Are there any
other forums for the community to provide input?
Absolutely. There are quite a few different
opportunities. Each supervisor in their
magisterial districts hosts at least one budget meeting
and in some cases that's in collaboration with the
civic association. At that point in time the community
can come in listen to a presentation that's
typically given by both county and school staff.
This year many of those meetings are going to
include the opportunity to meet the county executive.
And then the community will have the opportunity to ask
questions of staff and the board to not only learn
more about the budget but to also provide their
thoughts about what's recommended. What if
someone doesn't want to testify? Can a written
statement be submitted? Yes. There are
opportunities both to provide direct input to an
individual supervisor, to send them to the
supervisor's office. Or to provide input to the
clerk of the board and then the clerk will provide
those comments to all of the board members. What can
people expect when they come to testify at a public
hearing? It depends on when they come. The public
hearings go for quite a few hours on the three days and
during some of the time there are a lot of people
in the auditorium and there could be a fairly long wait
for individuals to queue up to talk. At some points
during the day, especially towards the end of the day,
it's much quieter, there are many few people in the
board room, but basically you're sitting in the
board room and listening to the folks that are ahead of
you in line queuing up to talk to the board. What
kind of testimony does the board of supervisors
normally hear? They really hear information all across
the gamut of the county budget. Certainly
individuals who have a specific interest in a
certain program either for themselves or their loved
ones are coming to advocate for it. We have a lot of
folks coming in to talk about school funding. And
then there's also folks from the community who are
interested in talking to the board about the source
of the funding. Because obviously the impact on the
taxpayer is a significant part of the budget process
discussion. Thank you so much for joining us Joe. My
pleasure. Public hearings on the fiscal year 2019
advertised budget are scheduled in the Board
Auditorium at the Fairfax Government Center, 12000
Government Center Parkway, April 10th through the
12th. If you would like to sign up to speak at a
public hearing contact the clerk to the board of
supervisors at 703-324-3251, TTY 711. Or
sign up online. For more information on the fiscal
year 2019 budget, visit the Department of Management
and Budget webpage.
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Carmel zoning board approves mosque proposal after 5 hours of public comment - Duration: 2:04.
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Worried Families Brace For Teachers' Strike In Pittsburgh Public Schools - Duration: 2:17.
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Dr. Michelle Gamber, Director of Graduate Public Health - Duration: 3:12.
I came to public health in sort of a windy way which i think is what a lot of
people come to public health in and it's not always a major that people know
about when they enter into the university setting I decided to go back
to sort of the areas of it that interested me which included health and
so I decided to get a masters in public health in epidemiology and then from
there went on in continuing the doctorate in public health where I
focused on maternal and child health so I worked in most in developing country
settings mostly throughout sub-saharan Africa and Asia and I worked in the
fields of reproductive health and maternal health so more specifically
working on how to prevent malnutrition how to help women gain access to
reproductive health care family planning and other sorts of services I think in
simple terms you can think about looking at the health and welfare of a community
or a population and more specifically looking at health behavior health
promotion and disease prevention and injury prevention at the the community
or population level there's several different graduate programs here at SU
in public health and so if we start with the Masters of Public Health it is
designed to train people with a master's degree that have a broad set of skills
that can be applied in many different contexts in the public health setting we
also have the public health certificate which is a postgraduate certificate that
can complement people's current existing health training or can provide them another level of
training from their bachelor's level we also have a dual degree program in PA
MPH and so that's also providing the PA students an additional opportunity to
gain health education in another setting so what makes us unique here in our
public health program is a few things and I think first we are 100% delivered
online so that allows for some flexibility and it caters to some people
who may be working full-time professionally and maybe have a family
who may not be able to relocate to the Winchester area and is also there's a
part-time and full-time option so again allowing for a little bit more
flexibility in when the curriculum can be finished and when it can be taken and
then lastly I think our particular focus here is looking at rural and underserved
populations and that can be applied both domestically internationally as well as
urban and rural we do have a fast-track undergrad program a 3 plus 2 where
undergraduate students who have completed a set of prereqs it doesn't
have to be necessarily in undergraduate public health they have an opportunity
to gain a bachelor's and a master's and five degrees (years) instead of traditional
six so the jobs in public health are varied and in varied settings I would
say students are likely to find placements in many different settings
such as health departments, local community centers they can go into research they
can go into epidemiology biostatistics they can work domestically they can work
internationally so there's many different settings that they can apply
their studies to
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Winchester Public Library To Re-Open 3 Days After Murder - Duration: 1:42.
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Organizations Offer Childcare During Pittsburgh Public Schools Strike - Duration: 2:27.
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Public Viewing Held For Rev. Billy Graham - Duration: 0:27.
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FWP celebrate pending world record Ram with public viewing - Duration: 1:08.
AND PARKS CELEBRATED
THE PENDING WORLD-
RECORD RAM PRODUCEDIN
NORTHWEST MONTANABY
HOSTING A PUBLIC VIEWING
TODAY AT ITS KALISPELL
HEADQUARTERS.
DOZENS OF HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS FROM COLUMBIA
FALLS GOT THE OPPORTUNITY
TOLEAVE THEIR
CLASSROOMS TO SEE THE
HISTORIC WILDLIFE
MONUMENT UP CLOSE.
THE BOONE CROCKETT
CLUB CONFIRMED THAT A
9-YEAR-OLD RAM THAT DIED
OF NATURAL CAUSES AT THE
STATE PARK IS PENDING AS
THE NEW WORLD-RECORD
BIGHORN SHEEP.
THE RAM WAS OFFICIALLY
MEASURED AT THE CLUB'S
HEADQUARTERS IN
MISSOULA, SHATTERED THE
PREVIOUS RECORD BY
NEARLY 7 INCHES.
STUDENTS TODAY WERE
STUNNED BY JUST HOW BIG
THE RAM'S HORNS AND
SKULL ARE.
"HOW BIG THE HORNS ARE,
I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY
COOL BECAUSE I NEVER
SEEN A BIGHORN SHEEP
THAT BIG BEFORE."
"COMING HERE AND
SEEING HOW BIG THAT
THING IS, THAT IT COULD BE
THE PENDING WORLD
RECORD, I THOUGHT IT WAS
PRETTY COOL."
THE PENDING WORLD
RECORD WILL BE CERTIFIED
BY A SPECIAL PANEL OF
OFFICIALS WHO WILL VERIFY
THE RAM'S
MEASUREMENTS IN
BOZEMAN NEXT MONTH.
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Trump resumes public outcry over Russia investigation - Duration: 2:02.
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2000 0927 Public Program Kundalini awakening Talk at Holland Park London UK transcribed - Duration: 0:31.
Q. He is a student Mother, how can Sahaja Yoga help with being a student, with education?
A. Very much.
For student, is a blessing I say.
Do you know, Sahaja Yogis who have been very bad students, have stood first, have got first
class first all over the world Sahaja Yogis are doing so well in their studies because
you get a clear cut vision.
It's tremendous, for students it's very good
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