Welcome to NTNightly, I am Janelle Norville. This edition stops stories. St. Lucian's Urge should take the necessary precautions as Tropical Storm Gonzalo approaches. Government extends deadline for applications for the income support program. And staff of the St. Lucian Marketing Board undergo full safety training. Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean at 9am on Wednesday. The storm is located about 1,250 miles east of the Windward Islands. The maximum sustained winds are near 45 miles per hour. Gonzalo is moving west-northwest at 12 miles per hour and at this rate is forecasted to pass south of St. Lucia by Saturday 25th July 2020. Residents of St. Lucia, especially those in the south of the island, are being urged by the St. Lucia Met Services to monitor the progress of the storm and take all the necessary precautions for possible impact. The Government of St. Lucia has extended the deadline for applications for the income support program for non-NIC contributors to July 30 2020. The decision to extend the deadline is to ensure that no one is left behind and to grant more time to those who have started and not completed the application process. This relief program is for persons who were not contributing to NIC and made a living as sole traders and self-employed. Over 1,000 persons have been paid and payments will continue to be made. The income support program is a safety net for anyone who has lost the opportunity to work due to a COVID-19 pandemic which includes individuals or entities who generated income as offshoot service providers of the tourism industry including taxi drivers, vendors, farmers, hairdressers and small bar and restaurant owners. Artists and entertainers and those who work in the creative industries are eligible and are invited to apply. A full eligibility list can be accessed via the Government of St. Lucia's website. Applicants must electronically complete and submit the relevant application form which is accessible on the Government of St. Lucia website www.govt.lc. The income support program forms part of the Social Stabilization Plan announced by Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne as part of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government of St. Lucia this fiscal year will be paying special attention to culture and creative industries. One such measure to be undertaken in that vein is the review of the national cultural policy. Jesse Leos tells us more. In this fiscal year, the Government of St. Lucia is taking a strategic approach in its support of the arts and creative sectors and culture with a review of the national cultural policy. We believe that given the dynamics of the environment where we are now as a nation the infusion of that digital economy, there are so many areas for us and even as a government what we want to do with respect to our Cultural Development Foundation which is one of the key agencies to drive the development of our culture and the kind of work that we want to do with this institution we would need to have that broad consultation and dialogue with the public to ensure that everybody understands clearly what it is that we want to do. Honourable Fortuna Bell Rose, Minister with Responsibility for Culture and Creative Industries assures that public consultations will soon commence pending the development of the policy's terms of reference. The idea of cultural policy was developed at UNESCO in the 1960s. St. Lucia's original cultural policy was created in the early 2000s making it nearly two decades old. The objective of cultural policies are generally to improve the accessibility of arts and creative activities to citizens and support these artistic and cultural expressions through the emerging industries. A revised cultural policy for St. Lucia is also hoped to transform cultural norms. Issues of the dependency syndrome, you know, where people expect in the society others to really be doing things for them as opposed to them doing for themselves. We need to look deep within ourselves and see how best as a society we can assist in transforming that behaviour from being so reliant on Gouvet Ma for everything you understand, to people understanding that they have a responsibility for themselves. Over the years we've had the policy but what have we really done to be able to shape the mindsets to ensure that people, you understand, become independent citizens and being able to contribute freely, you know, to the society and not looking for those extrinsic rewards but valuing the intrinsic rewards that they receive from being part of a community. And speaking of changing mindsets more individuals who work in the creative and cultural sectors have become convinced of an NIC subscription since the coronavirus impact. The government just extended applications for its income support program, ISP, to July 30th for individuals who work in informal sectors, including the creative industries. Senator Bellrose informed that artists who were hard hit by the effects of the coronavirus are taking advantage of the ISP facility and now taking heed to make NIC payments. I think what we want as a government is to ensure that everybody is within that one system, the national insurance system and hence the reason for us driving home the point that people must register for the income support but part of that is to ensure that they are in the mainstream, they come into the full with respect to being a part of the National Insurance Corporation. That is the one pension plan that we have for our country. That is what we all should subscribe to and of course we know that with the artists they work, some of them find work periodically, intermittently, you know, it's not consistent but what we want to do is to encourage them no matter how small it is to put something aside for wet days. Reporting for the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leons. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives in collaboration with the Taiwan Technical Mission and EECA has commenced a food safety training for staff of the newly remodeled pack house at the St. Lucia Marketive Board. The initiative falls under the enhancement of the efficiency of production, distribution supply chains in the fruits and vegetables sector project. EECA Antoine has the details. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives hosted the opening ceremony for the training of food safety for staff of the newly remodeled pack house at the marketing board. The pack house is a facility where fruit is received and processed prior to distribution to the market. The initiative forms part of a collaborative effort with the Taiwan Technical Mission and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, EECA and falls under the enhancement of the efficiency of production, distribution supply chains in the fruits and vegetables sector project with the overall aim of reducing the food import bill. Greg Rawlins, representative of EECA, stressed on the importance of the training in ensuring that international food and safety standards are met at the pack house. We are pleased to collaborate on this project. We recognise its relevance given the current situation because of the COVID-19 situation. We don't only have to ensure that we handle produce in a way that does not cause the spread of any virus, but also due to COVID we know that a number of our farmers would have been affected through the displacement or disruption of their markets for their produce, particularly in the hotel industry. And therefore we need to find alternative markets for these farmers so that they can continue to earn their livelihoods. And we need to have facilities that allow for those products that they produce to be handled and to meet the consumers so that we have safe and wholesome food available. Head of the Taiwan Technical Mission Mario Cheng expressed contentment with the progress of the project and encouraged staff and farmers to take advantage of the opportunities under the enhancement of the efficiency of production distribution supply chains in the fruits and vegetables sector project. I'm very happy we can implement this project, also provide a human capacity for farmers and introduce the facilities to improve the package, this technology. So today we came over here to feed the food safety, to feed the half-sup. Actually we are not just packing the fruits and vegetables, we are packing the farmers' drinks and the farmers' profits. So I'd like to encourage each of the farmers and each of the half-sup training participants. Today we are in the right direction and we will move forward to let them become better and better. Pullman and Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives Barry Felicier explained that the staff will be undergoing the hazard analysis critical control points training and international standard for food safety. The Pullman and Secretary also expressed gratitude to the Taiwan Technical Mission for their contribution towards the remodeling of the pack house. The first phase of the pack house is complete and you would have seen if you have worked for the pack house, you would have seen that the IRDC has been rehabilitated to include the components of showers, washrooms, lockers, kitchen, office, reception area, storage area and packaging area. But still the facilities in complete and major items still to be completed include the testing laboratory, the installation of conveyor equipment and of course additional things. Nonetheless, the pack house has already served St. Lucia with the distribution of the now famous national food packages or program. And today you can make or be part of history. This is a historic event as we have the opportunity to be pioneers in the operations of our pack house. The hazard analysis critical control points training will be held every Monday for a duration of six weeks. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisha Antwan reporting. The Prime Minister's ball this year provided support to some 17 charities amounting to almost $300,000. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Shasne commended the charities for their hard work and dedication. The checks were presented to the charities in a special ceremony held on Monday 20 July 2020. The Prime Minister's ball 2020 was threefold. The event which formed part of St. Lucia's 41st year of independence served as a platform to recognize outgoing diplomats, introduce St. Lucia's goodwill ambassadors and most importantly raise funds for the various humanitarian organizations in St. Lucia. At a special ceremony, checks were presented to 17 humanitarian organizations amounting to almost $300,000. Chairperson of the Independence Committee Honourable Janine Girodi McIntyre expressed gratitude to all the benefitting entities for their hard work and dedication to making St. Lucia a better place. The Boys Training Centre received $50,000. I'll tell you a little about the Boys Training Centre. The Boys Training Centre is a juvenile rehabilitation center and in February last this year we celebrated 60 years of existence. We catered to two categories of boys, boys that are in need of care and protection and juveniles that are in conflict with the law. Recently 2018 the Juvenile Justice Act was passed and the age of a child moved from 16 to 18 years old. So now we have boys we wouldn't necessarily have come into the center coming to us right now. Over the past three years we have embarked on a program to ensure that the boys who come to us not only receive the counseling that they need but a holistic program. The St. Lucia National Youth Council received $25,000. We have been working tirelessly to develop a safe space for young people in the heart of castries where young people could access services such as library, computer services, counseling and opportunities for them to contribute through volunteerism. But more importantly, one where they could feel like they're part of a family. Our efforts remain steady and incremental at best but we have not been able to fully conceptualize this idea or fully realize this idea rather. So upon assuming office in 2019 my team and I vowed that before our tenure was completed that we would work to create that safe space where young people in St. Lucia could feel that they are welcomed and where the Secretariat of the National Youth Council could be housed. We met with Honorable Allen Chastney back in August of 2019 and this was one of the things discussed and he gave his commitment during that meeting that he would do his utmost best to ensure that this became a reality. This generous donation received today will go directly towards the upgrading and the creation of that safe space. So on behalf of the St. Lucia National Youth Council I would like to thank you Honorable Chastney for sticking to your commitment to assist us in the creation of that safe space. Helen's daughters received $15,000. And if you walk into that market right now 90% of the vendors are female but for some reason there's this erroneous tendency to believe that our vendors are not our growers when a lot of times they are doing the dual role of both growing and selling their produce and honestly this donation, thank you to the Prime Minister and to his wife Mrs. Doubley Chastney it's really telling us that finally on a national level we are seeing, we are hearing and we are understanding the importance of an investment in female farmers. Good morning everyone. On behalf of Allen's daughter and voicing as a female farmer as myself I would like to thank the Prime Minister of St. Lucia for believing and investing in us as I believe that female farmers are the one covering the food insecurity in St. Lucia, thank you. The Viewford Comprehensive Secondary School received $25,000. We graciously accept this donation on behalf of every student and staff member of Viewford Comprehensive Secondary School particularly the science team whose vision it is to see that every child reaps the benefit of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. This desire holds greater currency in the post-COVID era where traditional careers are fast giving way to new and emerging ones highly dependent on STEM skill sets. The urgency therefore to help us find practical solutions to today's problems while anticipating future challenges is even more critical. Your support no doubt will translate to much greater opportunities for us as the students outside the traditional realm of education and thanks to you we will be more globally competitive and ready to integrate into and positively shape the markets that are both current and emerging. So as the president of our science club and as a student of science myself and on behalf of our school thank you Mrs. Douboulay Shasne Mr. Shasne and everybody who has patronized this movement so that we could have been impacted and we could really go forward with STEM education at our school. The Czech presentation was held on Monday 20th July 2020. This is NTIA Nightly Up next, Primus Hutchinson with the NTIA Nouvelle of Real. In an effort to ensure patient and first responder safety the St. Lucia Fire Service has reviewed its patient transfer procedures especially for patients with respiratory distress. Face masks will be provided. At no time during transportation should the face mask be removed. Please be patient and cooperative during this time to ensure you receive the best possible care while keeping our first responders safe. Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson for the NTIA Nouvelle of Quaiol. Mr. Otin General Mr. Madam Department of Universities for the formation of this government that is GIS and the National Television of the NTIA for the Nouvelle of Quaiol for the Prime of Hutchinson. The Parliament of December was held on Monday to seek permission from the Minister of Finance to pay several million dollars to finance the project that is necessary in this case. Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Shasne to view authorization for the Minister of Finance to pay 10,000,000 700,000 dollars to the Bank of Development to finance diverse debt to start October 1st to end September 23, 2021. If the Prime Minister oniwab Alain Shasne the Agenda Salah is mainly to finance diverse health needs under the coronavirus and to try to facilitate the economic situation and social affairs of the country. Prime Minister oniwab Alain explains that the Agenda Salah is a piece of paper that affects the country's economy and the government to support this project Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Shasne also views authorization for the Minister of Finance to pay 45,000,000 dollars to the Association for International Development to finance the project of transportation. If the Prime Minister oniwab Alain Shasne to pay 10,000 dollars to the Agenda Salah the Agenda Salah will not affect the Association for Salah. Long Salah also helps to improve the protection and resilience of navigation for the Association for International Development to the Agenda Salah to the Agenda Salah to the Agenda Salah Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Shasne also views authorization for the Agenda Salah to provide educational Ministry of Business commercial Prime Minister Oniwab Alain Shasne Joseph, among the citizens who received assistances from the police, it is me who received, it is me who received these children who are disabled. The people who are disabled, the mothers who are disabled, we, as the children, we pay $200 per month. So, for example, we pay $300 per month, except for three months. It is convenient for us to start a month in July. We, mothers who are disabled, we raise these mothers for children in foster care. And for these mothers, we pay $300 per month, we pay $400 per month, we pay $400 per month, for three months, for three months. We, mothers who are disabled, we help people who are disabled, in foster care. We, in foster care, we raise these mothers for children in foster care. We help people who are ill, we pay $300 per month, we pay $200 per month, we pay $300 per month, we raise these mothers for children. We also help children who are disabled We have 2,600 people in the village, and we have 4,000 people in the village, so we have 3,600 people at the end of the year. It is good that Permanent Joseph has also announced a great assistance to the Department. It is the Department where we will help the international leaders to facilitate the program. We have UNICEF, we have a food program, we have UNDP, Cavinepino, Cabernet Assisters OC, we have UN India Fund, we have a sort of fund-seller, we have ILO, we have UN Women who support the ministry. We are happy that the Department has started to support the ministry. We are happy that the ministry has reached a point where we can continue to work to support the ministry. The government is here to continue to establish flexibility so that it can help the citizens who are affected by the corona virus. Therefore, I have added support to the world that is not only contributing to the NIC, but also to the application to assist the people in need to support their work. I have extended the government's time for July 20. The decision that the government made to add to its salary is not what it plans to do, it is not to leave the stone behind and to do what is possible for those who have started, but to completely complete the application. The government is here to help the NIC and the work at its core. Since the government has already signed the salary, I have found a payment and this payment has continued. I am also here at Kupwosha to help the person who regretted the opportunity to work as a result of the corona virus. I will be performing taxi, Duwe Vardez, Myfama aluminium, positive multi-capacitary, the Westport chief, and other artists. The applications are made in appropriate terms so that it can be applied to the people in need to support the NIC in order to provide the help that this number is providing for the corona virus. Thank you very much for your time and for your invitation. I would like to thank you very much for your time and for your invitation. Thank you very much for your channel. I am Janelle Norville.


Family Theater presents Gene Evans and Richard Denning. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in Cooperation with Family Theater presents Profile of a Hero starring Gene Evans. And now here is your host, Richard Denning. Thank you, Tony LaFrono. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, Profile of a Hero starring Gene Evans as Slim. Is he gone? No. Nancy. Oh look, he's just a poor old fellow and he said it could mean his job. That's just a trick. No, no, he looks like he means it. Honey, you've got a heart like a marshmallow. Well, it can't do any harm to talk to him and after all, if it means his job. Oh, he's lying about that. I'll give you five to one. Well, if he is, you can always hit him with your cane. Want me to get it for you? I wouldn't touch that thing again. Maybe I'll use a candlestick on him. He's in the living room. Shall I send him in here? No, I'll go in and see him. Let him get a good look at the wounded hero limping in on his cork foot. And then when his guard is down, maybe I'll pop him one. I'll at least give him the benefit of a doubt. Yeah, sure. Just one guy, huh? Yeah, that's him. Well, here goes. You wanted to see me? Mr. Weston. That's right. My name is Daniel Osborne. I'm from the Sun in Daily News. So I've been told. Well, if you won't be needing me, I've got a few things to do. Okay, honey. Would you excuse me, Mr. Osborne? Certainly, certainly. Pleasure meeting you, ma'am. Mine too. Sit down. Thank you. Nice. How's you have here, Mr. Weston? Push that footstool over this way, will you? Oh, certainly. There. Is that all right? Fine. I heard you lost a leg in the war. I didn't lose it. They took her away from me. Just the foot. Still got most of the leg. Oh, well, I'm glad I was misinformed. That's not unusual, is it? Pardon me? For a newspaper man to be misinformed, I mean. Well, you don't have a very high opinion of the Fourth Estate. Or do you think your profession is worthy of a very high opinion? Well, I don't think you can generalize about it. Not any more than you can generalize about, well, aren't they medical profession or plumbing? Oh, but I can generalize about your profession, because it's not like art or medicine or plumbing. I can put newspapers in a group with motion pictures and video and television, because by and large, you're all guilty of the same crime. What crime is that? You want to tell about bravery and the actions of a soldier above and beyond the call of duty. Isn't that right? Well, I suppose you might say that, yes. Well, that's what makes me mad. When you do that, you glamorize something that's got about as much right to glamor as the bubonic plague. Now, why don't you give me a picture of the war? Would you print it if I did? Well, I'm on shaky terms with a city editor, but I could try. All right, good enough. Ever see a battlefield? I don't mean a movie battlefield, a real one. Well, no, I haven't. Well, it's not any field of honor where well-fed heroes and slightly soiled clothes exchange bright remarks between disorganized enemy attacks. A battlefield is, well, it's a corner of hell. It's a morgue without refrigeration, a latrine without running water, and it smells worse than any of those things. It smells of death and garbage, waste and burned powder and sweat and fatigue. It smells just like what it is, a place for dying. And the men? The men? Generally dirtier than they ever thought they could be and tired almost to death. There wasn't a man in my outfit who couldn't sleep on his feet if he thought there wasn't a chance the enemy wouldn't sneak up on him while he was doing it. But that chance was usually there. There wasn't much question about what we were fighting for, and it wasn't to make the world safe for democracy or for another slice of mom's blueberry pie. It was just to stay alive, stay alive until you'd piled up enough points for rotation. That's the men generally. Now what about the men specifically? Now I have to write about you. What about you? What do you want to know? Well, first, maybe I'd better get my facts straight. Just for a change, huh? That crack I made earlier, I'm sorry. Well, I have it here that you enlisted shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. Kind of sounds like I was suddenly imbued with the spirit of national patriotism. That's not the way it happened. How did it happen? Well, that was a while back, about five years, and I guess you could say I really didn't have my growth yet, just out of high school.  No looks, no talent, and no direction. Typical drugstore cowboy, and like most 17-year-olds, dying to be somebody, or something, or anything except what I was. A tall, dangling, undecided creature, too tall to be thought of as a boy, and too young to be considered as a man. Hey, pops, how about a little service down here? I'm coming, I'm coming. Thought you didn't have any more money. Who needs money when he's got friends, huh? Look, if you're thinking I'm gonna fork over. Man, a cup of coffee, a dime.  Dave, your diamond meat at death. But I'll be buying for you if I had the dough. All right, what'll it be, fellows? Nothing. Nothing? Wait, I want another cup of coffee. I'm good for it. Not by me? Wait. Fair exchange, then. I'll have Slim here go into his act. That ought to be worth a dime's worth of that stuff you call coffee. Slim, show Mike you can close one eye and look like a needle. Dave, will you cut it off? That one was old when I wasn't. Now, how about it? Do you want anything?  Okay, two coffees. And that's another thing.  And that'll be the day I'll drop dead from surprise. Then we'll never order anything else. We need you, pops. 20 cents. There it is. Was it one of you boys asking me the other day about a buy in a car? Not me. Why? Well, now I heard that tall red-headed fellow. What's his name? The boy with a leather jacket. Jerry Bessel? Ah, that's the boy. Well, I heard he was trying to sell his car. No kidding. Yes, going into the army. Drafted, huh? Enlisted.  Yes, well, I've got to admire a man who'd do a thing like that in wartime. Maybe. No, maybe's about it. Give you eight to three, he was drafted. Enlisted.  Yes, sir, I have to... Well, anybody has to take your hat off to a man like that. Jerry Bessel. All of a sudden, he's a man. Huh? Nothing, nothing. You're always muttering to yourself, and you wonder why nobody pays attention to you. Hey, how you doing with Harriet? Harriet, what do you mean? I understand you tried to date her. You mind? Mind? Why should I mind? I just wondered how you did, that's all. Well, if you knew I tried to date her, you'd probably know how I did. No good, huh? No good. You've got it pretty bad, haven't you? What's the difference, Dave? She doesn't even know I'm alive. And I can't say that I blame her. It would take eight of me to make a trio. That's the way to talk. That's the old slim. So how am I supposed to talk? I'm the original strikeout kid. All through high school, the same story. Boy, you just gotta make him sit up and take notice. How, Dave? That's the question. How? Well, that was what started it. So I'd get recognized as a human being. I noised it around that I was going to enlist in the army. And I figured at last I'd get a little individuality. And for a while it looked like I was right. Some of the girls I knew began to look at me in a new light. Neighbors stopped me on the street to shake my hand and wish me well.  They threw me a going away party. Then I had to follow through on it. And I enlisted. Just for a little individuality. And little recognition. And that individuality. That was a short-lived luxury. As soon as I got to the induction center, they gave me a haircut and a suit of clothes that made me look just exactly like five million other guys. About two months after that, the army was trying to teach me how to really go about not being noticed. Comouflage and concealment, they called it. And there were a few other subjects. Men, this is your basic training, and I'm Sergeant Shallot. Now over the next four months, it'll be my job to teach you just one lesson. And it's the really basic thing about basic training. How to stay alive at the enemy's expense. It's not an easy lesson to learn, but you'll have to learn it. You'll have to learn how to live on five hours of sleep a night. Because when you get into battle, you'll be lucky if the enemy lets you have two hours a night. You're going to learn how to patch yourself and how to take care of yourself. Because you're going to a place where an insect bite can mean gangrene.  Because you're going to have to know these things if you're expecting to come back. A lot of the things we'll teach you... It's a good job those cadre-minute basic training. You never really know how good until you find yourself actively involved in the war. Then you find out there are a lot of things that you have to learn for yourself. Like how to drink water when it's so full of halosone tablets that it looks, tastes, and smells like Clorox. How to dig a foxhole when the ground is frozen. And how to breathe when the air is putrid with carrion and so cold it hurts your lungs with every breath you take. It's impossible to heed the warnings they gave you in basic training about keeping your feet dry. It's impossible because your own body warmth turns the snow to ice water in the bottom of the hole you live in.  Just too tired or maybe too busy. I don't see them, Matt. I don't see them at all. Come on over here and I'll show you something to shoot at. I don't as much as something to shoot at as I want to know where they're going to be if they're going to shoot at me. I still don't see them. Right there. I don't see them either now. Did you hit anything? I don't. You never know unless they're standing right on top of you. On most terms, I'd as soon not find out. I heard you firing a few minutes ago. Yeah, I just nipped to heat up the barrel. I'm trying to get my hands warm. Just trying to remember the last time I was born. You and me both. I've been trying to remember a time when I wasn't in the Army. Just four more months for me. How about you? Almost two more years. RA, huh? Poor guy. You were just liable to get rotated home and then rotated back. You know that? That regular Army is rough. I hear the 33rd got into trouble. Could be. We're not exactly out of the woods ourselves, you know. You hear anything new? Half the time is just dumb luck when I hear this platoon is moving when it's moving. Looks pretty quiet out there now. You know, I did hear something. What? We're moving up this afternoon. Where'd you get that? Yeah, you got next man down from me. Oh, him? Well, I think maybe he's right this time. I'd bet on it. Well, I won't take your money. Well, if we do have to move, I sure wish these clouds had left. We could use some air support. Burger? Yeah. They wouldn't really rotate a guy twice, would they? Your regular Army, you tell me. Oh, brother. I don't think they would. I wouldn't worry about it. Ruger? Yo, Weston? Right here. Jensen's with you? Jensen's dead. Hmm. Jager? He's all right. Where is he? Other side of that patch is scrubbed. If you're going over there, you better let him know a long time in advance. He's a little shaky. Thanks. Now get your stuff together. We're moving out. Sergeant, how soon? Half hour. Jager, hold your fire. Was I right about moving up? Suddenly, I'm not worried about that double rotation anymore. You know, he was right. Who was right? That general who said war is hell. There's never been a longer winter in my life than that one was. I remember it as one long succession of battles over frozen ground. A long succession of foxholes carved out of ice and slush. It was a thousand gray and white days filled with the continuing thought that the next push would be the last, that I'd never really have to worry about getting enough points to come home. It was at the end of that winter, April the second, that I was sure I was going to be killed.  It didn't even have a name, just a number. And the platoon sergeant told us to dig in, and since Bruger and I were supposed to be a little better shots than the average, he put us on a promontory away from the rest of the company. We hadn't even finished digging in when the enemies started coming back up that hill. Cut off from the rest. Bruger! Bruger! I'm all alone and I've got to get back. I've got to get back with that company. I've got to get back up there. Dear God! It was a panic, a complete and unreasoning that moved me toward that company. I fired my rifle till I had no more clips, and then I dropped it and took a submachine gun from a dead Chinese and cut my way to the company. Once I fell and rolled halfway down the hill, but I got up and I didn't stop until I fell at the top of the hill in the midst of the company. They told me later that I had single-handedly split the enemy's attack force, causing them to fail. They told me that I accounted for approximately 50 of the enemy all by myself and that I had used the submachine gun as a club when its ammo was spent. They said I fell when I lost my foot and that I'd done the most of my fighting without it. But I don't remember any of those things. You don't remember any of them? When they told me about my foot, I didn't believe them. There wasn't any bravery involved. It was a fear, a panic. It was nothing more than an unplanned attempt at self-preservation. Then you don't think you deserve your decoration? Oh, it's a great honor. I'm grateful for what it represents. But I think that every man who ever earned a combat infantryman's badge should have a piece of the Congressional Medal of Honor. And I yearn for the day when it will be impossible for any man to have an award like it. The day when the people of the world finally realize that there must be a better answer to the world's problems than war. You can do something to make that day come sooner, Mr. Osborn. Well, how? Stop glorifying it in your paper. Well, I'll try, Mr. Weston. Well, I'll stop taking up your time. I think I've got enough material now. I'll see you to the door. Oh, no, that isn't necessary. Don't trouble yourself. If you're thinking of this foot of mine, don't have to use it to get used to it. Well, is it bad? Well, not nearly as good as the original, if that's what you mean. Well, it's been a pleasure meeting you, Mr. Weston, and I... Well, I enjoyed our talk. And I hope it did some good. Goodbye, sir. Oh, by the way, you quoted a general. I'll look up the rest of that boat if you'd like me to. I would. I'll see that you get a copy. Goodbye. Goodbye, Mr. Osborn. Hi there. What's for breakfast?  Well, I think I will. Well, what's this? Did you subscribe to a newspaper? Well, that one arrived this morning by Special Messenger. It has a profile of a hero on page five. You're the hero. Oh, he wrote the story, huh? Well, I'll bet it's typical. Well, I thought it was pretty accurate. Read the first paragraph to me, will you? But if you've read it... I'd like to hear it again. I think people shouldn't memorize it. All right, let's see here. From an address attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman, June 19, 1879. I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It's only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. You see, talking to that reporter did do some good. I may even have another talk with him. About what? We'll hit the positive angle now. Maybe he'll be able to get his readers to pray for peace. This is Richard Denning again. We often feel that our own problems are unique, that for others life is rather easy sailing. Sometimes our problem is the endurance of a great sorrow. But oftentimes it is the steady frustration which monotony induces in us. An endless procession of uninteresting, uninspiring tasks and duties. We feel that life is passing us by. We forget to look around us and see what many others really have to put up with, what a tonic it is, and how encouraged we are when we meet with manly and womanly poises and dignity in the sufferance of trials both great and small. More often than not, when this poise and balance is genuine and trouble-proof, we find that it comes from personal prayer and undeniable confidence that God is one's anchor. And family prayer too is the anchor of the home. No storm of misfortune or of temperament really can wreck the family which family prayer anchors. It makes a family poised and durable when everything seems bound to crack it up. Our bursts of temper, turbulent nerves, fits of disgust and unwarranted rivalries can reach destructive proportions. But when our Lord comes among us as we pray, the gales subside. We of so little faith are renewed in our faith. Our faith in ourselves, in others, and in him. In reality, the family that prays together stays together.  From Hollywood Family Theater has brought you transcribed Profile of a Hero starring Jean Evans. Richard Denning was your host. Others in our cast were Barbara Eiler, Leo Curley, Jack Carroll, George Peroni, and Ralph Voltrian. 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Okay, pure water. A single water molecule is bonded together covalently, so the hydrogen and the oxygen atoms share the electron covalently. The hydrogen, oxygen, bond, however, is polar. That means the electrons are not equally shared. Since oxygen is much more electronegative than hydrogen, the electron density mostly resides on the oxygen, or you can say that the oxygen pools most of the electron density to itself. This leaves little electron density on the hydrogen. Since oxygen is electron-rich and hydrogens are electron-poor, we call these cars a bond, polar bonds, because there is not an equal sharing of the electron density, which is what a non-polar bond would have. And we indicate the electron-rich region with a delta-minus symbol and the electron-poor region with a delta-plus symbol. The most liquids have a quite simple behavior. When they're cool, they shrink. This is because molecules have much less kinetic energy at lower temperature, so their intermolecular forces become stronger and the molecules struggle to break those forces to move around freely. But when water goes below four degrees Celsius, the water molecules lose most of its motion, so it won't move at all practically, and when things don't like to move, they like to arrange themselves into a crystal structure, forming what we know as a solid. Normally, a solid is the densest form of matter, but there are many exceptions and water is one of them. In the case of water, the water molecules arrange itself into a hexagonal lactase. This lactase, see the spaces here, contains more space than the liquid state. So the freezing point of pure water is zero degrees, but it starts to structure itself into a hexagonal form from four degrees, so when you cool liquid water down from said room temperature, it will shrink, like most liquid would, because molecules move around a lot less until it gets to four degrees, which is where it starts to arrange itself into this hexagonal crystal structure, and then it will expand until every single water molecule falls into the hexagonal lactase, which we know as ice. This is why ice flows on liquid water, because it's less dense. Here is what the lactase looks like in 3D. The fact that ice flows on liquid water has allowed nature to create phenomenal ecosystems around the addicts, where the icebergs would float on top and act as an insulating layer, like a blanket, protecting the liquid water from below, from the cold air on top, and thus prevent water at the bottom from freezing, allowing living organisms to leave below the icebergs. One really spectacular example is Lake Vostok. Feel free to do a bit research on this. Essentially, scientists have found a lake at the southern pole of cold beneath Russia's Vostok station under an ice sheet of 2.2 miles thick, and they are speculating that there are organisms trapped underneath from 15 or 25 million years ago that have been protected by the very thick ice sheet.


If you have to utter any kind of sound without using the tongue, what are the sounds that you could utter? I want you to experiment and see. Ah... Yes, for sure you can do a... O... possible? Hmm... Yes, possible. What else? Suppose you did not have a tongue, what are the sounds you can utter? You can do a... You can do o... You can do mmm... Try any other sound. Someone who is unable to speak, a mute person who is unable to speak, what are the sounds that he makes? Ah... o... mmm... Because these three sounds do not need the use of your tongue. See, if you remove your tongue, you are able to make only three sounds. Ah... o... mmm... You are using the tongue, placing the tongue in different positions in your palate to mix these three sounds and produce all the other sounds that you produce. If you know something about the colour television, you would know there are only three basic colours. Using these three colours, you see every other possible colour on the tube. Similarly, there are only three basic sounds. Using these three sounds, you're able to produce all these other sounds. The tongue is just helping you to mix these three sounds in many complex ways. Now, these three sounds, ah, who and ma are referred to as the basic sounds or the universal sounds, because these three sounds are the basis of all the other sounds that you can utter. If you utter these three sounds together, what do you get? It's not oh... Ah... So these are the three basic sounds which are the very basis of all the other sounds that you can utter. So arm is known as the universal sound or the basic sound in the creation. If this is true, how come only a certain religion seems to be using it as a brand for themselves and nowhere else it is known? That is not true. Wherever there is a realised being, there sound arm will be there. For example, Christianity, born in Jerusalem, where the language at that time was Armaic, Armaic language has a certain inflection where sound mmm is dominant. So in Christianity, whatever they close with today, whatever they say, they close it with amen. If you look at it the way it is said at the Vatican, it's always said amen. You take off the N and say amen. Oh! If you want to understand this, you can see a similar inflection in Tamil. See now for example, Ram, you know Ram, born in Ayodhya. He came down south. When he came south, when Ram entered Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, people called him Rama, then he crossed the Tamil Nadu border. People called him Raman. If Krishna comes to Tamil Nadu, what will you do? Krishnan. If Arjun comes to Tamil Nadu, what do you do? Arjunan. If Beam comes to Tamil Nadu, what do you do? Beaman. Whoever enters Tamil Nadu border, they get unified. This inflection of an in Tamil is much stronger than Armaic. You take out the N, it's just arm. Today this amen has gone to United States of America and become amen. This is cultural and language distortions which happen. Islam, born also in the same region, under the same cultural and language influences, they are saying amen. Take away N and say amen. Oh, it's the same sound. Because wherever a human being becomes silent by his own nature, not schoolteacher silence, not plugging your ears silence. If you become silent by your own nature, sound arm will reverberate in the system because the root sound for your physical existence is sound arm. When arm reverberates, it starts from just beneath the navel and ends at the tip of your nose. This reverberation will just happen by itself. So wherever a human being truly sat quietly, utter quietness within himself, he always became aware of the sound arm. When he transmitted it, it got distorted over a period of time according to language and cultural influences. Even in India, arm has become om. It is not om.  Gently close your mouth, it becomes o. You close it, it becomes mm. Sound arm, arm has innumerable benefits. Even today, if anybody come here with any kind of psychological disturbances, the first prescription is always arm.  I can show you hundreds of people for whom medically it was believed that they have to be in psychiatric medication for the rest of their life, have completely walked out of the need for medication simply by uttering arm.  Particularly children, if they have attention disorders, daily utterance of arm for a few minutes a day will make a enormous difference for you. If you have problems that you are unable to do anything with a certain resolve in your life, daily utterance of arm will be truly transformational for you within a couple of weeks, you can notice a phenomenal difference in the way you function because this is the basic sound in your physical existence.


Please be seated. Enga mana, enga reo, enga hou e fa, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou koutou. Pro Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, University staff, special guests, graduands, whanau and supporters. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of council members and staff of the University. This is a meeting of the Council of the University of Auckland, at which the Pro Chancellor and I will confer diplomas and award degrees in the Faculty of Science. Graduation is a time for celebrating success. Today you will experience the pomp and tradition of this ancient ceremony and the recognition befitting your success on your well-earned day of celebration. Like your family and friends gathered here, we are very proud of all your achievements and look forward to your lifelong involvement as members of the University of Auckland family. Of course, graduation represents more than just the day of celebration. Your qualification from this university will have a lifetime impact on you, your family and the community at large. We know that, compared to those whose formal education ends in high school, graduates have lower unemployment rates, higher salaries, better career prospects and better health outcomes. Universities New Zealand has estimated that the lifetime benefits of earning a degree are valued at between $1 million and $4 million. Your university experience and the qualifications gained at university will thus add real value to your lives and to the lives of those around you. The fact that our university can add value in these ways reflects the abilities and achievements of our staff and students. In the Faculty of Science, we have seen several notable achievements in the last year. Dr Alex Tata won the McDiamond Emerging Scientist Prize at the 2015 Prime Minister's Science Prize Awards for his research into the evolution of intelligence. Associate Professor Staphon Cohen was awarded the research medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists for his discoveries in miniature optics. Marie McInty won a Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award in the National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards. Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble was named one of the year's Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Professors Alex Drummond and Thomas Lumley and Associate Professor Janet Wormshurst were elected fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In order to ensure that we can continue to achieve successes like these and to enhance our contribution to the future generations of graduates and to our nation, I believe the university must do three things. First, we need to attract students of high academic potential and give them an outstanding academic and extracurricular experience. In this respect, I believe we're doing very well. The proportion of domestic students entering the university with a high grade point average is growing each year and we produce outstanding graduates just like you. Second, we need to attract, develop and retain outstanding staff. This we are doing too, as illustrated by the achievements I've just described. Many of our staff are world leaders in their fields and you will have been privileged to learn from and work with them. It is no coincidence that in the QS world rankings of university subjects, the University of Auckland came top in 35 of the 40 ranked subjects and we don't even teach two of them. So if you think about this for a moment, there are 40 ranked subjects, we teach 38, we ranked in the top 35. Sounds like an outstanding result to me. And third, we need to create the kind of academic environment and facilities that support and encourage excellence. To this end, the university has been investing heavily in its campus renewal programme so as to ensure that we do provide facilities of genuine international quality. Many of you will graduate today with a first qualification and you will be rightly proud of this achievement. However, I also want you to reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at this university. You see, you must never rest on your laurels in a challenging and ever-changing world, but rather be prepared to embrace change and new technology and make the most of the opportunities presented to you. Although it may seem a daunting prospect right now, further study and learning is inevitable for us all as the world changes around us at an ever-accelerating pace. So whatever path you follow, I urge you as the alumni of New Zealand's leading university to never forget your alma mater, your university. We rely on our graduates for support, moral, political and financial. But today is your day with the focus firmly on your achievement. At this ceremony, we honour your success, along with the support of your family, whanau and others who have sustained you through your studies. I congratulate you all and trust that you will long cherish the memories of your graduation today. I'm pleased to introduce our final speaker in this year's autumn graduation, Mark Todd, who is the co-founder of Auckland Residential, Auckland's most progressive developer. With the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics gained at Auckland University, Mark is a qualified builder who went into the building trade after completing his university studies. He started with a family company building standalone townhouses and developed an interest in enhancing livability through quality building and intelligent use of land, aspect and architecture. Mark has led the Auckland residential business since 2009 with a hands-on style and his integral to the creative process around the company's developments. He actively champions Auckland Residential's urban regeneration focus and his vision of leading the market through exemplar developments. He believes strongly that the best – I'm sorry, I'll stop there – please join me in welcoming Mark. It's a pleasure to be here. Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, members of the council, members of the university, graduands, families and friends. I can't quite believe I'm standing here. This is by some margin the largest audience I've ever spoken in front of, so you might have to forgive the odd trip up and stutter. But it's been a long journey to get here. Interesting, when I just want to tell you a short story about my life at university since then and what we're up to with Auckland Residential and Auckland Foundation. And finally conclude just by giving you a hint why I believe a science education is critical to being a valued member of society. So when I arrived at Auckland University, I was young, didn't quite know what to expect. My parents hadn't reached college education and so I didn't really have any preconceived expectations about where I'd lead. But I remember the time I got to year three, my final year, I just developed a sense of absolute amazement of the thousands of years of knowledge my subjects were built on, the hundreds of years of collective study that produced my lecturers and professors that taught me. And I developed a real appreciation as I sat there and studied ring theory and ability and algebra and language truth and meaning and get right up in the sky with my thought I loved abstract subjects that society, we lived in a society that actually valued and provided an opportunity for higher education and learning. To me that I still remember to this day in my final year just waking up to the fact this is an absolute privilege to be able to study and build on literally thousands of years of collective work, discovery and ambition. So then I left university and I promptly, I didn't get a job. In the ensuing 20 years I'm pretty sure I've forgotten most of what I learnt in my science degree, but I have retained an outlook and a process and I've retained a worldview that's very helpful. So I spent most of my 20s actually being productively minimally employed I suppose as a word. I did a lot of surfing, I was a bit of a bum, I ended up painting houses for three years in my mid-20s and my brother came back from London, he was a qualified builder and I had so much work painting houses he started helping me paint houses. Then we did renovations and in 1998 I did my first property development and that grew pretty well and over the ensuing 10 years I built about 80 standard innerfield townhouses becoming progressively more frustrated with the inefficiencies and expense of that approach.  Fortunately for me one of my good friends who also studied mathematics was a graduate of the science department here, Ben Preston. Unlike myself who'd been a bit of a, you know, had a quiet time, I had a self assured confidence that I'd do something at some point in some time. He lept out of the gate university and had an international banking career across three different continents and was very successful. But like a lot of wealthy retired bankers in the recession he had millions of dollars sitting around earning zero in a bank account. And we jointly decided to set up Auckland Residential with the express goal of changing the delivery style of medium and high intensity housing in Auckland and we set up Auckland Foundation at the same time. Because we both, by this stage in our lives, which is in our late 30s, had developed a firm view that the bandwidth of the public discourse is quite narrow. You know that there is a lack of acknowledgement of the wide variety of solutions available to any given problem. And this lack of public discourse inspired us to set up an educational based foundation. Its goal is to provide meaningful educational experiences that engage with students, make them feel a sense of social justice and to prioritise their independent thought and critical thinking faculties. Because the world's full of possibility, more possibility than we're allowed to possess and know in the current, the way we're presented with a probe. My background's in development and housing is a topical issue at the moment, it's a prism through which you see a lack of discourse. There's dysfunctionality in the housing market, but the response is only, is always valed in an ideological approach. Rather than taking a step back, looking at the evidence, looking at the possible range of solutions and our foundation has grown in conjunction with our business, it's a very satisfying part of my life. And my science education has really helped after many years of not employing it to build a business that is both personally satisfying, socially relevant and very successful. So I hope that each of you, I really want to get across the thought that you might not end up working in your chosen fields, but you've been taught in a way to think about the world that is very important in modern society. We're living in a world that has changed quickly, there is a lot of polish and there's a lot of spin, a lot of ego across many disciplines. And we're in a world that's exciting full of possibility but also full of challenges, sustainability challenges, equity issues. And you're training to look at the world and be open to the results of evidence, to be open to the results of study, to be open to changing your mind as the result of open-minded endeavour is very, very important. And I hope that you all look back in 20 years and realise that your science degree is not the practicality of your particular subjects that is of real value. It's a way of thinking and that way of thinking society is in desperate need of at the moment to propel us forward in an ever-changing, exciting world full of possibility. Thank you very much and I know you must have had a, you know, I know what a mix of feelings it is getting through your degree, but congratulations on getting there and I hope to meet some of you in the business world over the coming decades. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mark, for most interesting and insightful speech. You've certainly given us some things to think about. This is a meeting of council in Convocation of the University at which the Pro-Chancellor, Scott St John and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I invite the Pro-Chancellor to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of this ceremony. By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Scott St John Pro-Chancellor, award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated upon those who within the Faculty of Science have satisfied the requirements of this university. I call upon an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science, Mrs Goldstone, to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-Chancellor, as Associate Dean, I have the honour of presenting to you students, qualified for the award of a diploma or conferment of a degree in the Faculty of Science, to the degree of Bachelor of Science, Sophie Patricia Elliott, Xin Li, Stephen Aaron Lee, Xian Li, Xilong Li, Hubert Liang, Ying Liang, Joanne Yi-Ya Lian, Keegan Ken Hulu, Denise Xu Min Lim, Hai An Wu Lim, Xiaoxing Lim, Yi Chen Lin, Xian Lin, Daniel Carl Lindsay, Jonathan Ling Chi-Hue, Oliver Chi-Ming Lu, Shi Lu, Xiao Chu Lu, Yu Lin Lu, Chi-Man Lu Lu, Lu Wei Qing, Taniala Fino-Peter Lolaher, Min Li Long, Bianca Daniel Ordinez-Lotevio, Madeleine Nicole Lowes, Alexandra Anderson-Laurin, Benjamin Nigel Peter Lucas, Simon Ewitt-Iverson-Losha, Courtney Rebecca Hamlin-Lynch, Chao Ma, Olivia Ellis-Mack, Tony Brian Ford-McKerris, Kate Madeleine-McKroll, Crystal Itelia Maddox, Jessica Sarah-Rose Ma, Siraj Sunhill Mahimka, Alicia Hasney-Pranita Macon, Charlene Jane Rabano-Malalaun, Marcus Hurta-Mallon, Dakshita Ben-Mala-Visiuriya, Shaman Luke Bruce-Martin, Lisa Nicole Mattson, Vanessa Robin-Moncell, Emma Heather-McCaffity, Blair Daniel-McCulloch, Samuel Janes-Cooper-McCulloch, Christopher John McDermott, Kirby Chackwile-McDonald, Gemma Cushler-McDonald, John Edward McGowan, Daniel John McGinnis, Monique Christina McEwan, Aidan Stewart-McLean, Rachel Barbara-Moussa, Mark Seymour-Ciosi-Miradis, India Paige-Mirick, Tian Xiaomai, Dean Ryan Miller, Mitchell Ray Miller, Mitchell Thomas Mills, Rachel Orianna Mincham, Jonathan Carl Miranda, Vijay Momba-Mistre, Ricky Pal Mitchell, Janine Paula Malloy, Paul Bertstein-Mawving, Renee Yoshita-Mujani, Luke David-Mawes, Sarah Louise Smorgan, Redmond Mortimer, Julian Sean Mokson, Denny Olnacole Munster, Aaron Deanna Murphy, James Roger Murphy, Min Jinnah, Ana Radna De Vashmi Nagahola, Abhayat Najimi, Surash Surish Kumarnaar, Puja Priyankanand, Hashita Nandani, Anisha Sonia Narayan, Alexander James Karuna-Nathan, Helen Emma Jean-Natris, Miguel Nebrus Nepa Machino, Daniel Francis Neuberger, Joshua Robert Neuberger, Janelle Josephine Neuson, Ng Xiong Xiong, Raphael Leonson-Niktau, Projactor Pramod Nifankar, Imogen Grace Elizabeth Nock, Nathana Harith Nori, Thomas Anthony Northy, Chris Graham O'Brien, Ryan David-Medlando Donahoe, Leopold Arath Oke, Mahalia Agada Enakati Onisi, Jessica Mae Nguyen Ong, Sana Oshika, Suyung Ao, Lurie Ping, Nathan Arthur Daniel Palmer, Tulani Hensika Palpa Gama, Jenny Jiahul Pan, Yongjin Park, Raj Kiranpama, Kajol Sonam Patel, Priya Rajnikan Patel, Kimberly Patterson, Emily Catherine Paulin, Albina Failo Palovali, Jordan Ren Payne, Usual Redi Pobeti, Ye Ng Pei, Dylan Concerie Penn, Senior Scholar Science George Rodney Samuel Pennington, Alexandra Hannah Pickering, Elliot Isaac Wilson-Pike, Danika Pillay, Cush Trim Pareva, Jessica Cherie Pitwood, Anita Hinamoa Mandala-Jasmine Poppy, Geraldine Louise Powell, Shantanu Pradhan, Vishal Vivek Prasad, Nicole Pradhan, Nicole Lee Pike, Madeleine Mary Pine, Senior Scholar Science Marie Sachaquel, Yusuf Hussain Qureshi, Elisaveta Rakhmananova, Katalina Delpila-Ramez-Rivas, Radclav Gravian, Ella Marie Michelle Rawcliffe, Amy Nicole Redman, Todd Christopher Redman, Dongpo Ren, James Patrick Reynolds, Timothy Peter Riddell, Phillip John Riley, Stephanie L. Rings, Sarah Renee Robertson-Vickers, Hagan Savia Robinson, Hone Tangaroa Ropata, Ekweni Ropati, John Roan, Kourtney J. Darush, Daniel William John Russell, Carol Reichen, Farah Pransawan Sekang, Reza Sajid, Manisha Sakamuri, Akara Gai Ahathir Nesrala Jani-Salgado, Joshua Paul Salmon, Sandani Manmada Samarakun, Christopher Alan Sampson, Scott Peepock Sanderson, Matthew Jonathan Davis Sargent, Michael James Sargent, Clara Pymata Satio, Alexandra Catherine Sargent, Juliana Helena Roharia-Saw, Saman Tsuha Ausha, Shahina Sagupta Shahem, Manchil Kumar Sharma, Samantha Krishna Sharma, Lara Shasha, Rafi Masin Shasha, Jessica Sarah Sheila Janshed, Manjanath Jayshinoy, Amoak Shetty, Yushin Shi, Jun Bosham, Amber Daniel Camel Simmons, Frederick Joshua Simpson. Pro-Chancellor, I call on the head of psychology, Professor Hayward, to present further graduands. To the degree of Bachelor of Science, Hasimran Singh, Shrestha Singh, Janani Kanchana Surawadna, John Yaroslav Siri, Steven Sit, Sayyair Ahmed Sleimankel, Matthew George Sleet, Nikita Marie Sloane, Adaitia Smith, Kamara Subramani, Peter Rangis Ornson, Mark Alexander Spires, Jennifer Lynn Springer, Kozon Shreamporn, Kaitlyn Monica Stevens, Grace Jocelyn Stewart, Kelly Ann Stewart, Olivia Hannah Stone, Senior Scholar Science, Alexander David Stootley, Ker Suh, Pooja Saranjan, Keisha Nipinsurti, Justin Adam Sousins, Tanyarat Suwan Willakhan, Jamie Ray Honetaka, Azaria Moana Marie Kavad Talifalao, Edward Yi Tak Tan, Lindia Tan, Heidi Selman Tang, Jin Yi Tang, Song Tang, Wei Yi Tang, Pooja Girish Tank, Jackson Bill Tatton, Kemio Alexandra Tomopio, James Scott Taylor, Alicia Irene Taylor, Matthew Philipp Taylor, Natasha Michelle Taylor, Ricky Joe Taylor, Levi J. Dean Lewis Te Amo, Jeslyn Teo, David Herbert Thomas, Catherine Elinad Thomas, Elizabeth Mary Thompson, Sebastian Timothy Thompson, Zameez Thompson-Goss, Alexandra Catherine Thompson, Michael Connor George Thompson, Kaitlyn Lyra Thorn, Philip Axel Thorpe, Steven Anthony Tikka, Jacqueline Elaine Tizard, Angelita Puteri Chokro, Melanie Temer Tkach, Darlene Joy Pelligman Toklo, Matthew Sean Towers, Rebecca Kay Tracy, Elizabeth Catherine Trotman, Anita Mary Trudgin, Lydia Marissa Turley, Sophie Rose Turner, Max Tyler Ketyo Tutsilino-Smith, Jerome Nathaniel Tai, Virginia Qingman Un, Victor Useltsev, Lizalotta Maria Vendenhut, Bethany Lorraine Vendazar, Senior Scholar Science Alexandra Joseph Vendavorn, Maya Edna Esther Van Can, Charles Vincent Cudia Velasco, Pamela Rae Pamiano-Varano, Christopher Lorenzo Vidal, Pauline Grace Lumbau-Viliusenio, Hashirun Korverk, Siam Chandra Vishnudas, Kate Rebecca Voss, Thomas Henry Vukic, Sean Cyrus Wadia, Philip Kang Walker, William Wang Ma, Qingfan Wang, Wan Lin, Shingwa Wang, Yiqin Wang, Yiqin Wang, Wang Yu, Matthew James Ward, Athena Elizabeth Watkins, Keri Stefan Waters, April Kathleen Weck, Zhijian Wen, Sophie Joy Weldale, Emily Frances White, Eden Alexandra Whitehead, Jake Riley Wilkins Buggent, Paige Deborah Wilkinson. Thank you, Pro-Chancellor, for conferring the degrees and awarding the diplomas in the first half of this ceremony. One of the great pleasures of graduation is the opportunity to hear performances by students from our acclaimed School of Music. Martin Robertson Cello, accompanied by Gemma Lee, will now perform Vocalease by Sir J. Rachmaninoff. Thank you, Martin and Gemma, for that wonderful performance. Ladies and gentlemen, please join with me in thanking Martin and Lee Gemma once again. If you would like to hear more from our wonderful musicians, I invite you to attend the Graduation Gala Concerto competition to be held in the town hall on Thursday 12th May at 7.30pm. Admission is free. Priority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I Ian Parton, Chancellor, award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated upon those who, within the Faculty of Science, have satisfied the requirements of this university. To the degree of Bachelor of Science, Elise Thomasine Williams, Jade Rosalie Williams, Rebecca Lee Williams, Seraphine Ikita Williams, Jamie Ryan Willis, Ryan James Winkle, Joshua Daniel Verm, Brea Elizabeth Welliston, Bradley Michael Wong, Giselle Chloe Wong, Joanna Tang Tang Wong, Locken Wong, Sally Wong, Caleb James Wright, Michaela Jane Wright, Alana Wu, Meng Ting Wu, Michelle Chen Shu Wu, Emma Lauren Wiley, Mo Xu Sier, Guo Yong Yang, Tao Yang, Yi Heng Yang, Nicholas Zain Shan Yip, Seng Min Yong, Fiona Chupin Yu, Ian Yi Heng Yi, Vathu Jia Yogananda Raja, Lisa Yoshihama, Yi Yu, Daniel James Young, George Douglas Young, Linux Mark Young, Michelle Rit Young, Stephanie Kirsten Young, Anka Yu, Pin Yu Yuan, Dong Ning Zhang, Haolei Zhang, Jinlon Zhang, Yibo Zhao, Zixin Zhao, Yu Jie Zhu, Yi Ying Zheng, Yong Zhen Zhong. To the degree of Bachelor of Technology with First Class Honours, Zoe Catherine Mooney Davidson, Eric Hayden Deverec, Imsa Furi, Neelam Hari, Nathan Ioni Nelson Henry, Muhammad Rafay Ali Khan, Senior Scholar Science FUN O, Zing Jiang Pan, Anthony Gordon Peake, Nazanin Rafati, Abhinaya Rajaseka, Benjamin Nicholas Sutton, Jessica Florence Tulp, Kate Lizanne Whiteman, Jalee Xu, Rujia Yang. To the degree of Bachelor of Technology with Second Class Honours, First Division, Logan Ronald Baeber, Rowan Nicholas Law Carmichael, Lucas David Denton, Wija Sikora Wikramasinghe Waasala Marianselege Sehan Tarundu Ederiwera, Ross Jenkins, Avish Kapadia, Praise Lim, Kachi Lo, Nithanel Dela Rosa Marunia, Sandingov, Karthik Raj Padulapati, Shane Prem Singh, Shukchun Jantam. To the degree of Bachelor of Technology with Second Class Honours, Second Division, Claudia Koh-Hadfield, Shu Hei, Jung Law, Sneha Srinivasan. Chancellor, I call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Hosking, to present further graduands. Yifong Leong, Sunil, Postgraduate Diploma in Science with Distinction, Stefan Daffodd Morris-Madea in Biological Sciences, Sevegami Menakashi Sundaram in Food Science, Paterasuta Raiwiwan in Food Science, Postgraduate Diploma in Science with Merit, Lukamori in Marine Science, Philippa Mae Norris in Earth Sciences and a Bachelor of Science, Ashley Nicole Nutsford in Biological Sciences, Malia Saluti-Paluka in Mathematics, Kajini Shripathmanathan in Statistics, Ulisia Wingchung-Wong in Environmental Science, Postgraduate Diploma in Science, Clarence Hidalgo-Mollinyawi in Biomedical Science, Salmiya Mudela in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Varan Nair in Computer Science, Hussam Sinul Kumar-Prasad in Chemistry, Hula Pulakuri in Environmental Science, Zutaw Chwan in Environmental Science, Ganareka Ravan-Dharan in Medical Statistics and a Bachelor of Science, Christopher John Russell in Biosecurity and Conservation, Rani Sayang in Psychology, Fiya Shaleen in Environmental Management, Kourtney Joanne Shaw in Biosecurity and Conservation, Songrui in Food Science, Yifan Song in Environmental Science, Rasheena Freddie-Raveyarva in Psychology, Anshi Wong in Biological Sciences, Danba Wong in Computer Science, Wenxu Wong in Geography, Zhu Minxiang in Wine Science, Yilish Yong in Biological Sciences, Huenshu in Food Science, Zhiyong Yong in Biological Sciences, to the Degree of Bachelor of Science Honours with First Class Honours, Renita Vasundara Abelkarama in Statistics, Elina Ashimbayeva in Biomedical Science, University Graduate Scholar, Orban Antwan Banvat in Physics, University Scholar Science, Steven Rufus Ty Bell in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Science Conjoint, Ijadiyah Dawn Boyd in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science, David Terence Jeremiah Broderick in Biomedical Science, University Graduate Scholar, Matthew James Conda in Mathematics, Alicia Cherry Koot in Earth Sciences, Emily Sarah Joan Corey in Psychology, Daniel Denon in Psychology, Faber Maddox-Edwards in Physics, Ashley Rose Fromont in Geophysics, Rebecca Leigh Grass in Psychology, Morgan Patricia Hand in Biological Sciences, Tyne Jaina Heselgrave in Earth Sciences, Ashley Noel Hinton in Statistics, Maria Agatha Josephine Hoeflinga Toney in Pharmacology, Rian Nguyen Susan Roberta Horne in Applied Mathematics, Kai Huang in Statistics and a Graduate Diploma in Science, Harry Thomas Jordan in Physiology and a Bachelor of Science, Nazish Salman Khan in Computer Science, Stephanie Koo in Physiology, Suhin Kim in Medicinal Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science, Jisoo Lee in Statistics, Rahi Tumbari Rai Murangi in Computer Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science, Therese Martin in Earth Sciences, Jordan Anthony Joel McCone in Medicinal Chemistry, Andrew Thomas McNabb in Earth Sciences, Inga Meinhart in Psychology, Ruth Louise Monk in Biomedical Science, University Graduate Scholar, Alyssa Liska-Louise Moore in Medicinal Chemistry, Liam Kahu-Odwar in Mathematics, Courtney Rita Ogilvy in Chemistry, Jacob Michael Painter in Biological Sciences, University Graduate Scholar, Esperanza Sassafras-Pearl in Chemistry, Marisa Pumaran in Medicinal Chemistry, Joshua James Castleberg-Rippon in Physics, Yasmin Sabanli in Biomedical Science, University Graduate Scholar, Kathleen Alice Seden in Biomedical Science, Daniel Edward Snell in Mathematics, Hamish Stewart-Speakman in Geography, Crystal Anita Sutton in Earth Sciences, Molly Elizabeth Victoria Swanson in Biomedical Science, Nicole Elizabeth Taylor in Psychology, Katrina Frances Thompson in Geography, Catherine Louise Todd in Biomedical Science, Jonah Saye in Biomedical Science, Megan Emily Tuck in Geography, Ruth Isabel Catherine Van Dam in Earth Sciences, Joseph Lawrence Vella in Chemistry, Hannah Natalia Vibordna in Chemistry, Anna Pauline Wilker in Chemistry, Samuel Mark Walls in Mathematics, Timothy Daniel Wajaja in Computer Science, Kate Marie Wright in Earth Sciences, Shang Xi Xu in Statistics, Huzhung in Chemistry, to the degree of Bachelor of Science Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Maria Kate Ohada-Alamario in Pharmacology, Ira Bell Hardinero-Bahess in Psychology, Michael Walter Hambamma in Biological Sciences, Cynthia Sunindini in Biological Sciences, Hannah Kim in Geography, Xi Wei Kim in Bidicial Chemistry, and a Bachelor of Science, Ryan Colin Krebs in Geography and a Bachelor of Science, Xi Cheng Jing in Chemistry, Tianyu Luan in Statistics, Robin Marion Parker in Earth Sciences, Cannon Manfred Ridings in Physics, Thomas Henry Rishworth in Earth Sciences, Stacia Romandich in Statistics, Kaitlyn Jane Slabbit in Earth Sciences, Anna Senugota in Physics, Boyan Ovalov Todorov in Applied Mathematics, Joanna Trong in Chemistry, Joanna Qing Yu-Un in Chemistry, Kelly G. Tong-Zhong in Psychology, to the degree of Bachelor of Science Honours with Second Class Honours Second Division, Phillip Francis Evans in Physics, Yushan Li in Computer Science, Maolona Junia Burhanpour in Statistics, Sarah Gale-Sabrion in Chemistry, to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with Second Class Honours First Division, Roberto Riccardo-Cuzzi in Food Safety, Namti Nocfam in Food Safety, Yingzhu in Food Safety, to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division, Nisha Arma-Odd in Food Safety, to the degree of Master of Professional Studies, Rama Rajan in Mathematics Education, to the degree of Master of Speech Language Therapy Practice with Second Class Honours First Division, Jamie Diane Branfield, Daniel Stuart Caddy, Martin John Deleel, Ellen Louise Faithful, Teigen Frye, Kristen Elizabeth Gentry, Sarah Elizabeth Hayden, Victoria Rose Holgate, Felicity Alexandra Johnson, Elizabeth Rose Monsall, Virgin Alexandra McLeod, Navita Nicole Stokes, Hirmat Zahra Sayed, Tanya Elizabeth Watt, Weiun Wong, to the degree of Master of Philosophy, Arish Hado Aryan in Computer Science, Sadhaf Nakwash in Biological Sciences. I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands. Chancellor, I have the honour of presenting to you the doctoral graduands. To the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Julia Rose McDonald in Biological Sciences. Julia looked at the human enzyme Hoga, which is involved in a rare form of inherited kidney stones. She found that in this disease, the defective enzyme is incorrectly folded and becomes degraded within kidney cells leading to kidney stones. Julia also found the first evidence that this enzyme may be involved in a fundamental metabolic pathway, the TCA cycle. Discoveries like this can lead to the development of drugs targeting metabolic diseases, such as diabetes. Marie Josephine McKinty in Environmental Science. Marie investigated research partnerships between scientists and farmers, creating innovations to advance sustainable agriculture in New Zealand. She developed a conceptual model that reveals the importance of project-partner relationships and of supportive institutions for providing a collaborative learning space where innovations are co-developed and learning is emergent, adaptive and dynamic. Min Huang Nguyen in Computer Science, University Doctoral Scholar. Justam designed and built a system that is capable of creating high-quality 3D digital models from an unconstrained and unannotated 2D image sequence. These images' sequences can be acquired by a video camera or a handheld digital camera without the need for camera calibration. Once supplied with the input images, his system automatically processes and produces a 3D model. Anne-Marine Parchaic-Marian in Biological Sciences University Doctoral Scholar. Anne-Marie studied the characteristics of the human bacterium E. coli that had naturalised in stream-bacterial communities. The analysis of their metabolome, transcriptome, genetic and phenotypic traits reveal that naturalised strains have some enhanced capabilities for colonising and competing with stream bacteria. The study provides a framework to understand the process of naturalisation of bacterial strains in particular pathogens in non-host environments. Claudia Liliana Rivera-Rodriguez in Statistics University Doctoral Scholar. Claudia proposed a more efficient approach to estimating the risk of certain diseases in a population. She used data available on a large scale and incorporated this in her analysis to obtain a more accurate estimation of the risk. This is particularly relevant when a disease is rare and expensive to study, for example, cancer. Claudia, congratulations. Adam B. Rotan in Computer Science, University Doctoral Scholar. Adam explored how the novel social experience found in unified crowds could be encapsulated over the internet. The purpose of his research was to explore how feelings of unity, belonging and validation could be created between vast numbers of people through computer mediated interaction. His contributions include a design model derived from social psychology and a software framework capable of supporting tens of thousands of people. Antoine François-Jacques Runga in Physics. Antoine studied optical pulse dynamics in all fibre laser cavities operating in stable and unstable regimes. His observations revealed that these lasers can display a wide range of new non-linear phenomena such as dissipative rogue waves and soliton explosions. Antoine. Katie Elizabeth Sharp in Mathematics. Katie constructed a mathematical model that replicates how fluid flows in the lungs, which she used to predict the conditions for the mucus build-up seen with a disease cystic fibosis. She identified the compromise and secretion from submucosal glands as the primary suspect and therefore the focus of future research for a cure. Michael Aidan's Day in Computer Science. Mike wrote about mathematical analogies between systems in computer science and in physics. His main result was constructing a compact closed bi-category of spans, a generalisation of linear algebra that has applications in quantum gravity as well as in modelling distributed computations. Jamie Ernest Sherrod Steer in Environmental Science University doctoral scholar. Jamie's research explored how people understand introduced wildlife in New Zealand, asking whether species that are currently considered to be pests could come to be incorporated into ideas of acceptable biodiversity. He showed how a wider acceptance of introductions has become both morally and intellectually compelling, arguing that it is time for New Zealanders to accept more dynamic human-inclusive notions of nature. Jamie. Christopher Scott Thompson in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Science with Merit in Psychology, university doctoral scholar. Chris studied a mutation to a common gene in humans known as BDNF and looked at how this mutation affected memory systems and the brain function of individuals. Chris. He studied in Sport and Exercise Science University doctoral scholar. Clare used dietary supplements to increase brain creatine levels in humans. creatine is an important energy source and she discovered that supplementation can enhance brain function during oxygen deprivation. Her findings show that creatine may have utility as a therapeutic supplement to help those recovering from brain injury. And in absentia all those other named in the official record qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Science. Chancellor, council members, distinguished guests, graduates, families and friends of graduates and of the university, university colleagues. A celebration of graduation is a major event in the calendar of the university. It is also a minor miracle of organisation that we manage to repeat at least twice each year in Auckland. The university salutes all the graduates who make it possible for us to celebrate your success. A successful graduation means that we must ensure that all ten ceremonies proceed smoothly. That means checking results, communicating with and marshalling over 5,000 students. It is quite an exercise. So on your behalf I would like to thank those who made graduation not only possible but hopefully an occasion that you will remember. The Auckland Grammar School Pipe Band and the Police Pipe Band, which provide the music for our procession to the ART Centre on each day of graduation. The organist Dr John Wells who has played at each ceremony. The musicians from the School of Music who have performed with distinction at each ceremony. Our speakers each with an appropriate message for the graduates. Members of the University Council busy people who make time to join us for this special occasion. The fire karanga team who perform the karanga that welcomes everyone to each ceremony. The Kate Edgar Educational Trust which provides many of the ceremonial caps, gowns and hoods that we wear today. And the profits that they make from that exercise are used to fund scholarships. The staff of our hosts, the ART Centre. The staff who taught you and made your graduation possible represented by my colleagues on the stage today. The staff who assemble the materials we use for graduation ensure that nearly everything necessary arrives in the right place at the right time. The marshals who organise the various processions and ensure that almost everyone turns up in the right place and at the right time. The mace bearers, Professor Louise Nicholson, Professor Gary Barkhason, Associate Professor Marcus Wilson and Dr Douglas Carey. The role of the mace bearer is to escort and protect the official party and they have done a fine job. Behind the scenes are the staff of the graduation office led by Margaret Allen. They complete all the paperwork required for each of the 5,000 students who graduates. They ensure that the ceremonies run to time. They slot in those who arrive late into their correct seats and they have worked very long hours over the last few weeks and particularly the last week to make sure that everyone feels that graduation is a special day. So we particularly thank Margaret and the graduation office team for an excellent job and on behalf of us all I would like to present Margaret with some flowers to recognise the effort which underlines graduation, to thank her in particularly but through her all those who have contributed to a very successful week of ceremonies. Margaret, please come forward. And finally we must thank our Chancellor, Dr Ian Parton and Pro-Chancellor, Scots and John. They have together shaken some 5,000 hands this week, spoken to each graduate and been greeted and photographed in numerous ways. The Chancellor has also prepared and delivered 10 welcome speeches. So I close by thanking you all and as always thank you Chancellor. Thank you Vice-Chancellor. We have reached the end of this graduation ceremony. On behalf of the university I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive their congratulations of us all. While standing it would be a good opportunity for the graduates to show their appreciation of their families and supporters and the staff of the university who have helped them as they achieved their qualifications. Thank you. This concludes this meeting of council in convocation of the university for the conferment of degrees in the award of diplomas. I now invite you all to sing the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Māori and in English. The words are printed on the reverse of the programme.