Thank you. Good morning. Welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Dorrit Bergen and on behalf of the congregation, I would like to extend a special welcome to visitors.  Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and to be aware that we will have persons holding teal coffee mugs. These are FUS members knowledgeable about our faith community who would love to visit with you. Experienced guides are generally available to give a building tour after each service, so if you would like to learn more about this sustainably designed addition or our national landmark meeting house, please meet near the large glass window on the left side of the auditorium immediately after the service. We welcome children to stay for the duration of the service, but if you or your child needs to talk or move around, the child haven or commons are good places to retire. The service can still be seen and heard from those areas. This would be a good time to turn off all electronic devices that might cause a disturbance during the hour. I'd now like to acknowledge those individuals who help our service run smoothly.  Copy is being made for you this morning by Chip Quaddy and Helena McEvna. Please note the announcements on the red floors insert in your order of service, which describe upcoming events of the society and provide more information about today's activities. And I have a few announcements this morning. Eric Severson ends his internship with us at the end of this month and we'd like to send him off with our thanks and good wishes. The Intern Ministry team is hosting a table in the commons where you'll find note paper, pens and markers to write a message for inclusion in a book that we will present to him at his final time in the pulpit May 28th. For anyone who missed our fabulous cabaret, there are second chance auction items available in the commons. Please bid early and often. Volunteer signups for the next fall's Children's RE classes are looking pretty thin. Please help us change that by volunteering to join a team of three others. To find out where our needs are or for other information, please talk with Leslie Ross, our Director of Children's Religious Education, shall be in the commons following today's service. As our congregation moves closer to the June 4th vote on sanctuary, we and congregation Shereisha Maim will be hosting the question and answer sessions that are listed in your program. Please come with your questions and your thoughts about this important decision. Again welcome. We hope that today's service will stimulate stimulate your mind, touch your heart and stir your spirit. And I realized that I went out of order a little bit. So let's do a moment of silence now. Please join me in for in gathering him number 1010. Words today come from Gretchen Haley. Lean on and lean in that we might hear one another into being. Create here a circle of promise and trust. A safe place where we can be comfortable together. A place of grace and forgiveness. Bold bravery and new beginnings. Where we might still name the needful things of our hearts, the missing places of our lives, the dreams yet unfulfilled, some yet barely clear enough for words. Come, let us be vulnerable here. Human and true and messy. Or try to be just a little. Let the real peek out from its usual hiding places that we might meet each other, see each other, see life for what it is still possible, still becoming, still trying to be whole again with our help. Come, let us worship together. I invite you to rise and bow to your in spirit for the chalice lighting and join in the words printed in your order of service. Times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has caused to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. And I invite you to greet those around you. Please be seated and if there are any young ones who'd like to come forward for a story, please do. Today's story, there we are. So today's story, how many of you have heard the phrase to lend a helping hand? What does that mean? What does it mean to lend a helping hand? Helping. It just means helping. So that's what today's service is going to be about for the grown-ups, about helping one another. Like when you step on your toe or something like that. So how many of you have done some finger painting? Painting with your fingers. What kinds of things have you painted, do you remember? I remember painting a turkey when I was young. A sandwich. Yeah, you can paint a sandwich. You made a turkey too, yeah. There's lots of turkeys. Well, this story has some beautiful pictures done all in finger paints. So I wanted you to be able to see the pictures. It's not a very long story. And it's about things we might touch with our hands. But things that aren't necessarily things we see, like maybe love. Things we can't really see, but we know are real, like love. So the questions are going to be, may seem a little strange to you, but I think the grown-ups will get it. So we can talk about it afterwards. All right, I'm going to sit here with you. It's called beautiful hands. What will your beautiful hands do today? Will they plant? What will they plant? What things can you plant with your hands? Flowers, bushes, trees, fruit? Carrots. Tomatoes? Well, we can also plant ideas. You can plant ideas for one another. Things to think about. It does look like a diamond. Or we can touch. What will our hands touch? We can touch apples and blueberries, ladybugs. Yeah. So what else could we touch? Hearts? We can touch one another's hearts, maybe. What can our hands lift? What kinds of things do you lift with your hands? Blocks, birdies, dogs, a dragon. We can lift spirits. We can lift up other people's spirits. That's kind of fun. When we're feeling down, lift each other's spirits. What can our hands stretch? What do we stretch with our hands? We stretch ladybugs? No, we don't say ladybugs. Like rubber bands or silly putty or well, we could also stretch imaginations. Or gum. I think gum we could stretch. Or we could stretch imaginations and think of new things. And what can we reach? What do you have to reach for at home? What's up high in the house that you have to reach for? It's probably a good thing you can't reach everything in your home. Yes? Yeah. Okay, you can also reach for love. We want to reach out and love each other, right? And we can reach out for peace and truth and faith and hope and dreams. We can spend our lives reaching out for all these things, including our dreams. So what will your beautiful hands do? To model? That's the question. So I hope you will talk about with your folks, all the things your hands can do, your beautiful hands can do and what they'll do tomorrow. All right. Thank you. That's good. Thanks. Today is an excerpt from a sermon by the Reverend Tim House in Rockland, Massachusetts. To me, the heart of our religion is not tolerance. The heart of our religion is engagement, creative, curious, respectful engagement with one another and with the world. Theologian Henry Nelson Wyman called such engagement, creative interchange. In his book, The Source of Human Good, he asks that we intentionally engage others who have different ways of making meaning, different values and truths, not tolerate them, engage them with the intention of enlarging our understanding of what is valuable and true. In creative interchange, he says the needs and interests of others get across to me, transform my own mind, my own desires and felt needs, so as to include theirs. Real value, what Wyman calls the good, is not in what any of us individuals has created, but in the process of ongoing creation that takes place when we honestly open ourselves to one another. Value is created in what happens between us. Creative interchange is a process of engaging our interdependence in a spiritually transformative way. And this one's hands by Karn Solvee Andersen. A couple of weeks ago, I was perusing football journals and books. I came across a photograph of alignment. He was watching the field intently. His body hunched against a heavy sleet. His hands free to the elements. I turned the page of the book, and there was a close up of his hands bent and mangled, covered with scabs, bruises and scrapes. I was fascinated by his hands. Hands he would inevitably have to soothe. Hands that held violence and pain, but also gentleness. I put the book down and gazed at my own hands and thought about them, what they touch and experience and create. I already have my grandmother's hands with index fingers twisted slightly inward. I have bulbous veins winding under the skin that speak to my life, typing, playing the piano, soothing herds, applying bandages, caressing and daily work. I like to look at farmers hands or fishermen's hands, laboring hands. Hands that speak to the life of the person. I don't want smooth hands. I want mine to speak the life of the person. To my life's work, to a sum of my parts, a place I can look and see generations before and after me of work started or incomplete. I have a colleague who is often present with people when they die. Once I asked her what she did. Did she have some ritual for the passing of a life? She said she helps wash the body. She washes the face as a symbol of what that person has seen. The hands as a symbol of what that person has done. And the feet as a symbol of where that person has been. I love that symbolism. Unlike the lineman who can look at his hands and see what he does, most of us can forget what it is we do and who we are connected to. But it's all there in our hands, those we touch or greet in welcome and friendship of creation made possible through writing or painting or playing or conversations retold of tears shed in cradled hands. The shakers have a saying, hands to work in hearts to God. They believe that your life's calling, your work should be no less than an act of joy. An act of work is an act of worship. So I stare at my hands and whisper. Two weeks ago, Kelly Crocker ended her sermon with a quote by James Baldwin about holding on to one another. Because in the end, our lives depend on it. She invited us to practice shared striving and shared thriving. So it's not entirely but by coincidence that today's service focuses on holding one another in good hands. This phrase to be in good hands means to be in the safe, competent care of someone to be cared for with great attention. I need to acknowledge though that this title in good hands presumes a norm that all we all were born with and still have fully functioning hands when unfortunately, this is not the case. And lest we over romanticize the metaphor, we must remember that human hands have done some terrible things as history and current events have shown. So I offered the image of helping hands to represent generosity, the sentiment and commitment to care for others, which we all can do regardless of our physical abilities. It also is Mother's Day. For those unfamiliar with its history, in 1870, Unitarian Julia Ward Howe appealed for women around the world to unite for peace. Her pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco Prussian War later became known as the Mother's Day Proclamation. But Howe's efforts to establish a National Mother's Day for peace were not entirely successful. Years later, the Mother's Day we know today was initiated by Anna Jarvis to honor her peace activist mother, Anne Reeves Jarvis, who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and to honor all mothers, because she believed that a mother is, quote, the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world, unquote. This, I would say, is debatable. And I feel a need to acknowledge that while many of us have been blessed, not all of us have had positive experiences with either mother figures or motherhood. And so this holiday can be a source of both joy and sorrow. This service is not meant to focus on mothers. Rather, in the few weeks before we disperse for the summer, I thought we might focus on caring for one another, holding on to one another and the rituals that help us do that. Each of us has our own daily rituals of greeting and parting, a kiss, a hug, a wave of the hand, a handshake, a fist bump. We may have rituals of connecting weekly, such as gathering for worship and our exchange of friendly greetings, watching a ball game, walking or biking together, having conversations over coffee. We come together now and then to mark milestones in our lives and in the lives of those we know and love. We honor or celebrate rites of passage for births, birth days, comings of age, school graduations, weddings, anniversaries, retirements and deaths. These gatherings might involve cleaning or decorating our homes, welcoming guests, giving gifts, telling stories, bearing witness, singing songs, playing games or sharing meals. All of these experiences we have in common serve to connect us. Over our lifetimes, memories of these times help sustain us. We Unitarian Universalists are notoriously independent minded. Organizing us can be like, or hurting cats, it has been said. And I'm sure the staff here can attest to that. And while many of us have chosen vocations in the helping professions, I think we enjoy fending for ourselves most of the time. We've been socialized not to ask for help, not to impose on someone when we do need assistance. We sometimes celebrate rugged individualism at the expense of community. And we can forget how dependent we really are on other people. One of the challenges of being part of a large congregation is that we can feel disconnected. First Unitarian offers a host of programs for new and long time members. Interest groups, support groups, classes, choirs, ministry teams, spirituals, practice groups. Despite these offerings, and despite a very engaged, dedicated group of volunteers and staff, it is possible to feel cut off from others by the hardships in our lives, by the ways we cope with those hardships, or even by our own stubborn pride. We depend fully on others at the beginning of life, as we often do at the end of life. But we also need help, as we know, in the midst of living when we are navigating life's uncertainties, disappointments, and crises. This is where ritual love and trust come in. We're being part of a faith community can benefit us. Rituals are the symbolic behaviors we perform before, during, or after meaningful events. Symbolic behaviors we perform before, during, or after meaningful events. Rituals can reduce anxiety, increase confidence, and alleviate grief, even for those who don't believe it does. The lighting of a flaming chalice, a flower communion, as we will have next week, if you want to make a note. A water communion, weekly worship and fellowship rituals like these remind us of who we are and to whom we belong. My father is one of eight siblings, so I grew up with lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Gathering at the family homestead most years for Thanksgiving was a great joy for me. We would play games, hike in the woods, go swimming, relax, and have fun. The adults would have their adult conversations, and the children would play. Thanksgiving dinner was a potluck, so everyone brought something to share. Before we ate, we would stand around the table and say one thing for which each of us was thankful. Maybe you had that custom as well. So in my family, the meaningful event was the gathering of the clan. The symbolic behavior was renewing our bond of kinship by sharing a little of ourselves with one another in a statement of gratitude. That was our Thanksgiving ritual, which we shared in an environment of love and trust. I wonder what your rituals are. We gather here in covenant with one another. We strive to make our spiritual home a safe place, because sometimes our living space or our workplace is not safe, and we need someone to confide in, rely on, or lean on. Did you know that First Unitarian Society has 22 lay ministers serving as extensions of the senior ministers. That's one lay minister for every 63 members, which is actually pretty good. The lay ministry program was conceptualized in 1985 and put into practice in 1996, so it's been around a while. These volunteers are trained to listen, recognize needs, be sensitive and empathetic, guide or prompt spiritual thinking, and provide a confidential, caring presence to congregants undergoing stressful life changes. How many of you were aware that this program is available to you? Raise your hand. Some, but not all.  Ministers, lay ministers and staff members can help only if they know about your struggles. I also invite you, though, to be fully present to one another and to consider doing that a spiritual practice. I have mentioned before Martin Buber's concept of I and Thou, of being authentically and deeply connected with one another, engaged in relationship. When I think of the things that feed my spirit, the long-term commitment of and to my partner, the joy of parenting, the communion of choral singing, the wonder of nature, I realize that each of these requires my being in and I, Thou relationship with my spouse, my child, fellow singers, and the cosmos. So I invite you to consider how sharing expressions of love and trust with one another might serve you, even sustain you, as a spiritual practice, by remembering and embodying this I and Thou. Unitarian Universalist minister Tom Ohentoll once wrote that we come into existence with our fists clenched as babies, but when we arrive at death's door, our hands are open, and during the intervening lifetime, we are summoned to progressively unclench our fists and open our hands in love and concern toward all who crisscross our path. We are summoned, called to love and to serve one another by the golden rule, by parables, fables, stories, songs, scriptures, ancient and modern from around the world. We also are summoned to service by instinct, intuition, and conscience. We know that the benefits of generosity and service may be reciprocal. A study from the University of South the South in Suwani, Tennessee suggests that performing random acts of kindness boosts our psychological health by activating the release of dopamine, the feel good neurotransmitter in the brain. This is referred to as a helper's high. So being motivated by generosity can benefit the giver as much as the receiver. Most of us, I think, resonate with Marge Percy's poem, To Be of Use. We love those who submerge in the task and move in a common rhythm. We strive for the satisfaction of a job well done. We yearn for work that is real. Most of us want to help people, serve people, and serve them well, because we know that is work that is real. Sometimes, though, we don't know how to help someone, or we feel so uncomfortable with their pain that we avoid them, or we give advice, or we rush to immediately fix things without really acknowledging the person's experience. Author Deborah Tannen's research has shown that men are more likely to do this than women, which is a topic for another day. Parker Palmer, among others, in an article he wrote a year ago, counsels us to resist giving advice or trying to fix things, but simply being present to one another. The human soul, he says, does not want to be advised, or fixed, or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed, to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is. Serving as a companion for people as they are doesn't mean we shouldn't challenge ourselves, confront our own unconscious biases or beliefs, strive for personal transformation, or work to dismantle systemic oppression. We should do those, but when we deal with one another, we need to be mindful that each of us has a story, that each of us bears some untold truth about difficulty or suffering, and that we need to have it acknowledged, witnessed, before we consider solutions. Karen Anderson in our second reading suggests that our hands reflect those stories. Our hands have done so much, she says, have touched the lives of so many people. They connect us to past and future generations. They reflect all the work we've done and left undone in our lives. What we do, who we are connected to, is all there in our hands, she says. And as our choir so beautifully expressed, these are the hands that have touched life, have reached out. By them, we are blessed. There are so many stories, so many minds and hearts that need to be gently witnessed. This requires that we engage with one another. And this is what we hear are all about. Tim House in our first reading declares that unitarian universalism, the heart of it, is not tolerance but engagement. We make meaning in our lives, he says, through creative interchange. Engagement is more than tolerance, he says. It means welcoming other people's different values and truths, by which we may enlarge our own understanding of what is valuable and true. Real value, he says, is not in what any of us as individuals has created, but in the process of ongoing creation that takes place when we honestly open ourselves to one another. Value is created in what happens between us. What happens between us.  Each of us is a living, breathing wonder. And as today's story suggested, we are capable of so many things. Planting ideas, touching hearts, lifting spirits, stretching imaginations, reaching for love, peace, truth, faith, hope and dreams. We have it within us to create together a circle of love and trust, bravery and forgiveness.  And when at times our own light goes out, let us seek one another so that our inner flame may be rekindled. With all that lies ahead for this congregation, a capital campaign, a minister and staff transition, discussions about sanctuary and white supremacy, continuing work for justice in a changing landscape. I invite you to look at all these things in the months to come as opportunities for deeper engagement and growth. I invite you to attend to one another. Take the risk to share your needs and witness the needs of others. When we experience hard times, difficult transitions, forces that threaten to divide us, let us engage in those rituals that help us hold one another in good hands. Let us love and trust and live with integrity. Our opening words invited us to be vulnerable here, human and true and messy, or try to be just a little. Let the truth, let the real peek out from its usual hiding places that we might meet each other, see each other, see life for what it is, still possible, still trying to be whole again with our help. What will your beautiful hands do tomorrow? Blessed be an amen. The work and mission aggregation is sustained by your contributions. We will now take our offering, which will be split with the Girl Scouts of Dane County, who gathers with joys and sorrows written on our hearts. In this place we love and are loved, we forgive and are forgiven, we give and receive in return. We come together to find strength and common purpose, turning our minds and hearts toward one another, seeking to bring into our circle of concern all who need our support and love. Today our thoughts are with Joan and Becky Burns and family in the death of Carol Burns, Stott's. Carol was the eldest of Joan and Bill Burns. She passed unexpectedly on May 2nd. And we have had enough death this spring. We've known our sense of loss. We remember two of the family and friends of Ann Nelson, whose memorial, I believe, is the 18th at 3 o'clock at Oakwood. The family and friends of Lillian Redding and Tim and Ava and Milo Rochester for the death of Gabriel Rochester. And many of the flowers up here are for her in honor of her. And we remember Ken Ragland, who is now in the hospital with a broken hip. All of the joys and the sorrows too tender to share, we remember as well, that we live in the fullness of our hearts. I invite you into a space of quiet and peace to ground yourself by noticing your contact with chair and floor, by sitting straight, by becoming aware of your breathing. Look at your hands. They've been through a lot, those hands. They have scars, strengths, beauty. I invite you to remember that it is your hands that do the work of love in the world. These hands may hold another's hands. These hands may type emails to politicians, sign cards of consolation or congratulations. These hands maybe may patiently teach, quilt works of beauty or write words urging peace. These hands may bathe children, feed elders, nurse the ill, work the earth, organize communities. These hands clasp in prayer, open in release, grasp in solidarity, clench in righteous anger. These are God's hands, your hands, our hands. A great mystery of flesh and intention. A great potential of embodying love. I invite you into a moment of silence to reflect on all that our beautiful hands can do and on the cares that we shared this morning. May we remember that we are part of a web of life that makes us one with all humanity, one with all the universe. May we be grateful for the miracle of life that we share and the hope that gives us the power to care, to remember and to love. If you would please rise and body or in spirit for our closing hymn number 1021. You please remain standing. Join those beautiful hands with the ones next to you. The hand in yours belongs to a person whose heart is sometimes tender, whose skin is sometimes thin, whose eyes sometimes fill with tears, and whose laughter is a beautiful sound. The hand that you hold belongs to a person who is seeking wholeness and trusts that you are doing the same. As you leave this sanctuary, may your hearts remain open, may your voices stay strong and may your hands remain outstretched. Please be seated for the postulate.


All right, good afternoon everyone, it's 3.30, this is our last portion of the day of the stress. I want to remind everyone that if you go to the after party tonight, be sure to bring your badge. And if you want to train, bring your government ID. All right, so our next talk is about deciding what the FBI would do to mark your reign. Mark is an interdisciplinary designer dedicated to making the web more accessible and human-friendly by facilitating the transfer of information to the sign. Mark works in automatic contributing to the open source project WordPress. The WordPress WordPress API is often perceived by designers as something developers talk about checkups filled with lines of code. This talk aims to help designers familiarize themselves with the API and grow our computational design skills with its help. We'll cover what an API is, what it's used for, and how we can communicate with it. Please tell me what can they mark your reign presenting designing the API. Thank you. All right, so just to be clear, this is designing with the API, not designing the API. I'm not a designer, not a API designer. So as mentioned, I do work in automatic as a product designer, and I do enjoy giving back to the community and having fun with WordPress. In fact, I'd like to, my goal with this talk is hopefully to encourage you to think of WordPress differently than maybe you normally do, and be more innovative with it to help the future progress with WordPress.  This particular suggestion is on www.worthpress.org forward slash ideas where people can offer up ideas that they'd like to see done with WordPress. This member, Motik, says, you know what, let's make WordPress a CMS. And right below Andy Kaye here says, you know what, it's blogging. Let's find something for CMS, because if you want that. Now, this conversation happened 11 years ago, back in 2007. This is not new. This is history. But you might all be familiar with that debate that went back and forth with is WordPress a CMS, is it not a CMS? And it's interesting because a CMS, a content management system is software that helps you perform CRUD operations that create, read, update, delete content, right? And if we understand that there is content on your website, then where does that content live? It lives in the database. So essentially, the content on your website is data. And this is a neat way to look at it. You know, we're familiar with content is king, but if we look at your content as data, then it's neat to think that there could be ways that we can access that data. And do some interesting things with it. And that's hopefully what I'm going to get to you today. But again with history, WordPress was forked from the evolution cafe block back in 2003. We're familiar with this. It catered primarily to bloggers. All right, it was a blogging software. In 2005, we introduced something called Pages into core. You couldn't create a page before this easily. So Pages was introduced into core, and now you can have an about-me page. So WordPress gained in popularity, started taking more market share, it became a CMS. People were using it to create more than just blogs, they were creating websites. Then in 2016, the API was merged into core. And this allowed people to create more than just websites. Native apps were being created, built on top of WordPress, which is a really cool future, right? These are things that people can create and build on top of WordPress. So if we look at this progression, we think of Moore's law. I mean, what's the logical conclusion to this, right? By 2019, you know, I mean that's not quite the case. But WordPress, as we know, what percentage of all websites right now are built on WordPress? 30% I believe is the number I know. 30% of all websites are on WordPress right now. That is crazy. It's crazy. What can we do with that? So technological singularity occurs in WordPress and AI, and we're excited. I've never held my hands quite like this in response to something on my screen, but I believe people do. And when WordPress becomes an AI, I will surely do this. I will respond accordingly. So WordPress Skynet? So WordPress, what are you building with WordPress? And in fact, what are you building on WordPress is kind of the point I want to ask you. Think about what you're doing with it. What other ways can you innovate with it? What are some interests that you have that maybe WordPress can help support those ideals? Oftentimes, when we think of WordPress, this is what we think of. You can install WordPress, you have the themes and plugins, and you're going to create something like this. This is the common paradigm, right? In fact, it's automatic on our sign-up steps. These are the four above hints that we kind of put you in. What were you creating? What sort of site did you want to create? We know of WordPress under the hood, right? It looks something like this, a SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS. As of late, we're getting a lot more Java script involved in there. This produces a lot of what we see out there. But we know that WordPress can now look like this. And with this is great possibility. So ultimately, WordPress becomes anything we want it to become. I can now use whatever front-end software I want to use to create whatever product I want to create. And that's all thanks to the REST API. A lot of this work that's been done has allowed WordPress to become something greater than what it was initially planned to be. So an API application programming interface really enables software systems to communicate with this defined set of rules. This is important for us as designers, as developers, as people who use WordPress and bloggers, anybody who wants to communicate or facilitate that transfer of information, this is another way we can really do it. This is how we can facilitate this transfer of information between software systems. So because I'm a designer, when I think of WordPress, the API, I didn't know anything about it. And it looks a lot like this to me. So for those of you who don't know, this is a grammatically correct sentence. Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo. And that's really what I saw when I looked at the API. But if we swap out the verb with its synonym, we add a few commas, things start looking a little easier to read. Maybe we stack it differently, add in some words, and then we can understand what's being said here in this grammatically correct sentence. Buffalo bison, that other buffalo bison fully also believe in buffalo bison. And this just resonated with me when I looked at the WordPress app. Basically, this is what we were reading. But it was a way for us to understand what we were reading, which I hope to help us get there a little bit. And you kind of get the picture. That's what the sentence is about. So, I mean, it's really buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo. I couldn't be decided, this is a J-Song file. Can you leave that up long enough when you copy down? Yeah, so let's take a look at this. With the simple zoom, I like a few things. We can kind of see that, you know, this is, there's an ID, there's a type, post. Okay, so we get an idea that we're looking at, post. There's an author ID. There's all sorts of nuggets of, like, interesting things in this when we start investigating for it. That's what I had to do. I kind of had to come and understand this a little better. Luckily, browsers have plugins that help format J-Song files and more so. And you can get something like this. It's really easy to read. And if you saw, Chris's talk earlier, you saw some of this and this talk as well. It's helpful to get an idea. This is content. This is the content on your website. Right here, it looks a lot like data. And this is the kind of stuff that we now are capable of grabbing and doing some stuff with. So, just to clarify on a little, go on to the technical side of it, if you'll bear with me. The API consists of two main things, really. Two huge things, right? Endpoints and routes. We could see the great documentation on .org, but essentially an endpoint is a function available through that API. So it's whatever you want to happen when that route is called, right? A route, and you have to register a route and it gives you the URI of where you go to get that function, return that to the result. So here you can kind of see an example. It's just returning a string here and then the route, when you go to this route here, it'll perform that function and return it right here. So, fairly simple. This is all it's really doing. This is what it looks like on .org. .org is a multi-site, but on the high level, this is the API there. And so, world domination, right? This is cool stuff. I want to be a part of this. How am I going to help with software and do really cool things throughout this whole thing? How we end with this. So different ways to design the API. I want to talk about some things that I've done, give examples, some things that other people have done, some of which you might have seen in the clock previous. But I find this fascinating because I can do some fun things that I like, like data visuals or something, some sort of app that creates that really pulls content from these sites. And one such example was at the AIGA Design Week. I talked about computational design. And I did an example. I went to their website, which happened to be a WordPress website through the pool. It was the latest update, so they had the API already rinsed in. And I was able to grab the API. And just on code in here, I was able to create a HTML5 of the storage search. And what I did is I went to their mission statement. And I read their mission statement. And they talked about design, diversity, and community. And so I live on stage. I said, okay, let's test your mission statement against your posts. Are you writing about the things that you say you care about? And so I typed in the word design, looping through their posts here. And basically, each circle here is one of their posts. And the number and size of the circle is how many times that word was used within that post. So when I typed in design, they were writing a lot about design. And it kind of confirmed to them they were sweating it at the time. But it confirmed to them that they are doing their writing about what they say they care about. And it was kind of a neat thing. You could go to this code pen and fork it, throw in someone else's website, and investigate what other people are writing about compared to their mission statements or their desires. And to do that, I was using P5JS, which is the JavaScript library for digital data. And this is pretty much how simple it was. I'm creating a variable and I'm really just going to their API. So the post section of it, pulling out 10 posts. And then I'm looping through that essentially, which the other photos. But I'm looping through that and pulling out that. Another example here I gave at WordCamp Europe. I asked a question to the audience. I said, what is the most important part of the website? I posted this question on a website and I opened up comments so that anybody can leave a comment without any approval and everything would just show up, right? So the audience went to this post. They all entered in there in the comments section what their one word answer would be. And I refreshed the page and when we wrote this was kind of what showed up, some visual data. Visual data about if the word was used, was commented more than once. It was a bigger circle. It changes colors as the circles got larger. And I mean, this was fantastic. That's like someone up here was obviously like to that person I'm just up here saying beard, beard, beard. And again, I'm looping through and you can see rather than going to the posts, I'm going to the comments of a specific post. So I'm able to pull just those comments. If any of you are familiar with theming, Foxhound is a theme developed by Billy Yuan, designed by Miller Choice. It's a React single page theme that is built on the API. It was a really cool experiment that they were doing. This is a React Native app that I built. It took me about a day to do this. To figure out kind of React Native, I wanted to explore that more and I wanted to do something with the rest API. What I had to do here was a little more technical though. I wanted to loop through media. All these photos with these quotes are just images in the media library. But what I wanted to do is I wanted to return a random media based on every click of the button there. And so there was a lot more involved I had to create then, actually, and to write a function because to grab just the ID of the media library. But it was a fun project because rather than looping through posts or looping through comments, let's do the media. And it basically looks something like this. You know, I'm grabbing the API here with the URL on top of the media and then I wrote a plugin that allowed me to grab that extended API and allowed me to get these. And that kind of looks something like this. So the plugin is right here. And just getting, ultimately, getting these IDs and then returning them with this route. Registration. Yeah.


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So, this is an extremely short presentation. I'm not a Burma Studies person, and I don't have any kind of grand things to tell you. Basically, this is just what we found in the library. So, here we go. The story here is, when I came to SOAS, I started studying Burmese. We talked to some old friends, like Tillman Frosch and Christian Bauer, and they said that there were notebooks where loosehead transliterated all of the old Burmese inscriptions somewhere at SOAS in the library. But it wasn't in the catalog. We looked everywhere. But eventually, it was found in the SOAS archive, which is, say, not in the library archive, but in the operational archive of the university, where the HR files are and things like that, was these materials. So here's an overview of what's there. And now, it's in the library, and you can consult it by going to the archive in the basement of the library. So this is what we have. We have these epigraphical papers. As you heard from Carol earlier, most of Luc's collection ended up at the Australian National University. But for whatever reason, these notebooks were left at SOAS. They were also microfilmed in the 1980s, and the microfilms at the British Library. And they've all been scanned and are online, both at SOAS and at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center. So you can look at them. So let's just show you. This is a bit about the history of the collection, which I won't read out, but it was held by Luc in Jersey until the time of his passing, and then ended up at SOAS. And then these are letters about where they're discussing the request. And this is a list of Luc's epigraphical papers that he was proposing to transfer to SOAS. And this is an overview. So we have these three different shelf marks and Luc's transliterations, the notebooks A to Q. And those are, well, I haven't gone through this material extremely closely, but it's related to the Oxford volumes, yeah, the big epigraphic papers. Yeah, the old Burmese inscriptions. You mean black dots? No, no, not black. I think it's just called the old Burmese inscriptions. Big from the 1930s printed author in the press. And yeah, so here, inscriptions of Parma was the series. And the transliterations follow the order of the facsimiles that were published in this series. So here's a facsimile and the transliteration. And then there are notebooks with transliterations from Ava inscriptions. And this is the kind of thing that it looks like. Yeah, and this is the third item, which is kind of miscellaneous papers related to Burmese inscriptions. And this stuff has not been studied systematically. We just rediscovered it like six months ago. So you feel free to, this is like an ad, come visit the SOAS library, look at this, or find it on the internet. And then this is where it is on the internet, at the SOAS online collection. And you can flip through and take a look. And then this is just a list of other places where loose materials are deposited, mostly at the Australian National University. And a lot of the Australian National University material is available online through Sea-Lang. Sea-Lang's proper name? Sea-Lang. Just Sea-Lang, yeah. S-E-A-L-A-N-G. Yeah, so if you just Google S-E-A-Lang, L-A-N-G, you can find a lot of scans of the loose materials that are at the Australian National University. So that's the nice thing now is this material at SOAS and the material at ANU have both been digitized and are available online. And then I'll just also mention I sort of was asked, the library didn't want to show you pictures of it because of questionnaires of copyright, but the actual photographs, the photographic, not the plates, but the sort of exposures that went into the Oxford book in the 1930s are also in the SOAS library, in all tin casters. So that's there too. And then nothing to do with loose in particular, but another thing that we've re-found in the SOAS library, we're on a sort of a kick of finding old Burma-related materials, is all of the operational files of the Stuart dictionary. I don't know how many people know, but there was a big dictionary project in Burma in the 40s that then got kind of put on ice to some extent after, I don't know, after independence. And it was here at SOAS for a while, John O'Kell actually worked on it. And we've just re-found their sort of operational archive as well, just in the last couple of weeks. So those are, you know, some, just to tell you about these things in the library, and to some extent, if you like, this proposal actually, I think of Carol's, to have an event about the life and work of loose coincided very nicely with this rediscovery of loose materials. So that's all of my presentation.


What is going on guys? Welcome back to the channel critical overload here We're gonna mostly be talking about the canceled scrapped urban legend reboot that was announced in 2020 and we got a Another unfortunate update about it a couple days ago or almost a week ago at this point from Cinestelle We're gonna talk about that mostly and then we're gonna also talk about these tidbits on screen 7 and Beetlejuice 2 So in 2020 just to get into get on the topic of urban legend 2020 it was reported that screen gems had set Colin Minahan to write and direct the thriller urban legend The pic was on a fast track and the studio was currently casting the key roles Minahan will introduce an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world where internet urban legends are born and Move at a terrifying pace the movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre Deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media Then Sometime later that same year we started getting reports about who these key roles or who was being eyed for said key roles Catherine McNamara Sydney Chandler and Keith Powers were being eyed for possible roles in the reboot Chandler I believe was reported to actually be the one that would have gotten the lead position or in talks to lead the movie Then it was just crickets nothing for almost two years a couple years ago after we went a few years with no updates Minahan Told this to a fan when they asked for an update on Twitter because they were just like what the hell's going on with this movie I thought we're gonna get a new urban legend This is what he said in response of what happened to the project a combination of really bad timing with COVID Politics inside the studio shuffling execs and what I would call terrible choices in what to green light killed the movie It was going to be the dopest LGBTQ slasher too. Also some funky stuff with TV rights when MGM wanted it in 2023 Catherine told this to collider To describe the film that I guess we're not going to get She said it was sort of a new retelling of it was what I can say from the script Collin Minahan was the director of that. He's just a brilliant brilliant mind who has gotten to be a good friend I would love for that to happen that cast was gonna be fantastic a lot of friends on that cast the story also reportedly Explored a deep fake technology to which is funny considering the trouble over or the trouble that I've seen deep fake Caused certain celebrities over the last couple of months and the popularity that deep fake has garnered in the last couple of months and years So this film had a chance to be ahead of its time in a way depending on when it was released Lately though last week Sinestelle told us this about the project urban legend reboot cancellation seems pretty final this time Coming after it was delayed cancelled revive now cancel again sucks But maybe if I know what you did last summer does well for Sony. It's not looking good So it's unfortunate that we are not gonna get this movie It's a shame that it's canceled completely because I was intrigued by the idea when it got announced back in 2020 But honestly when Minahan made that comment to that fan a couple years ago. I just thought to myself or In 2022. Yeah, I just thought to myself. Well, that's the end of that movie I pretty much thought from him and those comments saying it's killed that means it's canceled and I don't I don't think we've actually gotten an official word from anyone that it was canceled but the lack of news and Screengems not having any reports on it after the 2020 date came and went no filming no nothing It was evident that the project was canceled But let's talk about What could have been since the film was going to explore deep fake just a theory of mine? so We know in the original film Brenda the original killer was Upset because Natalie and her friend the person who died in the opening because she ran away from bad door for the gas station I don't remember her name, but Natalie and that friend were Flashing headlights at her fiance while he was driving causing him to go off the road or be hit by a truck that killed him So she went after Natalie and her friends killing them in the in the form of urban legends since absolutely did to her fiance What if the updated retelling of urban legends simply would have been a story where a maniac is killing off a group of teens That culminates into a reveal related to the friend group posting some harmful deep fake content that led to someone unaliving themselves This killer is connected to that victim and targets these friends to get revenge as for the social media urban legend Deaths I have no idea what those could have been maybe someone died via the cinema Cinnamon challenge or something. I have no earthly idea how they would have toyed with that But that is one way I could have seen this being a retelling if you were to just take a deep fake content or some sort of deep fake that Caused someone some sort of life-threatening harm or Loads of drama in their life and those responsible for said deep fake were targeted by someone out for revenge Something again That's paying homage to what you kind of already did with that original film just now putting it in the vein of the internet that's really all you had to do and It could have been ahead of its time to a degree because look at all the harm that I see deep fake causing a lot of celebrities I think Taylor Swift was the most recent one or at least the most popular one that I've heard of lately now I'm gonna dive into screen seven So screen seven is rumored to be dropping in April 2025 now This came from beyond the mask who again has not said that this is confirmed It's just a rumored release variety previously reported last year that screams seven would be coming in 2025 or at least That's what spyglass has eyed for the release 2025 and nothing has come out to suggest that 2025 Isn't still the plan. However with there being no script ready We are still likely weeks away from official content and what's gonna be really funny is when just a random thought What's gonna be really funny is if screen seven has nothing to do with one through six outside of just being in the same world And the reason I say that's gonna be funny It's cuz then the discussion of Sam or Sydney returning will just be irrelevant But we know it's gonna keep on happening and happening and happening and people are gonna say oh how this is not the Right direction to take unintentionally promoting the movie that they don't want to see But whatever so I'm gonna now talk about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to wrap up everything Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Apparently includes a cameo after all it might have a few but I only know of the one and I'm gonna share some details on that Some of you may have known about this cameo and others may be not I'm not going to reveal the actor's name because there's rumored to be several cuts of this film However, if they go with this cut one specific cameo is indeed from someone who has worked with Burton a few times in the past and This person plays a janitor in the film that has an encounter with Beetlejuice's wife Delores, that's really all I wanted to say. I've heard the film is quite good. It's been received well from many So let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below If you haven't already of course make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notifications So that you never miss a video in the description. I'll have links to all of my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course, let me know if there any movies news or reviews you like me to cover in the future


Hoefa, Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa, Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, council members, members of the university, special guests, graduands, families and friends. I extend a warm welcome to this, the first autumn graduation ceremony for 2011 of the University of Auckland. This week, the university is bestowing a total of 6,579 qualifications on 6,051 students. At this ceremony, degrees will be conferred and diplomas awarded in the Faculty of Engineering, a total of 490 in person plus a further 81 in absentia. It is my great privilege as Chancellor to preside at autumn graduation for a third year. The scale and frequency of graduation ceremonies makes them no less special for the university and me personally than for those of you being capped here today, many for the first time. Graduation is a festive event rich in history, pomp and colour with a lively array of contemporary touches. Here in Auckland, our rich mix of cultures and ethnicities is evident in the striking variety of dress and adornments worn by the graduands.  The university, represented by the Council and academic staff members seated behind me, and those many staff who control proceedings with remarkable precision, takes equal pleasure at this hugely significant day for each and every one of you. The University of Auckland is the only New Zealand university ranked in the top 1% in the world. Your qualifications will always serve you well in New Zealand and abroad, whether in equipping you for a satisfying career or in leading to more advanced study, or simply as a route to personal and intellectual enrichment. In today's fast-changing world, more than ever, you cannot afford to stop learning. So please bear in mind the enormous range of postgraduate opportunities which this university offers. Whatever path you follow, I urge you, as alumni of New Zealand's leading university, to remember your alma mater. We depend increasingly on our graduates for support, moral and political as well as financial. Your advocacy and influence are vital and encouraging government and the community at large to fund universities so they can generate the knowledge needed to drive a productive and competitive economy and to create a full and satisfying life in New Zealanders. At the same time, philanthropy has become critically important to our university funding major capital projects, scholarships and professorial chairs. The crucial contribution of major research universities such as ours is not well understood. Our innovative research is vital for long-term, sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. Never more so in the difficult economic times as we face in the wake of the recession and the Christchurch earthquake. Universities equip graduates like you not simply for the jobs of today but for future careers not yet imagined. Universities need greater investment by government, the commercial sector and private philanthropy, not less. But that's sufficient for me on the challenges facing academia. Today, unquestionably, belongs to you the graduands and you are its prime focus. I congratulate you and trust that you will long cherish the enjoyment and excitement of your graduation in May 2011. We welcome, as our speaker at this opening ceremony, Mr Simon McKenzie, who is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Vector Ltd. Vector, as many of you will know, owns and operates a electricity distribution network in the Greater Auckland region, along with a range of energy and technology businesses and assets. Mr McKenzie joined Vector when it was known as Mercury Energy, which itself, of course, grew out of the old Auckland Electric Power Board. During his 12 years with Vector, he has held a range of roles spanning operational, strategic and leadership responsibilities prior to his appointment as the Group CEO in February 2008. He has extensive experience in the infrastructure sector, including strategy, regulation, network management, information technology and telecommunications, along with international experience in construction and consultancy. Mr McKenzie's tertiary qualifications include engineering, finance and business studies and the advanced management programme at the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. Please welcome Mr McKenzie. Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, members of council, members of the university, graduates, families and friends. First of all, I would like to congratulate all of those graduating today. As you may have recognised, I have followed a less traditional path to where I am today. However, the highlights of my career are many. It includes construction, mechanical engineer for the Huntley Power Project, wholesale market trading manager for Mercury Energy. I also was involved in the ministerial inquiry into the Auckland CBD Outage and worked for an entrepreneur in Europe. I also reflected on a few issues that really resonated with me through my time career to date. In particular, I was at a leadership course in the USA about four years ago. I had the privilege to be on the course with a colleague who was actually a five-star general in the US Air Force. He recounted the following story to me, which is pretty legendary in the US Air Force, and it goes something like this. A young officer presented a report to the commander, and the commander said, son, is that the best work you can do? The officer looked at the desk, grimaced a little bit, picked up the report and walked out. He came back, and the officer, the commander asked the same question again of the officer. He again looked at the report, thought for a minute, picked it up and walked out. The third time back, he put the report on the desk, the commander asked him, is that the best work you can do, son? And the officer said, yes sir, it is. Asked a little while later, the officer asked the commander, why did you ask this? The commander simply said, son, your report is my insight and perception into your ability, commitment and attitude. It's from this basis that I think it's actually important to think about when you move, you've graduated out into the workforce that I thought I might share a few of my thoughts and impressions with regards to the engineering and what makes a successful engineer. NW Doherty, the former president of the American Society of Engineering Education and a man considered to be one of the preeminent engineers of his generation, once said, the ideal engineer is a composite. He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. It is this holistic approach that I look for in an engineer and in my mind is the hallmark of a good engineer. Someone who is not only technically proficient but who also cites the bigger picture and approaches problems or projects from different angles. Someone who understands and accounts for, among other things customers, the community, the environment and of course commercial imperatives. A good engineer will always incorporate both intellectual and emotional intelligence into their work. This means using technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to carry out a job but also ensuring that you can work well within a team environment, think creatively, communicate succinctly, be customer focused and being able to identify and communicate with stakeholders that are in any way impacted by the work you're undertaking. Not so long ago I had the pleasure to be presented with an innovative pilot project being undertaken by two young engineering graduates at Vector. The project looked at ways to improve the way we Vector manage our electricity network. The initiative involved testing the benefit we can gain from using intelligent remote control devices to lower levels of our network to monitor not only performance but to also carry out remote operations to the network. The end result or objective would be to see that our service providers received less exposure to potentially dangerous equipment. Our contractors would also be able to respond more quickly to get the power restored to customers in shorter timeframes and also obviously to increase our productivity and cost efficiency. So in essence a multi-benefit outcome that uses new and innovative technology, considers health and safety and meets the needs of our customers and our stakeholders. This was a highly ambitious undertaking and one which incorporated some solid technical ability, financial analysis, customer impact and innovation on the team's behalf. But what I remember most was being impressed about how the clear uncomplicated and articulate way in which they were able to explain the initiative to me and the way in which I saw them using their passion and personal skills to engage with the contractors and to motivate the wider team working on the project. Which was a success, not only in the result but also in the application. These two young engineers used the full arsenal that any good engineer has. Innovation, technical know-how, communication skills, a customer focus, stakeholder consideration and an understanding of the need for the company to gain in the form of efficiencies and productivity. I'd also note however that they achieved this on top of their other duties and they were clearly proud of their achievement. And I can absolutely say that I was very proud to see this from young engineers coming into our business. So a good engineer understands who their customers are and what their needs are. This is not just about fulfilling the needs of the client or budget holder but also understanding who the end users and customers are. He understands how their work will impact on their wider environment around them. A good engineer knows how their work will affect the natural environment, how it will impact on the people, the community and the built landscape along with any political sensitivities that need to be taken into account. Another example is that in years gone by, electricity companies saw substations as a means to an end. They had a really functional asset that can house electrical assets. This being so, they would build large square concrete units that had no affinity with the local landscape or community. In fact these were usually the target of graffiti, implicitly revealing the poor fit with the environment. In more recent times we have led the charge to develop new substations that allow for a better environment, are architecturally treated, aesthetically more attractive and are built to fit with the local landscape. In many communities these take the form of a house in the street as opposed to a substation. So this broader approach comes with its own complexities but the end benefit is a result that works much better for the community and ultimately our customers. A good engineer obviously must be commercially minded. They understand that their work needs to be completed within budget and must be in the best financial interests of the company both in the short and long term. A successful engineer can communicate and articulate their ideas and by doing so sell their ideas to their colleagues in particular. It is one thing to think innovatively but another to be able to articulate that innovation. I think it's also very important that as new graduates ending the workforce we see it as a huge opportunity for you to bring new and fresh thinking into organisations and to challenge the traditional thinking to keep up with new technology and trends is a huge advantage that you all can bring to organisations such as Vector and other enterprises you choose to join. But I think importantly and finally a good engineer never stops learning and I encourage all of you to see this graduation as significant as it is to be the first step of many educational milestones in your career. Importantly I ask that you consider how now you have your engineering qualification what other qualifications or experiences do you require to grow, to add more value to the organisation you work for and in turn importantly your career. It is not all about IQ. I have shared with you some advice from my experience as an engineer. I give this advice in the belief that if some of the young engineers I have seen coming out of our universities are anything to go by the profession is in great shape. You have a much wider approach to the craft than when I started out and already understand many of the principles I've spoken about today. This is both a commendation to our learning institutions and to yourselves as budding engineers. I would like to leave you with one thought as you begin your quest to enter the workforce. At the end of a job interview the human resources person asked the young engineer fresh out of university so tell me what salary you're looking for. The engineer said in the vicinity of $150,000 a year depending on the benefits package the HR person said well what would you say to a package of 5 weeks holiday, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement, fund to 50% of salary and a company car at least every two years say a red Audi A6. The engineer said straight up and says wow you're kidding. The PR guy says yep but you started it. So congratulations again. I wish you all the best for the future to join Vector. Thanks very much. Well thank you Mr McKenzie for a very interesting speech and some insightful observations. Regrettably Mr McKenzie has to leave and this is unexpected because of another commitment he assures me we do not have a CBD outage threatened in Auckland and in fact the lights are on so thank you again Mr McKenzie and can you show your appreciation again please. This is a meeting of council and Convocation of the University for a ceremony of conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. At this ceremony the Pro-Chancellor Ian Parton and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I now invite the Pro-Chancellor to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of this ceremony. Thank you Chancellor. By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I Ian Parton, Pro-Chancellor, confer the degrees and award the diplomas stated upon those who within their faculty have satisfied the requirements of this University. I call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Professor Davis to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-Chancellor, as Dean I have the honour of presenting to you the students qualified for the award of a diploma or conferment of a degree in the Faculty of Engineering. Graduate Diploma in Engineering Shingiri James Huki-Imwe Kai Lee Adi Sing Pooji To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours Zi Qing Tau To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering with Second Class Honours First Division Min Yi Guo To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering with Second Class Honours Second Division to the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering, Ming Chen Tiang Hoa Chai Wei Chen We now resume with the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering with Second Class Honours Second Division Zaird Al Jabawe Ryan John Everes Tony Marnell Jewera Brayden James Nelson Yusuf Khalil Yusef Samur Harold Hongjing J To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Lynette Cordelia Billings James Henry Morris Howell Han Lin Seng Huiling Ximin Ling Wei Liu Shen Hong Ma Bernie Lamoto Moa Alushka Lakmal Naira Manakara Rumi Roof Anton Frederick Rester Sean Osamo Shadbot Andrew Jiongwang Song Bong Goon Song Udit Subedi To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering conjoined with First Class Honours Martin Lawrence Perkins and a Bachelor of Commerce To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering conjoined with Second Class Honours First Division Li Wang and a Bachelor of Commerce To the Degree of a Bachelor of Engineering conjoined Ken Lee and a Bachelor of Commerce To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering honours with First Class Honours Mohamed Abdulatif in Software Engineering Pierre Francesca Abercrombie in Civil Engineering Denagma Vindagamagay Ashin Madaro Abbasakera in Civil Engineering Ahmad Fakiri bin Ahmad Farid in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ola Basam Salivan Alhassani in Chemical and Materials Engineering Sarah Muzadak Naeem Alsa-Siksi Kim Mechanical Engineering Joshua Mark Aldridge in Civil Engineering Fadi Alos in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hussein Al-Sadi in Software Engineering Ferdin Anthony is a Bachelor of Engineering and he is a Master of Engineering and he is a Master of Engineering Ferdin Anthony in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Suad Moda Adnan Barakat in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Christine Margaret Barber in Computer Systems Engineering, Martin Gabriel Berentos in Civil Engineering, Siritha Bazak in Software Engineering, Huizhi Be in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Neil Louis Bent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Manit Bhavish Bakia in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Alexander William Blakely in Mechanical Engineering, Bevan Peter Botha in Civil Engineering, Graham Keith Bojan in Civil Engineering, Harry David Brownlee in Civil Engineering, Timothy Michael Andrew Burrows in Mechanical Engineering, Sean Michael Kaitaino in Mechanical Engineering, Charles Chan in Mechanical Engineering, Ronald Ping Mang Chan in Mechanical Engineering, Young Chi Chang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chung Mi Che in Biomedical Engineering, Chen Yin Sen in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Kevin V. Ken Chong in Biomedical Engineering, Mahidi Ahmed Hossin Chaudhry in Civil Engineering, Tianzu Chiu in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Brooke Emma Clark in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Matthew Stephen Clark in Engineering Science, Andrew Richard Cutfield in Civil Engineering, Brett Michael Dalgetty in Mechatronics Engineering, Laura M. Davies in Civil Engineering, Michelle Francis Deacon in Biomedical Engineering, Benjamin Deeming in Computer Systems Engineering, Croydon Diaz in Computer Systems Engineering, Jess Edward Donnelly in Mechatronics Engineering, Catherine Emeline Crier-Draper in Civil Engineering, Ian Robert Dunning in Engineering Science, Paul Stephen Dai in Civil Engineering, Nigel Hansel Denzel Fernando in Civil Engineering, Gary Chi Lam Fung in Software Engineering, Sherry Shi Yao Gao in Engineering Science, Sheena Garg in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Medeo Getikesh in Software Engineering, Peter Charles Haymes in Mechanical Engineering, Fabian Stephen Hannick in Mechanical Engineering, Joyce Hargreaves-Thomas in Biomedical Engineering, James Gordon Henderson in Civil Engineering, Nicholas Roy Henry in Civil Engineering, Joshua Timothy Hodson in Civil Engineering, Rex Pius Hwang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yi Hwang in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Joe Shuo-Hum in Chemical and Materials Engineering, David Henry Isaacs in Mechanical Engineering, Marcel Jekyll in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Naveem Panus-Joseph in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kirthi Singe-Mudi-Yancella-Gay-Samidara-Chanaka-Bandara-Kirthi Singe-Tinghe, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ginny Kim in Mechanical Engineering, Taihun Kim in Mechatronics Engineering, Malika Traja Mohan-Korup in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mayank Latawar in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Matthew Craig Lawrence in Mechanical Engineering, Katarina Maria-Lori in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chung-Jeng Lee in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Senior Scholar in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sophia Leung in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Ivan Kin-Yung Lee in Computer Systems Engineering, Jing-Lin Lim in Biomedical Engineering, An-hao Chen-Lin in Mechanical Engineering, Blair Falolindze in Civil Engineering, David Liu in Computer Systems Engineering, Ho Chiang Loh in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hoi Chem Mac in Civil Engineering, Tony Graham Manning in Civil Engineering, Miles Daniel Mason in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Andrew James McDonald in Computer Systems Engineering, Joshua Scotty-Horry McGee in Mechanical Engineering, Michael Taylor McIver in Civil Engineering, Kurt Joseph McQuide in Mechanical Engineering, Mohamed Ikhwan Afrasri Mohamed Eja Ezra, Nathalie Ann Mitchell Lowe in Mechanical Engineering, Mohamed Rasidi Mohamed Yassin in Mechanical Engineering, Nathya Linda Mohamed Kamal in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mohamed Fareed Loman Mohamed Yahaya in Mechanical Engineering, Ganesh Ramanan Nagendra in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Michael John Neath in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sarah Jane Neal in Civil Engineering, Carl Gary Newby in Mechanical Engineering, Yu Hin Ng in Macatronics Engineering, Abdul Raheem Norman in Chemical and Materials Engineering, David John Olson in Software Engineering, Tessa Hazel Parris in Biomedical Engineering, Vedara Lyth Thambara Chakshiriya Pathy Rhee in Civil Engineering, Willow Laina Patterson Kane in Civil Engineering, Edward Reddiff Peake in Computer Systems Engineering, Penilagay Supann Shatting Thera Parera in Civil Engineering, Timothy Michael Perven in Civil Engineering, Nathan Dean Pittman in Software Engineering, Harriet Mary Pretty in Engineering Science, Rebecca Margaret Pullin in Biomedical Engineering, Thanura Chedika Rabel in Civil Engineering, Ivan James Ravlich in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Baljeet Singh Ria in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catherine Jane Roberts in Engineering Science, Samantha Alda Rodriguez in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Sophia Areta Rodriguez in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Damien James Roberts in Mechanical Engineering, Senior Scholar in Mechanical Engineering, Raymond David Rotten in Mechatronics Engineering, James Ian Campbell Russell in Civil Engineering, Tapeo Philip Florian Sarri-Irenen in Mechatronics Engineering, Ryan Clark Shelton in Mechatronics Engineering, James William Sege in Mechanical Engineering, Frank Siok in Mechanical Engineering, Shun Yao Xin in Software Engineering, Robin John Suckmuth in Computer Systems Engineering, Srikanth Treetharan in Software Engineering, Nicholas Matthew Stringer in Biomedical Engineering, John Hon Tan in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Vivian C.U.10 in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Nur Afkar Talib in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Sydney Lok Ting Tsang in Software Engineering, Senior Scholar in Software Engineering, Sinapati Thupo in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kimberly Morgan Twigdon in Civil Engineering, Braden Fraser-Vickers in Software Engineering, Christopher Rainer Vogel in Engineering Science, Senior Scholar in Engineering Science, Pulgit Kwadawar in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Simon Wang in Civil Engineering, Stevan Hantika-Wijanto in Civil Engineering, William Luke Williams in Civil Engineering, Michelle Lynn Willis in Civil Engineering, Hugh Ching Wong in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Owen Heyman-Woodhouse in Civil Engineering, He Hu in Civil Engineering, Happy Shua Shia in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nalima Yadla in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Matthew Sultan Yan in Mechanical Engineering, Shihua Yang in Civil Engineering, Shan Yol Yu in Computer Systems Engineering, Senior Scholar in Computer Systems, Kerry Anna Yu Kitch in Civil Engineering, Jeron Zhang in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Senior Scholar in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Yida Zhao in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Mohamed Karolzant-Nazmi Abdul-Rahim in Mechanical Engineering, Mohamed Kamalpasha Ahmad in Mechanical Engineering, Rubin Scott Anderson in Civil Engineering, Albert Ang in Civil Engineering, Mihailo Azar in Biomedical Engineering, Mohamed Ashwif Azmi in Mechanical Engineering, Luca Bersic in Mechanical Engineering, Hannah Mariam Baker-Balka in Civil Engineering, Sikara Pravinkumar Bagat in Software Engineering, Jonathan Richmond Bodman in Civil Engineering, Jun Bong in Mechanical Engineering, Adam Matthew Buckland in Civil Engineering, Angela Marie Buckland in Engineering Science, Tanin Buranseta Kul in Mechanical Engineering, Jason John Burgine in Civil Engineering, Anthony Robin Burness in Mechanical Engineering, Matthew Liam Buswell in Mechanical Engineering, Ronella Kainiro in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Samuel Matthew Carter in Mechanical Engineering, Nicholas Wenyi Chang in Mechanical Engineering, Robin Lee Ching Chang in Mechanical Engineering, Yu Chen in Mechanical Engineering, Billy Hoi Liong Choy in Civil Engineering, Chong Sung Chung in Mechanical Engineering, Melissa Ruth Clubbly in Mechanical Engineering, Alan Philip Crimmins in Engineering Science, David Anakdanding in Chemical Materials Engineering, Sibh Khadwah Tudag Wagay Girmal Kebyn De Silva in Civil Engineering, Vanura Kasnith Paawan Chastansandri De Silva in Mechanical Engineering, Taylor James Edwards in Mechatronics Engineering, Simon Mark Fandel in Civil Engineering, Yinda Ye Lin Feng in Biomedical Engineering, Harriet Rose Follos in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Abraham Francis in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Matthew Carl Furness in Civil Engineering, Melissa Lilly Fattado in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Samar Gallib Abdul Rahman Gallib in Software Engineering, Alan Jiang in Civil Engineering, Fanghua Gong in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Paul Philip Haig in Civil Engineering. Thank you, Pro Chancellor, for conferring the degrees and awarding the diplomas in the first half of the ceremony. One of the great pleasures of graduation is the opportunity to hear performances by students from our acclaimed School of Music. Sami Kim on piano will now perform sarcasms by Prukofiev. I'm 22 when he wrote that piece. It's obviously a very technically demanding piece and it was played superbly by Sami. Can I ask you to show your appreciation one more time? This year, we have some memorable performances by students from our School of Music. If you would like to hear further performances, you are invited to our graduation concert. All graduands and their families are invited to the graduation concert which is at 7.30pm this Thursday in the Town Hall and admission is free. By the authority vested in me by a resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Roger France Chancellor, confer the degrees and award the diplomas stated upon those who within their faculty have satisfied the requirements of this university. To the degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Honour, Honour, Honour, Honour, Honour. Erundip Kaur, Electrical Electronic Engineering Nadia Karol-Zaman in Chemical and Materials Engineering Suk Ho Kim in Civil Engineering Jamie B. Lamb in Mechanical Engineering Ying Po Klau in Civil Engineering Laura Joan Leacock in Software Engineering Ho Sang Nelson Lee in Civil Engineering Jun Tak Lee in Civil Engineering Bin Yuan Lee in Civil Engineering Simon James Littbrook in Civil Engineering Chung Yao Lin in Civil Engineering Tom Eager Lowe in Software Engineering Simon Edward Manson in Civil Engineering Melina Marielle Ovalchi-Maskarensas in Civil Engineering Mohamed Sarik Mat Eaza in Mechanical Engineering Christa Graham McCartney in Civil Engineering Alasdair Donald McLean in Electrical Electronic Engineering Melissa Lynn Melrose in Civil Engineering Nadia Bint-Mahamedzaki in Electrical Electronic Engineering Noshafiq Mohamed in Mechanical Engineering Suria Khatik Mukavili in Electrical Electronic Engineering Amir Husan Mula in Mechanical Electronic Engineering David John Smith-Mutton in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Aswin Arayanan in Biomedical Engineering Mikirei Hori-Mahi Nari-Uimu in Electrical Electronic Engineering Paul Matthew Nui in Mechanical Engineering Hugh McDonald-Oke Choko-Ozamba in Computer Systems Engineering Natalia Lottie Palamu in Civil Engineering Samuel Brian Leslie Parkin in Civil Engineering Richard Dean Parnell in Civil Engineering Joseph Ambrose Terwill Pearson in Civil Engineering Dashika Premkumar in Civil Engineering Matthew John Proctor in Chemical and Materials Engineering Simon Aston-Prosy in Civil Engineering Shivatsa Raghub-Arman in Software Engineering Waihanna Idaou-Ramat in Electrical Electronic Engineering Anusha Bismal Rajasauria in Civil Engineering Thomas Mark Richardson in Mechanical Engineering Jin Wu Roe in Computer Systems Engineering Aruan William Ryan in Software Engineering Nur Saki Nassafian in Chemical and Materials Engineering Mausalyn Nusmas Saqib in Civil Engineering Dithmanta Chitya Samarawit Grima-Ranatunga in Civil Engineering Yoshimi Sakikiwa in Mechatronics Engineering Ginny Sing in Civil Engineering Ham Deep Sing in Civil Engineering Hong Phat Siti Sat in Chemical and Materials Engineering Ashat Sondi in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Joseph James Struthers in Mechanical Engineering Yu Sun in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Longsing Tang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Robin Zhenwei Tang in Chemical and Materials Engineering Elden Richard Thomas Taylor in Civil Engineering Kun Chiu Ting in Mechatronics Engineering Suceo Pujo Chokro in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Michael John Triggs in Civil Engineering Alexander Eric Vink in Civil Engineering Wan Muhammad Samin Wan Suikri in Mechanical Engineering Samil Xiong Wang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Shi Kuwan Wang in Civil Engineering Yi Wang in Mechanical Engineering Melanie Claire Wood in Civil Engineering Shi Xiong in Mechatronics Engineering Yi Chi Zhou in Engineering Science Michael David Swart in Civil Engineering To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours for 2nd Class Honours 2nd Division Matthew Joel R. Mu in Civil Engineering Ashti Ray Anderson in Civil Engineering Ana Trisha Alina Bazabas in Biomedical Engineering Heba Barakat in Civil Engineering James Samuel Brown in Mechanical Engineering Michael James Bunkel in Civil Engineering Michael James Burridge in Civil Engineering Bradley James Burridge in Civil Engineering Brian Leigh Cook-Charlesworth in Civil Engineering Jason Sensen Chen in Civil Engineering Katharine Elizabeth Chimney in Chemical and Materials Engineering Andre James Cowan in Mechanical Engineering Scott Michael Dakers in Engineering Science Tuan Imran Dole in Computer Systems Engineering Muhammad Haikmata Famin in Mechanical Engineering Sana Fahat in Chemical and Materials Engineering Thomas Wilson Ferguson in Mechatronics Engineering Dominic Chung K. Fok in Engineering Science Gun Hun Meng in Mechanical Engineering Geoffrey Stephen Gates in Mechanical Engineering William Stephen Goodfellow in Mechanical Engineering Heath Russell Gordon in Chemical and Materials Engineering Ionella Andrea Grammer in Chemical and Materials Engineering Jesse Paul Griffin in Software Engineering Ross William Harper in Civil Engineering James Langtree Hatrick Smith in Civil Engineering Jiajia He in Civil Engineering Andy Yanling Huang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering David Hao Wei Huang in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Muhammad Samin Havzul Huck in Civil Engineering Amir Ivo Glian in Computer Systems Engineering Hoke Yong Kang in Civil Engineering Masha Kazarani in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Rathir Laxie Narayana in Chemical and Materials Engineering Daniel Tuilaton in Civil Engineering Sharlene Avu Fatima Leungwai in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Jiayu Lee in Chemical and Materials Engineering Anthony Frank Mason in Chemical and Materials Engineering Shane Joann Melzer in Civil Engineering Razine Mahmud in Civil Engineering James Mark McCluskey in Mechatronics Engineering Pranashu Mistra in Computer Systems Engineering Oliver Tres Mudrika in Civil Engineering Mohamed Rewan Mohamed Ali in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Noratira Mohamed Samisudin in Chemical and Materials Engineering Keelan Tamati Morrison in Mechanical Engineering Christopher John Nixon in Mechanical Engineering Waleed W. A. Newman in Civil Engineering Jeff Kok Hoi Ong in Mechanical Engineering Hojrong Park in Civil Engineering Aaron John Maxx with Petitin Software Engineering Niraj Ranjit in Civil Engineering Jai Piyosan in Computer Systems Engineering Dimadhu Akalanka Supantaraparuma in Civil Engineering Maesera Tujdun in Mechanical Engineering Laura Jones-Toseo in Engineering Science Kit Puwitsoi in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Rani Vardra Oli Lakaiba in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Devendra Vijay in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Cameron Michael Walburn in Mechanical Engineering Shirefa Selika Izati Wan-Kazim in Mechanical Engineering Nigel Karlunwan in Civil Engineering Amariya Francis Warrantini in Civil Engineering Kyao Hut Oun Nguyen in Civil Engineering Su Lu Wong in Software Engineering Tong Xie in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Kan Zhang in Civil Engineering To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours Conjoined with First Class Honours Samuel Joseph Bradley in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce Arthur Roman Brown in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Arts Liang Chen in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce Jeffrey Fo Duncan in Chemical Materials Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce Jeffrey Alan Fong in Chemical Materials Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce Troy Nicholas Hoogiven in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce Neil Hopkins in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Laws. Sylvie Adelaide Gilman-Myers in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Science. Anthony Edward Phillips in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Commerce. Harish Kauram in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Daniel Nicholas Sazaleck in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Charles William Stone in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Kay Suinae in Electrical Electronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Lewis Ennis Tomon, Electrical and Electronics Engineer and a Bachelor of Commerce. Sai Nanyang, Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts. Darren John Van Drutten, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Andrew John Webber in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Richi Wong Meng Sheng in Computer Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Shuang Wu in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Bo Xiu in Mechatronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Science. Daniel James Young in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Anthea Xiu in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts. To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours conjoined with Second Class Honours First Division, Henry Ching Hang Che in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Commerce. Suu Che Fang in Mechatronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Kuan Min Lin in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Commerce. Chitam Patel in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. To the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Honours conjoined with Second Class Honours Second Division, Andrew William Nichols in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Yu Feng Chao in Engineering Science and a Bachelor of Commerce. Suukanda Chokro in Mechatronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. Cheng Wei Yang in Computer Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts. To the Degree of Master of Engineering with First Class Honours. Jonathan Beaver in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Patrick Joseph Dempsey in Mechanical Engineering. Yei Li in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. David Liu in Mechanical Engineering. Ryan Douglas McCardle in Mechanical Engineering. Tianjith Werensinghe in Software Engineering, University Graduate Scholar. To the Degree of Master of Engineering with Second Class Honours First Division, Mohamed Azman But in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Michael Edward Byrne in Engineering Science. Adrian Leah Fortune in Civil Engineering. Gary Daniel Nates in Engineering Science. Yu Shi in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Craig Michael Smith in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. To the Degree of Master of Engineering with Second Class Honours Second Division, Zhao Lei in Chemical Materials Engineering. To the Degree of Master of Engineering, Wei Yonglu in Civil Engineering. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Management with First Class Honours, William Lin. Connell John Menzies. Degree of Master of Engineering Management with Second Class Honours First Division, Markos Pratikio Fernandez Montenegro. Srinivasa Raupula. Yaping Wang. Chuang Zhang. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Management with Second Class Honours Second Division, Konstantin Surji-Philippe. Ming Shang-Jiao. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Management, Brian Emanuel Quija Manasala. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Studies with First Class Honours, Sayantan Badra. Ka Manli. Rory McCully in Geotechnical Engineering. Fuet Nuiu in Transportation. Sandy Patil. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Studies with Second Class Honours First Division, Siddhartha Brahma. James Paul K. in Construction Management. Ran Lin. Heokune Sahid Martins in Transportation. Girish Nelapu in Construction Management. Rankesh Saini in Transportation. Wang Yidan. Ye Ye Jing in Construction Management. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division, Vijayendra Himadri Boss. Jamika Dekosta. Kizito Kwaku izi izumu in Transportation. Vikas Arya Gubi Coat-Wadir. Saeed Ali Haida. Sarah Adele Jaff. Narad Kunwa in Transportation. Nitin Melkoti in Transportation. Vladislav Motrev in Construction Management. Sri Ram Nagarajan. Ahmed Kantal Patel in Transportation. Jitinda Singh. Ruan Tondon. Ruizhou in Transportation. To the Degree of Master of Engineering Studies, Hejmadi Kartikadir. Supabs Krishna Subaramriya Rao. Sanda Sifani Sandip. I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands. Chancellor, I have pleasure presenting to you the doctoral graduands. To the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. I am Abbas in Chemical and Materials Engineering, University Doctoral Scholar. I am investigated some of the fundamental mechanisms of the top heat loss between the electrolyte and the air under the hoods in aluminium smelting cells and the influence of cell ventilation on the recovery of the top heat loss and the reduction of cell emissions. Chen Rikwan in Chemicals and Materials Engineering, University Doctoral Scholar, re-investigated a special technique to produce high-quality zinc oxide nanostructures with low cost and minimal pollution, which has great potential in light-emitting photocatalysis and solar cell applications. Chan Wei Chung in Chemical and Materials Engineering. Chan Wei researched the microstructure and mechanical properties of thermo-mechanically-processed magnesium alloys in order to improve the performance of these alloys for wider applications. Hossain Derek-Shan in Civil Engineering. Hossain investigated the out-of-plane dynamic stability of unreinforced masonry walls, including the effects of building floor stiffness and the number of stories. Anthony Downwood in Engineering Science. Tony developed game theory models for determining the effect on electricity prices of strategic behaviour by generators when they try to exploit transmission congestion. His models have been used by transpower and mighty river power to investigate the effect of transmission constraints on electricity prices. Xu Dong Fung in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Xu Dong investigated the energy-efficient communication algorithms for wireless networks. He developed methods of network clustering and chip interleaving as efficient means of energy reduction in wireless sensor networks. Xu Dong. Asia, Edel, Gaziolusoi in Civil Engineering. Edel developed a scenario and workshop method to assist companies in developing a corporate strategy to transform them into sustainable companies producing sustainable products and services. Nasa Juckerman in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Doctoral Scholar. Nasa investigated the parallelisation of desktop applications by easing the effort required to develop interactive and performance software applications, taking advantage of multi-core processes found in modern laptops and desktop systems. This will make the efficient parallelisation of more applications viable, thus allowing performance growth that can satisfy the future needs of engineering, science and society. Benjamin Jin in Chemical and Materials Engineering, University Doctoral Scholar. Ben developed a method for reducing temperature fluctuations inside freezes caused by door openings, loss cycles and the loss of electrical power. Kerry Lynn Hedges in Bioengineering. Kerry developed a novel computational model for simulating forced exploration in the human lung that includes subject-specific lung geometry and changes in tissue mechanics associated with prevalent lung diseases. Her work adds significant new insight into how changes in the lung during onset of disease affect common tests of lung function. Harvey Haw in Bioengineering. Harvey investigated blood flow in patient-specific cerebral vasculature and aneurysms. He developed a novel computational pipeline that is able to simulate hemodynamics in healthy and diseased blood vessels in a multi-dimensional manner. Joe Wei Su in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. William developed smart tuning methods to control the power flow of wireless power receivers, which greatly improved the capability of existing inductive power transfer systems for industrial and biomedical applications. Jessica Wing Yun Jor in Bioengineering. Bright Future Top Achiever Doctoral Scholar. Jessica investigated the mechanisms relating to the structure and function of skin using mathematical modelling with a view to better understanding of chemical behaviour of healthy, damaged and diseased skin. Johnny Weiss on Carl, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering University Doctoral Scholar. Johnny investigated and developed new algorithms for improving the service reliability of wireless communication systems based on methods of artificial intelligence. Wong Kim in Chemical and Materials Engineering. Wong investigated the influence of early exercise on the development of the cartilage and bone tissues in the mid-carpal joints of young thoroughbred horses. His aim was to determine whether early exercise increased the animals' resistance to joint injury and the later development of osteoarthritis. Well, Chair can lie in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Eva investigated electromagnetic wave propagation in indoor environments and developed efficient methods for predicting received signal strengths for indoor wireless communication systems. Bo Lee and Bioengineering University Doctoral Scholar. Bo developed new ways of tracking heart wall motion and MRI images. These methods are now being used routinely to evaluate patients with heart disease in Auckland and around the world. Yi Qinglin in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Yi Qing investigated new approaches in robust audio-watermarking for copyrights protection, a novel technique for assuring the authenticity of digital multimedia products. Genean Heather Mitchell in Bioengineering. Genean developed a computational model of inert gas transport and mixing in the human and ovine lung for understanding the difference in measurements acquired using different imaging modalities and experimental methods. The predictive model is the first to link global measurements of lung function with regional contrast-enhanced imaging. Genean. Juliette Ann Newson in Engineering Science. Juliette analysed temperature-time series data from the shallow zone of high-temperature geothermal systems with a view to understanding heat and mass transport in the near-surface region. Benjamin Mark O'Brien in Bioengineering. University Doctoral Scholar. Bright Future Top Achieva Doctoral Scholar. Ben developed an entirely new class of stretchable electronics capable of making artificial muscles truly smart. His work is a significant step towards making soft and intelligent machines and has been recognised with the Rutherford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. Sumendra Nath Patra in Mechanical Engineering. Sumendra's research produced for the first time internationally a systematic understanding of how manufacturing parameters influence the electro-spinning process. The nanofibrous mats produced by Sumendra have been used as scaffolds to promote cell growth in tissue engineering and have been shown to possess excellent features for growing cells. Alistair Peter Russell in Civil Engineering. Alistair's research primarily investigated the seismic performance of unreinforced masonry buildings with an emphasis on the response of flanged unreinforced masonry walls subjected to in-plane loading. Diliana Semich in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Bright Future Top Achieva Doctoral Scholar. Diliana investigated energy-efficient cooperative communication among battery-powered nodes in a wireless sensor network, developing distributed strategies which enable the nodes to co-operate autonomously to extend the life of the wireless network as a whole. Gaurav Tandon in Chemical and Materials Engineering. Gaurav investigated the causes for variation in the cell voltage of industrial aluminium smelting cells with a view to identifying excess energy expenditure due to that variation. Kenneth Tran in Bioengineering, Bright Future Top Achieva Doctoral Scholar. Kennethan developed a computational model of a heart cell in order to investigate the fundamental control mechanisms that govern the energy supply and demand in the heart and to determine how these processes break down in coronary heart disease. Sayed Assan, Vargefi, Reze and Bioengineering. Assan investigated the system of nutrient delivery to the ocular lens experimentally and computationally to view to the development of therapies for lens cataracts. Assan. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the Book of Convocation qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Engineering. On behalf of the university, I now invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And this might be the perfect 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. This concludes this meeting of council and Convocation of the university for the conferment of degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you to sing the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Maori and then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your programmes.