Welcome to this business and economics faculty of the University of Auckland. Our official proceedings will begin shortly. They will begin when your graduands will enter the auditorium and at that point you will be invited to stand. They will then be followed by the official party, which includes the academics who taught your students. As the official party enters, we invite you to join the singing of the traditional graduation song, Gaudi Amos. Please then take your seats when the Chancellor takes his seat. Very important message, if you're currently carrying a cell phone, please ensure it's either turned off or turned to silent. And whilst you're very welcome to take photos during the procession and during the ceremonies, please move back to your seat immediately so you don't obstruct anybody behind you. And please don't stand in the aisles to take photos. At the end of the ceremony, the Chancellor will invite the gathering to sing God Defend New Zealand with your new graduates. Please remain standing following the end of the anthem as the processions leave the auditorium. Once the last graduates have left, you'll also be invited to leave. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for your students. Enga mana, enga rai o, tena coto, tena coto, tena coto catoa. Vice Chancellor, pro Chancellor, council members, special guests, staff, graduands, family and friends of graduands. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of council members and staff of the university. In particular, I welcome our guest speaker, Dr Peter Raj Singh. I also acknowledge the recent passing of Dr Mehdi Mehdi Penfold, who was a long-term member of the University of Auckland staff, a distinguished Māori scholar, and for many years, a cuya at our graduation ceremonies. This is a meeting of the council of the University of Auckland for the purpose of conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. This week we will be conferring and awarding more than 6,572 qualifications on some 6,478 students in person and in absentia. At this ceremony, 464 students will graduate in person and 157 students will graduate in absentia. I will be assisted by Mr Peter Kiley, pro Chancellor. This is a happy and memorable occasion for you, the graduands, as well as your families and friends who have supported you during your studies. We congratulate you all. Equally, your achievement brings pleasure and satisfaction to the academic and professional staff of the university who have played their part in your success. Capping is a time for celebration. The graduation procession today brought academic flavour and colour to the streets of Auckland, and in this ceremony, you will experience the pomp and tradition befitting your well-deserved day of celebration. Over a period of 130 years, the University of Auckland has become a comprehensive research-led university with a strong international reputation. Today, there are more than 40,000 students and 5,000 staff. Moreover, we are New Zealand's largest research organisation with one-third of the country's externally rated world-class researchers. Within New Zealand, only our university is ranked within the top 1% of the world's universities. We also have a strong commitment to Māori education. Of all the Māori degree graduates in New Zealand each year, 25% come from just one institution, the University of Auckland. For Pacifica graduates, the number is closer to 40%. The quality and international reputation of the university are fundamentally driven by the achievements of its people, and last year was an exceptional one for our academic staff who won almost every form of recognition available to them in New Zealand. In July, Professor Alison Jones and Associate Professors Bryony James and Cather Simpson won National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching. These awards mean that for 11 of the past 12 years, our researchers have been recognised as amongst the very best in the country. In November, engineers distinguished Emeritus Professor John Boyes and Professor Grant Coveck won the Supreme Award at the Prime Minister's Science Prizes Awards for their work on inductive power transfer. Dr Ben O'Brien from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute won the McDiamond Emerging Scientist Prize for his groundbreaking work on artificial muscles. Dr Suzy Wiles from Molecular Medicine and Pathology won the Science Media Communication Prize. Our staff also excelled at the 2013 Royal Society of New Zealand Awards winning four major medals. The most notable was Distinguished Professor Dame Ann Salmond from Maori Studies winning the society's highest honour, the Rutherford Medal. This was awarded for her eminent work on Maori social structures and interactions within the European world and on European exploration in the Pacific. She was also named Kiwi Bank New Zealand of the Year for 2013. These achievements reflect the outstanding quality not only of our academic staff but also of the students who work with them and the many professional staff who support them. A key part of our challenge for the future and one that is clearly reflected in our strategic plan is to continue to invest in a community of highly accomplished staff and students. An important element of that investment is ensuring that our teaching facilities are of the highest quality. To this end, the Council completed in 2013 the purchase of the former Lion Brewery's site in Newmarket as the basis for a new campus which will be integrated with the city and Grafton campuses. At Newmarket, workers well underway on construction of the engineering research laboratories. These buildings represent an investment of approximately $88 million to support our engineering research and postgraduate teaching for the benefit of all New Zealand. We will occupy the first of these new facilities in July this year. Workers also began on the new science tower on the corner of Wellersley and Simon Streets. This major construction project represents an investment of more than $300 million. It will allow us to upgrade science teaching and research and integrate the School of Psychology and the School of Environment into the main science precinct. This will in turn free up the human sciences building for refurbishment as a centre of the arts faculty. Constant innovation is the cornerstone of a university such as ours. Innovative teaching and research is vital for long term sustainable economic growth of our country and social cohesion of our nation. This has never been more so in the testing times we face in the wake of the global recession, the Christchurch earthquakes and the yet to be defined effects of global warming. Universities equip graduates like you not simply for the jobs of today but for future careers not yet imagined in an ever changing world. So as you graduate today please reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and consider the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at this university. Reflect on the changes in technology you have already experienced in your lifetime and remember that most of the technology you will use in your future working career has yet to be developed or commercialised. I ask you to do this because we can never rest on our laurels especially in a challenging and ever changing world.  We rely on our graduates for support, moral, political and financial. Funding constraints are a perennial problem for New Zealand universities who are being asked to do more and more with less and less each year. In fact we should be spending more on universities not less. So don't worry we will be in touch with you and when we do please lend us your support. But that is enough of the substantial issues facing us all as members of a 21st century university with high aspirations. Because today is your day with a focus firmly on your achievement. At this ceremony we will honour your success along with the support of your family, far now and others who have sustained you through your studies. I congratulate you and trust that you will long cherish the memories of your graduation today. It is indeed a pleasure for me to welcome this morning's guest speaker, a celebrated teacher, an international speaker and I'm proud to say a graduate of the University of Auckland. He is also the chair of the Friends of the University of Auckland in North America. Dr Peter Raj Singh sets an example for us all to follow. He was educated in New Zealand, finishing high school at Wanganui Collegiate and then graduating from the University of Auckland in 1986 when he was awarded the senior and annual prizes in politics. He has a PhD from the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and has taught at New York University's Galliton School of Individualised Study since 1991. It is a tribute to his passion and drive that he has received four outstanding teaching awards from the university during his inspirational career. Peter is also annual visiting professor at the Nome Management School in Rem, France. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in finance, business ethics, social and political philosophy and US constitutional law, as well as interdisciplinary seminars focused on politics, philosophy and economics. He is a partner at alternative asset management firm in New York, co-founder of a media and entertainment startup and also serves on the boards of a number of private companies and charitable institutions. Welcome Peter, we're delighted to have you with us today. Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, members of the council, members of the university, graduands, families and friends. Kia ora koutu kato. Heartiest congratulations to our graduands, accomplished, celebrated, intelligent sparks of pure potentiality. It's an extraordinary honour and delight to be with you all today. Here in New Zealand, over 20 years since going to live in New York, I can't help but be moved by being back in this country and at this university, both of which played a deeply formative role that prepared me for many later challenges and opportunities. You can leave New Zealand, but New Zealand never leaves you. I'm sure you too will look back in years to come, as I constantly do, recalling your time at Auckland University is some of the most wonderful moments of your lives. With due credit to David Foster Wallace, from whom I've borrowed and adapted this, I'd like to share with you a little fable. Imagine two young native New Zealand birds chattering atop a beautiful potakawa tree. Their playful banter is abruptly cut short when an older relative, imagine an annoying uncle from Rotoraw or something like that, flies up and joins them. G'day fellas, he exclaims, how's the air up here? The young birds look at each other puzzled, and then one retorts to the other, what the heck is air? Let's reflect upon the message here. As we proceed through life, it's easy to begin taking things for granted. To become complacent and simply not perceive the stuff around us that enables us to live and breathe. When learning to fly, young birds must negotiate the critical relationship with air. But once the skill feels mastered, the relevance of the air in which birds swoop and swarm seems to fade into an inconsequence. I'd like to suggest to you that air for all of us here today is a worthy ongoing metaphor, and I'm going to stretch the metaphor throughout this talk. For one thing in New Zealand, where clean and fresh air is found in relative abundance, we often don't realise how precious a commodity air really is. But I'm interested in another interpretation of air. We can also consider that a first class tertiary education, such as the one we've been privileged to receive at Auckland University, is also a form of air. An elemental experience meant to continuously refresh and oxidinate the spirit. Education, like air, is something we must never disregard nor forget. In an age where everything tends to be commodified or treated instrumentally as a means to an end, we lose sight of significant aspects of what an education stands for, such as its relationship to contemplative, to the contemplative life of the mind, and the responsibilities that come with it. For the ancients this was a given. Education and intellectual virtue are ends in themselves and freighted with serious moral purpose. For this point too, birds provide important lessons. In their long migrations, birds fly in V or J formations, conserving energy by taking advantage of wind fields created when the wing motions of their fellows in front help propel the ones behind along. When those at the head of the formation tire, other birds take the lead, their actions helping others in the flock. The efforts of the leaders contributing to pulling along all the others. This image perhaps reflects part of the moral purpose of an education. It prescribes a duty to contribute positively, putting knowledge to work in a responsible way in the service, not only of ourselves but for the greater good. One of the misunderstandings that sometimes arises when you come from a small and airy country is the idea of not mattering. Of being irrelevant in the larger world. Here again we must remember our two young birds on top of the Potokawa tree. Air, that stuff in which we move, can simply never not concern us. We change our air by the way we navigate through it, creating various kinds of ripples and slipstreams. Whatever we do has relevance for the people around us and the broader society writ large. And so it is with how we choose to live, the goals we set and the purposes to which we dedicate ourselves. From the time of the great migration of the Maori to our terror, Kiwis have been venturing into unknown lands and excelling. This is an enduring national ethos. Consider notable New Zealanders, Edmund Hillary, Catherine Mansfield, Lord Ernest Rutherford, Kirito Kanawa, Graham Liggins, the list goes on and on. All these people were holding their own on the global stage. At the same time being geographically removed from global group think has distinct advantages. New Zealanders are possessed of a unique sense of proportion, practicality, creativity and common sense. It's imperative we never lose what's distinct and special about New Zealand and incumbent upon you, the future generation, to ensure that New Zealand does not allow itself to stray. By forgetting what is our air and thereby replicating dystopian social realities found elsewhere in the world. Untennable circumstances are commonplace, from dark social inequalities to massive indebtedness, political corruption, food and water insecurities, environmental degradation, all these things we know too much about. Those of you who become future leaders must try to develop more sustainable ways of being, both social, economic and political. Cognizant of how aspects in contemporary life have placed us upon a slippery slope. My connection to New Zealand was a lucky accident. At 15 I wanted to go away to boarding school and had never been to New Zealand, which was maybe part of the appeal. But ultimately I can probably credit coming here also on a bird. I was around six or seven when a Kiwi friend of my parents gave me a vinyl EP of Alwyn Owens, Pookie and the Bird Singing Contest. I don't know if any of you know it. This introduced me to the idea of New Zealand. I can't really remember much of the plot, but the song of the tui on the record, which went something like this, is still lodged in my mind. This random encounter with New Zealand birds turned into an education, and this carries a lesson for me. Life is as much about lucky coincidences and confluences as it is about purposeful effort and active agency. We must learn how to combine conscious effort with natural progression. Properly using your wings is important, but then there are air currents that come out of nowhere, which catch you and cause you to soar, gliding and ascending to heights you could never imagine. And all the while, as we travel, we must have an ongoing sense of gratitude for those things that are our air, their quality and buoyancy, literally and figuratively. We should also ever recognise and acknowledge the array of facts, some solidly positive, some bad even, that cannot be taken for granted or ignored. This is how we open ourselves up to concrete and abstract qualities that constitute our air, making and remaking ourselves in the existential flight called life. Before concluding, I'd like to share a quick piece of information. Make a note of a number. 09215 6754. It's for a place on Carangahapi Road where you can go to get your unwanted tattoos removed. Graduans, congratulations and please take this message to heart. Be vigilant and mindful and remember what is air. Fly high, lift those around you and land well. Thank you. Thank you, Peter, for a most challenging and insightful speech. Can I ask you to join with me again in thanking Peter for that address? This is a meeting of council and convocation of the university at which the pro-chanceler, Peter Keili, and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I invite the pro-chanceler to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of the ceremony. The authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Peter Keili, pro-chanceler, award the diplomas and confer the degrees, stated upon those who, within the faculty of business and economics, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I call upon the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Wong, to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-chanceler, as Deputy 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 Business and Economics. To the degree of Bachelor of Business and Information Management, Joshua David Adie, Jordan Michael Atkins, R.J. Christian Bellane, Argyll Abyss Bartolome, Senior Scholar Business and Economics, Linda Brock, Rohan Zubin Dalal, Joshua David Elder, Xiaoxiao Fan, Dayanel Anthea Almena Ginto, Emily Louise Hayden, Han Ho, Michelle Blair Hooper, Liesel Victoria Kallian, Crystal Rio Penel Lapis and a Graduate Diploma of Commerce, James Matthew Law, Lily Lee, Oliver Nils Warwick Marsh, Khan Sua Nyon, Afiani Douglas Oqpala, David Jonathan Perry, Dustin Sean Tanpinada, Anchita Sharma, Yu-Tung Shun, Lisa Jane Strong, Rebecca Susan Marie Van Alfost, Hailey Marie Watson, William Thomas Andrew Whelan, Christine Naira Mary Withington, Jonathan James Young, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Abdul Sayez Abbas, Oliver James Agnew, Sue Jun-An, Faisal Ali, Ashayini Amarasingam, Roshan Anan, Arani Thulasi Anabaskaran, Nessa Anal, Ryan Latham Anderson, Dexter Fernandez Angelo, Julian John Hayes Ania, Sean Matthew Ansell, Akash Velkani-Sharian Anthony, Marvin Antonio, Matthew Alistair Thompson-Arbuckle, Holly Rebecca Armstrong, Francis Clétte-Arns, Scott Michael Ashby, Vivian Al, Vanye Babich, Sayed Fabud Badri, Minhun Bai, Sean Jin Bai, Benjamin Neil Bakalich, Ki Ying Bang, Carl Hamilton Barnhill, Eugene Olegovic, Basai Kin, Abul Khair Mohammed Muskeed-Bashiru, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Michael Boyer Ballingham, Jenna Marie Bentley, Olivia Christiana Bithio, Vimy Rysha Bagat, Abhiaf Medani, Madeleine Jean Byrd, Mayor Rose Irene Turey Burkett, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Bao Yeung Bong, Charles Dennis Bradley, Jean Robert Bradley, Brennan James Bramwell, Julia Kathleen Brown, Sam Robert Bryant, Jessica Joishi Chai, Jan Yeung Chai, Daryl James Kallenon, Kaitlin Louise Campbell, Jonathan Brian Campbell, Peter James Carpenter, Ashley Monique Castle, Cloran Ann Bayuga-Cattrell, Chris Peter Caddanach, Hamish Sinclair Chatterton, Amanda Chyman Chan, Chi Yor Chan, Ho Man Chan, Chan Le Ling, Kirti Komal Chan, Xiao Han Chan, Ji Song Chan, Xiao Hao Chan, Yun Ting Chan, Li Xuan Chao, Man Yu Chao, Chao Pui King, Bab Siok Chee, Ellen Woon Hee Chan, Hai Jo Chan, Hidi Chan, Jia Qian Chan, Jia Yu Chan, Ting Xuan Chan, Xiao Jia Qian, Yu Hua Qian, Yong Yun Chao, Bai O Choy, Hun Wun Choy, Yun Soob Choy, Andre Chukhairef, Colin Chung, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Randall Paul Clement, Elise Jane Collins, Chung San Yng, Christopher Ian Connor, Mai O'Roria O'Jarrio Corpus, Aidan Douglas Costello, Darren Michael Coyne, Justin Roland Cran, Edward Allen Styles Cran, Shane Quinton Crawford, Richard James Dalesi, Achal Ashmita Dutt, Cameron James Davis, Carl Anthony Dawson, Erangahashika Diabru, Andrew Philip Diboda, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Christian Tony Dupont, Zhi Zhi Dang, Jess Grant Singh Dutt, Hal Ching Dee, Marcia Mary Saviola Diaz, Qing Ding, Ian Mark Dilama, Logan John Dutt Driver, Debria Danielle De Souza, Ashley Kane Dufty, Priyanka Dutt, Sally Ann Agil, Denigianti Elizator, Saimi Iom, Netli Khasu Fakalogatoa, Joandie Funn, Hamas George Fanslow, Sena Fahin, Tessa Alan Fali, Ding Chi Fung, Anthony Vianni Finau, Equator Pascal Fittesimannu, Jamie Dominic Fitts, Cameron Paul Floodd, Gary Cameron Fonua, Alex Wong Foy, Morgan Alice Foy, Hayden James Doble Francis, Matthew Peter Francis, Felier Frey, Hannah Jane French, Ying Zhi Rachel Fung, Va Ying Gan, Chong Gao, Gary Keshore Gopati, Nicholas William Jinn, Yi Meigor, Rung Bangung, Bruce Leslie Goodall, Nicola Louise Goodson, Arti Achana Gounda, Shifali Goel, Cornelian Ming Grace, Louis Jefferson Granger, Darren Richard Gray, Laura Ann Greene, Matthew Lance Greene, Xian Gu, Yuan Yure Gu, Chong Gao, Rachel Alexandra Hedlow, Jack Fair Granville Hall, Ainsley Mary Ray Harrell, Chloe Usher Harry, Maggie Hur, Scott James Henderson, Centauru Shavendi Hiraf, Ashley Taylor Hill, Carl Vanelli Jr Hill Willis, Kevin Ho, Ryan Henry Hongyep Ho, Patrick William Hoban, Nicole Louise Hogarth, Charlotte Helen Holleya, Jessica Kelly Holmes, Yuan Ju Hong, Corey Ian Hooker, Xi Jie Hao, Shaquelson Hoxa, Johnny Ming Yin Su, Ken Ken Hu, Yan Ju Hu, Xiang Yun Wang, Jing Jing Wang, Kit Ying Wang, Peter Wang, Fahez Soheil Hussein, Kwa Deng Huyn, Jordan Alana Abel, Uzar Ilahi, Ia Meima Ioyani, Alana Chanel Jackson, Anna Lara Jackson, Matthew Ivor Jacobson, Jessica Elizabeth Jeffries, Nicholas Robson Jensen, Jun Hoot Jong, Albert Jong, Jia Jia, Jiang Huan, Hattel Kirit Javanji, a graduate diploma in commerce, Tristan Phillip Jo, Oliver Collin Johnson. 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. Hilary Hayes on Violin, accompanied by Bradley Wood, will now perform Pryludium and Allegro by Cresla. Thank you, Hilary and Bradley, for that. I also wish to congratulate Hilary, who won first place in the Graduation Gala Concert of Competition last evening in the Town Hall. Can you all join with me in thanking authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Ian Parton, Chancellor, award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated upon those who, within the Faculty of Business and Economics, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Wittred, to present further graduands in that faculty. To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Chelsea Lara Jones, Gareth James Edward Jones, Gary Stephen Joseph, Jonathan Joseph, Salil Pradeep Joshi, Gloria Janel Kham, Yng Ng Khan, Saifhwan Khan, Won Bin Kang, Yuli Kang, Dasheini Karupia Mohan, Fin Yudan Kasali, Caroline Astari-Kasmarah, Steffan Cuttich, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics, Michael Timothy Kelly, Craig Kenny, Christine Yewe Koo, Kasta Kala, Anna Kiddick, Bora Kim, Dayun Kim, Hong Kyu Kim, Nern Son Kim, Natalie Louise Kirch, Vitaly Kirilenko, Joshua Kirkwood, Kavasec Vishal Kishaw, Pei Yuko, Wei Liam Kong, Courtney Rachel Kosa, Amunpreet Khur, Ashitosvijaint Kumar, Priya Dasani Kumar, Sonam Swastika Kumar, Teijan Dananjaya Karupa, Mok Yinlai, Elliot Michael Lampotang, Huiling Selina Lam, Lisa Lam, Scott Michael Langdon, Scott Joseph Latham, Jun Young Lau, Liko Fritslau, Nicole Elizabeth McPherson-Lori, Elina Dmitrevna Lekchinskaya, Stephen Lee Chee Ket, Eleanor Lees, Michaela Claudette Luens, Elizabeth Joy Lewis, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Sahil Arora and a Bachelor of Science, Boris Babic and a Bachelor of Property, Svetlana Beliek and a Bachelor of Arts, Julia Rose Boyle and a Bachelor of Arts, Nicola Louise Carroll and a Bachelor of Arts, Ilim Chan and a Bachelor of Science, Bradley Dean Chimali and a Bachelor of Property, Stephen Fanjo Chen and a Bachelor of Property, Yuhui Chen and a Bachelor of Property, Longyu Sebastian Chung and a Bachelor of Arts, Patrick William James Chiles and a Bachelor of Arts, Rebecca Elizabeth Clark and a Bachelor of Arts, Helen Patricia Collins and a Bachelor of Arts, Nicholas Lawrence Cullinane and a Bachelor of Arts, Meggy Ellen Davison and a Bachelor of Arts, C. Yuan Ding and a Bachelor of Health Sciences, Ivana Drincovic and a Bachelor of Arts, Robert James Faye and a Bachelor of Arts, Andrew James Peter Forshaw and a Bachelor of Science, Rachel Amy Gabriel and a Bachelor of Arts, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Melissa Claire Goffin and a Bachelor of Arts, Dhruf Gomba and a Bachelor of Science, Catherine Francis Graham and a Bachelor of Science, Joyce Zumeho and a Bachelor of Science, Sarah Jane Hodgkinson and a Bachelor of Arts, John Ting Kelly Huang and a Bachelor of Arts, Nita Yashrani and a Bachelor of Arts, Hediyokandadji Therome Judith Jayasinger and a Bachelor of Arts, Stephen Edward Jordan and a Bachelor of Arts, Gahad Joseph and a Bachelor of Arts, Biljyn Darjeet Coor and a Bachelor of Arts, Anna Kathleen Kempkez and a Bachelor of Arts, Mario Christeve and a Bachelor of Science, Waileng Coor and a Bachelor of Science, Judy Pui Yanlong and a Bachelor of Arts, Hinsan Li and a Bachelor of Property, Yan Yun Li and a Bachelor of Arts, Xia Wen Lo and a Bachelor of Arts, Pauline Pui Yin-Lui and a Bachelor of Arts, Shihwa Luk and a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Ali Babayee in Administration, Priscilla Edward Brito Pereira in Administration, Donna Marie Afracamble in Administration, Xian Ni Chen in Administration, Justine Amy Davies in Administration, Gary Bertram Gonsalves in Administration, Daria Grigiova in Administration, Haley Jane Gribble in Administration, Pavneet Grover in Administration, Dane Charles Guttenbale in Administration, Reynal Mary Hug in Administration, Sarah Grace Pennington Ibs in Administration, Jason Andrew Isaacs in Administration, Farwes Jabur in Administration, Ruth Jaeger in Administration, Vikas Jane in Administration, Carl Wayne Jones in Administration, Johnson Chun-Sin Lau in Administration, Ruth Marlowe in Administration, Michael Joseph Matheson in Administration, Annette Marie McAnche in Administration, Damien Taylor Mokoraka in Administration, Derek Bart Pepesh in Administration, Jeremy Nicholas Parsons in Administration, Jonathan Robert James Payne in Administration, Artie Rotham in Administration, Glen Darrell Roberts in Administration, Franklin Andalicio-Savaidra in Administration, Samir Saxena in Administration, Damendra Singh in Administration, Mark Elgurdas in Administration, Tanya Nicole Smith in Administration, Raymond James Stone in Administration, Stephen James Troughton in Administration, Mark Hendrick Van Swet in Administration, Zhu Kang-Wong in Administration, Gordon Francis Wiffen in Administration, Zhenyu Chao in Administration, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with First Class Honours, Elbit and Kiri Wang in Finance, James Edward Brooker in Finance, University Graduate Scholar, Julie J. Lynn Chow in Finance, Kenny Ka-Yin Chan in Accounting, Yi Lang Chan in Accounting, Mahesh Chagan in Finance and the Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Science Conjoint, Jin Yong Choi in Marketing, Ian Robert Clatworthy in Accounting, Jessica Joy Cribbins in Marketing, Graham Peter Debney in Management, Andrew James Dodge in Marketing, Alice Amanda Fall in Marketing, Joyce Yingfei Guan in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Aileen Hu in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Benjamin David E. Nevalie in Accounting, Benjamin Stanton-Kyley in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Julie Kim in Operations and Supply Chain Management and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jeho Kwan in Accounting, Alexandra Fredrick Leslie Lee-Ben in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Commerce, Diane Perfium Christian Lavellula Amu in Management, Yun Jong Lee in Accounting, Larissa Luchman in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Pauline Delos-Rays-Edviento in International Business and a Bachelor of Commerce, Chio Yun An in Marketing, Daniel Mark Aldridge in Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Elizabeth Anne Bond in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Commerce, Xi Sao in Accounting, Anna Dodoka in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Fu Dong-Gao Economics, Owen Luke Isaacson in International Business, Matthew Johnson in Marketing, Aaron Richard-Krebs in Economics, Alice Yin-Nor-Lum in Finance, Sung Yun Lee in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours Second Division, Andrew Hilton-Godechgy in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Lily He in International Business, Nino Tamaraz in Anishvili in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jia Yeo Kim in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, Wei Cheng Lian in Economics, to the degree of Master of Business Administration, Lyndon Wallace Finlayson Bain, Marcus Terence Gordon Bosch, Andrew Jonathan Boyes, Emma Louise Brooks, David John Bryant, Aitong Chan, Vanit Balsavish Chwahan, Nicola Jan Cheesman, Joanne Yu Chen, Catherine Nancy Grace Churcher, Jody Louise Cottle, Jason Robert Cox, Paul DeQuaster Neatt, Timothy Warnock-Dipros, Eunar Robyn Diver, Andrew Christopher Ewans, Scott Ronald Fenton, Hashim Joanne Chwa and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Joanna Margolatsa, Yash Chemska, Fiona Barbara Kingsford, Fergus Leonhawk Lee, Elizabeth Margaret Lindsay and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Wendy Mary Mainwearing, Paul Anthony Matthews, Matthew George Mays, Diane Victoria Micatea, Gary Christopher McElvainer, Gavin Keith Peebles, Marcus Julian Pillay, Jonathan David Rhodes, Jessica Marie Seymark, Wei Ong Seat, Richard Bryan William Seymour Wright, Sneha Savothamthshetty, Giuseppe Simonetta, Sashi Sajiv Singh, Paul James Smith, Sharmasukul, Murray Charles Taylor, Catherine Louise Tyler and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Lyndon Jan Basie, Neil George Watson, Julianne Wilson. To the Degree of Master of Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship, Michael David Eagleson, Graham Robert Finch, Jim Mikael Carl-Fredrick Lawrenceon, Barbara McCardle, Owen O'Sullivan, Dimas Simon Segovia Munoz. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with First Class Honours, Natasha Cheryl Delamore, Daniel John Hicks, Kailin Isabel Sinemoi Naik Leong, Christina Kiri Wirihana. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours First Division, Kwok Yi Gloria Chung, Gung Jerry Dong, Kay Patricia Highland, Alistair Bruce Marsh, Samar Pant and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division in Commercial Law. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division, Sachin Beldiv Kumar Modgill, Donna Gale Vincent. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies, Myong Hee Choi. I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands. Chancellor, I have the honour of presenting to you the doctoral graduands. To the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Azu Atik and Information Systems. Azu investigated the design and provision of technology-enabled services that led to the development of a collaborative service system design model. This empirically constructed model stresses the seamless inclusion of consumers in the design of technology-enabled services. Rosalind Francis Bosworth in Management University doctoral scholar. Rosalind investigated innovation dynamics and practices of firm successful in the development of groundbreaking environmental and sustainable innovations. A dynamic business innovation model was developed for use by companies and industry practitioners as a means of enhancing the environmental sustainability of business innovations. Amabel Jai Hunting and Marketing University doctoral scholar. Amabel explored what it means for urban-based consumers to live sustainably in New Zealand. In absentia, all those other persons named in the official record qualified for the confirmative degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Teaching excellence awards. University places considerable significance on excellence in teaching. It recognises this by making awards each year to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in aspects of teaching. These awards are contestable across the university and signify a truly superior achievement. An award for innovation in teaching has been made to Dr Charlotte Wendell in the Department of Marketing within the Faculty of Business Economics. I call upon a student of that faculty, Isabelle Monk, to read the citation for Dr Wendell. Dr Charlotte Wendell is a passionate and engaging teacher with a contagious enthusiasm for learning and for design thinking. She goes above and beyond expectations in her work and is a very worthy recipient of this award. I am speaking today on behalf of the students of Lottar's undergraduate course, Services Marketing and Management. A course which she has led since 2011. There are many things which make Lottar stand out as a teacher. She has a non-traditional approach to content delivery which we as students enjoyed. Lottar's vision is to inspire and encourage students to think and act without telling them what to think and how to act. At the start of the course she said to us, I want you to be like young children, question everything and keep asking why. Lottar teaches by showing the students where to look but not what to see. She encouraged us to be active learners learning from doing, trying, failing, making improvements. Her students come away prepared with skills for work outside of university. We will need to be able to deal with change and uncertainty. Lottar is highly engaged with her students and this was a common theme in student feedback from the course. Lottar went through the struggles and the successes of our design challenge projects with us. In the classroom, Lottar is not only a teacher, she is also learning alongside her students. She constantly looks for ways to improve the course, seeking feedback from students all the time and even making changes within the semester. Personally, I gained a huge amount from this course and Lottar is a real inspiration for me. The award for teaching excellence is a fantastic recognition of Lottar's hard work. I congratulate her on this achievement. We are nearing the conclusion of the formal part of the ceremony. On behalf of the university I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And while you are still standing, this would be a good time for the graduates to show their appreciation of their families and supporters and the staff of the university who have helped them as they achieved their qualifications. Thank you. This concludes this meeting of council and convocation of the university for the conferment of degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you all to sing the first verse of God to fair New Zealand in Māori, then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your programme.


Hello, in this video I'm going to explain how to symbolize points by varying size. This video is part of a summer course organized for IHG Delft on creating data visualizations with graphs, maps and animations. The tutorial can also be found on GIS OpenCourseWare. You can find the link in the description of this video. I would also like to acknowledge DerkFoods. I have modified his materials for this tutorial. We first go download data from natural earth, great OpenData set. Download the geo package and save it to your hard drive. After downloading, extract the zip file. You can use 7zip.org or the one from Windows. You see by default the windows will create a folder with .geo package which is a bit strange for a folder name and will not work in QGIS. So you have to rename the output folder and let's call it summer course where we will store all the data for the summer course and subfolder population. Click extract to unzip the files and folders. And here we see the result and under packages you can then find the geo package. So let's go to QGIS and there browse to the folder where we just extracted the layer and make it a favorite so we can easily go to our summer course folder also for the next tutorials. And there we find the geo package and we drag it to the map canvas. And there we are going to select the layers that we are going to use. We are going to use a polygon layer with the countries. And choose a one that also has the lakes. And the second layer, if we keep our control button pressed we can select the second layer is population layer with the cities, populated places layer. And then we click add layers to add it to the map canvas. And there are the layers. Make sure that your points layer is on top. The general order of layers in the layers panel is first points then lines, then polygons and then rusters. Now we're going to focus on styling the countries. So uncheck the points layer and go to the styling panel. Make sure that the countries layer is the target layer. And then let's first change the color by clicking on the color bar. You can change colors easily by using these sliders or you can type the RGB color code. In this case we will use 200, 200, 200 for red, green and blue which will give a gray value. Tell me how this works. If red, green and blue are zero we get black. If they are 255 we get its color as you can see here. So if B is 255 it turns into blue. And if they're all 255 it's white. And every value in between and if it's the same value would give a gray tone. Let's go back, click on simple fill and there we can also change the stroke color. And let's change it from black to white. So as we learned we use 255, 255, 255. So now we have a nice background layer that is subtle because it is low in the visual hierarchy. Let's focus now on the main layer that is going to convey our message. That's the point layer so make sure that it is the target in the layer styling panel. Then change the renderer from single symbol to graduated. And use for value the pop max field which contains the population of the cities. Change the method to size. Click classify to apply. We see that the population numbers are very high and large numbers and it's much. Better to express this in millions. So we're going to calculate the population per million. So we divide it in the expression dialogue by a million. Click OK to close the dialogue. And click classify to apply the expression. I'll click on the symbol to change the properties. Let's first change the color from the random color that was assigned to a nice purple color. And we use here the RGB and the 31, 99 and 236. We'll also use 50% opacity. So opacity is the opposite of transparency. Let's go back. For now we have used the equal count or quantile mode which gives a bit strange borders. Let's go for pretty breaks which gives nice rounded numbers. You can also play with the trim setting to change the precision value for the decimals. But here we keep the trim checked. You can also see that the smallest circles have outline that is almost as big as the surface of the area of the point. So we're going to change this by removing the lines from the smallest point. So we choose no pen. Go back. Now let's change the ranges of the size from 1 to 12 to make it a bit bigger and nicer. But you see when we change this setting we also use the outlines for the other circles than the small ones. So we need to set that back. Make sure they're not selected and then go back to change it to solid line. And then again click on the smallest circle and under simple marker change that one back to no pen. So we now have again that the smallest points have no outline and the larger ones have. Until now we have been using the geographic coordinate system for this project. Let's change this to an equal earth projection that preserves the proportion of surface areas. At filter type equal earth to see which projections we can choose from. You see that there are different choices here based on where you want to center the projection. Let's choose the one for green ridge. You also see that there are some providers from S3 but we will use the EPSG code. Now the background is white and it would be more realistic to have a nice ocean color there. So let's add from the gel package a layer which has the ocean. Here's one and drag it to the map canvas. It will also get a random color so let's change the fill color to something that looks more like an ocean but we still keep it a bit subtle. So we're going to choose some blue. We'll start from blue and then use the sliders to modify this to something that looks nice. Go back and under simple fill also remove the stroke color by choosing for stroke style no pen and then of course the ocean layer needs to be at the bottom. It's helpful for the user if they see some labels for these cities so we're going to add some labels. Make sure that the places layer is the target layer in the layer styling panel and go to the labels tab. Change to single labels and we use the name field by default but you see it's super crowded in the map so we need to make some adjustments there. Let's first change the font to a Calibri which is Sansarif font and we change the size to 13. Then we can improve the readability by using a text buffer and we make a size of 0.5 millimeters and we use the same color as we used before the C8C8C8 which we can also type there that's a hexadecimal code that we can also use to configure the colors and you can see that that's equal to RGB 200 200 200 as we said before. This gives us subtle background buffer but there's still too many places here. Now the map is still too crowded so let's do something about it. Let's go to the rendering tab and there we check the box to show all labels for this layer including colliding labels. This of course makes it worse but if we then under show label go to the data defined override we can add an expression to only show the places that are larger than a certain size. You can play with that value so look for pop max under fields and values double click to add it to the expression type larger than and then here we will use 10 million so only cities that are larger than 10 million will be shown and that very much improves our visualization here. So we can change the settings to better place the labels but here we're going to do that manually and you see here that labels toolbar with buttons to adjust the labels so we can move labels by clicking this button and when we click on a label it will first ask us for a primary key we keep it as a default and then we can start moving the labels by clicking on them and dragging them to the position where we want them. Make sure the labels are as least as possible crossing boundaries and that it's still clear to which city they point so bring them close together.


Let's talk business now. The World Bank says Nigeria could have saved about $342.1 million from January to December last year through the Debt-Service Suspension Initiative. It announced this in a brief on Debt-Service Suspension Initiative, updated this month by the Bank on its website. Under the DSSI, official creditors committed to suspended payment of all principal and interest within a stipulated period of time. The World Bank in its brief provided an estimate of what different countries included Nigeria could save if creditors suspended payment on all principal and interest within a period of 12 months. However, Nigeria, although eligible, opted out of this initiative, which could have led to saving 0.1% of its gross domestic product according to the brief. Despite being one of the largest World Bank borrowers, Nigeria is not covered by the joint bank fund debt sustainability framework for low-income countries.


Select the column or cells where you want to apply the drop-down menu, then go to the Data tab. In this section, go and click on Data Validation. A small window is opened. Here in the Allow section, select the List option. View my caffeine addiction with a cup of Joe, please. In the Data section, leave as is. And finally in the Source section, write the options you want to use separated by a comma. Then click OK and that's it. As you can see now, with just one click the drop-down menu is ready with the options you just set up. If you enjoyed this content, please like this video.


My name is Brian Grace Lee, Analyst with Wikibon, and on today's Wikibon whiteboards, we're going to begin to understand container architectures. Containers are really the big technology talk about these days, especially for infrastructure teams. There's a component of it that's both application and infrastructure, but in this whiteboard we're really going to understand the basics of how it applies to the infrastructure, and we're going to try and put it in the context of things that most infrastructure teams understand today, which is virtualization. So let's go ahead and begin. What we've done, and again, this is for context, we've tried to take a standard environment that people are used to seeing for virtualization, and in this case we're going to use VMware as the example, because obviously broadest market share, and a lot of people understand what they do. So let's talk about the basics of what happens here. People understand what happens at the host level. I've got servers. Within each server I've got a hypervisor, so in VMware's case ESX or ESXi. Within that hypervisor I'm going to go ahead and create virtual machines, so every single virtual machine has a copy of the full operating system, and then within that virtual machine I've got an application itself or multiple applications. So everybody understands that pretty well. Now how I manage those hypervisors and virtual machines is through a centralized control plane, and that's called vCenter, and vCenter may be a single instance, it may be a clustered instance, but think of it as the thing that's going to manage the scheduling of the resources and the management of those resources, and it's really only focused on virtual machines. Now above that we're going to have, if we're deploying applications I can either deploy them by hand, or I may begin to deploy them through application templates. So I may deploy the same type of application over and over again, a web server, a SQL database, something else, do that consistently, I'm going to use some sort of typically a templating function, and a lot of that can come in the management framework from something like VMoreVrealize, and then on top of that I'm going to have my applications, whatever those might be, SQL databases, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft applications, whatever those things might be. So the key things I want you to understand is at the host level it's hypervisor, virtual machine, full operating system and application, and at the control plane it's this sort of structured format of vCenter, clustered vCenter, is going to make sure that virtual machines get deployed onto those hosts, and it's going to keep track of where they are and make sure that they stay alive using things like VMoreHA, VMoreVmotion, and VMoreFaultTolerance. So now that we have that basic context in place, let's take a look at how the container ecosystem is beginning to evolve, and in this example we're going to use Docker because similar to VMware, right now Docker is the most frequently used container technology, there are other ones in the marketplace, but we're going to use Docker just as an example, the rest of what we talk about will be applicable whether it's Docker, CoreOS Rocket, or a number of the other container technologies that are out there. So let's begin down at the host level just like we did over here, in the simplest form, I'm going to have a host, I'm going to have a server, we're not going to have a hypervisor, we're just going to have the operating system. Today in most container environments that operating system is going to be Linux. Now there's a lot going on in the marketplace where this will eventually be Linux and Windows, Microsoft is working quite a bit on this, but for right now let's just say that operating system is Linux, okay? I'm going to have my container runtime, which in this case is Docker, and you can think about that as sort of being like a hypervisor, but it's almost a lightweight hypervisor. And then that container runtime is going to create my containers themselves. And each one of those containers, now what's unique about this that's different from this environment is each one of those containers only uses, they all share the same operating system. So again, all of your containers within a single host have to run the same operating system, either all Linux or eventually would be all Windows. They're going to use the bits that they need from that operating system. So the net net of it is it's a lighter weight footprint. I should be able to boot them quicker. And the reason people get very, very fixated on I can boot a container faster is because in this container environment, the types of applications that I'm building tend to be more what they call ephemeral pieces of them are going to go away, they're going to come back, I'm going to want to spin them up quickly if I have a scalable application spin them up or spin them down. And so what you're looking for is a operating environment that will come up very, very quickly. So just to put that in context to spin up a virtual machine may take three, four minutes because of the operating system coming up to spin up a container usually is on the order of a second or a couple of seconds. So big order of difference between there. Now the second piece that's really important and this is where a lot of people kind of get confused about what's going on in the container ecosystem is what happens at that control plane. The first thing to understand is when we talked about, you know, virtualized applications, we tend to talk about very stateful, sometimes they're called platform two, sometimes they're called legacy applications, but they're more or less stateful. So the expectation is once you deploy them, other than maybe be motioning them around for availability, you're not scaling them up and down. You don't expect them to fail frequently. And so the scalability needed at the control plane is fairly well defined. Maybe it's a thousand hosts or 10,000 hosts. When we start dealing with containers, the types of applications we deploy tend to be more what they call 12 factor applications. Sometimes you hear them call modular applications, cloud native applications. The idea being they're much more modular. They tend to be more state less. So the idea of maintaining state tends to get pushed somewhere else. But they're designed for scale. They're designed for mobile applications, for real-time data applications. And so the control plane, unlike here, which tends to be somewhat stateful and more confined in terms of scale, has to be designed to be a distributed control plane and has to be designed to scale much, much larger. And so as part of that, what we see is we're seeing technologies come out that sort of break up the things that were functions inside of a v-center control plane into sort of distinct technologies that, number one, tend to scale more because they're written in a distributed manner. And number two, they've got a certain amount of sort of mix and match that you can have with them depending on what your application is going to do. So let's talk through the basic things that are in here. The first layer that you'll often hear about is clustering. How do I cluster together sets of container hosts? An example of this is Docker swarm technology. Another example of this is something like EtsyD from CoreOS. It's a technology to sort of figure out where my clusters of hosts are gonna be. The next layer is what's called service discovery. If I'm deploying hundreds and hundreds or thousands of devices, I want to be able to figure out what services are available. Queuing services, database services, notification services. The things that are out there, I need to do that dynamically and automatically. The next piece is going to be scheduling those containers. Just like v-center is gonna put it on the right host to make sure that it's load balanced properly, there's a scheduling function to make sure that containers get deployed to the right container. And then the next piece is what they call application scheduling. So in these environments, I don't tend to schedule my applications. In these environments, they could be a mix of batch applications, Hadoop applications, long running applications, short running applications. I need a more advanced intelligent scheduler to make sure that I'm getting the containers and the applications deployed on the right place and as efficient as possible. And then on top of that, I have my actual applications. So the takeaway from this is at the host level, some difference between how heavy a virtualized environment is going to be versus a container environment. And that you want that to match how your application requirements are. And at the control plane, a more structured model for doing the functions that you need to manage the environment. In a container model, a more distributed model. So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and wrap that up. We're gonna get into some more depth in other videos. We hope you enjoy these. Once again, this has been a Wikibon whiteboard video. You can find more information about all of our research and all the information about these technologies at wikibon.com. And again, if you wanna follow me, again, my name is Brian Gracely. I'm at Be Gracely on Twitter. Or you can follow at wikibon on Twitter as well. Thank you and have a great day.


Hello everyone, welcome to another Narc's Fiverr light video, just been driving around Japan today and I thought I'd stop at this family mart to do another light video for you today and this video is a very important one it's about how the narcissist will eventually realise that you were the real deal all along yes, eventually they will realise that they may not realise it initially I mean of course, they took you for granted they discarded you, they just ran off they left you behind like you meant nothing to them but you never even existed it's like it was so easy for them to just forget all about you and everything that you did for them it was so easy for them to do that but it will catch up with them in time as they go out into the world and they run into other people who are very different to you or I because you really cared about them you really supported them you were really on their side, you were really in their corner and they took all of that for granted they didn't appreciate it and as I've said before statistics show only 1-2% of the world's population are empaths so if you are an empath that is how rare you are there are not many people like yourself or I in this world so yeah, you really were the real deal for them even though they may not realise that in the beginning in time they will realise it if they haven't already I'm just going to get back in the car as it is quite cold but put the phone there so you can see me again in time they will realise that you were the real deal all along they will realise that I just had to switch the jacket because it stinks of cat pee Nala peed all over it and I haven't cleaned it since then so every time I wear it it stinks and then it's hard for me to focus on the video but yeah back into it they will realise that you were the real deal all along and I know it looks like they don't realise it it's like they don't show it it doesn't matter if they show it or not of course when you are dealing with a narcissist they are probably never going to show it they have a superiority complex they have to feel like they are above you and they have too much pride and ego to ever consciously accept that but if you look at it I mean if you really observe their actions their behaviours everything they do it's like it is all in response to the fact that yes they already know that you were the real deal all along and they can't stand it so they are trying to turn you into the opposite they are trying to make it so that you are not the real deal anymore but how can they do that if they don't already realise that you were the real deal to begin with it's very difficult for them to do that without first accepting that you were already the real deal and then they just go out to try to discredit you to paint you in a bad light and to create this false narrative about you to make you look a certain way because if they can get other people to believe it and then it makes it more believable for them it just gets to a point where it's like who cares if you were the real deal or not what difference does it make now is how they are thinking when in actuality regardless of what they think it would have been a big deal for them because just think if they had treated you right I mean you were the type of person who would have cared about them for the rest of their lives as an empath you were very loyal you were devoted to them you would have done anything for them most people would not have done even a fraction of what you did for them and then they go out into the world they don't find other people like yourself people who actually care about them for real they don't find other people like that people like that are very rare instead what they find as I've said before they often run into grandiose narcissists people who are also fake or similar to themselves people who may just be using them as a form of social status so they may be using the narcissist for money maybe for a place to stay or it could just be their physical attractiveness it could be their connections it could be anything but what they're doing is they're just using the narcissist that's all that it really is they're using them like an object which is very different to what they had with you where you actually cared about them they actually mattered to you and you would have done anything for them and that's the crazy thing about it because it's very unlikely that they will ever become like you again that's how rare you are because you've got to think 1-2% of the world's population that are empaths I mean not every single empath in the world is going to be of benefit to you so just think about how rare you are a person who could actually genuinely connect to them you listen to them, you understood them or at least you try to understand them I mean it is very difficult to understand a narcissist many of them are very crazy if you find this video helpful please give it a thumbs up down below I can see there's 104 live viewers but only 22 thumbs ups it's very important to do that it gets this message out there to other survivors but at some point they will realize that you were the real deal all along it happens mainly when they run into other people and they start to realize this person does not care the way that you cared they don't love the way that you love they're not really that interested in me they don't really talk to me, they don't really notice me they don't really see me they're just kind of using me for what I've got yes the narcissist does catch on and start to realize these things with other people of course they do they're very paranoid, they're always scanning the environment for threats and if there's one thing they fear more than anything else it's that someone may come in and minimulate them the way that they have manipulated other people that's one thing a narcissist fears more than anything but then it's like what choice do they have what are the odds of them finding a suitable replacement for you someone who actually sees them and can connect to them and provide them with this potent grade A source of supply what are the odds of them running into someone like that again highly unlikely especially if you are a super empath because as Sam Vacanin said that is like one in a million that is extremely rare but yeah they leave you and they go out into the world and let's just keep it real even aside from narcissists we live in a very fake world I mean yeah you go places like you might go to a shop or a restaurant whatever it is people they say hello to you but it's just a part of their job and it's like even a family and friends they may ask you how your day was but then they're just asking you because then they're hoping that you will ask them so that they can then vent about themselves and their own lives a lot of times you know that's all that it really is and the world is a very fake world fake people the reality is that most people are just worried about themselves and their own lives to really take another person into consideration to really see another person without judging them and having a genuine interest to get to know them and I'm sure many of you who are actual genuine empaths you will identify with what I'm saying you will realize that there aren't many people who are like yourself as I've said it before the way that I am when I meet someone new I mean the way that I'm looking at them the way that I am observing them it's probably in a way that no one has ever taken the time to do that in their entire lives but I really believe that like when I first see a person I meet them for the first time I'm observing everything almost like a child I'm curious about people I mean that's how I'm able to do these videos and for such a long period of time as well is because I do have a genuine interest in human behavior when I meet someone new I'm looking at everything I'm looking at the way they style their hair the clothes that they wear maybe they're wearing makeup their posture the way that they stand the way that they talk the clothes that they wear I'm examining all of these things and based on my research and past experiences these things are translating all sorts of messages to me about that person it tells me a lot about them and of course with my work as I study human behavior my perception tends to be very accurate from the very beginning and I'm sure those of you who are watching this who are empaths you can relate to that you know exactly what I'm talking about there are not many people in the world who are like that for real and so the narcissist yeah they had a good run with you because you actually cared about them for real they actually mattered to you you took the time to get to know them as much as you could you had an interest in them and who they are and what they were portraying to you with most people it's not going to be like that for them and this is why if you look at it most of the time narcissists tend to be surrounded by other fake people who are just like themselves and I'm sure many of you have noticed that as well whether it's in families or in the workplace wherever it is they do tend to be surrounded by other people who are fake just like themselves because like tends to attract like portray themselves as though they are like us in the beginning and we fall for it but then when we realise who and what they are we don't decide to be around them anymore we don't decide to be involved with them because we know that's not going to be any good for us if we care so much about a person but they do not care that same way about us in return of course that's just going to put us at a disadvantage it's great for them when they don't have to worry about us but we're worrying about them we're doing everything we can to make them happy of course the narcissists is just going to run off the new source they're going to act like they don't need you they've got everything sorted with the new supply and they're flowing to them on social media looks like they're having a great time without you it's just a fantasy it's a shared illusion which works very well with two narcissists because they both need to have this illusion in order for them to function it validates their false selves and not only that but they may both be using this illusion to hurt their previous sources of supply so you see how that works but deep down underneath all of the pride and ego yes they are thinking that they have messed up and made a mistake they are actually thinking that some people will say that narcissists don't think that way try going to them and telling them that they are making a mistake by leaving you and watch how they react bring up things that you did for them remind them how they're not going to have it like that again do you think they're going to react calmly to that whether you say it in person or through text no they will blow up it will cause a narcissistic injury because deep down they know that it is the truth they already know even just as they are discarding you they already know that they are making a big mistake but they can't stop themselves a lot of times because they need that supply and they've got so much pride and ego they just need to feel like they're better than you and they need to feel entitled to do whatever they want so they're going to do it regardless even though they know already that what they're doing is actually no good for them yes they already know narcissists are very impulsive and reckless it's essentially the same thing there's a drug addict staring at a line of cocaine no one all too well it's not going to do them any good they know it's going to ruin their life but they're still going to take it they're still going to take it because they're addicted it's an addiction so even though yes they do at some level they realise that what they're doing is actually no good for them they will still go ahead with it because they cannot control their addiction that is why it's not that they don't realise your value to them or how good you have been to them yes they may fully well realise that yes they may fully be aware of it but they cannot let that stop them because of their addiction the supply at some level they do realise and it kind of just adds to the shame that they feel a feeling that they have made a very wrong and foolish decision and no one likes to feel shame but it's much worse for them because unlike us they don't confront or accept it they try to suppress or deflect it so it makes it even worse for them and it haunts them yes what they did to you, how they treated you the way that they just took you for granted and left you behind that does haunt them it does bother them greatly and this is why you ever see a narcissist in old age it's like many of them in every situation they were the ones to leave they were the ones to discard their victims and yet you see them in old age and they're always so bitter and resentful why if they were the ones who made all of those decisions well of course it's because they know that they have made the wrong decisions that's why deep down they are aware that they have messed up but they cannot entertain that idea for a long period of time if they did their disorder would be unable to function perhaps they would go insane or they would be suicidal that's what typically happens when they implode, they turn in words and they realise that yes they messed up, they made a wrong decision but usually they are able to stop themselves before they get to that point and they have an enabler around them who can help to keep them in that delusion to prevent them from turning in words because what artists tend to do is they're always so outwardly focused they're always focusing on anything other than themselves even if they're just focusing on their own false character because even then at least they're not going within it's far too painful for them to do that and that's another thing they may miss as well by leaving you how they were able to deflect their shame onto you and you just soaked it up like it was nothing it was so easy for you to carry their shame while a lot of other people they're dealing with fake people, narcissistic people they're not going to want to be dealing with their shame they've probably already got enough shame of their own that they do not want to reflect on so that's another thing that artists will miss by dealing with you how you were their doormat, their fool, their emotional punching bag but now someone else is their fool at least it's not going to be you anymore because as long as you're around them that's all you're ever going to be to them there's never going to be anything more than that they view people as objects that exist to serve them and yes believe it or not but they actually even view themselves as objects as well there's nothing deeper, there's no depth everything is just surface level, it's just the image, the appearance and even that is not even real the false self is just bits and pieces that they've taken from other people it's nothing that they have generated from within it's nothing that they actually care about or anything that actually means anything to them it's just whatever they think is going to get them supply whatever they think is going to get people to notice them that's all that it really is but yeah although you may never actually see it and although they may never actually come to you and tell you that they realize that you are the real deal all along although they may never actually come out and say that at some level yes but realize it I can promise you that they do and the proof just look in their eyes when you reject them or when you try to leave them or when they see that you're moving on and you're doing better without them it causes an narcissistic injury this is why they react in the way that they do this is why they're so controlling over you they don't want you to move on they try to isolate you they try to sabotage your new relationship or whatever you've got going on why do you think they react so strongly if they thought you're nothing you're not the real deal you're just nobody why do you think they care so much and it's not like they just care about it for a short period of time this goes on for months or even years in many cases why if they really think that you're not the real deal for them and that they didn't lose out on something great why would they care to come back to try to destroy you that doesn't make any sense so this is the proof that deep down they do realise that you were the real deal all along they realise just how great you were and are and that is why they react in the way that they do as I said that unresolved shame dictates that every thought, feeling, action and behaviour from dealing with you for the rest of their lives so for the rest of their lives they are operating from a state of mind a state of existence that is based on the experience they had with you because of the shame, rage, abuse cycle where they felt shame so they abused you and they raged which then caused them to feel even more shame and then they had to abuse you again and then it's just this vicious cycle that never ends it just goes on and on and it dictates their every thought, feeling, action and behaviour for the rest of their life from whoever they get involved with whatever they're doing it's all determined by the experiences that they had with you and that is why you may have seen from other YouTubers as well people talk about how the narcissist never really moves on they only pretend to move on because they can't actually detach from you for them to do that they would have to confront the shame that they felt from dealing with you and abusing you they would have to accept it confront it, deal with it, heal it just as we do but they don't do that and that is why they never actually detach, they never actually move on and that is why they're so possessive and controlling and many of them become stalkers to where they're on your case for the rest of your life that's why because their every thought, feeling, action and behaviour is dictated by the shame that they felt from abusing you it impacts them for the rest of their lives what they did to you it really does and they can't get out of it, it's a vicious cycle that never ends and it does cause them a lot of pain and suffering narcissists are shame based people who are doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame that is why they have all of these addictions that is why they need sources of supply that is why they need their enablers and flying monkeys that is why they hold grudges and they have a lot of resentment that is why for everything that they do that is it and yet deep down underneath it all they do realise that you were the real deal all along and maybe that's why they feel so much shame from abusing you to where they struggle to move on maybe that's the reason for that but yeah that's really the message I know it's quite an unusual setting today just sitting in the car outside this family mart in Japan just being travelling around a lot today I haven't really been doing too much just being to a park a beach again I've been having a good time in Japan now I'm heading towards Osaka maybe I'll be there over Christmas I don't really know I don't really know where I'm going next just yet I'm having a great time just being exploring around I spend most of my time on my own though as many of you may know especially now I'm not even with Nala but I haven't really felt any desire to get involved with anyone here with regards to dating I mean I don't know how I used to think that I like Japanese girls but now I'm not really so sure I mean what I really like as many of you already know what I'm really interested in is more women who present themselves authentically they don't hide themselves they don't try to be something they're not but what I found in Asia a lot and in Japan especially a lot of the girls here they wear face masks even though it's no longer Covid anymore which I do find to be quite strange and a lot of the girls here they I don't know it's very difficult to distinguish them from other people I don't find too many people here but their own really separate identity like everything just kind of blends in and everyone just kind of seems to be the same like they all tend to do their hair and make up the same way they wear the same clothes they use the same filters but then when you meet them they look very different in real life so everything is really a bit of a facade I mean what's really a big thing here is I don't know if you know like pink salons and soap lands that's really like the fun thing to do here rather than actually going out and dating someone I mean clearly there is a bit of a void here when it comes to dating and relationships that's why there are so many pink salons and soap lands here in Japan there's actually so many about the sex industry here in Japan it makes tens of billions of dollars every year I mean it really makes a lot of money it's a big thing and in all honesty I could see why because I have actually had the pleasure of going to one myself and I did quite enjoy it anyway it's part of my work it's part of my travel experience but I have to go out and explore these things and yeah I was quite curious about it and it was quite a positive experience I will say although it is very expensive compared to other countries especially Malaysia but it's good for people who are looking for something that's just with no strings, no commitments nothing to worry about you don't have to pay for another person take them into your home, pay for their dinner and all of that which is typically how it goes especially with narcissists I mean we have to take them into our homes pay for everything and then again what do we get, we get nothing we're typically just left in a lot of debt Kaz King asks do they have males Chris yes of course there are men here in Japan I mean I've been really busy travelling around I went a different place from one day to the next so I haven't really got too much time to talk to anyone too much or to make too many friends but to be fair I have met some good people along the way I have met some friendly people in Japan people who have been very accommodating but when it comes to the women here and dating it's really not what you might expect before getting here especially if you're watching things on YouTube especially if you're watching Japanese porn the women here in real life they're not really as open or as energetic in that way I mean I'm not really seeing too much of a personality like when I meet a girl here I'm not really seeing anything that distinguishes her from anyone else like what I do find is that I could see a girl here and then I could just walk around the corner and find someone who is indistinguishable from her and that doesn't just happen on one occasion that happens a lot that's what I'm finding I mean I'd love it if I did meet someone here and it's like wow you're very different, you're special, you're unique there's no one else here like you I mean that would be pretty amazing but up until now I haven't seen anything like that in my whole honesty and I do think that there is a void here that's why there's a lot of pink salons and soap lands this industry makes tens of billions of dollars every year in Japan but even then I mean of course you know it is fake you have to accept that it's not real you kind of have to enter this fantasy you have to plug yourself in and then it can be an enjoyable experience for you I mean it's like I said you know going back to the narcissist and how they're not going to find someone else like you, someone who actually cares about them the reality is that empaths are very rare in this world especially awakened empaths healed empaths super empaths it's very rare very rare that you'll actually find someone who genuinely cares about you it's very rare that you will find that I mean even just using myself as an example the way I've been doing these videos now for over 5 years I get on here pretty much every day I can talk for like over an hour just knowing that I am helping someone out there most people are not like this most people are not going to care they might be doing videos like this but then it's just for the subscribers I never knew I mean there was a time when I was demonetised for a couple of months I was still making videos as normal and for the first 3 or 4 months when I began this channel I actually wasn't making any money from it at all and I didn't really know that I could make anything out of it that wasn't really my concern and the sad thing is if you really look at it and examine the statistics of how only 1-2% of the world's population are empaths I mean if you really examine that and really think about it for a moment it's really worrying and it's really worrying because that should tell us empaths are not really wanted or needed in this world because look at it like this it's supply and demand if they were needed there would be more of them 1-2% of the world's population that means that 98-99% of people in the world they're just surrounded by fake people who don't really care about them they can't even share or understand their feelings and experience so empaths and pathic people they're not really needed they're not really needed in this world as sad as that sounds and if we're not careful they could get worse in time they could get even worse they could be even less empaths in the future which is why as I've said before we have a duty to avoid these narcissists to avoid procreating with narcissists and instead what we need to do is date empathic people like ourselves and mate with those types of people so that we can breed new empaths into the world because otherwise what's going to happen we're all just going to die out because just look at the way that narcissists take us for granted and discard us I mean practically all of the empaths in the world they're going to be alone isolated victimized targeted just reveals empathy is not really needed in the world anymore people are quite happy with a fake world a false reality and pretending like they actually give a shit when they don't I could never go into that space or pretending like I care when I don't if I did that even for a moment I would feel very guilty and then I would have to do something to make up for it I just haven't got the ability to do it as an empath I cannot be fake I have to be real no matter what I have to be it's just the way that we are but yeah it does worry me a bit you know I like having fun just as much as anyone else and there's nothing wrong with that but just to see the sheer number of pink salons and soplins I mean it must make these girls feel very insecure when they see all of these because they already know what all of the men are doing here and you go to one on a Saturday night it is absolutely packed you'd have to be like queuing outside for like 20 minutes just to get in and I do wonder sometimes what do these girls think you know the normal girls who are not in there what do they think when they see such a massive demand for this and they see all these men who would just rather go there men like myself rather than dated or having a relationship with them and some of these places are quite expensive too I would guess that some men here are paying 10 times, 100 times more to go there then it would cost them to have a girl that they take care of and pay everything for it so it's clearly it's not a situation where they can't get a girl I mean if you've got money enough money to spend there you can quite easily get a girl I mean a lot of girls they just care about money and nothing else so that's clearly nothing to do with it these guys have had experiences with women and quite clearly it hasn't been any good for them and I get it I can relate to that experience that myself yes I've dated many Asian women for whatever reasons the ones that I chose to stick with it really wasn't worth it I kind of regret it I wish I never got involved with them in the first place but then there were other Asian girls and God I look back I just wonder what the hell is I thinking in that moment I actually I was with good girls at one point I had a good girl in my car who actually seemed to care about me and listened to everything I had to say she would even pay for me for things and then there was another girl as well I don't think I realise at the time how rare that is to have a girl like that in your life who looks in your eyes and smiles because she's genuinely interested in you she genuinely likes you she's not just pretending she's not just trying to get your dick or your money she actually cares for real that is extremely rare in today's world and what we've got to watch especially after we've been involved with narcissists we should not be that guy who just uses them it doesn't mean that we're bad that we're bad men I mean if we've been involved with narcissists yes we may just want to use a girl for sex and then leave because we're afraid if we do stay then what's going to happen to us and I know what that's like there were good girls over the last few years I met them just use them for sex I mean I kind of wanted more but back then I don't know what it was I was more into narcissists into people who are more full of themselves and it's like you have to earn their validation I was more chasing after that what a big mistake you can't put a price on a girl who actually cares about you who actually sees you who actually knows that you are there because that is very rare it is very rare in today's world of course you may get with someone you may think that they actually care about you whether it's a girl or a boy whoever it is it doesn't really matter but whoever they are you may think that they care about you that you really matter to them they've got your best interest and minds they may look that way in the beginning and a few months later maybe even a couple of years then you start to realize they never cared about you to begin with and you just wasted all of that time you wasted all of those months all of those years all of that money that you could have spent with someone else or that you could have spent on your own building yourself up for the right person and that's just how it is but I don't regret my past I mean we should never regret our past never regret what you went through with the narcissist never regret that because what you have to remember is at one point in time it was what you wanted yes at one point you wanted that so you should not regret it and that doesn't mean in those situations well maybe I don't know those of you maybe you meet a girl at the bar you have a one night stand and then you wake up the next morning and she's not what you thought yeah you shouldn't regret that because the night before that was what you wanted so but I've just been silly we've got to have a laugh sometimes of course and as for me I'm staying out of trouble now away from one night stands I mean those of you you may know you know that was the kind of guy I was on many occasions in my past yes of course I was that guy I'm not that guy now but in the past yes I mean that's how I gained some of my experience as well but I never really deceived anyone I never lied to them I made it clear to them from the very beginning but of course there were times where I had 20-30 girls on the go at the same time and they all knew about it they all knew that I wasn't interested in settling down and they were all okay with it actually that made them like me even more and I was just focused on having sex I mean that's kind of part of my own issue I guess I did have a bit of a sex addiction myself in the past and it's the result of childhood abuse you know that's just what it does to us it can make us hypersexual but I look back at all of those times I had one night stands and I don't regret it I look back and I think at one point that was what I wanted and I mean especially for us men that's not really something we're meant to regret maybe at this point I'd probably be involved sexually involved with over 150 women most of them are Asian and for a man that's to be seen as an achievement that's me an empowerment but I look at it as experience it's good to be involved with at least a few people first for a man at least so that we gain that experience and then when we meet the right girl we know how to treat her right because of course we're not going to get it right the first time and actually what I've found and I don't think anyone will really agree with this on you but from my experience when I've told women in the past just how many women I've been sexually involved with that actually made them want me even more that actually made them even more sexually attracted to me whereas like they really wanted my validation so yeah but I wouldn't really advise revealing you know the numbers your hit list I wouldn't really advise doing that for the boys on here especially if you have been getting around but yeah you know I'm not perfect this is me this is who I am I have a past I most definitely have been a bit of a bad boy throughout my life but now especially now I am thinking more long term I am thinking more about relationships but if I'm going to go and date someone it's not going to be somebody who is narcissistic it's not going to be it's not going to be someone like that at all and in fact what it is going to be is someone who is empathic someone who cares about me someone who actually sees me because isn't that what we all deserve we deserve someone who values and respects us even though yes we may have a past we may have been through a few things I mean that's nothing out of the ordinary but yeah at this point in my life I'm going to be 35 years old next month I've never been married as many of you may know I do have one daughter she is 3 years old I wouldn't mind one more but yeah I still think you know there is plenty of time for me to settle down but if the right girl did come into my life I think at this point I would be ready but she would have to be physically attractive of course because you know as I've said I experienced a lot of childhood abuse and that led to me to develop a bit of a sex addiction and I'm sure some of you may be able to relate to that especially if you've been involved with narcissists I mean that's what they do to you they get you dependent they get you hooked they get you so used to having sex two to three times a day and it just becomes normal to you they get you to explore all of your sexual fantasies whatever it is whether it's deep throats anal BDSM whatever makes you tick whatever floats your boat and then you're getting addicted to that you become independent on it and once you develop the sex addiction it's very difficult to just let it go but at the same time I will also say that sex is very healthy especially if you are in a relationship of course it's probably not good if you're not having sex that typically means that something is wrong so there's nothing really wrong with that but you do need to be able to identify when it has become an addiction because when it has then that may be time for you to leave it alone yeah I do have a bit of a dark past but I see it as though it has helped me it has given me a lot of experience I've learned a lot from it and of course I've also been on the other end of it where I wanted something more and I didn't get it I got played myself it's not fun it's not nice to go through that but these narcissists deep down yes they do realise that you were the real deal all along they do know that Sam says I'm 40 I'd only slept with about 25 women 150 out of 35 is a lot but I hear of a lot of women with these numbers now yeah I mean that's really just an estimate for me I don't really know exactly how many women I've been sexually involved with could be a hundred could be 150 could be 200 who knows I mean who cares once you're into three digits does it really matter but you're right that there are definitely a lot of women these days who have slept with a lot of men they're not like a lot of the women on my channel because yes I do know that a lot of the women who watch my videos they are religious from religious community very good girls they don't sleep around they desire relationships marriages of course this is why they don't like narcissists but there are a lot of bad girls out there who yes I mean these days I would say and I'm sure if you do research on this you will find that it is true I would say that if you took the average woman she would have slept with more people than the average man I genuinely believe that I mean that's how it really is for most guys who are dating in relationships they're probably with a woman who has slept with two to three times more people than he has that's usually how it is I mean the average man will have seven sexual partners throughout his entire life that is the average man the average woman who knows could be 20, 30 sexual partners throughout their life maybe more but I'm not here to hate on women I mean this is just the truth and of course I do know that a lot of the women on my channel they're not like that they're good girls they don't sleep around too much yes they may have been tricked by some narcissist but they were looking for a relationship marriage, a future of course I do know that I know good girls on my channel I know you're there but we got 203 thumbs ups and only 100, sorry 203 live viewers and only 102 thumbs ups so if you can let's hit that thumbs up button down below it will only take you two seconds and yet the impact it will have on the YouTube algorithm it will help a lot it will get this message out there to other survivors so Bade Agravat says hi friends I'm from India it's good to see more people from India come on on to the channel I've noticed we have been getting a lot more Indian viewers and also from Australia and the Philippines now who knows in the future I may be visiting the Philippines or India as well so it's good to see that I am getting a lot more viewers from there we also got Jamaica Garth Adventure from Jamaica Jerry Muhammad from Trinidad Vishal Sharma from India Sam from Australia we got people from all over the world it's really great to see these live videos are becoming more and more popular every day and I will be uploading pre-recorded videos very soon as well so look out for that you do need to check out my other videos not just my live videos I have videos that I have pre-recorded they haven't been getting too many views but there is a lot of great information and those as well I have so many videos thousands of videos and all kinds of topics whatever you're going through whether it's the narcissist and control envy gaslighting flying monkeys narcissistic neighbors pretty much whatever topic you're looking for I've probably already done a few videos on it already I must have over 3,000 videos by now but yeah it's getting late still just parked outside this farm in the mart right here in the car park I don't know if you remember before I was doing videos outside 7-Eleven I had that white Porsche pulled up outside the 7-Eleven decided to do a video there you know how I do now I'm in Japan outside of family mart doing a video here I've done some videos and some strange places over the years alright that's it for this one thank you all for joining me and if you would like to show your support you can do that down below right now by giving this video a thumbs up and let me know your thoughts in the comment section as well I am 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