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Here's What Hedge Funds Think About MBIA Inc. (MBI)
Nina Todic
Insider Monkey• June 12, 2019
Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track nearly 750 active prominent money managers and analyze their quarterly 13F filings. The stocks that are heavily bought by hedge funds historically outperformed the market, though there is no shortage of high profile failures like hedge funds' 2018 losses in Facebook and Apple. Let's take a closer look at what the funds we track think about MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) in this article.
Is MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) a safe investment today? Prominent investors are betting on the stock. The number of bullish hedge fund bets rose by 1 lately. Our calculations also showed that mbi isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 40 percentage points since May 2014 through May 30, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.
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Let's take a gander at the key hedge fund action surrounding MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI).
What does the smart money think about MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI)?
At the end of the first quarter, a total of 19 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 6% from one quarter earlier. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards MBI over the last 15 quarters. So, let's see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
No of Hedge Funds with MBI Positions
Among these funds, Fine Capital Partners held the most valuable stake in MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI), which was worth $71.1 million at the end of the first quarter. On the second spot was Royce & Associates which amassed $26.8 million worth of shares. Moreover, Rubric Capital Management, Chou Associates Management, and Valueworks LLC were also bullish on MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI), allocating a large percentage of their portfolios to this stock.
With a general bullishness amongst the heavyweights, some big names have jumped into MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) headfirst. PEAK6 Capital Management, managed by Matthew Hulsizer, established the most outsized call position in MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI). PEAK6 Capital Management had $0.4 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Matthew Hulsizer's PEAK6 Capital Management also initiated a $0.3 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new MBI investors: Guy Shahar's DSAM Partners, David Harding's Winton Capital Management, and Andrew Feldstein and Stephen Siderow's Blue Mountain Capital.
Let's now review hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI). These stocks are Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:KELYA), Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE:TPC), Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE:EVA), and Natus Medical Inc (NASDAQ:BABY). This group of stocks' market caps resemble MBI's market cap.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position KELYA,13,19109,3 TPC,12,17648,5 EVA,7,89870,1 BABY,24,110207,9 Average,14,59209,4.5 [/table]
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 14 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $59 million. That figure was $162 million in MBI's case. Natus Medical Inc (NASDAQ:BABY) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE:EVA) is the least popular one with only 7 bullish hedge fund positions. MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 1.9% in Q2 through May 30th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 3 percentage points. Unfortunately MBI wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on MBI were disappointed as the stock returned -7.2% during the same period and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as 13 of these stocks already outperformed the market so far in Q2.
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Tony Abbott's daughter Frances received a "chairman's scholarship" for a degree costing more than $60,000 from the Whitehouse Institute of Design where an Abbott donor sits as chairman on the board of governors, Guardian Australia can reveal.
The revelation raises questions for the prime minister over whether the scholarship should have been declared on his interests register.
Assurances by the Prime Minister that a $60,000 scholarship awarded to his daughter Frances on the basis of merit have been contradicted by testimony and documents obtained by New Matilda.
Tenko Management Pty Ltd made a $10,708 contribution to Tony Abbott's Warringah FEC on 6 September 2004. This money included a total of $10,250 comprised of donations each over the NSW disclosure threshold current at the time from Gary Cohen using IBA Health's Sydney address, John Roth using the address of Henroth Pty Ltd, Les Taylor of Manly, Mark Lochtenberg of Mosman and RC Corbett of Mosman.
In 2002 Tenko contributed $1,338 to the Liberal Party candidate for the Georges River State electorate, Joanne Maire McCafferty, in the 2003 New South Wales election.
THE NSW Liberal Party has discovered more than $200,000 worth of donations received during the last financial year that it had not previously revealed to the Australian Electoral Commission.
…Also amending its records with the electoral commission is Servcorp, a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott.
…In its original declaration, Servcorp listed donations to the Liberal Party itself in three states as well as to a company called Tenko Management Pty Ltd, based in Sydney, which was not listed as a donor or associated entity of the Liberal Party.
Incidentally, the Hon Mark Anthony James Vaile, former National Party leader and deputy prime minister is a non-executive director of Servcorp Limited.
Investigating the murky area of political donors and donations is difficult enough but is compounded when the paper trail involves handwritten documents. No wonder investigative journalism is a dying trade.
Update: It appears that the managing director of Tenko Management in 2009 worked for the NSW Liberal Party in Western Sydney. Finding out his name is your homework. He has a fine Tory pedigree.
Entitlement: thy name is LNP chutzpah!
Bravo on the investigative uncoverings, Mr Rennie!
Thank Mr. Google. Didn't have to leave my desk.


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Bicentennial Snapshot No. 42: Rediscovering Greece's Historic Schoolhouses of 1872 Part 1
January 3, 2023 January 3, 2023 by Pat Worboys
Today we will take a tour of the old district schools in Greece.
Common School District in this snapshot
Common School District # 1
Our Snapshot this week is based on an exhibit researched and written by the late Gloria LaTragna and edited and designed by Gina DiBella in 2001 and updated for showing at the Greece Historical Society in 2018. This photo exhibit, Rediscovering Greece's Historic Schoolhouses, is currently on display in the new Greece Office of Student Transportation Services at 1790 Latta Road. We greatly appreciate Gina sharing it with us for this Snapshot. Some corrections and updated information were provided by Pat Worboys who was doing research at about the same time and found things that were not included in the exhibit Restore, Renew, Rediscover Your Neighborhood Schools that are currently on display and Greece Central School District's Greece Office of Student Transportation and Student Services Facility. My research started because my mom's grandfather Harold Tebo, purchased not only Common School District Number 9, he also purchased the larger 2-room school on the northwest corner of Elmgrove Road and Elmore Drive the Greece Ogden School Number 12 which you will see in Part 2 of Rediscovering Greece's Historic Schoolhouses that I became interested in researching the school houses of Town of Greece and with my dad Doug Worboys, we started doing more digging in on the research which took us to the Landmark Society of Western New York and there we found some information that I had Maureen correct before we recorded Rediscovering Greece's Historic Schoolhouses of 1872 Parts 1 and 2. One of the most unique things that happened in the summer of 2003 was when Gene Preston came over and got both me and my dad to come over to the stand, and said he has an elderly lady who had either taught at school # 9 or was a student once we got to the stand we started talking with her by the way we never got her name before she left the stand. She told us about some of the interesting things about Common School District Number 9, how the teachers would enter the school from the rear and the students entered from the front. I will fill in more of this in part 2 of Rediscovering Greece's Historic Schoolhouses of 1872.
Credit page for exhibit courtesy of Gina DiBella
Map of Common School District in 1872
Long before the establishment of the centralized Greece School District, students in the Town of Greece were educated in schoolhouses scattered throughout the town. Students in the area previously known as the town of Northampton have had the opportunity for a formal education since 1798 when the first school commissioner was elected. In 1823, one year after the Town of Greece was established, it was divided into Common School Districts. By the end of the 19th century, Greece had 17 common districts and two Joint districts that sat on the Parma Greece border just north of the North Greece Common School District # 6 area and west of the Frisbee Common School District # 7. There were some Districts that ended up being renumbered and restructured when the number of students kept increasing which occurred around 1919 and included the annexation of some of the districts into the City of Rochester School District as well.
Common School District #1
Common School District No. 1 school was located on the west side of present-day Lake Avenue, just north of Little Ridge Road [now West Ridge Road]. This one-room schoolhouse served the students in Hanford Landing. Today Kodak Park occupies the site of the schoolhouse and surrounding farmlands.
District No. 1 Hanford Landing School
After moving from this location the school was located in an old frame building on Dewey Avenue north of Lewiston Avenue (Ridge Rd). The school housed 50 students. Mrs. O. H. Gordon was the principal until 1912. In the spring of 1912, the new present Kodak school 41 was completed. The school was admitted to the University of the State of New York. The name of the school switched to Kodak Union (Kodak No. 41) school in 1916. George H. William was the principal. At about that time a high school department was added with about 18 pupils. In 1917 an addition was added due to tremendous growth. In 1919 the school came into the city system. The student population at that time was 350 students in grammar and 45 students in high school. The high school became known as Kodak High School. Districts # 1, 4, and 10 were consolidated in 1916 when they were annexed by the city. Later high school students would attend John Marshall or Charlotte High School.
Common School District 1
Common School District #2 Big Ridge School was located on the north side of Big Ridge Road [now Ridgeway Avenue] between Long Pond Road and Latona Road. A 1902 map, however, no longer shows a schoolhouse located on this site. There is no picture of this school located on Ridgeway Ave based on overlaying the 1872 map over a current map that puts the structure between Wehner Mower and Ventdi Septic Services on Ridgeway Ave today. The only thing we have from a Common School District No. 2 town of Greece of County of Monroe for the school year ending July 31, 1919, to Fred W. Hill who was District Superintendent at the time and you can see that Trustees Report here
District No. 2 Big Ridge School on 1872 map Rochester Public Library History and Genealogy Division
Common School District #3 – Walker School
Common School District #3 – Walker School was located on the west side of Mitchell Road near the site of the former Mitchell Road branch of the Greece Public Library. This school sat right on the Walker Property and the house still stands today. In 1912 – 1913 Elizabeth J Crawford was the teacher at Common School District #3 and Fred Hill district Supt.
Perhaps in existence back in 1817. The first known teacher was a member of a pioneer family, Miss Adeline Holden. The school was located at Latta (Broadway) and Stutson (Holden) streets. In 1837 George Latta donated a site at the North side of Stutson St. A new one-room brick building replaced the old one. In 1837 bricks used for the building were made on-site. In the 1860s the school was overcrowded with 1 teacher handling 80 students. In 1868 a new school was built at the corner of Latta Rd and River Streets serving students grades 1 thru 8. In 1893 a two-story addition was completed at a cost of $ 6,200. In 1907 a second school was constructed on site which was Charlotte High school's first building, and finished in 1908, sat on the site of the present Rochester Fire Department's Engine 19 / Marine 1 / Gator 2 / Brush 1 at the Y where Lake Avenue and River Street meet right next to the Charlotte Cemetery. In 1911, the district employed 13 teachers. Both school buildings were demolished in 1937.
City of Rochester Fire Department Station RFD E19 / Marine 1 / Gator 2 / Brush 1
Common School District #4 (Rear) Charlotte High School (Front) Charlotte School from Rochester Public Library History and Genealogy Division
After annexation, Rochester built school # 38 on Latta Rd in 1928 and put on an addition in 1953. School # 38 Latter closed and is now home to Lake Breeze Condominiums. And Charlotte High School moved across and down the road no more heat 30 feet to the north where it used to sit. Students in this area ended up going to District #10 Greece or what is now called the City of Rochester, District # 42 – Abelard Reynolds School more on this School in Part 2 of Common School Districts of 1872.
Charlotte High photo by John Cranch
Common School District #5 – Paddy Hill
District No. 5's frame structure originally stood on the same parcel of land that Paddy Hill Elementary School occupies today. On the southwest corner of Latta Road at Mt Read Blvd, Mother of Sorrows Church and Cemetery were and still are located across the road. This district was in existence seven years after the Town of Greece was formed. The first school was located on a 60 x 60 lot on the southwest corner of Latta Rd. It was created by early settlers. The land was donated by Judge or Squire Nicholas Read. In the middle of the room was a three-legged pot belly stove that heated the room during the winter. Double benches could seat a total of three students. were the fixtures. In 1887 the student numbered 83. By 1894 the number had grown to 92. Miss Kate McShea and Miss Mary Burns were two of the earliest teachers. The salary in those days was $395.00.
District No. 5 Mt. Read School – The north end of the Mother of Sorrows shed for horses and carriages are seen at left. Notice the fork in the road where Mt. Read approaches Latta Road.
The schoolhouse was closed in 1929 due to a fire that damaged parts of the school it would cost 5,000 to repair the building instead of it getting torn down the structure was salvaged and purchased by Milton Carter who moved it down the hill on Latta Rd so he could use it for his residence. The old school serves as a home presently.
Chief of Greece Police – Milton Carter residence
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District # 5 / Paddy Hill (1932-1955)
Students attended Barnard School from 1929 until 1931 when a new brick school was opened across from the old frame building at 1790 Latta Road in 1932. A much-mentioned feature of this new school was the indoor lavatories. This one had 4 classrooms, a gymnasium, an assembly hall combination, a teachers' room, a store room, and inside lavatories all on a nine-acre plot. Only one classroom was used for many years. The school grew to 11 teachers. When this closed in at the end of the 1954-55 School year the students then went back to the southwest corner of Latta Rd and Mt. Read Blvd when Paddy Hill Elementary school opened.
In 1955, Paddy Hill Elementary School was built and students moved across the road once again.
Paddy Hill (1955- Present) Photo Take 2011 Bill Sauers
Historical marker photo by Bill Sauers
There has been a public elementary school at this intersection since 1839, either here or across the street making it the second oldest continuous location in the county. The Greece Historical Society received a grant from the William C. Pomeroy Foundation to install this historical marker.
The large brick school building No. 5 was converted to administrative offices for the Greece Central School District. It was torn down in 2021…
Greece School District # 5 photo by Bill Sauers
Greece Office of Student Transportation and Support Services, 2022, photo by Bill Sauers
to make way for the Greece Office of Student Transportation and Student Services Facility. This is where you vote for the school budget each year and it also holds the District Board Meetings instead of at Greece Odyssey Academy. In the back of this complex is a sea of buses that brings the students to and from school each day and behind that is Arcadia Middle and High School
Several artifacts from the building were saved including this sculpture of the Torch of Knowledge which is now mounted in the backyard of the Greece Historical Society and Museum. Gina DiBella, on behalf of the Society, is preparing a report documenting the history of the building for the New York State Historic Preservation Office.
Torch of Knowledge from District No. 5 building photo by Bill Sauers
Stone name plaque from District No. 5 building, photo by Bill Sauers
The name plaque above the entrance door was also preserved. According to sources both within the School District, the Town of Greece, and Members of the Historical Society, said there are plans to mount this 10-foot by four-foot slab near the flagpole of the new building with a time capsule buried with the students from Paddy Hill school participating. But as of this post that has not occurred yet when it does happen it will be added to this post and in a story as well in the January Newsletter will be a story on Paddy Hill School written by Bill Sauers, and when the museum reopens in March we will Feature this school as the featured exhibit of the year for 2023.
Common School District #6 – The Gooseneck School
The irregular direction of College Avenue as it winds from North Greece Road to Latta Road forms what appears to look like a gooseneck. Although this road does appear on the closeup map of the North Greece area in the 1872 Monroe County Plat Map by Beers, F. W. (Frederick W.). Atlas of Monroe Co., New York: From Actual Surveys by and Under the Direction of F. W. Beers. New York: F. W. Beers & Co. which you can see on the Monroe County Public Library http://photo.libraryweb.org/rochimag/mcm/mcm00/mcm00009.jpg
If you look at the overall 1872 Plat Map of Greece as seen on this link here even if you zoom in on the map you will see the outline of the gooseneck area but the above link will take you to the close up area http://photo.libraryweb.org/rochimag/mcm/mcm00/mcm00008.jpg
The name of the street is said that the name of the road came about due to the school. The first school on this site was a brick structure.
In 1927 the school had swings, slides, and teeters (teeter-totters or seesaws) outside. The pupils in the upper grades played baseball in the back of the school on the baseball field. The school had two rooms, with four grades in each room. The school was heated with a coal furnace. They had a bathroom for boys and girls. that same year they had regular electric lights.
The children of the small hamlet of North Greece attended this school until 1949 when Common School District No. 6 joined the Hilton School District.
Map of North Greece 1872
Hotel DeMay, 2007, from Bill Sauers
After the school closed, the school bell was relocated to the top of the chimney of the former Hotel DeMay.
The school building still stands today as a private residence.
Common School District No. 6 – Now a Private Home photo courtesy of Gina DiBella
Thank you for joining us today. Next week we continue our tour of the old Common School District with Districts 7-17 and Joint Districts 13 and 14.
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Chinese palaeobiologists have identified a new mammal ancestor and indicating that marsupials may not have originated in Asia.
Professor Bi Shundong of Yunnan University palaeobiology lab.
Well-preserved skeletons of Ambolestes zhoui from 126 million years ago were found in Yixian County in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said Professor Bi Shundong of Yunnan University palaeobiology lab, who led the research.
Over the past 20 years, fossils of 120 vertebrate species, generally known as the Jehol biota, have been found in the Mesozoic site.
The skeletons show details unknown in contemporaneous mammals after researchers used CT and 3D technology to reconstruct the structure of every bones, said Bi.
"Ambolestes zhoui is an early member of the placental lineage. It also carries mixed features both placentals and marsupials," he said.
"Our conclusion means that Asia may not be the place of origin for marsupials," he said. The oldest known marsupials are from 110 million years ago from west North America.
On the basis of the research, researchers have also established a database on the lineage of early mammals.
The research findings are published in the Nature science journal.


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A factory in object-oriented programming is a design pattern that creates instances of classes. There are variations on this pattern but for my purposes, I simply refer to it as an instance factory because that is essentially what it is used for. The factory takes the responsibility of directly instantiating a class from the context that uses the factory. That context may be some function or, more often, some method of another class. The factory itself is generally a class with several static or class methods. It is these methods that construct and return instances.
So if the developer can take the responsibility of directly instantiating some class away from the method they are currently working on, what do they gain? In this case, it isn't what they gain but what they lose. They lose the direct coupling to the class in question. In most cases, a given class is going to need to create more than one type of instance throughout its' lifetime. This means that there is a dependency between the class in question, serving as the context, and the other classes that it depends on. If the class in question requires only a factory, the class then becomes loosely-coupled. This is an important design factor.
The instance factory is essentially a proxy for the act of creation. It isn't a proxy for data but for behavior. This is the sole responsibility of the factory. If a developer can see a factory invocation in code, chances are that their guess as to what it does will be correct. Since the instance factory is so specialized, it will in turn help with the distribution of responsibilities where ever it is used.


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One of the Most Exciting Development Opportunities in the City of Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Medical District (LVMD), home of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, University Medical Center (UMC), Valley Hospital Medical Center, and other ancillary medical facilities and providers, is, today, one of the most exciting development opportunities in the city of Las Vegas.
According to Bill Arent, Deputy Director of Economic and Urban Development for the city, the recent evolution and expansion of the Medical District is putting the area on the map in a big way for potential developers.
"Located within an Opportunity Zone and within the city's Redevelopment Area, the Las Vegas Medical District offers developers many incentives," said Arent. "With the growing number of faculty and students at the Medical School, along with hospital workers, there is an increased need for a variety of neighborhood services such as retail and dining, as well as residential development including apartments that provide walkability to work and school."
Centrally located within the heart of the valley near US 95 and I-15, the LVMD has already benefitted from approximately $400 million in actual and planned private and public investment since 2018, an investment that speaks volumes about the area's potential, according to Arent.
Recently completed or ongoing public infrastructure improvements include the Bearden Family Paseo that provides an outdoor gathering and respite space offering LVMD workers and students a place to rejuvenate; signage throughout the area that creates a true sense of identity for the district; and significant roadway projects that are improving pedestrian safety, traffic capacity and utility reliability.
Private investment in the LVMD is led by the ongoing development of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV for which its first medical education building will be completed this summer; an expansion of Valley Hospital Medical Center's emergency room; and the completion of Optum Care Cancer Center located at the gateway to the LVMD.
Currently in the pipeline for future growth and expansion are several projects that will contribute to the area's ongoing revitalization, including a rehabilitation of nine buildings on the UMC campus; a development of the Women's Cancer Center on the corner of Pinto Lane and Tonopah Drive; future apartment development of more than 200 rental units; and a $60 million investment by G2 Capital Development for a 150,000 square foot medical building and a 75,000 square foot hotel.
For more information about development opportunities at the Las Vegas Medical District, contact Tabitha Pederson at tpederson@lasvegasnevada.gov or 702-229-2411.
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Only around 3 percent of New Zealanders speak te reo Māori. Our research is focused on making te reo part of everyday conversation.
Whose responsibility is it to keep our first language alive?
Te reo Māori has been an official language of New Zealand since 1987 but relatively few of us have become te reo speakers in that 30-year period.
Unique to our country, te reo is regarded by many as a taonga or treasure that helps to define our national identity. But many of us also tend to think of it as a language that's more at home on the marae than in normal, everyday life.
This was not always the case—in the 1840s for example there were no fewer than 30 Māori language newspapers.
Professor Rawinia Higgins, who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) at Victoria, leads research into how we can revitalise te reo to strengthen and increase its role and usage. She says key questions underpinning the research are who should take responsibility for the language and how can revitalisation be promoted in a way that is inclusive for everybody.
"I think discussion around the value of te reo Māori is very important, not just for Māori, but for us as a country. It is our first language, and the language helps to define us as a nation.
"It's not just about the first people who came here, it's also in our the place names, our practices and the fact that it gives us a unique identity. It's a part of everyone in New Zealand's heritage.
It's our language
Professor Higgins says we should not underestimate people's desire to participate in the revitalisation of te reo, but for that to happen they need the tools, ability and opportunities to use the language in different forums.
"The attitude that some Māori have— I call it the 'Gollum effect'—that te reo is my language and no one else's is not helpful. If te reo is to be a living language, there has to be shared ownership. It can't just live amongst a minority.
"That's why we need to have bilingual signage and bilingual documents—it normalises usage and encourages us all to embrace te reo as a nation."
Professor Higgins says over the years te reo has increasingly influenced the way New Zealanders speak English.
"Often now you hear words such as mana, whānau and mokopuna used as part of everyday English. And remember it was only recently that our national anthem became bilingual. There is a generation of children growing up now who do not know that for many decades the New Zealand national anthem was only sung in English."
Policy partnership
Understanding how policy can help or hinder the revitalisation of te reo Māori is a central strand of Professor Higgins research.
She chaired the government-appointed Māori Language Advisory Group that shaped Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016 (the Māori Language Act 2016) and the establishment of Te Mātāwai, an organisation to lead revitalisation of te reo on behalf of iwi and Māori.
Professor Higgins says it is the only piece of New Zealand legislation that has a true Treaty of Waitangi partnership element to it.
"We used the wharenui (house) as the framework for designing the legislation with both Māori and the Crown inside. A wharenui has a small side and a large side—the small side represents the community development work we are doing and the large side represents the Crown and policy-making. Both sides are important and essential to the stability of the wharenui and in this case supporting effective language planning and policy at a micro (community) and macro (societal) level. The aim is to promote te reo Māori in the home, supported by State policy and resources. This is critical for not only Māori children, but for all children. If Māori is their first language they will have a sense of connection and pride in who they are as a nation.
If you have any questions about Victoria University's research into te reo Māori, contact:
Prof Rawinia Higgins
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rawinia.higgins@vuw.ac.nz
Room 201, Room RS201, Robert Stout Level 2
The more we use te reo Māori, the stronger it will become and the stronger it becomes, the more we'll use it.
Professor Rawinia Higgins
Prestigious award honours role in te reo revitalisation
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) Professor Rawinia Higgins has won a prestigious award for her contribution to te reo Māori language revitalisation.
Professor Rawinia Higgins was a shy, nervous 16-year-old girl straight out of boarding school when she came to Victoria University in 1990.
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AS A frequent flyer I noticed the increase in airport security and its impact almost immediately as I stepped into Sydney's domestic terminal yesterday.
Bag drop queues for some airlines snaking all the way to the doors, online check-in stations swarming with people and worst of all the lines to get through security trailing behind all the bag drop stations.
The vibe of Sydney's domestic terminal was not like I have ever seen before, with most patrons confused about the cause of all the mayhem.
Lucky for me I didn't have a bag to check so my waiting time was cut in half compared to others, with my only obstacle for getting to my flight on time being the security screenings.
What agitated travellers the most was the persistence of the bag checks, with majority of people having the contents of their bags removed and rescanned numerous times, which was ultimately the cause of such a long queue.
My bags were amongst some of the lucky ones pulled apart in front of their owners looking for specific items that has shown up in the screening.
Staff proceeded to empty the entire contents of my handbag and carry-on to find the 'mysterious' object that had them confused, which turned out to be a decorative key chain on my clutch.
Once cleared the staff proceeded to hand me my belongings in multiple stacks and piles which I then had to repack.
Whilst this was happening my travel companion was swabbed for random detection testing, which the staff members explained was happening "a lot more than usual".
Whilst I respect the procedures in which security and police have to take to ensure all our safety, I felt particularly frustrated with the length of time and manner in which my bags were searched, and I was not the only one.
I felt the general consensus of people at Sydney's Domestic Airport were completely unaware of why there were so many delays keeping them from their gates and scheduled flights.
The Federal Government has since made various public statements urging travellers today to give themselves ample time to get through check-in and security, two hours domestic and three hours for international.
Based on my personal experience I would say this time allowance should be the absolute minimum, as reports from today's patrons have stated longer waiting times than I would have experienced yesterday.


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Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri expressed his feelings earlier this month in an open letter published days after it was confirmed that Nigeria will miss the Women's Basketball World Cup.
Mali have replaced Nigeria at the tournament in Australia later this year after the Nigerian government's decision in May to withdraw from international basketball for two years.
"If Masai had all the facts, he would not make such conclusions," Ogunade told BBC Sport Africa. "I communicate regularly with Masai, it is possible he has been misinformed. Mr Ujiri is entitled to his opinion."
"The Minister and his co-travellers in the Ministry [of Sports] are the ones manufacturing the crisis."
In response, the ministry has said that the decision to pull out of international basketball came from Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari himself.
In his letter of 5 June, Nigerian-Canadian Ujiri had stated that "enough is enough".
"From the Ministry of Sports to the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF), the leaders of the basketball ecosystem in Nigeria continue to rob our youth of their present and future while tearing the entire basketball community apart – this needs to stop," he wrote.
"This (withdrawal) is a symptom of an issue that has permeated the sports ecosystem for years.
"When leaders put self interest over national interest, the innocent suffer. It's time for them to step aside, for the good of the game, the nation, and the athletes."
When asked to respond to the NBBF's claim that the sports ministry was to blame, a special adviser to the Minister of Sports Sunday Dare said the decision about withdrawing ultimately lay with President Buhari.
"The Minister did not give an instruction on his own," Toyin Ibitoye said.
"The instruction is from the President and facts were presented before that decision was taken."
Basketball's world governing body Fiba has already pointed out that the impact of the withdrawal will last even longer than the initial two years.
Nigeria 'has to be nationalistic' in approach
Nigeria women have won the past three African titles, but have been withdrawn from competing at the World Cup this year
Ujiri claimed that Nigeria is stuck in a damaging cycle, failing to invest properly to allow its sides to perform on the international stage.
Players from D'Tigress, the women's national side, have been locked in a dispute with the NBBF and sports ministry over the non-payment of bonuses and organisational issues encountered during the Olympics Games in Japan.
The issue also affected the salary of head coach Otis Hughley.
"Nigeria has traditionally treated sports as purely recreational, not for what it is – a serious business and a tool for nation-building and economic transformation," Ujiri, 51, said.
"But we all know the drill; a tournament is coming, we hear there is no money, people scramble to put money together. Tournament commences and athletes are treated carelessly. Tournament ends, athletes are angry, government releases money at a later date.
"No accountability or transparency on how much was released and how it was spent. And the truth is that we're not just speaking about basketball here.
"The time for change is now. I know all athletes, leaders and stakeholders in African sport will not give up on Nigerian basketball, and we will not give up on the youth."
However, Ibitoye, the special advisor to Dare, argued the Ministry of Sports was taking a holistic approach to improve the standard of basketball in the country.
"We have to be nationalistic in our thinking, of the game in Nigeria as a whole," he said.
"It may be doing well in international competitions, but you ask yourself, at what cost?
"It is important for us to focus on the development of the game at home, create an environment that will make it to thrive so that your child and my child in Nigeria can aspire to the top.
"The quality of players abroad and the quality of players we raise in Nigeria will almost be at par when we create that kind of environment. That's the nationalistic thinking we have to put up."
A global impact
Toronto Raptors' Precious Achiuwa was born in Nigeria and moved to the US where his basketball career began
Ujiri believes that it is not just Nigeria that will suffer from the country's withdrawal, but the global basketball community as well.
"We all know Nigeria is teeming with talent. The country has made leaps and bounds in basketball and has risen to the top," he added.
"The opening of an NBA office in Nigeria further signifies the country's importance in the global basketball ecosystem.
"Even international governing sports body Fiba has openly acknowledged its importance on the global sports scene, yet at times, they have stood on the sidelines making a mockery of the situation. Fiba Africa has also contributed to this drama."
Fiba Africa did not have a comment in reply to the statement by Ujiri, who also said administrators around Africa do not have the the necessary passion and understanding of the sports they are running.
"Individuals don't understand what it means to play for the team," he explained.
"This will drive patriotic Nigerian athletes to play for other countries. It's not right. It's not fair."
The government withdrawal from all international basketball came after a protracted leadership crisis for control of the NBBF.
The problems began in 2017 when Musa Kida and then-incumbent Tijani Umar emerged as leaders of two factions claiming control of the NBBF after two separate elections.
Issues have continued despite Kida being re-elected as NBBF president in January, a result which was ratified by Fiba in March.
Ujiri says the only way for things to change in Nigeria is for those in power and those claiming to be in power to quit.
"It's time for us to move forward. We need a new slate and a new narrative," he urged.
"To do this, all of the leaders that have held on to the realms of the Nigerian Basketball Federation for the past several years must all step down."
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BOSTON (AP) — A Florida prep school administrator is set to plead guilty to taking entrance exams for students in a nationwide college admissions bribery scheme.
Mark Riddell is due to enter guilty pleas Friday afternoon to one count each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering at federal court in Boston.
The 36-year-old Riddell oversaw college entrance exam preparation at IMG Academy, a Bradenton school founded by renowned tennis coach Nick Bollettieri that bills itself as the world's largest sports academy.
Documents say Riddell secretly took exams for students or replaced their answers with his own. Prosecutors say he typically was paid $10,000 per test.
Riddell was charged with nearly 50 other people, including celebrities and wealthy parents who allegedly paid bribes to get their children into elite U.S. colleges.
Riddell could have faced up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but prosecutors are recommending incarceration and a fine at the low end of guidelines.
According to federal prosecutors, Riddell played a key role in an arrangement hatched by William "Rick" Singer, an admissions consultant accused of orchestrating the scheme for years while catering to a rich clientele that included Hollywood stars and business executives.
Among dozens of others charged in the scandal are actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin; Loughlin's husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli; college sports coaches; athletic administrators; and CEOs.
Huffman will plead guilty May 21 to paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to rig her daughter's SAT score. Prosecutors have said they will seek a prison sentence on the low end of a range of four to 10 months.


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Arjowiggins Graphic - manufacturer of innovative environmental paper solutions launches its "It feels good" wheel, which allows printers, designers and businesses to easily understand the savings that they can make by printing on recycled papers.
The wheel is an extension of the "It feels good" campaign that was launched last October. The campaign successfully communicates the positive impacts that using recycled papers has on businesses and their brands. The wheel continues in that vein and explains the savings that business can make by choosing to print on papers from Arjowiggins Graphic.
The wheel, which is approximately C5 in size, focuses on Arjowiggins Graphic's Environmental Benefits Statements, which demonstrate - in a clear visual manner - the tangible, positive effects of using post consumer recycled paper rather than non-recycled. When the wheel is turned different examples of environmental savings are highlighted. The wheel focuses on the Cocoon and Cyclus brands - available through merchant Antalis McNaughton - and demonstrates the savings made when printing pieces of direct mail, a brochure and an annual report.
Shannan Hodgson, Corporate Affairs Manager at Arjowiggins Graphic explains: "This handy tool helps our customers to quickly understand the savings that they could make by choosing to print on recycled papers. Not only that but it furthers the messaging from the 'It feels good' campaign, which highlights the wider positive effects on a business that printing on recycled papers can have.
"A great way that businesses can increase the impact of their decision to print on recycled papers is by including and showing the environmental savings in their materials. The EBS can be tailored to individual print jobs and really showcase the commitments made by businesses that choose to print on recycled papers. For example by printing 8,226 EBS Wheel mailers on Cocoon Offset 100% recycled paper the environmental impact was reduced by 761kg of landfill, 14,908 litres of water, 1,404 kWh of electricity, 142kg of C02 and greenhouse gases and 1.237kg of wood."
More than 8,000 wheels have been produced and they will be distributed to printers, corporations and designers. The wheels will be distributed exclusively through Antalis McNaughton.
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View from the 'Loo: It's all about community
Written by: Anthony Reinhart | 28 March 2013 | View from the 'Loo
Welcome to View from the 'Loo – and I don't mean the bathrooms here at the Communitech Hub (though Brad Feld seemed happy enough with them).
The 'Loo, of course, is short for Waterloo – as in Waterloo Region – and this new weekly post aims to illuminate issues and events relevant to our tech community.
I emphasize the word 'community,' because no sector of the economy can really flourish as an island. That's especially true for the tech sector, whose success depends on connectivity and the ability to spot and solve real-world problems.
Yes, heads-down focus is crucial to the kind of entrepreneurial success that has put Waterloo Region on the map – not only as home to large companies like BlackBerry, OpenText and Desire2Learn, but to the hundreds of smaller ones that place us among the world's top startup communities.
But heads-up awareness of the wider world is just as important, and this applies locally as well as globally.
That's why last Thursday, as just one example, was such a great day.
It started at 6 a.m., when we reported that two-year-old Vidyard had raised a $6-million Series A investment round to accelerate the scaling of its Kitchener-based video hosting-and-analytics platform into a global leader in video marketing.
It continued a couple of hours later with news that Canadian Tire, the venerable retail chain, had taken up residence here in the Hub, where it will work with Communitech on innovative technologies to reboot its relationship with customers.
That afternoon, word came that Waterloo-based CrossChasm was in the finals of a U.S. competition sponsored by the White House, touting its product MyCarma, which helps motorists find the most fuel-efficient vehicles for their driving habits.
And then, in the evening, a diverse and energetic crowd turned out for Communitech Mic Nite in downtown Kitchener.
Thanks to the creative collaboration of the organizers, who included people from Communitech and the City of Kitchener, the event went beyond a mere startup pitch event for tech-industry insiders. It was also a showcase for local art, music, food and drink, and it drew everyone from venture capitalists, artists, entrepreneurs and politicians to top tech executives, property redevelopers, city officials and media people.
The result was a rich mix of conversations initiated, opinions expressed, ideas exchanged and networks broadened in potentially powerful and unexpected new ways.
For me, a fifth-generation Waterloo Region kid who grew up in Kitchener, moved to the big city and came back, the sense of energy in the room was all the more palpable for its location: on a vacant floor of an old building with an interesting history, smack in the heart of downtown core in the midst of reinventing itself.
As it turns out, the four-storey building at 117 King St. W., known as the Simpson Block, was built in 1895 as a furniture factory and retail store for William "Daddy" Simpson. He earned his nickname for helping put Berlin, as Kitchener was then known, on the map as the "Furniture City of Canada."
My guess is that few Mic Nite attendees knew this bit of history as they moved about the sparse, yet-to-be-renovated expanse of the Simpson Block's third floor – one level below the entire top floor that Vidyard will soon occupy as it works to put this community on the map, just like Daddy Simpson did.
Downstairs at ground level, meanwhile, the first new CBC station to open in Ontario in 35 years just began broadcasting a few weeks ago, linking our community to yet another national, and international, communication network. The station's news guy, Mike McCulloch, was the MC for Mic Nite.
Also on the main floor, in the back, is Perimeter Development Corporation, the company that's been overhauling the Simpson Block, along with Kitchener's Breithaupt Block and other heritage properties in the region.
At the end of the night, as Perimeter partner Craig Beattie showed me around, we talked about the new energy coursing through the oldest parts of the region, and how once-forgotten places like the Simpson Block, Lang Tannery and Breithaupt buildings are thriving again because of it.
As I headed home, it struck me that none of what I'd seen that day – Vidyard's big cross-border raise, Canadian Tire's national reboot, CrossChasm's U.S. news or Mic Nite's local mash-up – would have happened if those involved hadn't taken time out of their heads-down lives to consider the world around them.
If we can keep engaging with the world beyond our immediate spheres of activity, we won't just thrive as a tech cluster, but as a more vibrant and interesting place to live.
And that's the kind of 'Loo I think we'd all like to view.
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Master Animations with React CSS Transition Group
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Presentation for the [React Animations Thinkful Workshop](https://open-sessions.thinkful.com/workshops/master-animations-with-react-css-transition-group-996/).

## Development

This presentation uses the awesome
[Spectacle](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle) framework.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The EA describes and analyzes the proposed work and the measures taken to minimize harm to the project area. The proposed project, between the US-23/M-14 west interchange and Silver Lake Road, involves replacing and upgrading pavement, median shoulders, bridges, and entrance and exit ramps. The EA also analyzes the effects of using upgraded shoulders, permanent message boards, cameras and other active traffic management system technology to reduce congestion, improve safety, manage incidents and better accommodate through traffic during peak hours. Download the EA summary here.
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The idea of using your mobile phone instead of countless pieces of paper to hold grocery lists has been around since the screen became able to display more than two lines of text at once. Over the years, we've seen hundreds if not thousands of apps that could be used for this purpose (and yet I still see people with pieces of paper in supermarkets every time I go shopping).
The problem, however, is that few of those apps offered much more than basic checklist functionality – or, more rarely, had so many features that it became too difficult to use them.
This week saw a new entrant on this market, the Capitan shopping list app that is powered by self-learning AI, can sync lists and has a bunch of additional clever features.
"We are trying to solve a very annoying problem – nobody, and I mean nobody, likes making extra trips to the store to buy items they forgot," the Ukrainian startup's founder Artur Kiulian wrote on Product Hunt.
The app's clean interface allows you to create and share all kinds of shopping lists, where the items are automatically grouped by aisles to optimize your movements in the store. Even more interesting is a possibility to set up notifications that the app will give you when you're near a store or if something from your current shopping list is being sold. Notifications can also be sent to a smartwatch.
This last feature works best in the US and Canada, but also "anywhere in the world where the public data about stores is available," Kiulian told TNW.
If you have a shared shopping list, the app can also notify the other contributors – for example, family members, – when you're in the shop, so that they can make last-minute requests and corrections. In addition to that, after some time of using the app its AI will start making suggestions about things you might've forgotten to include in the list.
"The more you use the app, the more intuitive the reminders and suggestions become – such as letting you know that you normally buy milk at a certain store, or that you're running low on a specific ingredient at home that you frequently buy and haven't bought recently," Kiulian wrote.
In the near future, Capitan will also get "more extensive functionality, such as integration with recipes and combining our AI engine to help people know what to cook with what they buy from the stores," Kiulian said.
The app, which has been downloaded more than 14,000 times in the first days after release, is available for iOS and Android for free and is going to stay that way in the future.


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Marine reserves on Mallorca
Discover how you can enjoy these protected areas of high ecological value
The marine reserves of the island have become a tourist attraction thanks to the biodiversity of the sea and the many plant species. They are scattered throughout the Mallorcan coast, with interesting flora and fauna: algae, fish, coral, crustaceans, sponges, echinoderms and some depth, lobster.
Mallorca can boast to own one of the richest sea beds of the Mediterranean. With an enormous diversity of biotopes and species, Mallorca has sea beds, ranging from the so-called forts (rocky soils covered with algae) and coral soils to seed plants, such as sea grass Posidonia oceanica, among others.
Its value is so high that protected areas (reserves) have been created, with the aim of promoting the natural regeneration of the resources and protecting the most representative sea beds of Mallorca limiting certain activities.
In order to discover the great beauty that is hidden under the waters of the island's marine reserves, it is necessary to know the rules beforehand, as every reserve has its own norms. All have a special protection area, and access to this protection zone is prohibited.
The marine reserves of Majorca are:
Reserva marina del Migjorn de Mallorca: it covers the internal waters between Cap Blanc, Cap de Ses Salines and Cala Figuera in Santanyí, with a total of more than 22,000 hectares, among which the waters of Cabrera stand out.
Reservas marinas de la Isla del Toro e Islas Malgrats: in Calvià. It has a privileged seabed, with different biotopes, species and benthic groups of high ecological value.
Reserva marina del Llevant: 5,900 hectares between Cala Mata and Es Cap de Freus, in the north-east of the island. More than 900 species and up to 32 groups live in very good condition.
Reserva marina del Freu de Sa Dragonera: in the west of the island, opposite the coast of Sant Elm. It covers 912 hectares with sea grass Posidonia oceanica, and a rich biodiversity.
To know more
National park Marítimo-terrestre del archipiélago de Cabrera (Ses Salines, mallorca)
Visit this and discover the biodiversity of its surroundings
Nature park Península de Llevant (Artà, mallorca)
Natural reserve with a variety of Mediterranean habitats, endemisms and ethnological elements
Nature park Sa Dragonera (Andratx, mallorca)
The viewpoint in the West
Algaida celebrates the Feast of Saint James in style!
Discover the history of Palma with its fascinating Gothic route
Beaches Cove Caló d'es Moro
Mallorca Santanyí
Accommodation Hostel Villa Columbus
Mallorca Calvià
Beaches Beach Monte De Oro
Exhibition cultural space Museum Monogràfic de Pollença
Mallorca Alcúdia
The Arab baths of Palma de Mallorca


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On the heels of last week's gathering of the biometrics community in Tampa for the Biometric Consortium Conference 2013, Biometrics UnPlugged: Mobility Rules and the IBIA reception, there was still some buzz around the need for biometrics in healthcare. With many vendors talking about it on the BCC exhibition floor, there was a tangible atmosphere of eagerness to delve into this sector in full force. To that end, a new report from Transparency Market Research released this week is predicting that there will be massive growth in the global healthcare biometrics industry, expecting it to reach USD 5.8 billion before the end of the decade.
Of course, the expos aren't limited to Tampa in September. In Chicago, vendors gathered for 2013 ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits where Morpho (Safran) officially launched MorphoAccess SIGMA. Designed specifically for access control and time and attendance purposes, the new solution is completely backwards compatible with existing Morpho infrastructure, and (thanks to MorphoTrustUSA) Bioscript systems.
Meanwhile in China, Lumidigm's multispectral imaging technology is helping people have fun faster, the company announcing that its fingerprint sensor technology is currently deployed throughout the country in entertainment complexes and amusement parks. It's news that seems to be surrounding Lumidigm recently, who seems eager to impress on the world just how versatile its biometric solutions can be.
This week also brought with it a large amount of mobile news over at Mobile ID World. Guest contributor Darrell Geusz out his foot down on the iPhone 5S spoofing controversy, making some very important distinctions between hacking a phone and fooling it to register a user as present. Add in quite a bit of talk continuing about turning smartphones into physical access credentials and new low latency mobile transaction authentication and you have quite a good case that this mobile identity revolution is just getting started.