A new Flinders University study has asked Australian aged-care residents to rate the quality of care they receive.
Out of a range of different long-term aged care accommodation models, participants in the study – the majority of which had a diagnosis of dementia – rated the overall quality of care as higher in home-like (clustered) models of care.
This more home-like model of care provided residents with greater flexibility and choice in their care routines, compared to the standard residential aged care model.
"It is important that we know the view of the residents and their families about the quality of care, says co-author Dr Suzanne Dyer, a senior research fellow at Flinders University.
The introduction of consumer directed care has meant understanding quality of care in the residential aged care setting from the consumer perspective is critical.
Previously, measures of the quality of aged care have largely focused on a regulatory perspective based on clinical outcomes or processes of care from the perspectives of staff or independent assessors.
Researchers used a simple questionnaire they developed and validated called the Consumer Choice Index- 6 Dimension (CCI-6D), to enable assessment of the quality of care from the perspective of residents or their family members.
The questionnaire compared care services in standard residential aged care facilities with more home-like, domestic models of care and measured care time, how home-like shared spaces and their own-rooms are, outside and gardens, meaningful activities and care flexibility.
While the amount of the care time provided was rated as similar between the types of care homes, the residents and family members rated being able to get outside whenever they wanted and the flexibility of the care routines as better in the clustered domestic models of care.
Kathy Williams (interviewed in the above video), who cared for her mother with dementia and is involved in the study, is not surprised that residents and families felt the homelike models provided a better quality of care.
"In a small home-like environment people are living with fewer people, they have an opportunity to access outdoor spaces on their own," she says.
The results of this study are part of the larger, the Investigating Services Provided in the Residential care Environment for Dementia in Australia (INSPIRED) study, funded through the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre.
In the INSPIRED study, the home-like model of care is a home with small clustered houses in which residents have more flexibility in their care and activities.
Residential aged care homes identified as having a home-like model of care had at least five criteria – small size (up to 15 residents living in a unit); accessible outdoor areas which residents can use independently; consistent care staff allocated to each unit; meals cooked within the units; meals provided in a self-service style; and residents able to assist with meal preparation.
Residents and their family members rated the overall quality of care as better in a home-like model compared to the standard model, citing access to outside and gardens and flexibility of care leading to better quality of life, a lower rate of being admitted to hospital, lower chances of an emergency department presentation and less likelihood of being prescribed a potentially inappropriate medication.
Another survey by the Flinders research group covering 1,001 people found more than half (63.5%) could not spontaneously name any treatments to improve outcomes for people living with dementia.
When asked about the efficacy of specific treatments, "brain training" was considered to be "very likely" to be effective by about half (49.4%), followed by "education for caregivers" (46.2%) and "healthy diet" (43.4%). Less than one-third of participants identified that they had a family member who has or has had dementia.
This survey comes in the wake of recently published research that shows the general public still tends to believe dementia is a normal and non-preventable part of ageing, despite decades of public awareness campaigns about the potential for dementia prevention.
"The public should be made aware of how they can access these programs, how the programs can help them reach their care needs or goals, the estimated costs involved, and the effects of accessing such programs. Thus, there is a need to understand what the public knows about dementia, including signs and symptoms, risk reduction, and treatment," Ms Rahja says.
Published in the International Journal of Quality in Health Care, the study titled Clustered domestic model of residential care is associated with better consumer rated quality of care, by ES Gnanamanickam, SM Dyer, R Milte, E Liu, J Ratcliffe and M Crotty, was led by Flinders University's Rehabilitation, Aged and Extended Care research group.
"A Population Survey: What Does the Australian General Public Know About Treatments for Dementia?" published online in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine.


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It's official - Gemma Collins will be appearing as a contestant on this year's Dancing On Ice!
The GC is no stranger to reality TV. After becoming a star on TOWIE, she has appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and, for just 72 hours, on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Now, she'll be taking on her biggest challenge to date when she appears on Dancing On Ice 2019 in January.
Following the announcement that she would soon be taking to the ice, Gemma appeared on This Morning alongside fellow confirmed contestant Richard Blackwood to talk about her hopes and fears for the series.
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Michael Houghton won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
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New provincial research funding for U of A aims to create made-in-Alberta vaccine and drug development pipeline
Government of Alberta makes $55.1-million investment to take new vaccines and antiviral drugs from discovery to manufacturing.
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The Canadian Critical Drug Initiative aims to transform Alberta into a powerhouse in the development of life-saving therapies.
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A Nobel Search
What does it take to win the world's top prize in medicine? Inside Michael Houghton's seven-year hunt for a mystery virus
24 May 2021 By Bruce Grierson
In 1989, Michael Houghton discovered the virus now known as hepatitis C with his colleagues Qui-Lim Choo and George Kuo. Because of their discovery, new screening tests were developed for blood donations, and by 1992, the virus was virtually eliminated from blood supplies. By 1996, this screening led to an annual reduction in new hep C infections by more than 80 per cent.
The hepatitis C virus is very virulent. It can lead to cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, and liver cancer for people who carry the virus. To prevent the spread of hepatitis C, the world urgently needs a vaccine. In 2012, Houghton and his team here at the University of Alberta developed a vaccine that is now in late pre-clinical stage testing. Based on the discovery of the virus, antiviral therapies have also been developed that will cure 95 per cent of carriers. This is the first chronic viral illness that can be cured.
Since the outbreak, Dr. Houghton is leading an effort to produce a COVID-19 vaccine. He was successful in creating a vaccine for SARS-CoV-1 in 2004; however, this vaccine was never needed as the original SARS disappeared.
Dr. Houghton was appointed a full professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in the U of A Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry on June 1, 2010. His lab is in the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, which was created in 2010 through a gift of $25 million from the Li Ka Shing (Canada) Foundation as well as a commitment of $52.5 million from the Government of Alberta.
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The Potential in Alberta's Life Sciences Sector
Nobel-prize recipient Michael Houghton discusses the life sciences sector in Alberta and the great potential it holds to become a key driver of the Canadian economy.
One Year Later: Michael Houghton Reflects on His Nobel Prize Win
Dr. Michael Houghton reflects on his life and work since being recognized globally for his research and discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
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Houghton attributes his success to teamwork, to following his passion for solving disease, and persistence. To me, the main lesson I took away from his talk is: follow your passion and persevere, you are on the right path!
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"Having interned in a virology research group only one building away from Dr. Michael Houghton's office on the seventh floor of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, I have a first-hand understanding of the passion and commitment needed to excel in academic research."
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Michael Houghton's colleagues and trainees describe the determination that led him to discover the hepatitis C virus and continue his quest for vaccines that will save millions of lives.
COVID-19 has 'created a new paradigm for developing vaccines,' says U of A Nobel winner
A vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 is essential—and thanks to scientific advances and global will, it will likely come faster than any previous vaccine, according to virologist Michael Houghton.
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Leading researchers team up to bring promising chemotherapy treatment to human trials
After a rejected patent application nearly derailed years of research, the new drug is now in clinical trials thanks to timely support from two top experts.
Medical research leads U of A performance in latest U.S. News ranking of world's best universities
Food science, agriculture, engineering and natural science also among 18 U of A subjects ranked in world's top 100.
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Michael Houghton delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2020. He was introduced by Professor Maria Masucci.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to scientists who discovered hepatitis C virus (New York Times)
Story mentions that Michael Houghton, co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is the Li Ka Shing professor of virology and director of the Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute at the U of A.
3 scientists win Nobel Prize for hepatitis C virus discovery (NPR)
Three scientists including U of A virologist Michael Houghton won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering the hepatitis C virus, which led to the development of a test to prevent the spread of the virus and drugs that have saved millions of lives, the Nobel Assembly said.
University of Alberta virologist Michael Houghton jointly wins Nobel Prize for medicine (Globe and Mail)
A University of Alberta researcher known for his crucial role in identifying the virus that causes hepatitis C has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
U.S.-U.K. trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on hepatitis C (Bloomberg)
Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice of the U.S., and Michael Houghton of the U of A, were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, hepatitis C.
U.S., British hepatitis C researchers win Nobel Prize in Medicine (UPI)
Three scientists who each played a role in finding a cure for hepatitis C have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Foundation announced Monday.
Two Americans, British scientist win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery (AP via USA Today)
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.


Another intriguing Hodinkee watch collab hits the web this week, and it's a good one: a limited-edition pilot's watch from IWC that combines the house's legendary propensity for robust and functional tool watches with cutting edge metallurgy.
It's a big year for pilots, it seems, at Schaffhausen, the company's Swiss headquarters; IWC is focusing all its 2019 efforts on its storied range of aviation watches. And the Mark XVIII is a classic, based heavily on one of the quintessential pieces from the brand's back catalog: the Mark 11, which first appeared in 1948. Like its grandad, the Mark XVIII is as tough as old boots and refreshingly uncluttered by the extra detritus that tend to proliferate over time in storied watch lines.
But even if it looks similar, one thing the Hodinkee edition of the Mark XVIII does not share with the Mark 11 is the case. The special edition debuts a brand new proprietary IWC-developed material called Ceratanium, which, as you might have guessed, is a mind-bending alloy of ceramic and titanium. This means it combines the lightness of titanium with the scratch-resistance and general toughness of ceramic.
Only 500 numbered version are on sale now at Hodinkee and select IWC boutiques. Run, don't walk.


In actuality, Microsoft ended all mainstream support and warranty for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015 and has only been providing security and bug fixes. Granted you will not wake up on January 14, 2020 to find that your Windows 7 pc has spontaneously combusted. You will still be able to use it, however, there are strong concerns and urges from every angle of the software and technology world that warns us otherwise.
Are we over exaggerating? No, and here is why.
Microsoft will no longer provide patches for viruses or security issues once Windows 7 reaches End of Life. This leaves you as an end user extremely vulnerable to cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Moreover, if a large percentage of users are still using Windows 7, malicious targeting by deviant individuals is greatly increased as they look to target those that are most vulnerable.
Why leave patient data at such a high risk when it's so easy to update?
There is minimal disruption and down time when upgrading your Windows software to Windows 10 and most software applications are already compatible with Windows 10. For the most part, upgrading to Windows 10 does not require new hardware as long as your hardware meets the minimum specifications.
Why is it important to invest in updating to Windows 10?
It's simple, you are either paying to update to Windows 10 or spending a substantial amount of money to clean up a cyber attack that has compromised your patient data and placed you in violation of HIPAA. Is the risk truly worth it? I think not and many would agree.


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Mathew Anthony Belcher, AOM (* 20. September 1982 in Gold Coast) ist ein australischer Segler.

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Mathew Belcher nahm an zwei Olympischen Spielen mit der 470er Jolle teil. 2012 ging er mit Malcolm Page an den Start, mit dem er die Regatta vor dem britischen und dem argentinischen Boot auf dem ersten Platz abschloss, womit die beiden Olympiasieger wurden. Von den ersten zehn Rennen hatten sie fünf gewonnen und erreichten im medal race den zweiten Rang. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro belegte er mit William Ryan hinter den Kroaten Šime Fantela und Igor Marenić den zweiten Platz. Zwar hatten die Griechen Panagiotis Mantis und Pavlos Kagialis ebenso wie Belcher und Ryan 58 Gesamtpunkte erzielt, im medal race kamen sie jedoch vor Mantis und Kagialis als Neunte ins Ziel und sicherten sich so die Silbermedaille.

Fünf Jahre später gelangen Belcher und Ryan bei den 2021 ausgetragenen Olympischen Spielen 2020 in Tokio schließlich der Olympiasieg, für Belcher der nunmehr zweite. Mit nur 23 Gesamtpunkten gewannen sie ihre Konkurrenz in der 470er Jolle vor den Schweden Anton Dahlberg und Fredrik Bergström sowie Jordi Xammar und Nicolás Rodríguez aus Spanien. Während der Schlussfeier war Belcher der Fahnenträger seiner Nation.

Bei Weltmeisterschaften gewann er insgesamt neun Medaillen, davon achtmal die Goldmedaille. Dreimal, von 2010 bis 2012, wurde er mit Malcolm Page Weltmeister, zwischen 2013 und 2019 gewann er fünfmal den Titel mit William Ryan.

2013 zeichnete der Weltverband World Sailing Belcher als Weltsegler des Jahres aus. Für seinen Olympiaerfolg erhielt er im Jahr darauf die Australia Order Medal. Er ist mit der deutschen Seglerin Friederike Belcher verheiratet.

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Living with the Sea by Rushen Heritage Trust
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The fascinating history of Port St Mary and its people.
HOW A SMALL SEASIDE VILLAGE PARTNERED WITH THE SEA
If you live by the sea you get to know it as a partner, adapting to its moods, from calm, sunny days to furious stormy nights. Throughout its history, the people of Port St Mary ƒ?? known locally as Purt Le Moirrey ƒ?? have lived by and with the sea. It has provided them with a living, from fishing to shipbuilding to tourism. Without the sea, the village would not exist. The sea in question is the Irish Sea, in which the Isle of Man sits at the centre ƒ?? from Port St Mary, you can look across to England and Wales, and from its neighbouring twin, Port Erin, you can see the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland.
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Khalid Jamil, the recently appointed head coach of Aizawl FC is looking forward to his opening fixture against Kolkata giants East Bengal and he is not taking it lightly.
After a disappointing last season when Aizawl were relegated, they have come back to the top tier of Indian football. The former Mumbai FC coach Jamil thinks there are chances of improvement for the Mizoram-based team and he is looking forward going into the season where improvements will be visible. "There is defensive work, there are attacking work….however we want to play beautiful football in the future," the Aizawl FC coach said talking about his current squad.
Despite being considered by many as the whipping boys of the league, Aizawl were often criticized last season for their brand of football which cost them many points against the other teams on several occasions. On the other hand, Khalid Jamil and Mumbai FC did not do much better narrowly avoiding the drop themselves at the end of the season but the Kuwait-born manager won many admirers during his time in the metropolis because of the tactics and the brand of football he deployed.
Jamil wasn't specific about his target against East Bengal yet delivered his message smartly. "One point is good, three points are also very good," said the Aizawl coach, who has earned quite a name for stealing points off East Bengal in the previous meetings. The former Mumbai FC manager was very specific about his priorities this season as he revealed he wasn't thinking about any other teams as he has one himself, who are a very good lot themselves.
Jamil did not reveal any of his tactics against East Bengal however he said that he knew the importance of being solid at the back against the Red and Gold. The Kolkata-based team has one of the most organized midfield and forward line-up in the country and Jamil was vocal about his knowledge of the threat East Bengal forward line up will present.
"We have to be defensively very good. The defenders, the strikers and everybody else. After we do that, we go with the flow" said Jamil.


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The Dubai-based Emirates Group has reported on a profitable 2008/09, with the company revealing that it had made a net profit for the 21st consecutive year despite the challenges presented by the global economic slowdown.
Net profit for the year-long period came to US$406m (€298.6m), on the back of revenue growth of 10.4 per cent to US$12.6bn (€9.2bn).
However, this profit result was a significant 72 per cent drop on the previous year's record profit of US$1.45bn (€1.06bn), showing the impact of record-high fuel prices through the first six months of the year.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum
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YESTERDAY IN MELTON MOWBRAY
Memories of Days Long Gone.
WHO ATE ALL THE PORK PIES?
Maybe it was Santa Claus?
As the twelve festive days of Christmas now fade away into memory and we start once again to work on our extended waistlines whilst wondering where we will spend our next holiday in the sun, let us spare a moments thought for the cash-strapped residents of a Melton Mowbray of more than a century ago who worked as hard as they were able at this changing time of year to provide some form of extra income to invest in a little happiness for their families, maybe on the train to the East Coast?
In December of the year 1900, many people would hove been employed locally at the business of hand-raising the traditional and local delicacy of the ubiquitous Melton Mowbray pork-pie. It would certainly have been a case of 'all hands to the pump' as efforts were traditionally increased during that month to assist in the process of manufacturing these popular food favourites, a great number of which would have been required not just locally, but to export to all areas of this country and other far-flung corners of the world. This was especially so in the case of the military fighting in foreign lands for good Queen Victoria. But each and every pie produced in the town would need to be made individually by hand, the cases crafted on a bench with a wooden former and these packed with the correct ingredients, which then included the best meat taken from the legs of the hundreds of poor porkers who always, like the turkeys, dreaded the arrival of the festive season. Packed with a form of gelatine so that the contents would stand up to their many miles of travel, they were then cooked and suitably packed according to the length of its proposed journey. I am assured that many of these workers would hardly have been able to afford themselves the luxury of purchasing any the products of their hard labour, as this commodity was considered to be the treat of the better-off in a country approaching hard times. But I'm sure that 'special' arrangements were made for the pies to end up in most of the workers homes on Christmas day along the Stilton cheese and mince pies.
Located in the east midlands county of Leicestershire, the small market town of Melton Mowbray and it's environs was, at the dawn of the 20th century, a beehive of food and drink production which was mainly due to its interconnection with a plentiful supply of comfortable hostelry or club accommodation resorted to by an ever-increasing presence of the mostly very wealthy hunting set during the winter season, with the result that the town was a little better off than most in the county. With many small cottage bakeries and butchers shops were by now into the business of providing these little gems that were as welcome sliced up on a grand dining table, or roughly wrapped in a napkin and popped a saddlebag in a rain-soaked countryside. There were probably a dozen or more pie makers around at the turn of that century, some of them being small family set ups, producing from the family kitchen, or others like Messrs. Dickinson and Morris, Mr Evans or Mr Crosher, (who was the originator of the well-known Tuxford and Tebbutt factory of today). Not for them the sprawling purpose-built, state-of-the-art pie factories which we see now in our cities, churning out vast quantities of their product almost unseen on rolling belts and untouched by man around the clock.
Who needs Scrooge?
Anyway, this is not intended to be a historical trip into the history of the Melton pork pie, more a moment I would like to share with you relating to a small snippet which I chanced to read in the Melton Times of Friday Jan 11th 1901 which demonstrates a way of life in another age when the above mentioned Mr Crosher stood in the public dock to face his 'superiors', accused of a 'grave' exploitation of his casual Christmas workers. I reproduce the piece, 'as published', to provide an true perception of the place and time. It reads:
MELTON MOWBRAY PETTY SESSIONS.
WORKING OVERTIME.
Tuesday --- Before Mr C. W. Chaplin (in the chair), Colonel Baldock, Rev. P. F. Gorst, and Mr. Andrew Shipman.
John Thorpe Crosher, pork-pie manufacturer Melton, was charged by Mr. Sedgwick, factory Inspector, with illegally employing three women, viz, Emma Taylor, Mary E. Irons, and Catherine Pettifer, overtime, at Melton, on the 19th December. --- In opening the case, Mr. Sedgwick said the complaints were made under section[s] 10 and 12 of the Factorie's Act of 1878. In the course of his duties he visited the premises occupied by the defendant on the 19th December last year, and on making enquiry of the females who were working on the place he found out that they had been employed from 6 a.m. until 12 at night, except for 3 1/2 hours allowed for meals and recreation. The legal period for employment was from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night, with 1 1/2 hours for meals. In the case of pork-pie manufacturers, however, there were special arrangements in the Act whereby women might work from seven o'clock in the morning until nine at night, but not more than three nights in one week, and not more than 30 times in one year. As he had before stated, however, he found that the women had been employed from six o'clock in the morning until twelve at night, so they would see that a grave irregularity and contravention of the Act had taken place. He was aware that Christmas time was an exceptionally busy one, but the Act had provided that women could work two hours extra, and if that was not sufficient time for the work to be completed, then the employer ought to obtain extra help. By working the women after nine o'clock at night employers were liable to a fine not exceeding £3 in each case. Although he had only taken three cases out, yet he found other women on the place who had been working overtime. --- Defendant said that they were all aware that the week before Christmas was a very heavy one, and it so happened that on the day prior to the Inspectors visit they had a large order come in, and they had to work overtime to supply it. He might say the women did not in the least mind working overtime, and two of the women mentioned in the charge-sheet were not regularly employed by the firm. --- In answer to a question from the Bench, defendant said that the women were paid 3d an hour extra for overtime.
---Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was fined £1 in each case, including costs.
For information and at no extra cost, in 1900 £1 was equivalent to £101.15 today and 3d (old pence) would be worth today, £1.26
I also discovered from the same newspaper that Queen Victoria's extended reign came to an abrupt end that same week with her sad passing and that on the Monday morning after his Court appearance, John Crosher was to be rudely awakened to discover that his small bakery was under about three feet of floodwater as, overnight, the local River Eye had burst its banks with devastating effect - the iconic town flood of 1901 - filling the centre of the town with much water.
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PIGEON PIE ANYONE?
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
(George Orwell, 'Animal Farm')
As a concerned and conscientious senior citizen and local bird-lover to boot, I like to think that I perhaps do apportion my proper share towards supporting the avian population of my town during these increasingly cold winter days, but recently I have been grappling with a resolution of conscience as to whether I really do believe that all of our feathered friends are as lovely - and as welcome - in my garden as each other. As a caring human being I was brought up to love my fellow man and not to differentiate, favour or show other bias, but recent occurrences at home have led me to think otherwise. The problem, is the almost permanent presence of two very fat pigeons - Pete and Pat(ricia), I sometimes call them - which are fairly recent incomers to the otherwise tranquil surroundings of my bird table upon which I spy quite regularly from my kitchen window.
Shock Troops
There's a crisis looming
For a couple of years now I have gladly and freely placed out peanuts and other delicacies on a purpose built bird table which has regularly attracted a fairly substantial gathering at times of up to a dozen different species of wild birds. Now as the cost of living is continuing to rise, we bird lovers are not untouched by the consequences of the realisation that wild bird food and peanuts have become increasingly expensive of late so imagine my chagrin and frustration - sometimes great anger - when I place out a good handful of peanuts and then have to watch as they are devoured voraciously and swiftly by P and P. But it is not only the grand theft and greediness of these two grey birds which has caused me a problem, but the fact that fewer and fewer of the smaller (and dare I whisper, prettier?) birds now come round to share in the spoils, they being threatened and frightened out of their lives by the bullying antics. By the way, pictured left is Ollie who is such a fat cat that this is about as far as he can reach. The smaller birds are aware of this and they just ignore him! in truth, he tends to run away when the pigeons arrive. So, what to do?
Thwarted! - Pete and Pat are sorted.
Well, I confess that I did toy with the idea of a small catapult, but I feared that this might suggest a personal bias and possibly, a hatred of a particular species which, if I was discovered, might perhaps cause serious disharmony in the neighbourhood; nor perhaps, would George Orwell have neccesarily approved. So with a small dose of guile and a certain amount of do-it-yourself fervour, I attached four strips of split cane with tiny panel pins to the outside of the table (see picture right.) and retired to my observation post with a certain amount of pride and not just a small dose of smugness. It was not long before the deadly duo arrived in tandem and immediately made a close examination of my handiwork, behind which they could see the tempting vision of a newly placed pile of fresh peanuts sitting right in the middle of the table. Within a very short time, after much flapping of wings and tenuous scrambling about, just managing to hang on by their claws and beaks, a scattering of dislodged feathers lay on the ground. For a moment my smugness knew no heights as the two seemed to have conceded to defeat by my wicked arrangement; but oh dear, it was not to be!
I concede, but win the day.
After departing temporarily for what was probably a rest-break or perchance, a moment to feast at some other nearby table, Pete and Patricia duly returned and I'm sure that I noticed a certain look of defiant malevolence in those dark black eyes. In an instant and before I could change into my outdoor shoes, one of them then gripped on to the side of the table and the same movement, swooshed its wing under the barrier sweeping just about every peanut and all in its path to the ground below to where each defiantly alighted to tuck in to the spoils.
I have now conceded to their willingness to defy me and rather than deny all of the other little birds the offer of some winter nourishment, I now use the hang-bag method and place only old bread or waste products on the open table. Perhaps I should have done this in the first place! Though somehow, I think I have unwittingly provided a useful service to the general public and to the Environmental Department of the local council, as I now notice that the pigeons are far more likely to clean up the rejected chips and discarded meat pies which remain strewn over the pavement at the front of my house on most mornings, the detritus of the night before.
Darwin's theory
Who couldn't but just love this dear little chap?
Belittling and disparaging as I might appear to be in my struggles with the common pigeon - which, lets face it, is not the most popular of man's feathered friends - it is a fact that the species holds a very important place in the natural history of homo sapiens. Watching the antics of Columba Livia - the common pigeon - with its strange habits and often eccentric behaviour in many parts of the world, was to fire a spark within the mind of a young Charles Darwin and to start him questioning the doctrine of Creation as against the idea that species tended to evolve over time. His ever-contentious views and 'unholy' theories are readily readable today in most democratic societies, apart that is, from some places in the western world where his postulations are still fiercely concealed from younger minds. Let me quote but one paragraph which might lead you to seek further enlightenment as to the theory, in which he outlines the degree of variance amongst species even of the same group.
(Copied from 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin)
On the Breeds of the Domestic pigeon.
Believing that it is always best to study some special group, I have, after deliberation, taken up domestic pigeons. I have kept every breed which I could purchase or obtain, and have been most kindly favoured with skins from several quarters of the world, more especially by the Hon. W. Elliot from India, and by the Hon. C. Murray from Persia. Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerably antiquity. I have associated with several eminent fanciers, and have been permitted to join two of the London Pigeon Clubs. The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Compare the English carrier and the short-faced tumbler, and see the wonderful difference in their beaks, entailing corresponding differences in their skulls. The carrier, more especially the male bird, is also remarkable from the wonderful development of the carunculated skin about the head, and this is accompanied by greatly elongated eyelids, very large external orifices to the nostrils, and a wide gape of mouth. The short-faced tumbler has a beak in outline almost like that of a finch; and the common tumbler has the singular and strictly inherited habit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tumbling in the air head over heels. The runt is a bird of great size, with long, massive beak and large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a very long beak, has a very short and very broad one. The pouter has a much elongated body, wings, and legs; and its enormously developed crop, which it glories in inflating, may well excite astonishment and even laughter. The turbit has a very short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually expanding slightly the upper part of the oesophagus. The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a hood, and it has, proportionally to its size, much elongated wing and tail feathers. The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very different coo from the other breeds. The fantail has thirty or even forty tail-feathers, instead of twelve or fourteen, the normal number in all members of the great pigeon family; and these feathers are kept expanded, and are carried so erect that in good birds the head and tail touch; the oil-gland is quite aborted. Several other less distinct breeds might have been specified.
And now, for the true enthusiasts ...
N.B. It is the 'vent region' as depicted above, which creates a rigid intolerance within my dear wife at home, especially on wash days!
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ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A FAIR LADY
'Google' problems have caused me the loss of illustrations to this post. I am currently doing a re-write and renovation job for the near future.
PART I - THE BALDOCKS OF CRAVEN LODGE
An Unwelcome Visitor to the Lodge!
As you might well be aware by now, the rejuvenated Craven Lodge which sits opposite my window in all its glory and now re-branded 'Craven Court', is currently one of my very favourite subjects and while this warmth remains I have been digging out some related stories of the past which you might wish to share. The rich history of this residence and its owners has been well documented of late and since local doctor, Mr Keal, first had the foundations laid as long ago as 1827 there have been nine further owners of the property. Each of these incumbents seem to have been of interesting character and perhaps are all worthy of having their personal stories told, but I recently came across a newspaper article that started me off on yet another merry chase to discover all I could about the lives and times of one of those families in particular. In 1884 Mr William Younger of the famous brewing family of Scotland sold his interest in the Lodge after a residency of some ten years with his young family. His particular tenure is probably best remembered for the moment when, in 1877, he received an overnight visit from probably one of the most notorious and feared members of the Victorian underworld when the scary Mr Charles Peace, known countrywide in the popular press of the day as the 'King of Thieves and Murderers', entered, uninvited via a ground floor window. He is reported to have escaped with a great amount of jewellery before attempting a similar forced entry at Wicklow Lodge just further up the road. The bulk of the jewellery was later recovered and not long after this unwanted visit, Peace was arrested and eventually hanged for his many atrocious crimes, which indeed included three murders. But that is another fascinating story for another day as my present interest is focussed on the man to whom Mr Younger handed over the keys. The sixth occupant of Craven Lodge was the recently married Colonel Edward Holmes Baldock, a long time lover of Melton Mowbray with its sporting life and everything else that it stood for, who brought his new wife and his baby daughter to the big house where he was to remain ensconced from 1884 for the next 3 decades.
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A MOMENT IN TIME - Temperance
Brewster Sessions
Rural life was fairly uncomplicated in the final years of Queen Victoria's long reign and without doubt there was only really one form of popular entertainment for her subjects. Without the cinema or television to entertain them during their precious hours away from work, the great majority took their pleasure from the liberal consumption of alcohol in all of its guises, and where better to consume this liquid treat, why, in the pub, away from the wife and kids ,in the bosom of their pals. Scrupulous control of this popular habit was levied by statute which ensured in turn that that local bodies were to verify that the police properly kept a strict control of its distribution in the locality. At each year's end, the police would need to report to the relevant committees to place on record the fruits of their success or otherwise and so it was that in the last week of December of the year 1900, Superintendent Mantle duly submitted only the second annual report to the Melton Mowbray Brewster Sessions. At that first licensing meeting of the Petty Sessional Division in the new century, Mr Fast took the chair and sat with fellow members, Major Sterling, Mr James Pacey and Mr Andrew Shipman: The Superintendent told the meeting:
"Gentlemen, I beg to submit for your information my second annual report under the intoxicating liquor laws. There are 103 persons licensed to sell in this division, viz. 85 licensed victuallers, eight to sell beer on premises, three to sell beer off premises,, one refreshment, six wines, total 103. The population at the last census was 19,917, which is a license to every 193 persons. Drunkenness: Persons proceeded against under the above heading, viz.. Drunk and disorderly on the highway 23, drunk in charge of horses two, simple drunkenness 19, refusing to quit licensed premises three, total 47. Forty-four were convicted and three discharged, being an increase of nine as compared with last year. Five full licenses, one beer off and one wine off, have been transferred during the year. One licensed victualler has been summoned and convicted under the Food and Drugs Act. Nineteen persons have music licenses. The renewal of the Railway Inn will not be applied for, it being pulled down for alterations at the railway crossing, Burton-end. Thomas Clifton who keeps the 'Dog and Gun' beerhouse, Melton Mowbray (at present a six days' license) is applying for a seven days' license, which will be brought before you to-day. There is [are] no applications for any new licenses. All the alterations which the magistrates suggested when they visited the Marquis of Granby Inn, Red Lion, Duke of Rutland, Three Crowns, Boat, Royal Oak, and Dog and Gun, have been carried out. I have no complaint to urge against any of the license holders."
And that was that for another year!
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METAMORPHOSIS!
Simon Johnson and Peter Burrows at Craven Court,
PHOTO: Tim Williams (Melton Times)
A year has already passed since I last waxed lyrically about the ongoing rescue and timely regeneration of Craven Lodge, the beautiful old house on Burton Road which was pretty well consigned to the fate of the demolition gang only two or three years ago. Thank goodness for the foresight of developer Peter Burrows of Rochford Homes who was to arrive from out of town equipped with the required will and business acumen to confront and eventually rebuff all complaints of and obstructions by, a combination of 'angry local residents' who were ably supported by a stuffy and 'apprehensive' Council committee, to heroically rescue this historic jewel of the town for future generations to admire. As I have previously stated, I live as close to this building as anyone else in the town and have always supported the project with a passion. Now, as the months have passed by, venture to ask the opinion of those who now live opposite this grand pile and you will almost certainly receive a 99% satisfaction response - we are in fact very proud of our new landmark which has emerged from the undergrowth of half a century of neglect to enhance the whole area. (I know who the one-percent are and I wish them luck with their house move!)
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LONG TO 'RAIN' OVER US!
PATRIOTS WE.
I wondered recently, if our beloved nonegenarian Queen Elizabeth was aware of the 100 or so almost frozen souls who were ensconced under leaky tents or the sagging canvas sheets which had been painstakingly erected on the empty spaces of the little track which services the rear of our gardens here in our little part of Melton Mowbray? The memorable occasion was the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne following the untimely death in 1952 of her beloved father, King George. Dutiful and royalist citizens that we were that day - and remain so of course - ensured that close to a 100% uptake of those invited to the bash from the houses linked to the track by the residents of Ankle Hill and Burton Road, arrived in good time and gritted teeth humour to assist in setting up the plastic barricades against the relentless heavy rain which showed great promise of remaining for the rest of the day.
In a hastily thrown together area nearby which comprised of rapidly emptied garages and temporarily abandoned parking spaces, barbecues hi-jacked from patios and gardens nearby were being hopefully fired up, only to resonate to a constant mixture of hot fire and the hissing clouds of steam from the persistent rain, altogether blending the sausages of all nations, chicken parts and whatever meats had been brought. Refreshing drinks - mostly alcholic - were organised, supplied and readily consumed by a merry and increasingly merrier band of volunteer hands who were mainly in that section were of the male variety. Of course the quality of the merchandise needed to be tested before the general distribution!
All of this patriotic fervour had been the brain-child of a small group of people resident to 'the lane', who some months ago canvassed us for an indication of general interest and most importantly, uptake for such an event bearing in mind several other distractions then occurring in the area. I am told that agreement and the eventual acceptance was high and the very tiny sum of £2 pp was accepted and duly gathered in with no defaulters. Those people who were available, assisted with the preparations during the morning and by midday people began to arrive with the majority complying with the basic requirement to wear something red white and blue. But this display of Royal obeisance wasn't always clearly apparent as many of us were more persuaded to wear our oilskins, sou'westers and even some parkas were spotted throughout the remainder of that summer's afternoon.
Security was necessarily tight at the event as the country was still in a security state of 'Orange' preparedness and the youngsters - girls and boys - took it in turns to patrol the rain-spattered area, but as events turned out Mother Nature was to overrule and the weather was to put an end to any hope of the three-legged and egg and spoon competitions which were officially cancelled. The very young attendees seemed quite satisfied with the alternative game of jumping up and down in the muddy puddles and attempting to dam the increasingly growing streams of rainwater which was by mid afternoon, threatening to wash us all away and to remain trendy to the fashion of the day, there were those who opted for a bit of ankle-tapping with their state-of-the art scooters for which the slimy conditions proved ideal.
All in all, notwithstanding the cruel efforts of the weather, a great time was had by all those who attended and there were no fights (as far as I am aware). In the evening, as the younger children slowly disappeared from the scene and the older ones moved on to more teenage pursuits, the late afternoon sun (which did eventually arrive) slipped way to create a mature event for the older generation, which included a lot of drink, chatter and even argument around a large log fire. I left about 1am, but I am informed that the hardier residents of Burton Road and Ankle Hill remained until a very early hour in the Sunday morning.
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AN AMERICAN IN MELTON MOWBRAY
People of a certain age in the market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire will occasionally speak of a 'murder' which occurred in their town during the last war when a local and popular tailor was brutally attacked and robbed of his earnings at his place of work. Although the victim was left to fend for himself in a battered and unconscious state, the occurrence fortunately did not end up as a murder though it could well have done if different circumstances had prevailed. This is re-telling of that incident which happened during those anxious 'blackout' days of World War 2 during which this small market town in the East Midlands of England had remained largely untouched by any aggressive war situations or the usual and expected going-ons common to the the larger cities nearby. Melton was in those dark days, home to an increasingly eclectic mixture of armed forces personnel and civilian 'Dad's Armies' who were currently grouped in great numbers across the country, engaged in a combined show of strength to deter the would-be aggressors who had threatened to invade these ever inviolate shores. American soldiers, including units of black G.I.s who were based in at least two nearby villages, were a novelty for the locals to observe in their comings and goings and at the nearby village of Old Dalby, a depot manned by Canadian personnel was wholeheartedly providing logistical and moral support to the home country's armed forces. On the whole, it is on the record that Melton Mowbray did manage to pass through the days of conflict pretty well unscathed, apart from the occasional and expected human frailties of the few, most of whom were tolerated whilst surviving for the long five years in a mad world being torn apart in the quest of global control. This little tale looks back to the time of the passing of this watershed moment in world history and provides a small insight into how a small town coped with the general upheaval which resulted.
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WHO, WHY AND WHEN?
I was born at Leicester in the East Midlands of England in 1940 of an Irish father and an English mother. The majority of my working life was as a police officer in which role I served in the Metropolitan, Bermuda and finally, in Leicestershire. After an itinerant adult life which would involve the small matter of a marriage in 1965 in Bermuda, we returned to England to live in her home town of Melton Mowbray where we are both now retired.
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This is a vicious cycle of barbarism and bad politics, we, the people, did not make or create. And those who made it will not pay the price. We will.
So how many times should a man look up before he sees the sky? And how many of those alive should return lifeless to the bowels of the earth, burnt, cremated or buried, before the bullets, or the rocket launchers or the damned RDX gets you - anywhere, inside a railway station or five star hotel, outside a cricket stadium or a middle class shopping zone, or just about on the street, while you are posting a hand-written letter in a letter box in this era of cyberspace?
It's numbing down after dumbing down. Desensitisation after sensitation. Despair after more despair. And helplessness. And the inevitability of acceptance.Everyone says it's most shocking. What's more shocking than most shocking? What's more mindless than most mindless? What's more organised and barbaric than most forms of organised barbarism enacted as a public spectacle? So which carnage is more heart-rending than the other? Gujarat, Mumbai, Kabul, Lahore?
So how is accidental and bloody death not inevitable in the current scheme of things anywhere and in any time and space? Is Indian democracy and its citizens (or cricketers) more protected in that sense? How? If so, why did they not anticipate and block all the blasts all over various cities and the terror attacks in Mumbai? Were not the elite too targeted at the Taj? And why is that the Batla House encounter is being widely perceived as fake? Hardnews has raised these issues time and again.
If 12 suicide bombers with rucksacks or armed criminals try to kill you, how can they be stopped? Especially if you have no jammers, or bullet proof vests, or armed commandoes of Z plus security, no intelligence machinery or sanitized streets, official residences and public spaces, not even the value of your life listed in the official scheme of things. That's what precisely happened to the thousands who have lost their lives in the sub-continent, post 9/11, even while the American policy-makers can only dare to protect its own homeland, leaving all the other so-called 'strategic partners' to the wolves.
In Pakistan, this is precisely what happened outside the Gaddafi Stadium at Lahore, as it is happening in all parts of Pakistan, including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Marriott Hotel attack in the past. They just don't care. It's impossible to imagine how the prime minister and the president and the army chief is protected in Pakistan. Who protects them? The ISI? As Imran Khan said, the interior minister might be having ten times the security protection as the Sri Lankan team. So what is ten times? Can he too escape the rocket launchers and grenades (or suicide bombers) as the Sri Lankan team, so fortunately and so miraculously did? But the cricketers got hit, the umpires, a driver, cops, they got hit. A couple of umpires were soaked with blood.
There is no doubt that the streets and the entire journey from the cricketers' hotel to the stadium was not sanitized, there was no security on the look-out for dubious men with rucksacks on various vehicles or taking military positions in broad day-light, there were no information system, no cameras, no red-alerts, the intelligence or security machinery had not responded to warnings (the usual story -even the CIA reportedly did not respond to 9/11 warnings) in a context that Sri Lanka is in the midst of violent turmoil and mass tragedy in Tamil areas, and that the cops who died did not really have the specialisation or reflex actions or fore-warning to take on well-trained and highly motivated terrorists. So no point in saying that they are well-trained and motivated, as a top Pakistani cop said. This is a priori. They are well-trained and motivated and they are ready to die, so how do you stop them. With dynamic foreign policy? Heightened domestic surveillance and internal security? Full-fledged and full-throated militarism - an act of war? The deceptive and dangerous American-Israeli axis? International united military action? NATO?
Besides, none of the 12 terrorists could be killed or captured even while they ran in full public view. Is this what is called VIP protection? So what happens to Citizens' Protection?
Clearly, for the US, the Iraq campaign has failed, after plus 800,000 dead, no small number this. No one has won a war in the difficult terrain of a geographically mythical Afghanistan with blurred borders, not even the British, and the Americans shall too never win it. The Taliban and Al Qaeda, American-CIA creations with motivated help from Pakistan (like Saddam Hussein and other tinpot dictators all over the world), will only grow in numbers, fundamentalism and organised terrorism - they will grow as a retrograde, anti-woman, anti-modernity civilisational epidemic, now with the US-Israel axis -- and all its strategic partners like India, as their declared enemies. Pakistan is a 'Failed State' and can be very well truncated and Balkanised in the days to come, like Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Central Asia, one of the pet projects of the CIA since the Cold War era. So will this South Asian turmoil leave India untouched? Or Afghanistan and Bangladesh? Will the bloodbath stop?
There is no doubt that the ISI and fundamentalists were behind the Bangladesh massacre of army officers and their families. This was also to unsettle and perhaps topple the Sheikh Hasina regime which is known to be pro-India and against the fundamentalists - and her significant mandate proved it. A dangerous fault-line clearly runs within the Pakistani establishment. Indeed, the Mumbai attacks were done with the help of both State and non-State actors in Pakistan. So this was active war, not proxy war.
Hence, the flexing of nuclear muscles on either side has not helped in countering terrorism or Pakistan with conventional military or diplomatic strategies. The bomb was therefore a big mistake, as would be war. In that case, what's the option? Sorry to say, no option. The bodybags now will be of innocent citizens, yet again, again and again, while the failed States will continue to preside over this continuing carnage. Because this has become a historical fault-line of justice and injustice, and no immediate solution can dissolve or reconcile it.
What's shocking? What's shocking then most shocking? Nothing's shocking. This is a vicious cycle of barbarism and bad politics, we, the people, did not make or create. And those who made it will not pay the price. We will. It's like looking for a new flower in your garden. And discovering a bomb.


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History
The company was founded as  with KSS being its abbreviation. The company changed its name to KSS Inc. in the early 1990s.

In 2004, KSS went bankrupt and sold its assets to Softgarage.

Anime projects

 Barbapapa
 Battle Angel (OVA)
 Calimero
 Comic Party
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 Dokyusei 2 (OVA)
 Dosokai Yesterday Once More (OVA)
 Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time (OVA)
 Elf ban Kakyuusei (OVA)
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 Happy Lesson (OVA)
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 Idol Project (OVA)
 Judge (OVA)
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 Lime-iro Senkitan
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 Mask of Zeguy (OVA)
 Mighty Space Miners (OVA)
 Moekan (OVA)
 Naruto
 Oh My Goddess! (OVA)
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 Phantom - The Animation (OVA)
 Plastic Little (OVA)
 Rei Rei (OVA)
 Saiyuki Reload
 Tattoon Master (OVA)
 To Heart
 True Love Story (OVA)
 Variable Geo (OVA)
 Wedding Peach
 Wind: A Breath of Heart (OVA)

Video game projects
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 Bing Bing! Bingo
 Casper (Super Famicom release)
 Goiken Muyou: Anarchy in the Nippon
 Majyūō (King of Demons)
 Max Surfing 2000
 Yokozuna Monogatari

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The number of new thematic exchange traded funds in Taiwan has jumped this year, as fund managers try to stand out amid mounting competition.
ETFs recently launched in Taiwan have focused on the country's domestic semiconductor sector and electric vehicles. At least four additional thematic ETFs are also on the way with themes including "future vehicles", "global genomics" and "immune biopharma".
In 2020, only four thematic ETFs were launched in total, with three of them targeting the 5G theme and one focusing on cyber security, data from the Securities Investment Trust & Consulting Association show.
Newly launched thematic ETFs in Taiwan have fared well this year, both during their initial public offering process and in the months following the initial fundraising, with many outstripping their broad-market peers in terms of size.
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Among the 10 largest foreign equities ETFs by assets under management in June, four are thematic ones targeting electric vehicles and 5G themes. Cathay Securities Investment Trust's Global Autonomous and Electric Vehicles ETF, which was only listed on July 1, has already become the largest foreign equities ETF in Taiwan, with $483m in AUM, according to data from Keystone Intelligence.
Three thematic ETF strategies have also entered the list of the 10 largest ETFs targeting Taiwan domestic stocks. These are Cathay SITE's Taiwan 5G Plus ETF, which ranks third, trailing only the two massive broad-market ETFs issued by Yuanta Securities Investment Trust years ago.
The boom of thematic funds is not just a Taiwanese phenomenon, but has become a global trend since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Over the past three years to the end of March, global thematic funds' assets under management more than tripled to $595bn, according to a Morningstar report published in May.
"It's striking how much asset flow these products have seen. One reason is that most of them track long-term structural changes and the pandemic has accelerated these changes," said Kenneth Lamont, London-based senior analyst for manager research at Morningstar and lead author of the report.
In Taiwan, the thematic fund market more than doubled in size to $5.1bn in the year ended first quarter of 2021, according to the report.
"In Taiwan, the growth of fund products can generally be attributed to three reasons — more relaxed regulations, change in investors' needs and product innovations driven by asset managers themselves. For thematic funds, it is because of the last two reasons," said James Lo, Taipei-based head of ETF product team at Franklin Templeton SinoAm Securities Investment Management.
The growing number of thematic ETFs is also catering to rising interest from young Taiwanese investors.
"Taiwan investors have always been very open to new investment themes. Thematic funds are especially popular among young investors, who are technology savvy and have their own opinions when it comes to investing. Traditional beta funds can no longer satisfy them," said Morris Chen, Taipei-based senior vice-president at CTBC Investments.
However, the boom in Taiwan's thematic ETF sector might also be a result of increasing competition between local fund houses.
"There are enough broad-market ETFs already, so fund managers need to launch more niche products to differentiate themselves. Taiwan is a small market after all. Even in the thematic fund market, if you have two or three funds tracking the same theme, that's more than enough," an executive at Yuanta SITE said.
However, intense competition among Taiwanese fund houses may have also forced them to abandon long-term growth targets in place of fundraising for new headline-grabbling thematic ETFs, resulting in a shift from designing ETFs as a tool for asset allocation to designing ETFs as a tool for short-term gains, or even intraday trades.
When the ETF market first took off in Taiwan, fund groups talked about launching ETFs that could be a component in investors' asset allocation, said an executive at a domestic fund house who did not want to be named.
But as time went on, asset managers started discussing plans to launch ETFs with "long-term themes", which created the recent thematic ETF boom. More recently though, the "long-term" aspect had quietly disappeared from fund houses' internal discussions, the executive said.
Morningstar research shows more than two-thirds of thematic funds worldwide outperformed global equities markets in the year ended March 2021.
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May 31, 2021 Dmitry Shulgin
Lockheed Martin and General Motors Co. are teaming up to develop the next generation of lunar vehicles to transport astronauts on the surface of the Moon, fundamentally evolving and expanding humanity's deep-space exploration footprint.
Lockheed Martin, General Motors team-up to develop next-generation Lunar Rover for NASA Artemis astronauts to explore the Moon
NASA's Artemis program is sending humans back to the Moon where they will explore and conduct scientific experiments using a variety of rovers. NASA sought industry approaches to develop a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that will enable astronauts to explore the lunar surface farther than ever before. The LTV is the first of many types of surface mobility vehicles needed for NASA's Artemis program.
To support NASA's mission, the two industry leaders will develop a unique vehicle with innovative capabilities, drawing on their unparalleled engineering, performance, technology and reliability legacies. The result may allow astronauts to explore the lunar surface in unprecedented fashion and support discovery in places where humans have never gone before.
Lockheed Martin will lead the team by leveraging its more than 50-year-history of working with NASA on deep-space human and robotic spacecraft, such as NASA's Orion exploration-class spaceship for Artemis and numerous Mars and planetary spacecraft.
«This alliance brings together powerhouse innovation from both companies to make a transformative class of vehicles», said Rick Ambrose, executive vice president, Lockheed Martin Space. «Surface mobility is critical to enable and sustain long-term exploration of the lunar surface. These next-generation rovers will dramatically extend the range of astronauts as they perform high-priority science investigation on the Moon that will ultimately impact humanity's understanding of our place in the solar system».
GM is a leader in battery-electric technologies and propulsion systems that are central to its multi-brand, multi-segment electric vehicle strategy, positioning the company for an all-electric future. Additionally, GM will use autonomous technology to facilitate safer and more efficient operations on the Moon.
«General Motors made history by applying advanced technologies and engineering to support the Lunar Rover Vehicle that the Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the Moon», said Alan Wexler, senior vice president of Innovation and Growth at General Motors. «Working together with Lockheed Martin and their deep-space exploration expertise, we plan to support American astronauts on the Moon once again».
GM has a proven history of supporting NASA and working within the space industry. The company manufactured, tested and integrated the inertial guidance and navigation systems for the entire Apollo Moon program, including Apollo 11 and the first human landing in 1969. GM also helped develop the electric Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), including the chassis and wheels for the LRV that was used on Apollo's 15-17 missions.
Unlike the Apollo rovers that only traveled 4.7 miles (7.6 kilometers) from the landing site, the next-generation lunar vehicles are being designed to traverse significantly farther distances to support the first excursions of the Moon's south pole, where it is cold and dark with more rugged terrain.
Autonomous, self-driving systems will allow the rovers to prepare for human landings, provide commercial payload services, and enhance the range and utility of scientific payloads and experiments.
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