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Post by 3piggles on Oct 7, 2020 21:42:16 GMT
Is that the directive to harmonize all medical devices throughout the member countries? If so, how does that effect what you're doing? Are you creating a product that will fit the directive? Ooh, that would be exciting! Geeze, just the names of those classes overwhelm me! It's no wonder you have no time to get a job. Sleep is a bit more important  Ooh, sounds as if you've had some nice time with hubby and family, and congratulations to hubby on getting the PhD!!! Way to go, hubby Aw, summer on the Baltic Sea sounds really nice, and you even got a tan to remember it Good summer memories I hope hubby finds a great job. I know right now it's hard to get in anywhere, with the pandemic and all, but I'm sure that will change. Keeping all digits crossed for him |
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Post by Bean on Oct 8, 2020 7:35:45 GMT
Great to see you Amber! We've been wondering how you're getting on.
Sounds like you've been really busy and I'm glad you've managed to pack in some fun times as well as working really hard. Good luck to hub with his job search. I'm really pleased he did so well with his PhD - you two are both making great progress with your long term plans, which is great. It's just a shame that the pandemic is making things so much harder for so many people. I hope you can carry on travelling to see each other when time and finances permit.
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Post by amber89 on Oct 8, 2020 14:23:54 GMT
Is that the directive to harmonize all medical devices throughout the member countries? If so, how does that effect what you're doing? Are you creating a product that will fit the directive? Ooh, that would be exciting! Yes, it's that one. For the class we have to only simulate the whole development process for an already approved diabetes medical device. I really thought that writing about the FDA and EU MDR/MDD process wouldn't be so complicated...but the lack of transparency (especially on the EU side) is one huge pain. Not to mention that many things are kept secret by the company, since it's proprietary data. I have been reading regulations and standards and patents for a week already... I am especially excited about my Lab course (full title is "Bioactive, tough and electroactive hydrogels for skeletal muscle tissue engineering" /end of bragging). It's something that i have never done before and the course is custom-made for me... the advantages of the Nordic system. |
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 8, 2020 23:49:38 GMT
Whoa, I actually understand what that is, and it really is cool! Brag on Hubby used to work for McKesson, yes, the US company responsible for much of the opioid crises, but he was working on a program to track medical responses to patients needs. Basically, when I patient called the doctor, or went to an emergency room at a hospital, what was the complaint, who was the patient, how was the complaint handled, what was the result, etc. The project was finally canceled, and unfortunately over 500 people lost their jobs because they were involved in that project, inside McKesson and outside. The problem was no two facilities reported or even collected the same information the same way. There was no way to make them all use a standard reporting form, so if there were 1500 entities' reports being gathered, it took 1500 different programs to sort through each method, and put it in a standard reporting format. They weren't even trying to get proprietary information, or internal memos, just basic patient information, and that was almost impossible. So I'm not at all surprised you're having trouble getting any cooperation on getting actual, proprietary information. Reading endless patents will give you most of what you need, but OY! What a way to get the info  The medical profession, and probably the pharmaceutical industry, live by their own rules, and I'm sure they give the EU the minimal amount of information to prove their product is harmonious with the others, and no more. At least the EU might have better luck than the US has making all medical related entities follow the same rules, but since they're dealing with so many different countries, I doubt it. Other than the mindboggling reading of patents, there will be an exciting, putting all the information together point, right Saw a pheasant just moseying along a couple of streets over. Beautiful guy. Picture doesn't do him justice.  |
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Post by Bean on Oct 13, 2020 7:09:54 GMT
Cool! You have some nice foliage in the background there too.
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 13, 2020 15:57:04 GMT
The news says it's peaking here, but we don't think so. Rainy, raw and gloomy, today. Already got .57 inches, which we desperately need. When it's not raining, it's a really pretty walk through the pit. We're thinking about getting snow shoes, just cheap ones, on case we get a lot of snow. We have such regular encounters with the fox, we'd love to see her against the snow 🤗
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Post by Bean on Oct 16, 2020 7:20:55 GMT
Make sure you have your camera with you in case you do!
We're having really unpredictable weather - sunshine and showers, but consistently cold! I hope the rain holds off for long enough at the weekend for me to plant some bulbs in the lawn. I have some crocuses that will flower before I need to mow the lawn, so it'll be nice to have a bit of colour outside the French doors just before spring.
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 16, 2020 23:18:56 GMT
You can always buy a pot or two of tulips, and bring them inside at night. Keeps the squirrels from eating them, and gives you some color Speaking of that, I took a picture of a flower in the front garden. Everything else is totally dead from several killing frosts, and it just keep blooming. I'll post it. Do you enjoy the French doors when it's gloomy? We find the slider lets in some much more light then a regular door, even when it's really raining and gloomy, there's still light coming in the slider.  |
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Post by Bean on Oct 17, 2020 6:43:59 GMT
Yes, it's great having so much light indoors, and being able to watch all the action in the garden - lots of birds and squirrel capers! You know how useless I am with watering, so I stand no chance of remembering to bring pots in every night! I have some bulbs I will stick in pots, I was thinking I could fashion some covers from some spare wire mesh I have (from making the guinea pig run). The holes are too small for things to get caught in. If I forget and the squirrels do get them, at least we'll be entertained by watching them digging?! Pretty flower! We still have quite a bit of colour here and there, including this nasturtium that just popped up a few weeks ago. I had some in that bed a few years ago so there must have been an old seed lying in wait.  The pyracantha that covers the shed is in berry too. If I take a picture of the whole thing, the colour of the berries looks really muted, so I zoomed in to avoid finding out what was going wrong - I will look at the settings on my camera though. The birds and squirrels are slowly stripping the berries from the bottom up.  |
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 17, 2020 18:44:30 GMT
I would love to grow Pyracantha, but temps get too low for it to be anything but an annual. Even planting the morning glory will give us a beautiful summer scene, but we'll have to cut it back in the Fall, once the cold gets it. Perhaps some fake flowers My sister did cocktail tables for her balcony using planters, Styrofoam, very real looking fake succulents, and round glass she ordered for the tops. Very pretty. Perhaps that's the best way to get some color on the patio. Use colorful pots, and fill them with fake plants. I want to put fake Christmas flowers in my window boxes, but they're really expensive, so at best I could only buy one or two a year, and since I have 6 window boxes on the front of the house, that leaves some pretty noticeable gaps. I'm trying to come up with something I can use seasonally, such as filling the planters with florists foam, and putting balls of different colors in the window boxes, depending on the season(orange for Fall, red for Winter, pink for Valentine's, etc.) I think that will be a lot less expensive then realistic looking whole plants. I took some Fall foliage pictures on my hoof around the hood.      |
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Post by Bean on Oct 18, 2020 6:30:23 GMT
Ah lovely foliage, I love the reds.
Pyracantha's hardy to about -18c - does it get a lot colder than that there? Yikes!
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 18, 2020 19:47:19 GMT
Much colder We easily get down into the single digits, so -15/20C It was 23F/-5C when I got up this morning, and it's only mid October. I love the colors all together, but lately we've gotten one color peaking at a time. I love the reds, too |
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Post by Bean on Oct 21, 2020 7:25:55 GMT
Took a walk yesterday and saw some nice foliage, but we're a bit behind you with the reds. I took this picture of leaves on the floor.  |
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 22, 2020 14:30:08 GMT
Beautiful! Our artists have tried to reproduce natural beauty, for centuries, and fallen a bit short. Mother Nature beats human attempts, every time.
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The medical profession, and probably the pharmaceutical industry, live by their own rules, and I'm sure they give the EU the minimal amount of information to prove their product is harmonious with the others, and no more. At least the EU might have better luck than the US has making all medical related entities follow the same rules, but since they're dealing with so many different countries, I doubt it.
