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Nancy's House in SPY
(Hey all! I was out yesterday, therefore no post was made).
As for today, we posted this fun Nancy Drew moment:
This scene was shown in the SPY Trailer a few times, meaning it will be shown, of course, in the game. What did you think of Nancy's home? You got to explore it a bit in Alibi in Ashes, but only the living room and Nancy's bedroom.
Did you notice this about the living room scenes in the trailer? They borders are blurred a bit…
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Birthday! (Belated, which is my bad.)
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13 responses to "Nancy's House in SPY"
So we can explore more of Nancy's house?1?!?!?
LJ, could I have a birthday shout out tomorrow for my fifteenth birthday? My name is Will.
Hey lj, I have a question for you. In the trailer, when you see the picture of Kate and baby Nancy, it zooms out into this profile screen, and it has Frank, Joe, Ned, Bess and George,
But who is the other one?
LOL I <3 Nancy's house! It's so real-looking in ASH! Are we going to explore it in SPY? Because that would be so cool! And happy birthday Candace!
Thank you<3 So excited about having my picture in SPY. (=
:O We get to explore her house even more?!?!?! >:D 😀 xD So excited!!!!!!!!! My mom experienced that moment like fifty times XD I did only like once 😛 (more like 10 times) Is there a secret compartment in the piano o-o
Also, we totally forgive you for not making a post xD
I believe I can speak for all of us.
eh I don't think i'd want to live in nancy's home, it's nice but it's so washed out and plain and sterile. it looks like a place full of cleaning products (they'd hurt my health) and strict rules. also I want a place as environmentally friendly and natural as possible.. it reminds me a little bit of a hospital.
you see the house where Nancy's mom is sitting at the piano. Will other parts of the house be visible. I always love the kitchens.
From me,
how do you get your birthday announced?
Hmm . . . blurred screen edges, huh? In the games I've ever played that had flashbacks (and I've played several), all of the flashback scenes had blurred screen edges. I'm guessing that we'll be seeing at least one of Nancy's flashback memories in her living room! 😀
By the way, LJ, I just wanted to thank you for posting on this blog every day that you can (being sick or out of the office is totally understandable!); I really appreciate you keeping us updated and the little hints you give us, and of course the weekend puzzles! So thanks very much! 😉
Can you wish my little brother Joseph a belated birthday?
hope you fell better soon or whatever the problem is. I just think it's weird that no one takes over the blog for the day or posts a "no blog today" note I mean in any other job that's what you'd do, and I mean this keeps everyone waiting especially since you don't have a set time so we never know.

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Quirks of Being Abroad
By Garrett Weinberg, Foster Undergraduate who participated in an exchange with Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China
During this exchange, I had the privilege of rooming with Robert Lee. If you can't tell from the picture, we know how to have fun and be a little bit weird. We endured many "China" experiences together, and it was very encouraging and entertaining having someone there to laugh and commiserate with.
The best way to learn about a culture is to live in it. We learned a lot about Chinese culture during this exchange- the things you love about China and the things you can only shake your head, laugh about, and learn to deal with.
There was a group chat for the apartment and we would often watch the conversation between the residents. We definitely improved our Chinese vocabulary in certain areas more than others…
Over the Mid-Autumn Festival break, I had the privilege of going to Inner Mongolia with 4 Chinese families. Actually, many of my friends also went to Inner Mongolia during the same time, but because of timing, I couldn't go with them, so a friend of mine offered me to take me along with a few Chinese families. Chinese people are VERY hospitable when you get to know them, and they were very gracious to me.
Inner Mongolia was beautiful! Full of nature, rolling hills, wide open grasslands, and glowing sunsets- a breath of fresh air from the polluted skies of Beijing. I didn't travel as much as I should have when I was on exchange, but it was good to get out of the city at least once.
The most enjoyable and memorable part of exchange was the people that I met. I was blessed to meet some amazing people from all around the world. I know that I've made some friends for life, friends that I can hit up any time I'm in their city/country.
To me, a city is only as great as the people in it, and Beijing, being the international city that it is, is home to many great people. As I think about where to move/work in the future, Beijing, despite all its quirks and problems, has a certain way of attracting amazing people to it that keeps me coming back.
I still don't know where I'll be going after I graduate, but I definitely haven't ruled out the thought of going back to Beijing.
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Page 2 - Physical Look - Hardware and Software
After some research, we can see that the Cooler Master MH751 and MH752 share a similar resemblance with another pair of headphones, which are known as the Takstar Pro 82. As such, these are a very conservative and understated pair of headphones, at least in terms of appearances. The same black finish can be found all around the MH751, making them look like some pair of cans from the audio world. Cooler Master has kept the branding to a minimum with just the hexagonal outlines on each ear. The outside of the ears are coated with a roughed black material to prevent fingerprints that could be left while handling the headset. The extending arms on each ear are covered with a soft touch material. Meanwhile, pleather material covers both the headband and the two earcups, as we will look at later on. As for other materials, you can see most of the headset is plastic, but the extending arms use an internal steel frame. Once again, the clean exterior is really great for its understated looks. Build quality is also great and does not creak or make unwarranted noises under pressure.
Cooler Master has used an oval shape with a leatherette surface wrapping the ears sufficiently. Underneath this surface, we have a thick layer of memory foam that cushions ears nicely. A padded fabric can also be found in between the headset and the earcups, which prevent your ears from touching any hard surface. The ears, as you can see, have the ability to rotate with a range of about 125 degrees. It also can tilt around a bit to better mold to the shape of your head. Internally, the MH751 utilizes the same 40mm neodymium drivers in each ear with a frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz. This should cover the entire audible spectrum for human hearing. In addition, the MH751 has a sensitivity of 97dB with a total impedance of 26 ohms. We will how this translates into the audio quality later on.
As we previously mentioned, this headband is wrapped in bicast leather with a foam layer above and below the steel frame. I found this offered sufficient padding from preventing any pressure being felt at the top of my head. As for adjustments, you can increase the size of the headphones by extending the ears down on each side. Both sides are notched and provide enough friction from accidentally slipping out during use. Once again, I would have liked these notches to be marked on the headset with some sort of visual indicator.
In terms of overall comfort, I am still very impressed with the Cooler Master MH751. I would never expect them to rival headsets in the comfort department like HyperX, but yet they have. Between the soft padding at the top and the sufficiently plush ears, these rebranded Takstar headphones are truly comfortable. This should not be too surprising considering the original HyperX Cloud headphones were also rebranded Takstar. After adjusting the headset to a comfortable size, I never found the MH751 to apply too much pressure while still staying attached to my head. In addition, at a light weight of 250g without the cable, these headphones never felt too heavy to use. The only thing I did find was how warm the headset would get after several hours of use. If they want to keep the closed-back design, I would like to see interchangeable earcups with fabric covers to let users swap to a more breathable ear pad.
As for all of the accessories included with the Cooler Master MH751, we first have a fabric drawstring bag to hold your headphones inside. It is nice to see this included, especially for gamers on the go. Underneath, we have an omnidirectional microphone that plugs into the left side of the headphones. It has a frequency response of 100Hz to 10kHz with a sensitivity of -42dB and a signal-to-noise ratio of 55dB. It is also placed on a very flexible boom arm, which can bend and stay whichever way I leave it. Next, we have a braided 3.5mm splitter, that converts a single four pole 3.5mm to the headphone and audio ports that most desktop computers have. It is a bit stiffer than I would like, but this cable at least is lightweight. Finally, we have the main 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable measuring 1.5m in length. Cooler Master designed this cable to plug into the left side, but also lock in there with some neat plastic molding. This way the cable should not be coming out unintentionally. The braiding and the cable is pretty flexible, though not as smooth as some we have seen. All of the controls can be found in the middle of this cable. This includes a slider switch to mute and unmute the microphone, while a double-sided volume wheel can be found on the other hand to adjust volume. It is pretty neat in that you can change the volume from either or both sides quickly. The only thing I would have liked to see is a clip on this remote area so it does not swing about. The lack of a USB connection is the main difference of the MH751. While this may not affect desktop users as much, those lacking quality audio components on their motherboards or those on gaming laptops may want a USB interface for a consistent experience across their devices.
Physically, the Cooler Master MH751 is pretty much the exact same headphone as the MH752. This means we have the same great comfort and build quality without an included USB sound card. However, how does this affect the sound quality? This is the next thing on the menu, so let us proceed.
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1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
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Volume 531, July 2011
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Appendix A: Statistical properties of the TSI reconstructions
Panels (a) to (d) of Fig. A.1 display the probability distributions of the 10-year averaged TSI values. Each panel shows the probability distribution functions (PDF) for the normal distribution computed employing the respective mean and standard deviation values that are also given in each panel. In order to verify if the reconstructed TSI values are normally distributed, we performed a test of the default null hypothesis that the values come from a normal distribution, against the hypothesis that they do not come from this distribution. The test statistic is (A.1)where ecdf(TSI) is the empirical cumulative distribution function (CDF) estimated from the TSI distribution and ncdf(TSI) is the normal CDF with mean and standard deviation equal to the mean and standard deviation of the TSI distribution. Recall that the value of the ecdf at a given value of the TSI is obtained from the PDF by integrating the latter from its lower end up to that particular TSI value. The T values are indicated in the respective panels. The null hypothesis is rejected at a given significance level when T is greater than a critical value. The test employed here uses a table of critical values computed using Monte-Carlo simulations, where the critical value for the significance level of 0.05 is 0.0547. We found that the null hypothesis of all reconstructions is rejected at this significance level, i.e., the distributions do not correspond to normal distributions. This is supported by a visual inspection which reveals the strong asymmetry in all the the empirical distributions. Besides the main peak located above 1365 W/m2 there is also a lower (and statistically less significant) secondary peak below 1365 W/m2, which corresponds to the relatively common grand minima in this period of time.
Figure A.1e compares the median values (red lines). Additionally, the upper and lower boundaries of the boxes display the respective quartile values. The dashed lines show the regions extending from the boundaries of each box to the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range. As expected, the VDM reconstructions display higher median values
than the VADM reconstructions. Furthermore, as also suggested by the empirical CDFs, the VDM distributions are shifted in relation to the VADM distributions, and also display a larger range of irradiance values.
We employ the Wilcoxon test to verify if two reconstructions come from identical distributions with equal medians, against the alternative that they do not have equal medians. Note that the distributions need not necessarily be normal. Table A.1 summarizes the results. The reconstructions from the same group (VADM or VDM) have the same median values. However, the reconstructions belonging to different groups disagree from each other.
The statistical properties of the TSI reconstructions for the whole Holocene based on the paleomagnetic reconstructions by Knudsen et al. (2008), Genevey et al. (2008), and Korte & Constable (2005) are presented in panels (a) − (c) of Fig. A.2, respectively. As in Fig. A.1, the red lines represent the probability distribution functions for the normal distribution. Note that each time series covers a different time span (see Table 3). Tests of the null hypothesis that the values come from a normal distribution, as discussed in Sect. 3.2.1, indicate that it is not possible to reject this hypothesis at the significance level of 0.05 for the reconstructions based on the Genevey et al. (2008) paleomagnetic reconstruction. A visual inspection shows that the reconstruction based on the paleomagnetic model by Korte & Constable (2005), that extends from 5000 BC to 1700, gives a slightly asymmetrical distribution. This behavior reflects the more frequent occurrence of grand minima in the later part of the time series, as can be gathered by comparing with the far more asymmetric distributions in Fig. A.1.
Wilcoxon rank sum test of the distribution medians.
Fig. A.1
Comparison between the statistical properties of the TSI reconstructions for the period 1000 BC to 1700 AD. Panels a) to d) present the distributions of the TSI reconstructions. The mean, median and standard deviation values are indicated in the panels. The red lines represent the probability distributions functions for the normal distribution. Panel e) allows a visual comparison between the distributions. The median (red line), lower and upper quartile values of the distributions (lower and upper ends of the blue boxes) are plotted in each box. The black lines extend from the end of each box to the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range. Note that the interquartile range, which is also a measure of the statistical dispersion of the data, is equal to the difference between the third and first quartiles.
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Fig. A.2
Comparison between the statistical properties of the TSI reconstructions during the Holocene. The time coverage of each time series is presented in Table 3. Panels a) to d) present the distributions of the TSI reconstructions. The red line represents the normal distribution computed employing the sample mean and standard deviation values of as the overplotted sample (the values are indicated in each panel). Additionally, the test statistic (T) and the critical (Tcritical) values are listed.
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|From: David T. Pierson (dtp at mindstory.com)
Date: Sun Oct 6 16:30:08 EDT 2013
Hi all, At the hackathon Asumu helped me work on a Guide chapter on concurrency. Thanks Asumu! Since then I've fleshed it out some more and pushed a commit to github. https://github.com/davidtpierson/racket/commit/d2fb857efec8ce508ac6f76afa845d788edab4c1 It probably needs more work. I would love some feedback before I dare to submit a pull request. Some of my concerns, in no particular order: 1) Should it be broken into separate pages? 2) It starts out with the basics of threads. Is this too trivial to cover? 3) There are lots of ways to synchronize Racket threads. I try to cover them broadly, but don't really delve into which ones are best. Parts seem like they are just restating information from the reference. Should there be more prescriptive text? 4) Some of the examples feel clumsy. Contriving concurrency examples that are both simple and meaningful was hard. I'm not sure I succeeded. Thanks for any feedback (on the above issues or anything else.) David
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Rachel Shifra Tal
It is all how you look at it
To put oneself out there to love, to open ones heart is to risk loss. Without the heart wide open, one cannot truly love
Life is a lens. It is how we look at it, that is how we see our lives, through the lens.
These past few days have been intense and overwhelming. I got a phonecall from my husband and for 20 of the longest seconds of my life, there was a moment I didn't know if any of my children were alive or ok.
Baruch Hashem, they are all ok. Not just ok, but miraculously ok! The experience got me thinking about all the other challenges in my life where tragedy struck.
I truly believe that Hashem never gives a person more than they can handle. I have had moments where I definitely wanted to tell GD to give me a break! In fact as Rabbi Sacks point out in his tremendous book about leadership, the Jewish people are encouraged to argue with GD! This is such an incredible insight! Argue with GD!? Aren't we supposed to just accept everything sent to us with love? NO! Not in the least!
We learn from Avraham as he argues with GD to save Sedom and again with Yona and Nineveh! Right on to Moshe who gets right up in GD'S face!
I love that level of Jewish Chutzpah!
So back to the lens. There are so many tracks one can chose when choosing a lens. I have a dear friend that hers is always, Gam zu letova, whatever Hashem sends is for the best.
I can't quite fit that one on! Could be the untamed part of myself that will never conform!
Yes yes! Back to lenses!! I have tried a few on for size and one seems to really fit each and every challenge.
What am I here in this situation to learn? How am I supposed to respond? What do I have the ability to do?
How to respond. Esther Yungreis wrote an epic book called Life is a test. Life truly is a test! As soon as we can figure out the test the most helpful wisdom that inspires me is what is in my control? My response. My response is in my control.
So step one. Realizing it is a test. This past few days when I got the call, it took me about 6 hours to remember this step. This is not in my control. My control is only and always, how can I respond?
Focusing all my effort on that was my work. I needed as AA aptly says, let go and let GD.
When we step back and just live in that moment, on purpose, paying attention and doing our work, our response, the magic occurs.
Feeling fear, dread and all the emotions are totally ok, except the work is to see them in perspective of what we can control. When we feel overwhelmed and blown over, we are trying to do GD'S work! When we let go and let GD, I must say, GD is actually pretty good at doing the GD part.
When Hashem made the world it is said that Hashem pulled back to make space for the universe as it were. We are talking about a concept outside time and space, yet that concept is crucial for the secret to letting GD in. We need to leave a space too.
There is no guarantee we will get what we want. There is no guarantee that if we pray our prayers are answered. Letting go and letting GD isn't a give up. It is this space we create.
Living is risky, painful and it is because of that ability to lose everything that gives us the opportunity to truly live. We can do our hishtaldut/our part then let GD.
My father and I share a love of sailing. There is a concept that you harness the wind to go the direction you want, however there are times you must pull down the sail and let yourself go wherever is needed else you will capsize. May Hashem give you wind in your sails and support you and hold you close when you must drop them.
I will end with my all time favorite poem. I bless us all that we can have the strength to make space for the Divine.
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."


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Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) are profiting from wildlife stolen from the rainforests of Belize. They are using our wildlife to entertain their exclusive passengers on the private island cruise ship port of Harvest Caye, offshore Belize
Keel-billed toucans (the National Bird of Belize), iguanas, snakes, butterflies, and two iconic, wild-caught scarlet macaws currently live in captivity on this tourist playground. Both macaws are less than 2 years old, and one of them known as 'Big Red' is in perfect health and was being rehabilitated for release back into the wild. Instead Big Red and the rest of these species were spirited away under a veil of secrecy and are now permanently captive for entertainment and profit.
Against scientific advice and IUCN global guidelines, NCL arrogantly plan to acquire many more macaws and other species. We MUST stop it now.
Sign our petition, voice YOUR concerns and show your support. Join us in our call of action to the Government of Belize:
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• The harsh, exposed ocean environment is detrimental to the health of jungle species
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• It is illegal for Belizean Citizens, resorts and businesses to keep and display captive wildlife, so why is Norwegian Cruise Lines exempt from this law?
• Belizeans across the country have made their outrage clear
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This semester the members of EDU 372/374, "Methods for Teaching Language Arts & Social Studies," class will be using this blog as an extension of our classroom community and as a way to explore how social media can be used to address new Minnesota Standards for English Language Arts in the K-5 classroom.
We'll talk in class about what makes a good online discussion, who our audience is for this blog, and how our work setting up this blog can help us think about what our K-5 students might know and need to learn about writing and social media.
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The far-right movement, QAnon, was born on the internet, the Wild West of ideas in the modern age. Its tentacles have now stretched into the real world.
Firstly, let's actually define what the QAnon movement is. That is quite a tall order. Put simply, it's a far-right political movement focused on various conspiracies. Specifically, the conspiracy theory that prominent Democratic politicians, celebrities, and businessmen are trafficking children for sex purposes and also killing them to steal their life force and gain immortality. Yes, you read that correctly. That is the central belief of the QAnon movement. There are no "Well, I'm not that crazy" proponents of the movement. That is the beginning of the rabbit hole. It only gets deeper and darker from there.
The movement gets its name from the infamous internet poster only known as Q who remains anonymous on various message boards, hence "QAnon." As mentioned, the movement starts from an insane conspiratorial place and only moves into crazier territory. It's unfortunately not just one conspiracy theory. It gathers all of the fringe movements from around the modern diaspora of ideas and lumps them all together. Government faked the moon landing? QAnon believers believe that. Vaccines cause autism? QAnon believers believe that. They even take the far older conspiracy theory that a cabal of "globalists" (read: Jews) run the world and want to form the One World Government. The movement is like a sponge soaking up the absolute worst parts of society and becoming putrid as more and more filth is absorbed. But what makes them so dangerous? Isn't the QAnon movement just a bunch of LARPers playacting at conspiracy for fun? No. There are elected members of Congress who believe the QAnon lies and that is the real threat.
The Jan. 6 Assault on the Capitol was in part organized by proponents of the QAnon movement. Another bizarre conspiracy that QAnon believers adhere to is that former President Donald Trump is some sort of military operative playing four-dimensional chess and every setback is actually just "part of the plan." This, of course, is completely ludicrous. Trump's endless moaning that the election was stolen only exacerbated this fervor in his animalistic supporters. Members of Congress contributed to this excitement in the QAnon movement. It was only a matter of time before Trump invited them to walk up to the Capitol to "stop the steal."
There are many Congressmembers who support this movement and all of its crazy beliefs. To name a few, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado. Two completely vile elected representatives who are either incredible con-women or truly idiotic and conspiratorial themselves. I lean towards the latter. Greene once bemoaned that there are members of Congress who were Muslim, saying they can't possibly serve America's best interest. In 2018 and 2019, she also said that many prominent Democrats deserved to be executed. Some of those Democrats she now serves with in Congress. Boebert is just as insane. She owned a restaurant before running for Congress and she marketed her restaurant as a "Second Amendment Safe Zone." Patrons were encouraged to brandish their firearms at the restaurant despite it being an eating establishment and not a gun range. Since being elected to Congress, she live tweeted Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's location during the Capitol Assault to her followers outside. How she still has her seat in Congress is beyond me.
If your family members or friends believe in QAnon conspiracies, please attempt to bring them back to reality. They don't live in the real world because it's more comfortable to exist in a fictional land. Belief in the QAnon movement will only lead to the downfall of society because when reality and truth are not even agreeable, there is no common ground. It destroys civilizations.


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New Galloway Community Accommodation
Two 4 Star Contemporary holiday accommodation owned and run for the benefit of the New Galloway Community.
Tel: 07855 501398.
Christmas Cottage
One bedroom end terrace cottage in the heart of New Galloway. Dog allowed by prior arrangement.
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Right across the road from the Town Hall, this two bedroom semi-detached cottage sleeps four and allows one dog.
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Two bedrooms, set in its own one acre grounds, with private access to Loch Ken.
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Ringour Farmhouse
On the shore of Loch Ken, Ringour Farmhouse sleeps 9, 5 bedrooms, dogs allowed.
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Single storey cottage on the edge of the River Dee on the private estate of Hensol. Sleeps 4, 2 bedrooms, dogs allowed.
Tel: 01556 504030.
Rowan Cottage
Converted from a barn, stable and byre, Rowan Cottage is right in the heart of New Galloway and has parking for 2 cars. Sleeps 6, 3 bedrooms.
Tel: 01644 420211.
Viewfield Farmhouse
Set on the edge of the village, with beautiful loch and countryside views, Viewfield Farmhouse sleeps 8.
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The Cross Keys Hotel
Situated in the heart of New Galloway, The Cross Keys Hotel has six double bedrooms, three twin rooms and one triple room. All bedrooms are en-suite and have TV/radio/DVD with hospitality tray, hairdryer, iron and board, bathrobes and toiletries available. Free WiFi throughout.
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The Ken Bridge Hotel
The hotel has ten bedrooms; single, twin, double, triple or family accommodation. All rooms are en-suite with digital TV, alarm clock and tea and coffee making facilities.
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The Kenmure Arms Hotel has 11 letting rooms, most of which are en-suite – providing single, double, twin or family rooms. (Currently not trading).
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The Brough
With spectacular views across New Galloway, the Brough is a tranquil, peaceful spot. This is an official Caravan Club site.
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Just on the outskirts of the village, the Ken Bridge Hotel has a riverside campsite for tents, tourers, motor homes and trailer tents. The Ken Bridge Hotel campsite has fishing rights to the River Ken and is an official Caravan Club site.
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Galloway Activity Centre
If being outdoors is your thing,this is the place for you. Galloway Activity Centre has glamping options for all budgets, alongside the campsite they have Mongolian yurts, a bunkhouse, eco bothies, loch side cabins and a tipi. All perfectly located on the shores of Loch Ken.
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Class II EU MDR regulation is just around the corner – why Class III compliance efforts provide a wa
SummaryThe spectre of EU MDR is looming large over the medical device industry in what is bound to be a continuous flow of new regulations coming down the pipeline for different types of medical devices in the coming years. Bob Tilling, VP Global Sales at Kallik, shares his experiences of working with Class III manufacturers to prepare for May 2021 – and highlights the need for Class II businesses to learn from mistakes made and not delay preparations to meet their own UDI labelling deadline in 2023.
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Class II EU MDR regulation is just around the corner – why Class III compliance efforts provide a wake-up call
The spectre of EU MDR is looming large over the medical device industry in what is bound to be a continuous flow of new regulations coming down the pipeline for different types of medical devices in the coming years. Bob Tilling, VP Global Sales at Kallik, shares his experiences of working with Class III manufacturers to prepare for May 2021 – and highlights the need for Class II businesses to learn from mistakes made and not delay preparations to meet their own UDI labelling deadline in 2023.
Many manufacturers have learned harsh lessons in terms of the preparation and workload required to update their labelling and packaging to meet the end of May 2021 deadline for the new EU MDR requirements for Class III medical devices. Indeed, some manufacturers still run the risk of missing the date altogether.
Looking forward, Class II manufacturers – those supplying products including catheters, syringes and teeth implants etc – should have been watching these compliance developments closely with their 2023 deadline in mind. The race for Class III compliance has exposed some key issues which Class II providers should focus on during their own EU MDR efforts.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
During my work on label and artwork management with numerous medical device customers, I have seen the full spectrum of attitudes towards the EU MDR shift. The challenge is two-fold. Firstly, manufacturers must detail the scale of the impacted devices and the work required, and secondly, they must then set about physically changing their labelling and packaging. From my experience one thing is clear – those who start to prioritise and put in place a plan earlier on have fared better.
This is not a case of a simple internal review and enacting a few changes – failure to meet these new regulatory deadlines will cause significant business damage. From a financial perspective, non-compliant manufacturers will not be allowed to sell their products into the EU market, with some minor exceptions for critical supplies. Non-compliant businesses could also be placed on a specific watchlist to be inspected and audited, impacting brand trust and even negatively influencing share price.
Class II manufacturers should act now to avoid being caught out. Two years may sound like ample planning time, but they need a full understanding of the task at hand and how to execute the required changes. Here are three key takeaways to learn from their Class III counterparts.
- Added complexity means getting to grips with the scale of impacted devices
With Class II devices further sub-categorised into IIa and IIb devices – this only adds to the complexity and reach of the necessary EU MDR changes.
Businesses that are yet to begin their compliance process must initially try to identify how many impacted labels and artworks exist within their organisation. Many business leaders underestimate the quantity of assets, and this task will typically unearth siloed data, scattered labels and artworks that will instantly broaden the scale of the compliance work.
Manufacturers operating facilities and systems on a global level will find they must also contend with challenges such as individual phrase translations for each device into every applicable target market language. This adds a further level of complexity to label and packaging compliance tasks – the EU alone, for example, has 24 official languages, leading to further translation expense and the risk of 'doubling up' translations when considering both labels and IFUs need translations.
Businesses that grow through mergers and acquisitions will also see the complexity and scale of compliance tasks multiply, as product lines and further data silos are absorbed that require all the above tasks to be worked through from scratch.
- Automation provides the silver bullet for speed, cost efficiency and accuracy
It has become clear that relying on manual work and processes to make the shift is not feasible. We have seen with the Class III deadline just two months away, many organisations are still battling to get their label and packaging operations up to standard. The cost of hiring extra staff – or simply the operational cost of diverting existing capacity and finances – to complete repetitive tasks is slow, prohibitively expensive and introduces potential inaccuracies.
Automated label and artwork management solutions offer a modern, future-proof lifeline to help medical device manufacturers manage all assets from a centralised location hosted in the cloud. Automation eliminates the need to manually search for, identify and edit assets to ensure compliance, with features such as artwork generation saving significant time and eliminating the need to involve costly third-party design agencies. Simply put, automation gets the task right first time, every time – there is little scope for human error to be introduced into the process.
Indeed, the most advanced providers of automated solutions are already exploring ways to streamline remaining bottlenecks such as de-duplication and translation checks by introducing advanced technology to further improve efficiency. At Kallik for example, we're already building strong academic partnerships to explore the application of AI for this purpose.
- Future-proofing for further regulatory and business challenges
There will be continued major medical device regulatory changes in each of the next four years – so medical device manufacturers cannot afford to sit back and wait their turn to comply with each one individually.
Looking beyond further phasing in of MDR, UKCA marks must be placed on medical devices destined for the UK market from July 2023. Companies that find they barely scraped by to comply with a previous round of regulation will be hard-pressed to repeat the same manual processes for future regulation changes coming along.
Pandemic disruption is no excuse to kick the can down the road. The shift to remote operations and cloud-based solutions has been far smoother than expected, with in-house technical experts and external consultants both adapting to remote compliance tasks by using new software implementations to help them prove and maintain compliance.
Putting off the inevitable is no longer an option
With EU MDR and further regulatory change on the horizon, Class II medical device manufacturers can no longer keep their businesses compliant through manual labelling and artwork management updates. Making the early switch to automated label and artwork management solutions not only significantly reduces the burden of future regulatory compliance on the manufacturer, it also provides a platform for other product changes and business growth. With all labels and artwork housed in a centralised cloud-based environment there are no information silos and – from a compliance perspective – access, edits and audit trails can be tracked and monitored down to each individual asset.
Thankfully, Class II medical device manufacturers have two years to make the necessary move to automate their label and artwork management, but changes are not made overnight. By laying the groundwork now, across the entire organisation, manufacturers can begin to devise a compliance strategy and let technology put those plans into action now, and into the future.


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The clean technology sector1 with its potential for creating sustainable, resilient and inclusive employment is crucial for a green recovery from the global COVID-19 crisis and for building back better.
Women have already been playing an important role in the transition to a green economy, and can drive responsible consumption and production behaviours as well as pioneer a culture of circularity at many levels and in many countries – as consumers, entrepreneurs, innovators and designers. As women make decisions on or influence the majority of consumer purchases2, they can drive responsible consumption and production behaviour throughout value chains. In the business space, there is emerging evidence that not only women-owned or women-led companies tend to prioritize social and environmental benefits over mere shareholder value – companies with greater gender diversity on their boards are significantly more likely than others to reduce the company's energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission and water use.3
This notwithstanding, why do we still find so few women in the driver's seats of clean technology? The interrelated impacts of sector-specific challenges and structural gender inequality on women cleantech entrepreneurs has not been widely studied so far. That having been said, the challenges for women entrepreneurs seem to be compounded by the already well-known hurdles cleantech businesses generally face.
Compared to the average start-up, cleantech ventures need a longer time to become profitable – partially because they often work in highly subsidized and therefore distorted markets, such as in energy. Also, cleantech start-ups often commercialize complex innovations and therefore need significantly more time and a diverse team to make the leap from academic research to commercialization. This long road from research to revenue is often referred to as the 'valley of death' and tends to discourage early-stage private investment necessary for product development, manufacturing, and for attracting and retaining qualified personnel. Women entrepreneurs are especially affected by this challenge.
The cleantech venture 'valley of death' and the gender finance gap
Access to funds in a timely manner and at a reasonable interest rate is a key requirement for cleantech ventures to take off and to remain sustainable. However, women-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for a disproportionate share of the SME finance gap, especially in emerging economies and low- and middle-income countries.4 One of the gender-specific hurdles for women entrepreneurs that make them less attractive for traditional bank loans are discriminatory land and property laws and the ensuing lack of collateral. In addition, many women do not have credit histories in their own names, which further exacerbates the difficulties women face in access to bank loans.
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As regards the main source of funding for cleantech start-ups—notably seed funding for research and development and venture and private equity capital at later stages—the impact of subconscious bias and discriminatory gender norms continues to be a major obstacle for women entrepreneurs. Recent research shows that less than 3 per cent of venture capital was invested in women-led companies5, and only 11 per cent of seed funding capital in emerging markets went to companies with women in their founding team. The gender disparity in early-stage business financing cannot be explained by differences in education, experience or similar reasons.6
Research also reveals that male investors' intent to invest in female entrepreneurs is lower than for their male counterparts, that they have more confidence in men simply because of their gender, and that women are offered lower valuations, causing them to give up more share ownership.7 This only intensifies the hardships for women cleantech entrepreneurs, especially since the majority of investors are men, and people are used to investing in and collaborating with people that look like themselves. Bias, stereotypes and prejudice continue to persist: many women entrepreneurs share the experience of walking into a boardroom and being asked who the founder or the leading engineer of their own company is.
The already limited investments in women-led businesses in the cleantech sector are concentrated in the early incubator stages, where less funding is required, rather than in later stages of acceleration, i.e. when moving from prototypes to commercialization, where the required amount of funding is higher. In other words, the gender financing gap in equity capital increases with a company's resource intensity, and this is where a lot of women innovators are forced to give up.
Unequal access to networks and market opportunities
The same challenges limit women's access to networks and market opportunities. Since networks provide access to formal and informal knowledge, business opportunities and social capital, they are crucial for entrepreneurs' success. The current male domination in the clean technology sector also implies a lack of mentors and role models for women, factors that have been shown to have a significant effect on women's career choices and retention rates. In fact, a study in Denmark found that mentoring was a more significant factor for a woman's decision to choose and remain in a career in engineering than it is for men, who are motivated more by financial rewards.8
The combined impact of women's underrepresentation in STEM fields and their reduced access to knowledge and networks is also reflected in unequal access to market and procurement opportunities, especially early on in the proof-of-concept and early market entry stages.
Public procurement makes up 12 per cent of GDP in OECD countries, and accounts for 50 per cent or more of total government expenditure in some developing countries.9 In addition to the immediate business benefits, public procurement can also play an important role in creating trust in new products and services. For entrepreneurs in emerging economies and low- and middle-income countries, access to domestic markets can be a critical step in preparing for high-income countries' more demanding export markets, especially with regard to meeting certification requirements and standards, marketing and distribution know-how, and the use of e-commerce and digital tools that necessitate higher levels of digital literacy and stable internet access.
It is estimated that women entrepreneurs have only been awarded 1 per cent of government procurement and tenders worldwide.10 The European Union's public procurement likewise reflects gender inequalities: only 26.3 per cent of the EU's suppliers have female managers, and a mere 16.5 per cent of companies receiving large value contracts have a majority female management.11 It is safe to assume that this share is not higher in the cleantech sector, although no specific data is yet available.
How do we spur women's potential in cleantech?
Many programmes focus on the initial phases of cleantech companies. In supporting the transition to a green economy, the business sector—private investors, venture capital firms, investment banks and other financial institutions—needs to shift its paradigm from focusing primarily on quick revenue to providing more sustainable medium- to long-term capital investment. At the same time, these measures need to be combined with support for networks that are inclusive of women, sensitization of stakeholders on their gender-related biases, and the creation of more mentoring opportunities for women in the cleantech sector. Fostering a climate of inclusion would allow women cleantech entrepreneurs to benefit from various opportunities on an equal footing, and ensure that all cleantech entrepreneurs can fully contribute to greening the future.
The public sector plays an important role by expanding growth and investment readiness programmes, tax exemptions, and subsidies for cleantech entrepreneurs in a way that is gender-responsive. Again, these need to be combined with efforts to ensure that women in this field can access and benefit from these initiatives in the same way as men do, including through the elimination of discriminatory laws and gender stereotypes. Targeted outreach to women entrepreneurs, temporary special measures towards gender parity in companies, and overcoming the gender-specific hurdles related to collateral and credit histories play a key role in this regard. As a good example, the government and national financial institutions in India have been providing a range of state subsidies and collateral-free loans earmarked or with a specific quota for women entrepreneurs.12
Governments are also becoming increasingly aware of the need to use green technologies in the operation of public buildings, energy production, waste services and of other public infrastructure. Finland, for example, requires central government bodies to commit 1 per cent of public procurement to cleantech solutions.13 As regards gender-responsive public procurement, India, Kenya and South Africa have introduced respective quotas for women-owned businesses. In fact, the President of South Africa announced in August 2020 that the government would set aside 40 per cent of all public procurement for women-owned enterprises.14 There is a significant opportunity for governments to consolidate these programmes to bolster cleantech companies led or owned by women, but also for those companies that promote gender equality in general (through employment, supply chains, etc.), by giving them preferential market access for their products and for their financing needs.
The UN member states are expected to adopt bold measures to counter climate change and environmental degradation at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November 2021. The global community must bear in mind that gender equality, social equity and a sustainable circular and green economy are all pieces of the same puzzle. Advancing gender equality makes sense from all vantage points – human rights, business and climate action. We cannot afford to miss out on this opportunity.
So we should ask ourselves: a trillion dollars has moved in climate bonds in the last years, and there is an additional 23 trillion dollars needed to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement. What if all of that had a gender lens?
This article draws on the key messages of a side-event of the 65th session on the Commission on the Status of Women organized by UNIDO and the Government of Finland, which celebrated women's leadership for climate-neutral and circular industries. The article also references some of the findings of a recent Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN) study (2020) mentored by UNIDO, which conducted interviews with alumni of four Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) country projects.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors based on their experience and on prior research and do not necessarily reflect the views of UNIDO (read more).
- Also denominated as "cleantech sector"; broadly understood to cover all products, processes or services that reduce waste and require as few non-renewable resources as possible, i.e. including all resource efficient, climate-neutral/positive and circular product, processes and services.
- In various studies, between 65-85 per cent of consumer purchasing decisions are attributed to women. For example, see Silverstein, Michael and Sayre, Kate. (2009) The Female Economy. Harvard Business Review.
- Companies with greater gender diversity on their boards from 2013 to 2018 were 60 per cent, 39 per cent, and 46 per cent more likely than those without such diversity to reduce the company's energy consumption, GHG emission and water use, respectively. FP Analytics. (2019) Women as levers of change: Unleashing the power of women to transform male-dominated industries.
- IFC. (2017) MSME Finance Gap: Assessment of the Shortfalls and Opportunities in Financing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Markets.
- IFC. (2019) Moving toward Gender Balance in Private Equity and Venture Capital.
- IFC. (2020) Venture Capital and the Gender Financing Gap: The Role of Accelerators. pp15, 21-28.
- Ewens, Michael and Townsend, Richard. (2020). Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women? Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), vol. 135(3), pp 653-677.
- Kolmos, Anette; Mejlgaard, Niels; Haase, Sanne and Holgaard, Jette Egelund. (2013) Motivational factors, gender and engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, 38 (3). pp. 340-358.
- OECD. (2019) Government at a Glance 2019 – Size of Public Procurement, estimate based on OECD National Accounts Statistics; Knack, Stephen; Biletska, Nataliya and Kacker, Kanishka. (2017) Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8078.
- Vazquez Elizabeth and Sherman Andrew (2013). Buying for Impact: How to Buy from Women and Change the World. Charleston, South Carolina.
- Fazekas, Mihály; Kazmina, Yuliia and Wachs, Johannes. (2020): Gender in public procurement: Extent, distribution, and impacts. EBRD Research paper.
- For a non-exhaustive list, see, e.g. Singh, Jayati. (2019) MSME Funding: Nine schemes which will give wings to women entrepreneurs. The Times of India. 20 June 2019.
- Government of Finland (2013). Government decision-in-principle on the promotion of environmental and energy solutions (hereinafter referred to as cleantech solutions) in public procurement, unofficial English translation.
- EWN. (2020). Ramaphosa: Govt to set aside 40% of public procurement to women-owned businesses. 9 August 2020.


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One of the most exciting things about working in the pharmaceutical industry is the ability to meet and work with colleagues all over the world. In particular, China is one of the fast-growing centers for drug development. Indeed, a report from McKinsey last year estimated the Chinese biopharma market to be worth $130B. I recently had the chance to interact with someone with deep understanding of this topic, Dr. Ye Hua.
Dr. Hua is a seasoned drug developer who has 20 years' global clinical development and a track record of new drug registration experience. Prior to founding BioNova, Dr. Hua was Senior VP, Head of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs at Hutchison MediPharma where he built up a development organization of 80+ employees across seven line functions with sites in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou; Melbourne, Australia; and New Jersey. USA. During his tenure at Hutchison MediPharma, Dr. Hua rapidly expanded the development pipeline from five small molecules in seven Phase 1 trials to eight small molecules for which half the assets advanced to pivotal/registration trials. Dr. Hua led the fruquintinib NDA submission for a mCRC indication via the MAH pilot policy in China, and it received regulatory approval. A native of Shanghai, Dr. Hua graduated from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College in 1992. He spent 16 years in the US in the field of clinical development with his most significant achievements being regulatory submission and approval of Humira, Reclast/Aclasta, Zometa, Revlimid, and Pomalyst.
Here are the highlights from our conversation.
スザンヌ・ミントン: How have you found the transition from working in large pharmaceutical companies in the US to smaller pharmaceutical companies in China?
Ye Hua: The transition is exciting and challenging! This is because innovative drug development is relatively new in China, and there is a lot of work needed to catch up to Western countries with long track records. Smaller biotech/biopharma companies can move projects quickly and efficiently, and it is even more so in China thanks to its culture. On the other hand, the limited talent pool of scientists and developers becomes the bottle neck of new drug development in China. Over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have applied their knowledge and experience from the past and built up start-up biotechs in China.
スザンヌ:You have worked in American and Chinese drug development companies. Are there any notable differences in the approach to drug development between American and Chinese companies?
YH: I worked for 16 years in global large pharmaceutical companies in North America, and then have spent the last 6 years in the Chinese biotech industry in Shanghai. The difference is huge in terms of development strategy and business conduct. At a high level, global large pharma companies tend to nail big indications and dare to bet on novel agents. Whereas in China, most start-up companies or even public biotechs usually adapt to a "fast-follow strategy" to de-risk potential development failures. In addition, the in-license business model has been widely implemented by many Chinese start-ups to jump into the clinical stage of development.
スザンヌ:What are some major regulatory trends coming out of China's health authority, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA)?
Ye: The goal of NMPA's policy reform is to encourage innovation and to speed up drug development. Because of this, more and more new regulatory guidelines have been released over the past 2 years. The new drug application process now uses the same criteria for all applicants, regardless of whether they are domestic or foreign companies.
スザンヌ:In November, Certara opened an office Shanghai's Pudong District, China's epicenter for biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Do you have any comments about this move?
YH: I think Certara having an operation in China is a sensible strategic decision. In the past few years, Chinese biotech start-ups and domestic pharma companies have advanced early discovery/basic research projects to the clinical stage of development. With an increasing appetite for securing licensing deals as well as more demands in drug development and DMPK [drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics], Certara can fill the gap for many companies lacking relevant expertise.
スザンヌ:What do foreign companies get wrong most frequently when seeking marketing authorization for a drug in China and vice versa?
YH: There are multiple reasons that foreign companies fail to attain marketing authorization for their products in China. Some of the most common reasons include 1) when the global trial is being submitted to the NMPA, standard of care differences between the two regions cause trial design and outcomes to get different regulatory opinions. 2) failure to show that a drug has no racial or ethnicity differences for its efficacy, safety, or PK between Caucasian and Chinese populations.
スザンヌ:What advice would you give to a drug developer just starting out in his or her career?
YH: Learn whatever it comes in your path although it may appear irrelevant to your job. Never stop learning. Be wise and brave enough to seek help when you need it.
スザンヌ:Having worked with the Certara team for many years, can you comment on the value that they bring to their clients?
YH: Certara delivers a high level of professionalism that can be an excellent external resource for supplemental knowledge and skills for start-up companies as well as enhancing the quality and overall expertise for large domestic pharma companies. We appreciate Certara's customer-focused mind-set and rely on its wealth of knowledge and expertise in asset due diligence, DMPK and other drug development-related fields.
YH: My motto which is "be honest, be reliable, be human."
I really appreciate Dr. Hua sharing his perspective with us. From my own experience, I would agree with his advice to seek help when you are truly lost at work. You can waste a whole lot of time and energy trying to figure things out that someone else might easily have the answer to. And being honest, reliable, and human is a great reminder that character and integrity are just as important to be a successful drug developer as technical knowledge. To learn more about how Certara is supporting rapid growth and collaboration with customers in China to accelerate biopharmaceutical R&D, please read this press release.