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In a three-year pilot program, the Defense Department will recruit volunteers and do testing to see whether such a program would work. If it's successful, a permanent corps could be developed, said Robert Slater, who heads the Pentagon personnel office's security education program.
Members of the Language Corps could be called upon to help in humanitarian crises at home or overseas, as well as in wars if they volunteer to do so.
The languages to be included in the pilot have not been chosen but will depend on what exercises are developed to test the program.
The department also announced late Tuesday the awarding of four grants totaling $2 million to four U.S. universities, including Indiana University, to teach cadets and midshipmen foreign languages, including Arabic, Russian, Pashto, Chinese, Hindi and Farsi.

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1-26-2011 At first glance it seems absurd. Australian man Geoff Stephens, who for more than two decades has worked in the UK, reportedly alleges that his British co-workers are guilty of anti-Aussie racism.
According to British tabloid the Daily Mail, Stephens is taking legal action against his employers after enduring years of Australianist abuse. The 48-year-old claims these bigoted Brits made "jokes about kangaroos", mocked historical Australian cultural practices involving prawns and barbecues and even asked if his girlfriend was named Sheila.
These hatemongers also openly use the g-word. As the Mail reports, "they regularly greet him by saying 'G'day, sport.' "
Stephens – originally from Adelaide, which might explain a few things – has been off work since August due to depression brought on by the torrent of racist slurs. The council-employed social worker – which might explain a few other things – says he uses a cocktail of prescription drugs to cope with his tormenters.
Some may dismiss Stephens's concerns merely on the basis that they aren't actually anything to do with racism. This would be to miss the point, or, more accurately, to miss a brilliant opportunity. The racism card is the most valuable single device in any form of modern negotiations. It wins every argument. It silences every critic.
If we Australians can establish the belief that we are a distinct race and therefore subject to racism, the world will be our big, fat guilty oyster. Let the shakedowns begin!
Thankfully, even before Stephens – who may become known as the Rosa Parks of Australian emancipation – many have done substantial work building our victimhood credentials. Some years ago, Australians based in New York founded the G'day B'rith, a pro-Aussie rights group based on the principles of Jewish service organisation B'nai B'rith.
I myself have previously proposed that we inaugurate Bonza, our own version of Kwanzaa, the African-American heritage celebration invented in 1966. Just as Kwanzaa rejoices in the "seven principles of blackness", Bonza might call on citizens to revel in the seven principles of Australianism. It would be sort of like Australia Day, except with six more principles attached to it.
Defining those principles would necessarily involve a great deal of public debate. Who should be the final arbiter? How about NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, a former American who converted to orthodox Australianism eleven years ago.
Keneally revealed on the weekend that she has become a great spokesperson for Australian uniqueness, claiming that "no other people" on earth are as much defined by their weather.
Well, yes. Unless you count Eskimos.
Anyway, Keneally will have a lot of spare time on her hands after March 26. She's perfectly placed to be our Bonza Babe.
Alert readers may have detected a flaw in this plan. If we are to define Australians as a race, how is it possible for someone, like Keneally, to convert to it? After all, although one can take Chinese citizenship, for example, it isn't quite so easy to become Asian. There are all the violin lessons, for a start.
Here we must bow to the precedent set by our moral and ethical superiors at the ABC and elsewhere, who consistently dismiss any criticism of Islam as "racist". Yet Islam isn't a race, and converting to it is the work of a few seconds. According to one online guide: "If anyone has a real desire to be a Muslim and has full conviction and strong belief that Islam is the true religion of God, then, all one needs to do is pronounce the 'Shahada', the testimony of faith, without further delay … With the pronunciation of this testimony, or 'Shahada', with sincere belief and conviction, one enters the fold of Islam."
Congratulations! Now anyone who has a go at you can be shouted down as a terrible racist, which is precisely the advantage we must seek as victimised Australians.
We might need to come up with our own version of the Shahada, though. The Charlene, named after local saint Kylie Minogue's Neighbours character, should suffice. Pronounce the Charlene with sincere belief and conviction and one enters the fold of Australia.
After that, the world is on notice. Soccer officials ignored the millions of dollars we threw at the 2022 World Cup bid, but they'll think twice if they know any slight against Australia will be condemned as racist. Any mockery of Australia will be crushed. A certain episode of Flight of the Conchords, in which Australians were described as being "descended from criminals and retarded monkeys", will never be shown again. A fatwa, or beergutwa, will make sure of it.
Even locals who are inclined to support criticism of Australia from the United Nations will no longer side with that organisation's virulent racism.
We've probably seen the last of the Barmy Army, apart from the inevitable trials and imprisonments. Their hate speech has no place against a put-upon little racial group already far outnumbered worldwide. We only amount to 0.3 per cent of the global population. As a race, we're easily the world's tiniest. Our opponents are not only racist but numberist.
Australian cultural practices will also be protected under the catch-all defence of race. You might have noticed how reluctant are some otherwise outspoken commentators to question a particular culture's appalling treatment of women, opposition to Western freedoms and resentment of bacon. This silence is down to a desire to avoid causing offence – and a reluctance to attract screams of, yes, racism.
Those same commentators might now shut up about drinking and gambling. They're cultural. And therefore racial, apparently.
There may be some backlash against our new racial identity – intemperate and inflammatory opinion pieces asking if ugg boots should be banned, and so on – but basically we can't lose. Geoff Stephens has shown us the way. It would be unAustralian, practically by definition, not to follow.
All readers are invited to enjoy tomorrow's Australia Day, to remain vigilant for any kangaroo-based sneers, and to recite their Charlenes with conviction. Be at one with Bonza, people.


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BRENNAN: I agree. There have been just so many changes, in addition to redundancy that has been built into CIA, and making sure that they have the eyes on the pieces of traffic, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6 of last September that the president signed, which overhauled the entire watch listing and screening process, the establishment of the terrorist screening center that is administered by the FBI; it is a much more efficient and effective system today than it was in September 2001.
GORTON: Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
KEAN: Vice Chairman Hamilton?
HAMILTON: The chairman runs a tight ship around here and we're at 1 o'clock, so I know we've got to conclude.
HAMILTON: I don't mean to put you on the spot. It's not an easy question I've asked you, but perhaps if you have any thoughts that you would like to convey to us privately, I'd be very pleased to hear from you about it. And of course, that applies to any of you. Your testimony this morning, and now this afternoon is all -- each of you have been very, very helpful to the commission. We're grateful to you. Thank you very much.
KEAN: I'd like to join my thanks. You all have been extraordinarily helpful. Thank you very much, both today and for help in the past, and perhaps you'll help in the future if we have some other questions. I would ask the audience, as I do every time, please do not leave bags or packages on your chairs because the Capitol Police will take them away somewhere. So please take them with you. Thank you all very much. We'll reconvene at 2 o'clock.
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KEAN: I hereby reconvene this hearing. The commission staff will now present its staff statement on reforming law enforcement, counterterrorism, intelligence collection in the United States. The staff chairman statement will be read by Philip Zelikow and Christine Healey.
ZELIKOW: Members of the commission, with your help, your staff has developed initial findings to present to the public on the FBI's current capacity to detect and prevent terrorist attacks upon the United States. This is the statement on the FBI today. These findings may help frame some of the issues for this hearing and inform the development of your judgments and recommendations. This report reflects the results of work so far, and we remain ready to revise our understanding as our work continues. This staff statement represents the collective effort of a number of members of our staff. Peter Rundlet, Christine Healey, Lance Cole, Caroline Barnes and Michael Jacobson did most of the work reflected in this statement. We were fortunate in being able to build upon strong investigative work done by the congressional joint inquiry and by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General. We have obtained excellent cooperation from the FBI and the Department of Justice, both in Washington and in six FBI field offices across the United States. It is important for us to emphasize that during the course of our investigation, we met outstanding FBI and Department of Justice employees, including analysts, agents, translators, and surveillance specialists, among others, who strive daily to overcome great obstacles for little recognition in order to safeguard our country. Their dedication, effort and sacrifice are remarkable. On September 4th, 2001, Robert Mueller became the director of the FBI.
ZELIKOW: Soon after the attacks, Director Mueller began to announce and to implement an ambitious series of reforms aimed at, in his words, transforming the bureau into an intelligence agency. The FBI's leadership has set in motion an impressive number of potentially significant reforms. We believe the FBI is a stronger counterterrorism agency today than it was before 9/11. Most of the proposed reforms are a work in progress. Institutional change takes time. In field visits last summer and fall, two years after 9/11, we found there was gap between the announced reforms at FBI headquarters and the reality in the field. There may have been additional progress since then. We divide our discussion of these reforms and the FBI's current capacity to detect and prevent terrorist attacks in the United States into the following four broad areas, tracking the critiques in Staff Statement No. 9: management priorities and strategy, intelligence collection and processing, strategic analysis and knowledge management.
HEALEY: Management priorities and strategy: After 9/11, the FBI abandoned its former opaque structure of tiered priorities in favor of a short, clear list of priorities. It made protecting the United States from terrorist attack the number 1 priority. It downgraded the priority attached to once-sacrosanct parts of the bureau's mission, including general crimes and narcotics enforcement, which are being left more to state and local agencies or the Drug Enforcement Administration. FBI leadership also moved quickly to centralize the management of the counterterrorism program. This centralization represents a shift away from the pre-9/11 office of origin model in which the field office that initiated a case maintained control over it. All significant international terrorism cases and operations are directed from FBI headquarters. Director Mueller explained that counterterrorism has national and international dimensions that transcend field office territorial borders and require a centralized coordination to ensure that the individual pieces of an investigation can be assembled into a coherent picture.


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Huh? Is that worse than her actually being as cowardly as she seemed to be in TOS, saying "Captain, I'm frightened" all the time?
so I think may give this one a shot - if you built your dialogues for Dulmur and Lucsley on their rather dry conversations with Sisko and each other in 'Trials and Tribble-ations'.
That was definitely my launching point, along with Bill Leisner's "Gods, Fate, and Fractals" in
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Between battling the forces of fascism and fuming over Dylan's embrace of electricity, the always-prolific Pete Seeger actually had time to record an album of holiday carols. With just a banjo and a guitar, the folk icon strips these tunes of all ornamentation. And even though Seeger isn't known as a particularly graceful singer, "Glory to the New Born King" is quite stunning, especially when he drifts into his falsetto for the fantastic line, "Mary, what you going to name that pretty little baby?"


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I see a lot of people swapping chassis and bodies here. Do you still consider it a Stampede after you put a different chassis on it and a body meant for a different model? My son and I had this conversation a couple days ago. We pretty much agreed that whatever it turns into, its still a Stampede. Just curious what others that have done this refer to their vehicles as.
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A system and method for passively testing a cardiac pacemaker in which sensing signal amplitudes and lead impedance values are measured and stored while the pacemaker is functioning in its programmed mode. The amplitude and impedance data may be gotten and stored periodically at regular intervals to generate a historical record for diagnostic purposes. Sensing signal amplitudes may also be measured and stored from a sensing channel which is currently not programmed to be active as long as the pacemaker is physically configured to support the sensing channel. Such data can be useful in evaluating whether a switch in the pacemaker's operating mode is desirable.
1. A method for testing a dual-chamber cardiac pacemaker irrespective of the pacemaker's operation according to a particular programmed mode, where a programmed mode includes a plurality of operating states, comprising:
detecting when the pacemaker enters a programmed sensing state corresponding to receipt of a sense signal from a heart chamber sensing channel;
entering an amplitude storing state which stores an amplitude value corresponding to the sense signal in a memory; and,
transitioning to a virtual sensing test state upon receipt of a sensing signal in a currently unprogrammed sensing channel and storing an amplitude value corresponding to the sense signal in memory, wherein the virtual sensing test state corresponds to a currently unprogrammed sensing channel with the pacemaker operating as if programmed in a mode including that virtual sensing test state but with no triggering or inhibition of pacing by the virtual sensing test state.
2. The method of
detecting when the pacemaker enters a pacing state corresponding to occurrence of an event which triggers output of a pacing pulse through a lead to a heart chamber according to the programmed mode; and,
entering a lead impedance measuring state which measures an impedance value of the lead through which the pacing pulse is delivered during output of the pacing pulse and stores the value in a memory.
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. The method of
upon expiration of the selected lead test time interval, transitioning to a virtual pacing test state after receipt of a sensing signal from a heart chamber and during which a pacing pulse is output to the heart chamber during the chamber's refractory period; and,
measuring an impedance value of the lead through which the pacing pulse is delivered during output of the pacing pulse and storing the value in a memory.
6. The method of
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11. A processor-readable storage medium having processor-executable instructions for performing the method recited in
12. A cardiac pacemaker, comprising:
a plurality of sensing channels, each such channel including an electrode for disposing near a chamber of the heart and a sense amplifier for detecting sense signals;
one or more pacing channels that include a pulse generator for outputting pacing pulses to an electrode disposed near a ventricle;
a controller for controlling the operation of the pulse generators in response to sensed events and lapsed time intervals and in accordance with a programmed pacing mode;
wherein the controller is programmed to:
enter an amplitude storing test state following receipt of a sensing signal from a programmed sensing channel during which an amplitude value corresponding to the sensing signal is stored; and,
enter a virtual sensing test state following receipt of a sensing signal from a currently unprogrammed sensing channel, during which an amplitude value corresponding to the sensing signal is stored but no triggering or inhibition of pacing pulses is effected.
13. The pacemaker of
14. The pacemaker of
enter a passive measurement testing mode which when entered causes the pacemaker to transition to the amplitude storing, virtual sensing, and lead impedance measuring states when appropriate input conditions are met;
terminate the passive measurement testing mode when an amplitude value for each sensing channel and a lead impedance value have been stored or upon expiration of a selected test interval.
15. The pacemaker of
16. The pacemaker of
17. The pacemaker of
18. The pacemaker of
19. The pacemaker of
20. The pacemaker of
21. The pacemaker of
enter a passive measurement testing mode which when entered causes the pacemaker to transition to the amplitude storing test state when appropriate input conditions are met; and,
terminate the passive measurement testing mode when an amplitude value for each sensing channel has been stored or upon expiration of a selected amplitude test interval.
22. A cardiac pacemaker having at least two sensing channels for sensing separate chambers of the heart and being capable of operating in a programmed mode such that one or more of the sensing channels are inactive, the pacemaker further comprising means for testing an inactive channel while the pacemaker is operating in the programmed mode.
23. The cardiac pacemaker of
24. The cardiac pacemaker of
This invention pertains generally to the field of cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators having a pacemaking function. In particular, the invention relates to a system and method for testing selected operating parameters in an implanted pacemaker.
As pacemaker technology has developed, a number of standard operating modes have been developed which define how the device paces the heart. These modes are usually described by a three-letter code developed by the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease where each letter in the code refers to a specific function of the pacemaker. The first letter refers to which heart chambers are paced and which may be an A (for atrium), a V (for ventricle), D (for both chambers), or O (for none). The second letter refers to which chambers are sensed by the pacemaker's sensing channels and uses the same letter designations as used for pacing. The third letter refers to the pacemaker's response to a sensed P wave from the atrium or an R wave from the ventricle and may be an I (for inhibited), T (for triggered), D (for dual in which both triggering and inhibition are used), and O (for no response). Modem pacemakers are typically programmable so that they can operate in any mode which the physical configuration of the device will allow. Additional sensing of physiological data allows some pacemakers to change the rate at which they pace the heart in accordance with some parameter correlated to metabolic demand. Such pacemakers are called rate-adaptive and designated by a fourth letter added to the three-letter code, R.
Modem pacemakers also typically have the capability to communicate data via a radio-frequency link with an external programming device. Such data is transmitted to the pacemaker in order to program its mode of operation as well as define other operating parameters. Data transmitted from the pacemaker can be used to verify the operating parameters as well as relay information regarding the condition of both the pacemaker and the patient. Pacemaker patients are monitored at regular intervals as part of routine patient care and to check the condition of the device. Among the data which may typically be telemetered from the pacemaker are its programming parameters, an electrogram representing the electrical activity of the heart as sensed by the pacemaker, and electrical operating characteristics such as battery voltage, signal amplitude, and lead impedance.
Pacemakers have also been developed which monitor certain parameters over time while the device is functioning in the patient. Data representing these parameters can be stored in memory for later retrieval using an external programmer. Such parametric data may include the impedance of a lead that is attached to a patient's heart and the internal impedance of a battery used to power the device. In addition, the data measurements may be taken passively so as to be synchronized with the occurrence of a cardiac event, such as using a spontaneous depolarization to measure signal amplitude from a sensing channel. Similarly, the application of a stimulation pulse by the pacemaker to the patient's heart allows measurement of a lead impedance by measuring the current flowing through the lead when the voltage pulse of known magnitude is applied. The parametric data may be measured and stored at predetermined time intervals, as indicated by a clock within the device. Such storage of data allows the observation of trends in the data as well as detection of changes which may only occur intermittently.
Telemetry of certain types of data between the external programmer and the pacemaker can take place while the pacemaker is functioning in its currently programmed mode. Others cannot, however, because to do so might affect the operation of the pacemaker. In order to program the pacemaker, for example, it must first be put in a default pacing mode in which it can safely pace the patient while the programming parameters are adjusted. Depending upon the patient, this would typically be an asynchronous ventricular pacing mode (VOO). Other types of data which in prior art devices cannot be transmitted from the pacemaker while functioning in its programmed mode include those which derive from the pacemaker operating in a currently unprogrammed mode such as sensing signals from sensing channels not used in the current mode. Simply turning on an unused sensing channel has the potential to disturb the pacing function of the pacemaker since its programming will not allow the new incoming signal to be properly interpreted.
The present invention is directed toward a system and method which allows a pacemaker to be tested with passive measurements taken while the pacemaker is functioning in its currently programmed mode. (The term "pacemaker" as used herein should be taken to mean both pacemakers and any device with a pacemaking function, such as an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with a pacemaker incorporated therein.) In contrast with prior art devices, such measurements may include signal amplitude values taken from channels which are inactive or not being used in the current operating mode. Such data may be useful to the clinician in ascertaining whether the device is capable of operating in another mode in a particular patient. In particular, the invention allows the atrial and ventricular sensing channels of a programmable pacemaker to be passively tested while the pacemaker is operating in mode where either of the sensing channels is inactive.
In accordance with the invention, a passive measurement testing mode is activated which causes a pacemaker functioning in a particular programmed mode to measure and store certain parameter values as the pacemaker transitions to test states corresponding to programmed operating states allowing such measurements to take place. In the case of parameter values not currently derivable from the current operating mode, such as the signal amplitude from a currently unprogrammed sensing channel, a virtual sensing test state corresponding to the unprogrammed channel may be interposed into the operation of the device where the pacemaker then operates as if programmed in a mode including that sensing state. The virtual sensing test state is transitioned to upon receipt of a sensing signal in the corresponding sensing channel after the expiration of any programmed refractory periods. During the virtual sensing test state an amplitude value corresponding to the sense signal is stored in memory, and no inhibition or triggering of pacing pulses is effected. The virtual sensing test state returns to the state from which it was entered.
Also in accordance with the invention, a lead impedance measuring test state may cause lead impedance values to be measured and stored when the pacemaker enters a pacing state, corresponding to the occurrence of an event which triggers output of a pacing pulse through the lead to be measured to a heart chamber according to the pacemaker's programmed mode. An impedance value of the lead through which the pacing pulse is delivered can then be measured during output of the pacing pulse and stored in memory. In the event that no pacing pulse occurs for a given lead, either because the patient's intrinsic rhythm during the test state is enough to inhibit pacing or because the pacemaker is not currently programmed to pace through the lead, a virtual pacing test state may be interposed into the pacemaker's operation. During such state, which is entered upon receipt of a sense signal from a heart chamber connected to the lead to be measured, a measuring pulse is output during the chamber's refractory period allowing the impedance of the lead to be measured and stored.
FIG. 1 is a system diagram of a microprocessor-based dual chamber pacemaker.
FIG. 2 is a state machine diagram showing the operation of a pacemaker in DDD mode.
FIG. 3 is a state machine diagram showing the operation of a pacemaker in VVI mode.
FIG. 4 is a state machine diagram showing the operation of a pacemaker operating in VVI mode with the capability of passively testing an unprogrammed sensing channel.
The basic function of a modern pacemaker is to deliver pacing pulses to the heart in accordance with sensed cardiac signals. Programmability of the pacemaker allows it to operate in a number of different pacing modes. The electronic circuitry for controlling the pacemaker can be either in the form of custom integrated circuits or a microprocessor based design with application specific software. Because of its inherent flexibility and the ease with which additional functionality can be added, a microprocessor-based designs is the most widely used. In the description that follows, a microprocessor-based pacemaker will be referred to as incorporating the system and method which is the present invention. It should be appreciated, however, the invention could also be incorporated into a pacemaker controlled by custom logic circuitry either in addition to or instead of a programmed microprocessor. The term "circuitry" as used herein should therefore be taken to mean either custom circuitry or a microprocessor executing programmed instructions contained in a processor-readable storage medium along with associated circuit elements.
FIG. 1 shows a system diagram of a microprocessor-based dual-chamber pacemaker. A microprocessor 10 communicates with a memory 12 via a bidirectional data bus. The memory 12 typically comprises a ROM for program storage and a RAM for data storage. The microprocessor also has a port for communicating with the telemetry interface 40 which in turn receives programming data from and transmits telemetry data to an external programmer by a radio link. The pacemaker also has atrial sensing and pacing channels comprising electrode 34, lead 33, sensing amplifier 31, pulse generator 32, and an atrial channel interface 30 which communicates bidirectionally with a port of microprocessor 10. The ventricular sensing and pacing channels similarly comprise electrode 24, lead 23, sensing amplifier 21, pulse generator 22, and a ventricular channel interface 20. For each channel, the same lead and electrode are used for both sensing and pacing. The channel interfaces 20 and 30 include analog-to-digital converters for digitizing sensing signal inputs from the sensing amplifiers and registers which can be written to by the microprocessor in order to output pacing pulses, change the pacing pulse amplitude, and adjust the gain and threshold values for the sensing amplifiers.
A cardiac pacemaker is basically a device that responds to sensed cardiac events and elapsed time intervals by changing its functional states so as to deliver pacing pulses to the heart at appropriate times and properly interpret sensed data. As such, the essential operation of a pacemaker can be usefully represented from a state machine perspective. A state machine is a computational device which transitions from one state to another based on a defined set of rules unique to each state regarding inputs and timer events. In the following description, the operation of a pacemaker incorporating the present invention is described as such a state machine. It should be realized, however, that this description refers to the external behavior of the device and not to any specific implementation by either the programming of the microprocessor or discrete logic circuitry.
FIG. 2 shows a state machine representation of a simplified pacemaker operating in DDD mode which has five basic states: state S0 where interval timers are intialized, state S1 indicating a ventricular sense, state S2 indicating an atrial sense, state S3 to pace the ventricle, and state S4 to pace the atrium. The system moves from state to state based upon sensed events and the outputs of timers for two intervals: AEI for atrial escape interval which defines the minimum rate at which the atria will be paced in the absence of spontaneous activity, and AVI for atrioventricular interval which defines a minimum time interval in which a spontaneous ventricular depolarization must occur following an atrial sense or pace. If the AVI expires following an atrial sense or pace, a ventricular pace is delivered. Not shown are other time intervals used to define refractory periods for the sensing channels during which time the channels are closed so that inputs are ignored. (The term "refractory" means a no sensing condition when applied to a sensing channel, to be distinguished from the physiological refractory period of excitable tissue.) Sensing channels are rendered refractory both in order to prevent reentry into the system of an output pacing pulse (in which case the sensing amplifiers are blanked) and to prevent the misinterpretation of input data by the sensing of afterpotentials or by crosstalk between sensing channels. An actual DDD pacemaker may even use additional algorithms for interpreting input data, but it must still exhibit the functionality defined by FIG. 1
If it is desired to perform passive testing in the device of FIG. 2 in order to store a record of sense signal amplitudes and lead impedances, test states can be added to the operation of the pacemaker which allows the testing and recording to be done while the pacemaker is operating in its programmed mode. The non-test states of the device will be referred to a programmed states. In order to test a programmed sensing or pacing channel passively, there must be a corresponding test state for each such channel to be tested. For example, one test state is an amplitude storing state for storing signal amplitudes which is entered upon detection that a corresponding programmed sensing state has been entered due to receipt of a signal from a sensing channel which is not in its refractory period. Another test state is a lead impedance measuring state which is entered after detecting that the pacemaker has entered a corresponding pacing state due to the occurrence of an event which triggers output of a pacing pulse according to the programmed mode. The lead impedance measuring state measures an impedance value of the lead through which the pacing pulse is delivered during output of the pacing pulse and stores the value in a memory. A test state has the same transition rules as its corresponding programmed state so that the programmed operation of the device is undisturbed by the passive testing.
FIG. 3 shows a state machine diagram of a pacemaker operating in VVI mode which has three basic states: state S0 for initialization, state S1 indicating a ventricular sense, and state S3 for outputting a pacing pulse to the ventricle. The system moves from state to state based upon sensed ventricular events (i.e., R waves) and the output of a lower rate interval (LRI) timer that defines a minimum rate at which the ventricles will be paced in the absence of spontaneous activity. The ventricular sense signal amplitude and ventricular lead impedance can be measured passively with testing states as described above. If the VVI pacemaker is a dual-chamber one having the capability of operating in DDD mode and physically configured with an atrial lead and sensing channel, it would be desirable to be able to passively measure atrial signal amplitude as well. Simply turning on the atrial sense amplifier (which may be turned off when the pacemaker is in VVI mode to conserve power) with an amplitude storing state is not enough because the operation of the pacemaker does not include an atrial sensing state in its current programming. This means that there are no transition rules that define how an atrial sensing state should be entered and exited. Nor does the pacemaker have an atrial channel refractory period timer which is needed in order not to misinterpret a ventricular depolarization or a pacing pulse as an atrial sense signal.
FIG. 4 shows a state transition diagram of a pacemaker incorporating a testing system in accordance with the present invention. A virtual sensing test state VS corresponding to the currently unprogrammed sensing channel (i.e., the atrial channel in this case) is added to the operation of the pacemaker where the pacemaker then operates as if programmed in a mode including that sensing state. The virtual sensing test state includes a refractory period timer in its transition logic in order to properly interpret sensing signals. The virtual testing state is thus transitioned to upon receipt of a sensing signal in the corresponding sensing channel, and an amplitude value corresponding to the sense signal is stored in memory. The term "virtual" in this context means that transition to the virtual sensing state results in no triggering or inhibition of pacing pulses as would be the case were the pacemaker simply programmed to operate with the atrial sensing channel active. The transition rule of the virtual sensing test state is to return to the state from which the virtual state was entered in order to leave the programmed operation of the device undisturbed.
The testing states as described may be part of a passive measurement testing mode which when activated causes the testing states to persist until signal amplitudes and lead impedances for all available channels are stored. The microprocessor is thus programmed to maintain the testing mode until all testing has been performed and then deactivate the testing mode. An amplitude test interval timer can be used to set a limit on the time for which the system will wait for a sensing signal to store. Upon expiration of the interval, the system aborts the test sequence. Similarly, a lead test interval timer can be used to limit the time the system waits for a pacing pulse to occur through a lead in order to measure its impedance. Upon expiration of that interval, however, instead of aborting the lead impedance test, a virtual pacing test state may be employed where "virtual pacing" in this context means the outputting of a pacing pulse to the chamber to which the lead is connected occurs shortly after a depolarization during the chamber's refractory period. The impedance of the lead can then be measured and stored. Similarly, a virtual pacing state may be used to measure the impedance of a shock lead in the case of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
The passive measurement testing mode as described can be initiated either by a telemetry command from an external programmer or by a timer which causes periodic testing at regular intervals in order to store a record of historical values. For example, the passive measurement testing mode can be set to activate once per day and store a week's worth of signal amplitude and lead impedance values. An average taken over a selected number of most recent values can also be calculated and stored for later retrieval.
The system and method as described above may be used in situations where it is desired to evaluate operating parameters of an implanted pacemaker which are not currently derivable in its current operating mode. Such nonprogrammed parameters may be useful in planning a switch of operating modes. For example, atrial triggering modes such as DDD or VDD are desirable in chronotropically competent patients in need of ventricular pacing because they allow the pacing to track the physiologically normal atrial rhythm. Atrial triggering modes are contraindicated, however, in patients prone to atrial fibrillation or flutter or in whom a reliable atrial sense cannot be obtained. In the former case, the ventricles will be paced at too high a rate. Failing to sense an atrial P wave, on the other hand, results in a loss of atrial tracking which can lead to negative hemodynamic effects. This is because the pacemaker then reverts to its minimum ventricular pacing rate after failing to sense the P wave, and the next P waves may occur so early that they fall within the post-ventricular refractory period of the atrial channel. The minimum rate pacing may thus continue for several cardiac cycles until a P wave is again sensed. For such patients, a synchronous non-atrial triggered mode such as VVI or DVI set at an appropriate minimum rate is usually best. It may be the case, however, that with proper adjustment of parameters, such as amplifier gain and signal threshhold, reliable atrial sensing could actually be accomplished. If it can be determined that such parameter adjustments are successful, the patient can be switched to the more desirable atrial triggered mode. The present invention allows periodic samples of atrial sensing signals to be taken and stored over time even while the pacemaker is operating in VVI, DVI, or any other non-atrial sensing mode. The atrial sensing data can then be used to decide if the atrial sensing is reliable enough to allow switching the patient to an atrial triggered mode.
Although the invention has been described in conjunction with the foregoing specific embodiment, many alternatives, variations, and modifications will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. Such alternatives, variations, and modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the following appended claims.
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Until pitching injuries struck, the Diamondbacks' June was in full bloom. A season-ending injury to No. 2 starter Daniel Hudson and a lesser injury to Joe Saunders thinned the starting rotation temporarily, but the D-backs powered through those setbacks with their best offensive month of the season. With Aaron Hill and Jason Kubel as the pace-setters, the D-backs scored 135 runs, hit 38 home runs, had 433 total bases and posted a .485 slugging percentage. Big numbers, all. Their slugging percentage was the best in the league, as was their .820 OPS. That flexing helped the D-backs to a 16-10 record that was reminiscent of their second half in 2011, when they had 15-, 19- and 16-victory months en route to the NL West title. The big June also helped D-backs put themselves squarely back into the playoff picture after falling as far as 11 12 games back in May. The D-backs cut their division deficit by more than half; they entered the month nine games behind the first-place Dodgers and...
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How to understand Merge Replication article processing order
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The Merge Agent follows a specific set of rules that govern the order in which the merge process applies changes to articles during the synchronization process.
This article discusses why article processing order is important.
There are two primary reasons why article processing order is important:
For the two reasons that were listed earlier, the order in which the Merge Agent delivers changes to a partner replica is important.
Before beginning a discussion of article processing order, it is important to have an understanding of two key concepts. The two key concepts are as follows:
Article Nicknames
A nickname is an integer value that the Merge Agent uses to identify an article (a SQL Server table) to merge replication. The merge setup process assigns an article nickname when it adds the article to a merge publication. If an article participates in DRI constraints, the merge setup process tries to generate an article nickname that reflects defined DRI constraints. The merge process assigns tables referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint (a parent) a smaller article nickname than that of the referencing table (the child table, or the table on which the FOREIGN KEY constraint is defined).
If a table does not participate in DRI constraints, the merge setup process assigns the article nickname based on the order in which it adds the article to the publication (in ascending order).
A generation is an integer value that the Merge Agent uses to track a logical group of changes to a particular article. All of the changes made to a particular article at a particular replica between merge synchronizations are associated with the same generation. Each time the Merge Agent runs, it closes the existing open generation, and then opens a new generation with which to associate the next set of changes.
Processing INSERTs, UPDATEs, and DELETEsThe Merge Agent partitions the articles for a particular publication into two distinct groups:
The Merge Agent uses the groups to determine the overall processing order of UPDATEs, INSERTs and DELETEs for all articles defined to the publication.
In each of the two respective groups, the Merge Agent processes INSERTs and UPDATEs in ascending article nickname order, and processes DELETEs in descending article nickname order. First, the Merge Agent processes all DELETEs in their entirety in a particular group, followed by UPDATEs and INSERTs (also in a particular group). Conceptually, the Merge Agent appends the two aforementioned groups to one another (not merged) in the order listed previously. The Merge Agent begins by processing DELETEs for the first group, and then extends DELETE processing to the second group and the remainder of changes for the two groups are processed in parallel. Although the Merge Agent maintains article processing order in each respective group, the Merge Agent does not maintain strict article processing order across the two respective groups. As such, in the case of an INSERT or UPDATE, it is possible that changes from the first group with a higher article nickname can arrive ahead of those from the second group with a lower nickname. The converse situation can also occur for a DELETE. Both of these behaviors are by design.
Possible effects of generation batching on article processing orderAs stated earlier, with a generation you can logically group changes (INSERTs, UPDATEs and DELETEs) that occur for a particular article at a particular replica between synchronization sessions. Ultimately, the Merge Agent works with generations when it determines which changes it must exchange between two replicas. The Merge Agent negotiates a common generation at the following points in the synchronization process:
The Merge Agent processes generations in batches, also referred to as generation batches. By default, 100 generations are included in each generation batch that the Merge Agent uploads to the publisher from the subscriber, or downloads to the subscriber from the publisher. The generation batch size is configurable through the
-UploadGenerationsPerBatch and the -DownloadGenerationsPerBatch Merge Agent parameters, or through the Merge Agent profile. In the default case, if there are more than 100 generations that you need to exchange (that is, download and upload, or both) between a publisher (or a re-publisher) and a subscriber, the Merge Agent processes multiple generation batches. The number of batches depends on the number of generations that the Merge Agent has to exchange, and the generations per batch settings in-force for a particular merge session.
In a situation where multiple generation batches are exchanged, the Merge Agent may split related parent and child changes across two separate generation batches. If that is the case, the Merge Agent may deliver a child change in a generation batch ahead of the generation batch that contains the associated parent change. In hierarchical merge topologies that use re-publishers, there is one rare situation in which the splitting of parent and child changes across generation batches can lead to non-convergence. For more information about non-convergence, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308266/EN-US/ )PRB: Non-Convergence When SQL Server Processes Child and Parent Generations in Separate Generation Batches
You can increase the -UploadGenerationsPerBatch
and the -DownloadGenerationsPerBatch parameters discussed previously to avoid splitting parent and child changes across generation batches.
Article processing order is maintained in a particular generation batch pursuant to the rules discussed previously. However, the Merge Agent cannot maintain article processing order across generation batches.
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Citigroup sues Wachovia, Wells Fargo for $60B
The fight was also waged in federal court, where Wachovia asked U.S. District Judge John Koeltl to declare invalid part of the Citigroup deal that would have restricted Wachovia from considering competing bids.
Also Sunday, a county court in North Carolina ruled against Citigroup in its battle for Wachovia. The Superior Court Division of Mecklenburg County General Court of Justice in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order on behalf of two Wachovia shareholders prohibiting Citigroup from enforcing provisions of its takeover bid of Wachovia. The provisions restrict Wachovia's ability to negotiate other potential deals.
Wachovia said it believes the temporary restraining order "precludes Citigroup from acting further to enforce the exclusivity provision that is the subject of its verified complaint filed by Citigroup today in New York State Court. Citigroup's action appears to be in violation of the North Carolina court order."
The litigation may be eclipsed by some sort of compromise or deal, said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.
All of the parties involved have stressed the urgency of resolving the battle, as a prolonged court fight could further weaken the ailing Wachovia.
"If this goes into a protracted legal battle, everybody loses," said Frederick Cannon, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in an interview with The Associated Press. "Wachovia is big enough that it would be a negative for the financial system. Given that situation, we will see a resolution pretty quickly."
Roger Cominsky, a partner in the financial institutions and lending group at the law firm Hiscock & Barclay, added that the eventual buyer will want the deal done as fast as possible to preserve the highest value of Wachovia, while the FDIC wants to avoid a potential run on the bank if the fight is drawn out.
Wachovia, like many banks, has been slammed over the past year by defaulting mortgages, particularly in its portfolio of option adjustable-rate mortgages, which allowed many customers to pay less than the monthly interest owed on the loan.
It was clear from documents filed in federal court Sunday that Wachovia was in considerable trouble when it agreed to the Citigroup deal. Wachovia disclosed that it agreed to the deal "with the understanding that a seizure of its banking assets later that day by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would occur" unless it accepted Citigroup's proposal.
Wachovia shares dropped 36 cents, or 5.8 percent, to $5.85 in afternoon trading. Citigroup shares fell 63 cents, or 3.4 percent, to $17.72, while Wells Fargo shares slipped $1.92, or 5.6 percent, to $32.64.
AP Business Writers Marcy Gordon in Washington, D.C., and Stephen Bernard in New York contributed to this story.
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